skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the model is migrating to one of hyperspecialists collaborating together. Problem is, this isn't compatible with private practice where you're operating mostly alone, and this results in what you describe. The model has to evolve, yes. Good news is, it is in fact evolving (slowly). We can't evolve faster than science anyway, and while medical science is evolving much faster than it used to, we're far from the exponential acceleration we've seen in other domains, e.g. computers.
Could be both?
What's happened to taxes over the last 3 decades?

What were the top-line tax rates in the 1950s, 1970s, 1990s, 2010s, and now?

What did the distribution if incomes look like between the richest and poorest in each of those decades.

We've continually cut taxes on the wealthiest in society, allowing them to get ever richer. The poor have continued to get poorer, and have less and less to contribute in tax revenue.

Spending is flat, revenue goes down, deficit goes up. It's pretty simple math.

The state of affairs is not sustainable, but the solution is not gutting spending (there are, I'm sure, areas that could be trimmed), but rather returning to tax rates and policies that we had in the past, along with some bonus-taxes to reduce the extreme income-inequality that we currently have.

So, if you want fiscal sustainability:

- tax the ever-living-fuck out of the billionaire class

- increase taxes significantly on the multi-millionaire class

- increase taxes moderately on the millionaire-class

- significantly increase estate taxes, especially on estates worth >$1B

Maintain that for a couple of decades, then slowly and slightly relax the top-line tax rates.

If someone is selling you fiscal sustainability without talking about making a billionaire's eyes water, they are just lying to you.
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Pegasus for mail, Forte Agent for news and mIRC for IRC were my holy trinity of communication apps for many years, well into the early 2000s.
He also had a good idea of making people who want USPS pay a very minimal surcharge (a few bucks a year) to stop the
hemorrhaging of tax payers money by the USPS.
As a Scandinavian I would suspect that most government waste and corruption in a high trust developed country would be at the state and city level and not at the national level.

Unless they look into why Pentagon weapons programs are so suspiciously expensive they might actually be destroying an otherwise well working US Federal system.
In this case they're probably using browser-specific APIs to implement the DRM rather than naively detecting the UA and providing a higher quality stream.
Don't threaten us all with a good time - there are too many big government people on the right wing of politics for an attempt to destroy the government to be made. They're trying to shrink it. Damage, possibly, if you want an emotive word.

On the scale of US government reforms it doesn't seem like anything particularly notable has happened so far. Executive policy doesn't have a lot of staying power.
I'm starting to think that the US is done for, short of a civil war to stop it they'll never get out of the damage done by four years of this.
Me and another developer did this on a 300 seat call center on Windows Embedded thin clients probably 8 years ago now. We used timestamps and a high precision javascript library for synchronization. After everybody went home for the night, it would scroll the name of the business and the stats from the day across all the screens until a couple hours before the first calls, then it would load a queued video or text or even just colored lines similar to the windows screen saver depending on the day.
It's hard to take a war on public health measures, public-interest science institutions like NOAA, and public education as evidence of good faith.

It's not as if they're starting where the obvious bloat is (defence, fossil fuel subsidies...) and working back to the rounding errors.

It's entirely predictable supremacism - the doctrine that wealth and skin colour define virtue, and government in the public interest, which interferes with the "freedom" to abuse and exploit inferiors for profit, is an unnatural abomination.
Link to the livestream:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChEuA1AUJAY

I'd like to understand if there is a way to contribute to space missions like these, or space research in general, as a "civilian" software developer. Is there perhaps a community of space enthusiasts working on domain-specific open source tools? What are some unsolved problems in this field?
Their effective resistance is why the damage done by the first Trump administration was limited.

Democracy is not an end in itself. We’re better off with more power in the hands of the bureaucracy and less in the hands of populist politicians.
Look up "optimal taxation in theory and practice", where they suggest that capital income should be untaxed, at least in expectation.
When my day job used Azure we had the misfortune of using their managed Postgres instance, the latency of which was _appalling_.

We raised support tickets, which were mostly closed to the tune of “seems fine to us”. They seemed to think 20-30ms for a basic Postgres query, which for the same schema, data and hardware was <7ms on RDS.
See, now we're talking.

That's my point. It's got nothing to with supposed "manipulation" of ingredients.

It's about other stuff -- whether it's price or accessibility or someone telling you "that's enough".
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This makes my blood boil. As another commenter said, this is pure vandalism.

Musk's reasoning is that we have to cut the deficit. Our deficit is around $2 Trillion. Assuming an average salary of $70,000 for the approximately 3 million federal employees (excluding military and postal workers), the annual payroll would be roughly $210 billion. Even if you lay off 25% of federal workers, the deficit will only be cut by 2.5%.

The right way to cut deficit is by raising taxes on Elon Musk and his fellow billionaires.
that 100B number looks like it includes a whole lot of negative, zero, or low value items.

Clearly not an American, or an adult, or he would have needed the mail for things like:

- Receive unemployment tax statements from the state

- Life insurance forms. Especially converting a group policy into an individual policy.

- IRS notices

- Utility company refunds

- Receive insurance policy documents

- Receive notice of security breach at hospital

- Receive bills for unexpected services like ambulance and medical

- Receive license plates

- Receive vehicle registration

- Auto and homeowners insurance policy documents

- Receive checks for credits from utilities after you move

- My company got a check for $95 million in the mail from the IRS

- Reimbursement checks from insurance companies

- Certain correspondence with the I.R.S. can only be done by letter. No phone calls. No online.

- Get hurt at work? Paperwork from insurance and from the state comes in paper form, not TikTok.
Lisa's coffee shop should start optimising their coffee. Obviously the muffin part of the business is on the way out.
Caffeine withdrawal takes two weeks.
Thank you for the insight. What do you use as a daily driver if you do?
Not saying you should share your personal info on these charts, but you should never give real answers to security questions anyways. They are going to be easy to guess by definition, on top of revealing personal information to the vendor and any attackers.

If you use a password generator (and thus you never reuse or forget passwords), the easiest thing to do is to just set it to the password (though they may be stored in plaintext), or a different password you keep on the notes in your password manager.
We sure as shit are or there will be civil conflict. Period.
Read it in context:

Musk's tweet saying 18F "has been deleted": https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1886498750052327520

Was replying to ALX's tweet calling 18F "far left":
https://x.com/alx/status/1886415751528972515

Which was in turn quoting Rosiak's tweet calling 18F "far left": https://x.com/lukerosiak/status/1885523747425399247

Rosiak's tweet wasn't talking about direct filing at all, it was talking about how 18F wrote a Slack bot to correct people for using non-inclusive language. That's what Rosiak was calling "far left"

So, reading ALX's tweet in context – it is pretty clear he was labelling 18F as "far left" because of stuff like their Slack bot, not solely because of direct filing. Many will argue it is an abuse of terminology to call stuff like that "far left", but it is a common colloquial pejorative among right-leaning individuals such as Musk and ALX and Rosiak

Now, maybe they'd call direct filing "far left" too, I don't know. But it is misrepresenting the thread if one presents the "far left" label as solely being due to 18F's work on direct filing

EDIT: I previously said "GitHub bot" above, on further investigation I realise now it was a Slack bot not a GitHub bot
if history is any guide that sorts itself out pretty quickly
I look at the raw amount of information as a form of deterrent in some cases.

Getting a Blu-ray rip to a point where the average Pirate Bay user would be willing to wait for the download takes quite a bit of transcoding work. Not many are interested in maintaining 1:1 50 gigabyte source copies of every film out there.
If the Republicans in Congress actually honored their oaths to the Constitution over their cowardly loyalty to party, they would impeach. However, they are complicit in the dismantling of America.

This needed to be stopped on Day 2 of Trump's first term when he shat on the Emoluments Clause. At this point it's clear that we have ceased to have a justice system that reigns in the powerful.
The lamprey is Elon's spirit animal.
Weird that we have the money to supply deep tax cuts for rich assholes, but not enough money to supply agencies doing things like making passport renewal easy or making tax filing free.

Almost makes you wonder if there's an agenda here. Good thing I don't think too hard about these things.
Oh Okay this is cool, I thought it's not possible (it's not mentioned at your frontpage at all).

How do your AI-features work when running tests locally using yout SDK? Do I need to provide my own token to some LLM provider?
this is just the standard way the video overlay works
If rents go down, commercial mortgage providers re-value the building, and then call in the entire mortgage at once because it's now greater than the new value.
Yes this is mail: https://www.statista.com/statistics/320234/mail-volume-of-th...

Parcels is 6-7B: https://www.pitneybowes.com/content/dam/pitneybowes/us/en/sh...
> For reference the USPS delivers over 100B, yes billion, parcels per year.

What percentage of those are things people wanted or needed?

The USPS is a valuable service, but it is largely funded by spam. 99% of mail goes directly into the trash.
> Java has primitive types, for which it is a copy. But it's more accurate IMO to attribute this as a property of names, rather than a property of assignment. Python's names (and most Java values, and some C# values) have reference semantics. Having understood that properly, saying that Python (like Java) is "pass by assignment" then just follows naturally, and all the usual confusion around this point vanishes. Passing an argument to a function is simply assigning it to the corresponding parameter. (C++'s idea of "references" in the type system is far more complex IMO - e.g. https://langdev.stackexchange.com/q/3798/_/3807#3807 .)

I use pass-by-label for this term, after a visual demonstration of variables that showed them as labels that attach to different values/objects. But I like "pass-by-assignment" a lot — it gives the correct intuition that whatever is happening when I do `x = 5` is also happening when I do `def func(x): pass; func(5)`.
Well, most people would expect their country to treat people better than China.
It will probably fuck up your body in ways that we can hardly imagine. Ozempic has been linked to lots of horrible side effects.
Because there are no Americans on the ground. Because the cause is right and just. Because this is the least ambiguous war you're ever likely to see.

It isn't a proxy war. It's a clear choice between right and wrong. Trump is choosing wrong.
Major pain point in Azure -- Azure resources in the portal do NOT show:

* WHEN the resource was created
* nor WHO created the resource

IMHO this is unforgiveable, but on second though, it is probably intentional rather than any sort of oversight.
China is acting in accordance with US interests on this matter:

>Despite the U.S.’ enduring appeal among China’s tech workers, visa hurdles and tough-on-China policies appear to be a rising occurrence, immigration lawyers and industry insiders told Rest of World. The U.S. government introduced the China Initiative in 2018 and Proclamation 10043 in 2020 — programs designed to protect U.S. national security, but which critics say fueled racial profiling and destroyed hundreds of legitimate careers of Chinese scientists in the U.S. Ottawa earlier this year said it would bar federal funds from flowing to researchers and organizations linked to a list of Chinese, Russian, and Iranian institutions.

While President Joe Biden scrapped the China Initiative in 2022, measures targeting China’s technology industry have continued. Biden’s administration has passed multiple export control measures designed to block China from accessing chips used to develop AI technologies, proposed restrictions on U.S. investments in Chinese tech and AI, and threatened bans on Chinese-owned platforms like TikTok.

Such policies provoke a “fear factor” among Chinese STEM workers, discouraging those in the U.S. from settling, and creating a wide perception that they would be unwelcome at American higher education institutions, Yingyi Ma, professor and director of Asian studies at Syracuse University, told Rest of World.

Chinese nationals applying to work and study in North America have been subject to greater scrutiny and drawn-out security screenings, translating into lengthy visa delays and even deportations. Silicon Valley firms including Google and OpenAI are stepping up their own security screenings of potential recruits as U.S. authorities increasingly voice espionage concerns.

https://restofworld.org/2024/china-us-immigration-policy-ai-...
Maybe.

Personally, I think that they would cut other cost centers before they cut the only department that ensures their long term success

The industry could save tens or of billions per year by not advertising (this is a US thing, drug ads are nonexistent in many places), and eliminating pricing games, cost rebate programs, coupons, drug reps, etc. These are all significant costs and friction that don’t exist in most other countries.

My personal feeling is that claiming that the worlds least cost efficient healthcare system with many layers of added complexity is the driver behind pharmaceutical budgets is marginal.

And of course you have to consider that a significant portion of drug research costs are paid by government and other institutional grants
Coincidentally, looking for a trustworthy open source Web browser solution (I'm on a rampage this weekend, after Mozilla misalignment last straw), I just had to allude to what seemed like Apple's attitudes towards developers ranging from indifference to hostility, throughout the iOS developer experience:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43224305

(I'm sure there are some great people working on parts of Apple, and doing great work. But would they say that the holistic experience, as well as various business moves by Apple, are currently third-party developer-friendly? With the platform power Apple wields, and often heavy-handedly, I think that needs to be acknowledged.)
What TFA was talking about didn't really seem like an hallucination - just a case of garbage in-garbage out. Normally there are more examples of good/correct data in the training set than bad, so statistically the good wins, but if it's prompted for something obscure maybe bad is all that it has got.

Common coding tasks are going to be better represented in the training set and give better results.
A bank deposit is both an asset and a liability to the bank - a customer depositing money in a bank expands both sides of the bank's balance sheet.

Banks can and do then lend out deposited money to other customers, who can then spend it in the economy as they see fit.
Digital Rights Management != Direct Rendering Manager
Everyone should watch the Office of Budget and Management, Russell Vought, speak on government workers:

We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains.

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

18F are the bureaucrats they want to traumatize.
And the sorting is, in essence, my point.
I personally can't believe humanity is in such a state of decay that the two options allowed to be discussed are "50% of the population is morbidly obese, has 0 impulse control and will literally eat themselves to the grave" and "ozempic for life for 50% of the population"

Are we just a bunch of NPCs waiting for the orders? One day it's McDonald's selling you the disease the next it's Novo Nordisk selling you the cure, and you apparently have to clap at that "miracle"?
DOGE's emphasis on cutting DEI/sexual and racial minority programs

And now gutting the agency that enforced basic employment laws.

Say goodbye to the 40-hour work week.
@Dang - can we use the actual WSJ article [0] instead of a second hand source

[0] - https://www.wsj.com/world/china/china-ai-us-travel-advisory-...
We keep hearing this kind of "reasoning"

> 8.5 million jobs at risk

And it's a problem: 8.5 million working diligently to make the world less efficient, less healthy - generally less up-to-speed - is NOT a good thing. It's not something to long for. It's not something to protect through ... what? forced impulse buying? or other subsidies. It's something to change urgently - or at least get ready for. (And some of the businesses mentioned do think about it.)

Still it would be nice if society - in particular the US - put some effort into succeding at these transitions. These transitions do not need to be "one day you have a job, the next you don't and good luck". For one thing these transitions are never sudden - they have 5-10 years thereabout. For another there are options, "illegal to fire" (France, insane), "work or train" (Denmark is it?, admirable idea), "ease of starting and running new businesses" (various countries, the US not in the lead). By contrast, we regularly see indefinite term subsidies, and minimal education / training planning.
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Can people just think instead of regurgitating what they hear? To your definition Churchill was a dictator too, right? Or somehow he wasn't?

A war is happening, and how can people think they can just hold a nicely done election... Ukrainians don't even care about that, that rhetoric (propaganda) comes from a foreign nation.
The lowest the deficit has been in the past 20 years was the year Obama handed things over to Trump. The lowest it's been in the past 30 years was the year Clinton handed it over to Bush.

Maybe stop giving control of our purse strings to the people digging us into this situation.
> But what happens when I eat less and lose weight is that I have trouble concentrating. The glucose my brain needs just isn't there.

This is crazy, I have the completely opposite effect. On keto + calorie restriction I feel much more alert and sharp.
Sad to hear. Johansen, Sylvain Sylvain, and Johnny Thunders just oozed "cool" in the most New York way, I think only the Velvet Underground and Ramones are on the same level, but I'm probably super biased. Crossed paths with Sylvain many times opening for him when he would be out on the road and always loved sitting around in the green room listening to his stories about the Dolls. Definitely feeling my age today... but I guess we all do when we start seeing the artists we grew up with pass away.
If I were Apple, I'd leverage this in content licensing negotiations.
Okay so you actually cannot “guarantee” the prior contract’s award process was bad.

And sure, we don’t know this change is corrupt. We do know that there is a very clear conflict of interest though, so people are reasonably demanding more transparency.
Everything but size is an extremely marginal cost compared to construction labor, and size is determined by what local zoning will allow. That is, more often than not, nothing but single detached homes on large lots, which makes it pointless for a builder to not maximize size while they've already got labor on site.
Very rarely is helping a country’s government achieve its goals good for that country’s people.

The aims of the people and the state are quite different.
Ah yes, I “fondly” remember constantly being told that tax cuts would stimulate the economy so much they’d be revenue-positive.

This, it turned out, was a lie. And not a very convincing one to anyone with even half a functioning brain cell.
If everything is urgent, nothing is.

Almost none of the handwringing since the inauguration has been important.
I hope you lose your job, too.
Oh, OK. So depending on your height, that sounds fine.

So you're still eating plenty, but the point is that you no longer have any desire to over-eat?

And so at a restaurant you still order and eat, but the food just doesn't mean "enjoyment" the way it used to?

That makes a lot more sense then. If food becomes more about removing a negative feeling of discomfort, than a positive feeling of deliciousness, right then overeating would never make any sense.

Thanks!
What do you use that blocks YouTube ads?
> Netflix allows 1080p with weak DRM but requires strong DRM for 4k.

Well that's an improvement from when some browsers on Windows got 720p. Apparently that changed about six months ago.

But it's still 720p for most browsers on Linux. Huh.
Beyond what others have said about superficial things like laying out code differently, remember that Rust encodes memory-safety-related information in types, function signatures etc that might not exist at all in a C/C++ "we hope you do it right, or it's UB" codebase.

Also, here's a code size tracker that counts tokens not lines, which is a better measure: https://github.com/rrethy/tcount
No. They actually cancelled it.

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/doge-cuts-911-related-c...
It’s not about cost reduction, it’s about cutting off funding to the new administration’s political enemies
"I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic" [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_of_Allegiance_%28United_S...
my family gets one, maybe two important pieces of mail a year.

Your experience is not the only experience.

There are another 300 million Americans with different needs than yours. And it's hubris to pretend that your way and your life is superior to everyone else.
>due to the private contracts turning out to be much more expensive than anticipated, and delivering sub-par service.
I've voted D in every election of my life, including Biden and Harris. Don't put this on me.

Dems had their chance. They propped up a barely functioning, senile old man to respond to Republicans' threats, and he failed to do anything to stop what was coming (eg put Trump and the other Jan 6 ringleaders in jail, expand the Supreme Court, DC and PR statehood, literally anything).

Dems just aren't up to the task.

> Because at the end of the day this is what you wanted. The ability to say "Dems won't be fixing this problem" is more important to you than fixing the problem.

This is so far out of line, an appropriate reply would rightly get me removed from HN.
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US deficit is mostly from unfunded tax cuts of the type Trump and your boy Elon love