skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just read your citation and it doesn’t sound particularly provocative. Certainly nothing compared to the dressing-down that followed.

If you look at my other comments, you’ll see that I recognize that there is room for good-faith disagreement on the merits of whether we should continue to provide money and weapons to Ukraine, and what stance we should take towards Russia. What I don’t think is negotiable is that we should be courteous toward our guests, even those that challenge us. Politicians should be judged on both their substantive positions and their character. People who support Trump appear all too keen to ignore the latter because they agree with the former. (In the discussion I’ve had in HN challenging Trump supporters in the past 24 hours, not a single one has conceded that maybe he and Vance overreacted.)

Regarding “suka,” I believe there are multiple interpretations of the intent there. A charitable interpretation is that he was expressing frustration and not hurling a personal insult. Regardless, to make it a lynchpin of the argument tilts the scales against justice.
Yeah, and how much money does he make vs how many hours he works?

Like, he's punching down with all of these comments, and because he's still punching up from where 99% of workers are at, people buy the line from the billionaire who stands to benefit from this.

"All of the Google Grunts should be putting in 20 more hours a week so that I can make more money off of owning Google stock in exchange for the same pay, and no additional work from me, a billionaire." - What Sergey is actually pushing for here.

It's no wonder the American dream is dead. People don't even want others to achieve it unless they're already a billionaire, or unless they have to burn themselves out to achieve it.
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On the other hand, only some fraction of the energy inherent in jetfuel is converted to work. So fuel based airplanes have to carry a lot of "extra" energy that is then just wasted as heat.
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The few references to potentially intentionally spreading disease, all well after they were spreading in the Americas, are unlikely to be the cause of more than a tiny sliver of deaths due to disease. The timelines simply do not match.
Which flight-qualified life support systems have this reliability? This is a hope, not a fact.
Is downscaling difficult? I can understand that upscaling is hard and you need learning. But when downscaling, for me OpenCV's "area" interpolation always gives great results super fast.
I've yet to be convinced they really are after cutting the deficit or paying off debt.

Republicans in congress, many of whom lined up behind Trump, are pushing a budget increase.
You can look at authors who are already subjected to ‘write me an X in the style of…’
Hum, I don't know, here in the UK, no one is forcing you to do anything. I am free to chose if I want to step up, down or stay on the current dosage every month. And I took the cautious approach to only step up when I stopped feeling the effects at the current dosage, so 8 months in, I am only starting on 10mg (range is 2.5 to 15mg in 2.5 increments).
"jails don't work and we shouldn't have jails"

Got it
Thank you, O wise one. Shall you be my guru?
I think the US has learned from others without saying a word about it. e.g. the N1 had a lot of smaller engines rather than a few huge ones - so they could be mass-produced. They were also pretty efficient. They lacked the control systems we have now so the N1 was problematic but it was a clever idea.

Those Russian engines were so good that the US has bought a lot of them and used them many years after they were made.

Certain American manufacturers have ..... been making smaller engines that they can mass produce and have gone taken the efficiency approach a step further.
A nearby state should take the opportunity to pick these people up. They appear to do good work and this is a rare opportunity to get a good prebuilt IT team that is willing to work at government rates.
I would assume Linux wouldn't implement this but has this been verified somewhere?

It's my understanding this limits the quality of content streamers permit to run on Linux:

https://linuxcommunity.io/t/drm-the-final-barrier-to-linux-d...
IHP is excitinybut their PDK is horrible compared to major fabs like TSMC or GF. Anyone using it for products hate it.
It's straight up miserable to be in mclean/tysons between october and february. Truly it is america's asshole. And yes, people conspicuously consume more than ever. I think this is likely not true of most malls, though, the shopping culture here is just nuts.
You don't need alternatives or competition, you just need improvements. But competition spurs improvements and alternatives spur competition.
Auditory hallucinations can be extremely entertaining.

I ate a few magic mushrooms I found while walking in the UK. On returning home I went to bed to relax. Someone was playing some music downstairs, I could only faintly hear it, the general ambient sound was louder. My brain elaborated the faint auditory signal to create the most fantastic music I had ever heard, and it filled my head like it was super hi fi. Curiously I was able control the sound effects and elaborate instrumentation at will in real time, like I was some omnipotent engineer/DJ/composer.
This is just vandalism. They don’t want the government to function at all.
Hence the crunch. They've nobody left to fight but other Republicans.
Am I being too cynical if I read from this that they were fine with it until they got fired?

Honest question. I’m really not sure if I’m just becoming too cynical.
But the point is not for us now anymore. The point is to enable tomorrow’s independance. So we have to start diversifying now.
I don't know. I guess it really depends on whether people agree that there is a bloat in civil servants.
Off topic: Since we are doing clickbait titles, I thought ChatGPT / Gen AI in general might be a better candidate for "the biggest economic disruptor since the internet", based on hype, especially from the "leaders" who claim that AGI is just a few months away.
The admins will likely down rank this due to “ongoing news” but boy this is really important stuff.
You could probably back out at least some bounds from the data here: https://www.aamc.org/data-reports/students-residents/report/...

This: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00904...
Suggests MEDIAN USMLE step 1 scores for White, Asian, Hispanic/Latino, and Black applicants were 242, 242, 237, and 232. It's urology specific, and practice specific, though.

This: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/hsr2.161
Says The mean (±SD) USMLE step 1 score was significantly greater among non-[Black or Hispanic] applicants as compared to URiM applicants (223.7 ± 19.4 vs 216.1 ± 18.4, P < .01, two-sample t-test). This is at a specific medical school.

But more generally...imagine what would have to be true for us to go from BIG differences in g-loaded test performance to small / no differences. Either people fundamentally change somehow (get smarter / dumber), people's test scores systematically differ because they e.g. got better / worse at "tests" or something, independent of their underlying knowledge of the content or abilities, or it's attrition (e.g., very many minority med students wash out, leaving only those who should have been admitted in the first place).

None of those things seem plausible to me. The little glimpse we have from the two studies above is consistent with the obvious thing happening. Things are mostly the same, though I'd bet URM have higher wash-out rates, so differences get attenuated somewhat by the time they're practicing. Of course, URM vs non-URM will sort differently into specialties and geographies so there's that...you'll see bigger or smaller differences depending on how they sorted. A good question, as well, is why the USMLE people don't split reporting by race. I bet one of the reasons is they'd get a lot of flak because there would be big disparities. And good on them (maybe!) because one reason they might care about that is they want to produce good doctors, and watering down their test won't help with that.
Depends. 3k is pretty much enough for a fully-featured XY.

So no context, and differences of the definition of "large".

Perhaps if you come from Java, then yeah.

shrugs
I'm sure there are states - perhaps not nearby - that will offer exciting opportunities to former civil servants.
I’ve gone back and forth on using TypeId or named plugins using a string. Mainly switched to the named variant to support each oauth provider lookup by name.

If you have any suggestions for making it better, let me know!
The article describes a psychotic lifestyle as normal.

I didn't need a drug to reject having breakfast at Starbucks. I bake my own bread. I wake up early to have time to eat it in peace.
I take enough time to roast my own coffee beans.
I commute by bike.

It's about having some standards. A concept of a lifestyle and person that isn't just a corpo drone.
Sidenote: On HN you can often get downvoted/flagged not only for what you say, but for the way you say it. I wouldn't really call it griefing, rather a call for more civil discussion. If an account is new or a throwaway it gets held to this standard even stronger because no one really wants to see a HN that's flooded by throwaway accounts writing Reddit style comments.
> what AGI has always meant.

Reading wikipedia about history of the term, it sounds like term was popularized by this book: https://www.amazon.com/Artificial-General-Intelligence-Cogni... which says that general means "ability so solve variety of tasks in variety of domains", not "all tasks in all domains". So "always meant" is easily challengeable here.
I think this could be expanded further. You can convert attention traces to knowledge graph with arbitrary and/or dynamic density. Traversing it can also be exotic – zooming in/expanding details at arbitrary points during traversal. With common format you can create topic/knowledge trace packs that could be shared, merged (subtracted?) etc.
So my point stands? Nowhere in the American economy where to add value?
This org cost $0. They operated with full cost recovery from their consulting work with other agencies
The invention of JavaScript, the rise and fall of ActiveX, and the death blow to Flash have all been opinions held by browser engine makers with dominant market positions. Even just Mozilla's pre-Chrome opinion of "our JavaScript engine is fast enough"

Google is no less opinionated with Chrome than Netscape, Microsoft and Apple have been. Google's opinions for the most parts align with our own, but that doesn't make it any less opinionated. And a Servo-monopoly would be better but still not great. Firefox started to stagnate after it took over from IE and vastly improved once Chrome appeared. Competition keeps things healthy
> A data-driven approach can optimize for the wrong thing

So does firing from the hip, so what? And I'd wager firing from the hip has a higher failure rate. At least by using data I have an actual argument for my position, other than "but muh feelings!" My CEO doesn't give two shits about how I "felt" the project would go, and I can't imagine how poorly that discussion will go when we meet to review what happened.

At the end of the day the companies that are succeeding and growing are using data to inform their decisions.
It's not only government rates. It's government benefits and also some less tangible benefits of working for a federal government, especially on a project like this. So it should be more expensive, but still well, well worth it.
Finally. Someone else who gets it. They want to hurt people on purpose.
Logistics is not a matter of culture. When you run out, you run out.
I’ve lost 35lbs on them and won’t ever stop using them.
Were they American pancakes before?

Serious question, I just call pancakes, pancakes….
> I've yet to be convinced they really are after cutting the deficit or paying off debt.

Probably because the proposed budget plan will increase the deficit. Reducing revenue more than they're reducing spending, and reducing spending in areas that brought in more revenue than they cost.

And DOGE's savings (the ones that aren't just $0 savings) are targeted at things that won't actually improve anything. They amount to a drop in the bucket compared to where real savings could be had.
Lol meanwhile I got to install correct syntax highlighting plugin after like two years at my company
Xcode is fine in my experience. At the very least it leaves me banging my head against the wall considerably less frequently than Android Studio does. It’s mainly just a matter of figuring out the antipatterns that make Xcode “angry”, where the bad parts of Android Studio are unavoidable.
Ask HN: Do you think the launch of DeepSeek boosted OpenAI?
This is purely based on my daily observations while scrolling on X.

I have noticed that ever since DeepSeek came out, OpenAI, and especially Sam Altman has been more and more active. Pushing updates after updates, launching or announcing new features. Sama has been on fire spilling the beans. It is like they received a nudge, a boost, a push in the right direction and they are now building at 110% speed. We got Operator, Deep Research and GPT 4.5 announcement all within the last 4 weeks.

OpenAI feels so open & responsive and they've never been so transparent in my opinion.

Sama is also hinting at AGI more than the usual :D

I use ChatGPT only for personal use and business. I personally never cared for the advancements in Gemini, Claude or whatever, though I have used a self-hosted Llama on my RTX for quite a bit.

So, since I'm a ChatGPT Plus subscriber this only affected me positively.

What do you think? Is it just me? Oh and of course I think/hope OpenAI has a couple more stuff hidden in their sleeves.
Renewed my passport, and it was seamless using their portal. I was amazed. Are they now going to privatize everything?
You could try headless playwright. There will be still a browser but it is just a process in the background, no window is shown.

https://playwright.dev/
> supporting free tax filing with the IRS

This was their mistake.
Yeah, the article is literally about an entitled googler being vocal.

Man worth 100+ Billion complains he should be worth more, and that the grunts should have to make him worth more at all costs.

How is anyone who doesn't want to do that entitled?
This is me without any drugs. I’m very interested in food, but I only want a few bites to taste.
OpenAI have apparently said that GPT 4.5 has a knowledge cutoff date of October 2023, and their System Card for it says "GPT 4.5 is NOT a frontier model" (my emphasis).

It seems this may be an older model that they chose not to release at the time, and are only doing so now due to feeling pressure to release something after recent releases by DeepSeek, Grok, Google and Anthropic. Perhaps they did some post-training to "polish the turd" and give it the better personality that seems to be one of it's few improvements.

Hard to say why it's so expensive - because it's big and expensive to serve, or for some marketing/PR reason. It seems that many sources are confirming that the benefits of scaling up pre-training (more data, bigger model) are falling off, so maybe this is what you get when you scale up GPT 4.0 by a factor of 10x - bigger, more expensive, and not significantly better. Cost to serve could also be high because, not intending to release it, they have never put the effort in to optimize it.
I'm curious what other solutions you tried to test your Flutter app.
I also got that from the subtext
Be careful with all this. At one point I had gone 72 hours without eating or drinking anything and one beer by the pool had me on the floor. I keep hydrated these days but sometimes it’s an effort.
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I asked a question and he ignored it. I asked it again and he answered it. What you call haranguing I call a conversation.
It can also break if the read implementation has mutable side effects, e.g. rebalancing. Java HashMap used to have this causing an infinite loop. I haven’t looked recently but my guess is it still does.

https://mailinator.blogspot.com/2009/06/beautiful-race-condi...

‘Not thread safe’ really means ‘not thread safe’.
It is really really concerning to me how seemingly thoughtless these cuts are to the actual stated goals. As stated below, this org ran at a $0 cost from full cost recovery through consulting services to other orgs. Sure you could argue that's not truly $0, it's not. But it is not a bloated cost-center that needs to be cut.

Just today on the All In podcast I heard Jason Calcanis suggest that the USPS go down to one delivery day per week because no one uses it? The unbelievable part is he was genuine and thought it was an intelligent thing to say. For reference the USPS delivers over 100B, yes billion, parcels per year.

The disconnect between the people who are running the show, and those who are in the ear's of those running the show is scary.
Solid point. These workers might find a better fit in the private sector these days.
I know what I want to do and how to do it (expert), so the results are good, for me at least. Of course I have to polish it off here and there.
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Notoriously complex material called 'plumber's nightmare' created
The executive branch is not supposed to choose what to fund, and these irresponsible cuts show that there is no real plan to maintain a stable government.
The difference is less than those who exercise v not, slightly larger than that between men and women. For 50x chance in income. Money simply isn't as big a differentiator in life as you desperately want it to be. And that's the tiny bit of common sense required.
Yeah, I don’t see that implied anywhere.
https://archive.is/kCj3l
Ah right, I guess that name for them is Norwegian/European.

Around here, "American pancakes" are about 1 cm (1/2 inch) thick and the size of a hand. Contains baking soda

"Pancakes" are larger, the size of a plate, and much thinner (a couple of mm). No baking soda. Like the French crepe but smaller diameter.

They taste quite differently.
We loved Maestro but we didn’t like the pricing and the team wanted something more predictable. We are using Moropo and it’s been great. Very affordable, good DX, and it’s all basically just Maestro with extras.

The advantages of using open source! It would be great if it became industry standard and more companies would offer it as a service.
Your suggestion for not being able to screenshot movies is to install linux, which doesn't support DRM (or does, but only at the lowest qualities)? Sounds like a pyrrhic victory to me.
Looks like further states are also interested.

> US intel shows Russia and China are attempting to recruit disgruntled federal employees, sources say

> Foreign adversaries including Russia and China have recently directed their intelligence services to ramp up recruiting of US federal employees working in national security, targeting those who have been fired or feel they could be soon, according to four people familiar with recent US intelligence on the issue and a document reviewed by CNN.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/28/politics/us-intel-russia-...
Just about all of the blue states could benefit from a good team of engineers imo
I'm curious -- do you have any brain fog? Are you able to exercise? When you exercise, do you wind up eating more, i.e. the caloric amount that you exercised?

I've never had any psychological difficulty with losing weight. I don't care if I'm hungry.

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. And if I do physical activity, forget about it -- my blood sugar is going to my muscles and I'm unproductive for hours afterwards as I just can't think. Also, if I go to the gym, my muscles take a week to recover instead of a couple of days, because they're just not getting the glucose they need to repair themselves.

I don't hear any of these complaints from GLP users though, which baffles me. Not eating enough affects us in lots of ways besides just being hungry. How has it been for you?
First step would be to support SLIME in editors other than Emacs.
No reason for blue states to stay in the union if things continue down this path.
I think the goal is to not antagonize the administration but convince them that they're making a mistake and to reverse it.
Muse semi is an easier path. For Europe there is Europractice which gives access to pretty much any technology.

The problem is access to software and fabs. EDA is expensive and nobody will give access to individuals. Same for fabs. They don't want to give access to a lot of people due to IP theft risks. Anyone can be a North Korean hacker. Plus they operate under US export controls which makes the paperwork daunting.
Yes. These people are the rank-and-file, doing good engineering work until the USDS got hijacked by Elon's crew.

It's also harder to speak out when you're a US government employee, but now that they've been fired ...
As someone that's very invested in seeing the federal government adopt and integrate information technology to make the government more transparent, effective, and, yes, efficient, this is nothing short of an incredible bummer.

It feels like we're setting the clock back a decade at a time when trust in institutions is already at a nadir and we're facing global threats that only the federal government has the capacity to tackle. I can only hope civil society is able to pick up the slack in the short term and future administrations are able to execute better.
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Berlin is still the ultimate hacker city. Great initiative!