skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who is running USDS, though? If it's now Musk, doesn't that require Senate confirmation?
While I'm not a lawyer, if I understand it; once rescheduled as long as I have a prescription for it, it's a valid substance if I "fail" the test. I could be wrong, but that was the interpretation I understand (since you can take opioids and still maintain a CDL - they verify the script after you fail for it).
Counselling. I won't be a psychologist or anything but there's a need for counselors. At first, I'll be volunteering with a phone and text based crisis support organisation (https://www.lifeline.org.au/). Eventually, I hope to open my own counselling service but that will be a few years down the track.
> Over half of US was apathetic and didn't vote.

Not true. Voter turnout was between 59% and 64%.
Same like Biden and his crew of folks he preemtively pardoned
It’s hilarious, I’ve never interacted with Garry Tan at all, my profile is as apolitical as you can get, and yet I’m blocked from him on X and on BlueSky.

I don’t know how any of these people can take themselves this seriously. If Claude et al. will be guiding national budget policy we’re in for interesting times…
That article was flagged like the rest until dang rescued it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42922117
The standard library is slowly adding non-panicking options. The article shows some of them (like vec.push_within_capacity()) and ignores some others (vec.get_unchecked()). There is still a lot of work to do, but it is an area where a lot of work gets done. The issue is just that a) Rust is still a fairly young language, barely a decade old counting from 1.0 release, and b) Rust is really slow and methodical in adding anything to stdlib because of how hard/impossible it is to reverse bad decisions in the stdlib.

The same article written a couple years in the future would look very different
This sounds like a number pulled out of Musk's ass.
I hid my point behind the snark. Apologies.

My point is: accountability is NOT an abstract property of a thing. It is a relationship between two parties. I am "accountable" to you IF you can demand that I provide an explanation for my behaviour. I am accountable to my boss. I am accountable to the law, should I be sued or charged criminally. I am NOT accountable to random people in the street.

Sam Altman is accountable to the board. The board can demand he explain himself (and did). Management is generally NOT accountable to employees in the USA. This is because labor rarely has a legal right to demand an accounting. In serious labour cultures (e.g. Germany), it is normal for the unions to hold board seats. These board seats are what makes management accountable to the employees.

OpenAI employees took happy words from sama at face value. That was not a legal relationship that provided accountability. And here we are. The decision to change from a not-for-profit is accountable to the board, and maybe the chancellors of Delaware corporate law.
Peter Norvig himself has come around to embracing Python as an alternative to Lisp:

https://norvig.com/python-lisp.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1803815

and there is indeed a Python implementation for the PAIP programs.

https://github.com/dhconnelly/paip-python

GC conferring additional composability is an interesting take - I hadn't thought of that (though I don't spend much time in this domain).
> The Republican Senator from Missouri Josh Hawley has introduced a new bill that would make it illegal to import or export artificial intelligence products to and from China, meaning someone who knowingly downloads a Chinese developed AI model like the now immensely popular DeepSeek could face up to 20 years in jail, a million dollar fine, or both, should such a law pass.

You get less jail time for committing 34 felonies.
Pingtype isn't a game, but you might find it interesting. It does the pinyin and word-by-word romanisation of whatever text you put in.

https://pingtype.github.io
you need this :

https://github.com/deepseek-ai
Alternate headline: "Republicans congress to destroy Free IRS tax filing option."

Congress is the sole check on this crazy power-grab by the President, refusing to act is complicity, and the public deserves to know the causes behind the damage. Musk is culpable but by no means uniquely culpable.
Yep, same experience, same platform. I guess straight to reader mode, it is.

EDIT - shockingly, reader mode also fails completely after the page reloads itself
This hits so deep, and you can't even quit, or you will starve to death.
Airdel – A collaborative social media platform for missionaries
I wonder if someone uses Claws [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claws_Mail
USAID was created by Congress. To get rid of it, Congress must pass a bill doing so and the president must sign it. That’s how this country’s fundamental institutions work. Don’t like it? Try to amend the Constitution. That’s what the rule of law means.
Um, wildfires, droughts, and floods are actually happening. Large parts of LA just got destroyed. That's not statistics, that's reality. Have winters become warmer in your neighborhood? Must be fraud, because a statistician said so.
what's unconstitutional is how USAID would stiff-arm senators who want to investigate their activities
They aren't though - not even close.
I don't think what Kamala and Walz said/showed about guns was in any way reassuring to gun owners.
The human mind is capable of amazing feats of mental gymnastics.
If the rationale is to avoid sending data back to Chinese servers, then shouldn't there be a carveout for downloading a model you run locally?
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Are you an indie hacker building a product?

Show your work, and we’ll share our initial feedback!

Please, let’s make it a positive, constructive thread.
I don't know how it works in the states, but in Canada you still get a DUI if driving while high.
Phishing Mail into Gmail Inbox from Income Tax Department
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Sounds like software engineering…

This is the job most of the time, especially at large corporations. You’re mostly fixing legacy decisions and trying to patch together solutions to current problems (instead of fixing tomorrow’s problems). Hang in there.
Had the same thought. But then on the other hand, when nobody is looking at the timing, nobody will see anything. And those who do see a timing artifact, will they really dig deeper or will they just shrug off another oddity? I would not like to bet on another Clifford Stoll in this day and age.
> The government, she assured, will continue buying bitcoin and having reserves in this cryptocurrency

Sounds like the term "Failed Experiment" is the writer's assertion and not the government official position.
All for a mere $1.4B in international loans from the (supposedly evil and corrupt) IMF…

Wasn’t El Salvador supposed to be Balaji’s first “Network State”? What happened to strike wallet and that whole crypto grifter crew?
No if anything the data suggests they'd go for trump or it'd be a coin flip

https://news.gallup.com/poll/24655/party-images.aspx

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/favorability/dona...

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/favorability/kama...
Appropriate authorities? I have little faith in that at this point.
Speculative asset class fails as non-speculative legal tender class.

If king for the day with a sovereign wealth fund I wouldn't forbid investment choices like this on risk grounds, I mean you need risk assets as well as boring ones, right? But I have problems with the moral quality: it's like state investing in the casino business. Monaco? works fine. Anywhere else? It's got problems.

Like a lot of people, I probably fall into severe errors which would be bread and butter for "bad economics" reddit groups but truly, I can't see how this wasn't forseen and expected. It was about WHEN, not IF.
JWT doesn't support revocation, which is a pretty fundamental flaw.
Even taking your statement at face value, as a non-troll, this makes no sense.

Have you ever optimized a slow program? How do you do that? A popular approach is with a flamegraph. It shows the hot parts of the execution; what is burning CPU cycles. If we profiled federal government, we'd find 4 big areas of spending [1]. Social security, medicare, the military, and debt interest. In our flamegraph, these are big fat sections. If you're profiling a program, would you look at this and say, "oh i'm going to spend my time optimizing this function call which takes up .01% of the execution time?" no, you wouldn't (unless you're an intern).

But that's hard, which is why elon isn't doing it. Nobody wants to cut social security because then a bunch of old people would starve to death. Same with medicare. Defaulting on our national debt would be a bad look. And god forbid we give the military less money. So where does that leave us? Even if you truly believe elon cares about making the government more efficient, the approach doesn't make any sense. In the absolute most charitable reading of it, he's just incompetent and he's doing this for show to get some widely supported easy wins (let's get rid of the penny and save $86M/y!) so people will like him. But the more realistic viewing is that he's gutting programs in order to further his own agendas, which is literally the definition of corruption.

There's a saying "don't attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence" but you don't become the richest man in the world by being incompetent. You become the richest man in the world through malice.

1. https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...
> you simply entered into a voluntary agreement with

Let's stop you right there.

Having a job is rarely truly voluntary. It's almost always obligatory instead.
I mean... rust modules aren't typically in your CWD, no? they're not in some node_modules that you can grep, but in a cargo folder with /all of the libraries you ever used/, not just the ones you have for this one project.
You just described the last 4 years for me.

But I will not ostracize you for having a different opinion than me, nor will I downvote you, nor will I attempt to dox you, nor will I demand your posts be censored as “misinformation”, no matter how much I disagree.

I might screenshot something you say and make a meme out of it though :-) And you are free to do the same.
From what I've read, the deficit looked like a huge problem and turned out to not be a problem from WWII to 2008. That's the situation most economists, finance leaders and regulators grew up in.

But, the demographic crisis means that moving forward our growth in entitlement spending for the growing population of seniors is far outpacing our growth in GDP from our slowing population of workers.

We can't tax or cut out way out of this. Elon's cuts are going to be performative at best. Real cuts would put tens of millions of seniors, vets and disabled people into destitution. Taxing the billionaires more would be nice. But, taxing them to zero would only paper over a few years of the problem.

The only way out I see is through massive investment to increase per-capita GDP long term. As a super duper liberal, I'm gung ho on "Bring manufacturing back!" in the form of

1. Re-prioritize trade schools and trade skills so we can actually perform high-skill work in factories if/when we build them.
2. Do everything we can to catch up with China making locally-built green energy tech dirt-cheap and highly effective.
3. Figure out how to incentivize the market to local build the interconnected web of advanced manufacturing capabilities needed to produce high tech goods fast and cheap.

I see the work of https://www.hadrian.co/ as an example of what I'm talking about. I'm starting to see some senators act like they need to stop talking about it and actually do something about it. But, the "best" I've heard from Trump is "Drill, baby. Drill!" and "Tariffs are magic."

If Trump laid out a plan for how to target tariffs surgically and use those proceeds to build up manufacturing, I'd be on board. But, he hasn't. Instead, he has made it clear his only plan is to create chaos, achieve performative concessions, and declare personal triumph while netting great harm for everyone in the end.
Fired from being retired.
Dude, the media is owned by billionaires, and bent over backwards to excuse a Nazi salute.

They're on the same side
Same issue on Android using Brave.
I guess I'll just have to become a shareholder
Investment is not legal tender, its moved from a functional role to a high risk investment strategy, would be my take. They're different buckets of money/value and expectations.
That’s not a mail client, it’s a GMail client
You’ll be a SAD driver. Doesn’t matter if it’s rescheduled or not, you can’t consume and drive commercially. Period.
If someone does something specifically with knowledge that it is likely to cause harm, there should almost certainly be recourse there. Yes.

If they did something that was a standard part of their duty, such as assemble a burrito using certified ingredients to the best practices of the organization, then not so much.

I'll go even further, if the company reacted slowly to recall produce from their shelves after it was discovered that there was contamination, then the company should be held liable for some of the damages that resulted from the delay.

That gets obviously complicated to tease out damages that happened from before discovery. More, to me, I care more about healing the people that were impacted by the contamination as well as possible. If that means that we have to have a cost of business fund to make sure people can be attended to in the event of a disaster, then we should have such a fund.

You can get even more fun, though. Lets say you have a detection system that can reject produce if a threshold is passed on detected contamination. Why would the goal not be for this to fail in a "closed" position to minimize risk of contamination? It could cost more for the company to discard some inventory? Do we expect to have everything hand inspected and always signed off by a person? Even if it can easily be shown that is both more expensive for the company, and more risk of accidental contamination?
Unsurprised. I got the impression Bukele picked bitcoin in a sort of manic ADHD moment and no one pushed him on it, figuring it was their president’s personal indulgence.
> I also suspect many people who voted for him did not specifically consider what he would actually do.

So far he has more or less adhered to the plans he and the rest of the crew that coalesced around his campaign over the summer and undoubtedly led to his election said they would do. I would argue that the campaign’s plans were the most accessible of any campaign so far - dozens of hours of discussion on podcasts and the like by him and potential cabinet members, and video addresses for specific policy plans on the agenda 47 website.

For example, Musk made it very clear that the intention with DOGE was to move fast and break things, saying (perhaps ignorantly) that if it turns out something was necessary, you just put it back.
It is useful context for people who aren't American to know how ridiculous Josh Hawley is, and has always been. The current authoritarian chaos could lend some weight to the possibility that this becomes law, but it is still unlikely.
They're already being abused. They're being made to sleep at work.
I think the benefit is not that you can literally put "smart & adaptable" on a resume, just that being smart and adaptable makes it easier to land on your feet regardless of how the economic winds are blowing.
Putting them all in the project root takes just a single `cargo vendor` command.

But I would assume that for mozilla their entire CSS subsystem is pulled in as a git (hg?) submodule or something anyways.
> I m leaning more toward farming

Farmers aren't having a good time, either.
Fair enough, and i'm glad you actually paused to give the question some consideration.

I'm a strong believer in people being responsible for their own actions in the face of voluntary options, and free to reject the entreaties of companies whose primary and paramount interest is their own financial benefit at your expense. Gambling companies are a near perfect example of such companies since they sell little more than transient, vapid "fun" at the risk of you completely wrecking your life, but one still can choose. (Yes I know there are also people with a tremendous psychological addiction to gambling, but it's tricky to form both rules or general moral guidelines based on a small subset)

In the case of Google and Facebook (and a few others), some sorts of genuine services are available and they can at least claim by these services to be of a different character from some betting company. However, the case of either business type, a core motivation remains extracting as much as possible from users through mendacious, manipulative means while addicting them into continually using their systems for as long and intensely as possible. In this, they're remarkably similar to your average betting company, except the currency they desire is instead of money directly, your information and attention, and as much of both as possible for as long as possible.
This is exactly what I'm seeing everywhere these days. It's chaotic and exhausting.
On the one hand Hawley proposes a lot of things that don't ever get close to becoming law.

On the other hand, we did ban TikTok (which is currently unavailable on the app stores because of the ban).

I can think of few ways to more effectively destroy any US advantage in AI compared with the sheer efficiency of making it illegal to learn from what competing countries have achieved. From the article, it sounds like the proposed legislation is deeply confused about what "downloading DeepSeek" means--they're _talking_ about banning the app, while _writing_ laws to ban "the importation into the United States of artificial intelligence or generative artificial intelligence technology or intellectual proprietary developed or produced in the People’s Republic of China" which is a lot broader. Is it proposing to ban US citizens from reading research papers written by Chinese citizens? Or from publishing research in places that might be read by them? Apparently the EFF is concerned that the language of the bill is, indeed, that broad.
You should read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I'll wait for the movie.
Yeah. Sovereign funds really stretch the word "investing".

Here's a list by country: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_wealth_fun...

The NZ entry only mentions New Zealand Superannuation Fund (70 billion) and ignores other government funds. NZ has a Hazard Fund (was 6 billion before earthquakes) and ACC investment fund (47 billion) and the Government Superannuation Fund (retirement funds/pensions for politicians and government employees) and the
National Provident Fund and I think that some government departments also have their own investments.

There's a lot of ESG involved https://fallback.nzsuperfund.nz/assets/Uploads/CTI-Quarterly... and the government wants to use funds to "invest" in internal NZ infrastructure: https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/05/07/national-progressing-chang...
Location: New York (NYC)

Remote: Yes, preferred

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: I'm looking for (fractional) product roles, but I do come with a 10y+ eng background from MIT x native mobile x full-stack dev

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephcfernandez/

Email: hello@josephfernandez.io
€50 million is about 130% of OpenEuroLLM's budget. And I'm very sceptical publishers will give training licenses for €5 per book. Especially as OpenEuroLLM intends to have an openly available training set.

Copyright sucks.
What does that have to do with "left"?
Guys, maybe software development and government are the same: mostly boring thankless activities entirely necessary but only observed in absence.
I wish there was a way to get better options though. A vote for Kamala would have just barely kicked the can down the road
How should you conduct the interview, then, if:

... Classic interviewing techniques of "explain how X algo works" or "write code to solve Y" will unfairly bias against interviewees that don't test well under pressure, but would otherwise be a good coworker.

... "Teach me something interesting to you" or "tell me stories about past experiences" will unfairly bias against interviewees that are shy, soft spoken, or are mildly socially awkward, but would otherwise be a good coworker.

Given the above awareness of where bias can emerge, how should the interview be done in order to get a candidate that knows what they're doing, and works well with the rest of the team?

Other comments mention relying more on recruiters and referrals, but that isn't always an option.
If you run cargo vendor, they end up in a neat directory.
Not comparable. In 1776, kids started working and participating in society in their early teens.

Even Monroe at that time likely had years more of practical life experience than the people working for Musk right now.

On top of that, I would not automatically assume Musk's staff have the skills and talent of the people you mention.
Let alone Edsger
Trump is beholden to public support. Trump empowers EM. If EM loses public support and voters make their will known, the behavior will end.

What is happening in DC (currently) has broad public support.
They have made just over 300 Million off the initial BTC purchase, and as of 15 minutes ago, continue to buy BTC everyday.

They even have their own tracker, https://bitcoin.gob.sv/
Bukele realized that it's more profitable to leave the legal tender and get a loan and buy Bitcoin from it instead.
PSA: If you don't like Bitcoin you might want to read the article before you post your knee-jerk reaction to avoid embarrassment.
We could have it both ways with a Convolutional News Network
And here I was thinking North Korea was the one with extreme laws on imports.
I agree to an extent. Most of us are either still young, or just getting our bearings and seeing the problems as adults in the last 10 or so years. I feel comfortable saying that, knowing the demographics of the site. Most of us had little-to-no ability to shape the current situation. Our window has just opened.
I remember this being mentioned as the next step in the previous thread haha. It's getting old and they need to find a new slant (ode to Bryan Colangelo).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42872142
My source for what?

Marco Rubio (head of the state department) stated that they refused to audited. So did other congressmen.
https://x.com/cspan/status/1886473339201360210

Do you disagree with what he says in the above video? They denied to be audited.
The US in USAID stands for United States. Can we not ask what they spend the money on?

USAID was not created by congress. It was created by executive order 10973 by JFK. It can be undone by executive order. It's function can be rolled into the state department.