skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What government organization in the US federal government hides the names of their leaders? Can you name one? Even our security agencies make those names publicly known.
"this kind of question [How many r's are in the word raspberry?] really is the kind of thing that people use as a benchmark for state of the art AI systems. Our industry is deeply silly."
Pickups, rifles, shoelaces, police brutality, due process, and seafood? How much more everyday can you get?

I am not able to rightly apprehend what sort of confusion of ideas could give voice to such an utterance.
People's policy preferences are downstream of how cooked their brains are. So it's not really policies that are determining it, it's the fact that their brains are cooked through constant exposure to bad things. If their brains are uncooked through constant exposure to good things, then their policy preferences will also change.
This was asked just yesterday.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42915664
Very cool.

Rather than be a jerk and talk about why there are so few references to the text and early graphics games from the 60s and 70s, maybe I'll have to pitch the VGHF people on a blog post and book and software collection focused on the 60s-70s era of computer gaming.

I was introduced to computers (and computer gaming) in the mid-70s, just immediately before the "trinity" microcomputers hit the market in '77. Our school district in North Texas had access to an HP mainframe (HP-2000?) to teach advanced kids BASIC. Part of my early education involved tearing apart the text-oriented BASIC versions of Hammurabi, Hunt the Wumpus and Star Trek. They would hardly be called "games" today. My dad had business contacts at UIUC and they were infamous for giving ANYONE a PLATO account, so I learned about the friendly orange glow and social computing in "the data center in the corn field." Anyone who played rogue or PLATO/EMPIRE could see where the industry was going by 1980.

And the sad bit is we've lost most of the people who developed these games in the 60s and 70s. I think I'll pitch the idea of a small collection of David Ahl books, DECUS games tapes and an interview or two with a few of the remaining coders.

Give me a +1 if you're hip to the old text based games, often coded in BASIC and played on microcomputers.
One of the tools I have liked but well past my abilities was a image based pdf or scanned document conversion to something tex like as a document or to pdf, such that the output appears the same as the original with the exception any scanned document artifacts or noise is removed, ie resultant output the typesetting and font matches with any images the same or if not sharpened to a suitable clarity. I think it's one of the very few things were a LLM might suit the task well bar the privacy issue. I had a large collection of photocopies I'd done in the 80s, in the order of 1000s (I have somewhere a large box full of them, but moving every so often lost track of them,) and last time I looked over them, scanning to image was just going to take up too much room on a hard drive, I'd rather have had them all on a cd / dvd or two.

Edit - Additional: The scanned page is of course corrected for proper alignment and positioned appropriately.
Unfortunately we're also talking about funding so our rivers aren't on fire. We don't have to speculate on what is left and right because even what is purely sensical is being completely dismantled. People should be fucking outraged but half the country thinks the EPA is "woke." We're genuinely fucked.
How is not a big deal that a few thousand citizens were various levels of conscious and unconscious participants in an organized coup attempt?
that they are more hot-headed and militant in their opinions
What are you talking about? Their Bitcoin holdings more than doubled in value.
Yes a smart contract bug. Hacked might be a better word. Or outsmarted?
You will need to do some mental gymnastics to find a criminal statute that could be used to prosecute that and it does not appear the US Attorney for DC is at all interested in doing that.
It is truly impressive how fast Ladybird is progressing. Running an app as complex and intensive as GMail is crazy. It was not all that long ago that it was impressive just to be able to read and post to Hacker News.

Also, while Andreas no doubt has killer hardware, it is impressive how fast pages are being rendered.

They are still saying “Alpha” in 2026. And already, at the dawn of 2025, the have a more conformant JavaScript implementation than Chrome and Firefox. That tells you something about the standard they are trying to meet.

I have not heard them mention Swift lately. If they are still going to make that jump, o wonder when. Let’s hope it does not distract or slow them down too much.
I see things done by DOGE are getting noticed. I vaguely remember that DOGE will be decommissioned around 2026 independence day I believe? I have no confidence in judging what the outcome might be at this point, so I will wait till the last day of DOGE.
Fair point - do you have any suggestions?
More than money, yes. More than precious bitcoin?

The argument simply is that exchange should be frictionless and deflationary currency will slow the velocity of money. I guess you agree this will lead to reduced prosperity and economic activity, though you call it frivolous purchases. Your comment about preferences doesn’t play into it; this is about mechanics of exchange, and a precious asset is an inefficient medium for commerce which would lead to reduced economic activity because not only do you have to factor in the opportunity cost of buying a good or buying some other good (sneakers or s&p), now you also have hodling, zero economic activity, as a 3rd option with its own expected return and opportunity cost to forgo. When I buy sneakers, the s&p 500, or btc, my dollars don’t disappear. A counterparty receives them and they stay in the economy. If you pay me in btc and I just hold it, then that money effectively does disappear from the economy.

And I’m not even mentioning all the macro issues of not being able to provide liquidity in the form of new capital in times of crisis.
There is still a sensible positive interpretation. It's possible that the distortionary economic and geopolitical effects of this spending both domestically and abroad has just as severe or worse negative externalities as items with larger budgets. Those externalities could range from inflation, displacing local industries and organic fundraising mechanisms, enabling rent-seeking corruption, overproduction of idle elites, instilling self-crit degrowth ideation, and political polarization/backlash abroad (My Japanese relatives now have a very dim view of Rahm Emanuel and Biden due to their USAID type activities and strings-attached diplomacy of paternalistic progressive cultural imperialism).

A reverse Keynesian effect you could call it - where there are second-order deadweight loss effects from "NGO" grift make-work complex, rather than a synergy.
I'm sorry, but the ten billionth CRUD web app really doesn't need nine nines.
It is exactly as easy, or easier, to do this in proxmox than it is in AWS console, and would have a price breakeven point of less than a year (you only need two physical nodes).
Accelerationism, everyone. I'm not excited to see this play out.
Thanks for clarifying!

Although I don't think I agree. Wouldn't a currency shortage be another way to say deflation? If your economy is producing more value than your currency represents, then your currency is more valuable.

I have also heard people say deflationary currencies inevitably lead to a catastrophic spiral where liquidity dries up because no one wants to spend (or loan) today what can be more valuable tomorrow. There's even a page on the Bitcoin wiki about it that has been there since 2010.

Also, a quick google brings me to the "Price revolution" page on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_revolution) where it says:
"Generally it is thought that this high inflation was caused by the large influx of gold and silver from the Spanish treasure fleet from the New World; including Mexico, Peru, Bolivia and the rest of the Spanish Empire."

In the end... I don't really know. I appreciate you sharing your thoughts.
Millions of people spending money is not an indicator how useful something is.

"Nearly half of Google engineers' outputs are coming from AI generated code" – let's take a look at the results: 30 discontinued products for the past 3 years, and just 1 new product: Gemini, which got it's glorious 10% market share. Now that's a productivity monster.

Google is such a successful company now: they released 1 new product which didn't even surpass the microsoft chatbot in market share, and people are adding "fucking" to searches in order to get adequate search results. Great growth, was definitely not possible without AI!
Not once in my entire career have I seen people successfully avail themselves of the cloud's purported benefits. I have, however, seen a lot of happy account managers in Las Vegas during Re:Invent, oh yes.
No country with its own money ever needs to get the IMF involved.

Largely because the only place the IMF can get your money is from you.

Currencies are public monopolies.

The problems always arise when a state starts issuing state backed liabilities in other denominations - as there is no way for a state to absolve itself of that debt without paying it back. It becomes a debtors prison.
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What makes you think you have a choice? That's like asking whether binary heaps should be more ambitious or more polite.

Most of what you're describing is either faked by something outside the LLM, or if invented later will involve some completely new approach that will have a different name.

If you're thinking of prompts like "be friendly", that's not imbuing a behavior into the LLM itself, but rather adding a prefix to the document in the hopes it will have a desirable effect on what gets appended.
Musk and DOGE employees could be arrested and tried by the DOJ if a democrat wins the next Presidential election. These are the crimes they have broken.

Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) - 18 U.S.C. § 1030:

If the employee exceeded authorized access or acted without authorization to manipulate the payment system, they could be charged under the CFAA, which criminalizes unauthorized access to computer systems.

Obstruction of Federal Proceedings or Official Duties - 18 U.S.C. § 1505 or § 1913:

§ 1505: Obstruction of agency proceedings or congressional actions.

§ 1913: Prohibits using appropriated funds to lobby or interfere with government decisions, though applicability may depend on intent.

Interfering with congressionally mandated payments could constitute obstruction of lawful government functions.

Theft or Conversion of Government Funds - 18 U.S.C. § 641:

If the payment was lawfully owed and the employee’s actions deprived the recipient of funds, this could be seen as theft or conversion of government property.

False Statements or Fraud - 18 U.S.C. § 1001:

If the employee falsified records, submitted false information, or lied to justify stopping the payment, they might face charges for making false statements.

Conspiracy - 18 U.S.C. § 371:

If others were involved, conspiracy charges could apply to defraud the U.S. or commit other offenses.

Malfeasance or Misconduct in Office:

While not a specific federal statute, general misconduct or breach of public trust could lead to charges under broader provisions or administrative penalties (e.g., termination, fines).
> this is a huge downside.
Also the compiler can only do static analysis and code generation. I'd much rather a hotspot VM analyze the running code and identify the optimizations on the fly.
But female prisoners are now at less risk, because they're no longer being forcibly incarcerated with male prisoners, thanks to this executive order. In federal prisons at least.
If you have enough users that you need to scale to more machines ... run the rpis in a 3d printed 1u rack adaptor as a kubernetes cluster.
>and so far I don't see any reason to believe it's true.

Yeah I guess bitcoin is only allowed to go UP everything negative is always false! There's no way that virtual beanie-babies couldn't overcome the evil IMF!
It’s a Buddhist monastery.
That's a great resource! Thanks! I loved the episode about Margo Comstock. I remember bumping into her and the Softalk staff at a trade show in the 80s.
They're public figures... is it doxxing if I tell everyone the members of One Direction?
yes, this indeed feels like a retirement!
just online, because we don't actually have a booth. we have separate machines, and most of the process is manual actually.
The hard max is however much money is in your account. Not sure what else you want.
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Trump said that musk is a special government employee, so yeah they are officially part of the executive branch.
That sounds like a job better suited for your local paper. The scope of national politics is far greater.

But even if Wired did, it still wouldn't be "doxxing", which used to imply publishing not just names but addresses and other PII (like SSNs) for non-public, non-governmental figures.
Can you please not post in the flamewar style here, regardless of how wrong another commenter is or you feel they are?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The power of the purse is the authority of the United States Congress to levy taxes and control government spending. It's a key part of the separation of powers in the Constitution and a check on the executive branch. If Musk actually stops any payment that was authorized by Congress then he is violating the Constitution.

DOGE also has no legitimate need or legal right to access the federal payment system. He is in violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and should be arrested and put on trial along with any other DOGE employee who has accessed the federal payment system.
Digital Ocean I believe is pay as you go and supports this for anyone who can click "link my Github account" and auth themselves.
It means a decision tree where every decision node is entered by humans is not an AI system, but an unsupervised random forest is. It’s not difficult to see the correct interpretation.
For people taking part in the parade, I doubt that. Extreme example is Jackie Kennedy. “I was sitting next to the president” identifies her pretty well.

There were people in the crowd who can easily be identified, too. For example, Zapruder’s testimony would have to leave out that he shot a movie and was life on television that day, and quite a few other details to anonymize it.
did the person you are responding to say that he owns a lot of a given currency? How do you know?
They're not removing people randomly.
Read a book!
Yes, let’s further remove everyone from nature’s only real instinct for selflessness (familial bonds) so we can all become disembodied laborers for our true family: the central planner class in Washington.

I’m sure creating a strong disincentive to value creation won’t affect the economy in any way. Europe is doing so great with their much higher taxes, just look at Norway. By wealth tax hammering their entrepreneurial class the’ve encouraged them to leave so they can fully focus their economy on becoming a natural resource extracting petro-state. A real progressive utopia.

It’s not like we’d be creating a crazy strong incentive for the state to literally kill certain people to stay solvent. Ok, low key maybe we would be…but the Bolsheviks did such a fantastic job with all the private assets they seized.

There’s no possible way this can’t result in a utopian, prosperous, fair society. It works beautifully every time it is tried. Great idea comrade.
Hah. I'm a pretty good coder and have been accelerated with AI, but it's definitely not ready to make me capable of redesigning the US federal government.
> toyota

And yet the latest supra's are just badge engineered BMW's, and a lot of their cars are being recalled for engine problems, or because the wheels fall off...
Most web projects can tolerate an hour of scheduled downtime a week and the occasional (< 1/year) unscheduled hour of downtime to replace broken hardware. Running on a single machine with 2 disks in RAID1 right up until the point where the ~50 hours of downtime a year equal one engineer's salary in lost revenue makes sense if you pick a DC that will sell/rent you replacement hardware and do replacements for you. Just make sure you have offsite backups in case the DC burns down. If your office/home is near a well stocked computer store, most web projects can skip the DC altogether and just put the server in the closet under the stairs or whatever. The company will likely die before the server does anyways.
Early Reddit had a philosophically libertarian majority (or at least, a significant percentage) and a demographic of mostly STEM-oriented, bookish, nerdy dudes from 18-40. Ron Paul was a popular political candidate. "Socially liberal, fiscally conservative" was a common refrain, although in 2008 that usually meant supporting gay marriage and wanting legal marijuana. People were skeptical of big corporations and big government alike, but had genuine belief that technology was changing the status quo in positive ways (remember when Google was a startup and "Don't be evil" felt earnest). The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were unpopular, but a big chunk of the criticism focused on ways the PATRIOT act invaded individual privacy and the wastefulness of DHS spending. Open source software and filesharing were discussed as philosophical stances and acts of resistance against entrenched powers. Race and gender were rarely discussed as being particularly important.

Writing this made me realize not just how different Reddit was, but also the issues of the time and the ways they were thought of and talked about. It's almost hard to map onto contemporary parties, policies or issues.
LOL the trump admin just ressuplied Israel to the tune of a billion to keep murdering children defense budget is not getting cut
At the risk of sounding one of those people posting "I can do that in a weekend" ... I honestly think that not just I but almost literally anyone can cob this conversion together for themselves with Bash, FFmpeg, ImageMagick, a printer, a pair of scissors or paper guillotine, a bit of glue and a sprinkle of AI assistance so as not to have to read a shred of documentation.
Never underestimate the amount of bad ideas in code produced by the lowest bidder.
Sorry, folks. This is what you get when the institutions fail to help the people they ostensibly were designed to help. There are more than 400 government agencies. No one even knows which one is responsible for what. There are artificial fiefdoms that exist because they self-perpetuate, are effective at shifting blame, and curry a perception of importance.

IMHO, Elon is an agent of chemotherapy for an obviously overgrown bureaucratic cancer. He will take it too far. It's a dirty and thankless job. However, it might be the only way to "refactor" the state without a civil war or revolution. It reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justinian_I , who rewrote laws (cut 90% of the volume) to consolidate their meaning.

I'm not cheering for it, but institutions have lost.
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And obfuscating "raw simulation data"? It's not pro-research fraud, but it's what a person who was pro-research fraud would prefer.
It's created by renaming U.S. Digital Service that was created in 2014 by President Obama within the Office of Management and Budget. So it's a part of executive branch.
'Experiencing a Syrian-style civil war' is not exactly ranking highly on my bucket list.

There US state is also far more internally secure than the Syrian state ever was.
hahaha you think any part of this is rational? Ignorance must be bliss.
Now I'm not sure what we're talking about. If you postulate that brains can be "cooked" and "uncooked" in response to new information, doesn't "cooked" just mean "persuaded"? I definitely agree that my policy preferences would be more dominant if people spent more time ingesting the good arguments and good evidence that convinced me to hold them.
YouTube generates a transcript that’s on the sidebar (above the recommended videos). It is kind of broken text though, so I copy and paste the block into Gemini (it’s free and has a huge context) and ask it to read it and generate the points for me
Don't worry, there are plenty of other reasons to avoid AWS, too.