skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're going to try and rewrite the IRS' Individual Master File, and not care if it changes the way it behaves.
I think your examples are not representative
We will never recover from the damage they are doing, at least not in our lifetimes. It is so much easier to destroy than to create, and so many of the services and research performed by the NIH and CDC are truly irreplaceable.

The top cause of death among US children is drowning, and the CDC is the only national group studying and giving prevention training to at risk kids, particularly states with high drowning deaths like Florida. That entire team is gone now, along with many others.
> what Biden did with the CHIPS act where they invested in the factories, employees, committed to doing so long enough to make a multibillion dollar investment safe

Don't get me started on the CHIPS act.

I was a true believer in it when it passed. Finally -- finally! -- people outside MAGA were recognizing the problem and trying to do something about it.

I made a medium-sized bet on INTC when Gelsinger, an engineering prodigy, took the helm after decades of business leaders who only cared about the money let the company's technical capabilities rot. The stock had a pretty attractive dividend yield, the new CEO was energetically reversing that trend. I was extremely enthusiastic when I heard the company was building a factory right in the Rust Belt (Columbus, Ohio), with a massive infusion of capital from the CHIPS act.

We now know how things turned out.

Intel continues to erode desktop market share to AMD, completely missed the AI boom, and doesn't seem to have a chance at the mobile or Apple ecosystems.

That factory is now on pause. As a taxpayer, I'm not sure whether my tax dollars were wasted or not. As a shareholder, I just have to look up the ticker to know my bet lost a significant amount of money. In fact, /r/wallstreetbets was making fun of somebody who made a similar bet when he inherited his Grandma's life savings.

I am absolutely livid that in Intel's 2024 annual report, Intel's leadership couldn't even put the location of their multi-billion-dollar chip factory in the correct country [1].

I wanted the CHIPS Act to work. Right now, it's very much looking like it didn't. Is more such investment really going to help us, or would it just be throwing away more money chasing a bad bet?

[1] It sounds unbelievable, but it's right there on Page 14: the dot labeled "Ohio Future Sight (Wafer Fab)" is clearly in Canada. https://www.intc.com/filings-reports/annual-reports/content/...
fwiw a well thought criticisim of the chaotic move by the US: https://x.com/StockSavvyShay/status/1908506134270665110
Treasury interest rates are substantially determined by the perceived reliability of the US govt and the odds of the US paying back its debts.

If the US purposefully blows up its credibility then interest rates eventually go UP.

The US Treasury rate being the "risk free rate" of capital isn't a magic law. It depends on prudence.
Does the fight for democracy means bombing everyone not agreeing with "our" enforced democracy?

"According to several Western European researchers, the operation involved the use of assassination, psychological warfare, and false flag operations to delegitimize left-wing parties in Western European countries, and even went so far as to support anti-communist militias and right-wing terrorism as they tortured communists and assassinated them, such as Eduardo Mondlane in 1969.[5][6][7][8] The United States Department of State rejected the view that they supported terrorists and maintains that the operation served only to resist a potential invasion of Western European countries by the Soviet Union.[9]"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio
They could have rlhfed or finetuned on user thumbs up responses, which could include users who took the test and asked it to explain problems after
Why would who want to? I consider each of the participants below. But first let me answer generally:

Why? Because it's right to. If you create good karma, the world will get better. If you do bad things, the world and your world (ie, your karma) will get worse. Paying for software you use extensively is good karma. Not doing so is bad karma that erodes the world (and your world), because it severs the exchange of value and erodes the justice that arises from that, which then reflects back on you inevitably.

For the participants in this archetypal case:

Apple - because it's not right to not pay the developers of software you use a lot, even if it was released under permissive licenses. Apple paying rsync producers for their software is just and right. Apple wants to be a good company, so they want to do this, too. Plus they could get a tailored custom license that works for them, and gives them standard good rsync.

The rsync developers - so they get the just reward for the value they produce, as is right and absolutely correct. They can choose to allocate that however they want, which is them expressing their good interest. What's good for them, is good for what they produce. Everything gets better. Happy cycle.

Everybody else - to participate in that just and right exchange of value, which nourishes the good of both the software, the developers, Apple, and everybody else, supporting the karma of the world, rather than participating in an exploitative abuse that erodes it.

More generally, using software extensively that is permissively licensed is not piracy, but it has the effect of piracy in that value consumed is severed from value rewarded to the producers. This is fundamentally exploitative and abusive, in the limit leads to poor software quality by eroding productive capacity.

One caveat is large well-organized ad-hocracies that maintain giant FOSS projects, like the FOSS or FOSS-like Linux distributions. These are sort of hybrid volunteer, corporate volunteer forces that are large enough to make such fossonomics work. But there's plenty of hyperuseful software built by tiny, single-person or single-company teams for whom those economies don't work as they don't have that scale nor fractional-corp-labor.

To conclude: normalize improving the world and spreading good karma by normalizing paying for the software you use. Even if a given developer team is yet to realize how to bank the value they created for you, as a savvy and responsible software consumer it's your responsibility to seek out and initiate opportunities to pay them, and not to seek out what you can take and exploit. If they make payment available, use it.

Basically, it's fairly simple. Don't be evil. And respond to and create opportunities to do good!
> The spokesperson added: “This is exactly why HHS is reorganizing its administrative functions to streamline operations and fix the broken systems left to us by the Biden administration.

On previous software teams where I've worked, we had a joke that "You get to blame the guy who left for one month." That is you can do this type of complaining, "Oh man, this codebase is spaghetti, screw Bill who just left", for a month. But after a month, you no longer got to blame the guy who left - at that point, it was on you.

We said it (somewhat) tongue in cheek, but there was a real message that, at some point, it doesn't really matter what the guy before you did - we've all dealt with legacy, shitty codebases, but at some point you need to own it.

I realize taking any sort of responsibility for something that goes wrong is anathema to the current administration, but I think the "it's Biden's fault" excuse is going to start wearing really thin, even for Trump supporters if/when the economic shit show starts to affect them.
> A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision.

It was true in 1979, it's true today.

Blaming "coding" for this is an explicit admission that someone is shirking their accountability.
I feel like most rooms containing republicans could be talked into grabbing power that's just sitting there waiting to be grabbed at a rate of 50% or better. I'm not sure what's wrong with this one.
Yes Trump came up with his tariff plan in the 1980s (and explained it on Opra) because he knew it would help with interest on bonds in 2025. Just more Trump 5d chess.

Personally I can't wait for the 'defend everything' theory as to why penguins on their own islands are bad. It looks like it's going to be 'those penguins were going to arbitrage Chinese goods into the USA'.
Perfect time to accelerate de-dollarization!
Using D1 in production for over an year on multiple projects - I can confirm response times to simple queries regularly take 400ms and beyond. On top there's constant network, connection and a plethora of internal errors. I too don't recommend it for production unless you're working on a toy project.
Perfectly said. This one was a banger.

I searched for it in the article's list of videos with greater than 1M views but the author failed to capture it.
I don't have citations on hand, but as I recall, studies on rent control have shown both positive and negative effects. Proponents/opponents like to pick and choose the studies that back their existing convictions. But the whole must be considered.

I'll tell you from personal experience that not having to worry about arbitrary rent increases and evictions is a massive relief that I imagine few renters in other American cities get to experience. Frankly, it's unconscionable for people to be pushed out of their homes due to market forces outside their control. I strongly support building new housing, but not at the expense of renter security — even if it means that some new people don't get to move to the city.

> Eliminating the zoning premium would bring houses down in price by $400,000 each. I suspect you’d be able to afford to buy.

No, I can't afford a $2M home and I won't be able to afford a $1.6M home either. And it won't happen right away, if it ever does.
I assume there is a lawsuit. Seems like everything the Trump administration does results in a lawsuit. Most corrupt administration in US history.
Or even fewer by doing it in a global exception handler instead of every time you try to open a file, since all your doing is piping the error though logger.
And the rest of the industry (which is basically Logitech, let's face it) isn't in a race to the bottom to make things thinner and thinner each year.

Apple isn't doing that so much now, maybe they can make a good mouse again with a port that lets it work as both a wired and wireless device. The way the Magic Trackpad does it is very nice.
How did these hammerhead worms arrive in Ontario? As for earthworms, are they native to Ontario? I thought I had read that earthworms are not native to the glaciated parts of North America.
Hrrm. Learning by accident, I think. I recall news lines about the failure of ventilation causing mass deaths in the 10s of 1000s. Because they die in the vapors of their own shit, that fast, if packed so dense.

But that was about 20 years ago.
I've gone through the link you posted and the o1 system card and can't see any reference to IMO. Are you sure they were referring to IMO or were they referring to AIME?
I find it super satisfying, and would probably be some sort of computer programmer even if it paid a lot less and was generally looked down upon as mundane clerical work by most people. I am thankful to live in a time where it is a high paying job.
> alongside having log4j log untrusted user inputs

I'd think logging things like query parameters is extremely common.
Reasoning training causes some about of catastrophic forgetting, so unlikely they burn that on mixing in chess puzzles if they want a commercial product, unless it somehow transfers well to other reasoning problems broadly cared about.
> excessively litigious

I haven't heard evidence that litigation is excessive, except by very wealthy corporations and people.

I think most or many people lack access to litigation - they can't afford to use it or to protect themselves from it.
Fun fact since you bring up treasuries, Marjorie Taylor Greene appears to have moved several hundred thousand dollars (probably most of her assets) into treasury bills a few days before the tariffs announcement, pretty much like she knew exactly what was coming. I noticed that tonight with a new site someone else here made: https://www.capitoltrades.com/politicians/G000596

I suspect there's real corruption to be found, anyone who knew the contents of "Liberation Day" could make millions off a very obvious bet. Too bad we don't care about corruption anymore!
High probability the US trips tomorrow as well.
> who decided they would publish this story before even knowing whether there is a story or not.

What makes you say that?
Unstructured-Ish Docx Parsing in TypeScript/Node.js
Scamers, spammers, online casinos, porn sites; all often take over expired domains to host their trash and collect stray traffic
> Waiting to pay: The 1.1% drop in returns so far may be tied to the fact that the number of returns with balances due – as opposed to a refund paid out – has been going up in recent years, said North Carolina-based CPA Jim Buttonow, who worked at the IRS for nearly two decades before going into the private sector.

I can see that. If more people owe money as opposed to getting a refund, there is more incentive to pay later. If US govt owes you money, you handed Uncle Sam a 0% loan, and then it makes sense to file as early as possible.

This one is interesting:

> Refusing to file in protest: Every year, a small number of filers politically object to filing and paying taxes for different reasons. This year is no different.

> Olson said someone recently sent her a letter in the mail containing a copy of an angry letter they had sent to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. “It said they didn’t want to file their tax return and pay taxes because they were upset that the Trump administration was trying to breach taxpayer confidentiality,” Olson said.

That's happening with one of my acquaintances. They canvassed for Harris and were quite upset at the loss. As a form of protest they won't be filing their taxes. I don't know what happens then, I am not bold enough to try it myself. Even if a more friendly administration returns after 4 years, will they be willing to amnesty people who took this route. I wouldn't bet on it, and I don't see millions of people going for that option somehow, either.
For me, it's trying to gauge how deep the rabbit hole is.
The other issue is if you try to bring someone back who doesn't need the job, they have extraordinary leverage in negotiating their new contract.
Just use zsh on MacOS.
Current headlines from cnbc.com:

Trump is losing the confidence of business leaders, billionaire investor Bill Ackman says

Dow futures fall 900 points as Trump tariff market collapse worsens
Sir your first mistake was that you think that this was mockery.
I cited the specific study on San Francisco that supports my argument as [2] — I edited it in for posterity so it may not have been there when you looked.

We can just end rent control for anyone who doesn’t have it but ending it is strictly good policy. There’s no rational basis in economics to support it.

Rent prices wouldn’t go up if supply and demand were allowed to meet making rent control unnecessary anyways. You get both security and lower prices if you just build. If you want to lock in the price negotiate such a lease directly or buy, but don’t leverage the state to force it.
Yes, i remember. I remember Google the search engine being a thing before it became an ad-ridden space.

Search engines are useful things. They can still exist on a world without ads.
> Why doesn't it?

It was surprising to me because I would have expected if there was reasoning ability then it would translate across domains at least somewhat, but yeah what you say makes sense. I'm thinking of it in human terms
Well then, that's pretty much an indictment of capitalism.
Codeberg Outage
I just don't see how states like California would go along with that, not to mention the EU, Russia (because of control over the arctic) or China (maybe Trump gives them the go ahead on Taiwan).
I think all of the high profile detentions have happened at land borders. For this MMA coach, Renato Subotic, I can't quite tell, he says he was stopped at the border, which could be at an airport, but sounds more like at a land border.

It's a lot easier to put you on a return flight if you're at the airport.

It might be reasonable to consider visiting the US but being sure to arrive by air, and not by land. But it's understandable if you choose to visit somewhere that's more friendly.
> And while risky, currency devaluation may follow later to make imports cheaper without lifting tariffs.

Devaluation means a decrease in the value of the currency, making imports more expensive, not cheaper. That your source can make such a fundamental mistake should give a good idea of how little credence it deserves.
But we aren’t talking about firing one person. There are macro effects to firing people at this scale and shutting down whole departments. Not to mention the fact that it is illegal.
Here is why I think Gibson could in principle still be right (without necessarily summoning religious feelings)

[if we disregard that he said "concepts are key" -- though we can be yet more charitable and assume that he doesn't accept (median) human-level intelligence as the final boss]

Para-doxxing ">" Under-standing

(I haven't thought this through, just vibe-calculating, as it were, having pondered the necessity of concrete particulars for a split-second)

(More on that "sophistiKated" aspect of "projeKtion": turns out not to be as idiosynKratic as I'd presumed, but I traded bandwidth for immediacy here, so I'll let GP explain why that's interesting, if he indeed finds it is :)

Wolfram (selfstyled heir to Leibniz/Galois) seems to be serving himself a fronthanded compliment:

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/12/combinators-a-ce...

>What I called a “projection” then is what we’d call a function now; a “filter” is what we’d now call an argument
)
Can't wait for the Rust rewrite.
Don't forget to say "See! Government doesn't work, we've been right all along!" after you've smashed it.
The Trackpad is not fantastic. It's way too wide, triggering mouse clicks while typing, erasing and typing over elsewhere.
I distinctly remember “cookies.sys” … “why does my computer need cookies?” (The computer didn’t start again after that cleansing!)
I am no fan of the administration or Greene, but the tariff day was well communicated beforehand (though, not the magnitude). Getting out of the market before the chaos hit the fan, seems like a fiscally savvy move.
Those are indeed very useful things.

It's true that people often spend their money on frivolous or unnecessary things. But sometimes people pay for useful things too!
This is a terrible plan.
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I'm sure they still do in the US, they just aren't introducing anything new using the connector. For instance here is a Magic Keyboard still sporting a lightning connector:

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MXCJ3LL/A/magic-keyboard-...
In 2024, the United States recorded imports valued at approximately $1.4 million from Heard Island and McDonald Islands, according to World Bank data. These figures are likely the result of misclassified shipments rather than actual trade with these uninhabited territories.

Just adding some context, not saying I agree with tarrifing penguin island.
Why would we care about another one closed vendor locked corporate bloatware?
> all

OT: When you read hyperbole, the debate/discussion shifts somewhat subtley but substantially. Exploration and examination of the facts and merits ends - the word 'all' eliminates any variation from the extreme; it becomes attack and defense.
I think it makes more sense to think of them as agent software plugins than a protocol that makes sense in isolation. The reason for its existence is because you want your <thing> to work with someone's AI agent. You write some code, your user integrates it with their local software and you provide data to it in the format that it's expecting and do stuff when asked.
As I understand it, the source for the Master File is lost to the mists of time. But a SoA A.I. can disassemble and comment it, yes ? Prep it for recompilation ?
I sometimes wonder those people are evil or just incompetent, but it feels like those two are indistinguishable.
It's implausible that fine-tuning of a premier model would have anywhere near that turn around time. Even if they wanted to and had no qualms doing so, it's not happening anywhere near that fast.
Index funds seem fine, having some skin in the game is a good idea.
I just noticed one update to https://github.com/bootc-dev/bootc/issues/865

It looks as though, fnzr has been able to get past the 'dnf' requirements (I dont know arch, but I assume pacman is an rpm/dnf equivalent).
Staff department vs Human Resources
The market can keep falling until Trump pulls the lever back or enough of his pet legislators are willing to override him. As a long-term investor, I'm not selling. But we have no idea where the bottom is.
Apparently this is an EU/US thing, because here overtime and on-call is always paid extra (as is essentially anything beyond your usual 40 hrs/week, or whatever you've got in your contract).

That said, I also see very few jobs that involve on-call. Maybe that's because companies know they have to pay extra for it and therefore don't hand it out willy-nilly, but typically there'll be an ops team who do have on-call, and whose job is to triage and fix anything they can, otherwise just minimise the damage, and then maybe the most business-relevant couple of teams will also have an on-call rotation in case the problem can't be solved by ops alone.

Personally, I've never had on-call.
The alternative is to not spend and not invest and not hire because confidence is down and policy uncertainty is high, leading to a recession.
Now consider applying it to git.
How about clean semantic diffs to your .xlsx files? To your .PNG files?
Communism doesn't fare any better under that rubric. Any unbridled 'ism' taken to its extreme tends to fail most human centered tests.
Also, it's completely destroying an incredibly valuable asset: The reputation of being a stable long-term employer! (This is possibly their corrupt intent.)

The immediate "savings" reduced workforce (even assuming the same level of work gets done) can easily be obliterated by the long-term damage of needing to pay more to attract equally-qualified applicants away from the private sector.

Some quick napkin-math just to illustrate:

* Assume the stupid and illegal firings continue, shrinking the workforce to 90%.
* Assume payroll expenses move the same, to 90%.
* Now workers require 5% more to be hired at a flaky employer with dodgy benefits.
* After just two years, the "savings" are erased. Every year the broken trust continues makes it worse.
Google existed before ads by losing investor money. Who is paying for it when ads are banned?
Exodus shows 34 trackers for reverso on the Android app.How is this more private than any other translator?
https://archive.ph/7aH7E
wasted too many hours of my life trying to configure basic things, then after all that time it still just segfaults lmao