skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can decorate a function with @torch.compiler.disable() to disable a specific function (and anything further down the call stack).
The irony that this post is now flagged as well...
I can no more prove my speculation than Dr. Bostrum can prove his, and have no more need to do so than he does. All any of us can do on this topic is speculate. We'll only know for certain what's going to happen when it happens.
there’s this guy named Donald who just might pardon whoever is committing whatever crimes are being committed…
Doesn't this give enough detail for someone to replicate easily? I'd think it would not be too hard to look at the signature and find the insecure function used.
I definitely noticed I was using the apps more for entertainment than for dating. Which is why I stopped using them.
The legislative branch can recall both the president and the judges, but it won't do that because it is happy with what they are doing.

Even a Democrat landslide in two years wouldn't change it, because almost all Democratic politicians are unwilling to cause a fuss (or they are secretly happy with what the other branches are doing).

But the people are getting what they voted for, so is it really ethical to intervene in that?
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That's so naive. "Show me the man, I'll show you the crime."
You put 250k on a Model 3? I would love to hear your experiences.

> I'm both highly motivated to sell it, but also can't.
I'm sure Musk's antics affect new car sales, but it must be muted for the used market. But 250k is a lot of miles for any vehicle, and electric cars have an early smartphone era problem: each iteration brings much bigger improvements than you'd see in a more mature platform.
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Your intuition is good - having worked with something similar to this, it works great but does not scale very well. The step journaling is pretty brutal to postgres/rdbms , and you hit vertical scaling limits quicker than you would like
You are way underreacting to what’s going on here. This is not about saving money, or trying to cut waste or fraud. Elon Musk has been posting wild conspiracies on X to justify what he’s doing. But the actual changes are reactionary and political. Accountability is long gone if someone like Elon is in direct charge of what bills get paid. Fraud and waste will skyrocket in these conditions.
The proper forum for reforms is congress, not steamrolling your way through the federal bureaucracy.
It's not more rotten that your regular backend shop. How many api issues / auth problems / s3 open bucket there are out there exactly?
I'm sure Intel loved that idea, given that I don't think RDRAND showed up on AMD chips for 3 years after Intel launched support for it, and that would let them look much better on a number of benchmarks for that duration...
Maybe this applies to Go code?

Snark aside, I am somebody who is very concerned about edge cases, but those ratios seem completely wrong to me for the kind of code I write. And perhaps one should say "corner cases" instead of "error cases". Corner cases aren't necessarily errors. What I find is that a good algorithm that is properly "in tune" with the problem space will often implicitly handle corner cases correctly. While an algorithm that was hacked together by somebody who is "coding to the test" without really understanding the problem space tends to not handle corner cases, and then the developer tries to handle them by adding if-statements to patch their handling.

In the end, devoting 70% or 80% of thinking time to corner cases seems entirely plausible to me. 70% or 80% of lines of code dedicated to corner cases may be a smell.
Privileged code can load microcode? Duh, "vulnerability".
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I really don't worry at all for these people. They're adults, even if young, and they've made their choice. Any consequences they suffer will be well deserved.

I'm sure Trump will preemptively pardon them at the end of his term anyway. My worry is that these people will never be held accountable for what they're doing.

Save your worry for things that actually matter.
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They are working for Elon Musk.
https://archive.ph/QZzLG
Given his tech record, he probably dragged a file named 18F to the Recycle Bin.

This is the same guy that nearly tanked PayPal because he was obsessed with rewriting their entire system for Windows.
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Yes they are. If they are part of DOGE then they are part of the executive office of the President, which would be considered a part of government

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/esta...
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That, of course, is only valid if you are using your cleverness to optimize for something that isn't readability.
The goal is to dismantle as much of the government as possible. Where possible, they can replace the existing people with their own people, then steer government contracts to themselves.
> missing syntax, generated identifiers

I’ve been writing Ruby for almost ten years now, and I honestly have no idea what these refer to.
Do you have a reference for "clearly", from case law or a lawyer/judges perspective? IANAL, and I don't see any commenting here.
> If people want their money to be used to help others in need,

That argument is nonsense. I bet many or most Americans disagree with how tax money is used. Many probably does not want to pay for the world's (by faaaaar) largest military or for Israel's wars, for example. Yet they have to pay.
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Yes, all videos are deleted regularly.
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Why those funds were allocated to their ops and not equally to everybody? If those government organisations were serving only one side of the political spectrum than something is inherently wrong with it.
Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s In the Shadow of the Shadow State, which discusses the concept of the anti-state state.

https://sfonline.barnard.edu/ruth-wilson-gilmore-in-the-shad...
Metering also doesn't require a branch if you implement it with page faults. See "Implicit suspend checks" in https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2023/11/the-secret...
Same happened to me. Someone stole my ID (diplomas, driver license and biometrics) to escape history.
I believe garmin is actually better than the others.

I've never put my watch online.

You don't have to "activate" the watch or create an account to use it. You can just strap it on your wrist and go.

You can get to your data using MTP (or the garmin protocol) by accessing the watch filesystem.

I'm not certain about updates. I haven't found a way to download and update the watch offline, but I haven't seriously tried. I did notice some beta firmware you could download and update older watches with offline.

So I think you might need garmin connect or similar to download apps or updates.
isn't that just social security id?
How could you not trust a 19 year old who goes by bigballs?

I for one trust Mr.BigBalls to make smart and effective cuts to get our government back on track!
This doesn’t mean what you think.
I wonder what’s going to happen after it becomes government-owned

Ref: Trump orders creation of sovereign fund that could buy TikTok https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42921907
Seizing legislative power, which up until about 7 days ago included all control over federal funding, for the executive branch is a coup.
I don't necessarily approve of this action, but... a key to a peaceful life is to not piss off too many people at once. If you decide spit on a hundred million people, you're not gonna like it when a fraction of them spit back. Break the social contract at your own peril.
Impeach! That's the prerogative, and the enforcement mechanism, of the legislative branch.
What attack?? They are working for our government.
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If you were punk you wouldn't give a fuck what I think and wouldn't have wasted your breath on me getting defensive.

Just sayin'.
If a balanced budget led to a flat or negative GDP, reduced the USA’s power and influence globally, and/or lowered standards of living, then would it still be desirable? What exactly is the argument against a deficit besides that it might be giving some groups leverage over the USA, which is dubious?
How do you actually do the manufacturing? What machines does one need to do something like this?
It is possible, but it's generally not a good idea.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Microcode#Late_loading

https://docs.kernel.org/arch/x86/microcode.html#late-loading

although quotes from this article claim that it's fine specifically on AMD systems:

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Late-Loading-Microcode
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It does not matter. If republican party voters cared about appropriateness, they would not picked up Trump and Musk. They picked them because they wanted to see maximal harm and they see lack of ethics/morals as strength.
Most of the world's currency is backed by the currency they print? The USA has to spend a few cents to gain a hundred dollar bill, but any other country has to exchange a hundred dollars of actual goods and services (to the USA!). Losing this privilege would be devastating.
Which systems use the string "null" to represent a null value? That seems like a bad idea...
> Trying to cut jobs/waste/find fraud is political/career suicide for anyone in government

US Government Accountability Office already existed to do this, without it being career suicide for those involved (at least until Trump began attempting to end it despite being nonpartisan)
How exactly is this approach an improvement over the status quo? Elon is not auditing spending. He’s pursuing political grudges and generating chaos for its own sake. The outcome will not be less government waste and fraud.
It seems more like a CIA civil war to me, CIA cut outs on both sides.
By their unprecedented and legally-murky access level, they're far from "low-level employee".

And for the important folks, we make a loud cry about even their birth certificates and birth parents, so why not this?

All sense of decorum has been burned down long ago, and hilariously, it's been burned down by the same people now pretending to complain here.

If we're gonna make it to the other side of all this, it's going to take another Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, or Roosevelt to restore any of our former dignity. And no, this one's gonna be lucky to have history consider it even a Nixon.
Agree on everything. I must point out that I specifically mentioned “by a mental health professional” and I led with the fact that I am not one. I should have stressed it more perhaps.
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I don't think you're allowed to say that on Hacker News.
As someone else commented, you're probably talking about Pacific Northwest (Washington or Oregon coastal regions) then. It's not completely snow-free and can get fairly hot in the summers. But it's probably the best compromise between mostly snow-free and not-too-hot. Pretty much anyplace else in the North that (usually) doesn't get too hot in the summer gets snow, if not the consistent heavy snowfalls of places in the lake effect belt.

In addition to the larger cities, you have places like Corvallis where Oregon State is located.
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start with the “defense” budget first, cut that by 95% and go from there… oh wait, that money is going to… :)
Wrong thread Mike, this is the "Who wants to be hired?" thread :)
Please don't cross into personal attacks on Hacker News.
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I'm sorry but I think I'm going to believe the man who wrote the article, who is an editor of Nature and has a Physics PhD[1], over someone who has made it their life's work to argue against established scientists on a website for Venture Capitalists :)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Ball
I sadly assumed the first countryside photo was generated but I assume now it is real!

The mix of tech and meditation would appeal to me. Maybe the idea does (actually doing it is probably hard!).

It seems like a "Buddhist Recurse"
> But the people are getting what they voted for

I think that’s extremely debatable. Last I checked “unauthorized access to confidential taxpayer information” was not an election topic.

This is true on all sides of course, folks who voted for Obama didn’t vote for drone strikes against US citizens either. Winning a presidential election does not mean four years of dictatorship and silencing of criticism.
There's been a bunch of scattered public research on microcode payload signatures over the years.

I would speculate that the problem is less that the hash function is weak inherently (otherwise we'd have a really complicated horizon of needing to chain microcode updates since we'd eventually want to e.g. go from MD5 to SHA1 or something), and more that the implementation has a flaw (similar to things like Nintendo using strcmp and not memcmp on their hash comparisons in the Wii, so you only had to collide the function to the first \0).
That is why they only take from other people (music, PDFs, code, literature, papers) without ever creating anything themselves.

Musk is an exception in that he at least popularized and scaled production of the original Tesla inventors from whom he bought the company. SpaceX seems to be run by Gwynne Shotwell.
There is about zero chance Trump and Musk will make debt smaller.
I'm sure he will. But that doesn't refute the assertion that what they're doing is illegal. It supports it, even.
Without wading into the "good guy with a gun" debate, tl;dr: almost no humans want to effect the level of violence required to execute a home invasion, even if the risk of being shot is zero. A big deal is made about guns as deterrents, but the simpler answer (and the one that explains why it's also safe in rural areas of other OECD countries with gun control) is that humans just aren't that violent--when there's enough to go around anyway. That's all I'm saying here.
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Now the king of all Egypt at that time was the god Thamus, who lived in the great city of the upper region, which the Greeks call the Egyptian Thebes, and they call the god himself Ammon. To him came Theuth to show his inventions, saying that they ought to be imparted to the other Egyptians. But Thamus asked what use there was in each, and as Theuth enumerated their uses, expressed praise or blame, according as he approved or disapproved.

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> But the people are getting what they voted for, so is it really ethical to intervene in that?

No electoral mandate (and the argument for a clear mandate for all of this is thin or nonexistent) makes unconstitutional/illegal action suddenly legal or constitutional.

Whether anyone with the relevant power chooses to punish these violations, is a different matter. The choice since January 2020 has been to repeatedly do nothing in the face of illegal action, but winning elections doesn't make criminal action magically non-criminal.
We have these little things called elections for doing that. Parts of the government would love to have this perfect registry and things like RealID are attempts at that but there's a lot of push back and reasons not to have some mythical impervious citizen tracking system too.
This isn’t Trump’s power to delegate. Congress dictates spending, not the President. Usurping that power from Congress is the coup.
Should we become a totalitarian state in order to compete with another? That feels like McCarthyism/Cold War/ “authoritarianism is fine as long as it isn’t communism” vibes.
You should probably pay more attention to what people do rather than their credentials as it’s a more powerful signal.
> straight out of the Keynesian playbook

Did Keynes advocate for sovereign wealth funds? All I can recall is he said international funds flows are inherently political.
The goal is to find government waste and to trim the fat. The goal is to make the US government lean, efficient, and effective at improving the lives of Americans while not prioritizing improving the lives of citizens of other nations. The view is that the government of those other nations should be responsible for taking care of their own citizens. The goal is to uncover fraudulent payouts, stop more from going out in the future, and to bring the fraudsters to justice. Overall, the goal is to do a thorough accounting of where exactly US tax dollars are going to, and to use that information to decide if they should keep going to those recipients in the future, to put it to a vote using congress to decide.

[Political bias report: I'm a liberal who has read Rand and who does not agree with The Republican Party's views in the vast majority of cases. I have been listening to Musk and Ramaswamy talking about DOGE on X. I also follow conservative meme sites to keep up to date with the way they are thinking about things.]