skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What we're saying is the "something" to be done is something else. What is the goal? What is the measurable objective? What is an acceptable cost? None of that has been made clear. They are actively lying about how much spending is being cut, but the number is likely less than 1% of the tax cut Congress is teeing up. There is no fiscal outcome being sought. This is purely action for the sake of looking busy.
No, it should not.

That is why I ask. The president has immunity and unlimited right (?) to pardon.

So are they going to listen?
I mostly agree. Trump is behaving in a way that's consistent with his prior rhetoric.

Where I disagree is that there may have been an expectation that the systems outside of "The President" would have stood up for themselves more, offered more resistance and slowed him down more. The slow-moving of government is (was though to be) it's own protection to some extent.
We can all point out that the 2nd amendment is cherished.
We laugh at hollwood movies where the protagonist calls his hacker sidekick and says "get me into this building. quick." and the friend goes "one sec. done." and click! the door opens.
That's what I wish the tech companies had, a way to limit the free snacks. I'd much prefer to have to tap my badge and have the machine tell me that I exceeded 300 kcal in snacks today so no more.
The Big Dig and Scratch & Win
This reminds me of the old story about being able to capture just 1% of a market to create a successful startup and how you always have to remember, there are numbers less than 1.
This may be outside your use case for sql flow, but in my professional work we have a lot of problems with malformed messages or weird data in the target DB. So only 95% of message succeed in effecting their updatupdated. Leads to a lot of troubleshooting what happened, what was the message, what was the data at the time we processed the message, what did we expect to happen, etc.
> One of the explicit goals of the program is to keep the US competitive

Competition doesn't matter to a xenophobe. That's what the tariffs are for. You admit that you can't compete, so you make it too expensive for people to buy the foreign things, forcing them to buy your (inferior/expensive) things, with the upside-down belief that that will make your economy strong. When actually the now-captive market is an incentive to make things worse and more expensive. You'd think the people who "beat communism with choice and competition" would get that.
The US domestic civilian shipbuilding doesn't exist. It's dead and already smelling.

For example, the Washington state needs new ferries, and their cost is literally almost 10x than the cost for the similar ferries produced in Turkey for the nearby Vancouver, BC. With this kind of cost gap, there is simply nobody who would buy the US ships unless they _have_ to.

Without the Jones Act, the shipbuilders would have adapted long ago to produce high-margin high-tech components for the ships for the international market. And likely in larger quantities than they do currently.
The goal of this exercise is not to fund worthwhile projects. This is not a cutting of the fat. It's a permanent end of funding so that the rich can get some tax breaks.

The "big beautiful bill" has to be budget neutral to pass. Meaning to get those tax breaks, funding has to be slashed.

This is all about money. Republican voters believe a cheaper govt means less taxes for them. They don't appreciate the benefits they're getting. Hence they cheer as they lose those benefits, and they'll cheer just as loud when the rich get tax cuts.
You're not the only one. I recently took up running and didn't particularly like any of the existing running pace calculators, so I made my own: https://calcubest.com/health/runningpace

And then kinda realized that there were others I wanted to have, and a few I thought others might want, so I added more.

A calculator is simple enough that it's fun to work on one when I need a break from something more complex but want to be able to do something other than doom scrolling. So now every couple of weeks I add another one.
I use http://hckrnews.com which is a nice timeline view of what's happening, isn't gamed by algorithms.

It also nicely shows that the site has had massive chasms of popular but killed posts, which you can them go read (but no longer contribute to).

Ironic that so many of the right used to clambor fo "free speech" & make claims of censorship, but many are likely here suppressing things they don't like rather than just moving along. No cost to them to just skip.
Sean Carroll has a very informative, and impressively apolitical post/podcast about the recent de-funding of science in the USA.

I have seen it appreciated across the political spectrum. It is worth a read or listen, and hopefully a share. This is the most sober-minded analysis of this turn of events that I have seen so far.

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025/02/12/bonu...
So raise taxes. The deficit isn’t a problem of spending it’s a problem of repeated tax cuts.
In 2016 they had tax breaks without spending cuts. And he's not actually saving all that much money. The employees are only a small part of the budget.

He's doing it because hate for government employees has been a talking point since Reagan. He's getting huge accolades for sticking it to the evildoers. It's popular and fun.
I have a couple of plotters and at first I tried to plan out this really over engineered system for using multiple sizes transferring notes etc. Actually I have a whole series of plotter pages that outline the system haha.

After about a month it became kind of unsustainable and now I primarily just use my bible size as a fancy notebook/binder. I turns out a free-form container for thought is all I actually need—all my more stable stuff goes into obsidian now, (but we'll see how long that lasts). Being able to tear out the pages is still great for flexibility.
it looks like a variant of Planck's principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle
Yes, I think along similar lines there… but on the other hand, brands need not reflect underlying truths about reality, and in fact often do not. Suppose two years from now, it is revealed by a whistleblower that they were part of a special skunkworks team responsible for creating various backdoors in PCC in order to enable Apple to access the data, train new models on queries, or maybe respond to government requests etc etc, all of which which were subtle, complicated exploits. Maybe Apple denies and discredits, or minimizes, or issues some sort of limited mea culpa. To what extent would it affect Apple’s brand? How long would it stay in the public consciousness? Would people (writ large, not those on HN) care? Perhaps it impacts sales and the stock price, but for how long and to what extent? Obviously there would be some sort of cost to such an event occurring, but would it outweigh whatever benefits that Apple might gain in the meantime? Maybe those benefits have to do with avoiding the wrath of the federal government… who knows. There’s definitely a world where the amoral calculus suggests lying might be better, right? Maybe not ours, but it is plausible. Like you said, discernment is the only tool we have, and it’s difficult to really know what’s going on at the end of the day.

Moscow rules and George Smiley’s tradecraft are probably the only real security… ha!
> Why should government subsidies exist in general?

Bro... I think you missed the civics class where they explain how economies/governments work.

tl;dr the magical free market isn't, the world is complicated, and governments are supposed to help their people, which includes providing things, like money, to do things, like advance the state of the civilization, its people, its businesses, products, services, technologies, defenses, education, health, food, energy, etc etc etc etc etc

> Why is everyone acting like the sky is falling when an elected official does the things people voted for them to do?

Two words: National Socialism. Sometimes the people are morons, and the leaders psychopaths.
Not sure if this was a slight but yes, payment providers and other services need to discriminate valid uses of their service from fraudulent.
This is based on a too literal interpretation of democracy.

Democracy had a bad reputation in the ancient world, because unconstrained majority decisions often led to terrible outcomes. In the modern world, democracy usually means liberal democracy, which includes things like the rule of law and constitutional protections. As a rough approximation, a constitution exists to prevent the government from doing what the voters want.

A constitution in itself a worthless document, and the checks and balances have no power. The power comes from conventions. Conventions on how the constitution should be interpreted and how the people in power should act within the constitutional framework. If too many people ignore the conventions and interpret the laws and regulations literally to their advantage, democracy will die. It died in the Roman Republic, and it has died in many modern republics. Plenty of authoritarian states maintain nominally democratic institutions. And many of them became like that in a way that was at least nominally legal.
fwiw, I flag nearly every time because of the latter reason. Almost universal cheap, knee-jerk, low-effort comments in every thread I've seen.
Trump specifically ran saying he didn't agree with many of these plans.

His actions are consistent with cheaper federal government but not smaller federal government. Just a centralized executive government that does what he says.

The method is simple: say what you need to to get approval, do what you always wanted to do after you get it.

See also Kennedy walking back his anti-vaccine positions to get crucial votes out of Republican senators in committee and then promptly revealing he is still anti-vax.

So when he makes comments about at third term and claiming even more power... how consistent do you think that is with smaller federal government or continuing democracy?
That's just a prank. But it shows how little the president cares about democracy, or even monarchy.
Add in Go and C++ code bases to that as well.
She did write "This continuing, unauthorized disclosure of the plaintiffs’ sensitive personal information to DOGE affiliates is irreparable harm that money damages cannot rectify"

Anyways, for people who want the primary source, here's the opinion/restraining order: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.576...
> Science in the US will be chaotically torn apart by this and a host of other decisions.

Seems unnecessarily alarmist speculation to me. :shrug: I'd rather see how this plays out, since no one can possibly know at this point.
That is a useful clarification (that it is customer records, not employee records)
Looks like it's really only using the most recent comments, rather than looking at all of them across the lifetime of the account.
I appreciate the explanation, you're a champ. :)

While I remain haunted by thoughts of someone e.g. deserialising a YAML file into a map, which then sneaks in some __struct__ key and squeaks past the guard clause, I also appreciate this seems fairly unlikely in practice. I think I'm just traumatised by Rails. It sounds like the culture around Elixir eschews excessive cutesiness, though. Promising!
> The American Federation of Teachers and other "plaintiffs have shown that Education and OPM likely violated the Privacy Act by disclosing their personal information to DOGE affiliates without their consent," said the order
Fourth option: the articles are basically flamebait, as this one happens to be. Nothing of substance has occurred here; a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order for a couple of weeks until the case can move forward.
Microsoft is a master class in becoming so big you don't need compelling products anymore.

You are in their ecosystem, you will use their products.

It took them 12 years to make Teams almost as good as Slack.

Azure only has made it this far because its Microsoft, so many of their roll outs have been terrible (looking at you AKS, Cosmos DB).

Copilot is used at my wifes company because they get it for free, and it seriously seems like its ChatGPT 3.5 still
In some cases you can't even buy them anymore, they want a bloody digital subscription.

I am very fortunate that my local library maintains digital access to useful stuff.
Would have to be a branch that was spliced, and wouldn't be 150 years old, apple trees don't live that long.

Either way, the worst office snack IMHO is the apple, the person sitting next to me, taking a big bite, munching with their mouth open.
What part of the Constitution says that? The article about the judiciary is pretty brief. It says that they get to decide things, but it doesn't actually clarify that everyone has to abide by their decisions.

Just because it's obvious doesn't mean it's legally valid.
Here are some new concrete developments that I doubt the founders of the democracy would say are fine:

- the Executive Branch now has presumptive - if not absolute - immunity against all criminal official acts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_v._United_States_%282024...

- universities must obey Trump's culture war agenda, otherwise they will be de-accredited and a fine equal to the value of the entire university endowment will be leveraged - https://www.mediaite.com/politics/trump-vows-to-seize-endowm...

- President-elect Donald Trump and his top advisers have long cited impoundment, a little-known legal theory [... that] essentially claims that any president has unilateral authority to ignore Congress’s funding bills and withhold or “impound” funds meant for programs, agencies, or departments deemed unsuitable by the White House. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/3244202/...
Does the fact its so ungodly expensive and highly rate limited kind of prove the modern point that AI actually uses tons of water and electricity per prompt? People are used to streaming YouTube while they sleep and it's hard to think of other web technology this intensive. OpenAI is hostile to this subject. Does Claude have plans to tackle this?
They can't even bother to enforce their own subpoena's. They have a jail and a jailer.
PCC is completely different from the ChatGPT integration. ChatGPT is indeed not a privacy-hardened system, but Apple devices only use it for so called “world knowledge” queries and make you confirm when calling out to it, typically involving limited personal data.

PCC is designed to handle extensive personal data, and the auditing is attested by cryptographic proofs provided to software clients, not just white papers read by humans. It is significantly different from what we’ve seen before in the industry, and highly worth the effort to understand it if you are at all involved in server engineering.
This is obviously aimed at the Leica/Ricoh crowd, not high throughput photography (events, sports, documentary) or product. Also, 4300 raw files should be enough for quite a long holiday/many street photography sessions.
You need to know what is good code. Opinions may vary a lot between programmers, even senior ones. The Clean Code cult would tell you to find good code there but that is the most poisonous programming book I have read.
You can just go over to Amazon, search for "pentesting keys" and for a the price of a decent dinner you can order oodles of master keys for most everything out in public. Elevators, police and fleet cars, mailboxes, file cabinents, RV external storage compartments, lift gates, tractors, electrical panels, toiler paper dispensers, etc.
V-Ray Tutorial Guide
The bigger we grow the pie, the bigger the disparity between top and bottom, because those at the top of it have capture most of the gains. So the only ones with an interest in growing the economy are the top few percent. Everyone else turns out to be at their relative best with the current size, or figuring out how to take away mismatch.
If one party doesn't want to abide by that piece of paper, then there's no reason to consider them legitimate.
Yes. That's what I said -- one of the requirements of a temporary order like this, ahead of trial is that the potential damages are irreversible.

It's not a judgment on the case itself.
If it was deliberate, how do you know it was innocent?

Also, while I know the quote, that’s not the same as never dealing death and judgement. Tolkien was not a pacifist, but a soldier.
Thanks! You are completely correct: https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/main/structs.html#structs-are-bare....
Can they even liquidate all this money,if not is it still $1.5B?
It may be our only hope but I hear they play a lot of fox news on military bases. Everyone I know who are in the services voted for trump and with loyalists installed in top leadership I don't see who would organize any resistance let alone a coup.
I wonder if there is a practical test of this question? Are there any moderately successful blogs written purely by an LLM with a human just doing the prompts.

As far as I know there aren't any but I look forward to being corrected
I have a couple friends who were big outdoor types who became software engineers and then after making some money for a few years went and found more outdoorsy jobs (think forest service jobs).

The point is not that an outdoorsy job is great for you, but that you may want to consider what kind of things make you happy and see if you can find a job doing something like that. These folks loved being outdoors before become engineers and were happy to go back to being outdoors for work.
Generally sovereign debt is not a problem until creditors become worries that the debt will not be paid back. The exact threshold is subject to the regular market fear/greed manias and is not an exact figure. Once this happens the country issuing credit will have trouble lending at favorable rates and will be forced to choose between printing money (could lead to massive inflation) and making large cuts. Here is recent example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_government-debt_crisis and here is an older more infamous one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_the_Weimar_R....

The sudden nature of these consequences without many real world impacts beforehand also happens at an individual level. It might be tempting to take on credit card debt at the moment and there might not be any real world consequences to running up the balance but if painful measures are not taken to address the situation before a moment of crisis (i.e. inability to service the debt), you are in for a world of pain.
I can't even fathom why anyone is listening to him. If a bunch of teenagers and discount Tony Stark turns up at your office and starts trying to fire people and demanding access to your data, isn't the correct response to tell them to fk off?
Where did you learn this? I learned in fourth grade that the proper process is an appeal to a higher court, of which the supreme court is the last word. They are called judicial "opinions" for a reason. Do they not teach this stuff anymore?
This is really useful! I know the thing was made ironically, but this is unironically useful.

How do I add it as a widget next to my calendar on my iPhone, Mac and PC?
Do you read PR statements like that and just assume they are true? Serious question. Is this how you process information from the world, and does it typically work well for you?
Musk is interested in money and power. Not science.

His interest in money has led him to beliefs that he gets the most money if he cuts as aggressively as possible and pushes others to do as much as they can for as little as they will take. "Efficiency" to protect him from things like taxes or regulation, at the expense of anyone else's desire to not be cut to the bone.

And he's getting power by making a trade - he gets Republican approval by cutting a Federal workforce that right-wingers have long complained about. In exchange they give him power. So even if those cuts don't make a material dent on the national budget or debt, he'll have taken advantage of that power to make a few specific actions to benefit him personally.

Look at the difference between how he talks about space and how NASA does, say.
Mars? Not science, not research, but just a place to plant a colony beholden to him that he can tax (without using those words) as much as he wants.
This is something that's easier to read than it is to understand. A lot of languages force you to do quite a lot in a function and becoming blind to bloat is way to easy to do. (C++/Go/Java/etc yep).

He did an example in the article of:

void concurrentOperation() {
lock()
criticalSection();
unlock()
}

So if you subsitute criticalSection with a lot of operations, such as open file, read lines, find something, close file. I think you have a better representation of an over bloated function.

Scala has the langauge support to show what this could look like.

What you're doing in that method is starting a critical section, doing something, and then ending a critical section. It's a good suggestion to break that with:

def criticalSection(f: () => Unit) {
lock()
f()
unlock()
}

How you have a single method that does one thing and is easy to understand. Also it's reusable.

The original code would be used as:

criticalSection { _ => doSomething() }

That replacement is now longer dependent on locking. Locking is layered in.
It is constantly discussed, every day, in multiple threads.

It gets flagged because the comments are very repetitive. There are only so many ways to say that Elon Musk and Donald Trump are lying, and that everything they do a pretext for destroying the government. Nobody ever discusses anything in good faith, it is just rounds of "youre a shill" "stop reading the nyt" "stop reading twitter" blah blah blah...
Please prosecute while there's still someone with integrity to do it.
that is the question - for example SpaceX needs FAA permits. With the federal employees severely cut in that future that Musk/Trump builds how that will be solved - 1. no FAA permits required or 2. SpaceX gets same-day service (or even total blanket exception) while everybody else waits 3 years?
The US is a strong federative country. Individual states are almost literally _states_ (as in "country") and have a lot of power. They can impose their own carbon taxes, net neutrality rules, fund research, etc.

And more importantly, their local democracy is going strong.
> No, this lawsuit is not about employee records. It is about customer records.

That's not what the article says...

> The plaintiffs include "unions and membership organizations representing current and former federal employees and federal student aid recipients and six military veterans who have received federal benefits or student loans,"

I wonder how much of this employee data is actually "personal", and not data relevant to their employment, which presumably isn't "private" from the perspective of the employer. So for example, I imagine their home address and birth date would be considered private; but their job title , primary place of work, start date, etc would not be "private data"...?
> People are used to streaming YouTube while they sleep

Youtube is used to showing them ads while they sleep
>(this is how you would bypass the ad some free .coms would inject into your site)

In anglefire and maybe geocities we would serve the document with a .txt extension and it would also skip the ads but browsers, with their liberal acceptance policy, would render normally.
How does this work with large (i .e. ~30,000 by 40,000 pixel) 16 bit TIFF images?
US Economic Decline Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
> How come there isn’t much discussion of DOGE on this site?

The exact same reason any negative story about Elon, Twitter, Tesla or SpaceX disappears from the front page. They get flagged to death immediately.

It also doesn't help that Paulg is still an Elon fan.
Are the videos real? It looks like a toy car hanging from wires.