skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When we think about what tasks bright young people can become good at, I think auditing flows of money is one of them. It's a technical task with objective results, and a tight feedback cycle. The places where you need age and experience are like resolving interpersonal conflict, balancing interests from many stakeholders, setting up objectives for others to follow, etc.

So to me this argument sounds the same as "how can young kids think they can program like experienced engineers".

Another answer is that financial auditors don't have ALL the technical skill for this scope of project. Light SQL skills tend to be the upper end of technical accounting (many workers on a project is good for corporate billing). Reports indicate Doge is employing graph analysis, LLMs, etc.
Getting the data looks like a SW problem perfect for young people. I have no evidence that this how the organization functions, but I can imagine them as technical analysts, who simply pass information to higher ups who do have organizational experience.
You're right but I also didn't swear an oath to protecting the country.
excellent - will be citing in next arxiv paper - may have questions, @dotdotjames on twitter if want to connect
Where are you getting these stories from? Are you claiming to know people and to have received firsthand accounts, or is this stuff written down somewhere where the rest of us can see it and read it?
Where does one find these torrent datasets? Did they download the books in bits and pieces or as a single huge multi-TB file?
While there is plenty of baloney on the left, like quantum consciousness and crystals etc. it isn't held up as being proudly wrong. Biden's HHS secy. wasn't a Reiki Master even if Reiki Masters are leftish. RFK Jr. is proudly a kook, regardless of how right or left he is.

It just isn't symmetrical.
Publicly-owned is socialism. It's the workers owning the means of production.
> Versus whatever the media is reporting

Where? The lack of transparency from DOGE has been a pain point even for advocates. I haven’t seen anything more than generic “we’re doing good work, trust us” PR

The media is reporting the history of some of these people and their actual actions. Of course these people aren’t going to discuss their past membership in script kiddie DDoS groups or their highly racist Twitter rants.
Are you really claiming that the US is healthier than most of Europe?
The parent comment's claim is that he won the primaries because corporate news deliberately and tirelessly covered his campaign to give him tremendous visibility, which led to his winning campaign. I disagree and think they covered his campaign because it generated clicks and therefore money, which is most of what they care about, and accidentally got him elected in the process. I think they guessed incorrectly at how successful he would be, probably because they're massively out of touch due to both being in a echo chamber while also extremely privileged.
EmuDeck is the more featureful one, but messy in a lot of places - and definitely not just a flatpak. I particularly hate how the ~/Emulation folder is full of absolute symlinks (even when creating sibling folder aliases!) to random places, so it can't be properly used with Syncthing unless you write your own ignore files and set up shares per emulator save directory. Their Windows version is also not exactly the same, so syncing media between a Windows machine and a Linux one is even more annoying.

RetroDeck bundles everything into a single flatpak and seems a lot saner, but is a lot newer.
I assume you're hearing this online. Can you link to some accounts or articles?
It's similar to the malting process. Certain ingredients will contain enzymes and other important metabolites that can break down complex sugars into smaller simpler sugars that can be eaten by yeast (glucose, fructose). You need them to get a fermentation started and warmed up.
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And university students during the Iranian Revolution.
Then he should spend the rest of his life in prison. And it has always been legal to revoke citizenship for naturalized citizens who also have citizenship in another country.
Meta is easily in the top 5 places to work at in the world, especially if you have the talent.
You’re confusing the point. The data accessed so far is not classified. Where does a clearance requirement come from?
Fair! I would say people would be surprised to learn pretty much every large AI project is mostly c++ because of its interop with python.

Some FAANGs focus on AI more than others.
Banks thought we were mad: coral castles and look-at-me loos reinvent NY housing
I'm offended.
I mean use any service like Semrush. Blue sky has real traffic, X has fake traffic. It’s an objectively true statement.
Yeah, these things are true, but I think that needs to be baked into the calculus on these bills: getting them passed isn't even half the battle - if you don't have an answer for how to get the money down to the ground, the law's just an interesting piece of paper.

On the one hand, fixing the dysfunction at the state level is, you're right, outside the purview of the Feds - although when the Democratic governor and Democratic legislature of a state and the Democratic mayors and city councils of the city are where the money's stopped, I think that's still a rock you can throw at the Democratic party.

I also think there's still a belief (fading, thank god) among the Democrats that if they do the right thing and the Republicans stymie them, they'll get credit and the Republicans will lose face (call this the Obama theory of polite governance). At the end of the day, passing bills that get blocked by the opposition doesn't show people your virtues, it shows them your inability to get things done.
> I wouldn’t worry about it until there’s armed men in uniforms and red armbands walking the streets.

Wild that someone can write that entire sentence, put a period at the end, and not notice, "whoa, that actually makes zero sense at all, does it?"

And as others mention: time to worry!
What about a 5k engineer org. Having 10 finops people would make it 0.2% of the workforce. Those people help surface the information for other teams to act.
If you're building the base of the elevator in water, your whole operation is basically operating in water.

The effort to do that is huge.

It's basically a big over complication.
Firstly, who cares? It would be a sad day when Bandai goes after a non-commercial homage to 1980s LCD games they probably forgot about.

Since 2003, the Copyright Office has granted a DMCA exemption in particular for preservation of video games, e.g., https://www.copyright.gov/1201/docs/librarian_statement_01.h...

> Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that have become obsolete and which require the original media or hardware as a condition of access.

Most recently, in the 2024 review of DMCA exemption requests, no video game companies objected:

> The Software Preservation Network (‘‘SPN’’) and LCA jointly petitioned to renew the exemption for individual play by gamers and preservation of video games by a library, archives, or museum for which outside server support has been discontinued, and preservation by a library, archives, or museum, of discontinued video games that never required server support. No oppositions were filed against renewal, and one individual filed a comment in support.

Itch.io itself is able to host the project thanks to DMCA safe harbor provisions.
Ha I guess when I stay up very late -8 overlaps with +8!
Wild alaskan salmon
Alaskan people are tested regularly for mercury due to high fish consumption
> and never adopted except where required by contract requirements

A lot of the software on the Boeing 777 is written in Ada. AFAIK, that was Boeing’s decision, not due to any government contract requirement-as a commercial aircraft, governments are not the primary customers
It's a failure if you want to ship products that customers use.
This is why, in one of my projects, I first stringified the JSON using built in JSON.stringify(your_json) function, then signed that string and sent the string, its signature, and public key to server. Server verifies the signature using the string and if passes, then uses JSON.parse(your_string) to get the original json.
>Intel correctly identified AI as the future

I'd say this is true - they just failed to execute meaningfully on it. They were adding stuff like VNNI back in 2018, buying Nervana and Habana, but then just...didn't do much with it. At the same time, they made Ponte Vecchio.

Software support for all of these is not great, in my personal opinion.

For the Ponte Vecchio and Xe GPUs, pytorch 2.5 allegedly supports it now: https://pytorch.org/blog/intel-gpu-support-pytorch-2-5/

For habana, I think they have a custom interface that hooks into Pytorch: https://docs.habana.ai/en/latest/PyTorch/Reference/Python_Pa...

There's a random Intel 1100 Max with 48gb HBM on eBay, if anyone is inclined to try it...https://www.ebay.com/itm/387631533950
I wonder how much of that is truly GC improvements vs. increased hardware speed dropping pause times.
The access control portion is not clear to me: `current_user_organization_id()` where is this reading from? We tried using `set_config` https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/functions-admin.html and it was incredibly slow, it was not designed for how we were using which was included connection pooling and each query ran a difference "current_user_id" set_config.
DOGE is the kleptocracy.
Is something like automated personalized content creation (for ads) better targeting? Or is it qualitatively different?

I personally think that the population scale surveillance and behavioral manipulation infrastructure built by meta is unethical and incredibly dangerous.
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Are HN accounts even worth anything?
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`How did you add bounding boxes, especially if it is variety of files?
From "An Omega-3 that’s poison for cancer tumors" (2021)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27499427 :

> Fish don't synthesize Omega PUFAs, they eat algae which synthesize fat-soluble DHA and EPA.

> From "Warning: Combination of Omega-3s in Popular Supplements May Blunt Heart Benefits" (2018) https://scitechdaily.com/warning-combination-of-omega-3s-in-... :

>> Now, new research from the Intermountain Healthcare Heart Institute in Salt Lake City finds that higher EPA blood levels alone lowered the risk of major cardiac events and death in patients, while DHA blunted the cardiovascular benefits of EPA. Higher DHA levels at any level of EPA, worsened health outcomes.

>> [...] Based on these and other findings, we can still tell our patients to eat Omega-3 rich foods, but we should not be recommending them in pill form as supplements or even as combined (EPA + DHA) prescription products,” he said. “Our data adds further strength to the findings of the recent REDUCE-IT (2018) study that EPA-only prescription products reduce heart disease events.”
And algal oil supplements
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> but somehow I doubt that those with decision making power that were in favour of selling at the time regret much.

They possibly even managed to buy a luxury car in the years that followed. Or went on holiday more often. Or somehow unexpectedly landed a nice and cush job at said energy company.
2012? If we are using Alexnet as the "starting" mark for DNN training on GPUs. Though probably there were efforts before that, Alexnet is the most well known for sure.
It should be discussed somewhere but maybe not this thread. I would prefer if every HN thread doesn't turn into a referendum or tutorial on tangential topics.
Why do we care so much about classified information? Why is there a reverence for our government hiding information from its people? Why shouldn't the government operate out in the open in all ways?

Something something terrorism, but i don't buy it. terrorism is the scapegoat for which we have massively eroded privacy and rights, in the same way that CSAM is the scapegoat for trying to ban encryption every 5 years.
If DOGE is acting in an adversarial capacity to the US, there's no reason to put any stock in any claims they make regarding 'it is secure' or 'it is still in the hands of DOGE alone and definitely not being conveyed anywhere else, it has just been wrested from the grasp of the US Government'.

If they are adversarial enough to justify such wresting from the grasp of the US government, is that not already a problem, compounded by the fact that if they are already in an adversarial position there's no reason to assume they are acting alone in that position? Why believe any claim by them if they are already taking pains to take a position as an adversary?

It's taking their say-so that they are a domestic adversary rather than a foreign adversary, as if that made all the difference. I can't agree that it makes as much difference as they claim it makes.
Sometimes there is just a one point of view. Sometimes you have a company that keep fucking up consistently for several decades.
You’re right that previous governments did not just recklessly disband entire agencies based on the wishes of an unelected billionaire and a bunch of teenagers.

I wonder why.
Mmm, caramel sweet wine, perhaps?
Yes my main takeaway from the musk flagging discussions on here is that tech people are no where near capable of taking responsibility for their central role in this mess. If I call all my sins "politics", say discussing politics is off the table, then magically you can't say anything bad about me!
> Finding cash within the continent could be an unwitting boon if President Donald Trump’s tariff threats against European allies come to a head.

But somehow, it's easy to find cash to support wars.
This is in the FAQ: "Why is A ranked below B even though A has more points and is newer?" (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html).

I turned off the flags and rolled back the clock on this submission so that it would be on the front page and have a chance at a thorough discussion. I didn't do that so much that it would go straight to #1, though, because that would not be in the interests of the site. These things need to be controlled burns.
Your intention is still to pass on the knowledge though regardless of traffic otherwise why even publish if it’s just for you? What is the difference from the Documents dir at that point?
Also check out Álvaro Enrigue’s fictionalized account You Dreamed of Empires. Vividly told from the perspectives of the principals, it makes for unforgettable reading…

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/127938747-you-dreamed-of...
Good advice. Additionally, I’d recommend that with any supplement you evaluate the source you’re buying from. I typically use Nootropics Depot (avoiding linking so this doesn’t look like a full blown add - check my history though, not a shill) and they use 3rd party lab testing to back up claims.
> code is now being written with the help of LLMs, and almost all graphic design uses photoshop.

AI models are tools, and engineers and artists should use them to do more per unit time.

Text prompted final results are lame and boring, but complex workflows orchestrated by domain practitioners are incredible.

We're entering an era where small teams will have big reach. Small studio movies will rival Pixar, electronic musicians will be able to conquer any genre, and indie game studios will take on AAA game releases.

The problem will be discovery. There will be a long tail of content that caters to diverse audiences, but not everyone will make it.
> and then lots of things even dumber

The point is we have multiple layers of society working to turn small dumb things young men say and do into very dumb things.
There's room for an interesting discussion here, as I tried to argue at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42992992.
When I worked with nosql I always thought switching to postgres was the way to go since whatever nosql devs do essentially gets a competitive feature integrated into postgres. But when you look beyond the core, postgres seems like it lets any terrible hack fill a role..

I mean why can't I setup a few interconnected databases and send my write commands to any one of them and have them succeed or fail with normal transaction semantics obscuring unnecessary details? I think every modern attempt at a non trivial database has a better solution than Patroni.
This seems like a very Anglo and anachronistically racialist take.

Catholic colonial empires were characterized by a different ethos than, say, the Protestant English. The former involved a good deal of intermarriage (beginning with Cortes himself) and saw what could be described as cultural transfiguration and fusion. The latter tended to see the natives through the lens of Amalek (ask the Acadians about their experiences with the British). So, the distinction between conqueror/conquered is a false dichotomy, as Hispanic peoples are heirs to the heritage of both. And even where the heritage of non-Spanish origin is concerned, here, too, it is not quite so simple. After all, Cortes did not conquer Tenochtitlan with his merry band of men alone. He did so in alliance with the enemies of the Aztecs (e.g., Tlaxcalans, Tetzcocans, Cempoalans, Huejotzingans) who numbered in the thousands, and these do not include the historical enemies of the Aztecs, some of whom were conquered by them.
Any executive who is fully bought in on the AI hype could see someone in their org recommending this as working against their interest and take action accordingly.
Worth noting that some of the most well-known cybersecurity experts today are former cyber criminals. It may be worth investigating his past, but a person's past is often used to attack their character when there is no other argument to make. If we were all judged solely on our past, we'd all be perpetually guilty.
Gullibility is a thing, which is why we demand people go through channels of accountability, including security clearances.
I totally agree. Sunshine is the best disinfectant.

It seems our Continuing Resolution method of funding the government is a failure.

Sorta like cost plus last year.
Correct. It’s hard for people to imagine but the country functioned very differently before FDR and before him Lincoln. We’ve lived in FDRs government for 75 years and it’s served well for a good deal of that time. But nothing lasts for ever and even wine doesn’t continue to get better forever.

You could argue there have been 4 Republics - articles of confederation, Washington, Lincoln, FDR marking the turning point. The world has changed a lot. It feels like the time is right to rethink the federal governments scope and function and how it relates to her people and the world.
> At the time, Intel and Amazon were the dominant players in the market, while Nvidia was primarily known to gamers who admired the graphics capabilities of its processors.

In 2020? Uhm... No.
Much of it is! Journalists are already using it to debunk some of Elon’s claims like the one they only 10% of USAID reached intended targets (which appears to be based on his complete misreading of a breakdown)

The real question now is where is DOGE’s evidence of all of this corruption? There are massive claims of rampant corruption, such as calling the USAID corrupt to their core, but literally zero evidenced has been revealed to anyone. The interviews I’ve caught have been Elon giving definitive statements and refusing to elaborate on anything, as if we’re supposed to trust his private judgment and ask no questions.
Yes but people have culpability and responsibility. In places of power or influence, this culpability can lead to being fired, legal action, disbarment, loss of money, etc. so there is a real pressure to be coherent and aligned with reality.
wat?

We shouldn't reward journalists for finding and exposing morally repugnant people getting near the levers of state power?

That is 100% exactly on-the-money the absolute ideal usecase for journalism.
My 80s copy of the encyclopedia Britannica was riddled with errors, perhaps we will survive this post truth
Yes well said. Distribution networks are hard to disrupt
Linux on new Macs is pretty toxic except as an intellectual or academic exercise. With the industry transition to AI-as-a-platform, the hardware that these Asahi devs are working on (m1..m5) has no real preservation value (even with 128GB RAM --look at the crazy bad TOPS and existing macOS VM capabilities).

If one looks at Project DIGITS, a game changer for Apple and Microsoft, that system boots Linux and can then run any number of knock offs of the Mac/MSWindows style GUI (which is all obsolete now --all that's needed is a simple webUI and AI speech/video interface), nVidia/MediaTek didn't have to spend any time/money (other than BSP/drivers and DevOps) to get the System up and running. In olden days, that could have caused a hardware competitor to carefully consider the future of maintaining a legacy and proprietary OS, but here in the future, Apple has trillions of dollars and still too much pride (until its execs retire Real Soon Now) to allow a competitive effort to MacOS to rise up (maybe it will live on as a sort of Mac-esq Dex®-type environment for iPhone/iPad/XR someday).

Would like to see the third party engineering effort go instead towards supporting nVidia and CUDA on the new Macs via Thunderbolt.
Just generating code might be interesting too, but in the above comment I was actually thinking of generating formal proofs of correctness.

The process I'm thinking of for using the model is

Program
---(compiler)---> SMT definition + SMT statements for assertions
---(z3)---> Proof, Disproof, or "IDK" for assertions
↑--(proof-system)--> Filter for "IDK" assertions
|--(ai)--> A proof of the assertion in the form of simpler assertions
⌞---------⌟ back to z3 step

I haven't really thought deeply about training a model off of this, but provided the compiler and z3 are robust against hostile inputs it seems fine even with randomly/AI generated programs. A less pure reinforcement learning technique, where you take code off the internet and only use re-enforcement learning to make it produce useful simpler assertions might work better.

I've started doodling with implementing this loop on top of the rust compiler, but I'm not yet at the point where I can say whether or not it works as well as I hope.
Is there some standard markup assumed for LLMs? I just looked at a couple and saw markdown-like text (which I expected), but also "$\boxed{foo}$". Looks like LaTeX, but is there some subset of LaTeX LLMs are assumed to know/use?
> Any sentence that begins with "The President can't" can safely be disregarded. The executive branch has all the lawyers, all the guns, virtually all the media, and (now) all the money.

Not to mention the blanket ruling from the supreme court that says "if the president does it, it's legal."
I'm glad you took it nicely. You should definitely post here when you write a new article.

There's always something to learn! Just remember to do things the easiest way possible; <a> allows you to "redirect" users using HTML-only, while <button> needs an event attached to it using JavaScript. There are many things that people use JavaScript for but that are 100% possible using HTML. We should favor those.

Also, writing a static website removes a plethora of vulnerabilities. Collecting email addresses comes with its legal burden, too (do you delete people's email addresses if they ask you to and are in the EU?).
I'm only going to bring up the life expectancy part, but latino people also live longer despite their cuisine not being the healthiest. I'm not saying that all latinos eat a terrible diet, but the cuisine we all know and love is high-carb and high in saturated fats compared to the olive oils, fishies, and veggies we see in the mediterranean diet.

Metabolic diseases are a different story. But I guess love and family cancel that out.