skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The list of expenditures never authorized by Congress is staggering. You're spot-on about the authorization risk but it's just the latest in a perpetual issue. Congress has normalized funding "zombie programs" through autopilot appropriations rather than proper reauthorizations. Notable zombie programs include VA health, women's health spending, NIH research...

House Rule XXI (blocking unauthorized spending) gets waived a majority of the time. 50% of expired programs haven't been reviewed in 10+ years. 2023 alone saw $236B in improper payments.

So IMO while the buyout could get axed the pattern suggests they'll likely kick the can with another CR. Perhaps this administration will try to force a different tack, I suppose we'll see.
That's a non-sequitur, there can be non-genetic and non-sexism cultural reasons that influence study tendencies, or a blend of all three.
The problem is that DEI in practice tends to be the other kind of stuff. I think at this point it's actually kinda disingenuous to pretend that "DEI" is
"just diversity, equity, and inclusion" (i.e. that you can just point at the dictionary definitions of these words to explain what it is). No, it's a very specific political mindset, and the label is now firmly associated with it. You can't say that "DEI is just equality" anymore so than you can say that about "all lives matter".
Bunch of sycophants who are willing to sell out our democracy for some twitter likes.

Edit: The post is flagged. Glad we have nothing to worry about. No discussion necessary.
im in md, and my hens have been laying all winter, no artificial light. they are a hybrid cross i bought from a local egg producing farm. i think they are called sex linked reds (not sure).

it’s crazy how many eggs they lay.
In a vacuum I wouldn't make a conjecture.

Given the current subject matter I would ask for clarification. For example, is one of your personal goals OR corporate goals within those hundreds of interviews to promote DEI?
All of the fees, none of the work.
>what someone should do illegal and unenforced generates the same outcomes as legal

Illegal + unenforced can generate the same outcome as legal. Or someone can get arrested later when the enforcement begins.

There's a big difference.
Bad guess :)
Marker (https://www.github.com/VikParuchuri/marker) works kind of like this. It uses a layout model to identify blocks and processes each one separately. The internal format is a tree of blocks, which have arbitrary fields, but can all render to html. It can write out to json, html, or markdown.

I integrated gemini recently to improve accuracy in certain blocks like tables. (get initial text, then pass to gemini to refine) Marker alone works about as well as gemini alone, but together they benchmark much better.
So writing brittle code that’s impossible to change isn’t a failure of design? It can still compile and run just fine
Actually it seems like region-specific copyright deals are still very much in play. If I visit that playlist from Australia then 14 of the full movies are unavailable and hidden. But VPN'ing through the US shows me the whole set.
yeah that’s my point.
wow, sad
For context, the author is a historian specialized in the mechanisms of authoritarianism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Snyder
It was ATT that fired all the old HBO bosses that curated for quality. They just dumped their failed experiment onto Discovery to squeeze out whatever was left.
It turns out you can’t be an ATC unless your worst subject is science. It’s the only question which awards points.
did you read the text linked?
I agree with you and I am scared. My problem is: if most people can't work, who is going to pay for the product/services created with IA?

I get a lot of "IA will allow us to create SaaS in a weekend" and "IA will take engineers jobs", which I think they both may be true. But a lot of SaaS surive because engineers pay for them -- if engineer don't exist anymore, a lot of SaaS won't either. If you eat your potential customers, creating quick SaaS doesn't make sense anymore (yeah, there are exceptions, etc., I know).
Not even China says that it is communist. It's officially "socialist with Chinese characteristics".

In fact, no country in the world ever claimed to have been communist in a sense of having a communist society. They were all "building communism", rather, with socialism as "intermediate stage".
I like this method of interviewing. If it results in more men initially then that's fine. As long as the mechanism for hiring is such that it reduces discrimination for everyone, then it's one worth pushing. If there are traits employers reject candidates on en-masse, then at least this data would help us analyze what these traits are.

Once we know what the determining traits for hiring are, we can either debate whether their importance in the job at hand (if there are doubts) or find ways to encourage these traits in underrepresented communities.
I've never owned a t-shirt that wasn't made by an unethical clothing industry which uses child slaves and abuses workers in sweatshops to produce hundreds of tons of clothing filled with plastics and poison every single year most of which will be burned or left to rot in a desert on the other side of the world from the retail shop that overpriced it when they sold it to me.

I have no idea what the fair market price of a t-shirt would be in a world where no one had to compete with the practices of the current industry. I do know that it'd be worth every penny. The price being paid now in environmental harm, inequality, and human suffering is way too high.
>Right, understanding that the government itself creates the space for the free market to operate,

In the US the gov has become too big so that it cannot support a free market.
( there are some estimates that say 60% of our income goes into taxes of various forms). More over govt are the reason for a no freemarket. For me Govt is synonymous with the mafia, a more polished, legalized version ( yes, we differ here, so we can leave it at that)

>so any tinkering with it ought to be done carefully.

Most of the govt can be removed and no one will notice except govt employees.
China very effective at copying all the stuff SpaceX is doing despite this being deliberately made difficult by ITAR, suggests there's a lot of room for the American (and ESA) competitors to be structurally inept without needing Musk's staff to be demonstrating an unusual (as opposed to industry standard) degree of genius.
Thanks! Annoyed that the link is still not loading for me. :(
> How can something be illegal before any judge ruled on it?

If someone steals from you and there's been no conviction, was a crime committed or not? You're still out whatever was taken, but by your logic no theft has occurred until after someone has been convicted of committing the crime.
My god, he’s actually acknowledging Cheong..

Meatriding has never been this successful
Here's another mea culpa from Paul Krugman (he was wrong about globalization).

What Economists (Including Me) Got Wrong About Globalization
https://archive.md/DrJKm

If you stick up a liquor and kill a couple of people you go to jail for life.
If you advocate for polices that destroy the local economies of middle America with all the ills that ensue...social breakdown, drug addiction/overdoses, crime etc. Well you get to write a mea culpa and then head off to a nice dinner at your favorite NY restaurant I guess.
That is absolute madness. I assume you also recursively chmod 777 everything on your Linux systems?

It's incredibly valuable to not allow anything which runs on your machine to immediately read and write anything, even on a single user system.

You can change permissions later...
Then share the reasons. We are witnessing the end of the era of American global dominance. The four years of Biden were but a reprieve. Trump 2.0 is here to finish the job and end it all once and for all. The American Experiment has failed.
Maybe that was lost in all the other noise domestically but in international news the extremist was quoted musing about annexing Panama, Canada, and Greenland. And recently Gaza? Not sure about Mexico.
>Food budgets would have to go back to the 1940's or earlier - where they were a significant fraction of take home pay. Now they are almost a rounding error comparatively.

You are demonstrating your privilege. I am pretty frugal and my INDIVIDUAL food cost is like $100 a week, or 10% of my take home pay, and while I make peanuts compared to most in tech, I make more than the average adult.

USDA stats say the average numbers are closer to $500 a month and 11% of gross salary, and also:

>households in the lowest income quintile spent an average of $5,278 on food (representing 32.6 percent of after-tax income).
Why wouldn't you pick the time when the public would be convinced a price rise is justifiable in order to raise prices (on a fairly inelastic good?) That isn't what you need a conspiracy for; the biggest would just press release that they were doing it, and the rest would follow. You might need a conspiracy to keep smaller producers from defecting from the price the biggest are setting, but the defectors wouldn't actually have the capacity to replace the price fixers, so they'd just be setting money on fire by not following.

I think it's pretty clear that they do explicitly discuss fixing prices with each other, but there's no actual need to do that.

https://farmaction.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Farm-Action...

edit: also, check out frozen potatoes https://jacobin.com/2025/01/french-fry-price-fixing-antitrus...
Only if the guards you hire know what they are doing.

If you have ever been through the app review process, you know that it is opaque, flawed, and clearly being run by inexperienced or overworked people who just don't have time to do anything remotely resembling a security audit.
The current US president was voted for by just 23.1% of the US population. I am not adjusting for eligible voters, but there is no sweeping mandate regardless of what anyone would have you believe.

They are certainly trying to make it seem that way. Bluster tricks fools. What to do about is to call your representatives, boycott companies if necessary, and cast an informed vote in local, state, and federal elections every chance you have.

And it is shameful this submission was flagged successfully. It is a high quality, factual, and relevant article. I'm embarrassed to be a member of this site today.
I sat through the entire thing...my cheeks fell asleep but well Worth it. Thak you Andrej!
I meant to link it earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42942618
outreach and financial support means getting potentially qualified people in the piepeline much earlier in the process, by reaching out to potential and providing financial assistance for those who may not be have the finances.

In this example, before it was CTI schools that were providing most of the candidates. There's a lot of potentially qualified minorities who absolutely have no clue such schools or opportunities even exist, and a few who even if they knew were so financially disadvantaged to take care of the opportunities. Outreach in this case, will be combing high schools and making more people aware of the opportunities, and providing financial assistance for those who may be qualified but are too poor.
This is great, I just want to highlight out how nuts it is that we have spun up whole industries around extracting text that was typically printed from a computer, back into a computer.

There should be laws that mandates that financial information be provided in a sensible format: even Office Open XML would be better than this insanity. Then we can redirect all this wasted effort into digging ditches and filling them back in again.
Depends on what you care more about: the package size or that sort of consistency in exactly how things look. For example, when I was using Wails to quickly throw together a UI for managing some other client software, small package sizes were great and since whatever I do inside of a WebView/browser will always be different than the native OS GUI solutions, slight differences were inconsequential. Someone else might have vastly different requirements.
I also rely on hosting provider DDoS protection and don't use very intrusive protection like Cloudflare.

Only issues I had to deal with are when someone finds some slow endpoint, and manages to overload the server with it, and my go to approach is to optimize it to max <10-20ms response time, while blocking the source of traffic if it keeps being too annoying after optimization.

And this happened like 2-3 times over 20 years of hosting the eshop.

Much better than exposing users to CF or likes of it.
AI tool helps find life-saving medicine for rare disease
I generally dislike use of the "lie" word. Isn't true. Is misunderstood. Has been hijacked by marketing. Misrepresents an underlying scientific consensus still in formation. Has been reviewed.

No, The cabal decided, to tell the world this lie. "Big Olive Oil" is behind it. Its a scam folks. Don't drink the olive-oil cool-aid.

Look, it's complicated. It's not a lie, not even a lie to children. I think Michael Pollan had it best: eat food your grandmother would recognise. If you come from poland, thats not the mediterranean diet.
I'd like a progressive or training mode.

I'd also like the hex codes and name of the color to pop up somewhere, maybe part of the training mode?

I would love to use this app to practice my color name recognition, not just seeing if I can differentiate them.
The government is still an employer and subject to the same liability if not more so. I'd think workers would have a strong case to sue for damages if that happened. I'd take that bet. I can't imagine a situation where a judge wouldn't side with the employee on this.
I mostly agree with you. I wasn't excusing or agreeing with the behaviour. I was only trying to ponder the amoral financial incentives.

Aside: I think most moral people struggle to even recognise amoral decision making. I also suspect that learning to be more sociopathic can be profitable. I don't much admire most doyens of business. Trying to fight amoral business people seems like a personally losing game because you eventually internalise their tricks.
HN is more like a forum in that sense. I don't post for EVERYONE to see. I post for parent to see, at least primarily.
I understand your sentiment, as I reacted similarly the first time someone brought this to my attention. However, after logging into my Cloudflare account, viewing the DNS record page, and attempting to find any mention of SSL decryption, and then clicking on related docs pages (and links from them!) I was still unable to find this information.

You're right that Cloudflare has written many high-quality blog posts on the workings of the Internet, and the inner workings at Cloudflare. Amusingly, they even at times criticize HTTPS interception (not their use of it) and offer a tool to detect: https://blog.cloudflare.com/monsters-in-the-middleboxes/

I still believe that this information should be displayed to the relevant user configuring the service.

There are many types of proxies, and MITM decryption is not an inherent part of a proxy. The linked page from the Admin Panel is https://developers.cloudflare.com/dns/manage-dns-records/ref... and links to pages like "How Cloudflare works" (https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/concepts/how-...) which still do not mention HTTPS interception. It sounds like you found a link I didn't. In the past someone argued that I should've looked here: https://developers.cloudflare.com/data-localization/faq/#are...

But if you look closer, those are docs for the Data Localization Suite, an Enterprise-only paid addon.
Honestly, it should just come down to rate limiting and what you’re willing to serve and to whom. If you’re a free information idealist like me, I’m OK with bots accessing public web-serving servers, but not OK with allowing them to consume all my bandwidth and compute cycles. Furthermore, I’m also not OK with legitimate users consuming all my resources. So I should employ strategies that prevent individual clients or groups of clients from endlessly submitting requests, whether the format of the requests make sense or are “junk.”
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/tech/google-kills-diversity-hiring-targe...
In what universe, public or private, is nine months of pay a poor deal for a buyout?
> they’re likely moving on to something that is... good for society anyway

Like supporting advertising and/or furthering the financialization of our economy?
I thought the EU was also turning inward and populist?
One torment on an individual level, is that none of us have any particular agency to do anything about it. Not alone, not even with many. Overwhelming numbers accompanied by intense societal disfunction could, maybe, possibly work. Signs and angry chants won't stop these loons. Strategic occupations might help, like MLK overburdening jails during sit-ins, but even that is an annoyance they will put down violently if it inconveniences people in the west wing. Be very careful.
yeah, on a small scale it’s actually pretty easy to make a decent dent in the feed bill. once you get over a dozen hens though it would take a few adults to make enough waste. chickens eat a lot!
You don't need to clear cookies to avoid sending that data back. Just use a browser that properly isolates third party/Facebook cookies.
The collect_lines example won't even compile, it's not valid C++, but there's undefined behavior in one of the examples? I'm very surprised and would like to know what it is, that would be truly shocking.
really sorry to hear my friend, wishing you all the best!
> He simply informs the President,

That man is way too friendly. Just before the election he gave $300.000.000,00 to Trump. And he is so special, eh! He can read air-gaped, highly sensitive data that no one should see from government systems, just using his mind/indoctrinated minions. I hate it when people speculate this might have to do, amongst things, with dark money to be made in intelligence/elite level international crime.
What role do you think the legislative branch of government plays? The judicial branch can rule on the constitutionality of the laws that have been passed and resolve other issues, but it isn't a requirement for the law to come into effect.
Hm, I am surprised that people who are presumably knowledgeable with how attention works are surprised by this. The more tokens in the output, the more computation the model is able to do overall. Back in September, when I was testing my iOS hands-free voice AI prototype that was powered by 8B LLM, when I wanted it to give really thoughtful answers to philosophical questions, I would instruct it to output several hundred whitespace characters (because they are not read aloud) before the actual answer.

What I am more surprised about is why models actually seem to have to produce "internal thoughts" instead of random tokens. Maybe during training having completely random tokens in thinking section derailed the model's thought process in a same way background noise can derail ours?
It is almost never I good idea to assert in a library, unless the error is truly unrecoverable. I think returning an error code\throwing an exception would be very reasonable and a much better API than failing silently though.
Now they are almost a rounding error comparatively.

ballparking I’d need about low 7-figure after tax pay for my food budget to qualify as a rounding error…
How are you generating it? A modified voronoid?
It really depends on what the outcome is. There has been pro-DEI pushback on blind interviews and auditions when it resulted in fewer minorities being represented. One particularly famous case is when GitHub shut down their conference on diversity grounds after the blind paper review process resulted in a speaker slate that was all male. For another example, here's a pitch against blind auditions for orchestras to "make them more diverse": https://archive.is/iH2uh
>Get your news from long articles, not tweets. Actually read the articles

Alternatively I glance at Google News occasionally. Normally the headlines are dull enough not to read the article.
tens of millions? well then your problem is not that officals could fudge the numbers, your house is on fire, of course my comment doesn't apply.
Thanks! Annoyed that the link still isn't loading for me.

I'm curious on the thesis. I'm assuming "locked in by tests" increments are the problem? I'm curious why you couldn't treat this like any learning task where you can take efforts that are effectively larger steps to see where they can get you?

I should also note that I am not clear I understand how bad of a representation of the board you could get locked with. I got a working solver years ago with what is almost certainly a poor representation. https://taeric.github.io/Sudoku.html
And there it is. When China needs to be a scary enemy of the US then it’s a communist hell hole. When trying to explain their successes, it’s because they aren’t really communist.
The LLM's are near perfect (maybe parsing I instead of 1) - if you're using the outputs in the context of RAG, your errors are likely much much higher in the other parts of your system. Spending a ton of time and money chasing 9's when 99% of your system's errors have totally different root causes seems like a bad use of time (unless they're not).
It helps if you have a dataset that goes by county, and a lot of data in the US has it's highest resolution at the county level.
We did this for a speech to text solution in healthcare. Doctors would always review everything that was transcribed manually (you don’t want hallucinations in your prescription), and using a heatmap it was trivial to identify e.g. drugs that were pretty much always misunderstood by STT
Have you verified that your browsers have correct settings for their default fonts, i.e. a real monospace font as the default for "monospace"?

Here the code is displayed with my default monospace font, as configured in browsers, so the formatting is fine.

There are only 2 possible reasons for the bad formatting: a bug in the CSS of the ACM site, which selects a bad font on certain computers or a bad configuration of your own browsers, where you have not selected appropriate default fonts.
> It's interesting that you say that, because the former GDR is where AfD is having the most success. Y'know, the part of the country that was run as a puppet of the Soviet Union and was more stridently "anti-fascist" for the majority of the postwar period? [0]

It's running strong in the racist part of the country. The area of Germany where they were literally tying up people at the side of the road and the police did nothing. Or where a bunch of racists stood and chanted racist chants at a bus and the police made the people on the bus get off. That's the area where they have the racist marches. Aka the poor part of Germany. Where there are poor people there are people blaming someone for them being poor.

But not in all of the former GDR.

> Most Germans today only know of the horrors of Nazism from the history books. They have no real experience with it. There is nothing special about any particular nationality that makes them immune to the scourge of reanimated fascism. The Soviet Union bore horrible losses to the Nazis in WWII and the largest former SSR, Russia, is more-or-less a fascist state today. A salute isn't as alienating as "being left behind" by the world.

You seem to think I'm saying they're immune. I'm saying that a large majority of the country is very anti the far-right. So much so that the CDU had to walk back a vote where they voted with the AfD, this was a vote for a permanent border control. It passed the first vote, the second vote it did not after Germany had massive protests over the fact the CDU broke the unwritten rule that mainstream parties don't cooperate with the far-right parties.

> A salute isn't as alienating as "being left behind" by the world.

I think you think this is profound but it's just showing a lack of overall insight. Being left behind is basically what facists want.