skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you see a popular mandate for raising taxes materializing? Do you see Congress enacting that? I don't. Like you said, you're not the first to think of it, but it never happens.

As imperfect as DOGE is, its the only measure I can see actually happening that has a shot at cutting the deficit. I would love to think of another one.
It looks as a job for Cloudflare:
https://cloudflaremirrors.com/

But i don't know who is responsible for that.
Narrow FoV ruins me. Even after all these years, Far Cry 2 on PC was one of the worst video game experiences ever for me because it had FoV tuned for couch gaming. IIRC I was able to somewhat fix it with a console command to adjust the FoV, but actions like sprinting which forced the FoV to something even narrower than default would undo that.

And for me motion sickness isn't felt in my stomach, it's in my head. The headaches get quite painful, so I very much appreciate games that give me an FoV slider with a reasonably large maximum. I'd rather not need to take meclizine to comfortably play a game.
"programs you need to run only work on w11" is forwards compatibility, not backwards compatibility.
He does if the President says he does! That’s the beauty of a pardon. There’s not a limit, as many people can be pardoned as Mr. Trump wants.

And you can’t arrest the president because he’s immune from prosecution for official acts: pardoning is an enumerated constitutional power!

So what’s left is impeachment for the president and congress does not want to do this.

And none of that will fall on Musk or DOGE. The government has made itself unable to prevent this.
Rumor:
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/1iheqzg/valve_is_...
> VSCode, Visual Studio, Github every day, and have upgraded too many MS SQL Server databases... my point is those examples of Microsoft's current usage is not what PG is talking about....

Then what is he talking about when he says "dead"?

Also comparing those MS softwares with Z-mainframe & RHEL feels a bit off. If you take a 90th percentile of s/w developer starting career today they are more likely to have heard or used those MS tools than IBM's. I mean for vast majority GitHub is a synonym for Git and VSCode is nearly a de-facto IDE for frontend development, TypeScript I don't need to say much.
One Million Checkboxes seems like a candidate:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Million_Checkboxes
This is amazing! I have settled on MITMProxy after looking around for something.

My MITMProxy flow, if anyone is interested: https://gist.github.com/chanux/e87bd91ea2d4a76cb0b872ff79699...
> I've heard people wax poetic about programming old, limited-memory machines. I wouldn't know anything about those---at the time they were current, I was writing rudimentary number-guessing games in BASIC. But doing this competition entry gave me a taste of what they might be talking about.

One rather big difference here though, the limitation is on the size of the code, not the compiled binary. Most of the "optimizations" here have little to no effect on the code after it's compiled.

With older computers, instead of removing line breaks from the code, you're doing things like tweaking compiler flags to shrink the size.
I bet everyone on Linux that depend on stuff IBM and Red-Hat contribute to, really care, a lot.
Why would they be prosecuted? The FBI has been gutted and they'd just be pardoned
Minifeed is great but without some sort of sort by popularity there's just too much noise.
Also, there are (or were) organizations that give their programmers incentives for finding and filing CVEs.
Naturally that's lead to lots of low-quality CVEs,
and with AI and other automated tools it's become easy for low-information programmers to generate reports on code they have zero understanding of.
That assumes a lot, most importantly that the harm is limited to "innocent person in prison" rather than, "Government has the power to throw anyone it wants into prison, effectively disappearing them." The history of these sort of measures is a history of a slide into something worse than whatever was being solved in the first place.
Not mentioned in any of the coverage I've seen (or the interview with Vanguard's new CEO in the WSJ) is Fidelity.

Fidelity used to be known for actively managed funds, but has been eating Vanguard's indexing lunch for the past 10 years or so. Part of this relates to its dominance in workplace accounts, but Vanguard hasn't helped itself with some bad customer-facing software updates and a perception that its service levels are poor compared to Fidelity.

Cutting fees helps, but Fidelity has shown its willing to do this, too, including no fee "Zero" index funds: https://www.fidelity.com/mutual-funds/investing-ideas/index-... (note Fidelity is very clear about who it's competing with)
Hello Frank, thanks a lot for the awesome work. I like continue a lot and they have an amazing team. I keep checking their repo, once in a while to see when they will release their ai agent.
I specifically meant the parts of SOX related to access controls, infrastructure, and codebase management to ensure a baseline level of security for processing payments and PII to ensure this does not represent a risk to the valuation of the enterprise.

These measures are universal to running any payment platform, not a public/private issue.

*No, I'm not thinking of PCI, but that is also a valid measure here. There are recent updates to SOX in the past few years covering these aspects of payment operations. Some old-school SOX experts may not be familiar and the strictness on these aspects of the audit varies by auditor in my experience. I recently helped a client navigate these developing and responding to a very strict audit process covering their entire IT landscape including process flows, deployment planning and user/role management.
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A lot of people are very concerned about it. but what am I supposed to do about it? I voted, canvassed, and donated as hard as I could already. and I lost.
Not in a practically accessible way for the majority of people.
And yet, en masse Bitcoin is used as speculative investment, not money.
This article read like one of those annoying LinkedIn “hot takes” that keeps showing up on my feed. I’d suggest sharing this type of content there rather than on HN, please.
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Those are just...guidelines.
Musk isn't a policitican.
I don't normally get motion sick in games, but I actually have the worst time with 2D card games the most. And these games are the ones developers will bother least with any comfort settings!

I recently had this experience with Wildfrost - a decent game but I find it migraine inducing on big screens - big flat colors, lots of wiggly animations, poor scaling, all combined with the need to do lots of reading. My eyes felt fried after 20 minutes.
I'm not from the US, so I don't really have a direct horse in this race. Don't you think that polarization like this is exactly what led to the current situation? Culture begets counter culture and demonizing the other side turns into a rallying call in turn.
But in the Winter, the entire state does suffer from persistent lake effect gloom. I grew up in central MI and had no idea how much sunnier it was elsewhere in the US (esp. along the eastern seaboard) when seasonal daylight gets short.
What would OOP without inheritance look like?
I don't think they're popular here in the US, either.

I'm not really sure what those benefits are supposed to be. Your phone has an assistant built in. A smart bulb sounds like a novelty at best. A smart lock just lets you inside the house.

The benefits seem minimal, at non-zero cost. Americans can be pretty cheap.

We can also be pretty profligate, and I suspect that many of those IOT devices that do get sold are mostly ignored. People would buy them purely because they're "the best", and never actually use any of those features.

I'm sure privacy and security figure into it as well, though given how bad we are at privacy in other domains, I don't think it's the major factor. I think it's just a small negative that gets weighed against a positive that's hard to distinguish from zero.
Elon musk and his cronies are taking over the systems that send out every check for the US Government. Based on how well he did with Twitter, the build quality of the Cybertruck, and the last Starship test, are you sure that this team will be able to keep sending out social security checks? How about tax refunds? How about payments to government contractors?
> No

That's how Twitter's block always worked before the advent of Naughty Old Mr Car. It's also how the block on every social media thing I can think of works.
I remember something like this was used in Cryptonomicon. It's been almost two decades since I read it, but IIRC it was a phone conversation between Churchill and FDR that was secured with twin one-time-pads encoded on vinyl records.
OP was making a veiled reference to Luigi Mangione, the man accused of murdering the UHC ceo.
Meanwhile he allowed desktop development to become a mess, he was the one killing mobile, and now Microsoft is dependent on Google and Apple for mobile endpoints, other than laptops.
Unless its your party-tribe is lighting the fires
I mean, with the extreme politicization of DOJ and FBI already under way by Trump and his cronies, and the dismantling of safeguards like inspector generals there's literally no chance that these people get indicted or even investigated under this administration.

> is he going to pardon everyone who has a hand in this?

How can anyone have any doubts after the jan 6 pardons?
Seems like a good wake-up call that all of these responsibilities shouldn't be the unilateral purview of the executive branch then.
Day to day there won't be much change, as bitcoin acceptance wasn't really enforced.
The thread is still early yet. Check back in 4 hours when this story has already been flagged off the front page.
"Conservatives" are, in theory, interested in stability and status quo.

The correct term, IMO, is regressive.
This topic always makes me think of Wolfenstein (2009)'s abhorrent head-bob, which is almost guaranteed to induce nausea. There's a way to turn it off, but it's clunky (and causes you to be unable to run).
(See my comment about using RSS in another thread...)

I think filtering by HN front page, and then filtering out the items you want in an RSS feed is a good combination that makes it easier to filter out the noise.
> I think most people agree that fat needs to be trimmed; we disagree about how the trimming should happen.

It feels like you're falling for the Politician's Fallacy here ("Something must be done, this is something, therefore this must be done."). You're right that there's broad agreement that the fat needs to be trimmed, but that doesn't make DOGE a good idea, and I don't think we've heard anything about them that isn't terrible, illegal, or both.
To those it was not obvious - the result of the entry is the top banner, a keyboard-controllable "game".
maybe instead of having a vindictive billionaire who answers to no one secretly breaking into server rooms with his cronies to to attack "savings" which are all only a tiny % of the budget we should... I don't know... maybe have serious conversations about the actual big ticket items like defense, medicare, and social security??
> following democratic processes to achieve the desired ends

That has been failing for a while now. Congressional approval is in the 20% range, much lower than even Trump's. An odd fact never mentioned in the media. The U.S. is toast if it can't reverse Citizen's United.
It’s definitely interesting to follow! Like in this ancient Chinese curse: “may you live in interesting times”
Android and ChromeOS.

Google is being much better at that game with Linux.
Having children inherit the wealth and privilege of their parents is how you get aristocracies and they suck for everyone who isn't an aristocrat which is like 99.9% of the population.
The Jones Act has nothing to do with shipbuilding. Repealing it would make it cheaper to send goods to Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. It would not make domestic shipyards more competitive.
Twitter/X -- the site -- is essentially fine.

Twitter -- the community -- is dead and rotting.
I owe more on my mortgage than I make in a year. I'm not insolvent.

The single largest four-year increase (about a quarter of all of it!) in the debt happened under the current President.
So Trump presided over close to $9T in debt. That's about 1/4 of the total debt in 4 years.

https://www.crfb.org/papers/trump-and-biden-national-debt

My guess is that this time a solid $T goes straight into his family/friends pockets.
Everyone can see what a horse is (but not how it was designed)
> Why did this just plummet to page three? Very weird.

People are getting into upvote/downvote wars over comments on the post. When that happens, the HN algorithm automatically downranks the post as likely to drive bad behavior among users.
The reigning liberal ideology foundationally believes that federal spending is existential to every individual. They have no concept of how little it matters to most people. Or how much is actually in the hands of states, counties, and municipalities. It's deep into delusion territory.
I, too, saw Superman 3!
Blue no matter who is exactly how we got here. DNC needs to start now coming up with a platform and a viable candidate. They need to retire the geriatrics and start cultivating new young blood.
> head bob mixed with weapon sway

That's the only thing that ever bothered me in a game displayed on a monitor, when combined with underpowered hardware for said game and thus low fps.

Fortunately the game had the option to turn off bobbing/swaying so I could keep playing it until i upgraded the video card.

I'm also one of the unfortunates that can't stand more than like 30 min in a VR headset sadly.
As someone who has had to clear an SF86 for a USDS hiring cycle (IRS and DHS systems), I would be shocked if you can get this access without a clearance.
Ideally, trying to reform the government & its activities shouldn't require a team to burrow all the way down to the literal payments system & call individual balls and strikes.

But I assume that is indicative of how unresponsive the bureaucracy has become to political direction from the president & secretaries.
Personally, I agree with you. We have semantic problem.

*If the director asked, and we know that he asked, then it is on the record.

*If the director asked off the record, then it's called classified.

*If there is a conviction then it was a rogue cell.

The agency is clear in all cases whether we like it or not. Same as a corporation, but worse.
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Depends on which tribe is in charge
> it should be a baseline for national accounting

What does this mean? Let me repeat. SOX is not a method of accounting, its rules about roles and reporting for public corporations

> It sounds like you think SOX auditing means “super secure and careful accounting”.
Good. I put it on reddit.com/r/arraylanguages
If I feel like I truly learned something novel I'll add a link here:

https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/journal/blob/main/lists/kno...
The people who can do anything about it aren't concerned.

The SP500 is normal today, institutional money is fine with this.
I knew of his villainous presence as being the baddie in Knight's Tale. He exuded privilege and eliticism so perfectly. Fantastic actor!
total financial control by 5 20 years who've never written anything but Python, this should be great

who tf downvoted this show yourself groyper
That's reusing, not recycling. Reusing is also better than recycling in every way.
Retreat to Fortress America is also a response to nuclear proliferation, which will occur as the US retreats from its role as world policeman.

Another factor is the desire to retire federal government debt by dollar devaluation. Onshoring of manufacturing by high tariffs would be preparatory for this.
> Even so, given US wage levels it's a fantasy to believe that US shipyards could compete with, say, China.

And material costs
In 2007, when the article was written, I distinctly remember being at Amazon and Windows laptops were the default option. So was the entire office suite, their share point thing, not to speak about Outlook. In fact one had to beg to IT guys to allow us to use Linux laptops. MacBooks were still a few years away if I remember correctly.

It's amazing that PG looked around in his bubble, saw MacBooks and decided to write that Microsoft is dead.
Exactly — this isn’t good will. The only subsidies he cares about are his own. Though all involved don’t seem bright enough to realize that destabilizing the government, its finances and the perception of the dollar will have consequences for their own wealth.
> And with that, I think the door on Mastodon gaining widespread adoption is closed forever.

Probably not _forever_; Bluesky is, at least for now, centralised enough that if Bluesky-the-entity screws up sufficiently badly, well, where else are people going to go?

But, honestly, Mastodon as _mainstream_ was always a long-shot. UX matters, and while Mastodon's is _fine_ once you're used to it, it's quite hostile to new users. Bluesky had the advantage that people already knew how to use it, because it's basically the same UX as Twitter.
Medicaid was disrupted last week. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/us/politics/medicaid-free...
> At which point do you make informed choice about the data that Facebook collects on you?

You make an “informed choice” when you create a Facebook account, give Facebook your name, date of birth, your relationship status and who you are in a relationship with, your sexual orientation, when you check in to where you have been, when you click on and buy from advertisers, when you join a Facebook group, when you tell it who your friends are…

Should I go on? At each point you made an affirmative choice about giving Facebook your information.

> At which point do you make informed choice about Facebook tracking you across the internet, even on websites that do not belong to Facebook, and through third parties that Facebook doesn't own?

That hasn’t been the case since 2018.

https://martech.org/facebooks-removal-of-third-party-targeti...

With ATT, Facebook doesn’t collect data from third party apps at least on iOS if you opt out. It’s cost Facebook billions of dollars

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2022/04/23/appl...

> At which point did Facebook actually start give users at least some information on the data they collect and letting them do an informed choice?

https://www.vox.com/2018/4/14/17236072/facebook-mark-zuckerb...
This is not what I said:

1 - they have their own cash from huge racketering (forced) monetary streams.
2 - then, you still have the tens of thousands of billions from funds like vanguard and blackrock.

Those gigantic amounts of money are 'economically weaponized' to 'economically destroy' any sane alternatives, at worldwide scale.
RIP "ecomonic competition" (who thinks nowadays this thing is not a scam).

So you say the very average people investing there are plainly aware their money is engaged in 'economic tyrany' which forces down the throat of nearly all average people, that worldwide, the _amazing_ msft software ? mmmmh....
No. I demand better of the Democrats than what has been offered.
Correction: 31% of the eligible voting population and ~50% of the popular vote. A lot of people did not vote.
Not really familiar with costs at this scale, I'm interested to see HN's take on whether this is considered cheap or expensive compared to other federal projects (both contracted and in-house).

My naive view is that this was a genuinely useful effort being wasted and an operational cost of $2.4M _looks_ like a steal, but would appreciate better comparison from people more informed than me.
Wow it's very interresting. I published it on reddit.com/r/arraylanguages thanks a lot!
I think the issue is that this is not "dismantling the wheels of established power", so much as it is centralizing and increasing the power of the executive branch.

It's not getting rid of all these bureaucrats in DC and giving power back to the people. It's getting rid any sort of independence and removing the barriers to centralizing power under Trump so that he can grab even more power and control.

And just to be pedantic, Trump received 49% of the vote and Kamala receive 48%. And that's of people who voted. He received 77 million out 244 million of the voting-eligible population, or around 31%.

There may be a plurality of people who want the Executive branch under Trump to consolidate power, but it's not the majority.

https://election.lab.ufl.edu/2024-general-election-turnout/
Yes, I see a popular mandate materializing, absolutely. There are very few but absurdly rich people standing in the way. It's happened in the past, and it will happen in the future.
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Whoa! Where's that! Why do they have to advertise the latest Product Green or whatever skin and countless emoji and not useful features like this one!
> On the contrary, his campaign denied he was going to do all this.

People believed the wolf when he said he wasn't going to hurt the sheep.
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1. It's not AGI

2. It's not intelligent, therefore is unable to work out trickery vs real threats ("yes I know you're not supposed to tell me how to break into a bank vault, but a child got locked inside and will die if you don't help", etc)

So any ethics are bound to fail at some point.
I have 14 years experience and I've never seen anything like the job market for the last 1.5 to 2 years. In the past, when I was looking for a job, I'd have interviews scheduled within the first few weeks of looking. Nowadays any time I put feelers out I get nothing in response.
Patriot has not reliably intercepted Kizhals, they needed an uneconomic interceptor ratio which in a ship would lead to interceptor depletion and failure; at the same time Kizhals is even slower than something like the DF-21 or DF-ZF.

It's a similar story for SM-2/3, in the Red Sea they faced massive interceptor depletion and had to leave, and even then many missiles were not intercepted, we just got lucky that they missed.
Ok so let's raise taxes on the wealthy. I think that's great and am in total agreement.

How long do you think we should wait for Congress to significantly raise taxes on the rich? How confident are you that will ever happen? Have you seen a graph of the national debt? How long do you think we have to wait? Why oppose cutting spending now? That's not in conflict with raising taxes for the wealthy, both should be done.
Great comment in 2021 but today we know laws are not enforced against powerful people and their lackeys.