skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So much this. Excellent points. Government is a unique organization with a unique purpose.

We are indeed in the rocket so maybe the minimum effectiveness for safety isn’t how we should evaluate the situation.
It's so easy to champion the law when it does what you want. But when it goes against your wishes, you call enforcing the law "extreme" and "inhumane and dubiously legal" [1] - textbook normalization of deviance - the border has been left open for so long, limiting immigration to the already substantial legal routes is "extreme".

Champion direct democracy [2], but don't complain when an immigration-friendly judge overthrows the voter's will, on the shaky logic that limiting state services to citizens and legal immigrants only is unconstitutional [3]. The author would probably call the judge's actions, preventing citizens from deciding whom their taxes should benefit, "giving back to the country". Such generous "gifts".

[1] https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-arizona-sheriff-...

[2] https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-key-to-opposing-...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_California_Proposition_18...
The one model that would actually make a huge difference in pharma velocity is one that takes a target (protein that causes disease or whatever), a drug molecule (the putative treatment for the disease), and outputs the probability the drug will be approved by the FDA, how much it will cost to get approved, and the revenue for the next ten years.

If you could run that on a few thousand targets and a few million molecules in a month, you'd be able to make a compelling argument to the committee that approves molecules to go into development (probability of approval * revenue >> cost of approval)
Fingers crossed Canada does the right thing and dump twitter
It's rather fun that computers have these magic words in them.
According to the news, they think the cuts will all come from DEI money

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/20/nx-s1-5303947/hegseth-trump-d...

They listed 17 things they want to spend MORE money on.

Here's the list they want to stuff more money into.

1. Southwest Border Activities

2. Combating Transnational Criminal Organizations in the Western Hemisphere

3. Audit

4. Nuclear Modernization (including NC3)

5. Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCAs)

6. Virginia-class Submarines

7. Executable Surface Ships

8. Homeland Missile Defense

9. One-Way Attack/Autonomous Systems

10. Counter-small UAS (Unmanned Aerial Systems) Initiatives

11. Priority Critical Cybersecurity

12. Munitions

13. Core Readiness, including full DRT (training) funding

14. Munitions and Energetics Organic Industrial Bases

15. Executable INDOPACOM (India Pacific Command) MILCON (military construction)

16. Combatant Command support agency funding for INDOPACOM, NORTHCOM, (Northern Command), SPACECOM, (Space Command) STRATCOM, (Strategic Command) CYBERCOM, (Cyber Command) and TRANSCOM (Transportation Command)

17. Medical Private-Sector Care
A deterministic program follows a single path of execution, always producing the same result.

A nondeterministic_1 program follows a single path of execution, but at certain points, it randomly chooses how to proceed, therefore producing different results for different runs.

A nondeterministic_2 program follows multiple paths of execution, at certain points _splitting_ its execution to follow two (or more) paths instead of one, producing a set of results at the end.

A nondeterministic_1 program follows a randomly sampled path from a nondeterministic_2 program, and produces a randomly sampled result from a nondeterministic_2 program.
This reminds me - I often wonder at the hypocrisy displayed by the liberally-minded community who are oh so vocal in their opposition to what musk stands for but continue to patronize twitter, coz its just so damn convenient, and all their equally hypocritical followers are there…
I was pretty nervous about voterfile / irs data merges. I sensed this was headed towards building retribution tools for those who didn't vote for the admin.
The choice of AI does matter, and older models can potentially do your task much better than newer ones.

In the course of building my side project (storytveller), I’ve found that newer models tend to do worse at storytelling. I’ve tested basically every model under the sun that is available for use in production, and one stands out - now it may be that others will come along and not do the research that I’ve done to choose the same model, and thus my application will be better than theirs in part because of the AI model I choose.

Having “AI” as part of your application will not matter as much, that I agree with, but having “the right AI” will.

Of course,the user experience will definitely matter as well, as will the marketing and other criteria - another point of agreement with the article. But that does not diminish the fact that, if your application does not involve testing benchmarks, there is a good chance that a model that may not be the newest could still be the best for your particular use case, so you should not just blindly choose the latest shiniest model as this article sort of implies.

The hammer does matter.
It could be that, a big misunderstanding of normal database design, or it could be a legit error. No one has offered direct evidence of either case. What I'll say is that working in legacy industries with legacy data, all bets are off as to whether anything is well posed. My first company's "database" was a folder of 100 excel files. OP is making a massive assumption that the federal government is using modern SQL database design principles in this specific application, or a modern database at all.
It will totally outshine Dropbox. (Just kidding!)
I use lynx to view HTML emails in Neomutt, but if I want to browse the web I use w3m as it doesn't whine at me about cookie storage multiple times for every site.
Regular government employees only have access to the systems they need to do their job, so they are, in fact, different.
> I suspect under the hood their systems just strips out all non-alpha characters and compares that (i.e. 'onetwo' == 'onetwo').

That would be the MRZ version. The identity page of your passport has a blob of monospace text at the bottom that's used as the 'canonical' version of names for most or all air travel systems.
Only problem is having to type https:// in front of news.ycombinator.com because lynx assumes you’re trying to make an nntp connection to anything with a “news” subdomain.

Bad YC!
It is actually a reaction to websites doing stupid things to try and prevent password auto-fill. The sites are fighting against security in a misguided attempt to improve security, so the browser vendors added a bunch of heuristics to try and correct these situations and you end up with the mess we have.
Ultimately voters gotta care too…
"Just hire them back" is not actually a cost efficient option.

Take TB medication delivery, one of the many programs halted by the USAID cuts. If you stop a TB treatment midway through you make the development of drug-resistant TB more likely and you make it more likely that this strain spreads to others. Even if Musk decides that actually it really is unconscionable to not tackle the deadliest disease on the planet (which happens to be treatable), the delays cause deaths. This isn't like turning some web server back on.

Rehiring people is also a fucking joke when they've been fired in this manner. People have been forced to rapidly leave the countries that they are deployed in with minimal support from leadership. Those relationships are burned.
Coral's claim to fame was 2 TOPS/W. But, to everyone's point here, there's literally no news here since its core (Google's Edge TPU) wasn't updated. I wouldn't be surprised if there were newer products that perform better at this point.
This is close to the idea of convex splatting (recent paper) in which convex shapes are used to approximate these real 3d objects as they are better suited than gaussians
It gets to the point where you don't have to click the link. You just think "Oh, #327 again."

Maybe xkcd needs its own url scheme, something like: xkcd://327

Edit: Written 8 years ago: https://github.com/biappi/XKCDUrlScheme
If your full name is John Charles Paul Jacob Smith, then by definition the middle name is "Paul" right?
You should share a few examples.
Their browser share has dropped from a peak around 90% to more like 67% I think.

Those browsers gaining market share are based on Google's engine, though.

That still gives Google de facto control of the web, or at the very least control of web standards.

Those companies building atop Chromium can maintain their own forks of the core rendering engine, but that is a very heavy burden indeed, and Google can always decide to move off of Chromium onto their own private fork and leave everybody else on their own.
> a brilliant strategy to quickly and comprehensively remove waste

A better strategy would have been to :

- spend 2016-2020 while Trump was in power auditing the NSAID / federal spending.

- spend 2020-2024 while they were hand-vetting thousands of loyalists and having Musk donate $240,000,000 towards their funds, plus other donations from other mi/billionaires, planning spending cuts.

- spend the pre-election time telling people what cuts they were planning and why.

- move to make those planned cuts quickly and comprehensively.

- release a tidy report of fraud and corruption found after 2, 3, 6 months.

This keeps confidence in the government high for national and international investors and governments, it would win over some Dems and undecided voters, it would reduce worry and stress from Republicans. They didn't do that, and you can't say it isn't a priority or they didn't have money or time or access to do it, so the possible remaining reasons don't look good:

1. they are just winging it. They don't know what the agencies do, what can be cut or what they want to spend.

1. The plans are so objectionable that if they told everyone their plans in advance, people would not have voted for them. (They don't care what the agencies do).

1. the chaos and hurt is part of the plan.

1. They want to be able to make stuff up, and have nobody able to call them on it. (see also: DOGE's actions are sealed by Executive Order, Musk has said some untruths about what they've found, Musk told interviewers that the things he says will be incorrect).

1. any other reasons? Any compelling reasons?
"move fast and break things" means iterating on a product but that's on a whole different scale when you are talking about space rockets and the USA government
Especially if holding a knife or something sharp.
The only good answer here is "breadth first, or depth first"?

If they say "depth first", go all the way down to electrons bumping into each other on the wire.

It's an "I'm so smart, are you so smart" question, the only right approach is a smart aleck approach.

I work on web browsers for a decade+ now, and worked on network protocols for a decade+, and it's not a question I'd consider in any way high signal. If this particular area matters to you, ask a problem in the space. "Web page X doesn't load, figure out why". It shows you way more than "please regurgitate every detail"
Your repeating this all over the thread doesn't make it so.
wow, this is wonderfully made
meta: it's interesting because this kind of disingenuous "Just asking questions. I'd love to know more!" had been pretty effective at shutting down conversation when the topics were abstract. People were inevitably tired of explaining the same things over and over to a contingent that didn't want to understand.

But now that our country is being imminently destroyed by these treacherous looters, there are enough people ready to immediately jump in with straightforward answers that the FUD is a mere speed bump, making the technique pretty useless for shutting down discussion and consensus.
Yeah I find it odd that DOGE hasn't found any inefficiencies with SpaceX's and Tesla's contracts with the government.

It's almost like they don't really care about things being "efficient".
>I'm fine with the idea of "destroying the government" in general. BUT, even I would say that there's a right way to go about it...

Earnest question: Does the second sentence here cause you to reflect on the first, because:

>minimizing the harm done, taking "collateral damage" into consideration...

acknowledges that the government is performing important functions on which people rely.

I know there's an argument that the private sector could instead provide some of these, but that causes me to consider whether such critical services should be in the hands of for-profit companies?
I don't want to breathe natural pollen or natural smoke byproducts from natural wildfires or natural dandruff or fur/hair either.

I want to mostly breathe nitrogen, oxygen, argon, and a bit of water for comfortable humidity. I don't need anything more.
Some fetuses fail to develop correctly, and the baby is born with one-or-multiple conditions that will almost certainly be fatal within the first year if not first few weeks or days. Their short life will be filled with suffering. You can always find a perspective where any choice you make here is wrong. You're not asking whether they deserve to live; you're asking whether you are a worse person to deny them the chance or to condemn them to their reality. There simply is no good option, even if you take for granted that a fetus is a child and you are entirely focused on doing what's best for them.

There are probably people who are flippant about it, and maybe those people are essentially murderers, but the common case is probably a variety of complex moral dilemmas and special cases to consider, and it's probably a bad idea to jump to the murderer label by default lest you apply it to people who didn't want to have to ask such questions.
You're probably part of the problem; folks like yourself are nearly universally ignorant of many Chesterton's fences.
he hasn't merged a PR in 3 years but
https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when
iOS.

I suspect you are hitting perf issues on Android due to lack of caching (which bite Android way more than iOS due to JNA being way slower for calling the rust-sdk than Swift’s rust bindings). This should be fixed by https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-rust-sdk/issues/3280, which as you can see from all the checkboxes is making progress.
"Efficiency" is such a dumb thing to optimize for singlemindedly. Overly efficient systems are brittle and can't adapt to shocks. Look what happened to the efficient global supply chain when that ship blocked the Suez Canal.

Imagine if we demanded "efficiency" from fire departments; they'd only hire as many firefighters as they need to respond to the average number of emergencies per day, then totally flop when there's a mass casualty event.
How much would you like to bet? Is 20k a good number? Can you be more specific about how you’d define bloodbath so we can agree if it does or does not happen?
$2 trillion is all of the discretionary spending including defense. Are you saying the whole federal government except for entitlements should be eliminated?

Anyone who worries about spending without talking about taxes is not serious or being deceptive. The cause of the current deficit is mostly Trump tax cuts. Plus all of the temporary spending to get out of the pandemic recession. The solution is to remove the Trump tax cuts.
That's the beauty... Sometimes too much detail can be distracting, so knowing what to mention/omit is part of it too.

As CTO for multiple companies and hiring across multiple competencies for 10 years... This is the question that keeps on giving!
You could probably look up the reasons for Carbon's existence as an answer. Actually, I did the legwork for you[1].

[1]: https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/blob/trunk/do...
You don’t think anyone else has root?
We live in one! Have you ever been to a country with a functioning government?
>Seem to tolerate high income inequality or even see it as a good thing.

A free society will by definition be unequal; people have different priorities and abilities, and wealth acquisition isn't a zero sum game. If anything, instead of vilifying billionaires, take a look at the unelected but taxpayer funded and vastly bloated bureaucracies in every country around the world. The shocking revelations of USAID spending billions upon billions to interfere in other countries is example enough.

Prisons are the most equal places in the world in terms of living standards and options available to prisoners; nobody sees them as ideal.

Now lack of upward class mobility - that's a separate problem area to focus on.
I assure you various bits of the US government use SQL databases.
For anyone else looking at these devices to use with frigate, I found that using the openvino mode on a <$200 intel mini pc was more than adequate for 5 cameras, and probably could have handled more. Glad I tried it out first before buying an accelerator.
I don’t think it’s a good strategy in this case.

Some of the people you fire will not come back, even if you try to rehire them immediately. Some of the firings will not result in problems in the near term, but will cause problems later on. Some of the firings will cause problems that only occur under certain conditions, like catastrophic events and natural disasters.

Furthermore, you cause real harm to people who depend on these services in the interim period where you’re figuring things out. In some cases that harm cannot be undone.

The stated policy objectives to reduce waste could be achieved with much less disruption and cruelty simply by doing them more slowly and thoughtfully. There is no need to rush everything through in six weeks.
When seeing the approach to how Elon/DOGE applied themselves to air traffic control after the incidents, I'm not falling into the Gell-Mann amnesia effect. This group is just incompetent and going to re-learn all the mistakes within each domain that led to industry getting to where it has through a series of hard won lessons.
Like 75% of those lines of code are in drivers or architecture-specific code (code that only runs for x86 or ARM or SPARC or POWER etc.)

The amount of kernel code actually executing on any given machine at any given point in time is more likely to be around 9-12 million lines than anywhere near 40 million.

And a replacement kernel won't eliminate the need for hardware drivers for a very wide range of hardware. Again, that's where the line count ramps up.not
Operationally, Twitter is doing well, even with 80% of the workforce gone.

Revenue is down, but that’s because of the feud between advertisers and Musk, not anything to do with Twitters operations.

DAU and EBITDA are both up despite this.

It’s pretty clearly a success story on any objective measure.
It’s not encrypted but compression and reliability of the signal is a mixed bag. It’s not encrypted because congress mandated it as a condition for privatizing the analog bandwidth (ie there’s a carve out for public digital and broadcasters have to broadcast publicly accessible signal just like they had to on analog)
Just skimming the first few entries:

- most often are ub in binding code between rust and language x

- if not binding code the severity is often below 5, which is most often not a bug that will affect you

- exceptions are code with heavy async usage and user input handling (which rust never advertises to fix and is common in all languages, even ones with gc)
Black Mirror has the perfect episode for this scenario already.
If they were in favor of state and local government, why is the federal government threatening to sue California for admissions in the UC system and demanding that NYC's congestion pricing be ended or else lose federal funding? Why are faculty members at state universities being forced to change their research because it is on a verboten topic?

The idea that Trump, Musk, or anybody involved in leadership of Trump's administration care about state and local government authority is, frankly, fucking ludicrous.
Totally tangential, but since I just recently found this out: character-number-character, like [k8s, a16z, a11y] means that 8/16/11 characters in the middle are replaced by their count. I was wondering why kubernetes would be such a long word, when you wrote k18s. Maybe it was just a typo on your end, and this system is totally obvious.
I've always found it much easier and faster to make the travel arrangements myself than to do it with a travel agency, but my work travel has always been pretty simple.
> I believe that the electoral system prevents a candidate from say, simply winning all of the urban areas, or exploiting some similar demographic divide that would could exist in a pure popular vote system.

What about simply winning all of the rural areas? Cause that's literally what happened.
I thought the promise of Web Components was also about this: make a control once, make it styleable, let everyone reuse it.

I wonder why is this not happening widely.
What I think is irrelevant, what is codified as the stance of the US Government is. They are acting on that assertion.
I'm sorry you feel threatened by it and pigeonholed into your beliefs. This is the exact status of definition for the HHS and USG.

Sex: A person’s immutable biological classification as either male or female.

Female: is a person of the sex characterized by a reproductive system with the biological function of producing eggs (ova).

Male: is a person of the sex characterized by a reproductive system with the biological function of producing sperm.

Woman: an adult human female.

Girl: a minor human female.

Man: an adult human male.

Boy: a minor human male.

Mother: a female parent.

Father: a male parent.

https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2025/02/19/hhs-takes-action-p...

You can argue what you want, but they are enacting actions against what they have defined as truth. That's the by product of winning an election, you get to make the changes you ran on.
whats the pulse frequency you use?
Yeah esp Cursor YOLO mode (auto write code and run commands) is getting very popular

https://forum.cursor.com/t/yolo-mode-is-amazing/36262
If you know basic programming (js/python), a day is more than enough to get the concept across using a tiny language. Could probably be done in an hour.

The problem, always, is people are given terrible reading recommendations which makes the subject more complicated than it is.
Consider, do you type or paste the url? With or wothout http/s? Or www? Does it matter? What if you typo wwww.domain.com?

And what do you mean physical keyboard, the virtual one on my phone works fine ;) (also preconceived notions)
I'm glad I don't work with this guy. I've had co-workers who routinely talk to me in this way, treating me as an infant so they could feel superior. I wonder if he'll regret this post going viral.
That’s not what they were saying though. I don’t think anyone is taking the other side of that bet. Like, no shit?
It would be an interesting feedback loop to capture a screenshot of a game (sm64), determine the green texture is grass, update the texture realtime, take another screenshot, and iterate, having the game flesh itself out realtime as it’s being played.
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