skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, if I were a legal citizen and you mistakenly deported me and stole my child (left them with US CPS for protection) I might have some strong opinions about your moral standing. If you stole my child while legitimately deporting me I wouldn't look too favorably on you either. 15 states authorize you to kill people for lesser offenses ("stand your ground" laws and whatnot), and ICE has made tons of such "mistakes" and "oversights" over the years.

What's going on behind the scenes? Does this align more with any of the following three, or perhaps something else?

1. They claim they're getting enough death threats to warrant a proactive search. Maybe that's just a lie, and this is a power grab.

2. The internet has a lot of people giving death threats and other despicable behavior without cause. If that's you, please stop. ICE would be overreacting by taking that seriously though.

3. Is ICE performing enough atrocities that they're creating people legitimately interested in using violence to stop them? If so, taking a step back to reflect on your life choices seems like a healthier option than ramping up the likelihood of committing those atrocities.
Its funny how back in the day there were people who were CLI elitist, and forwent using a mouse for as long as possible because "the CLI is just better at everything". People like this still exist to some extent, and man can they ever wield a keyboard, but if computer development was left to them, we would all be regular people slogging through a command line everyday to do everything.
> compared to C, which was starting to show up on micros such as Z-80s running CP/M

I had some very limited access to CP/M z80 machines. Probably somewhere between 86-90. All I remember about the C compiler they had is that I had to swap 2 or 3 floppies to produce a linked executable, so it sounds similar to this UCSD Pascal.

My first real contact with Pascal was Turbo Pascal, and that ran loops around any other compiler I had access to back then...
They've been rounding up native american citizens, public opinion would already be abysmal in a functioning democracy
The initial claim was:

> Somebody build a dashboard that simply replicates data already available on the OPM site

To me, that indicates that the person who wrote that, thinks that website has identical use case as to the website linked in the submission. I missed that you could add facets yourself, that is true and apologies for that, but I still see the websites as serving different audiences. One is for people who know what facets are (simplification), the other is for people who just wanna get an overview quickly, the average person lets say.

So sure, the data is available, just like rsync/scp/ftp is available one way or another on most computers, but the experience and presentation is still different.

Please don't take this as agreement with what DOGE is doing, or that I think it's a good overall idea or whatever, I'm just commenting on that the website seems very different than the website linked in the submission.
>Better emails is great, but its just not worth billions of dollars.

I mean lets just say your premise is right, how much time is spent worldwide writing emails that could be automated? Just on a pure man hour basis it's surely worth billions if it did nothing else.

>But there is not a business reason to have this. Not at the current costs.

ChatGPT Pro tier is $200/mo, if you can't find ways to get that value I'm sorry but it's a skill issue and you're ngmi. The API tier is like $/million tokens. It's a joke to complain about the cost at this point...
So is iMessage. Putting some processing elsewhere on the network doesn’t change the fact that a conversation between spouses (or any other utterances of a person, for that matter) should be private.
I don't think Nazi comparisons are allowed on HN. Even if they're accurate.
Can I see your papers? Are you harboring enemies of the state?

https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/tribal-nations-urge-ci...
Why yes, that's decidedly un-American behavior!

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-dont-other-c...
> Half the country voted for Trump. Half. And many academics think they are racists and fascists.

That is an inaccurate statement: half of the people who voted did so for Trump. Only about 64% of the people who were eligible to vote showed up to the polls.[1] That is not half the country.

1. https://www.cfr.org/article/2024-election-numbers
Not if the end user isn't in control of the firewall. (And if they were, then they could just forward dedicated ports for the devices they need.) It might not be as bad as the CGNAT situation, but there are plenty of big WANs that can't be reconfigured at will.
Eh, put ‘em on the pile. There’s not much left at this point.
I got beta access to this and love it. It is much more useful than copilot by itself and very useful for an edit that is a little repetitive. I wish I could run the model locally and given that is open source and they have support for Ollama and other OSS tools, I feel like that would be an amazing feature.
SUSE has always been this perennial figure in the Linux world for me; the Linux Distro that isn't talked about often, but is generally liked and respected, by most people who use it.

I ran OpenSUSE for about a year in 2013-2014, and it did sort of have the Just Works nature to it: things did more or less what I expected them to do without much tinkering. It was the first Linux that I liked enough to be my sole operating system instead of dual booting, which should say something by itself.

I stopped running OpenSUSE because I bought a new laptop which had Nvidia Optimus, and someone told me that that was easier to get working with Arch, so that's what I did, and I haven't really touched SUSE since, but I will always respect it for getting me interested in Linux and open source.
Hosting Multiple Websites Under One NearlyFreeSpeech Site
Apologies, that I can onboard with, I was just speaking about the comment.

The old school guys do things for a certain reason that young contributors often don't appreciate. Enough violations of that, and you're often ignored. Perhaps thats what has happened here?

Clearly this is a communication problem more than anything else.
The renaming of the Gulf of Mexico, or any well known place is something directly from the Dictator's Handbook.

Up next: Renaming the 47th state "New America."
Regardless of its history, the current popularity of the phrase is most certainly part of the neofascist movement in the US. Its rise was a direct response to the "Black Lives Matter" call for accountability - essentially doubling down on asserting that lawless behavior by the police is justified in service of some authoritarian "order", regardless of the destruction of everyone else's rights. In a free society, the police are a necessary institution [0] for upholding the law, not a special class of enforcers unbound by it.

[0] how do you think police get so biased against everyone else to begin with? they're effectively dealing with the shittiest rungs of society on repeat, so they form a pattern and end up applying it to everyone they meet
Ask HN: Complete and Great Directory of Websites?
This question stems from wanting to have an "internet business directory" categorized by things like what they sell, and attributes about them (e.g.: buy from a specific country, stocks products of certain attributes, etc.)

But actually I would love to browse a comprehensive (maintained) directory that tags/categorizes all websites. It should leave out true spam/empty sites, but the rest can stay in. I assume some kind of attributes about popularity and size, too.

It could be organized with hierarchical categories somewhat like the Dewey Decimal system, or its open-license equivalent.

This sort of used to exist with DMOZ [0] and Yahoo Directory [1].

I actually think human curation would be a big part of this, by necessity. It is okay if it takes time and lots of effort, and is slightly laggy when new things pop up. People could submit change requests to be queued.

I am NOT looking for a search engine, LLM, or Wikipedia.

It DOES look like Curlie tried/tries this but is kind of inactive?

I AM looking for essentially a modern DMOZ or Yahoo Directory, but actually really good, up to date for today's websites.

It even seems potentially highly compatible with ads (not saying it should be commercial, but that seems the only way to sustain a project).

What say you? Does not exist? Or exists? Would you use this too? Is it time for such a project again (back to basics)?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo_Directory
[2] https://curlie.org
This article is basically an advert.
As with many things, just understand what you are trying to do.

If you want to predict Y and you know X, you can use data that tell you when they happen together.

If you are trying to cause (or prevent) Y, it's harder. If you can't do experiments (e.g. macroeconomics), it's borderline impossible.
Even if I know I am alive, how can I be sure I won't die later on?
Incredible lack of perspective. It's more than USAID. FBI, CIA, IRS, DOD, EVERYONE is being FULLY audited. This has never happened, ever. If you're not stunned about the corruption being revealed and eliminated by now, I'd suggest you've fully bought the narratives that the USAID media has pumped you. You are a target and a victim.

https://doge.gov/
It may be harmless in some regards but in some social spheres it will be punished (e.g. kids bring punished for swearing at school) and in others the consequence of swearing will be silent exclusion (e.g. not being invited to meetings or asked to lead efforts).

Those seem like harms to many regardless of feelings about language restriction.
I mean public opinion about this specific operation, not in general.
Everything they’ve been cutting so far has been ideological (DEI USAID and other agencies that are“run by Marxists”) or retribution (DOJ lawyers getting sacked) or self-serving (EPA CFPB).

The only example of waste are the 150 yr old SA recipients. Sure that happens (we’ve been hearing about “welfare queens” for decades) but certainly not something new the DOGE “uncovered “.

And why are we entrusting a bunch of young engineers to identify fraud? They might be qualified to refactor and streamline computer systems but are certainly not qualified to determine what is “legitimate “ spending and what is not.
I think you're mistaking _thinking_ for _believing_ and _wishful thinking_ sprinkled with a bit of _wild guessing_
mid-genocide I will add.
Lures that attract seed-dispersing bats could aid tropical reforestation
It has been only a couple weeks. Perhaps it's early to measure the results?
Siren Call of SQLite on the Server
I know it makes sense in the "scope-less" python philosopy but it still feels weird for me as a scope (ab)user in C++ and has caused me one headache or two in the past
Please boost this response. People are willfully blind or are being deceived into thinking Human + AI offers anything but liability in competition with pure AI system. The quoted example was only true for a very short period of time in a specialized form of chess, correspondence chess. No system with Human in the loop can currently come close to beating the top chess engines.
Yeah, the time to grow the courage to do the right thing was the last 4 years but seems on one could be bothered so now we are here
The article says that in 2022 Apple started disallowing first party tracking within providers, actually. So in fact Meta can't do that, while Apple still can.
It's basically judeo-bolchevism with extra steps. Until someone explain to me the intrinsic difference between the two, i'll read "woke" as that, and judge people using the word accordingly.
> The entire music community has been complaining about how old music gets more recommendations on streaming platforms, necessarily making it harder for new music to break out.

Compared to what though? Compared to Limeware/Kaazaa back in the day, or compared to buying records in a store?

Personally, I find it easier than ever to find brand new music, mostly because Spotify still surfaces new things with ease for me (and always have been, since I started using it in 2008), and platforms like Bandcamp makes it trivial to find new artists that basically started uploading music yesterday.
I've been in this country since I was 3 years old. My parents and I have never committed a crime.

There is no pathway to citizenship for us that doesn't involve leaving the country for at least ten years.
Well the regulations are the same but some exchanges are SROs so they all have different regulatory/surveillance programs.
Also different exchanges list different securities.

Also I don't understand why you would think that differences in "market micro structure" equates to "jack shit" differences. Its fairly significant, especially for high volume trading.
I'm not really bothered by why it became big. I'm just saying the Kobo is better, in my opinion, and that's probably because it's not the market leader, so has to offer more.

Quite often the second place competitor has the better product.
I think the next decade will include a shift where we acknowledge that the web is a dark forest and we stop trying to block the scams/propagandists/malware/ads specifically and instead we start blocking everything that isn't signed by somebody we've met in person and trust explicitly (or somebody that they have met in person, etc...).

We're going to have to learn a new kind of hygiene.
https://kagifeedback.org/d/687-implement-regional-pricing/5

> Regional, student, annual...discounts are not possible because we are not currently making any profit to discount it off from.
Literally stealing jobs (eg President) from Americans.
The difference is that always being on a dysfunctional team is caused by people who can’t judge the company before they work there or make the team dysfunctional. Either way, they had some amount of power over their own situation.

We are at a third scenario, the second law of thermodynamics, everything goes to shit over time including teams and countries.

When that happens it’s usually time to leave. It often happens when the company is acquired like the US has been bought by President Musk with his useful idiot puppet.

I’m 50 and I’ve never seen anyone - Republican or Democrat - try to wreck the US either domestically or internationally like President Musk has.

Don’t get me wrong, even at retirement I would be hedging my bets and should be able to keep my by then paid off condo in the US and rent in another country and go back and forth.
Imagine what it will do to average people's ability to compete in the economy at all. Broaden your view.
> Romance scams cost victims hundreds of millions of dollars a year. As people grow increasingly isolated

“People” is accurate but this is largely a male dominated issue. Men are targeted at higher rates and fall for these scams at much higher rates.

Men need to be taught that random unknown women will largely not message them at random for sex. It’s almost always a scam. These scammers are playing on the psychology of men’s deep desperation to meet women, and as it has become harder for men to meet women over the last decade, men are falling victim to these scams in large numbers.
Dear Zed devs - please, fix the bug with the "Rename symbol" functionality! Refactoring is an important feature that many of your users need to have to start using Zed as their main daily driver.
Otherwise - great IDE! Please, help me forever forget the VSCode nightmare!
The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Reductions in Cognitive Effort [pdf]
I doubt ICE would view the comparison as a negative one.
Show HN: I got frustrated with CRMs, so I'm building my own for startups
After trying a bunch of CRMs for my startup, I kept running into the same issues—overpriced plans that scale aggressively or bloated features that just slow me down.

I wanted something simple, affordable, and actually built for startups, so I decided to build it myself: Leadchee.com. Fixed pricing, no nonsense.

Curious—how do you all handle CRMs? Do you stick with the big players, go for niche tools, or build your own? Would love to hear your thoughts!
This is a pretty lazy & emotional take on the question. As you say, the tech really can cause real harms, and it's good to think about how it can be used responsibly, both as a provider of the tech & as a user. For example, the choice of training input is itself a source of bias & misinformation. Why do you think your "uncensored" model is a better reflection of the truth than one that has also been trained to account for that bias & misinformation?

It's a really difficult & complicated problem! If you think you have the right answer, I'd suggest you probably haven't actually thought about the problem very hard.
It'd be even nicer if the maze is potentially (un)solvable in that case: you'll have to keep trying to find out if its a friend-zone.
Kagi Privacy Pass
USAID, CFPB, 18F (free tax filing), DOJ (lawyers who worked on Trump cases), EPA (halting alternative energy projects), NSF/NIH (funding by keyword search of anything remotely DEI related) etc

There aren’t any examples so far of stuff that is clearly waste and abuse.
It would make their apps look unprofitable on paper, unless they raised the prices 30% like every other developer has to.
I've been feeding my cat only seafood flavored cat food ever since the cat food contamination from a couple weeks ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42512754
The way that the modern Supreme Court (starting with its extremely conservative turn around 2005 with the replacement of O'Connor with Alito) has treated Qualified Immunity is that the constitutional violation (in this case, the violation of her 4th Amendment rights) needs to have been clearly found in previous cases in this particular circuit (or by the Supreme Court itself). These sorts of search and seizure cases hinge on things like "she signed a document allowing another agency to search her phone, but not share it with another one, and they want to search for anything that might implicate her boyfriend an officer for Brady violations" and the 9th Circuit had never found this kind of sharing without consent or warrant for searching your own officers history to be a constitutional violation. So in this case, she can't sue for damages etc. But the next case that exactly meets these parameters with no novel grounds for argument, they can be sued.

Not surprisingly, clever lawyers find a way to make something slightly novel in most every one of these cases, at least in one particular circuit, and so basically nothing of consequence happens.

This entire doctrine only exists because the Supreme Court invented it, 8-1, in the 1960's to prevent Freedom Riders from suing courts and police officers who arrested them for trying to racially integrate public places. And somehow it's gotten worse over time.
I'm confident in the claims I've made, not feeling like it's worth the work to convince you personally is quite a different thing.
Im curious in which ways is that a valuable way to look at it, opposed to headcount per road mile, land managed, package delivered, ect? I would expect some reduction in headcount required as we dont need to hand sort every letter, ect.

In a different way of looking at it, federal taxes have outgrown inflation by 10x if you benchmark 1950. In what area are 10X more services provided, and in what areas are 1X services provided.

I've always been perplexed at the assumption that federal spending should track GDP.
Emjay – a simple JIT that does math
Thanks. Both Mandarin and Cantonese are shown under "Chinese". I'm working on improving the classification, so that each podcast's language is shown more accurately.
If you can't afford $20/mo to get ChatGPT what makes you think you'd have the technical skill to setup a locally hosted LLM?
I think it's more dangerous as a parasocial playground. You think you are making friends, but in fact it's a poor substitute and doesn't carry the risks/benefits of proper bonding with another human. This is independent of whether the other person is a bot or their communication is curated by an algorithm.
> can be tricky

> extremely important

> this article showcases

and so on...
Qualified immunity covers individuals but agencies do not need to be given qualified immunity because government agencies are covered by sovereign immunity. The government only allows itself to be sued when it decides.
> And I also found the basic tier of ChatGPT hallucinated my app's purpose in a way that was borderline slanderous.

I'm curious about this, what exactly did ChatGPT write and how was it borderline slanderous? Sounds like a big danger.
Not a lawyer, but as I understand it, the original doctrine of qualified immunity was designed to shield law enforcement acting in good faith from frivolous lawsuits. But it's morphed into . . . this.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43039924

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43041726
The internet was revolutionary 40 years ago. You could go from no communication to communicating with the whole world.

LLMs goes from coding by myself to shutting down my brain and generating bad code. I don’t see how you can compare both.
Which facts are complicated here? The sherif in her home town got access to her the contents of her phone under dubious reasons, gossiped about her arrest, and showed off her nude photos. Seems pretty cut and dry to me
Perhaps building an agent in something like gumloop that loops page by page, does AI ocr, and then exports to a Google doc? Should take like 10 minutes to set up
openSUSE is neat! If only I could actually update it from 15.4 to 15.5 without getting a Curl error. :(
I don't think you're allowed to call the systematic murder of ~6~ 5 million people a "genocide" on HN, either.
Except that phishing means our trusted contacts will get popped...
I don’t know what Republicans are these days, but they aren’t economic conservatives. That they think the Laffer curve kicks in at the level taxes are today is one of the giveaways.
I really don't understand why it was necessary to publically mention why these folks were being laid off. Being laid off is humiliating enough as it is, without the added cruelty from ones former employer.

I was laid off from Intel in early 2023. As far as lay offs go, it was handled as well as can be expected during those times. I left with my dignity intact and I would jump at an opportunity to work there again.
I was just explaining to a UK colleague about how the American health care system makes getting treatment (and getting it paid for) into a DIY project. And so as a medical shopper, if I’m getting a very standard established treatment I might go for the older experienced doctor, but if it’s a new thing I’d opt for someone more recently graduated.

I’m sure the same thing applies worldwide.
For strength training, I can recommend https://www.liftosaur.com/. UI is a bit clunky, but very powerful, it even has scripting language for describing workout plan.
imo, The idea of a cause is a logical concept of containment when used in theories. A causes B means the phenomena represented by A implies the phenomena represented by B. So, causation is a device of our symbolization and understanding of the world rather than anything fundamentally out there. this is of course a controversial view.

Causality eventually demands a "theory" for full explanatory power and understanding. Theories have premises, involve inference, and have predictions. Otherwise, we get ad-hoc models of phenomena via observations which is a great start, but ends up as an oversimplification. X causes Y but, what caused X or why did X cause Y and not Z ? models represent phenomena while theories explain them. we start with models, and then our curiosity eventually leads to a theory. refer [1] for a great read from a physicist turned quant.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Models-Behaving-Badly-Confusing-Illus...
Doge Targets FOIA Requests at Agency Under Its Purview