skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It unfortunately doesn't matter how good of policy it is, it's a culture-war issue.

The trouble is that also means people are cherry picking results.

There was never any doubt that putting a heavy tax on something could deter use. The question is, at what cost? You now have middle income tradespeople who need a car because they have to transport their equipment paying the congestion pricing, or passing it on as higher prices to their middle income customers. It's a regressive tax.

It also deters people from commuting by car, as was the intention, but without supplying an alternative to it. So now it costs more to e.g. commute from New Jersey because you either have to pay the congestion pricing or use a less convenient means of commuting. Which in turn means it costs more to live in New Jersey relative to New York, driving up demand for New York real estate and exacerbating the high rents there.

Whereas if you would, for example, reduce car traffic in Manhattan by allowing taller buildings in the other burroughs from which Manhattan is conveniently accessible via subway line, you don't have a regressive tax and don't drive up overall rents, and maybe that's the better option to achieve the same goal.
Show us the (public) Court Filings. The formal start of education to evaluate if there is truth, if there is a guilty party, and to legally render a verdict. The check numbers and other PII can be evaluated by the courts. We the People can know the numbers; the scale per case and in sum, of the 'fraud' identified.
Epic published a very well written article explaining what the problem is, what makes it so much worse in modern games, and why it's a uniquely difficult problem to solve.

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/tech-blog/game-engines-an...
Finite Simple Group (Of Order Two) (2006) [video]
I’d say I can’t do it cause I live in NYC, but theres a very famous “Chicken House” in Bedstuy that disproves that. They got a whole chicken coup in their front yard. I got know idea how they keep away stray cats and rats etc, but somehow they’ve been doing it for at least a decade.

So maybe I could
Lol you clearly have no idea what a 'neo-conservative' is or their history.

Neo-Conservatives were a branch of Democrat wark-hawks who wanted to police the world, that were upset about the pacifist attitude of the Democrats at the time - they emerged in the 60's and managed to largely take control of the Republican party moving forward, peaking under George W Bush.

Their founding principal was "Peace Through Strength" and have a strong belief in worldwide interventionism.

If you think the 'MAGA' / 'Trump' party is neo-conservative you literally just are ignoring the entire history, the power struggle (which Trump won) to retake the party from the Neo-Cons, and the fact that the trump admin is largely isolationist and opposed to being the world police.

Don't get me wrong there are still some neo-cons in office and with roles in his admin, but the republican infighting can be summarized as neocon vs MAGA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism
https://www.britannica.com/topic/neoconservatism

Words mean things. The MAGE/America First party is focused on non-interventionism, advocate against regime change abroad, with a focus on America and it's interest rather than the endless wars.

You can debate the success or merit of that approach I guess, but the Neo-Cons are very happy to provide foreign aid as it is core to their ideology. They tend to do it via NED while the left uses USAID more (although both use both, but they each have lean in one direction).

Just for fun, I just tried this little experiment you can try to:
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CoPilot:
Can you rationally describe Trump as a neocon?

CoPilot:
No, it would not be accurate to rationally state that Donald Trump is a neoconservative (neocon). Here are some key differences:

Foreign Policy:
Neocons: Advocate for interventionist foreign policies, promoting democracy and regime change abroad.
Trump: Emphasizes “America First” policies, focusing on non-interventionism, reducing military engagements abroad, and prioritizing domestic issues.

Military Engagement:
Neocons: Support maintaining strong international alliances and a significant military presence globally.

Trump: Criticized NATO, praised authoritarian leaders like Vladimir Putin, and negotiated troop withdrawals from conflict zones like Afghanistan.

Economic Policies:
Neocons: Generally support free trade and globalization.

Trump: Advocates for economic nationalism, including tariffs and renegotiating trade deals to favor American interests.

These differences highlight that Trump’s policies and ideology do not align with neoconservative principles. If you have any more questions or need further details, feel free to ask!
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The first RCT for GLP-1 drugs and alcoholism isn't what we hoped
> Of the DOGE list's initial claim of $16 billion in savings, half came from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) listing that was entered into the Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS) in 2022 with a whopping $8 billion maximum possible value.

> According to a DOGE post on X, that number was a typo that was corrected in the contract database to $8 million on Jan. 22 of this year before being terminated a week later, and DOGE "has always used the correct $8M in its calculations."

Jeez, that's pretty damning.
James Bond producers give Amazon full creative control of 007
Recent:

What happens to your online accounts when you die? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42991112
> The almost $1.4 billion adjusted profit figure it shared is a vast improvement from the losses Twitter posted in pre-Musk days. The adjusted profit came from a measure known in industry parlance as earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.

To quote the late, great Charlie Munger: "Every time you hear 'EBITDA', substitute it with bullshit earnings".

Wasn't this largely the playbook at Tesla as well? They famously used very cooked non-GAAP numbers to essentially lie about the profitability of the stock for nearly a decade.

And largely it worked! People bought Tesla shares in such droves that company enjoyed very favorable equity financing to build themselves.
haha love it :D
The Weird Wild Saga of Gizmondo (2016)
How experienced are you with Chinese AI talent compensation?
Most people on my feed do. It's true that professionals, executives, and public intellectuals generally don't use lowercase and that Sam is trying to normalize that, but my main point was that the medium matters. Lowercase looks ridiculous for longform essays and normal for short messages and microblog posts.
> Let's say the head of an agency decides their interpretation of the law is X, but the President thinks it's Y. You can't bring them to court because X and Y fall within the interpretation of law.

Uh, who is “you” in this scenario? Because for most reasonable values, yes, you can.

Differing interpretations of the law by different executive branch officers have never stopped outside parties from suing those executive officers over their execution of the law, with the courts ultimately deciding the correct interpretation (sometimes with some degree of deference, but never absolute, to executive interpretations.)
Supporting evidence certainly helps when accusing someone.
Correct, FDR control procedures have been part of the statistics literature for at least 50 years, and are relatively easy to implement by hand. There's no excuse.
Do you think 1.5M a year compensation is cheap? That’s in the range of OpenAI offers.
> I wrote the other day that “the way finance works now is that things are valuable not based on their cash flows but on their proximity to Elon Musk,” and I am already tired of it. It was a joke? But in a couple of years there are going to be 800-page textbooks on Elon Musk Proximity Pricing; it will be a whole unit on Level 1 of the CFA. You might think that “did Elon Musk tweet about a thing” would be a simpler valuation metric than, like, “estimate its cash flows in perpetuity and apply an appropriate discount rate,” but I don’t know, there’s a lot going on.

Money Stuff: The Elon Markets Hypothesis
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2021-02-10/elon-m... | https://archive.today/cZo0E - February 10th, 2021
I learned to love my alarm clock
Discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43116081
I got very annoyed by his portrayal in the first and especially last episodes of this podcast. Especially by the woman in the last episode who said her heart was broken for him and there was no justice in locking him up.

Shan Hanes was both a victim and a serious criminal. If he had lost just his own money I'd feel terrible for him. But as he got in deeper he was knowingly taking money first from his employer and later directly from his own customers' accounts. He took steps to cover his tracks. Shan Hanes is exactly where he belongs.

Edit - I listened back. Her name is Kathy Wilson, a mental health professional in Colorado. She called criticism of Shan "victim blaming". She compared his situation to the bank being robbed at gunpoint. She again calls his sentence "victim blaming".

I will say I think his 24 year sentence is barbaric but I often feel that way about American prison sentencing.
Yes, and some parts are very good. He also said some parts are not very good in the same statement.

That does not translate to supporting the entire agenda.
They will not know that theyre screwed because media will tell them theyre doing great
Trump is someone who prioritizes political convenience over ideological consistency. If it served his goals, I wouldn’t be surprised if he found a way to disarm opponents while ensuring his loyalists remained armed. This kind of selective enforcement is not unprecedented in history—authoritarian leaders often secure control by disarming opposition groups while maintaining force among their supporters.

For example, in 1933, after coming to power, the Nazi regime implemented firearm restrictions that disproportionately impacted political opponents, such as communists and Jewish citizens, while allowing pro-Nazi paramilitary groups to remain well-armed. Similarly, in modern autocratic states like Venezuela, the government has imposed strict gun control while arming loyalist militias. The pattern is clear: when a leader seeks to consolidate power, they often weaken the opposition’s access to weapons rather than banning them outright.

Even if large numbers of civilians were armed, that alone wouldn't be enough to stop an authoritarian shift. The U.S. military possesses overwhelming firepower, intelligence capabilities, and infrastructure to suppress resistance. If the military backed Trump fully, any opposition would likely be crushed. But more importantly, authoritarianism doesn’t usually arrive through sudden, dramatic force—it seeps in gradually. A slow erosion of rights, institutions, and norms makes it difficult for people to recognize the turning point until it’s too late. By the time armed resistance seemed justified to most, it would be disorganized, reactionary, and likely ineffective.
Thanks. good advice i'll have a play around with placement and see what works. I notices on some phones the bottom can be cut off so need to fiddle around with that
interesting to behold this inversion where the "conservative" side is taking dramatic and rapid action, changing things quickly, while the "progressive" side vociferously defends the status quo
>A certain amount of creative destruction is necessary...

This sounds truthy and even casts instability as somehow heroic, but it's an oversimplification and hides similar fallacies. It also implies that instability for the sake of instability is default-positive.

The best way to avoid capture is via law / regulation. There should be term limits, campaign finance reform, more regulation against lobbyists and the revolving door, etc. We can't have Citizens United then wonder how capture happened. And, no amount of instability will address that.

In fact, instability in this environment can serve as cover for increased capture, as there is no bulwark against reassignment of winners. This is likely what we're seeing with Musk right now.

Stability here doesn't mean nothing changes. It means things change in an orderly, reasoned manner to include thoughtfully preventing capture.
I am not really comfortable relying on a tool that has a free tier and a subscription. I really like the app, but I will never again have the rugged pulled out under me with a quadrupling of license costs.

Do the make any kind of promises wrt the free tier?
I wonder if spreading the chickens out to all the backyards would prevent spread due to lower density, or if you'd get spread via wild animals anyhow and now it's just impossible to contain and more people are at direct risk.
235 CE Rome? The Western Roman Empire lasts another two centuries- Romulus Augustus is deposed in 476 CE. That's longer than the US Constitution has existed (ratified in 1788).
> there are occasions where you need to type a password. For instance, bootstrapping a new device that doesn't have your password manager installed already

Right, but the whole point is that the (hopefully) one-time pain of doing this is worth it in the long run.
Bond is the embodiment of white male privilege. (I suppose you could add handsome and straight privilege as well.) A well-dressed, handsome, white male with an abundance of confidence can easily gain access to many places without a second glance. Along with seducing women who have information, this is one of his main investigative strategies.

Unfortunately, women and people of color often don't have the same advantages and in some places are completely locked out. This makes it more difficult to change than someone like Leiter, Moneypenny or M who are much more flexible characters.

While it would still be possible to make a Bond without these attributes (they can still drink martinis, shoot bad guys and make quips) it would be a drastic change to the character.

I suppose the other perspective is that if Bond is primarily intended to be a personification of Britain, perhaps it's right that the character looks representative of Britain.
startups.
For the record this was a question of what should happen. Not a "what does happen"
Reminds me of when we had to use browser hacks for IE.
So you are saying that we are meant to believe the problem is that people (who exactly?) were formulating and acting on their own interpretations of the law, independent of either the executive or judiciary branches of government? Hmm. If the problem is so immediate it requires an EO, there must be some salient examples you can point me to.

I would react the same way to anyone who had announced we would never need to vote again, who had previously pardoned felons convicted in an attempted coup, and who was now centralizing governmental oversight and power. There is no comparison to another president in the last 150 years or more.
I think he means outsourcing everything eventually, but right now, outsourcing the thought process is possible, while outsourcing the manual labor is not.
The question isn't what's being accessed, it's who is accessing it.

There's at least some belief that the people looking at the data haven't been vetted or instructed as they should be when handling data of this nature.

It doesn't help that the guy who is running the show is basically doing it as a friend of the president and has some conflicts of interest.
This is a terrific article. It led me to a couple of hours tracking articles about related efforts, not the least of which was John Conway's work.

Mind you, my math is enough for BSEE. I do have a copy of one of my university professor's go-to work books: The Algebraic Eigenvalue Problem and consult it occasionally and briefly.
I make these suggestion during all conversations about PiHoles:

Use Class A2 SDmicro cards (they'll last significantly longer... particularly if you keep logs). There are additional 3rd-party installations which can write into RAM, but IMHO it's easier for most new users to just buy better NANDs.

Set up more than one physical Raspberry Pi, running multiple versions of PiHole software on multiple IP addresses.

Have your main DHCP router auto-issue DNS information for your "most permissive" PiHole, with a minimal list of choice URL-blocks (e.g. pagead2.* , doubleclick). Individual clients can then manually change DNS server to 2nd (3rd... 4th...) PiHole(s) which are each more-restrictive.

This allows non-technical users to still browse somewhat ad-free, but also won't block banking/govt/etc for novices. As a failsafe, teach users to enter your router's IP as DNS x.x.x.1 [should they ever need to bypass local filtering, entirely].

I use sequential IP addresses [192.168.0.6, x.x.x.7, x.x.x.8, x.x.x.9] so it's easier to explain/teach my networks ad-blocking capabilities. YES, I understand that Pi-Hole allows different clients to follow different rulesets, but if you can afford to buy redundant hardware it's just so much easier to change the client DNS server information when a specific website isn't working correctly [due to erroneously blocked host].
re self-hosting: yep! Use the -devtools flag to get a stripped down version of Subtrace running entirely locally:

subtrace run -devtools=/subtrace -- python3 -m http.server

This starts a Python server on localhost:8000 but with Subtrace. Everything except /subtrace is forwarded to the Python server like usual, but if you go to http://localhost:8000/subtrace you should see the Chrome DevTools network tab running in the browser like a regular app. Any request you send to localhost:8000 + all outgoing requests made from inside the Python app will automatically appear in that dashboard!
>”There seems to be a weird selection bias that if you're FAANG or FAANG adjacent these small companies aren't interested.”

Many smaller companies have noticed that former and wannabe FAANGers are looking for FAANG-type jobs, and are not good fits in their niche. Small companies often have more uncertainty, fewer clear objectives, less structure, and often lower pay. They’re not a good substitute for megacorps.
The premise is straight out of Simon Levene's short film from 2005, "Tube Poker".
The point-allocations are described as in the article at around 03:45.

- https://www.simonlevene.com/portfolio/tube-poker

- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0818537/
At least those are typically honest about what they try to be and give a very clear signal, right at the interview time.

It's much worse when the interview gives you different vibes (and expectations) than the actual day-to-day work.
The Schwarz Group (the owner of Lidl) have produced STACKIT, which afaik is supposed to be the European AWS. Not sure what the long-term strategy is there, but I think the idea was exactly to offer European solutions as opposed to Microsoft Azure and AWS.

https://schwarz-digits.de/en/marken/stackit
What does it matter if the data is portable?

https://help.obsidian.md/import

Promises aren't ironclad anyhow.
Or a "just start typing" person is with a "mull it over first" person. By the time I am typing code, I want to have 90% of it already completely worked out (at least till I type a "c.Lock()" and suddenly realize I hadn't considered thus and so synchronization issue.
To make it reasonable, most content would be purged after a set amount of time. The other option is to re-encode video, graphics, etc.. at a lower fidelity
Is there a difference when it comes to the taxpayer?

It's all waste. Fraud if there were kickbacks, we'll see about that.
> but I can't think of a system of controls that ends up with the CEO not being able to give orders unilaterally most of the time

The primary system of control for small shops is going out of business when you're dumb enough to lose $47M and getting replaced by more competent people running the competition
PhD student says U of Minnesota expelled him over unfair AI allegation
At its core, it’s just a text editor. You don’t need any subscription. It’s Local-first, uses Markdown, and if you want to sync or publish, there’s plenty of other tools for that purpose that don’t require an account, like Syncthing or Github Pages.
>What do you do when you accidentally run pip install -r requirements.txt with the wrong .venv activated?

As someone with a similar approach (not using requirements.txt, but using all the basic tools and not using any kind of workflow tool or sophisticated package manager), I don't understand the question. I just have a workflow where this isn't feasible.

Why would the wrong venv be activated?

I activate a venv according to the project I'm currently working on. If the venv for my current code isn't active, it's because nothing is active. And I use my one global Pip through a wrapper, which (politely and tersely) bonks me if I don't have a virtual environment active. (Other users could rely on the distro bonking them, assuming Python>=3.11. But my global Pip is actually the Pipx-vendored one, so I protect myself from installing into its environment.)

You might as well be asking Poetry or uv users: "what do you do when you 'accidentally' manually copy another project's pyproject.toml over the current one and then try to update?" I'm pretty sure they won't be able to protect you from that.

>If your answer is "delete the venv and recreate it", what do you do when your code now has a bunch of errors it didn't have before?

If it did somehow happen, that would be the approach - but the code simply wouldn't have those errors. Because that venv has its own up-to-date listing of requirements; so when I recreated the venv, it would naturally just contain what it needs to. If the listing were somehow out of date, I would have to fix that anyway, and this would be a prompt to do so. Do tools like Poetry and uv scan my source code and somehow figure out what dependencies (and versions) I need? If not, I'm not any further behind here.

>And of course they become a lot harder when you try to work with someone else's project, or come back to a project from a couple of years ago and find it doesn't work.

I spent this morning exploring ways to install Pip 0.2 in a Python 2.7 virtual environment, "cleanly" (i.e. without directly editing/moving/copying stuff) starting from scratch with system Python 3.12. (It can't be done directly, for a variety of reasons; the simplest approach is to let a specific version of `virtualenv` make the environment with an "up-to-date" 20.3.4 Pip bootstrap, and then have that Pip downgrade itself.)

I can deal with someone else's (or past me's) requirements.txt being a little wonky.
kubeshark [0] is using ebpf to catch calls to openssl/go's tls lib and thus no need to juggle certs. Has pros and cons compared to your method, but an interesting comparison.

[0] https://www.kubeshark.co/
People don’t understand scale. They will cut spending $800B, cut taxes by $4T and people will say that action is budget neutral.
Sorry but this is very clearly moving the goalposts; you asked, got a very seriously problematic example, and then brushed it off with "yeah but..."

Come on man, are we really at the level of just letting that slide and pretending this is a legit operation? That Musk has only the best intentions, as his track record clearly shows right?

I can't believe what I'm seeing, the world has gone fully crazy.
Shameless plug(in) -- While not built-in, Relay [0] is a plugin that makes Obsidian multiplayer. Our broader goal is to make Obsidian great for work.

You can make individual folders collaborative in your vault with several different parties. We use yjs CRDTs for real-time collaboration, and we're making the collaboration server (optionally) self-hosted.

Check it out :)

[0] https://system3.md/relay
Unsure if this is a scalable model public schooling can afford. While it would be wonderful if every child could have an IEP, that tends to only work at rich schools with lots of educators. OTOH, what could be done is encouraging and expecting more achievement from students (perhaps at 2 or 3 different pace levels) using proven methods rather than foisting uncontrolled experiments on millions of students without evidence for efficacy.