skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many if not most of the spending restrictions are about pushing politics.

If the financial restrictions are "cut everything non-essential" then this sort of makes sense. If the cuts are "this is woke science stop that" then it makes 100% sense.

Either way, blaming the State Department for this is neither reasonable nor prudent.
I'll bite. What's the moderator LARP-ing thing?

I've tried looking it up but among irrelevant results (general LARP info) I just found this comment again as the third result...
In the same sense that I plan on winning the lottery this week.
I see this argument a lot, i think no one is right. you just need to pick a away to approach life and deal with it.
The Super Intelligence still needs data centers to run on and will have a job with paltry countermeasures like turning it off. A three year old may be able to beat a better than Magnus chess computer by pushing the power button.
I’m an American and not offended in the least. It is simplified (color vs the obviously incorrect UK variant colour). Gray va grey. y’all is a great addition to the Simplified English.

Despite being told long ago by a drunk English visiting student that “the language is English not American” I’ll stand by our American simplification! Lamentably this simplification seems to be backtracking our political system…but hey we’re going from Discord to Revolt!
Social Security only applies to the first ~$176k of your income (inflation adjusted annually). What percentage of young people are at that income level? This is not young vs old, but the median vs the very wealthy.

https://www.ssa.gov/benefits/retirement/planner/maxtax.html
How about Mastodon?
> Must be it be swallowed up?

Yes.

Because user CPU cycles are cheaper than developer brain power.
Ask HN: Privacy-Focused Distributed Computing for LLMs/DL/ML?
I'm exploring the idea of a distributed computing platform that enables fine-tuning and inference of LLMs and classical ML/DL using computing nodes like MacBooks, desktop GPUs, and clusters.

The key differentiator is that data never leaves the nodes, ensuring privacy, compliance, and significantly lower infrastructure costs than cloud providers. This approach could scale across industries like healthcare, finance, and research, where data security is critical.

I would love to hear honest feedback. Does this have a viable market? What are the biggest hurdles?
Camaro ZL1 is close on performance and nearly half the price.

Unfortunately also discontinued.

Base C8 Corvette models are surprisingly close at a fraction of the price. The top tier C8 models are even faster.
I love cycling way more, but then every random dog is trying to eat me. So ICE rules!
Unless you live near a drag strip I'd argue that the Plaid's one trick is wasted on public roads. 0-60 in 2 seconds is not even enjoyable for most people. But if it was, I'd like that joy to last more than 2 seconds (without losing my license).

A sports car is something you wake up early on a Sunday morning to drive to a technical mountain road for no other reason than to derive pleasure from the human-machine interaction. Which you can do at legal speeds. Plenty of sports car owners do also go out of their way to visit the track.

How many Plaid owners excitedly set their alarm for 5am so they can enjoy a twisty mountain road a few hours away?
Thought experiment: would you trust Rockefeller or Carnegie to eliminate government waste?

I bet both of them would have loved to work free of charge, filling an executive seat at the fed. Same goes for Tim Cook, Larry Ellison, Sundar Pichai... it's a good thing we never made a habit out of nepotism here in America.
I remember when "privatizing social security" was considered a horrifying prospect under the W Bush administration and became unpopular very quickly. I'm not so optimistic this time around.
they are likely referring to autonomous vehicles, not public transit
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As a six speed NB owner, am hard pressed to disagree.

I haven't driven another car yet that focused so well on the things that make driving fun, while minimizing the downsides.
Xit Is Coming
Ultimately it doesn't matter. We haven't blocked trade only with the segment of Iranians who support their government's nuclear program. We blocked trade with all Iranians, and put extra restrictions on specific government actors who enact nuclear policy.

Same thing with Russia. Or Syria. Or North Korea. In foreign affairs, all the citizens of a nation are collectively held responsible for the action of that state.

Which is to say: stop hedging. This is your government. You cannot wash your hands of this mess because you voted for Kodos. It's your mess, admit it, and see what you can do to fix it. The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is that Good Men Do Nothing.
My understanding, as an american, is that the Federal government "owns" most of the land west of either the Mississippi River or the Sabine. Or used to "own" it. So getting land for personal/business use in that geographic region is harder than eastward. I don't know the term of art, but it's like the Federal Government - via the BLM, USDA, USFS, or whatever - has right of first refusal for all land sales.

I know that my understanding can be wrong, but this is what i've heard and perusing some maps bears out at least some validity.
Well, concernedc1tizen, I don't like it when people spout of misinformation. Especially when it comes to deep societal issues like pervasive advertising. Making thoughtless and inaccurate blanket statements hurts the overall discussion.

"Belligerence" as you call it is direct, unambiguous, and will probably be remembered.
It's a theory that makes sense, but in reality e.g. during the crisis in 2022, one of the solutions 6 months in was to fly in welders from the US. Which might be a point that a solution can be found in a crisis, except the Edf had lost billions up to that point, after countless delays, finishing the year over 15 billion in the red. Overall, that industry has been incapable of delivering anything in a reasonable timeframe for decades now, especially in France.

So I would not take theories for granted, even if they make sense.
Feels strange to have posted exactly the same thing and gotten exactly zero traction.

Really glad this event exists. I didn't know about it ahead of time, so some amount of Marketing sounds sensible.
> rear-wheel drive

meh, I was never a fan of those.

I still remember the day I took an audi quattro (not mine, a car like that was way out of my league financially back then) for the first time up a mountain pass road near my home in the 80s.

What an effing rush that was.

Strongly agree for the rest of the list though and would add: "mechanical handbrake" to the list.

These days cars have ugly little electronic handbrakes with a LED on it, what a load of shite.
And even if the current government does wield such power more-or-less responsibly, the next one may not.
A "pension" means an employer-funded pool of money that pays out fixed payments after a certain age. What you're describing exists (somewhat unevenly) in the US, but it's employee funded. The employee must take active steps to contribute, which means they lose part of their income until they retire and there may or may not be employer contributions. People who can't afford to contribute, or put it off for a few years (most people) end up with insufficient funds at retirement, which becomes a social problem.
I'm running the same exact models.
In terms of the disconnect between executives and society, the elephant in the room here is society's approval of CEO, father, husband Brian Thompson's cold-blooded murder. The disconnect goes way beyond disagreements about RTO.
Ahhh context was missing. I meant in actual game development discords for game developers, not games that have discords from the developers.

My anecdotal data is based on observations from my partner who has boughten several asset packs from itch.io, got on the discord for support, and the artists/game devs have been extremely unwelcoming to the point of just banning users for simple game dev questions and/or mentions of AI.

Of course, gamers (competitive) are generally a toxic bunch.
The article quotes Paul Samuelson:

> The beauty of social insurance is that it is actuarially unsound. Everyone who reaches retirement age is given benefit privileges that far exceed anything he has paid in — exceed his payments by more than ten times (or five times counting employer payments)!

I checked this using my work history. I download my wage history from ssa.gov, downloaded the payroll tax history from somewhere, and download one year T-bill rates over my working lifetime so far.

It turns out that if the payments from me and my employer had been used to buy one year T-bills, and when those matured they had been rolled over into new one year T-bills, the amount that would be there now would be enough to pay my SS benefit if I started collecting now (2 years before full retirement age) for around 17 years, which happens to be around the life expectancy of a male my age. That's assume the T-bills stop rolling when I start collecting and so there is an uninvested lump sum of cash. Keep rolling over to new T-bills and it can cover several years beyond my life expectancy.

That suggests that at least for workers with salary history similar to mine you could actually have a sound system--we are contributing enough that it should be possible to cover our benefits.

I'm pretty sure this is just a coincidence. People who made more than me would also likely find results similar to mine, but people making substantially less would probably find their benefit exceeds what their contribution could cover.

That's because your monthly SS benefit depends on what your "averaged index monthly earning" (AIME). That's the average you earned a month during your 35 highest earning years with each year indexed to current dollars. The method to go from AIME to monthly benefit amount looks like this (with the specific numbers depending on what you you become eligible to start receiving benefits):

90% of the first $1000 of your AIME +
32% of the AIME over than but less than $6000 +
15% of the AIME at or above $6000

E.g., someone whose AIME is $1k would get $900/month. Some with $10k AIME would get $3100/month. The second person would have contributed 10x as much but only have a benefit 3.4x as much.
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For writing tests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavior-driven_development#St... can be helpful. In my experience the parsing (e.g. Python behave library) is still regular expressions but maybe an AI can magically parse the sentences better.
Having a tuneable car is a regulatory risk.

Automakers need to take the stance that their cars are to be operated as-is. Claiming it’s not tuneable is important for appearances.
I think prop 65 warnings are about the worst example of undue political influence. Companies do this outside the state on a completely voluntary basis.

Their adoption in other states completely bypasses the national legislature due to the real world economic power of the Califonia market. They dictate external behavior by regulating their internal market.

What part of this is undue? States and individuals should have the ability to exercise power through self regulation, essentially threating to take their ball and go home.

Where I find more fault with California and Californians is when they interfere directly with external state politics. The classic example of this would rich Californians dumping money into political campaigns and ballot initiatives in other states, influencing their 'internal* politics.
I asked Copilot this exact question and it says Python and JavaScript are the most popular for vibe programming. Take that with a grain of salt.

Taking the conversation further, basically languages in the TIOBE top 10 are your best bet. Copilot claimed that it's generally better at generating solutions in those languages than languages not in the TIOBE top 10. Don't know whether that's true or not, but it makes sense, and it was straight from the horse's mouth!

FWIW, I've had a lot of success vibe coding with Python and JavaScript.
That absolutely works for me! I play multiple instruments and have found that the early morning is the best time mentally for me to devote uninterrupted time to practice and playing. I’m also fortunate enough to have a basement with another floor between my cacophony and my sleeping family
You're not the only one that has had those kind of feelings, and I really relate to the movies you referenced.

Try to remember, AI is a tool, not a solution, and there will always be new problems. There's a strong case that unlike every other time people said that technology will kill all the jobs, this time it actually will. But a helpful framework comes from Clayton Christensen's Innovator's Solution (not the much more famous Innovator's Dilemma) - whereas a business has well defined needs that can be satisfied by improving products, customers (i.e. people) have ever evolving needs that will never be met. So while specific skills may lose value, there will always be a demand for the ability to recognize and provide value and solutions.
if the majority of them are for privacy, there is absolutely no reason for them to vote against it

That's not how politics works. Most politicians belong to political parties, and sometimes you have to vote against your personal conviction and with your party, especially if you actually want to get stuff done long term. Compromising by voting with your party and against your convictions on one issue to ensure that you get their support on another issue you consider more important is what politics is all about.
people who don't live in Los Angeles might be curious why their neighbors suddenly switched to voting red.

why is everyone assuming that i'm not intelligent enough to know that "land doesn't vote"? The county voting maps are a proxy.
None of this has anything to do with the current administration, nor is it any part of their plan.

For instance you previously mentioned the USD being world reserve currency, which indeed it is. But here [1] are those data. Q4 2024 hasn't been published yet but Q3 has it down to being 57.39% of global reserves. Very soon the USD will no longer be a majority reserve currency, down from a post Bretton Woods peak of 71% in 2000. People are gradually stepping away from the dollar, which reduces our ability to effect change on other countries' economies through monetary policy. And this without any clear replacement for it, yet.

And that's just one factor among many that's changing. These things were all happening long before the current administration, and will continue to happen regardless of who's in power or what they do. Getting back to business as usual would be more likely to accelerate these changes more than anything.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_currency#Global_curren...
afaik you can only vouch for dead submissions, not flagged ones
I think we should revisit the policy of an actual forced savings account - rather than the bad proxies for it: social security, home equity, 401k.

The general population is not smart enough to understand a 401k and raids it as soon as they can.

The Obama administration was big on the “gentle nudge” policies - so that for example they would enroll you in retirement, but you could opt out, but I don’t think that’s strong enough.
C8 corvette as well
The pensions I had in mind (UK) don't have any guaranteed payout and can go to zero. We don't have to have anyone "managing" them, and I for one think that's a good thing.
Yeah, I weighed up the possibility that people would perceive it that way. That also speaks to the negative perception of politics/politicians too of course...
Why would they? They callled the admin’s bluff once already.
yeah, that's true. but given the pace at which codegen techs are evolving we can still speculate :)
I'll just say that I sometimes use defense because the Firefox spellchecker seems to prefer UK spellings even when US English is set in the language settings and the red squiggly lines bother me.
Creative writing is tremendously different from coding, imo.
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> If they don't like your face they can just decide the good reason is not good enough

The article you linked does not support the claim that the UK police not liking someone's face is sufficient for them to be allowed to stop and search someone.

In fact, this goes directly against the PACE guidelines as described at https://www.college.police.uk/app/stop-and-search/fair

> A person’s physical appearance [...] cannot be used as the reason for stopping and searching them [...] unless there is information or intelligence giving a specific description of a person suspected of carrying an item for which there is a power to search.
America has been sacrificed at the altar of short-term profit.
I am surprised that it is written in Rust. Bi-directional long live connections don't require Rust's raw horsepower. Maybe it's needed for audio/video streaming?

Is the API discord compatible? That's basically necessary for adoption.
I think I'm missing what the issue is if something happens to a non feeling robot?

I don't even know what murder of a robot would be exactly, I guess Terminator style melting it down, but otherwise robots can be fixed to some extent.
Math is something that should be taught in an opinionated way with an eye toward pedagogy. Self study with GPT is an excellent tool in math, but only for those who have enough perspective to know which directions to set out on. I don’t think anybody who doesn’t know linear algebra should be guiding their studies themselves.
May even be required, if you have a license that requires sharing the code along with the product (AGPL). Still not sure why that license isn't more popular, isn't it in the open source spirit that you can get the code whenever you use the product? Same as when you get the binary with GPL license, that you have a right to see what code you're running?
The Camaro might also be going away (again) soon.
> we might want to consider explosive launches, nuclear or otherwise.

Project Orion: nuclear pulse rocket

also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXeUkrlxQ98

wait until Elon hears about this!
We have tax advantaged retirement accounts, which have weird contribution rules that assumed companies would replace spending they were doing on pensions with contributions to these accounts (spoiler alert: didn't happen) that keep contributions limited to pretty low levels unless your employer kicks in huge amounts, which almost none do (that is, there are limits on what you can contribute, and separate limits on what your employer can contribute, and the latter is significantly higher). Also some of them require your employer to have such a program, or else you can't participate, which further limits your max contributions if yours doesn't.

Further, since individual contributions aren't mandatory, that money is freed up for zero-sum competition over things like good schools for your kids (that is, housing in good districts) so if you don't choose "defect" and spend the money instead of saving it, your family's overall worse off than it would be if everyone had to contribute.

Also, a tax-advantaged savings/investment account isn't the same thing as a pension.
When we’re both plugged in and my process finishes 10 minutes faster, it says something. Also the gp post specifically was about performance and specifically not efficiency.

I could get 7+ hours from my work Linux laptops battery and I don’t really care for macOS. The OS quality matters more than the touch pad to me. I’ve come the appreciate a Mat screen. But im glad there is choice.
Because they’re a meaningless proxy?
It's open source and you can self host it.
I think the issue is less stopping gun collectors. The issue is preventing self-defense. If there were a magic weapon which can only be used to defend yourself, and not for offensive purposes, then sure! Ban guns! But in today’s world, a firearm is the most effective self-defense tool (tho owning a gun isn’t going to magically make you safer).

I grew up supporting gun control, but I think that’s because of my background. I grew up trusting the police, not only to protect me from any would-be ne'er-do-wells, but also that I wouldn’t be antagonized by the state.

If you live in a rural area, where the response time for the local sheriff is half an hour, then having a gun can be vital. Or if you live in an area where the cops simply won’t show up when called.

I don’t want to have to fully rely on the state for my personal safety, and in particular this current government.
I've been considering a Framework laptop for some time, but your comment made me reconsider. What do you think are the biggest shortcomings of your Framework 13"? How long ago did you get it?

Thanks!
> The money can be invested, and then at some age (55.5 i believe?) you can access the money without being taxed. There is a maximum you can contribute per year etc etc.

Not quite - you're given a tax benefit (i.e., not taxed) on your contributions when you contribute them, but when you withdraw funds you pay income tax. If you withdraw before the 'retirement age' (55.5, as you say) then you pay an additional penalty.

The idea being that you would be in a higher tax bracket during your earning years, but in retirement you'd be theoretically in a lower tax bracket, therefore would get some tax savings. Additionally, since the tax savings is taken off of the 'top' of the bracket when you contribute and when you withdraw its added to the 'bottom'.

There's also Roth contributions (where you get no benefit now, but don't pay taxes on gains later when you withdraw), but not all plans offer this.
Other way around. The British wanted to differentiate themselves from colonial hillbillies so they tried to assume the appearance of culture by making the words look more French.
Not only that, but always writing on the edge where an individual operates is also much more time-consuming. So, from an author's perspective, it is also much easier and less time-consuming for him/her to write at a much lower level.

I know that writing on the absolute edge of your learning helps in solidifying your learning. But maybe I just don't want to always write on my edge level.

As an author who is writing for mainly pleasure, maybe sometimes I just want easier tasks. I think it is totally okay to not always write on one's edge and write some quick and easy content.

On top of that- implementing an ODE solver using RK4, BDF, implicit Euler is not that hard. For an experienced dev with the right mathematical maturity it is easy. It can be done in a few hours.

But maybe I simply like to talk about DEs for someone who is getting a refresher or is beginning. That is justification enough for my choice of this topic and this level.
I do, but I don't get ads because my subscription to that effect.
Show HN: Quickly test robot designs for navigation
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Discord is really good And should replace Microsoft teams.
At least there are words.

The Brits have nothing.