skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Trump tasked "DOGE" with reviewing government spending across it's 400+ agencies, and coming up with recommendations on how to reduce wasteful spending.

"Make recommendations" ?

Firing the folks that maintain nuclear weapons sounds like an action, not a recommendation:

* https://apnews.com/article/nuclear-doge-firings-trump-federa...

Firing the folks dealing with bird flu sounds like an action, not a recommendation:

* https://apnews.com/article/usda-firings-doge-bird-flu-trump-...

Then there's the folks making a list of all the agents who were pulled off other tasks and told to investigate Jan 6:

* https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-administration-compili...

Also firing a whole bunch of folks at the FAA even though it's already short staffed:

* https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly9y1e1kpjo

Seems to be it's less about finding savings and more about blindly purging people with no regard to how useful or inefficient things actually are.
It's ridiculous how many big corps can't accept someone working 4 days only.

Happened to a friend, a big Java shop spent 1 year looking for the perfect candidate, courted him again after they failed, and even my friend said no to them.
Belgium has 3 official languages for 10 million people. It's a bit more complex :)
Look up Sepp Holzer on YouTube, or really any permaculturist that eats meat. They treat their animals well, but also eat them. I think it’s healthy to feel a twang when you kill anything. It can contribute to the gratitude you have when sitting down to a meal. The native cultures seem (at least in pop culture caricatures) to have understood this.

I have a farmer friend who occasionally has to kill one of his milk cows. He names them, pets them, cares for them like a pet. It pains him to kill them, and I always know when he’s had to do it— I can see it on his face. I’ve bought some of the meat form his cows, and I was grateful for the meat, and the man who raised the cow with such care.
Yes it actually solved the fun parts of vaccuming and left tedious parts to humans.
The SDK is the lock in.
Try making nuggets from scratch. It’s so good and easy to do. Chicken tenders from breast meat. Egg seasoned with salt, pepper. Dunk into seasoned breading. Dunk into egg again and back to the breading. Pan fry. Yummy.
Not descending into a dictatorship requires democratic participation, a pluralistic mindset and a zeitgeist to uphold it. In a pivotal moment, just a single judge collapsed and enabled hitlers takeover.

The erosion of trust in institutions and elections, up to insurrections are way out of that picture. Infront of that background, boasting about a strong executive branch, being cleansed not by merit (opposed to trumps own standard) sounds so absurd to me as a german.

Your orwellian interpretation about limited free speech is rooted in your free speech absolutism. We distinguish between limited freedom speech and unlimited freedom of oppinion. We also have processes involving courts to ban new, factually incorrect statements, aka. non-oppinions, to make it illegal bullshit.
I left out a bit, before I saw the doctor that told me surgery is the only way, I was consulted by another guy that was free and he scolded me because I came without the orthosis saying stuff like I don't want to get better and basically didn't even look at me or check my recovery after 3 weeks of wearing the orthosis. Told me to go to his private clinic and get a new orthosis where I decided to see any other doctor because I was put off by his attitude. I think the private clinic had a contract with the hospital I was sent to for the surgery or something.

Anyway thank God I found a decent doctor.
I didn’t know they were behind AlterIWNet as well.

Being too young to legally buy MW2 and finding out about AlterIWNet for my not-so-legally owned copy of the game was life changing for me (for better or worse).

Thanks for those teenhood memories that just came rushing back.
Alternative solution: move to the US. They will need emigrants anyway when their people will be busy in the Greenland-, Canadian-, Panaman- and EU-wars :)
> You may have to euthanize a chicken, likely by hand (literally) via cervical dislocation. It still ranks among the worst things I've ever had to do in my life.

Traditionally it's done by decapitation. Head dies instantly. No need to suffer. Body runs for a while. Don't forget to ask for forgiveness...
Egypt discovers first royal tomb in over 100 years
More like 5001.
The French, famous for their budget cuts and government efficiency.
> $50,000 to Sri Lanka for “climate change” isn’t a “popular program.”

Is that $50,000 annual? Because if so that's less than a rounding error for the budget of almost any country, much less the US. The costs associated with ending this program (organizational, employee time) may even be higher than just continuing to pay it.

> Paying dead people social security isn’t popular.

Is there any public statistical data on this? As far as I know US social security does periodically verify if recipients are still alive. Of course some cases will slip through the cracks, but unless DOGE plans to individually track down every recipient and see them in person I don't see how they can solve this problem. This inevitably happens with pretty much any social security system, anywhere.

> Sending money to the Taliban isn’t popular.

Is there a source for this?

> When you say Trump doesn’t care about waste, that isn’t supported by the facts. The deficit isn’t about waste, fraud or abuse, it’s about overspending. They aren’t the same thing.

He could start by reducing overspending on the US' titanic corporate subsidies, but something tells me he won't.
Enhanced Syndicate Wars Port
(found on vogons: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=1331177)

there is a team working on enhancing the original Syndicate Wars port (https://gynvael.coldwind.pl/?id=279) by Unavowed and Gynvael Coldwind

github: https://github.com/swfans/swars
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJOnGRdErpg
Cryptocoins like Bitcoin only need DSA. Quantum-proof DSAs have been widely known since the 1970s*. Bitcoin only needs to change its DSA - and then everything will be fine.

* see Lamport signatures
> Trump says US may have less debt than thought because of fraud - Trump says some Treasury payments might 'not count'

Ugh, is that different words for "we ain't paying this because we say it's fraud"?
> check and balances to make it slow. It’s deliberate inefficiency.

It’s an important thing about free countries that is seldom appreciated: aspects of their governments are designed to be tar pits, on purpose. It’s a way of restraining government.

I have a personal saying that touches on something adjacent. “I like my politicians boring. Interesting government was a major cause of death in the twentieth century.”

When I think of governments that are both interesting and streamlined I think of the Nazis, the Khmer Rouge, Stalin era USSR, Maoist purges, etc.
I didn't know Russia had tested being isolated from the wider internet! I wonder what problems they had during testing? I would have thought there would be many issues given our current globally connected world. I don't think I even know which country some of the 3rd party dependencies of my apps are hosted in!
Your first egg is $1000. After that, Free Eggs! Except for the feed, and the work.
>>You yourself have probably already developed that skill to some extent and might be able to identify “strange” behaviour is specific individual chickens.

That might be hard to do with a flock of 20. If they were pets the calculation might be different.
I'm not sure if running any local model on smartphones make sense right now for most of the people. I played with many tiny llm models on ollama and only 14b models can feel to be usable - otherwise why not just run any app that do inference in cloud and run SOTA models? Even o4-mini feels more usable than those tiny models on smartphones - apple would have to ship iphones with 24GB RAM but inference would still be slower than those in the cloud. Paying $200 yearly subscription for chatgpt/claude/perplexity/gemini still seems cheaper than buying new iPhone just for that.

I wish though they would ship some beefy apple tv/mac mini/router with 32GB RAM that can work not only as private llm but also private iCloud, vpn, router, pihole, etc
I'm largely still a Python user, but when I've used it, rust overall gross way more thoughtfully and consistently designed— both in the core language features and in the stdlib.

Python's thirty years of evolution really shows at this point.
This isn't about general substitutability though, just about naming constants. If you have `case 404:` and you add a named constant `NOT_FOUND = 404`, you can't change the code to `case NOT_FOUND:` because that completely changes its semantics.

Given that one of the fundamental rules of programming is "don't use magic numbers, prefer named constants", that's terrible language design.
your attempt to evoke an emotion doesn't answer my question though.

Why do you get to decide that the purpose of a cow isn't to be eaten?
Side question, let's say Grok is comparable in intelligence to other leading models. Will any serious business switch their default AI capabilities to Grok?
This doesn’t explain the lack of salmonella from eggs in Europe
Ask HN: Show me a SaaS tool generated by AI
Having read another post this morning and spoke about it with a colleague. Can anyone share a SaaS tool that's been generated by AI?

It's got to functionally do something and not just be a business info website or a web form that sends a human a message who does something.

I'll take as little as an MVP but bonus marks awarded if it makes money.
Dictatorship from 1926 to 1976, and yet a strangely obscure one, probably due to neutrality during world war two.
At the backyard scale it’s not so bad. My neighbor just mixed it into a big dirt pile that we all use for fertilizing our flowers and shrubs.
I think what many people are missing in the discussion here is that topological qbits are essentially a different type of component. This is analogous to relay-triode-transistor technology progression.

It is speculation still whether the top-q approach will be effective, but there are significant implications if it is. Scalability, reliability, and speed are all significant aspects on the table here.

While other technologies have a significant head start, much of the “head start” is transferrable knowledge, similar to the relay-triode-transistor-integrated circuit progression. Each new component type multiplies the effectiveness of the advances made by the previous generation of technologies, it doesn’t start over.

IF the topological qubits can be made to be reliable and they live up to their scalability promises, it COULD be a revolutionary step, enabling exponential gains in cost, scalability, and capability. IF.
The mandate and personnel of the Digital Service are completely different from DOGE, so they are effectively different things. Renaming an existing one was just an administrative shortcut taken by an executive that clearly does not care for the spirit or the letter of any law (as stated by the president himself in his infamous tweet).
What about Chevron is a problem in this particular case, though? My understanding is that ditching the doctrine of Chevron deference puts more power back in the hands of the judiciary.
eggs are homogenous in nature, so a blind test between two eggs can reveal the superior quality of one type of homogenous product. Especially when it is an egg, which is entirely "natural"

a chicken nugget is not the same thing as whole chicken, because it has many chemicals, additives, flavouring agents, msg, organ meat, etc and is then battered or crumbed and deep fried before being packed. It also has a different texture altogether, and is eaten with the hands which children find easier than using cutlery.

compare a child tasting two different varieties of dark chocolate in comparison to a milk chocolate with caramel filling, or two varieties of whole milk to chocolate skim milk, et cetera.
> 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?

For federal laws, yes.

If you can find a state-level law that's been violated then he has no jurisdiction to pardeon.

Trump himself was charged at the state level twice (and already convicted once):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecution_of_Donald_Trump_in...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_election_racketeering_...

See also the civil case against him for rape:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Jean_Carroll_v._Donald_J._T...
Their post seems to have been edited.
Payday loans are back baby
Please provide examples of how the following countries are surveillance states:

Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czechia, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, France
No. Crypto will be safe against quantum computers.
luckily, all I needed to know is in the page source:

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Are they really just going to use this to train AI models, to build the 'GrokGovAI' models?
> Case in point In Germany the Polizei will swat and arrest you if you post a meme on social media that angers someone's dignity. That's not a joke that actually happens.

Source?
If people already assume this, the right response is to use him for everything and starting to stand up in form of a protest
Interesting, thank you !
I’ve been working professionally for almost 30 years. I have never written a single line of code “for fun”. I write code for money. I then take that money to fund my hobbies. The absolutely last thing I want to do when I get off work is stare at a computer.

If I already have a job, unless you are paying top of market, why would I spend my weekend writing code?
It's just the circle of life. Live in a remotely rural area with animals around and you're going to see pretty regular death. For instance foxes are beautiful, extremely intelligent, and amazing animals. They'll also systematically and sadistically kill literally every single chicken inside a henhouse, one by one, if they get in. In another instance a dog I loved more than anything as a child to young adult was killed by a wild boar - tusk straight into the lungs.

The same, by the way, applies to vegetarian stuff. The amount of critters being killed to keep them away from the veggies would probably shock you, especially in the rather inhumane way its sometimes done in industrial farms. Shooting, for some baseline, is considered one of the most humane ways of dealing with large pests.

I simply see nothing wrong, at all, with eating meat. It's a natural and normal part of life and also, by far, the easiest way to ensure you hit all your necessary nutrients without going overboard on calories - especially if you live an active life and/or are into things like weight training.
Why do they need it? Besides dumb envy, why would I need someone's tax return? What's in it for me?
5 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43055999 (10 comments at the moment)
My bluesky feed is somehow even more abhorrent than my twitter one, except that instead of right wing hate it's Facebook memes about "reading banned books"
Spent 10 mins on the website, all the examples are single agent examples. There is 0 value add for yet another wrapper on an openai call, parading as an agent.

The whole point of agents is knowing what to do among potentially 100's of intents and actions.

Disappointing.
Musk has publicly threatened to fund a primary challenger for any Congressman who gets in his way so, in some very real sense he's the one doing it, rather than the voters who voted for their congressman, perhaps not expecting them to be threatened into compliance by the richest man in the world.
I had a headache that seemed like a cluster headache and I took lsd every week for about 3 years, I'd get 5 days headache free out of 7 - was wonderful.

Then I met a gp who actually helped and mentioned indometacin and because that worked I was diagnosed with chronic parosysmal hemicrania.

PPIs didn't work, so I took ranitidine but eventually my stomach couldn't take the indometacin anymore and I had to stop it - the headaches returned.

Then I had an abcess in my jaw that almost killed me of sepsis and had to have two surgeries on my jaw and spent a month in the hospital on antibiotics. CPH didn't return.

Now I take a mild dose of propranolol daily and I rarely have headaches or migraines.
> Enjoy the ride and remember what Rob Pike - one of the creators of Go - once said: “Simplicity is complicated”.

I'll be blunt: this convinced me to avoid Go until someone holds a gun to my head forcing me to do anything with it. Even Rust found some real marketing point other than "we are complicated, enjoy"
> So if DOGE have security clearances (unclear if the have) then their audit is legal?

They're also responsible liable for keeping the data safe, which has already been broken at least once:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43052432

Possibly violating:

> Whoever knowingly and willfully communicates, furnishes, transmits, or otherwise makes available to an unauthorized person, or publishes, or uses in any manner prejudicial to the safety or interest of the United States or for the benefit of any foreign government to the detriment of the United States any classified information— […]

* https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/798
So more ambitiousness means you should get access to more user information?
State Department orders cancellation of media subscriptions around world
You are right, of course. But I have noticed as of late that I sometimes became unkind in my replies, which I don’t like and didn’t use to happen. I want to do better.

Surely the right move here is not to play, but if you don’t get annoyed trolls can’t win either.
I have strong feeling that in the past 50 or so years, we often have traded resiliency for efficiency. I think we might have gone too far.

That doesn't mean that being deliberately inefficient will improve resiliency.
Also, some of the deliberate inefficiency (i.e. looking at weird thing us healthcae/health-insurance system has going on) is more ... extractive? That sounds like the word I am looking for.
And where can one find technical and transparent details about what data DOGE is looking at, why, and what safeguards they're taking?
Or George Soros.
The point of pihole is setup blocking on multiple devices though, some of them which you don't control like your PC e.g. smart tvs
Disparaging these companies for making products people want while writing angry posts that these companies aren't doing what you want.

Apple and Meta should use their amazing technology for accessibility. And maybe they are or will. But they owe me nothing.

If I don't want their products I don't have to buy them. If I don't want their stock I don't have to invest in it.
The story pretty nicely hinted at the point that romanticizing the punch is bad. When the protagonist did finally something against the suffering he was immediately reprimanded.

And of course the absurdity of the physical abuse is a mere literary device, the heavy hitter (oof, sorry) is the emotional one. (As the story spells it out. It's cPTSD from struggling in this unfamiliar world every day, with not knowing what exactly is going to happen, not being able to connect to humans, being alone.)

Maybe the darkest aspect is how sidelined any support is. Spouse? Only mentioned as a healthcare package. An old friend? Good for telling the truth, but that did not help at all! Lots of supervisors are dicks.
A Deep Dive into Wardley Mapping [video]
That's because slander isn't protected speech and is directly illegal. It's not totalitarianism, just encoded politeness.

You can still say anything, with a modicum of decency.
High-speed rail line with 300kph trains will run between Toronto and Quebec City
the keto diets work

studies on 'low carb' diets are varying in the amount of carbs, some go up to like 30% carbs (Daily intake) which is crazy, but 'low' compared to the overall dietary guidelines.

There's some good keto studies though.

i've tried it myself.

keto diet, mainly dairy and meat, ate 2 meals per day. one at 2 PM and another at 7ish PM, and 0 carb energy drinks, not much exercise except a walk to the local supermarket every couple of days. lost 16 kg over 3 months. I was unemployed at the time, and mostly played video games.
I also own chickens. Before I got them I thought chickens were pretty stupid animals and wasn't particularly fond of them, but I liked the idea of keeping them for eggs and some entertainment.

I've had mine for about 6 months now and they've totally won me over...

They're far more friendly and intelligent than ever I imagined. Mine love hanging out with me in the garden. One of them is very affectionate and will sometimes decide to sit on my shoulder and is happy to be held. They're all totally different and have very unique personalities which I didn't expect. Their personality will depends a lot on the breed of chicken you get too and some are much more tame than others so it's worth thinking about the type of chicken you want.

I've trained mine to come to me when I whistle which can be super useful when I need to get them back in the run. Obviously you can't train them like dogs, but they're surprisingly smart and will learn things.

They've very curious animals. Mine like to fly up onto my window sill to watch us in the kitchen which is quite sweet.

They'll eat pretty much anything so they're very cheap to keep once you have your coop built. I have 3 (getting a 4th soon) and it's costing us about £3 per month for their feed which makes up about half of their diet, and for that they'll give us about 60-90 eggs. I wouldn't get them for the price of eggs though. If you want to give them a good home it's going to cost you. They're also quite a lot of work. I need to clean mine weekly, feed them daily and provide them general care. Buying an automatic coop door is a good way to reduce some of the hassle of having to let them out and shut them in every day.

I don't eat mammal meat, but I do eat chicken and fish and its been hard for me to eat chicken recently. I'm trying to reduce the amount of chicken I eat in favour of eggs.
Free range isn’t that much space still. Pasture raised is better and at my local grocery store I can get a dozen for like $8/dozen.
If you work with Boring Technology, your onboarding process has no reason to be longer than a week, unless you're trying to make the non-tech parts of the role too interesting.
> they are not linking personal data between agencies

> Trump has prohibited Musk from being involved in with the review in agencies where he was a material conflict

I'm not saying these are or aren't happening, but it seems like a lot of "good faith" assumptions here. If you assume Musk is an unethical actor, these seem mostly meaningless.
I think the problem is that a 'fluent' chain of calls already expresses a sequence, so the way that 'after' resets the context to start a new branch feels very awkward ... like a GOTO or something

It's telling that the example relies on arbitrary indentation (which a linter will get rid of) to have some hope of comprehending it

Possibly this was all motivated by a desire to avoid nested structures above all?

But for a branching graph a nested structure is more natural. It'd also probably be nicer if the methods were on the task nodes instead of on the workflow, then you could avoid the 'step'/'then' distinction and have something like:

e.g.

testWorkflow(
llm
.then(decider)
.then(
agentOne.then(workflow),
agentTwo.then(workflow),
)
)
This is about McKay conjecture

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKay_conjecture
Curious timing, what with the EU DMA opening Play Store to make it easier for people to install it.

Of course, Amazon are subject to the DMA and (I suspect) not overall a fan, so maybe it makes sense for them to not make use of the capabilities it allows?