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Dupe - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42921907
I turned the flags off on this story 24 minutes before you posted this.

Care to revise your view?
The first 2 results on Google:

Bloomberg says the targets were journalists: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-31/whatsapp-...

Al Jazeera points out the spyware was used by the Israeli company Paragon:

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2025/1/31/whatsapp-says-i...
Doesn’t matter if laws don’t matter and aren’t enforced.
Yes it does, because normal strings aren't just a special case of raw strings when the number of #s is 0. The presence of #s change the string syntax. Otherwise you could as well say Python has one syntax, with optional f and r prefixes.
Also we make exceptions for ad hoc procedures untested by the courts and not even evaluated by the appropriate government organ (GSA?).
So, then, what good is having a walled garden anyway?
Also because they can easily afford to completely change the voting system on these sites lol
https://archive.ph/EMLJd
Ok.

Guess that is valid differentiation.

Then the only problem is time frame, rate of change.

Can the global supply chain, re-configure itself to only run factories where there is still enough population to staff.

It would take years to move factories to concentrate where there is still people.

And I'd say most disaster scenarios happen a lot faster. Then it's Mad Max again. But guess, even in Mad Max there was an oil refinery, they had a factory, and some cars running. But didn't look sustainable.
The interface is always there. There's no such thing as UI-less anything
Bioaccumulation of microplastics in decedent human brains
> Is a robot taxi really cheaper to make than a manual car?

If we only look at the future costs to supporting a consumer vehicle over the long term there could be significant savings by avoiding those costs.

No need to overengineer - design for X km not Y years. No need to engineer for fixing some accidents - maybe cheaper to write off vehicle: removes infrastructure costs and reduces parts inventory. No need to support vehicle after Y years - reduce long term maintenance. Design for fleet refreshes every Y years. Designing vehicle to be written off on accounts (depreciate - no resale): paper gains matter hugely to corporations. Optionality... If robotic hardware is improving rapidly then may be cheaper overall to build new vehicles than upgrade older fleet. Design for recycling. Handover old fleet from US to Mexico - keep using old vehicles in jurisdictions where liability and modern branding is less important.
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Former Apple, Former Google.
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My hope is on John Carmack....
Show HN: Evaluate how well-designed code is
Built this demo with a friend as a start to building a platform that can measure how well-written code is according to user-defined rubrics. To start, we wrote rubrics that measure how well code conforms to basic OOP principles
For organizations like the NSA, a simple hack like this is the opposite of ham-fisted, though presumably they'd try to ensure the output would pass common statistical tests. The utility in quietly breaking cryptographic protocols is presumably a major reason why it was chosen for the proof-of-concept.
From the OP:

> Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.
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I guess when a Silicon Valley gatekeeper like Google does it, it's a totally normal activity and there's nothing to see here. If anyone deemed unsuitable to the gatekeepers do it, it's quickly flagged and hated.
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Good luck! Those were the behaviors that got you promoted to senior staff in the first place – so I would imagine that your org is actively expecting that you will continue them!
Perhaps because the time to proofread/correct is less than to do it from scratch? That would still make it a valuable tool
This is such a detailed article but it's giving me weird vibes.

For instance there are all these drops to near-zero in the histograms at .28, .46, .56 for no clear reason, and the article doesn't even consider that noteworthy.

The "Men Like ratio (y) vs ratio (x)" has an inexplicable wall around .33 which I could only explain with some sort of product limitation maybe? But I really wish it was explained what artifacts the product introduces.
here's Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan on X: "Whoever made the original graphic (of these kids that Musk told to hack into the machines) doesn’t understand the scale and speed of smart high IQ people who can program, and what they can do in a moment when intelligence now on infinite tap using LLMs"

https://x.com/garrytan/status/1886283334466302201

as though "dont worry everyone, these kids are really good coders!" has anything to do with it

the tech oligarchs know nothing about wisdom, integrity, rule of law, it's all a big joke beneath their superior brains
Reading into these weird power abusers. Scary stuff! They seem to want to take down America's liberal democracy and install an "American Caesar"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/curtis-yarvi...
Given how useful USAID has been for the CIA, if the “deep state” was a real thing, Elon would have at best a few more days to live.
Because you just said you didn't.
Intel's theory I believe was that it could become the only source. The argument in favor I think is the same one you are making now: anything that could hack the chip deeply enough to break rdrand is powerful enough to achieve the same goals in another way.
So do you, like, work at an actual company? One with actual customers and business partners, who need deliverables finished by deadlines that may be months or years out, and who need up-to-date info on whether the project is on track for completion or not? Companies are made or broken, billions earned or lost, because of these schedules and timelines. So the pure jewel version of Agile is incompatible with the business world. Agile is only accepted by business inasmuch as it promises better visibility and control over schedules and costs.

I get that the "pure jewel" version of Agile was some programmers attempting to do the Eric S. Raymond "package our rebellious hacker values in a way that's acceptable by corporate management and subvert the organization from within" thing. But what corporate management found was that it's an ill fit unless adapted to business needs. And even then, what Milt Bryce proved in the frickin' 70s was that for organizational information systems, BDUF actually saves you time and money in the long run. Agile was the standard practice in Bryce's time: almost no planning, analysis, or design, let the programmers do what they want, make changes piecemeal as users got frustrated with the system. His PRIDE methodology (the first software methodology to be marketed as such) was positioned as an alternative and involved lots of analysis and design cycles before a single line of code is written.
So they did a RAG on the whole internet? Basically Google search results summary but better?
a) What are the benefits? Most of these devices are savings mere seconds of labor

b) What are the costs? Just about every person I know who got into IoT devices has regretted it within a few years (things break, manufacturers go out business, just keeping up with updates can be a pain)

Why even bother?
Hey, thank you for such a good response
Ageism is refusing to hire someone who meets all the qualifications for the job because of their age. Refusing to hire someone whose inexperience makes them unqualified for the job is not the same as ageism.

To make the objections folks have here plain: these employees literally do not have the security clearance required to access the data they’re looking at. What they are doing is illegal.
According to the author's bluesky posts, there's a few features missing from Win32s compared to regular Win32 that prevent this from being ported even further back to windows 3.1 easily.
We can and should yell at young people for knowingly doing illegal shit and raiding our government, though. Like, that’s my money they’ve unilaterally and extracongressionally decided to reappropriate with a smirk on their faces. Fuck that.
> Their's a really good argument for having a "gaming" os, Windows, and a serious OS , Linux on the same computer.

This is a terrible idea if you think this will keep you secure. Windows provides direct access to update motherboard firmware and CPU microcode/management engine.
Posts here talk about the legality of this, that what they are doing is not allowed, or that they're doing something naively without understanding.

But what is the goal? Maybe what goal to they think they're pursuing? This is hacker news, so I'm asking for an answer without political rhetoric.
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They are not executive employees, they are Musk employees, not the same thing.
Meta note, but seriously thank you for being so transparent about this! It's a big part of why I love and trust HN
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I’ve been slashing costs since 2020. More so because I thought the bottom was going to fall out of tech salaries and I didn’t want to have to chase BigTech comp.

I spent a year paying off debt after working for BigTech remotely (no longer there), moved to a condo 1/3 the size of our house in tax free Florida after our youngest graduated.

Our budget now as far as fixed expenses is only 3.5% more now than it was after we first paid off all of our debt at the end of 2020 even though inflation is up 21% since that time.

We save more than 3.5% in state taxes.
Looks very much like something out of an older Star Trek movie.
That's impressive! Now how does that experience translate into financial accounting systems?

A SAP FICO consultant in Moldova is better qualified than these young men.
Posted my notes about this here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/3/constitutional-classifi...
That's generally better for rats, is it not? Year-round availability of food, with the downside of more endemic disease.
I have a feeling that the only one reading the comments is the ChatGPT that is giving the answers, no point in engaging further IMO
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Worked as backend engineer but been doing devops work before it had a name. I switched over to doing it full time and want to keep doing it.
> but all electronic devices in the kid's room exist in a baffling state of perpetual reorganization, everything with a plug being unplugged, moved around, and maybe or maybe not plugged back in, seemingly every day, for no apparent reason

This is so accurate. We have at least a dozen USB power bricks floating around our house, even my charger isn't safe from being "borrowed".
OP asked “is it appropriate”. Will they get away with it? Maybe. But that doesn’t mean it’s appropriate.
If a presidential aide ordered USAID staffers to not go to work and physically locked them out, it would violate multiple federal laws and protections. Here’s why:

1. USAID Employees Have Legal Employment Protections

USAID employees—both civil servants and Foreign Service officers—are protected by federal employment laws. A presidential aide cannot simply tell them to stop working without a legal order, such as an official reorganization approved by Congress or a government shutdown following a funding lapse.

Under Title 5 of the U.S. Code, federal employees cannot be arbitrarily removed or prevented from performing their duties.
The Anti-Deficiency Act (31 U.S.C. § 1341) prohibits government officials from unilaterally stopping agency operations without congressional authorization.

2. Locking USAID Buildings Would Violate Security & Property Laws

Physically locking the doors to prevent USAID employees from entering their offices would likely violate:

18 U.S.C. § 371 (Conspiracy to defraud the U.S. Government) if it were done to obstruct lawful government operations.
18 U.S.C. § 1361 (Willful injury of government property) if it involved unlawful restriction of access to a federal facility.
Federal Continuity Directives require that government agencies maintain essential functions even in emergencies.

3. Presidential Authority Has Limits

The President does not have unilateral authority to suspend an entire federal agency’s operations without following proper legal processes.

Only Congress can permanently dissolve an agency like USAID by repealing its statutory mandate.

Even if a president wanted to reorganize or defund USAID, they would need to work through legal channels—such as submitting a restructuring plan to Congress.

What Could Happen If Someone Tried This?

If an aide illegally ordered staffers to stop working and locked the doors, several things could happen:

Congressional & Legal Challenges – USAID officials or Congress could sue, arguing the action was unlawful.
Federal Court Intervention – A court could issue an injunction blocking the order.

Potential Criminal Charges – Any official involved in obstructing a federal agency’s work could face legal consequences.

Historical Precedents

Trump’s 2018-2019 Government Shutdown: While federal agencies, including USAID, were partially shut down due to funding lapses, career employees were still required to follow proper procedures.

Nixon’s Attempt to Defund Agencies: President Nixon tried to defund programs by impounding funds, but Congress passed the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, limiting executive control over funding.

Bottom Line

Simply ordering USAID employees to stop working and locking the doors would be blatantly illegal and would likely lead to immediate legal challenges, congressional intervention, and possible criminal liability for those involved.
You can export all health and fitness data with no trouble using the Health app.

1. Open the health app

2. Tap on your face in the upper right

3. Scroll down to the bottom and tap "export all data" or whatever it says.

Bam: every workout and every health measurement in an XML file.

Whoever told you apple locks down health and fitness data was either mistaken or lying to you.

edit: here is a more technical explanation https://www.ryanpraski.com/apple-health-data-how-to-export-a...
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This seems broadly good. If you told me a democratic admin had recruited these people, I would think "wow! what a positive signal for the current admin!"
Nice writeup and algorithm. My first instinct would have been to take the lazy way out and just use a table with 365 entries (or 366, or both depending on the implementation), but this is a lot more elegant.
I keep hearing about the dev satisfaction with ruby, but I'm starting to work with it and I haven't yet felt it at all - I see many footgun design decisions like clashing classes not being an error, and blocks feel like a more cumbersome/limited version of lambdas/first class functions.

I'm not saying this to attack the language, just pointing my current mental picture to ask: what's the magic everybody loves? I know there is something there because it's an almost unanimous view among ruby devs, so I want to get it.
Pinephone costs $150.
Variety (2013)
Why stop at a separate OS? Why not use separate hardware just for gaming as well?
USDS is doge. Musk is a federal employee. Presumably they are as well, with USDS?
> Mr. Woods was held without bail on charges that he had illegally tried to gain access to bank accounts that Mr. Keirans had opened in Mr. Woods’s name.

Then

> Prosecutors in Los Angeles asked the judge to order Mr. Woods not to use his name.

because as far as the court and the prosecutors had deigned to investigate Mr. Woods was in fact the identity thief.
This is nuts, 18F was one of the few groups in the federal government that is/was good at making software! (login.gov is a good example of craft you don't generally see in commercial enterprise software, let alone government software)

According to that tweet they were apparently “far left” because they also worked on Direct File, which sought to cut out the middleman (TurboTax et al.) and let Americans file taxes directly. Regardless of where you stand on the political spectrum, unless you're in bed with Intuit, this seems pretty hard to argue against!
In a sensu stricto it's illegal, but practically and regrettably they are able to make that call, because though there are rules against it, unless the sergeant at arms of the senate goes out and handcuffs them, nobody is going to stop them. When the executive branch and the judiciary both decide to ignore the legislative branch, what is the legislative branch going to do?
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> If they are accessing TS/SCI information and places like SCIFs have they filled out their SF-86?

Did the Mar-a-Lago workers who moved boxes fill out those forms?

* https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/05/25/...

* https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/06/surveillance...
I disagree with this and will continue to complain.
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