skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There were many people who felt backstabbed under Biden. Their world was turned upside down and majority of democrats stayed quiet. These people didn’t vote not because they wanted to punish their allies, but because they are still in shock. This is not new for them.

And now majority of democrats are seeing their world turn upside down too. Maybe this will eventually unite and organize the left, maybe not. But Biden has done too much damage to democrats.
Hmm, we must have very different sets of apps. I had a number of issues with common apps working properly on GrapheneOS, even with Google Apps installed. Also, Location Services never really worked, because there seemed to be no inserted alternative to the WiFi and Mobile Tower mapping database necessary for precise location (i.e. Mozilla Location, beacondb.net, position.xyz).

I still used it until recently, but it was a noticably degredation.
Useful for running UI tests on Mobile App with good reviews.
Isn't this the group that had the not that monitored chats and would warn on any use of language that was insufficiently adherent to the woke paradigm?
So yes that's the point of HDCP, but HDCP is broken. And lots of HDMI splitters remove it entirely.
Industries? You mean agencies.

And yes, something like nearly every branch of Federal government with regulatory power is (well, was) investigating him.

Transportation, Justice, Labor, Interior, and Agriculture departments, as well as the National Labor Relations Board, EEOC, EPA, SEC, FCC, FTC.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/20/us/politics/elon-musk-fed... or https://archive.is/x7chR

I seem to recall that Tesla alone has set the record for the largest number of active investigations with the NLRB and EEOC. The sheer number of incidents of blatant racism alone are shocking. At one point Telsa factory employees were spraying racial slurs on the walls and management ignored it.

Do I think the ripping apart of the federal government will further entrench the Oligarch class? Yeah. But honestly Musk seems to just be doing this because he's just getting vengeance on all the departments and people who he thinks won't let him be his very best genius self.
Plasma arc cutting: Scientists decode gas flow dynamics
I tried, I got some results but it meant that my entire body’s digestive system felt like it stopped working. Constipation, nausea at the drop of a hat, finding I’d have to take a fast acting prescription anti nausea multiple times a day. I’m not that overweight, and I felt like my body was getting far less healthy and like I was starving myself. This is on the lowest starter dose, too! It just… yeah, it works as I’d expect an extreme appetite suppressant would.
Well looking at 2024 USD numbers per person for the USA:
GDP: 86,601
Tax revenue: 14,467
Expenses: 19,852

For New Zealand, in NZD:
GDP: 85,933
Tax revenue: 25,185
Expenses: 26,684
I feel like we’re all to complicit for such drastic measure. Which makes it all even more depressing.
Free things are communists obviously, and communism is bad, hence free things are bad. Or something like that
Buy a CD burner and make your own CDs! Much easier.
How in the world did you get from "1:1 student-teacher ratio" to "ruin kids education"? AI is amazing for education. Everyone has their own teacher in their pocket.
Related events in other cities? To start:

* US Boston / New England area -- MIT Swapfest, http://w1mx.mit.edu/flea-at-mit/
How can it not tank?

The US just alienated almost all of its (former) allies and started a trade war.

Add the unemployed former federal staff, the huge breaks in the economy this will cause and you have the perfect storm.

But not to worry, Palantir and Musk will save the day.
20% tax on revenue? That’s insane. Wr’d all be fired if this were implemented.
Many foods and beverages include ingredients whose sole purpose is to hide how sweet it is because otherwise it would be unbearable in your mouth. Gives you a stronger high once it reaches your stomach though.
Not silly when the whole RTO mandates and removing EV is about selling more oil.
As an American adult, I find your list extremely ucompelling. For the average person, that entire list probably accounts for a handful of pieces of mail per year on average. Several of those items are things I've never received by mail and several others are things I'd prefer to receive by email and immediately throw away if I do get them in the mail.
My specific work community has a Slack with a few thousand people and a few active hundred people. We've come to the conclusion that slacks 90day retention message policy is a good thing. It allows new and old to reask and reiscussion topics.

SO should do something similar. Throw out all the mods, all the questions and start fresh every X number of years. No idea if it will work but tossing out the current mods to bring in new ones would change the flow.
Trump basically is Russia. He's a paper billionaire who likely gets direct funding from Russia. He just opened up the Green Card system that makes it trivial for Russian oligarchs to get a U.S. Green Card. He even mentioned them in the announcement.

All of this stuff is directly out of Russia's playbook. It's also Trump's, but Trump is too much of an idiot to accomplish this himself. He knows almost nothing about anything. I can near guarantee that he is being coached.
Do you live in a major liberal city? Then your cost of housing is probably unreasonable by national standards. The CPI for 2025 is 44% determined by housing costs, so if you spend ~44% of your income on housing then it's probably a reasonably accurate measure of the inflation you're experiencing.

The extreme example is NYC where 1 in 3 spend more than 50% of their income on rent, and rent has appreciated there much faster than nationwide. So those people experiencing far higher inflation than the national average.

It's also pretty easy to overestimate how easy previous generations had it. It's called survivorship bias. This recent bout of inflation is bad, but it doesn't hold a candle to what happened in the 70s / 80s, which is still regarded as the good ole days by some
Much as I have read research and heard stories of the knock-on health improvement effects of GLP-1s... Expect a lot of that economic value to be captured by pharmaceutical companies charging for them. And insurance companies charging higher premiums, because they're paying for everyone to be on them.
Can someone confirm if this is an accurate summary of the article: "CLOS dependent maintenance protocol" allows you to run code when a class definition (or one of its ancestors or descendants) changes?
The government has people dedicated to figuring out this stuff. The CBO. They advise Congress and publish reports on legislation.

Every time the Republicans say these things will pay for themselves, and every time the CBO is like, “uh, no, it’ll cost $X trillion over ten years”.

Everyone ignores them. Now we’re several trillion deep in debt from George W Bush and Trump tax cuts, as predicted by the people who actually know how shit works.
You missed the nuance in my statement. May be I will try rephrase it for you

I am saying the use of webmd is all for non medical purposes, just people reading symptoms that they should be getting from their doctor anyway.

Now for the nuance, for the purpose of meaningless consumption it doesn’t matter if there are hallucinations, people are not supposed to take medication based on webmd. Given the really established nature of diseases and symptoms, I find it hard to believe there will be hallucinations, even if there are, it will become better. All of this doesn’t impact me one bit because I don’t do anything medical based off webmd of chat gpt, I go to a doctor
The NTSYNC driver lands this month with Linux 6.14. I've been following the Wine MR the last few weeks eagerly waiting for it. Especially for Nvidia users this should help close some of the performance gap between Windows/Linux while the GPU drivers catch up.

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/7226
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Vought?wprov=sfti1#

It’s all intentional. Trump is just a useful moron for Vought. Remember Trump is very easy to manipulate. The right wing Christian nationalists played him like a fiddle and are getting what they wanted out of it. Kind of wild that one guy has so much influence, especially since he’s completely out of the limelight. Reminds me of Robert Moses and the destruction of Urban America in the 1950s.
US debt as a percentage of GDP: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/gfdegdq188S
Related ongoing threads:

GSA Eliminates 18F - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43221549

18F GitHub Repositories - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43222842
All these numbers are public. I linked this in another response:

https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/natio...

But you can get a lot of data from this site: https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/
That is exactly what motivated me to pursue this theme: I like programming, a bit of math, music, and product development. Why not try to mix everything up? It was a nice ride and it made my PhD enjoyable. I am glad you found the thesis useful. I tried to make it as palatable as possible.
> Spending is flat, revenue goes down, deficit goes up. It's pretty simple math.

Can you demonstrate that this is what actually occurred? This data from the IRS shows inflation-adjusted revenues increasing in the last two decades.

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/22intaba.xls
Just be careful how you use AI generated headshots. If you use it in your CV or LinkedIn profile, it's a red flag.

https://www.recordedfuture.com/research/inside-the-scam-nort...
These views come from an algorithm shoveling it down everyone's throat based on ByteDance' preference, according to some very convincing accusations on that subject.

And the most common way to "skip" the algorithm is paying TikTok to advertise your video and Meta and Twitter to promote your link.
Glad private industry can charge people to file their taxes because of how efficient everything is now, truly an inspiration.

The brilliant use of AI to ignore all the conflicts of interest is very innovative too!

Truly the ability to so efficiently not provide any services is impressive, I think they were heavily inspired by https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode
Worry about your own country, this is our republic. Most of us voted for exactly this, not the hyper-intellectual multi-national HN crowd. Yes it's ugly, but we knew it would be going in. There is no pretty way to go about the reform we're after.

We'll decide for ourselves whether we're under attack or not. I voted for this admin, and while not perfect, I think it's much better than what we had.
> And the anti-interventionists finally have a majority of Americans opposed to spending American lives defending the borders of countries they couldn’t find on a map.

Nope, they've got a leader who is obsessed with the idea of turning Gaza, Panama and Greenland into American colonies and making agreements with Russia on the future of Ukraine. Pretty much every other leader manages a less interventionist first few weeks than that...

If there were prizes handed out for intellectual dishonesty arguing that the people who don't think that ethnically cleansing Gaza to build casinos there is a route to peace in the Middle East are the ones who are arrogantly presupposing they understand the world well enough to intervene in the fates of foreign people would be a surefire winner.
I feel you must underestimate humans...
Keeping up with the Joneses isn't about the sum of money, which by that age is trivial in the Bay Area. It's about the constant attitude of one's unhappiness stemming deeply from a sense that others are doing better than oneself. Fairness is a concept with diverse meanings: for some it means equality and for others it means proportionality. The fact that you have not equalized your wealth to the global median by transferring fractions to those lower than you proves that you do not believe in equality and retain some concept of proportionality.

It's unsurprising that one conveniently draws the line at one's own wealth as decent and fair but it should also be unsurprising when others do the same with their own larger amounts.

The average Indian (the modal nationality in the world), as an example, must work 200 years to gain the wealth you did at the age of 33. Show us your commitment to fairness and decency. I am curious to see you achieve parity with him.
> I know what devs do, QA folks do, product owners, scrum masters, UX specialists, etc. But what were these folks doing as “technologists?”

A technologist is proficient in more than one of those individual disciplines and is willing to make themselves skilled enough to cross across those disciplines in the name of better technology.
To be honest I am not sure I am seeing any reaction from the other fraction either. Yes I do read articles in NYT, and page linked above, but is there any opposition? protests about what is going on, about putting puppets on top of agencies, siding with Russia, dismantling the government?

It seems to me the strategy for the other fraction is to maybe hope for the best and maybe wait for the next election.
Was just discussing this with my wife
This is an incredibly inflammatory and culture war-charged take. Even if you think the people working at this government agency were politically driven, there is public evidence to support that they did good work and were helping modernize government IT in a very cost-effective manner.
Lol have you ever been to China
By default, the SDKs use our API endpoints, where we run a combination of models to maximize accuracy and reliability. This also enables us to provide logging with screenshots and reasoning to help with debugging.

That said, we're currently experimenting with a few customers who run our tooling against their own hosted models. While it's not publicly available yet, we might introduce that option going forward.

Would love to hear more about your use case, if a self-hosted setup is relevant or just the use of your own LLM tokens?
I don't know why you're getting downvoted, but you are correct. It's essential that as many people as possible know about and use Direct File this year, to provide evidence that it ought to be continued.
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Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

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It would be lovely if you could have the USPS scan and send all physical mail electronically (as a paid Mail + Pro fee) --and have it piped directly to a GPT who reads all the mail, logs the data into Sqlite3 and then have summaries, reminders, due dates, amount, budget hits, as daily summaries from your GPT of choice..

And then you can block marketing mail thats sent to you, and the USPS can encrypt the images that are sent to you...

But you still need to receive things that are physical (like credit cards)

There used to be mail services that people could have their mail routed to...

But yeah, we still need mail - but we need "Mail+Pro" Subscription - And now the "You have mail" guy can be replaced by AI...
Oil and Gas will just pay for premium forecasts we all get for free now.
Note: I’m summarizing a very complex topic as best I can. There is a lot of nuance and thought that goes into a properly implemented land value tax (LVT) that I’m not covering here.

The reason for the LVT is because land doesn’t otherwise follow market dynamics.

In a functioning market you have pressures to sell things. If you can sell something at a reasonably high enough profit margin there is every incentive to do so. There is no benefit to waiting or holding if the price is right. This also encourages competitors who may try to sell a superior version of a widget at the same price or lower, and thus we have basic functioning market dynamics that help achieve relative price stability. It also achieves maximal utility for said market

Real estate however doesn’t work this way. Once someone owns a plot of land there is no incentive to sell. We can’t simply make more, and the things that make said land more or less valuable aren’t inherent to the land but rather where it is located and/or what’s on top of said land.

An LVT is a way to introduce a functioning market dynamic on land. It puts pressure either selling the land or utilizing it maximally. It becomes more expensive over time to hold land that is under utilized. This forces land owners into a set of choices: hold as is but pay an inevitably increasing tax on the holdings, sell part of the land to reduce the holdings, or further develop the land to offset the cost.

Without this function, there is no functioning marketplace for land. Once you own it you can largely hold it forever, without any regard to the actualized value of the land. So for example, a 4 acre lot sitting on “prime” (lack of a better term) real estate with only 1 suburban style house has zero incentive to become maximally utilized even though its value has increased exponentially relative to its utilization.

A LVT is one (and full disclosure I’m a big fan of the land value tax) such proposal to that problem
The US is treating its enemies better than its friends right now
edit: Whoops.
I used "they" following a commented who used "they" referring to those creating the budget, I.e. congress creating it +the president signing off on it.
On the other hand, the Ultibo OS for the Raspberry Pi is written in FreePascal.
I used Maestro for one year after we switched from Detox. It's awesome to start end-to-end tests with and definitely the most accessible. However, in the end, we had to switch to Appium. While it's great to get started quickly, I definitely wouldn't recommend it for a serious production system pipeline. We encountered several issues:

- When attempting to write logic using JavaScript, there were issues such as error stacks providing no useful information and a complete lack of console logging. The injection of variables and the custom fetch also made linting ineffective. At least Maestro now supports ES6 via GraalJS.

- Coordination of test flows is lacking. I wish I could retry each flow individually. Ultimately, I had to create a wrapper (director) around Maestro to provide things like recordings, retries on failing tests, and (relevant) JSON output for our CI. I also needed to write custom reporters for Slack and other integrations. While these are not a core need for a testing tool, when I switched to Appium + Webdriver, most of these tools were available out-of-the-box (though they come with their own issues as well).

- When we updated XCode or iOS to newer versions, things tended to break. We often had to freeze the pipeline versions and wait until fixes were released, regularly checking GitHub issues to see if updates became available.

- We also experienced strange, random test timeouts which started to be frequently enought to break even with retries. These happened even though we had frozen versions of Maestro, XCode, and iOS, so it wasn't Maestro's fault, but it was problematic enough that we decided to move away from it, because we couldn't isolate the root cause.

I definitely miss the simplicity of Maestro. Appium takes more time to set up and comes with its own set of issues.

I still follow the project (and also the Flashlight.dev project, which uses Maestro for performance measurement), and looking forward to updates, which the team does constantly.

If you are a startup with no QAs I definetly would go with the Maestro route, but avoid it for a complex app pipeline use case, at least for now.
Looking for a Hustler Co-Founder – Everyone Else Can Keep Scrolling
Who flags this down?
1 hour old at 700 points, but at the bottom of the front page?
Yes it's political, but what isn't.
The problem is Republicans spend (it’s actually super hard to cut government spending, a whole lot of it is very popular or is spending that saves money in other ways) and cut taxes. They’re talking about doing it again. They are full to the eyeballs with shit when they complain about the deficit.
Related ongoing threads:

A Letter to the American People - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43224350 - March 2025 (298 comments)

18F GitHub Repositories - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43222842
Oh, it's amazing. And appalling.
I think there is a good chance. Not enough for me to buy SPX puts though!
The NNSA firings alone should have been the red flag that got everyone out in the streets.
Congress itself without any aides is big enough to merit SSO. Sounds like you don't want a democracy or don't understand how government works. Or you want a total anarchist society.
I didn't downvote, but I assume its because the GP comment reads a bit argumentative and the "they" use can be understood in context with the earlier comments.
Yep. We're legitimately under attack.
> Basically everything is phoning home this days. Also vscode,

Helix is not.
Yes, and I can attest they treated me well.
We have that now. You saw all those billionaires at the inauguration, those people have grown into government.
Show HN: World-Price – Making international pricing transparent and reassuring
As someone living outside a country with a popular currency, I hated wanting a product but not being able to buy it due to a different currency. Either it's not allowed or there are immense fees.

So I built World-Price, an embeddable pricing table generator that integrates with stripe to generate clean prices (either .99 prices or .00 prices) for every currency to be able to accept every user.

Right now I have released a somewhat MVP, and would love your feedback if this provides use to you. Enjoy!
I think this was the motivation for this oligarchal take-over of the US Government. They were either going to win this election and do whatever they can to avoid the 'tax the rich' outcome, or have to move away for the USA to get "their important work" (of avoiding taxes) done.
It would become substantially more expensive and thus substantially less in volume.

Which indirectly shows the efficiency and value of the USPS. The fact that they can get stuff to people so cheaply is something nobody else can replicate.
> getting back under control until Trump

You seem to have misread my comment, I wrote "until", not "under".

Also, it actually increased twice under Obama. The peak before COVID was in FY 2008 (fully under Bush), then it was slightly better in FY 2009 (Bush and Obama), then rose again in FY 2010 (fully Obama), then declined until FY 2016 when it rose again (fully Obama) and continued rising under Trump.
As the saying goes, people sell for a variety of reasons, so in the immeasurably large sea of the modern financial world, I would say it's a complete waste to put any thought to 1. Focus on whatever you believe will be the best way to brace yourself and your loved ones for the long term ride we're on.
Trying to streamline the government of a massive nation the same way you would treat efficiency projects at a large corporation represents a miscalculation so inestimably ignorant that it has to be malicious.

If the United States had lost a world war with Russia & China coalition, this is exactly what the victorious powers would do to concentrate power into the hands of a few figureheads and oligarchs. This administration has saved them the trouble. This is what losing an economic & cultural conflict in the modern era looks like.
Just because your email is 90% junk doesn't mean delivering it once a week is an acceptable tradeoff. Those are 100B items paid to be sent.
Do you apply this logic to DOGE as well? Absurd.
But humanity maaan. What about humanity?