skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But clickety click, Barba Trick: it's not formally a department, so there is now law stopping the president from creating this informal advisory thing. It's not clear exactly what it is. But they just put the word "department" in the name and ran with it.

What may be illegal is when this advisory "thing" starts getting access to various important cogs of the government and intimidate federal workers by leveraging the fact that the president apparently can just fire federal employees who are in 'policy-influencing' positions.

That's again one of those cases where the law may not be ready to counteract blatant abuse because historically so much has been up to democratic norms, and here we have a clique that is using norm violation as their battle cry
Especially since it doesn't have one.
Wait so random people steal this person’s property, hand off to some (presumably) public agency, and the agency is charging a fee to have said property released? Sometimes it seems the US is a strange place. (Maybe the dog is missing dog tags?)
Why worry about the code size if the code size is up to the library consumer (through their choice of panic handler)?
If the consumer worries about code size, then their application has a minimal panic handler. If the consuming application does not have a minimal panic handler, then it must not worry about code size?

Is there some context I'm missing here? Is this to be used from non-Rust applications for example?
> Is my billionaire prankster concept plausible? or totally implausible?

Totally implausible.

You underestimate how large the Earth is, and how little of it is intensely observed.

IIRC when you learn theory for your driver's license in Sweden, the book says "at dusk you pass an animal on the edge of the road roughly every minute". How many of those do you actually see?
Deporting all these violent illegals has been outstanding in my opinion. He's actually enforcing existing immigration laws.

By way of threats of tariffs, He's gotten Columbia, Mexico and Canada to enact policies in the interests of America.

America gets constantly screwed by other nations because we've allowed great trade imbalances and weak borders. Other nations have been happy to step back and let the US fund the UN, NATO, etc. Historically, we have the lowest tariffs and accept the most illegal immigrants in the world. Trump's changing that and I'm here for it.

Btw, I'm all for legal immigration. I'm one myself. My family escaped a communist country and has experienced life under a leader much more authoritarian that what the Left conjures up about the other side.
> Plus, I'm not here to convince anybody.

Well, I think it's safe to say mission accomplished.

Your comments here are why entities have media policies. Probably thousands of peoples will have read your comments and the responses to them and many will have formed their first impression of Horizon from this thread.
This was a great share - thanks
> There is no way a law like that can be enforced except by large companies.

Other fields have very similar laws in the EU and there's lots of tiny companies able to comply with those. The risk control required by this law is the same that's required by so many other EU laws. Most companies that make high-risk products have no problem at all implementing that.
I don't think DOGE/Trump are real bitcoin advocates. I think they're using it as a financial weapon to exploit its vulnerability to crash and break things they don't want to exist.
I still don't understand what Balaji wants to achieve with his crypto oriented nonsense. Could not make any sense of it.
Musk Apparently Gutting America
It's part of a Ponzi scheme either way. Even if not an investment, you have to buy it, and it will eventually be sold.
They paid three million euros to integrate existing open source software into Firefox?!
CloudFlare as a reverse proxy out front of AWS
I'm pretty sure that was not the case.
And who would ever even attack the US? Massive military spending and they are isolated from all the potential enemies behind two huge oceans. Average american should worry about civil war or maybe nukes. Nothing else will ever reach them.
My biggest problem with flag emojis is that flags change, so the meaning of text encoded with Unicode changes.

During the 2020 protests, Telegram changed large¹ BY emoji to the national white-red-white flag. Then it reverted the large emoji back to Łukašenka’s red-green flag. So, old conversations no longer have the same flag.

These flags don't have the same meaning! They represent two very different visions of Belarus.

I would really prefer if Unicode encoded flags with date of their acceptance. E.g. BY-1991 or BY-1918 for white-red-white, BY-1995 for red-green flag.

_____________

¹ Small emoji retained red-green flag even at that time.

Also, Telegram has an option to replace large emoji with small emoji, so it was totally possible to send white-red-white flag and have it received as red-green flag, and vice versa.
When I was in that age range (five decades ago) everyone I knew of the same age was politically aware and many were politically active. Has that changed so much that they can claim to be naively unaware of what they are doing?
Making a $100 mistake is annoying, making a $10000 mistake has serious consequences especially if it is coming out of your own pocket
Of course, people don't have to agree with me, and I didn't take the issue personally, except that particular comment because of its tone and language.

There are other criticisms for the system, and I didn't either answer them, or answered more broadly. Again, what I have seen is the system was working for the parts I was in, and may not be working for the others, and I'm not defending the contrary.

Every coin has at least two sides, and I'm not a god. I can only comment on what I can see and experience.
You can also get cheap dental and haircuts in Mexico: what's Singapore's purchasing power parity compared to the UK? Maybe not an extreme difference since Singapore has has such a high GDP or even worse, but if it is more that can explain a lot even for advanced services.
There are lots of possibilities for sure, and some customers have also asked about this. Getting somebody to help with the development work will greatly assist in being able to better explore these opportunities.
Yes, the people who tried to obey the laws passed by Congress were "placed on leave" in retaliation.

> Musk’s DOGE crew lacked high-enough security clearance to access that information, so the two USAID security officials — John Vorhees and deputy Brian McGill — were legally obligated to deny access.

https://fortune.com/2025/02/02/elon-musk-doge-usaid-classifi...
How would they know?

I've worked on billion dollar defense projects, and have supervised plenty of smart junior consultants from top consulting firms (McKinsey, etc.) - guiding them through processes, while they're digging through data.

Believe it or not, but you don't know what you don't know, and domain expertise is absolutely crucial. Slashing things you think are inefficiencies can lead to some serious footguns.

And I fully expect Musk to value speed over precision.
Because you found a person with opinions different to your own?

I think most of what Trump is attempting will work out poorly, for America, Trump, and the world in general. I can't prove that and there are so many presumptions in my world view, my estimation might be incorrect.

Trump was elected. I think a lot of that support came from people who had been voting for either Kang or Kodos for years and knew the outcome of that wasn't going to be what they wanted. I believe those people know exactly what kind of person Trump is, but that Trump acting in his own self interest might cause government action that is at least not-as-bad as the alternative of a perpetual status quo.

I don't think that is the case, but I think it would be unreasonable to declare that someone who believes something different is wrong simply because I think my opinion objectively carries more weight.
If you buy into the currently circulating idea that Silicon Valley tech oligarchs are attempting to dismantle the government and create small nation states run by corporations then dismantling the intelligentsia is a crucial step. what better way to do that than with a promised AI scientist that can replace any PhD with hallucinated gobbledygook that is acceptable to the layman?
This reminds me of something I read once (I can't find the source right now. Wikipedia?) about dogs using us to perform difficult tasks.
The overreaction is absolutely crazy. In no way are they leftist. They are about as woke as any typical modern progressive company. A lot of my colleagues in both public and private sectors include their pronouns in their signatures. They choose to use inclusive language and policies.

The big hubbub on X was about the Slack bot that recommends inclusive language. https://github.com/18F/charlie/blob/main/CHANGELOG.inclusion...

There is a hit piece article not worth linking that calls out some of the devs who worked there. The comment section of that page is very hateful. As an American it’s shameful to see that level of hate for anything to do with policies of inclusiveness.

The company looks like they hire regular people of all types. A few of the adults are trans or identify as queer and they are acknowledged as equal coworkers. Fairly representative of the tech industry I’d say. What is so bad about that? They seem to write some excellent code and have a good company culture akin to a lot of SV tech companies.
This is why I have doubts about self driving cars, it changes the accountability from the driver to the manufacturer. And I have a hard time believing the manufacturer would want that liability, no matter how well they sold.

This is also the main reason for promoting chip cards, sure they are more secure, but the real reason the banks like it, is that it moves credit card fraud accountability from the banks problem to your problem.

Same with identity theft, there is no such thing as identity theft, it is bank fraud. But by calling it identity theft it changes the equation from a bank problem to your problem.

Companies hate accountability. And to be fair, everyone hates accountability.
> The end state of "nothing will fundamentally change" and "I wouldn't have done a single thing differently" is exactly the same as the end state of Trump's accelerationism.

Pretty wild to suggest that continuing stability, growth, and reindustrialization is the same as tearing everything down.
Precisely what americans state you should not do: regulate.

There should be laws stating who has skin in the game, maybe by stating that if you take responsability for the profit by having a high salary, you also take responsability for the damage with prison.
> possibly

> not speculative

So it is speculative, right? Even your comment is just speculation.
Bukele has emprisoned a large part of the population for the rest of their life in concentration camps.

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250128-no-way-out-gr...

If he was killing them directly in gas chambers instead of letting them rot in prison, the population would be as safe, if not safer, forever.

Would that still be "progressive" for you?

Would you have supported Jonathan Swift's "Modest Proposal" too, at the time? Or sterilizing poor people? I mean, those are perfectly logical suggestions that would work, wouldn't they?
Do not provide private data to open web boards. You will not get a security job!
Why would we care what Democrats are doing? After having lost every branch of government, they can no longer be the adults in the room. The only option left to them is civil war, which obviously won't happen till things get much worse (if it can at all). What are Republicans doing to head this off? They can't all agree with this, can they??
Wernher von Braun was a brilliant young engineer, one of the best minds of his generation. At age 25 he joined a patriotic party that was full of curiosity and creativity, disrupting the stale status quo of his home country.

For the next eight years he did groundbreaking work in developing rockets. In 1945 he and his youthful engineering team were actively recruited to continue their work for another country with great ambitions in space. A tremendous success for his personal career, even though the party he served fell a bit short of their goals.

He was clearly "the best of us nerds". Never mind that his genius was built on slave labor and oppression. He disrupted some governments, made good money and got to work on awesome rockets! That’s what counts in life.
I once tried building a Macbook app which lowers my music volume when I'm not smiling, to try to stimulate more happy emotions (forcing yourself to smile induces happy feelings)

Then I started thinking how this could be used in restaurants to see if waiters smile to the people they are serving
Or in customer service (you can actually hear it when people smile on the phone)

Then I realised that this kind of tech would definitely lead to abuse

(btw that's not the reason I didn't build it, it was just not that easy to build)
I was not born yesterday. I use this site frequently enough to recognize your username and the content you post. I see you as wholly unfit to be in a position to be lecturing others about "incendiary" "ruthlessly divisive rhetoric". The fact that a substantial fraction of your comments get flagged is not because you are speaking truth to a site that is unable to take it but because historically you have liked to post poorly substantiated flamebait on the regular. If you genuinely feel that the country deserves better, consider looking inward first.
> reading comprehension

"Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I've almost stopped using Instagram, these days I get ads that block scrolling on pictures or stories, it's simply not enjoyable anymore.
Making inventory spreadsheets for my Lego sets
It's so sad and disappointing that no one seems to understand this. It is literally impossible for Musk to cut $2T of spending, at least not without an act of Congress. An act that would likely be career suicide for even the most right-wing reps and senators once their constituents stop receiving their social security checks and health care. And when the bond market collapses when we stop paying interest on our debts.
My representatives shouldn't need my fucking letters!
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might be debatable - but I tend to agree with Dario Amodei on this; my guess is that R1 is 7-10 months behind the internal frontier at the big labs, while having a few small novel tricks.
(But i might err, will be interesting to see the development going forward)
I've worked with the bureaucrats in Brussels on tech/privacy topics.

Their deep meaning is "we don't want machines to make decisions". A key point for them has always been "explainability".

GDPR has a provision about "profiling" and "automated decision making" for key aspects of life. E.g. if you ask for a mortgage (pretty important life changing/affecting decision) and the bank rejects it you a) can ask them "why" and they MUST explain, in writing, and b) if the decision was made in a system that was fed your data (demographic & financial) you can request that a Human to repeat the 'calculations'.

Good luck having ChatGTP explaining.

They are trying to avoid having the dystopian nightmare of the (apologies - I don't mean to disrespect the dead, I mean to disrespect the industry) Insurance & Healthcare in the US, where a system gets to decide 'your claim is denied' against humans' (doctors in this case)(sometimes imperfect) consultations because one parameter writes "make X amount of profit above all else" (perhaps not coded with this precise parameter but somehow else).

Now, understanding the (personal) data collection and send to companies in the US (or other countries) that don't fall under the Adequacy Decisions [0] and combining that with the aforementioned (decision-making) risks, using LLMs in Production is 'very risky'.

Using Copilot for writing code is very much different because there the control of "converting the code to binaries, and moving said binaries to Prod env." (they used to call them Librarians back in the day...), so Human Intervention is required to do code review, code test, etc (just in case SkyNet wrote code to export the data 'back home' to OpenAI, xAI, or any other AI company it came from).

I haven't read the regulation lately/in its final text (I contributed and commented some when it was still being drafted), and/but I remember the discussions on the matter.

[0]: https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/i...

EDIT: ultimately we want humans to have the final word, not machines.
Could Oracle neuter it more in an update to push the commercial edition?
maybe the people from US will learn that presidentialism is not a good idea?
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> NB: I really disliked the preemptively pardoning. Like really really disliked it and wish it were not legal.

I also really hate it, but it's becoming more obvious with time that they to some degree were necessary in this case. Ideally they wouldn't be needed or possible, but Trump and his administration seem to have multiple axes to grind with anyone in the government not directly subserviant to him.
Just take R1 base model and fine tune it "for Europe". Done.
Electricity prices in Europe to stabilise if 2030 targets for renewables are met
No, EU funded Bergamot and HPLT projects. Integration came much later, but again as a part of Bergamot project.

[0]: https://browser.mt/

[1]: https://hplt-project.org/

[2]: https://github.com/mozilla/translations?tab=readme-ov-file#a...
Musk holding any level security clearance is farcical. It's the type of DEI that they're fighting so hard.
What's going to happen with insurance and what's insurable if the new US gov gets their way with removing regulations and protections?
Alternatively, my opinion is that computers should make all management decisions exactly because of this. Too many times does decisionmaking devolve into fingerpointing and political power struggles. I strongly believe the only way out of this is exactly through AI. It will also provide a long overdue reset to our compass on what accountability means and can mean.
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> quite literally, the dismantling of our entire government

So the three branches of government are being dismantled? There won't be anymore Congress or Supreme Court?

It's really hard to take hysterical comments like this seriously.
From the benchmarks on another of the blog posts, I very roughly estimate this to be about 1/50 the performance of a Ryzen 7950X for CPU-bound tasks not requiring vector instructions. For vectorizable workloads it will be much slower due to the lack of software SIMD support.
Yes. But in Scandinavia, unlike the US, it is a unique identifier and there is a single national database.

"UNIQUENESS. The SSN is not a unique label. More than 4.2 million people, by the Social Security Administration's own estimates, have two or more SSNs. More serious, although much less prevalent, are the instances in which more than one person has been issued or uses the same SSN."

https://archive.epic.org/privacy/hew1973report/c7.htm
Can you provide examples of when something similar has happened in other US government buildings? I'm American and I can't think of anything, at least not anything that happens "all the time".

Jan 6 was not overblown. Rioters rushed the building, smashed windows, and broke into the offices of Congresspeople and staffers. People were injured and hospitalized. Capitol Police were understaffed and lost control of the situation, and were physically attacked.

Those convicted of crimes due to their part in Jan 6 deserved what they got. It is a disgusting miscarriage of justice that nearly all of them have been pardoned.
There definitely is - but that we, as a startup that is barely a year old and not widely known outside our niche in AI dev circles and on Huggingface, are part of this is already a sign that times are changing.

To be fair: We probably couldn't have handled the paperwork without LLM´s - but due to this technology, the process was still long and involved but manageable.

(BTW: We´re hiring, if you really want to work on this ;-). As a freelancer/solo entrepreneur this will be difficult though..)
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You think we should combat abuse of state power…with a power that is really easy for the state to abuse?
In my experience Mistral (at least Nemo) works well with other languages. Don't know about Slavic languages but it does Romanian, with apparent issues around the translation of technical terms.
Agreed. If government provides fewer services, companies can provide more services at a profit. Why have public (non-profit) education when you can have private (highly profitable) education? Who needs public (non-profit) health insurance when you can have private (highly profitable) health insurance?

The list can go on and on.
C++ desperately needs a solution for wrapper types that should eagerly decay into the wrapped type unless you pass it somewhere that explicitly wants the wrapper type.
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According to the now conservative majority on the Supreme Court, there is no such thing as cruel and unusual punishment once your in jail. SCOTUS and the eighth amendment aren't going to save us here, not anymore.

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/06/18/the-hollowing-of-t... - https://archive.is/ZkWGP
It doesn't do that for me. There's a Google button, and then big sign up/log in buttons, and a non-Google email works fine.
Maybe papers need to be put under version control.
>I would bet large sums of money that these guys will have a bright future ahead of them, much of it because of the goodwill they get from working for DOGE.

Email me.
Maybe if the AI is impartial. But who trains the AI? Who guarantees it has no biases, implicit (because it's trained on how things work today, which is maybe not what we want) or explicitly planted there (because of political plans of AI owners or other external influence)?
You should understand what putting a word in quotes means, regardless of internet memes.