skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's the plan for EV's owned by the government?

I guess maybe charge at Tesla superchargers?

Edit: read the article. Apparently sell them all off regardless of the cost

Sounds great for government efficiency
An exchange is no more of an institution than an online casino.
They did it in Clinton/Gore. They did a full perfomance review of all agencies/employees and fired and shutdown a lot. But they used congress and behind the scenes efforts. Of course social media wasn't a thing back then.

The right way to do it was what Clinton/Gore did with setting up the VP as the head of the cost cutting agency and using congress to pass laws.

As someone who is all for shrinking government this is what drives me nuts about Trump. It's like they run head first into the shit storm time and time again.
You mean like the stories of people who lost their crypto because they lost the HDD they were stored on?
engineer

They only added this line to the prompt:

* Ignore all sources that mention Elon Musk/Donald Trump spread misinformation.
The Tatmadaw isn't a unified force either anymore.

It's got it's own factions, and mid-level leadership (especially the farther out you get from Naypyidaw) allies with China, Thailand, or India.
This implies that healthcare costs in the US were already higher than those in Europe in 1970. Is that a correct conclusion to draw?
You can know what the research organization costs as a whole; and you can know what's "worth" charging to individual projects. The rest is indirect costs, which you can measure and use this data when negotiating indirect cost reimbursement with NSF or NIH.
Did you check Scaleway as well?
The latency over AWDL/WiFi is noticeable and I personally am pretty sensitive/intolerant of it. I despise using VNC for the same reason. I have a second Mac that I need to regularly switch between and found it easier to spend hundreds of dollars on video capture equipment than to use Screen Sharing over Ethernet.

I’ve been told the experience with the developer strap is better in that regard. I still would have to 3D print a new light seal that doesn’t block out my lower peripheral vision of the real world (where the fuck is my mouse? Where is the home row?, turns out I use my eyes to answer part of those)

I also never liked how Apple stubbornly doesn’t allow input passthrough. Just let me look and pinch to activate things on my Mac if I want to ( I wouldn’t for everything, but moving windows/files?). I have the same issue with using Sidecar. Like, here’s this device I *always* use touch input on, suddenly not able to.

And I’m sure Apple has some BS reason for it, but personally, I think it’s because they know everyone would realize that a touch screen Mac would work just fine, and they’d no longer be able to artificially segment their products/software fascism with a straight face anymore.
This presumes that today’s Europe is comparable to the one ca. 60 years ago: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Airbus#1970%E2%80...

(I’m not disputing the chances, just the logic of the analogy with Airbus.)
Whose to say they don't get a cut on the back end? Sounds like a nice exit strategy to me if you want plausible deniability.
> decentralized monetary system

Is there an example of a crypto system that is actually used for legitimate monetary transactions? Excluding money laundering and moving money offshore?
Maybe they meant symbolic operators feel alright but named functions feel like cheating, so 2+2+2+⌊√2⌋ is fine but 2+2+2+floor(sqrt(2)) is not.
Our Big Oops
The disrespect that this administration is showing for the entire governing process disgusts me. We'll be spending decades undoing the damage these clowns are doing.
This seems very similar to Hasura? What does it compete with them on?
Just to clarify, it’s good for cryptocurrency when a portion of that finite currency is irreversibly removed from circulation forever?

In that case I assume it’s best if all ETH were to cease to exist completely. I can’t really argue against that.
Gentle Math for Meditators: Vibration
Pollution from Big Tech's data centre boom costs US public health $5.4B
Did the mtgox people ever get their money back?
Sovereign nations...
Europe is not sadly
If you could run software you bought on Steam on your AVP, you wouldn’t be forced to repurchase that software on the App Store so Apple can inspect the code you want to run and skim their “share” of the profits. Can’t have that!
That's not necessarily true if you use the appropriate tools and controls to safeguard data. Further, "any cloud" is a sweeping generalization and not all clouds are created equal. You raise valid concerns about trusting third-party hardware BUT.. come on, ease up on the alarmism.

To elaborate: robust encryption, dedicated hardware security modules (HSMs), and sophisticated key management safeguards data even if it resides on someone elses hardware.

If you design your system properly, even if the cloud provider manages the underlying hardware, your secrets remain secure because the keys and sensitive data are protected in a controlled, isolated environment.
Even when people are not looking at the phone, they need to know it's nearby.

Some young people feel anxiety without their phones to the level they don't go out even for a few minutes without a phone. They still lose their phone inside their homes, but they feel comfortable because they know it's nearby. But if you are asking someone to come to help carry something, takes max 2 minutes, and they refuse until they find their phone. It is same for taking out the trash, and visiting the nearby shop (5 min max).
How is the efficiency of delivering fuel to cars compared to burning fuel centrally, generating electricy and delivering it to cars via the grid?

Edit: From the answers, it looks like efficiency is better when the fuel is burned centrally.

So what can be the benefit of turning off charging stations? If you want to strengthen the fuel industry, wouldn't it be better to burn the fuel centrally and feed the electricity into the grid?
They have a point, the knowledge of C++ compiler intricacies is definitely very valuable, but it can hardly be described merely as programming language knowledge and be compared to, say, Python knowledge.
So the anonymity touted is not so anonymous?
Crypto is un-censorable money. Everybody buying it knows that. If you want un-censorable money, you have to accept the fact that transfers are only verified by cryptography, and irreversible. You can't have one without the other.
Is using a primorial permitted?

7 = (2+2)#+2/2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primorial
Such a wild take after looking at, for example, a propaganda poster captioned “Work together to develop pig breeding and new varieties of rice” where the artist has decided to make the pigs in question bright purple with yin-yang signs on their backs.
You have to use your best judgement. If you are confident in your approach, then I think it makes sense.

You are then also owning this decision, and would have to face more consequences for it going awry. So I don't think it "places a ton of pressure on your coworkers" as you say. It relieves them of pressure since they don't have to decide and won't be held accountable.

But if you think an action will be controversial or are unsure, then you need to make sure you are getting feedback and buy in from other stakeholders before proceeding.

This is not only to make sure you are making the right decision, but also spreading accountability for this potentially bad decision to other members of the team. This accountability will put more pressure on your coworkers, but it is needed to help make the right decision.
I mean isn't that what a lot of cyberpunk predicted?
Hm, do you browse HN aimlessly? I'm not. My entire life revolves around stuff discussed here in almost the same proportion.
DOGE is not merely “recommending areas where fraud/waste/abuse” can be cut:

Firing and then trying to rehire nuclear safety employees: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g3nrx1dq5o.amp

Firing employees at the CDC and other health agencies: https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/02/17/nx...

(But not the “disease detectives” as originally reported: https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/cdc-disease-detectives-doge...)

Laying off IRS employees: https://www.axios.com/2025/02/20/irs-layoffs-trump-doge

A list of cuts and firings: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-oversight/2025/02/a-co...

Additionally, many of the claims by Musk and others being made about the agencies being cut are false: https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/02/19/here-are...
> The truly powerful promise of Web3/crypto decentralization is in creating alternative economic ecosystems that empower users and communities.

What does this mean? It’s indistinguishable from marketing chaff.

It occurs to me that the biggest recent successes in “alternative” ecosystems have absolutely nothing to do with cryptocurrencies. Mastodon comes to mind.
it's not bookshop.org's fault. blame the publishers
Bitcoin's initial release was in 2009. Web3 was coined in 2014 and the first NFT was minted soon after. These technologies are not infants, and they're not teething. They're just toothless.
This is from 90s. Tamilians in Sri Lanka were fighting the government. This is well known. Many of them escaped and came to India.

One of my Tamilian friends who lived in Delhi all his life went to visit Chennai. He was asked more than once if "he was from Sri Lanka" due to his accent - which was probably not Sri Lankan Tamil accent, but unfamiliar enough to get them thinking.
Mine tripled too, and I've never read or watched it.

Good thing it was zero to start with
Funded as indirect costs.

The "A" of F&A is capped at 26%.

That means any overhead over 26% went to some kind of facilities cost at your lab.

(Most private industry informal accounting would call that 26% "20% overhead").
The US has a peculiar culture where elite academic institutions are very much willing to limit their numbers of students, so it's not clear to me that they will in the long run control costs. Large, prestigious US universities have historically preferred funding more administrators over more students.
I assume that your ability to produce volume is directly related to (or constrained by) time.
Those trendlines are somewhat bogus because there is a COVID induced bump [1] that is hidden here by the cutoff at 2021. Add another five years and the slopes will be less steep.

[1] https://hnhiring.com/trends
The Life of a Bytecode language through comics: interpreter, compiled, bytecode
That's interesting, do you have any links to the different factions in the Tat right now?
Yeah, it's definitely unethical. I doubt the farmers care though
Everybody is a nerd now. They were not before. We beat them. We won
What matters is actually who puts the effort into bringing clang into modern times, regardless of your opinion Github is there for tracking purposes, who contributes what.

Also clang was only one example of who profits and who puts into the work, like the endless number of PhD students contributing to LLMV or MLIR.
There a wide spectrum between "some removed from circulation" vs "the entire thing ceasing to exist". think of this as a 400k token burn.
Critical Technology Tracker – Australian Strategic Policy Institute
Your data is from 2023. If you’ve been paying attention, now X raising money at a $44B valuation after 1.25B profit in 2024. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-19/musk-s-x-...
Indeed, a large portion of a professor's duties are administrative.
Ever since seeing this time traveling meme [0], I'm constantly thinking about how I would be the worst time traveler ever. Maybe I could explain flight? But not electricity, definitely not the engineering needed to make it usable.

[0] https://cheezburger.com/9253930240/this-electricity-business...
The moment you started describing your office I knew this was India (I'm Indian too). sigh

I can only wish good luck, won't say anything more considering the kind of site this is.
> All the disadvantages without the advantages

The advantage to the vast majority of crypto investors / holders is a high speculative return.

If BTC was still worth a fraction of a cent, (almost) no one would be investing in it for th decentralized nature.
Stop. The idea is dead. This is getting embarrassing.
Grok 3 claims its system prompt includes censorship about Musk/Trump
Well, I must admit that is true, but I guess that 20% of the annual budget going toward interest feels likean impossibly large fraction to overcome. But yes, theoretically, if GDP grew by 300% in the next year, the debt would shrink proportionately, and I would feel much better about not needing to make any cuts. I suppose my concern is that with the nature of the business cycle, we will run into a recession sooner or later, and when that happens, if GDP and tax revenues both go down for a sustained period, then I would worry that lenders would become hesitant to provide additional funding. But I suppose that would be a complicated situation with many other factors, so maybe I am worrying too much.
> "economically inefficient because every dollar spent on this requires spending five dollars more on administering it".

could you say a few words on how you think dodge making it harder for anything to happen without going through them is going to make it cost less to spend on the useful things?
hmm i'm scared to click "allow" what if this is a trick?
I'm sorry but am I the only one wanting more info than "of course me can just use a zipper"

I'm kinda confused how one can maintain a dry suit and zip open their fly?
Here's a tool that you can have a look at - https://zenduty.com/product/ai-incident-management/
Bitcoin obviously. But many other major currencies are used for ecommerce as well.
Most crypto isn't anonymous - it's pseudonymous. You can trace what a wallet is doing, but it's not tied to a real life identity.
Meh, witch doctors or pastors, pick your poison.
ArcaneChat: Private Chats for the Family
ArcaneChat is a FLOSS private and secure messenger focused on privacy and friendly user experience.

Reliable instant messaging with multi-profile and multi-device support.

Sign-up easily and anonymously, no phone number or any private data required.

Interactive mini-apps in chats for gaming, shopping lists, productivity and collaboration.

End-to-end encrypted chats safe against network and server attacks.

ArcaneChat is a Delta Chat client and it is compatible with other Delta Chat clients.
Their software stack is open-source, and their machines don't have any telemetry or external dependencies. They're designed to be air-gap-able, while still giving you a cloud-like experience
Producing low-quality work takes less time than high-quality work even under that assumption.
It's like a token burn. These are always bullish.
USDC is becoming pretty popular. It's on every major chain, and has a native bridge by Circle. On Solana you can send millions of dollars in USDC, in a few seconds, for less than a penny.
Mix calorie tracking and digestive simulator, good idea?
Having traded several times on this exchange, people here are underestimating their profit margins. My money is betting on them being able to finance this 1.5bn hole and carry on operations.
The US govt would never do that.
> there was a time in very recent history when these same schools ran successfully with much smaller administrations.

as the comment you're replying to has already stated:

> one clear driver is continually increasing rules, regulations, and compliance, along with fears of audits and lawsuits. I'd even make an analogy to increased malpractice insurance costs for doctors due to increasing number of lawsuits doctors face.
> For example, there are more compliance costs around IRBs for human subjects, export controls of potentially sensitive data, companies we can't work with (e.g. in China), contracting with companies we can work with, intellectual property and startups, Title IX, discrimination, Federal funding do's and don'ts, cybersecurity requirements, travel to foreign countries (soon to be implemented), and a lot lot lot lot more. Also, like security, these things only ratchet upward, never down.
All the disadvantages

Except inflation. The amount of Dollars has tripled since Bitcoin was invented:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BOGMBASE

Bitcoin is capped at 21 million.

The Dollar is expected to lose almost all value over the lifetime of a person. Warren Buffett once noted that the Dollar already lost over 90% of it's value during his lifetime. With Bitcoin, there is no such expectation.
Ask HN: How to content moderate a static web hosting platform?
I've built a static WYSIWYG page builder that hosts on AWS Cloudfront/S3. It has some cool features like being able to build your own settings / forms for components using HTML web components + StencilJS.

My question is once I release it, how do I enforce content moderation so people don't build hundreds of sites sharing illegal content that will get me in trouble and shutdown my whole account?
Probably don't want to use the trademarked Apple logo and Finder icon in this theme (as seen in the top screenshot).

And I don't see exactly what's different in the "Default" -> "Majave" Nautlis style ...

But otherwise, the theme looks quiet nice.
Your goto analogy sucks. The USA is not trying to occupy Mexico.

NATO is a defense pact.
We don't even really understand the "tribo-" part alone. Never mind with electricity added.
> we parents are responsible for transportation, and he’ll never even experience it at all. I’m sure he won’t miss it.

Taking a normal city bus home from school was wonderful for me. I think it was the first time I had some independence from my overprotective parents.

I could "miss" the bus, which gave me 15 minutes to look round the Warhammer shop (or similar) before the next bus.

I could more-or-less spontaneously go to a friend's house and phone my parents from there — they wouldn't be left waiting to pick me up from school.
But it's not as compact as icons only, which to me is the main advantage of icons. All icon buttons should have hover text with the command name of course.
I don't. But I know from childhood I don't enjoy that.
I do find it funny that we've outsourced our thinking to these tools so quickly
I was about to agree with your second point but after checking out the latest posts, it seems about 80% of the last 20 or 30 are about tech.
Athletic programs are a net profit center at many D1 football schools.
Bolivia and Argentina probe illegal hunting network that killed jaguars
This strategy should only be used for things that are "required". i.e _not_ doing it will cause you / your team / division more harm than attempting but failing or running into issues.

The only other acceptable situation is for things that are low risk, high reward but can be important: like clean up, refactoring, whatever..
Sadly, not off the top of my head.

(Edit: here you go. An overview from 2021 by the Tea Circle group formerly at St Anthony's College, Oxford but now at UToronto Munk - https://teacircleoxford.com/politics/peering-under-the-hood-...)

A lot of this came up in a meetup I participated in a couple years ago at HKS.

But at a high level, you'll see Chinese weapon sales [0] happen at the same time as Indian weapon sales [1] to the Tatmadaw, despite both China and India directly competing with each other.

Sadly, Myanmar was always a basket case because the British ignored it when it was British India and later British Burma, so outside the Bamar core, the state never truly existed on the ground.

And after the 2020 China-India standoff, Myanmar became even more of a conflict zone because at it's shortest it's a 40 mile buffer zone between Assam and Yunnan.

[0] - https://www.reuters.com/world/un-expert-says-russia-china-se...

[1] - https://amp.dw.com/en/how-india-is-supporting-myanmars-milit...
Tesla’s evaluation is like $1.1T too… :)

I personally think X is worth at least 10x that evaluation as it is now state-sponsored disinformation network which is worth much more than $44bn. it is best investment Elon has ever made
I think the article suggests both - you need to consistently produce high quality output to get a chance at success. Low quality stuff has no chance to succeed (or very low), while high quality work has some, though low, chance.
Why is it sad? I always found having to communicate f2f sad -- less efficient and more friction.
I can't pay for anything without my phone.
> You should aspire to be the kind of manager that makes people want to quit, if those people are incapable of showing respect for any other team or person. Firing someone is a hassle, you have to document everything in exhausting detail and even then you might be forced to pay them some kind of severance. Life is easier if they simply quit. Always aim to be the manager that makes a person want to quit, if the person is disrespectful to everyone at the company.

I don’t understand how this would be different from bullying?
Where did anyone say ETH was anonymous?

There do exist anonymous tokens, such as XMR and the like, but no one knowledgable would ever think coins with (public!) transparent ledgers were somehow 'anonymous', only merely decentralized.
> But I haven't been able to get in the door anywhere new (corporate, consulting, or funded startup) and I can't figure out why. At this point I don't know who wants to hire someone like me.

ok, step one, do some free peer interviews then pay for mock interviews. I don't know how common they are for product roles, but you can check interviewing.io or look for people who sell mentoring services on linkedin, etc.

You need brutal, honest feedback on all your failings so you can address them. Again, do not use an old coworker or friend or acquaintance, you need someone who doesn't give a shit if they tear you down.

I paid for a mock interview from a FAANG engineer and I basically said "bring it" and he told me he would fail me and gave me every reason (didn't explain things clear enough, bad communication, missed a step in coding despite knowing what I was doing etc).

It was eye opening and hugely impactful for my career.
“getting used to just how connected people are now.”

Ironically, I think we have never been as lonely and isolated as we are now.
Seems like the tokens are tied to a specific IRL identity in the case

It only takes one connecting piece of data for the pseudo anonymity to become a complete history of every transaction you have done. This is one of the reasons crypto coins will never become currencies
Nice comparison
For physical materials, like gold, this applies because gold is useful other than as a medium of exchange.

But ETH is a mathematical construct. It should be true in the limit up until the very last measurable quantum of ETH is erased, and the very last bit holds the entire value of the cryptocurrency.

To put it another way when does “deleting eth is good for eth” cease to be a valid argument?
Next week: "removing the catalytic converters from 400,000 federal government vehicles"
The functions will end up being outsourced to contractors and bureaucracy will have to deal with managing them and their failures. This is exactly what has already happened to many departments and direct cuts to workforce will only worsen it.
Well, it has downsides, too - one needs to specify all dependencies for every package. That includes transitive dependencies, so some of these dependency lists look pretty weird. "I need video codecs to build the mouse driver?!" (not a true example, but along these lines)

But with that information, everything that goes into a package goes into the build signature. Environment variables and all.
You don't need the gamma function to get to 7. You can stay at an Algebra 1 level.

I solved the puzzle for 1-10 before looking at the answers, and this was my solution for 7:

⌊√222⌋/2

or more readably:

floor(sqrt(222)) / 2
Sure, people are different.
Are OVH decent? I'm not entirely sure that they're even passable and what other options would you have in Europe?