skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In what way is an exclusion from an EV credit the result of some neutral proceeding of law or prosecution?

I am unsure why you believe legislation requires due process. Musk and Tesla have no rights to state EV tax credits. States are not obligated to be "fair." They could exclude Musk and his controlled entities from financial support simply because they want to. They could even revert any laws allowing Tesla to sell vehicles without dealers. "State's rights."

> frankly, i am not interested in a government that punishes 'lies' in this way. the government should not be in the business of making people "accountable" for their bad politics. accountability for illegal actions proceeds through the courts.

Then we are at an impasse, and can only observe or assist the gears turning to reach desired outcomes.

> we are not a banana republic, although i increasingly worry

We aren't? A private citizen preventing Congress from access to federal property and violating various laws to obtain and control access to a core government value transfer system isn't? The executive branch enabling a "special employee" to "delete" agencies when they have no authority to do so? The FBI turning over records of who prosecuted J6 insurrectionists for retaliation against civil servants for doing their job? Respectfully, we have "crossed the Rubicon" already. I understand belief systems, which are rigid, will likely prevent meeting in the middle on this topic. With that said, I believe facts (like character) always matter.

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Rubio says El Salvador offers to accept deportees from US of any nationality, including Americans
- https://apnews.com/article/migration-rubio-panama-colombia-v...

DOGE Employees Ordered to Stop Using Slack While Agency Transitions to Records System That Is Not Subject to FOIA - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42951458 - Feb 2025

FBI turns over details of 5000 employees who worked on January 6 cases - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42949784 - Feb 2025

Congressional Research Service: USAID Under the Trump Administration - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42941591 - Feb 2025
> Once you have cut taxes, it essentially doesn't matter which party wins the next election: The have to gut expenditures anyway

See the current Labour government in the UK, who would very much like to spend money on government initiatives but can't because the Tories made sure there was nothing left.
These days, if you say you're English, you get arrested and thrown in jail.

( - Stewart Lee's taxi driver, over a decade ago. )
Gemini 2.0 is now available to everyone
A few days ago, I ran my usual apt update/upgrade on Xubuntu 24.04 LTS, and it completely broke. Tried troubleshooting, but couldn’t get anywhere. Seriously?

So, I made sure my backups were safe and reinstalled Xubuntu 24.01 LTS. Same story - apt update/upgrade broke it again.

Not exactly how I wanted to start my Monday.

I decided to give Debian a shot instead. The installation process was a bit different, but it went smoothly, and everything’s been running great since.

So far, I’m really happy with it. Goodbye, Ubuntu/Xubuntu, and thanks for all the fish!
I don't think it's true that Scientific American spent the last four years telling you to be outraged about things that never happened.
Language is fluid and continuously evolving.

imho any decent person will say "Yeah, I see the trouble with blacklist/whitelist", and if they're a techie, they'd also say "Yeah, allowlist/denylist is more descriptive and fits in well."

I think any decent person will also stop short of officially recognizing The 29 Gender Pronouns from this week's trending tiktok and recognize there's a middle ground between wide cultural acceptance and letting people express themselves.

Discrediting any language evolution as calling it the road to hell is just as silly as the (caricature of) the person getting upset at the cashier they've never met before because cashier didn't magically know their preferred 24th Form gender pronoun.

A decent person understands some change is inevitable (especially if there's an uncomfortable historical context with the way things are now) while also moderating the amount of change. Basically, just be a decent, reasonable human who has some empathy for others.

I hope we're not too far off the deep end from being reasonable.
CDC AtlasPlus seems to back online
I've been a mostly happy Fedora user for about eight years now (counting the two years when I was on the Fedora-based derivative, Korora). I do worry about IBM's increasingly heavy hand on Red Hat, despite Fedora's repeated assurances that they are totally independent of IBM. When a Dev starts talking about putting AI into the Fedora Workstation, that makes me very nervous. [0]

Also, I appreciate Fedora's bleeding edge nature, but once I got done distro hopping and no longer needed "bleeding edge" kernel support for my new-at-the-time hardware, the 6-month release cycle does get to me a bit. Although I've never had an install completely hosed by the upgrade, I still have a mild panic attack every time I've gotta do a version bump because something always breaks at the first or second post-upgrade reboot, causing me to fear that the upgrade has failed. I haven't tried doing the once-a-year two-version upgrade yet (although Fedora says it is officially supported), I might look into doing that on one of my boxes next time.

[0] https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2025/02/03/looking-ahead-at-2...
Hello everyone! I am a current senior at Columbia University studying Mathematics-Statistics, Data Science, and ML. I am looking for Data Science/Engineering roles after I graduate this May.

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I'm surprised Ubuntu is my goto for "works out of the box" bout to flash that b on a Surface Book 3

I'll sacrifice my camera but I need all 3 OSs
The E in DEI stands for Equity, not Equality. The explicit, stated goal is not to remove discrimination it's to discriminate in order to reach Equity.
Optimism might be bland but I can't help it!

Prior to social media, we all had incredibly conflicting views, just wasn't in our faces all the time to get outraged about! So the trick is to remember, by having these discussions/disagreements, we're actually making progress. We hear the loudest voices, but there's always smart and sincere people quietly reading and learning, which is a brilliant outcome!

If you find yourself getting outraged, be disciplined and switch activities (exercise, go for a walk, or turn off the source).

I definitely wouldn't leave social media though! Instead, harness them! Train those algos to give you science, book clubs, fascinating music niches, travel, culture - go deep, explore, and 'follow' liberally - you can very easily remove yourself from a group/page. I've found insanely interesting chemistry and physics pages, not to mention domains I never even knew existed, like color theory and a handful of others. Once you start clicking on politics, you'll only get more of it. Click on the good stuff!
I wrote a comment echoing this point, about the coexistence of FP and OOP. This ties to the article's point about finding an algebra. Once you have an algebra, you have the basis for implementing a lot of your application in the functional style, manipulating objects that are inputs to and outputs from your algebra's operators.
>DynamoDB is a good database (IFF your workload lines up with what it's offering)

>The query planner is a cruel mistress

>ORMs are the devil in all languages and all implementations. Just write the damn SQL

>DynamoDB is the worst possible choice for general application development

>It's very hard to beat decades of RDBMS research and improvements

All these points tell a beautiful story
Regarding the rebase thing, I guess it's more a matter of habit. Stacked branches indeed may be tedious and may be annoying to rebase, agree. I implemented a shell script to rebase branch trees on top of a new base that would cover stacked branches as well. It covered all my needs like resolving conflicts, concluding or aborting the branch tree rebase and so on. Of course, it would be nice to have such a right-done thing right in git. But as of now, if I understand what jj is, it seems like I can shell-script some of its features myself. Still a happy git user.
It would seem to follow that the executive’s power to run has limits itself. If the legislative has the power to create an entity and the executive runs that entity at such minimal function that the entity effectively doesn’t exist, that usurps the legislative of their creation powers. You could tarpit any agency they establish. The power to run still means you must run the agency in good faith.
Sure, let's have FAA reject qualified ATC applicants because they answered "science" as their worst subject in high school and/or "history" in college. (The core crux of Brigida vs FAA 2015 lawsuit)

Or the passive visual skin color test (Brigida vs Buttigieg 2021 lawsuit).

That'll be about 4,120 qualified ATC applicants that won't be coming back: would you come back if a sizable class-action award is forthcoming?

If that was the plan (to lock up and away FAA ATCs, to inflate supply-demand, that's a shrewd economic move, but I don't think so).
who said i subscribe to what now?
I agree. My Reddit outrage addiction flares up every now and then and it makes my mental health objectively shitty. Doesn’t matter if there’s some good content and connection on there, it’s just not worth the (mental) cost.
> I was a director of the community team at deviantart (...) I used to have to actively check in on community members who we deemed addicted

This sounds so interesting to me - was it your responsibility? How did you detect if someone was addicted? And most importantly, how did you scale it?
The Brigida lawsuit, from which we get a lot of the documents in the article, was filed in 2016 and has framed this as a DEI discrimination issue from the get-go.
Ha. That's what the IRA said to Thatcher after the Brighton hotel bombing; didn't work.
book covers that. No civilization in history wants a hyper-libertarian world without firefighters, that's for sure
Show HN: I made a tool to help you save and execute commands in a directory
Hi HN!

A lot of times I end up with sets of commands I want to run in a project directory: building packages, running ansible to deploy things, cleaning up files, etc.

Makefiles always felt rather overkill for this and I like having just a YAML file with the name, description, and commands that are available and for a menu to display with that information.

This is that program. I had originally written it many years ago in Perl. I have been learning Go and this seemed like a great project to port.

I hope you find it useful, thanks for reading!
Regimes do not purge security forces deemed disloyal at their peril.
Some of us on HN are old enough to have grown up on radio more than 20 years ago. It's not ancient history, it's within our lifetime. We experienced the consolidation and genericization you are complaining about personally as we saw our favorite local stations get ruined.
That's a misreading of the article. This scandal was not just "cheating and recruitment" but forcing "Diversity" with a side of "Equity". To quote the facts:

> The NBCFAE continued to pressure the FAA to diversify, with its members meeting with the DOT, FAA, Congressional Black Caucus, and others to push for increased diversity among ATCs. After years of fiddling with the research and years of pressure from the NBCFAE, the FAA landed on a strategy: by using a multistage process starting with non-cognitive factors, they could strike “an acceptable balance between minority hiring and expected performance”—a process they said would carry a “relatively small” performance loss. They openly discussed this tension in meetings, pointing to “a trade-off between diversity (adverse impact) and predicted job performance/outcomes,” asking, “How much of a change in job performance is acceptable to achieve what diversity goals?”

This was DEI before it was called DEI. The label changed, the spirit did not.

That spirit, of sublimated racial grievance, metastasized everywhere in our society. It went from quiet, to blatant, and now to a memory hole.
> If all DVD players came with watermark detection instead of copy protection

That is an enormous "if". Do you think Microsoft is going to or is able to enforce this on every single software provider? Even in your Android example that's just not happening, and you can happily sideload apps. You can still develop your own apps on the same Android phone that you use for banking.

> And sorry but how many people have bypassed Playstations or Switches. This is what you’re talking about. Most people will just accept it.

People accept this with consoles because a console is a device exclusively for consuming media, and all developers apply for a devkit. I just don't see that happening in the PC space. You think Microsoft is suddenly going to dump this on third party software developers and force everyone to go through certification and to buy devkits? Without a mass exodus to Linux?
EU to tighten checks on goods sold by sites such as Shein and Temu
Only the documentation is disappearing
> Sit in a tower for a day before talking about automation.

Everything is easy when you don't know about it.
Please do correct me if I'm wrong, but the only subreddit I heard was banned was WhitePeopleTwitter, and that was because there were comments doxxing and implying or directly calling for violence against the Tesla/SpaceX engineers Musk is using to "audit" the OPM, and the mods were doing little to nothing to stop it.
Musk owes quite a lot of his virtual fortune to government subsidies. That alone should prevent him from being anywhere near the government. The appearance of impropriety is corrosive because it undermines public trust in the government. You don’t need improper actions to be in a conflict of interest.

We also know that he has no moral compass and no qualm whatsoever using any lever he can to make money. The moment to worry about this is before he leaves with the till. Because everyone knows he will, and by then it will be too late.
Trump couldn't negotiate his way out of a paper bag. All a despot has to do is compliment him and he will repeat whatever they want. It's pathetic.
Last time I checked there was no age check on the horror movies, which is especially strange for access from Germany
>There's a simple fix to removing discrimination in hiring practices that no one seems to notice.

Yes! Build a robust economy so that everyone can have dignified work that pays a living wage, rendering any kind of hiring preferences moot.
> but I also don't think there is a magical amount of money where you are going to suddenly double your pool of candidates willing to do this kind of work

There is an iron law of nature that, hiring is never a problem of shortages, just insufficient pay. If you don't pay them enough they will get a job doing something that pays more and/or has better working conditions.

Labor isn't any more immune to market forces than any other good. The only people who are qualified for the job and willing to do it for cheap are the ones on the right side of the bell curve. Pay moves that bell curve and exposes more of it.
I'm fairly certain this was an example of overfitting and Freedman's Paradox, not deliberate cheating.

Let's say you have a completely random data set. You generate a bunch of random variables x1 through xn and a random dependent variable y. Then you poke around and see whether any of the x variables look like they might predict y, so you pick those variables and try to build a model on them. What you end up with is a model where, according to the standard tests of statistical significance, some of the xs predict the y, even though all the data is completely random.

This is a much more likely explanation for why the answer weights on the biographical assessment were so weird than some conspiracy between the contractors who developed the test, the FAA staff, and the black employee organization.

They had a dataset that was very skewed because historically there have been very few black controllers, and so was very prone to overfitting. The FAA asked the contractor to use that dataset to build a test that would serve as a rough filter, screen in good candidates, and not show a disparate impact. The contractor delivered a test that fulfilled those criteria (at least in the technical sense that it passed statistical validation). Whether or not the test actually made any sense was not their department.
At 6 dollars per run, I'm tempted to try to figure out how to replicate this. I'd like to try some alternatives to "wait" - e.g. "double checking..." Or write my own chains of thought.
Ubuntu never appealed to me, but then I was still a Slackware user when it started getting popular.

Throwing everything bleeding edge into a release distro because bug be damned at least the hardware worked, and then as it got more stable it basically just became windows - no longer could config files be edited, you needed to use their wizards. No thanks.
Gemini 2.0: Flash, Flash-Lite and Pro
You’re not listening. Why are you even here? What a waste of time.
Same experience, switched to Debian last year. Funny enough, things just work. Like we used to say about Ubuntu. Snaps made me wary about flatpaks, but they're ok, much better startup time, though using way too much storage.

I had to take it one step further and switch to Debian Testing to get certain packages, and somehow the experience of installing updates is still better than Ubuntu. Go figure.
As someone who often doesn't subscribe because I don't want to get NYTed into having to pick up the phone to cancel, no this approach to pricing wouldn't change things for me.

What does work for me is when the service's docs have a very clear page on how to cancel the service without having to talk to someone.
I haven't seen anyone with zero computer skill build apps but I've definitely started building and deploying apps outside my day job that I've been able to put together quickly with the aid of Claude artefacts or copilot. It's really exciting!
So you say, do exactly what authors of propaganda are trying to achieve and let them do what they want.

Also, I am impacted by legal system, by lawlessness for some, by environment pollution, by Healthcare system ...
It depends what you mean by "apps" and "works". Phone apps have very limited interaction with each other, by design, so that yes, sandboxing works OK. Android also uses sandboxing technologies not available on plain Linux I believe, but I'm not sure of this part. It also has a full system for defining the types of interactions possible between apps, that is built into the UI kit used by all apps, which is another major bonus.

You can't extend most of this to arbitrary Linux packages. Those are often meant to have complex interactions with other packages, and to do so via arbitrary mechanisms (file paths, Unix sockets, shell variables, etc). You can't easily sandbox something like npm or pip, for example, since their whole point is to be globally accessible. Even less so for something like OpenSSL.
He has zero experience running a large organization. The Secretary of Defense, while a political appointee, also requires some ability to manage a large organization, which again, he doesn’t have. And suggesting that we didn’t get the desired outcomes from another qualified candidate doesn’t mean we should switch to literally unqualified candidates. Take your partisan hat off for a few minutes and think about what qualities are necessary in a SecDef, and think about whether Hegseth meets them or not.
> I sincerely hope US and Canada can regrow some manufacturing capacity.

What does canada have anything to do with anything. When was canada a manufacturing power? Why do canadians love to interject themselves into topics that don't involve them?

> 1) A massive devaluation of housing, stocks and other similar items.

You want wealth destruction? Most of americans' wealth is tied to home equity and 401k.

> That's why I said we are going to get seriously hurt.

Who is we? Are you even american?

> 2) Educate a whole generation that labor is honorable, so that engineers, scientists, technicians and such get more respect (I mean real respect, not the superficial one nowadays) than lawyers and bankers.

What are you talking about? You think lawyers and bankers get more respect than engineers and scientists?

> But I'm seeing is that US is taking another darker road.

What road is that?
This assumes that the hiring managers or whoever are honest people who are not racist or bigoted in any manner and only display incidental racism or subconscious bias. If I see a HBCU as an applicant's alma matter, it's almost certain that they are black.
They are both operating completely outside the bounds of the law here and there's no ethical justification for that at all.

You can set your defaults to 'trust Trump/Elon' if you really want to I guess, but that's a highly unreasonable default (to put it mildly). Both have a long and clear public history as bad actors.

At it's most benign, this is dangerous clownishness mostly for show, but even that is far too charitable.
They do no longer remember who holds the IP but have copies laying about. So post them, if they do not get a strike by a ip owner- they might be actual yours?
sorry, when did the Senate confirm Musk's appointment?
Off the top of my head, how about the Beatles?
He told you something he personally did/witnessed, and you replied with "not true." I'm not sure how else he should have interpreted that.
Doesn't it rather suggest that it's stupid to get outraged at the news?
> I definitely wouldn't leave social media though! Instead, harness them! Train those algos to give you science, book clubs, fascinating music niches, travel, culture - go deep, explore, and 'follow' liberally - you can very easily remove yourself from a group/page. I've found insanely interesting chemistry and physics pages, not to mention domains I never even knew existed, like color theory and a handful of others. Once you start clicking on politics, you'll only get more of it. Click on the good stuff!

Sorry, but that last paragraph sounds like AI generated Meta PR.
Looks really cool, although way beyond my chess ability. Nice work
Do you mean "public class HelloWorld { public static void main(String[] args) { ... } }"?

Or the ridiculous Spring abstractions that many people insist on?

The former is a minor nuisance, easily filled in by an IDE. The latter is far worse, unnecessary bloat and complexity. Architecture Astronaut stuff.
One of the BBQ sauce's is mustard based and not overly full of sugar.
Framed as a cheating and recruiting scandal by who? Is it truly resolved if the racial discrimination element was never addressed?
> Most programming should be done long before a single line of code is written

> Frontend development is a nightmare world of Kafkaesque awfulness I no longer enjoy

These two may be interrelated. I do app (frontend) development, and it greatly benefits from an iterative, evolutionary approach.