skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got bit by this a month ago.
You can disable the new behavior by setting 2 environment variables

export AWS_REQUEST_CHECKSUM_CALCULATION=when_required
export AWS_RESPONSE_CHECKSUM_CALCULATION=when_required

or adding the following 2 lines to a profile in ~/.aws/config

request_checksum_calculation=when_required
response_checksum_validation=when_required

Or just pin your AWS SDK to version before the following.

<https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/blob/release-2025-01-15...>

<https://github.com/boto/boto3/issues/4392>

<https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/blob/1.37.0/CHANGELOG.rst#L19>

<https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/blob/2.23.0/CHANGELOG.rst#223...>

<https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-java-v2/releases/tag/2.30.0>

<https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-net/releases/tag/3.7.963.0>

<https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-php/releases/tag/3.337.0>

and wait for your S3 Compatible Object store to add a fix to support this.
Am I the only one who uses eww? Thats the w3m replacement.

Strong shoutout to nyxt, it's not terminal based but it is fast and I've liked it so far.
Discussion (416 points, 1 day ago, 172 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43104071
while you imagine this, let's waste order of magnitudes more in red tape, that is if your imagination and DOGE's imagination are in the same place.
We're going to get a great lesson on why 'command economy' style top down management doesn't work, from the guys who hate command economies.
https://archive.ph/k1EdO
They do. Elon already had top secret due to NASA/military work.
The rest were authorised/given clearance for the work.
As one, I have to say there's really nothing about being an introvert that prevents one from being affable and available. The idea is that human interaction does not boost the introvert's energy the way it does the extrovert's, not that it's impossible.
> Nobody is losing rights. Nobody has the right to end the life of another barring cases like self-defense.

The common example of the violinist analogy disagrees here. You are under no obligation to provide continuing physical support to another person, even one everyone agrees is fully grown/sentient/alive/etc. Similarly, you are under no obligation to donate your liver/kidney/blood, even if you already promised to do so, even if not doing so will cause someone's death. In every case except abortion, we respect medical bodily autonomy to an extreme degree. And indeed in other cases we often find it immoral to force someone to assist a family member's survival on an ongoing basis (see "Savior Siblings").

> I'm sure that any of those individuals, once born, would prefer to live regardless of circumstance.

Not always, lots of people desire medically assisted suicide. Blanket assuming that everyone desires to live regardless of circumstance is factually incorrect.
Guess what? You can see all this information, because of government transparency (not DOGE):

https://smartpay.gsa.gov/about/statistics/

>> GSA SmartPay statistics for fiscal year 2024:

$39.7 billion in total program spend.
$506 million in refunds earned by agencies/organizations.
$441 was spent on average for each transaction.
> Until the mid-late 1800s, abortions were legal, and even allowed by the Catholic Church until "quickening" (when you were able to feel the fetus kicking/moving).

No, the Church has never allowed abortion. When gradual ensoulment of the fetus was the dominant scientific theory, the quickening marked the difference between homicide and murder.
Yeah, the buttons do what the symbol says.

Then about 30 seconds after that somebody showed me I could spell “boobs” if I flipped it upside down.
"Google is your friend" is an inaccurate statement, huh.. if you want proof that the earth is flat, it can provide you with links that you can selectively filter with your confirmation bias to believe that. If you think Covid is a hoax, you can use Google to find webpages to confirm this, but when Google/YouTube disallows Covid-disinformation videos, the average nutter will start screaming "Censorship!". So much for Google being their friend.
Definitely don't use ChatGPT to try to learn about something you have no knowledge of. It's impossible to separate the bullshit from the truth if you don't already have some foundation in the field, and chatbots often try to sneak some bullshit in there.
There is a podcast from New York Times with interviews from government workers [1].

From all accounts the firing was incompletely indiscriminate and so many people who you would think would never be fired were e.g. US Army Corp of Engineers working on flood prevention.

And so I can't imagine anyone wanting to join the government when there is a strong chance you will be fired in the medium term with no notice and with no reason. All after you've physically moved you/family to Washington because remote work is no longer available.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/podcasts/the-daily/trump-...
>OpenDAL integrates all services by directly communicating with APIs instead of relying on SDKs, protecting users from potential disruptions like this one.

Implying that the SDKs don't communicate directly with the APIs? This "problem" could have happened in OpenDAL just as it did in AWS SDKs.
> And I have never heard of any help for them from USAID

Personal anecdotes are never a good proof of anything.

> So yes, I don't have any numbers, but I'm used to trusting my own eyes.

So you don't believe in viruses bacteria to name just a few things you can't see with your own eyes?

USAID had many programs, only a number which where about helping the poor, and it's possible those didn't specifically target your country.

E.g. between the poor and hungry people in Moldova (my own native country) and in Sudan USAID would probably chose those in Sudan (what with war and genocide and...). And they might chose to support businesses in Moldova instead (and they did).

I'm not saying it's a perfect program devoid of any corruption. What I'm saying I can come up with as many bogus numbers, and with as many personal anecdotes as the next guy.

And Elon sure as hell resists any attempts to shed light on his activities and claims.

> Only left-leaning democrat's shield "independent" journalists, whose job mostly consist of ideological reprogramming and who now scream all over twitter how Trump destroys their lives. ONLY.

Do you think they do that because they lost funding, or because, say, China or Russia stepped into the void with literally the same support programs?
You think they would have mentioned that in the memo if they were.
Compliance is the second most important feature they have to reveal, seriously?

Especially given how notoriously bad are the EU AI regulations.
In this case it would be "The road to hell is paved with assumptions of good intention".
"We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work"

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/books/review/administrati...
I have a hen and get an egg once every few days. I had two for a while, but I have had this one for years.

I live in an urban area, but I don’t even lock her up. She just wanders about. Sometimes she goes out the front gate, and people knock on my door and ask if I’ve lost a chicken. She always seems to go back to her coop out the back to sleep and lay. Occasionally, she starts laying in some random place. When I notice there are no eggs for a week, I go hunting. When I take the eggs, she seems to go back to laying in the coop.

The biggest issue I have is if I leave the door open and don’t put a little bit of wood that she can’t jump over, she comes into the house. They poop every now and then no matter where they are, so it’s a minor issue but still annoying. She knows the cat food is in the laundry and raids it if she gets in. If I leave the front door open and she can see it from the back, she will rush around the side of the house and run in through the front door.
> The offered me the job. I went elsewhere.

I am so happy that you did this. We vote with our feet and sadly, too many tech folks are unwilling to use their power or have golden handcuff tunnel vision.
Introduction to CUDA Programming for Python Developers
Read this book last year and, like all of Graeber’s writing, enjoyed it very much despite it going in completely different directions than what I anticipated.
One thing that stood out to me was that all of these relatively small-time "rich by Kansas standards" farmers lost a huge chunk of their wealth when one institution went insolvent. I was wondering, why didn't they diversify their investments?

There's this line:

> In 2012, Hanes returned as president of Heartland, which adopted an ownership structure that has become common across America: The bank was controlled by a group of roughly 35 local investors, including Hanes and his wife, as well as Jim Tucker and his father. No one outside Elkhart would dictate the bank’s future, and all the profits would flow back into the area.

Ahh, ok, so they probably couldn't just sell their shares on the open market. And this is not to blame the victims, of course. I guess this is a downside of this business structure. I wonder if there are ways to mitigate this risk - some sort of insurance?
We are in fact seeing press attention regarding military budget cuts the Trump Administration's looking to enact:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/19/politics/hegseth-military-maj...
Oh don't worry, seL4 isn't formally proven on any multicore computer anyway.

And the seL4 core architecture is fundamentally "one single big lock" and won't scale at all to modern machines. The intended design is that each core runs its own kernel with no coordination (multikernel a la Barrelfish) -- none of which is implemented.

So as far as any computer with >4 cores is concerned, seL4 is not relevant at this time, and if you wish for that to happen your choice is really either funding the seL4 people or getting someone else to make a different microkernel (with hopefully a lot less CAmkES "all the world is C" mess).
Running Windows XP on an Apple TV [video]
Hallucinating has always been of my favorite things to do, and I don't need an LLM to help with it.
Thank you, a fix is deploying now.
It comes down to how you interpret the sanctity of life, and your worldview usually governs that. A materialistic worldview, which denies any and all spirituality, is likely to take a purely scientific stance and assert a fetus is not human. Meanwhile, worldviews that see procreation as a gift from a higher power will naturally push back against that assertion.

The only common ground that seems to be available between these two camps is in extreme cases (i.e., the mother's life is at risk or rape). Otherwise, I think they are fundamentally incompatible.
43 at the time.

Probably relevant too – systematic endurance training since 12, elite-level racing since 18 (world champion at that point). So not a stranger to all kinds of injury and what works and what doesn't. For me that is.
The explanation how-to and why:
https://github.com/DistroHopper39B/NTATV/blob/main/Docs/Writ...
Apparently some of the transactions were in strip clubs. I'd be willing to bet that the procurement formalities of a small business of quite a bit in common with the formalities of a large business...
Elsewhere we can read:

> The Bavaria resident is also accused of posting Nazi-era imagery and language earlier in 2024. According to prosecutors, this post may have violated German laws against the incitement of ethnic or religious hatred.

> The man was arrested on Thursday as part of nationwide police operations against suspected antisemitic hate speech online.

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-greens-habeck-presses-charges-...

This article is more informative:

Translated (with DeepL.com):

> The public prosecutor's office in Bamberg has now announced: The search had already been requested before the Green politician himself filed a criminal complaint in the case.

> Habeck only filed a criminal complaint in the case more than a month after the search warrant had been requested.

> According to the public prosecutor's office, the suspect is also facing another charge: According to this, in spring 2024, he allegedly uploaded a picture on X with a reference to the Nazi dictatorship, which could potentially constitute the criminal offense of incitement to hatred. According to the investigators, it shows an SS or SA man with the poster and the words “Germans don't buy from Jews” and the additional text “True democrats! We've had it all before!”.

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/schwachkopf-belei...
This is yet another thing that will help bring on a recession/depression. First they create unemployment and lower spending from the layoffs. Now anyone left cannot spend money. What effect do they think that will have on the economy?
The team is currently skiing for two weeks so we'll have to get back to you on that.
This is amazing. Hoping you will share more of these soon.
Not only insurance companies, but many others.

Airlines do it too. One dark pattern I experienced during Covid was that the airline call system was automatically set to hang up after 30 minutes. If you were lucky you'd get to speak to a representative at around minute 25, but never get your ticket rebooked.
Discussion at the time (75 points, 67 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40647096

.. almost time for an IV
I'm not talking about the multibillion dollar agency deals, I'm talking about day to day procurement like equipment, printing costs, office supplies, etc. You know, the routine purchases that keep the government running.
You own a “business” that’s clearly just you.
I think what is worse is people literally driven insane by the psyops that bad been running for last few years.

Documentation found of US agencies funding psyops to basically crush critical thinking skills and scream what their handlers want them to scream.
"Hate the smoke detector, not the fire!"

For this situation, that these agencies and their psyops have put you in, you have my greatest sympathy.
> as far as I can tell, not very widely used

Well, it's the most widely spoken international language, spoken in over a hundred countries, by an estimated 2-5M people. There's a rich literature (probably 30-50K books), vibrant music scene, and support in open source software (Linux, Firefox, Google products) is usually pretty good.

But the issue is not how widely Esperanto, or any other language, is spoken. If you assume that languages should only be supported according to their number of speakers, you leave no room for useful languages, bridge languages, auxiliary languages, or growing languages. Even if Esperanto had only 100 speakers, it'd be worthwhile to support, if it's easy to learn, and easy for non-speakers to understand.

It's not a "severe burden" to consider non-ASCII letters as letters. Unicode is pretty straightforward to work with, and if you want to support more than just English, it's a necessity. There's no need to have a "priority list" of letters you consider more or less important than others. That attitude comes across as very Anglocentric.
It's actually the opposite. I asked about some details in the current ukraine situation, and it stated mostly facts with a few words critical of Trump. This is about neutral. But it showed pretty strong Keynesian tendency when I asked it about some economic policy issues earlier.
I mentor a few recent grads and folks who change careers into tech, so I'll share here what I've told them for years.

Writing code is the easiest part of software engineering. You're hired for your perceived ability to solve problems the employer needs solved. Many times you'll solve it with code. Sometimes you'll solve it with process. In every instance, you're expected to solve it using your learned experience and ability to critically think through the constraints (time, money, etc.).

If you can't be bothered to deal with the easiest part of your job, writing some code, how do you expect to be trusted with the hard stuff? I'm not saying don't use AI tooling, but I am saying don't cheat yourself by becoming dependent on it.
Oh my, pulling the "snark for me and not for thee" card. Sometimes you get the discourse you deserve.
But the effects cascade down to other levels of government, service providers and businesses in their area.
> My guess is it will be closer to Star Wars

I mourn about what's become of Star Wars.
So, has Matrix solved the CSAM Problem, yet?[0]

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8KEuAEYjQ4
Thanks for the explanation. Like I said, sounds wild that yes, the American Constitution does establish the president as basically a king over the Executive branch.

Copying what I typed elsewhere, I guess it's a testament to American democratic cultural history that no coup has occurred in American history when the president has such an absolute authority over the executive branch. Let's hope for the sake of the whole world it remains like this.
Nothing works well but IQ tests predict job performance better than anything else.
The "starve the beast" strategy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast) has been around for a long time and is something that some right wing conservative people want to do. E.g. Norquist's quote that "My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.".

As someone else mentioned, this isn't only about improving efficiency of the government but also about it doing less. So things that currently you would be getting from the government you would no longer be getting. You might agree or disagree with this idea.

Predicting what Trump is going to do is not easy. I don't think he really knows himself each day what he will get up to. Mostly draw a lot of attention to himself, seems the main goal. He's doing fantastic on that front. Regarding policy, he is a lot more purposeful vs his previous term and he is pretty closely following the Project 2025 playbook:

https://old.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/1itd7xq/whats...

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RHMnJmuv82n6OuY8KYmJ...

Enacting government policy primarily through executive orders is an "interesting" approach. I would say that's not how you want a government to work. Maybe Trump's extreme use of EOs will prompt some reform or maybe it will become the new norm. The other branches of the US government don't seem very interested in actually performing their job.
Everyone here has had management with overly tight 'you must track your time' and 'you can only work on XYZ tasks' (normally where XYZ is capitalizable or billable) requirements and we all know how that turns out.
Not disagreeing, but I see a gap between the reason and the means of the boycott.

On petroleum, my main beef is not the chemical but how most behemoths managing the market are screwing with our health and the planet. There is an alternate world where BP is not a bunch of psychopaths and we have stronger environmental regulations.

In that respect, getting electricty from BP instead of oil from BP isn't that much of a difference in my book, I don't believe they manage their solar farm better than their oil tankers.

That's the lens I see for Amazon: if we're pissed at them because they killed their App store, does keeping AWS customers afloat really help on the moral standpoint ?

I know we can't stick on principle on everything, I just see the very point of the boycott to be very blurry and not reaching it's target.
"so-called DOGE"

The article is paywalled, but I would be willing to bet that there's not much discussion were those credit card transactions were made.
> The Western philosophical mindset doesn't handle this sort of thing very well.

Mind elaborating on that?
If my experience in non-federal government is any guide, they have similar requirements when they use the card, the difference is that it is after the fact and if the application gets rejected, the payment is the employee’s responsibility. The amount of red tape is the same either way, but with the caed the red tape happens after the purchase.
Yup. We'll see how it goes.
See Artemis for an answer to how NASA is doing. They’re in trouble. Post Apollo they became very ineffective at big space projects. I say that with respect as an aviator who has benefited much from their past and ongoing work.
Agreed UX can be easily copied, but brands are a moat for a number of (granted, psychological) reasons:

1. Status symbols - my Lambo signifies that my disposable income is greater than your disposable income

2. Fan clubs - I buy Nikes because they do a better job at promoting great athleticism, and an iPhone to pay double for hardware from 3 years ago

3. Visibility bias - As a late adopter I use whatever the category leader is (i.e. ChatGPT = AI, Facebook = the Internet)

What you describe sounds more like market power resulting from a monopoly
> That is, if one thinks of abortion as an avoidable disease it's one hell of a disease. And the rates suggest the Health community hasn't solved the root causes by a long shot.

It basically halved from 1990 to 2015, and has increased in correlation with prof-life policies like reduced access to education and contraception.
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Major diseases have been a part of human history throughout. There is no evidence that mega farming is making it worse.
https://matrix.org/docs/older/faq/ has our BTC and ETH addresses:

Bitcoin (address: 1LxowEgsquZ3UPZ68wHf8v2MDZw82dVmAE)
Ethereum (address: 0xA5f9a4f9E024F6D727f7afdA9257e22329A97485)

Thank you for being up for supporting - it is very much appreciated!
Or instead of guessing we an take them at their word:

"We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work"

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/books/review/administrati...
This isn't comprehensive but has been helpful: https://www.project2025.observer/

(also woo lucky 7777 karma)
> A former employer had a first letter of given name + last name (actually first 5 letters) convention for email addresses

I once heard a story (possibly apocryphal) about a place which used a similar “first initial and truncated surname” convention for usernames, except theirs was first three letters of surname, followed by first initial, followed by some digits. And it all worked great until they hired a guy named Tom Cunningham
> "Let's go to Mars" is a lot more ominous than it used to be, knowing who will be in charge of such a venture and their attitudes on, idk, everything involving society.

What's the old saying about homeowners associations keeping Nazis busy so they can't do damage elsewhere? The quicker we can get this guy to Mars and set him up as Emperor God of Mars, the quicker we can get him out of our hair.
That is exactly why there are discretionary spending limits, if the overhead for sending the $40 pizza to a committee isn't priced in, then every cost will blown out.

Every meeting should have a, "this costs $$$ per hour to run this meeting" clock.

They don't care, destruction of the federal government is the point. Congress needs to do their job.
Actually we do sort of know from the 2014-15 avian flu. In the 2014-15 avian flu, a 12 percent decrease of egg-laying hens was accompanied by a 220% price increase in 2014-15:

- https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/charts-of-note/chart-...
- https://farmdocdaily.illinois.edu/2015/06/economic-implicati...

Compare that to the current epidemic in which a 5 percent decrease of egg-laying hens is accompanied by a 600%+ price increase.
Software engineering job openings hit five-year low?
Why do you think this? Have you ever been to a country with a non-functioning government?