skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The right is at present a coalition of conservatives, nationalist patriot types and globalist libertarians. DOGE seems to be a mix of two goals:

1. They think that the civil service has become not just openly hostile but outright dangerous to any form of Republican government, and therefore that taking direct control of the civil service infrastructure at high speed is essential to avoid being kneecapped by rogue federal employees again. They think that this happened during Trump's first term, and that if they don't get this problem under control then America has effectively become a Democrat dictatorship that does whatever the left wants regardless of who wins elections. They have a good reasons to believe this is a real problem they need to solve and fast, see Sherk for some egregious examples [1] but there are many more you could cite.

2. A genuine belief that the government is very inefficient and in particular that a lot of the waste is basically just funding the Democrats via various 'laundered' routes like allied NGOs that pretend to be politically neutral charities but aren't. Doing something about that is a good way to get libertarians like Musk and his allies on board. Everyone is in favour of government efficiency in principle so letting the libertarian types go cut waste is an easy way to build that coalition even if the other parts don't care about fiscal efficiency much itself.

These two are interlocked. Poor performance and efficiency improvements are one of the legal justifications for laying off civil servants, so it's much easier to get the civil service under control if #resistance results in being one of the ones "optimized out" of a job. That's doubly true if the sort of NGOs that would hire them if they were fired are being defunded simultaneously.

[1] https://americafirstpolicy.com/assets/uploads/files/Tales_fr...
So it's easier to guarantee the identity is correct? That doesn't stop you from using the incorrect identity, though.

I'm not quite sure I understand how this is better than a define - if you know enough to know whether you're using the correct value, it can just as easily be a define?

I think I can see the idea, but I'm probably not paranoid enough to understand how it's helpful XD
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first real job was at a 2-year rural college.

We had 2 systems, one for students, one for staff. Sometimes people would forget to properly reference the 'other' account when a teacher took a class, or a student taught a community education class, etc. We were in the process of consolidating into a single DB, and didn't want a bunch of duplicates.

We had a person Leslie that kept getting duplicated in the systems. Same address same age, same birthdate. Only difference was different gender, and last 2 digits of social was 21 instead of 12.

So our dba deleted one, and linked them.

Month later, same thing. So our DBA fixed it. Shaking his head at the people up front not following data entry procedures.

Next week, both Leslie's were in our office. They were born on same day, but hospitals in nearby towns. Back then socials were handed out sequentially by region. They had different last names until they married 40 years before.

They were laughing and said this happens more often then most people would think.
> I would never understand US fascination with "Founding Fathers"

Have you read any of their writing? A lot of it is timelessly insightful and they were very intelligent men.

> having answers to all the questions for all the times

This gives away that you haven't read them, because they themselves explicitly denied having answers for all time, and stated that the government needed to evolve with the governed.
It's a bit thin solution though, isn't it? As you say, it's dependent on both specific CA store and resolver behaviour. It's probably going to be robust enough on the most common SSL libraries, such as OpenSSL. But if we're going that route, why not just run the software against a patched SSL library which dumps the traffic?

That also doesn't require any elevated privileges (as opposed to other methods of syscall interception) and is likely much easier to do. It has the added benefit of being robust against applications either pinning certificates outright or just being particular about serial numbers, client certificates, and anything like that.
Musk is a convenient fool for the trump administration.

He will be cast aside and scapegoated in less than 6months.

He might end up in jail in 2-4 years.
Arthropods would probably think we were the aliens considering their taxonomic dominance of Earth since the beginning of the Cambrian Explosion.
I think it's primarily the "how" that people are resisting. I'm not sure why that's being dismissed.
> In JAX you can

I'm alway shocked when people in this line of work either take things at face-value or just lie by omission/imprecision. this is not python breakpoints - it's a wholeass other system they had to re-roll that emulates python breakpoints:

> Unlike pdb, you will not be able to step through the execution, but you are allowed to resume it.

you think it works with pycharm/vscode/any other tooling? spoiler alert: of course not.

so no in JAX you can not.
Hot off the presses:

https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisor...
Catching Medicare fraud likely requires a level of automatic data anomaly analysis that's simply beyond all the participants involved, both in terms of getting access to the actual databases and in getting the qualified manpower to build such a system.

If the DoD's auditors can't track down all the expenses, then why would DOGE be any more successful?

Running after bullshit is the low-hanging fruit.
So should the world read your comment as a ditching of soft power to use hard power? Is america going to war?

Is that why you made that statement in the context of everything that was built on that hard power being demolished?
I'd be interested in reading about the legal limits to road closures, and reading about how they apply to the government and not just to private enterprises — since it's not in fact SpaceX closing the roads, but actually the Texas courts ordering road closures (for safety purposes around SpaceX launch sites). I haven't seen evidence that SpaceX is actually breaking any laws here.
Linux distros can also update firmware and microcode.
Fiveeyes resident here, and not quite "terrified", but at least "deeply concerned".

"The rest of the world" will not carry on unscathed if the worse end of the range of possible outcomes for the US happen.

(I'm deeply curious about how fiveeyes intelligence operations with Canada are going right now.)
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Lol okay buddy. That's why there are literally millions of people spending money every month and upgrading because of how useful this is. But there's always some big brained ape on hacker news who thinks they know better and everyone is just riding the hype train.

Nearly half of Google engineers' outputs are coming from AI generated code, but you obviously know better than all of them.
I've done IT support for a number of devs across multiple companies and they all expect local admin and admin access to everything. So no, I don't believe they feel it is risky. I believe they don't get it/don't care. It's just not their wheelhouse.
The windows product itself is being enshittified into an ad delivery machine, and surveillance tool.

As for writing apps for it: use dotNET, IT work will be using powershell
they have evidence that there is fraud rings of people outside the US posing as citizens and collecting medicare and other welfare.

They'll release that evidence right about the same time they release all the "evidence" that Giuliani had about election fraud. Which they've promised to release hundreds of times before. But never have. Because it doesn't exist.

Are there people outside the U.S. gaming the system? Sure. Are they "rings" or "gangs" or whatever scary name they're using this week? Based on past performance, I have zero faith we'll see any evidence.
> Isn't it a bit of a risk to tout the success of this idea among a tech crowd capable of going off and creating competitors?

Yes, this feels like perfect bait for people thinking they can do it better and stuffing a video into ffmpeg shouldn’t be that hard. It’s actually starting to make me want to try it myself too.
not sure if there would be an openai if it was not for the google paper in 2017 that introduced transformers.
Surprisingly boring advice from such an imaginative writer.
A majority did not. And the ones who voted for Trump didn't ask for someone to illegally access the systems that Elon has access to. This is the kind of stuff they voted to fix.

> Now, if Trump tried to fire him but he somehow still maintained his power within the government then that would be a coup.

I still think this is what will happen.
My guess is a few things.

First, these are symbolic, it is very hard to concretely argue that these programs are good for Americans, since even proponents of these programs say it's about "soft power". Corollary to this is that cutting something like social security is seen as cutting benefits to Americans (ditto with Defense)

Second, these programs are seen as funding "professional democrats" in a way that social security or defense are not. So this is also about cutting out their opponents support structures.

If these programs are so small, why do you care so much?
Hop on OpenAI voice mode and start speaking. I do this for Mandarin and Spanish, it even speaks my native Afrikaans! Valuable and only $20 a month. Also, it's great because it can speak about anything, which I find refreshing rather than having domain specific resources.
> So why would "fraud and waste" skyrocket under him?

TSLA doubled in value in the month after the election, despite the financials of the company going down. The only reason for the increase in share price is because the market expects Musk to benefit from Trump's corruption, in the form of less oversight and more government subsidies.
Welcome to the club of "right wing extremists."
> The forcible third-gendering of trans women is one of the greatest crimes of the culture I grew up in, so I'd rather we move past all traditionalism entirely.

I think one issue is – do "man" and "woman" have some objective essence? I think most progressives would say "no" – that kind of essentialism is more associated with conservatives and traditionalists. But if "man" and "woman" don't have an objective essence, their definition is ultimately conventional – which means if different people want to define those terms differently, how can we say one definition is ultimately more right than the other?

That has a benefit for transgender people – if transgender people and their allies want to adopt trans-inclusive definitions of "man" and "woman", nobody can say they are objectively wrong to do so, if we accept these concepts are ultimately cultural constructs.

But then comes the downside – if conservatives and traditionalists (and various others, such as a significant number of radical feminists) want to adopt trans-exclusive definitions of those terms, how can we say they are wrong to do so? If these are cultural constructs and conventional definitions, as opposed to naming objective realities which exist independently of culture and language, how can one say their definition is objectively incorrect? It's just different.

Maybe the answer is a form of "live and let live": let progressive people have their spaces governed by their definitions, let conservative/traditionalist people have their spaces governed by theirs, and where the two have to overlap or intersect or coexist, try to find a way to be neutral between the competing definitions.

Of course, if you are growing up in one of those conservative/traditionalist spaces, and end up identifying as LGBT, that solution isn't exactly pleasant, at least until you become old enough to cross over to a space more welcoming to your identity. But I don't know what the alternative is. Progressives like to imagine that conservative/traditionalist viewpoints will eventually wither away and disappear, but looking at trends in the real world, it seems unlikely that dream will be fulfilled, certainly not in the lifetime of anyone currently alive. Finding a way to peacefully coexist seems preferable to interminable cultural and political conflict over the issue.
You're naive if you think the end goal here is to actually reduce spending and improve efficiency.
Typically you use uprising/insurrection against the right and you coup the left as the military is usually more right than the average citizen.
They were allocated equally. The goal is to change that.
Which art? The one that's cherry-picked? I read Harry Potter but I haven't seen too many wizards or dragons around lately.
Those "credentialed technocrats" are implementing the laws, as written by the Congress of the United States of America.

The President is supposed to execute the laws that Congress passes, and to spend money as Congress appropriates it. He does not have carte blanche to do whatever he would like with the Federal government. There are some areas where the President has more freedom of action (like foreign policy), but when it comes to administering government, he is not all-powerful.
Sources:

When Musk does it:

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1858916546338590740

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1858914228624924963

When others do it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ParlerWatch/comments/1igw3cs/elon_m...
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I personally encountered a game anti-cheat driver in the wild (Anti-Cheat Expert) that caused BSODs and data loss. I later discovered there were known exploits in it and the signature still hadn't been revoked. I managed to get the developers of the game I was playing to reconfigure it by kicking up a fuss on the subreddit, at least.
We looked at this years ago and came to the (sad) conclusion that in this space there is no money to be made in hardware, the UX, while uniformly bad, can't make you profitable, so it's down to selling the user as a product once again.
I wouldn't make assumptions. When I talked with Duck Duck Go about their browser, they had a very particular idea about what it was supposed to do. Their needs are probably a bit more complicated than you're assuming.

I also wouldn't assume that anyone is overqualified. They seemed rather particular about who they wanted to hire. (Although, given the current market, a C# job opening staying open for a long time says a lot.)
Maybe elsewhere, but this specific thread (i.e. the parents I responded to) appears to focus on the actions, not the "how".
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With age comes life experience and an appreciation that it's hard to make things better, and breaking them is rarely good.

Similarly, it is easier to convince an impressionable 19yo to do reckless and possibly illegal things.

It doesn't strike me as totally irrelevant.
It's not a test of The Constitution, it's a test of our constitution, and we're being exposed as we speak.
More recent, but getting warmer.
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Indeed—I said something similar in the comment currently adjacent to yours*, and that's why we're having more than one or two frontpage threads about it.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42914445
> It seems with the git command line the way to do it is to switch to main then pull then switch back to my feature branch then rebase.

In case you haven't figured it out yet, you can do `git fetch origin` to fetch the latest branches from origin. And then `git rebase origin/main` to rebase the current branch against origin/main. origin/main doesn't have to be the same as local `main` so you don't need to switch branches at all.
There's two parts to it. First, there's the reasonable position that the government is inefficient or has too much bureaucracy or regulation. If that's the case, how do you improve that? Chesterton's Fence says that all those regulations are in place for a reason, but it's reasonably to believe that some of those reasons may not be relevant anymore, or could be better written to allow for more efficiency. However, sitting down to figure out why existing regulations exist and how to get rid of them without allowing whatever bad outcome they were created in response to is difficult. If you have the general feel that a regulation is bad, why not just get rid of it? Or an office you don't like, or a committee that likes to say you're doing things wrong? If you've got the vibe that "this thing is bad", why do you need to prove it before getting rid of it? So it's taking things that are legitimate problems and trying to fix them based on vibes rather than data. Which, if some of the problems you're annoyed with are "it takes too long to build a building because the EPA wants data to see if there's environmental impacts", is it really a surprise you'd want to take that out without data?

Second is the dismantling of the deep state. The deep state exists, but it's not a conscious effort in general. Instead, it's the typical aspects of institutional inertia, multiplied by the fact that the kinds of people wanting to work in government favor inertia more than in most private businesses. Of course the low level government bureaucrat at your local post office or whatever is going to want to slow-roll things and keep things from changing as much as possible; that's just the kind of person that typically looks for a government job and gets hired. Of course they're going to resist rapid changes from people that want things to be fixed yesterday. If your conception of the government is as an agent to execute orders, rather than as an agent to steadily administer regulations, then you're going to resent the people who don't respond instantly to the executive's desires

FWIW I voted for Kamela because I think that the process of governance is just as important as the governance itself, and did not want Trump to remove the existing processes in this way. I can definitely see why people would want to change processes, and given the historical ineffectual attempts at changed processes I can see why people would vote for someone who promised to tear it all down, but I don't think tearing it all down is the best option. Although, I didn't vote for Harris as much as I voted for the most effective way to prevent Trump, but given the American first-past-the-post voting system that was the best I could do. https://ncase.me/ballot/
If you sell software to millions of people that runs with access to sensitive data you have an obligation to do a good job, sorry. If you don't like that, make it MIT licensed on an open source site instead of $70 on Steam.
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There is no official support for x86 in android any more - the Android-x86 project was the last I know that supported/maintained it. Last release was 2022.

For apps that use Vulkan natively, it's easy - but many still use and rely on OpenGL ES. It's a weird scenario where you have apps that are now supporting Vulkan, but they have higher minimum OS requirements as a result... but those versions of Android aren't supported by these type of projects.
The Biden administration actually stopped and respected the rulings and found other methods.
This speculation that China could do far worse is totally unfounded given that they've had plenty of time to push buttons militarily that the US and the Soviet Union had already pushed with much less military power.
They’re not replacing it with anything. They’re defunding it.
> And life SUCKED then

More than 100% of the net improvement is from tech and medical R&D, not the bloated military-welfare apparatus.
Which doesn't address what the parent comment is about. They didn't infect them with parasites, or any number of other issues that cause an itching sensation.
How would hooking on write(2) solve TLS? You'll be able to read and modify the ciphertext, but the process will never call write(2) with the plaintext bytes, so you can't actually read the HTTP request. You'll just see the encrypted bytes that go on the wire, but so does the NSA :)

You need the kind of CA certificate trick that httptap uses. It comes with its own set of caveats (e.g. certificate pinning), but it can be made to work reliably in most practical scenarios.

I've spent an unjustifiable amount of time thinking about this specific problem building Subtrace [1], so I'm genuinely very interested in a simpler / more elegant approach.

[1] https://github.com/subtrace/subtrace
For persistent itches, a most effective remedy I've found is to pour hot water on it. Not burning - but as hot as you can possibly stand without burning. The hotter the better.

It is only briefly painful, but it kills itches completely. I don't know why it works, but it definitely does work.
Interesting take. I think it applies to every agency? Shutter NASA, and any congressional act merely specifies an agency for aeronautics and space, not necessarily this exact one? As long as it’s eventually reconstituted, no foul.

I’m suspicious, but I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised we’ve hit the “one simple trick” era of governing.
Show HN: CLR, POC borrow checker for Zig
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I realize the OP is explicitly (w/r/t 4) a reference to XKCD, but See Also: Dilbert 2001-10-25 :)

https://web.archive.org/web/20011027002011/http://www.dilber...

https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/2001-10-25