skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
too many cats aren't good as they prey on birds and everything.
Between 26 and 81.
Don't millions starve too in capitalism?
No, just the ones violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act like Musk and DOGE employees are doing right now.
It also says "a well regulated militia" as a context where the amendment applies.
To play devil's advocate, you could declassify 99% of the files, and still leave out the incriminating parts. I don't believe this is what happened, I'm just saying 99% of the truth can still leave a lot out.
If the FBI did it off the record then technically it's not the FBI it's a rogue actor or cell that happens to work for the government

If a bus driver for a federal prison snapped and shot him we could say the same thing.

Where is the line between agency and private party if it's not drawn on the record?
You can only vouch for [dead] things, regardless of [flagged].
It's kind of like the export controls over strong encryption that we dealt with in the 90s. There used to be separate binaries for Netscape or Mozilla back in the day.
Sugrue's "The Origins of the Urban Crisis" has a much more nuanced thesis, and part of it is that people were leaving well before the 1967 Uprising, part of it was broader economic changes, part of it was governmental policies (especially with regards to housing and transportation).

The causes of the decline of Detroit's population are complex, not something that can be distilled in an HN comment honestly. But the idea that no one left Detroit willingly is not correct. I know people who did, even interviewed someone who said their family left due to simple racism: a Black family moved to their neighborhood so they left. Of course, in many cases choices could be weighted by other things like, say, you wanted to purchase a house but couldn't get a mortgage in the city due to extensive redlining but could easily get one in the suburbs.
Who in the Trump administration is professional?
So you would agree with this comment if the US were smaller?
See also

Ask HN: What's with flagging articles criticizing Musk?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42907426
Badly written and likely fair to characterize it as dumb. It's probably more about the theatrics of politics than a real intent to pass such a stupid idea as a bill.

That said, there has always been a serious imbalance with China that has yet to be addressed as far as I know. This isn't a US-vs-China thing. This applies to every country in the world. In most nations around the world China is able to buy land, property, businesses, etc. The reciprocal isn't true. We could say a similar thing about intellectual property. Good luck enforcing yours in China. Entire industries in China have been built on the back of, to be kind, borrowed IP.

One could have made the argument to look the other way 40 or 50 years ago, when China was an agrarian society in need of economic help. That is no longer the case, by far. Why is it that residents or companies from western countries cannot fully own property in China in the same way as the Chinese can do everywhere else in the world?

This concept of lack of reciprocity extends into such things as data and privacy rights and ownership. Everyone knows that any service based around user data (TikTok, AI, whatever) based in China creates 100% exposure of that data to government entities, without any level of transparency or accountability --particularly if you are not Chinese and likely worse if you are.

I think it is good and likely necessary to call China to task on these issues and apply (or continue to apply) pressure for them to open the doors to reasonable levels of reciprocity. The relationship, otherwise, is decidedly one-sided, and this means that nobody will ever trust them. Why would anyone send AI queries and data to servers in China? Or use any current or future code generator offerings to work on projects? That would be, at a minimum, suicidal.

So, while this bill is bonkers, maybe it launches a conversation that might, in a few years, drive reform that could open China and Chinese services like TikTok and AI to the world without fear of use, abuse and repercussions stemming from the nature of their society and government. To be sure, I think China would benefit immensely from a greater degree of openness.
Some people can't handle the idea that China has more people and are roughly as resource rich as the US, so if they work hard like we do they will naturally have the bigger economy.
surely EU courts will not unfairly penalize US-developed models...
Most influential programming language papers
So are public teachers. But I don’t think you would respond the same way.
I suggested to add the ability of users to have their view of HN unaffected by these flags. Without that, HN simply has no ability to defend itself against abuse of users who take it upon themselves to play censor.
If bitcoin was such a success then why did they need an enormous loan?
> Can dang comment on this?

LOL! The naivete...
Not when his supporters literally think he was sent by God.
The age is irrelevant. What IS relevant is the fact that the engineers and scientists in the Manhattan Project were all qualified and legally hired and authorized to do what they did. This is NOT true for DOGE which has no legal right to the federal payment system and no legal authority to stop any payments congress has approved.
There's no old ladies willing to pick up rats in their car, and no rat shelters to take them to if there were.
Americans also tend to forget the tech they've stolen. Raytheon only exists due to radar technology stolen from the Brits in WW2 under the guise of American engineers underhandedly telling the UK they needed to bring the prototype to the US.

Or the USA taking the UK's research on nuclear weapons during the Manhattan Project and cutting off access to it by British scientists.

I'm not even British and those are just two examples from the top of my head. The hypocrisy is absolutely infuriating...
And here I thought they'd actually consider my resume. They didn't even bother looking. When DOGE first called for people to apply, they did it on X and said we can send a message to their account on X.

So I actually got excited about tackling waste, and wrote this cover letter:

https://magarshak.com/resume-cover-letter.php

Little did I know this admin was going to be shutting down datasets from data.gov and other crap. I really tried to bring something positive into it, but it's just more of the same. They sidelined Vivek too.
> a thing that goes up in value is not a good medium of exchange because people don't want to spend it, they want to hoard it.

So... traditional money is good because it forces poor people to spend it? Rich people have no problem converting cash into assets that go up in value and holding onto them converting back at need. It's only poor people that have to hold comparatively high percentage of their assets in something that loses value.
They are all breaking the law.
It’s the definition of failing up: you sin bullshit for long enough, and make big enough changes, that you get your next job before you’re accountable for the consequences.
Can you speak more to the difference between the two experiences?
This is not really a surprise.
Ironically, the Republican Party was founded as an anti-slavery party in 1854. Abraham Lincoln was the first republican president.
Funny, I took away pretty much the opposite. That advertising is only "acceptable" because it been here for too long, but is otherwise equally ban-worthy for all the same (reasonable) reasons.
America is not moving toward a monarchy. The idea that no one is willing to enforce the law is not true. There have been many criminals that have just been removed from the country and many more are in the process of being removed. I'm not sure what "handing the keys to democracy" means, if this is about the United States then that country is a constitutional republic. I'm not sure what leaving the country served, if it makes you happy great, but there is so much hyperbole on the left. The funny thing is that people at the highest levels of the left that pushed insane hyperbole, clearly don't even believe their own nonsense about Trump and the administration, with their sheepish smiles.

As far as the article, Musk is a mixed bag. On the one hand, I think it is a good idea to have an entity concern itself with improving the efficiency and reducing the bloat of the bureaucracy of the federal government and Musk is not a dummy, he is the richest person in the world and runs some quite high-profile companies. On the other hand, it is hard to deny Musk is a little bit of a buffoon: fighting with Asmongold on X over his clear lies about video games is sort of unbelievable, telling Americans to "F [themselves] in the FACE" if they don't want all high-skilled jobs in this country to go to H-1Bs, and various other sort of juvenile things. Having these kids that Musk has hired to run-around the federal government is probably not the best thing but I think this doomsday stuff is completely silly.
Despite that interference, from everything I’ve read though it’s hard to describe the bitcoin experiment as anything else than a massive failure…
Are you assuming that the decisions of which pages were declassified was a random sample? Why would they have selected any pages to remain hidden?
And once it is released you'll know and the mystery will be gone. I (Australian) was very enthused when the "Somerton man" was resolved. But it took away mystery and wonder from me which actually gave me joy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerton_Man
The discussion on the origin of life often focuses on where and how it began, but I believe it is just as important to consider the fundamental role of life in the universe. What purpose does life serve in a cosmic context? What physical effects does it have on planetary systems? Rather than analyzing the current state of life, we may gain deeper insights by working backward from the necessary conditions for life’s existence.

One possible hypothesis is that life functions as a thermal regulation system. Just as in the story of Goldilocks, where conditions must be "just right" for life to emerge, the presence of life itself may play a role in maintaining this balance. If life only arises under optimal thermal conditions, then its role might include sustaining those conditions over time.

At the same time, life has evolved from single-celled to multicellular organisms, from plants to animals, continuously increasing in complexity and mobility. This suggests that life is not meant to remain confined to one place but is naturally inclined to spread, even beyond planetary boundaries. If this hypothesis holds, life inherently seeks movement and expansion —consciously or unconsciously— and has the potential to terraform multiple habitable planets.

From an entropy perspective, life plays a dual role: it disperses across space while simultaneously reducing local entropy through intelligence-driven processes. This cycle of diffusion, local convergence, and further expansion could be a fundamental aspect of life’s function. In simpler terms, life may be an entropy regulation mechanism, which makes the possibility of life existing and thriving beyond Earth highly plausible.

Much like how ancient Earth’s organisms were unaware of each other’s existence across vast distances, it is entirely possible that extraterrestrial life operates within a similarly fractal pattern, remaining beyond our current recognition.
Musk is a known liar and you shouldn't believe anything he says.
The word progressive has a real meaning besides the popular figure-of-speech of calling leftist policies "progressive". Progress in anything, including politics, can move in a direction you like or in a direction you don't like. It's still progress.
> in between democrats were in power they didn't release

That's not true. Biden did release more files during his term:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/16/us/politics/biden-jfk-ass...
Follow-up: There were 67,000 banned sites as of August 2023:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37130147>
I am opposed to the way Israel is handling the war and believe they are committing unspeakable atrocities against the Palestinian people. My Instagram reels are filled with content supporting those beliefs. To my knowledge, Instagram is still owned by Meta.

Banning TikTok has literally nothing to do with silencing pro-Palestinian content. For fuck’s sake, Trump is trying his best to bring it back while threatening to deport students who engage in pro-Palestinian activism.
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I live in this area, and feel qualified to comment.

> climate change refuge

Not totally sure what that means, but we get anywhere between 2-4 weeks of (usually non-consecutive) high heat (90F plus) per summer and 7 months of cold, as judged by whether or not I ride my motorcycle. If you mean will you have to swim through your house after the polar ice caps melt, no, I don't believe so.

> Continuing education opportunities

You're in luck, there two major universities, a community college, and branch locations for other universities and colleges, all within probably 10 minutes of each other.

> A good public / uni library system

The AADL and Ypsilanti libraries are amazing. Thanks to Melcat, you can borrow any book at any other Michigan library.

> Walkable density

As long as you're okay renting. Ann Arbor property values and property taxes are reasonably ridiculous and Ypsi is getting there. That said, I live in a suburb north of Ypsi and there are enough sidewalks and trails here to keep me happy. (But I do have to drive for all of my errands.)

> Reasonable cost of living

I consider AA/Ypsi to be on the low end of medium COL. Everyday living stuff (groceries, gas) is pretty typical compared to other places around the state but housing and entertainment are higher. As an upside, there is no local income tax, only federal and state.
95% is overly aggressive, but that doesn't mean there's opportunities to trim fat.

Addressing the DOD's accounting failures is a first step -- famously admitted to by Don Rumsfeld:

Rumsfeld says, “Our financial systems are decades old. According to some estimates, we cannot track 2.3 trillion dollars in transactions. We cannot share information from floor to floor in this building. Because it's stored on dozens of different technological systems that are inaccessible or incompatible.”

There's zero incentive to cut waste -- in fact the opposite. At the end of the fiscal year it's SOP to spend every last penny in the budget on anything they can, just to ensure their budget isn't cut.

Afghanistan and Iraq cost the US ~$6T and we got nothing to show for it.

There's got to be a reasonable center between "God bless the US Military" and "Shut it all down".
Even though I can visually verify that it's safe in this context, I really don't like casting integers as a rule when there's a reasonable alternative. The solution I came up with is pretty much equally readable in my opinion but has the distinction of not having code that might in other contexts look like it could silently have issues (compared to an `unreachable!()` macro which might also look sketchy but certainly wouldn't be quiet if it accidentally was used in the wrong spot). I also prefer having a compiler error explaining the invariant that's expected rather than a missing function (which could just as easily be due to a typo or something). You could put a `compile_error!()` invocation to conditionally compile when the pointer width isn't at least 32, but I'd argue that tilts the balance even more in favor of the solution I came up with; having a single item instead of two defined is more readable in my opinion.

This wasn't a concern for me but I could also imagine some sort of linting being used to ensure that potentially lossy casts aren't done, and while it presumably could be manually suppressed, that also would just add to the noisiness.
it doesn't actually define unacceptable risks. could be used for the development of biological, chemical, or nuclear agents? sure, an intelligent general-purpose model could be. so can wikipedia versus having to trawl through old library books. so can control-F on a PDF.
The solution to the problem is separate. The executive order could have included language about protecting prisoners from violence but it does not. Can you agree that the executive order increases the danger that person is in?
Why do you think a certain amount has remained classified?
Some people have seen those and are allowed to talk about them:

https://thecyberwire.com/podcasts/spycast/646/transcript

https://thecyberwire.com/podcasts/spycast/647/notes
Check his raised fist salute here, and the entire article:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Hawley
Thanks Peter! We think it really crushes for emotive text. Anything from storytelling to being emotionally reassuring. Still a lot of things up our sleeve too!
My cynical take is... Trump admin doesn't care and his base doesn't even know the extent of what is going on. Spend some time in the Fox News & co. echo chamber and it's really astounding how much they just DON'T report on at all.
1. Yes. The following commit taught httptap how to configure Java processes to use its CA cert:

https://github.com/monasticacademy/httptap/commit/4288a89504...

2. How it works is explained in the last two paragraphs of the "How It Works" section of the readme:

> When a client makes an HTTPS request, it asks the server for evidence that it is who it says it is. If the server has a certificate signed by a certificate authority, it can use that certificate to prove that it is who it says it is. The client will only accept such a certificate if it trusts the certificate authority that signed the certificate. Operating systems, web browsers, and many other pieces of software come with a list of a few hundred certificate authorities that they trust. Many of these pieces of software have ways for users to add additional certificate authorities to this list. We make use of this.

> When httptap starts, it creates a certificate authority (actually a private key plus a corresponding x509 certificate), writes it to a file on the filesystem visible only to the subprocess, and sets a few environment variables -- again only visible to the subprocess being run -- that add this certificate authority to the list of trusted certificate authorities. Since the subprocess trusts this certificate authority, and httptap holds the private key for the certificate authority, it can prove to the subprocess that it is the server which which the subprocess was trying to communicate. In this way we can read the plaintext HTTP requests.
Keep in mind that El Salvador is tiny. This is like 14 days of El Salvador's entire GDP. Or scaled to GDP, it's like giving a $1.2 Trillion loan to the USA.
If the USD was such a good currency, why does the US operate at a deficit?
Hilarious irony here, given that these qualified and legally hired people built the most morally reprehensible weapon in history
Not sure if a flawed democracy can really call the result of its flawed system "democratic" though.
Everything Musk related gets flagged in seconds.

Welcome to absolute free speech.
It’s unconstitutional because the U.S. has separation of powers: the Congress passes laws and the President executes those laws. USAID was explicitly chartered by the Congress as an independent agency outside of the executive offices:

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/COMPS-1071/uslm/COMPS-10...

That means that the President can’t wipe it out as an independent agency unilaterally. He could go to the members of his party in the legislature and ask them to create a bill rechartering the agency but then it would get public debate and they’d have to own what they’re doing, so he took the path of daring anyone to enforce the law. It’s like hot-wiring your buddy’s car because you don’t want to ask if you can borrow it, except that it’s disrupting millions of lives.
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So if an administrator in a school district allegedly violates policy all their employees are open season? (We are also talking about no trial to determine whether your claims are true)
Not really. To an outsider this looks very much like the cultural revolution.
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Or, for that matter, before the judiciary can act as a balance. Establishing “facts on the ground”.
Most likely outcome is docs are released and there is still mystery.
El Salvador has been in the IMF debt trap since 1949. It’s not just a billion dollar loan we’re talking about. Although scaled to GDP it’s quite a lot
Go read Trump's sovereign wealth fund announcement from today. The plan is to take all the money from the tariffs (and other unspecified actions he takes, probably including the stuff DOGE does), and then spend it on private investments of his choosing.

So, he's already announced you'll be paying 10-25% tax on all imported goods moving forward, and that he'll personally loot the revenue.
> I was referring to the advanced depreciation, not the EV tax credits.

The advanced depreciation only knocked out .5 billion from the 2.3 billion, and they'll have less depreciation in the next few years because of it. I'm not very worried about that being an exploit.

> Tesla's profit margin is more than 3%.

2.3 billion out of 97.7 billion revenue is less than 3 percent.

But another page is saying 2.3 billion is from the quarter, not the entire year? Then that changes the math some and you can counterbalance a bigger single digit profit with those credits. But if your actual worry is the depreciation then it's not worth analyzing this much further.

> Tesla supposedly got $300M in tax credits, which is much less than 21% of their profit.

It's not much less, it's a little bit off but we're using very rounded numbers to start with. When all the numbers are rounded to the nearest .1B, the napkin math being off by 78M just gets a shrug from me.