skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The film describes a "Despotism" (1946) cycle, and ultimate conclusion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdVB-R6Duso

Keep in mind people voted for this knowing the plan, but this book documents human behavior in general politics under a new ruler:

"The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics" (Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith)

https://www.amazon.com/Dictators-Handbook-Behavior-Almost-Po...

Removing political guardrails and community due-process is what is happening.

A king and his fool is unsustainable, thus... people with brains and money will simply start to vote with their feet and leave while they are able. Have a great day =3
2022 was before the end of the ZIRP free money train (the one that let most companies we know and love "acquire customers" by just loss-leadering everything against 0% loans sort of thing) at least i think my timeline is consistent internally. Either way, those days are over for now.

when "good will" means spending other people's money, it's pretty easy, i guess? something infrastructure development something
“Nobody would have believed what he was saying without those patents.”

Exactly. He used his patents from Apple to convince people of his supposed credibility or notability in order to get people to believe he was good at this. But that’s not what patents are. They’re so companies can use their employees’ contributions as legal arsenal. They do not signal competency or skill.
> So basically giving someone a bad deal is therefore theft? This isn't a principled idea to hold, it is pretty much a slippery slope to call any transaction you don't like theft afterwards.

It's not about whether or not I personally like it, it's about whether or not it has the value it's ascribed to. NFTs are murkier in that some people believe they have value, and I guess that's fair. I think it's demonstrably false, but I doubt a person who believes they have value would consider an NFT purchase fraudulent, and therefore would not pursue it.

If however a given person was suckered into buying an NFT by someone, and later realized it was worthless, I think that's absolutely something that at least bears considering in terms of it being fraud, in a court of law. I don't see how it's different from any other situation where a given individual has sold worthless assets.

> One advantage of cryptocurrency is that it prevents parties from "renegotiating" deals like this after they've made them.

One huge disadvantage is that on any cryptocurrency with any decent amount of traffic as a currency is that the value of it shifts wildly from the beginning to end of the transaction. And that can bite either party to the transaction, which is why the only currencies that see substantial use as a currency are the ones with low adoption rates. It's basically pointless to accept, for example, Etherium as payment unless you yourself are speculating on it's future value. But that's not a currency then, not in any normies' definition. A hundred dollars is worth the same today, for all intents and purposes, as it was a year ago. Plus or minus a few percent for inflation. The $4 you plunk down for a fancy coffee is not going to be worth $0.50 or $400 by the time the barista hands you the cup, otherwise no one would use money.

> When you defer to some arbitrary, opaque authority to settle transactions, that's when you get situations like this.

Cryptocurrency defers to the blockchain, and the various software that interacts with it. This is literally no difference to deferring to any other centralized institution to form trust. The only difference is the layman has no way to seek justice from a blockchain.
> Yeah but the analogy goes, if Michelangelo could snap his fingers to remove the first 80% of material on a chunk of marble, he could focus on the details and get more done, or have more time to perfect.

No. If that was a valuable thing that could be delegated, he could have "snapped his fingers" and have assistants do it. Or maybe sculpting isn't all about the later detail work like you assume, and removing that first 80% also requires skill and can't be delegated.
A Skeptical Perspective on Quantum Computing (2023)
Unpopular because it's so flagrantly ignorant. How much do you know about the "egregious" expenditures by rank-and-file federal employees just doing their jobs?
Not a bad deal assuming you didnt get any injuries.
Ah, then my correction probably does not stand, and I'll need to look deeper into it. Thanks for the explanation! This jargon really gets out of hand at times. :P But I don't mind being wrong if I learn from it.
Obligatory:

https://imgur.com/a/FcYpGz1
a) Based on polling, only 3/10 Americans support DOGE [1].

b) There is widespread (almost unanimous you would imagine) support for reducing waste, corruption etc in government. The issue is how you do it and whether you are negatively impacting people for little gain.

c) And from what we've seen to date, DOGE has not found anything that wasn't already known long ago by the Inspectors Generals.

[1] https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5105472-donald-t...
Yeah, they really aren't happy the corruption is being unearthed, this is above and beyond anything they were planning.

Hell, there should have been massive riots by the left now, though the funding has now disappeared for the professional organisers and rent a crowd.

Democrats are 20 mil in debt from the election, and now their money funnels have been closed down.
They simply weren't expecting this.
There's also the "big picture" part of software engineering, that is the architecture and design of a piece of software. It's all done in the head (and maybe on paper). Once my fingers hit the keyboard the code pretty much writes itself because the hard part has already been done.
If only 64% of Americans would quit Facebook.

However, I have not quit, but instead rarely use it (a few times per month) and only until the web interface pisses me off which takes less than ten minutes.
But they only know about specific tools with few or zero shot methods, whereas modern humans are highly trained to specifically always route all math through a calculator, it's "in the fine tune" not "in the prompt".

It doesn't use up any "context" to remember that calculators exist.

With the partial exception of Python code, models know how to solve problems with code and even 1.5B models do amazing things if you prompt them with something like "Use the Z3 solver"
So what exactly is the status of Element X? I was under the impression it's still in development, lacking some features of the old app, and will fully replace it when it's ready.

If I search for Element on app stores I still get the old app first (with millions of installs, vs. tens of thousands with Element X), and https://matrix.org/try-matrix also still points people to the old app. So I'm confused what "past" you're talking about :)

Similar situation with Dendrite BTW, it's been in beta forever, and the only private Matrix community I ever was a part of ditched it because Synapse was too much of a resource hog, and there's no clear migration path.
Treasury agrees to block DOGE's access to personal taxpayer data at IRS
There's a certain sort of anti-intellectualism that revels in the idea that if there doesn't exist a simple solution, then there must not exist any solution. It is either an inability to grasp the notion of complexity, or a childish refusal to. Therefore, any system that is too complex for them to understand must be demonized and destroyed.
Show HN: Love2d Game running in browser with a single-player eSports twist
Hey HN! I'm a huge fan of Love2D - a lightweight, open-source, 2D game engine. It's easy to use, cross-platform, and perfect for hobby projects, but it doesn’t officially support web deployment. I've been working on a game in my spare time, and wanted to see if I could get it running in the browser without rewriting it in something like Godot or Phaser.

After some trial and error, I hacked it together using Love.js (an unofficial Emscripten/WebAssembly port of Love2d) and Love.js-Api-Player, which lets Lua call JS functions. The result is a Love2D game running in the browser, with leaderboards and other web features.

The game is “What They Don’t Tell You About Living in New York” — an alpha-stage bullet hell dungeon crawler where you fight demons in an NYC skyscraper with psychic powers. It’s fast-paced, with 8-bit programmer art, and mechanics inspired by American Football.

As an experiment, I added a single-player esports twist: top leaderboard players win small prize pools I fund myself, paid out via P2P apps (PayPal, Cash App) or crypto (Dogecoin, Solana). It’s less about the money and more about how modern payment tech makes running these kind of micro-competitions possible for indie devs.

The tech stack is janky but works surprisingly well, and AFAIK, no one’s pushed Love2D this far into the web space before. Has anyone else messed with Love2D in the browser like this? I’d love feedback on the setup, the game, or the esports idea. Join the Discord (discord.gg/E8xxQdNERb) if you’re into Love2D or game dev tinkering!
The majority in Congress have — rather obviously — been paid off with luxury trips and RVs and trips to Russia.

We are truly fucked, you know?
If they need more they can get an increase, what's the issue
I'm calling it - Doom is next.
I know this from the Watchdog game
John Deere and at least one of the major tool manufacturers is working very hard on legally disabling your equipment that you own. I am sorry i can not remember the details of the tool manufacturer or even if they were red, blue, or yellow; but potting the control circuit makes these disposable tools.
I set-up a directory system for a small school. The students logins were a combination or initials and date of birth. When I created the scheme I knew that a set of twins would break the system. Somewhere between 3 and 5 years we finally got a set of twins that needed to modify the system. I called them to my office and found out which one came out first and appended 1 their usernames and 2.
Maybe naïve, but not wrong. They have access that any American citizen should have access to, and the only authority they really have is to flag items for review. The DOGE team is sensational, but i would bet an enormous sum that Trump has a much larger team that the sensationalized DOGE team at making decisions. It’s childish to believe the media’s talking points that there’s a bunch of children being allowed to run rampant controlling the government, especially in light of the recent “Biden is sharp as tack” media narrative.

From your link written by John Marshall, a “progressive liberal”: “It’s obvious that you’d want to be very cautious about centralizing this much power in anyone’s hands, especially people working outside all existing frameworks of oversight and accountability.” It’s called.. the President. The whole point of electing a president alongside of congress is to have a consolidated point of power.
I understand. And I know people need to make a living, but for god’s sake if there was ever a time to put aside profits and share this information freely, it’s now.
A lot of people are eligible for carrier subsidized upgrades every few years as well. When I did this I could have gotten my SE2 for free from verizon from my plan. I chose to pay like $200 premium to get it with the highest storage sku.

It isn't just verizon either. Here is metropcs offering free iphone 13s for new customers:

https://www.metrobyt-mobile.com/cell-phone/apple-iphone-13
Nice! I was gonna say 43 is encouraging to hear, as someone who's worried about how age will affect my proneness to injury/ability to recover, but that's an impressive background and probably a major factor. Guess that's another good reason to stay active.
You can trust that if there's anything obvious we should be doing, we are already doing it :) And I'm pleased to report that Automattic is one of our biggest sponsors.
There are also various public talks and other published pieces by members of the admin, laying out exactly what they're planning to do (and now are doing) and why.

I dunno when they figured out they can just conduct conspiracies in public and nobody will call them on it, so there's little reason to bother with secrecy, but that's how they work now, and it's been weird to watch. I first noticed it with Bush II when prominent members of his administration published multiple pieces (before he was elected) calling for war with Iraq, and stating that the US should take essentially any half-decent excuse to go to war with Iraq even if that excuse itself is bad, then... did exactly that! And got away with it! Inexplicably, the media would interview them on the topic of going to war with Iraq and didn't make all the questions about that. It was barely a footnote to media coverage of the run-up to the war, which was so damn weird when anyone could just go read the text of these pieces themselves, with familiar names on them, telling us exactly how they were planning to fuck us. Didn't matter, they could just straight-up publish "here's how we're going to screw the public" and then screw the public exactly that way, and laugh all the way to the goddamn bank (literally, in many cases—they made so friggin' much money off the post-9/11 security apparatus and the wars)
Indeed. It's moreso the case that they view everything as "waste and corruption" and are making everyone miserable, but if you look at the (currently) top thread[1], it's a deliberate move at that.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43120677
As if you don't have to do that when using a govt credit card for expenses.
those brown plastic folding chairs or a concrete bench is what i'd reckon.
Hey man Thomas is totally proud of that RV he paid for …. well didn’t pay for… also didn’t pay to park it…
I agree.
It's nice to hear someone grounded discuss it.

A lot of people (particularly on Reddit) have been driven insane by psyops, they can't critically think outside what they are told to think anymore.
It's amazing to watch, and also quite sad/scary
Completely unrelated and misleading comparison. A proper comparison to the issue with apps is if Amazon employee would walk into your house and physically destroyed CDs. CDs rotting is a force of nature, not corporate greed/incompetence.
8-Bit Wonders
One key thing that I found when learning to code mostly from actual books and online tutorials (well before AI), was to always re-type the code examples by hand instead of just reading them or copy-pasting them. If just reading the code is always miss a bunch of details, that id see when retyping.

I tend to do the same thing when using AI to explore something at edge of my knowledge, where I don’t know exactly what I just asked the AI to code. I ask it how to solve a general problem of the class I’m trying to solve, and the retype that code as I’m fitting it into my specific use case. I find that helps me much better understand what the AI generated code is doing, which comes in handy when it doesn’t work as described or goes wrong.
Bureaucrats revel and rejoice in paperwork
google needs that good will for how many of their products they nuke
I attended Nolen's recent talk at Recurse, and these absolutely mad but fundamentally funny and cool games as one-shots are so delightful.

It reminds me of the older internet, when people would make things just to be silly and have fun. I had some fun last night inspired by some of the stuff he has been posting making a very funny kind-of-quine that outputs its own source code of the page showing it, via BEAM decompilation and some other tricks. I wish I had the time to crank out things like this, and it makes me smile to know that there are people out there creating things in this manner that will just keep things interesting for all of us.

The piece that gets the sort-of quine is here, if anyone wants a laugh https://github.com/notactuallytreyanastasio/blog/blob/main/l...
> public non-encrypted rooms hosting tons of CSAM

That's the opposite of a problem, isn't it? Have cops request the IPs and arrest those sharing the material - you've just caught a lot of criminals for almost zero effort.

Unless the "problem" isn't catching criminals, and you don't really care about CSAM, just maintaining matrix's reputation from mercenary journalists willing to conflate a protocol with its users for some clickbait title, or to give a government ammo to ban encryption.
> people with brains and money will simply start to vote with their feet and leave while they are able

That worked in 1935. It doesn't work in 2025, in a world with nuclear-tipped ICBMs. We're all stuck on this planet together now; there's no escaping from a US with a mad king at the helm.
The wife got me a Sutro Tower shirt one year for Christmas. This was when OTA digital television rolled out. When the rest of San Jose seemed to be taking down their TV aerials or letting them fall apart I was nerding out: purchasing a new one and mast sections from Rat Shack to set up one on our house.

Scanning the spectrum to pull in KQED, etc. The first Austin City Limits I saw in HD blew my mind.

I think all but one TV station came to the South Bay by way of Sutro. Quite a reach.
wage theft is the largest category of theft in the US by total dollar amount. by a rather large margin.
Right. It’s not “corrupt” to have done it.

Is there a difference between an article you paid someone to write about you and one that was written without your involvement? Yes. There is.

Would this article have existed at all had he not paid for it? Possible, but doubtful.

Wikipedia is not editorial journalism, it is an encyclopedia. His inclusion in said encyclopedia was paid sponsorship. An ad. Wikipedia’s policies don’t require it to be said on the page itself, which is a shame, because knowing whether the subject of an article paid for it to exist does change the reader’s perception of the article. It absolutely does.
You're falling for the sleight of hand if you think this is where bulk of the waste is.
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Economics is braindead capitalist propaganda. Got it.
Getting a promotion?

But my broader point was that golf course socializing seems like mostly a different world today, at least in my tech circles, relative to other venues.
> I wonder what effect DOGE will have on attracting talent to government jobs. It was already challenging to recruit qualified individuals to government positions; with these changes, I believe the situation will worsen significantly.

The idea is to replace these government positions with private positions.

Remember feudalism? Some guy with all of the capital - which, in those days, meant arable land - basically got to dictate how things worked, because he had the stuff you, as a peasant, needed to live. He was called the king. If you didn't do what he wanted, your life got cut short. Government was just one guy's ideas enforced by his brute squad. In many ways, it was a sole proprietorship. Eventually, nobility was required to administer the land, and that nobility eventually turned into a structure that could keep the king somewhat in check, lest they carry out a coup. They became the administrative state. Today, we have legislative, judicial and executive bodies that - at least ostensibly - need to win election in order to do the same thing, thus replacing the nobility.

That's the ultimate goal here: the dismantling of the administrative state. The administrative state carries out laws made by a body - in this case, Congress - that, at least in theory, puts society's desires at the center.

A number of these laws directly impact the ability of capital holders to generate more capital. Since the people holding this capital think that the only reason humans do anything is to create more capital, they go to any lengths to keep society's "unprofitable" desires at bay.

Since the accumulation of capital can result in monopoly, you will, at some point, have someone controlling all of the capital again. This is a return to feudalism. You won't be swinging a scythe in a field in a toque and tunic, but the structure will be the same.
I believe that Nolen has already done doom in iPhoto, if you are into that kind of thing.
Great video if you like watching videos from the front of BART which is pretty boring tbf. Much better videos of locos travelling through the alps
But Java doesn't even have union types
> The real critique in my opinion is lack of professionalism but this gets somewhat subjective.

I think that's the point here, the overt pettiness from Musk/Trump. If they feel like employees shouldn't have company cards, then fine, just take them away! Surely it would be cheaper to cancel the cards than to keep track of all (now effectively useless) active cards?
Sorry, but there's just so many political comments on pure tech threads.

It's happening on almost every single one, all of them some Elon hate talking point.

Just venting. I like politics... in the political threads.
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what about gas cards for postal workers and other delivery people?

https://www.google.com/search?q=gas+charge+cards+postal+work...
Partly because coding has become so hyper specialised in large companies, partly because folks who sell AI have an incentive to exaggerate to sell more.

Programming is over, jobs will disappear and we'll all be on UBI while AI turns into terminator. Meanwhile designing software systems still requires lots of intrinsic motivation and persistence
Hmm... interesting. Different departments might have different meanings then? I was in DIA nit ages ago and probationary only meant < 2 years.
very cool, reminds me of watchdogs. where's the music from? it's very calming
The 'very high resolution' ASCII art isn't something special. I've tried making ASCII art with other models, and they just can't figure out how to create ASCII art beyond very basic shapes or outright copying it from somewhere.
No; will give it a shot; ty!
With the card, the urgent next-day-delivery order is already on its way while the red tape waits for approval. And the worker enters the order into the supplier's website directly.

With a standard order, the urgent order is entered into Oracle Financials, waiting for approval, and some time during office hours in the next 1-2 days someone in finance will copy the order into the supplier's website, omitting one order line by accident.
The average American files their tax return with the IRS once a year. The IRS just lost 15,000 employees. This tax season is going to make 2020 look smooth and efficient and fast.