skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The conservative thesis is that DOGE is going through and eliminating wasteful spending, which is simple and, if you trust them, a good goal.

The liberal thesis is that DOGE is like an army going through government institutions, replacing the old guard with new loyalists, and then removing safety nets, which results in people having to sell their assets (like housing, farms, or small businesses) when disaster (not being able to pay for fertilizer, not being able to pay for healthcare, suppliers costs going up 25%, etc.) hits them.

It certainly feels like GOP policy is to cause disaster, and that makes sense if you understand that it costs money to deal with a disaster, people sell assets to pay for disaster response, and then rich people are able to buy those assets. Those assets are then rented back to the sellers, creating a persistent system of wealth transfer from the poor to the rich, which is very consistent with tax cuts for the rich.
My belief is partially his rationale is/was to try to extract "border concessions" and by that I mean ask Canada to give away some of its land to the US. It seems bonkers but when you compare Trump to Putin who's clearly trying to expand mother Russia, it's not that different than any strongman with a big army's approach.
ok but the solution should be "parent better" vs. "legislate our privacy away"
>Much of the world is now at the mercy of the United States

Yeah, and the world is going to react. This situation might benefit the US economically in the short run but it sure won't in the long run.
Listening to Satya in recent interviews I think makes it clear that he doesn’t really buy into OpenAI’s religious-like view of AGI. I think the divorce makes a lot of sense in light of this.
oh it is absolutely about that
https://archive.ph/H7lTL
https://superuser.com/questions/251369/what-is-the-lifespan-...

When your media is advertised to last for 100 years, it is reasonable to want a replacement when it lasts less than a quarter of that time
Didnt Hesgeth tell them to cut budgets by 8% a year for the next 4 years?
Agreed, but I don't think that's a good use for PE. PE is useful for comparisons between similar companies, not as an absolute yardstick
Walmart has the same market cap as Amazon did in 2018. And Walmart is a purely retail company, while AWS was already an expected part of Amazon revenue in 2018 at that valuation. The analysis that big tech can afford to pay more because of stocks is only partially true.

Tech companies pay in stocks because they choose to, not just because they can. And they pay employees more because they look at the revenue the employee brings. I interviewed at so many no traditional companies for tech roles and their attitudes about compensation is the reason they do not get the hires they want. Forget stocks, JP Morgan would not match the base salary that’s pretty much the standard at my level in my area, tech and non tech companies. Walmart would not match my overall compensation at my current role at a not so big, boring tech company that doesn’t dish out RSUs.
Hey, your party has Medea Benjamin and Cynthia McKinney now. Enjoy!
I use Goodnotes, but people really like notability. For me, the most obtuse missing feature from Apple notes is that you can't fucking pinch to zoom...
I like how they present it as a novel idea, when this is as old as it gets. This is not new of course but it seems it won´t stop. Ever.
There was already a $60M/year deal between Google and Reddit
I never grew up with Disney as a big part of my life so it wasn’t until later that I learned about Walt, and all the folks related to the work at Disney and some of the amazing things they did.

I really didn’t know of all the cool technology and etc they made.
"It looks like" "Presumably" "might not always be enough"
So why give away the valuable knowledge away for free?
It really depends how you configure it. It has an amazing wealth of configuration settings and that's before diving into the whole addon rabbit hole. This is really what I love about KDE. Everyone else is now going for the apple opinionated design "Just use it like we meant it to be used" philosophy. Even other Linux desktops like gnome (in fact gnome is one of the worst offenders)

With KDE you can simply align it with your own opinions.
This reminds me of when westerners will keep pointing to Xinjiang. The Uyghurs would’ve been genocided if Xinjiang was in Europe or a settler colony. How do westerners react to Xinjiang? With chauvinism. Keep calling it a genocide. Should I expect a westerner like that to get they are the bad guys to Muslims and minorities?
A couple of days ago it leaked that OpenAI was planning on launching new pricing for their AI Agents. $20K/mo for their PhD Level Agent, $10K/mo for their Software Developer Agent, and $2K/mo for their Knowledge Worker Agent. I found it very telling. Not because I think anyone is going to pay this, but rather because this is the type of pricing they need to actually make money. At $20 or even $200 per month, they'll never even come close to breaking even.
Microsoft's corporate structure and company culture is actively hostile to innovation of any kind. This was true in Ballmer's era and is equally true today, no matter how many PR wins Nadella is able to pull off. The company justifies its market cap by selling office software and cloud services contracts to large corporations and governments via an army of salespeople and lobbyists, and that is what it will continue to be successful at. It got lucky by backing OpenAI at the right time, but the delusion of becoming an independent AI powerhouse like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta etc. will never be a reality. Stuff like this is simply not in the company's DNA.
Honestly it was just before my time at that studio so I don't know exactly how that was done, but everyone knew about it because it cost us a lot of money and damaged our relationship with Nintendo somewhat. The game actually went on to be pretty successful after that, but yeah, would have been a disaster.
It doesn't seem like there's much reason for them to do that?
Obviously the other responder is being a little tongue-in-cheek but AGI to me would be virtually indistinguishable from a human in both ability to learn, grow and adapt to new information.
Before I log into Citibank I can just verify their safety number out of band.
The acquisition was announced 4 and a half years ago[1] and finalized 3 years ago so it's not like it's a recent thing.

[1]: https://ir.amd.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/977/amd...
I'd say the real issue is that it's difficult to outsource parenting to government agencies without some collateral damage
Hopefully someone at Intuitive Machines pores over the data and and design plans and makes significant changes that minimize the opportunity for this to happen the third time around, assuming NASA gives them that opportunity.

If their lander is indeed top-heavy then they have some design issues to overcome. Perhaps adding a set of outriggers that deploy just before touchdown and detach or fold up on command once the lander is deemed to be in a stable orientation. Even landing it as a ball with air cushions that deflate once it comes to rest has to be preferred to simply keeping it the same and hoping for a nice flat spot to land.
> Haven't checked the others, but at least for the skin cream bill

if you did check the other two, you'd notice that they're much more restrictive.

from the NY bill, apologies for the all-caps but it's in the original [0]:

> "IDENTITY VERIFICATION" SHALL MEAN THE USE OF AN ON-DEMAND SELF-PHOTOGRAPH TO VERIFY THE OWNERSHIP OF A PERSON'S GOVERNMENT-ISSUED IDENTIFICATION;

> "LICENSE VERIFICATION" SHALL MEAN THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY TO VERIFY A PERSON'S GOVERNMENT-ISSUED IDENTIFICATION;

and the one in WA [1]:

> For the purposes of this section, proof of legal age includes any of the following officially issued identification that shows the purchaser's age and bears the purchaser's signature and photograph:

0: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A3323

1 (PDF): https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2025-26/Pdf/Bills/Se...
Which "one entity" is funding climate change research?
Note that we’ve been cooking with sesame oil for millennia [1].

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S209624282...
There is a prominent subset of the tech crowd who are ladder climbers - ruthlessly pursuing what is rewarded with pay/title/prestige without regard to actually making good stuff.

There are countless kidding-on-the-square jokes about projects where the innovators left at launch and passed it off to the maintenance team, or where a rebrand was in pursuit of someone's promo project. See also, killedbygoogle.com.
Yea, I have plenty of home automation, all of which operates just fine without any external internet connection whatsoever. You just have to do a little research on what to buy.
Could the heat changes from being powered on/off multiple times not risk damage?
They sent troops to the southern border during Trumps first term? North is just the other direction. Mobilization takes time but they could do it.
Before Claude Code, out of the alternatives you mentioned, I'd only tried Windsurf. I find Claude Code to be roughly comparable to Windsurf in terms of capabilities, but I can use it from my terminal. I'm much more at home in a terminal than I am in VSCode (which Windsurf is a fork of).
I use agentic tooling when programming all the time and I can say for certain that Claude feels _several times better_ than any OpenAI model, despite what the benchmarks show.
I am an American but sadly it doesn't seem like it's outside the realm of possibility.
This is a better/actual source.
Yes, but the question was about Claude Code and not the underlying model.
According to Western media, saying anything that is also said by the Russian gov is "disinformation", it doesn't matter if it's true.
One of my friends stated this phenomenon very well “it’s a lever they can pull so they do it”. Once you’ve tied your career to a specific technology internally, there’s really only one option: keep pushing it regardless of any alternatives because your career depends on it. So that’s what they do.
If you want to read about this in fascinating detail, I highly recommend the book "Digital Apollo" by David A. Mindell.

David's book spends a lot of time dwelling on the tension between highly automated systems and the role of the human in them, and the HCI factors of the Apollo missions. They also recap each landing through that lens, including the major changes done to the Lunar Module UI (physical + software) and the landing script/programs for each mission and how things worked out in practice and how it was debriefed after. If you want the insight look at the decision to go for precision landing, how (and how well) it was achieved and how everyone involved felt about it, this is probably your best one-stop go-to.

And for anyone working in embedded UI, or around automation, etc. it's a wondeful mind-sharpener with many lessons in an inspiring applied context.

The Apollo user interface and computer were so state of the art that many of the problems and solutions remain quite similar today. I work in a similar area (cars, with ever-increasing amounts of automation, driver assistance and connectivity) and some of the debates and on-the-job exchanges and meeting notes cited in the book could be straight out of my day job 60 years later with only minute differences. Some of the "Lessons on Software Development"-type docs penned by Apollo engineers in the aftermath of the program (trade-offs of platform approaches and HW abstractions vs. optimization, how to get a handle on quality and testing, etc.) also still read absolutely modern to this day, almost with greater summarizing clarity than what decades of paradigms and jargon have slathered on top.
It's pretty funny that OpenAI wants to sell access to a "PhD level" model at a price with which you can hire like 3-5 real human PhDs full-time.
Open to sponsoring visas or a globally remote setup?
> Killing Russians is basically one of the best things a government can spend money on.

In that sense the Russians have managed to get a long history of governments with fantastic spending policy. They are even spending other nations' money to get the job done!

Real shame about the aim and timing though. Even with that volume, they barely get any of the worst ones, and when occasionally they do purge it's always after purgee has done plenty of damage and maybe even started considering repenting a little bit...
This is ironic given the oppression Columbia put on their own students for supporting Palestine. They complied in advance to fascism and still lost.
Some are going to townhalls apparently: https://youtu.be/1kKBUyJnpcI?t=543
They are good at different things, they don't have the same skillset and when one gets the stuck the other can do it. It's kind of like asking "Any reason to ever hire more than 1 developer if 1 developer is full stack and can do it all?"
> B-Trees won’t get obsolete
>
> <reaons>

Among the many reasons that b-trees aren't going away is that they are prefix indices. This means that an index on multiple columns -or on one column the values of whose type can have prefixes, like strings- can be searched with just a prefix of the key, which enables skip-scan type optimizations, and allows the index to be applicable to many more queries than a hash index. It also means that you can have covering indices as the actual table where the primary key columns are the prefix for the rest -- look ma'! no rowids!
>"they're being evil for the sake of being evil, just like in my manchild Marvel/Harry Potter/Star Wars movies"

The amount of times I've seen people on reddit reply to (presumably real) Ukrainian redditors with a show of solidarity composed of some slogan from a Hollywood movie or to try to explain/compare their situation in Ukraine / on the world stage to an Avengers movie is honestly baffling. I genuinely can't believe that people live framing their existence and perspective of the world without the context of cheap power fantasy fiction. It's so cringingly out of touch that I'm almost far more willing to believe people talking like that are the Russian bots people are constantly harping on about trying to make Western public support look bad.
One aspect that influences is how close to the bleeding edge one needs to be. And how niche the model/application is.
ROCm lags by some years. And application/model/framework developers test less on it, which can be problematic in niches.
For doing something very established like say image classification, that does not really matter - 3 year old CNNs will generally do the trick.
But if on wants to drop in model X just put on GitHub/HuggingFace the last year, one would be buying a lot of trouble.
That is just not correct. As someone who has done the budgets for PhD hiring and funding, you are just wildly underestimating the overhead costs, benefits, cost of raising money, etc.
> come near a random star which will eat them

Not a physicist, but I thought this didn't really happen in orbital mechanics, instead they'll just orbit said star.
It's the hacker philosophy, isn't it?
"Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the new health secretary, has said Americans are being “unknowingly poisoned” by seed oils and has called for fast-food restaurants to return to using beef tallow, or rendered animal fat, in their fryers instead."

The anti-science bent of the man knows no bounds. He also recommended cod liver oil and a well balanced diet to prevent measles.
> Selling shovels during a gold rush can make you rich, it doesn't mean you'll still be selling shovels in 100 years.

This is the best way to put it, it's exactly this.
To me, this article looks like a psyop designed to make people ignore any response from language models that may reflect a Russian point of view. This article is probably also propaganda.

Edit: To clarify my point, since I’m getting downvoted:

Newsguard (the authors of the article) confirmed that "Pravda" is influencing chatbots.

How did they confirm this? By asking ChatGPT about "Russian narratives." However, it’s unclear which narratives they tested—while they mention two or three examples, they claim there are hundreds. This raises questions about whether some of these so-called narratives might simply be subjective opinions, or how they select those etc.

If the language model validated these vague statements, they concluded it was "infected."

They also quote someone who allegedly said, “By pushing these Russian narratives from the Russian perspective, we can actually change worldwide AI.” This is presented as proof that the process is already happening, which is at least a huge leap, but also there is no clear source for this statement.

How do they know LLMs used these sites as training material? Their reasoning is that LLMs produce similar responses. However, these responses could come from a variety of sources, as they are common in multiple news outlets.

Additionally, when they claim LLMs quote specific articles, they don’t specify which LLMs did this. A quick test with popular ones (such as asking ChatGPT why Zelensky banned Truth Social) does not replicate the claims made in the article.

My point is that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and this report doesn’t provide it.

It seems biased—making a major claim without proper documentation on how the process actually works.
> craft that tipped over last year (Odysseus) was also made by Intuitive Machines (IM)

Have they published a root-cause analysis?
I did check the others later, the WA bill only requires IRL verification, same as purchasing alcohol, so it also doesn't really fit the theme of the article either.

2/3 examples being heavily exaggerated is a pretty bad look for the author (even though I agree with the article sentiment in general).
it looks clean, now.

web devs will get ahold of this and demand that they have the ability to change the size, the animations of appearance and disappearance, specify a sound that plays when the menu is opened or closed, etc. I'm saying that this, like all other web things, will be bastardized and mutilated until it is just as complex and unworkable as the existing solutions which this is intended to replace.
Of course there are edge cases. Reality is continuous, not disjoint, and thus any attempt to impose a line will inherently create edge cases. What you are missing is that the case of inaction (not permitting it) also creates bad things. You can't make a situation without bad, all you can do is attempt to minimize the bad. Note that the "ideal" (as in maximum social benefit) amount of bad things happening is not zero. Preventing bad things always comes with a cost, there will always come a point where additional preventing of bad things causes net harm.

Consider, for example, nuclear power. It has basically been regulated out of existence in the US because of the standard that radiation exposure must be as low as reasonably achievable. The problem with this is that it doesn't result in safer nuclear plants, it results in plants that run on different power sources. Natural gas? Approximately 10x the risk (and that's not counting climate effects.) Oil? Approximately 10x the risk of gas, thus 100x the risk of nuclear. Coal? Approximately 10x the risk of oil, thus 1000x the risk of nuclear. The expected (and observed) safety benefit of the regulations is negative.

And to preempt the inevitable "Fukushima!", that was political. The expected death toll of staying put was approximately zero. The city was evacuated, killing hundreds, for no good reason.
I still don't understand the business models for sites like Floatplane. Microtransactions didn't work for media, but microsubscriptions will?

Dropout's model seems to be the sanest for this kind of thing: $6/month, but for a variety of content from a cross-pollinated group of creators. It's independent and niche, but there's enough variety that something in there ends up both worth the subscription and unlikely to have existed entirely on its own.

Paying $5/month for more content, but from _just one creator_, always feels at best like a worse deal in comparison to a more expensive but broader subscription service. At worst, it turns into a gateway to Twitch-like (or OnlyFans-like, depending on the content) parasocial entitlement from fans.
The answer isn't age verification but putting them under the scrutiny of the FDA. Supplements have almost no regulation and will soon actually have none since the head of the FDA is a big fan of supplements and has a supplement company. Supplements being regulated would fix so many issues in this space.
> “New Pope in 2025?”

Kind of a different topic but there's a growing number of people who identify as sedevacantist who don't believe Catholics have had a pope since 1958, since the papal claimants since then seen to contradict prior Catholic teachings

For example Vatican 2 taught in Dignitatis humanae:

> This Vatican synod declares that the human person has a right to religious freedom ... within due limits

http://www.catholicapologetics.info/modernproblems/vatican2/...

Obviously if I just said that I thought it was fine to steal from you unprovoked because my "religion" gives me the freedom to do so, this would come in conflict with the normal laws against stealing. Thus religious freedom has clear "limits"; Vatican 2 doesn't define where these "due" limits are and is ambiguous, opening the door to all kinds of confusion and contradiction.

Past teaching was clearer that (note that the proposition stated is considered to be "condemned" or false):

> Pope Pius IX, Syllabus of Errors, # 78: "Hence in certain regions of Catholic name, it has been laudably sanctioned by law that men immigrating there be allowed to have public exercises of any form of worship of their own." - Condemned.[58]

However it's thought by some that once it becomes apparent these contradictions exist, it will lead to a kind of reorganization of things and an election of a forthcoming pope... and the issue of gambling will present itself again.
Yes and no. There are (at least) two ways to effectively outlaw such browsers. One is penalties for the browser distributor. However, this really only applies to entities that are subject to US law. Of course the law could go one step further and try to go after ISPs for allowing access to download them, but that's already proved difficult in other arenas.

The other way to limit access to such browsers is penalties for users of those browsers. But that feels even less likely. Even if such a law were on the books, how would it be enforced? Either someone would have to report someone using an "illegal" browser or perhaps some method of fingerprinting that is somehow tied back to the actual user. Both of these seem far-fetched to me.

So perhaps such browsers would be outlawed, but I'm not sure it would practically do much.
Utilitarism says that we should maximize utility; it doesn't say we have to do so by focusing on "human flourishing" or that every individual must get the same capabilities as Nussbaum does. Moreover, utiliarians don't agree about what utility is, and not all of them would say "human flourishing" is a synonym.
I saw a video the other day that showed a new AMD laptop processor that is comparable to the Apple processors in performance and battery life. That was very surprising and also a great thing for windows or Linux laptops. But at the same time, the market for these and the potential for profit isn’t really that big. Consumers are willing to pay for a premium for Apple but not anyone else.
I'd love to see some of these ideas folded into Zellij.
In Europe the UK were the only nation to take the Russian threat seriously, they trained and armed the Ukrainians as best they could. France was trying diplomatic means to persuede Russia to curtail it hostilities. Germany just ignored them because cheap natural gas for their industry. Post invasion though they've given significant amounts of aid, but it was rather later than they should have.
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