skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've found that gentle rubbing/massage has the same effect, although I need to remember it.

also scratching through clothes hasn't always stopped me from drawing blood.
OJ was acquitted, too.
Until it directly impacts them ... and then it's "I didn't think the leopards would eat MY face!".
They generally make software that runs with (at least) unrestricted user level access on client devices, as opposed to backend guys who have no client access, and web guys whose code runs in a sandbox.

If anything these devs should be more cautious than the others as the risk to the end user is extreme.
> If those government organisations were serving only one side of the political spectrum than something is inherently wrong with it.

Is there? I feel like there are many cases where this is not true. Supporting disenfranchised groups for one. If you are funding protection for a group of people you don't need to be funding their attackers as well to make it "fair", the funding of the disenfranchised groups is literally you putting your thumb on the scale to try and even things out.

"one side of the political spectrum" is pretty loaded and it can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. If we are talking about "funding democrats" then sure, that's not good but if we are talking about "funding women's health" then no, I'm not going to play "both sides" games. The sad thing is we live in a country where a large number of people think that "funding women's health" _is_ "serving only one side of the political spectrum".
I haven't looked specifically at DOGE stories but from my general perspective, this is the same as what we see with all the hottest/most divisive topics—that is, it's the same with Musk in general, Trump in general, and Israel/Gaza, to name perhaps the 3 most in-that-category topics.
He clearly wants to replace the US government technology platforms with X/XPay/etc
Hey, it's Tanya (co-founder of Tinfoil) here! Happy to answer any questions.
Looks that way, yes:

"Beginning January 1, 2025, Minnesota employers are required to include the starting salary range and a general description of benefits and other compensation in postings for open positions."

https://www.seyfarth.com/news-insights/minnesota-enacts-pay-...
Thanks! Subtrace uses BPF, not eBPF :) I think eBPF could be made to work with the same approach, but there's a few differences:

- eBPF requires root privileges or at least CAP_BPF. Subtrace uses seccomp_unotify [1], so it works even in unprivileged environments.

- eBPF requires using eBPF maps as the data channel + weird restrictions in the code because of the eBPF verifier. IMO these two things make it way harder to work with for the kind of networking logic that both httptap and Subtrace have in userspace. Everything is perfectly possible, just harder to reason about and debug.

>half-finished attempt of the same thing for the firefox network tab

Hahahah this is incredible. Something something great minds.

[1] https://man.archlinux.org/man/seccomp_unotify.2.en
> But the whole premise of “non-political technocrats” is that they do the job they’re hired to do regardless of their political views.

What if their job is against the whims of an administration working in direct opposition to the laws passed by Congress?

Musk has attempted to shut down USAID, which is a Congressionally mandated agency. Are you still going to call it "putting a thumb on the scale of their preferred party" when the employees inevitably resist this?

There is a spectrum. An FCC employee tasked with ensuring a device won't emit interference can easily do their job with very little reference to politics!

But an FCC employee tasked with ensuring free and fair access to broadcast licenses now no longer can, because Donald Trump has put HIS hand on the scale in opposition to the law and Constitution.

The executive branch is not allowed to ignore a law passed by Congress, only interpret it in good faith. This is written into the Constitution (the part that goes "shall faithfully execute"). This means that executive branch employees disobeying the president in accordance with US law are in fact working within the system.

If your suggestion is that in such a case they should kowtow to the president, you are deluding yourself. That is not democracy; Congress is the voice of the people and are the only federal lawmakers.

If the GOP would like to use their majority to undo existing laws, great! They actually have to vote and go through the motions instead of handwaving it away as executive privilege. Historically, this has not worked very well for them - it turns out that a platform of "tear it all down" works a lot better in on the campaign trail than in practice and they've been unable to repeal laws because they simply could not come up with a replacement.
Well, he just dropped the Mexico tariff an hour ago. In retrospect, his waffling announcements are most readily explained as a way to game the stock and forex markets.
People who work at the highest levels of our government are public figures. It is the job of reporters to report on who they are and what they're up to.
I believe it was actually 'connecting hard drives'... but letting random's (apparently without clearances at the time, though I think they've been granted now...) open up your machines and physically install NVME/Spinners would be even worse then USB, IMHO
Just a theory on my part, and I'm trying to build evidence from clues in the series, so you might be right.

We know that there's a lot of unreliable information because Lumon is actively trying to deceive everyone but my take on that was that there was a significant event that actually did happen, some group going crazy, that Lumon needed to rationalize with some narrative in order to address it.

Just to list some events after re-watching some of season 1:

* s1e3 Dylan talks about O&D staging a coup but Mark assures everyone that there was no killing

* s1e5 Irving intercepts a print job that was sent to their print station "by mistake". The picture shows people with green badges (O&D) attacking people with blue badges (MDR). Immediately revealed to be a subterfuge attempt ("you ran a 266 on Irving B." Cobel to Miltchek)

* s1e5 Dylan finds a painting in O&D depicting the same picture that Irving saw on the printer
but with the attackers as blue badges and the victims as green badges ("The Macro Data Refinement Calamity")

So this very well may be subterfuge by Lumon to keep the groups separate.

I read it differently initially, that the printed copy was altered from the original painting and that the original painting was the "true" version, but I think your take is probably more consistent. If Lumon can erase memory then there's no need to keep institutional knowledge about past events that no one remembers.

Some other tidbits of information:

* s1e2 and s1e5 Irving hallucinates black goo while in front of his terminal. I believe as soon as he stands up or backs away from his terminal, the effect goes away.

* s1e3 Natalie is shown on tv talking about a "workie" getting pregnant while severed

* s1e5 Devon goes to a house to give birth and meets someone who's severed. I think the house or property is owned by Lumon (but I'm not sure?)

So, I suspect Mark S.'s sister, Devon, might be the severed employee who got pregnant while severed, though I'm not sure how this fits into the larger narrative if true.

Also, I might be reading too much into it but there's clues sprinkled around about immortality and "Kier speaking through people" that might be support the theory of them trying to resurrect Kier. There's a scene where Cobel gets Petey's chip with a line that says "that's Petey".

So far the series has delivered and I trust the writers, so I'm looking forward to seeing where it goes.
What, are we gonna finally tax oil companies more?
Heartwarming to see learning material for Cantonese.

Does anyone have any good material for speaking? I've grown up watching Cantonese movies and have tones and pronunciation down ok, but I'm finding it hard to progress through private study with regards to reaching conversational levels of vocab/grammar.
ignoramous probably meant that in order to block access to all IP addresses that it has not recently resolved, the firewall must also host or communicate closely with a resolver. This is a tautology, not a spec.
I'm no expert in US history but just looking at the signers list, 3/4 of them were >30yo.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-say...

https://usafacts.org/answers/how-much-does-the-us-federal-go...

You would have to cut entitlements if you're relying on cuts alone, and those require Congressional action to change. It's absolutely wild people actually believed Musk without spending a few minutes understanding the issue.
He was for a while. It was partially successful at controlling his issues, but after a while he stopped coming to the door when social services came around each month to give him his injection. Social Services doesn't have the ability to bust down your door and inject you against your will.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42904838
Also correct. These programs are seen as funding professional democrats who then vote for more funding
The age of one person isn't that relevant, you're right about that. The average age of an entire "agency"[0] is relevant though.

[0]: DOGE may not technically be an "agency", but whatever the case, they have and are acting with power equal to that of an agency.
"Checks and balances" is a phrase that applies to the ability of the three coequal branches of government to hold one another in check.
None of those provisions made a real dent in voter turnout in 2020. And aside from that, the republican party was far better at getting mail-in turnout in 2024, AND not even considering that about half or more voters are not even members of a particular party. That you look at this in such a partisan manner tells me your view of “revolution” has more to do with putting democrats back in power than any substantial structural changes to governance.
USD as reserve currency is a hen that lays golden eggs.

The US maintains monopoly on this free money cheat through goodwill driven manufactured consent, diplomacy, financial bullying and military might. Each subsequent tool being more heavy handed & less preferred than the last. Heavy handed tools while effective, break more than they fix. This prudence sustains Pax Americana.

In 2025 America, good will is at an all-time-low. Mechanisms for classical diplomacy are being actively dismantled by Elon-Trump. Financial bullying is now the cudgel of choice. Pax Americana is under threat.

Post-WW2 peace is among mankind's most remarkable civilizational achievements. It isn't self-evident and it definitely isn't the historic norm. How long until nations start questioning the deal ? How many decades of work is being dismantled within days ?

May be hyperbole, but the locks on Chesterton-Pandora's box are being opened. It might work out, but Elon's aggressiveness seems so unnecessary at a time when the American economy is doing exceedingly well.
There is a reason why third world countries choose IMF funding even with the strings attached even though default is always an option. It turns out having credit is very valuable to stability and progress and therefore defaulting is a very bad thing.
They would have to reverse the deficit to start reducing debt and that is unlikely with a cost cutting approach.
I doubt Trump cares one way or the other if these kids rot in jail

they are doing what he is (in)directly ordering - they ain't going to jail following the orders of the POTUS :)
Build your own SQLite in Rust, Part 4: reading tables metadata
The plist is probably a binary plist (header bytes `bplist00`) generated by NSKeyedArchiver, and then the specific data you need is encoded inside. Edited iMessages are stored in the exact same way. Luckily the plist itself is not that complex–but typedstream is pesky to work with.
Given the context though we don't need to look at all possible hypothetical flags, only those that Unicode recognizes:

https://unicode.org/Public/emoji/latest/emoji-sequences.txt

This list notably doesn't have Quebec, Northern Ireland, or Somaliland. But it does have Taiwan and Palestinian Territories.
Your politicians are watching from a distance too, and taking note of what works.
Only top engineers at work there. Pahhaha!
Oh, no, that's not it. This is a coup. Full stop.
I dunno, lately they're more interested in pointing you to the store page for skins and loot boxes.
I understand why things are the way they are. And the dems are pretty fucked now. Whining about it doesn't help though, and it won't get them out of this mess. But neither will just saying "we have better ideas".

They need to come up with a solution that'll actually work. Instead they seem to keep punching themselves in the face.
This is what I recall being taught as a kid with bad allergies and various skin conditions. Rubbing can be helpful. If so, consider rinsing with water to make sure you don't have any residual thing there upsetting your skin.

Scratching through fabric is difficult because, if it does work, it could also trap the irritant in the fabric.
I doubt they will maintain the filibuster
if you are talking about the formation of germany,
That was also a lot of soft power and politics to keep socialists from gaining any real political power and a lot of soft power to get all other german states to form into germany.

there where two major wars during that time which mattered for the formation of germany, (the franco prussian war and the austro-prussian war, which was an extent of the politicals about who should form the german state).
That's just not an accurate description of HN based on what I know, but of course it's indeed possible that I'm too embedded to see clearly.

Edit: some of these points can be refuted by data though (albeit not public data, which means people have to take our word for it, which many are understandably reluctant to do). For example, flaggers of these stories are by and large longstanding community members who have participated for years on HN in lots of threads about lots of topics, etc. That doesn't prove they're not flagging at the behest of outside groups, but it does make it unlikely.
>far-left

>Obama folks

Obama was not in any way "far left"
Are you saying publications need a bug bounty?
You can make a on-demand scheduled task that runs Marvel Rivals as admin then create a shortcut that invokes the task.

Full instructions https://chatgpt.com/share/67a13960-c1b4-8002-a699-7b547c759c...
I don't disagree, but I also don't see how that's a contradiction
Good. These guys, in addition to obviously being very smart, are young and don't have a lot of baggage in government or industry.

I think they are perfect for tracing down what has been going on and finding where inefficiencies and/or corruption has been occurring. Anyone who has issue with rooting out corruption and inefficiency isn't in the right.

Of course what is done with what they find will not be in their hands.
It comes up with appropriate tests, launches a remote VM and actually builds and dynamically and flexibly tests your software using Computer Use agents!

For example, if you're working on a webapp, it will pull your repo and launch the server on the remote instance, and then use an agent to navigate and test the UI to look for problems.
Preach. I often point towards games for examples of good balance of density, as well as elements of modern-looking skeuomorphism in UI.

Of course I get all the usual garbage non-arguments in response from designers who don't want to take up a challenge and actually design, and instead fall back on a "tried and true" (except it is shit) fashion.
It looks to me like this is the natural outcome of the executive branch deciding what mandates from congress it will uphold. I.E. deciding which laws to focus on enforcing and which one's to have lax/non-existent focus.

Until Congress grows a spine and starts legislating again, the executive will continue to run rampant.
I think Musk asked for applications on twitter.
> RL spontaneously should create new additions to language to help with

Yes, but it may take millions of years. One of the main reasons of LLMs success is their amazing trainability. For every input token it produces predictable output. I.e. loss. While most RL techniques go one by one 'state'. For not tokenized output we cannot predict what it should be. Thus it can be trained only through the next tokens. Which makes it probably unstable and expensive to train, limiting the length of 'continuous' part. But looks like it's still a good idea to have.
I added air quotes to make irony obvious.
Strict constitutionalists would only apply the 2nd Amendment to barrel loading smooth bore muskets.
I think you have some bugs. I ran it on my project which has 60 direct dependencies in my "go.mod" file, and feluda's output says `Total dependencies scanned: 2`

EDIT: there was a package.json in the same folder, that's what caused the "bug"
> When agile teams own their process they change it however they need. They are not forced to standardize with everyone else in the organization. And they are not forced to utilize any specific tool. [...] The most terrifying words in the English language are: I am Scrum certified and I am here to help.

Seems like the author is making a distinction between the good "agile" and the bad "Scrum". But that's barking up the wrong tree.

In theory, Scrum allows you to change your process (actually encourages! that's exactly what the retrospectives were meant for). There is no standardization with anyone outside your team in Scrum; and there are no specific tools mentioned in the Scrum Guide.

Yeah, that's the theory... but we all know that in practice, it doesn't work that way...

Ok, but why? To me it seems because typically the management tells you "yeah, the Scrum Guide (assuming they even know that such thing exists, which usually they don't) is just a theory, but in our company we do it our way!"

Now why do you believe that if you tell them "but we want to switch from Scrum to, uhm, a non-Scrum agile", suddenly the same managers will be like: "of course, no problem, let's uninstall Jira and delete all those meetings from the calendar, have fun!"?

When instead they can tell you "sure, feel free to switch to agile... but instead of the way it is described in the Agile Manifesto, we will do it our way... with meetings and Jira! Also, you need to synchronize your agileness with the rest of the company. And we are going to keep the product backlog, but feel free to suggest a better name for it -- something that will sound less 'Scrum' and more 'agile'."

And before you know, you are doing exactly the same thing as before, but everything has a cool new name. The meetings are called "interactions" (because "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools"), backlog grooming is called "customer collaboration" (because "Customer collaboration over contract negotiation"), you have complicated bureaucratic rituals for monthly, quarterly, and yearly "responding to change" (because of "Responding to change over following a plan"), et cetera.

Five years later, we will have everyone complaining about how "agile" was a stupid idea that makes everything worse.
Why do you think it's illegal? USAID was established by an executive order by JFK, not by Congress; Congress only mandated that some agency for aid should exist, not that it specifically be USAID. Closing it and not replacing it with anything would be illegal, but closing it doesn't seem obviously illegal.

Edit: not only that, but they didn't close USAID entirely: they just closed the USAID headquarters, and installed Marco Rubio as the new head of USAID. While this may or may not be desirable, I don't see how this is actually illegal. The specific organization of USAID was established by executive order; this is one of the many consequences of the Republicans winning control of the executive branch of government.
What democratic government did they overthrew? Because the ROC was no more democratic than the CCP... and Taiwan didn't have real election till the 1990.
The Senate didn't find guilt last time. If they do find guilt, the office is stripped. I don't think it's happening anytime soon, but the failed impeachment doesn't really speak to the consequences of a successful one.
That’s entirely understandable - I’ll dive into your profile to read those thoughts.

I second the suggestion to have some sort of metathread, stickied comment on hot political threads, or other consolidated way to present your collected thoughts so that a larger number of users see it and can benefit. Like you said, the winds are blowing hard, and you might go a long way to quelling the moderatorial waters by addressing the whole site as a collective.
Yeah, they seem very wrong. Checking a couple:
What they say for Washington $153,000 what the US census says $94,952

What they say for Kansas $126,270 what the US census says $72,639

What they say for North Dakota $133,770 what the US census says $75,949
Think more recent than that
How do you bring users to your site? Is it through organic search, ads, or is it entirely word of mouth?
They are not physically in control of Taiwan, so no, they haven't "won the war" in that respect.

Not that it matters, because legitimacy of holding territory is not based on winning wars.
It's not wrong, it just depends on what you consider an "agency".

If you mean "any organized entity that contains federal employees", by that definition, sure lots of "agencies" exist that are created by the different branches.

If you mean "something that can create binding regulations that interpret or implement law" - no, those have to be authorized by congress in some fashion. Even if they are run by the executive later, which is also somewhat muddy.

etc

Traditionally, they agencies are the things that have officers who are nominated by the president and approved by the senate, and have useful power as a result :)

I'll also point out - even the ones that are entirely created by other branches (executive, judicial) have to be funded by congress one way or the other.

This includes all the ones you listed.

They cannot legally spend money otherwise - ""no money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by law".

Sometimes they are created with a small, more general emergency appropriation or something, but again, if they want to spend money, that also requires them to be authorized and appropriated by congress.

Some of the more interesting questions that we have thankfully never had to answer for real (outside of blustering) is around various branches using their power to deliberately interfere with the basic functioning of other branches (except as authorized by the constitution, which, for example, says congress can set the jurisdiction of courts except for the supreme court. Where we've come close to it has mostly been around appropriations designed to force another branch to do or not do a certain thing. We may come a lot closer the next few years depending on what happens.

The constitutional limit is easy (none of them is more powerful than the other, and may not interfere with the basic sovereignty of each other), but the lines are not.
Microsoft to kill off Defender VPN this month
Truth be told, it's institutional money.

Turns out that having a 100% guaranteed return is attractive to a lot of large-scale investors, even if the yields don't make the money machine go brrr.

This is one thing that worries me about the current administration. A lot of trust is built on the fact that the US gov't has never defaulted on a debt in its history. I feel like some people don't place enough weight into what that really means for both ourselves and the world.
To be fair, the Democrats message extensively about things like the Affordable Care Act, but most people don't see those messages because the liberal media only wants to talk about migrant caravans, egg prices (sometimes), and immigrants committing crimes.