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Or just people's names. Something like "Joe Blow said he saw a person with a brown bag." You'd redact Joe's name even if there's nothing particularly interesting about him.
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In Trump's first term he had one of the lowest rates of fulfilling campaign promises of any president. I was caught off-guard by him actually appearing to go through with this.
> Perhaps one reason startups work so well

As a veteran of startups, this puzzles me. I assume it's a perception that successful startups are the majority of startups. (They are not.)
> Before destroying an entire organization, it’s important to know their true impact and how much it’ll hurt to have them gone

I have to prove my impact every 6 months as an engineer. I expect an entire organization can do the same - the fact there is not a clear impact people can point to speaks volumes.
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it can generate a markdown file from blog posts, youtube videos, and local and github (including private) code bases; plus can also be used for data hoarding :)
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Yes, but why.
It is widely admitted by practitioners that all frontier models with very few exceptions (e.g
. Mistral-large, llama 3) are MoE. This includes gpt4-turbo you mentioned.
If any of those were reasons for them voting, it would have shown in the exit polls when they were asked.

It was not.
He did. But I think Republicans in general (and Trump in particular) are being incredibly disingenuous about the National Guard thing and trying to blame {not even calling it a riot anymore} Jan 6 on Pelosi.

Why wouldn't Pelosi want the National Guard there?

Kent State. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

Putting a bunch of moderately trained military in a chaotic situation with angry civilians is a recipe for disaster.

And if they'd opened fire on the crowd? Do you really think Trump and the Republicans would have backed that use for force?

After how they treated the United States Capitol Police officer who shot Ashli Babbitt for climbing through a broken window into the Speaker's lobby, after ignoring multiple orders to stop?
Funny we used to say that about Trump.
There are moments in history when anything can happen.
I know it's stupid to get upset over an app like TikTok, but the ban really did shock me a little, even more so because of how widely supported it was.

What party or politicians support individual freedom in this context? How could libertarians support banning an app?
Ruby borrows a lot from Smalltalk. Everything is an object, including things that are normally keywords elsewhere like Class or Module. There are no public properties on objects, only methods, which is technically only « messages » and object can receive.

Ruby does well with metaprogramming magic because most of the languages own keywords and concepts can be rewritten at runtime. They’re implemented AS Ruby code.

I would say it’s logically consistent because there isn’t as many « special » things. Python’s def keyword is special. You can’t make your own, nor can you hook into it. In Ruby, that’s just a message being passed to the current scope’s object. You can do anything you want to it. Ruby plays by a pretty consistent rule book.
A non functioning one even more so.
A poet?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42888756
sigh, for real..
Likewise what Musk is doing is also morally reprehensible. It is the most unconstitutional power grab any US Citizen has tried is a very long time.
But of course, it's fine if Trump's own trials are handled by judges he appointed.

You've been sold a bill of goods. You can come to terms with the truth now, or confront it later when his actions start to hurt you and those you care about.

Not that it will make any difference, though; the outcome will be the same.
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It’s relevant here that “doxxing” here just means “exposing their names and internet posts”, right?

In that case, yes, the OPM already “doxxes” most federal employees, even making their salary data public. It’s seen as a worthwhile tradeoff to give taxpayers transparency into how their money is spent.
Federal salaries are public information.
How do we have any freaking clue what is going on with doge
That was the original intent. It’s like a half way to a parliamentary system where the legislature elects a PM except here it is a separate one time use assembly.
23 and Me was working on a leaderboard of the most isolated people in the world before they went bust
I think it's not about examples. Every attorney graduating with a quarter million in student debt that gets a low pay government job is trying to punch a lot of notches in their belt so that they can be picked up by a major law firm with a pretty paycheck. They'd be stupid or magnanimous to look the other way on easy wins.
Trump understands the "shock and awe" PR strategy. His opponents were caught on their back foot, and he's moving fast while they are in disarray. Military thinking might be more effective than software engineering for this moment.
Wrong title and Christoph Hellwig is absolutely right.
By who, other than Elon Musk, in turn accountable to no one?
Yup. That cop was not only not punished, he said he has PTSD as a result. He retired young with benefits.
What Musk is doing with DOGE is the most unconstitutional power grab any US Citizen has tried is a very long time. The normal rules do not apply anymore.
If your customers don't talk, NPS is a vanity metric
> national security apparatus knows something

For some stuff like this it's hard to imagine why they wouldn't be able to make it public. You need public support if you're going to ban an app that a lot of the public likes. Almost certainly IMO, no substantive evidence existed.
Yah, well, the other points with early Raspberries were underpower/undervoltage due to shitty design and signalling of its own circuitry,

only to be compensated with the one-and-only-official-wall-wart-with-attached-cable,

bad config/buggy design of the upstream-driver itself,

fixes of those only rolled out with much delay into their 'OS', and so forth.

Also https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/on-microsd-problems/ (2010),

& https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2013/on-hacking-microsd-c... (2013)

& https://media.ccc.de/v/30C3_-_5294_-_en_-_saal_1_-_201312291... (2014)

and much many more...

Just log to RAM, or something else, than that tiny tempting toy.

That aside flash-fraud is still rampant, no matter what you think you buy from whomever.
Do you understand how long and what it takes to ratify an amendment? There a reason why we haven’t done one in 33 years and that one took 202 years. The process is designed to be difficult, it’s much more than a simple majority and bang of a gavel.

We are still working on approving the equal rights amendment. That’s one that started 102 years ago, and we have been trying to get the 3/4 state’s agreement for it for only 53 years.

So no, I seriously doubt with a 50/50 divided electorate in this country that we will repeal the 22nd amendment in the less than 4 years that the US would have to do it before Trump could run again.
I think the idea was to wait for people mentioned in those documents to die, so as to not affect their privacy.

You want people to tell the truth to government investigations in the future, and not hold something back because they think in 15 years the government might just release a transcript of everything you told them.
The big assumption is thinking nothing else changes and that all consequences of the EOs are immediately reverted when disassembled.

You're in for a rude awakening.
Non-American here, from the outside it seems like the Jan 6 thing was way overblown. It feels like similar things happen in other govt buildings in the USA all the time but the perpetrators were not targeted the same way. Not condoning either, but there seems to be selective govt retribution.
Ya, it's tricky. I wouldn't go so far as to say it's broadly sensible to be afraid for/of the future, but to have tempered expectations for how transferrable or marketable one's skills might be, especially cross industry but even at like a local coffee shop. Work is comically scarce right now, and it's worth being prepared for a surprisingly steep uphill battle if a person's been consistently employed for >5 years.

> I don't mean to read in to your comment, but I offer an ear if you want to reach out. There is an email on my HN profile.

I appreciate the invitation. I know it sounds like I'm in a dark place, but thankfully things eventually worked out... for now, I just came out with some perspective. It has been a repeating cycle of literally 6 months to a year employed and then a year off for the last decade, and you get some time to think if you let yourself take it.
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It's worse to be a US citizen? Then why are so many people coming in the US and why are so many people upset about removing the ones that come here illegally? It seems like people should be happy the federal government is giving them free rides away from here if it is so bad ...
It took bipartisan pardons/commutations across 2 disparately ideological faction leaders to even the outcomes for both groups of people who purportedly aimed to overthrow the government that let them all be free.
I'm confused by this. I live in Michigan and have been paying state income tax ever since my first job.
Unless the release won't actually hurt him. There's a big group of persons that will aspire to be powerful enough to do those sorts of things... It would help strengthen his image
This is just an intellectually lazy way to dismiss any criticism of policies.

You can care deeply about victims and not believe in a surveillance state or arresting people simply because they look a certain way. History has shown it’s a slippery slope that ends up hurting everyone.
There’s a severe crisis every 10 years. Do you really want to be at a point where the next one topples us?
Yeh, it failed so hard no one even uses it anymore.
People like Musk dislike the government because people have a say. That say is imperfect and often corrupted, but people get to have some amount of input. They can vote, and organize, and they could decide that they'd rather have roads or water or any number of silly things that get in his way.

Companies are not democracies, Musk says "get rid of the supercharger team" and no one gets a vote, they just get rid of them. We should all be worried about what goals he efficiently wants to achieve, if you or I were in the way, would he care.

The danger is in the unchecked nature of this power, even if someone likes Elon Musk and thinks he's a brilliant genius, what gives him the right to supplant the will of the people with his own.

Elon has shown time and again that he will prioritize what HE wants, and if that means some people don't have jobs, well that's just fine. If that means that people should have to sleep on the factory floor and wake up and make cars he can profit off of and then back to sleep on the factory floor, that's also just fine. If that means that USAID doesn't feed the hungry, that's also just fine.

And maybe to anyone reading this that's happy with what he's done, you are just fine with it too. But what happens when he decides something you do care about is alright to destroy too to meet his goals, he's just fine with it. What do you do then? How confident are you that your goals and his will stay aligned, forever, that the ax of "efficiency" won't come for you and yours someday. And if that day comes, what will you say to the people that tell you "he's a brilliant genius and he's fine with it so so am I"
Shouldn't they be loaded right now with all the BTC they bought when it was low?
What currency is stable in value? Certainly not the U.S. dollar.
A deficit is not a loan. The USD and the historical strength and faith on the US allowed the US to offer its own securities, not ones pwned by and with terms dictated by external entities.
you don't want your currency to be useful though. the value inherent in a currency is its ability to be verified without trusting the counterparty.
Good grief, don’t identify me and the rest of HN with then. I don’t want to be “us” with people in government who make a virtue out of being unaccountable solely because they’re successful engineers.
Ask HN: Can pseudocode make you a better programmer?
In modern software development, do people still use pseudocode before writing computer code?

I am kind of fascinated by the idea of improving my programming skill by focusing on the notation I use to think in - I remember reading an essay by Paul Graham: "The Hundred-Year Language"

How do people here use pseudocode? And, although Paul Graham has said languages are not really technologies but are more like notation, do people here agree? I tend to think of notations as technology - what are words in natural languages other than little "thought machines?" - anyway what do people here think? Feel free to share your preferred notations for pseudocode if you use them regularly when programming.
Go where you have friends, family, or some clear reason to be. The fact that you are open to suggestions implies this is an aimless/distracting way to waste years of your life. Perhaps you have the type of trouble you can't run away from ? I am speaking from experience and hoping you don't give up on the US assuming your roots are here. Take a long vacation abroad as an alternative.
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Just ChatGPT it
History of a certain European country disagrees with such an optimistic view.

I hope you are right though.
This is factually untrue. The constitution gives Congress the exclusive power of the purse. The president does not have the authority to withhold funds approved by Congress (search for Nixon and Impoundment if you want a history lesson on that).

There are sections of the budget that are discretionary spending that is controlled by the executive branch directly, but that is a small fraction of the federal budget.
Why is the Constitution hobbled with all those insistences to do things 'by law'?
It might have something to do with 90% of the justification as articulated by the bill's own authors and supporters, and especially in the arguments before the Supreme Court and their opinion upholding it, being about "content-neutral" goal of blocking the ability of China to spy on US data.

Even when TikTok themselves tried to argue that the primary reason was to prevent foreign control over a recommendation algorithm, the Supreme Court said "nope, Congress's primary motive was the data collection."
When a country takes an IMF loan, it’s often the political elites—not the general population—who make the decision. And in many cases, these elites personally benefit from the deal, even if it devastates their nation in the long run

For example, in Argentina (2001), President Fernando de la Rúa followed the IMF’s austerity policies despite mass protests. The economy collapsed, and he fled the country via helicopter. But the elites who benefited from privatization kept their wealth while everyday citizens suffered
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You just described the exact end goal of my overall research program, if we can keep the stroke, AD, and Down syndrome + AD cohorts running. Associating blood biomarkers differentially with individual disease processes and comorbid health factors is the holy grail.

Perverse professional norms and plenty of miscreants have made it a much harder road for other dementia researchers, but it's worth keeping on, and there are so many avenues that haven't been pursued.
Let me add a third concept which, to me, is a much more useful feature (as I wrote in a sister thread): a store of value for people whose governments like to control the money flow, dilute savings in the single available local fiat currency and confiscate savings calling it a money reform. Which, sadly, is a large part of the world.

Value oscillating against some golden reference by a factor of 4? Many will likely take that if it means avoiding their own government shenanigans. I saw a currency reform which turned savings to zero. My parents lived through two such devaluations. As did my grandparents. Buying dollars or another hard currency, if found, meant prison. In this setup a permissionless, anonymous store of value, warts and all, is very valuable.
It is pretty cute. People want desperately to conform, and they know the non-conformists are cool. So they do the logical thing and conform with the non-conformists.

Heart in the right spot. Execution has room to improve.
Not just by individuals - by Medicare Advantage managed care organizations, too… like the biggest insurers in this country.
It's crazy that in some ways cantonese is a dying language, or at least one that's being sidelined by the government, esp. as Hong Kong is being fully transitioned back to China.

But just as many people speak cantonese as speak italian.
The electoral college was created in the time before the Internet, computers, television, radio, telephone, telegraph, electricity, the automobile, the airplane, and the train. It was logistically impossible to have a national popular vote at the time. Even the gap between the election and inauguration was based on the time it would take a man on horseback to reach DC from the farthest point out in the country.
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Sums up the social media era so far. Everyone is a free speech absolutist right up until they get the power to censor.
I was surprised the topic has a Wikipedia page. I happened across it after searching for Trump's nickname for Gavin Newsome, which Trump mentioned in a press conference [0]:

> I almost called (Gavin Newsome) by the other name.. my little nickname for him

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4HXK1x0WJc&t=2m42s
Promising idea, got any sample outputs?
They'll steal it via inflation. Trump's already announced a few programs that involve him siphoning federal dollars into the pockets of his cronies (including the tariff revenue).

Blocking your access to any sort of "sell my bond back" button while they do it seems prudent.
> Here is what happened in most corporations when GDPR came out

Do you have a source on that, or is this what you feel like may have happened? The move to the cloud was in full swing way before GDPR came out in 2016 and got enacted in 2018. Same for outsourcing.
Sounds reasonable. Which countries got better after the IMF got involved?
Most of Tokyo (and Japan) doesn't have an excessive amount of pedestrians' litter. Public garbage cans are rare, though many convenience stores and some train stations have them.

Is there litter? Yes. Is there much less than, say, Vancouver, Bangkok or London? Absolutely.

It's due to a couple things that tourists may not be used to:
-Be prepared to bring your garbage with you until you are home.

-Garbage is sorted differently in each municipality in Japan, and often the garbage bags cost money. Who is going to buy those bags and sort someone else's garbage?

-It's changing, but walking around consuming snacks, food, drinks in Japan is not that common. People do that at specific locations, thus they don't find themselves with empty food wrappers and drink cups while walking around. Thus, they don't see a need for public garbage cans.

-Crows make a quick mess of garbage here. Observing the above points means that (most) of Japan doesn't need stinky, sticky, flies-and-wasps-buzzing-around, crow-magnet garbage cans, which look almost as bad as litter everywhere.
The democrats will have to convince enough voters that what they really want is to turn the entire country into California. I'm not sure that will be a winning strategy. Judging by the most recent DNC shenanigans, I don't think they learned very much from the last election.
How much is “significant”?
It's X, not Twitter. The good old Twitter has flown away into the blue sky.

Bots and duplicate accounts are certainly an issue, but that's also a concern for the platform operators who want to maximize advertising effectiveness. Fake numbers will never translate into real results.
Massive success actually for anyone holding. Did you forget the price is $100k?
Ah yes, when that famous Democrat, Richard Nixon, put together the EPA in his dastardly leftist plot to destroy America.
I know you are trying to reference this quote with regard to guns but I think you are actually disproving the point you are trying to make.

https://vpc.org/press/states-with-strong-gun-laws-and-lower-...

I'll gladly live in a country with no AI at all. Give me Dune post-Butlerian jihad levels of AI outlawing and I'll move there. I strongly believe that myself and all the people living there will be much happier.
They oppose anything that reduces private companies revenue. Direct file reduces Intuits TurboTax revenue.
But not fifth?
I've found it often answers a Cantonese question in Mandarin. I'm not sure if that's because it converts to written Chinese, then answers the text, then reads it in Mandarin. But sometimes if you use a Cantonese specific word like 乜野 it'll be (presumably) converted to written Cantonese and then will answer in Cantonese.