skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not the main reason either, actually. There is no way that you're going to find $4.5T in "waste, fraud, and abuse" unless you consider anything you don't like as that.

What they're really doing is handicapping as much as possible to make government appear inept so that they can come in and privatize.
> Mindshare and ire towards the government are as strong as any legal judgement over time.

Much stronger.
> saying of all things this has no net benefit seems like the wrong thing to call out, and incredibly short sighted for HN.

Well it has the benefit of being true.
Doing a PhD will not solve or improve your money woes and is extremely unlikely to take you to the career you want. In fact if the stipend is what is going to drive you to a graduate school, you should reconsider the whole thing entirely.
A joke is not deemed funny by everyone that hears it. Those that do enjoy it.

At this point, it's more satirical than haha funny. Electron is so bloated that it requires way more RAM than say native apps. To poke fun of its inefficiencies isn't going to win Last Comic Standing, but it is valid criticism even if attempted to be told in a humorous manner. Just because it's stuck in your craw doesn't mean the rest of us are in the same place as you, yet you are unwilling to accept that your view isn't the only view.
Congress passed the PACT act that expanded healthcare and disability benefits for veterans who had been exposed to burn pits, agent orange, and other toxins.

These are decades-old problems that the government refused to address until 2022.
Yeah all these cuts could be reasonable steps towards financial responsibility. Provided they put the savings towards funding future liabilities and paying off debt. Unfortunately that won't happen and we'll basically be in the same bad financial position as before, if not worse.
They would recognize Crimea and all four partially occupied oblasts as Russian. They would support the annexation of additional oblasts that Russia claims belong to "Novorossia".

Freezing the conflict is NOT what Russia wants right now.

If one is extremely cynical, one could claim that the recent actions are a signal to Moscow to hurry up and finish the business in Donetsk/Zaphorizia so that a stable peace deal can be achieved instead of leaving things open yet again.

I'm not that cynical yet and think that Trump indeed attempts to extort a lend-and-lease deal of the same sort that the U.S. imposed on Britain in WW2.
And why exactly would a name change be needed later?

Names are just names, many people have the same names, and projects can too.
careful bro, you're posting this on HN of all places
> Which suggests that there's always some cloud component? How usable is the plugin with fully local setup?

right now requests go directly to your proxy from the plugin if you have it configured (i.e. if you set up a clean VPC/VPN network environment with no outbound requests besides anthropic): both chat, cmdk, and agent will work. We are still working on the DevX for this, but need someone to work closely on this. Enterprise is also pushing us to make this more friendly.

But there are massive downsides, we use some custom models and hosting infrastructure to speed things up. For example, code edits will take much longer.

For fully local LLMs, we just need to setup a unified API client, but there aren't any good kotlin ones and I'm scrambling to write this from scratch. It is very annoying how there are different nuances in the anthropic/openai/etc. and all the "Open source" gateways are cloud hosted. I don't think people will want to "host" a gateway locally, the best experience is to just to put your keys/base url in settings which could be localhost:3000.
Well in this case the "unfairness" (loaded term) would the lottery commission going out of their way to accommodate this scheme. If this outfit wanted to arbitrage the lottery they should have to go about buying the tickets any other party would have.

If the state wants to encourage this kind of large scale game playing, then they should outline the process for taking part in it clearly and ensure everyone has equal access to the tools that enabled it.
I don't think there's a huge use-case locally, if you're happy with the subscription cost and privacy. That is, yet. Give it maybe 2 years and someone will probably invent something which local inference would seriously benefit from. I'm anticipating inference for the home appliances (something mac mini form factor that plugs into your router) but that's based on what would make logical sense for consumers, not what consumers would fall for.

Apple seems to be using LPDDR, but HBM will also likely be a key tech. SK Hynix and Samsung are the most reputable for both.
Would like to understand how this is done. Is this flashing some unofficial Android version? What hinderances does this cause -- can you run typical apps? The apps I use most often are WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Uber, Outlook, etc. Thanks.
I only have health care now due to the PACT Act. Absolutely pissed about what is happening to the VA now.
AI will never replicate this
It's not the hiring people that's the problem. Assuming those people "cost" 300k a year all in (benefits/offices,etc) which is probably high, that's $24 billion. The government spent $6.8 trillion, cutting these jobs cuts spending by .3891%.

Cutting the people without cutting the programs won't do much and is (IMO) a problem in that you should be able to access government services in a way that the writers of the laws (house/senate) have clearly agreed to. When you're cutting this widely, it's hard to believe you're not throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
How Much Should Americans Worry About Elon Musk's Ketamine Use?
Notes are voice updatable, with Mermaid and other perks. I will be happy to hear any feedback!
I Taught Kanye How to Use AI Vocals–Now Launching an AI Music Tool for Artists
6 * 16 is still nowhere near 512gb of vram. On top of that that monster that you create requires hyper specific server grade hardware, will be huge, loud and pull down enough power to trip a circuit breaker. i'm sure most people would rather pay a 30 percent premium to get twice the ram and have a power sipping device that you can hold in the palm of your hand.
Hopefully homomorphic encryption can solve this rather than building a new hardware layer everywhere.
I took Krugman's advice to read DeLong at one point and don't regret it, though he's not on my regular rotation:

https://braddelong.substack.com
I love tailscale, but the performance overhead on file transfer (my primary use case for it) is very real.

Samba transfers take a 15 megabyte per second hit over tailscale even with a fairly fast CPU on both ends (Ryzen 3600 and Ryzen 7900X3D) on my local network
AFAIK the CON scripting language (used in the *.CON files in DN3D) wasn't made by Ken Silverman but by the Duke Nukem 3D team at 3D Realms. I think it was Todd Replogle who wrote the CON stuff.
Could you have used the decompilations of pokemon on github? https://github.com/pret/pokered
`alias` is shell builtin.
Really cool work. It seems like some critical areas (team rocket, safari zone) rely on encoding game knowledge into the reward function somehow, which "smuggles in" external intelligence about the game. A lot of these are related to planning, which makes me wonder whether you could "bolt on" an LLM to do things like steer the RL agent, dynamically choose what to reward, or even do some of the planning itself. Do you think there's any low-hanging fruit on this front?
Some teams think they can A/B test their way to a great product. It can become a socially acceptable mechanism to avoid having opinions and reduce friction.

Steve Blank's quote about validating assumptions: "Lean was designed to inform the founders’ vision while they operated frugally at speed. It was not built as a focus group for consensus for those without deep convictions"

Is the Lean Startup Dead? (2018)
https://medium.com/@sgblank/is-the-lean-startup-dead-71e0517...

Discussed on HN at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17917479
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> it’s the quality of care and responsiveness

Both great in my experience, and in my friends I have seen in the VA system.

That said, I still hear old veterans bitch about it like it sucks, even as they're completely taken care of and hand held throughout the care process.
Favorite part of my morning - like food waste I compost, why would I pay to use water to send back all of my urine nutrients back to my local water municipality?
Wanaku: The First Open-Source MCP Router – Wanaku.ai
Hi, the author here.

I get where you're coming from. My books are also growing big right now, and indeed, they have become slower to process. Some projects in the community, such as Beanpost [1], are actually trying to solve the problem, as you said, by using an RMDB instead of plaintext.

But I still like text file format more for many reasons. The first would be the hot topic, which is about LLM friendliness. While I am still thinking about using AI to make the process even easier, with text-based accounting books, it's much easier to let AI process them and generate data for you.

Another reason is accessibility. Text-based accounting only requires an editor plus the CLI command line. Surely, you can build a friendly UI for SQLite-based books, but then so can text-based accounting books.

Yet another reason is, as you said, Git or VCS (Version control system) friendliness. With text-based, you can easily track all the changes from commit to commit for free and see what's changed. So, if I make a mistake in the book and I want to know when I made the mistake and how many years I need to go back and revise my reports, I can easily do that with Git.

Performance is a solvable technical challenge. We can break down the textbooks into smaller files and have a smart cache system to avoid parsing the same file repeatedly. Currently, I don't have the bandwidth to dig this rabbit hole, but I already have many ideas about how to improve performance when the file grows really big.

[1]: https://github.com/gerdemb/beanpost
> I wish Flutter was written in Ada but atleast Dart is better than JavaScript atleast for procedural code without it's oop boiler plate. You don't actually need OOP for widgets.

You can use other libraries for this like Riverpod with flutter_hooks and functional_widget which essentially removes the OOP structure of widgets and turns them more into functions, in a way.
These findings show that biochemical compounds, once thought to be fragile and denaturate quickly in non-earth conditions, can apparently survive space conditions for a long time, even in universe metrics, so they could travel far. If they can, maybe cells can too.
But that doesn‘t mean it‘s likely to find actual life on a random asteroid. Of course there is equal chirality in lifeless conditions.
The ultimate question is: How did the first cell came to be? Everything after that seems explainable, if not predetermined. But that the first cell just randomly happened in the primordial soup - that looks extremely unlikely, yet it‘s the best explanation so far. If cells could travel on asteroids, it’s (equally? Less? Who could tell?) likely that the first cell just dropped here, intentionally or otherwise. Which would put the question of creation just to a different time and place. Somewhere in the universe, billions of years ago, life happened. Maybe it spread through the galaxy. Maybe sometimes a life carrying planet explodes, spreading asteroids with cells. Maybe some of them drop on planets with the right conditions. Given enough time, how unlikely is that as compared to random creation here?
Thats some Tarantino Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood story arc right there.
The goal is to rhetorically balance the "savings" from firing people with the additional giveaways to the rich to a low numeracy audience. The deficit and debt will continue to increase, but at least we will also get a recession.
Better than a private entity.
Looking at this the other day and found this helpful: https://www.pgpf.org/article/the-federal-government-has-borr...
I could have worded that more clearly. I wasn't disputing power button on the bottom is odd as much as thinking that Apple brought the keyboard power button back. Maybe it was the TouchID on the keyboard, but on their laptops that is also the power button, so possibly just an assumption on my part.
Oh, and of course I read Patrick McKenzie:

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com

And subscribe to Bloomberg's Matt Levine's "Money Stuff" newsletter and podcast:

https://www.bloomberg.com/account/newsletters/money-stuff
One-Second Deploys? We Didn't Believe It Either
i took that as more that the daily jackpot is won daily, but this bug saying they won the mega jackpot happened 14 times in 48 days
> Rick Perry famously had a list of three departments that he wanted to eliminate, but after naming the first two, he forgot what the third one was.

And that sank his presidential campaign right there. Just think about it. This guy just forgot about his big policy proposal - he had a policy, he didn't constantly change it, he didn't even lie about it, he just forgot about it for a second in the heat of the moment. That sank his campaign.

What a simpler time it had been.
Great post! It's always interesting to see the experiences of fellow peers going through Math Academy.

It took myself 2 1/2 months to complete Mathematics for Machine Learning on Math Academy last year (2024) working through reading material, taking notes, and completing all the exercises took all day everyday I loved it, this was after I completed Khan Academy (starting from the beginning of mathematics negative numbers, to the end differential equations) because I kept putting it off for years when I got to busy.

The main thing for me was learning not to get too frustrated when getting an answer wrong. If I made a mistake, I focused on understanding what went wrong, looking up youtube videos on the topic if it was confusing, and then trying again.

At the end of a lesson I wish I had someone to bounce questions off of but thats when I used chatGPT.

Congrats!
To me, he's just a mother of another sort that I cannot say in polite company.
Every time someone complains about ThE aLgOrItHm as a YouTube viewer(*) I remind them that the Subscriptions feed exists and continues to work.

(*) YouTube creators, though, have to have a firm knowledge of it because at this point for many of them less than 10% of their views come through subscriptions.
What future?
Yes you are right that this is nonsense. They have clearly already been doing this for years on the backend at a minimum to power the Google Photos search functionality, and who knows what else.
No.

I don’t spend time after work coding and I never have. No one is going to take time looking at a portfolio when every job opening gets hundreds of applications. Your resume barely gets looked at.
If we have Fort Knox we might as well hold Bitcoin too. Whether or not it's Digital Gold is up for debate, but it's a self-fulfilling prophecy; the more countries that hold Bitcoin in reserve the more it becomes Digital Gold.

That said, let's limit it to BTC. ETH at least isn't so insider-owned. The inclusion of ripple, solana, and especially cardano though is especially stupid. Those are majority owned by the "foundations" and a pump in price enriches a select few.
This is very cool, congrats!

I wonder, does anyone have a sense of the approximate raw number of button presses required to beat the game? Mostly curious to see how that compares to the parameter count.
>oil is fairly difficult / expensive to transport and store, certainly at volume.

More difficult for some technologies than others, which I tried to come to terms with long ago.

After over 40 years, I'm still here to help when it makes sense.

>Oil changes owners all the time without going anywhere.

Even more often when it is on open water already on the way somewhere else.

It just doesn't fulfill its destiny until its voyage is not only underway, but fully completed.
But I should stop using my wood-stove because I'm "part of the problem" when Taylor Swift and John Kerry are flying private jets on a weekly basis... right.

Climate is an issue but this is why it's hilarious that I'm supposed to change my life to help "fix" this.
> I care about me or my children dying at an early age because we as a species don't manage to not screw up our lives

The only near-term total human extinction risks are cosmological. We don’t have the ability to wipe ourselves out with even nukes, just wipe out modern civilisation. (And that would require someone going out of their way to nuke e.g. Oceania and South America.)
The notch was a big reason I was reluctant to upgrade from my M1 Air. But I hardly notice it. Only when it splits the menu bar items.
I like Varoufakis; watched a short video interview he did just a few days ago. I doubt he'd agree with geohot's take.
If the average VA employee cost were $100,000, which I suspect is way more than they pay the average staffer, then those VA employees' annual pay would be about 1/4000th of that debt.

There are way, way worse things we could be wasting our money on than providing the decent healthcare we promised our veterans.
Sure but that's not really what people want in their homes. Switched appliance circuits were never a thing in the USA likely because it's not hard to pull a plug that's literally staring you in the face. So pragmatically it just evolved this way and honestly it's not a big deal.
As it should be, otherwise these on-line gambling sites will be able to game the system at anytime.
I expect some of it is going simply to savings, or advanced allocation of materials ahead of tariffs. Some companies may simply opt to reduce spend ahead of perceived economic downturn e.g. to maintain reserves in anticipation of reduced income. But I imagine this is measurable and would be curious the extent to which this impacts the overall trends.
Odd, every steakhouse I have been to gives me as much water as I'd like, free of charge.

I'm not comparing a hamburger from my local go-to to a steak from a steakhouse. I'm comparing the cost of the mash potatoes that comes with my hamburger ($5) and what they cost at a non-Apple steakhouse ($15). I don't go to the Apple steakhouse not because I find their steak unreasonably priced (it is a great value, actually), but because I refuse to pay $60 for mash potatoes, and if I don't get the mash potatoes, the steak has no value to me.
A lot of people are focusing on the courier aspect of all this which is fine, but I didn't know there were any lotteries you could just outright win, with a profit, if you had enough money to buy enough tickets. I assumed people would design lotteries where the cost/reward ratio was such that this would never make sense.
EU is the US largest trading partner if counted together, top in both imports and exports.
IMO, Matt does a pretty bad job of illustrating that point. It seems like he is construing this ruling as a an example of the computer superseding the contract.

>What, the piece of paper that I skimmed and signed and stuck in a drawer is the deal, and not the computer screen that I look at every day? Seems implausible. The contract is just a piece of paper; the computer is real life.

>The stock administration platform is real life; the contract is just a contract.

Maybe there are 2 levels are sarcasm and he is actually saying the paper contract drives the ruling (which it did), but I dont see it.
It has a point though. Anything using clichees to communicate ,using something everyone knows, can spread like wildfire.

This is why some of user facing programable stuff pre node gives the users a interface like excel.
> But as it started consuming more and more data that it had produced itself, its reliability became close to none.

It's exactly the opposite with LLMs. See the "model collapse" phenomenon (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07566-y).

> We show that, over time, models start losing information about the true distribution, which first starts with tails disappearing, and learned behaviours converge over the generations to a point estimate with very small variance. Furthermore, we show that this process is inevitable, even for cases with almost ideal conditions for long-term learning, that is, no function estimation error
For context, the VA has 482,000 workers.
Catalan court says NSO Group executives can be charged in spyware investigation
Arggg sounded like it was about to be a killer book, alas a good meme though
Go on to Truth Social and post "f*ck Trump" and see how long until you're banned.

Do the same on Twitter (or call someone cisgender) and see how long until you're banned.

(Spoiler alert - I have done both and have been banned as a result)
Show HN: GitHub Leaderboard for Cohorts
Everyone says they're shipping.

Last night I built something to see who actually is...

Introducing Ship Tracker
- crawls github, calculates averages
- track the best devs in your circle, cohort, and portfolios
- upload a csv or 1 by 1

Demo link above is 160 out of the 360 cofounders I could find from the w25 batch.

Make your own at https://ship-tracker.vercel.app/.

Working on faster fetching, more useful stats, and better cacheing.
> Provided they put the savings towards funding future liabilities and paying off debt.

This is me laughing bitterly. We know darn well that's not what'll happen.
Reddit doesn't control subreddit mods, and some videos not having sound does not make the site "unusable". That's why it's still so successful.
I think at this point just his behavior, sending the emails to folks to justify their jobs and so on ... that's all reason enough he should not be in a position of power as far as government goes.

If he wants to go do that at his companies or use whatever in the meantime, that's on him.

As far as his behavior goes I think the "twitter poisoned" theory works just fine too:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/11/opinion/trump-musk-kanye-...
>> ... around tools that I do not own.

That just may be dependent on how much trust you have on the providers you use. Or do you do your own electricity generation?
Render forth the samizdat, Americans.

> intrigued that in all my years here, this is the first comment I see flagged.

FWIW I'm pretty confused too. My parent comment is sitting at a cool -3, but not flagged somehow. You must be getting brigaded, sorry.
Hey everyone - I wrote the post and the feature. Happy to answer any questions about the implementation and future of functions on Railway.