skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s marketed as “fraud, waste and abuse.”

The top-line summaries are definitely consistent with “waste.” Probably some of them have more nuance when you dig deeper, but does anyone disagree that there is not waste in the government?

Fraud and abuse are less clear. But it’s also difficult to ascertain the legitimacy of payments when they’re leaving treasury on checks with no memo or reference, and they’re compared to “do not pay” lists that lack frequent updates.

Here are some of my opinions, as someone who is mostly supportive of the effort but also realistic about its outcomes and risks:

1. The people voted for smaller government, and if the executive doesn’t have the power to reduce the size of its own bureaucracy, then there is no check on ever-expanding government. The executive must have full authority to examine all data produced by itself.

2. Federal spending on salary, agencies and operations is a drop in the bucket compared to entitlements and defense budget. Slashing jobs and even deleting entire agencies will not make a significant dent in the deficit. But if DOGE can really cut $1 trillion by end of year, it will have positive knock-on effects in the bond market.

3. Entitlements shouldn’t be treated with same bull-in-a-china shop approach as the current one towards agencies.

4. Social security probably has some fraud but I doubt it’s significant and is better resolved by identifying and punishing retroactively. Most of the “150 year old people” problems are exaggerated or outright wrong. However, it’s worrying that a system of age-based payouts has such uncertainty in its data.

5. It’s widely known there is significant fraud in Medicaid and Medicare. The true volume of this fraud is unknown and any effort to quantify it would be welcomed. But while fraudulent claims may be an issue, the real problem is unaccountable pricing of the healthcare system that allows for “legitimate” claims to cost more than any sane person would pay out of pocket.

6. In general, “if nothing breaks, you’re not cutting enough” is obviously true. But it does not follow that “things breaking” is an acceptable cost to pay. The approach needs to come with a well-defined rubric for evaluating not only “what to cut,” but also “which cuts to rollback.”
(Carl from Obscura here)

Ah we added payment and pricing to our navbar in staging but forgot to push to prod. Doing so now!
An audit only needs read access, not God mode.
It should be conducted by a neutral third party, not someone on a witch hunt who has conflicts of interest.
The people on the ground should have auditing qualifications, clear background checks, and knowledge of specific systems or processes, not a random 19-year-old named "Big Balls" with a history of selling company secrets to a competitor.
Their findings should go through QA, and they should take the time to come up with an accurate report, rather than rushing through and blurting out whatever they think is happening.
My experience is that for anyone sufficiently famous and polarizing, there are widespread false allegations. It's hard work to work from primary sources and sort fact from fiction.

It's impractical to check everything, do I tend to do deep dives spot checking a small number of things.

For readers, I'd suggest the same thing here. Disregard claims on the Internet, or even court rulings, and just look at primary evidence. Pick a small number of issues.

I make this statement generically, without prejudice to the outcome here.
A function returns a value.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/721090/what-is-the-diffe...
> Of course not.

Why not? There's a saying about babies and bathwater or something.
A password generator inspired by the Xkcd password spec
I have no idea either. I can easily look it up though. You can often tell an inexperienced interviewer from the extremely domain specific question they ask which _they_ are familiar with.
“X CEO Linda Yaccarino has made comments that seemed like similar warnings in conversations with Interpublic executives, according to people with knowledge of those talks.
Interpublic leaders interpreted the communications from X as reminders that the recently announced $13 billion deal to merge Interpublic with rival Omnicom Group could be torpedoed, or at least slowed down, by the Trump administration, given Musk’s powerful role in the federal government, some of the people said.”

It’s one way to make X profitable I suppose.
Just stop giving Amazon money—at this point you can only blame yourself.
I can come up with 100 people I'd want to follow on Twitter, and I don't even have an account. Don't dismiss other people's use-cases if you don't have or understand them.
I lived with backyard chickens for a time. It‘s surprisingly hard to keep predators away. These animals are clever and very determined when it comes to a freely presented meal. After all, better enclosures also give chickens no means of escape.
Neovim is fully backwards compatible, no? I'm not sure what the downside of switching is.
I don't know if I'd reach that conclusion because of Chime - there's also Blink & Ring, a lot of overlap and confusion in cameras & security.
I think I reach the opposite conclusion which is that I'd not take a library dependency to get the non-growable version. I would however like push_within_capacity (currently available on Vec in nightly) so that I can express the idea "I would prefer to push this into the ring buffer but I have some plan B if there's no room"
but Bell Theorem IS physics! so according to you she absolutely can comment on LLMs understanding of physics or lack of it.

so your whole rant makes no sense
You should never send your credentials. Granting access to someone who should have access is one thing, but not your credentials that individually identify you. Also, if it isn't coming through standard protocols and procedures you probably shouldn't do it.
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Someone in the mailing list thread linked the man pages that they were able to extract out

https://gitlab.com/segaloco/v1man/-/blob/master/man1/stat.1?...

for sdrwrw:

- column 1 is s or l meaning small or large

- column 2 is d, x, u, -; meaning directory, executable, setuid, or nothing.

- the rest are read-write bits for owner and non-owner.
These benchmarks are not really representative of what agents are capable of. The slow process of checking the weather through UI elements is not a good use case which is non-peer reviewed paper showcases.
I feel like you have poor reading comprehension. I literally said yes for simple cases it works.

> https://kristerw.blogspot.com/2019/04/how-llvm-optimizes-geo...

Literally not a single loop on that page has a conditional in it. They're all the same stupid "polynomial" example. Hint: how often do you think people are trying to optimize loops that compute polynomials....

> I assure you they can do this efficiently.

It's amazing you think your assurances mean anything. So let me assure you: I know exactly what I'm talking about. In the last month I landed basically SCEV in a production compiler. Except since our programs are real and not just goofy polynomial examples, my SCEV is actually an abstract interpreter.
>You can often tell an inexperienced interviewer from the extremely domain specific question they ask which _they_ are familiar with.

Lol a bit touchy aren't we?

Like I said, it's not really relevant in today's languages. It was for a Delphi/Pascal position. If you do any type of database code (like T-SQL), you would also know it. If your experience is mainly in C type languages, everything is a function so it doesn't apply.

If you hired a guy for a Delphi position who didn't know the difference between a function and a procedure, you hired the wrong guy.

procedure Hello;
begin
ShowMessage ('Hello world!');
end;

function Double (Value: Integer) : Integer;
begin
Double := Value * 2;
end;

Function or procedure is defined in every subroutine. It's a very basic question for Delphi, like what's the difference between an integer and a string.
I was in the office of a school the other day and overhead the security officer talking to the receptionist about the price of eggs. It went something like this:

"It's the oil; once Trump starts to drill, the price of eggs will go down because the price of oil makes everything expensive."

Never mind the avian flu, never mind that America became a net exporter of crude in Obama's years, never mind that US oil production has been growing.

That virus you're referring to has a name: "ignorance"
Huh, funny this should pop up here.

I recently started commuting by subway into work, so I had to pick up a subway book. I had been meaning to read this, so I went to my local book store and grabbed a copy.

It’s a really great book. Such a fascinating story. And short, too. I highly recommend giving it a read. It might synthesize some of your loose connections about Hinduism, Buddhism, and your own place in a chaotic world and what it means to live a happy life.
Oh, so you mean they weren’t incompetent, they knew the correct figure but deliberately lied about it?
You mentioned 37 Signals so I think its appropriate to mention the scaffolding in Rails has been there for a long time. If you can carefully articulate the data models and data types, anyone can build a base MVP structure with `rails generate scaffold`. I've asked AI to generate code and honestly, the quality from the Rails scaffold is more consistent (for now). You're better off asking AI to help you craft the scaffold commands these days than having it generate the code itself.

I would suggest getting started on the client side of things with your 3-4 people first. Clients will have problems that need solving and in solving those you may find yourself building something over and over and that would be a good candidate for an open source tool. The technical side of a digital business isn't the hard part for developers.

This may sound cynical but there is probably a need for an agency type that can take "no code" and/or AI generated apps/solutions and take them beyond what no-code or AI platforms can do. Like small companies that have some AI generated stuff and don't have staff to take that to the next level. Charge them a monthly retainer for X hours of maintenance per month so they don't have to deal with it. Quote them for projects to take their AI generated app/solution to the next level or to make changes, etc. Again, you may find patterns once you have a few clients.
> The president is not king, just chief executive.

Well someone should tell him: https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1892295984928993698/photo/1 !
> There is widespread fraud in the government.... There is widespread inefficiency too... I think the people in DOGE have the skills and access to address it.

Given that just getting the names of the people involved in this process incurred Musk's wrath and accusations of criminal behaviour... how can you have any justified belief in people having 'skills' to address 'fraud' and 'inefficiency'?

We'd need some common definition of 'fraud' in the first place. Many of the things that have been labelled 'corruption' seem to just be 'things Musk doesn't like'; I suspect 'fraud' would be similar.

"Inefficiencies" - we have the Chesterton's Fence idea to illustrate that what might be 'inefficient' is intentional with an overall positive purpose. Again, define 'inefficiency'. The rate at which firings have been happening may certainly be 'efficient' from an operational standpoint, but having to scramble to rehire key people who shouldn't have been fired in the first place is 'inefficient' at best.

> I have dozens of explanations which fit the facts, and I don't have any way to determine which, if any, is correct.

I'm not sure we have enough verifiable 'facts' that can support many conclusions at all, and I think that 'fact' itself is evidence of intentionality in keeping the public in the dark about what's going on and why.
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Withholding Judgment–The Forgotten Way
My dad used to have around 15 chickens — but then a fox somehow burrowed under the fence - which was buried in the ground around 20 cm - and slaughtered them all.
> I think the people in DOGE have the skills

Do we know any of them? How many are accountants, auditors, etc, people with decades of experience with government affairs?
It seems that many objects to the audit on technicalities and use that as an argument that the audit itself is illegal or unconstitutional. It is a flawed argument.
There's a lot of just plain simple fraud too. I've seen embassies issue visas only with bribes, or employees simply collect salaries without doing their jobs. As in you're hired to review documents by some legally mandated criteria, and they simply toss them into piles without even glancing at them and go home early.

That benefits no one, except for the employee.
I think if I raised chickens I’d also raise insects to feed them. Wouldn’t that make the eggs way tastier and healthier? And you’d save on feed?

Or do they tend to find lots of insects in their own?
Musk is not in a position to identify waste and fraud.

What does he know of the genesis and status of these payments? Congress directs spending and oversees the administration, not the other way around.

Why does he have to finish in an arbitrary time frame?

This is all justification after the fact for those who support Musk/Trump unconditionally.

It's all fun and games until your Medicare/Social Security/Tax Refund or other legitimate payment gets cancelled arbitrarily, illegally and unconstitutionally.
So, no third party source.
It's not necessarily a hallucination, Lucas is one of the screenwriters of this movie, quite a few people would make this mistake.
So it could be present in the data set or just a mistake by association.
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Nuggets are mostly skin and cartilage, so maybe that preference stems from the nutritional needs of a growing child.
Taste (and health) are two things the market doesn’t select for.
The taste is definitely different, and the reason for its is the diet. Small scale chickens tend to eat a lot of grass, rather than the cheaper feed given to factory farms.

A upside that was not mention is that chickens are excellent in cutting grass and keeping weed out of bushes, especially roses bushes. They generally don't eat fruits on bushes like raspberries, but our strawberries was not safe so we used a gardening net over those (also keeps other birds out). Smaller plants/seed may also need a net until they grown in size large enough that the chickens are not interested anymore.

A major big upside we also got is that they hunt down slugs and other insects that otherwise can cause major damage to a garden or lawn. Even ant colonies, which can often be a pain to remove and a major annoyance if they invade your home.

On the downside, chicken hierarchy is a very real thing and they can get into quite bloody fights with each other.
The case you cited gives us the answer:

The Court ruled that the Federal Trade Commission was a quasi-legislative body because it adjudicated cases and promulgated rules.
> it was so well known to have been a slush fund for Democrats

So well known by whom, and how? I never heard a peep about this until a few weeks ago, and all such claims seem to be coming from the same group of people with obvious ulterior motives.
Seems to me another downside is the increased difficulty in traveling. As in, if I want to go away for a few days, I'll have to find someone to feed and water the chickens.
People say that all the time, but professional cooks have run triangle tests on backyard/farm eggs vs. store bought eggs and people can't tell the difference. At this point, I don't believe there's a difference in taste. The psychological effects that would lead people to believe that difference exists --- a kind of culinary placebo effect --- are so strong that I just attribute everything to that.
I've been considering getting a few hens for a while. The cost of setup, feed and the work involved for "free eggs" are quite a bit. However, it's more worth the cost now than it's ever been, especially considering the increased self-reliance.

There are ways to offset the feed costs by growing your own feed or tapping into waste streams like food/produce scraps.
What do you mean by fluidly?
Becoming more and more like a banana republic
Genius level mind minus scrum/agile nonsense can help.
Signal should be doing something well.
fair point! i guess it does sound like an inept democrat lol.

though you don't wanna fuck with the fbi https://le.fbi.gov/cjis-division/cjis-security-policy-resour...
Agreed.

As a foreigner who moved to Sweden, it was quite shocking first to see all this info displayed online for everyone to see but there are definitely some good sides and bad sides to it.

One of the good side is that, you can look at the people living in a given area and decided if this is the kind of neighborhood where you want to live. Lower (declared income) can have a correlation with crime so if you just want to have a quite life, you may want to select an era that has loads of working people with a higher than average income.

One bad side, some people have used it in the past to harass people, think ex-lovers and so on. There is a procedure in place where if you are afraid of being stalked you can ask for your information to be removed from these registries or at least be hidden from public view.
> he had about 6 years of experience as almost full time CTO and CEO of SpaceX, until he had to divide his attention with Tesla

So, by your own admission, he knows a lot about 2/10 of his companies.

20% is a F not a passing grade.
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> Which shows that "massive scaling", even enormous, gigantic scaling, doesn't improve intelligence one bit; it improves scope, maybe, or flexibility, or coverage, or something, but not "intelligence".

Do you have any data to support 1. That grok is not more intelligent than previous models (you gave one anecdotal datapoint), and 2. That it was trained on more data than other models like o1 and Claude-3.5 Sonnet?

All datapoints I have support the opposite: scaling actually increases intelligence of models. (agreed, calling this "intelligence" might be a stretch, but alternative definitions like "scope, maybe, or flexibility, or coverage, or something" seem to me like beating around the bush to avoid saying that machines have intelligence)

Check out the technical report of Llama 3 for instance, with nice figures on how scaling up model training does increase performance on intelligence tests (might as well call that intelligence): https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21783
Tell them to get a farm dog or two. That’s pretty much the only working answer to predators on a farm.
This happened to a kid in my high school. Last name null, broke the system they used to print report cards.
> overhead and ideological reprogramming

I despair at the thought process that crams these two things together.

2.5% overhead would be really good. Most charities don’t come close.

“Ideological reprogramming,” whatever that actually means, would be completely different.
Laziness. Convenience is the most powerful force in humanity and it's driving us to self destruction. Obesity, car oriented everything, etc.
Spurlock can be a fraud and the food market still be controlled by a cartel — both can be true at the same time.
I’m no US citizen so I don’t really care but what I read about your potato market was wild, so I wouldn’t be surprised if eggs are also controlled by a cartel.
Full chain control, I suppose, there are rumours about Vega OS.
https://www.androidauthority.com/android-14-based-fire-tvs-3...

If that's the case, it's a bad idea, Amazon is not prepared to maintain their own OS.
It’s not the egg industry that will lose out if more people have backyard hens. It’s the poultry industry and the eating general. More people will start to find eating intelligent emotional animals as abhorrent as eating dogs or cats.
Same. Buckets upon buckets. You can’t even feed them to the chickens, critters who eat literally anything won‘t eat slugs.
// Todo: remove

return true;
Why not just say they have root access? 'god mode' is a ridiculous expression and just obscures the truth.

I get that some people need information dumbed down but this is pathetic.
One month (2 weeks?) is too early to tell if something will be uncovered, so there are no examples yet.
I haven't seen grok3 on any benchmark leaderboard other than lm arena. Has anyone else?
> However, it’s worrying that a system of age-based payouts has such uncertainty in its data.

The data itself may have to be interpreted, which I would classify as 'suboptimal', but seemingly 'normal' for most projects I work with. I often have to join together various tables, remembering to include or exclude specific data via conditional logic. The conditional logic may be context-dependent, and documenting those cases is really key. Why include/exclude specific subsets of data to answer questions XYZ? Have those criteria changed over the years (and if so, why?)

Looking at raw data tables it's often quite easy to come up with ways to show the data to support whatever case you're trying to make.
Having studied physics does not allow you to evaluate studies in completely unrelated field in any meaningful way.

Especially not in such politically-charged fields that require deeper knowledge about the historical context, the different interest groups and their biases and so on.

Her video on trans-issues labels people that advocate for the rights of trans-people as "extremists" and presents transphobic talking points as valid part of the scientific discussion.

Her trying to appear "neutral" and "just presenting the science" is exactly the issue. Using her authority as a scientist when talking about topics she has no expertise in.

Here is a debunking of her video on trans-issues:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Kau7bO3Fw

Here is a longer criticism of her video on autism:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaZZiX0veFY
I mean, there are parks close to where I live.

Oddly enough, there are also houses.
I think I’ve seen more of withholding judgment online as far as it applies to new events / people.

Forums that would eat up local “outrage bait” actually seem more skeptical generally and so forth.

It might just be that people have seen enough such material to be skeptical, but I feel like I see more demands for more information and so forth.
(Carl from Obscura here)

You’re absolutely right, we fixed it and forgot to push to prod XP
Blink forked from WebKit almost 12 years ago, there's so many differences at this point that it doesn't make sense to call it a WebKit fork
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/1...

Penetration of light from an 820 nm gallium-aluminum-arsenium laser diode through a sample of fresh human skin. Data extrapolated from data presented in Kolari (25) and shown in the blue columns. A line of regression is shown by the black dotted line. The regression line indicates that light from a low-power laser diode can penetrate less than 2.2 mm into human skin.

This says that a 820nm laser penetrate 2.2mm into human skin. That is 0.08 inches. That is about the width of a groove on the top of your finger. How does that square with saying that it could go through skull bone that is 3.5x as thick while being more dense than tissue?