skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I could convince someone to give me 1.x billion to change my behaviour, I would consider that behaviour a massive success without much further thought. It isn't a huge amount of money at the scale of a national economy but >$1 billion for nothing is a win.

Although of course it is unknowable how much of that money was bribe and how much El Salvador would have gotten without additional leverage.
You just got here last year. This place has always been political.
There's nothing in it that prevents fraudulent resale of equipment or fraudulent billing to contractors. Nor would it prevent million dollar research grants for "Prawns on Treadmills". The question of fraud is almost irrelevant when you consider the scale of wasteful spending.

At the extreme end of native payments it could be useful in preventing fraud or even waste by transparently and publicly tracking all transactions. In this example all expenditures, including salaries would be paid with the blockchain. Public keys would need to be mapped to organizations and individuals. The public would no longer need to ask permission to examine matters of the public record.

However, I'm not in favor of a full on CBDC approach. There are too many moral hazards in absolute state control. The privacy implications are also troublesome.

All of this is a bit of over analysis when you understand the context of the Tweet in question. Mario is one of the most popular "Twitter Spaces" hosts. He wants to bill cryptocurrency projects for time on his program. Elon sometimes appears on his program for PR purposes. There is a synergy between the two. They both have an incentive to feed each other. The author just wants clicks.

As I said in my first concise comment, there's no real substance here.
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The telco industry, including GSM and its successors, uses ASN.1 widely.
You don’t really need to get moderates to look the other way when you have crazed MAGA going at this gung-ho.
I do. I think it's interesting to have scans of parts of my body – brain, body fat/muscle distribution, etc. I also use them as reference for how my body changes over the decades.

(EDIT: Nothing to do with medicare or fraudulent billing. Just pushing back on the "for fun" point. I can fall asleep in those things.)
it is probably the same with gold - in fact, i say gold is used even less in transactions. Yet, nobody would deny that gold cannot form a good monetary foundation . Of course, it's not the best - fiat is still, imho, better - but it doesn't mean it can't work.

So why is the IMF so against bitcoins that they'd rather pay to eliminate it? Or are the IMF scared that bitcoin can actually succeed, in a way which prevents IMF members from asserting monetary pressure in ways that benefits them?
I have a particular use case I’m interested in using agents for - any chance you want to have a call?

In brief I’d like to be able to generate conversations via api choosing voices that should be unique on the order of thousands. Essentially I’m trying to simulate conversations in a small town. Eleven is not set up for this.

Ideally I’d be able to pick a spot in latent space for a voice programmatically. But I’m open to suggestions.
The dinner menu and guest list for royal functions over 100 years ago was (and may still be) redacted by the state in the UK. Sometimes, secrets are not really about very much.

I am personally more interested in the MLK data than the JFK data because flawed though they were, the many eyes on that prize didn't find even the scent of a smoking gun worth much. If it had been the other side of the Iron curtain, by now they'd have capitalised on proving it. The ability to tie that era's democrat party to the mob was too delicious to keep secret if provable. (yes, even being killed by the mob taints you with the mob) so either political, foreign, or crime related I can't see how successive governments could have resisted showing-and-telling all.

MLK, I felt was swept under the carpet the way decent "folk like us" wanted. The moment of political advantage in the facts faded much faster, the underlying unease of what agencies of the state might be complicit remains. I think we all deserve a bit of clarity here. We know he had feet of clay, thats not the point. The point is how poorly the state defended a man trying to build a better america.

Neither are anything like as important as current events. The release is not just a mechanistic "I am a man of my word" moment, its a distraction from the everyday events. Any hour news online dedicates to these stories, is time not spent worrying about what dismantling the US state means in practice in 2025.
This 2018 op-ed (anonymously, I assume it's the editorial board of this corporate sibling of FOX News) rests on a curious and unexamined assumption: That many other nations with their own scientists and sensors are--even contrary to their own geopolitical and economic interests--somehow being swept up by the same thing, for no particular reason.
CNN says Secretary Rubio just struck a deal with Bukele to accept deportees from the United States regardless of nationality, including US citizens, as long as we pay to house them in his prison.
The program can detect invalid state, but your intention was to never get to that state in the first place. The fact that the program arrived there is a Logic error in your program. No amount of runtime shenanigans can repair it because the error exists without your knowledge of where it came from. You just know it's invalid state and you made a mistake in your code.

The best way to handle this is to crash the program. If you need constant uptime, then restart the program. If you absolutely need to keep things running then, yeah try to recover then. The last option isn't as bad for something like an http server where one request caused it to error and you just handle that error and keep the other threads running.

But for something like a 3D video game. If you arrive at erroneous state, man. Don't try to keep that thing going. Kill it now.
I didn’t think I could be further shocked by how dangerously incompetent our leadership is, but here we are. It’s mind blowing that someone would propose this without talking to a single person that understands the subject area.
One man tax evasion is another man escape from illegitimate capture.
Interesting note:

> On Sunday, CNN reported that DOGE personnel attempted to improperly access classified information and security systems at the US Agency for International Development (USAID), and that top USAID security officials who thwarted the attempt were subsequently put on leave. The AP reported that DOGE personnel had indeed accessed classified material.

It's attracted a lot of attention that killing USAID has been such a high priority for these guys despite only being 1% of the budget and having a seemingly innocent humanitarian mission. But what's USAID doing that involves classified data? Distributing humanitarian aid shouldn't require any information whose disclosure would seriously disclose national security, should it? Presumably this means USAID has been used as cover for covert operations around the globe.

Paranoid conspiracy theory? Maybe, but it's also a well-known fact; see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Agency_for_Int...:

> William Blum has said that in the 1960s and early 1970s USAID has maintained "a close working relationship with the CIA, and Agency officers often operated abroad under USAID cover. (...) From 2010 to 2012, the agency operated ZunZuneo,[199] a social media site similar to Twitter in an attempt to instigate uprisings against the Cuban government. Its involvement was concealed in order to ensure mission success. The plan was to draw in users with non-controversial content until a critical mass is reached, after which more political messaging would be introduced. At its peak, more than 40,000 unsuspecting Cubans interacted on the platform.[199]

(There's a lot more there. Check it out if you haven't heard of this.)

So, if it's been a key part of the US's overseas covert operations for decades, why did it go into the wood chipper in a weekend? Did Elon Musk just fail to realize its importance to the US's worldwide influence?

With no evidence beyond the above, I think USAID was targeted because it's been a nucleus of the Intelligence Community's resistance to Trump consolidating his power.
SoftBank, OpenAI unveil Japan AI joint venture
> I launched a new video series, Rice Rice Baby

It's odd to me that this seemingly obvious derogative (rice/ricing) is still used so frequently in tech and software.
I built an app that I input these preferences in to find your ideal matches based on data[0]:

Iowa City, Lawrence Kansas, Lincoln Nebraska, Champaign Illinois, and Omaha Nebraska seem to best fit.

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I'd wager that a 19yo is MORE likely than a 29yo, which is also relevant. Also, properly trained individuals are less likely to fall into this trap. How much training have these completely non-vetted children had?
This is such useless pedantry. We all know what was meant.
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/02/03/elon-musk...

"They have apparently installed sofa beds in the office of the OPM."

"Government employeees in various agencies report that staffers from DOGE are turning up at this offices, plugging in servers and running "code reviews"."

"What the DOGE people seem most keen on is access to personnel records and as much information as possible about what employees actually do. According to one civil servant interviewed by DOGE personnel, the questions include, "Which of your colleagues are most expendable?""

Sounds like a scene from Office Space.
Many people re-read their daily. Maybe there are some similar attributes?
I think a simple redacted name would address that concern
Have you noticed a correlation in candidate quality vs the time spent answering that question?
the author built dejalu few years after it was acquired by Google. but it's also abandon shortly after.

https://github.com/dinhvh/dejalu
Elon should not be involved with politics in any way, just like the vast majority of all the other business people, celebrities, and the general public.
They give them to people like they're going out of style.
Why just last week I had fourteen of them myself!
> Shouldn’t they have hodled and not had pizza?

but then starved to death while hodling?
Structurally, Bitcoin is a lousy idea for a currency as it is intrinsically deflationary (i.e., even without the speculative inflating of the cost of a Bitcoin, the structure of the coin is such that coins become increasingly scarce and expensive as time goes by). You do not want this in your currency. The ideal is a low-level of inflation which provides an incentive to spend sooner rather than later. With a deflationary currency, the incentive is to put off purchases as long as possible as your currency will buy more tomorrow than it does today. Deflation ends up being economically disastrous, as Japan’s battles with deflation over most of the twenty-first century have shown.

This is why, aside from speculation, purchase of illicit goods and ransom payments, Bitcoin has had little traction as a currency.
Has anyone in this thread used Bitcoin to buy anything in the last month? What was it?
In comparison to other countries where coups are almost normal, for a country that has not come close to that, this was a big shock to the accepted normal. When other countries like Syria overthrow their leaders, you almost go "of course they did", but to see anything approaching that in the US is totally out of left field. That's what makes it a bigger deal than what you want think.
I think you meant to use an "en-dash" there -- between "me" and "making".

This whole thing is frustrating because I know all of these language models were trained on reddit and I was an early and frequent commenter. So a lot of my style is also the bot's style.
>Debased currency - a problem every large state eventually faced - is a consequence of deflation

Inflation in the monetary supply, not deflation, leads to the debasement of a currency. An example is how the influx of gold from the conquistadors into 16th century Spain led to inflation, due to the increased supply of this means of exchange resulting in the debasement in value of a given unit of this means of exchange.

Edit: I'd remembered wrong. It was silver, not gold, that Spain experienced an influx of.
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I've commuted by skateboard through SoMa for the last year.

The error bars on the crime rate numbers must be enormous based on the amount of crime I observe on the regular.
I've been out of the translation game for quite a while, but I remember there being more to translating as a profession than just communicating ideas from one language to another. Sometimes precision and consistency is needed; complex scientific manuals come to mind. I recall using translation tools (e.g., translation memory) being essential to providing quality translations. TMs would help ensure that the same terms were used consistently throughout the text, and that similar phrases were translated similarly as well. The TM was an essential part of the workflow, because the first line of translators would pass their translation and the TM off to an editor, who would make suggestions in the text and TM, and the translator would update the TM based on those suggestions. It's been a while so I might have gotten a detail or two wrong, but that's the gist of the workflow.

I'm curious what sorts of prompts can replicate this. Again, there's a lot I've missed in the decade or so that I've been out of the industry. Does translation memory now become part of the context window? Does the context window self-actualize with new translations? What sorts of prompts can help produce quality translations?
I suppose that's the irony.

UoM has produced some of the best engineers I've worked with but the worst engineers-turned-managers I've ever seen as far as mindset.
It also needs to scale well, which bitcoin doesn't. This is evidenced by the ever increasing energy demand, slow transaction times and high fees.
If there is any truth to the events pictured in the JFK movie with Kevin Costner that is certainly very true.
What? When? Where?
Then why did they purge a lot of voters in 2024? And take other actions to suppress voter turnout?
I've lived in Los Angeles, Seattle, D.C., New York, Las Vegas, San Diego, and Boston. I've spent time in Phoenix, San Francisco, Kansas City, Chicago, Miami, Portland, Atlanta, and Orlando. None of them come close to what you see in St. Louis. As a disclaimer, I always tell people, every bad thing you hear about St. Louis is true, and worse than you've heard -- but also that the many, many good things about St. Louis are never mentioned, and that's a shame. It's a long list and the City Museum is high on it.

But that said, check out this completely empty block on Delmar and 21st [1], and remember that with the Arch, that's less than 20 blocks from the river. And five blocks north of there is the former site of Pruitt Igoe, which is basically six or so blocks of wilderness behind a chain link fence. I don't doubt there are cities in worse shape (Detroit probably being one of them), but none that I've explored.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/ZWrwkK6CytcQRNmU6
> If the fees were lower

Aye, there's the rub.

With all due respect, why not Bitcoin Cash or some other coin? Bitcoin Cash is the exact same thing as Bitcoin - same protocol, same 21 million coin limit, same Satoshi whitepaper, same everything, except bigger blocks and thus, much lower fees. If you are using a coin as an actual currency, and not as a speculator, why stick with high-fee Bitcoin?
The reason why it's common in the Americas has little to do with perceived virtues of immigration, but because they were colonized. Granting citizenship through jus sanguinis is not really possible in this case; granting it via principle of jus soli on the other hand legitimizes the conquest.
I agree on most parts of your respnse, but I was aiming at precisely at how the commenter I responded to tends to make absolute claims for what, it seems to me, are relative to their position and attempt to instate as more common and common-sense than it really is, and betrays a certain blindness to a simple psychological fact that people usually react more strongly to things that pressure them more (a relative phenomenon) and ascribes to this reaction some political valuation (an absolute).

I myself do not find left-right divide that much useful, at least to describe this melting pot of our time.
Let's look at the reply:

"It's not just commodification. If you were a punk in the 80s with a green mohawk, you might find it cute to put one on your kid in the 2000s. I have long hair, my son has long hair. This isn't a commodification of a culture, it's me, like every parent ever, using my culture to inform how I raise my kids. What am I going to do? Not dress and present my kid how I want to and how I identify?"

He is literally defending his decisions to "dress and present" his kid against my comment about commodification, as if I'm attacking his decisions. He didn't even understand my point: in the 1970's you would have been ostracized (or arrested) for having a green mohawk. In the 2010's, kindergarten teachers ooh-and-ahh over it.

That's the DIRECT result of the commodification: it became mainstream because people spend decades diffusing it into normality. He totally missed the point, and then got defensive.

Actually, in the context of today's internet discourse, the reply is defensively invoking both the "appropriation" and "not-all-men" tone in the same reply. Impressive.
> Heart in the right spot.

In what way? Seriously.
Yes, remote attestation is tantamount to the hardware snitching on the execution, and not necessarily to the benefit of the platform owner. I agree with you, that from a game theoretic perspective, as soon as the vast majority of platforms betray user trust, those seeking to use other machines will be left stranded. However, despite the above dynamics, you could still buy any machine you like and use it any way you like, just like app stores have alternatives. You may not like the alternative, but that is a different story.

Knowing nothing about you, it is safe to assume that you may use the dollar or similar currency, either directly or indirectly. Why would you choose to do that? Such currencies come with lots of rules and regulations about what you can and cannot do. Society must keep track of who has how much in banks, and individuals are held liable should there be an overdraft. Remote attestation may certainly put a damper on doing your own thing with your computer, but you can choose whether you wish to pay the price of participating in the economy. Not sure if the above is a great analogy, probably a terrible one, but the bygone ideal of having your computer acting solely in your interest is simply not very realistic. At the very least, controlling the microcode will not give you the control you seek, because there are too many other layers in the stack that are routinely broken, and you are always one exploit away from joining a botnet. No matter how you wish to spin it, your computer is not yours, and obeys many masters. If you feel otherwise, please offer a counterexample to the preceding statement.
Will the OS fix the microcode, or will a BIOS flash be required?
All the bigger shame they're illegally seizing government systems.
Replacing GitHub LFS with Cloudflare R2
interesting!

I suppose a sufficiently older agesa may actually load the newer microcode then if that was a recent addition in preparation for this
How does this help you?
> The release is not just a mechanistic "I am a man of my word" moment, its a distraction from the everyday events.

Excellent point that I hadn't considered. We're already flooded with executive orders and news of Musk's capricious wrecking ball. Ultimately who killed JFK or MLK doesn't matter all that much today, except as a matter of historical accuracy. But it's something that people will certainly talk about, distracting us from the real dangers going on in this administration.

Ultimately I don't think we'll learn much from this anyway. I expect any juicy documents (if any existed) were destroyed long ago, and the departments in custody of any related files are still free to redact whatever they want, or simply decide not to release the parts they don't want to release.

Another possibility is that the remaining files contain something incredibly damaging to a group or agency he hates. Like say the MLK files implicate the FBI somehow. Trump hates the FBI now (which was not the case during his first term), and files pointing the finger at the FBI would be more ammunition for purging and remaking the FBI.
Presumably positive lives and QALYs. That's the whole point of cutting taxes for many people. I would rather be spending my money on my health than going without while the fed pisses it away on handouts, corruption, and incompetence.

I want to run the heater so my kids aren't cold but cant afford it. Meanwhile my mayor is using my tax dollars to buy 200 home depot sheds for 800k each from a donor.

Yes, the point is spending money, just by the people who earned it.
I really hope we can all agree it is an extremely shitty thing to do for the worlds richest person, somehow entrusted to go in and supposedly save the government some money, to publicize random individuals information he stumbles across in the process because he personally doesn't like their job title. Fuck off with whether it is 'legal' or not, that isn't the issue.
Look up Curtis Yarvin. This is all his libertarian tech bro fantasy come to life
United we stand, divided we fall.

More than LLMs, Europe needs chip autonomy. ASAP.

Own fabs, own IP.
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Yeah - they should’ve just had a court overturn it like Romania!
Thanks Dang for letting this political conversation persist!
but but but, it worked at Twitt...er, X
It was not an attempt at humor.
The "Here's what showed up" is unnecessary; he bought a container of Chinese electric excavators.
Well, our tech moguls aren’t staying out of politics, so you can blame them.
You don't think wanting to buy a Toyota Hilux is "relatable"? Or importing lobster tails and getting arrested for it? Or wanting to play with guns? Or watching your family members burned to death without a trial on national TV? What meaning of "relatable" are you using here, and how does it relate to public opinion about the Federal Government?