skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not tricky, because costs are _not_ being cut -- the next budget will _add_ at least $2T to the deficit.

We're cutting the NPS, USFS and BLM so that we can increase the defense budget by $150B (with a B) and send troops to the Mexican border.

Not a good trade-off at all.
No. I never said you shouldn’t use it. I never even said it was a bad idea. But I did say to be careful. Find out if your cashier is giving the right change when you hire them, before you have the cops showing up to accuse your business of theft.
Thanks for the reply! I usually add a little bit about me at the end of the post as a bonus, helps people as HN doesn't have a strong profile page, but anyway, thanks for sharing, it's much appreciated.

I wish you an amazing weekend!
Also, sometimes a flag does exist, but the example places it incorrectly, causing the command to reject it. Or, a flag used to exist but was removed in the latest versions.
Xcode constantly phones home
Jevons paradox applied to healthy people vs unhealthy. Healthy people create more demand not less.

You order out you just order healthier. Healthier food is more expensive than junk food.

You buy an expensive bike. More clothes.

Healthcare is still expensive because people get older and older people need more care.
I've been trying for 2 days to view this image and it always gives me an error: {"data":{"error":"Imgur is temporarily over capacity. Please try again later."},"success":false,"status":403}
It's a contract for a glorified enterprise network with a massive amount of red tape, what exactly would be SpaceXs irreplaceable specialized knowledge here?

Last one to praise Verizon but this sounds exactly like the mindnumbingly boring stuff they do.
Testing is better than nothing, but still highly fallible. Take these winning examples from the underhanded C contest [0], [1], where the issues are completely innocuous mistakes that seem to work perfectly despite completely undermining the nominal purpose of the code. You can't substitute an automated process for thinking deeply and carefully about the code.

[0] https://www.underhanded-c.org/#winner
[1] https://www.underhanded-c.org/_page_id_17.html
Looks like this is a worse case/best case scenario, rarely it will happen like that. There will be some effect but if people aren’t eating muffins, they are eating power balls. Not drinking beer, drinking tea. I would ear mark a 5-10% of that effect max, he’s going for 100%
I think it is actually a good idea, in theory, but the penalties for failure to file are hefty.
Can you please stop breaking the site guidelines? We've asked you many times and you've still been doing it repeatedly, such as here and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43062203.

This is not cool:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42661453 (Jan 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42526674 (Dec 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38225621 (Nov 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37358816 (Sept 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36994995 (Aug 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35646889 (April 2023)

I don't want to ban you, but if you keep this up we're going to have to. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules, that would be good.
Boy should you watch extortion on live TV from yesterday. I have heard that a president was unsuccessfully impeached for exact same thing a few years back.
More people need to understand this. There was an article that explained it concisely but i can't find anymore (and of course LLMs are not helpful in this because they don't work well when you want them to retrieve actual information)
I wonder, as batteries and electric (BLDC) motors get better and better, if we will find applications where electric ducted fans outperform (electric driven) propellers, since electric motors are the same complexity regardless of application.
I think we disagree here then. The article you linked assumes no land value tax so I don't think it's relevant.

My claim that land value tax would decrease property prices does admittedly depend on the tax rate. Do you dispute the fact that there is some tax rate where house prices would decrease? For example, going above 100% tax rates would actually force people off land so to me this seems obvious because clearly nobody would want to hold property if it cost more to hold than they could afford... So obviously there is some tax rate lower than 100% where property prices would start to decrease even accounting for other growth factors. Heck, you could even ignore it being a land value tax. This would happen with a property tax as well.

Does that make sense?

Keep in mind that the number that you quote there in the article would obviously change depending on the price of housing. People move out of cities or countries all the time due to cost of living.

EDIT: this seems pretty straightforward to me. It's a net present value calculation with an annual payment. Obviously there is some annual payment where net present value will decrease...
Woo! Blatant self-dealing. Hardcore!

Banana republic kleptocracy will not help America.
So you're saying that on average if you can afford to buy a house, it's bigger and better than it used to be, but also that the fraction of people who can afford to do that is stagnating or declining.
Smart phones killed Skypes rich P2P. Then Microsoft added permanent nodes too little too late. The synching was awful on mobile too. The app would lock up waiting to download every single chatlog going back years. Just download the last ten and quietly download the rest in a separate thread.

Microsoft was not fast moving enough to keep Skype at its prime.
I put in a code reviewer that runs and comments when a pull request is created using Github actions and Microsoft GenAIScript. It's pretty straightforward. The key thing is we have total control over the prompt to fit our repo and devs needs, can make it multi-stage and deterministic using Typescript code or use agents in GenAIScript to open adjacent files for more context. The value we've received is that a dev can look over the review to catch anything they might have missed and make changes all before another dev looks at it. That saves time. I've seen devs open draft pull requests to get preliminary feedback on work in progress. The reviewer script is versioned with the repo. Currently using a mix of gpt-4o and gpt-4o-mini in parts of the script to do smaller tasks.
> I use LLMs for writing generic, repetitive code, like scaffolding. It's OK with boring, generic stuff.

In other words, they're OK in use-cases that programmers need to eliminate, because it means there's high demand for a reusable library, some new syntax sugar, or an improved API.
I get my information from actual european reports, which is pretty far from russian propaganda. It's a little tedious to be told every time this is the case, and no amount of proof (signed and sourced from websites belonging to EU institutions no less) will change people's minds. That is what blatant propaganda looks like. Folks cannot contend with facts anymore in their rabid need to seem against whatever the demon of the month is. Sometimes in a conflict everyone is just garbage and that's okay.
> the rich have been transferring money from the poor to themselves at a dramatic rate.

How does this work? Where do the poor get wealth, on a continual basis, for the rich to take? If the poor have so little, and have had their fraction of the wealth taken by the rich for three decades, assuming things have got worse for the poor since the end of the eighties, where’s all this wealth coming from?

I’m not singling out here, this is a question for the general audience.
That makes sense... but what about Paralysis by Analysis?
If breckenedge had corrected the department's name or used more accurate rounding or something of that ilk I'd probably agree with you. Whether programs are cancelled vs have funded decreased some (+ other information from the linked article) is, to me, a substantial difference in understanding what negative impacts might be occurring as a result of actions of the DOGE.
But it is unclear how. America is now Russian ally and a danger/bully to other countries. So, America making itself more corrupt and consequently likely weaker or less performing may turn out either way for others.

Musk becoming richer and even more powerful is bad result tho.
> We know this wasn’t done when they were rummaging around the Treasury.

Sorry, do you have a source for that? Having trouble verifying it.

I agree there are standard vetting and security clearances, and they should be followed.
Yet another example how LLMs just regurgitate training data in a slightly mangled form, making most of their use and maybe even training copyright infringement.
Just remember the warning about "Europa"...
> They claim that if the government could calculate taxes for you, then it would be too easy... to add new taxes that you wouldn't notice.

As a non-American whose country break out the VAT into a separate line item, with the explicit intent to inform consumers how much tax they are paying, and who has shopped in countries where they roll it all into one, I can say that this 'claim' is absolutely what happens in practice.
Yes, as long as there’s a shortage of housing no one is going to build “utility” (read low-profit) housing when you could build high-profit “luxury” housing.

Imagine you have a development company that is restricted to building one building a year instead of five—what would you build? The kind that makes you money. People forget each project is risky for the builder.

Even mid-profit is selected against in an intense shortage.
Nearly 25 years later, Terminator 2 is getting a new video game
I have always had ADHD, but I had zero access to mental health care when growing up. I was lucky because I'm really good at math (including competition-style math) and computer science, so it did not cause a _lot_ of issues at that time.

Over time, I adapted on my own. E.g. by buying several sets of things like scissors and screwdrivers so that I don't end up misplacing _all_ of them. Or by structuring the work so that I can switch attention between high-priority tasks.

> If you don't believe you have it, was this why you didn't previously consider taking performance-enhancing drugs?

I was really apprehensive about using mind-altering drugs, and amphetamines always sounded pretty scary.

On a more philosophical basis, should performance-enhancing drugs be available more widely anyway, with appropriate safeguards against abuse?
Smartphones killed Skypes strong P2P presence.
IIRC these organizations were originally formed in reaction to how badly contractors screwed up the original healthcare.gov rollout? So if the idea is to replace them with a private sector contract who gets it? Palantir?
You can admire SpaceX's innovation and dislike Verizon while still being concerned that this is a land grab by Musk.

We are talking about the FENS contract here that was awarded after a competitive bid process in 2023. Verizon and their partners (eg Saab aerospace) beat out HarrisL3, Raytheon, and some others.

https://aviationweek.com/air-transport/safety-ops-regulation...

If Musk is asserting that the contract was improperly awarded, then there are very well established processes to appeal. (And such appeals would also stop work on the project pending resolution.)

However what I see instead is that he is simply instructing the FAA to cancel the deal and use Starlink/SpaceX instead. That is at best murky and at worst corrupt.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/lawmakers-question-musk-inf...

As for Musk's companies' ability to execute on the details of the contract, knowing how to make cellphone calls via a satellite is a million miles away from knowing how to migrate a massive, and safety critical, telecommunications infrastructure from 2000s-era tech to 2024.

Chestertons fence and strict budgetary discipline are both needed, and one cannot ignore the first, claim the second, but hope to get by on hubris.
I started Tirzepatide 3-4 weeks ago. (Mostly as an experiment to understand the hype around GLP's... I don't have diabetes and only very slightly overweight at 20% body fat). Even at the lowest 2.5mg starter dose which you're only allowed to stay on for 1 month:

- Extreme appetite suppression to the point where I've started calorie counting specifically to make sure that I'm eating enough. It's incredibly easy to forget to eat.

- No more feelings of hunger. At all. This is somewhat depressing. Eating is no longer enjoyable and feels like a chore. I woke up hungry for the first time in a while a couple days ago and was excited - jumped out of bed and ran to eat something just for the pure joy of it. I've only felt that a few times in the past few weeks, compared to every day off the drug.

- I completely stopped drinking. Have you ever been to a bar after eating a big meal at a restaurant, and had trouble drinking because you were too full from your meal? That's how I feel all the time. 1 or 2 beers and it becomes uncomfortable to have anymore.

- Normally I go grocery shopping and within 3-4 days, all the "good stuff" (snacks) I bought are eaten. Now, since I stopped snacking and eating much less, groceries simply last way longer. <-- $$ saved in groceries significantly offsets the monthly price of the medication

- My morning starbucks routine has changed from 2 food items to just 1, which alone saves me $200/mo (sorry starbucks).

- Haven't noticed anything regarding impulse control outside of food. No anecdata to share on that point...

After a few weeks on the drug, I'm 100% convinced that once this drug is widely available and cheap... being overweight will be a choice (choosing not to take the drug).

The most important aspect of the drug that makes it work so well is it forces you to change your habits, no will power required. It also punishes you for bad eating habits. (That late night trip to McDonalds will have you feeling like shit the next day).

I'm the kind of person that used to be able to order just about anything on a restaurant menu and clean my plate completely. Now I simply can't do that. It's actually kind of embarrassing being at a restaurant with friends and being completely uninterested in the food.
Something like 70% of the US is overweight, so there actually aren't as many people who aren't experiencing negative health effects from being overweight or obese as you think
My wife's taking GLP-1s for health reasons. The author's ideas about the effects of these things are not evidence based. It isn't a magic drug that makes people ascetics. She eats less, but she still impulse buys clothes and things. The idea that the drug numbs feelings is not at all what I see, while some appetites are diminished, we still both do art, enjoy going out doing all the same stuff as before. She's lost weight, her vitals are looking better, and we eat out less, that's it.
Python Packaging: why we can't have nice things, part 3: Premature Compilation
This is the longest blog post I've written to date and will probably remain the longest for quite a while - although a good chunk of it is just a list of historical events. There's even more I'd like to say about the issue but it's just been too hard for me to figure out how to structure the thoughts.

The redux: for Pip's entire 16+ year history, it's attempted to provide "download only" and/or "dry run" commands with varying syntax. But when you use these on a source package, it tries to build the package anyway - which in the Python world involves arbitrary code supplied by the package author. If you wanted to build from source in order to audit the code, for example, the security purpose is already defeated this way. Whenever malware sneaks on to PyPI (perhaps as a typo-squatted package), it might inadvertently run even if you think you're taking steps to be safe about it. (This once semi-famously affected a security researcher.) Either way, you'll need to take a different approach to download the package (from the PyPI website or via its API).
A cubic kilometre of untainted seawater (pacific island) contains about 3.5g of Pb. A battery contains about 9000g of Pb. So one battery could affect a lot of seawater IF it were to be soluble.

Lead concentrations in offshore waters are ranging from 0.0035 (American Samoa, South Pacific Ocean) to 0.150 pg/L. (Western Mediterranean Sea; Copin-Montegut et al. 1986).

A lead-acid car battery typically contains 16-21 pounds of lead

For comparison: average concentration of 20 mg/kg of soil
OpenAI has a partnership with both Apple and Microsoft and I think this probably gives them enough access to be competitive with Google.
It is partially talent (of Musk certainly and the team he has assembled), and partially altruism (they could just charge 50% less instead of 90% less). Also the government made virtually no attempt at competition - it had to be dragged to this outcome.

As for conflict of interest - I guarantee the existing Verizon contract was not the result of a fair competition. No one would look to Verizon of all companies for any kind of modernization. At least this way we get a competent company working on this problem.
On the other hand, if legal recommends that they reword their TOS, their users also should probably listen to them.
I'm not a military strategist but if one believes that the real power competition in this century is going to be played between the US and China, it would make sense to concentrate on that direction. And if so, Europe becomes a distraction.
Cheers, huge Huggins fan here :) Looking forward to Valet
> Mozilla wants all the money for its charitable activities instead.

Describing Mozilla's derailment as "charitable activities" is like describing the Mexican cartels as "self-help groups".

Never forget their "We need more than deplatforming".
To turn a page into a pdf? I suppose
> Sometimes you have to make a deal with the devil

Does “engagement” justify the means?
The US seems to have only one uranium enrichment facility left - URENCO, in New Mexico.[1] Uranium mining as a US industry is down to 340 people.[2] That used to be a much larger US industry. It's not lack of ore. It's low prices.[3]

[1] https://www.nrc.gov/info-finder/materials/index.html

[2] https://www.eia.gov/uranium/production/annual/

[3] https://nuclearinsider.com/reviving-the-atom-charting-the-co...
IKEA registered a Matter-over-Thread temperature sensor with the FCC
Many states do have something like 18F. Massachusetts has Mass Digital[1], Washington has WaTech[2], Maryland has announced[3] the formation of one.

[1] https://www.mass.gov/orgs/massachusetts-digital-service
[2] https://watech.wa.gov/services
[3] https://governor.maryland.gov/news/press/pages/governor-moor...
Well, or you change the level of government you target to one whose constituency is less invested in the policies causing the problem and more concerned with solving the problem, e.g., over the last several years the California State government restricting the practical ability of local governments to restrict housing.
I'm not a kernel developer!

The Linux kernel is just a much closer analogy than your average piece of software would be, because the Linux kernel actually has this distinct step that generates a standalone build config file that later build steps read.

Most regular software build infrastructure (autoconf, cmake, etc) just directly "burns in" any passed-in build config as generated code, without any intermediary file storing the config itself — which is a very different and not-very-analogous process. (That'd be more like if our epigenome was an extra chromosome of DNA built up during development!)
18F is not the group behind Direct File, and it's very annoying that this narrative keeps getting spread. DF was created by a team of people from USDS, 18F and the IRS. It's housed within the IRS.
I live on an overloaded island thousands of miles from anywhere else metropolitan, so no I cannot just hook my thumb and hitch a ride with a trucker across the vastness of some flyover states to get to new opportunities.
I realize obesity a major issue for a lot of people.

But is it worth giving up your impulses? I mean all of them.

I have no proof that's how it works long term, but I do feel the question should be asked before we dive in head first.
It's somewhat interesting that the NYT acts all outraged while the refused to report on the orange guy's numerous conflicts of interest/crimes/dubious connections, and all out penchant for fascism before the election...
That’s not what I heard. Do you have evidence for that?
Why did I move to New Zealand?
Chatgpt is a snake swallowing itself
My frustration is that I google questions wind up in SO and a mod links to an irrelevant but related question from 20 years prior.
Tech Lawyer Promoted Amid Police Investigation – Why Did Two Senior Leaders Go?
Gene therapy surgery restores some vision to legally blind children
Eating walnuts for breakfast may boost your brain function
The original might have been corrupted, but this new thing is absolutely, definitely corrupt and they're not even trying to hide it, FFS.

Starlink has already tried to play politics in the Ukraine invasion. So, how long before they start playing politics with US internet? If they've done it once, it's way easier the second time and, let's face it, their ultimate boss is already in the bag for it.
> the government made virtually no attempt at competition

> I guarantee the existing Verizon contract was not the result of a fair competition.

Do you have evidence for these claims? Legitimately curious. Government contracting is often very broken but you state this with a pretty extreme degree of confidence even in light of this.
That's not a good-faith argument, sorry. Please be intellectually honest by attacking the strongest version of Trump you can imagine, not the weakest, brain-dead, reality-detached version of him that's easier for you to attack.
> People tolerated a caste system because they were information poor.

Well no. Peasant rebellions/uprisings happened all the time. People tolerated the feudal system because those rebellions could at best pressure for greater leniency within the system, while it took the later historical developments of urbanization and increasing labor productivity to actually overthrow the system.
[dupe] Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43201750

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43205435
Is there a term for this style of writing? It's like a longform linkedin post. I don't mean this as a criticism, it just seems like written language is evolving to better capture our diminishing attention spans.
The problem is, Putin will not stop at Ukraine if he is allowed to take it. His worldview is that the fall of the USSR is the greatest wrong of the last century, and he is determined to recreate it.

And Europe will suffer greatly if a resurgent USSR is allowed to grow unchecked next to it. (Not even speaking of the millions of people who will suffer under its authoritarian rule.)
I love that insight! I’ve always wondered about those cake mixes...why make people add eggs and milk if it's supposed to be complete? Haha, but it makes sense; it gives that "chef" feeling and a sense of involvement.

Maybe my friend was ahead of his time, but I also wonder if it was more about emotional blind spots. It’s easy to convince ourselves that we see something others don’t, even when the signs suggest otherwise.

Have you ever found yourself in a similar situation?
This comment was down voted, but is a reasonable response.

Further to the parent comment, if you park your money in gold or crypto, you’ve given that money to someone else, and so on and so forth.

But there’s a balance to be bad, if no one actually spends anything other than acquiring investments, they starve, and the economy suffers.
The purpose of a system is what it does. DOGE was created to facilitate kleptocracy.