skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would they need to return money they haven't yet received? As you noted, they've only received 1.5 billion so far, not 7.9 billion. The money is milestone based, so the rest of the money will be delayed appropriately.
People are waking up now to the reality Trump is an aspiring autocrat. His core base might be so blinded by the cult of personality that they will follow a dictator, but the rest of us won't.
Neither am I. I just wanted to point out that the policies suggested in the parent comment didn't work out.
18F went around improving tech for other agencies and the government as a whole; shutting them down almost certainly costs money. Just as cutting from the IRS tends to cost money.
1. Yes I know, the average age of the Ukrainian conscript is 45, which is why I referenced that number.

2. The “so what” is that it’s pretty hard to argue that the war is an existential event if you are not drafting the portion of the population best able to make war (young men).
Plenty Tech CEOs are humbling tech workers lately by performing a ritual known as mass Layoffs.
Would like if there were an actual history book to verify this.
Is it that different from corporate culture? Someone who makes big contributions to culture is extremely valuable, and that’s left behind as well.

I could see evaluation of one’s ability to contribute to training corpus being just as important as cultural contribution (e.g. leadership, team building, etc).
I like to tell people if you go to a carpenter to build a table, you'll get a wooden table. If you go to a stone cutter, you'll get a marble table. If you go to a welder, you'll get a metal table.

The trick is to know who to go to get what you want. In the USA with PPO there is generally zero friction to just making yourself an appointment with a speciality doctor and that specialty doctor will use his "toolbox" to create the outcome that you came to him and paid for. If you go to a psychiatrist, well their tool is prescription medicine, so that is what they'll use.

This sounds like common sense, but i think the population at large places too much trust in the doctor. In the US you have to be your own advocate.
I think some people take craftsmanship more seriously than others, and wouldn’t deface a workpiece like that during those moments of frustration that we all have.

I find that PRs are the best place for rants. I can let out steam while sharing and recording my journey and lessons learned, while not making the code worse off with silly variable names and sloppy comments.

I have once added a comment saying “this was a very painful function to get right. If you change it you will suffer the same fate. See PR#1234 for details.”
Yes, but you also need to be smart enough to operate magic cloud platforms, and be a paying customer. I am neither.
It's hard not because the technology is so special , but because the tolerance for errors is so small . Jet failure can mean loss of many lives and little room to rectify the situation in flight ,whereas an automobile or train engine failure is a more manageable situation.
Falling interest rate also benefits the rich that can hoard assets, especially with higher leverage because they know how to game the systems.
No. OpenCollective collectives effectively replace having to operate your own nonprofit organization. So it includes all of the legal, administrative, and accounting costs of operating a nonprofit on behalf of the participating collectives.

I operate a collective which effectively operates as a 501c6 but I file no paperwork, OSC does for us.
> It is therefore ironic, that most vinyl records that were cut after the late 70s went through at least one round trip of analogue to digital and digital to analogue conversion. This is because a digital delay is almost always used in the cutting process in order to get better cuts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM7sI7GZPbk
No, this is closer to the definition of neoliberalism that people are using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism
I worked at Google when Chromebook shipped. They put out a call for decorations for the lobby and I proposed something similar to this but they said "no" :( Maybe because I asked for 40-64 machines :P

I would not have tried to sync video though. Instead I'd have made time based animations and use the network the synchronize the clocks.

you can see an example here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64TcBiqmVko

It's 8 machines running Chrome. The only thing synchronized are the settings and the time.

They machines do not have to be in a grid either. I was inspired by the Boston Science Museum's virtual aquarium
What about Churchill? His style looks like a slightly dated imperial dress code, because he was a fan of the British Empire.
Any time I ask anything, LLMs are often bad.

inb4 you just aren't prompting correctly
>AI is not good enough yet for anything requiring deep reasoning, mission-critical work, error detection at a human-expert level, or handling unpredictable edge cases.

Ai is better than humans at all those things. It's not good at those things when the context it needs to look over is more than a few thousand tokens.

Rejoice programmer, for your inability to write modular code saved your job.
That is definitely not what neoliberalism is about. GP is correct (though the current situation seems to be something much more extreme).
How would you react to a candidate getting surreptitious human coaching during an interview?

How about in a poker game?

Thanks for the offer but I don't expect to interview. If I did I wouldn't need AI coaching. Maybe ear exams will be the next step in the interviewing arms race.
There will always be people who go much faster than the design speed. They are ignoring their and everyone else's safety.

I live on major street where the speed limit is 25 to slow people down. It used to be 35, and people normally go 35-45. The problem is that people go much faster when there is no traffic because the street feels wider. I would love if they redesigned for a slower speed. But there are cars in the middle of the night that drive over 60. It doesn't matter if street is calmed, they will go super fast and only tickets with slow them down.
Sad that 18F is gone and that USDS is effectively gone. I’d long had in the back of my mind that I’d take take a short sabbatical at some point and work for one of these organizations - looks like that’s not happening.
The current Republican budget proposal incurs roughly five trillion dollars in additional debt and service cuts, all to allow tax cuts which mostly go to the top 10%:

https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2025/2/27/fy202...

If you went to the average person and asked whether they’d like to have services like Medicaid and SNAP cut so their senior management can pay less in taxes, they’d say no. If you demonize the concept of tax collection, however, then they might go for it because they’re reacting out of fear rather than thinking analytically.
You might want to look at this 3-year old piece: https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/the-man-who-sold-ukraine/

And after that there was another peace agreement scuppered, allegedly by Boris Johnson. Easy to search for.
> You still see cassettes used today because of the ease of home distribution

That can't be the reason, USB sticks are much easier to get/make/distribute
Why Yaml ?

I've worked in this niche for a very long time, I seriously need to be able to use a normal programming language. A lot of test tools need to be a part of a larger workflow, if this was good ole NodeJS I could use some other tricks, for example intercepting network request,custom logic in JavaScript, etc.
>except that capital flight usually takes place in the form of exchanging one asset for another (stocks for crypto or money, for example)

What led you to this bizarre idea that capital flight entails a person selling or exchanging all of their securities?
I am trying to build an ai agent butler, who can order groceries and daily household on it's own based on my shopping list or something as a side project, would love to checkout your stack!
Even now it's only allowed in the EU, and only subject to a restrictive set of rules.
>But OP is not correct in suggesting that there aren't objective metrics -- ADHD probably has more of these than any other psychiatric illness.

What am I missing?

>In any case, I still think of ADHD and a lot of psychiatric diagnoses as models. We try to make these models useful to relieve suffering. They are far from perfect, but it doesn't make sense to throw the baby out with the bathwater and discount the many people who have been helped

This is what it keeps getting down to every time I have this discussion. But I really feel like the discourse is hindering having an deeper understanding of the topic. The mental model and the resulting language, like people saying "I HAVE X,Y,Z" seems to be somewhat philosophically askew. Everything I read seems to point more to "X is a real objective thing, and were trying to find better ways of diagnosing it", rather than "X is what we call these assortment of symptoms alot of patients seem to exhibit which is helped by Y"

From a patient standpoint I think its a monumental difference with people saying things like "I am like Y because I HAVE X", as if X, what was the observed collection of (possibly unrelated) symptoms, now being a cause in itself.
Quite the opposite, I've never yearned for more or even had a stable income. Yet I'm very happy.

Flat out concluding that everyone can make their own happiness by just being open to a system that constrains many others along the way, feels like regressing not progressing.
I'm with you. But that means little. Society has a warped view of "fair" an always has. Any tax idea that you want to put in practice has to account for it. Else you may as well be counting horse teeth.
Entropy is not absolute!

The entropy of some data is well-defined with respect to a model, but the model choice is free. I.e. different models will assign different entropy to the same data.

And how do we choose a model...? Well, formally by minimizing the information needed to describe both the model and data (the sum of model complexity and data entropy under the model) [1]

You might argue that's all too information-theoretic and in physics there simply is an objective count of the state-space, a maximum entropy, and so on. Alas, there is not even general consensus on whether there is a locally finite number of degrees of freedom.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_description_length
It's hard to tell what your diatribe is actually in support of. Is it overprescription that is predatory capitalist BS, or somehow skepticism of this entire process?
Let's please avoid ad hominem here. I don't think that's contributing to the discussion in the spirit of HN.
That only captures your output, not your input. The best people to simulate in this world would be so-called terminally online people virtually all of whom's input is itself online. So for those who've read a lot of paper books or done a lot of traveling or had a lot of offline conversations or relationships, I think it would be difficult to truly simulate someone.
Horseshit.

Making sure every country on earth has nukes is way more likely to cause nukes to be used than beating the russian army out of Ukraine.

First -- Do his nukes even work? Or have they been replaced with cardboard "Nuke Go Here" boxes?

Also -- What's Putin going to nuke? He can try some battlefield nuke, and then have his army march through it? That's assuming that his troops have more than a week of training for "marching through a place we just nuked" Or maybe he'll nuke Kiev? I don't think that'd make much difference in letting russia gain ground. Or maybe Putin is planning on nuking Rotterdam because of the F-16s?

Nukes may make china and india stop supporting him, they may provoke more retaliation from the west. But nukes certainly won't change much unless the plan is to just glass the whole of Ukraine, in which case I'm pretty sure that France or England may accidentally glass Moscow even if the USA doesn't.
I've never really thought of this as a strong benefit before but this seems like a good argument for app development in 2025.

Started my career as a web developer and always have a soft spot for it but from a hobby developer standpoint hosting and deploying a site feels like an uphill battle with little upside.

Theres a lot to not like about app development but after you get approval for your app it's pretty hands off.

Heck on android you can just distribute the raw APK on a Google drive. Or just keep the app locally for yourself.

I probably have about 20 self made apps on my phone and they each give me a bit of happiness.
I'm not necessarily disagreeing but we also need to understand what the reality of nuclear war means in the modern era.

https://youtu.be/za6tZB19E4c
The solution to most of our problems is even bigger problems.
Formal diagnosis is a joke.
People with ADHD actually have an increased risk of motorvehicle accidents, and don't perform as well in certain kinds of games compared to people who don't have ADHD (when you account for experience playing video games etc). The TOVA test is essentially a simple video game -- it's a computerized test that checks reaction times to a targeted stimulus that appears on a computer screen. There are different classes of error that correspond to different kinds of executive dysfunction

You are right that attention is a complex phenomenon, but keep in mind that people who evaluate ADHD are aware of the limitations -- that is why TOVA isn't typically the only mechanism used for diagnosis. ADHD evaluation often involves multiple sessions in which other possible explanations are ruled out or explored, along with questionnaires from friends and family who know the person -- incidentally some of the questions on the ones I collected from my friends/family were about my driving!

Even with this, there are still limitations, but there's no need to throw the baby out with the bathwater -- the goal is to produce an actionable explanation that we can use to reduce suffering, and for many people this explanation does exactly that.
>Unfortunately, in some ecosystems, even downloading packages using the native package managers is unsafe because of postinstall scripts or equivalent.

Funny you should mention this because I was just psyching myself up to submit my blog piece from last night on the topic.

In Python, downloading packages using the native package installer (Pip, which really doesn't itself do anything that could be called package management) is unsafe because of build scripts - unless you tell it to only accept pre-built packages, defeating the point of the systems these Linux distros are using. (I assume/hope people in this position are aware of the problem and have rigged up another solution with the API. In the post I commented that I don't know of such solutions being publicly available, but surely they exist somewhere.)

You'd be justified in wondering why the build script runs when you only ask to download the package. It's mainly because of the historically atrocious approach to metadata (and all the legacy packages for which installation is still supported). But from reading the issue trackers, it seems like the code paths aren't especially easy to disentangle, either - since they've gone so long with the assumption baked in that the problem isn't really solvable.

In other HN posts I've complained about people pointing out things in the Python packaging ecosystem that aren't really problems. But this really is one.

https://zahlman.github.io/posts/2025/02/28/python-packaging-...
So far the biggest self-inflicted death toll has been Russian, and all they have to do is go home.
Heh, welcome to the US
They're okay with it when it's a "tax" paid to corporations.
It starts by not pushing Chrome all over the place, including Electron, that is how we got here.
My experiences from psychedelics are as follows:

Mushrooms: We must love each other, everything feels so warm and friendly.

LSD: It's like I'm traveling through my entire life at 5,000 miles per hour. Completely messes with my perception of time.

DMT: Holy shit what the fuck did I just do.

As for visuals, obviously DMT is the craziest. I saw the universe as a black hole warping space time. Tons of crazy geometric patterns.

LSD visuals include moving shapes, seeing animals in everything, and lots and lots of fractals. Just don't look at yourself in the mirror on LSD, it'll freak you out.

Mushroom visuals for me were less intense, with lots of nice moving patterns.
> OpenCollective collectives effectively replace having to operate your own nonprofit organization.

> I operate a collective which effectively operates as a 501c6 but I file no paperwork, OSC does for us.

I think you might have meant Open Collective fiscal hosts replace having to operate a nonprofit organisation? Unless I'm parsing your statements wrong.
This is commonly repeated but incorrect. The Nyquist pledge is a far more powerful force keeping tax filing complex than Intuit lobbying. This is not a conspiracy theory, this is a stated practice of Americans for Tax Reform, the anti-tax conservative group.
I don't think slapping a Georgist LVT will magically solve everything, but it will point market forces towards a desirable path, which is already a huge huge help compared to the state of things now.
No, my initial claim is correct. Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_housing_shortage, "California needs to double its current rate of housing production (85,000 units per year) to keep up with expected population growth and prevent prices from further increasing...".

A land value tax by itself would not suffice to immediately change this dynamic.
> There exist homeowners who don't want the problem to get worse, because, like, we live in a society.

There's hundreds of millions of homeowners.

Obviously some exist that support basically every opinion imaginable.

The vast majority of home owners want the "problem" to get worse, because it isn't really a "problem" for them - at least immediately and obviously.
How did a comment about Apple restricting competition become about Apples market share?

That's not the point here. Apple didn't allow fair competition for alternate peripherals (watch etc) and it has got nothing to do with iPhones market share.
This isn't caused by some nebulous alliance of "billionaires," this is caused by one particular billionaire, Elon Musk, and his friends.

These days I'm getting skeptical of these anti-billionaire quips. Sounds like a great segue to "all politicians are the same because they're in the billionaire's pocket," and now look at what that led us into.
> Your bank loses money when keyloggers/etc are used. Play integrity claims to avoid this problem, and a rooted device with an alternative ROM is a big red flag.

Well... no? Maybe a device with things running as root is a yellow flag, but malware isn't going to replace the ROM or install a normal user-controlled root solution. Or put differently, if your "security" system flags the latest version of Lineage OS but doesn't flag a year-old stock ROM with known CVEs, then your system is actively fighting against security.
Cosmos: All-in-one container and reverse proxy management
> The Republicans in Congress are more to blame for this mess than the White House.

The fact that Congress is ineffective in no way absolves the executive branch of irresponsible or illegal behavior. The president took an oath.
Please don't cross into breaking the site guidelines (e.g. "Get a grip.") no matter how right you are or feel you are.

Also, can you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN? We've had to ask you that more than once before.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That wacky article in the NY Times where Sergey Brin recommends everyone at Google put in 60 hours a week had a bit about how hey thinks all employees need to be using their AI products more:

He highlighted the need for Google’s employees to use more of its A.I. for coding, saying the A.I.’s improving itself would lead to A.G.I. He also called on employees working on Gemini to be “the most efficient coders and A.I. scientists in the world by using our own A.I.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/technology/google-sergey-...
Depends on what Congress decides the federal government should be doing, which in turn depends on who people elect to Congress.

In general, the number should be sufficient to meet legal obligations with a bit of lag as it goes up or down as agencies and programs come and go or find their scope changing. If the departments cannot meet their legal obligations because they have too few people (consider if tax return processing takes a year), then staffing probably needs to increase. If most people are idle or grossly underutilized, and the work doesn't have a high seasonal variance like tax processing, then the department or agency should be reduced in size. If the work is seasonal and requires low expertise, then hiring can be seasonal too.

It's not that complicated.
Probably because the coworker's question and the forum post are both questions that start with "How do I", so they're a good match. Actual code would be more likely to be preceded by... more code, not a question.
Yeah this is so common that I've already compiled a mental list of prompts to try against any new release. I haven't seen any improvement in quite a long while now, which confirms my belief that we've more or less hit the scaling wall for what the current approaches can provide. Everything new is just a microoptimization to game one of the benchmarks, but real world use has been identical or even worse for me.
europe has an aging population for decades, yet the inflated housing costs are even higher than america
We've found that YAML encourages maintainable testing practices. But when you need to fire off a network requests, add custom logic, Maestro does have javascript support: https://docs.maestro.dev/advanced/javascript/run-javascript

Very sophisticated companies like DoorDash and Kraken have written and maintain hundreds of Maestro tests using this approach!
Thanks, I didn't know that
Just restarting a vm still takes 20 minutes from clicking the restart button.
/? turbotax https://hn.algolia.com/?q=turbotax

"TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Taxes for Free" (2019) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21281411
This was January 2017.
By that logic the US shouldn't have intervened in Yugoslavia, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, bombing Serbia etc. But I suppose when Gaddafi tries imposing his of own currency on all oil-sales and Yugoslavia threatens becoming the new superpower of the Balkans then it's fine that they intervene lol. You have no idea what you are talking about.
> This isn't caused by some nebulous alliance of "billionaires," this is caused by one particular billionaire, Elon Musk, and his friends.

I am waiting for all the "good billionaires" to step up and do something about it.
yeah this agency is kinda what I imagined DOGE was created to be. alas now I am just confused
Unrealized gains can be taxed - for example, Ireland has a Deemed Disposal tax on ETF investments, where after 8 years, any gains are considered to have been realized and tax is due (even if no sale has taken place)
Discussion on 27-feb-2025:

EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43197131

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At my university I know at least one person who intentionally tested positive soley for profit - the drugs sold/sell for huge markups, especially around exam time.

No idea what all it entailed other than the fact that they're unable to screen people out when I assume there are probably quite a lot of people doing or trying to do what he did.

So the process can't be especially rigorous.