skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> being overweight will be a choice

Not everyone can take these drugs. Some people will have severe side effects. It's very common to have nausea, vomiting, etc., and some people will experience these frequently enough that the prescribing doctor will rescind the prescription.
It's embarrassing that the most well thought out and detailed response is being downvoted
Incidentally, with the rise of OpenAI as a unicorn Sam Altman has seemed to get a lot less verbal about advocating UBI. Although I may be wrong about that.
assuming you were playing on a computer.
Actually, it's the Korean and Chinese bots that hit pretty hard without much (or any) throttling.
> Maybe it will apply to the C-Suite...

Of course it won't, though those roles are probably the most suited to being replaced by a not-so-bright chatbot.
You could just read the other comments in this HN thread to find out what 18F’s work was and why it was well-regarded. Instead you decided to write a long comment about vibes you got from the post.
It would be nice to have a choice of icons to select when adding an event. (Currently you have to insert an emoji, which is not so simple on desktop.)
The same 18F as these people?

https://x.com/lukerosiak/status/1885523747425399247
There's something very hinky about this post. It links to efabless.com/notice, not efabless.com direcly, and there's no information about this on efabless.com proper. The title of the notice page is also "Website Title". Not to don my tinfoil hat prematurely, but might this be an attack on efabless's web hosting?
Agreed that could be a problem. Seems like a benefit in disguise, though—such an employer is likely not to manage a product well.
> Source available is not bad

Well actually, to me in 2025 "source available" sounds like you don't want to make it open source because you're scared that "someone will steal your work", but your more than happy to let your code go into the copyright laundering machines that are LLMs.
This is a classic:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Elcom_Ltd
it's almost like they were never fit to govern
I really liked the simplicity of his explanation in information theory terms. Thank you!
Show HN: I Made a Readwise Alternative for My Kindle Books
Hey HN.

After years of complaining with my cousin about current solutions to organising and reviewing our Kindle highlights, all either requiring a monthly subscription, or not supporting sideloaded books. We made an attempt to create our own platform back in 2021. It failed. We took time off and complained more.

I finally got around to it and built Clippings Store—a tool to annotate, tag, and export your Kindle highlights, even from sideloaded books, and access them from any device, anywhere.
the fact that it's open-source and nicely structured internally lets you "peel off" the topmost YAML layer and just use the underlying components to interact with the mobile device, using your JVM-compatible language of choice.

I recently made a lol-project at a hackathon exactly that way: https://devpost.com/software/hearthack
Well, republicans have only been trying to push tax and spend for the last 40+ years.
Go Europe!
We already have investor visas. $1Mish gets you in. ~10k/year issued.

It seems unlikely raising the price 5x will increase demand 100x.
There are ways to reduce spam that don’t go through destroying an essential service.
not even hours later in most cases. these anti-theft measures will block the random individual who wants to make a clip out of a movie but won't stop anyone actively pirating.
Maybe it's time for the left to embrace the full text of the 2nd Amendment ;)
Basic data retention policies have interfered with the collection of this data for years.

Recording and saving all your emails and keystrokes is far more of a liability to a big tech company than a benefit.
You don't think LLMs are thinking? You don't think they are approaching human levels of intelligence? What part of human cognition don't we understand?
It seems like we agree, more or less. I'd say there are more factors, and talented and hard working people can still get pretty screwed, but that's beside the point.

To your original question about the wealth transfer, this isn't just the rich selling their subscription services to the poor or something like that. It's a much broader subject.

Some ways in which it can happen include inflation eroding wages while increasing asset values, high-interest debt, tax loopholes favoring capital over labor, financialization driving up costs of essentials, government bailouts benefiting corporations, privatization shifting public assets into private hands.

You'll probably agree that some of these things have been happening for decades, and some people want to accelerate the rate at which they're happening.
They had a rather progressive-coded internal culture, [0] which I think made them very likely to have been attacked by a Republican administration, even if they'd never worked on direct filing at all. Contrary to the media narrative which focuses on direct filing, I think the primary reason why Musk turned against them is not direct filing, it is because he views them as "deeply infected with the woke mind virus". [1] If 18F had been doing the same technical work but with a staff dominated by conservative Republicans, they quite possibly would have survived.

[0] https://x.com/lukerosiak/status/1885530802898747888

[1] he said that of Google but I'm sure he'd say the same thing of 18F: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1770802773547770345
I'm a few months into this drug as well, and I have to say, it doesn't offer control. What it offers is a lack of cravings & appetite. That is different, remarkably so.

Control would mean I might still feel hungry. Ever. Or that I could decide to eat heavily at one meal, but I don't and as long as I take the drugs, I won't. That doesn't feel like control, it feels like I've had something removed. I guess it's a matter of perspective?

I don't know if its a common sentiment but this drug treatment is the hardest thing I've ever done for my health. I'm not sure I'll be able to continue though. It's like I've robbed myself of the one joy I had left and now I have none. Tread carefully.
Well if you want a balanced budget I have very bad news about the Republican budget. There's much more in revenue cuts than there are spending cuts. They are upping the debt ceiling by literal trillions to pay for it.

Also if you want a balanced budget then we should be protecting the actually effective parts of government instead. Lots of short sighted cuts and in the end we'll get even more debt anyway.

In the 90s we were able to make bipartisan cuts and turn a surplus but obviously they didn't do it by smashing things randomly.
Thoughts on AI Safety
They don't even need to deal with screen recording which this DRM is trying to protect against either. Just find a device that supports the highest playback resolution and steal the data right off the bus.
Well it's also Accuweather getting their revenge for a well functioning not-for-profit weather service despite their prior attempts to kneecap it.
> Is Microsoft ‘buddies’?

Yes?
The downvotes are because you’re treating blatant Elon-bullshit with good faith.
Boots on the ground, and blockage Kaliningrad.
This is absolutely true. I know people who have worked for the government for 10+ years, and they specifically highlight the stability as the one reason they haven't moved to the private sector where you may need to be looking for a new job every few years. Of course Musk etc. see this as a bug, not a feature, and think that every worker needs to constantly justify their employment.
Fascinating and a very revealing comment. Allow me to translate.

Democracy is only democracy when we hold the power. Otherwise, it is populism.

Like I said. Very revealing.
When will people finally learn that people do not know what they want. You, the expert has to know what works and how and whats the best way to use it properly.

And do not rely on user feedback. Again. People don't know whats wrong, they don't even know what's right. They just feel that something is off. And only a very small percentage of users would write an email and even fewer would get through the automated AI bullshit or the snotty person who would dare to hand you a HOW TO USE NETFLIX pdf when you want to report something.
Before you comment here, may I suggest you first read and make sure you understand the national income and product account (NIPA) tables mentioned by the OP?

These tables are accounting statements compiled by... accountants. The tables show accounting balances at end of periods, such as and accounting flows over those periods.

https://apps.bea.gov/iTable/?reqid=19&step=2&isuri=1&categor...

If you have never even seen these tables, of if you have seen them but don't understand them, please refrain from making uninformed ideological comments. Such comments convince no one and help no one. Instead, ask questions. There are quite a few people on HN who can answer them.
O ye of little faith...
It's not a crisis. Eat one of the other thousand foods available at your local supermarket.
We're throwing away a whole lot just to satisfy a religious minority. What's next, getting oligarch owned and running media to start attacking evidence that supports evolution?
For years, I had the opposite problem most have with their weight. My main problem was gaining it. Food was not enough - I will loose weight relying on food alone.

It seems that with food, I often don't like the taste or texture, or the sensation associated with eating. I also tend to feel full relatively quickly.

My solution was to make a shake - in this shake, I put a large amount of olive oil, mixed in with other ingredients which cancelled out the taste. Easy to consume over the day.

Over several years of having the shake, I got to a weight I'm happy with. I'm now in total control and can regulate my weight simply by adding or removing the olive oil in my shake. Over the past year I've started weight training 5 days a week and adding protein to the shake with good results.

When I go on holidays and don't have access to my blender, I reliably loose a bit of weight - probably the opposite problem most have when they go on holidays.

I'm also non drinker. Never really got on board with alcohol, didn't like the sensations of the effects.

I still eat normal meals much the same as before, just a smaller serving than what most others have.
There is no plan to privatize. The architect of Project 2025 (which is the source of the current movements in the executive branch) was written by a Christian Nationalist. He sees the current federal government as being secular/not conforming to Christian values. Thus he wants to dismantle the federal government by traumatizing the workforce. This, he believes, will allow for Christian nationalists to replace existing federal workers and bring about a supposed revival of Christian ideals in government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Vought?wprov=sfti1#

Vought is the architect. Trump is the useful moron and Ilan is having one of his ketamine-induced autistic moments..
> what are people living with debilitating depression supposed to do?

My recommendations having dealt with it would be sunlight, exercise, weight loss and being evaluated for sleep apnea.

I'm sure there are many, many causes of depression, but I've seen a lot of people who are overweight, which causes apnea, which gives them no sleep, which makes them miserable so they feel like they can't do anything (and may thereby gain further weight). Meanwhile lack of oxygen may cause them night terrors because they're literally suffocating in their sleep (and the bad dreams / night terrors may literally relate to this). So they get anxiety when the drowning reflex goes off at bad times and they hyperventilate.

I've seen more good from this than drugs, which may just leave someone sleepy and non-functional all the time, but as always, YMMV and you should talk to your doctor.
Which means the Corporation's profits flow upwards to the Foundation. But donations to the latter can't easily flow downwards to a for-profit.
Isn't that just fine-tuning? LLMs can understand emotions just fine, but ChatGPT was always neutered and fine-tuned to act as a "helpful assistant" and claim it was "just a language model" and not say anything controversial.
Slow down boy. Defence not offense.
Reverse the last two Republican tax cuts, wait a few years and reevaluate.
lol 3 billion.

Is that what they're pledging as an appetizer while they bring a serious proposal to help? Otherwise why even bother?
Wow, that seems like a good chunk of the problem.

You could probably get through another good chunk with taxes on the billionaires and multimillionaires.

Just spit balling here.
You forgot the /s

Some people won’t realize you’re trolling
They'll lie to you by saying that back in the 50s when the top tax rates were so high, the rich just "didn't pay".

Well, if you look at the revenue vs spending lines, SOMEBODY was paying!
I am working on scraping api website https://scrapingforge.com
Started as a side project, it's not released yet.
gastroparesis is a real side effect two, it’s where the food in your digestive tract stops moving. As in 30% of food is present after 4 hours

The rate is over 1% which isn’t a lot nor is it nothing
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2810542
> Democrats, please save the country

Their original choice was Biden who had to step down because Democrat voters didnt want him so the Democrat leadership got a different candidate instead holding a primary.
It's like saying "We don't understand human cognition, therefore humans are not intelligent."
How long before it started taking effect when you started?
This will now be a prime example of how silly the cutting Federal spending narrative is.
The golden rule of USA foreign policy has always been don't like local powers take over their neighbours. I'll let you to consider why that has been such a successful policy.
There are quite a number of checks and balances within each branch, executive included. Some backed by law and others backed by tradition. Do you have some expertise in this that you're drawing from?
I gotta say, "we want our government workers to hate going to work" is NOT a good way to run a country...
I had similar insomnia issues with bupropion (which was otherwise greatly superior to SSRIs for me) until I started taking it immediately before going to sleep. I slept slightly shorter than usual, but woke up feeling great and had no issues getting to sleep.
Is it time to cash out of the stock market? Would this accomplish two goals?:
1. Send an indirect political message
2. Save my current funds from madness.
If your connection counts as "broadband" then you can download 50 gigabytes in an hour. Or in other words, you can buffer for less than a minute and start playing. And seeding long enough to not be rude is probably somewhere between a day and a month, so that's a pretty small storage burden.
It doesn’t have callouts for regular users, but Dang seems to always show up when atted.
tldr: article that has some code and uses tools mentioned in the title.
You claim 18F was a failure. What evidence do you have for this claim?

I am familiar with their direct file work (https://directfile.irs.gov/), which saves tax filers hundreds of dollars, keeps money out of massive rentseekers like TurboTax, and enables the IRS to function more effectively.

How is this a failure?
In 2024, the United States Postal Service (USPS) reported a net loss of $9.5 billion, an increase from the $6.5 billion loss in fiscal year 2023. So, who's paying for the losses then?
Weirdly enough, I’m starting to find Chinese govt advisories more credible than US ones
> It was not that long ago that solving a maze was thought of as AI. Or a bot in a video game adapting to your play style was AI.

That is AI. AI ≠ AGI.
So with a small tax on just the biggest handful of companies we could fix half the problem in one go?

Where do we sign up?
When I had my first real programming gig in the early 90s, I worked 14+ hours a day and ate fast food exclusively (often in very large quantities). My weight ballooned to nearly 400 pounds.

Then I got sick…

I couldn’t eat anything with fat. Just the thought of it made me physically ill. I ended up dropping half my body weight in 18 months.

What I learned is that it is possible to break your body in many ways.
Turn selfies into professional headshots in minutes
https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/natio...

Yes, he did. Deficit spending returned with George W Bush, reaching a high with the Global Financial Crisis, was getting back under control until Trump, and then peaked with COVID.
It's not Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk who are making it impossible for your kids to be free-range. That's your fellow man. In fact, in a world of much greater inequality where your peers are not consulted about how children should be parented, your kids could be as free-range as they wanted. Jeff Bezos, in particular, is famous for letting his children risk physical damage if it means they can grow up resourceful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CmyV5Ghxeg

You can also have lots of leisure time. That's a choice. I do.

You could drop me into the life of a poor American, and a month later I wouldn't be one. I know that's true because I came to San Francisco with nothing in my bank account and a $10/day bed-on-a-couch paid for for 2 weeks.
You think Citizen’s United was a good ruling. You think the Voting Rights Act hasn’t been gutted despite thousands of polling stations shutting down. You think there was some bureaucratic state plotting against the executive despite no evidence. Your link is an article about people taking Project 2025 and Trump at their word and trying to plan accordingly. You have no objecticity. Your logic is horribly flawed. You are the problem.
I don't know if it's correct or not, but it doesn't fail my sniff test. It's an average of ~1 piece of mail per person per day. Most people probably don't get more than one piece of useful mail per week, but there are also people conducting business through the mail that might send or receive far more than that.
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? Even if I somehow thought the same way there is no version of a plan where I trust someone in government (or not in government) to decide what mail has value to me. This seems like such a dead end take. Yes junk mail is crappy, just like lots of other worthwhile tradeoffs when designing massive scale policy.
I've never been able to get Edge to streak Netflix in high def. Same with the official Windows app.
And that's just the upfront cost.

> As pointed out by InsideEVs, investment consulting firm ICF claims that the federal EV fleet was going to cost $6 billion less than a conventional combustion fleet over the lives of the vehicles.

Culture war garbage over actual governance.
Is there anything on this list that is so time critical that it would be hurt by postal delivery being dropped to, say, twice a week? I'm not seeing anything obvious, but might see it differently.
Wait? You have to pay? Or you mean the cloud?
Any user can use the search bar at the bottom of every page to search for their username in comments.

I’m willing to bet the mods have notifications for such.

Also, doesn’t HN have an API, which, if I understand correctly, has more capability than the web page.

This is probably a good time to mention:

To get automated email notifications of replies to your comments see http://www.hnreplies.com/
I guess at least they're being more transparent.
My point is that Putin wants to live; he's unlikely to survive Moscow getting glassed, regardless of who does the glassing. So he's unlikely to convert all of Ukraine to a moonscape.

And anything _less_ than glassing Ukraine is unlikely to change Ukraine's behavior or materially affect the special military operation's progress.

Hypothetically, if Ukraine has a breakthrough after a massive collapse of the russian army, nukes will prevent Ukraine from going all the way to Lubyanka Square. But there's no way to use nukes to help the russian invasion any more than a shotgun will help with colon cancer.
> if there were a GLP1 for procrastination

Adderall?
One should generally assume ChatGPT did the math wrong.
That would be a good idea, indeed, at least for military matters.

It would eliminate the "Orban" problem.
Yes what we need is a new party formed from the diet versions of the people in the other parties. Of course this means they’ll be capitalists with imperialist goals so they’re not going to win on any topic that matters currently.

Wait that’s just the democrats.
Russia, China, India, both South and North Korea, Iran, Turkey, Israel, and Czech Republic all manufacture jet engines domestically.
> DOGE) that is supported by AI and the amazing team that Elon has put together

This is a joke, right? The team is far from amazing and had very quickly done a slew of irresponsible, illegal, and harmful actions.
He is a lawyer in the DC area.

He appears to be a proponent of Unitary Executive Theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_executive_theory
Tribalism is a hell of a drug. Logic need not apply beyond that point.

Regardless of whether you're left or right leaning
I have no idea what you are basing this claim on, although it seems in stark contrast to the evidence provided by other commenters in this thread.

AI is not a replacement for engineering expertise and deep understanding of the actual user problems that you are trying to solve.

Any 19yo at DOGE can have Cursor pump out shitty web portals without regard for the problem context or actual end user.

But that’s not what engineering is about and it’s depressing to see people celebrate and advocate for that kind of mediocrity.
It's most startling to me that there seems to be this implicit assumption that people working in the bureaucracy are the ones making the rules. The rules are being requested by Congress. One can like it dislike the rules but if we want fewer of them it's Congress who most remove them. It also should be possible for any reasonable person to see that if we ask the government to do something we should want to do it well. The worst outcome is creating lots of rules and regulations that then get badly implemented and I need to wait years for my permit, passport renewal, tax return etc or our national parks turn into fire hazards and similar.
The UK has already contributed over £12 billion in support to Ukraine since 2022, making it one of the largest European donors. This additional £2.2 billion isn't an 'appetizer' but part of sustained, long-term support.

Instead of dismissing allies' contributions, perhaps consider that effective support for Ukraine requires many nations doing what they can within their means (and their GDP). The UK consistently steps up, and every contribution strengthens Ukraine's position."

Furthermore, the $2.85 billion pledge represents approximately 5% of the UK's annual defense budget (which is roughly £50-55 billion).

Your comments are not very constructive or informed about the realities of international aid. When measured proportionally against national capabilities, this is a substantial commitment that will fund critical defense systems Ukraine needs.

Dismissing allies' contributions doesn't help Ukraine - recognizing and encouraging sustained support does.
If we convert to a land value tax we could cut all other taxes (income, payroll, corporate, capital gains, etc.). Then with the roughly 500 million acres of non-agricultural private property in the United States treating every acre equally the tax rate would be $14,000 per acre to raise $7 trillion. That covers the current ~$6.7 trillion Federal budget (including the current deficit) plus a few extra 100 billion dollars to start paying down the over 30 trillion in debt.