skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe most people will understand that there is an extraordinarily long and vast tradition and literature on US Constitutional checks and balances, as my earlier link should have amply demonstrated. Google Scholar presently turns up another 359,000 results should that not have proven sufficiently persuasive:

<https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=constitution%20checks%2...>

At the time the US Constitution was written, political parties did not exist, nor were they anticipated, though they did in fact develop rather quickly as the US political system evolved. As such, the idea that a party might control one or more branches of government was not anticipated, and might be considered variously a misfeature of politics-as-instituted, or a grievous oversight of the framers. Probably some of A, some of B.

Rather, states and branches were anticipated to have their own interests and act on their accordance. To some extent that's emerged, but the overwhelming power has resided with parties since the late 18th century.

As with other doctrines (e.g., judicial review, a concept fiercely wielded by so-called "originalists"), much if not most US legal and common law theory has evolved over time, occasionally through amendments but far more often through case law and simple convention.
> create lock in like how they did with iMessage instead of cooperating with other platforms on a common standard

I'm confused by this complaint. Do you say the same for other popular (and closed ecosystem) messaging apps, such as WhatsApp (big in US/EU), Line (big in Japan), WeChat (big in China), and Kakao (big in Korea)? What is the financial incentive for any of these platforms, including Apple's iMessage, to open their ecosystem?
Sounds horrible.

Deception is bad enough, knowing people’s true motivations and opinions surely would be worse.

What truly motivates other people is largely a mystery, and what motivates oneself is wildly mysterious to that oneself indeed.
Have you worked in government? I have. I helped manage a program that was an actual line item on the national budget. I'm quite familiar with how it works.

There is a lot of executive leeway in interpreting how to spend money allocated in congressional authorizations. As I said, I was managing a program that was in the 10's of millions of dollars and a line item on my agency's budget. The actual wording of the authorization was quite short, and there was a lot of executive agency in deciding how to structure it.

But most of your comment doesn't seem to be addressing what my comment was saying, and is politically charged enough that I don't think it would be fruitful for us to continue this conversation. I wish you the best.
you can't multiplex sprites so that more than 8 appear on the same line.

the secret is to pretend you have a 9th sprite by emulating it with characters that look exactly like one of the sprites would.
There is a reason why people, especially those outside the US, are treating the series of events of past few days as if it were a regime change, and the reason is it satisfies most criteria for it. From [1]:

“Regulations, basically, should be default gone,” Musk said. “Not default there, default gone. And if it turns out that we missed the mark on a regulation, we can always add it back in.”

“These regulations are added willy-nilly all the time. So we’ve just got to do a wholesale, spring cleaning of regulation and get the government off the backs of everyday Americans so people can get things done,” Musk said, adding later: “If the government has millions of regulations holding everyone back, well, it’s not freedom. We’ve got to restore freedom.”

1: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-regulations-default...
I worry/wonder how strong the public hunger for blood in the streets would become if they accidentally delay or otherwise modify more than a handful of Social Security payments. This is as close to juggling chainsaws as anyone can get.

Elon doesn't have a strong track record of getting things right the first time.
The deal they made 8 years ago that gives the publisher all the rights is figuratively holding a gun to their head, yes.
is this evil, actually? a well-made autonomous system might go a long way towards improving accurate targeting and reducing civilian casualties.

if you're mad about the existence of weapons then please review the prisoners' dilemma again. we manage defection on smaller scales using governments but let's presuppose that major world powers will not accept the jurisdiction of some one-world government that can prevent defection by force. especially not the ones who are powerful and prosperous (like us) who would mostly lose under such an arrangement.
> Covid response in the US wasn't that bad

...what?

Trump's son-in-law was put in charge of supply distribution, refused to invoke the defense production act, and when they finally did, Trump took ages to actually "order" ventilators. They refused to implement testing because they knew that tests would show how bad things were and justify measures that would hurt the stock market.

Trump largely didn't do anything at first because COVID-19 was most severely impacting the coastal blue states because of higher population densities.

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/did-trump-kushner-igno...

and https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/09/jared-kushner-let-th...

They routed supplies away from blue states to red states. He sent ventilators to Russia, FFS:

https://ru.usembassy.gov/delivery-of-u-s-ventilators-to-russ...

Trump told states to get their own PPE (because blue states needed them more badly than red states, and he didn't want red states to have to pay for it), then the feds outbid state agencies for PPE. And when that didn't work, just outright had customs steal them:

https://www.warren.senate.gov/oversight/letters/warren-deman...

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/05/how-the-federal-gove...

Our state's orders for PPE was impounded at the port by the feds, who them claimed they had no idea what anyone was talking about. Our state got a bunch of PPE because the NFL football team owner sent his team's 737 to China to pick up masks and gowns (which turned out to have all sorts of problems, like being sized for children.)

Our governor stopped just shy of saying "yes" when asked if he'd sent state troopers into NYC to meet the plane and escort the truck.

https://www.wbur.org/news/2020/04/14/baker-mum-on-whether-st...

> If the wealthy don't pay enough taxes, the middle class will be harmed.

"Will be"? It's been going on for decades. Bush and Trump tax cuts made it even worse and skyrocketed the deficit to boot.
So altogether that is 13 sources -- and NONE of them have actually used any first party sources.

AI (CoPilot) had to infer a first party source, who has NOT made this claim.

You are all getting spun up over what is almost certainly fake news, and since it fits your confirmation bias it does not matter.

If this story was about anyone else, there is absolutely no way all of these 'news' sources would be willing to publish these claims with such flimsy evidence.

Frankly, this is pathetic. I -really- hope this isn't true because of how egregious a breach it would be. The audaciousness / outrageousness of the base claim combined with the circular references really SHOULD be raising red flags for everyone taking the bait though... but for some reason this site full of highly technical people is suddenly fine with "well I overheard it in a conversation over the weekend" as gospel truth.

Get real.
If the next 5 lines of code are so predictable, do they really need to be written down?

If you're truly saving time by having an LLM write boiler plate code, is there maybe an opportunity to abstract things away so that higher-level concepts, or more expressive code could be used instead?
no. there are 9 separately moving objects and them being visually similar or even the same doesn't mean much
No, the 737 Max didn't cause any fatalities in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_Air_Flight_610

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Airlines_Flight_302
Explains the downfall of Elmo [1]. Bro hasn’t been the same since that fateful day on JRE.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45445554
It's also highly discriminatory and ideological. Decades of discrimination will lead people to want to come back and tear it down, you reap what you sow.
what in Elon Musk's track record makes you "strongly suspect" he is there to cause a constitutional crisis? Is it possible that instead he is working in good faith?
This happens in Android to Android too, especially with Samsung Messages.

A lot of carrier's RCS implementations are buggy.
> the US is the country most willing to make daring bets on innovation.

… a critical tool of which we’re currently dismantling…
LLM-as-Intern: Revisiting the Analogy
i vibe coded my entire website. at some point you gotta introduce smart patterns to create controlled chaos. in 6-12 months this will be able to tackle projects of significant complexity. the major breakthrough needed is "code intelligence", not just code mercinaries. someone will crack it, my guess would be anthropic first if they play their cards right. sonnet is still king of the hill
How about 30k drones come from a shipping vessel in the port of Los Angeles that start shooting at random people? To insert a human into the loop (somehow rapidly wake up, move, log hundreds of people in to make the kill/nokill decision per target) would be accepting way more casualties.
What if some of the 30k drones were manned?
The timeframes of battles are drastically reduced with the latest technology to where humans just can't keep up.

I guess there's a lot missing in semantics, is the AI specifically for targeting or is a drone that can adapt to changes in wind speed using AI considered an AI weapon?

At the end of the day though, the biggest use of AI in defense will always be information gathering and processing.
Replit Agent: Build mobile apps using AI
No, the argument is that the best case answer here is "< 1%" and it comes at huge cost in disruption.
I've never heard about rainbows and stuff, at least not for weed. I've heard for some people it increases their depth perception to potentially painful levels, I've heard for some people it makes them feel like they can see with their eyes closed, I've heard for some people it makes daydreams more vivid/accessible, I've heard for some people it makes things feel/appear funnier than they actually are... but for me it's just some slight dissociation, which doesn't exactly manifest as a particularly interesting or impaired experience since I experience dissociation all the time just naturally (thanks to my dissociative disorder).
A billion here, a billion there, before you know it you're talking about some real money.

If I were president I would probably cut from military spending - but at some point that becomes painful to cut aswell.

A lot of people have misunderstood me in this thread, at no point do I want to see public research cut. Its just that the same people who are worried about what climate change will bring over next 50 years (and I am too!) dont seen to feel any sense of alarm at the federal government living outside its means for the next 50 years, and I can not understand why
Eco-friendly artificial muscle fibers can produce and store energy
Efficient, but not always more effective.
that's a browser addin, if i remember. I'm talking about all the telemetry for native apps. Since those aren't messed with too much, i'm sure there would be a few meetings arranged to figure out what's happening.
"The US lost that position only after the 1980s cessation of subsidies to domestic shipbuilders."

Not really: https://www.cato.org/blog/subsidies-misplaced-shipbuilding-n...

Also: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UJwLSBXvXcNTMfApNGgJHJTSCD0...
Put LSD in the drinking water
I'm not really surprised by this finding. My anecdotal experience has been that pretty much everyone knows a friend or a friend of a friend who smoked too much pot and had their life go off the rails. It is pretty clear to me that it is not a harmless herb despite that being the commonly held belief on places like Reddit.
correct. this is why i support maintaining the American-run world order by all means we have at our disposal. it's both the best outcome for our citizens (therefore our government should pursue it) and the best outcome for the world at large. we will never accept (nor should we) the sort of one-world power that would be necessary to block defection so us running the thing is the least-bad option.
VIC II doesn't have that functionality. the first commodore that could do this was the Amiga series.
I was all excited seeing the beefy thermal solution, until I realized that it's the same ~5W JH7110 processor that most RISC-V SBCs use.

This board is only for someone that wants the convenience of using the JH7110 in a chassis they already have. Otherwise an SBC like a Pine64 STAR64 or MilkV Mars is a much a better option.
Re-wilding beavers is a thing, but that's not what the article says happened here. This was some native beavers who came along and happened to build dams in the right spots.
Schizophrenia symptoms:

Hallucinations (e.g., hearing voices), delusions (e.g., believing one has special powers), disorganized speech and behavior, reduced emotional expression, lack of motivation, withdrawal from social interactions, problems with attention, memory, and decision-making

Yep. Had nearly all of the above when I was bored out of my mind and smoked every single day during covid. I was working remotely and was high half of the time I worked. That went on for about 1 year. Thank goodness I was a mature adult when I first started and could eventually remember that life was better without weed. Sober for 1.5 years now.

I highly recommend r/leaves to read other people's stories trying or wanting to quit weed.

Edit: For those wondering, after being sober for 1.5 years, I'm pretty much back to my old self. My memory took a while to come back but it's drastically better than it was when I first quit. I feel much more motivated in life. My relationships with family and friends are better and so is my physical health. I was smoking about 0.5g - 2g/day for 1.5 years.
protection from returning stack pointers seems to be detectable with static analysis of zig AIR.

https://github.com/ityonemo/clr
To be competitive in academia in Europe, you’re not going to have as much free time as you expect.

You’re unlikely to be able to afford to live in the center of a dense Western European city on researcher wages, and most of the jobs aren’t in the city center either, so you’ll probably still need a car.

I think in the US people romanticise living and working in Europe to an unrealistic degree. There are good reasons why the net migration of skilled workers is towards the US rather than away from it.
You don't need some genius brain auditing to know that 99% of the money goes to social security, defense spending, medicare, medicaid, and interest on debt.

The stuff DOGE is playing with is such a tiny percentage it won't move the needle.
The interesting thing about this comment is that JAX is actually higher-level even than pytorch generally. Since everything is compiled you just express a logcial program and let the compiler (XLA) worry about the rest.

Are you suggesting that XLA would be where this "lower level" approach would reside since it can do more automatic optimization?
I think it’s a neat idea (maybe because I was talking over ow to do something similar in Python, specifically for financial analysis). Definitely feels like an early stage, but I would love to see where it goes.
Let's take it even further and replace all soldiers with AI so humans don't have to fight and die in wars anymore.
I tried th Replit agent to build a marketing site using React + tailwindcss and it was a pretty mixed bag.

It was the typical AI code product where the initial framework of the site was fine, but then getting into the details it was one step forward, one step back.

Anyone had good experiences?
Depends on the kinds of positions. There's more to academia than tenure-track faculty (which isn't in my future at all anyway).

People around me tend to be in the RSE (Research Software Engineer) scene, which is growing in Europe. I, and many of my cohort, could fit in as research staff or faculty in many different disciplines.

Wouldn't get rich or famous, but certainly have a comfortable living working on interesting problems.
Megacorps are a form of slow AI in itself — totally alien to human minds and essentially uncontrollable
I am withdrawing my money from the US stock market. Other people might not give a shit, but I want to invest my money in a functional democracy.
So Handmade Hero turned into a whole network of projects?

I remember the announcement and waiting for the first episode. I had asked Casey whether he'd be using what is considered "modern" C++ (he doesn't), and whether he'd be developing in a test driven development style (he doesn't). His response was practical and honest. Like his programming. Highly recommend watching one of his videos.
You should read this, it might change your mind: https://acoup.blog/2020/03/20/collections-why-dont-we-use-ch...
It's not a shallow, dismissable, just-your-opinion-maaan 'dislike' to observe that he is being an aggressor. Just like it's not a 'dislike' to observe that Putin is being one.

There are more options than arming an aggressor and capitulating to foreign powers. It's a false dichotomy to suggest it.
> not so easy (or even impossible) on-prem

It’s as if an entire generation of tech workers are utterly unaware that these have been solved problems for decades.

You put two machines behind HAProxy with keepalived. If you want to do a new deployment, you can spin up new machines in the same manner, and cut them over (or any of the many other ways to accomplish this).

AWS isn’t inventing any of the HA stuff they offer; they’re taking existing technologies and packaging them.
Because darn it, it isn’t on Android. That’s literally it.
For the athlete side at least I feel like being elite athlete signals that you're very competitive and drive towards excellence. You'll see competitive industries value things like strong chess players. Basically anything that signals obsessive drive.
For phone screens: https://www.wayfaster.com/
Is this Harmonic Loss harmonic like: power loss in BNNs with spreading activation and cardiac cycles, and power loss in electrical systems?
Just the ol’ pull up the ladder trick
I haven't had those problems with RCS on my Android phone over the last few years of using it.

But yes, the lack of encryption (outside of Google's tacked on version) is a problem.
I am glad that he is landing on his feet after those reckless prosecutors tried to ruin his life.
Just playing devil’s advocate here, but this idea of having to invoke your fifth amendment rights reminds me of a “Silent Man” (David Hampson) in the UK who would be arrested multiple times for blocking traffic by standing in the middle of the road. I’m not sure of the details, but in the process he would never speak to anyone at all (not even to his lawyer or psychiatrists, or just to confirm his name). It does seem problematic because what happens if the person arrested is actually mute?
really? thought it just function(x)
This is similar to a popular game we used to play in recess (or sometimes during class) in high school, when IT rooms first started to become a thing. The idea was to start on a random article and try to reach pages of famous historical political figures by clicking as few links as possible, or by being the fastest.
Visual explanations of mathematics (2020)
> The percentage of money being wasted is much higher, somewhere between 30% and 70% (estimates vary.)

Any cut of 30% or above involves cutting entitlement spending (social security, medicare, medicaid).
It just made me feel 0 anxiety, but I thought the experience was not good enough to justify breaking the law
pcwalton is responsible for a lot of the rust borrow checker, so, not a neutral opinion. ive posted it too many times on this thread but it seems borrow checking analysis may be possible for zig (if the zig team should want to)
I had the pleasure of visiting Gunkanjima a few years ago. If you're in Nagasaki, there are a few tour operators that ferry you to the island for a tour. Unfortunately you can't explore on your own for safety reasons, but still an amazing place to visit.
> nope, border encounters have dropped significantly after Trump took office.

Ok propaganda. CBP doesn't have numbers for January posted, so you have no idea what is actually happening.

> To your last points, I won't address because you throw up unsubstantiated accusations that has become the Leftist party line. There's no discussion to be had here.

Oh please, by all means, substantiate your last point. Ya'll are going to get exposed the next four years for being such feckless dorks.
I did professional photography on the side for the better part of a decade before needing to go above 2TB. You don't have to hoard.
People either love or hate Oracle back then. I was in the love group. However, in recent days, Oracle is pretty irrelevant, imho.
The big question remains: is this downside worse than the innumerable and absolute known downsides associated with alcohol? If not, this is a purely acedemic issue.
I agree, if they would have made a serviceable app for android then this might not be a bad option, but as it is SMS/RCS/whatsapp will have to suffice
Chiroplast, much?
People only care about the freedoms to do things they themselves enjoy. Nothing new about that. Much like people only care about authoritarian overreach when the opposition is in power. We should always care, because the power taken by one will remain for the next. Eventually if too much power accrues to any branch it will end the separation of powers. It may have already happened, and once it does, there are no parties, only that boot. Authoritarians are all the same party, they exist at the integer wrap of left vs right. It is why you see extremists from both ends swapping parties far more often than those towards the middle.
The workflow of starting with and iterating on a PRD is already taking off:
https://x.com/daniel_mac8/status/1871372159748079893
https://skylarbpayne.com/posts/cursed-cursor
I hear Kyle Rittenhouse is also coming on board as a junior associate.
> Seems more efficient to have one reference book rather than generating entire new 20 chapter books for every person.

The main advantage of LLMs is that you can ask specific questions about things that confuse you, which makes iterating to a correct mental model much faster. It's like having your own personal tutor at your beck and call. Good guidebooks attempt to do this statically... anticipate questions and confusions at the right points, and it's a great skill to do this well. But it's still not the same as full interactivity.
Earning highly does not universally command respect the way being a doctor does. Some would even see earning that much as being immoral (i.e. actually negative)
He's worth billions, so that's not going to happen. We're stuck with him unless an assassin gets lucky.
So I am moving all my money to cash, I would rather not invest in a fascist state.
145 comments and still no mention of the Sackler family, except in my own comment. 2 down votes also, LOL! What are you afraid of people! Look into the history of fentanyl.

Huge hint for all you search challenged: Sackler family on wikipedia.

I've got a bit of karma to spend, and I think I'll double down and spend it to zero for the next year, dribbling a bit of facts out, to the consternation of the conspiracy bots now obvs infesting this now hell-site by a large majority.

Paul Graham, is this what you meant to create, 25 years ago?

(PG counts money.... YES!)

(Main takeaway: big money protects big money first)

Edit: fuck no, I'm not going to provide a courtesy link to Wikipedia. If you can't be bothered to use the ah user interface, you're too lazy to respond to.