skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no arbiter for the median set point, as you know. I think the problem latent in both the point you respond to, and your response is the lack of desire amongst us all to agree the position of the left-right needle. It's just much more useful to be able to fling the terms/directions around as a pejorative, than to be particularly factual.

It's a very odd time. The USA is emerging into a combination of a Kleptocracy, a Kakistocracy, Autarky and Technocracy. It's like somebody's dream pivot fractured into every ocracy under the sun.

I don't have to subscribe to a belief in a conspiracy to advantage Russia, to beleive the SITUATION will advantage people who benefit from an unstable US polity.

I also don't have to subscribe to a belief it was "the plan" to believe the super-rich will ride over this wave, and pick the cream off as it floats upward. Thats what they do, all the time. This is just a particularly active milk churn and there's going to be a LOT of cream.
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Hey, I smell sysadmins stuff in that lines

> RUN set -eux; \

> groupadd -r postgres --gid=999; \

> useradd -r -g postgres --uid=999 --home-dir=/var/lib/postgresql --shell=/bin/bash postgres; \

> install --verbose --directory --owner postgres --group postgres --mode 1777 /var/lib/postgresql

If we start managing [our] systems, won't we become those weirdo sysadmins we successfully (like 80%) escaped by moving things to Docker? Those guys in sweaters were annoying and moaning on "do this, don't do that, chmod 777 is not good for security"
There are early bitcoin holders who are now billionaires continuing to hold their highly liquid bitcoin.
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It generates LinkedIn posts in seconds based on a custom topic or AI suggestions. It also suggests hooks, hashtags, and CTAs to improve engagement.

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I use both quite often. The apostrophe from a young age and the em-dash from my locally hosted alternative to grammarly which auto-corrects for me - making it easy to use as it doesn’t exist on my keyboard as a built-in. If it existed on my keyboard, I would use it by default.

(Noticeably absent is the em-dash in this message because my grammarly alternative is a chrome extension and I’m currently responding from my mobile device that does not have it.)
It doesn't seem to be clear to me whether auto-formatted code (or even generated code from copilot for example) would be classified as AI.
Feser police means less time for policing. Officers must spread themselves thinner: policing per se, performing investigations and going to court, among other duties.

Reduced staff guarantee police have less time to pursue crime. The result is less recorded crime (while actual crime may be skyrocketing)!

So don't trust the statistics!. This is a good idea anyway in most major cities where there is strong political control. There is always an interest by those in power to reduce crime numbers in any way possible.
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ might temper your enthusiasm towards modern fiat currency.
The rest of America finds Target too expensive and also kind of overrated.
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My father (Bryce Bayer) was known for the Bayer filter, which survives to this day as the dominant approach to capturing color images in all digital cameras, and Bayer dithering, which didn't. Last time I saw it used was as decoration on DEC computer boxes.

In grad school, I went "down the street" to MIT to hear him speak. I overheard some students disparaging this dithering as primitive. Hey, you try living in the past and seeing the future!

I love HN for its healthy love of history.
In 2010 Reddit was center-left, with a high degree of variance between subreddits.

Today it is a far-left echo chamber in most large subreddits.

The process of change was gradual. Like all echo chambers it is a result of distillation, with marginal moderate users progressively leaving in response to seeing the shrinking frontier of acceptable discourse.
You are both talking as if this could possibly pass, and it cannot.
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Birds, bombs, fire, and vengeful Kievans as well:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_of_Kiev#Drevlian_Uprising>
they do just pile up garbage bags on pickup day that i've seen
Two things:

1. Nobody is losing confidence in the US over debt ratios. Japan’s debt ratio is over 300%, and they’ve had no issues with financing their spending or capital flight. This is a myth that has been proven false.

2. If the private market doesn’t want to purchase bonds, the central bank can do it. Either way, there is never a need to default on debt owed in your sovereign currency. This will never happen. The risk here is inflation, but that risk is always present, regardless of how spending is financed.
I'm not sure why you're surprised. Reddit has always been left leaning and progressive, and they were making a lot of noise about Trump his first term, especially with the Mueller investigation.

Now you have a huge trade war going on, he keeps threatening the soveriegnty of multiple long time allies, a billionaire has extensive access to government data (the same one that did that nazi salute), along with ICE being ramped up all in the first couple weeks of his term. Our president also ran a crypto scam that made him billions right before his term started. He also keeps joking about running for a third term and is challenging a 150 year constitutional law on birthright citizenship with an executive order. Even you have to admit that this is a lot going on compared to anything we've seen before.
It's not going to require a Ron Wyden filibuster. The Senate minority is not going to jump onto a grandstanding bill by an especially right-wing member of the majority. The bill will never clear cloture. That's before you even address the question of whether it'd get near-unanimous support from the majority, which is what it would need.

This is why stories like this are "officially" off-topic for HN ("proposed bill" is the search query you want). The actual mechanics of US politics are such that stuff like this pops up all the time, with everybody playing the televised game, as opposed to the home game like us, understanding that none of this is actually going to happen. Us talking about it was the entire ballgame for Hawley.
> What is happening in DC (currently) has broad public support.

Things have been moving quite quickly, so this seems like a premature judgement. Can you cite a survey that shows that levels of support for disbanding USAID, for example; or taking over the treasury system; or "deleting" DirectFile?
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It is true that the reasoning mentioned by the commenter was also given as an example of why TikTok needs to be banned by a few legislators.

I don't think the closed door intelligence was about that though. I think they probably said that the persuasive power of TikTok was dangerous to the US, but imo, that's very against the First Amendment and the idea of democracy. Americans are allowed to be influenced however which way we want. We run the government, not the other way around
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I think it’s ok to regulate things that are a big deal.
>I hope people condemning the former also condemn the latter.

Why? Its ok when our betters engage in such behavior and who could be better than the rich?

When some poors like "journalists" try to do this, they're just upending the system for their own gain. It would really be tolerating corruption if you just tolerated them ripping up our current system of governance just because they preferred a different set of rules. Elections have consequences and its just gauche to ignore the results like this.
> just software, statistics, old ML techniques

yes, and with the same problems if applied to the same use cases in the same way

in turn they get regulated, too

it would be strange to limited a law to some specific technical implementation, this isn't some let's fight the hype regulation but a serious long term effort to regulate automatized decision making and classification processes which pose a increased or high risk to society
I sleep better at night knowing my savings aren't part of a massive Ponzi scheme that's going to one day leave lots of working class people holding the bag as the savings they invested in bitcoin are transferred to the wealthy insiders.
Digital archive means you won't have to, unless you want to see some yellowing paper.
Even if it isn't winning, I'm choosing multiplayer to play against others. If I wanted to verse machine code, I'd play single player.
I wonder whether even those models which emit thinking tokens in reality do most of the work within the latent space so the difference is only superficial
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> Sixty-five percent of Americans say government efficiency is an issue, but few said they supported DOGE, and fewer than half of those polled support the department’s head. Fifty-two percent of Americans, asked ahead of the Jan. 20 inauguration, had an unfavorable view of Musk, while 36% had a favorable view of him, according to the AP-NORC poll released on Jan. 24. And just 29% of Americans said they approved of the creation of DOGE.

> On government inefficiency, 81% of Republicans identified it as a major issue. However, only 58% of Republicans said they supported DOGE. With Democrats, 55% saw government inefficiency as a problem, but only 11% are in favor of DOGE. Those numbers are 61% and 20%, respectively, with independents. Six in 10 respondents went on to say they disapprove of billionaires advising the president. Just 20% of Republicans said they thought policy advice from billionaires was a good thing, while 44% did not find the idea to be positive or negative, the poll found.
> Do you know that our voter registration, which is organized by state and ultimately administered at the county level, does include that information?

If you're a citizen, and you're correctly registered to vote. Additionally, for various reasons, US voter register quality is relatively poor - one study estimates that there's 6.1 million voters who have their name registered in more than one state (https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/double-registration-and-strat...).
I truly despise people who gaslight the way you are right now. Musk did two very blatant Nazi salutes and us right now illegally accessing the US federal payment system. These are unprecedented actions and a strong response to them is hardly "hysteria".
Hmm... Cats are more mousers and they're not actually that good at catching rats, which are much larger. Typically this was the job of small dogs.

(Not to say it can't be done. My own housecat killed a rat)
At what cost? Are we counting lives lost, QALYs, who defines the cost-benefit.

I can free up a lot of budget by sacking the entire armed forces and selling the jets to Ukraine and Saudi Arabia. "freeing up a significant fraction of the budget" is not consequence free. If he forces the health insurance industry to reform and extract a sane profit margin above cost of service, he deserves a medal. If he wipes out USAID and stops his competitors being funded for battery car programmes he secured for himself in times past.. Less such.

"waste" is a very emotive term for government spending. Many economists laugh at the belief spending less money is net advantageous as a thing in itself: money makes the world go round. Sometimes you want it spent more than you want it saved.
That's a relatively recent development. Historically humans (and their livestock) were a small fraction of all terrestrial vertebrate biomass, and IIRC tipped into the majority only in the 20th century.

It does make one think of the sustainability of that situation however.
169 people were sentenced relatively lightly for brawling with capitol police.
I’t’s very clear now that it was the Palestine support among tiktok users that was the main reason. I’m guessing Israel issues typically get that level of support in congress.
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And public protests can just be ignored. Tell me, if you had absolute control of the government and military and people didn’t like what you did and asked you to stop nicely with signs and kumbaya circles, would you stop?

I’m tired of people so resistant to fighting back they’d rather just get walked on.
So they didn't even attempt to enter the building and they certainly didn't attempt to overthrow election results? I just cant see how you think these are the same category of event with respect to political impact.
Who thought lugging a transponder with GPS, facial recognition, microphone, and keylogger could lead to human tracking and privacy violations?

We all did and yet here we are.
and also moderate Republicans, so don't think the Republicans are all "Holy, Truthful, Angels" of people, because they AREN'T!
Asking for people to prove the negative? I swear these posts are now being flooded by X types who only comment on these kinds of posts - and what a surprise, looking at this user's profile shows 0 comments on tech stuff, solely on politics - this level of reasoning used to be absent from here regardless of political inclination.
So your one good use is... tax evasion. Huh.

It's not illegal to move money out of your investment accounts, it's just reported so that yes, you can have a tax liability.

I too, would like tax-free investments and funds.
What evidence do people have that anything damaging is happening? Because these people are assumed to be conservative and not progressive? How is this any different than an internal audit whose work would be kept confidential? Or even a third party vendor who presumably would be covered by confidentiality agreements? The allegations in these comments are completely without evidence and are outright politically biased. All the wired article can say is there are a handful of young presumably conservative engineers doing their job. That about sums up the scandal.
I sat on a January 6 jury that voted to convict the accused, who was then sentenced to several years in jail. I watched hours and hours of participant and security camera footage and listened to testimony from a Constitutional lawyer of the Senate and many law enforcement officers who were there that day (and could be identified in the footage).

Most of the Jan 6 trespassers got off pretty easy, especially if they settled. Most of them who made it into the rotunda stood around gaping with dumb looks on their faces, like the proverbial dog that catches the car. They didn’t know what to do and they sensed they shouldn’t be there. Many of them then listened to Capitol police offers in the building and exited.

But many didn’t exit and they formed a tense, violent, and scary mob, in the seat of our government, to disrupt the Constitutional transfer of power. It is amazing that more people didn’t die (a SWAT team quickly dispersed the mob outside the Speaker’s lobby right after the lone shooting) and there were many acts of heroism and smart policing to distract, disorient, and delay the mob, buying more time for evacuation of Members of Congress and for law enforcement to regroup in force. Many in the mob had weapons, which is a couple of felony counts right off the bat (possessing weapons in the Capitol, which is looser than you may think, and possessing weapons in the Secret Service restricted area around POTUS and VPOTUS, which is a felony that doesn’t mess around).

The felonies and misdemeanors at issue in the case I was on were pretty clear and the jury reached its verdict thoughtfully, carefully, and quickly (we all quietly read through the many pages of the counts and judge’s instructions before opening discussion; it was an excellent group of people).

January 6 was an insurrection. Most members of the mob were sad sack idiots, and I can feel sympathy for them as individuals. But if anything, the government did not treat them harshly enough, nor quickly enough.

I am a bit worried about my own safety now, with all the insurrectionists having been pardoned. Fun times.
A newsstand was famously the setting for 'The Cricket in Times Square'... sad to think the context lost for some newer readers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cricket_in_Times_Square
How is this confusing? China spies on you. If you use an app that's tied directly to headquarters, headquarters can read what you think.
I can kind of see going in on something like this with my neighbor, as we both are rather new home owners trying to terraform our backyards into our own things, but ultimately I think I'd rather build something out of the Open Source Ecology project: https://www.opensourceecology.org/