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Oh please enough with the hand wavy bs. Give some examples of how much we are “saving” and what is being cut, and what it will be spent on to “rebuild” America (whatever tf that means). Then we can be the judges of how shocking or not it is.
> as hot as you can possibly stand without burning

Hm, this is the same way to treat stingray wounds. Something something bloodflow vasodialator?
Since Severance is a "comedy" -- I really liked Preacher and never see any love for it. Incredibly funny
These are not engineers, they are not software engineers, they are brown shirts.
Some of these items were such elegant distillations of my thoughts and feelings that it made me laugh when I read them. To the author: thank you so much for sharing this wisdom.

The only thing that I've found difficult to reconcile is the push and pull between those that think they're fighting the "you are 90% done" fight and those who think they're fighting the "think about pathological data" fight. Essentially, I've personally found the clash between speed and preparedness/safety to be a difficult one to solve.
Thats how most propaganda works. Russia, for example, has been publicizing cases of extreme racism in the US for years to demoralize black people. [1] Hell this has been going on since WWII, when other countries saw how the US treated their black troops, and used it to damage loyalty. [2]

Nothing works like the truth, if the US could just stop being so racist it'd be that much harder to divide us. It seems like that's fundementally against our nature though.

1. https://www.npr.org/2017/10/30/560042987/russians-targeted-u...

2. https://perspectives.ushmm.org/item/german-leaflet-for-black...
Elsewhere "Trump reins in Musk: ‘He does nothing without my approval'" https://archive.ph/aMsJe
The FBI.

The FBI was out for MLK.

In his first term Trump liked the FBI so he allowed them to redact the JFK files he was legally supposed to release to the public.

But in 2025 they’re his bogey man so releasing it so Kash Patel has an even easier time remolding it in his image makes a lot of sense.
Oh sweet, we're at the honeypot general strike stage of a Trump presidency. Glad we're just hoping trade union consciousness springs forth from the lowest union rate in american history.
This is such a bizzare post. You trust him to be transparent because he Tweets a lot and holds Twitter spaces? Is the bar really that low?
Careful with that ax Eugene...
> Did you read the section on the ear, or any of the entries under musculature? Try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin%27s_tubercle

That looks like it could be useful. I don't see anything on Wikipedia suggesting it isn't. If you look at the ear it is a maze of wiggles and crevices with interesting auditory properties; that slight curve probably does something.

> Huh? Are you suggesting that female reproductive organs should be considered vestigial because males don’t have them? That’s not what vestigial means.

I agree, and it is obvious. But that isn't what you said or what I disagreed with. You claimed that it was because it don't occur in all humans that we know something is vestigial. Similarly to how you now seem to be trying to argue that vestigial organs are useless which is also obviously not true - most of them are probably there for a reason that we haven't identified.

And if you want to claim “Evolutionary pressure is pretty brutal to things that actually aren't used” is false then you'll need an argument for it. You claim it, then you make an unrelated argument that vestigial organs exist. Which is cool, but not an argument that they are useless. Again, vestigial organs might nonetheless still be useful so the argument is not related to the claim.

> It feels like you’re trying to construct some sort of semantic or logical trap to prove a point, but it seems like you misunderstood me somewhere.

That would be supported by me asking questions like "So what are you talking about? And do you have an argument or any evidence for why it might be so?". I don't think you've really thought all the way through your claims or word choice.
My understanding about hot water is that it causes localized histamine release, which then depletes the available histamine to trigger the itch reflex.

Certainly works great for poison oak and eczema, regardless of the actual mechanism.
For most situations, Walmart and CVS have fine customer service compared to most. You just need to show up in person. Fortunately, their business model might make that a little annoying, but not even difficult for most.
He wanted the national guard there. What you’re saying isn’t any better than someone parroting some Newsmax theory about depopulation. There’s no real substance behind your claim, just mischaracterizations and innuendo repeated ad nauseam so people view it as fact.
The Alchemist and His Quicksilver
> The guys featured in this gross and irresponsible hit piece by Wired, by all accounts, are brilliant engineers. Top 1%.

Wheres the evidence of their brilliance? A few projects in GitHub isn’t impressive.

Seriously if they’re brilliant this is the perfect PR opportunity to highlight the highly talented people making a difference. But instead we have secrecy.

I suspect the real reason for these choices is they needed people who are young and naive, will not ask too many questions, easy to manipulate, and coerced to work long for little pay.
He bought the election and then gave himself an unelected role with extensive and unchecked power.
Broadly speaking, for lower back health, you should look at anterior chain work, e.g. deadlifts or kettlebell swings. For upper back health, some type of overhead pressing (military press, side press, etc.) I would avoid bench press, as it could make forward head posture worse. In general, I am a fan of Kettlebell work, though any modality can accomplish these things.

I would also add some light mobility/stability work, like the reset video another commenter posted here. I like Original Strength a lot, in particular quadruped rocking and bird dogs.

These in combination should massively improve quality of life for desk guys. A close examination of ergonomics is in order, as well. The challenge is finding programming that works for you, but in general software development is pretty flexible in allowing that.
doesn't matter. many of the entities investigating at the time have since destroyed their records.
One usually has two grandfathers, so it still works out.
Good point. I didn't mean that the founding fathers solely led the revolution, but that being "founding fathers" meant that they led significant part of the revolution. For instance, Hamilton was a chief staff aide to Washington, and Madison was in some state's legislature. Of course, they may not qualify as "leading" at that time, but at least they were participating, right? And that is similar to those 19-year olds in DOGE: they are employees in DOGE, and they are led by someone more senior.
The rationale is to damage Chinese commercial interests. Otherwise, the billions of IOT devices that dial back to Chinese manufacturers would be way higher up the list than an AI tool that has shown five minutes of adoption.
True that the US's share of global GDP is lower than it has been. But there are many other ways to measure its power (and dominance), so it is easy to argue about this between reasonable people.

Rather than make any specific point, I'd recommend acoup's detailed post about the US's overwhelming dominance across a huge swath of areas:

https://acoup.blog/2022/07/08/collections-is-the-united-stat...

I think he makes a good case there, even if you are right and by some measurements the US did better in the past.
Note that their official homicide numbers no longer include bodies found in unmarked graves (as of 2021), people killed in conflicts between police and gangs (as of 2022), and people killed in prison. These are arguably reasonable decisions but unless you backfit the old numbers, you don't have the real trend.

I suspect that the trend would be impressive either way, you'd just lose the "safer than New Zealand" line.
That state median average of $95K makes sense for Washington state, but the Seattle median (which they say is actually $189K) just seems way too high by comparison. It'd imply people on the other side of the state are making much less than $95k per household. That may be true, I grew up over there and there is plenty of poverty. But, it's especially weird considering how much of the state's high-earning population lives within commuting distance of the city, but not in it, which would further drive down the median income in, say, Yakima or Spokane. My guess is those numbers are wacky.
There is panic-analyzer [1] that searches for code that needlessly panics. You can also use the no-panic macro [2] to turn possible panics in a specific function (including main) into a compile error

1: https://crates.io/crates/panic-analyzer

2: https://crates.io/crates/no-panic
Pirating is not a criminal offense in America. It is in other parts of the world, like Japan, which, tangentially, is why Japanese piracy is so underground and tends to use different software stacks to the norm, cf. Perfect Dark (the filesharing program, not the game).
Too many people have it now. What would be likely to happen if the bill passed is selective enforcement.

Many dictatorships have very broad laws that almost everyone inevitably breaks, but as long as you don't challenge the dictator or speak out against them in any way, you are safe.

But the moment you speak out against the government, suddenly the law gets enforced, since in the governments eyes, you have now committed the one true crime.
Inflationary legal tender is a novel concept.
Punk and skateboarding may have been commodified but if you still go to shows or go skate, it’s still filled with kids (and now adults) just having fun.

And now within subcultures are sub-subcultures. Within skateboarding, everyone hangs with each other but at the same time, your Baker kids aren’t your Creature kids and they aren’t your Andy Anderson/Rodney Mullen kids.

Some people may join a subculture to be “non-conformists” but most people pick up things because they like it. Sometimes what you like isn’t something everyone else likes and a subculture is born.

There are still millions of these pockets of subcultures that are completely invisible to most people on the outside.

Zines and DIY screen printing are still very much alive. If you live in a big city, check out some small local punk venues if you want to re-connect (or connect if you want to check it out). And of course, you can always start skating again (but maybe wear gear the first day).
This type of project is the best of the Hacker News community. It makes reading and dealing with all the snark worth it.
Me too, doing all that isn’t why I signed up for this career.
The basketball thing can be such a shit show. As a parent of a kid that fell in love with basketball, did travel AAU basketball and ended up playing for a D3 college, I've experienced parents at all levels showing their full ass.

Examples... Their coach at a rec league for 9 year olds was assaulted by the opposing team's coach at the end of the game. I've seen the cops being called to protect the refs and parents being escorted out of the game after threatening the refs. It goes on and on.

All that's to say that the steaks don't seem to matter. Folks are passionate in a disproportionate way when their children are involved.
Just imagine what a godawful mess it would be to write really complex libraries that are supposed to be composable in C. (I'm going to argue this is why there is no 'npm' or 'maven' for C)

The point of programming C is it is very low level and you have complete control over memory allocation so you're losing much of the benefit of C if you have a one-size-fits-all answer.

The application might, in some cases, pass the library a buffer that it already allocated and tell the library to use it. In other cases the application might give the library malloc and free functions to use. It gets complicated if the application and library are sharing complicated data structures with a network of pointers.

In simple cases you can find an answer that makes sense, but in general the application doesn't know if a library is done with some memory and the library doesn't know if the application is done with it. But the garbage collector knows!

It is the same story in Rust, you can design some scheme that satisfies the borrow checker in some particular domain but the only thing that works in general is to make everything reference counted, but at least Rust gives you that options, although the "no circular references" problem is also one of those design-limiting features, as everything has to be a tree or a DAG, not a general purpose graph.
Except it has none of the properties of gold as an asset. The value of bitcoin is highly correlated with equities and anti-correlated with gold. It’s the opposite of what you want to be holding as a hedge against a stock market crash.
I think a substantial % just don't want to see any posts about politics or even politics adjacent stuff and flag them. I don't blame the impulse, political discussion is death to forums.
Because they need toilet paper today.
> On top of that, I would not automatically assume Musk's staff have the skills and talent of the people you mention

Me neither. I was arguing the opposite: we should not assume that one does not have experience to the point that it is outrageous, just because that person is young. Such a young age should make us more doubtful, but should not give us complete conviction.
Quanta Magazine: Complexity of the VASS Reachability Problem [video]
pure comedy
8% is quite a lot though.
El Salvador hasn't issued fiat since 2001. Any other presumptions as to why its a fair demand?
Wearing a t-shirt with a prefabricated group identity marker, whether purchased or self-manufactured, makes one a curious sort of "non-conformist".
This is... a strange and jarring thing to read. My kneejerk response was that yes, they are innovating and experimenting with oppressive and corrupt governance, but that is ultimately uncharitable. A more balanced response is that while you may personally think of Bitcoin as progressive (I can't imagine why) you certainly can't claim that Bukele's El Salvador is progressive. You may like the gang crackdown, you may appreciate the suspension of habeus corpus, but you can't claim that's a progressive position.
There's a good chance it will happen, Musk has been pushing for this.
> you don't really own land, you just rent it for a very long term from the government.

This is probably economically a good idea, absent something like georgist land taxes. It eliminates some or all of the incentive to speculate in land, which is of course the whole problem El Salvador ran into with bitcoin as currency.
Well, it used to be. But whenever we understand something, we move the goal posts of what AI is.

At least that's what we used to do.
Watch some leftist billionaire now cut them blank checks to get them away from DOGE. The Cyberpunk future is here.
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It's also not guaranteed to catch every panic - sometimes (notably if a destructor panics during unwinding) a panic can turn into a process-abort.
> But what is the goal? Maybe what goal to they think they're pursuing? This is hacker news, so I'm asking for an answer without political rhetoric.

I'm a bit confused because the stated goals, either the "digestible" ones or the ones they've stated outside of mainstream media, are all political in nature.

How could you get an answer about the motivation and goals of this behavior that isn't "political"?
That's already the case with visible text. There's an embedding inside the model as it spits out the next token.
I think the issue under discussion is whether or not this kind of law is applied gently and with consideration to seriousness, or whether it tends to be used as a club to make an example of people. I think Swartz is seen as an example of it being used as a club to make an example of people.
if you set up your thermostat to respond to the output from your model you could get it to turn up the temperature by pinching your nipples
Why is the model malware?

That word has a meaning, and a model that isn’t politically aligned isn’t it.

That said, I’ve been using deep seek distilled to qwen, which should yield an incredibly censored model if they had been censoring the models, but instead yields a pretty balanced model that is more than willing to talk about Tiananmen and Xi Jinpings human rights failings.
Certainly, building systems to search for and prevent fraud is a worthy goal. Solving for that is orthogonal to what is taking place (which is Musk and his loyal, inexperienced band of lackeys doing whatever they want without governance and oversight). Is all of USAID fraud? Does the executive branch have the authority to unilaterally shut the program? No, these are the actions of authoritarians.
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The collection thing is tough as there’s no alleys or anywhere to keep it.

I agree 100% on the metal cans. Metal cans are cheap and effective.
Because a ton of people in office were his "clients". This country is rotten
So you are saying this is a team developing a tool to nuke the government?
I think it's the opposite, despite the people who are extra loud about it.

Trump admires Xi and Elon loves China. The people at the very top are more China-friendly than the last administration.
Say a function has some return type Result<T, E>. If our only error handling mechanism is Err(e) then were restricted to E representing the set of errors due to invalid arguments and state, and the set of errors due to the program itself being implemented incorrectly.

In a good software architecture (imo) panics and other hard failure mechanisms are there for splitting E into E1 and E2, where E1 is the set of errors that can happen due to the caller screwing up and E2 being the set of errors that the caller screwed up. The caller shouldn't have to reason about the callee possibly being incorrect!

Functional programming doesn't really come into the discussion here - oftentimes this crops up in imperative or object oriented code where function signatures are lossy because code relies on side effects or state that the type system can't/won't capture (for example, a database or file persisted somewhere). Thats where you'll drop an assert or panic - not as a routine part of error handling.
Thank you for that mental image of the flowers still standing :D

> Unless their goal is to destroy the USA

I have indeed heard this, even in his first term -- that people were so fed up of politics-as-usual, that they decided to "send a wrecking ball into the White House".

After having seen the damage that wrecking ball did the first time around... to send it back must mean that these folks really want to demolish the very ground they're standing on.
Abuse of state power is the one thing I think we should keep the death penalty for. Police who use their power like that should hang.
I have no way of verifying it, but I heard from someone I believe to be connected enough to know things that TikTok is taking marching orders from the Chinese military.
Bullseye. That's exactly what will happen. They have much more to gain by keeping some of the mystery. If they hand out a black and white explanation they have 1 less leverage to manipulate the mass.
I mean they were watching them privately, not necessarily as part of social media
The reality is that this should fail under first amendment rulings.

Or it would if the courts abided by the principles they were supposed to.
"caught colluding" implies they were doing something illegal
Around the time of SegWit, the “digital gold” camp won over the “digital money” camp — who moved on to ETH, SOL, etc.
Why did they need the loan so bad they had to change their currency?
It's like those people who collect action figures and never take them out of the box. I'm not trying to knock it, but I don't think I'll ever understand it.
>You want federal then take a step out and look at all the people who got 10-15 years for carrying an quarter ounce of weed.

Source? My impression is that in basically all of those cases, it's either because:

1. the guy is a repeat offender and/or on probation

2. the guy decided to wanted to fight to the bitter end and they threw the book at them

I'm not saying either are justified, but the implication that someone will get 20 years just because he downloaded deepseek through ollama or whatever is still false.
It hasn't entirely stopped rents in HK being untenably high, for many people. It has rent controls, but the system permits some very untenable outcomes which if left unchecked would re-create Kowloon Walled City.

So whilst politically I agree, practically I am unsure there is no land speculation: A waterfront view remains valuable in and of itself, no matter what.
> Who's at the other end of that number.

Does it matter?
Trust, but verify ideally. I have little doubt tiktok was being used for hostile influence campaigns. But so are American social media. Maybe the difference is in what countermeasures the American government is able to coerce local companies into deploying.
It has NOTHING to do with politics or any particular party

It has EVERYTHING to do with putting in power a party that runs by and honors small-"d" democracy, as opposed to the lawless administration now occupying the WH and it's enablers in congress who are only ensuring their own irrelevance.

This administration is is not political games, they are attempting, so far successfully, to convert a democracy and small-"d" democratic election into an autocracy. This is the same thing that happened in Russia, Venezuela, Hungary, Germany and many other countries (Putin, Chavez then Mauduro, Orban, and Hitler were all first elected, then "re-elected").

Stop trying to justify it. Things always get worse under autocracy, and often by the time people notice it, it is too late to do anything about it.
I doubt he's pushing for it internally:

https://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epsteins-ex-girlfrie...
The problem is that:
- These are not really super computing cluster in LLM terms. Leonardo is a 250 PFlops cluster. That is really not much at all.
- If people in charge of this project actually believe R1 costs $5.5M to build from scratch, it's already over.
> I often wonder why we spend so much time trying to justify certain research avenues over others and don't let people just research what they find is interesting.

I honestly feel this is mostly because of a (possibly well-justified) fear that, were we to not do that, almost all the money would quickly get captured by grifters whose ideas are fake and of no research value, but who were best at convincing they're worth funding. We can't read peoples' hearts, so we need to force out some output we can discriminate on.
If the value of the dollar increased or stayed 100% stable we would be in a depression. In fact, the only time the dollar increased in value for long was the great depression.

The point of legal tender is that it reduces in value slowly over time, so you don't just hoard it under your bed. If someone paid me in BTC, I wouldn't spend it, I would hang on to it. That's not how currency works. Currency is the thing you want to spend, not hand on to.
The issue is that your videos don't get surfaced unless you chase the algorithm. Hence thumbnails having faces on them all the time, also something the algorithm "likes".

Many creators have complained about the 'requirements' but if they don't do it, they don't get views.
The resource usage is not senseless; it's the core aspect of Bitcoin that makes its security model so trustworthy.
2+2=America?