skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if you were to argue AI systems would eventually have a place in government, which they almost certainly would have anyway long term, the sheer carelessness and lack of oversight of its implementation by a private citizen and group of individuals of proven, questionable ethics is enough reason in itself to have to burn the forest down.

Thinking of it objectively, almost nobody here can say they would stand for this at any company they worked at or ran. This is not an acceptable IT practice no matter which side of the fence you are currently sitting on - allowing an unvetted entity to modify your internal systems without audit or oversight is completely absurd.
>hiring has been shifted to HR

Well, unless you know sufficiently senior people. But I suspect that is a deeply unsatisfactory answer to many people in this forum.

My long term last, only technically-adjacent, job came through a combination of knowing execs, having gone to the same school as my ultimate manager, and knowing various other people involved. (And having a portfolio of public work.)
Most people in the US don't know that there are three branches of government, or if they do, they don't know WHY there are three, and even if they know that, they don't know what each branch's purpose is.

This is absolutely the job of the executive branch.

Perhaps DOGE should have been created by an act of congress, but in reality that's just a formality because the Republicans control Congress right now.
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Yeah, what you want is a General Intelligence that has learned the topic you care about. Google search returning an algorithm when you ask it doesn't mean that you shouldn't test candidates on that algorithm, since you still need a General Intelligence that knows it and not just the algorithm itself.
There are some absolutely ridiculous qs I've been asked like this and they've all had no followup question to illuminate why it would have been relevant
1. what version of java do you use? we used 8 at the time
2. what is the engine and version underneath your sql db?this was not for a dba role, just standard backend engineer
3. why did you use python instead of r for x project? this was about a gui automation script
> Ironically, vegetarianism really only started to become popular in the Western world once people lost their connection to farms

A classic case of mixing up correlation with causation?
That is expensive.

Typically at Costco, 5 dozen eggs is under $12, sometimes as low as $8. Currently it is closer to $20, which is about your price.
I loved having our 6 chickens, but they do take some work to take care of.

Alternatively, we could ensure that government policy doesn't do this in the first place.
Not just conifers. In Los Angeles, liquidambar trees are planted all over for autumn color, and it turns out that they’re an enormous contributor to smog formation.
The latest edition of "A Tour of C++" is the 3rd one, from 2022. Is there any specific reason why you would recommend the 2nd edition (from 2018) over that one?
Exactly - first time commenter, but had to agree with you: we need more transparent research like this.
I generally try to avoid the word just. However, I'll still occasionally use it during a code review, when I see a large amount of code that can be replaced by something much simpler and smaller.
I remember reading Glenn Greenwald in the 2000s when he was railing against the expansion of executive power under GWB.

> But the same individuals peddling this theory are simultaneously objecting quite vigorously to the notion that they are bestowing George Bush with the powers of a King. Bill Kristol and Gary Stevenson, for instance, called such claims "foolish and irresponsible" in the very same Washington Post Op-Ed where they argued that Bush need not "follow the strictures of" (i.e., obey) the law, and the President himself angrily denied that he is laying claim to a "dictatorial position" in the very same Press Conference where he proudly insisted on the right to eavesdrop on Americans without a warrant even though FISA makes it a crime to do so.

https://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2005/12/do-bush-defender...

And he was equally critical of Obama admin not only keeping those powers but further expanding them.

Americans stopped caring around the Patriot Act and executive power has only grown under every administration since
That is unfortunate. The point was refuted so you attack the messenger.
You’re right that the syntax was inspired by the desire to avoid nested structures. But the syntax here is interesting as well and fairly readable. Worth thinking about!
No Script is a browser extension. Signal is an Android/Ios/Electron app so no
Depends on who your adversaries are. I have no doubt that all top cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI) are doing a great job keeping my data secure. But they need to obey US authority, and considering what is happening right now is not very reassuring. At the bare minimum, if I need to pick a cloud region, I will pick one within the EU. But after the cloud act (see: https://www.justice.gov/criminal/cloud-act-resources) not even Europe is secure. So, no is not foolishness.
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Totally fair. Unfortunately this dog is a 4 years old black lab and we don't have the capacity to train him out of it. We manage it by keeping him indoors when we let the chickens free range in the yard.
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The death of shitty interviews has been greatly exaggerated.

AI might make e.g. your leetcode interview less predictive than it previously would have been. But was it predictive in the first place? I don't think most interviews are written by people thinking in those terms at all. If your method of interviewing never depended on data suggesting it actually, you know, worked in the first place, why would it matter if it starts working even worse?

Insofar as it makes the shittiness of those interviews more visible, the effect of AI is a good thing. An interview focused on recall of some specific algorithm was never predictive, it's just now predictive in a way that Generic Business Idiots can understand.

We frequently interview people who both (a) claim to have been in senior IC roles (not architect positions, roles where they are theoretically coding a lot) for many, many years and (b) cannot code their way out of a paper bag when presented with a problem that requires even a modicum of original reasoning. Some of that might be interview nerves, of course, but a lot of these people are not at all unconfident. They just...suck. And I wonder if what we're seeing is the downstream effects of Generic Business Idiots hiring primarily people who memorize stuff than people who build stuff.
Correction, I didnt remember correctly as those are actually there in the code release, here is the r200 (radeon 8500) renderer specific code:

https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM-3/blob/master/neo/render...
> fresh air all day long thanks to hrv

This costs power and materials. Old houses dont require that.
On a global scale, that increases power and manufacturing on a huge scale. Why are we throwing power and more modern materials at a problem that was solved in Roman times?

This would also reduce cost, helping the 'cheap' houses issue.
Interesting
I'm wondering if it is possible to cheat using LLMs!
I also remember using MS-DOS 3.3 EDLIN in anger, on our home computer [0] when I was roughly 8, because it was the only general purpose text editor we had. (We also had Wordstar, which I believe could save files in plain text mode, but I don’t think my dad or I knew that at the time.) I didn’t do much with it but used it to write some simple batch files. My dad had created a directory called C:\BAT and we used it a bit like a menu system, we put batch files in it to start other programs. I don’t remember any PC-compatible machines at my school, it was pretty much all Apple IIs, although the next year moved to a new school which as well as Apple IIs, also had IBM PC JXs (IBM Japan variant of the IBM PCjr which was sold to schools in Australia/New Zealand) and Acorn Archimedes.

[0] it was an IBM PC clone, an ISA bus 386SX, made by TPG - TPG are now one of Australia’s leading ISPs, but in the late 1980s were a PC clone manufacturer. It had a 40Mb hard disk, two 5.25 inch floppy drives (one 1.2Mb, the other 360Kb), and a vacant slot for a 3.5 inch floppy, we didn’t actually install the floppy in it until later. I still have it, but some of the innards were replaced, I think the motherboard currently in it is a 486 or Pentium
The structure of DNA was seen in a vision in James Watson's dream. Some say it's subconscious problem solving and I think most down to earth people agree with that, but some less down to earth people will absolutely attribute it to god (I'm in the latter). If we were to entertain a silly proposition, something in the universe could just move our story along, all of a sudden. These paradigm shifts just seem to appear.
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Aiui, the 8M contract was not fraudulent, they just disagree with it. Also, it was multi-year and less then half has been paid out.
Nicotine itself isn't very dangerous, it's the carcinogens in tobacco that are and the combustion products in the smoke.
King Trump says they dont.
My very basic understanding is:

They wanted android developers that used google play services to basically be able to submit the same app to the amazon/fire store (without major revisions), so they reverse engineered the framework used by Google for api/hooks between the apps/apks and the "play-services"/OS levels.

Sort of spoofed the environment to prioritize compatibility in order to make it as easy as possible to grow the Amazon app store.

People don't realize that despite Android being nominally 'Open Source', the closed source Google layer on most phones makes it very difficult to exclude Google entirely from the picture and have a user friendly phone environment (both end-user and app-developer/playstore-user).

Basically only Amazon and China had resources to counter it directly with Android, or you could drop that layer and go the less user friendly route of st like AOSP 'pure' phones.
I'm having so much trouble making sense of this comment. Besides that we're not talking about a law, it's common practice for European companies to require their SaaS products and themselves to only have EU data residency, so it's not that foolish, especially if that data is very sensitive. What are you talking about with severe misconceptions and adversaries?
Hi - I work on search at DuckDuckGo. Do you mind sharing a bit more detail about this issue? What steps would allow us to reproduce what you're seeing?
Because you are.
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It looks like you can (there are some LLM responses out there, e.g. Sonnet 3.5). Not clear if they can be super good at this, though.
I'd suggest "cultural Christianity" as the most likely candidate, possibly followed by "cultural Hinduism" and "cultured Buddhism". In short, I don't think the average participant on this site is directly religious but nearly all are inculcated in the religious traditions of the place they grew up in and carry those traditions - minus the supernatural aspects - with them whether they like this or not. The "cultured Buddhism" bit is related to those picking up "fashionable religions" which they wear as if they are clothes - optional accessories which can be discarded when they no longer serve their purpose.

As to myself I'd say I fit in the first category, having been through Catholic schools and a Jesuit college without the religious aspects really making an impact from a very young age onwards. I may not believe in any gods but I understand why some people do and I mostly like the society built around those ideas, especially when compared to other societies built around other ideas like Islam, Confucianism or Animism. I dislike the negative aspects of organised religion which range from free-ranging paedophile priests in Catholic churches to the "mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers" attitude of the likes of Erdogan just like I dislike the negative aspects of party politics and consider the two to have a lot in common.
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What makes you think soot from incense is “harmless”?
30 lines of C :)

https://github.com/zokier/pw/blob/master/pw.c

It's one of those things that are easier to write yourself than going through gazillion alternatives to find a good one.
We have highs of mid 30s and lows down to -10.

Stone is an incredibly efficient thermal material which is why animals and humans have lived in caves for thousands of years.
How sure are you that it's harmless? Campfire smoke is pretty bad for your lungs.
> Bureaucracies are a common good

never saw it like that. to me bureaucracy represents inefficiency. today we have automation that can be quite advanced. as long as you have a structured, rules based system there is no need for bureaucrats. i do understand that there will always be edge cases, or moral issues with automation, but there should be a constant drive in society to dismantle as much bureaucracy as morally possible, as that implies adopting automation and as such efficiency.
“Some farms”. That’s the crux. I would not believe the "small family farm is OK" myth.
If only people would be exposed to what’s really going on anywhere else in enormous & secretive animal industry - not just some cherry picked farms, it would paint a completely different picture.
I do not expect the 16e to reduce in price for at last 18 months. Apple has been tightening the screws on its prices. Also, the c1 modem is not coming to every single device Apple makes this year. Qualcomm announced that there is a deal for new iPhone launches until 2026. We're not done yet with Qualcomm and Apple.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-11/apple-aap...
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> Surely there must be a middle ground between allowing free abortion and having women die of sepsis.

You're absolutely right, and we know so, because that middle ground actually existested before Roe v. Wade was overturned. Abortion was available but regulated.
Is there a major barrier to just doing it for all your paid purchases?
It definitely wasn't local - he was in Washington but dialed into Sunnyvale, CA.

I can't remember charges for local exchanges (same area code), but I only remember as far back as the late 80s. It was something like 10 cents a minute.
I remember all the adds about "friends and family" special rates/etc. Metering on voice calls persisted into the 2000s.

But the calls were very brief (if they did pick up) unless he got a "hit". So thousands of calls could have no charge

Or maybe he spliced into his neighbors line :-)
Not as much as if they won’t step in.
>1. The people voted for smaller government, and if the executive doesn’t have the power to reduce the size of its own bureaucracy, then there is no check on ever-expanding government. The executive must have full authority to examine all data produced by itself.

The people should educate themselves then. The way to reduce the budget is to elect different congresspeople. We did this in the 90s. It sure is funny how insistent all these people are that we can't just do what we've done before. Are they children who didn't live through the deficit hawk era?

2. "Their claim is impossible, but if they did it, that would be great"

4. "However, it’s worrying that a system of age-based payouts has such uncertainty in its data."

SS payouts ARE NOT based on age, but "eligibility", which age is an input to. The government purposely keeps very gentle records on it's citizens because once we saw a country keep really good records on it's people and then Bad Things happened, and also stuff about the mark of the beast. More importantly, the government takes a light touch to data integrity because the data doesn't matter. If you say you are eligible for benefits, the data says no, you can verify your eligibility a lot of ways and the data does not get updated, because we aren't supposed to be a surveillance state like that. If you want to update your records with the government, you can contact the Social Security admin and do it that way. One of the things Social Security pays out for is Ex Spouses, and that includes Abusive Ex Spouses. Your Abusive Ex I'm sure would love if the SS admin had accurate records about where they can find you. This is a legitimate concern that people working in government have had to address regularly.

5. Define significant. "Everyone thinks X" is a stupid heuristic when ONLY 47% of the country can even name the three branches of government. I don't care what Tim or Sasha think of medicare fraud, I care what GAO or an AG say about medicare fraud.

6. “if nothing breaks, you’re not cutting enough” is obviously true. Nope. Sometimes you just cannot recognize the breaks right away. The stricken vessel can keep going for quite some time before fully sinking. Cutting until shit breaks means you have to figure out what else is broken but not obviously so

And all this nonsense is shattered anyway when the basic premise of "Reducing the debt" is horseshit, which you can see from the tax plan being pushed.
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It might not be "supported", but I thought you could easily sideload play store and play services? You don't even need to muck around with rooting or even adb.
The stability here comes from not having to wonder what the next guy is going to do wrt taxes, etc. because those need to pass a process that would be public in congress. Stability doesn't mean staleness. It means that things don't change willy nilly.
Is Fossil SCM Down?
I've been trying to access fossil website and it doesn't seem to be working [0]

I've never seen this happening before and was wondering what could've gone wrong.

[0]: https://fossil-scm.org
Aren't there already insurance rebates in the US or something for tobacco-free attestation?
The way I look at it is that boycotting Amazon is similar to boycotting petroleum. Petroleum is in the supply chain of everything that we use, but energy companies would definitely feel the impacts of everyone getting EVs.

AWS is everywhere, but Amazon Retail is a separate entity and would definitely feel the crunch of even 30% of its users deciding to shop elsewhere or cancelling Prime.

(I cancelled my Prime membership a year and a half ago and do almost all of my shopping directly from manufacturers or from smaller stores. I spent thousands of dollars per year with them.

I used Walmart Lists to replace my Amazon subscribe and save purchases for a year but was finally able to, mostly, move off of that earlier this year. As it happens, HEB, a grocery chain in Texas, has just about everything I need!

I resisted doing this earlier because I thought I needed one/two-day delivery; I wrote posts on here defending this "need." It turns out that, no, I can wait a few days, and, yes, UPS, USPS, and FedEx are significantly more reliable than Amazon Flex.)
i don't want to press the shift-key everytime i need a capitalized letter on my phone and i disable auto-correct because it constantly messes with native languages etc.

wasn't aware that this makes me a steve jobs copier :(

EDIT: people are seriously so emotionally invested in capitalization that i get downvoted into minus, jeez.
The code is open. The distribution, the binaries, are built on Germany. Maybe Redhat could be forced to add something in the case of such kind of war, but a German company will be out of this.
I agree with you that Sabine often talks about matters far outside of her expertise, but as somebody with a foot in academia, I would bet that a very large number of academics have at least one academic research direction in mind that they would categorize as a "scam to get funding".
It turns out a friend has a broken ankle right now, so as an experiment I tried walking on it, but he just yelled a lot. I'm suspicious of these results.
I bought quite a few around 2012, sure, but it tapered off. I don't think I've bought any apps as one-time purchases in the past five years, it's all yearly subscriptions now. All the ones I see on my main phone screen right now are subscription-based or free.

What are some well-known apps sold as one-time purchases now?
Yes. Even if DOGE is operating without any ill intent, and I don't think they have ill intent, the possibility of errors alone is massive and they need to slow down.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/17/trum...
And they have been doing a bang up job.
Bottom line is that this sort of transparency was needed in the last administration.
Luckily the right has never had radicalized violence, so let's give anyone with an "I love Trump" bumper sticker unfettered and non-transparent access to any resource they want.

Trump fired the person investigating him, now Musk got to do the same. It's a Republican right of passage.
What did you write? I can't see it anymore.

Any leetcoders I have hired have turned out to be one trick ponies and actually aren't very creative or think from first principles. I have been in the industry for 21 years now and I know my opinion is shared by many others.

I also ponder what it means that u can graduate with a cs degree that essentially leet code companies don't trust, hence they test you. What does this say about the university system? I could see asking ppl from "lower tier" unis to take a test but applying leet code across thr board surely has to weed out really good candidates who are generally fast learners and are smart.
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>I'm not sure why you're intentionally trying to use a different, somewhat nonsensical definition.

It's just a strawman
I agree as long as all of that flows through the courts, since by law that’s what’s required of the federal government. The FOIA mechanism is the mechanism we have today to audit and wiretap the government although it’s generally quite weak. That’s NOT what’s happening here.
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Clearance does not allow indiscriminate access, it just means you are theoretically trustable. You still need a reason to access the data, usually negotiated with the data owners, who is legally responsible for protecting the data. DOGE has bypassed all of that to just hoover up whatever they can.
Using this, launched yesterday:

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