skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The problem is the government shouldn't be storing a whole bunch of sensitive data

Like tax returns? What legitimate need does management consultant have to see the individual tax returns of any person without any accountable transparency?
Genuine people and marketing specialists of a specific selected product to pitch alike. But marketing specialist for sure. By the sound and style of it. Sound like, not saying are.
Read it again. 40% of the 10% flagged by Cruz. So just 4% of all NSF grants were related to DEI…in some way that isn’t even apparent without actually reading the proposals.
To be fair, "The Substitution Principle" (more commonly known as "equational reasoning" in this context) has never been valid in any languages that aren't... Haskell, and maybe Ada? Any expression that can trigger side effects is an unsafe substitution. (The reason such substitutions are safe in Haskell and Ada is that those languages prevent expressions from triggering side effects in the first place.)
Exactly. Most European countries have turned into surveillance states. I think only Switzerland is holding their banner high.
Governments do not even need any of the providers to comply, they can access global NetFlow data. This is conveniently not discussed by any commercial VPN provider.
But they still couldn't live there, whether grass or concrete. Nobody in this thread expressed any interest in a place to park a car, it was "a 3,000 sq ft house".
I think it is the distinction between "livestock" and "pets".

I would also be very surprised if any vets ever managed to treat a hen successfully. They tend to hide any illness until very sick.
> Trump can simply order the US Marshals service to just... not arrest them.

Yes. Or even more perniciously, just note the arrests have been put on the long “to do list”, to be studied fully, and carried out with special care, all of which takes time…

Because of course the arrest order is being taken seriously and the courts decisions respected.
I expect the "saved" money to be given (no air quotes) to the richest 0.1% via additional permanent tax cuts.
So they might be in the union, but not protected by it yet. Again, "new" or "junior" enough that the admin would rather go after them than "regular" employees.
I do so love the TI-99/4A. I've been going through some TI-99/4A disk archives from the Chicago Texas Instruments User Group (which streams its meetings every month) and one of my favorite finds so far was this fun demo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejGlI0yxqGA

Over at https://js99er.net/ there's a fair bit of software available right from the web interface, as well.
Sure. But right now what do care more about - the nitty gritty details of

1) The way software and projects at DOGE are going

2) “leftist claims that men can become women and vice-versa.”

This is a fundamentally a distracting question. It may give you mental relief (Yahh the other team is dumb, Reality is dumb)

Great! Take the breather.

But then talk about 1.

I get that things are polarized. I get that there is an INTENT behind it. But you’ve got all 3 branches of government. You have the ability to actually make this work.

Why THIS approach. What are the accountability checks and balances?

Are they just creating a new talking point to bounce down the years???

Did people get the required clearances? If not, why were the clearances there? IF yes, How are they making sure this is not going to be FUBARED.

How is responsibility going to be allocated? Are we going to have this over our heads for all generations to come? A new political ball to punt blame?

How do we get accountability for what - even to you - must look like the wrong way to do things.
Is the next step ML-inference fusion? aka artificial small brain?
Cheap washing machines are able to weigh the load and adjust the progam accordingly.
Well, difference between 3 and 4 hours meanwhile might be important if robot is noisy.
I'm not sure how it would be possible to run a functioning government without some departments storing some sensitive data.

"On the grounds of privacy it should be criminal for the agency authorised to fund medical treatments to store people's sensitive medical records related to treatments they pay for" sounds like a much less defensible proposition than "on the grounds of privacy it should be criminal for what is nominally the government's IT advice body to hire a bunch of script kiddies without proper vetting or any genuine auditing credentials to download said sensitive medical records, store them as insecurely as they like, cross reference them with whatever other sensitive data they find on the grounds that they might be able to use them to tweet dubious claims about waste"...
I had a small rib crack when I was teenager, laughing was a pain, as it was winter, flu was going around.

I had to use the maximum dosage of codeine for two months, school was fun...

I don't even want to imagine the pain with 3 fractured ribs.
> None of Congress’s enumerated powers state or imply that it may delegate its power to anyone else.

That may be what you believe, and there's been a lot of debate over that, but courts have time and time again ruled that the legislature can delegate power. Maybe current SCOTUS will reverse a lot of that, but that remains to be seen.
I emailed the author to correct the section on XOR swap:

Once upon a time, when I was an aggressive young programmer, I tried to show off by replacing this swap:

void swap(int a, int b) {
int c = a;
a = b;
b = c;
}

with xor swap:

void swap(int a, int b) {
a ^= b;
b ^= a;
a ^= b;
}

and the program broke!

They’re not identical. The program was calling swap on array elements:

swap(&(array[i]), &(array[j]))

and occasionally i=j. That is, swap was being called with a==b. And that’s the difference: when you try to swap a location with itself. In that case, XOR as you know zeroed out the value in a. But that was also b. The other xors left the zero there. So, the array element was set to zero.

The original swap called on a single location did not modify the value. So, my XOR-swap show off introduced a huge bug!
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> That doesn’t mean they are superior to actual whole chicken.

Taste is subjective. Sounds like his son preferred the taste of one over the other.

My kids prefer nuggets over the whole roast chicken my wife and I eat. The salt, MSG, and seasoning of the nuggets along with the fat from the oil tastes better to them. Sadly, nothing I say will convince them otherwise.
check "recommended readings" on the right:

https://www.svilendobrev.com/rabota/

starting from Organisational patterns, down. Skip anything there about design/ architecture/ math.

But: have in mind Conway's law - software-produced <=> organisation's-culture. So you can't dismiss entirely either of the two extremes of the socio-techical (human-machine) systems.

IMO, Winnie the Pooh has much more sociotechnical hints than CS university course.
Have you heard of the courts?

The president can settle any issues between their view, the agency head’s view, and the agency’s guiding laws, in the courts.

The courts are their specifically to settle disagreements.

That’s how the law works for agencies. That’s how the law works for all laws.

Three branches checking each other.
> purpose of being eaten and spread

why do you get to decide that it isn't the purpose of a cow to be eaten?

You're arguing on the Internet, it's already a waste of time and space.
It is to avoid totalitarianism.
I’m sad that you’re being downvoted. It’s clear that you’re correct. However, HN does tend to take extending the courtesy of assuming good faith to the breaking point, whether we like it or not.

It’s blindingly obvious that they are here merely to gum up discussion in endless loops that go nowhere under the guise of politesse and question marks, as if they’re just confused and asking clarifying questions.

The thing about assuming good faith, which I agree with in principle, is that you have to be willing to accept your own judgment of when someone is arguing in bad faith and disengage.
1921: People are sick of 15 years of economic stagnation and Jews.

1. Economic problems.

2. Do not address the problem.

3. Find others who you can blame. Address the emotions of the people.

Economic stagnation is the result of Germany not being innovative and refusing to change. Even France has it better. Oh, and many East Germans broken by communism are still not back to normal.
The president names the agency heads, and their mandates expire roughly or exactly at the same time as the president's. That's more than enough control. The president can't and shouldn't then go and get into the weeds of specific policies that those agency heads then coordinate.

Also, settling the ultimate interpretation of the law is indeed the prerogative of the courts. This has actually changed quite recently in some ways - the SC has recently struck down the Chevron Doctrine, which held that the courts would defer to the executive when a law could be interpreted in different ways. So right now if Congress passes a law that says "the EPA shall insure that American citizens have potable drinking water", it is ultimately up to the courts to decide if the level of lead in water set by the EPA makes the water potable or not.

But however you slice it, the president shouldn't be the one to decide if the level of lead in water being enforced by the EPA is too little or too much. If the head of the EPA and the courts believe that a certain level is good enough, than that's that. After all, the president chose this head of the EPA. The next president can choose another head.
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It's true if you're ignoring the no-true-scottman fallacy.

Bureaucracy doesn't have to be to the detriment of society. As a matter of fact, it can potentially put breaks on the worst exploitative behavior.

But over time... It has the potential to grow too much with bad legislation, effectively making the positive potential into a very real negative that stifles unnecessarily.
Is there a site where one could review some code and see what many others say about it and their experience level?

I guess it would degrade to stackoverflow-like poems eventually, but still interesting.
EOs are subject to judicial review. Whether it's a law or an EO someone typically needs standing to challenge it. Although, you can even have Congress create a resolution allowing that. Frankly, there's nothing wrong with the wording of the current EO. What is more likely to be challenged are any rules that come from that EO that run counter to the law.

"But it still wouldn't invalidate the EO." Truman and the steel mills would disgree.
>architecture, media, marketing, etc than meets the eye.

I disagree. Programing is more engineering than art. Art doesn't have source code. You can show the final painting and I can show the final product I worked on but not the source code I wrote as that belongs to my employer. Also, most art like paintings are not done by large teams, so you can show what you did in that painting but in a large SW projects, I can't show what exactly form the final product I did and what else was done by my team.

Most of my valuable work in programing is engineering, especially fixing bugs, not creating portfolios to show off. I have nothing publicly to show off, mostly because firstly, it's private to my former employers, and secondly because code gets outdated and replaced fast, most of what I worte in the past probably doesn't run today anymore, but have made my employers happy and wealthy.
Grok is the best LLM on https://lmarena.ai/.

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No benchmarks involved, just user preference.

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1402 +7/-6 7829 xAI Proprietary 2 4

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> But how are animals with nerve-centres or brains different? What do we think us humans do differently so we are not just very big probabilistic prediction systems?

I see this statement thrown around a lot and I don't understand why. We don't process information like computers do. We don't learn like they do, either. We have huge portions of our brains dedicated to communication and problem solving. Clearly we're not stochastic parrots.

> if we develop the technology to engineer animal-style nerves and form them into big lumps called 'brains'

I think y'all vastly underestimate how complex and difficult a task this is.

It's not even "draw a circle, draw the rest of the owl", it's "draw a circle, build the rest of the Dyson sphere".

It's easy to _say_ it, it's easy to picture it, but actually doing it? We're basically at zero.
Argghhhh.

I rue the day that I decided to play the game of "What word is Majorana 1 similar to?"

Cuz, and I know the armchair psychoanalysts will have a field day, this is what my mind pieced together...

Major ana*1 (remove the asterisk and treat the one like an ell)

Now I can't unsee it. Sigh.
>no ways was it worth $430

It's worth what people are willing to pay and plenty of people valued it enough to put their hand in their pocket.
NTA is an absolute legend
Soap operas ought to be kept in their private little bathtubs. Nobody but insiders care about this, and they already know all this nonsense.
> volatile organic compounds or voooooc (can't remember the exact number of o in this acronym)

It's one. Volatile organic compound. VOC.

It doesn't take too long to tally up the O's, actually. But since this is such a math-oriented crowd, you can be sure someone will come along to do the counting for you.
> Most people have still written code for school or a hobby project. Maybe I'm missing empathy, but I cannot understand how some developers have no code to show.

First: they might have private code, but not necessarily code to show (I, for example, am rather not willing to show quite some of the code that I wrote privately).

Second: the kind of "code" that I tend to write privately (and into which I invest quite a lot of time) is really different from what I do at work, and what is actually considered "code" by many. It's more like (very incomplete) drawings and TeX notes about observations and proofs of properties and symmetries between some algorithms. Once finished, they will be very easy to systematically transform into a program in a computer language.

This is about very novel stuff, which to explain would take quite a lot of time.
I can't tell if you're being ironic or not, because those examples are basically definitionally Orwellian.

Also how about never descending into dictatorships and authoritarian regimes?
> but as I found out on HN, there are a lot of people who won't bat an eye killing animals raised on their own land

You needed HN to figure that out? I assume this is obvious sarcasm but almost none of the domesticated animals species would exist if almost all humans throughout history weren't willing to do that.

Even eating dogs was perfectly standard in most more "primitive" and/or destitute societies.
“Russia's re-invasion of Ukraine”

Reading this for the first time, what is a “re-invasion”? Do they mean the explained cyber attack as second invasion aka “re-invasion”?
There is a pretty reasonable case for tax returns being public by default - I'd certainly like to know how much of the financial burden my fellow citizens are upholding. I bet I could spot a bunch of tax evaders right quick. Rather than asking why someone should be able to see them; I'd prefer to ask why I can't.

It gets back to this basic issue of what this data is that I don't want anyone to know but the government needs to have a permanent record of. The overlap of those two things should be tiny. If it is so terrible that Musk & team can't look at it, why is it OK to be recorded? It isn't like the security of these departments is expected to be that great; data leaks. All the data that a large organisation holds is likely to become public sooner or later even if that happens because it is sold on the darknet. And the employees that looks it it regularly are who-knows-who doing who-knows-what on a good day.
I'm not who you're replying to... but: it cost me $2-2.5k to build my coop two years ago which houses 5 hens, and they cost roughly $10-20 per month to feed, change bedding, etc. Realistically my household eats 4 dozen eggs a month. Even with current egg prices I'm not saving any money for a long, long time.

Still absolutely worthwhile for my mentally though and one of my major life goals
The constitutional argument is ridiculous; we've really been frog boiled into a wildly different understanding of executive power than even the most monarchical Founders imagined. Article II sections 2 and 3 are short and grant almost no powers. Practically all executive power outside stuff like appointments and pardons derives from this clause: "he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed". Nearly all governmental power resides in Congress, on purpose, as it's the most democratically responsive yet least efficient of the branches. For example, a lot of people probably think either Commerce or Treasury mint coins. Nope, constitution says that's Congress. People think State, or maybe Commerce negotiates trade treaties; nope Congress again. Post Office? Congress.

What this means is that the President executes Congress' will. Reading the Constitution, there's just no argument for anything else. You have to dig into subsequent history, acts of Congress, and Supreme Court decisions to reach the justifications for the wild increase of presidential power. I'm not saying this is bad per se, just that the Constitution argument is absolutely bankrupt and ahistorical: there was zero appetite for a powerful executive in the Continental Congress.

That's what's so radical about this EO: it's antithetical to the very founding of the US where we rebelled against a king and ultimately adopted a constitution with a very weak executive. It supplants the will of Congress with the will of the executive, undermining the separation of powers, plenary powers, and the very underpinnings of our government.
I was just responding to a dubious assertion with a clear counter-example.

As for DOGE, I live in a different country and not really care to be frank, as an external observer the US is a testbed. We will see what kinds of results going all guns blazing to reduce fraud in government, instead of asking nicely, will produce in due time. As your leftist friend said, you need to break some eggs to make an omelette.
Assuming the US military remains loyal to the president... if you really think that the Proud Boys and their ilk, plus a bunch of random disorganized people with guns, have even the remotest chance of winning a war with the US military, well... I have a bridge I'd like to sell you.

And if the US military doesn't remain loyal to the president, then on top of a fascist dictator seizing power, then we'll have a military coup.
> I would also be very surprised if any vets ever managed to treat a hen successfully.

I know for a fact it is possible. I am acquainted with veterinaries and have kept chickens temporarily while they were recuperating.

> They tend to hide any illness until very sick.

Indeed. So do rabbits and other “exotic” pets. It does make treatment harder, but experienced people tend to develop a sense to notice it sooner. You yourself have probably already developed that skill to some extent and might be able to identify “strange” behaviour is specific individual chickens.
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How is that talking past you? You regretted that meat from wild caught animals or those shot to protect crops isn't sold, and that factory farming presents a health hazard, and I agreed with both points. I could accept a charge of being vacuous, since I didn't add anything, but I wasn't ignoring your words. I agreed with you, and I'll do it again.
Because it's Musk following his own agenda and he apparently isn't the president
I recently got fined for having backyard chickens within 100 feet of a neighboring residence. That's the ordinance, and I can't meet it in a low density neighborhood.

Fuck the city. I still have chickens and will continue to have them.
If you are facing an issue with an oss product - submit an issue in the repo and get it sorted pls
Considering iPhone sales still sky high kinda doubt for now. Maybe in a few years.
Several employees have already been put at risk: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/foreign-servic...

Dismantling USAID overnight will do a lot of damage.
Sure, EOs have been a scourge for decades, not just this one. They are commonly used to contradict what is written in law or extending their powers, such as choosing not to enforce. This is nothing new.
The people on Fox would have literal heart attacks on air. I'm remember them going crazy because Obama wore a tan suit (it's got a wiki page!).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_tan_suit_controve...
Yeah, this seems concerning to me. Maybe now as the platform is new this isn't much of an issue. But as accounts go inactive people will naturally collect "dead" accounts that they are still following. On Facebook it isn't uncommon of to have old accounts of sociable people naturally collect thousands of friends.

It seems that what they are trying to measure is "busy timelines" and it seems bag they could probably measure that more directly. For example what is the number of posts in the timeline over theast 24h? It seems that it should be fairly easy to use this as the metric for calculating drop rate.
Putin and Xi immediately jumped to my mind.
> It is a pretty interesting thought experiment to wonder whether people shouldn't be allowed to engage in organized sports that are risky, without paying an additional health insurance premium? E.g. if you play professional football, then your league has to pay extra money into the health insurance fund to compensate for all the extra health care treatment their players need and will need.

Isn't this already in use in multiple countries? I.e. if you want to play football (european) in a league, you have to have a license and also insurance that covers playing it in an organized way - for example in a league.

So team sports are already covered by such things, but individual sports like mountain biking or skiing aren't at the moment.
Anyone can do whatever they want regardless of the rules. However, presidents do not have impunity. Presidents and their EOs can be held accountable by Congress and the courts.
Perhaps I'm not that inteligent myself ;) Then again, I never said it's my country, I'm from Poland. I could give Polish-specific examples of extremy stupidity, but the flat earth example I find the least controversial.
The XOR light switch is a trick. And, even if you know it is possible, it is hard to figure it out without someone telling you. My uncle and cousin were doing their own electrical work and couldn’t figure it out.

I had seen the trick as a young kid and remembered it 30 years later: install the one of the switches backwards.

One switch takes in power and puts it on one of two wires running to the second switch. The second switch connects one of the two wires to the power wire going to the bulb.

If you don’t know the trick, you get an AND switch.
This is just flat out not true. They're not intelligent and not capable of becoming so. They aren't reliable, by design.

They're a wildly overhyped solution in search of a problem.
This sort of thing already exists in America for cases where Americans actually care about privacy: the gun tracing system is forced to be on paper.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/s-just-insanity-atf-now-needs-2...

Guns are constitutionally protected in a way that humans aren't.