skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In most cases the law that created the agency spells out exactly what control the president has, and AFAIK presidents still have to follow the law like everyone else. Is there any real justification for this, beyond the general notion that FDR once got away with something similar so maybe Trump should too?
Perhaps it's precisely that "illusion of specialness" that gives people the sense of agency to fight capitalism (or whatever other ill you want to put in its place). In that case, capitalism ruining people's ability to "ruin" that would be a big deal.
The late 70s through the 90s were kind of our last stable period (the 60s & early 70s were tumultuous with Viet Nam and Watergate, and the 30s & 40s were dominated by Depression and World War). That all starts to unravel with 9/11 and the response to it (starting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that cost us $Trillions and didn't really help stabilize the region and ironically began the destabilization of the US).

Much as we like to kvetch about Clinton (and I've certainly done my share of it, and certainly much of the criticism has merit), if there was a "golden age" of America in recent memory, the Clinton era was it.
You "can" do all these things on BTC. Almost nobody does. All of Tether & USDC usage takes place on other blockchains. The lightning network is notoriously tricky to use and isn't trustless. A diversity of assets enables things like PAXG, an ERC-20 token backed fully by real-world gold, as well as things like tokenized stocks, bonds, and t-bills, the last already existing, and the former surely coming in the near future.

Additionally BTC isn't "over 50% of the market", it's over 50% of the market capitalization, which is a huge difference. BTC doesn't have the raw TX speed to make up 50% of actual market activity.
Yeah, but what about when the country has to make good on bond payments to a cryptocurrency becoming stronger, entirely out of their control?

It was a terribly dangerous move for a sovereign country, worse than surrender to the Euro.
So the outcomes are even now?
Haha. As described in the title of the game, it's a Mental RPG. The game takes place in your mind. The site only gives you the environment for you to simulate in your mind. Think about Dungeons and Dragons "Theater of the Mind" but for language learning. Every encounter with a word is a battle. You defeat the enemy once you understand it. It's honor system based given that only you would know if you actually understand it.
The position of the devil's advocate is that the procedure is a little undemocratic - it prevents people to express their will, right? - and ought to be bent when it's really needed. Insert whatever justification here the interested side could plausibly produce.
"America! Fuck Yeah!"
Looks great. Have you considered Go? We’re using Gin at work…
Thank you! HN won't let me delete and repost now?

dang, I could an assist on changing the link. Is that possible? Thank you!
Almost no mobile apps need to know the mac addresses of anything, let alone SSID/BSSID. Why would OS give this info up to some app?
Crimes aren't settled. Sometimes cases are dropped and sometimes there are plea bargains with the prosecution, who works for the public and can only do so within the framework of laws that are set out. Civil law exists to settle disputes between two parties, not to punish for some crime. If the two parties reach an out-of-court agreement on why the lawsuit should be dropped, then its dropped.
Is there an example where you can explain how the deflation actually led to economic success? The above feel like very distant correlations more than a result.

'prices dropping' often includes labor as well, since currency is primarily a medium of exchange.
ADHD's Sobering Life-Expectancy Numbers
They could. Ecuador does in fact mint its own US-dollar coins, and El Salvador could dedollarize.
Sorry bitcoin enthusiasts. This was always the most likely outcome.
"It feels like similar things happen in other govt buildings in the USA all the time but the perpetrators were not targeted the same way."

Huh? American here. Can you point to any examples? I can't think of a single one.
It is somewhat amusing timeline wise as a choice since the Manhattan Project ran from 1942 to 1946:

Jan 1942: Roosevelt authorizes the atomic bomb

Jul 1945 (55 months later): Trinity

Aug 1945 (56 months later): Little Boy

By comparison:

Nov 2021: IRA becomes law

Feb 2025 (40 months later): <250 charging points

But this would take 120 months to complete. What an interesting comparison.
It is structurally disinflationary, not just deflationary. Bitcoin is still emitted every ~10 minutes with currently an average inflation rate just under 1% of its supply per year.

The "massive risk" the IMF sees is that without central banks or even less influential central banks the IMF existence would be threatened.
> this was clearly something else than a failure of the currency itself

They needed the loan. The original thesis was taxes on crypto bros’ business and tourism would increase revenues while crypto-based lending would provide an alternative to the IMF. Neither panned out. This was a failure of Bitcoin to provide any of the international benefits of the dollar financial system.
Setting aside the issue of the public’s PII and PHI in the hands of the most odious individuals, your post is a mischaracterization of what’s going on. They’re not identifying things and creating a report for evaluation; they’re identifying things and using illegal thuggery to shut things they don’t like down. This is illegal and unamerican.
The problem with tiktok is not speculative at all. It doesn't matter what you can prove they did, it only matters that you can prove they can.

It is not speculation at all to say that tiktok can both collect data and manipulate populations. Whether they actually do doesn't even matter. The problem is you can't prove that they have not, are not, or will not.

The only problem is 50 other apps all pose essentially the same risks, and tiktok is hardly special.

The contrast is any of the various open source activity pub apps. Any given server could be doing anything, but there is no single black box server that everyone has to live on. There are 1000 different servers and a bunch of open source code that all serve as verification checks on each other. No aberrant server can hide its skewed behavior for long when there are other servers that didn't F with the code and so their behavior matches the public code, and so the aberrant ones can be exposed by their behavior and stats deviating from the norm, even if you can't trust that a given server is really running clean code.
The left doesn’t support individual freedoms because they believe that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. The right no longer supports individual freedoms because they believe that the privileges of the few outweigh the needs of the many.
Federal employees working at the level these guys appear to be currently working are always ripe to have their names and photographs in public reporting, yes. This is not "doxxing", it is just reporting on the government. Even if there was an effort to keep this information secret, it would almost certainly be subject to FOIA requests. These aren't spies, they're public servants.
A currency that encourages people to hold on to it instead of spending it is a disaster for the economy.
The funny thing is Russia an China can claim to be less racist as they are homogenous societies.
Back in the late 2010s, I worked with someone who had a personal relationship with PD, to the point that my business partner was soft pitching our business to PD...

The person that I worked with partied with PD and mirrored some of the same (alleged) sort of toxic and abusive antics in their own home and social circles, which I experienced firsthand. There was a darkness emanating from this person that I haven’t really felt before or since. We ultimately stopped working together due to them violating our contract.

The public allegations so far totally jibe with my experience associating with PDs associates and my limited visibility into the world of PD. I’m very glad to have come to my senses and avoided any closer orbit of this world.
As a critic of such licenses (https://medium.com/@henvic/opensource-and-go-what-license-f6...), I love it!
I think assuming that their intentions are a well functioning economy have been disproven by the rapid pace of kicking pillars out from under it.

Occams razor would instead suggest that either a recession or some other form of social instability is not an externality but an objective.

It makes me scared for what the ultimate aim is, but I think at this point it's beyond giving him the benefit of the doubt.
Black Lives Matter only sought to "overthrow" the system in place if you presume first that racism is a core component of it.
Oh good, so it's just a tool to selectively and arbitrarily make examples of people. I'm sure the government would never abuse that power. Carry on, then, citizen.
Yes, should I repeat myself? Perhaps the text wasn’t very clear due to being typed from a ground based keyboard from who knows how far away with who knows how hard of a key strike.

The audio you hear at 6:30 is recorded by a 3rd party, not the line-in of the ATC/pilot.

I would suggest finding some private pilots who directly record their comms.
It also says “the right of the people” a phrase understood in every other part of the constitution and its amendments to refer to the individual citizenry. Notably, you don’t need to be a member of the press to exercise a right to free speech.
It’s being “used” as a speculative asset. That’s not a firm foundation to run a governmental monetary system on. Maybe there are other cryptocurrencies better suited to the task, but BTC isn’t
> a single example of someone that has a billion dollars in liquid assets

Lots of billionaires manage their portfolios conservatively. Your equating currency with liquid assets is unnecessary and tanks your argument. Almost nobody holds billions of dollars in legal tender other than those who have to, e.g. sanctioned countries and criminals.
Should more public servants use these types of nicknames to refer to their colleagues?
In fairness to the framers, it was originally supposed to increase in size along with the growth of the House of Representatives.
Homicides are at historic lows because they stopped counting bodies found in mass graves and murders in prison.
Well, you're wrong. The US has a government of by and for its people. It is not the same as your employer.
The rationale is a lie. Stop treating it with the good faith it doesn't deserve.
Indeed. One of the highest paid people in my local school district is a librarian who teaches no classes and gets paid 275k. Do you think it would be a good idea to get a wired article published with his name address, and 4 similar teacher profiles?
I understand you. I have the similar experience from different country. "Everyone steals but at least he is not THEM". The worst part of this all is that I feel how I slowly sliding into pure cynism. I just can't sympathize for some people if their problems are their own decisions over and over. For
example one of the ministers in our government sold fake cancer treatments to sick people. It's just forgotten.

These politicians who do not provide results and are just confidently talking nonsense still get voted. By the people.

People are indeed just tribal unga bunga monkes which learned to walk, talk and do stupid shit. Some more than others.
The theory is that there must be a big reason why those last 1% haven't been disclosed. I dunno, but curiosity did kill the cat. It's a powerful force.
> If the USD was such a good currency, why does the US operate at a deficit?

If the U.S. needed a bailout, the dollar would become a trash currency.
No, it's not only not easy, it's impossible to fit into your tray icon
"Commodify Your Dissent" by The Dead Milkmen

Who will sponsor my green revolution?

Will you buy the rights to my class war?

Purchase the t-shirts and the audio version of the book

They took your anger and polished up

Then they sold it back to you

They took your anger and repackaged it

And there's nothing you can do

Put your name on my new army's designer uniforms

Rebellion and subversion will make your Rom-Com cool

You'll capture that "indie" feel that the kids are crazy for

They took your frustrations and dressed them up

Before a focus group

They painted your frustrations in earth tones colors

And there's nothing you can do

Country music used to be about music and not about the county

There once was a time when rap was dangerous

Now flag-waving idiots and millionaire illiterates dance
across the screen

Johnny Cash died for you

This sense of outrage can be yours if the price is right

Galleries and Poetry readings Jingles and cartoons

This is the river in which we've learned to swim

Sub-culture vultures circle above

The great unread white and blue

And there's nothing you can do

Country music used to be about music and not about the county

There once was a time when rap was dangerous

Now flag-waving idiots and millionaire illiterates dance across the screen

Jam Master Jay died for you

C'mon Bourgeoisie and get behind me

Captains of industry I'm waiting for your calls

Operators are standing by so don't delay

Your parents are reading hipster lit

And they try to dress like you

They took your anger and repackaged it

And there's nothing you can do

Punks, Goths, and Rivetheads disappeared into the mall

Just like the yippies, and the beatniks, and freaks

This is the river in which we've learned to swim

And this is the river in which we will all drown
What about internships for motivated data science grad students?
I hate to get involved with this one because it's not my fight and I don't personally care. That said, I have no issue reconciling the concept of someone who supports individual freedom and banning TikTok. Banning TikTok, at least theoretically, is more to do with TikTok's right to do business here, not your right to use TikTok. I don't think it is illegal to use TikTok if you were to bypass the block. It's illegal for them to let you in.
His official duty is not to subvert the constitutional process.
> Ok, but what does that have to do with the nature of the young guys charged with the analysis?

Because the only reason they are doing it is because they don't know enough about their legal exposure to know they should not. They aren't qualified to handle this data. I thought the whole thing was we were going to have a meritocracy.
China already doesn’t allow a lot of US tech companies to access their market. The EU does so with heavy restrictions and lots of fines. So denying access to American audiences only seems fair in terms of trade reciprocity. This is leaving aside the obvious national security risks of course.
Nobody has yet, but if they did I'd probably be ecstatic! We specifically tell candidates they can use any language they want. A combination of awk/sort/sed/count/etc is just as effective as a Python script!
It won't die as long as we keep using it. Use it or lose it pretty much. I do think there are a lot of people that might want to learn Canto but since it doesn't have any official standardization and there being an active push by greater forces to suppress it, it would be difficult for anyone outside of Hong Kong to learn it. This is where my 粵卷 comes in. I want to continue improving and refining my teaching strategy over the years and create a standard that people can use to learn the language.

The Cantonese Scrolls is designed to run directly in your web browser (thus cross platform), portable (in that it's conveniently located anywhere you have a computer - small mobile phone, or a desktop), so you can study on the train, but most importantly it's designed to be offline and downloadable. I want the 粵卷 to be a Cantonese learning resource that is freely available for anyone in the world that view/download it, for anyone that has the desire to learn, and for it to outlive me. I do see this being a life long project so I hope I can continue improving this project over the course of my life.
I was using Swift before. Currently learning Rust. Want to use it for cross-platform UI, and I'm stuggling with exactly what you describe there.
Are you referring to Moral Hazard?
Ok. I look forward to your support when Elon starts tweeting the names of individual employees he wants to cut.
Location: Oregon, USA.
Remote: Only.
Willing to relocate: No.
Technologies: AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Ansible, Git, Linux, Docker Python, etc. All the Stuff a modern SRE should do.
Resume: Upon Request.
Email: mike+jobs@garfias.org

I've been doing Sysadmin/DevOps/SRE (the names keep changing on me) since the mid 90s. I've worked for big companies and small startups (one was even acquired!). I've run ops departments and been a cog. These days I'd like to be some kind of lead, designing things, and helping my juniors implement it, and land at a place that will keep me content for the next ten years or so.
I think the parent is referring to Washington State, not Michigan.
It's great that it's "open" and a public repository!
Could you share any advantages your approach has over OpenAI's "Deep Research"? Also, if possible, I'd love to hear about the future prospects of Firecrawl.
> Little did I know

You should have, had you done any research. This was long after Elon’s slide into anti-democratic, far right ideology. And as we now know merely weeks before he did multi Nazi salutes on stage.

This feels like people who are surprised that Trump is ticking boxes on Project 2025 despite it being out for multiple years.

There’s a pizza shop in NW DC with a basement you should investigate.
While you’re at it, allow for a few more ulp (units of least place) error for floating point ops.
Nah, it only bans Je- I mean... woke math.
It has nothing to do with whether they are doing anything wrong. They're high level federal employees. Hundreds of years before anyone invented the word "doxxing", newspapers would have printed their names and likenesses. They have chosen employment which puts them into the public interest. No more no less.
https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds?tab=readme-ov-file#sel...
Escaping surprise bills and over-engineered messes: Why I left AWS
A better way to put it is that a deflationary currency is, counterintuitively, not a particularly good currency.

The reality is, Bitcoin and similar, are not being used to actually purchase things. Not at any notable percentage. You're "best bet" is to horde it, and that doesn't make a good currency.
It makes sense when you realize that it's a religion
What if all cars were required to haul trash?
What naive person does anything voluntary for the richest man on Earth?
There's a museum in Shanghai with posters going back to Mao that take the same strategy. Lots of highlighting American racism.

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

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g308272-d18871...
There is a difference between 5 names in an article and 100k names in a database.
Thanks for the suggestion. Take a look at my other reply above, but The Cantonese Scrolls is a project that needs to be able to run offline, directly in your web browser, with no network calls. I allow everyone to download the entire project and self study offline or self host it if they want. This serves as both a backup mechanism, and a defense mechanism against any potential government censorship by countries that don't want Cantonese to exist.
To save some time, can you define the True Scotsman here? Would the US in the 1920s count as a liberal capitalistic country for example? England in the 1860s?
Bitcoin (BTC) was hijacked and oriented away from use as cash. It was quite obvious BTC was no longer capable of functioning this way and that the LN wouldn't help.

There were maybe a half a dozen other networks that might have made a more plausible and interesting experiment in testing crypto as a day to day currency.
Disbarred for being realistic and honest about what a mistake that prosecution was? I voted for Harris BTW.
That is kind of obvious. It’s a well known fact that all Chinese companies after certain size/reach are controlled by the Chinese government
Didn’t we learn back in the 1500s that asset-backed currencies are unsustainable? Bitcoin will never, ever be able to take the place of a fiat currency because it carries with it many of the same problems as Spanish silver the conquistadors were traveling all the way to SOUTH AMERICA to mine half a millennium ago. It was essentially a very difficult proof of work. The only real advantage bitcoin has is that it’s easy to carry.

Even when the entire world started selling off their gold to the US in the 30s and 40s it became obvious by the 70s that there wasn’t enough gold mining capacity on earth to sustain a global asset-backed currency.
Easy to say if you won't be negatively impacted.
While it's not here yet, Vitalik's future plans for Ethereum involve making it possible to run validators on smartwatches[1], which is far more accessibly decentralized than BTC could be and far more possible with Ethereum's PoS consensus as opposed to PoW, without needing to cripple transaction speed to boot.

[1]: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/10/23/futures4.html
If the transcript involves evidence against a random psychopath who committed murder against beloved public figures (with no connection whatsoever to the government), I don't understand why anyone involved with such an investigation would be upset about the release of such transcripts immediately, much less 15 years or 65 years in the future.
They only care about their filter bubble, and BlueSky provides a guaranteed hermetic experience.
Also nobody can premine it, no coalition of big stakeholders can lock you out of your coins, a 51% attack is less likely feasible than for any other PoW coin, the bandwidth needed for its blockchain is smaller than most alternatives, and it's less likely to conceal unknown cryptographic weaknesses. It's kind of shitty in some other ways, though.
Regulations are nowhere near that freeform, and they have extensive public review and commentary. The EPA was in court for years debating whether CO2 could be included under the Clean Air Act because they had to stay in the narrow lanes Congress created.

The CDC case seems to make the opposite point: they took a broad interpretation of the public health act, and it was rejected in the courts as exceeding what Congress had intended:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/05/us/politics/eviction-mora...
There should really be bets placed on the new work that AI will supposedly open up. These investments in productivity, insofar as they reduce the workforce needed for today's jobs, just reduce the amount of money circulating in the consumer economy: smaller/fewer paychecks aren't yet being offset by lower prices for anything. Companies can on average still be more profitable with AI stuff (when it works) just conducting business with each other.

I'd like to see where the middle-class jobs are that arise from widespread deployment of AI. Who's investing in those?
You haven't been to a sports even in the US right?

The general population in the US is very much in favor of law enforcement and the more "end of the world" news they consume the more they think there should be MORE law enforcement and they should have even more power.
哈哈。嗰個AI覺得廣東話同國語一樣.

-.-
Never seen a rat any city I’ve been even NY. Serious
So if your criterium breaks down, you would agree that you can't map every single language/dialect to a country in a neat fr-BE scheme?
Would melting frozen water be considered wet water? Seems to satisfy the requirements.
Are you suggesting that the article we're discussing is "weird"? Does it list anyone's address? I feel like it just says their names and provides some basic bio info. Seems like pretty normal reporting on an important story at the top levels of the federal government.