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I think I am closer to understanding you, but not quite there.

If, for instance, your burrito worker did something egregious, they could be held criminally liable, and depending on the specific situation, the employer could also be held civilly liable.

I say "depending on the situation" because it is the duty of the vendor to ensure best practices are followed: sanitary restrooms, soap and running, clean water for cleaning up, etc. And a nontrivial number of places do so because they know an inspector is coming at some point and they will suffer if they do not comply.

But it is harder to hold the vendor liable if all reasonable precautions and amenities are availed by the vendor, and all proper education, but the end of line worker decides to ignore all of it one day.
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George Washington led a revolution at 44 years old, and those guys were 32, 36, 31, and 29 when the constitution was drafted and the federalist papers were written. I guess the upside from the comparison could be that 11 years from now these kids might realize how badly they fucked up the federal government and try again with a more balanced approach.
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ah yes, when you get downvoted for asking Questions, not even Claims.
> More than 50% of men just never receive a like, and never means maybe 2 or 3 likes in the lifespan of several weeks

As someone in that more than 50%, it’s very annoying to constantly get told to get on the apps to meet women. I’m surrounded by men in the top 20% because I’m affluent, well educated, and spend a lot of time at the gym. Sadly, I’m just around these people and wasn’t born into the same kind of family. I’m an outsider. I was born poor and ugly. I’ve solved the poor thing but being ugly is incurable. I’m going to Beverley hills next week and getting more surgery to try to alleviate the ugliness but it’s pathetic what a man in his mid-30’s has to do now to even get a single like back on his profile.

Women don’t need men anymore in the developed world. Men are luxury goods and women are completely happy to live without. A man isn’t needed but merely wanted and only wanted if he fits a very particular set of criteria.
There were/are a bunch of Java to native compilers.
I have had recent meetings with management teams that believe this. I mean, yea, some of them are delusional (and not just about AI) but they are so excited about the idea of not having to pay humans any more.
One minor nit: while presidents do usually present their version of the ideal budget, Congress is responsible for developing the budget, and what they pass can sometimes look pretty different from what the president proposes.
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The approach at the end of declaring invariants to the compiler so the compiler can eliminate panics seems accidentally genius. You can now add the same invariants as panicking asserts at the end of each function, and the compiler will prove to you that your functions are upholding the invariants. And of course you can add more panicking asserts to show other claims to be true, all tested at compile time. You've basically built a little proof system.

Sure, Rust is hardly the first language to include something like that and adoption of such systems tends to be ... spotty. But if it was reliable enough and had a better interface (that preferably allowed the rest of your program to sill have panics) this might be very useful for writing correct software.
Guess what I, a person who mere minutes ago had little interest in downloading DeepSeek, am doing right now? Paging Ms. Streisand…
100%, seems like a clear effort to bury anything critical or even just concerned about the actions of Musk, Altman, and the other tech billionaires in their relationship with the new administration. I saw this article also got flagged and there is nothing objectionable about it: https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-government-young-engin...
The only people who are opposed to making it easier to file taxes are:

* People who profit from the complicated mess that is the current system

* Anarchists who simply wish to burn the entire system of government to the ground, presuming that they'll become successful regional warlords
But that's not true. The objects in museums are used by museum visitors (who look at them, or draw studies of them, etc) and researchers (who remove them from the displays and study them).

Mark Fisher is just an idiot like the bullshit jobs guy, who doesn't respect anyone he doesn't personally know and thinks they're all faking doing real work.

Note that the other thing Fisher was known for is writing an essay about how Russell Brand is cool and people should stop caring that he's a rapist.
Open AI fed their original model Anna’s archive for breakfast.
Voter turnout hasn't significantly changed in 100 years, how is that the cause to point to?
You may want to consider whether you are overly credulous.
How can you determine if it is being manipulated?
I would say a heavy YouTube presence is almost on par with corporate palatableness with respect to how not counterculture you may think something is. Want something "punk" in say the comedy world? Redbar
Total market control isn't the worst reason floating around out there, there are worse ones.
It's hard to know what's true and what's fake anymore. The government has done so much harm to its reputation by lying constantly, hiding information, trying to silence any opposing views.
These numbers are consistent across many surveys and research. Consider the fact that you may be in an information bubble.
There are more people on HN that don't like politics getting into their tech news than pro-Trump/Elon fanboys.

The core issue is that flagging is so much more powerful than upvotes. There isn't a good way to change that without causing other issues.
Well, I'm kinda fucked now that cannabis will likely not finish being rescheduled legally. I was hoping to push forward once rescheduling was official with my actual medical certification and go get my commercial drivers' license.

I wanted to do over-the-road trucking, but I consume for PTSD-related insomnia at bed -- that's worse than parking up for the night and downing a suitcase or two of beer and getting up in the morning to drive fully hungover, according to the feds.

Maybe non-CDL hotshotting[1] could be a thing in my future - man with a cargo van sounds adventurous.

[1]"hot shot" cargo - small, expedient packages by truck and van, all those mysterious Sprinters on the highways.
Hey I'm with you... I literally have a talk I give at my company about security being every developer's job (it's called "Developers are bad at security" and it's very popular).

I'm not arguing that it's "not their job", I'm saying they are less likely to have been trained in security because of the nature of their job...
> There will always be a market for smart people who are willing to be fearless of the unknown, willing to be lifelong learners and who are in technology because they can't imagine doing anything else.

Eh, that's not really a tangible marketable skill though, or if it is, it can be very hard to identify or convince someone to hire you based on; usually it's quite the opposite. If you're a programmer of some sort normally, and find yourself out of work, it might be quite difficult to get hired for anything else if the local economy isn't absolutely stellar. If anything, you might have a shot at re-training from scratch, getting a categorically different credential, or starting a business, but often an employer would look at your resume and think "This person will jump ship as soon as they can" or "what is any of this supposed to mean to me, I need someone who's good with customers".

It depends on your region as well though. Losing a job in Canada as a software person last month, last year, 2 years ago, would potentially be crippling for a _long_ time, but now it's worse, and it's worse for everyone else too, and you'd be right to be nervous about the future. Bet against easy transferability, and do your best to actually have a compelling case for an alternative when/if the necessity comes around.

Also relying on being fascinated to pay the bills works until it really doesn't, and if a person never needs to contend with that, they should consider themselves lucky. If at any point the work starts getting dull, and duller, and dullest, you've got quite an existential crisis on your hands, and it's important to develop a healthier relationship with the thing that pays the bills before you face homelessness.
Using AI to win in a game where reflexes are a key factor is lame.
Most of the metrics that matter have gotten worse over the past decades. Under both democrats and republicans. Education, physical and mental health, cost of living, healthcare costs, wealth inequality, I could go on.

When you see all the smart people like Musk, Hotz, Andreesen, Ackman, getting involved and changing their minds, maybe it's time to reconsider your priors too.
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I’m seeing the same problem, the page crashes on Safari on iOS, saying a problem repeatedly occurred. Haven’t seen a webpage do that in quite a while.
I think it is combination of two factors.

1. A subset of HN readers are uninterested in items outside a narrow range of topics and wish to keep HN focused instead of becoming like other forums that grew to cater to broader audiences.

2. Forum moderators may have a financial incentive to ensure that certain topics are discussed more often and other topics are discussed less often.
> Could his father not have identified him?

Well, Woods discovered the issue when he was age ~50, homeless, and 2000+ miles away in another state, so it's plausible to think there was some breakdown in relationships.
It’s cute you think they’re trying to be “effective”.
Thank you for taking time to write a response in good faith.

I was not trolling; I sincerely believe what I wrote.

I do not believe that anything the federal government does that is time sensitive (social security payments, etc) is being affected.

I believe that termination of programs will require Congressional action.

However I believe that there is a lot that the President is Constitutionally authorized to do, that will limit what agencies do and control how they do it, and that the courts will not be shy to step in if the administration even has the appearance of acting unconstitutionally.

I do not think that we are in any way at risk of dictatorship; I think we are quickly moving away from that since Biden left office.

I respect your opinion, but I disagree in good faith, and my disagreement is neither trolling nor uninformed parroting of social media; it’s informed by my understanding of the Constitution and the structure of government it created.

I hope I am right in my predictions and you are wrong, because I don’t want the outcome that you fear may happen.
It isn’t about budget but about ideology. Firing prosecutors who investigated Trump, firing FBI agents involved in Jan 6th arrests, firing employees for having pronouns in email signatures, going after agencies that spend <.1% of the federal budget just because they have “diversity” or “aid” in the name, using emergency executive power over vague threats like “drugs”. This is a government takeover and purge of anyone who can be considered disloyal to the administration. This may be a surprise to people who have only ever lived under functional first-world governments and the rule of law, but the rest of the world recognizes it as a story that has played out many times before.
And why did they lose?
It takes much longer than 4 years to amend or unamend (which would be required in this case).

He’s out in January 2029 without a doubt.
A lot of what USAID was spending money on would shock people. Meanwhile, no money left to rebuild parts of the US
could be that we are sick of reading this slop, if you want to doom gloom, go post on reddit in some US centric subreddit.
Not sure why this is being down voted. I don't want my tax money being wasted to no end
It sounds like you're assuming that if more people had voted, they would have voted for not-Trump. Is there data backing that up? Is there any indication that the result would have been different?
At least sources of panic! are easily greppable. Cutting corners on error handling is usually pretty obvious
AAA game are a small fraction of the whole games market though (and there are still plenty that don't have multiplayer - Cyberpunk 2077 comes to mind, or the Horizon games, lots of mobile games, etc).

Like I said in the other reply, I am not arguing against the need for security, I am saying a lot of game developers don't get, or seek out, security training because single player local games don't have the same network-driven risks.
Helping people out before things get really bad and there are more wars abroad is a good investment. That's why the military has generally been supportive of USAID.

In general, it's also better to have friends in the world rather than going around being loud-mouthed jerks that no one likes.

It's also a tiny amount of the budget.
If you look at the Manhattan project org chart and take people randomly at the top, they're all at least in their 40s. "There are young people on the project" is a thing but at the end of the day things like the Manhattan Project are downstream of the will of an entire behemoth (at least in theory attempting to represent the will of the people), balancing various interests and ethical or moral questions that are usually downstream of some experience.

They also have gone through the military chain of command...

I didn't see Musk's confirmation hearing. OMB's head needs to be Senat confirmed, Musk is giving OMB orders and took over their e-mail addresses. Where's the hearing? Where's the confirmation?
Yes! Labs should escrow $10k for a year for each paper they publish. If anyone finds fraud, they get to keep it.
Perhaps you should read their comment again: they never said the "Founding Fathers" claimed to have eternal answers, rather they pointed out the odd ritualised deference by people today to things written hundreds of years ago by people who (by your own admission) explained that the things they wrote would likely not be entirely applicable to the future.
Even here, the concept is decaying. Accountability, as explained elsewhere on the thread, is about being asked to explain and justify your actions. If a poor person gets arrested and shows up to court, frequently nobody listens to their explanation. The mere fact that they're poor and in court is evidence of guilt. That's not accountability; that's just punishment.

Accountability requires a common standard of conduct. People have to agree on what the rules are. If they can't even do that, the concept ceases to have meaning, and you simply have the exercise of power and "might makes right".
OK, so certain documents are allowed to exist out there; they are not banned. But if you train a mathematical function to provide a very clever form of access to those documents, that is banned.

That is similar to, say, some substance being banned above a certain concentration.

Information from AI is like moonshine. Too concentrated; too dangerous. There could be methyl alcohol in there that will make you go blind. Must control.
I don't think it would be corruption there tbh. More like bureaucracy, red tape. Like the OP says a lot of such funding is conditional or earmarked for specific things and checking all that is difficult.
Yeah but the fees are outrageous.
That article was on the frontpage, has over a 1000 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42910910
That's false, the average age was 29.4: https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/L...

Here are the ages of the senior scientists:
Oppenheimer: 38
Teller: 34
Lawrence: 41
Rabi: 44
Szilard: 44
Ulam: 33
Bethe: 36
Fuchs: 31
von Neumann: 39

So the younger people would have had plenty of supervision.
The key fact here is that the president was elected by the people in a time of crisis (both for the country and the world). Laws are not perfect, sometimes you have to be bold and take risks. The election is a seal of trust to get the job done.

Now if a president is not doing their job, not improving the lives of the citizens, and doing things for personal gain, that's another matter. That was more of a description of the previous administration, but I know I will probably get some downvotes here for saying so.

Removing data about provably unfair things like DEI is only going to upset people who still are hanging on to any hope that it will return. BTW, I check several of the boxes for DEI, and I'd rather it be gone as well. That ship has sailed and the president decided it is time to move past that phase for the greater good. I wouldn't call that an abuse of power. And even if it was, the same people saying so cried wolf so many times before, that it undermined trust in the system of checks and balances. So here we are.
I'd love to, but I don't really have a choice at the moment.

Maybe I'm just at the wrong place at the wrong time, but as a software engineer I don't feel like I'm doing any actual engineering and solving meaningful problems, just spaghetti gluing random frameworks, packages and services together. The only problems I get to solve are those caused by the quirks of all these incompatible things being forced to work together. It's draining.
A related issue: I've seen folks abuse flagging as a form of mega-downvote, although it's more common in comments than in submissions.
You must be high if you think federal rescheduling will make trucking jobs stop drug testing.
Twitter requires an account to use, and when you sign up, you agree not to sue Twitter. In the United States, arbitration clauses are generally airtight. Even if you what Musk says is truthful and the whole truth -- and it's not -- those conditions alone are bad enough. That's not transparency.
Tell me exactly how I will miss USAID and the billions wasted to foreign governments? Be specific please.
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Improbable is probably how a lot of citizens of countries have felt in the past before their savings lost their worth. I'd rather us not be risking it at all.
There's a good amount of evidence that more turnout would help Republicans in general, even before (at least if you applied the "socio-economic voting preference determinism" logic that one tends to apply).

It's good to be against voter suppression because voter suppression is bad, even if in theory it doesn't help "your side". One would hope that doing that work would convince some people you're on "their side", but it's quite nebulous.
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This is not correct. SpaceX is covered by ITAR and therefore cannot hire foreigners.

Of the approximately 70,000 Tesla employees in the US, fewer than 2,000 are H-1B workers. The rest are US citizens or permanent residents. Tesla's manufacturing is much more vertically integrated than other auto manufacturers, so they rely almost entirely on their US factories to produce the cars they sell in the US. Other auto makers tend to do more manufacturing overseas to save on labor/safety/environmental costs, then do final assembly in the US to avoid tariffs.
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let us not forget all the attempts at disenfranchisement, destruction of ballots by MAGA, voter intimidation, and all that.
Yes, and to the point of some of these roles being open for a long time, that's because we keep hiring more people for them over time.
There would need to be a way to list all flagged stories. I don't know if there is.
For some little indie setup, sure. But AAA studios are like any other software companies— the folks putting their network stack together aren’t the same people that are making the gameplay logic, many of whom probably went to art school and learned how to script and write some less-complex C++, and they’re different from the people working with the low-level graphics programming in the game engine, many of whom probably have PhDs in computer science or other related math disciplines. Having a connection low-latency enough and reliable enough to have fighting game tournaments on servers with many thousands of players isn’t a job for a general purpose game developer.
It was flagged this morning and I haven’t seen it on the front page until just now. https://web.archive.org/web/20250203054131/https://news.ycom...
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Your point's not lost on me, but if you allow me to modify the analogy to: Feels like feeling slighted by a water hose in a storm. I think that's more accurate. Yea I'm still drenched, but it would feel (irrationally) worse if someone sprayed me in the rain
Sure, thanks for the explanation! I didn't mean to imply that this was intentionally misleading, just wanted to point out that a lot (most?) of people, including mainstream media, are using the term "government agency" with a meaning closer to your first definition. And with that in mind it's valid to say that the exec branch actually does have the power to create / disband agencies.
And even if we stick to the latter definition of the "agency" - it feels like there's a certain asymmetry here. Perhaps EOs can't be used to create a new agency, because that requires new funding to be approved by another branch. But what about disbanding an existing agency? That doesn't require approving new funding, right? So what stopping an EO to disband an agency?