skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More than half that voted is all that matters
> Americans have the some of the cheapest housing and highest salaries in the world and look around and cry foul.

I must be living in a different America then.
> You can assess an engineer based on how smart they sound in conversation, whether they use light mode VSCode or dark mode vim

uhhhh. You sure about that? I'm not entirely convinced that the ide and the colour scheme make the dev. Sure, some of the most productive devs extensively use hotkeys and certain ides but I know of many devs that do those things and have incredible draw backs. One guy I know is a great dev but often misses the performance forest for the trees. The poor lad super optimised a process that was still painfully slow because it was doing a stupid thing (loading way more data than it needed at that time). It was stupid and all he achieved was doing a stupid thing incredibly quickly.
That one's here:

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

"An act to add Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 17940) to Part 3 of Division 7 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to bots."

The new one is "An act to amend Sections 17940 and 17941 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to bots." This one amends that one.
While I’ve spoken to people at other BigTech companies about their leveling guidelines, the only one that is still in my personal possession after I left is Amazon’s :).

But this is a high level industry summary.

https://www.levels.fyi/blog/swe-level-framework.html
> OK, we have an independent judiciary to decide on the legality.

You don't.

> Just because you say it's illegal doesn't mean it is.

It's illegal to the point it even violates the US constitution.

> Biden unilaterally cancelled a trillion dollars of college debt, which the Supreme Court said was illegal, (...)

The Supreme Court ruled that the Department of Education didn't had the authority to enact such a large program and needed to seek approval from congress, and the rule was called by Trump's appointees.

Biden's student loan debt programs still went ahead because, unlike the original claim, the department of education already was running student debt forgiveness programs before and during Trump's first term, and those existing programs were never questioned as being illegal or unconstitutional.

The fact that you are trying to compare this event to Trump's string of illegal and unconstitutional efforts to shut down and dismantle the whole federal government, not to mention the whole sabotage campaign involving threatening long-standing allies of military invasion and economic war, speaks volumes of how disingenuous you're being.
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Sincere question: are you and I using “democracy” to mean the same thing?

What Trump is doing is a reversion to how the federal government was run after the founding and during the 18th century (what’s derisively called the “spoils system”). Trump campaigned with a bunch of people with specific ideas (RFK, Musk, Gabbard, etc.) and then when elected put those people in positions of authority. Here, taking an axe to the civil service was Item #9 on Trump’s platform: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/platform. He sent Musk as his surrogate to camp out in the key swing state of Pennsylvania the week before the election. For many Trump voters, this is what they voted for. For others, maybe DOGE wasn’t their thing, but they were content with it to get RFK Jr. or Gabbard or Tom Homan. And from all those people you got a winning coalition.

What you’re talking about sounds more like Wilsonian managerialism. Where elections are more like an input signal to a credentialed civil service service that applies its expertise to the problems of governance: https://fedsoc.org/commentary/fedsoc-blog/woodrow-wilson-s-c....

You can make a fair case that governance by detached civil servants is better, but how can you possibly say that it’s more democratic?
And the +2B users
Currently work on a Scala/Spark project as part of our work. Everyone hates it except the one guy who knows it well, but for most people who spend most of their time doing imperative languages its just too much of a mind jump. Hopefully soon we'll be on a new big data platform soon and we wont have to deal with a migration like this.
Uniparty probably references the fact that D and R parties have maintained a status quo and only differentiate themselves through inconsequential arguments. Kleptocracy in the way those Congress members have colluded to give money to their benefactors (unjust wars, subsidizing bank failures, subsidizing health insurance companies that screw most of us). It's not mysterious.
Because your democracy is being run by fiat, and many of those Executive Orders are batshit insane, or just plain illegal. And you seem to be OK with this.
> More than half that voted is all that matters

49.8% is less than half.
And what's even worse, the person you replied to may lot even realize how disingenuous they are being. This is the level of propaganda that is tearing through the US.
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So weird. SineVibes is an audio dev who posts videos about their products.

Why would YouTube flag them?
I’m not following - no one has the skill of understanding and solving problems in any domain. There’s no reason elons experience in the tech sector makes them uniquely capable
The hope is that the subjects in both samples have about the same age distribution. If they didn't, then the statistics are dubious.
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Am I misreading or is Redhat "selling" its Java team to IBM? Or what? Why?
USAID still exists, it's now under the State Department. It is true that one could argue where the authority of the President starts and stops, but that's going to be figured out in the courts.

And the Trump administration was smart to start with USAID. It's been an arm of the CIA since it's origination. Look at the role it played in the Vietnam War - arming of a militia under the guise of "development". It also was the org that funded the fake "polio vaccination campaign" in the search for Bin Laden.

And it's funny to see the pearl clutching going on when only 3-4 years ago there were numerous press reports on just how unaccountable USAID was to the federal government.
No. The job of a manager is being aligned with the company, identifying the right initiatives to work on, allocating resources to said initiatives, and relentlessly working to unblock their reports.

The job of management is NOT to sit around and rate their reports. That much can be done by chatGPT.
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The Internet Archive is your first port of call. For some reason I can't get any of them to load in the browser, but all of the systems are emulatable locally.

https://archive.org/search?query=infocom&and%5B%5D=mediatype...
I agree, that was a striking claim to make. Perhaps the person you responded to puts a lot into their 401k thinking it is social security or thinks income tax is FICA?
-> consolidate power in the executive

-> which is badly needed

In the US power is divided between three branches of government to prevent any one bench from becoming too powerful through checks and balances. Consolidation of power in one branch would mean unchecked, dictatorial powers.

-> How did you come to that conclusion from their comment?

How did you not?
But... you saw that Trump said he wanted to turn the Gaza Strip into an Arabic Riviera and dispossess all the Palestinians... and he wants to take over Greenland, which is not an American territory?

But everything is going great, right?
I guess the operation principle for Trump II is, if we want to beat China, be China first.
It is really just “open use” with detailed defined by the license type (MIT, etc)
All support is basically like bots nowadays, that's why they can be replaced by bots so easily.
Cool.

PyPy is cool, but the small ecosystem makes it not viable for most projects.

I used it for Advent of Code because it was able to bruteforce a bit more quickly than CPython.
While it's true I was being facetious I very much do agree with you on this point.
Your point is clumsily made, the examples you chose are bad ones if you're trying to demonstrate overreach.

There's also plenty of the overreach of the kind you're trying to demonstrate that doesn't come from the government, again, as has been illustrated multiple times within the thread. In fact, most of your examples do not come down as orders from the government at all, but the corporations, allowing you to vote with your wallet. I believe the free market is also quite popular on HN.
None of that implies a dictatorship. Also, consolidation in the executive branch does not imply removal of the others.
The video for MC Frontalot's "It is Pitch Dark" has a cameo by Meretzky.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nigRT2KmCE
For a desktop, 10 Gbps PCIe NICs are not expensive, especially if you go for used ones on eBay.

For a laptop, the Thunderbolt adapters are still expensive, but 2.5 Gbit adapters are very cheap if you can handle that limitation.
> the remaining functions of government are controlled by a single party

You realize that the check and balances never required that different parties head each branch of government?

I'm not sure you have even a basic understanding of how the US government is organized by the US constitution.
How do you figure Harris is less qualified than Trump? I never heard Harris say she would try to take over Greenland. I never heard her say it's a good idea to inject bleach to get rid of Covid...
Your post is almost nothing but strawmen, it's almost impossible to respond to.

But I will say that DOGE is not attempting to fix anything. It's attempting to consolidate power. Have you paid any attention to how Musk operates?
Not legal at all I'm afraid to say
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But the discrimination angle is interesting. What if a law required everyone to be "transparent" and respond truthfully to "are you [some race]"?
https://www.servethehome.com/the-everything-fanless-home-ser...

https://www.servethehome.com/tag/qotom/

https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/qotom-denv...
Most likely not. See previous laws on disclosing salary requirements on job postings, less than half of CA companies disclose it and nothing happens
That's a shame.

A lot of people seem to respect a man whose family has been old money for a long time, thinking he is somehow self made.
That's an optimistic take unfortunately. From what I can see, the attempt is going tremendously well.

We'll have to see how brazen the trump admin really is prepared to be here. If they are all in, they'll ignore the courts and the doj will do nothing about it. Which has already been telegraphed.

From what ive seen, The feds are saying "hold the line" mostly to cope with the situation. If this admin wants to retire them, they will. Its hard to hold the line when your access is shut off and your paycheck stops coming in.

It's not a great situation. We're basically just sitting and waiting to see how much this administration is bluffing, with no reasonable answer for what to do if they are not -- in fact -- bluffing.

When they start ignoring the courts... what next? Do we hope the military intervenes?
> More than three decades ago, Red Hat saw the potential of how open source development and licenses can create better software to fuel IT innovation. Thirty-million lines of code later, Linux not only developed to become the most successful open source software but the most successful software to date.

This seems to conflate Red Hat and Linux, as well as try to equate Red Hat with open-source. Red Hat is Linux, but Linux is not Red Hat, especially now that Red Hat has decided to restrict access to the RHEL source (https://www.itworldcanada.com/article/red-hat-decision-turns...).

And a pet grammatical peeve of mine:

> ... in some respects they serve a similar function to code.

I see this everywhere now -- IMHO it should be "... serve a function similar to code." Doesn't the original grate on your ear?

Also this is a Turing-test bot detector -- bots don't use this weird grammatical construction, only humans do.
Are we allowed to be sarcastic in these times?
Yes, basically you're initiating a lot of chat conversations. They help with pre generated responses here and there (at least if the campaign is savvy) but once you are talking it's mostly human to human. If you were to use LLMs though, you'll still need someone to press send.
Except the real issues are immigration and globalization.

The NYT did a couple of great podcasts about both issues: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/29/podcasts/the-daily/electi...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/03/magazine/nafta-tarriffs-e...

A majority of Americans have never supported either policy, but the credentialed elites in both parties have done so for decades. And both things have been accomplished largely through executive action. E.g. turning H1B from a temporary worker program into a pathway to permanent residency, or free trade agreements.

If anyone else would simply commit to severely immigration and free trade, Trump’s hold on the GOP would evaporate. We have seen it happen in other countries—in Denmark the left capitulated on immigration and everything is fine again.
But the DOJ replied to that independent judiciary that was not bound by their decision... It wasn't appealed to a supreme court that would likely overrule the lower court, it was simply asserted that the judges order didn't matter. That is the sort of thing I find concerning. Firing non appointed law enforcement officers without stated cause too. If you walk down the autocratic playbook for the rise to power, there are way too many parallels for comfort. Ask chatgpt to provide them along with relevant quotes from well known autocrats. Some of the judicial orders do seem to be getting followed now, I have some bit of hope that the supreme court won't do anything too obviously biased.
In some cases that's true, but not all. We have customers who require that our software supports running in a FIPS compliant mode, but never actually end up enabling it in production. But they wouldn't have bought our software without the option of enabling FIPS mode.
so when Elon Musk stands at a podium and performs the Nazi salute, it is "intellectually lazy" to use labels like "Nazi" or "fascist"?
> Not really - if you’ve studied political science there’s a concept called unitary executive theory, which basically says (...)

If you read up on unitary executive theory, you won't need to look too hard to stumble upon the fact that it is rejected as being sugar-coated totalitarianism.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_backsliding_in_th...

So you're trying to refute the totalitarian push represented by Trump's abuses with a theory that is known to represent a totalitarian push.
Well we have formally learned addition but most of the time I actually do it, I'm not doing it, I'm going based on some half remembered pattern checked with statistical expectations.

I'm sure the llm could formally do it too
> With DACA, Obama unilaterally decided not to enforce laws duly enacted by congress.
>
> So what keeps Trump from unilaterally deciding not to spend money duly appropriated by congress?

I had to think about this.

What's the point/goal of giving the power of the purse to Congress if it's actually just a slush fund?

If Congress can allocate money for the courts, but the executive is the one tasked with execution (DOJ) and decided not spend that, we are saying there is no real need to balance power.

So if there's no authority to direct spending, what prevents the executive from spending money on replacing the courts and Congress?
For what it's worth, this company was spawned by Mullvad: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/mullvad-creates-a-hardware-compa...
A lot, I suspect:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df5aakJdTzE
I don't really see the analogy, unless you're arguing that chatgpt deserves human rights.
That's what I was thinking too, though with an image you could do a convolution layer and, idk, maybe that makes it imagine visually. Or actually, the reasoning is backwards: the convolution layer is what (potentially) makes that part behave like an image. It's all just raw numbers at the IO layers. But the convolution could keep it from overfitting. And if you also want to give it a little binary array as a scratch pad that just goes straight to the RELUs, why not? Seems more like human reasoning. A little language, a little visual, a little binary / unknown.
I have health issues that I can't get help with because of my insurance, my rent increased significantly last month, and my grocery bills have never been higher. I have real life problems to deal with. The X gender marker does not even register as a problem in my universe. Our government seems to be more concerned with policing 0.5% of the population than with dealing with real life problems. Perhaps that's why?
Trump disavowed Project 2025 during the campaign, is just a performance appreciated by his voters, as many of his voters believed “be a racist but don’t say it”.

The same reason that one of the DOGE youth got fired, not because he is a racist, but because his racism remark got caught.
Huh yeah, I hadn't considered how they got around that. I suppose in that case this key could do something similar?
Typically, democratic means voting people in Congress in, then Congress votes and represents their constituents.

There is a reason the President was not initially elected by the people. The spoils system and the current systems failings are precisely that foresight.

When Congress is weak, the Executive is unchecked. Go read the Old Whig 4
It's more than just use (inference), it does open some otherwise secret sauce of the training. It looks like there's no existing word / notion to exactly pinpoint this level of openness.
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FWIW, the US Supreme Court ruled[0] in a famous 1960 case that Social Security is an ordinary income tax and you are not entitled to receive any benefit of that payment, same as income tax. Whether we like it or not, that has been the law of the land for 65 years. Most Americans are simply ignorant of this reality.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flemming_v._Nestor
on the positive side, maybe these young ones will have a help of Grok when introducing code into critical safety systems!
Not really, they were protesting against low pay (and low-paid competitors) through the medium of smashing something, which happened to be stocking-spinning machines. They might equally well have kidnapped the boss's budgerigar if that was an effective way to apply pressure.
You are correct. It's ironic that they wave the American flag and claim to be patriots, and yet no one hates the American government more than the Trump MAGA cultists who wave the American flag the hardest. The cruelty is the point. Millions of federal workers who are decent and hard-working folks will lose their jobs. Millions of poor people in the Global South will die, but this is what they want because most of these NRx insurrectionists are also racists and white supremacists, including DOGE staffer Marko Elez who had to resign for the racist tweets that were uncovered by WSJ. White supremacist influencers like Nick Fuentes, Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller, Paul Joseph Watson, and so on have poisoned the world. And Elon Musk retweets these trendy white supremacists and neo-nazies. Elon even confirmed that the Roman salute was what everyone thought it was the first time with a meme, and then is interfering with Germany's election by pressing his thumb to lift up the neo-nazi AfD party. No one seems to care and Paul Graham is still friendly with Elon Musk. Billionaires will always stay pals with fellow billionaires. Fascism is essentially another word for corporatism. They want the government to be small and weak so that their corporations can be more powerful than the government.
> Are the republican party committing acts of violence against their opposition, so as to push them out of Congress and establish a supermajority?

Update: "The judge, for her part, seemed initially unconvinced that FBI agents could definitively prove that they were about to face political retaliation, saying, “a fear of something happening is not sufficient, even if the fear is a serious one,” she said. [¶] But she changed her tone by the end of the day. At one point, they could not guarantee that the DOJ has not already leaked the list, with lawyers specifying that DOJ has not “officially” done so. [¶] “There is no question that it would put a number of FBI agents and significant danger,”" [0]

[0] https://www.notus.org/courts/trump-doj-fbi-agents-names-priv...
There's a practical reason with two sides to it. Most small companies simply won't know this rule even exists, if it passes. And as various other jurisdictions pass various other laws relating to AI, this will gradually turn into hundreds of laws, very possibly incompatible, spattered across countless jurisdictions - regularly changing with all sorts of opaque precedent defining what they exactly mean. You'll literally need a regulatory compliance department to keep up to date.

And such departments, staffed with lawyers, tend to be expensive. Have these laws affect small business and you greatly imperil the ability of small companies to even exist, which is one reason big companies in certain industries tend to actively lobby for regulations - a pretext of 'safety' with a reality of anticompetitive behavior. But by the time a company has 10 million regular users, it should be able to comfortably fund a compliance department.
I miss the days when everyone wasn't trying to be edgy. It's just so exhausting.
The key word here is _wholly_, not _any_.
It is an interesting variant of the "you owe bank $1k it is your problem vs you owe the bank $1B it is their problem" saying. This is a problem for small companies as long as YouTube/Alphabet are generally good moderators. It is a problem for YouTube/Alphabet if they start clamping down too hard. Some of these people are going to go elsewhere, set up shop and start peeling the audience away from YouTube. Audiences aren't smart, but sooner or later they figure it out if they should be using a different site.
>You realize that the check and balances never required that different parties head each branch of government?

They do in effect, because the existence of political parties means there is no reason for members of the same party to check and balance each other across different branches, as opposed to collaborating across branches to consolidate their power.

Which is exactly what's happening.
Given we are past the Turing test, how are they going to enforce this?
People keep telling students basically to “think happy thoughts” and are not being honest with them. The field is contracting today while more people with experience are chasing fewer jobs and then AI is hallowing out the low end.

Every single opening gets 1000s of applicants within the first day. It’s almost impossible to stand out from the crowd if you are either new to the industry or have a generic skillset.
> I wouldn't want humans pretending to be bots, for a variety of reasons.

I don't have an opinion yet, but I can't think of a specific reason to object to that (other than a default preference for honesty). Could you give an example or two?
You're claiming that news.ycombinator.com has over 10 million monthly U.S. visitors?

Most of us are just bots.
How do I know you're reasoning, and not just simulating reasoning (imperfectly)?
So Californian/US companies would have to comply, and other companies/states would get an advantage.
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Can there be "smart toys" for models that help them self-improve in a particularly efficient way?
Yeah, never understood why YouTube isn't included in these lists.
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