skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There wasn’t much of a whimper when Bill Clinton cut 400,000 government jobs.

People are not concerned with cutting, they are concerned with how it's being done which is causing disruption:

The cuts that Clinton made to the federal workforce followed a six-month period called the National Performance Review, launched in March 1993, soon after he took office. The review process ended in September of that year with a report that found nearly 400 recommendations, which Clinton then implemented gradually so that essential services were not interrupted even as the workforce shrank considerably.

"Nothing could be more different in that approach than the approach that Musk and his team have taken, which is to assume the federal government's employees are the enemy, and the less of them we have, the better," he said.

https://www.newsweek.com/how-bill-clinton-shrunk-federal-gov...
Correct. It also sidesteps all questions of legality.
It's about whether the president can legally do this.
Shit, accidentally double copied the URL:
https://sequencing.roche.com/us/en/article-listing/sequencin...

This is what happens when I post on HN whilst having the flu
> How can I both endorse a politicians approach to the world

You mean, like the proposed ethnic cleansing of Gaza? Claiming Ukraine started the war? Threatening to take Greenland by force? Alienating Europe? Withdrawing from Climate Agreement and WHO? Cutting funds to USAID? Overall, becoming the new pariah of the world?
The only thing that makes it "a lot" is how pathetic the wages are in Mexico compared to it. But you aren't living large in Guadalajara on $20k/year.

Only some things are particularly cheap in Mexico like labor and anything where labor is the main input, like services.

And some things that you'd think would be in reach of a Mexican software developer, like sending your kids to a decent private school, are not.
Agreed. Julia's combination of REPL + JIT + Revise.jl can feel like magic. The compiler automatically detects changes to your source code and provides hot-code reloading of fully optimized machine code, in the blink of an eye!

Also, it's worth emphasizing that the user experience of Julia has been improving greatly, even in just the last 3 years. Julia 1.9 introduced caching of native code [1], and now at Julia 1.11 the time-to-first-plot in a new Julia process is typically less than a second.

Having said all this, Rust is an absolutely fantastic language too, and might be preferred for large-scale software development efforts where static analysis is prioritized over an interactive development workflow.

[1] https://julialang.org/blog/2023/04/julia-1.9-highlights/#cac...
Here's the thing: you and he are also wrong about the overspending, unaccountability, and the bureaucratic class.

Those things exist in about the same proportion they exist in any other large corporation, and is not special to the government. There has been a decades long campaign of Just Plain Lies to tell you otherwise. He is failing to seek out the waste, fraud, and abuse because they do not exist in anywhere near the numbers you imagine.

The government does not spend its money on employees. Those employees administer grants and spending programs. That is where the money is, authorized by Congress and depended on by industry and states. The administration is not especially expensive. To seriously cut spending you have to cut those things, and just as with the mass firings, you'll find that each dollar is actually doing something important.

Serious control over the budget requires a serious consideration of our actual goals as a country. But the last election sent the decidedly non-serious message "government bad" and everyone seems shocked that that is exactly what they are doing.
Theoretically how is it different than fine tuning ?
140k? What job is that?
Yeah you are right. I checked the website again. The missing one is DC-HSDPA. I incorrectly think that is the entire 3G networks.
More than a little frustrating. I genuinely don't know what these people actually like about America, even in the past.

Something I always took pride in for America was that we took research pretty seriously, especially in the last century. Between the CDC, NIH, NASA, FDA, a ton of university research grants, and even the military, the US has been a significant player in research for my entire life. Well, my entire life up until about a month ago.

I know that "dumb American" is sort of a stereotype, and us electing a reality TV star isn't doing anything to dispel that myth. Historically I have defended the US, and pointed out a lot of the "dumb American" memes have been exaggerated or overblown, but now I'm not sure I can; how can I possibly defend this country when the people in charge of this country fundamentally remove every part about it that I love?

But hey maybe I'm wrong and somehow tariffs and losing our place in the world's scientific stage will lower egg prices AMIRITE?
The agriculture industry is a skeleton crew for something that's largely been automated by tech: https://justine.lol/tmp/agriculture.jpg There's not much of a construction industry either, since the government doesn't let us build anything except sprawl.
I hear sf pays public employees extremely well. I think they just got a pay raise recently!
Another fun fact... almost all "American spelling" came from Britain, i.e. variants that died out in Old Blighty in the 1800s. Accent as well. For the most part, they were the ones that changed!

There's more—the -ize spelling comes directly from the old Greek spelling. -ise and -re were forced-on/taken from French. The British like to taunt the French, but apparently have forgotten about the spelling thing, and criticize Americans (unknowingly) for not doing the same.

In short, don't take any crap from Brits on the subject, haha. Most of my chats with them happened during my backpacking days, before Wikipedia and so I was not able to explain at the time. I believed it too with no other information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_s...
US elections are run entirely by state government, for precisely this reason.
> Ironically tempering states is an important function of the federal government (eg civil rights, environmental protections, etc).

Right, like shutting down congestion pricing plans. ;-)
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My impression is that this has always been part of the core of his character, but he had to learn to put it into writing.

Contrast this to people who are good at producing the appearance of an upstanding character when it suits them, but being quite vindictive and poisonous behind closed doors when it doesn't.
I wonder if this will have a similar effect to Brexit. When the Brexit referendum outcome was Leave, I was in Cambridge. The head of one of the largest departments at the university told me the week following the result most applicants who had recently accepted tenure-track offers changed their minds and declined. Several prominent faculty members also began making plans to move to the EU. Over time, however, these effects have become less noticeable. But major funding uncertainty is a big deciding factor when you are starting your career.
The Hailo-8L hat for the Pi is only ~$80 and has more than 3x the compute power of the Coral USB.

* https://www.pishop.us/product/raspberry-pi-ai-hat-13-tops/

Even the bigger Hailo-8 hat with >6x the compute of the Coral is only $135.

* https://www.pishop.us/product/raspberry-pi-ai-hat-26-tops/
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>>These kinda dumbass middle manager politics sound like they help (to people with no work experience…) but they’re more costly in the end.

I knew a place which did the same for stationary. "Employees are using too many notebooks".

Eventually they would have a staff to stock, approve and disburse. Which Im sure costs darn more than anything the notebooks did.

Either way, its still unclear why you would ration notebooks of the things.

Eventually I guess people just want an illusion of control.
That's the particulars. The general approach is the destruction of the post-war great society new deal agenda that was already on its way out during reagan/thatcher and had only become an increasing weight represented by a bourgeoning managerial class that absorbed almost all economic gains outside of the ultrawealthy. That class, who enforced this chokehold of economic stagnation, needed to be done away with, perhaps radically so. But this is, as you say, doing far more than just doing away with the professional-managerial class.
Keep in mind that ADHD presents differently in different people. I, like a good chunk of people with the diagnosis, exhibit none of the hyperactivity symptoms.
Did the other Rust devs not manage to raise the same argument, repeatedly? It comes across that there must have been a massive breakdown in communication and it's hard for me to grok why.
and a listener on the storage change then ?
Yup, I've got loads of the executive dysfunction... ;-)
I'm ok with foreign content, but you mentioned 3 exceptions in an ocean of garbage
Not to mention NSF, DARPA, and other grants from federal agencies. That’s how we got Google.
Join SSN column with Driver License table

Join that with Drivers license -> Voter registration number.

Search the voter records (if the states still have them) with the issued ballot number to that voter registration number and bingo. You got voting records.

Think most states discard actual ballots over time though so maybe old data might be gone. Republican states garbage as they are probably stored this election for some reason. I bet you can guess what that reason is.
That would be some Segway.
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That makes sense, and not really theoretical; it's pretty easy to buy Blu-rays and DVDs from foreign markets, and they're often considerably cheaper than their American versions.

They of course are region encoded, but I suspect nearly anyone who frequents Hacker News knows how to get around that.
> what is different this time around? Why is politics suddenly a relevant topic here?

Because the tech sector is now explicitly and unabashedly political.

Musk, for example, is flipping fascist salutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smQNNo2a9xc

And censoring speech: https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/03/musk-shows-us-what-actua...

And helpfully calling an astronaut "fully retarded":

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/20/elon-musk-iss-deorb...

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1892584783064052114

And seeking to wreck Wikipedia, one of the internet's greatest projects: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/02/elon-...

And mocking a blind man who disagrees with him for being blind: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/17/elon-mu...

And threatening companies with government interference if they don't advertise on Twitter: https://www.wsj.com/business/media/x-hinted-at-possible-deal...

And so on and so on. It's grubby stuff.

This is what so much of the tech industry is now. You can't be afraid to look at what it has become.
I am honestly just blown away Google invested effort into a web standard that actually improves the web versus the dozens of web platform projects designed to let websites slurp more data.

This is something I actually look forward to being able to use when Firefox gets it.
There kind of is. Most political threads end up flagged, not dead, and you can see them on the real front page at https://news.ycombinator.com/active.
It is really easy to write python bindings for Rust, which is probably the easiest way to “consume” a high-performance library (e.g. a physics simulator, data-frames, graphing, a type-checker, etc).
Wait, are you claiming that an administration currently being advised if not outright directed by the wealthiest man in the world is going to guarantee justice for the working class? Do you realize how that sounds?

Do you think massively cutting government grants that go to all kinds of social services in order to pay for 4.5T in tax cuts that mainly go to the wealthy, is going to help the working class?

Moreover, inter-term government workers are hired to be explicitly non-partisan. You want them to be non-partisan in order to guarantee continuity of government between administrations and to enforce the law as determined by the courts, non-politically. This is what actually guarantees your rights under the constitution. The minute you introduce political bias into this process is when you begin to deviate from the rule of law and actually abridge peoples’ rights.

And I’m sorry, but your “team” is going to have to face a reckoning if they continue to take power unconstitutionally. That abridges my rights as a citizen of the republic and forfeits their mandate to rule. We will all have the moral right and duty to use force if necessary against any politician who upholds this illiberal order. I hope you like violence, because that’s what you’re asking for.
Rights holders could solve this problem by making their content accessible at reasonable prices. Instead they insist on exclusive deals with individual streaming services that, in aggregate, make their content prohibitively expensive to many fans. Some, like the NFL, even go so far as to parcel out individual games to multiple providers on an exclusive basis, exacerbating the problem for fans. Courts should consider this before allowing themselves to become tools for this extractive business model.
how did you find consulting gigs?
Just about every reasonably long-lived society ever has had religion. For some reason. Even modern western atheists treat other ideologies like religions. Perhaps it provides comfort and a feeling of security, or provides a purpose when pure pragmatism would reveal that there's no point in living. Or perhaps we're such social animals that we extend that social thinking beyond what's rational, but we do do it nonetheless, even when we have community and morals. Maybe people with other higher purposes don't take to it so readily but not everyone has the luxury of, say, a successful career. You might have been brainwashed into believing that religion is caused by brainwashing.
Since the administration has openly stated that it intends to flout the judicial branch, I'm honestly curious to see how long the Supreme Court's majority stays attached to the position they staked in Trump v. US.

These are men (and woman) who have climbed the highest, most prestigious rung in the profession. Even if for purely egotistical reasons, it's hard to imagine they will have endless patience to watch the institution over which they preside become irrelevant.
We can accept that you are a person, the fetus is a person and the mother is a person.

Which of those should be coerced to give up a piece of their liver to save your life? Morally speaking…
A thumb-rule I try to ask developers/designers to do — Scale in CSS and leave the Zoom to the user.
That's great. Which statue is it?
You can't expect much from "It's time to become an ML engineer" written in the AI hype period.
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Are you familiar with healthcare.gov? It was a disaster. So the government let some people from the tech industry come in and help. Techies saved Obamacare and then founded an agency called USDS, who did other sites like login.gov. DOGE is basically doing what USDS pioneered, except now tech people have earned enough trust to fix the government itself, rather than just being the wiz kid who fixes their website.
To be more precise, many Singaporean Chinese names are formatted as WESTERN_NAME SURNAME CHINESE_FIRSTNAME_1 CHINESE_FIRSTNAME_PART2. The WESTERN_NAME may or may not be a legal name (AFAIK for Lee Kuan Yew it never was), and to further complicate things it's not unknown for the Chinese name to be duplicated in its dialect and Mandarin readings, leading to "Harry, Lee Kuan Yew (Li Guangyao)".

Combine this with Anglocentric IT systems, and I'm sure Mr Lee (RIP) gets a lot of spam addressed to "Mr Yew".
Well, a small shoutout for my project to facilitate YOLO on the EdgeTPU without any dependencies on Ultralytics. Some contributors helped a bit with more recent versions, but it seems like all you need is to twiddle a few of the input shapes. I say facilitate rather than port because someone else did the hard work actually implementing the converter to tflite.

https://github.com/jveitchmichaelis/edgetpu-yolo

You really do need the model to be defined in Tensorflow though. Channel ordering screws things up in PyTorch and it's not trivial to get round it, otherwise the compiler does all sorts of weird gymnastics to permute for you.
I find YouTube's UI performance quite bad but at least the performance of the videos themselves is good.

By UI performance I mean I click to go to the homepage and it loads a blank homepage with placeholder video thumbnails then spins for 5-10 seconds. I have fibre.
I'm sure there are bright and talented government workers, but it's not a stretch of the imagination to say that a lot of factors make government employment cushier for some people than they might otherwise find in private employment. Or do you think the 60k employees of the TSA actually stop terrorist threats to commercial aviation?

And I'm not sure how your logic follows; there's no link between GP's claim that some government jobs effectively function as a form of welfare and your claim that the number of people eligible for this welfare must increase over time.
I name mine after my cats, past and present.
Show HN: I built a new 311 iOS App for SF
Hi everyone!

I've spent the last few months working on a new 311 app for San Francisco and it went live on the Apple App Store recently.

This is my first big software project and the first personal project I've put in front of strangers. This project started because I was an avid user of the official 311 app, but I found I was not reporting as much as I wanted to because it took just a little too long. Right now you can report trash, graffiti, illegal parking, damaged public property, and encampments through my app in just a few seconds by taking a photo.

There are some other features like an offline mode, browsing nearby reports, commenting, bookmarking, upvoting, notifications, tracking your stats... and more will be added.

The city is actually pretty good at resolving issues - much better than I realized before I started being actively involved. I highly recommend submitting a few reports and seeing for yourself.

Let me know your thoughts!
Personally, I would have, since it refers to the Referer header it seems like it should follow the same spelling.

It would be like CSS having a "color" attribute, but then doing something like "default-colour".
I agree. It doesn't matter. Even if a human wrote it, how does that change anything? It certainly doesn't make it more true or a more honest reflection of somebody's feelings. These people who keep worrying about AI generated content don't seem to realize the rubbish that humans create is not better.
Oh god you're right. I heard that some vendors are already buying data from credit card companies and joining that with their data on you to do price discrimination but this will enable price discrimination on a country wide level. :/
It was indeed brought up.
As you are well aware Washington DC isn’t big on following “the spirit of the law” and is a big fan on quick workarounds for the bureaucracy that slows things to a crawl.

I give credit to Trump and Musk for playing the DC game like professional politicians.

It’s pretty clear you can’t get anything done in DC without it.
So Qi2's ancestor is MagSafe. Got it.
The father of an acquaintance of mine, still a child at the time, migrated from Spain to Argentina with his uncle. On arrival, the uncle was asked for his name. "Guzman y Gomez", he replied, meaning himself (Guzman) and his nephew (Gomez).

End result: both father, uncle and all their offspring now have "Guzman y Gomez" as their last name.

(Yes, this is a pseudonym. No burrito for you.)
> gerrymandering

> this means you can use the district-level gerrymander to control Senate-level seats. This has bought the GOP a ~+3-+8 bias in the Senate.

What?? No, you cannot gerrymander States (and therefore Senate seats). You can only gerrymander districts smaller than States. States with one House seat can't gerrymander that House seat either. State legislature seats can be gerrymandered. U.S. House seats in States with more than one House seat can also be gerrymandered. (EDIT: Well, I suppose if Oregon counties are allowed to move into Idaho then that would be a gerrymandering of States, but this is a very very rare event.)

The GOP might have a bias in the Senate, but that would be due to small-population States having more oomph in the Senate than large-population States. Though in 2024 the Electoral College was neutral in terms of partisan bias, which implies at most a small bias in the Senate for one or the other party.

As for gerrymandering of U.S. House districts, that has been going on since the very beginning, and even since before, since Colonial legislatures did it, and the English parliament did it before that. In fact, part of the reason for the Democrats' 62 year dominance of the U.S. House from 1933 to 1995 was gerrymandering.

But as Justice Sandra Day O'Connor explained in one of her decisions, gerrymandering is self-limiting because the party in power (in the legislature) can only optimize for seat safety (thus reducing their majority in their House delegation) or for number of seats (thus rendering some if not many of those seats not-very-safe). Since that decision we've had numerous wave elections in the House, including numerous changes in party in control of the House: 1994, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2018. Arguably in today's day and age gerrymandering doesn't count for all that much compared to the heyday of the Democratic party between 1933 and 1995.
Fortunately the rust inside Linux doesn't use cargo and uses the normal kernel build system.
I believe there’s some trivial optimization done by the frontend (constant folding, simplifying string concatenation, converting switch statements to lookup tables) but I think they’d agree with you that javac doesn’t really fit their definition of a compiler and that the HotSpot JIT is the true compiler based on how they talked about the Python interpreter pre-JIT.
Sender-in-addressbook isn't a saving throw for malware.