skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More than half of us voted for this. And we love what is going on; that action is being taken. Don't presume everyone thinks the same way you do.
Yes, what does signing a lot of executive orders have to do with it?

Historically-speaking American presidents are using more and more executive orders to push things through.

That doesn’t inherently make them bad.
I understand being against this law on practicality / constitutionality grounds. It seems to me that the "converse" law would be more useful and legally appropriate: forbid people from making intentionally deceptive bots that claim to be human or have human-like emotional/social capabilities.
Americans have the some of the cheapest housing and highest salaries in the world and look around and cry foul.

The biggest thing holding poorer Americans back is lack of education opportunities and wage theft by their employers.

What does this department do to address those issues?
He's not an Australian. He was, then you guys made him a citizen. He's your problem.
Location: East Coast US, planning on relocating to Eastern Europe in H1 2025

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No but happy to travel and meet in-person

Technologies: Go, Python, Node, TypeScript/JavaScript, React, Svelte, Tailwind, AWS, Postgres, MongoDB, LLMs

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I am a product-minded full-stack engineer with ~2 YoE, currently working on payments infrastructure at an F100 company. I've worked at startups and enjoy being involved in the business beyond coding. I've recently been experimenting with MCP (Model Context Protocol) and would love to talk if you're building in that space. Hoping to make something useful with like-minded people.

Open to full-time roles (preferred) and contract work.
>Online platforms with over 10 million monthly U.S. visitors would need to ensure bot operators on their services comply with these expanded disclosure rules.

Dang can check for you.
So firstly the idea that context shouldn't affect people's views on things (like whether a good is handmade or not) just doesn't match up with how people actually interact with and perceive the world. I mean obviously I'll feel different about my copy of Calvin and Hobbs I read as a child versus a random copy in a store. I would even go as far to say that as a human it's impossible to fully separate objects from their perceived context.

For bots specifically, many bots try to pass themselves off as human because the people that created them know that that lie matters. There's room for debate about what's the best specific policy but the mere fact that bots so often try to pass themselves off as human is their creators admitting that it's important.
You do realize that what Musk and DOGE is doing is completely unconstitutional, right? ONLY Congress has the right to spend tax dollars. DOGE has no legal right whatsoever to stop any payments Congress has approved.

A Democratic DOJ could very well arrest and charge Musk for what he is doing.
Not really -- the circular dependency issue happened 28 minutes after the customer impact started. That issue was a cause of the outage being double the length it could have been, but not an original cause of the outage.
......huh?
How about: any democracy where Elon Musk (an unelected, private citizen) isn't granted unfettered access to dismantle the federal government.
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How, do you think, can they restrict that? Require that in the EULA, then sue someone who breaks the rules at a scale large enough to be worth the cost of the lawyers?

Or do you think they should analyze the text's sentiment and raise a flag if the sentiment is obviously breaking the EULA, e.g. some kind of hate speech?

How would you implement that?
How did you come to that conclusion from their comment?
I posted this because I've been wondering recently why every food delivery app tries to encourage orders of $12 or more. As someone who often orders just for myself, I think these policies encourage people to order more food and get fat.

Turns out they're trying to optimize last mile delivery costs by encouraging people to make larger orders, probably thinking that it will get the person to talk to their housemates about whether or not they want something to eat.

The thing is, encouraging larger orders works for places like Walmart, where everything being delivered is nonperishable and not time sensitive. Like, you don't want a customer to order a roll of tape, and then in another order, a pair of shoes, and then, a t-shirt. It makes sense for those things to be batched.

It doesn't make sense for a business where the value proposition is: "We can save you time by bringing you lunch." Because lunch is a set timeframe, and if you are making the person getting food delivery coordinate with a lot of other people, it's not really saving any time.
I don’t doubt there’s a racist element there, but people are blind as to just how deep United Front cells are stuck in the US. From running illegal weed grows, pushing power and doing transnational repression, it’s a way bigger threat that people don’t realise

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/nyregion/chan-china-nyc-i...
Is this a new thing? As a non-American the US is for us famous for the exact opposite in south/latin America.
Some humans pull it off very well.
I’ve had a number of encounters with ISP tech support where the humans seemed a lot like bots…
That's true, but these are Yarvin acolytes. They literally don't believe in democracy. They think their superior intellect entitles them to rule over the rest of us.
Seems only fair, given how often I have to check a box to prove I'm not one.
just another thing that will hurt the small guy somehow, and barely bother the big guy
I still make them. Most are todo list things. I have the rule subset for my Robotics competitions for the kids to use since not all of them have phones. I also use them for trips to do plane flights, rental, hotel, dinner places, etc. I’d rather accidentally forget a pocketmod on a rental counter than my phone.
Half of these people are software engineers, many in their early 20s. I don't even need the gender card to point out that the group seems highly biased.
I doubt it, but hey welcome to the club. Like 1/4 of everything I make goes to social security.

But just because I’ve been contributing my whole life doesn’t mean we should double down of a failing program.
We allow _this_ because we're tired of _that_. Hope it helps.
Had one in our university solar car 15 years ago, too :D
Or was convinced that's what they wanted, thanks to billions and billions spent in propaganda.
> How did you Americans allow any of this?

None of this is legal anyways, Trump is bypassing congress and the judiciary branch. It's not really "allowed", more like forced onto them right now.
Consolidating power in the executive branch is about creating a dictatorship. How could it be anything else? They're trying to neuter the other branches of government. Trump has explicitly and repeatedly expressed a desire to be a dictator.
Which law is being broken?
Ok, except I guess I would say your definition of mid-level and junior both fall under what I would consider “junior”— maybe I would call what you define as “junior” as “intern” ?

I don’t see how LLMs completely eliminate anyone who is doing anything more than simply pulling well-defined tickets off a board
Much of Trump's voter base derives from people who distrust the "news". I don't blame them, and those folks would be just as quick to point out the ignorance of DNC voters, a party repeatedly shooting their supporters in the foot every election.
You had me until "The system is working as designed."

The system is most definitely not working as designed, primarily because Congress has completely abdicated their congressional duty as a co-equal branch of government. Their are good congressional reasons why high-level advisors to the president need to be approved by the Senate. The fact that Musk and his cabal are doing an end run around this congressional requirement by posing as some sort of "special government employee" or whatever is laughable.

Never mind that funding can't just be cancelled because the executive branch doesn't want to spend it, and that is completely contrary to the "power of the purse" that is the purview of Congress.
I’m curious how you believe elons experience here would be beneficial?
It’ll be handled by the courts then, right?

Personally, I like the bold approach. I really dislike Trump and would never ever consider voting for the guy. This isn’t the outcome that I hoped for, but I appreciate that he’s trying to do something at least, even if it fails. Only 34% of Americans trust the government for a lot of valid reasons. We’ve been at war for pretty much forever. We keep innerworkings of government secret for ‘national security’. And, I have never liked how we influence elections and governments around the world. It always felt so gross.

I’ve done work with USAID and have seen first hand their ineffective humanitarian aid programs. It’s not surprising that they haven’t made much progress in over 50 years when you consider the perverse incentives.
Democracy in the US is well defined, even if someone does not understand it.

Simplified, the President executes laws written by Congress via the Executive branch. Congress passes laws that must agree with the US Constitution. The Judicial branch arbitrates disputes by interpreting the US Constitution. The Constitution can be changed per Article V.
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That is literally the entirety of a manager’s job: judging and evaluating people they manage.
Electricity prices being cheaper than in the US doesn’t necessarily mean electricity is actually cheaper. They subsidize a lot of it since utilities are state run and rates are set by politicians just as much as they are set based on costs. Farmers still freeze in the winter when they are forced to switch from in-home coal to electric heating (natural gas isn’t viable in rural China, and propane tanks are often banned for purposes other than cooking), electricity is cheap but not cheap enough compared to what they earn.
Up close they look very diff rent.

A bit farther away both end up being the same — “using automation to make executives insanely rich”.
>Why I gave up a seven-figure salary to save America

That's also a bit disingenuous. You can save America today by not being an ass to others, doing what you know is right and spending some of your free time helping others. Plenty of charities one can get involved with, locally as well.

The reason why they're there is because "I worked for Musk" in your CV translates to tens/hundreds of millions of dollars later in life.
Apparently, DOGE is also meddling with FAA's air traffic control system. I wonder what could go wrong here? https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1887233566263967812
He's fettered by the CEO to whom he reports.
What we're seeing happen in the downsizing area is mostly from the Project 2025 policy manual.[1] The just-confirmed head of the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, was one of the major authors of Project 2025.
It's worth reading that, at least the key sections. Trump has insisted that Project 2025 is not his policy, but what's happening is close to the manual.

The Project 2025 people couldn't agree on tariffs. So there are two contradictory sections by different authors, "Free Trade" and "Fair Trade". Trump seems to have picked the "Fair Trade" plan.

Trump's initiatives in Canada, Panama, Greenland, and Gaza were not part of the plan.

[1] https://www.project2025.org/policy/
I _think_ they’re talking about the people arrested for storming the capitol?
Pretty much. Person asks "how did Americans allow this?". Someone responds and get downvoted and flagged to hell.

Funny enough, that also models the reason why people are in shock? "How could this happen, all the posts, media, and polls I saw were predicting a Harris win? Was it the Russians? The aliens?". Yet here someone responding honestly, and they get downvoted to hell and disappear. Next cycle it will be the same, "how could this happen, everything I read and everyone I asked all agreed with ... and then ..."
> I've learned the hard way that many people in this country do NOT actually care about democracy.

Our democracy has been eroding for decades. Congress collects paychecks while gridlocking progress, even on bipartisan issues that could help ordinary citizens. Super PACs and "campaign contributions" (aka bribes) ensure the wealthy control both parties. Democrats and Republicans both spend recklessly and divide the nation. Democrats won't admit it, but their approach has driven half the country to prefer what the Republicans have become: essentially a cult.
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?
Came across this really cool demo of it at a basketball game: https://bsky.app/profile/lukeknox.bsky.social/post/3lhk3btpo...

(Submitted the TechCrunch article because it seemed more informative than the official site)
Part of the difficulty of arguing about this is that the effectiveness is very clearly not there. The following is from treasury.gov[1]:

21 % Social Security
15 % National Defense
14 % Health
13 % Net Interest
13 % Medicare
9 % Income Security
6 % Veterans Benefits and Services
3 % Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services
2 % Natural Resources and Environment
2 % Transportation
2 % Other

To get the level of cuts they want they cannot legally do it without Congress.

[1]: https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...
https://archive.ph/HgqJ9
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I speak from personal history, but it's really easy to take a bunch of theoretically smart, high-achieving young people, give them a singular purpose, and have them work in overdrive with a level of arrogance that fits their lack of wisdom. It's essentially exactly how Mao was able to create the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution.
> Like 1/4 of everything I make goes to social security.

If you want to be taken seriously, don't make false claims. It weakens your other arguments. Social Security is 6.2% (12.4% if self-employed since the employer takes care of half) on the first $176,100 of your net income (which for the median US taxpayer is on all their income). Medicare is 1.45% (2.9% if self-employed, same as Social Security).

So if you are self-employed, you pay at most 15.3% of your income below $176,100 in combined Social Security and Medicare. That's a lot, but it's not 25%. If you are not self-employed, you're paying 7.65% on income below $176,100 to both Social Security and Medicare which is very far from 25%.

If you're earning over $176,100 your effective Social Security tax rate will drop.
> How does that translate to your situation? If you're in college, find internships, it's the easiest way to get your foot in the door. Are you out of college or never went? Time to look at job postings, evaluate the skills they are looking for, and learn those skills

I’m saying this ironically as a 50 year old (check my username) - “okay boomer”.

That doesn’t work anymore. Internships are much harder to get than they use to be.

“Learning in demand skills” doesn’t work either. Everyone is doing it. Every job opening literally gets thousands of applicants within the first day with people who also has the same generic skillset.

When I was looking for your standard C# CRUD enterprise job where they wanted AWS experience last year and the year before as a “Plan B”, I applied for literally hundreds of jobs and heard crickets. Not only had a coded and led major projects dealing with AWS and before dealing with AWS, I worked at AWS in the consulting department (full time).

Plan A offers came quickly (within two or three weeks) both times. Full time positions doing strategic consulting (personal outreach) and one or two offers from product companies based on my network. But that doesn’t help when someone is just starting out.

By the way, I also started out in 1996 by getting a return offer to be a computer operator based on an internship. But it ain’t 1996 anymore. It’s a shit show out here right now for people with experience.
Yeah there are no good options for Japanese yet (except maybe in Japan but I haven't heard of good Ai models for speech locally)
I don't know but it sure is interesting that White House is saying Elon Musk will now be reviewing his own conflicts of interest [1] as a man heavily invested in companies with large government contracts or beneficiaries of government incentive schemes.

Or maybe it's just too avoid having to worry about sexually harassing his employees[2].

[1] https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-mus...

[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-paid-250000-to-a-flig...
I’m genuinely curious how these companies are going to get a ROI?
Do you have a personal stylist or doctor that sends you direct calendar invites?

Usually a friend just DMs me and tells me to show up somewhere.
Trump got 49.8% of the vote with 63.9% turnout, which would be 31.8% of eligible voters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidentia...
That some here are still blinded to the disastrous effects this will have on their country is baffling. How could you ever believe that giving all powers to egomaniacal billionaires would benefit you or anyone you know? Can't you see their best interests are 100% antagonistic to yours? What would it take for you to admit "ok that's too far"?
Elez, the guy who pushed the changes the devs were not allowed to review to the production payment system, is the guy that has just resigned because of hyper racist comments he made in the past that have come to light.

If in doubt, I recommend checking them out because they're incredibly awful, to the extent that it makes you wonder if the payment system he pushed to had ethnic information attached to it.
Games seem like a really under-explored source of data. It’s an area where humans have an intrinsic motivation to interact with others in dialogue, they can be almost arbitrarily open ended, and there tends to be the kind of clean success/failure end states that RL needs. I’m reminded of the high skill Diplomacy bot that Facebook research built but hasn’t really followed up on.
You do realize that RFC3514 is still not widely implemented?

And that was just one bit on a packet — far different than complex constraints on the behavior of artificial intelligence…
It took me like two weeks to figure out the babel fish puzzle. I almost gave up, but I could only afford one game at a time then.
We may or may not have similar political views, but we are in agreement on disdain for the clickbaiting.
This is very interesting

Very usable on mobile too

Love seeing the insights into different discussions. It’s great to have a dashboard-type interface for conversations
I don't see how the current actions are leading to a reduction in waste. Could you elaborate on how the recent actions are connected with improved spending outcomes?
Xtts is non commercial use only though
The barrier isn’t the infra it’s the ecosystem
Recent body language analysis brings that into question. But it isn't a very precise science.
Also worth noting that he made these posts before Musk hired him. And that they didn't fire him.
smelly Musk thinks his sledgehammer method at head count reduction at the federal level makes any real significant is a fool's errand without a deep working knowledge of government. what about all the monies incurred from inept procurement deals and revolving door policy. Ask about federal fiscal spending when our enemies see no one is manning the gate. “We are being led by weak and feckless leadership who only serve to enrich themselves.”
For those that did, good.

They didn't seem to have good publicists...
Empire maintenance is hard. USAID was a form of soft power that prevented the necessary use of blunt force.

Given the rhetoric against China, the consolidation of power and rise of nationalistic fervor. I suppose we’re just a few years from war with China. Presumably under a false flag operation ala Gulf of Tonkin style.

Fascism is capitalisms iron fist.
> TLDR: a sufficient amount of congress implicitly endorses trumps activities.

Which is because Congress has been captured by the autocrat that wants to turn himself into a dictator. They've rolled over and are allowing it to happen. They are setting up a system that will allow them to hold into power for perpetuity, and prevent future elections from changing that.
> The fact that nobody is stopping these people is the clearest evidence anyone needs that there's no such thing as "the deep state".

What do you mean? I see plenty of people trying to stop DOGE. Not very successful so far, considering the President does have significant powers over the Executive function.

And the "deep state" is nothing special. It's simply the unelected government employees. It's the same thing you see in big private corporations and the reason why CEOs tend to fire all the VPs and each org "cleans house" - people who don't agree with your mission will work to oppose it.
1. There is question of legal authority for the executive branch to be doing what it is doing.These departments were established by acts of congress and an act of congress would need to shut them down. What DOGE is doing is by passing congress and de facto shutting them down by not letting them operate. Eventually the courts will probably catch up and and say DOGE has to stop doing X,Y, and Z, but in the short-term they are taking advantage.

2. It is of legal question whether Musk should have been confirmed by congress given the the access and power he is wielding.

Yes, Trump was democratically elected and yes, Musk was appointed, but democracy requires the rule of law to be followed or the whole thing starts to fall apart.
Can you name a business that depends on zero other businesses? What a completely wild take.
Such folks don't tend to live in skyscrapers.
The question was raised here 24 hours ago .. and [flagged][dead] fairly rapidly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42957495

Which was unfortunate as I asked for technical comments on the wisdom of moving fast and breaking things when applied to a million humans aloft at any moment.
> The access that DOGE and Elon has is strictly legal via standard government processes.

Nope, you are mistaken. The EO gave access for DOGE and unclassified systems. Treasury has quite a bit that is classified. This is why the lawsuits to stop them have merit.

https://home.treasury.gov/about/general-information/orders-a...
For USAID, the fact that USAID was investigating him:

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-enemy-usaid-was-investigating...

His attack on USAID was not "rooting out waste", it was to settle a personal vendetta against the agency.
It irks me to no end when developers assume that staying silent or non-committal is a sin. Wise developers are often silent, as they know what they don’t know. And I’d much rather work with someone I like who is willing to say they’re wrong than with someone highly confident that must win arguments.
Same way the man that knew nothing about rockets built the company that builds the world’s most sophisticated launch vehicles.

By understanding problems and then solving them. I cannot think of a more universally useful skillset.
We could look at countries that have healthy democracies and see what they're doing differently.

What are countries like Finland, Norway, or Estonia doing differently and how can we import it to our countries?
I’ll believe it when a constitutional amendment happens.

In any case congress has hardly been captured. People keep saying this nonsense as if it’s been many years. It hasn’t even been a month. Once the constituents digest the activity congress will adjust accordingly.

Most of trumps EOs have been blocked or frozen for now. The system is balancing as intended.