skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They have overwhelming support for every major issue

The problem is for a lot of these this only becomes apparent when pollsters remove all context and political baggage. For instance, ask people if they like Obamacare/ACA and results are mixed. But go down the line and ask about the constituent pieces of it all and you'll see positive support.

The Democrats have completely and utterly failed at packaging these things up with a message that resonates with the people. Instead they've allowed their opponents to demonize their stances. And that's how we wind up with people holding signs that say things like "Keep government out of Medicare"
As long as they are isolated, their state is a superposition of all possible states, and evolves determinsitically, with the amplitude of each of these "sub-states" evolving perfectly determinsitically. If you want to perform a measurement, you choose a possible decomposition of the superposition state and measure along that axis, and you'll get one of the values along that axis, with a probability that is the modulus of the square of the (complex) amplitude of that value.
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An actual answer (linking to archive.org since usaid.gov has been taken down): https://web.archive.org/web/20250117221701/https://www.usaid...

> The information about USAID’s development and humanitarian assistance programs is intentionally open and public; to perform the agency’s mission, USAID employees work directly with non-government organizations, contractors, United Nations organizations and host country governments. However, in order for USAID employees to effectively and efficiently carry out the agency’s programs, they often must have access to sensitive and sometimes classified information provided by other federal departments and agencies. Such information may pertain to U.S. foreign policy and relations as well as security conditions and threat data.
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The attributes of young men have always made them convenient to put on the frontlines.
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dang, for my clarification, why are you so clearly in favor of this being unflagged?

I haven't been flagging these topics, but I have defended those who do, on the grounds of "not politics" and "leads to flamewar discussions". On the politics front, you have deliberately allowed more politics recently (or at least that's my perception) when you thought it was of general interest, or of tech interest. But the discussions are, perhaps less flame-full than expected, still somewhat incindiary (not least the discussions around flagging, with accusations up to being full-on fascists aimed at those who just don't want HN to be overrun by this).

So: What made it clear to you that this was something that should not be flagged?
Yes, and- I hope Bill Gates thinks carefully about what he's doing. A capitalist of any stripe is ultimately harmful to the ecosystem.
Gates is a human like everyone else- same intrinsic value- but the more money a person has the more resource churn they cause, and that power can go to our heads. Cool that he's given away some money, but if we kept the progressive tax rate of WWII (91%, I think?), and trusted people with representative democracy, it would probably take longer before we (in the USA) slipped into fascism.
What was the national debt to GDP ratio before income taxes were instituted? It wasn't even 10% between 1890 and 1910 --that's without the income tax.
The government's failure there is that they issued a faulty ID to the conman, of course.

I think the victim should be entitled to damages from the state for that fault, and also for the false sentence he received.
Average couple pays $34k a year for housing.. That's $2800 a month folks.. Guess we all need to move to San Jose
Voting a new president into office doesn't grant that person extra-constitutional powers. What they say during an election doesn't create those new powers, either.
These are mostly cities in large metro areas where the lower-middle and middle-middle class is priced out of living in the central areas, causing them to be excluded from income percentiles and such when examining cities-proper
Github does allow private repositories.
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Don't know about the OP, but I do work in a large enterprise co that claims to be "agile". And it suffers for exactly the reasons brought up by the OP.

A recent project was being developed by the "product organization" for 18 months as pure slideware that never went anywhere (included Product Managers, Designers and Software Architects). When engineers were finally made accountable (partially on me pushing to do so lest it remain slideware), they were able to throw almost all of it away and ship something of value in 3 months. Of actual business and customer value. The organization still opposes involving them from the start and makes them mostly waste time filling up useless JIRA tickets so someone (not sure who) can claim it's all tracked and recorded.

Product Owners and Product Managers are generally mostly a hindrance: they are there to stop work from happening, or when it happens, to stop it from shipping because it's missing this and that. They claim to be agile, but can't react to any reality check nor figure out to iteratively ship something.

And they believe they are to be the source of all ideas, with engineers there mostly to estimate work and then build it according to that estimation.

True agile produces software of higher quality faster than any other approach. Unfortunately, corporations don't buy that and instead write hundreds of pages of docs on how to do agile their way.
The question I was answering was

> Maybe what goal do they think they're pursuing?

and I was answering that to the best of my ability. I'm not just repeating propaganda, I'm distilling down the intent of the actors to the best of my understanding. No one can ever know someone's true intent, but I've done the best I can with the information I have.
It is inappropriate. It has negative educational value.

> Not for dry-humping Space Karen.

You're relatively new here, you should read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Unlike most here, I've been cautiously optimistic about DOGE. I know, I know... But this seems like an absolute mistake, unless the administration really is planning on eliminating the income tax altogether. Filing income taxes in the US is such an enormous waste of time every year, and direct file seemed like we were finally moving in a better direction... sigh
As an object-lesson of how confused this perspective is: why even have link aggregators like HN? Why have chatwithjfkfiles.com when you could instead ask some model what chatwithjfkfiles.com would say? The direction you're pointing to is the end of everything that makes the web a useful resource.

I may well be raging against the dying of the light; perhaps indeed that usefulness is no longer valued by the majority of our species (or, at least for now, the tech sector of the US). If so, that's a tragedy. RIP.

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Don’t know if it helps, but I know iMessage stores message data on MacBooks inside a SQLite file; I was scanning through it previously because I was trying to do a bulk search
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Losing weight and keeping it off is so hard for the vasty majority of dieters. It's hard to find any study in which the majority of participants lose a lot of weight long-term. For some studies, the bar for dieting 'success' is as low as losing a few percent of starting weight and keeping it off for a couple years, which is almost indistinguishable from water fluctuations. There are outliers, but more research needs to be done as to why they are successful.
I didn't even mention mods in my (admittedly flamey) comment, I actually don't think the moderation of HN is a problem as much as the larger culture that comes with being tied to a SV finance company. But thanks for the info.
I don't know if it's SoTa but previously in a joint academic+industrial project I've had very good success with faceboxes for face tracking and then adaptive Wing loss for facial alignment. With c++ and an ONNX runtime, I achieved very fast and accurate results, being robust to lighting and harsh angles.

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They are currently in the process of tearing down USAID, which provides money to other countries to help with things like disease eradication.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-usaid-c0c7799be0b2fa7c...
https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/final_-_rm_warre...
Everything is difficult for newcomers to understand. Newcomers should be helped to learn new things. Every programming language will be incomprehensible to non-programmers. That's not the target audience.
The billions of dollars for 8 EV charging stations. That kind of investment.
There's no suggestion DOGE is doing anything illegal. Regarding the impact, reducing the size of government is uncontroversial for most people.
I'm very surprised at these claims of what constitutes the median income.
My comment had some degree of cheek, but in all seriousness, one of the hallmarks of Keynesian economic policy is state investment in infrastructure. The current administration is treating TikTok (and really social media in general) very much like some piece of critical infrastructure.
It's more likely that Musk cultists or Musk bots are flagging it.
That's only the case in a pure direct democracy, which isn't what the US is.

There's a process for amending the constitution. If they want to amend the constitution, follow the process. Even if they only follow it once to change the constitutional requirements and reduce the threshold going forward.

We are (theoretically) a nation that is governed by laws, with equal protection for all under those laws. This creates stability and predictability, which encourages commerce and development.

When you go all Calvinball with government, you destroy that stability and predictability, and investment drops.
This feels like a very odd debate. When Fermi did his experiment he wasn't American. He was Italian. It takes some mental gymnastics to both project his US citizenship pre war, and to make his experiment happen before Rutherford.

Why can't we just say Trumps comment is a-historical and wrong instead of performing a triple backflip with facts?
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In this case, Microsoft also isn't saying "this is an ISO country code", it's just outputting the letters embedded in the ZWJ sequence as worst case fallback letters in an intentionally ugly fallback font block. Those letters come from ISO country codes in working flag emoji, but Microsoft's approach is "dumb passthrough", Microsoft isn't making any political decisions or validating the ISO country codes are actually ISO country codes or anything, it's just outputting "raw data" from the emoji contents itself.

Windows also doesn't have an "ISO Country Code Picker" here. They don't provide tools to make flag emoji at all.
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This doesn’t make LLMs worthless, you just need to structure your processes around fallibility. Much like a well designed release pipeline is built with the expectation that devs will write bugs that shouldn’t ship.
I want to add here that the Holocaust required a war (the Wannsee conference was in 1942), massive censorship (easy during a war) and misdirection like model concentration camps (Theresienstadt), where international agencies could look around and see how "humane" everyone was treated.

There was no Internet, only official propaganda. Sometimes the truth leaked via the Swedish embassy or railway workers, but it cannot spread far if those who spread it are killed themselves.

But I agree that people all over the world have been docile and compliant since 2020 on all sorts of issues, so the danger is there even if it should be harder today.
During these elections, Dems lost even the support of the precariate, the least wealthy who traditionally voted for left wing. No wonder actually, because they largely stopped to represent the the interests of these groups. When I see a black worker in a small grocery store wearing a MAGA hat, I understand that Dems have failed miserably. All the DEI boards did not represent interests of that guy.
We (supposedly) elected a king. He’s exempt from all rule of law save spineless congressmen.

Whether most of the people doing so were smart enough to understand it is a good question, but the fact is we put a Perón-like figure into office, and only age will likely make him leave.
I think it is more complicated than that. I think many of them feel obligated to maintain their professional relationships and not threaten them by allowing too much "counter revolutionary" content to appear on this platform.
that is an interesting insight
What's weird is that there was initial support for the program by DOGE (or at least a similar program) that was expressed shortly after the election: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/11/19/taxes-irs...

And so having him promote such a negative tweet about the effort just seems out of nowhere.
Dems should bring up articles of impeachment yet again. It will fail in the house and if it doesn't the senate won't convict. But that's really not the point right now. The dems need to get off their asses and actually message that "hey, this isn't right or normal" and make the republicans defend the behavior.
Because the US has a constitution. Congress (not the Executive branch) allocates funding and the Executive Branch (in this case a Billionaire who's friendly with the President) cannot decide not to spend the money Congress has already decided to spend.
This is missing the human language ambiguity problem. If you don't perfectly specify your requirements and it misinterprets what you're asking for that's going to be a problem regardless of how smart it is. This is fine with code editing since you've got version control and not so great when running commands in your terminal that can't be as trivially reverted.

Besides that, you can absolutely still trick top of the line models: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2024/claude-computer-us...

Hallucination might be getting better, gullibility less so.
How many democratically-elected democracies has China overthrown through bloody dictatorships?
Garmin acquire Delorme in 2016 including the inReach satellite communicators. I bet the development culture came with acquisition.
you may be undervaluing the effect of conservative billionaires owning every conceivable propaganda outlet and mashing on the fear, racism, and division buttons like they were going out of style.
My kids would love that process. I’d likely only have the patience to do it once though
> It has negative educational value.

What information in the article is inaccurate and how did you verify its inaccuracy?
To post a link, the text box must be empty.

Mostly, you can submit text xor a link but not both.
I'm open to outsiders improving inefficiencies. The concern is that these are kids, barely out of college. They don't have the domain-specific knowledge required to rework these complex systems, no matter how smart they are. Plus, given Musk's track record, they were likely chosen more for their loyalty to Musk than for their technical acumen.
you should read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Rules for thee, but not for me. Smells very musky.
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SEV-SNP VMs can obtain an attestation report [0].

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The courts are just now beginning to order injuctions and restraining orders, for the stuff that happened last week. The process seems to lag by 2-3 business days. So hopefully we'll be seeing a lot more this week.

How the administration responds to those is going to define how this constitutional crisis unfolds. And it is a constitutional crisis: congress unambiguously has the power of the purse, not the executive.

If Trump gets away with this, it isn't clear that Congress has any power at all.
Tesla sales are dropping like a rock in Europe, but not just because of Musk
In the LA fires and the NC floods, 'CPR for mental health' treats unseen wounds
Did everyone forget about wireshark, which can totally be ran as non-root?

https://blog.wireshark.org/2010/02/running-wireshark-as-you/
Isn't this just the Dark Enlightenment that Curtis Yarvin has espoused and Thiel, Musk, and JD Vance have also endorsed? TL;DR - Dictatorships are superior to democracy, and quick executive actions that replace legislative responsibilities with the tacit endorsement of judicial and legislative branches are functionally the same. The foundations for this were laid when Trump got so many Federalist judges approved last term and the Supreme Court endorsed the anything goes if President does it theory.

https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2008/11/patchwork-2...
It's actually very normal to crave novelty. It's also normal to become bored with repetitive, boring work. It's not a unique feature of ADHD, nor is craving novelty a diagnostic indicator for ADHD. These are normal features of being human and not, by themselves, suggestive of ADHD.

Thanks for mentioning this. I see so many comments with people self-diagnosing themselves with pathologies because, "I forget things often," "I get distracted a lot," "I get bored," "I sometimes doubt myself when there's a challenge ahead of me."

These are normal things!

I think a lot of people just don't have a good baseline for what's normal.
The democrats have effectively no power. They control neither the house, senate, or presidency, the courts have become more conservative, etc. They can only talk. The filibuster will prevent new laws, but that isn't much when the federal government acts according to the presidency, and the filibuster does not prevent government appointments
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You have to understand that CDR-SB is a very sensitive measurement. Yes, it's an 18-point scale, but from 4.5 to 18 it's just measuring how bad the dementia has gotten. The vast, vast majority of healthy people will score 0. Going from 0 to 0.5 is a massive difference in cognitive ability.
I'm saying we can dream a little bigger here is all.