skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't seem to get that the money is spent when Congress allocates it, not when a public servant puts it on a credit card. You want accountability talk to your representative.

This will just make government less efficient as it goes through extra steps to request invoices and post payment, or perhaps even spending petty cash.

It will exclude government from buying certain products where this isn't possible.

Of course this is all quite irrelevant, since it's a publicity stunt for the people who are not interested in saving taxpayer money but hating and destroying.
I have written software for laboratory devices on similar price levels, that will never run on home computer.
An interesting quality of the images is that they all have a high degree of symmetry, which is only found in living things. So there is a built in bias.
I wish I could remember who, but there is a company out there who conducts tech interviews to create a pool of candidates for their customers. Pretty sure there was a post here about it, but it's lost in my ocean of unread favorites.
I put my heart and soul into this AI but nobody cares
The chickens can get sick from bird droppings, from birds that fly over your chicken run and never even come into direct contact with the flock.
If spreadsheets are eternal, are BI tools transitory?
Economic advances don't trickle down to "us mortals"?

Dude, the relentless decrease in cost of manufactured items, this decrease that makes your current way of life possible, is driven by exactly that. Manufacturers are in life-or-death competition and we consumers reap the benefit as prices are driven ever downward.
Theoretical research in itself is one of the actual values. Any real-world application from CERN are purely incidental (albeit welcome).

The other values include redistribution of wealth, support for businesses, job creation, sustaining internal intellectual capabilities without depending on the whims of fickle corporations, and probably many others that I can't think of for now.
Sounds like what Hololens was designed to solve, more in the AR space than AI though
Where is the models - I don't care about your "intentions" and your logos - just make and publish the models. This current form is _useless_
I really want to like Matrix, and just last weekend I re-downloaded a matrix client and tried to give it another shot. Maybe I'm holding it wrong, but from what I can tell it's suffering from the same problem that all of the fediverse services seem to suffer from: The only thing to talk about is the fediverse itself.

Back in the heyday of IRC I spent a lot of time in technical channels on networks that were mostly technically focused, but I started using IRC in the first place because of the social channels where you could join games, talk about music, or find people with other shared interests.

Then there was a moment in time where community slack groups popped up, and again I mostly joined tech focused slack groups, but it still felt social and there were channels to talk about movies or games in addition to talk about careers or particular programming languages. Slack killed those kind of communities but they moved to discord. I left discord when they introduced ads.

Open up a Matrix client and look at the public rooms on any large server and you'll find places to talk about... the matrix protocol. and matrix servers. and matrix clients. If it's a really popular server you might also be able to talk about mastadon clients and servers too.

Even as someone who is enthusiastic about the idea of federation who might actually be interested in talking about the Matrix protocol or implementing particular servers, I still want to also talk about math or programming languages or movies. Without anything like that Matrix as a whole just gives off this general vibe of being kind of unwelcoming and not _fun_.
Your little tin-pot business has absolutely nothing to do with the procurement formalities of a large organisation.
If I type "matrix" into the Play store: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=matrix&c=apps I get "element" as the first result.

That means that regardless of what anyone wants, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=im.vector.app is the Matrix app, and either it works, or "Matrix" is broken, trash, and to be avoided.

Yes, I understand the differences between them. Normal users will not understand, and I will pretend to not understand, because I'm not willing to deal with such distinctions. Either a thing works or it doesn't, and if it doesn't, I'm not willing to try which combination of homeservers and apps may make it work, because normal people won't be willing to do that and the people who are willing to do that will only want to talk to me about debugging their new chat app rather than actually interesting topics.
API usage has also doubled in the last 6 months(!!)
Ask questions that are tricky to cheat, evaluate candidates by their thought process in solving a problem and ability to clarify, discuss and justify their decisions.
Which is fine, you don't have to take in every candidate, nor do we need to apply to every company.
I don't think these two things necessarily go hand in hand. If the head of the executive branch should have absolute control over the branch, as the above user suggested, then if congress wants to control government agencies that are currently in the executive branch, those agencies should be placed outside of the executive into a different category that is either under the legislative branch or shared with the executive. In the status quo, all of the large government agencies being cut by DOGE are technically under the executive.
What parts are you looking to automate. Sending communications or pulling structured data from emails/meetings?
> There are even videos of police showing up at people’s homes in some countries, over tweets they made.

Yeah, if you are from The Netherlands and want police showing up your door, mention on Twitter that you want to shoot mr. Wilders. Threatening someone to take away their life has repercussions. How peculiar!

(Please don't do it. Example is just illustrative. Actually, I know a website with a forum where this happened approx 20 years ago. Server got seized. They didn't log. FDE, but obviously got broken at some point.)

Freedom of speech isn't that you can spout whatever you want and not face repercussions.

Besides that, there's Popper.

Furthermore, there's this thing called chilling effect. You might wanna ask GOP Senators and Congressman about that.

I have faith in LLMs and AI, as long as it is reproducible and transparent. Right now, when I use Mistral, it refers to sources. A step in the right direction.
I get it you’re upset, but that’s a you problem not a we problem. This is what was voted for. To bring it back to the main topic, the implied god mode access doesn’t exist.
According to Bloomberg, the clear front-runner in the race against the hourglass is biotech C.E.O. Bryan Johnson, who, at 45, spends $2 million a year on attempts to stay young. He has allegedly erased years off of his body’s biological age.

FWIW most of that money is spent on lab equipment, much of which he owns now. A lot of it is also spent on getting statistical data and having doctors and scientists review it. He said he actually spends between $10K and $20K on the actual process of being younger. Watched several of his long form podcast interviews. His interview on Bill Maher is decent. [1]

Truth be told I am loving my multi-decade mid-life crisis. I feel great. Ignore the haters and skeptics.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6AzBN3Z_F8 [video][1h 50m]
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Castaneda's Don Juan says that life is more about what we avoid doing than what we do.

Like, we should not repeatedly go to the shoe store to play with their new x-ray foot measuring device, or use those new glow-in-the-dark radium cosmetics.
This has happened before.

When we went from assembler to compilers, this logic would have said, "So instead of being creative and finding ways to avoid hand-coding loops, you look for a way to spit out copies of loops faster." And the answer is, "Yeah, I do! I want the compiler to write the loop for me and get all the jumps right so I don't have to worry about it! Getting the jumps for the loop right is incidental to what I'm actually trying to write; I've got better things to spend my time on."

Note well: I am not arguing that AI will produce good code rather than multiple layers of garbage. I am merely saying that this particular argument is weak.
> Should we encourage abortions for single mothers because their child might not have a happy life?

Yes.

> Should we abort fetuses who have some disability?

If the parents are unwilling or unable to deal with it every day for the rest of their life, yes.

> I'm sure that any of those individuals, once born, would prefer to live regardless of circumstance.

That's too big an assumption. But, in any case, not being born, and not having a working brain capable of abstract thought and understanding of the situation, nor a way to express it, they don't get a vote.
Well. yeah - okay - granted. But still. People would not pay for Opera either. I'd pay for (the old) opera today. Times have changed.
I was bitten by this using aws’s golang sdk.

The nuance is that Amazon updated their sdk so that the default is that the sdk no longer works for third party services that do not use the new checksum. There is a new configuration option in the sdk that either:
(1) requires the checksum (and breaks s3 usage for unsupported services); or
(2) only uses the checksum if the s3 service supports it.

The sdk default is (1) when this issue could have been avoided if the sdk default was (2).

Agree with all the comments that Amazon has never said or even implied that updates to their sdk would work on other s3 compatible services. However, the reality is that s3 has become a defacto standard and (unless this is a deliberate Amazon strategy) it would be relatively easy for Amazon to set this default that allows for but does not require changes to s3 compatible services or, if possible, to loudly flag these types of changes well in advance so that they don’t surprise users.
> Government workers are (in theory) employees of the citizens.

Not in theory nor in practice, for the same reason a teacher isn’t the employee of a student’s parents.
In most companies every engineer above a junior level is expected to pass features and bugfixes through their common sense filter and provide feedback. Product managers and designers aren't infallible and sometimes lack knowledge about the system or product that an engineer might have.

You can't just take requirements and churn out code without a critical eye at what you're doing.
"never trust a test you've never seen fail." has kept me honest on more than one occasion.
Funnier title, though
I'm quite slowly working on something like this, but for time.

For "stuff" I think a bigger draw is having it so it can let me know "hey you already have 3 of those spices at locations x, y, and z, so don't get another" or "hey you won't be able to fit that in your freezer"
The intended one I imagine. They said they want to create trauma for government workers.
yes; and i did take it into account. I'm unwilling to share my methodology at this time, but the very little mainstream coverage of the cull last year was enough to piece together a timeline, and i'm sure a few people have, maybe even someone who isn't a complete nutterbutter.

In my estimation, the slaughter of chickens for disposal slowed down during the summer. Any reason why would be speculation i am unwilling to back up at this time.

Wash your hands if you handle livestock, people. and if you're around LOTS and cleaning up their poo, wear a respirator and eye protection. It's got what plants crave, but not humans!
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There are giant, active channels for specific topics. I've been in the OpenBSD channel(s) for years and there is always relevant deep discussion there. Same for other technical topics like that.
You’re telling us to trust the word of people being caught either lying or being staggeringly incompetent.
Exactly my point. Micro-Purchases.
Inside the house? How? They shit wherever they happen to be ...
How does Julia compare to Python with Jax?

I just love pythons ease of use, and the few times I've tried Julia it has felt clanky in comparison, and then Jax just makes everything so amazingly fast.
How the AI Bubble Bursts [video]
OpenAI API usage has doubled in the last six months
I wonder if signal.me links are still blocked on X.
One could aregue the "non-moats" together can accumulate into something considerable making it moat. A brand is definately a moat but in the minds of consumers. This is not something you can overcome easily, even if the product is inferior.
> The next major Julia release, 1.12, is likely to appear in mid-2025. It will finally include the ability to generate static binaries of a reasonable size, appropriate for distribution.

I would be thrilled if Julia had this in early days, but now it is a little too late. I have jumped the boat.
This article didn't really say all too much, essentialy you can't differentiate your product with prompts alone, and you need deeper integrations with workflows, ok thats pretty clear - what else?
It's probably best not to get specific instructions. They constrain you too much.

The cheapest way to build a chicken coop is to go to the local rubbish tip, or tip shop if the top doesn't let you fossick. Be a little imaginative with your design. For example, you can build them out of PVC water pipes. They are light, don't rot, wire can be pop riveted to them, and they are very easy to glue.

I also turned a 80 litre rubbish bin into a chicken feeder. Getting the design reliable was a few of weekends work of trail and error. However once done my time was paid back over and over again. A rubbish bin can hold an entire 30kg bad of food. It takes my chickens 3 months to go through a bag, so the reduces feeding to once per month. (We also gave then table scraps, which is a daily chore.) I also built a automatic water station out of an old office bin and a toilet inlet valve. The net result of all that is the chickens can got for months without you touching them, which is far longer than any family holiday.

Like some others here, I don't quite get the cost aspect. A carton of 12 eggs in about $6 here, and 3 chickens produce about 2 cartons a week. The food costs about $10/month. If you have a yard, food costs can be reduced by about 1/2 allowing them out during the day. Allowing them to graze can automated too - you just need a 12v electric car window opener connected to a battery, solar cell and timer. Again, if you get these things second hand they will cost you less than the $60 of food they save in a year.

All that said, yes it will take a few years to repay the costs, and even if you automate to the degree I did taking the table scraps out to them and getting the eggs remains a daily chore. To me the engineering project of "how can I automate this at least cost" was as interesting as the chickens themselves.
You mean clean living pays off?

Say it isn't so . . .
> Trump tried to make DOGE, and was slapped down by congress,

When was he “slapped down by congress”? He signed the executive order establishing DOGE on inauguration day - obviously his transition team’s lawyers had drafted it for him in the weeks prior. And his lawyers came up with an inventive way of hijacking existing Congressional authorities for DOGE. But it wasn’t like he asked Congress first and only resorted to this scheme when they said ‘no’ - he planned to bypass them all along.

Okay, some Republicans introduced some enabling legislation for DOGE early this year. But I don’t think either they or Trump were ever expecting it to get passed, and they weren’t seriously trying. Introducing the legislation was just a political stunt to get attention and demonstrate loyalty. “Bypass Congress” was the plan all along
Linux user here.

I use links in graphical mode (links -g) quite a bit. It's easy to turn image display on and off with the '*' key. Image sizes can be scaled with the menu and they take effect immediately. If one hovers over an image link and types "i", the image itself is displayed, and there's an option to scale the image to fit the window. Getting a new links window is easy (Alt-F n). One gripe is that hitting Ctrl-C will close the window (the 'Q' key does this already)

I use lynx as a second line of defense when some sites refuse to work with links, because lynx is sometimes able to display them (different user agent?). I also have been recently using lynx within xterm (disabling the alternate screen) for forums where posted URLs are not clickable (text only) in combination with xterm's dabbrev-expand() function to quickly copy such URLs in lynx's goto prompt. As an aside: in xterm's misc.c there's a a macro (IS_WORD_CONSTITUENT) that can be easily expanded to exclude characters that are not part of a URL, such as braces.

I do worry that more and more websites will simply show "Suspicious Activity Detected" for these browsers. As mentioned so many times on HN, text browser users are a minority and text browsers are obsolete. I did once send a message to a website owner and later saw that I could access the site, but didn't get an acknowledgement by email, so I can't be sure if it was in response to my request. There still are some websites that degrade gracefully, and, despite complaints by the server, allow text input windows and submit buttons to still work.
I’m not saying it doesn’t happen. I’m not even saying it doesn’t happen at all higher rate than the general population.

But 90% is just too much to be feasible.
It seems to be the only currently existing open, e2e encrypted, chat application that reasonably supports both multi-device and large group chats. Essentially Slack or Discord without the centralization.

The nearest competitor is Signal but that's neither really open (it's source-available, maybe technically open source but it's clear that you aren't supposed to try to interop with the official network with non-offical clients) nor does it really seem to be made to support large group chats and a desktop-first experience.
That's not how the economics work. There has been a lot of research that showed how deeper nets are more efficient. So if you spend a ton of compute money on a model, you'll want the best output - even though you could just as well build something shallow that may well be state of the art for its depth, but can't hold up with the competition on real tasks.
Exactly my point. Serious pubsec procurement is not done on employee cards.
So, remove the checks and balances that were already put in place over decades to make sure employees are spending responsibly. Um, sure.

With the employee cards, all the transactions are traceable and can be monitored with a minimum of red tape. How exactly would one improve upon that? It's literally the technologically-enabled solution.
A clickable PDF. Dont ask me to jump through loops and hoops to read about your stuff
Right? There are already dozens of deprecated elements, just deprecate these too and give us new ones that actually do what they're supposed to do and don't require us to know the entire history of HTML just to do a dang <select> that isn't ugly.
Related to lynx, (with images)

https://terminaltrove.com/w3m/

https://terminaltrove.com/links/

https://terminaltrove.com/reader/

https://terminaltrove.com/elinks/

We are so glad that these tools exist for the terminal, we even still use w3m and lynx from time to time.

https://terminaltrove.com/lynx/

If you do use the terminal for your browsing I recommend ddgr as it integrates with all of the above browsers, except reader.

https://terminaltrove.com/ddgr/
GenSX: OS framework for building agents and workflows with React-like components
I don't agree with that. We had two powers dividing Europe in two, placing their own armies all over the place and doinglg their best to convince the other party that the world would be destroyed if it dared to attack. That was what brought us peace. Collaboration in the form of the various European international organizations was a consequence.

Making another war in Europe was basically impossible. We had one in Yugoslavia which was not aligned with the two blocks and anyway only after the USSR lost the cold war.
I know LoC is a terrible metric, but it always shocks me that things like react-select require 30k LoC.

21% the size of the code of the Apollo Lander to configure/style a select dropdown.
Re-discovering why things worked the way they did (waste, corruption, and fraud prevention) is gonna be fun.
"personal trust and reputation" often means back-room shenanigans.
I am in correspondence with a number of worth while authors, it's just that there isn't any place where they congregate in the (semi) open and without the weirdos who do stuff with the models you're missing out on a lot.

My favorite example I can never share in polite company is that the (still sota) best image segmentation algorithm I ever saw was done by a guy labeling parts of the vagina for his stable diffusion fine tune pipeline. I used what he'd done as the basis for a (also sota 2 years later) document segmentation model.

Found him on a subreddit about stable diffusion that's now completely overrun by shitesters and he's been banned (of course).
ML is still a thing. I believe that most AI research is still non-LLM ML-related - things like CNN+Computer Vision, RL, etc. In my opinion, the hype around LLMs has a lot to do with its accessibility to the general public compared to existing ML techniques which are highly specialised.
Yes I'm sure your business spends roughly $10 trillion a year so the federal government should use your system because it scales so well.
Why are there no Behaviourals on LeetCode?
> I would fail myself as an interviewer

You are not most interviewers, alas.
If any Silicon valley company did this HN will have a party roasting it.

These days I'm convinced that the usual "The government can't do anything right!" pro-Trump guys are not saying it as a warning or complaint: it's an aspirational quote for them.
I now see AI as part 2 of the CPU evolution. I think there are lots of correlations we can draw on looking at it that way:

1) Lots of players enter at the start because there are no giant walled gardens yet.
2) Being best in class will require greater and greater capex (like new process nodes) as things progress.
3) New classes of products will be enabled over time depending on how performance improves.

There is more there, but, with regard to this post, what I want to point out is that CPUs were pretty basic commodities in the beginning, and it was only as their complexity and scale exploded that margins improved and moats were possible. I think it will play out similarly with AI. The field will narrow as efficiency and performance improves, and moats will become possible at that point.
TinyCompiler: A compiler in a week-end
I have bad memories associated with lynx due to an earlier tech job. We'd help clients install their network printers so that the applications running on the RHEL/Centos box could see them. We did not have RDP or VNC access, but we did have on-demand SSH access to their server. So we'd end up having to SSH into the box and doing something like `elinks http://localhost:631` to bring up the CUPS interface over the terminal, and fill out all of the forms in the browser, tabbing to jump between lines and whatnot. It was a massive PITA.

Not lynx's fault, of course. But memories are memories.