skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a body of government explicitly built to do exactly that and given exactly that power in the constitution. It's called Congress.
I don't think it's an order of magnitude below... though it's a bit hard to know for sure
Maybe I’m showing my age, but isn’t this a home ec class?
The fact that a decade previously in 2011, Hanes had been found to push a bunch of questionable loans, was fired, but then a year later was back in as president shows that he probably just got greedy.
It's worth noting that Stormy Daniels' description of her encounter with Trump also amounts to rape. I don't think she ever used the word, but it's clearly what she describes.

Ms Daniels said she "blacked out" despite consuming no drugs or alcohol after Mr Trump prevented her from leaving the room by blocking the door. She said she woke up on the bed with her clothes off.

"I was staring at the ceiling and didn't know how I got there, I was trying to think about anything other than what was happening there," Ms Daniels testified.

Ms Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, said she did not tell Mr Trump to stop. "I didn't say anything at all," she said and that she left the hotel room quickly afterwards.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-08/stormy-daniels-testif...
Airbus CEO says company could prioritize deliveries to non-U.S. customers
The iPhone 16e is based on the iPhone 14 chassis, with various internal hardware components swapped out. Just like the previous iPhone SE was based on the iPhone 8. So I guess there was an assumption that maybe it uses the same battery as the 14.

But given that the cameras got swapped out for a single lens, the MagSafe magnets were removed, etc, it’s certainly conceivable that they freed up space internally for a larger battery in the 16e!
I’m from a rural area. I have formative memories of raising caring for and slaughtering animals. Hunting and fishing, literally put food on the table. I don’t remember anyone complaining that the chicken in the gumbo came from the yard.
DOGE fired a ton of Department of Energy employees who manage the nukes. This isn't just about the IRS or the Dept of Education.
>Even under those unusual calculations, X’s debt burden was roughly nine times adjusted earnings — far beyond the baseline of six that bank regulators characterize as risky.

Ouch.

As the article notes, it's hard to measure investment interest to be because the business IS better, or if they're banking on Musk generating government pressure (corruption) to MAKE business be better.

Also I would add another, is investing here just ... a bribe?
Frankly the nickle-and-diming of when Miranda does and does not apply is itself an issue: "Oh, no, you're not under arrest, you're just being detained indefinitely," "Hahaha a dog practicing law? What an idiot, continue the interrogation," and "Your honor, the suspect failed to verbally affirm his right to remain silent; instead simply not speaking, so we were under no obligation to cease attempting to interrogate him" are all arguments that the Supreme Court has, in its infinite wisdom, seen fit to uphold as not violating Miranda.
And here I thought it was an educated population who cared and held their representatives accountable to some kind of moral/ethical standard, and concepts like "rule of law".

I supposed guns could be used to do that, but they really seem an inferior tool.
I think you're severely underestimating how much just about every software company has bought into the FAANG philosophy, and how many candidates they get who can answer those questions correctly.

Yes if you don't communicate clearly, you will get points deducted. But if you can't answer the question nearly perfectly, its basically an immediate fail.
If we are broke then why do people buy our debt? It's obviously more complex than you make it sound.
I am with you. I starting reading WoT in middle school, I think when about 8 or 9 books were out. I re-read that whole series multiple times in the last 20-25 years. The adaption is mind boggling, and the changes make absolutely no sense. The adaption practically feels like it was made by someone who hates the wheel of time, and wanted to make it bad.
IF YOU ARE INVOLVED WITH LYING TO PEOPLE AND NOT ADMINISTERING VACCINES AND DOING DNA TESTS, THEN IT IS YOUR INDVIDUAL DUTY TO STOP YOUR ORG FROM CONTINUING.
You could ask "Is Putin more like Hitler or is Putin more like Ho Chi Minh?"

Putin does not try to hide the fact that he wants to restore the Russian empire and reconquer the former soviet bloc - a group of peoples who want nothing to do with him.

Ho Chi Minh wanted an independent Vietnam, got it, and never really expanded from there.

We either help the Ukranians stop Putin now or we fight a much bigger fight later. Hitler could have easily been stopped at the Rhineland, or at Czechoslovakia. But instead we got "Peace for our time".
Then you are equally fucked as the AI will be, so no difference.

Case in point, I remember about ten years ago our washing machine started making noise from the drum bearing. Found a Youtube tutorial for bearing replacement on the exact same model, but 3 years older. Followed it just fine until it was time to split the drum. Then it turned out that in the newer units like mine, some rent-seeking MBA fuckers had decided more profits could be had if they plastic welded shut the entire drum assembly. Which was then a $300 replacement part for a $400 machine.

An AI doesn't help with this type of shit. It can't know the unknown.
> I think is priming young or naive investors to believe investments never fail.

Investments fail, there are plenty in the news. Broad market indices, however, don’t fail. There have been numerous bailouts over the previous decades. Why would one assume any future government wouldn’t continue bailouts if all the previous ones did?
> According to the depository's website, there are currently 147.3 million ounces worth of gold bars in Fort Knox.

That's about 4,200 tonnes. Estimates vary, but total amount of gold worldwide seems to be in the 150k to 250k tonne range. So honestly it wouldn't be _that_ big a deal?
Huh ? Yes, it does. Same reason as in the US: industrial eggs are tightly controlled.
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OpenPDF is a fork of iText with Lgpl and Mpl license: https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF
As the recent results from CS and math on the front pages have shown, one doesn't have to be unknown or underfunded in order to produce
verifiable breakthroughs, but it might help..

Seems like John Baez didn't notice those lines in the peer review either

https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez/114031919391285877

TIL: read the peer review first
> - I'm told the eggs taste way better, I don't really notice it because I really only eat my own eggs, but perhaps I just got used to them

I eat fresh laid eggs very rarely (though have been thinking of raising my own), but can confirm that every time I've had truly fresh chicken eggs the taste is notably superior.
I use essential oils in water in an ultrasonic diffuser. Does that reduce the toxicity at all? Is the issue here mostly wax?
Literally picking a fight with Nature, what a trope.

What will they think of next man versus self? What if the thing that man creates in his hubris isn’t actually better?
> official statements say he's (Musk) not the DOGE administrator, but no one knows who is

That's because they believe in maximum transparency.
Thank you. I took it as both. :)
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This is in line with how I've been using AI in my workflow recently. I give it a summary of my findings thus far and ask it to suggest explanations and recommend further tests I should conduct. About 70% of its ideas are dumb and sometimes I need to give it a little extra prompting, but it does spit out ideas that hadn't occurred to me which make sense. Obviously it's not going to replace a knowledgeable human, but as a tool to assist that human it has outperformed some very expensive PhD level consultants.
I think this change seems funny to me how late it is, front-enders at this point are used to making their own customizable drop downs. But standardization is nice I suppose. And the cross browser support thing.
He's already broken dozens of promises. Hell, he doesn't even have a plan to replace the ACA after having neutered it like 7 years ago even though he ran on "repeal and replace". To trust him is beyond folly.
Nvidia's Big Plan to Beat Back RTX 5090 Scalpers Is the Same as Everybody Else's
They been talking about this for a long time.

In fact, I remember at some point, they were trying to sell the idea of exposing all the form inputs to use the `::part` API, since under the hood form inputs share the same general logic of custom elements, If I recall correctly.

From the looks of it, didn't work out that way though.

And I think its for the best. I like this proposal more, even though delivering the `::part` API to everyone (not just web component users) would have likely been faster
Hollywood is floundering because:

- there's no secondary market for VHS & DVD anymore. Almost all the money has to be made on opening weekend

- in recent years, content has become preachy instead of focusing on being entertaining

Netflix & Amazon movies are ultra-low quality; you couldn't pay me to watch it. A quality Hollywood production that was made to entertain instead of persuade can still easily outcompete tech company movies
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My backyard chickens drastically lower my grocery bill, barely require feed, and their eggs sell to friends for $6/dozen.

They also replenish their numbers when I eat them. Get chickens.
There are tens of millions of people doing a repetitive work every day, instead of being entrepreneurs. Just let them be, not everybody needs to dedicate their existence to maximizing their career opportunities, at any level.
On that, these unreal questions/problems are decent proxies for general knowledge for humans, but not for AI. Humans don't have encyclopedic knowledge, so questions on a topic can do a decent job of indicating a person has the broader depth of knowledge in that topic and could bring that to bear in a job. An AI can answer all the questions but can't bring that to bear in a job.

WE saw this last year with all the "AI can now pass the bar exam" articles, but that doesn't lead to them being able to do anything approaching practicing law, because AI failure modes are not the same as humans and can't be tested the same way.
> and renaming one of the days of the week.

SAD!

Obviously he would do a bigly total renaming, like the dictator of Turkmenistan did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_renaming_of_Turkmen_month...
To quote patio11,

“The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero

He was talking about the banking system. But he was also hinting at something bigger. There is a game theory problem often referred to as the meter maid problem. What is the optimal amount of meter maids in a city, where optimal can be defined in at least a few different ways, but roughly means the cost to revenue optimal. You end up with a couple of obvious extremes, no parking enforcement means no cost, but no revenue (plus parking may end up out of control if charging for parking is more than just revenue generating). The other extreme is thay you have enough people policing parking that no one ever fail to comply, this is the highest cost, but not the highest revenue, because you don’t get revenue from ticketing. So the answer is that the optimal number lies somewhere where the number of meter maids allows some percentage of people get away with failing to comply with parking rules (whether deliberate or accidental can further complicate the problem since both will happen).

So back to your steelman. Cleaning data is most certainly a desirable thing, but it is likely not the optimal thing, especially if the cost is high. And unauditable access to systems is a very high cost. Seems to me much of this auditing could be done in a much more acciuntable way.
> Don't want to go into the congestion zone? Take the GW Bridge or Battery tunnel.

They do want to go there. They want to use the federally-funded interstate highway to go to the place their tax dollars paid for it to go, and which they have the right as a citizen of the US to travel to, without being deterred from using it by local politicians discriminating against out-of-state people who can't vote against them.

> If NJ folks never come to Manhattan (by whatever means) it will be too many.

I feel like you're just making my point for me now.
My network has downloaded 1.08TB of bandwidth over the last month, according to my ISP's router. Now, that is across multiple devices, but my laptop with its 1TB internal storage is likely at least 1/3rd of that. Which mean given no OS or local files, I'd be able to store about 9 months of my browsing in your proposed product. With OS and local files, I'm looking at closer to 1-2 months. This isn't really feasible for average consumers.
You already have one: a brain.
Works okay with iCloud but follow their iCloud setup though; it’s important for a sync related issue.
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Palantir is one of the entities that is working to destroy what's left of America's soul.
It's also a more poignant tale of a small, community where (thanks, Internet!) international grifters could nonetheless inject themselves.

Or, more cynically, this guy was destined to be scammed and the internet in short order put him to the test. One has to think though that if it were a local scammer we would not be talking tens of millions of dollars.
It's interesting to see someone who seems to describe themself as anti-woke try desperately to convince the generally anti-academic movement to fund academics. Sadly I don't think he'll succeed in this.

I don't agree with many of his posts but I think the blog is interesting in how personal it feels. Often I feel like all media is very cultivated but he seems very willing to put his own anxieties and foibles on the web.
> trusting Donald Trumps judgement

Ha! Well there's your first problem.
I would start freelancing and search for gigs that are related. Clients would love to see such a useful and polished product.
> Just as raw un restricted read/write access is constantly alleged, but we have in turn found out that isn't the case.

Marko "normalize Indian hate" Elez did have read/write access, as DOGE lawyers admitted in court after first claiming that he did not[0].

[0] https://thehill.com/business/5141149-former-doge-employee-ed...
> The egg price is due to the H5N1 epidemic

No, it's not. But that's what the egg companies want you to believe. In truth the number of egg laying hens is only down about 5% total since the beginning of the epidemic.
That is the entire point. They want a government that nobody wants to work for so that regulations on cars, rocket launches, and securities will stop bothering their profits.
I'm always wondering at the safety measures on these things. How much force is in those motors?

This is basically safety-critical stuff but with LLMs. Hallucinating wrong answers in text is bad, hallucinating that your chest is a drawer to pull open is very bad.
What are you talking about, why do you think that autistics are treated better in Europe, Africa, Asia? Also, people do not "hate" them, people in general hate everybody, don't play the victim
If a website doesn't have a status page, and you don't have a better groupchat to ask, asking on HN seems fine :)
https://cosmodoc.org/
it's cute you think congress is in control right now.
> Your statement implies that Qi2 used Magsafe as a starting point or that it's primarily based on Magsafe. Your statement is inaccurate and would lead people to think that Qi2 was mostly an Apple design.

You'd be wrong, though. Apple is on the WPC membership and has heavy influence over their spec definitions. They do this with many standards. They sit on the standards body as contributing members, and influence the specifications in ways they see as beneficial. They did this with USB (especially USB-C), they do this with MIPI standards, and they do this with WPC.

When standards organizations move too slow (which, is pretty much always), companies like Apple will move to make proprietary versions of a thing usually based on drafts of standards that are taking too long.
Bond movies are in a perpetual cycle of reinvention, trying to update the franchise and keep it relevant. I'm not sure it's wholly succeeded in that. They've certainly done the sequel thing of adding more tech, more action, more globetrotting, higher stakes, more of everything. Bigger, but better? Of the Craig movies, by far the best was Casino Royale, because of how it stripped things back to basics. At least, compared to the lunacy of the previous film (an invisible car, really?).

I'd love for an Amazon Bond reboot to be a 1960s period piece. Keep the tech light, make him a spy again, put him in some tense situations. It could work!
I like the code review approach and tried it a few times when I was needed to do interviews.

The great thing about code reviews is that there are LOTS of ways people can improve code. You can start with the basics like can you make this code run at all (i.e. compile) and can you make it create the right output. And there's also more advanced improvements like how to make the code more performant, more maintainable, and less error-prone.

Also, the candidates can talk about their reasoning about why or why not they'd change the code they're reviewing.

For example, you'd probably view the candidates differently based on their responses to seeing a code sample with a global variable.

Poor: "Everything looks fine here"

Good: "Eliminate that global variable. We can do that by refactoring this function to..."

Better: "I see that there's a global variable here. Some say they're an anti-pattern, and that is true in most but not all cases. This one here may be ok if ..., but if not you'll need to..."
+1. I think eggs prices are easy to spot since:

- they're sold everywhere

- they're bought by everyone

- they happen to be exceptionally high at the moment

It makes them an easy poster-child for inflation.
Zig is a nice language, but from a 10000 ft view it's not fundamentally different from C (thankfully) - at least from the CPU's point of view. Any hardware that's a good match for C is also a good match for Zig.
HN mod dang, if you are reading this, I have a question. I was previously given a warning for a post that levied factual criticisms about the quality of source code contributions performed by a woman who had intentionally put work forward into a highly public open source project in her own name.

I had specifically mentioned her by name in my criticisms, and I was given a written warning that doing so went against HN's policy on "targeted attacks" or "targeted harassment" or something similar.

Why is it okay for this user to suggest that the act of this woman presenting her work publicly "is the problem", while it is a HN AUP offense for me to criticize the quality of the source code contributions written by another woman presenting her work publicly?

I'm not requesting enforcement against this user or a retroactive removal of my warning, I'm just trying to understand the difference better to improve the conformance of my own discourse to the intent of HN's AUP.
You forgot to add "without proper security controls/clearances and data governance".
Agree with your points. But I think we're unlikely to see tens of millions of dollars in an Amway, Herbalife hustle.
whoa - i haven't yet played with MCP - might be a good first project!
> security reasons later

What about security reasons now? The federal government includes the military. Giving DOGE “God mode” on the federal government is a national security risk right now.
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You fix the system not because of the cost today but because the cost it will eventually cause.

Poor record keeping and bad policies about data validation tied to sending money to people if not today will eventually result in massive fraud.

Furthermore the notion you put forth is trash lazy thinking. Cost or no cost you do things the right way. But I don’t even buy you can calculate the cost of doing it wrong correctly to even have a sound conjecture that fixing it is more costly.
People did not vote to give Elon Musk absolute, unaccountable access to the most sensitive machineries of government.

They've fired and hobbled all of the inspectors general and parties that are supposed to monitor and hold them accountable. This is nothing short of a security nightmare and insider threat of the highest degree.
Got excited, was hoping to see a repository of Go Agents.
You bet: https://www.aei.org/op-eds/donald-trump-needs-to-fear-the-bo...

HN clearly not :-))
Rankings in the article:

(China) Jining First People's Hospital
(China) Cangzhou Central Hospital
(China) Henan University Huaihe Hospital
(India) KPR Institute of Engineering and Technology
(China) Weifang People's Hospital
(China) Linyi People's Hospital
(Pakistan) Ghazi University
(China) First Affiliated Hospital of Xinxian Medical University
(China) Qiqihar Medical University
(Ethiopia) Addis Ababa Science and Technology University
How is this different from the widely used https://github.com/Vinzent03/obsidian-git?
How are you differentiating from the other current leaders[1][2]?

1. https://github.com/Vinzent03/obsidian-git

2. https://github.com/kevinmkchin/Obsidian-GitHub-Sync
I've been using plain git with a git server to sync several machines even though I have to execute a script to do it in each machine. If you see the vault is just the workspace plus markdown files. I didn't know you could add plugins to obsidian. This is interesting. I do wonder if this can be added to mobile - Android/iOS.
Anyone who has ever had root on a database server has that access. There's no technology available that prevents the people responsible for correcting failing RAID volumes from reading blocks from /dev/sda. In theory, yes, there are DRM technologies that prevent you from getting a copy of a song Spotify stores in your cache. But those technologies are not used on multi-gigabyte databases.

The only thing that protects that data is professional ethics, and in extremely paranoid (i.e. airgapped) environments, metal detectors.

Sincerely, God Mode on x DBs, where x > 1.
So before people start saying "OMG! Memory-to-Memory architectures are so slow! What a stupid idea!" allow me to remind people that back in the early 70s when the 960 was turning into the 990, external bipolar memory was faster than on-chip NMOS static RAM. And since the 960 and 990 were originally implemented with a weird collection of ASICs, discrete parts and 7400-series logic chips, the idea that you would just drop a bipolar part in the design wasn't that weird of an idea. But then as the 990 evolved and TI built a single chip implementation, they retained the memory-to-memory architecture for software compatibility reasons. So yeah... ultimately... CMOS logic got faster than bipolar memory and in retrospect it wasn't the greatest design. But at the time it wasn't THAT bad of an idea. And yeah, it did make task switching very fast. But don't get me started on serial IO off the CPU. And dang, what a great, largely orthogonal instruction set. I sometimes fire up the Assembler / Editor on my 99/4 emulator just to play with it.

Anywho... this isn't a critique of the OP or @phire, it's a reminder for the community at large that tech decisions that seem bad in retrospect often had non-idiotic motivations at the time.