skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True. The actual difference between this troupe of clowns and employees who can be trusted is the hiring process and background check required before getting access to all this data. And of course, all regular employees report up to an official who was confirmed by congress, as required in the constitution. Just small things known as “checks and balances”.
Nextgov, About: "Nextgov/FCW is owned by GovExec" [1]

GovExec, About: "In March of 2020, we committed our entire organization to creating the leading sales and marketing intelligence company serving the public sector" (added emphasis)

I.e, it may just be that the that the story is written by an organization that is losing it's funding.

[1] https://www.nextgov.com/about/

[2] https://about.govexec.com/company/about/
How many countries are they?
if it's not funding tax cuts and corporate handouts for Elon's companies, it's waste.
Dependency injection containers can be overly complex and allow complex configurations, too much magic.

That is why I kept my container library simple, you read thru all the source in less than 15 minutes.

What I like about it is that it is natural to use composition with classes, it encourages to create classes to divide your application into reusable parts.

And with my library all you do is to put the dependent class in the constructor. My library can without much effort be replaced with normal factory, that is by design.

Warning PHP https://github.com/paketphp/bero
https://patents.google.com/patent/USD621414

> Ornamental design for a user interface for a computer display

I have no idea what the invention (or design) is in this one.
> You Americans voted for this

A thin majority in an election with a poor (and/or constrained) turnout in a lop-sided nonsense of an electoral system with disproportionate weightings voted for parts of this.
Or trivializes other people's work. Like when a lead developer or a manager wants to chime in and say the story point estimate is too much and it should be smaller.

> Just do x, y, z

Ok then you take the story.

> Oh but I don't know frontend.

But you know the estimate is wrong?

I hate the word "just"
> An SSD that fails is likely to go into a read-only mode that still allows you to recover your data.

Anecdotally, every (n=5) SSD that has failed on me suffered sudden* catastrophic failure that made the drive unreadable.

I forget the exact models, but one was a high end consumer Samsung NVMe, two higher end Samsung SATA SSDs, and a couple of M.2 SATA SSDs in laptops.

* One of the M.2 SATA SSDs was a slower failure where the kernel reported I/O errors at first, but it could still boot a few times, then it completely failed mid-backup and never mounted again.
Dunno about Germany but in Belgium there is Crossroads Bank for Social Security which effectively controls the flow of information between various social security and public health organizations: https://www.ksz-bcss.fgov.be/

In its current form, it's a set of SOAP or REST APIs that your organization gets access to after completing paperwork about your needs.

It was established by a 1990 law [1].

There is also a similar legal and technical setup for information on companies [2] where most information is public, and the register of residents [3] which is even more guarded.

[1] https://www.ksz-bcss.fgov.be/fr/page/loi-du-15-janvier-1990-...

[2] https://economie.fgov.be/en/themes/enterprises/crossroads-ba...

[3] https://www.ibz.rrn.fgov.be/fr/registre-national/
Shopify is Canadian.
https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/#o1

> The latest o1 model supports both text and image inputs
Why do they deserve the worst outcome?
Course theres something wrong with it. When the frik did Americans, and American techies - get so blasé about personal information security! America fought against the idea of biometric ID cards. People on HN have railed against giving more information to the government forever.

What the hell? Like this shit didn’t happen back home in INDIA, and that’s a nation which is comfortable with a stronger state.

It’s NOT OK, and you can very well acknowledge that fact because you can just imagine what eviscerating a legacy code base without a replacement looks like. It looks like the disaster you wish on your worst enemy while you quit the firm and look for a new job.

This isn’t beyond the project execution and technical ability of most people here to grasp.

ask yourself how many consecutive miracles would it take for this to go off without a hitch. Then ask yourself if you are that lucky.
I'm sure the salaries at Deepseek in China were lower than the salaries at OpenAI.
> on every repetitive mundane and boring task we have ever done.

A lot of them could be solved with pre-ai things. Many were self-inflicted by people badly designing and approving existing processes. I really don't see how AI is going to get us out of this one. I've been paid money to automate a few existing self-inflicted repetitive, mundane and boring tasks and the companies that created them are not even interested in talking about solving that. Some work the opposite way - in the US the value keeps being extracted from the tax filing system for example, even though we know how to remove the issue itself.

It's weird to discuss how the AI will automate everything when we're actively fighting simplification right now.
I am referring to your assertion that the president created organizations or can get rid of them, which is false.
I thought when they said chemicals, they meant volatile organic compounds or voooooc (can't remember the exact number of o in this acronym)
Because you have a right to privacy.
Vance is just a figurehead for Theil, Musk, Sacks etc.

It's obvious from recent video of Musk and Trump that Trump is also a figurehead at this point.
> ChatGPT is available for free - you can find out for yourself!

ChatGPT changes a lot. Somebody reading this comment thread in a year or five might well be interested in the answer but can't test it for themselves anymore.
it changes debug semantics

this is the reason guido avoids it. programs will still fail, except now without a stacktrace
Same thing for butchery. Cut the carcass and sell the parts.
My lens is that the military is a federal agency, and our soldiers are federal employees.

This EO combined with the "he who saves his country breaks no law" quote points towards an eventual attempt at a coupe or similar use of force to retain power. Thankfully there are currently no partisan militias in the DOD, but I could see an attempt at a Saddam-style seizing of Congress
Ask HN: Is anyone else picky about which monospace font(s) you use?
I looked at and tried a bunch of different fonts in nvim: DM Mono, Jetbrains Mono, and 0xproto to name a few. I tried looking for good alternatives to Code Saver, especially free ones, but every time I switch back to Code Saver, I like it much more. I kept switching back and forth between a given font and Code Saver to see how much I really like said font rather than if I got used to it. It's not that other fonts are bad, I'm just so attached to Code Saver. I wish many other fonts did appeal to me.
I reject the Stochastic Parrot theory. The claim is more about comparative advantage; AI systems already exist that are superhuman on breadth of knowledge at undergrad understanding depth. So new science should be discoverable in fields where human knowledge breadth is the limiting factor.
> But the biggest, nastiest, deepest problem with anything animal is ... shit.

Yes. I volunteered at a Raptor conservancy. Fantastic animals and being trusted to help fly them in a display was one of the best things I've ever done. It made up for all of the poop cleaning. At least owls have the courtesy to cough up pellets containing the little bones of their prey - it reduces the poop volume and the pellets dry into hard nuggets that easy to pick up (and fun to pull apart later). Black Kites were okay-ish - most of their poop ended up on easily cleanable wall sheets behind their (outward facing) perches. But vultures. yeech. They are fascinating from a social perspective and some were very playful - pulling on your bootlaces until they were knotted, for example, but their poop is gross and voluminous. They also can use defensive projectile vomiting if they feel threatened, which is as (un)pleasant as it sounds.

But overall, great animals to be around.
What happened if some government agency were to order both Obscura and Mullvad to log a certain user or certain activities? Wouldn't it be possible to combine those logs? If it isn't: would that change if Obscura was ordered to also use a separate Mullvad account for a specific user/IP?
Do ambiguous images provide psychological insights? Testing a popular claim
The product page states no logs, and then on that same page there is a claim the VPN IP address means anonymity- except... when I log in to VPN and I'm assigned IP address, now I'm tracked through this IP address? I'd guess there are logs saying something like 'user X requested IP, user X paid so lets give user X a.b.c.d for the duration of session'
I agree with all of the above, but to be blunt, even if they were to go through the congress, they would be approved since Republicans have majority everywhere and they seem to have given a blank check to the President.

We did this to ourselves.
I really struggle to think why restricting car development in light of environmental concerns would have been a bad thing. Much milder climate change? Better-designed, more pleasant cities? No leaded gasoline? Sure, economic growth would have been held back a couple of decades, but no one would have really noticed.
I think the way to think about H5N1 at the current time, for the hyper individualist types who don't care about no pandemic, is that it's like ebola. You really, really don't want to get it (~50% mortality) but you have to do quite specific things to put yourself at risk. One of those things is interacting with outdoor birds on a regular basis. Even in the absence of a pandemic it's just good sense not to expose yourself to that for the sake of questionably cheaper eggs.
They claimed to discover .. yes, but they're essentially too young, dumb, and inexperienced to understand the oddities in the data .. the 100+ year old peole are a result of COBOL NULL entries for people with no birth record dates (which is a real thing in 300+ million people), etc.

Also:

DOGE Claimed It Saved $8 Billion in One Contract. It Was Actually $8 Million

The biggest single line item on the website of Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team appears to include an error.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/upshot/doge-contracts-mus...

DOGE is not a trustworthy reporter, they are incentivised to make big, bold, bullshit claims.
A more legit question would be "in a deck of cards there are 4 of each". Now, I don't play poker, but assuming that is 1 deck, it's 4 aces. If it's 2 decks it's 8 aces.

What happens if you get on 'that time of the day' and/or 'that specific station' and there are a bunch of old folks and you end up with "all cards are aces?". Someone is cheating!!! :)
> The Legislature can impeach the Administration

The problem here is that if you impeach Trump, then you get Vance, who will do the same stuff Trump is doing. You impeach Vance, and you get Johnson, who will do the same stuff Trump is doing. And so on, down the line. Eventually you run out of people in the presidential line of succession, and then you have a real problem. I suppose eventually you get to the point where you have a president who doesn't feel like getting impeached? But by then the damage to the institution has been done.

> it can hold it's officers in contempt

Who is going to enforce any orders (fines, imprisonment) around those contempt rulings? Congress and federal courts don't really have much law enforcement personnel to speak of. Trump controls federal law enforcement, and he can instruct them to ignore contempt rulings.

I guess the House (for example) has the Sergeant at Arms, but their law enforcement staff is limited, and I don't think they're going to want to get into a conflict with, say, the Secret Service, if they go to arrest a cabinet member, but Trump says no.

> and it can pass laws constraining the Administration.

There are already laws constraining the administration, and Trump and Musk are running roughshod over them. Why would they obey new laws they don't like?
Random areas
Even the basic front page of youtube was of immediate and obvious value to a creator, and would increase disproportionately in value the more people were on YouTube. The same goes for Amazon, and the same goes for Facebook.

All the LLM providers are - extremely useful - tools. Currently I can only see the 'non-monopoly' proportional improvement when their userbase grows from 100 to 1000.

But I might be wrong, and I wouldn't be surprised if in hindsight it will be obvious what the real disproportionate advantages there were to be found.
Yes, that makes sense, we don’t allow people to connect to our databases directly either, and in any case the systems should be built so they are separated, it’s good architecture.

I was very much more intrigued about the statement that data can’t be easily/legally shared within the same agency
It's not that hard. Just ask them to explain the code. Then ask them how they'd change it for several different scenarios.
Nobody is sculpting better than Michellangelo with angle grinders though.
My 2 year old daughter never liked eggs. We started buying some from a neighbor who pasture raises his lay hens (and feeds them more chicken-appropriate feed).

She eats her eggs and asks for more. If we run out and I fry up some store bought ones, she refuses to eat them - even when I don't tell her where they're from.

Same goes for chicken meat from the grocery store vs. pasture raised broilers from another neighbor.

When it happened the first time it was something of a canary-in-the-coalmine situation for me.
Both of those concepts translate to "veiligheid" in Dutch.
Three black suburbans in a row are definitely very conspicuous.
Labour unions? Nazis destroyed labour unions, what the fuck are you on about? That's patently wrong history.

Sturmabteilung occupied all trade unions, arrested union leaders and threw them into concentration/labour camps.

Go read about the Nazi creation of the German Labour Front a little before spewing this absolute bullshit.

Why are you trying to rewrite history?
I didn’t get something until it was pointed out very recently.

The issue isn’t what we think. The issue is what we think OTHERS think.

This is what social media truly fucks up. We can’t see the people nodding in disagreement. We can only see their silence, and we must respond to the person who IS talking and holding our attention.

Practically - I care about privacy, and I expect that damn near most people here care about it.

People can have their “well actually” arguments, but when push comes to shove, techies on HN should vocalize their annoyance with the way this is being done. Even if you support their politics, this ISNT how you execute secure projects.

Wrong from the start. The Emperor isn’t wearing any clothes territory. We dont have to agree on other things.
I do not see how checks and balances that are there to limit data access via previously unauthorized organizations negatively affect Europe/Europeans. It is true Europe if facing a hard time, but saying that it's caused by the checks and balances we have on privacy feels misguided to me
What an odd comment.
So if DOGE have security clearances (unclear if the have) then their audit is legal?
It does seem like some of the messaging gets away from their actual documentation: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/reasoning-best-pract...

The reasoning models improve on this kind of thing, but that just means they do even better when provided with or asked to create and follow a process. o3-mini-high, since it shows its work, didn't just spit out a process. It showed the process of creating the process in its reasoning block. It considered the format above in there and removed and added things while considering different levels of detail before the final version before producing anything.
Perhaps. But I think we can agree that this is indeed not the usual case.

The majority of what he's doing is "merely" unheard of norm violations. But much of the authority he's exercising do not clearly appear to be legal, or constitutional. There are tendentious arguments for much of it being legal, of course, but they're not slam-dunks -- precisely because they would put the entire the executive branch effectively above any law or constraint.

In any other organization it would be clear that even when the head gives you an illegal or an ultra-vires orders, you're not supposed to actually follow them.
Yes, Flux Ultra is great, too bad they do not allow to access the "raw" mode.

Here is me trying (and finally succeeding) to persuade Le Chat to generate image using filename as a prompt...

https://chat.mistral.ai/chat/9940f6bf-b2e5-4db2-bb64-adcbd9f...

I mean... "pretty please" as a debugging technique. I kind of do not look forward to my future conversations with tea kettle and door knob.
I know the guy who leaked the alteriwnet source code back in the days. Thats some nice code right there
Then you will admit that President Trump has idiotically terrible and absolutely unethical judgement? Or do you want to defend that?
Ahem, tell me this again once you get punished for what you are as an individual, for your striking, for not joining the political party (...)

I can't believe I'm reading such comments
What kind of fairytale world are we living in that Russia has any plausible deniability here? We can say what we want about NATO expansionism, but this kind of behavior is not dissimilar to that of the Houthis or Somali pirates.
The article is dated today, it may not yet be affecting prices.
This is also true, to some extent. You have to have valid reason to access PII (Personally Identifiable Information). All access is logged and the DPO (The Data Privacy Office, one of the good things GDPR formalized) monitors access on a regular basis.

And since the current understanding is that even the combination of an IP address and a timestamp is personally identifiable... many organizations are actively not collecting usage stats. Which leads to the abuse of public funds, but this is a different story.
I also read something saying that roads are one of the biggest sources of microplastics, with tyre wear, and that being next to one (as most suburban houses are) significantly increases the amount in microplastics in foods grown in backyards. I imagine Chickens would be worse as pollutants tend to accumulate as they go up trophic levels.

Though like many discussions about microplastics today, where "higher levels", and what microplastics, cross over into actual health issues is vague.
Hi there :)

Author here, i quickly threw together a Python Port on Google Colab which also can generate an animated GIF. It's not meant to be perfectly coded or exactly emulating the assembler instructions, it just produces the same image(s)

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1BFjI3GmuboYzTAf-jeJ...

Example Image : https://i.imgur.com/zIIRLam.gif
The cheap ones have high latency and only 1080p, no?
Thank you for the reply.

Really looking forward to the archive file navigation, and will use your tool. I am already sensing that the snappiness is pretty addictive, and it will be hard to go back to anything slower...

Keeping my fingers crossed for your product!
How does giving the platform the keys guarantee legal consequences for them if they use the keys to read your messages?
Is it true to say that in practise there are no laws here? If anyone in DOGE breaks the law, can't the President just issue a blanket pardon?

If the President himself breaks the law, he argues that it was in the course of his official duties [1].

[1] https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-939_e2pg.pdf
Right…right but also, F**k this company.
the President gets to pick the AG and the AG reports to the President.

With the Senate’s approval. You dont understand how the interplay between the branches work.

Executive power is derived from the President.

No!
Collateral damage.
Even if you believe that all those companies are exclusively working towards the USA's aims and ignore that the output of TSMC and ASML's US factories are not yet a rounding error on their production. Do you seriously doubt that espionage still works?
> it's definitely _not_ the _monetary_ solution

Does this also take into account the current price of eggs in the same product category? i.e., organic, free-range eggs?

For current Erewhon prices, 8 eggs a day is $11.30 in free eggs a day, so $339 in eggs a month?

https://erewhon.com/subcategory/33022/eggs - $16.99 a dozen
I was definitely thinking along the spilling fluids strategem. Coughing without covering your mouth, playing obnoxious music, making unnaceptable agist comments...

As for enticing the desired people, perhaps carry lots of baggage to fill the spaces around you and selectively offer to remove them when people come aboard
Ugly Code and Dumb Things
And you have the proof for these numbers, or are they pulled out of Elon's behind?
That's definitely possible. Ultimately, it was up to the public of the USA to be the backstop against this and they chose not to.

I think it's worth pointing out that it's not a given Congress would have approved it all. For a start, it would take longer to legally setup the instruments that Musk wanted. Also, the current situation allows Republicans to conveniently wash their hands of any negative consequences. Which is likely a big reason they're not pushing on this at all, as demanding a vote would require them to take a clear side on DOGE.
Good reminder of why I picked EU over the US to move to.

I really can't stand the US way of thinking. This awful hyper-individualism is so dismaying.
Yep, same experience. "Some of the biggest performance wins" in both developer speed and processing speed.
No one says they get a lifetime claim, just that some cannot be legally fired without cause. Not sure why you are going to the extreme of "untouchable officials" and "lifetime claim" when no one has suggested that's the case.

If the law is that that an official cannot be fired without cause, then that's that, if there's no cause. Maybe they have a term of employment in that position, and when it ends, they leave. Maybe Congress can fire them via some other appropriate mechanism. But if the law says the president cannot fire them without cause, then that's just not a power the president has.
That's usually how it goes with 'AI'. It is very impressive on the golden path, but the world is 80% edge cases.
That's actually not what they've been tasked with:

> This Executive Order establishes the Department of Government Efficiency to implement the President’s DOGE Agenda, by modernizing Federal technology and software to maximize governmental efficiency and productivity.

There's nothing about government spending programs or staffing in there. Also the EO includes this funny sentence: "USDS shall adhere to rigorous data protection standards."