skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the Democrats are ineffectual by design

In many situations, those who have morals and scruples will be ineffectual when faced with an adversary who has none. Biden didn't "clean house" because he believes in the rule of law, and believes that if he'd done that, he should go to jail, even if he wouldn't.

Not everyone has an ethical code that only exists because they're afraid they'll go to jail if they break it. Some people just don't think it's ok to do the wrong thing.

Put another way: if you become the monster you're trying to fight, that's often not materially different from the monster winning in the first place.

Having said that, I do think that Democrats should fight a little dirtier sometimes. I think that would be possible to do without becoming that monster.
The dogs working at DOGE haven't the idea on what are they looking at and are lying to cover it. I wouldn't count on them exposing anything but their asses.

https://imgur.com/gallery/doge-math-wow-very-bad-much-corrup...
He doesn't need to follow that recipe for dictatorship. He just needs to do whatever he wants, being a bully without consequences both internally and externally, transforming the image of the US into an aggressive nation. At this moment Americans are as guilty as Russians for allowing this to happen.
What you're describing is very similar to what most large enterprise companies do: layers upon layers of red tape and convoluted regulations for the sake of "security."

This is a big reason they can’t get anything done or retain talent.

Government is no different.

European democracies have been dying from the same sclerosis their legacy multinationals have.

The US is going through actual change. The outrage over things not being done as they always have is nonsensical.
In an autocratic state or organised crime syndicate (these are rather similar), the only one which really matters, in the end.
Some insights or decisions cannot or should not be placed on the public, thats why you elect representatives in the firt place. Insight can be granular, like an oversight commitee publishing a redacted report, but i agree on full transparency about anything regarding our representatives.
Are Nazis for big government or for small government?
My comment starts with the reality that some people (e.g. U.S. Congress) find cause for concern WRT Chinese apps.

This is the reason, say, revelations about interconnectedness matter when it comes to Chinese apps versus U.S. apps.

You may disagree about whether there should be cause for concern, but that's another matter.

But, if you're asking me if I personally think there's cause for concern around allowing a foreign adversary access to your citizenry via social media platforms, then the answer is yes.

And, of course, China itself also believes it's a problem, which is why U.S. social media is banned there.
Europe has been more or less militarily occupied and subjugated for that time. Conquered nations tend to be pretty docile on the international level and generally don't go around waging war independently.
Info arbitrage nice
That.
I have used only ChatGPT and I remember asking 4 legacy to write some code. I asked o3 the same question when it came out, and then I compared the codes. o3 was 'better' more precise, more detailed, less 'crude'. Now, don't get me wrong, crude worked fine. But when I wanted to do the v1.1 and v1.2 o3 nailed it every time, while 4 legacy was simply bad and full of errors.

With that said, I assume that every 'next' version of each engine is using my 'prompts' to train, so each new version has the benefit of having already processed my initial v1.0 and then v1.1 and then v1.2. So it is somewhat 'unfair' because for "ChatGTP v2024" my v1.0 is brand new while for "ChatGTP v2027" my v1.0, v1.1, v1.2 is already in the training dataset.

I haven't used Grok yet, perhaps it's time to pause that OpenAI payment and give Elon some $$$ and see how it works 'for me'.
Personalized advertising: you using a new product and visually enjoying it. Blows my mind people do not see this application.
> I was very much more intrigued about the statement that data can’t be easily/legally shared within the same agency

Consider it from this hypothetical perspective: My mom is an analyst in the health service and has database access to produce various reports. Her access is extensive, to allow reporting on things like whether the courses of antibiotics prescribed by doctors are of the recommended length.

Meanwhile, I'm a rebellious teenager. My doctor asks me how often I smoke, drink, take drugs and engage in promiscuous sex. If my doctor enters my answers into my electronic medical record - should my mom be able to look at my record?

The answer, of course, is that her right to access data depends on what she's doing.
No because "independent agency" just mean the agency was established by law, with a specific mandate and regulations that the President can't independently change.

It doesn't mean the agency isn't a part of the Executive branch with the President at it's head and it doesn't mean the President can't fire them for specific reasons.
I would love it if tax returns were public (as they are in other countries), but that's not what's happening here.
> Mushrooms are “fruits”. The “plant” itself is the mycelium underground and the mushroom is the “fruity” part which is produced to spread the “seeds” (spores).

They are the "fruiting body" of the fungus, but biologically they are not fruit.
> why do you get to decide that it isn't the purpose of a cow to be eaten?

Clearly you’ve never experienced the sight of animals in a slaughterhouse, as they realise what is happening to the animals in front and begin to panic and violently bellow and push back.

> You're arguing on the Internet, it's already a waste of time and space.

That is only true for people who don’t engage in good faith and don’t have a genuine desire to learn and are open to changing their minds. For everyone else, it can and does provide value.
>Or MacBooks not having touch screens

I hope they never do that, it was a disaster on Windows 8.
"Aren't plants alive?" is such a bad faith argument that I don't know why you even bother replying. It's legitimately on the level of "internet troll". I eat meat btw, but I wouldn't even entertain someone that pretends there's no difference between a sentient mammal and a stalk of broccoli
With nicest weather on the planet probably
So much jargon, no idea what's going on here :)
People also nearly always forget to account for the traction control of EVs vs. ICEs.

EVs have a faster electronic traction control system that results in less tyre spin, which results in less wear on both the tyre and, in the case of winter, the road itself, as studded tyres eat away at the asphalt.
Do you know why in Portugal they have 4 different ID numbers?

It is like that to prevent the state from persecuting people on the base that it is hard for a branch of the government to figure out who is someone based on a number from a different branch.

Do you know why they want to prevent the government from persecuting people?

Because it has already happened, and the portuguese don't want it to happen again.
The examples in that article are legitimate examples. The more concerning part in that article is the suggestion of not following court rulings such as the myth of Andrew Jackson's SCOTUS quote.
RAID expects non deterministic bad behaviors. A group of these drives receiving the same pattern of block accesses could exhibit the same behavior at the same time depending on how they were designed.. Similarly, I think it is usually done with the expectation of something worth treating as an irreversible failure, some RAIDs may perform at their worst for read when there is a slow response from a drive that isn't known to be bad, optimizing them to compete by always racing the correction with the last response would be inefficient if they weren't designed specifically for this defect.
Not even that. Trump controls federal law enforcement. If Congress or a federal court says "arrest cabinet member XYZ for contempt", Trump can just say "no".

Congress does have some law enforcement personnel, but I doubt they'd be interested in getting in a standoff with the Secret Service.
> You call the first and one of the most successful democracies in the world

That's the level of delusion in your own greatness that led to Trump. USA was the first (representative!) democracy with written constitution at best. And that's if you overlook the fact that only some people were entitled to vote at all.
What is this about?

As a somebody currently not in the US I only get:

"Career Dreamer is an early-stage experiment and is only available in the United States."
> At least owls have the courtesy to cough up pellets containing the little bones of their prey

As soon as somebody showed me this as a kid, I would constantly be looking in pine groves for pellets. There was something fascinating about pulling them apart and finding the little mouse bones. Whenever I have a chance now, I point it out to kids. Some of them are fascinated like I was, some of them can't understand why I showed them something dirty and boring <shrug>.
It redirects me to

https://grow.google/career-dreamer/home/not-allowed

which is a blank page (at least in FF, with adblock disabled) with a sole cookie banner. kek.
I rather AP stick to its principles rather than loose integrity, AP has a core function in elections in calling races I would prefer that no one doubts their integrity and legitimacy
True, but the Chinese also can't order malicious tax audits against political opponents like Trump can.
Have you heard about Chesterton's fence?
Kernel sanitizers on Microsoft platforms (2023)
Federal laws and guidelines for voting must be followed by the states. I don't see this changing with this act. For example - the voting rights act of 1965 is a federal law that states must comply with for elections. This is what the constitution has to say about it for congress:

> The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators

For president it just says states will send electors chosen by the state legislature. This has been the source of immense fuckery for decades... state legislatures often want to ignore the popular vote and just send their party's electors and it's unclear how the current court would sway if that actually happens (particularly if the state's constitution doesn't bind their legislature to send electors based on the popular vote). Further, federal laws like the voting rights act have often been held to apply to presidential election as well as congress.
They're on there, but using the model name rather than the service name. For instance, "Mistral-Large-2407" has an elo of 1252 at the time of writing.
In the case of OEs, there's a long history that they are subject to judicial powers if they are not based in law or constitutional powers. In the case of this specific EO, it's likely to stand but the rules coming out of it are likely to be challenged if they overstep the authority in law.
I'm not sure how applicable the NATO training is in this war. It's a trendsetter for sure
Now we know where SMTP got it, I guess.
I like jellyfin

but it still lacked some of the features that made me stick to plex (over VLC)

It'll become better over time, and probably much better than plex. plex dont do many new features, and there's still a ton of issues with it (like... audio is at like -50 dB and you cant hear shit)
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Then why did Trump illegally fire all inspector generals?
On the other hand I'd have to buy a special headset (this tiny jack) for my handset and overall it's much harder to block callers. But mostly I can't talk hands-free without buying something new.

Also 90% of the time the callers on the landline want my wife and not me, but I'm the one working from home. "Calling the apartment" doesn't make sense for everyone.

I don't really see _any_ benefit since they switched this over to mandatory transparent VoIP. A dedicated ISDN line as a backup was good, I agree.
"In the coming weeks, the team is expected to enter IT systems at the CDC and Federal Aviation Administration, and it already has done so at NASA"

If this isn't a glaring conflict of interest and corruption, I don't know what is.
As someone observing this phenomon on my country and my adoption country for the last 20 years.

People may be sick, but just like folks are now finding out in US, putting these people in power is not the solution.
>It's crazy how much bullshit Apple have been selling since their financiarisation.

Have you seen what cars people buy?

Welcome to the modern world.
Drone footage of the eruption: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqbNdDxa_i4
The Weirdest MSVC Address Sanitizer Bug
I found the train station 10X faster than the first time. (The first time I got lost)
None?

> Advisors with unlimited power

Apparently they have the power to fire people, ignore access clearance rules, get full read/write (this was already confirmed and documented by multiple sources) access to data, terminate federal programs and agencies. Or at least there's no executive opposition to them trying to, so... in practice they do have the power. So far a few judges are still holding the ground, but we'll see how long that is allowed. Musk announced a few big changes as done before they were officially confirmed by Trump.

> and endless conflicts of interests

Musk practically leads the efforts to cut government spending while receiving government funding in defence and comms spending. And with weird procurement entires appearing https://www.ttnews.com/articles/armored-teslas-government Those are conflicts of interest.

> with zero obligation for transparency?

There are no obligations for transparency. The agencies being reviewed don't get a report of things to implement and we don't see any of the audit reports.

I get you may like how this unfolds, but denying it happens is weird.
What makes my wife and I fail every time is protein intake. We are both active and require a lot of protein. We drink whey protein 1x a day, have quinoa for salads and occasionally eat eggs. The problem is come dinnertime, we have few options. We can't eat:
- beans: Yes, I rolled my eyes too. My wife gets bloated painfully and it's happened so many times that I've stopped preparing bean-primary dishes
- beyond meat: it's expensive, gas and bloat is still an issue, a big one

Tofu, seitan and TVP are all good, but they're extremely boring (user error attributes to this I'm sure).

Every vegetarian/vegan I've talked to is just not into weightlifting, so they sort of dismiss the diet needs we need. We always go back to chicken because of this
This is either woefully naive or active disinformation.

Edit: OP dramatically edited their post. It originally made all kinds of claims of process and propriety that just aren't happening. This was the original that I was replying to:

”Most of the animosity comes from misunderstanding. Trump tasked "DOGE" with reviewing government spending across it's 400+ agencies, and coming up with recommendations on how to reduce wasteful spending. They have 1 year to complete this task.
To make sensible recommendations, DOGE needs data about the major programs within each agency. They can't tackle each agency consecutively, since there are more agencies than days until the deadline, so they are parallelising the work.

The access is read only, and they are not linking personal data between agencies, but rather doing a bunch of separate audits in parallel.

Trump has prohibited Musk from being involved in with the review in agencies where he was a material conflict (FAA for example).”
> More broadly, the Supreme Court has made clear that the Constitution imposes important limits on Congress’s ability to influence or control the actions of officers once they are appointed.

No they did the opposite when they overruled Chevron. They said Congress cannot delegate that amount of its plenary power to the executive.

This of course lays the whole thing bare. When it comes to regulating markets or companies, or minority rights, conservatives think the president has no power. But when it comes to immigration or Christian social issues, the president is all powerful. This translates into laughable double standards like "the Biden admin even sending a single email to Twitter is pressure and censorship, but Trump suing media organization after media organization for defamation to the tune of billions of dollars is not pressure and not censorship". None of this is principled; it's entirely us vs them.
Didn't I just read a headline saying the exact opposite of this?

Oh, okay the second sentence kind of contradicts the vibe of the headline.

Article I saw was about a Davos speech:

"Jamie Dimon reaffirmed JPMorgan's DEI commitments after pressure from an activist shareholder."

https://www.businessinsider.com/jamie-dimon-doubles-down-jpm...
Intermittent workloads on the order of 2 milliseconds, you mean? Frequency scaling is much faster than blinking, as well as ubiquitous in all recent consumer hardware that I'm aware of due to the huge amount of power it saves. Turning it off would, to me, only make sense if you want a server to handle thousands of fast requests per second, but those requests don't come in for periods of, say, 50 ms at a time and so the CPU scales back.

Actually, thinking this through, even then it doesn't make much sense to me: if you have that many short requests coming in, the CPU would simply never scale back if it's reasonably constant. It would first need to see some gap, and why not scale the CPU back in that gap (at the cost of having the 1st request of the next batch be a few milliseconds slower)? From there on, every subsequent request is fast again until there's another lull. Keeping the CPU always on high frequency should only be needed if you have a very tight deadline on that surprise request (high-frequency trading perhaps?), or if your requests are coincidentally always spaced by the same amount of time as CPU scaling measures across. I'm sure these things exist but "intermittent workload" is 90% of all workloads and most workloads definitely aren't meaningfully impacted by cpu scaling
Isn't this something the US has had on steroids for many years? I.e. Patriot act, PRISM, FISA, national security letters?
Congress created those departments, and specified how they should be staffed and operated, and what powers they were granted.

That's because the executive does not have the power to create those departments (Article II does not grant that power).

It's an undeniably weird setup: the departments are staffed and run by the executive branch, and they report up into the president, but they are still accountable to Congress, which is where their power to do anything is derived from.
> Amazon Appstore will continue to be available elsewhere, including on Fire TV and Fire Tablet devices.
Apart from government being very different from private business indeed; I wouldn't want to eat food, drive a vehicle, or use software made by a company made with that mindset. "Safety first" is also a hard rule in all sorts of sports where people move faster than non-expert spectators can fully comprehend. If you need to cut corners to "gain efficiency" it just means you're bad.
You've laid out the dream for a lot of developers around the world.

Agency life is probably 80% sales and 20% delivery. The agency pattern you've mentioned is common because it consistently works and everyone (myself included) fawns over the basecamp model but they're about the only ones who've made it work.

AI-generated SaaS tools just remind me of white-label SaaS products that were the hot thing however many years ago. They do about 50% of what the customer wants and a PITA to customize.

Having said that if I started again I'd still build one or more AI-centric B2B products with a focus on closed AI systems and look for agency work (ad-hoc development) as an offshoot.

You'd be able to build up a client base with your B2B products and have tangible examples to demonstrate what you're capable of while playing on the fact that the client's data is secure and never shared with third parties.
still, Germany arrests citizens for calling a politician an idiot.
I'm not OP but I imagine they might be thinking that Trump will find a way to punish it, with him being a fascist and all. Just imagine you'd had done this with Hitler in 1932. By 1934 your life would basically be over.
how would an AI robot oven be different. I as a human want to use AI robot oven.
Having a slow and archaic birocratic system doesn't stop governments going totalitarian on their citizens.

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.

This typical German "our government is not slow and inefficient, it's just protection against totalitarianism" is pure cope.

Edit: @helloplanets Source: https://youtu.be/-bMzFDpfDwc?si=eIUkEuDBx3iX_TEx
The sole meaningful VPN is the one you host yourself to connect personal stuff around the world in a sole network. For privacy I2P etc performances are not enough for normal use, the rest is mere noise.

That's IMVHO the substance, not counting the fact that even a secure channel is meaningless if you run proprietary crapware at their end.
For now , yes - abstracts and other metadata
And it's not even that hard if the page is built in a sane way, which for the simplicity of the blog should be a no brainer to go for simplicity.

I have my blog hosted at omg.lol and while I had to support mobile by myself, it was really really simple.

Here is my blog: https://xd1.dev

Here is the code for the blog's responsive layout: https://github.com/gchamon/xd1.dev/blob/main/css/responsive-...

No injection, no build, just plain inline linking https://github.com/gchamon/xd1.dev/blob/10b98ddb37a9786ca8fe...
If people checking that the records make sense isn't kosher; why do they need to store those records? The government only really needs to hand out money and the technical details can happen somewhere else; sign them up for #n recurring payments, keep some anonymised aggregate stats and throw away the records. They can even keep their own records signed off by the government; we have the tech where none of this stuff needs to be stored centrally.

We can call anyone a script kiddie. I know some people who do data analysis for government health departments. Calling them a script kiddie wouldn't be respectful but they are youthful and do run scripts. The process appointing Musk is was more public and accountable than the one appointing my friends. Musk even gets public debate on the subject of whether hiring his people is a good idea or not. They're being very well vetted.

People are weird. I feel like a lot of ink gets spilled pointing out that one day the government will be controlled by people you don't like no matter who you are. But that argument doesn't seem to get through to all these people who panic every time it turns out that democracies don't always elect the same people with the same ideologies over and over. Government isn't trustworthy and people shouldn't be discovering that en masse in February 2025.
That is correct, which is why I used quotes. It is important to not get bogged down in pedantry and lose sight of the argument, though. The matter being discussed is if you need to kill what you eat, and I’m using “fruit” as a shorthand for the thing a plant produces to be eaten but is not the plant itself.
They selfhost them. Any chatprotocol has access to a lot of metadata. The Bundeswehr has special requirements that matrix fullfilled better than others.