skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know. Is it really not important that a single guy, the richest in the world and heavily dependend on government subsides, able to access personal data of every single government employee ? (And send them pretty childish emails over the weekend !)

Given the fact that people with very questionable backgrounds "work" on this data, it all looks like a massive potential for data leaks. It happens in plain sight, and apparently not many people object. Or more accurately, as on this website, they are silenced.
When in the last forty years have Republicans shown any real interest in funding any new worthwhile research projects at the federal level? Versus just cutting what already exists?

The money being saved ain't for you.
I love this paper; it's extremely easy to read, but still gets into rigorous proof.

Despite their explanation, I still had to hack together something in Java and step through it with a debugger for it to actually make sense to me. Once I did it worked fine, and after looking through each iteration I more or less got it.

Here's the code if anyone wants to look at it [1], though just a disclaimer that I wrote this in like ten minutes just to hack something so it's not beautiful or anything like that. It's so simple that I don't think I made any mistakes though obviously if I did let me know and I'll be slightly embarrassed.

[1] https://gist.github.com/Tombert/993ada32270f809bdaa6452065f8...
The papers, ya, that one party doesn't consider them legitimate and is in power at the same time.
This is a blatant lie. HN does the opposite: threads critical of YC are more lightly moderated and the flags are removed a lot of the time. Flags come from users, not the mods.
> The problem with the API is that it, as it says in the documentation, could cost $100/hr.

I've used https://github.com/cline/cline to get a similar workflow to their Claude Code demo, and yes it's amazing how quickly the token counts add up. Claude seems to have capacity issues so I'm guessing they decided to charge a premium for what they can serve up.

+1 on the too expensive or too limited sentiment. I subscribed to Claude for quite a while but got frustrated the few times I would use it heavily I'd get stuck due to the rate limits.

I could stomach a $20-$50 subscription for something like 3.7 that I could use a lot when coding, and not worry about hitting limits (or I suspect being pushed on to a quantized/smaller model when used too much).
I've seen flagged threads, but I've also seen plenty of popular discussions where the discussion is overwhelmingly against the neofascists.
So if we kept frameset in HTML5, we would not have had to do all these JS shenanigans?!?!?! SPA out of the box? :)
Try correcting for density first.
The criticism was that UB worked at a company that allegedly didn’t ship code to production, not that he doesn’t have a corpus of open source projects on GitHub.
I'm not sure what evidence suggests that Republicans in congress would grow a spine to resist this. Conversely the evidence since 2016 suggests they actively applaud it.

The voters have voted out any congress people who resisted, sending a clear message that they want this path.

This may not be the pretty side of democracy, but it is democracy.

My point above (which I see is being downvoted) is not thst I see this as "good" , but rather that I see it as democratic. Everything going on is literally because the people voted for it. The stacking of the Supreme Court, the obstructionist behavior in congress, the tolerance for (Trump) crimes- this has all been rewarded, not penalized by voters.

If democracy is the will of the people , then what you see seeing is the power of that will.
I’m bothered by the UK thing because beyond just the marketing, we had Tim declare that “Privacy is a human right.”

Marketing is BS, and I expect companies to screw customers and ideals (“Do no evil”) whenever it’s convenient. But I really thought Tim understood the assignment and would keep Apple on track for at least the duration of his tenure.

Now every nation knows they can pass similar laws and Apple will do nothing.
Definitely not a ruse.

I worked for a startup run by a wannabe Jobs/Musk type about a decade ago and when the budget started getting tight they pulled the same playbook: demanding unreasonable hours, putting hard working people on the spot about what they do, summarily firing all contractors etc.. it was a bad time and the C Suite eventually got fired.
I really don't understand why someone is encouraging slavery and YC actually funded it.

Day by day things are moving towards dystopia.
I don't know, but this temporary restraining order doesn't tell you anything new about the question.
Find another pulpit.
It’s definitely hard(er). I’ve found it’s impossible to get any diagrams or (repair shop) manuals for some dirt-common 2000s/early 2010s vehicles, and have been forced to play many a game of ‘trace the wire.’
Bingo. Trump and the MAGA movement more broadly have made extensive use of this strategy: do something ridiculous to test the waters, and then claim you were just joking if the response is too harsh.
A chatbot that plays Call of Cthulhu, the tabletop RPG game, with you.

https://github.com/StarsRail/Cocai

Better than a human, it can draw an illustration of the scene in meme seconds.

It can also roll dices in 3D:
Demo: https://youtu.be/8wagQoMPOKY?si=oCa2erHvheEyEKM_&t=55
That doesn’t work and people don’t want handouts they want jobs. And money can’t fix the problem of destroying your industrial base if there’s a war.
> Not evaluated efficiency cuts. Just thrashing about.

Personally I'm not sold on their tactics so far, but there is another way to view this than thrashing out.

Non-probationary federal employees are protected and not easily fired. If one honestly believes the government is bloated and so far into debt that the budget needs to be balanced at all costs, cutting anyone and anything you can may make sense.

Normally you wouldn't throw good food overboard, but if the ship is sinking you may have no choice other than to throw out anything that isn't bolted down.
one would be excused to think you made this account just for the sake of aptronym and comment, but alas, 3k+ karma
Don't worry, your manager will roll up their sleeves and help you code
How are journalists to get out of the lower earnings percentile if not paid by their employers?
Ok, I know this is a joke, but... in all seriousness, I recently moved FreeBSD releases to a quarterly calendar. The first month of the quarter, people are encouraged to finish up their works in progress and get them into the tree; the second month, we have BETA/RC builds every week; and in the third month (usually at the start but not always) I do the final RELEASE build.

This wasn't for any corporatey reason though; it just happened that "every 3 months" is a natural cadence for doing releases. (In a sense it's a 6-month cadence, like e.g. Ubuntu, but we support two major versions at any given time, and their schedules interleave.)

Sometimes a calendar quarter is just a calendar quarter.
History of CAD
Have you been paying attention to Republicans over the last 40 years? They don't care if it's useful or important. They don't want government programs to exist.

Trump isn't changing that. Don't kid yourself.
To be rather abrasive in my response: I believe your view is a waste of air. In case I'm correct how about we cut you off from air for a week and if there's a problem we'll restore it then.
There’s some nice plugins too, some are finance related:
https://github.com/ddotta/awesome-polars
It's a one type, not a zero type - the function does return and it always returns the same thing. It makes this kind of function more normal and regular - you can say that functions always return 1 value, and then it means you don't have to special-case void functions (which is a problem you have to work around in e.g. C++ templating), you can do things like put the return value of the function in a variable and then use it for something since it's just a normal value (which matters if you want to write e.g. a generic compose function that runs a bunch of functions in, IDK, a database transaction or something).
A temporary restraining order is an extraordinary measure, never granted as a right. To grant one, the plaintiff needs to succeed on all four factors: irreparable harm, likelihood of success on the merits, balance of equities, and public interest.(Yes, I've read enough TRO-related stuff that I can recite the verbiage from memory.)

Winning a TRO essentially requires that the judge agree you're going to win your case eventually and that you can't even wait until a preliminary injunction hearing to get some relief. On the flip side, losing a TRO doesn't mean all that much.
He's not concerned with what's going on in DC? Does he think Elon is qualified to waltz in and start slashing and burning the Federal Bureaucracy? Congress hasn't approved DOGE.
The only people who should have mandatory decryption on all communications are government officials, so that the democracy can be assured of preserving the records required by law.

Actual decryption of such records should be very difficult, with enormous audit logging.

I'm terrified what happens to democracy when the people in power are all using Signal. When the president goes around ripping up official documents he doesn't like, or making up read-outs that fabricate a story. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/03/trump-documents-national-arc...
Stochastic Calculus
100% I've had great success inviting people to dinner parties and such. This works great for people I already know.

I've tried hosting public groups, with partial success. Have you got any ideas there?

I've tried posting events on local Facebook groups, mostly. But my experience is that very few people are actually active online and willing to physically do something.
It is very difficult to deprogram people who fall down the internet conspiracy reinforcement machine. Anecdotally the most recently aired episode of the This American Life podcast has an adult son try to talk with his conspiracy addled father and making a bet about ten of them - the father loses all of them and still refuses to acknowledge the truth. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/854/ten-things-i-dont-want-...
And someone to prosecute without immunity.
> Nothing of substance has occurred here; a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order

Maybe nothing of substance to you.

But it's certainly something of substance to US citizens. Which are, I argue, a majority of HN users given YCombinator's location.
How productive will GitHub Copilot make me?
This my most honest take on how effective Copilot can be if it's given an honest shake.
Do you agree with my assessment?
Yes, please do this GP. Renounce your citizenship and be free of the big bad taxes. Most of us prefer infrastructure and long term public research.
We should possibly recognize that building federal troves of data that rely on the "good deputy" model are outmoded and need massive overhaul.
Sensible oversight means you understand first and make changes second.
Granted large political systems are uniquely complex. But complex & old software can share the attributes you outlined.

1. Politics does enter into programming teams. There's several articles of this genre. Where the most highly regarded programmer made bad decisions over a long period of time & exhibited hubris in doing so. This programmer was fired, but if he was a founder otherwise held some leverage, then he may not be fire-able. However, other staff can leave. It's more difficult to leave the impact of politics.

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/we-fired-our-top-talent-be...

Entire industries can make bad decisions due to incentives. Such as I must learn technology X because companies hire for technology X. Companies choose technology X because developers know technology X. Technology X could have fundamentally flaws. Compounding complexity in the ecosystem as additional tech is made to fix the flaws...which will also have flaws.

These cycles of compounding bad strategic decisions yet good tactical decisions can last decades.

2. In some ways there are unit tests for politics. Geopolitical signals can be sent. So if X happens, there's a tacit agreement that Y will be the response. Unit tests are great for small units. However, complex systems can be difficult to comprehensively test. This is why there is fuzzing...which is effectively a monte carlo simulation. Monte Carlo simulations are widely used in political analysis.

3. There's non-deterministic inputs. And the system can be more complex than what's possible to model. Leading effectively to non-determinism in making decisions about how to modify the system.
Search below for “doge” and limit to this week. There are thirty stories with more than ten upvotes, and 8 with over 100. That’s a major story more than once a day, and doesn’t include every Trump related disaster that was covered.
Molecule links photosynthesis and aerobic metabolism in Great Oxidation Event
For anyone like me who at first skipped over this article because it seems from the title that someone just compared two approaches:

No, it’s an actual debate between the actual John and Bob. Them debating each other. It’s an amazing read.
This is a temporary restraining order (TRO), so the judge did not need to, and did not actually, rule that they did violate the Privacy Act, but that they likely did so, and that this probability of success on the merits coupled with the fact that the disclosure of their banking information would constitute irreparable harm justifies a TRO while the case proceeds.
Where exactly is the proof that the ship of government funded science in the USA was sinking?

If you don't mean just US funded science, then what evidence is there that the USA was sinking in general? When I look at the graph of debt increase, it was actually decreasing.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1366899/percent-change-n...
Function length also depends on language. Every line of one language requires three line in another if the former has implicit error handling and the latter explicit. But I find the cognitive load of the two to be similar.

I am also okay with 1000 line functions where appropriate. Making me jump around the code instead of reading one line at a time, in a straight line? No thanks!
> otherwise they will be de-accredited

Who decides the ultimate authority on accreditation anyway?

Why can't we just start a new trust network?
But they do buy cars that they can drive to work in the rain, snow, etc.
I feel like a kid in a candy shop. Some of these tricks would take way too long to reverse engineer correctly based on the papers. I hope that the releases this week start a renaissance of the use of MoE as baseline academic models.
Trump is continuing a trend that has been going on since at least Bush Jr. Presidents for a couple decades now have been moving more power into the executive branch.

Obama and Biden both talked about undoing this, but neither did. The Patriot Act still exists, three letter agencies still have authority to spy on American citizens, and immigration laws still defy what's written on the Statue of Liberty (I think most have forgotten how harsh Obama was on southern immigration).
I didn't think I was complaining about "the media." The links you're referring to are just fluff. As far as I'm concerned you could have just sent me advertorials. You seem very tired, but if you actually want to know my arguments, go ahead and read some of the other comments I made on the topic recently. I, myself, am too tired to spend much time ignoring your condescension in order to take your comments with more seriousness than you intend them. If you still think my points are "tired," I really do wonder what you think qualifies as interesting political discourse.
"It's still worth selling steaks in the age of the hamburger."

Yea. This will never not be true.

I just can't wait for the age of the "silicon valley visionary" to come to an end.
Thats fine for a sofrware startup because it fundamentally doesn't matter. Who cares if your silly website fails after you experiment, no one gets seriously hurt.

Shutting off the government means that things can be irreparably damaged. Losing a generation of scientists because of random cullings at the NSF will have effects for decades.

In the worst case, "moving fast and breaking things" with the government will kill people. For example, many patients were kicked off clinical trials during the NIH funding freeze. Abroad, the end of PEPFAR could kill untold numbers of people.
The Quest to Make the Perfect Toothbrush
All of the important programs have temporary restraining orders. That's actually the standard the judge applies, "is there a possibility of irreparable harm?" (e.g. lives lost). It's not perfect but no system is.
> Nothing of substance has occurred here; a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order

A TRO is something of a substance, both literally in itself and its immediate effect, and also as an indicator on the merits since a TRO requires a finding of probability of success on the merits.
You can learn about various opinions in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42517102

so many times I’ve read an article like this and thought that it could be even more widely useful

Lua is not widely used because it doesn’t exist. Lua {5..1-4,JIT} do exist, but these are different languages between which you and others can easily port code sometimes. It’s sort of cool in a moment, but if (when) you live through a couple of versions, that just gets old. It’s not immediately visible, so you’ll see reviews from 5 stars to zero at all times.
Seems like that must make it impossible for the Cursor devs to use their own product given that Claude is the default there
The way tax cuts are reported, it sums up over the lifetime effect of the cut, usually ten years.

So this is hundreds of billions per year, and 4 trillion in total effect on the debt.
why did they scrap frameset?
A new generation of AIs: Claude 3.7 and Grok 3
Your logic works in a world with only restaurants. In reality, every other type of business has better margins than restaurants and also competes for the best real estate. So the good restaurant in a good location is soon having their rent hiked and closing down, or has to follow the beaten path: Decrease quality and increase prices.

Sure, there's always exceptions, especially in older cities where the restaurant was established in a great spot a long time ago and is owned by a family. But generally, restaurants have far too low profit margins to remain for long in a top location. And I think all of us know this from experience.
States have "power", but not money. There are no state level science grants anywhere at the scale of the linked article.
> Wouldn't believe that it's about to replace human intellectual work

Yea idk about that one chief. I have been working in ML (specifically scaling of large model training) at FAANG for the past 8 years, and have been using AI for my work since basically the first time this became even slightly usable, and I don’t share your optimism (or pessimism depending on how you see it).
Yes it’s still pretty bad, but you have to look at rate of improvement, not just a static picture of where we are today.

I might still be wrong though and you may be right, but claiming that anyone using AI believes like you do is flat out false. A lot of my colleagues also working in ML researcher think like me btw.
For anyone put off by the dubiousness of the left/right brain thing, rest assured that Drawing On the Right Side of The Brain is no less useful as an introduction to abstract visual creativity because of it.
> In principle, I agree. However, I haven't had a tasty apple in ages - they're all way too sweet for my taste.

You may be interested in Apple Rankings:

* https://applerankings.com

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33639206
And the kebab circle of life is complete. People are ruthless when it comes to food prices/quality.
I find that thing where people say "I'm not going to publish anything creative ever again, it'll just be used to train AI" so depressing.

It feels like such a dismal excuse to avoid andding any value to the world.
It will be largely filled by Chinese universities and Chinese companies working together. Non-Chinese researchers will probably have to go to Europe.
Various institutions that, among other things, receive federal grant money, make up an enormous amount of technological innovation. The federal government deciding it doesn’t want to pay out money that it has already contracted to pay is not going to help these institutions succeed at their innovation mission.

I, personally, believe that much of the current financial structure of the universities is broken, and the structure of the “indirect costs” causes strongly misaligned incentives, but arbitrarily and massively lowering the rates on zero notice is not the solution. I’ll note that no one involve in DOGE seems to have an actual proposal to improve the situation — they just seem to want to shut everything off.
Impoundment, or rather the idea that it is an issue, is a weird concept in general. Congress legislates executive directives that should be acted upon and provides a budget. They don't say "spend every dollar we give" and they rarely define metrics for success to know if the executive branch is meeting their goals.

The fact that the Trump administration is able to so easily chest the game and roll back agencies is a side effect of congress writing thousands of pages of legislation without ever bothering to define precisely what is expected of the executive branch.
> Who is the dictator here?

I’d say the leader of the executive branch who is unconstitutionally restricting (without an act of Congress) money that Congress lawfully appropriated, thereby seizing most of the power of the purse.
What about the idea that writing for the AI is your best opportunity to help contribute to it's direction?
So the conservatives counter with "nu-uh! we just need to cut all government funding and eliminate all government services. then we'll save soooo much money, that we can buy more bombs." Annnnnnnd that's how we get to cutting the funding for cutting edge research.
> with impeachment as one of the only remaining checks against that

impeachment appears to be a wet noodle of a check that carries all the weight of nanny saying "you've been a very naughty boy".

Two impeachments and a felony conviction didn't check squat, if I'm not mistaken.
He is calling it a ruse because other Trump appointees told their employees that Elon can go pound sand, and he couldnt bear to face the fact that he got told no.

God what a fucking man-child. The most insecure human I have even witnessed. It is embarrassing.
I thought about this some more and did some research - and found an indexing approach using HNSW, serialized to parquet, and queried from the browser here:

https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/portable-hnsw

Opens up efficient query patterns for larger datasets for RAG projects where you may not have the resources to run an expensive vector database
The False Binary of the DEI Debate
Kind of ironic that DeepSeek is more Open than ChatGPT
Government employee payroll makes up a tiny fraction of the budget. It's actually a horrible place to start.
https://archive.ph/fn2kx