skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it's a dishonest question, regardless of your intentions. Let's look at your question:

> Am I being too cynical if I read from this that they were fine with it until they got fired?

What is *it*? What exactly are you suggesting they were fine with? If you don't spell it out, you're asking a dishonest question because it's the type of vaguely defined question that dishonest people use to let peoples' imaginations run wild.

The people working at 18F were always about making government work better and more efficiently.

Absolutely nothing on the page suggests they were fine with the sledgehammering happening or granting access to systems that hold sensitive information. If anything, it suggests they wanted to be kept around to moderate what's happening and help lessen the damage.

The issue isn't whether you're becoming too cynical, it's that you've defaulted to a cynical theory, you've failed to examine your theory critically and you asked a question in a way that is indistinguishable from a dishonest question based on a dishonest premise.
Interesting app! If you can share, are you getting the effects through the Kuwahara filter?
That won't happen because of Norway's immense oil and gas supply and good relations. If Russia manages to take Norway, USA will be at an incredible disadvantage due to the immense oil and gas reserves on the coastline in addition to the oil-fund. If anything USA will annex Norway.
Put the printer in the safe with the paper?
The term of art I've heard in English (a little different than the exact term they used) is appropriate to their point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot

But maybe impolitic to mention this theory, at least with this term. Many have already heard this theory, and many who have not could be offended by the term itself.
And now that we’re in debt for them, they’re using that massive debt, that they created, to argue for dismantling and privatizing those same systems.
In the European countries that I've bothered to look, crime statistics are actually down. It's just the perception of crime that is up. Think about who might benefit from creating this kind of misleading perception.
I think you are right that the US constitution, as originally written, doesn't provide any internal "checks and balances" on the executive branch, other than the President. Congress and the judiciary act as external checks and balances on the President (and also inferior officials, since Congress can impeach inferior officials, and the courts can rule against them). The President acts as an internal check and balance on the executive branch (powers to fire inferior officials, direct them, demand information from them)

Not to say that I think this good policy or constitution design – it grants the President an essentially monarchical position. As The Knoxville Journal once said (9 February 1896), "Great Britain is a republic with a hereditary president, while the United States is a monarchy with an elective king". I think the more collegial form of executive branch leadership found in the Westminster system – in which a Prime Minister has to continually keep the confidence of their party, since they can be removed at any time for any reason (no allegations of misconduct required); in which Cabinet makes decisions by majority vote (and the PM sometimes loses the vote), unlike the US Cabinet where no votes are taken – leads to better governance.

Maybe, one day, "Prime Minister of the United States" will be a real job title
Kaliningrad isn’t that far. Try there…
Since there us actually bo government above countries, yhe international stage is a practice of true anarchy.
years ago i made a lib that tries to avoid the duplication in e.g. json->is_eof(json)

https://github.com/montyanderson/foop
CMD / Win + . And that should work, right?
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> And none of the “good federal workers” spoke up against that. American voters deserve a civil service that will work as hard on mass deportations under Trump as they did on open borders under Biden.

The US is a constitutional republic, not an Athenian democracy. The whole purpose of constitutions is to act as checks against base majoritarian impulses.
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Prefer to believe.
Yep, same here, and it's bizarre that people seem offended and are downvoting this comment.

The only reason I can this being downvoted is people see this as a political discussion. It really isn't. As people have turned to email and bills get delivered online, we're subsidizing junk mail in a sense because the USPS operates at a loss.
As in, the web standards? Why couldn't it just read them online? Any other specs, couldn't it decide them on its own?

From what I've seen, Grok 3 would be quite capable of inferring the effect of any change, at least at a high level. Have you used any of the recent models?
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Or just short stuff, this seems to be the most predictable market in a while[1].

But would diversify a bit an not just sit on USD cash.

Trumps next genius deal idea could as well be to cancel out the US federal debt by some rampant inflation, when he suddenly wants to make everyone a millionaire. Seriously waiting for the Fort Knox stunt.

[1] no financial advice, just some gut feeling.
When I first read about the integration of tree-sitter into Emacs, I was very excited. I work with a DSL, for which I maintain a tree-sitter grammar and highlighting rules. I can view source files with highlighting from the command line, and I was hoping I could now easily re-use this grammar in Emacs to edit files in my DSL with proper highlighting.

Unfortunately, it wasn't as straightforward as I hoped. You need to create a custom major mode for your language and manually integrate the tree-sitter highlighting.

What I'd really like to see one day is an Emacs mode that allows you to automatically plug in any tree-sitter grammar with just a couple of lines of configuration in your .emacs, and instantly get syntax highlighting. Is that too much to ask?
I can clone your voice ezpz, without much expertise with a 10 min phone recording.

Some banks still use "my voice is my password" for authentication. Crazy.
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Yeah this seems perfectly reasonable. While the targeting of Huawei was legitimate, I'd be pretty disappointed in the blatant corruption of targeting AI leaders that do the same thing as people in the west.
I stop my movies all the time to read letters or text that passed by too quick to be see. I don’t know why someone vision disabled would not do that. They don’t have to be taking a screenshot, just using software that uses a screenshot api, like a screen magnifier or reader for example. The thing about accessibility is that you frequently don’t know or can’t anticipate how the built environment (including software) will be used by the disabled.

Again, do not extrapolate your use case or experience to all users.

Maybe I’m a college student that wants to take a screen grab for purposes covered under fair use.

Maybe I’m a customer that needs to show a picture defect to customer support.

Maybe there’s a use case that I haven’t thought of yet.

The point is that disallowing screen shots prevents a lot of behaviors that are good for this world.
I think it will be nice if it does plateau, but one non-hit release from OpenAI is not a plateau on its own.
When did Sam Altman last visit China?
average and median inheritance is tiny, few thousand dollars
Accuweather tried to sue NOAA to prevent them giving forecasts to the public via the internet. Accuweather wanted to stay as a middle-man.

Accuweather and basically every forecaster is using input data from NOAA or other government agencies.

The biggest private companies could, theoretically, run proprietary models for their customers if NOAA were to quit doing forecasts altogether. For instance, the GFS is open source so someone with a big enough supercomputer could use it.
It depends on what you value. Why expend this effort to switch to a browser that is itself developed by a group of B players and that itself could enshittify any time it wants to? Chrome hasn't gotten to a painful point yet. Maybe once they rollout the V2 block to all users(there are still a lot of enterprise that does not auto upgrade on their own) then we will see more uptick in Firefox or some other alternative.
Great practical effects always age well. It’s unfortunate few producers are willing to pay for them.
> there seems to be this implicit assumption that people working in the bureaucracy are the ones making the rules

Most regulations come about due to agency rulemaking under vague or broad statutes, so this implicit assumption is likely generally true.

Given that power, it doesn't surprise me that Republicans would be uncomfortable with organisations like 18F that had zero ideological diversity, in much the same way that I would expect Democrats to be uncomfortable inheriting an agency composed entirely of MAGA types.

Regardless of their technical prowess, as a government organisation, they should have taken more care to avoid becoming completely partisan, and shouldn't be surprised at this outcome.
Most millionaires are just older people who’ve earned and invested well throughout their careers. They’re not functionally a replacement for anyone who’s a billionaire because they run large businesses.
There is a certain subset of people, who think no punishment is too great for the sins of the USA, and that all its civilians are enjoying unearned privilege -- and deserve to be humbled for their willingness to profit from such an evil system.

These are the same sort of people who fly planes into the twin towers in New York to kill civilians, (i'm not making any claim about this being restricted to any ethnicity or religion, just showing that such people do exist)
Also, most DVD players allowed you to hit stop-stop-play to skip directly to the movie.
The problem with a persistent bureaucracy is that it selects for bureaucrats in favor of perpetuating and expanding the bureaucracy.

So a political appointee who wants to expand government finds willing allies.

An appointee who wants to reduce government finds opposition.

The association of individual political parties with those positions is more variable.
Genuine question: what here is illegal?
The sweet spot: Good enough at AI to make 7 figures. Not good enough to personally be a geopolitical pawn.
EDIT: Going to remove these comments and step away, this week really has me heated and it's not fair to my conversational partners here.
No, because data driven decision making is often just firing from the hip dressed up as being scientific.
No, this is just about keeping people from defecting and taking secrets / cash with them. Many Chinese people working for state controlled companies or similar (schoolteachers were one ridiculous example I think) in super mundane jobs have their passports taken away or exit bans for "national security" reasons.
The article leaves it until the very end to point out the risk of high-performing employees being poached, but I'd say it seems like a huge liability for China. The USA would be well-placed to identify vulnerable Chinese individuals working in AI development and offer them a large sum of money to 'defect'. It would be both a propaganda win for Trump's administration and a relatively cheap way of removing these individuals from the Chinese economy.

If the South China Morning Post is to be believed[1], the salaries for software engineers in AI-related fields are far lower in China than in the USA, despite already being "two thirds higher" than other software engineers in China.

[1]: https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3253492/china-...
If you want lower dosage, then there's a simple trick: just use less frequent injections. For example, try one in 10 days instead of 1 every week. It will result in lower steady-state GLP-1 levels.
I had a similar thought recently[0], though I was thinking about it more from the copyright side. I think there needs to be some kind of additional tax taken from AI profits, possibly justified by copyrights, because otherwise the economic impact might end up being nuts.

[0] https://jackson.dev/post/generative-ai-and-copyright/
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Your point being? You asked why people are upset about the gutting of public services. I gave you a reason why. This thing about 9/11 is a bit of a non sequitur.
> AI companies take people's work without permission.

Yes, which is exactly why making your work source-available results in letting AI companies take it. If you don't want AI companies to take it, keep it private.

> I doubt truly-valuable I.P. is usually laundered.

If that's what you think, then just open source your code. By stopping at source-available, you make sure that only AI companies can take it. Why would you purposefully screw open source users and help AI companies?
It’s been trained to produce valid code, fed millions of examples, and in this case it’s outputting invented syntax. Whether there’s an example in its training data, it’s still a hallucination and shouldn’t have been output since it’s not valid.
Shhh. Don’t let Texans find out…
a 20% tax on revenue would put them out of business, because it's greater than their net margins. Revenue, not profit.
I hear you about the appetite part but what is the evidence that this would affect other impulse purchases that aren’t food?
I run it on test account, if I subtract commissions and potential sleapage, it looked like gambling with odds slightly in my favor, in short, my deep learning pattern recognitions were not strong enough on that market.
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Both major parties have been giving up the power of Congress for decades. They’re constantly handing more power to the executive, seemingly because it lets them dodge responsibility. People get mad at you when you do stuff, but if you just vest some power in an executive agency then people get mad at the President instead when that agency does the stuff.

People have been warning for a long time that this concentration of power in the executive is ripe for abuse. And here we are.
It can be misleading in other ways

For instance it is trivial for a country to reduce crime statistics simply by making things that used to be crimes legal
I don’t know what you’re talking about. I haven’t met a single federal employee that regards their job as some form of patriotic duty. Quite the opposite from what I’ve experienced, it’s mostly “I don’t make as much but at least I can’t get fired”.
You're right. I was being a dick.
We put up with that because it could be better but it's not too bad.

The IDE itself is pretty good and personally I prefer it over Android Studio.
The comment about world events not being what matter in our lives is accurate (world events don't generally happen to us personally-fortunately) but it got me thinking, it might be nice to see some of these done for historical figures, who were integral in those events happening. I mean showing what people were part of in that week of their life, as opposed to things that happened in that week of _your_ life.

For example, Anne Boleyn - born 1501 _or_ 1507 (the earlier date is more accepted), died 1536; Henry VIII first married in 1509 when Anne was just a small child; her first promise of marriage post 1515 was to avert a civil war in Ireland, and Henry meeting her in 1526 led to the creation of the Church of England, her marriage, and then of course, her own execution. She had a full diary. Or on a lighter note, Mozart, who possibly died at the same age, had a life full of compositions and courts.

Those (and many others) would be interesting in their own right, or as timeline comparisons for people who use the site.
And who is China's strongest ally in the world?
Because the DNC would rather Trump than someone like Bernie.
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Apparently 7 figures is the new 6 figures...
> We've been told for a long time that the USA is a racist, sexist, illegitimate nation, founded on slavery and stolen land.

Would it have helped to instead be told that you have poor comprehension skills and limited understanding of nuance?

Because that’s clearly the case if the above quote describes a conclusion that you reached.
Not sure if you follow the news, but the US aren't considered as allies (or dependable, or even stable) by anyone right now. Nobody is happy about it, of course, but it's not like anyone is counting on the US anymore, for better or worse.
I loaded the site up on my ancient browser and old OS, took less than 15 seconds, probably 8 seconds to complete, which is pretty good fare given my net connection. I was able to scroll down with only a minor, almost half second pause half way down. It loads fine for me, however I've denied a bunch of suspect api areas and intrusive scripts. Some scripts are that bad they will bring the system to a near stop, no going anywhere until they get the data they want, I refer to them as browser pirates. Most sites seem to function well without the overly intrusive sods - those sites that don't - also get added to my deny list.
Putting Ozempic over the counter at a local pharmacy would be more than enough to keep people from wasting away, the same thing they do with asthma medication. In 2025, if you really want something, a dark web tutorial is 30 seconds away. And from what I've heard from a client, Ozempic on the dark web is roughly 5x cheaper.
How do you figure? I saw plenty of coverage. What did they miss?
I feel as if taking LSD makes you temporarily schizophrenic/schizoaffective.

i.e. May be fun to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.

Source: Used to take a lot of it. Been a while. A long, long, while. Used up my quota by the time I was 18.
Hm, I’m not sure from your comment if you’ve seen this: if you scroll down on an app’s App Store page, there’s an “Information” section with an “In-App Purchases” subsection that you can expand to see all In-App purchase names and their associated prices.
Completely agree, but these are the things I'm personally interested in, and we're discussing "best", which is subjective.
>The macOS system has a faster disk, faster memory and faster cores. Yet opening files is clearly much slower under macOS according to this test.

Does anyone know what is responsible for this difference? The article doesn't really go into it.
> Does the postal service only have value to you if it delivers 100B pieces of "useful" mail a year, according to some metric of useful?

No, and nothing I've said implies any agreement with the person whose nonsense you were countering. But you were countering it with more nonsense.
TBF, my initial reply was not particularly charitable or steel-manning.

However I do believe that US international policy and procurement ought to operate without bias around whether potential vendor's CEO has praised/insulted a US President.
Would be a total waste of time. Any answer they might give would just be the usual boat-load of blatant and obvious lies which would of course be instantly believed as "gospel truth" by their army of death-cult worshipers.
We're not talking about fair say, I'm talking about a civil war being unrealistic
You can compile from public source code, you can use any extension not using MS proprietary code (notably, other LLMs) AND you can use VSCode without telemetry. Credit where credit is due.. it's miles better than whatever Apple is doing.
You have almost answered the question.

LLMs basically return a Markov chain every single time. Think of it as a function returning a value vs returning a function.

Now, I'm sure a sufficiently large Markov chain can simulate an LLM but the exponentials involved here would make the number of atoms in the universe a small number. The mechanism that compresses this down into a manageable size is famously 'attention is a you need.!'
I didn't know what 18F was until today and all I had to go by was their letter of grievance after being fired. I think it would be foolish to take a post at face value, so I asked. I think your thoughts, while well-conceived, are based on assumption that I should have implicitly known to trust the words of this organization.

I know you're upset and I am too. The United States is in a very embarrassing state right now and it's frustrating, right? Especially the amount of misinformation, disinformation, astroturfing and all that going on. I was fortunate to receive a number of helpful responses soon after my question, which helped guide discussion on the topic in other forums.
Great question, and I suggest you take a look at SatNOGS! It's a community driven satellite ground station project, where you can offer your own antenna and make use of the antennas of others. At my work we host 4 groundstations and regularly make use of those offered. A large open-source project like this can always use more contributors.

https://gitlab.com/librespacefoundation/satnogs

There's over 600 open issues with everything from hardware to website UX, so depending on your field there may be a lot you can contribute.
Inform the opinions of the constituencies of member of congress to show them where there local support is.
Try to force special elections.
Flipping the house seems doable.
The momentum seems there.
I would love to work with these guys, I have been working on a small side project related to Gov. Tech:

- https://rnc.dev

- https://dnc.dev

Nothing on the scale of the amazing work they did but would love to link up if possible.
It’s crazy to think that extant x86 hardware, with a little finagling, can run software from 40-45 years ago.
That’s where I got the idea! I was blown away at how cool that event was, I emailed with their team to get some tips for it as well.

The coolest part was someone brought a Gemini lander to sell!
It's sad to see from inside, too.
At the risk of nitpicking, Xcode isn’t explicitly necessary unless you’re looking to target iDevices specifically. A minimal llvm/clang toolchain can be installed with a terminal command or Homebrew.

And “unbelievably bad” is how I feel when trying to get various projects built from source on any platform all too often. If I’m lucky the maintainer has made a point of getting up and running a matter of running a couple commands but all too often there’s a mountain of assumptions about the user’s environment that cause the build to fail, sending me down rabbitholes. At least with SwiftPM Xcode projects, building is usually as simple as opening the project and hitting ⌘R and doesn’t involve a side trek to Mordor.
Because if you're not getting the real benefit (improved response times due to caching) you can stop worrying about hashing it properly or not and simply serve a copy you know to be good (or at least known and probably version controlled). Now you don't need to hash or know which hash is correct or worry about the user getting served the wrong file because someone else got hacked.
In the west, there is almost no money for open source.
You never did answer my question when you defined what 'woke' means [1].

I'm still waiting for your response given that you seem to be keen of accusing others of going mask off.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43201888
> If that sounds like conspiracy level crazy, it’s because it is.

Stating the facts of this situation makes one sound like a conspiracy nut, which is strategic. It's part of the fascist project of reshaping the perception of reality. We're all supposed to (and over time we will, if it's left unchecked) question our own lying eyes and begin believing it when they say things like "the sky isn't blue in fact it's green".