skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The function of “healthcare” in the US is to separate families from their generational wealth at end of life. The way the system is set up all a persons assets will be used up and depleted paying for required care Medicare does not cover (in home or assisted living). Only when a person is destitute with all their assets depleted will Medicaid kick in.

The result is a transfer of wealth from individuals to the for profit health care industry. Only the wealthy have enough assets to survive this process to leave something to their heirs.
Most academic nutjobs tend to build a world of their own with gibberish papers. This dude instead decided to take others' work and has even gotten an identity theft charge on him.

For your question, fraudulent copyright infringement claims are plaguing most services hosting content (GitHub, YouTube, etc). Haven't seen it again on ArXiv so chances are it's a rare occurrence. So the admins probably weren't sure what to do. At least in the comments, they make it clear, it wasn't due to policy (as mentioned in the stolen paper) that yours was removed but essentially due to being forced by the claims.

What surprised me was that a journal in MDPI garbage land, published an expression of concern.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43054892
A clog doesn't quality as something going terribly wrong. Empirically, my plumbing costs are $300 over 10 years. By comparison, rats are actually a big problem in the deep wooded suburbs. We spend a lot more on exterminators, rat traps, poison, and mesh covers to keep them out of the house. Rats smell bad, scare the girls, attack the chickens, spread garbage around the pickup area, spread fleas to the dogs, and are a nontrivial vector for serious human diseases.

So given that rats are a bigger problem than clogs under my current policy of scraping plates down the disposer, I should probably do it even more.
"Wandel durch Handel" didnt work out that well, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wandel_durch_Handel
That is sadly life in private sector for a majority of all workers.
This is clearly a huge step up above 3D printers.
I'm pretty sure Gemini had deep research before openai
I guess if you are knocking out a video a day then there's going to be a lot of random stuff in there.
They are not supporting the decision in this comment, they are just pointing out that Elon had a positive experience with the twitter layoffs which led him to want to run that playbook again. I would even venture the guess that they DONT support Elon's decision here.
American right was always pro government overreach when it comes to cops, military and so on. The are anti government when the government is helping someone they dont like. They are against public schools, public health care, consumer protection, safety rules.

Trump or Musk are very much American right as it always was, except without pretension of respectability.
Is there more than just a picture of a calculator with an incorrect result? God I hate twitter, just show me the whole post already.
portion sizes
Why not just use conventional explosives? It doesn't seem to consider the actual marginal benefit of going nuclear.
Should I apply for masters degree or continue building things?
Offhand memory of something from the weeks after the election, though Wikipedia's numbers likely reflect the final official tallies rather than the numbers of that time.

The popular vote seems to have been closer than I recalled hearing.
I'm getting about 1 minute responses, did you turn on the Deep Research option below the prompt?
I think it's bound to underwhelm the experts. What this does is go through a number of public search results (i think its google search for now, coudl be internal corpus). And hence skips all the paywalled and proprietary data that is not directly accessible via Google. It can produce great output but limited by the sources it can access. If you know more, cos you understand it better, plus know sources which are not indexed by google yet. Moreover there is a possiblity most google surfaced results are a dumbed down and simplified version to appeal to a wider audience.
The problem with these robots is the accuracy. You can't really use them for precision work, like populating a board with SMD components. This robot also seems quite slow.
Getting bureaucrats to fire each other is met with every delay tactic
possible. Might be able to put it off for two years which is all they
need.

Going in crazy like they are doing now, may serve the administration
if they start having department do their own layoffs in a hurry,
because they know otherwise it will be done for then.
> highly damaging to scientific research in general

Uhm, what? How so?

> Describe your own research as "crap" in an email you ask to keep confidential? Give me a break. I don't know any researcher thinking what they do is "crap".

You don't have to think of something as crap to use the word once, in an email. It's not that deep.

> And how would the emailer know about "all other areas"? Incidentally, this is exactly the idea Sabine tries to convey.

It's also what you'd say when you think that "everybody is doing it". And do you know that people can just state something even though they may not actually know if its true? Not just in emails, also on the web!

> Another inconsistency: the author says they're sorry for being harsh. Why apologize to Sabine for stating what she believes?

Why not?

> For me, this is Sabine speaking to her audience right here.

Oh, so it's all fake, right. Because you "can't see" why someone you don't know would write that about something you don't know either.

I find the efforts to make mountains out of mole hills, or even nothing at all, this focusing all on her as a person and the email, rather than the usual "everyone going off a tangent on the subject", where in this case there would probably a lot of anecdotes to tell, insightful in its own right.
Thanks for your deep sorrow for this idiotic cynical nissan leaf owner. Love you too
A difference with government is that you and I pay the salaries of these people. With Twitter a lot of it was just schadenfreude. Many of the employees were acting in a way perceived to be partisan and vindictive, which left a rather sizable number of people somewhat less than upset when the tide turned.

It's one reason we should all endeavor to treat each other, perhaps especially those we disagree with, with some degree of respect - even if your sole and only motivation is your own interests.
I suspect with New Glenn finally up and running the tourism photo-ops-buying-time farce can come to an end, and I'll bet that's where many of these layoffs happened.

Also, with New Glenn nearly ready for customers, it's time to shitcan the people who make that happen and replace them with people who can sell and deliver on launches. Why keep paying engineers when you can lay them off and hire some new ones in a few years when you're ready to consider a new rocket design.
> Did they just hand them a note saying "your fired" and escort them out of the building?

My understanding (from reading this and other articles on the topic) is that they blasted out mass emails to those who were fired and promptly disabled all their access and accounts (thereby preventing many of them from even getting the notice that they were fired).
can someone explain what perplexity value is ? They seem like a thin wrapper on top of big AI names, and yet i find them often mentioned as equivalent to the likes of opena ai / anthropic / etc, which build foundational models.

It's very confusing.
That's a great question too.

Proposal 1: You don't get to leave the job until the replacement is hired.

Proposal 2: Follow the chain of succession to a position that did get elected / appointed. I wonder if cabinet members retain their jobs until replaced?

Also, that would count as an Emergency election. Maybe we could do a crack at 2 months to 'primary' and 1 month to campaign? Other countries seem to get by just fine.
It takes pretty advance level of self deception to frame "loosing money" as "positive experience".
Like what I witnessed with ants in my childhood ant farms.

Ant farm is the kind where dirt/sand is poured in between two glass panes and you watch them build tunnels and watch the ants interact with various things you drop inside it).
> The biggest research universities will just be able to take a lower indirect cost and start charging for things that used to be included in indirect costs.

That's not how that works. You can't change what's direct vs indirect. Direct means the cost is directly (and solely) for what the grant was written for. Indirect means all the stuff everyone uses.

Violating those rules will get you in a lot of trouble if you're caught, and since a lot of this stuff is audited, you will likely get caught.

And yes, the audit process costs money and adds to indirect costs. Just like all the paperwork and audits and so on done for programs like food stamps often dwarfs the
Very C centric.

> The assertion density of the code should average to a minimum of two assertions per function.

I would actually say the opposite in modern languages like Rust. Assertions are a sign you have failed to encode requirements in the type system.
Jaw-Dropping Gen Z Interview Statistics (2025)
> Twitter lost 84% of its revenue.

How much of that is because of politics? Already at the point of takeover, Musk was so hated by half the US for various reasons that it became profitable for major publishing platforms to abandon Twitter/X "on principle". When you're in that situation, nothing on the object-level can help you - neither good management nor technical competence. Revenue depends indirectly on the public opinion, and half of it wants nothing to do with you.

US nuclear arsenal is not in this situation.
Those sound like rules you'd file under "too obvious to even mention". It's not a speedrun if you're editing files at will.

Very specific changes are sometimes allowed by specific game communities.

Like, what would the alternative be? People would just hook the intro to the credits and win after one second.
So the e-sports version of track and field basically, with similar attitudes that arise from the similar nature
If you invent reasons to dismiss what people say then there's nothing anyone can say to convince you otherwise.
There’s a long history of producers making something unhealthy, and suppressing evidence it is unhealthy (cigarettes, corn syrup, milk formula, bacon, the list is quite long). It’s _not that remarkable_ if they’re doing the same thing here. I don’t believe the seed oil thing, this is my first time hearing about it; I just don’t think it’s hard to believe evidence about seed oil health could be suppressed. Given the long history of deceit in food products, I don’t think it’s crazy for people to ask for evidence in either direction.
i didn't post it here but I'm pleased it annoyed you
the accusations of fraud are probably mirror politics.

Given the lack of respect for process its plausible that in 10 or 20 years or whenever we'll find out this government was the most corrupt out of any in the past century.
That's as much as an "engineering principle" as him thinking minimum character level of an item is more important than the actual attributes of the item in PoE2. He's just saying stuff his target audience thinks are smart, and whenever checked on it he lashes out. He's got nothing.
There's a ton of carbon sequestered in soil, that is released when the ground is torn up (e.g. when clearing an area for replanting) and then only recovers over centuries (which is essentially permanent loss, in the current context)

If you cut down an entire forest to bury it (with hypothetical carbon-neutral machinery), then replant the entire forest, you can still end up emitting more carbon than you store.
Nice! then my point 3. above is wrong and should be deleted
They were doing web search before open ai/anthropic, so they historically had a (pretty decent) unique selling point.

Once chat gpt added web browsing, I largely stopped using perplexity
There are at least 2 ways to solve this problem of subjectivity. The process is sometimes called "politics".
> The nuclear security officials who were laid off on Thursday helped oversee the nation's stockpile of nuclear weapons. That included staff who are stationed at facilities where the weapons are built, according to CNN.

So now, the question is which country will benefit from this the most. Russia or Saudi Arabia? Maybe Iran?
You know this reminds me of flat design. "They won't need designers anymore, the developer can do it all!"

Sure, icon designers of 2005 would kick the little figma butts today, but we didn't get rid of designers, and we still need them.
Did it work? Is Twitter profitable now?
That's what I did. It came up with smart-sounding but infeasible recommendations because it took all sources it found online at face value without considering who authored them for what reason. And it lacked a massive amount of background knowledge to evaluate the claims made in the sources. It took outlandish, utopian demands by some activists in my field and sold them to me as things that might plausibly be implemented in the near future.

Real research needs several more levels of depth of contextual knowledge than the model is currently doing for any prompt. There is so much background information that people working in my field know. The model would have to first spend a ton of time taking in everything there is to know about the field and several related fields and then correlate the sources it found for the specific prompt with all of that.

At the current stage, this is not deep research but research that is remarkably shallow.
If a company gets too big, its not the employees fault, why should they be the first on the chopping block?
If a government is too big, is it again the employees fault? Or is it someone elses?

The concept that some dude with more money than another can make screwups, then happily go off and impact thousands of lives thinking this is the way forward with no impact on them is utterly mind boggling. Similarly, we, the people who pay the salaries of government employees, are the ones who are at fault for voting in people who keep making mistakes. So why should the employees be suffering for this?

Do people not realise all of this is a smoke screen to push attention away from the conversation that existed to tax billionaires? To make them pay their fair share? This has all been nothing but an act to divert attention away. And its working. We are arguing about nothing when the solution is so obvious.

The people that should suffer are the ones in control. Not the ones who just want to live day to day.
> Does modern Pokémon start battles by throwing a pokeball to release a monster to begin fighting?

In "Let's Go, Pikachu!" and "Let's Go, Eevee!" this was the only way you could catch Pokémon. Just like the way it is in Pokémon Go. (Or was, haven't played in years)
Is that staff costs only? Or including the things those staff would spend money on too?
That applies only to lab conditions. No RCTs have found much effectiveness so far in real life.
> It mostly comes from observing the reality of how tests are used rather than idealism. In a lot of "test-first" codebases, the majority of tests are garbage.

At most, you can only arrive at that conclusion by observing your personal reality. If your teams crank out crappy code that's error-prone and untestable with their crappy tests, and can't manage to fix either their code or the tests, then naturally they end up living in the reality they created for themselves.

Back in the real world, some projects renowned by their stability and robustness go out of their way to single out their test-drive approach to software design and development as the fundamental reason their software is stable and robust.

What do you think is the difference?

> All they check is that the code is still structured identically to the original implementation.

Unit tests don't test structure. Their whole point is that they do not reflect structe
Unit tests only cover the behavior that's expected from a specific unit of code, and they only check for the invariants relevant to that specific unit of code.

Perhaps this is a telltale sign you should rethink what you're doing.
Makes sense. And isn't this the ol' military trick, that in software dev / project management parlance is now called a "scream test"? I.e. if your unit feels like it's doing nothing but endlessly filling out all kinds of reports, and no one knows which ones are important, the solution is to stop submitting any reports at all - and wait until calls and angry letters from higher-ups begin. That will quickly reveal which reports you need to keep filing, and which you can ignore.
Yeah at 47 it’s hard to process ageing… other than statistically you are likely to be happiest from 60 onwards, so something to look forward to!
It’s disappointing to see this statement, perhaps a sign of the last 15 years.

The highest quality software has always been FOSS, outside of specialised niches.
Offhand, they made the charging system related patents free to use because a standard charging system is a great thing for any vehicle.
It's uneconomical only where little used. The conundrum for suburbs is not to put bus lines or trams in, but to get people to switch. Once/where widely used, these services pay for themselves. But an empty bus costs more to run than one single-occupant SUV, that's true. And it can never match the "convenience".
no, μβ would give you a /w/ not a /b/, because "β" is normally a /v/.
I use a similar filter at work but have it automatically label it as external and remove it from my primary inbox, not completely blocking but I have to go find emails from new people. I do filter external emails from vendors we do use into folders and read them. But the amount of spam I get just because someone managed to find my title and email is insane. I don’t even have my work email listed anywhere publicly that I am aware of.
Yes,see sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43064111 . I think you will find a predecessor to most of OpenAIs interaction concepts. Also canvas was I guess inspired by other code copilots. I think their competence is rather being able to put tons of resources into it pushing it into the market in a usable way (while sometimes breaking things). Once OpenAI had it the rest feels like they now also have to move. They are simply have become defacto reference.
If anything ICBMs are better at moving fast and breaking things than the tech industry
I hope Shenzhen is watching ...
I hate coding fundamentalism with a passion too. The only thing I get really religious about in coding is the importance of trade offs.

The cost/benefit of writing a test before just consistently exceeded doing it after for me.

Same for integration, e2e or unit tests (there's never been a rule that says you can only TDD with a unit test).

The cost/benefit trade off for tests with mocks vs. database is a different topic - orthogonal to the practise of red/green/refactor, and one where IMO the trade offs are much less obvious.
I think it’s the other way around. US and China is applying a downward pressure on EU taxes and labor rights, and VAT balances it by treating everyone equally.

Keep in mind, a German built vehicle pays VAT on all the imported materials and components too. I imagine that is a significant share.

When most other countries apply VAT, I think the correct counter for the US is to do the same.
Oops, right, thanks for letting me know -- I forgot to take out the directory name. Try this:

https://donhopkins.com/home/TheSimsDesignDocuments.zip
Renewables are getting built at a massive rate. Doubling every 3 years. It’s not a replacement yet, though. That’s because existing energy infrastructure is cheaper (eg gas), as is, than replacing it.

Don’t be mean, we are after the same thing. Further, fundamental laziness leads to pragmatism. If you really want to be lazy, you do the cheap and easy thing.
Technically, the monkey caused the island wide grid to fallback to the (reduced) redundancy mode of their power station...

> Sunday's disruption also affected the island's only 900 MW coal fired power plant, causing it to operate in safe mode, the CEB said.
"All efforts are being made to restore the grid to full capacity but power cuts will be implemented to manage peak demand hours in the night," the CEB statement added.
Very similar to the story about the Supercharger network.

Apparently the boss of the team was told to make layoffs, she did some but not enough to please Musk, so Musk in a face to face meeting demanded she make more. She said they couldn't without affecting delivery.

Musk fired her. Then fired the team. Then hired the team back because she was correct.

But not before lots of ongoing projects got stalled because contacts just disappeared and stopped answering phones.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/inside...

> The meeting could not have gone worse. Musk, the employees said, was not pleased with Tinucci’s presentation and wanted more layoffs. When she balked, saying deeper cuts would undermine charging-business fundamentals, he responded by firing her and her entire 500-member team.

and

> The contractor said he had expected Supercharger projects to provide about 20% of his 2024 revenue but now plans to diversify to avoid relying on Tesla.
If I do, whether or not I remember my comment, I'll certainly remember yours :(
The American left has also (always?) been anti-government overreach too.

It's all a matter of who gets to define the "over" in "overreach".

Laws which enforce racial segregation are overreach, for those in the American left who support equality.

Federal laws which override state segregation are overreach, for those in the American right who support structural racism.

Marijuana prohibition laws - overreach, or not?

Anti-mask laws - overreach, or not?

Required prayer in school - overreach, or not?

Anti-pollution laws - overreach, or not?
Us non-techies dream of tech businesses, hehe.

Not having to deal with ecommerce inventory sounds dreamy

Edit - typo
Yeah, I mean that's pretty much at the core of Musk's (and Trump's) philosophy.
You may have something interesting here...

If we represent:

- the "price is rising or falling" as "a bull is approaching"

- a combination of percentage stake + your buy price as "how close you are to the bull" (as in, how much you'd be impacted)

- a sell action as "running in a particular direction"

and so on, then that could perhaps be a decent model?
Its hilarious. Americans dont realise they are being played. All this BS from the MAGA people and trump are just shift attention away from the conversation to tax billionaires. You guys had been going in the right direction when it came to having the rich pay their fair share. Now look at what you are all talking about?
Your fighting each other. What a shitshow.

I really dont think America will recover from this and while the world will suffer as a result, I think in the long term, things will work out. There will be some major suffering but thats the way the world works. WW2 happened, a lot of suffering then peace. We had peace for too long, people forgot about suffering and now look at the world. Thanks America, you played yourself and are now bringing the rest of the world down with you. Rather than focusing on the right things, you are being played to argue with each other.
Imagine a future without bad vibes.
Very cool, thank you so much for sharing! One thing that hit me as a European is that you consider president inaugurations interesting enough to put in there! I mean, its a great point of reference, but still interesting to me. I couldn't tell you from when to when Merkel was chancellor, and I couldn't care less.
Employees with zero to negative productivity should be on the chopping block because we want the employer to survive.

The United States has an highly progressive tax system where the rich pay the vast majority of the taxes. Why isn't that already their "fair share" (a propaganda term)?