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It's also a repeated topic, political, and it only takes a very few users of more than a few years to flag a post.

On the flip side, [flagged] threads are fully active, they're not dead, they just don't feature on "the front page".

For What it's Worth, I've been on site for over a decade, quite active the past two years and never look at "the front page".

I see all posts that gain a little traction (even if they are flagged) via the RSS feed and I generally watch all comment as they happen via https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments
>unelected

Almost everyone in the government is unelected.
> considering it also funds civil unrest and regime change

Non crazy conspiratorial source for these huge allegations?
The risk is obvious and it has nothing to do with privacy... It's the fact that CCP could deliberately alter the algorithm to influence a significant portion of the US in any way they please.
'Street Fighter' almost went off the rails due to Van Damme's erratic behavior
And then it was killed. FFS
Let's remind ourselves of what the First Amendment says:

> Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

The Constitution does not consider Freedom of Speech a positive right, one that can be granted to some but not others. It is a negative right against the government. It's about as broad and as absolute as you can get. This is why the right also applies to legal entities (eg: companies), even foreign legal entities. It is not limited to citizens, it is not limited to persons.
I can totally see where you are coming from and I like the wink and nod to the article!

I guess...hrm... if someone asked me what classical AI was today... I would answer with something like A*, decision trees, or Markov model-style algorithms (but never DFS). All of these have 'worked' for a long time but still feel like classical (ie no back-prop) AI.

To your second point, I'd be the first to admit I'm no expert (I don't do any ML professionally). In my limited understanding, it feels odd to separate MLPs from 'modern' AI. It's all still back-prop, yeah? I get that universal approximators and (idealized) Turing machine approximators like LSTMs are old hat. But Attention-based (key, value) query models just seem like the next step on the same ladder of "increasingly complex computing paradigms we've figured out a way to back-prop through."
Not something uniquely separate. First, we could do functions, then we could do Turing machines, and now we can do data queries.

But again, I'm probably just showing how green I am. I would, time permitting, honestly appreciate clarification/correction.
Consent is never "needed". Consent is one of many legal bases that allows for data processing to take place. If other legal bases than consent do not apply, the industry can use "consent" as a get out of jail card. Consent as a legal basis was heavily lobbied by Big Tech.

If even consent does not apply, then the data shall not be processed. That's the end of it.
https://nitter.net/ddmeyer/status/1220480907393372160#m

(The graphs in the first tweet are from page 55 of the linked PDF.)
A court has already intervened to block the payment freeze, https://archive.is/Y5KWx

> A federal judge said on Monday that she intended to temporarily block the Trump administration from imposing a sweeping freeze on trillions of dollars in federal grants and loans, adding to the pushback against an effort by the White House’s Office and Management and Budget.
> EU politics isn't like that. We are trying to work together, not kill each other.

Oh? Been quite a while longer since there was war inside the US than war inside Europe. While it's been no time at all since vicious party battles in major European countries. Or countries nope'ing out entirely. But apparently fascists are only a thing in the US now?

> creating a model that will match whatever current model is considered frontier level is not that hard for an entity like the EU

What industry has the EU caught up in or maintained pace in like that by "leading in legislation"?

I'd probably much rather retire in the EU than in the US but... there are certainly cons, not just pros, to the lack of urgency and bureaucratic "lets throw words at the problem" approach to economic development.
I love this. Hoping to retire early from my tech career someday and I have dreams of finding my own weird semi-profitable niche that I can run by just myself and my family for a few hours a day.

I currently have an incredibly small ebay business doing fairly specific motorsports vinyl emblems. The profit margin per order is great but I'm lucky to get a handful of orders a month and have no idea how to scale it. There are thousands of other people doing vinyl stuff on ebay for absolutely peanuts and I don't know how to compete with that.

Are you selling only online or are you setting up vendor booths at events?
Land in HK is weird. The lease thing is true but there are massive national parks that have nothing built at all.

The buildings that do exist are ~50 stories even though that's not optimal because of the typhoon situation. So constructive cost is high because government does not release enough land for development.

The rents are high because someone wants it that way. It's not a land scarcity problem IMO.

Also the government and the upcoming merge with China is strange in itself.
And quite apart from that fundamental misalignment, sovereign states having some measure of control over their own monetary policy is arguably a pretty good thing.
They are, but man the appeal does wear off, at least it did for me.

I moved here when I was 24, and I loved it for the first 8 years. Almost overnight, when I was 32, I realized that I actually don't enjoy living in the city anymore. It's loud, expensive, I don't really do "indie" restaurants, I don't like most art, and I'm married so I don't really need more romantic partners.

I still live in NYC, purely because my current job won't let me move, but I have been looking for an escape.
>Stalin tracker, 1933

>5 million soviet rubles saved due to closing “ineffective farms”

Who knew it could be that simple!
https://tympanus.net/codrops/2015/12/16/animated-map-path-fo...
Not an exact match for your description, but in the same vein
It's called dark patterns and malicious compliance
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The annoying banners in particular, were designed by IAB Tech Lab, which is an industry front for adtech/martech companies.
Doesn't require violence. See South Korea.

And not all coups are violent. Eg. EU is putting up with Orban in Hungary at the moment. Poland was a narrow miss.
The thing that makes it a wedge issue that's useful for propaganda isn't that the US is racist, it's that the US is racist while (ostensibly) aspiring to be more in its creed.
Yes, there’s always fraud but 40% of nearly a trillion dollars a year is an incredibly high number - like the entire Nigerian GDP! It’s simply not possible for that to be happening with a regularly audited public service which routinely finds and successfully prosecutes much smaller fraud operations. That kind of effort would involve hundreds or thousands of people and one of them would slip up.

This is a classic misdirection: fixing Medicare means dealing with the world-record inefficiency of the American healthcare system and paying a little more in taxes. They can’t say that because it’s unpopular with the rich donor class, and if they say services will be cut it’ll be very unpopular with their elderly base, so instead they point to something everyone hates and pretend that it’s big enough to solve the fundamental mismatch.
Thank you.

I didn’t realize the vouch link doesn’t show up in the main threads.
Free as in free from coercion. And GDPR has clear language of 'no detriment'.
Now that the Bad Guys™ are in power everything they do is evil in the most villainous way.
Advocating legal pushback and resistance.

These do not imply violence.
the fact that this comment I made was downvoted by more than 0 people tells you all you need to know about that :)
No I don't know, tell us.
>Furthermore, there is no reason that remote workers would cluster by geography other than fear

Amenities. Some things (and communities) just aren't available elsewhere. And some people just value their local identity too much to move.
It’s not his reading. It’s the only reading.
If you've ever been involved in operating small businesses or NGOs, or even harder, making one, you understand how fragile things are for someone to abruptly rugpull on even a small number of pay periods:

RE:Hospitals, https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-state-department-us...

The Head Start schools are pretty hard to miss as having been on blast in the media around notifying layoff notices, closures, etc being only paused last minute due to court orders

A lot of basic domestic + intl'l social programs & safety nets run on state + federal grants, and ironically, that is especially true of the Republican/MAGA preferences of non-gov religious, community chartered, etc independent charities & non-profits. A lot are on shoestring budgets - stressing these further is a terrible idea.

RE:Telework, core operational areas like cybersecurity, especially with the COVID flip 4 years ago, is now telework, and those contracts are canceled. Likewise, more qualified positions are often by special renewing appointments, so those are now failing to renew too. Most American families cannot handle multiple missing payperiods, and thus cannot afford to play chicken with the rich or apathetic on this: they're told they're fired, so even if they haven't resigned, they have to interview. With the purse strings coming into the control of those who the courts are disagreeing with, rent wins: that's part of the point. It's already hard to staff these positions given they're underpaid to beginwith, especially when regional, so this is another self-inflicted wound.

This stuff is not hard to search. Systems are more fragile then they may seem from a comfortable techie background in affluent and otherwise self-sufficient regions. I think it's a fair position to want the US to have little power in the international stage, not use its wealth to save lives, etc, and that's something to vote etc on. But rugpulling essential services in illegal ways and unilaterally breaking society is a different thing, and again, not seeing that is pretty terrible and worth calling out.

My 'deja vu' here is when COVID broke out, and while my extended network was working long hours in labs trying to sequence the virus... others were encouraging people to go to restaurants. I'm actually disinterested in the politics. I just want society to avoid breaking from stupid unforced errors. Pulling the cord on people and processes en masse sounds fun if you do not understand operations and sociopathic if you do.
i think it's not quite as bad when it's live, through headphones etc.
But a software developer can be held accountable.
Economically, communism is a great idea. In practice, you get "collectivization" in the Soviet Union that basically starves millions to death
I trust him to be transparent because of his transparency? Yes.
"Gradually and then suddenly" is how it always happens, whether that's the collapse of democracy or the collapse of dictatorship. You can't take it for granted just because it hasn't happened yet. And that 'suddenly' almost did happen on January 6th 2021 if not for the moral courage of Mike Pence. That same moral courage will be absent this time around given the lesson they learned on that day. Appoint loyalists.
No, it's still moving the goalposts. It just that we move the goalposts for pretty good reasons. (I agree!)

Btw, you bring up the perspective of realising that our tools weren't adequate. But it's broader: completely ignoring the tools, we also realise that eg being able to play eg chess really, really well didn't actually capture what we wanted to mean by 'intelligence'. Similar for other outcomes.
IMO it should be called "climate destabilisation".
mlk's philandering will then be used as a pretext to change mlk day to elon musk day
Most of the documents were declassified already, I think 99% of 170,000 files or some large number. This was through the The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992. I don't know what's to gain in this release other than closure?
Several presidents have asked for Congression authorizations (Southeast Asia, Iraq, etc.) which are tantamount to the same thing.

Furthemore, the Constitution's Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 specifically enumerates declaring war as a power of Congress:

>> [The Congress shall have Power] To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-1/section-8...
One dev's "you've just gotta learn how we do things" is another dev's "holy hell why does this codebase have its own mind-bending do-everything hyper-abstractions that don't exist outside this organization". (I'm thinking not of the basic concepts of popular FP languages so much as the powerful abstractions they can be used to create. Though if a company invents its own language, that can very quickly enter the 'overly large gap' range.)

I agree that there's a spectrum here, but IME it's very easy for existing devs familiar with everything to underestimate the gap between newcomers' knowledge and their own, or to overestimate how much it's needed. In the worst case, you end up with brittle spaghetti 'abstractions' where the old-timers swear up and down that everything is perfectly sensible and necessary.

(I've personally seen this kind of overestimated necessity twice, in the context of API design. In both cases, the author of a public library published a new version incompatible with the old version, under the justification that users really ought to learn and pay attention to the fine details of the problem space that the library is solving, and that changing the API is a good way to force their hand. But from an outside perspective, the fine details weren't really important for 99.9% of use cases, and it isn't practical for every dev to be conscious of every tradeoff and design decision in the whole stack.)
I wonder how much of the built-in microcode you could replace with Free-as-in-Freedom equivalents, I expect not all of it due to available SRAM?
You cannot barter with fundamental human rights, which right to data protection is (as per Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union), the same way you cannot barter yourself into slavery, even if you insist you are willing and consenting. By what precedent? By the precedent of the state being sovereign in enacting law.
Don’t put words in my mouth. I am not advocating in violence. I never have.
There's a point to be made that the Chinese don't play by the same set of rules; I don't know why Hawley doesn't just make that point.

Oh, wait, I do know: he's an idiot.
I'm fairly sure you can only vouch submissions once they've progressed frm [flagged] to [dead].
There where warm periods, called intra-glacials in the bronze age, the late Roman, and the middle-ages.
Maybe auto-translation isn't available in your country. It's there when I watched the video.
a - gang tattoos mean gang involvement. Let's stop pretending otherwise.

b - I'm not sure what you think you're reading but that article points to the scourge of gangs and their impact on children. I only skimmed it but I couldn't see anything in that article about detaining children.

c - So?

d - Gang members in places like El Salvador victimise communities. They are a scourge. I will not accept the humanizing of them - they are parasites. I absolutely support Bukele's policies to rid the country of them. I hope he keeps going.
The bill was specifically introduced because of DeepSeek (words of the congressman) and has the effect of banning DeepSeek.
>mandatory minimum [...]

Which isn't applicable to the law being proposed. Moreover if the idea is "threaten them with the full 20 years to serve as an example", then the mandatory minimum kinda works against that? If you catch some guy and then he serves 10 years, you haven't really proven much. You're just acting in line with expectations.
ollama pull deepseek-r1:671b

Would be one option...
When most people hear daily usage, they think groceries, bills and paycheck, not day trading on an exchange, defi or centralized.

In this regard, crypto currency is not really a currency that people can use for their daily lives without worry and risk from volatility
Those cases are extremely uncommon. In nearly every case what happened was:

1. The RIAA sent a letter telling how many songs you were distributing and offering a settlement of around $2-5 per song. Most people at this point realized that they were in fact guilty and that the RIAA had enough evidence to prove it in court and agreed to settle.

2. A small fraction ignored this or refused to settle. The RIAA then files lawsuits in some of those cases, typically over a small number of the songs that the person was distributing rather than over all the songs being distributed.

At this point most defendants would get a lawyer and be told that they will almost certainly lose and advised to settle.

3. A handful of people ignored their lawyers (or had crappy lawyers) and plowed on. Their extraordinarily bad decision making often continued during their trial. Thomas for instance lied in court and tried to destroy evidence.

This is not wise since in these suits the plaintiff is asking for statutory damages, which is a minimum of $750 per song (not per download--if you were offering 2 songs for download and they were each download 1000 times the minimum is 2 x $750, not 2000 x $750) but can go up to $30000, and it is the jury that determines the amount in that range. You really want the jury to find you sympathetic, and lying and trying to destroy evidence doesn't help with that.

4. After the inevitable victory in most cases that got far the RIAA would again offer to settle for an amount much lower than the damages awarded by the court, although higher than their original settlement offer.

I don't know how many reached this stage, but if many did most of them came to their senses and realized that appealing would probably only make it worse.

The very small number that didn't are the ones that ended up like the two cases you cited.
I didn't downvote you, but tell how you would like to downsize the military's mission 95%. No overseas bases? No Coast Guard? No R&D? Just looking at a big number and saying "cut it" is easy, saying what to cut is hard.
Disappointing seeing so many "smart" people on this site thinking that a government shoild be run like a business.
I propose the death penalty for politicians who propose ineffective laws.

(P.s. I'm not a politician)
This is just blatantly false. The 10% number is ridiculous which anyone involved with foreign aid knows. But you can easily tell that the countries want the money from the cases where the US threatens to take away aid over some disagreement and then the foreign countries capitulates. You know these are sovereign nations that can say no to the aid if they don't want it right? You don't just show up without a visa and hand out money without the approval of the foreign government.
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same for me. Chrome on Pixel 8
If the FBI had really done it, I doubt they would have left classified records saying they had. Most likely, either the records would have been destroyed long ago, or they never would have created any in the first place

Other possibility: they really didn’t do it, but there’s some classified record which sure makes it sound like they did. e.g. some record of J. Edgar Hoover joking about doing it
Macros are capable of much the same thing as reflection, but without the reflection part. Anything you would use an annotation/decorator/attribute/etc for, can be done as a macro to eliminate the runtime performance impact and the vector for action-at-a-distance. In addition to removing internal copy-pasting/templating when you just can't quite replace it with an interface instead.
I'd love it. I've been shoring up finances, paid off the house, and am ready for an income reduction and whatever pivot presents itself. The signs are all there, from what I can tell.

However, I've also been bearish for like the last 15 years, so these financially conservative moves I have made in reality will portend massive stock market gains, bountiful employment and prosperity. :)

You're welcome.
The constitution is not meant to uphold the citizens of foreign nations. Dont you get it?
> 2. More importantly, the pilots and ATC folks speak excessively quickly and do not enunciate at all.

Multiple aircraft’s one frequency. Need to speak short to allow other potentially higher priority calls. Also take a moment to read: https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/fs_html/...

Of course in practice there are deviation's from the phraseology.

I do agree the DC ATC audio is very poor. Not all ATC communication is that poor. And often it is quite clear especially once you get use to how radio calls are made.
This is why otc tradfi crypto futures are needed. You can buy a train car full of corn a year out trivially on a liquid futures market, regardless if corn prices fluctuate wildly you will pay what was agreed. Listing BTC derivatives would solve the predictability for fixed loan terms.
Imagine if the attacker employs DRM-esque/anticheat technique.
What does the executive branch do?
I don’t think you can have any impact on US spending without entitlement reform - almost all medicaid/medicare - or decreasing the defense budget

All these other agencies are small potatoes.
"Capture" is the basic theme of current US government. MAGA capture of the Republican party, for instance. Regulatory capture by by various industrial sectors.
It is just factually untrue that Democrats are the party of billionaires. The richest people in the world were sitting behind Trump at his inauguration. You are high on some serious right wing propaganda.
I think that's a stretch?

Public protest is non-violent, but a solid step up from writing letters.
Is it? Because as soon as the ban went into effect and phones started to ring Congress very quickly changed its tune. If it was genuinely a national security threat you absolutely would NOT bend after a few hundred angry constituency calls.
at this point "free speech absolutist" is nothing but a revealed preference for censorship
Not if you want accurate information.
This guy is being held due to his failure to turnover gold coins related to a 19th century investment deal that failed. Which he claims he doesn't have access to in the first place.
Can Large Language Models Emulate Judicial Decision-Making? [Paper]
I recently wrote an academic paper evaluating whether large language models can emulate judicial decision-making. It covers methodology, limitations, and implications for AI in law. Curious to hear thoughts from the HN community.