skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With all due respect, I don't think you have done the best you can with the information you have. The only source of information your answer reflects is the stated intention of the people in question. But you don't seem to have made an effort to use information about the behavior of those people in order to evaluate whether to take their stated intentions at face value. You need to do that part to have done your best here.

It's fine if you don't want to do this, you're under no obligations here, but I just don't think "I've done the best I can with the information I have" is accurate.
Curious european here. Do you think we will see some serious mass protests in big USA cities if this continues? By this I mean "reckless" action by Musk and Trump.
> edit: why is the level of discussion about anything Trump-related always so low? If you want to defend USAID, defend USAID. If you can't defend USAID, make an entirely specious process argument.

Who is making specious arguments? Your comment was about process, while omitting congress’s role in that process, and people are responding accordingly.
I can see why one would think that; China is very successful in the world market (or, getting there) despite it not having a free market as such (although it has freed up a lot); despite, or is it because, it being a totalitarian state it is quickly catching up to the US, being the 2nd economy of the world; they still have like $10 trillion to go, but charts like https://www.statista.com/statistics/1070632/gross-domestic-p... predict China will overtake the US by 2030 at the current rate.

And there's nothing the US can do. Cutting government spending and starting trade wars with neighbours is not going to stop it. Building up a totalitarian state with deep government influence into businesses is not going to work and will be actively resisted, since Big Government is so against the principles of the current regime's voters - and China has been working on this for decades now. Free market won't work either, as it's already very free in the US itself - but the aggression of US companies in their sales practices, tax dodging, and privacy violations have caused their foreign customers like Europe to raise the defenses.

TL;DR, while I can see how totalitarianism can in theory create a strong economy, it isn't going to fly / work in the US.
When someone wants to install an app rather then go to a website that could do the same thing, they are advertising that they are up to something nefarious.
Have to start somewhere. Pork barrel patronage slush funds are an easier jumping point than welfare benefits.
Security implications aside, the ability to load custom microcode onto these chips could have fascinating implications for reverse engineering and understanding them better.
That's not correct. Acts of congress specifically created the agency after JFK's XO.

Regardless, the agency is a party to contracts which it is currently breaking. The actions of DOGE are causing the US to break contracts, which is illegal.
I'm not sure what you're asking. I think you're trying to make a point, but it is going over my head.

The world should read "less carrot, more stick" from the Trump admin.
Just be aware there's no floating point and there's only machine mode, so you can't run a modern operating system on it. It is purely a microcontroller.
Just letting you know, link mentioned leads to a 404 page.
Read the whole blogpost that quote was taken from:

https://wasmer.io/posts/wasmer-and-trademarks-extended

I don't think this is as much of a smoking gun as it is made out to be.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_imitating_art
This is basically what every human on Earth wants. Which is why the entire west coast is so expensive, because it's about the only place in the US that fits that bill.
How?

It's given you some information and now you have to seek out a source to verify that it's correct.

Finding information is hard work. It's why librarian is a valuable skilled profession. What you've done by suggesting that I should "verify" or "proofread" what a glorified, water-wasting Markov chain has given me now entails me looking up that information to verify that it's correct. That's...not quite doubling the work involved but it's adding an unnecessary step.

I could have searched for the source in the first instance. I could have gone to the library and asked for help.

We spent time coming up with a question ("prompt engineering"! hah!), we used up a bunch of electricity for an answer to be generated and now you...want me to search up that answer to find the source? Why did we do the first step?

People got undergraduate degrees - hell, even PhDs - before generative AI.

Look up the tweet from someone who said "Sometimes when coming up with a good prompt for ChatGPT, I sometimes come up with the answer myself without needing to submit".
Who's at the other end of that number. No one who had the number appreciated the pop song's 867-5309 but at least one day with the radio on told them why they were getting all these crank calls.
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I wish someone would implement an interface for using color diffusion curves in a vector drawing program:
https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Diffusion_Curves

When they were first proposed back in 2008 they made a big splash, but afaik they never got past the prototype phase. There was even a push to add them to the SVG spec.
If the President orders a Treasury Department employee to transfer $1 billion to the President's personal bank account in Switzerland, does that employee have the right to say "no"?

According to the theory you're espousing here, that employee is a drone who will have to transfer the money, even though it's obviously illegal.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42915723, which I just noticed was posted earlier and by the author (sorry Matt!)
And how much did you pay for the bridges?
I would love just one year of this decade to be uneventful / boring...

I used to think people were over-doing it in their criticism of Trump – I thought he was dreadful, but ultimately a contained / containable force. I was even a little optimistic that he might be a disruptive force (inadvertent) that would make other politicians return their focus to everyday, working class concerns.

I was naive and stupid. And many people are kidding themselves even now about what's going on. There's nothing normal or business as usual about what's happening in America right now. I'm not qualified to predict where this all ends, but I don't think any of it's good and I don't think this ends after Donald Trump's second term.

To the people thinking DOGE is about cutting "wasteful spending", I can only shake my head. What will it take for people to see clearly what's right before them?
An early-career lesson in bureaucracies and budgeting makes me skeptical of DOGE
thats a wild, and dangerous take
I would look to c-span for some accurate real time reactions from dems

https://www.c-span.org/program/news-conference/congressional...
I believe your description of software development is highly aligned with the ideas of peter naur, programming as theory building.

https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf
There's a possibility QC will become useful in 3-5 years
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Conversely: It’s only an overstep of constitutional power when I don’t like it.
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That's unclear to me. The idea that someone can just cheat the naturalization process by smuggling their pregnant selves onto our soil long enough to give birth is absurd. The 14th amendment was added to solve a specific problem, the disenfranchisement of slaves who had truly been born here without their say or that of their parents, for generations, and with the leave of the United States government when that was occurring. Nor can an overly permissive reading be justified on moral grounds... most of Europe (and indeed, the world) does not honor the concept of jus soli.

Besides all of that, there is the danger that if Democrats try to play the 14th card against him, Trump will declare the immigrants enemy combatants. At which point they are no longer under the jurisdiction of the United States at all, and he can do more than simply deport them. The left has been out-maneuvered at every step here, it's unlikely that this is the point at which they start winning.
Love to read posts like this one. Honest, straight to the point, relatable, and as a bonus makes me want to do something about it as well. I hope the author keeps on writing.
Regardless, they seemingly have access to tons of financial data that they are basing brash decisions on with zero context. That combined with the fact they are reporting to a manchild that is demonstrably stupid as shit when it comes to "improving" such systems (see Twitter and the play by play of his first days there).

It takes tenure to know what sorts of discretion are required when reporting to such an extremely senior "leader", and to not get caught up in the hype of being involved in something.

(edit: added last sentence)
> I still think this is what will happen.

Agreed, but we won't hear about it, a failure of that kind would never make it to the public's awareness.
"A computer can never be held accountable"
Too simplistic.

Democrats can’t force an impeachment, but they can try to find a handful of Republicans who still care about the rule of law. They can continue to make the case all day, every day.

Assuming that a policy can only be achieved if you can ram it down opponents throats is a sad commentary on just how authoritarian the US has become.
Well if they are working on those systems I think they count then right?
> Congress only mandated that some agency for aid should exist, not that it specifically be USAID

That was true in 1961, but not in the 63 years since then. The Foreign Assistance Act has been amended many times with specific requirements since written for the by then already existing United States Agency for International Development[1]

[1] https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/COMPS-1071/pdf/COMPS-107...
The vast majority of Americans either voted for this, or don't care.

Will there be some protests? Sure. Nothing will come of it, though. The only thing that will enact any real change is if big corporations start losing any profits due to all this upheaval, in which case they may put pressure to get things settled down.
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if its legit clever code, just add a link to the source for the theory behind it and that's enough for me
Closing USAID is idiotic from a foreign policy perspective. Gives China a huge opportunity to fill the void in countries and grow its global influence. It’s already done so in Africa due to US being so preoccupied with the “war on terror”.
Not to mention that aiding developing countries - reduces chances of instability/conflicts/etc which otherwise end up costing much more. Plus it’s about access to raw materials (why do you think China cares about Africa?).
Idiotic no matter how you look at it.
This is exactly the type of thing that Trump said he wanted to do. Who is protesting that who wouldn't be unconditionally protesting Trump anyway? Plus, with the federal NGO money spigot cut off, a lot of the NGOs that organize protests are probably having operational problems.
But which of those actually fits the present situation? Four years haven't passed. Congress is not dissolved. It's literally just a bunch of executive orders and firings within the executive branch, which, last time I checked Article II, is under the authority of the president.
I think it is going to be much harder to get Trump to leave after these four years than the last time. I imagine there will be an amendment on the table soon to do away with the two-term limit, if there isn't already. Or, he may just say "come and get me" and if the military is on his side, he can just continue to rule as he sees fit.
> so you have to configure your program to use a proxy server.

That's not true for local capture mode: https://mitmproxy.org/posts/local-capture/linux/. :)
Isn’t there a part of the data segment that is writable? Initialized vs uninitialized data segment right?
> - Characters starting with the vowel i sound more an e. Therefore, "to invite", 請 (cing2), sounds more like ceng2, and "to hear/listen", 聽 (ting1), sounds more like teng1.

As a Cantonese speaker, I love the effort here! However, the above isn't correct. This is an example of vernacular vs. literary pronunciation, and 請 has both pronunciations, depending on context. For instance, 請 is ceng2 when used as the verb "to invite", but cing2 in compounds like jiu1 cing2 邀請.

It shouldn't be conflated with the phenomenon later in that same paragraph about 懶音 "lazy pronunciation".
Well, challenge question "secret answers" also have similar stupids. Mandating five-letter answers mean that first pet Fido, favorite teacher Zak, honeymoon destination Fiji, etc all cannot be used. Though honest answers to those questions are the worst idea.
Any reason the repo license is MIT but the crate is CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0? The latter is ironic, given this project's scope :)
They should. Anyone caving in to this sort of bullying will only keep getting bullied.
Okay, another nitpick, but it's not because the majority is _conservative_, is it? If they truly voted from conservative principles, _some_ possible actions of the administration could offend them enough to impeach. It's probably more correct to say that it definitely isn't happening with a loyalist (MAGA) majority?
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Constitution says nothing about barrel loading, smooth bore muskets. It says "arms". It's a fairly timeless umbrella term for "weapons or objects usable as such". The only people who have trouble understanding this are generally those who approve of the Machine gun registry being closed by having the federal expenditure to maintain it set to $0, and don't that as being an example of "infringement" of a Constitutionally granted right.
Typically yes. But I don’t know what about this is typical. Trump will throw military under the bus just as fast. It’s up to them to realize that.
would just make one up at that point.
That assumes this will end.
Up, surely.

By executive order if need be.
>I think, unfortunately, they will learn too late that building censorship and thought-shifting tools into their LLMs will ultimately put them at the mercy of larger forces, and they may not like the results.

That the optimistic view -- people with fancy tools can outsmart the people with money and people with money can outspend the people with power, but only on a short distance. Eventually, the big G catches up to everything and puts it all to use. It also turns out to not be that bad anyway (example: read how software developers working for government were described in the snow crash).

The less optimistic view -- the government doesn't catch up to it before the changes to society result in it's collapse (case in point -- industrial revolution, religious wars and invention of the ethnic language-based republics).

I'm not entirely sure that we are in the optimistic one, unfortunately.
Nothing in that bill says that USAID needs a specific headquarters to be open, or that it can't be run by Marco Rubio. How is closing the HQ and assigning Marco Rubio to run USAID illegal?
No, it's because the average IT infrastructure is abysmal and getting things done without admin is it's own full-time job filing and following up on tickets and trying to plead your case for the ten thousandth time to the exalted security dieties that you just want to do your job gets old.

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Whether Trump was duly (?) elected is still up for debate, after all he's a convicted felon, an insurrectionist, there's investigations into voter fraud, and foreign interference / propaganda that helped get him elected again.

He can't just delegate power to an unelected civilian like this.

To invoke Godwin's law, Hitler was democratically elected, Austria democratically voted to join the Reich, the people of the UK voted in favor of leaving Europe. Just because it doesn't technically meet your definition of a coup, doesn't mean it's a hostile takeover of the country's government and systems. But if you'd rather argue semantics that's fine too. If this keeps up, the US government will shut down by March and people will die - or, more will, as there's a link between the plane crashes and the Trump admin's cutting down on already understaffed air control staff.
Depends on the kind of code. If you're automating a process, or handling large quantities of user input, for example, problem cases are everywhere. Or if you're working with a complex problem space where things can compose in unexpected ways (e.g., a language interpreter).
This is perhaps more analogous to an immune reaction to a(n attempted) Cultural Revolution.
By sending in their own unelected bureaucrats
Really like this post. Curious about:

> Gradual, dependently typed languages are the future

I guess that's TypeScript - are there other languages that fit this bill?
> yes, existing government systems are insanely complex - that’s part of the problem! the essential complexity is not higher than that of a brain-computer interface, or an interplanetary rocket.

Yeah, and why don't we build concentration camps again? They're super efficient in term of work per unit of food. Colonies are also super nice, lots of free stuff!

Some people should open history books, life isn't about refactoring everything, making things as simple as possible, &c. It would be comical if it wasn't the very first thing you learn as an engineer

If you think a rocket is more complex than hundreds of years of infinitely complex people making decisions and compromises through democracy you're completely out of touch with reality, and if you genuinely think we can just burn it all down because some nerd unilaterally thinks he found a better way to do it you're just plain dumb.
1. It leaves out parentheses in places where they really should be there for clarity. Ok it's not nearly as bad as e.g. OCaml, but it's still a downside.

2. Basically Ruby code seems to favour magically generating methods and variables based on other strings, which makes them impossible to search for.

Other languages sometimes do that too, e.g. ill-advised __dict__ Python tricks, or with macros in C++ or Rust. But it's definitely worse in Ruby, and it's a common complaint (search for "magic" in these comments).

I literally have given up following Gitlab's code before. That never happens in better languages, e.g. I can easily follow VSCode's codebase (Typescript) or gitlab-runner (Go).
It strikes me as odd that so many people think a business has to be unique to succeed. 99% of businesses do something that another business already does. For that matter, almost by definition, most businesses are not the leader in their niche. That doesn't make them unprofitable.
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Sure, transition is a very real problem. If 90% of people died overnight, there would mayhem and most of the remainder would starve.

The fact that 10% population is viable doesn't mean all paths from A to B are valid. Some are catastrophic. That's the current challenge with birthrates. Even slow decreases over decades is a huge financial and productive problem.

Like falling out of an airplane. Ground level is perfectly safe. It is the transition that kills you.
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> Where are the Democrats in all of this?

I think there's a fear they'll end up on the Kash Patel FBI enemies list:

https://newrepublic.com/article/188946/kash-patel-fbi-enemie...
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