skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm very sure that there is a lot of spending that is used inefficiently. Any large organization does run into that problem. Resolving some issues, cutting red tape, making processes more efficient, all that is probably a good idea. However, "DOGE" and those cheering them on have not produced any evidence for the vast majority of the claims they made. Often they also just misrepresented facts (e.g., USAID supposedly funding media sites, condoms in Gaza and many other nonsense) or simply lied. I also don't see much promotion of actual nuanced views on the topic like the Hamilton Project's tracker of federal expenditures which you can find here: https://www.hamiltonproject.org/data/tracking-federal-expend...

At the moment, the US government seems to be mainly focused on causing headlines to make their base happy who want quick victories and have not shown resilience to simplistic takes, and - of course - to make the opposition party and their supporters panic.
I think a society was just not meant to be this connected. When a brain is this hyperconnected you get problems and the world hyperconnected becomes sick.

>A hyperconnected brain is a brain with increased connectivity between regions, or hubs. This can be a response to neuropathology, such as autism, depression, or schizophrenia.

>Hyperconnectivity in the brain can contribute to epilepsy by increasing the likelihood of seizures. This can occur due to a number of factors, including injury, disease progression, and changes in brain structure.

The world is in one big epileptic fit right now due to tech hyperconnectivity and I’m unsure how to fix that.
Is there any hope for Block? Yes, if Jack Dorsey lets his team deliver
> what is electricity?

My favorite answers are:

* http://amasci.com/miscon/whatis.html

* https://blog.rootsofprogress.org/the-significance-of-electri...
PeerTube is made in France, Mastodon AFAIK in Germany.
One oft forgotten thing is that the US government clouds rated for IL5/6 are secluded on SIPRnet and JWICS. These are totally separate networks with CDS’s being the only way to go from one net to the other.

In practice this means the US Government remains in control of the network backing their cloud. ITAR regulations make it treasonous to have foreign eyes on these clouds. Foreign governments are not afforded any of those protections when sitting on US clouds.

Even among FVEY, there are designations for data relative to member states and information is not as free flowing on JWICS as one might assume. It is more like a controlled stream than a raging river
> "The hoi polloi" is a fixed phrase in English.

I'm aware of that, but it is not typical of borrowed terms. You can't explain the oddity of the phrase by appealing to the idea that that's how foreign terms are borrowed into English, because it isn't.

> ~Everyone knows "hoi" means "the" in Greek.

Try running a poll.
Did none of these people read Machiavelli? Relying too much on foreign governments, especially "friendly" imperialists is never safe because it gives them a degree of control over you. That's a problem no matter who is in charge. If you slept through the PRISM scandal and are only regretting your failure to take action because you don't like the guy who just won an election, then you're beyond salvation.

At the very minimum you should be encrypting all data before you transmit it to machines you don't physically control, but even that's not necessarily good enough because it still gives them the ability to withhold that data from you. And that's to speak nothing of some hypothetical future technology that may be able to defeat your encryption entirely.
https://archive.is/OCP0N
you can obviously have secrets from someone who holds your ssd, that is the whole point of encryption.
That's not the way.

What Microsoft might end up doing is following the China model, essentially giving control over their EU servers (probably only those in a special region) to an EU company, while still supplying the software and taking a (very large) cut of the profits.
You didn't use email software with a blocking send and receive button? Usually with a somewhat informative progress bar, but still.
> The main issue i see is that european cloud providers mostly have technically-ignorant upper management for which providing a cloud offering essentially boils down to "buy this software component from company xyz (likely an american company) and install this open source product abc, then slap a cloud marketing name and unleash the salespeople". They can't even contemplate the idea hiring somebody with FAANG-level skills, paying it FAANG-level money and let it do FAANG-level work. They hire a few underpaid 20-somethings and have them manage, at best, an OpenStack installation.

Thank you! As a german that saw how the sauce is made in public sector tenders it's exactly this!

This is not restricted to hosting / cloud sector. It's a good summary for most german IT companies.

Arrogance and incompetence are rampant. Programmers and their managers need to go en masse to have some substantial change.

Everyone is so full of themselves and disconnected from reality it's scary.
Regarding diapers: supermarket brands are cheapies and can leak (e.g. Tena, Depends, etc.)

Instead you'll want to take yourself to a pharmacy or care store to seek out a proper continence pad, yes they cost slightly more, but they work. These will not leak as you move about in the dive as the moisture is converted into a dry gel via super absorbent polymers.
They feel dry to the touch and as a bonus will balance the pH as to not interfere with the skin's acid mantle. There is no threat of breaching the capacity as absorbencies can be in the litres.
I think it is very difficult to do it. You need professors who challenge assumptions and break with the crowd. In college you want many kinds of thinkers teaching the students, and even if you're successful, it takes years for those seeds to grow in young minds to break through prior indoctrinations. And if you think US school systems are bad, they are far better at this than the rest of the world. Please forgive me for the blanket statement, I speak generally not specifically of a particular country.
I’d upvote this a thousand times if I could, so many people holding opinions on purely selfish grounds
> All this doesn't mean your back-end should be based on something like Microsoft Windows Server with MS Sql Server.

Why the hell not?

From a technology perspective (i.e., data/information theory/performance/what HN should be about), MSSQL is really, really hard to beat in a big enterprise ecosystem. This isn't because of decades of prerequisite evil dealings that make it a morally incompatible offering, but because it's been so thoroughly exposed to every possible use case that yours would certainly flow nicely.

I've been watching a lot of otherwise really compelling ideas and high energy teams get turned into complete shit due to these ideologies. I can understand a EU tech startup being hesitant toward US-based technology, but in 99% of the cases I hear about, it's a purely American tech company with zero international presence that is making a bunch of noise about how much they hate whatever domestic/paid/"closed" offerings.
I still can't get used to it. It's totally creepy. Every time I'm out in public, it feels like the old movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers, where 99% of the people have been replaced with alien, but physically exact, replicas. And they're all just zombied out on their phones. It's an addiction that's run through the population completely wild and unaddressed. Often dangerously, scrolling messages while driving 75mph down the freeway. I used to host movie night, but we stopped because 5 minutes into the movie people were just ignoring the movie scrolling Instagram. You can do that at home, guys, jeez.
'Everybody is eating hot chip,' says man freed after 30 years in prison
Don't mistake obliviousness for a conspiracy. The vast majority of the doge savings link straight to the Federal Procurement Data System that anyone can search or ingest from. You're of course free to disagree with the spending but if you weren't even aware you could look at these contracts then maybe you should ask if you're being shown the whole picture or if it's closer to a politically motivated hit job on our civil servants.
I wasn't reading anything into it at all. I'm just saying that the vast majority of people wouldn't consider it a school shooting. They're almost always talking about an active shooter targeting students.

If you want my two cents: no shit gun violence is bad. It's just that that type of gun violence doesn't impact suburban whites, and it's incredibly disingenuous to have so much gnashing of teeth over the overall number when most people passionately talking about this only care about a certain subset of that number.

Those after-hours shootings-at-schools are part of a larger pattern of gun violence that advocates of gun control have basically never made a focus of.
You’re making a critical mistake:

Democrats, correctly or not, see voter roll clearing as a vote suppression tactic. (Salon and Wikipedia would certainly say so.) Democrats argue there is no evidence of a large scale organized fraud (no death by machete), so the worry is purely suppressive.

Republicans, correctly or not, see voter roll clearing as an election integrity measure for preventing fraud. All it takes is 2% fraud, as you yourself admit, for a victory. Republicans are concerned about slow, minor, unorganized fraud in lots of little places, that might add up to 2% (death by paper cuts).

Until a narrative wins, this will continue; and any election victories will be ignored by the other side.
Don't they still have North Sea oil?
>> America's image is toxic to everyone right now (including its own citizens).

That is evidently not true. You being unhappy, doesn't make the whole world unhappy too.
I've also sometimes wanted to flag something for moderator attention, without wanting to give it a "strike". Like the discussion is worth keeping, but point to a better source or something. Your categories somehow solves that.
> My employer holds contractor licenses in all 50 states. Please be specific about which things are not above board with regards to contractor licensing instead of allusion.

I live in SF. Prevailing wage laws and political opposition by unions to non-union projects are massive problems here, both for public and private projects. Our building codes are so crufty that it is expected that you will fork out for a private "permitting consultant" who's well-connected and if you don't your project will not be approved.

Yes, you are correct that it can strictly only be forced on public projects! When the city requires as much political bullshit as SF does, union support tends to be required for private projects to get approval. If you'd like, I can find some specific examples - they're not uncommon.

Building codes also frequently require "traditional" windows, ban modular construction, and I'm sure other things that make very little sense to anyone but the workers getting paid.

> Electricians are almost all union labor in Chicago due to the city’s electrical code requiring conduit and banning romex in residential construction.

This is exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about: when a jurisdiction enforces significantly stricter laws than are used in other places. Wiring a single family house is not more dangerous in Chicago than anywhere else, and you've already told me that this requirement tends to favor union labor.

Sure, there is an actual safety case here - but I am confident that this question of who this policy benefits was definitely considered before enacting it.

> Nobody is forcing you to live where you do.

This is a crazy take. Should I move because local construction workers are politically well-connected?

> By the way, I’m a construction project manager and deal with these things every single day.

I am not surprised! You clearly know a lot more than me on the issue, but to some extent this is like a banker swearing to me that monthly account fees are necessary.
Challenging AI generated code from first principles
Show HN: Mapping historical markers around the world
I saw the 'map of torii' post yesterday and thought y'all might like to see the small app I've been working on that uses HMDB.org data to map historical markers around the world.

HMDB has been aggregating markers for over 15 years and back when I was living out of my van and traveling full-time I wanted to get notified whenever I passed one, so I built a mobile app around that.

I think historical markers are underrated - as a physical marker they make history tangible. Rather than reading about history from a classroom, you get the opportunity to see and engage with it at the source. If you're already nearby, they are often worth the stop to learn more.

Since releasing the iOS app a few years ago, I've been able to enhance the markers with summaries (which makes reading the content a lot more palatable), and converting them to audio, so you can listen to markers when you're driving. Yesterday I officially released the android app, with the same features as the iOS app.
It’s that mentality of ‘flooding the zone’.
That ship has sailed with technology in general.

Sure, it isn't safe for EU governments to store data on US clouds.

It also isn't safe for US governments to rely on chips made in Taiwan that China could invade. Or for TikTok to be a primary media source in the US.

The fact is, we're an economically interconnected world at this point, in terms of software, in terms of hardware, and in terms of hardware supply chains.

And it's hard to see it going backwards. Economic efficiency is a powerful force. It often seems like the solution has to be to try to implement as many safeguards as possible, rather than cut off sources of technology. But I don't know... it's an incredibly difficult question.
Sorry, I'm not a doctor. I've had DEXA scans (for bone density), MRIs, and x-rays. For me, the MRIs identified potential nerve impingements (from bone spurs) and the weakened S1-L5-L4.

Getting a helpful diagnosis wasn't straightforward. More like a process of ruling things out and triangulation. Over the course of years.

My advice to all patients: Don't accept "No." Each individual doctor can only know so much. Just know that someone(s) out there has the puzzle peice(s) you need.

Of course, you've tried All The Things. Physical & occupational therapies, deep massage, sauna, magnesium, ruled out kidneys, pilates, general fitness (weights, HIIT), lots of walking...

(As an example: A buddy had a bad hip, terrible back pain. Was doing PT for more than year, no improvement. Was considering a hip replacement. Turns out he had late stage kidney cancer. FFS. Then was repeatedly told he had 6 months max. Until he found that one doctor who knew about a clinical trial for a new immunotherapy. Fortunately, it worked and 3 (?) years later was declared in remission.)

Also, I've gotten relief from unexpected areas.

Swedish Hospital's (Seattle) Pain Clinic has a whole program. Was transformative for me and better over time. I'm not healed. Just able to manage my pain(s). There are similar clinics nationwide.

I've even changed my diet. After much trial & error, I figured out that wheat (gluten), peanuts, and even just (too much) sugar were negatives for me. Cutting those out reduced my pain and improved my brain focus. Probably something about inflamation. I'm sure I have more to discover.

I encourage you to not give up. You're experiencing pain. So there's got to be a cause. It may not be treatable. But at least you'll know and can plan better.
They don't have hopes either, only impulses. Pure id.
I think like me you saw the cloud section and thought it was a paid product for a minute.
Good point and feedback, but an odd choice by the author?

It could be the phenomenon of the author's cognitive bandwidth being consumed by everything in the article, including each argument, the overall argument, the writing, the formatting, etc. etc., and with time pressures. The critic can focus at their leisure on one point, with bandwidth to spare - and so it's obvious! :)
Not if the US becomes more and more adversarial, especially if they jeopardize NATO. The current administration already acts almost like an enemy of Europe, it's quite baffling. Politicians have to justify military expenses to the voters.
we probably leave in different areas/countries. In mine it is normal people park anywhere even illegally (grass yards, pavements) just to park.
It's not that it's less serious, it's that it comes from a different circumstance and affects demographics that many gun control advocates don't actually have any interest in helping.
Since now? It was safe before, as in what is happening now was totally impossible before, and somewhat it happens anyway? Do they started to care about making backups after they lost data?

Risk is not about "something happened, so it may happen again", but if something bad can happen, if it is possible, and maybe weight it as probable or not. Black swans exists, and if you bet everything on that they not, you may lose everything.

And the process of moving government and societies to some controlled by a foreign power cloud takes time to get in, and to get out. And you can't tell that something bad was being done while showing a smiling face.

It is not something coming out of the blue. There was strong signals of intervention back to the start of internet, and a more or less official confirmation of what was happening in the shadow with Snowden's revelations. But somewhat is now when that is perceived as a risk.
There are secrets and then there are secrets.

For the former, confidential compute is far enough along that this data can in fact be secret from the hardware owner. This is vital even for on-prem hardware -- IT folks and techs with physical access shouldn't have access simply due to proximity.

For the latter, sure, but this is very expensive. It goes well beyond owning the hardware.
A large part of why I was hired for my current position is that I can explain why returning by move pessimizes NRVO and why an emplace taking a pr-value of the type it's constructing does nothing useful, and I know how to optimize type erasing templates and which compilers provide which opportunities with which attributes and intrinsics, because I read about C++ every day for years. I taught some of my interviewers a little bit about C++ they didn't know before. There were already people on this team with VASTLY greater experience than me overall, but every team needs a certain amount of language expertise to deliver the highest quality software they can. Someone needs to know it, and language esoterica is not something you just pick up without a specific interest in it.
Am I being too pessimistic to think we would actually get the same electricity costs if we are lucky and 1/3 more profits going up to the executive portion of the company?
Well, I summarized the other two words you used into a single one (insulting). Perhaps it's too generalized, but my point is obvious: that free speech isn't a thing over there anymore.
Number of job posts itself seems like a better measure of the state of the job market than mentions or mention-density. What aspects might mentions capture that number of postings wouldn’t?
Only geographically. For many other attributes, accelerating away at speed.
> I feel like the second you allow functions you've thrown the spirit of the game.

+, - (both binary and unary), ×, ÷ are functions, as is raising to a power. Why would you allow them?

As always in this kind of things, one can disagree about what constitutes an elementary function, but I don’t think taking square roots should be disqualified in this puzzle.

> Ex, the gamma function is (n-1)!

And 2 is just S(S(0)) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peano_axioms)

> If I can hide numbers in a function call... It's trivially easy to always succeed.

I wouldn’t call the construction given by Paul Dirac trivial. Do you think it is, or do you know of a simpler one?
I forgot to add Community colleges, which are incredibly cheap. For the final year, they can transfer to top college and get degree from there.
Reverse pinch to zoom? What you mean? I can only zoom in.
I notice downvote button isn’t always available on some of the debate-y threads. Sometimes the reply button isn’t available for some time too. I assume high response velocity is more so enabling arguements to take place, like happens on Reddit more commonly. Anyways, I wonder if you’re being flagged in absence of a downvote function/button being available.
It would be cool if you could also provide custom commit instructions e.g., for following a specific template.
It’s partly true OBM saved $25 billion once a decade ago in 2014 when they proposed 215 cuts https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/omb/Building_a_21st_Cen...

But those big wins were rare. It’s mostly small stuff like during Biden admin they banned single use plastic and reducing food waste. No one has ever really done large scale data analysis on spending and made it a major priority across the federal government in recent history.
I almost prefer the X link because I won’t bother to login and read the comments.

The xcancel link shows all the boneheaded comments. Can’t believe so many people support Musk and what he is doing.
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I’m not that optimistic I’m just hoping it makes it to the end of the year.
Vibe Coding: Where Everyone Can 'Speak' Computer Programming
It’s just about having fun at the end of the day, the gamma function and square root are considered fundamental enough. But if one wants they could try to limit to different subsets of functions and prove which numbers are possible or impossible to achieve just with those.

They also say “mathematical tools” not arbitrary functions.
New wind turbines will test out the longest wooden blades
For an example implementation, downvoting in stackexchange costs you 1 point and takes 2 from the person being downvoted iirc (an upvote gets you nothing and bestows 10 points). You can only downvote if you've got a few points on the site, many fewer than on HN (the threshold here is 500 iirc). Flagging is always possible but afaik never leads to automatically killing the thing you're flagging, so downvoting is the way to downrank and fade out posts of people you disagree with. If you think this isn't a good system, it might be worth looking at how it works there, what the problems and benefits are and make a suggestion of what would be better
In addition to Cloud, there is one more thing: Mobile. Banks. Parking lots. Shops.
Europe should invest in a Linux phone OS with NFC and unified push notifications.
Because they create money out of thin air? Who are the "parasites"? People who work?
Make Argentina great again
Underneath the campy humor and old spy movie/TV series references, there was a number of elements on spying, about manipulating and using people, attitudes to women, the dull work spying is for the non-super spies. and so on. If someone was to make a follow-up, I don't think a NOLF copy/paste would do so well beyond pure nostalgia (and I don't think NOLF ever set the world on fire with its sales), but there's enough substance there where they could make something interesting playing it straight.
Wow I've never flagged anything but there are 24 items in there! Would be good to have a confirm()