skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer: I didn't vote for Trump/Vance and I'm deeply uncomfortable with the stuff happening with DOGE in particular.

All the republicans have to do for the 2026 midterms and Vance for 2028 is play clips from the DNC Officer election process that took place over the weekend as campaign ads.

Many of my friends can only perceive the election outcome and the actions currently taking place from a place of identity based policies. Virtually everyone I know outside of that circle and many inside that circle who keep their mouths shut are tired of that being THE focus.
> the liberals were ruining our country

I think their grievances are more detailed than that.

They didn't pretend not to listen. They genuinely want what is currently happening and are very happy about it.
Even people who love Musk need to realize they're cogs in his machine. He's not here to make your life better, he's here to make sure nothing is in the way of the things he wants to achieve. He doesn't care about the quality of your life, the only thing you have, he cares about how much of it can be captured to his ends.

For some people, that seems to be fine. They work at SpaceX and Tesla and his other companies. For many of us, life is the journey and the quality of it matters, not the Martian destination, and he can fuck right off.
EU law largely does not regulate national security matters of the states. Though that justification is limited per international law (such as ECHR, which is the basis of many anti-government surveillance rulings by CJEU). All European Union members are part of ECHR because that is a pre-requisite for EU membership.

But ECHR is not part of EU law, especially it is not binding on the European Commission (in the context of it being a federal or seemingly federal political executive). This creates a catch-22 where member states might be violating ECHR but are mandated by EU law, though this is a very fringe consequence arising out of legal fiction and failed plans to federalize EU. Most recently, this legal fiction has become relevant in Chat Control discourse.

Great Britain and Poland have explicit opt-outs out of some European law.
By my understanding, yes. But this does mean you can’t use the internet to share it, because you can’t really guarantee internet communications aren’t crossing borders.
last time I looked you had to apply to the ATC academy before turning 31. FYI for those considering the big trade: staring at a rectangular screen for staring at a squircle screen instead. :)
Is this innovation depot?
I don’t get the downvotes; this is factually true. We don’t know what Pompeo told Trump in 2017, when the records would automatically release the remaining 3,648 by law, yet Trump blocked. Biden released 2,672 of those. Unless he finds a secret stash, Trump can’t beat those numbers now.
Well, they won two branches democratically. The supreme court is a different matter.
Any public servant is open season for doxxing? (Teachers, soldiers, IT feds)
If they want to make budget cuts, they can get it approved by congress, which they control. So do that.
Elon Musk and all of these DOGE employees should be arrested and charged with multiple violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. They have no need or right to access the federal payments system and no authority whatsoever to stop payments congress has approved.
The concerns are that US hegemony over the media narrative is crumbling. Young people, "highly-influenced" as you call them, sees that American bombs are dropped on refugees in Gaza and they don't think that is right. So just do what China itself does and remove everything that challenges the government-approved narrative. Banning TikTok is no different from banning publishers of books the government doesn't like.
Authority bias is very real, very problematic, and very well documented. As a consequence, those in authority must always be held to a high standard. Always doubt an assertion by authority unless accompanied with sufficient evidence.
If you have ollama installed and 404GB free space: ollama pull deepseek-r1:671b
Nope, not a bad thing, but I'm still waiting on the sasquatch files.
Commentors suggest it was put out 12 years ago.
> A downloaded model that can be run on US servers is covered by the first amendment as free speech.

This is absolutely not settled law.
> And you weak-minded simpletons have to be protected from those dangerous ideas for your own safety. We have to fill your heads with only good thoughts, the ones we select for you.

Yes that's the literally the idea of TikTok/Douyin https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17544750.2020.17...
Don't listen and keep losing and pontificating as to why seems to be the chosen path for many people right now.
Man I had a rat infestation in my house recently, and after that I think I could get behind a rat genocide.

Those fuckers got into my pantry and started knocking jars over, they poop on everything, they make a lot of noise, they get into the air conditioning ducts, they will chew through pretty much anything that isn't thick metal or plastic, and they reproduce like crazy.

We were able to get it under control and we hired someone to find and seal up the spots they were getting in from, but I gotta say that it wasn't an experience I want to go through ever again.

The only "good" thing about rats vs mice is that they're decidedly not subtle, so it's a lot more clear that you actually got them all. Mice are smaller and sneakier and when we had an issue with them a few years ago it took quite awhile to know before we knew they were gone.
TikTok executives lied under oath about what they do with user data. That alone should have resulted in its ban. But the bigger issue is that we allow a foreign adversary market access who doesn’t allow it in reverse. And yes that has the capacity to skew our political process.
Oh I fully believe managers think this is just around the corner, but the evidence that it is is just not there. There'll be layoffs and as there are there'll be new opportunities to backfill all the positions when the magic AI doesn't deliver - even if it's just "yes I totally wrote this with AI" while doing normal coding things.

Though I'd say the bigger hallmark it's nowhere near is the more obvious one: code has to work, which AI isn't good at. It's very good at sending emails though - replacing the managers is the more likely thing to happen first. Why have a layer of middle management when scheduling software, AI summaries and agentic tools could empower 1 person to direct multiple teams and where hallucinations or mistakes are more easily corrected since nothing crashes you just have a slightly confused subordinate at times?
What prevents the open source community to recreate and test the same method?
But that doesn't distinguish Bitcoin from other cryptocurrencies. The thing that distinguishes Bitcoin is fame, pure and simple. Everyone has heard of it.
> Trump is beholden to public support.

After the election he’s not. Only has to appease a handful of congress critters and a few wealthy people.
As with many such things, the letter of the law doesn't anticipate a determined effort to undermine it.

Could the USAID agency could continue to exist, on paper, with a single staff member?
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because the imf demanded it of them. not much has changed from the structural adjustment era of IMF fiat, despite all the controversy
It might have worked if El Salvador made their own cryptocurrency which they control and could mint more of and backed it properly as a non-speculative legal tender, but they didn’t and that didn’t happen.
How is pythons object model less "logically consistent"? Multiple inheritance is dangerous but I'm not sure if its logically inconsistent. And it doesnt have the issue that ruby has of procs not being objects
oh wow this is what hacker news is now, reddit light lol
Someone previously decided that the remaining 1%, 1700 files, shouldn't be viewed by the public. Why? 1700 files is plenty to hold some interesting truths.
> they can try to find a handful of Republicans who still care about the rule of law

there simply are none
Did congress change it's tune? From what I've seen, congress still wants to ban them, it's just that Trump has exutive ordered that he won't enforce the law.
This is actually curtis yarvin's RAGE (retire all government employees) concept.
Curtis Yarvin, an extreme right-wing tech person out of Silicon Valley and the person who JD Vance is a disciple of.
Their belief is that the U.S. government itself “must be deleted” and that what the country needs is not a president but a dictator, which is what a CEO of any successful corporation actually is. Yarvin said that the American people “must get over their ‘dictator phobia’” while Vance says we have to do things that make even conservatives “uncomfortable.”
I think the point is not much that he's doing what he promised, but that he's doing it in two weeks and apparently without proper legal and democratic oversight.
This is just week two, there's 206 more to go.
The power President Trump is lawfully exercising in the executive order to control the Executive Office of the President of the United States stems from the Reorganization Act of 1939 (via https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_8248) which FDR had to get Congress to pass after his previous efforts to reorganize the executive branch during the Great Depression were deemed unconsititutional.

Critics at the time warned this Act would give the president too much power.
If the Bitcoin experiment had been a success, they wouldn't be needing an IMF loan.
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I think the solution depends on the type of problem you have. If your problem is reliability then increased testing and handling edge cases (or avoiding code that even hits those edge cases) will help. But if the problem is uncertain requirements, then more testing will just add to the amount of code you're going to throw away and refactoring will only become harder.

The problem is that often times in software engineering both problems happen in tandem - you're improving reliability while also trying to change how your system works as new feature requests come in. The solutions are almost diametrically opposed.
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In fairness, markets can operate quite well with almost nobody in them being able to argue why. Gold has remarkable staying power but it is rare to find gold proponents who can explain why convincingly. A lot of the arguments for where the value comes from are bunk. If I hear one more person explaining that jewellery matters I'll ... go peacefully about my day I suppose.

Still holds its value though, the economy does not care if people understand why the price signals are so.
How do you make a 250x better vaccine at 1/10 the cost? Develop it in India
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/defence-spending-two-percen...

Lol we haven't reached it and Trudeau's timeline wasn't anywhere close to 2024. We only reached ~1.3% of GDP.
Better article: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/lawmakers-el-salvador...
A very small number end up with a high profile but there are many John Doe or Jane Doe cases where names aren't publicized.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/03/rubio-acting-head-u...

> The Trump administration took a variety of steps Monday.. The most dramatic was naming Secretary of State Marco Rubio as acting administrator of USAID.. The State Department said in its statement announcing Rubio’s acting role that he has also informed Congress that “a review of USAID’s foreign assistance activities is underway with an eye towards potential reorganization.” .. Rubio explained he was entrusting the duties of deputy administrator to Peter Marocco, the head of the State Department’s office of foreign assistance.. Marocco is also leading the review into USAID activities.

State Department tweet: https://nitter.net/statedept/status/1886512412863684802 or https://xcancel.com/statedept/status/1886512412863684802
You are the only person advocating for violence here. Bringing my wife and kids here is very brave of you.
> If ultimate control is so important to you, can you not buy any machine you like, including one based on a RISC-V open-source processor?

This argument (or the individualist approach in general) no longer works in the context of remote attestation ("Dynamic Root of Trust Measurement"). As soon as the "average person" has a computer that can be counted on to betray what software they're running, remote parties will start turning the screws of coercion and making everyone use such a machine.
Oh, the words are absolutely being used accurately. As a reminder, the president is an impeached felon and rapist who literally tried to steal the last election. His billionaire vizier gleefully used two Nazi salutes at the inauguration and backs far-right parties around the world. On day one, the administration announced that 30,000 migrants would be housed indefinitely at Gitmo, of all places. And now, our federal government is being infiltrated and ransacked by a rogue team with zero oversight or transparency.

Historians will be baffled by how some people missed even these signs. I guess critical thinking is in terribly scarce supply these days.
Did you read the bottom? Clinton already executed this in 1999.

>> Memorandum of President of the United States, Mar. 31, 1999, 64 F.R. 17079, provided...
Congress didn’t change its tune. PAFACA is supported by 80% of legislators. It has more support than virtually any other legislation.
People like Musk and Andreesen getting involved are evidence that you're about to see fraud and overreach that concentrates power and resources in their hands instead of the American people. No matter what you think about Trump and whether he's actually trying to do a good thing, those people getting on board are not a good sign.
> it is also against the conservative status quo thinking of how to deal with crime

How are tough on crime policies "against the conservative status quo"?
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It was a campaign process and obviously people want to know the whole story.
It is the job of prisons to protect prisoners from violence by other prisoners. I strongly support firing wardens that do a poor job of that.
yes it is, just use stables. frankly it is a much more convenient way to move money if the other person has it as well

e: and i’m no crypto obsessive really, i don’t think it was usable even 3 years ago but it’s pretty handy now, can easily send $20 in usdc on base or use it to purchase carbon offsets or use it on election/sports betting or use it to purchase deepseek r1 credits…
So does this mean we will not be able to download works like open-r1, an open reproduction of deepseek?

https://github.com/huggingface/open-r1
Isn't Techsmith (Camtasia) down there somewhere?
What would you say to the victims of these gangs?
Moving the goal posts and noticing that that you mistook the street lights for goal posts is not really the same.
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Singapore relies on the fact like 20 or 30% of their tax paying population is ineligible for public housing due to not being a PR nor citizen.
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt that you're not trolling.

3 reasons come to mind -

1. There's a vast and profound difference between trimming inefficiencies ("cutting waste") and eliminating a valuable function. It's throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

2. This entire administration and its main actors have given zero reason to assume what they are doing is in good faith. In fact, quite the opposite they have incited worry that their motivations are not honest.

3. They are doing this with a shocking lack of oversight, on their own terms.
> Every class has a classmate, or sibling or friend of a classmate who would have the skills, and you only need one such kid for a few hundred people.

You're discussing organised conspiracy, opsec across teenagers here, and a subject knowledge cover all sorts of different networks and devices across a single source unlikely for teenagers. Not to mention many hours of tech support. It's therotically possible, but in reality it's unlikely.

> I would say teens shouldn't be supervised to this extent and pushback against such tight supervision is natural and IMO justified.

You're right, my statement came across too absolutist. I'm not advocating for a prison level supervision program, but an awareness of what your child is doing online and who they're interacting with. There are also other elements that come down to parenting - building healthy and trusting relationships with your kids, giving them pathways to be able to talk to you about mistakes or things they're uncomfortable with, pushing for honesty as a core attribute, etc.

A mixture of these things and a reasonable level of age appropriate supervision will remove this problem in all but the most extreme edge cases. However most parents don't do even the bare minimum - giving their kids phones, not bothering to learn how to set up restrictions, spending their time staring at their own devices, etc.

The issue that is being attempted to solve here is a parenting one fundamentally, not a technology or government policy one.
DeepSeek: A Psychological Analysis of AI
This article is a deep dive into DeepSeek’s reasoning failures, exposing how its inconsistent logic, looping thought processes, and inability to retain conclusions stem from its Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture—a model that was once considered promising but has been largely abandoned by the AI industry due to fundamental flaws.
Going solely by the original post, the failed product launch likely triggered restructuring as a corrective measure, but it’s unclear if the real issue was truly addressed. If the reorg was more about optics and internal politics, another failure could result in the senior director needing a scapegoat again. If that happens, working on cross-org initiatives may be held against you instead of focusing all your energy on your new team. Just something to watch out for.
To add onto your point, America already had 4 years of Trump, and Trump was very clear on what he and the people aligned to him were going to do throughout his campaign. What is happening now is what America voted for and what they wanted.
"urged officials to limit its exposure" is what the Reuters article said, so yeah. They think El Salvador's ability to repay the loan is tied too much to BTC.
Michigan really only has lake effect snow on the western shore
He's already floating the idea of a third term, and the house is considering a constitutional amendment that would allow it.

Of course, that'll be a moot point if he continues to just ignore the constitution as he has been so far this entire term, and the other two branches continue to just let him.
When a ruler becomes authoritarian and fascist, the military has usually sided with that ruler historically.
Serious RTX 5090 and RTX 5090D driver issues turning GPUs into paperweights
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42922543
So... fiat?
Well, you know, that's just, like, Plato's opinion, man. (Or maybe Socrates's.)

Plato's opinion, that we accurately know what it was 2300 years later, because he wrote it down for us.
I lived in Lansing 10 years ago. Honestly, it was pretty depressing. We lived in an old neighborhood between the downtown area and south Lansing which while not conventionally dangerous, was an area I always avoided driving or walking around at night if I could avoid it. The west side is fine but bland, a mix of suburban and apartment living. East Lansing is more interesting due to being a college town. The outlying towns are bedroom communities with fairly high property values.

Work-wise, there were mostly small businesses or branches of large national brands. I tried to get into government work several times but never made it. There were LOADS of non-profits (some government affiliated) who would take just about anyone with a pulse but the pay was quite low as well.

After about a decade there, we moved 45 minutes east and never looked back.
And on top of that, consumers prefer institutions in the loop. That’s why people use Amex to pay for stuff, because if it goes wrong you’ve got a massive institution with a tonne of clout to help you out.
The executive branch from 2021 through 2024 ignored some laws too. That’s what executive branches do…”selective enforcement”.
Colonization? Like the rethoric around Panama, Greenland, and Canada?
Doing better than Firefox
The "Life Begins At Erection" bill is some good satire by a sitting Congress person
> companies based in Michigan pay 20-50k lower

I think this happens in a lot of second-tier cities and it’s really frustrating. I’m currently interviewing for neuralink and they pay 30k less in Austin (which isn’t even really a second tier city) compared to Fremont; frankly I’d rather live in Austin but Fremont is more desirable with the pay boost.

Whoever thought up the line “it costs more to live here so we deserve more” was a genius. Logically you should get less if you live somewhere expensive since the companies rent and operating expenses are also more expensive, but I guess not
The argument (if you take it in the most charitable light) is that reducing barriers to paying taxes will make people less averse to paying taxes. So they fight any effort to bring sanity to the tax code or tax payment process.

So even taken charitably I think they are wrong. But I do believe it is simply just corrupt and malicious.
It’s not just to avoid sending data back but to recognize the national security threat of allowing an adversary country’s products to access American markets (of users). It has implications for politics and technology competitiveness. When the adversary is an authoritarian communist dictatorship that provides no equal market access for American social media or search engines or whatever, I think a ban on everything is justified. In fact we should extend this beyond software, which is what tariffs would do.
This is the frustrating part.

No one thinks about the new system, new precedents and new norms being created right now, and what the next leader can do with it.

Can no supporter of this approach imagine what happens the next time their political enemy is in power?