skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> None of the individuals working for this agency could provide a list of 5 things they did the prior week, either.

Elsewhere you have claimed this is stated in the article, despite the fact it doesn't state it in the article[1]. It's also already pretty well established that Elon bragged on his platform about "deleting" 18F long before sending out these messages to them and the rest of the federal government. So now you're moving the goalposts again to pretend that Elon's long-established desire to "delete" 18F actually amounts to justified dismissal for "insubordination"

If the best arguments you can muster for DOGE's actions are all in bad faith, perhaps DOGE is not doing a good job.

[1]the article merely notes that they received a second demand for standup updates mere hours before they were advised their entire department had been shut down, which if anything suggests DOGE isn't very good at coordinating what it's doing and that replying to those emails is pointless because you'll get fired anyway It also links to an article which confirms that they were fired because 18F "as been identified as part of this phase of GSA’s Reduction in Force (RIF) as non-critical", not for "insubordination:
They absolutely do want all the rights, they just got caught and have changed it "for now". They're modeling it after the music cartels.

Can you say Mozilla?

Shoot 'em all in the back!
this is awesome. I had the same idea when i saw that post.

I would love to add links to media like pics, videos, notes ect.
Note that this is specifically for people aged 16-24 in full time work.

And people that go to university don't appear in the statistics until age 22 or so, as they're not in full-time work. Meaning people who leave school at 16 contribute to the annual statistics 8 times, while university graduates only contribute 2 times. And among those who leave school at 16 and become apprentice plumbers or electricians - they're not going to be making decent money until they're good enough not to need close supervision.
I know that list was off the top of your head, but if a quickly-assembled list of male role models includes guys who died almost 40 years ago that probably indicates that there aren't enough of them.
It depends on what you consider government functions, but I'd be cautious as well.

And while the German's government eventual recognition that fax machines are no longer the state of the art is an extreme case, I believe it's exemplifies the problem. Private companies, both large and small, have done that much earlier.

Those profits they're chasing above all else are a powerful driver for innovation and optimization.
Gary's economics, YouTube.
it's not surprising when you consider the title says "the brain" and not "mice brains"

journalists are ruining our understanding of reality by sensationally misleading people with headlines in search of engagement.
The Pentium contains a complicated circuit to multiply by three
does it mean we get a reprieve from "this is just the beginning" comments.
Reality at least in Europe is big companies come from big burguesse families and they know how to masquerade themselves in order to keep being attached to government (no matter the color). Like oligarchy in disguise.
We’ll definitely have this at some point. A good recommendation system needs a solid base of user data, so it’s only possible once we have a larger user base. I really wanted to have this for the launch since it seemed so important for a book tracking platform but we didn't have the data to train models to make recommendations.
https://pyo3.rs/
Reminds me of a few years ago, when a bunch of people were breathlessly claiming that blockchain was the future of videogames, because it would let you transfer items from one game to another. Take your favorite Skyrim sword and use it in Minecraft, or whatever.

So I'd point out that that had been technically possible for decades, no blockchain necessary, and the reason it hadn't happened was that no developer actually wants it. And then they'd get super mad and call me names.

I'm afraid the AI bros are going to do more real-world damage than the crypto bros did, though.
No, the generic Google ToS (https://policies.google.com/terms) now apply universally and grant this kind of access.
> Does one really get anything meaningful out of saying this was a 6-star book vs a 7-star book?

I rate for myself, and not others. And for over 20 years I've used a 10 point system.

10 = Easily amongst my favorite

9 = Awesome, but not in all time favorites

8 = Really liked it, and would recommend

7 = Liked it, was worth my time, but not so much that I would happily recommend to others

6 = Liked it, but wasn't worth my time

5 = Neutral

And below 5 I don't distinguish. I randomly pick to indicate I didn't like it.
> This doesn't necessarily make them evil, just disconnected.

No, no, that level of lack of awareness and empathy makes them straight up evil.
I don't think it's a partisan question, although it'd be interesting to repeat the survey today given how the makeup of the Republican party has changed since 2014. Keep in mind Trump could not have won re-election with the support of Republican constituencies alone.

You had to be genuinely gullible to vote for Trump this time, but that wasn't the case in 2016. I'm thinking of the blue-collar union members who voted for the Trump '24 ticket, for example, bitching to everybody who would listen about the price of eggs under Biden. In 2014 they would have been dragging down the Democrats' collective IQ, and now they've switched sides. Yet I wouldn't be surprised if many of them are still registered Democrats.
They wouldn't have to - the VP would become the President and therefore the CIC. He would instruct to military to remove the former president. If the VP does not oblige, he can be impeached as well and the Speaker of the House would become POTUS.

At that point, being the ones with all the guns, it would fall to the military to decide who they are loyal to: the Constitution, ex-POTUS, or themselves, and they will act accordingly.
> Why would that be a desirable state of affairs?

You can't see why an ADHD diagnosis (which isn't hard to get) no longer being a quick ticket to getting amphetamines--one of the most commonly sought-after and regularly abused class drugs since the 1930s--would be a desirable state of affairs? Are you not aware of the adverse health affects they have (cardiovascular, neurological, e.g., Parkinson's, dental, bone density)?

> it seems like 50% don't respond to Strattera

It's seems more like people take longer to respond to Strattera and either don't want to wait, or just want the amphetamines.
I understand that, but my point is that, as someone with no Apple hardware, my money gets me essentially nothing as far as Orion goes. I'm basically funding software for everyone else when I subscribe to Kagi.

There's not really accountability to the users when a bunch of them are funding software for the rest of them to use. The rest of us don't even know if Orion is any good, even if we're paying for it. It's hard to hold them accountable when I can't even try the product.
In a high demand market though? My landlord had like 3 tenants go over the last couple of years and they had a new one moving in that month basically to no affect on their cashflow. Whenever I applied for apartments in this town it was always tour the place and be prepared to sign a lease right there because you have no time to think before someone else bites. Maybe thats true when you have a failing local job market but that isn’t the case in high housing cost regions by definition.
All statements relating to biology should be assumed to be about mice unless stated otherwise.
>We all live in the same world and it’s everyone’s responsibility to realize that and our impact on those around us as well as our environment.

It is physically impossible to be aware of the entirety of one's impact on others. One might be able to dimly perceive how the person across from you is feeling about something you said or did, but even in simple one to one interactions, there's frequent miscommunication and signal loss. If you extend this to making decisions that have an impact on not just one but hundreds or thousands of people, it's literally impossible to know the true impact of all those decisions on all those people. Good decision makers will intentionally cultivate information flows that provide them some insight but those are themselves imperfect.
I'd pay $100 per year to support Firefox, no problem. Most people probably wouldn't be willing to go more than $20.

But I do wonder how many of us there are who would pay, and what kind of dev team that would support.
I came across one of this cases in Python where .title() capitalizes every word of the sentence, but in Spanish you only capitalize the first letter.
The FPGA will have higher static power (running all the overheads) but probably lower dynamic power for the same design. 40 nm is old at this point for high-performance chips.
Not a single word in that sentence about how every agency receives those emails indicates that the staff let go (i.e the entire 18F workforce) were "unable or unwilling to complete this simple task"

Though the fact that they were asked to submit a list of accomplishments by Monday and fired in the early hours of Saturday morning with a statement their department had been deemed "noncritical" is a pretty good indication that noncompliance had nothing to do with it...
Most of the agency heads telling employees not to respond were just installed by the President within the last few weeks.

They answer directly to the President. The email was sent by someone at OPM who also answers directly to the President.

The President has issued no formal orders regarding these emails. He did issue an executive order telling employees to comply with DOGE requests but this email came from OPM not DOGE.

There whole thing is an unclear clusterfuck.
What changed is the economy went bad, both for the tech industry and the public in general. No more job hopping because there were more openings than people to fill them, no more easy capital to start a business, no more appetite for risk by anyone, etc. You don't see any BLM-sized protests or million-man marches or even walkouts at FAANG because everyone are fearful for their paychecks.
As a user, if I have the choice between 2 apps, I’ll strongly favor a Go, Rust or ANSI C app over a Python, Ruby, Shell or C++ app.

This is because empirically, they usually work better, feel more polished, faster and I can easily contribute patches if I need. If a tool is written in Python, I’ll go out of my way to find a rewrite in another language.
I don't consider myself a very core or talented developer, but I do feel quite strongly that git from the cmd line is much easier than a GUI, but overall ridiculously hard regardless. The abstractions and visualizations in graphical interfaces is either too dense & complicated, or more likely hides what's actually happening; there's no way to reduce the inherient complexity.

My take: don't play the game. learn your basic required workflow from the command line and use the decent documentation to look up everything else.
This is disgusting. I’m sorry about that
The Hilarious Reality of LLM Code Generators in Practice
to understand symptoms and side effects of drugs i am prescribed.

No doctor ( atleast in this part of the world) will go over all the side effects of the drug that they prescribe.

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/statins/side-effects/

this website is not entertainment for me.
There's another factor: their jobs are different. Obviously working in an office is advantageous if your entire jobs is meetings and talking to people. They're going to get frustrated when they are in the office and the people they want to talk to aren't there.

But it's waaaay less useful if you are a worker bee just programming all day. Yes it's still better to talk to people next to a physical whiteboard, but it only matters very occasionally. My wife found it astounding that pre-covid I would sometimes go into the office and not really talk to anyone all day. Literally would just be sitting at a desk typing; the desk could have been anywhere.

If you're somehow a FAAaaaang executive reading this, consider making RTO only mandatory for the people you directly manage and talk to, and then let them decide the policy for their subordinates.
Agreed, and I think a key thing to note here is that discrimination against marginalized groups/minorities has historically run much deeper than hiring strategies, and so hiring strategies themselves provide a pretty superficial picture of how close we are to "solving" inequality.

It's not always this dramatic, but sometimes you can chalk up the difference between two people's opportunities in life (at least partly) to the fact that Person A's great-great-grandparents had a thriving family business, and each generation was able to provide a safety net for the next, versus Person B's great-great-grandparents who weren't allowed to own property. There are other factors, obviously, but advantages or disadvantages can accrue over time like compound interest. If Person B gets a good job, that's beneficial for them, but it might be exponentially more beneficial for their own great-great-grandchildren down the line—it just takes a while to see that change!
4.5 was called Orion, not Omni.
Pretty much where my thoughts on this are. I rarely feel any particular sense of connection to the actual author when I read their books. And I have taken great pleasure from some AI stories (to the degree I put them up on my personal website as a way to keep them around).
> Why else would they want to lose hours to commuting, and not take advantage of their employees living in cheaper CoL areas?

They abuse this and it definitely doesn't help the worker. As a Manhattan based worker who has lived in Aspen and Hawaii, Google wants to pay people in the higher COL areas of Aspen more than 30% less despite them being far more expensive than Aspen or Hawaii. They will fuck you with cost of living then if you expect more money they will say they are just following the cost of labor (which is a made up metric they can arbitrarily manipulate)
> Custom icons for an input field? Welp, it’s not that easy for privacy reasons to add a pseudo-class here in certain cases.

What exactly are those privacy reasons? And by custom icon for input field is meant replacing the cursor with e.g. an svg?
If you want people to return to the office, then make the working conditions at the office desirable to return to.

Yes, free meals, interesting spaces, massage rooms, etc are all great perks. But you’re there to work, and the reality is hoteling, no shred of privacy (need to have an ad hoc phone conversation with someone somewhere else? Good luck booking a phone room and walking 10min to get there).

If you want people in the office, give them offices. Small, glass-walled, but acoustically private. And above all, assigned, so that you can personalize it a little and not mind sitting there for 8-12 hours.
Any and every application you download and install locally.
Chromium based though.
That's good to know, there are ways around the limit of course by breaking up the prompt into multiple messages and then you're at the mercy of the models context window which can be anywhere from 4k to millions.

At some point though like you say, it's going to become ineffective and you'd probably want to use the "Sampling" mode that is available to only send a random subset of your library to model as a general representation. Though how well this works on massive library remains to be seen.
Sure, blowing something up can be a great teacher. At two previous jobs, I crashed prod on my first day there (and then fixed that bug, and made the sites much more resilient by the time I left). But lol, it would've also been fine if someone just told me "hey hold on, that might crash prod, let's double-check something first".

Most people should respond well enough to gentle guidance genuinely delivered in the spirit of collaboration. It shouldn't take a fire on prod to make them realize their error... if that's the only way they are able to learn, it's going to very rough for their career, their team, and any org they're working for.
BVM – User friendly, high performance Windows 11 VM on ARM Linux
Yes,

set privacy.fingerprintingProtection.overrides='+AllTargets,-CSSPrefersColorScheme',

set privacy.fingerprintingProtection='true', and

set privacy.resistFingerprinting='false'.

As far as I know, privacy.resistFingerprinting and privacy.fingerprintingProtection behave the same with these overrides (minus enforced light mode), but I haven't found much documentation on this, so please let me know if they don't.
> Can't a boy look up to the character and actions of a woman, and vice versa?

I believe, in life, girls can look up to men but boys do not look up to women. I suspect, but am not sure, that is built into the biology of each.

> I have so called mixed-race children and it would be silly to limit them to aspire to be like historical figures that look like them, because I can't even think of one example.

I agree. However, I think that we can make observations that show it does happen. E.G. the non-historical release of the Black Panther movie.
Everything you say is so profoundly alien to my house experience that I'm not sure how to relate.

If you are replacing major structures of the house every 10-20 years, something is wrong. That is not normal.

The house I grew up in is turning a century in a few years, and nothing about it suggests it isn't good to go another century at least. Original windows, who replaces windows every 20 years? Why?

Multiple friends live in houses their grandparents or great-grandparents built, those are well over a century. Perfectly comparable (in valuation) to new ones built a block away. And that's why houses won't depreciate in the timescale of a human lifetime.
The Primeagen and Casey Muratori carefully review the output of a state-of-the-art LLM code generator, given a task well-represented in its training data (ostensibly an easy task).
its always the same its just what is considered conformist is pivoting at the moment. the reason these contrarian/independent thinkers were valued were because they were really conformist. but they will be truly contrarian and independent once the pivot is over but then they won't be valued.
I use this whenever I need to look up anything outside of our workflow, but don't believe internalizing the myriad of git details has a very high pay-off. There's probably higher value knowledge in your role that you should prioritize.
The 4-star system is indeed wonderful. A rating that is truly "neutral" doesn't exist in a world of human subjectivity
There is something to be said for trusting people’s (or systems of people’s) authority.

For example, have you ever personally verified that humans went to the moon? Have you ever done the experiments to prove the Earth is round?
If the model did not matter they would be spending their money on marketing or sales instead of improving the model.
Yes, but the hyper-individualism is very familiar. I wonder if the balance has changed since the 2022 wake-up call.
There is a truth in the grandparent's comment that doesn't necessarily conflict with this view. The Google 2.0 effect is not necessarily that it gives you a better correct answer faster than google. I think it never dawned on people how bad they were at searching about topics they didn't know much about or how bad google was at pointing them in the right direction prior to chatgpt. Or putting it another way, they never realized how much utility they would get out of something that pointed them in the correct direction even though they couldn't trust the details.

It turns out that going from not knowing what you don't know to knowing what you don't know adds an order of magnitude improvement to people's experience.
That might be so but he did highlight that he put work ahead of the family

> Most time goes to work, some to family.

I do two jobs, but do that _because_ I prioritize family life: I do my main (not remote) work only part time because that can't be done remotely, and do a second job (consulting, 90% remotely) on off days to make up the difference. I don't care about the money as long as we make do.
That's just chromium with a weird cryptocurrency racket on top.
I was incorrect, and you are right about the order of events in this case, although I don't believe TFA says these 18F employees didn't reply to the email. I noted in an edit that I accidentally pulled a quote from a different article. I believe the gist of what I and others are saying here is still true.

Some other points:

* The second email came "late Friday" and the layoffs happened hours later at 1 am on Saturday, so it's not reasonable to count the second email as a warning or genuine attempt to find the "good" employees. I'm guessing it was just blasted out and happened to land in their inboxes before the firing notice did.

* Based on https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/01/general-services-ad... it appears the entire 18F unit was cut, so this doesn't seem targeted or predicated on email responses. Also, I'm not a leader, but if 100% of my organization didn't comply with an order, cutting them all is probably a much less effective decision than trying to meet them half-way. I guess if they've truly been doing nothing for years, there would be no loss, but that seems unlikely to be true in most cases including 18F's.

* Your initial comment appeared to be speaking generally on DOGE cuts, so it is fair for us to be responding accordingly. 18F seems to have been pretty small, but part of the reason this story is interesting is everything else DOGE is doing. As we've said, plenty of cuts happened before and independent of any email. Personally I'm doubtful that responding does much, but I'd be interested in any reporting on employee's experiences or what DOGE is saying about responses and how it affects their decisions.

Like I said above, I don't think TFA mentioned 18F's responses and there's not really a good reason to assume that the layoffs were due to no response.
> It’s happening because employers are desperate to get their power back while workers have no rights.

What does this mean in concrete terms? What useful power do they gain based on physical presence, and what rights are currently absent but coming (back?) soon?
> A major class marker distinguishing the upper-middle from the middle ends up being that the former are barely surveilled, largely free to set their own schedule, and basically are trusted to do the right thing (never mind that perfectly ordinary behavior patterns from them would be regarded as instantly fireable for others; it’s a different standard), while the middle gets constant status reports, return to office mandates, stricter start and stop times, maybe drug tests.

When I was having trouble finding work this was one of my biggest issues. I was qualified to be working independently but all the entry-level work I could find would have involved being treated like I was in high school again, whereas before I could use the afternoon to tinker or read and no one cared as long as my work was getting done. This is why office jobs end up being coveted to the point that a university graduate will be making the same amount working an office job as a retail associate at a Walmart.
I don't have different priorities but I can't afford to offload my obligations to others.