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> Anyone operating in good faith knows to curb spending, everything Musk has been saying won't make a dent until you get to DoD, Social Security, or health care

This isn't accurate. Anyone who's managed a large and complex budget knows death by a thousand cuts is a very real thing. Yes, there may be bigger opportunities in the larger pots of money, but to suggest saving a billion here or few million there isn't worth the time is simply wrong.

Simply having the finances be looked at will have an impact on behavior. I see it in my own personal spending. If I'm not watching it, I spend way more. Now what happens if its not even my bank account the spending takes money out of and no one is paying attention? And then it goes on like this for decades?

> And of course, any savings are going to be totally swamped by big tax cuts for the billionaire class.

Aside from 2020, collected tax revenues did not drop under Trump in his first term, even after 2017 tax cuts. The one exception was for 2020 when the economy ground to a halt due to covid and gdp shrunk by a few %.

The point is, the problem is not that the government needs more money. The government needs pressure to be more effecient with the money it has. Thats the root of the issue that needs solved. Until that is solved, increasing tax revenue (which may not even be needed) won't make any difference whatsoever.
The only city utility I've experienced better than Austin Energy is Chattanooga's Electric Power Board (which offers up to 20gb/s fiber to every single electricity customer in their jurisdiction, except some apartment complexes).

Inexpensive, reliable, and heavily litigated (just how I like my local utility).
I don't feel out of depth. To me it feels like variations on places we've been before.

But I hasten to qualify this:

(1) This is just my feeling! You asked how I feel, so I'm telling you, but I don't claim my feeling is anything more than that.

(2) I'm only talking about dynamics on HN. I'm not talking about what Trump might do or AI might do; it's not my job to comment on those and your guess is as good as mine anyhow.
While I generally agree that he doesn't look all that smart in the traditional sense, during the early part of his first election I don't think he had the full power of right wing media behind him. He is _excellent_ at something, and I think demagoguery might be a reasonable term for it. He seems to me to be very good at saying things that make people feel "activated" (to quote dang above). It is almost like the way he speaks is the human manifestation of the engagement algorithm that it took Facebook years and years to develop. It is really quite something.
totally agree, what you are saying is aligned. The LLM needs you in the drivers seat, it can't do it with out you
Reprogramming of cash registers.
>These are my and our fucking tax dollars. I want every single fucking cent audited, I don't really care how big or small a portion this is of the whole budget.

if you want government debt to shrink, you need to treat it like optimization: focus on the big problems first and don't sweat the small fry.

If you simply want a better auditing process... Well, whatever Musk is doing sure isn't it. Has he actually revealed any significant spending outside of "wow this thing cost X million dollars. how crazy for [partisan reasons]". His "reports" on audits sure aren't trying to take into account "every cent".

>Trump and Musk's bigly sledgehammer will achieve this, screw the details because I don't care anymore.

Screwing the details is how you enable corruption, by the way. Tarriffs and war mongering isn't how we save costs. Arguing about "wow the libs waste so much money" isn't how you audit anything. The last thing you want to do when you need more taxes is cutting capital tax from the richest corporations who can lose 90% of their income and still be worth more than some small countries.

Follow the money. None of these steps are made with you and me in mind.
My uBlock Origin has blocked 64% of the page so far, and I've read two paragraphs.
John Arnold, Meta board, asked this question: https://bsky.app/profile/vermontgmg.bsky.social/post/3lhs632...

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My two cents. Congress has a singular enforcement mechanism: impeachment.

If the Congress refuses? A constitution doesn't envision the government ceasing. What happens next requires a lot of imagination because it's not written in any text.

There's an example of Principate from when the Roman republic ceased and the empire began. It had the veneer of a republic, and maybe it fooled some people, I don't really know. But today it's considered an empire, not a republic, for the > 250 year period of the Principate. It was an autocracy, with an emperor. The senators were decoration.
The problem you have here is differing perspectives on, for instance, current government financial responsibility.

The government is currently $36 trillion in debt with that debt growing at an exponential rate. Our annual expenditure of interest on the debt has exceeded $1 trillion per year and will soon exceed the entire discretionary budget of the US.

And this is happening as growth starts to slow and other countries continue to reduce both their reserves and dependency upon the dollar.

Many don't see this as sustainable, or really even remotely sustainable. And so working to create more sound governance and spending today is motivated precisely by an effort to prevent a catastrophic crash.

Like think about to back before the housing crash. There were numerous shows on TV about people getting a house (often with near 0 deposit), adding granite counter tops, and then reselling it within weeks for a $20k+ profit.

Anybody could see that that sort of economic system could not possibly be stable, but most people have this instinct that a status quo must inherently be stable, but that's just not true. That unstable things have not crashed today is hardly an argument against them crashing tomorrow.
Perhaps it was a bad idea to let it stop happening in the US[1] in the first place? I have acquaintances who told me about this more than a decade ago. We thought it was stupid to let the production lines go then... and obviously, we were right.

[1] https://www.counterpunch.org/2006/04/07/the-saga-of-magneque...
So just say that and don't post a fake quote, jeez. Wikiquote has it under "misattributed":

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini#Misattributed

"You won't win anyone over with fake quotes" -- Joan of Arc
For newcomers who are wondering:

It seems like acronym SOW means scope of work.
I don’t know if you’ve noticed but respect of law and norms is being thrown out of the window. That was the old USA and the paradigm is wildly shifting.
had a look and I like it. More "raw markdown" (what the OP uses too) instead of HTML in web publishing is a good thing - basically because xml syntax is not how humans want to write.

This, combined with git forges pages concept or tilde user accounts makes for nice corners in the webs.
"cost to use" != "cost to train"

Elsewhere he says that model intelligence is determined by the log of the resources used to train it, and this relationship has been constant for many orders of magnitude.

The implication is that it takes exponentially increasing investment to achieve a linear increase in intelligence.

Exponentially increasing costs sound like a bad thing.

But then he says the linear increase in intelligence generates exponentially increasing economic benefits.

Those exponentially increasing benefits sounds like they might justify the exponentially increasing costs.
Even if someone admires Musk’s accomplishments, blindly excusing his faults is irrational. Constructive criticism is important—his fanbase treating him like an infallible genius discourages accountability. No great business leader is above scrutiny, and people who dismiss all criticism as “jealousy” are refusing to engage with reality.
Thank you for the kindness! Meow.
Easy Robotics with a 3D Printer and Raspberry Pi
Show HN: A custom game similar to NYT Connections
Have fun playing!
Very interesting that both ends failed at the same time. That tells me that there was a manufacturing flaw at both ends (IE bad crimp), the connectors were made from too thin of material (again, a manufacturing flaw), or the GPU drew more current than what the connector was designed to carry.
T-Mobile has horrible data security, too.
Probably not, Treasury doesn't 'demonetize' old issues. Generally speaking, any coin or bill issued by the Treasury department still officially has its face value and is legally money.

But if you'd like, I've got a small bucket of 1943 steel pennies.
“A man known as 4chan”
This past year or so I've had ChatGPT open a lot. It's been super useful as a explore a "new" [1] field in a lot more depth.

Interestingly though I don't get it to write code. It's no good at the language I write in, so useless there.

As a "tutor" though it's been really useful. I'm asking a lot of (probably simple) questions, and the answers are "right enough". Occasionally I'm not sure why something is failing, and it's usually helpful there too.

So, less brain-rot and more "helpful senior who helps me along".

[1] the work I'm doing is related to SQL, which I've used here and there before, but not to the depth or degree I am now. I don't need it to write SQL, but rather to answer more general questions and to compare SQL databases, discuss effeciency and so on.
Would you be interested in hearing some? Closed minds don't help.

If nothing else, listen to his Tesla earnings call and take note of how much he talks about the actual current business vs. his fantasy of consumer reboots in 2027.
It doesn't matter where they are. Unless there's a decent opposition to the current events, nobody's going to be better off with the US failing (at least for the next decade).
Is torturing (and the mutilation of a human body and sometimes death as a frequent outcome of the torture process) and burning people at the stake after an auto-da-fé for not believing in someone else’s mythical deity fundamentally different from human sacrifice?
--help isn't even the lowest common denominator. An incorrect argument list is. The program knows it was given incorrect arguments, it should show help.
I dont understand where your view comes from. I've never seen a gym with a cold plunge. I cold plunge in natural bodies of water or my back yard, and I do it whenever I want - intentionally separated from my strength training.
They previously said iMessage would work (no "text messages" actually use SMS any more now that iOS uses iMessage and Android uses RCS).
I think the issue with mail in and drop off and early voting is the way it allows political machines to manipulate and structure the outcomes.

You should listen to the radiolab podcast about the hassidic jews that simply showed up at the polling place, counted how many people voted and then bussed in enough people to assure that they could comfortably win to take over a school board that their students did not go to.

The issue with voting that doesn’t involve showing up at a polling place that day is that its not hard to fill in someone elses ballot if you get access to a lot of them or to tabulate who voted to figure out how many additional votes you need to manipulate the result. Etc etc.

I think if you’ve read the wisdom of crowds or lived in a machine politics city like Chicago or listened to that podcast, you can accept the idea that democracy is best when people show up at a polling place with an actual id and vote at the same time limiting everyone elses knowledge of the results or access to different ways to manipulate the process.
> If someone studies in the US, spends years working there, and then decides that "actually, I'd have better opportunities in China" and moves back,

What actually happens is that recruited scientists illegally use grants from the host country to fund research that is then sent back to China, and when they're caught, they also flee back to China.

https://www.thelantern.com/2020/11/former-ohio-state-researc...

https://www.science.org/content/article/moffitt-cancer-cente...
Recently I've been building tools like this in tampermonkey (greasemonkey but newer/oss) since those scripts run in an environment where exceptions can be made to bypass CORS, and do a lot of things that in-page javascript just can't get access to.
Now I'm curious. What kind of team are you running that they are receiving Steam Decks? Was this a reward or is your teams work related to it?
The correction says "Nominated" not won, but it's still a really interesting story.

I would also recommend everyone see Christopher Tin's acceptance speech for the Grammy for "Baba Yetu" https://youtu.be/TM_WzFnmtac , the first piece of videogame music to win a Grammy - There's an awkward silence as he mentions it, and I remember articles at the time about artist who felt "Cheated" because it went to a Videogame score, because they felt it was somehow lesser.
It's simple: he's famous. He isn't even the first public personality the US voted.

The (sadly) most important thing for a campaign is charisma, and people from decades prior (AKA the ones that actually vote) see Trump and think of the times with The Apprentice, or any variety of commercials he's been in, or some talk show he was on. That mixed with an increasing distrust of the establshment and you get Trump 45.

Trump 47, similar vibes + the "I was richer under Trump" mentality. These are short-sighted, but common sentiments.
Can you cite some of these data points and outcomes?
Only by convention. You can write anything in a PL/SQL function, and that function can be called in a trigger.

Really, I can't imagine anything that can't be put in a trigger.
Appreciate the response.

Makes sense to really focus your commitment to HN.

I can appreciate your emotional discipline in these times. I could work on that more myself
This seems like a job that would be labor intensive, involving difficult to source equipment, and have to occur in China or Russia.

This seems strangely difficult for what would ultimately kill one soldier at a time and would be discovered one way or another very quickly.

Ukraine has shown it can operate in Russia. Even so this seems strangely difficult to pull off from the Ukraine for what would be a low value target that could be replaced relatively easily.
How is it logic defying? It seems straightforward to apply on any compositional entity: I could make one with "Apple Executive", "Tim", "Phill", and "Eddy"
> Conference Austerity
> Conferences get nuked because someone upstairs sees them as a “nice to have.” The irony? That conference could’ve been where your engineers learned about a new technique that would’ve saved you a million bucks in infrastructure costs. Instead, they’re stuck reinventing the wheel – badly.

I agree with the thesis in general but this point is not resonating strongly with me.

Conferences are expensive.

AWS reinvent for example requires you to spend 2000 dollars on a conference ticket and travel to Las Vegas and pay for expensive hotels etc.

Most of the content from the sessions and talks there is posted online on YouTube ... in recent memory they posted them online within a day (full credit to them).

The added benefit of attending conferences in person is very hard to justify IMO. Yes there is networking and yes there are some hands on workshops etc.

Instead of the justification offered in the blog post ... I would say, sponsoring your employees' visits to conferences shows that you treat them well, care about their personal learning and growth, and inturn motivates them to look for synergies between their interests and work. They might end up learning that technique from a free youtube video anyway, but only the motivated ones care about applying it at work.
You need both to do mathematics. But for teaching/understanding one should start with observe-model-test (concrete concepts/things and their relations) leading on to definition-theorem-proof (symbolic abstraction and manipulation). While the approaches are very different there is a synergy which is what motivates and grounds the latter in reality.
Pi (and e) are not only irrational numbers (not fractions) but also transcendental numbers (non-algebraic numbers meaning not roots of polynomials with rational coefficients).

So, even messier for dealing with than, say, square root of two (irrational and algebraic) or square root of minus one (algebraic).
Fairly sure this term originated at Amazon.
Common sense can be wrong. I doubt that most people pick their college major based on what will be the easiest, and those that are inclined to pick the easy route probably aren't going to pick computer science, which is extremely competitive these days.

I also doubt that any female computer science mentors are going to tell everyone that it's an easy job where being female gives you significant tailwinds, whether or not that's true.

Fact is, it's highly competitive. 18% of CS graduates are female. Even assuming that they are twice as likely to be promoted as their male counterparts, if only 10 of every 100 engineers are promoted each year, that means 4 promoted female engineers against 14 non-promotions. So much more likely that a prospective mentor will tell you that it's a hard job than tell you about their easy promotion, even assuming a strong tailwind.
Try Pivot or Prof. G. podcasts.
Somebody watched Octonauts as a kid...

More seriously, this seems like an elaborate troll of space settlement enthusiasts. It's far simpler and less demanding than long-term settlement in space...and you still look at it and go "WTF would anyone want to do that? Wouldn't it just be easier to send robots down"?
Whenever I see someone confidently making a comparison between LLMs and people, I assume they are unserious individuals more interested in maintaining hype around technology than they are in actually discussing what it does.
This is inaccurate. When mobile data is unavailable, you can use text but not iMessage or RCS.
I hear you and I'm sure you have a point. But my experience is that adding information of this kind diminishes some misperceptions but fuels others. I don't know is what the tradeoffs are and I don't want to do things that make either HN, or the job of moderating HN, worse.
No really, because functions like sin(), cos() and tan() are defined numerically for "expecting Pi as input" rather than 360 degrees of angle.
Blaming everything on "China parasitizing" is already defeatist. Rather than trying to tear China down (which won't work) you should be looking to build America up.
Absolutely, the decay of that podcast was palpable throughout 2020. I gave it an honest shot hoping it would come back around, but it became insufferable.

I particularly disliked listening to them openly talk about the clout they were developing and, I don’t know, bragging and boasting about their popularity. Ego is repulsive when it’s laid on so blatantly.
The Pageant of the Unopened Page
That’s just USAID.

It was 30-40 million for all depts to poltico.

You can not be “independent journalists” when your largest single client is the US Gov.

Politico running the Russia hoax, Hunter’s laptop, and dismissing the wuhan lab leak are three examples of them being on the Biden admin’s side.

Can you point to a single time Poltico backed up a theme or narrative that benefited Trump but turned out to be wrong?
> Eck-Ma-Script

I thought this is how it was generally pronounced, it's at least what I say. (It still sounds like a skin disease though.) Is there some other more popular pronunciation?
Remote areas sure, but also spots where you have line of sight to a satellite, but a cell signal can't get to, like canyons. Which is actually surprisingly common in some areas, like San Diego, depending on your carrier!
Pivot has been a real gem for me lately. Both hosts bring real insight and interest to the topics they discuss.
> how do you even know this?

It's speculation based on the facts that Elon Musk is actively ignoring and even antagonizing the courts. At which point we have dozes of public reports on, including himself tweeting it out.

Even if he was ordered to delete the data, do you really think a person like that will comply? That's why people speculate that; Musk is not a credible actor.

>The government has been wasting hundreds of millions of our tax dollars and a good portion of it are going into the pockets of politicians and their supporters.

>There was literally no way to track the money or oversight.

Beyond speculation, how do you even know this?

Even if true, the answer to corruption isn't more corruption and kicking people out of their workplaces. Nor hacking into every citizen's private info. We have a process for a reason.
TGP for 5090 is 575W. PCIe slot supplies 75W, so it's 500W through the connector 500W / 12V = 41.7A, or 52A with 80% derating rule. Conductors should be 10AWG or thicker.

What are go-to connectors at these currents?
Yes, I've seen a number of people with criminal records hired. I don't really want to present my comment as an argument against every point Krebs made. I don't really have an opinion on whether the individual mentioned is a suitable hire.

But in infosec a lot of people probably got into it because 'hacking' is cool and glorified by the media. It's rebellious and appeals to a lot of teens I think. I don't think it's as serious as Krebs suggested that you could be extorted or compromised. It seems like it's just a bunch of inexperienced people in a discord channel. Soliciting a DDoS on there, to me, just seems like youthful nonsense. If you were actually in some kind of criminal hacking enterprise I bet you would know not to make mistakes like leaving a paper trail to your identity in a discord channel where you solicited a crime.

I haven't seen the people with criminal records for cyber crimes be less trustworthy in the industry. Some of them just made stupid mistakes when they were younger and sometimes dumb kids get way overcharged for cyber crimes. For the most part I think it's fine for kids to go through a phase where they think it's cool but they don't really know what they are doing. A lot of people have done that. A lot of 13 yr old kids on the internet have talked about hacking banks and things like that and they aren't all going to be in a gang. Another analogy is how a lot of people get into chemistry because they like blowing things up. Not all those people are terrorists.
The trouble is that the statements and their actions don't line up at all. USAID, CFPB, and other government regulatory agencies make up a tiny, tiny portion of our current deficit. Even if these agencies were completely eliminated, it wouldn't do _anything_ to affect our financial troubles. Even completely eliminating every single government worker wouldn't solve the deficit.

That's not even considering that these agencies can have positive, not negative, financial impact. A well-regulated economy can avoid disastrous recessions and thereby pay for itself manyfold. Hell, the CFPB was put in place to prevent the exact housing crash situation you just mentioned, but now one private citizen is getting rid of it because... he doesn't like it?
Elon has been saying FSD is a year away for years. And the latest version of FSD just slammed someone into a light pole this morning.

https://electrek.co/2025/02/09/tesla-cybertruck-crash-on-ful...
"The Com" is just zoomer-talk for "The Scene"
With T-Mobile's history of recurring data breaches one needs to wonder whether they have an internal plan to sell all their user data periodically and then claim that they were pwned by some new vulnerability.

I'm sure I wouldn't touch any service that associated with or shared data with them. Y'all do your own thing though.
The flu has long term effects, too: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6596076/

Really, any severe virus infection has long-term effects.
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