skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a plutocratic coup, a takeover of the country by a small group of unelected men. The goal is to own and exercise power without opposition and without any rules.
They don't actually work for the federal government. That's a big part of the problem. Trump has just given them access.
Yeah, that's how a post office has to operate under those circumstances. It seems to work decently, for the most part.

In my country (Sweden), the post office is able to forward mail to your new address after you move, because they can look up your address in the public registry. (Of course, they charge a fee for this but it's quite small.)
I already said I'm not a lawyer. My perspective and opinion aren't relevant.
The author of this comment is not an expert in the author of the article.
I don't.

Still FIRE is so close I can taste it, even though it's a couple of years away.

And then, at least at the moment, I figure "Around The World In 80 Days", though what was a mad dash in the 19th century is a leisurely stroll these days.

After that, music and writing! My twin obsessions.

Good luck with the job stuff though folks :)
I am very interested in applying for the F&O Lead role. I will be relocating to the Americas in the coming months, but I am currently based in Europe. Would you consider hiring someone based in Europe for the interim period (2–3 months) before my relocation? I am, of course, flexible and can adjust to your time zone.
The American people deserve to know what is happening in their government.
Don't forget that Trump is approaching 80. I don't know how well he will be able to keep up.
some previous comments on this article, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35591026
https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/2012/09/09/when-oba...
Why? The article is provably false - these are demonstrably not inexperienced engineers.
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You don't see the conflict of interest in one person both controlling how public funds are spent, and running private companies that may have those funds directed to benefit them?

When Elon runs his companies, he is beholden to shareholders to use the company's resources effectively to generate and maintain value.

Who is Elon beholden to when managing public funding and programs as an unelected non-official? Who will vote him out when he wasn't voted in? Who will revoke his confirmation when he was never confirmed?
Hopefully doesn't impact eFile/Free File Fillable Forms or it's back to paper returns to the IRS for me vs HR Block
There are a lot of ways to break up long tasks in JavaScript
That's mainly because the USA's flaws have been covered in far more detail, and has also played a bigger role in Latin America. Once those countries start to deal with China more you may find your observations were biased.
All else aside I wouldn’t assume he’s going to. I doubt Trump cares one way or the other if these kids rot in jail.

There’s a long, long list of people who thought “Trump owes me” would be a guarantee and got a rude awakening.
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disappointing to see so many “hacker” news comments complaining about lack of credentials or system-specific expertise.

yes, existing government systems are insanely complex - that’s part of the problem! the essential complexity is not higher than that of a brain-computer interface, or an interplanetary rocket.

we don’t even know what these kids’ mandate is (also disappointing). but if your general premise is “smart outsiders who are good at engineering are always the wrong people to rework complex, inefficient systems,” i’d like to think you’re on the wrong site.
Propaganda is effective
And have low interest in legality of what you are doing and it's impact.
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When one of the key apps I use was falsely flagged by Google Play Protect (likely a result of the AI mentioned here), I turned off Google Play Protect and I'll never go back. Actually I had never turned it on in the first place, but somehow it appeared after an update, and was enabled by default.
Democrats have bigger fish to fry and DOGE isn't a real department so it doesn't have a whole lot of authority to do things on its own. It can only advise the government so in the end, until an executive order is signed or some other action is taken, there's nothing to be done.
Not really. He's the richest person on the planet, controls one of the largest media sites in the planet, and has managed to embed himself into the inner workings of the most powerful country on the planet. Oversight via journalism should be expected.
Precisely.

The only potential problem here is that "we owe ourselves" simplifies things given that some individuals are owed much more than others, i.e. there's inequality. Other than that? The whole debt charade is just political groups weaponizing (and perpetuating) the lack of fairly basic macro-economic understanding in the population.
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If we're talking about effectiveness in AD, there are LOTS more studies to go, so I don't expect to see a result there for at least 5 years.

However, effectiveness is subjectively felt on day one (depending on your current sleep habits, it's more effective in people who are somewhat sleep deprived).

We link to a bunch of the existing research on our website, and more than just "sleep time" we can track effectiveness to biomarkers such as HRV.
I've felt this way since many of the other modalities they've announced to great fanfare fell by the wayside. Sora proved underwhelming. Likewise for voice mode. DALLE is far behind open alternatives.

It's hard to know because they're closed source, but evidence of advances in architecture is lacking.
> They have overwhelming support for every major issue

Obviously not, or they wouldn’t have lost.

From a purely power-based standpoint, Obama probably should have pushed more in 2008. But that’s the only time he could have done it - even passing ACA got the Democrats severely punished in the 2010 Congressional elections.
You mean lag?

try mediapipe w/ gpu support
It'd be cool to see its reasoning for solving visual puzzles, as imagery.
> What we found was bill pay is a lot slower and doesn’t give you any indication of if and when the check is cashed because they deduct that amount on the day you send.

Use a less shitty bank. For any reputable bank if the payment is made my paper mailed check the money is withdrawn only when the check is cashed.
Since there's a spike followed by a drop, it seems like some of the data points are "misattributed" to the neighboring bucket.

Since it happens at the same place in each graph (eg a spike at 0.28-0.29, followed by a drop at 0.29-0.30) I wonder if it's some kind of number-theoretic effect from the fact it's actually a ratio of integers. For example, with less than 20 views there's no way to get to the 0.29-0.30 bucket, but 4 ways to get into the 0.28-0.29 bucket. Hmm.

Also notable that 0.56 is exactly twice 0.28.
We are watching a coup in real time.

There's no two ways about it.

Sigh...
People who can't write secure code yet can learn how to write secure code.
A common source of "NULL" strings are CSVs. I personally had to deal with a database that only understood NULLs correctly when using QUOTE_NOTNULL, which was added to Python just last year: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/113732

I've also heard of a fun database where the user "Geoffrey" was truncated to "G". I wonder why? (Hint: End of file)
I would use the term 'purge' for what's happened so far, along with 'seizure'. the coup would come after the purge, once musk has full control of the monetary system and the republican congressional leadership and the courts have made it clear they won't do anything to stop Trump.
If some unauthorized foreign national walks into your federal office trying to plug in his PC, that's the moment that calls for violence. Just beat his ass.
I always thought the dry skin causes the itch (when I don't see any bug bites). So scratching would relieve us from dry skin. But, I learned something today.
The responsible party, in the case of the Federal government failing to provide a national ID, is the contingent American citizens who are rabidly against the idea of national ID.
how is someone’s age relevant? Is a 55 y.o. Software engineer who spent 20 years in a bureaucratic wheel any better than a bright 20yo mind? They both suck in a different way! Writing an entire article with ageism as a center piece is truly pinnacle of American journalism
Strawman. Nobody claimed it was impossible.

My point is that this new item (and others) make identity theft seem so extremely easy in the U.S. You just have to be determined. Doesn't take any particular skill to forge an electricity bill, doesn't take any skill to give someone else's social security number (which many apparent morons presume are secret), etc.

By moving the posts from "trivial" to "somewhat challenging", I think the U.S. would be better off.

As an example: If I wanted to assume a new identity in Sweden, to get rid of my criminal history, I'd have to make a very convincing fake I.D. card, and make sure to find a "victim" who is not going to sound the alarm when they notice. Basically, as soon as you register their name on your address, a confirmation letter will be sent to that person, which makes it so they can dispute it.

You could probably get away with it if you can find someone who moved abroad and forgot to notify the authorities. Even then, you'd have a really hard time getting a new passport or ID card in their name. It might work if you look a lot like them, and can drag their spouse, parent or sibling to the police station and have them vouch for you (with a valid ID card). I admit it's not impossible! But it certainly is not a thing that you ever hear about on the news.
... Had to wipe the screen.

THANK YOU

> a huge NIH grant

One sentence like a Simo Häyhä round.

NIH & grants are a result -- of what cause?
Urgently I encourage curious minds to rigorously & objectively discover "what cause"
I don't want to “chat” with an untrustworthy compression of the documents, I want to see the documents. I understand that novel ideas have been devalued in-favor of “put more of <current-hyped-tech> into it,” but it would be much appreciated if we managed to at least preserve the original, defining primitive of the web: linking to sources.

All the best,
This happened to me with square (block). I bought furniture, and they used square and required my email address for delivery. And then after that, anywhere I used square to pay for something using the same card, they would email me a receipt. I complained and they played dumb and never did anything.

I just stopped using that card with square.
The filibuster in the Senate is powerful but it basically only blocks new laws from going in you can't really touch all the things Trump is doing via EO through Congressional obstruction the main avenue for blocking that is through the courts which ultimately have limited enforcement power.
You don't have to be a lawyer to have perspective or opinion on the law. It just means you're probably less technically educated than most lawyers.
It is not really good faith to assume that somebody has posted a chatGPT response and doesn’t know what the thing spat out. Assuming they wrote it themselves, they assessed the accuracy of the response by looking up the numerous citations that they used.
For those sending emails:

- Include the post item in your subject line. That would be "42922647" for this particular story.

- Include some idea of what the problem is. For example, for a flagged story I'd have "vouch" as the first word of my subject, followed by the article title.

- I typically include the full article link (in body) and title (in subject) as insurance against my own fat-finger-fumbling.

- A brief description of the problem. E.g., "I'd like to vouch for this article".

My own typical emails are for titles (frequent), link indirection, preferred sources, and occasional mentions of flagrant violations of HN comment guidelines (flagging tends to pick those up most of the time).

For the latter, you can use the "replies" endpoint to see if a mod has previously responded to a given userID, e.g.:

For dang replying to me: <https://news.ycombinator.com/replies?id=dredmorbius&by=dang>

(Yes, there's an admonishment in there if you dig back far enough, and I remember it.)
And I was refering to specific phrase of it.

Namely:

> but it's always hard to share the outrage in this situation
> How does removing an easy tax filing solution improve government efficiency?

It doesn't. This is a corporate takeover of key government functions. This is just one small part of the plan.

Phase 1, which we're in now is to blame everything on bad governance.

Phase 2 is to say: 'business' can fix it and auction off the US government. Schools, the Post Office, Social Security, elements of law enforcement, and much more.

Phase 3: Read Balaji's "The Network State". TLDR: It will be to give corporations state power, including but not limited to owning and passing laws on their land, and having their own enforcement police/military.
It's also hard to distinguish whether sleep disruptions cause AD or the other way around.
Thank you for the recommendation.

Did you mean section 5.6? That's LLMs and RL. Section 5.4 is Imitation Learning.
Sounds like neoliberal-capitalist nonsense. Is life just about competition?

Why not fix our shit down here on Earth and let the moon be a beautiful object in the sky? There are more than enough resources for all of us to sufficiently live, and share in public luxuries like health care, education, shelter, and food. Mutual aid feels really good, for example, far better than the rat race (apologies to rats).
I'd love to read it. Getting exactly once semantics is quite an interesting topic.
The problem with these types of comments is your filtering reality through some sort of weird hero-complex you're clinging to. It's not realistic and it's harmful.

The people involved in this are not qualified or capable in _any_ manner to be doing what they're doing. They are sycophants.

Worse, it's putting an entire nation in jeopardy.

This isn't "smart, young spirits defy all odds and save the day!" it's really "hitler youth comes in and starts thrashing about until daddy gets his way."
Why are they operating illegally, then? If "the will of the people" is unified enough to change the Constitution, why not… do that?
> The likelihood to like and exchange inside homosexual groups is much higher than in heterosexual ones.

> The like ratio of a girl is almost independent of the profiles she sees. For example, if a girl has a like ratio of 5% and you remove 50% of the profiles, even if you remove only the profiles she will not like, her like ratio will still be 5%

These two statements sound like they would be at odds. It seems either the first statement is incorrect or women on dating apps are more choosy when it comes to men only. I’d be curious how the stats play out on lesbian dating apps
76 of those days are social security, medicare/medicaid, vet benefits, income security for the poorest citizens and interest payments.

15 of those days are national defense.

9 of those days are what Elon hopes to cut in half.

https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...

The deficit is a huge problem. I don't know how to fix it. But, what DOGE has done so far is exactly the opposite of what makes sense.
I think the root of the problem in this one is that it's named "Discord Messenger", Ripcord is reminiscent but not confusing.
There is exactly one useful thing you can do with an `Arguments` object: call `.fmt()` on it.

The whole reason for std::Arguments very existence is to call `std::Arguments::fmt` on it.

`.fmt()` is a trait implementation, but that doesn’t change anything (not sure what “kind of thing” refers to here). It’s still a function on std::Arguments.
Did you roll your own die or just trust that Randall's original die roll was sufficiently random?
Generally is doing a lot of work there. There are vast suburbs (including Silicon Valley) and exurbs in the US even before you get genuinely rural.

I can drive an hour into some large cities where "fun happens" although I have lots of activities around where I live too.
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This is an interesting point. In the 1980s Amsterdam was dirt poor but it was never empty. In fact it attracted all kinds of people who wanted to live an "alternative" lifestyle in cheap real estate. Communists, artists, gay people.

New York no matter what happens will always be located in the most densely populated part of America.
i too have noticed this and as such, have switched to USB out to async USB input DAC that supports that. there are plenty of good quality, low cost DACs available from folks like schiit, smsl, topping, etc. (cheap enough that as someone that used to 'roll tubes' in my audio systems, i can now 'roll DACs' instead lolol).

i'm quite partial to the ESS sabre series of DACs at this point personally.
Everyone calls them sound cards and they are marketed as sound cards therefore they are sound cards. An USB audio interface is literally just an external sound card.

Regardless, I did a quick google search to confirm that my usage of the term was correct and yep - "sound card" and "audio interface" are used interchangeably. So no one cares about your technicalities.
Look at the Boring company.
About half of Americans approve of using weight-loss drugs to treat obesity
> The founding fathers were all younger than these guys.

Haha what? https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/signers-factsheet.
There is no such thing as DOGE. Any new “construct” and its directives need to be created and funded by Congress. Musk isn’t even legally an employee of the federal government.

The President can hire him and Congress could direct him to do what he’s doing, but that step has been skipped.

That’s why this is massively illegal
I would guess that part of it is to tear down what’s there so they can rebuild in their own vision. I think this is a desire that any engineer can understand- and also understand that it often has to be suppressed because it’s a common blunder.

How many engineers have walked into a legacy project and their first instinct is to rebuild? Of course this is sometimes warranted, but almost always costs way more than anyone expects and doesn’t necessarily lead to a better outcome.

Edit: I’ll also add that this mentality is more common in younger / junior folks, which fits the context here.
Trump cannot legally delegate his power to just anyone. Delegations of power are done through appointed positions that must be confirmed by the Senate.
I don’t doubt what you are saying about Trump giving them access. Do we know how he did that? I guess I’d like to understand how we know if it was legal or not.
Have you had scalability issues because your tables got too big?

Is there a mechanism to GC workflows that are completed?
Dictators always liked to exploit the idealism of young people. The Nazis had the Hitler youth, China had the Red Guards, most prison guards for the Khmer Rogue were teenagers. They happily did the dirty work and could be discarded easily once not useful anymore.

I would all be for scrutinizing what government does but you can't just go around and cut everything you don't understand within 15 minutes. And I bet they will keep the moon and Mars programs going.
> the banks take their sweet time to send the check because they want to slow down the money.

Maybe some shit banks, but a decent bank like Ally will try to have the check delivered by the due date chosen (mailing out a few days prior). There isn’t much money to be made this way. If you knew they were always late you’d just adjust the date back anyway. Decent banks don’t play petty games like this.

For electronic payments the money is withdrawn similar to an ACH, for paper checks any reputable bank will withdraw the money only when the check is cashed.
Many in the GOP are generally opposed to federally-funded free tax return filing: https://pennsylvaniaindependent.com/politics/irs-direct-file...

> In December, however, Kelly and 28 House Republican colleagues wrote to President-elect Donald Trump to ask him to end the program: “We write to urge you to take immediate action, including but not limited to a day-one executive order, to end the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) unauthorized and wasteful Direct File pilot program. The program’s creation and ongoing expansion pose a threat to taxpayers’ freedom from government overreach, and its rollout and structural flaws have already come at a steep price.”
I don't think these fences are being torn down by inexperienced engineers by their own initiative. They have a mandate (or so they think), a direction, and maybe specific orders from much more experienced folks, AFAICT.
We had a patient with a single letter as surname.
Didn't go well with our patient web portal. She'll probably never be able to see her MRIs online since development is slow, and it seems to be an edge case.
This seems like an inevitable outcome of indefinite growth in executive power.

> If there are no consequences, the law is immaterial.

That is exactly what I mean by "growth in executive power".
I always got not-so-great sound from onboard audio, probably from being so close to fans/graphics card/power supply.

Also I couldn't control volume directly.

What I have found works great is an offboard dac:

https://www.schiit.com

Just wire it up using usb or toslink/spdif to get digital sound to the dac cleanly, then the dac is isolated from everything and you get a volume control.

I use headphones + mic + fulla (soon gunnr) but this also works for straight headphones or speakers with other models of dac.