skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is some middle ground. It costs very little to let your chickens roam in your yard or in a cheap shelter that you build yourself. You don't have to feed them premium organic bullshit that costs $5 per pound. I haven't bought any in a while but chicken feed is probably like $0.25-0.50 per pound if you buy it in 50 pound bags.
Hmm... in that case the analogy with AI is even better. This sounds like neural networks before things like deep learning and the transformer architecture -- before we figured out how to scale them. Turns out this did require some innovations. It wasn't just a matter of making a bigger model.
Did you mean to respond to another comment? I was responding specifically to the claim that election turnout was low. As I said, it’s the 2nd highest since 1968 - 2020 was indeed the higher year.

Like Brexit, people who don’t like what’s happening come up with all sorts of convoluted explanations for why democracy doesn’t apply when their position loses. It seems to regularly boil down to “people who don’t vote the way I would like are too foolish and were tricked or brainwashed and if only they were enlightened they would vote my way.” I don’t think this is a winning message but we seem to be doubling down.
Calling everyone a NAZI does seem to be the current tactic of the left.
I do own two chickens since maybe 6 months for random reasons. Before that I thought they were pretty "stupid"/"uninteresting" animals but I was really wrong.

They are in fact very lovable little beings. They have interestingly complex relationships between them, they are very social and I do have a special bond with the first I got, especially because we hadn’t the necessary hardware to keep her hot enough for multiple days, we had to literally keep her warm between our hands.

Now she is a grown up chicken and she loves it when I go outside.

Also they are in fact pretty intelligent animals, and they are really curious about what happens around them.

I’d ever go as far as saying that they could be the perfect household pets if only the evolution gave them sphincters.

That was a nice personal discovery.
Farmers around here have a few dozen cows and they still all have names. They're not pets.
The claims of fraud are a pretext for going into the agencies and making the partisan changes they wanted to make anyway. There's no point asking for a detailed discussion because the whole plan is to use the discussion of fraud as cover for the thing they're actually doing.
There is widespread fraud in the government. It needs to be addressed. There is widespread inefficiency too.

I think the people in DOGE have the skills and access to address it.

I have no evidence that they are doing so, and some evidence of widespread loyalty tests which, while not identical, remind me of how Stalin came to power.

However, absence if evidence is not evidence of absence, and some evidence is not the same as proof.

I have dozens of explanations which fit the facts, and I don't have any way to determine which, if any, is correct.
It would have been nice if they'd have revealed what the payment options are before the final step. Kind of disappointing.
> Some of them are fascinated like I was

At the Raptor place, we used owl pellets as part of kid-focussed activities. We'd give them a couple of pellets, a pair of tweezers and a chart of bone outlines, and say "see what animals you can identify". Tiny little jawbones were always popular.
Some more thoughts about training a manipulation model: I would add that synthetic data might be key to making it happen.

One issue is that most video is not shot in first person, so it might make for a poor dataset for the agentic part assuming the robot has human like vision.

Still if you have a large data set of motion capture data with reasonably accurate finger mouvement, you could use a video diffusion model with a control net to get a realistic looking video of a specific motion in first person. Another way would be to use a model like dust3r to generate a geometric 3d scene from the initial video allowing to change the camera angle to match a first person view.

This could be used as the dataset for the agentic model.

Now, maybe human like vision is not even necessary, unlike human, there is nothing preventing your robot to see through external camera placed around the house. Hell, there's even a good chance, your robot's brain will live in a datacenter hundreds of mile away.
Really? I have taken chickens to the vet twice (in 8 years).

First was one taken by a fox. My wife chased the fox and he dropped the chicken (she was too heavy for him). She had a broken leg and a broken wing. Both perfectly treatable and she went on to make a full recovery, resumed laying. As result of her closer contact with people during her recuperation she became very tame and socialized with visitors on the deck in the evening. Arguable she became a pet after her vet treatment.

Second was one with an eye infection (eyelids swollen so she couldn't see). She also made a full recovery.

I don't take every sick chicken to the vet, but if you've kept chickens for long enough you get an idea when it's likely to be mworthwhile (it's never financially worthwhilte). What's worthwhile will vary according to what you can afford and how you relate to your flock generally, the age and health of the hen and likelihood of recovery.
It’s not surprising the CEO of YC supports this, he also supports the idea of the network state. This community is now primarily exists to launder Curtis Yarvins galaxy brain ideas.
> Musk does not have the authority to fire anyone, or terminate any programs. He's only an advisor

Sure, I agree he has no authority. He's only an advisor that seems to have any advice rubber-stamped. And he announces the changes personally before the executive action is announced. And opm employees get an email with basically the same wording as Twitter employees about a leave offer which legally cannot be offered to them.

We can pretend that "actually it's not Musk making those changes" but it's obvious he's telling others what to do. And not in an "advice" way. (He's obviously shielded from legal responsibility in this case.)

> The team aren't accessing data they don't have appropriate security clearances for.

You're arguing against a federal judge. Do you know something they don't? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjw4g2q62xqo

Even if they were allowed access, we know they disregard the access rules by posting NOFORN level data publicly https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-doge-posts-classifi...

> They don't have write access to data, only read access.

Are you arguing that both Ron Wyden is incorrect and the treasury secretary is lying about granting write access? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/02/elon-musk... And that the staff didn't remove the access later on with audit note of that change? https://archive.is/s5myG

> Musk is not authorised to review any agency or program where he has a material conflict.

Yet he's involved in the review of treasury which he has conflict with.

(from the score jumping up and down, I'm guessing people don't like seeing receipts...)
This is a pretty neat product. Seems like the purpose is to allow deploying and selling of self-hosted instances?
Reconstructing 3D Objects with a Tiny Distance Sensor
Seems like it needs to be spelled out for you: Enforcement of federal law is overseen by the DOJ, an executive department bound by this very EO.

Do you see it now?
This rhetoric is old. You can thrive on a vegan diet very easily without this careful calibration you speak of. The same could be said for common western diets with poor nutrition.
Cynically, Trump and Musk are using each other. They both want huge swaths of the federal government dismantled—Trump found his whims stymied by laws and regulations and the bureaucrats who abide by them in his first administration, while federal regulations are constraining both Tesla (cars should work and be safe) and Space-X (starships blowing up shouldn’t pollute, Starlink shouldn’t clutter space, etc).

Musk is stealing the spotlight. At the appropriate time, Trump can fire him and blame him for overstepping his bounds—I have already seen this talking point privately from GOP operatives. They’ll both have gotten what they wanted, and we’ll all be stuck footing the bill.
Are you arguing that people are at risk because a comparison of Treasury and IRS records is going to reveal tax fraud or something? I don’t think that’s on the table. At any rate, Trump doesn’t need DOGE to do that, he can just order the IRS to do it like FDR did if that’s what he’s going to do.
Can ISPs NetFlow data be used to track traffic going through VPNs?
My neighbor has chickens and the predators are no joke. Raccoons constantly trying to weaken their coop, weasels always ready to slip into any little hole, hawks and other birds of prey circling overhead. They've lost a lot of chickens despite keeping a close eye on them and trying to keep a very sturdy coop. It's like a signal goes out to all the wild animals "COME GET TASTY CHICKENS HERE!" Of course we are in a pretty rural area. You can get some pretty cute fluffy chickens though.
For people interested in the softmax, log sum exp and energy models, have a look at "Your Classifier is Secretly an Energy Based Model and You Should Treat it Like One" [1]

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.03263
If they can still be fired, then what does it even mean to say that they can refuse to follow an unconstitutional order? Refusal to follow any order is not illegal. If the consequences for refusing to follow an illegal order are the same as the consequences for refusing to follow a legal order, then there is no sense in saying civil servants can refuse illegal orders.
Plyometric training increases thickness of knee articular cartilage in mice
You’re begging the question: What makes an agency “independent”? The answer given by the original poster was “because Congress says so, and they can”. That is, again, flatly wrong.

Congress can’t reorganize the Treasury as an independent agency. Why not? Making the sole director of the CFPB dismissible only for cause was ruled unconstitutional. Why?

Taking the claim made by the original poster as accurate would lead you to get both of these important questions wrong.
What a strange variation on Z80, extending it with 16-bit wide data paths... Who needs that? We have enough 16-bit ISAs around already, including PDP-11, original 8086 and even 65C816.
Because people want to protect their businesses?

I don't even think it makes sense to use the closed, API-access models for core business functions. Seems like an existential risk to be handing over that kind of information to a third party in the age of AI.

But handing it over to the guy who is simultaneously running for-profit companies that contract with the government and seizing control of the Treasury? To a guy who has a long history of SEC issues, and who was caught cheating at a video game just to convince everyone he's a genius? That just seems incredibly short-sighted.
Vita Nuova is still up, so some people are using it somehow and keep the infrastructure running.

Also even though it started as an anti-Sun/Java project from Bell Labs, it was also taken as an opportunity to fix Plan 9 design errors.

Rob Pike for example, has some quotes on how he thinks it was a mistake not to add automatic memory managemet to Alef, and going back to C replacing Alef.

Inferno's approach to a fully managed userspace with a JIT, something that in modern times ChromeOS and Android is what we have closest to in mainstream computing, is also why there are some Limbo features not yet available in Go, like proper plugins (the current package isn't really it), although maybe one could argue net/rpc is the answer there.
Why do people seem drawn to having a king? What is it in human nature that makes us want a strong man in charge with absolute power?
I bet much of this fraud benefits big donors of both parties.

I doubt they will fix that
A bit sad that they reused name of https://icl.utk.edu/magma/ (Matrix Algebra on GPU and Multi-core Architectures). This library is already heavily used in machine learning, for example, it is included in every pytorch-based project.
I probably broke a rib, or damaged some cartilege last summer. I never went to a doctor because it was "fine", also our 1177.se site even says not to go unless its very painful and so on.

Week 2 was worst I would say. I was sneezing a lot for some reason.

The weird thing though, it was fully healed (it felt like) week 4, but then suddenly several weeks later the same exact pain came back, without me having done anything similar to the first fall from a MTB. It did go away again though, so its all good now!!
Who's checking if a string matches "null" rather than is null!?
So it was not uncovered by doge? and it is also not simply fraud? „Every year, agency reports posted online document billions in improper payments, which include fraud but also underpayments, duplicate payments, payments to ineligible recipients or for ineligible goods or services.“ (from the article you linked)
I chose LXD for several reasons. There is much less overhead cost when it comes to managing an LXD cluster:

- It's more vertically integrated for example networking across node is built in, you get it out of the box.

- It supports stateful workload out of the box with no fuss. Running DBs doing snapshots, deletion protection etc... is very simple with LXD.

- LXD supports running Docker inside containers which means in the future we will be enabling docker containers. Each LXD containers can be treated as a 'pod' that can run multiple docker containers inside. But it's just a simple system container you can treat like a VM.

- Working with GPUs is very simple and straight forward. This is going to be key as we start to enable AI work loads.

- LXD doesn't require a Master Node which means each instance I provision I can use it to run my work load. It also supports redundancy as I grow my cluster because it handles distribution through raft. Which means in terms of overhead it's much lower than K8s

- Overall LXD feels like a batteries included container hypervisor.

This solution doesn't replace things like prometheus. In fact LXD has native support for prometheus, we would also be able to extend the solution to pushing data to a prometheus instance or expose a /metrics endpoint for prometheus to consume.

For our MVP we just chose Elastic but it will be easy to extend to support prometheus as well. We're shipping data using open telemetry format. OpenTelemetry is a specification when we ship data we try to keep it as close to what open telemetry does as much as possible. Elastic's observability supports this out of the box.

All this solution does is it queries the underlying infrastructure metrics and ship it to a destination. The only scaling it needs to handle is ship the data and handle back-pressure incase the destination cannot handle the load. Broadway does this out of the box.
They’re trolling and what they want to do is poison the conversation we’re all having. Elon Musk is a troll too, why do you think they’d be any different? These people don’t read books (aside from a few scriptures they follow), they read memes instead. This is horrifying and but could also be their undoing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_optimization_algorithm...
I honestly have not a single idea why there wasn't this type of department before monitoring and auditing everything.
This finding opens another avenue thinking, that dark mode is a form of psychological warfare passed as "Good 4 U". The articles shows a part of the consequences.
I think all those things are obviously and trivially opposed to evidence coming daily now.
Is that your preference or what the constitution says?
Yes, from Bjarne Stroustroup himself,

A Tour of C++, preferably the 2nd edition

Programming -- Principles and Practice Using C++, preferably the 3rd edition
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The SMPL-x body model, a standard in this academic field does model fingers https://smpl-x.is.tue.mpg.de/

The issue is that there are much less dataset available for it than for the simplier SMPL model.

Regarding fingers, you already have "dumb" models like https://github.com/google-deepmind/mujoco_mpc which can control finger mouvement to achieve specific task.

Look at this video to see it action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xVN-qY78P4&t=387s

Pretty cool stuff.
no it's based on elections
I'm talking about the policy of deporting the parents and keeping children detained waiting for the result of "refugee" requests that were never even filled. And no, Biden stopped that really quickly.

The "cages" are the same whether you keep people there for a couple of days waiting for a flight back into their country or for months for no good reason.
Thank you! Yes! That's the main focus moving forward. Parts of it is still being built out, essentially we want to enable an App Store like experience for Web Applications. Open source developers should be able to monetize their applications by selling instances of their app to people who are non-technical but need their apps. Developers get paid via stripe connect.
One thing TI (Extended) Basic had for it that was almost unique among early home computers was its use of decimal floating point with 13 digits precision. It was so useful for maths. I used it a lot at that time in high school. When I switched to an Apple II with its 5 byte binary floats, man was it a disappointment. It was faster, yes, but, boy oh boy, what a catastrophic loss of precision.
Cannibalistic behavior in chickens is not an opinion: https://extension.psu.edu/poultry-cannibalism-prevention-and...

It’s one of the reasons factory farms clip the beaks.

And regarding egg taste, have fun reading this: https://www.seriouseats.com/what-are-the-best-eggs
Carl from Obscura here

Happy to answer any questions y’all might have!
For me doing the dishes is a 10-15 minute chore in the sink with some hot water but most people don't seem to object that their dishwasher takes 3 hours to do the same job with superheated steam or whatever. It still saves them the 15 minutes.
Licensing. We do the Leetcode interview in a controlled testing center. When you apply for a position, I look up your license number, then I know you can leetcode without wasting any of my developer resources on determining that.
I disagree. He'll wait until things start breaking, use that as more reason that government isn't effective, and start selling the parts to new, different contractors.

I legitimately believe his reasoning is money and ego pumping. But mostly money.

This is basic disaster economics, but with a self-made disaster instead of a natural disaster.
Because the other party is perceptively playing political games rather than being bipartisan? Or maybe the massive misinformation being played out is drowning out legitimate voices..
Major updates on asteroid that may strike earth in 2032
X Hinted at Possible Deal Trouble in Talks with Ad Giant to Increase Spending
Some government jobs were basically UBI. They provided incomes in rural America.
>Could you give a concrete example of what you're describing there?

Pick any pro-1984-esque smart city article that normal people would recoil in horror at the implications of yet HN generally endorses. The author is your example.

Now repeat for every industry and its own insane trends. Manufacturing people endorsing green regulation because they know it gives them a competitive advantage over their competition despite causing off shoring and making the world worse on the net. Lawyers, legislators and law people peddling inequality under the law but dressing it up as DEI. Lead people at regulatory agencies advocating for expansion of their own scope and mandate. Etc. etc. the list goes on.

It's like a stupid reverse gell-mann amnesia effect where people can spot stupidity outside their own industry but lack the ability to be a disciplined adult with self awareness and ability to see consequences when something benefits them.

But of course outsiders don't make decisions until things are so insane that the public weighs in so what happens is the tech industry peddles pervasive surveillance, manufacturing off-shores to countries that belch pollution, etc, etc, until it reaches a critical mass and a populist gets elected on promises to kill all of it no matter what it is.

If you want me to literally cite an example I'll do that but we all know that doesn't really matter because no example will satisfy everyone.
Why do no multimodels fluidly create images. It seems like they pass off to another model to generate images? They’re not really aware what’s in the images they make and the can edit images in place.
I work on software for government agencies. Some of the paperwork processes are absurd. There is a high number of people in leadership positions within government that push for processes and make software purchases that quite frankly have little to negative benefit. It is sad because I think government can be a force of good, but people are too busy spending effort on processes that don't matter. That leaves other work undone. An example is industry specific SAAS software that costs millions to pass documents around in the cloud, for a small group of users, which is no better than MS office solutions.
It's 4k: https://bsky.app/profile/jaz.bsky.social/post/3likncbqutk2y
`return goto f()` syntax in C seems interesting

I had a similiar idea that Python could have `return from f()` to support tail calls without the issues raised about implicit tail calls
The presidency is not a monarchy! The president might be commander-in-chief but it can’t just order random people killed just because he is “in charge” of the military. There are laws and layers of control saying who can do what. These laws are on the books and are being completely ignored!

Most of this power is vested in congress whom is abdicating their power.
How does it compare to AVR, another "8 bit architecture designed for C..."?