skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Frankly I’m done with entertaining the concerns about coastal elites looking down on the common clay. I’ve talked a lot with people with this position. They look down on other people just as much, if not more. They will talk a lot about respecting their opinions and beliefs and then completely write off huge swathes of Americans because they are “not real Americans.” I think they should remove the log from their eye before complaining about the speck in others.
Trump is talking up a new missile Defence thing that is space based. No doubt will require many rockets.

So no military spending will not be cut
I have no problem with that. I don't even disagree with government waste, we all see it. If what trump and musk did was:

- Audit spending (at USAID or wherever else)

- Come up with details of where there is waste, being transparent about it for the public to see and review

- Use that to recommend change to congress / the president, again in full public view

Then I'd have no issues. The problem is, what's actually happening is:

- Musk and team are in there with no accountability and no transparency. We don't know what he has access to, what was done

- Unilaterally making changes without public review or oversight. It's a "trust me bro" stance.

- From the few things that has been published, many seem to be outright lies (50m on condoms) or extremely biased conclusions (IRS direct filing)
I personally would hate it, but I can just turn sound off so no reason not to do it.
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I think it's probably the opposite, Git has amassed a lot of complexity because it's been adapted to being a tool that is able to can satisfy the majority of requirements.

I've never found that I need to touch most of it in the 15 or so years I've been using it, but it's there if your project needs it.
the "drops in the bucket" mindset is the problem, the federal government absurdly overspends and we've not had any serious politicians to address the issue. the interest on our debt is going to bankrupt us and there will be nothing left afterwards if these things aren't reeled in and examined.

political opponents of the newly elected administration are obviously going to go fully hysterical over any change, they already did last time. the science industries in the US aren't going anywhere, neither is research at the universities.

the ideological discrimination and money laundering coming out of these departments are going to end. and did we all forget about COVID? The fact that the NIH funded the research that happened in china ILLEGALLY, because this was a really stupid idea and we found that out the hard way, and it was covered up, and we were lied to, it killed millions, destroyed economies on a global scale.... do we really not want to see this agency dissected under a microscope? They need to be investigated.
if you're using tpu why are you using pytorch
it isn't the opposite, it is the same. many people are confused about money though, so understandable that you had trouble relating them.

how could panics be what I'm talking about? we are talking about price levels, or I'm trying to at least.
Ah yes, the autism vs schizophrenia spectrum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHuFSnhKG9I

I don't think pretty much any of that video is reliably supported but oh boy is it food for thought.
The Sims was a sandbox for the American Dream
The US mainland is not currently under threat but the US world system is.
You can see it just here - Paul Graham made money making a web store in the 1990s (which I can tell you wasn't that hard), then investing his money in a bunch of internet startup (a bit rarer, but I feel like a large percentage of the people that wanted to be rich and had 1 start-up success in the 1990s succeeded); he regards this as equivalent to inventing the standard model of particle physics or inventing the mRNA vaccines, rather than a reasonable capable person at a very lucky time to be good at programming.

Andreesson has the same blindness - he wrote the first web browsers (having not invented HTTP or the web or browsers) and parleyed that into a fortune by investing. I guess he's a skilled investor, a smart financial person, but there is no evidence that he has some special science expertise or extraordinary intelligence. From my observations, one can understand nothing about science or the physical world and do well with software and investing.

As far as "far-sighted," the history from 1980 onwards is the destruction of many things in society devoted to the long view in favor of short-term financialization.
> Technology hasn't changed is a political problem due to lack of... money.

Tell me you haven’t worked in aerospace without telling me you haven’t worked in aerospace. There is plenty of money sunk into all corners of the field but progress is slow because the risk of change is lives lost. At some point, the risk of not changing means more lives lost… and that’s when things will change.
The thing I find most worrisome is that Musk, as part of SpaceX, was denied security clearance because of his extensive foreign ties. Now he has effectively-unsupervised access to the entire federal system.
> Moving from C++ to Rust is a sideways move.

In what sense? Features or complexity? From a productivity/correctness perspective, Rust is a huge step up over C++.
alcohol is proven to kill tens of thousands every year — obviously much worse than a few people who develop mental issues.

Regardless in a free society people should have agency over what they do with their bodies.

Education about these substances is the most important thing.
Wow this is really well stated, thanks.
We built a dating app and saw these same metrics.

Our "twist" was that anyone could be a matchmaker, pairing other people (in addition to our recommendation engine).

An interesting thing happened: lot's of people just like using dating apps in a voyeuristic way, with no intention of dating.

Tinder eventually launched this feature, but it fell flat.

I still think there's merit to human-based recs over "AI" matchmakers.
Elon says he's trying to return power to the people rather than bureaucrats.
Social security yes, but it seems to me that reducing the cost of Medicare and Medicaid should be very much possible. We need to provide healthcare but it should be possible to make that less expensive
Meatspace Abstractions
>I mean it ran at a surplus for 30 years until 2009 when boomers started retiring, still has over 3T in assets. How can you claim it's adding to the deficit?

It takes money from the general fund in the form of interest payments. And the CBO assumes that when the 3T in assets run out in about ten years, there will be some kind of continuous bailout whereby money from the general fund is used to plug the shortfall.

>If it's removed and replaced with nothing do you just let old people die in the streets?

You don't have to remove it entirely. You could implement means testing so that only those who truly need it receive money.

>Increase income tax on the wealthy? It's not hard, you used to do it.

It wouldn't generate enough revenue. Social Security and Medicare, and their associated interest payments are expected to run a ~100T deficit over the next 30 years. If you want to go the "just raise taxes" route to bridge that, you'll have to raise taxes on everybody. If you doubled middle class taxes and implemented a 20% VAT, it might raise enough to stabilize social security and medicare. But that would be the largest tax increase in American history, and Americans would receive no new benefits in return.
There are practical reasons to understand the effects of both cannabis and alcohol. It’s not like we can only care about one of them at a time based on which is winning the social harm olympics.
Yes, but. I was hoping to express my displeasure with Apple.
Was it implied that was the first time he’d ever tried? That wasn’t my impression
I don’t think that is a fair characterisation of Andreessen.

He’s always been a Democrat, including supporting Obama and Clinton.

His recent support of Trump appears to be a tactical reaction to some of the misbehaviour during the Biden administration such as debanking political rivals and encouraging race-based hiring.
And the same is true about people who don't recognize blindingly-salient historical parallels with 1930s Germany.
"ultra-potent weed" is weak and you need to stop with that talking point. SWIM are on 90%+ THC cartridges or concentrates 24/7. Smoking the strongest weed, low 30%s, is a tolerance break thing or for fun.
Sorry, I knew I remembered reading about the two somewhere but could not figure out where. I searched through the jj page for it. Only later did I remember that it came from your jj guide, which I still had open in a tab. I wish I had pointed to your explanation, it's much more clear.

Better late than never: https://steveklabnik.github.io/jujutsu-tutorial/real-world-w...
I don't think I do. I do know a lot who have fucked their lives with alcohol and opiates though.
I don’t see how your conclusion follows. I quit heavy weed use because of noticeable cognitive and social problems. The warning is useful for users to know about regardless of the problems associated with alcohol.
I think nonbinary people are the most likely to be attracted to many genders.

And women are more likely to be attracted to many genders.

Men are more likely to be attracted to just men (and perhaps nonbinary people) or to just women (and perhaps nonbinary people)

But I think this is due to social conditioning more than something like biological predisposition. Social attitudes on men and masculinity are not very encouraging of same-sex attraction, it's very common for men to get lumped into "gay" or straight". Whereas I think women and non-binary people are more often encouraged to explore queer sexuality or even expected to (well, I suppose gender-queer people by definition have queer sexuality also). Men are also more conditioned to be more competitive in general, and to view other men as sexual/romantic competition.

I'm a man who's a little bit queer, and many of my friends are queer, so my experience is likely influenced by my crowd, but I know many more gender-queer, nonbinary, gender-fluid, and gender-nonconforming people than I know trans-men and trans-women. The AMAB people I know who aren't gay men, and have nevertheless recognized some degree of attraction to men, very often are not male-identified. But I think it's much more common for them to be gender-queer than to be women. But again, this may coincide with me knowing more NB people than binary trans people in general.

For AMAB people who acknowledge their attraction to men (but are not gay men), I do think this awareness of a sexual identity that, in men, is less socially encouraged/understood often leads to questioning the value of identification as a man entirely (especially since the male identity has so much baggage already).
Tangentially related: but I find professional headshots on LinkedIn also kind of weird…
This was a good reply, thanks for taking the time. I could be convinced that this is a money making investment and therefore foolish to cut. If you have no money though, you cant afford to make any kind of investment, and from the outside looking in (to govt I mean, I live in the USA) it seems the US is going broke. Like I said though, I hve come around and maybe it really is super dumb to cut this - if you want to see it continue for the next 50 years, I would urge you consider how thats possible if the USA continues to lose money though.
SMS text delivery has always been sporadically unreliable for me. The cases where the messages are delayed by several minutes or hours are almost as problematic as the cases where they never arrive at all.

It doesn't seem to be specific to any country, though some are worse than others. Definitely seems to be a "best effort" service everywhere.
And it comes to about $120 per tax payer in total. I’ve had dinners that cost more. Give me my science and medicine please.
Blue geriatrics are the ones doing the damage... this is all made up, using circular references to anonymous third party sources.

This is an active propaganda campaign with no basis in reality, and you are eating it up because you want it to be true to justify your emotions.

13 articles analyzed so far. All regurgitating the same anonymous sources. It would appear Project Mockinbird is alive and well, and doing a number on folks.

This is BlueAnon tier reporting.
What needs to be overcome? They're directly paid for through payroll taxes.
> Lockdowns were in violation of the right to free assembly,

No right in the constitution has ever been, and never will be, absolute - including the right to life. For example, your right to life ends the split second after you are a credible threat to someone else's right to life - which is why cops will shoot you if you point a gun at someone - or them.

Your right to leave your house ends when doing so means you could make other people seriously or life-threateningly sick. Hence why health departments have had the legal authority to order people confined for two centuries.

You want to participate in society? There are requirements. If you don't like them, go live in a country that doesn't have those laws - there a plenty of countries with little functioning government where you can live out your libertarian wet dreams.

> The wealthy pay more taxes, anyone who understands how tax brackets are structured should know this.

In 1960, billionaires paid a 56% tax. Today they pay a 23% tax: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/03/opinion/globa...

In 2018 billionaires paid less tax than the poorest half of the population:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/08/first-tim...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/06/opinion/incom...
I think the way out is to offer an alternative vision for the future that speaks to their wants and needs. The problem is that it can't happen overnight -- attacking the cult leader just raises their hackles. People have to come to that conclusion themselves. The Democrats don't have the ability to raise an effective counter to Trump at the moment that isn't an attack on the man himself. There's no substantive positive vision for the future -- because part of mainstream liberal politics is the idea that things are mostly ok as they are, minus some egalitarian tweaks in terms of rights for certain minority groups, etc.

But people have the sense -- in some cases rightfully and in some not -- that their lives aren't going great. So they look to someone to offer an opportunity for change. And they're willing -- really primed, by all of American society -- to throw under the bus whatever boogeyman is necessary as dictated by the Fox News monster of the week™
> The annual incidence of schizophrenia was stable over time, while the incidence of psychosis NOS increased from 30.0 to 55.1 per 100 000 individuals (83.7%) in the postlegalization period relative to the prelegalization period.

So increased cannabis use after legalization did not result in increased rates of schizophrenia, though it might have made some cases worse.
Everything is expungable if no one says no.
Previous studies have shown that young adults who are susceptible to schizophrenia are more likely to develop it if they were heavy cannabis users at a younger age. As they get older it is less likely to develop, or they are better able to keep it from developing. My brother-in-law smoked cannabis in high school and college and was hospitalized for schizophrenia when he was in college. It wrecked his life and he still has schizophrenia at age 65. I don't think it is just an academic issue.
Maybe less than four years. The mid-terms are next year, and I've been reading that a lot of GOP officeholders are terrified of what's going on but also terrified of opposing The Dear Leader — because of fears for their personal safety and that of their families.
"A 2021 American Enterprise Institute survey of academic job postings found that 19% required DEI statements, and elite institutions were more likely to require them."

https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/fire-statement-use-di...

"Speech First, a group advocating for First Amendment rights on US campuses, released an investigation on Thursday that found 165 of 248 selected institutions — from American University to Williams College — mandate DEI-related classes to meet general education requirements."

https://nypost.com/2024/04/11/us-news/two-thirds-of-us-colle...
The article it was based on is worth a read:
https://web.archive.org/web/20091213233937/http://www.nytime...
There's a big difference between outsider activists protesting the actions of a company, and the actual leadership of a company choosing a less profitable path in order to seem more morally pure.
I was merely going by the symptoms after a simple google search. I wasn't hearing voices.

I never got to that point though I believe I would have eventually had I continued. The weed I had access to were of questionably quality and wasn't professionally grown like the dispensary ones. I also never tried THC oil or other super strong weed products - which I read can drastically increase schizophrenia.
This is super super cool. I’ll tell you the single barrier to me actually using this regularly—it needs an algorithm. It would be so cool (and a good learning project) to even build the simplest of recommendation algorithms behind it based on my likes, dislikes, bookmarks, and whether I click “read more”.
OK. Thanks for clarifying. I think you're pretty wrong on this one, for what it's worth.
I'm curious, what does paradigmatic JAX look like? Is there an equivalent of picoGPT [1] for JAX?

[1] https://github.com/jaymody/picoGPT/blob/main/gpt2.py
290 Euros for the icons
That’s the nature of centralized finance, no?
Medicare would become cheaper tomorrow if the government would negotiate drug prices down. Trump isn't going to do that.
At least they let us know
The linked page is about a different notice. The correct webpage (that the linked page has linked to) is https://about.usps.com/newsroom/service-alerts/international...

By the way, can anybody explain what's the significance about this submission?
Maybe the technology part can’t be fixed easily with money but sounds to me like all the other aspects of the money argument are still valid.
Ok, so all payments are paused while funding is reviewed? Allowance for emergency payments to keep the lights on?

This is taxpayers money and these agencies report to the President under the executive power. A shocker that government agencies might need account for spending.

And I’m sorry “its not a lot of money” doesn’t fly when all the “its not a lot of money” is $8 trillion dollars. The federal deficit will never get smaller if nobody looks at the “its not a lot of money” line items.
No, but they could slow the growth of debt.
I feel like were on the same side but youre gonna need a (credible!) source that US govt money was funding virus research in China, that doesnt seem to pass the sniff test
Sorry do you really think Musk and Trump are eliciting input from all parties and carefully gathering data before giving recommendations? Because given how frequently they talk about the “radical left” and “marxists” I really don’t think they are considering dissenting opinions in good faith. They invariably insult people who have the slightest disagreements with them, even when those people have facts and data on their side.

And Musk has stumbled into several known right-wing conspiracy theories based on knee-jerk reactions, so I find it far more likely that he’s just fishing to validate his pre-held knee-jerk opinions rather than doing a careful investigation.
Some Steely Dan albums are 50 and over. Say what you want about the music but their albums are sonically incredible.
No that is not normal. Normal is noticing within a mini or two that your mind is significantly altered.
Where in my post did I say anything like "how dare they"? I just pointed out that the people I know who have iCloud+ are not likely to download this new app and use it.

And it's obviously not likely to get anyone over the pay wall to buy iCloud+. This invitation feature has many free competitors. I don't begrudge Apple for creating this, but I won't be surprised if I keep getting evites and paperless post invites, and never an Apple Invite or whatever it's called.
“Entitlement” means “life dependent” I guess, so they should be afraid! Smashing things with a hammer isn’t an audit, I audited medical device manufacturing processes from time to time in the past and this isn’t an audit. Audits are for asking questions and then you take those answers and write a report. After the report you make a plan of action and then there are approvals and change management. Once that’s done, you make the changes and then have a period of time where you more closely watch and increase inspections and audits to ensure everything is going as planned, that’s called validation.

You don’t rush into offices, take them over, kick out senior employees, make charges to a system you don’t understand, and cut funding for whole departments at large. That’s not auditing, that’s more like a coup.
"seagull" isn't one species. Pedantic ornithologists will say there's no such thing as a "seagull" since the group is more correctly just called "gulls" and many of them are found very far from any sea, but everyone understands the term anyway.

There are many different species of gull, they vary a lot in size (and a decent amount in plumage). Great Black-backed Gulls (Larus marinus) have about a 165cm wingspan, Common Gulls (Larus canus) have about a 120cm wingspan, and Little Gulls (Hydrocoloeus minutus) only about 61cm wingspan! And that's just for a few of the 20+ gull species found in North America, there's even more variation worldwide.

So the other slightly larger gulls are probably just other gulls, of a different species. The genus Larus in particular has several species that are quite similar in plumage, e.g. Ring-billed gulls (≈122cm wingspan) and Herring Gulls (≈147cm wingspan) look quite similar in flight or from a distance.

Gulls are scavengers. They will hunt for themselves, but will also scavenge food readily. They're well known for stealing fish from other birds such as Ospreys, eating carrion, etc. They learn what they can eat from observing other gulls (their parents and flockmates), eating trash isn't an evolved trait separate from scavenging but instead a learned behavior of what to scavenge.
> Nah, C actually is small,

I'd argue that C is much bigger than K&R, but that isn't immediately visible to a new programmer because it's all undefined behaviors.
Roughly half the voting population wants a king. It's not just rolling over, this is welcomed with open arms.

I try to understand how the "other side" is thinking about this. Disagreements on policy aside, why would "freedom loving Americans" want a king that can rule unilaterally?

Not trying to start a flame war or pose a gotcha question, I'm genuinely curious. What am I missing?
Which very highly paid job does not command respect in society? I can’t think of any (Outside of anti-capitalist circles ofc)
Could a quantitative cost benefit analysis even be produced for USAID?

Even just listing the political goals would be sensitive.

And without a quantitative analysis, then any arguments about value devolve to opinions and he-said versus she-said.
No support for Arabic?
> The team utilized poly(lactic acid) (PLA), an eco-friendly material derived from crop-based raw materials, and highly durable bio-based thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) to develop the artificial muscle fibers that mimic the functional and real muscles.

"Energy harvesting and storage using highly durable Biomass-Based artificial muscle fibers via shape memory effect" (2025) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13858...