skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The term “checks and balances” refers to the constitution. The constitution says, as the first sentence of Article II: “The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.”

Article I and Article III have nearly identical language. Nobody thinks Congressional staffers or judicial law clerks impose “checks and balances” on the elected or appointed officials that hold the constitutional office. Why is the President any different?
Absolutely not. It wasn’t a failure, it’s job was entirely to assist other agencies modernize their tooling. As an auxiliary program, it helped others to without taking the credit. Let me ask: are IT departments losses to you?

The gov is _always_ inefficient if you consider profit to be the only indicator of success. The government isn’t here to make a buck, it is here to help its populace. The free tax filing helped its populace, modernizing the passport application process helped the populace, and doing these things (and many more) in a way that is stable without interrupting the system is extremely impressive.

DOGE will not do anything useful, they aren’t adding, only removing. Elon hired children he could easily convince to do the dirty work, he will proceed to take credit for what they do (if it is good) and blame them for any bad outcomes. He knows nothing about AI other than what he’s read in pop-sci books, headlines, or sci-fi novels, so he won’t be iterating on 18f (or anything) with AI. If anything good happens, it will be in spite of this terrible person.

How he has managed to maintain his smart facade to you is beyond me. The tipping point for me was when he said ‘he knew more about manufacturing than anyone alive.’ Imagine, buying a car company, hiring smart people to run it, and then believing that their collective knowledge is somehow yours.

He is an insecure person who wants to look impressive and has never managed to find anything he is actually good at. He even cheats on his video games, refusing to be not at the top.
> In the digital age, almost impossible. Documentation, process automation, and knowledge transfer mitigate this risk.

Are you sure you really work at AWS? Dude, how often do you realize the documentation is not sufficient and you have to dig through people's brain to actually get the nuances, that is, lucky enough they are still around? lolll
US signed memorandum of security for Ukraine. Not involving into Ukraine war means:
1. Nuke is the only option to guarantee security. Everyone should get one. Iran, Venezuela etc.
2. If you have nukes you can occupy neighbors with little/no punishment. Taiwan is the next in line.
3. US is not an ally, could not be trusted in any way.

Sad to see how Trump is dismantling USA from it's role as a global superpower.
When did 4 happen?
This is a war of attrition.

Russia is expending its soviet cold war materiel. Its trade embargo is seriously undermining its ability to continue to fight. It may be sooner than we think that they'll run out of weapons and equipment so long as Ukraine has support from its allies.
The EU and Australia seem to survive a 20% VAT.

What if we did the biggest 100 or 1000 companies at a smaller rate, instead?
I mentioned Ruby and Python in this vein, but PHP with Laravel would count in my book too. That said, PHP may be nearing the stage Java has gotten to, where it’s well-understood but is perceived as outdated enough that it causes hiring and retention friction.
OpenAI's startup empire: The companies backed by its venture fund
TFA addresses this-

>A serious problem, if you’re concerned about debt and deficits—I’ll address that some other time—is that, aside from the late 1990s, revenues haven’t kept up with spending since around 1970. They took hits from George W. Bush’s tax cuts after 2001 and from Trump’s after 2017, but the revenue line has also been essentially flat for decades, just at a level well below spending. Funnily, the people most concerned about debts and deficits—rich people and those who shill for them—are the ones most opposed to paying taxes.
You can add yourself to the opt-out prescreen list to remove credit card offers for a 5-year period. If you change your mind, you can opt back in at any time.

https://www.optoutprescreen.com/
Look at the actual budget[1][2] some time.

We spend a _lot_ on defense, social security, and medicare/medicaid (which I believe are all allocated as part of congressional laws, and not part of the discretionary budget).

Maybe if corporations and the richest tax bracket actually paid their fair share of taxes, it would be fine? Instead the Republican congress has historically gone with _tax cuts_ for the wealthiest instead.

[1]: https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/federal_budget_detail_2...

[2]: https://usafacts.org/articles/this-chart-tells-you-everythin...
Everyone should watch the director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, speak on government workers:

We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down so that the EPA can’t do all of the rules against our energy industry because they have no bandwidth financially to do so. We want to put them in trauma.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBH9TmeJN_M

18F are the bureaucrats they want to traumatize.
A blockchain-based social network designed to ensure the absolute immutability of content. Once a post is published, it becomes permanently recorded on the blockchain, making it impossible to edit or delete. This guarantees a transparent, censorship-resistant, and tamper-proof system where information remains unchanged over time.

Users can create posts and engage in discussions through comments, knowing that their contributions will always be preserved. Additionally, the platform offers a privacy feature that allows posts to be marked as private. In such cases, access is restricted, and only individuals with the corresponding cryptographic key can view the content.

By leveraging blockchain technology, this platform provides a decentralized and trustless environment where digital permanence is fundamental.
I would say Google Voice is fine. I ported my POTS number to a burner cell and from there to Google Voice (some technical reason for that runaround) and other than having to dump in $10 once to kick it back into function when it hiccuped it has been a free and useful app for years.
And democracies in Europe are annoying, want you to step down after 4 years. Almost a threat
Like I said elsewhere, in most re-org downsizing, it's all a political game. All the departments are fighting to get the least cut.

Engineers still think like engineers. Time to get political.
> sell them at around 25% of their original value

This does not seem likely as even by adding this many cars to the market, there’s no way they would sell at 25% of value unless there’s shenanigans.
https://shots.co - its a really nice and free mockup generator for apps and websites and looks really clean
Ah, you meant python modules written in C, rather than CPython modules. That's right then.
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and taking HN threads further into flamewar? We already asked you this recently (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42936238) and you've continued to do a ton of it.

If you keep this up, we're going to have to ban you, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
80% of this hemorrhaging is due to the prefunding pensions requirement that Congress put upon the USPS.

And it’s a service! It’s not supposed to make money. The government is not an investment firm for taxpayers. You might as well ask when we’re going to scale back the military. We hardly use it and it’s running at a loss!
It actually does align with my political view.

Someone else posted some links in this thread already. But OK here: https://www.uspsoig.gov/sites/default/files/reports/2024-09/...
I don’t know about AccuWeather specifically, but don’t most weather sites ultimately get their forecasts from the National Weather Service?
If you were asking what is Musk's motivation to knock over a corner store then sure, hundreds of billions of dollars argues against. But the US government spent over $6 trillion last year, if Elon ran AmericaX, a "much more efficient" replacement for the United States of America it makes hundreds of billions seem like chicken feed.

But sure, money isn't everything, maybe he's going to destroy some bureaucrats who annoyed him, or who he imagines annoyed him, or who symbolically represent some annoying idea. It doesn't really matter why, American voters apparently weren't even capable of imagining why it might be a bad idea - which isn't great, but the American system of government is especially ill-suited to solving this sort of problem which compounds that.
Now do population adjusted.
Please let me know how you find the landing page or the service itself!
/s, right? We all saw what the jokers did with their security practices a few weeks ago. I assume that their technical incompetence is clear even to MAGA devotees.
Sabotage Russian petroleum production and refinery operations then. Done properly, it will force shutting of supply wells for years, ending the conflict.
You can't "doxx" someone working as a government advisor. The public has an absolute right to know.
The average federal US employee earns $106k a year on top of quite a few generous benefits.

I don't think, based on available data, that they are underpaid relative to the private sector, though I see it said so often online it appears to be "common knowledge". Maybe it was true 50 years ago? Maybe it's just the people repeating it... Are they paid less compared to high tech? Yes.
This is kind of a silly argument. You’re not going to stop your movie to take a screenshot so you can magnify the text or run some TTS on it.

If you want movies to be “accessible”, you should argue for that. Being able to screenshot a movie doesn’t help make them accessible in the first place.
No one thinks that civil service doesn't have bloat and inefficiencies. This org (and many of the other cuts) wasn't bloat or inefficiency though, they were a good and cost effective service for the American people.
> even if by some chance it included some "vi mode", it would simply be an emulation, not an actual vi editor

Lem supports vim key bindings, according to its README.

btw, I don't have any issues with emacs keybindings, but I chuckled at the "Emacs RSI bindings" :)

In fact, I think vim keybindings are superior for editing - you can't beat hitting "." to repeat an action - but after using emacs for ~5 years I find myself in it a lot more than I expected when I started using it. The whole thing with key bindings is that for whichever one(s) you use your muscle memory catches up.
Argh, my bad. Definitely a misread on my part.
Amphetamine for procrastination already has an analogy for weight loss: amphetamine.

The analogy for a GLP-1 agonist for procrastination would be something safer yet possibly more effective.
Spending is not increasing (which is the hype) but it is consistently above revenues, but every president except Clinton. Thus the deficit grows every year.

The trick: It’s that US debt is denominated in US dollars, which means the US can always print more money to pay off its debt (that has other consequences like inflation if done too quickly). Secondly the US economy and government has been such that its debt is considered one of if no the “safest” investment.
This is a very common human reaction.
When things don't change quickly enough, a more radical approach ends up being taken even though it almost never is the right approach.

It's the same reason why people don't like Java.
It's Old, verbose and stable, but who wants that.
That's why people like Javascript, but at the end of the day, Java is the best.

Stable and boring and slow politics is the good politics. Not this shit that's happening right now.
The people were split almost evenly. That should not translate into the side that squeaked out a win being able to take a wrecking ball to everything.
> They also worry that executives could be detained and used as a bargaining chip in U.S.-China negotiations, in an echo of a fight over a Huawei executive held in Canada at Washington’s request during the first Trump administration.

Does anybody doubt that this is a reasonable concern? The Feds would probably throw the book at those guys for every form of IP theft, "conspiracy to commit economic espionage," "theft of trade secrets," and you can't ever forget the ubiquitous "wire fraud."

If I were any of the Deepseek guys, the furthest I'd go on vacation would be Thailand or Mongolia. Even Japan would seem dangerous.

Meanwhile the folks at Meta/Anthropic/OpenAI are totally in the clear, lol. They can scrape libgen, but it's no big deal, don't worry about it.
Any negative side effects?
Often the fix is trivial once the issue is troubleshooted properly.

You may still wish to not fix it for various reasons.
…that’s not how any of this works, and we’re tired of having to entertain this sort of sycophant idiocy that ignores basic maths and statistics.

But just to drop the mic for anyone scrolling past your comment and thinking it has merit, let me make it clear why your taste in boot leather is disgustingly banal.

1) There’s an estimated 65 million millionaires on Earth. Let’s be super generous and say that 60 million of those have a net worth of at least $10mil USD, which would make the $5mil “golden visa” a viable investment without bankrupting them.

2) Now we deduct around 25 million people from that number, because that’s how many millionaires America is estimated to have. Now your audience is down to just 35 million people

3) Of those numbers, they’ve likely had multiple years to consider investing into the prior “golden visa”, which would’ve been achievable with about $100k. They did not apply, so it stands to reason they were not interested. So now our theoretical customer base is 0 people.

4) Now let’s consider newly-minted millionaires, say the AI and Quantum griftos. Being incredibly generous, let’s keep the same ratio as above, of 2/3rds being outside the USA. We’re now figuring, what, a million people? Tops?

5) Except, just like the crypto griftos, these people are likely to have a distrust of democratic institutions and regulations. So they’re unlikely to have begun the visa process beforehand at the lower rates, and now have to gauge the value of a US visa at $5m instead of $100k.

6) Factoring the increased costs of housing, healthcare, staples, and essentials, it’s highly unlikely they’d consider America as a viable destination over other, cheaper, more stable countries - like Switzerland. But being generous again, let’s say 250k people think yeah, America is where I want to be.

7) Except they can just buy property and visit on a tourist visa for less, keeping their main base elsewhere. They don’t have to migrate. So let’s cut that down to 50k who see the value in migrating, and can afford it, and can eat the higher costs of living in the USA, and can stomach the increased polarization and instability.

50k * 5mil = $250bn, or about a third of the defense budget. For one fiscal year.

They're lying to your face, and you need to accept that.
> Fairly sure Clinton left with a surplus.

1998-2001 had budget surpluses [0], but despite some quarterly drops, the national debt was generally climbing all through that period. [1]

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFSD

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEBTN
Still plenty of places have "shadow security questions" based on knowing the answers to some of these things already.
> Germany, not Russia, broke that one.

It was about mutual occupation of Poland. Now Trump is talking with putin how they want to divide Ukraine.
No worries, you actually had me questioning what I wrote and I had to make sure I didn't mistype "under" for "until". macOS is aggressively wrong with autocorrect and I hadn't turned it off on this computer.
I'm not sure what you mean by "allowed". It's common and quite popular to discuss other strategies for controlling obesity. If someone invented a diet or exercise plan that works as well as Ozempic, it would be huge. But nobody's yet been able to do so, which I suspect is because diet and exercise are fundamentally not effective anti-obesity strategies.
Those side effects are from injecting weekly doses, right?

I'm curious if daily oral doses which are smaller will solve a bunch of these problems at once, while also mitigating the supply-chain problems.
That’s like saying “general and special relativity” is a “theory.” Technically correct but misleading.

Articles I, II, and III, have nearly identical clauses vesting the legislative, judicial, and executive power, respectively, in Congress, the President, and the Supreme Court.

Does anyone think Congress can create a law that enables the legislative or judicial powers to be exercised by employees independent of the control of the constitutional actors in which those powers are vested? It would be madness to say that Congress can create a law creating an entity in the judicial branch that can adjudicate cases without oversight from an Article III judge. Nobody thinks that’s true.
The color shift was the most obvious to me. The other artifacts may not be super visible, but if you care about preserving the original picture, it’s certainly an important quality difference.
Calling private methods without losing sleep at night
If you seized the entirety of assets of US billionaires, you could only run the country for 6 months max. So it proves immediately that simply taxing them more isn't the correct answer and won't have any meaningful effect whatsoever.

Anyway, Federal taxes are income based at this time and most billionaires do not have income except when they sell an asset for a profit. Billionaires do tend to pay huge amounts in state and local taxes which are used more efficiently anyway. One billionaire leaving a town during covid due to increased tax burden and SALT exemption reduction effectively bankrupted them and the school district.

A baby born 5 seconds ago already inherits 100k in debt which is nothing other than a delayed exponential tax on top of all the other ones he or she will pay in their life. We have to reduce spending by a massive amount to get to fiscal sustainability.
What makes you believe that housing is not included? Consider using a search engine (Google is pretty good) and using keywords like "cpi shelter weight" or "cpi housing weight". The BLS has a page on the subject.
The difference you’re not accounting for is that when someone buys a house, in practice they value it as an asset that must increase in value, not simply as a way to offset rent costs, which is effectively what you’re saying.

Thats the real problem. People believe their 500K house must go up in value and not fluctuate in value like any other marketplace of goods would see, and therefore are in opposition to anything that reduces the value of the home in which they live.

That’s why homeowners routinely bend over backwards to maintain home values. The general consensus society has is it’s one of the primary nest egg assets, and for many it’s their biggest one and they act in that self interest.

Real estate lacks the functioning market dynamics you see in every other area of economic activity, in part because we have collectively as a society decided long ago to adopt policies that would enshrine protecting home values above other concerns.

Edit: This also captures capital in an unproductive manner because real estate doesn’t have functioning market dynamics.

Imagine instead of having ever increasing real estate costs (the reality of todays world) which benefit only a finite fraction of economic investment but make up a huge total of the average persons expenses, that productivity gains could instead be captured by other investments like stocks. You’d have more people able to invest in companies, meaning there well could be more companies to invest in, increasing the health of other markets in turn. People will put their money somewhere and naturally a productive business is one such place afterall

Instead, one of life’s biggest overall expenses not only increases over time in aggregate but the value is captured by an fraction of the population of that increase, which is really a net loss to economic activity more broadly
Example: “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'”
Yep, GPT 4.5 is not a breakthrough, but there will be more breakthroughs.

Someone will figure out how to make AIs understand their own ignorance and stop bullshitting when they don't know something, someone will figure out how to make AIs learn on the fly instead of fine-tuning new model versions, etc.
18f.gsa.gov - https://web.archive.org/web/20250301115820/https://18f.gsa.g...
This is the real risk, from Chinese gov point of view!
And as usual, answers.microsoft.com gives a very long non-answer, including gems such as:

> Most internet plans are asymmetrical, meaning they offer a higher download speed and lower upload speed. This is because typical internet usage involves more downloading then uploading.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumber's_nightmare
In the compositing world we probably shouldn't be using overlays anyway.
It's linked from the main website if you hit the "Log In" button and there was communication to customers about this, though I had the same initial reaction, which is why I looked around for corroboration before posting this.
As much as I'm behind Norway in this little spat, I think Putin's Arctic fleet might smell an opportunity to mess with Norway a bit more, and then who will they beg for help?
Fungi Move Among Us
Perhaps you should use the internet and find out before asking questions that are stupendously biased.
Look at the big picture:

- The US have pushed allied away (nobody trusts the US anymore, and I don't know which country would count the US as an ally today)

- The US have humiliated Ukraine and are destabilizing Europe (some of those ex allies)

- The US have threatened ex allies (including Europe, again) militarily

- The US are threatening partners (those ex allies) economically

In the last 2 months, the US have gone on a way to change most of their allies into enemies at an unprecedented speed.

Why should the US contribute to helping Europe against Russia's expansionism? In a world where the US have allies, that's obvious. In a world where the US want to be alone, it's less clear, but I would argue that destabilising Europe is not good for the economy, and hence for the average american. It's only good for the US oligarchs who are now running the country.
I don't see any evidence that 18F was any more "far-left" than tech workers on average.
Yeah I said exactly that.
It's more than that, it's unbelievably dangerous. There's a reason world leaders don't do stuff like that in public, we just signaled loud and clear we're absolutely not to be trusted. If China wants to make a move on Taiwan, the DPRK wants to shell Seoul, or Russia wants to test Article 5 they just got a lot more confident in our lack of conviction. And all our allies had better be drawing up contingencies that don't involve us coming to their aid.
Are these the same effects that folks would get if they stopped eating cold turkey?

Would Zofran throughout the day help with the side effects until the body adjusted?
Video showing some examples how LLMs are starting to try to self-preserve
Yes, Tiny Tapeout has its own MUXing layer to select which user project should be connected.

The Caravel management engine is used for single project chips, but it is innocuous. It just allows debugging and probing signals, and use of common I/O structure for different user projects. You don't have to actively use it.

It's hardly hidden, too: you have to instantiate it.