skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You asked about holding the government accountable for not providing secure IDs. Doing that is a political question and we've had attempts to for thinkgs like RealID, they don't because there's a significant block that don't want them to for all sort of reasons ranging from legitimate to paranoid.

> Japan solves this by having the registry in your town of birth, other countries have this registry centralized -- perhaps the U.S. would be best served by state-wide registries, though since migration across state borders is unregulated, I bet that would be very difficult to maintain.

You're just describing birth certificates here. The US has those... very very few people don't get them. Getting access to them was an important part of Keirans's method of stealing Mr. Woods's identity. They will inevitably get lost or destroyed so you have to have some method of bootstrapping someone's identity and Keirans exploited that system through research.

It was designed around a time when it wasn't easy to acquire massive amounts of information about someone so it's not surprising that it starts to come apart a little bit in our digital panopticon.
They are going to make it easier to get your money by making it available via X!
I don't think Google is required to change anything, since it's not a government agency.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

To maintain a tolerant society, a tolerant society must be specifically intolerant of the intolerant.

Fuck the fascists.
And usually with an eye towards good user interface design. Not some white space heavy “clean” look where everything is hidden behind hamburger menus.
Everybody has relatives. The question is how distant and whether DNA testing will be useful.
My brother works for 18F.

18F might also be "far-left" cause it was created by Obama folks. I also wonder if it is also bad in his mind cause conflicts with taken over Digital Service.
This is a very interesting possibility actually. Not 100% sure what the implication would be but maybe there is something here.
I'd ban them all
The next four years are going to be a test of the US Constitution. But when they are up -- and they will be, and people are more angry at Trump than the last time around the pendulum swings wildly back again, as it always does, what is going to happen to Musk and the rest of them?
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Would you believe two? :-) Bohmian mechanics describes a classical pseudo random number generator that deterministically decides the outcome of quantum measurements, using instant communication between measurements so that conditional probability works. The modern rejection of classical uncertainty as an interpretation of quantum uncertainty stems from Bell's theorem, which shows that any model that achieves a similar philosophical goal as Bohmian mechanics has a similarly dissatisfactory reliance on instant communication. People of Heisenberg's generation had the right intuitions and were guessing in the right directions but they did not know Bell's theorem, or even that it was a worthwhile question.
Tim Bryce’s work, such as his “Is PRIDE too rigid?” article, uses analogies with traditional engineering (like jet engine design) to argue that skipping critical design steps can lead to costly rework later, but it stops short of offering rigorous empirical proof or extending the idea to the realm of software.

"Big Design Up Front" in software is the whole reason the Agile movement came about. To put BDUF into Agile is to miss the point completely--they are fundamentally incompatible. Any company that insists on "lots of analysis and design cycles before a single line of code is written" will be left in dust by competitors if all their programmers don't quit first.
Most Scandinavian countries are required to make any communication in public departments (including all coworkers emails) public on request by journalists or anyone interested.

In the U.S., too. In fact, it was the United States that pioneered this in the modern age.

But it's all happening so quickly that nobody can keep up with it. And the people who are supposed to take care of these things have been fired.

Also bad, when requests are made by legitimate parties, they are being ignored or dismissed by the new regime.

Let what's happening in the U.S. serve as a warning to you that no matter what laws you pass, electing lawless people brings lawlessness. And the law you passed cannot help you against people who don't respect the law.
Is it really cordless when you need an 1800 watt oven nearby?
Cory Doctorow hinted that this is about John Deere tractors:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42777812

Since John Deere chose StarLink for its newer models, would you risk your agricultural capability on the decisions of someone as protected as Elon Musk?
>That's another way of saying you don't think there should be reforms. It won't happen.

Because the people's representatives will get in the way? The pesky checks and balances of democracy?
Are you referring to McCarthyism and the red scare?
sentiment differences are powerful though -- some Americans might rally behind Trump, but if cost of living goes up significantly they won't be patient about it, especially given it's clear that Trump started this whole thing.

meanwhile -- excepting those who CAN'T, for whom there may well be govt assistance -- Canadians are angry and will endure (relatively more) pain to prove a point.

not saying I want this outcome, but I think the willingness to endure pain to harm the opposing party is different in each country.
You're arguing with folks who just want to be angry, not listen to facts or sage observations.

(it's not like the US is innocent; we have made a huge number of terrible mistakes attempting to maintain the Pax Americana. I fully acknowledge while being fairly sure that China could and would do far, far worse than the US)
Not just those; anything "political" has a very high chance of being flagged lately.

I was sad to see these flagged:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42874542
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42911535

Respectively:

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/29/nx-s1-5279386/hegseth-milley-...
https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.htm

The latter is an excellent text and would normally be encouraged under HN guidelines.

I just figure the poor mods here don't want to spend their entire waking lives moderating the inevitable flame wars that result, rather than some overt bad faith censorship regime. That or it's users doing it.

The discussions have been pretty decent for the political topics that have been let through.
Actual debt won't get smaller, but reported debt can get smaller when they fire whoever is responsible for reporting that.
They can operate this demolition op from the safety of their bunkers in NZ.

All they need is a way to send messages to their "useful idiot" new college grad minions.

True, instigating a global collapse might eventually get to them, but AFAICT, they just want to personally profit from US dysfunction. Plus, it seems like the rest of the world will simply bypass the US and say "you're not dependable any more, so we're just gonna pretend you don't exist". Ostracism (of the US) seems more likely than the entire world destabilizing.
Woah, this is super helpful info. Thanks. That sounds like a real possibility for a macOS port actually.
I think Direct File is great, but where is the $200 assumption coming from? A lot of the people using direct file (which is quite basic) were probably using free filing solutions or ones much less than $200.
If DOGE wants to be effective it really should be going after the big ticket items like medicare or defense, some estimates have medicare at 40% fraud and waste and the DoD can't even pass an audit so no one really knows what %. And that is just getting what we've paid for, not even evaluating if what we've paid for is effective.

Of course to do that would require actual coalition building, hard choices that upset voters, and congressional approval. Instead they'll going to disrupt some of the highest ROI small-money grants like food or medicine to impoverished countries because they don't have any representation.

It won't meaningfully reduce the deficit and means we we're signing up for warlords and global instability in the near future.
> if the “deep state” was a real thing

If it wasn't, he made it real. Elon is the deep state. An unelected individual who has set up a no-oversight machinery with hands on the levers of state power, and using them to his own ends, independent of public benefit. Every accusation is a confession.
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I wouldn't focus so much on the rdrand part. That's more a proof that they have crafted a custom microcode than trying to say that rdrand is broken.
Isn’t it wonderful when they make rules stating you must pay taxes, then they make it so convoluted and obscure that you’re forced to spend extra money to file them?

It seems almost like corruption.
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Yep. That's a nice trick; unfortunately it's non-deterministic.
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Is your team looking to hire an intern for this position by any chance? I am an security Ph.D. with a strong background in systems+network security and prior experience in software engineering.
s3 open bucket syndrome is basically cured at this point. (Aside from legacy buckets, which should all be exploited by now)

The "yes I really want to do this" confirmations you need to go through when opening up a bucket these days are about 4 deep...

Authn/z issues are real though, they'll never be fixed
There are no triple A games today that doesn't run in a networked/internet environment, and your code lives on the hostile user; this seems like an even bigger risk than a web app.
The economic power of the US is also largely due to its reputation for rule of law (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5zaImTF92g) when contrasted with other regimes like the CCP. Once that image goes out the window, it becomes no more attractive to foreign investment than any other banana republic run by thugs.
True quality comes from avoiding edge case traps.

Some approaches/feature types create edge case explosions.

For example, I'm often hell bent on the need for avoiding bidirectional syncing or writing mini parsers. If there is another, simpler way its always better.
Wireshark is awesome but yeah as others mentioned it's the TLS decryption piece that is difficult in that workflow
good example. worth noting that there may well be strong appetite to rapidly diversify and lock in other trade agreements in Canada to offset this battle with America.

America will not be able to do the same right now (due to Trump's rabid isolationism, and declining trust on the part of other countries).
> It is an objectively true moral statement that minority rights ought not depend on majority opinion (that is the whole point of constitutionalism). To the extent that minority rights depend on majority opinion in reality, that is a deficiency of political systems. All of us exist in deficient political systems.

No constitution is an absolute guarantee of the rights of any minority. Constitutions contain roadblocks to slow down the majority when its desires conflict with the rights and interests of minorities, but a sufficiently determined supermajority retains the ability to overcome all those roadblocks. At the end of the day, almost all constitutions can be amended, even if with some difficulty – no matter how many constitutional provisions you have to protect minority rights, if the constitution can be amended, then those provisions can be altered or repealed.

The alternative is a constitution which is impossible to amend, no matter how large a supermajority of the population wants it amended. That's fundamentally antidemocratic, and could be described as a form of constitutional tyranny.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_DOGE_Service

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Government_Effic...

It's not a legal Department.

Trump's team is claiming that anything computerized falls under USDS purview, hence the parasitic hijacking of the US Digital Service.
This will sound like a conspiracy theory, but this is the playbook of Curtis Yarvin, specifically the "RAGE" step - Retire All Government Employees. Some references:

Watch the whole video (posted months ago predicting all these actions), but here is the relevant section: https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no?t=1201

NYT interview: https://www.nytimes.com/video/podcasts/100000009910862/curti...

Gil Duran did a lot of the reporting on this. https://www.thenerdreich.com/the-network-state-coup-is-happe...
Or footprints since some hospitals take footprints of newborns, but it's neither a given that they did, or that they're readily available, or that you can identify which hospital to ask, or even that the person you want to identify still has both feet.
I have a related question for you... my kids like Marvel Rivals, but I also use Microsoft family tools to limit their screen time so they don't have Admin accounts. However, the Marvel Rivals anti-cheat makes me enter my password every time they launch. Is there any way for me to create a shortcut or something so Rivals will launch without my password?

I'm not a Windows guy and trying to figure this out has been extremely frustrating...
No way a 19 year old could be tricked by a pretty woman into giving her secrets and access codes. Real level-headed and clear-eyed age
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The rule of law is always contingent on the good will of the powerful. RIP USA. They are dismantling the country, not an abstract concept. Godspeed my American friends, I hope you live in a strong state, can get to one, or have a second nationality.
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> fences are getting torn up left and right by people too young and incurious to possibly understand why those fences might be there.

So you're saying they hired a bunch of undistinguished Berkeley drop-outs just because they're libertarians? A sort of affirmative action for libertarians?

It's always projection with these guys.
FYI the issue of free tax filing — including opposing TurboTax's lobbying efforts to kill it — has been a fairly popular topic on HN, to the tune of thousands of upvotes over the years:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
More likely a SHA variant that is susceptible to a second preimage (collision) attack.
I had a coworker who turned beet red when I put Musk and PayPal in the same sentence. You know that feeling when your parents didn’t yell and you wished they would? I was too afraid to ask for the full story.

His PR makes him sound like a founder but he was not.
Pretty sure these whiz kids engineers are writing software to analyze things like where all the money goes.

Decisions will ultimately be made and implemented by the appropriate authorities, of course.
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Corrected link: https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1886498750052327520
Provably false, if you bother to get out of your echo chamber

https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/pete-buttigieg-did-not-sp...
Slightly shaky start to the market today but it largely recovered and is just as high as it was 10 days ago. Seems the markets are divided between worried and cautiously optimistic.
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When visiting the US, I time and time again started telling service staff about how my day was, because they seemed so sincerely happy to meet me and interested in how I was doing.
Anyone from an orphanage, for starters.
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What kind of soured me on whether to recommend lecanumab in the clinic or not - the effect size and the slope, vs. the risk of hemorrhages/"ARIAS".

I mean, if you're looking at an steady 0.8 pt difference in CRS-SB, but the entire scale is 18 points, yes, it's "statistically significant" w/ good p-values and all, but how much improvement is there really in real life given that effect size?

Plus, if one is really going to hawk something as disease modifying, I'd want to see a clearer plateauing of the downward slow of progression, but it's pretty much parallel to the control group after a while.

There is some chatter in the Parkinson's world - the issue and maybe the main effort isn't so much clearing out the bad stuff (abnormal amyloid clumps/synuclein clumps) in the cells, it's trying to figure out what biological process converts the normal, functioning form of the protein into the abnormal/insoluble/nonfunctional protein.....at least assuming amyloid or synuclein is the root problem to begin with...
> the essential complexity is not higher than that of a brain-computer interface, or an interplanetary rocket.

Sorry, but that's such an absurd comment. These kids don't even know anything about rocket building, let alone they're able to build a rocket from first principles. Second, the US government is much more complex than a rocket; it cannot be understood by a single person. Third, you can waste rockets, but a whole nation depends on one goverment. You can't just experiment with it. Fourth, there are lives at stake. It's not just a payload, or one or two astronauts who know what they signed up for, that are at their mercy.
> What I give to Musk is that the staggering nepotism you see with Trump is not there as much.

Hiring a bunch of guys who work at companies he or Thiel owns definitely counts as nepotism.
He got rid of 18F, a group within the Govt to improve usage of tech (and hopefully therefore efficiency), because of a tweet.

A tweet about IRS Direct File, a group that replicates the basic automatic taxation program of other advanced economies?

Over a fear that the Government would take over deciding what taxes people pay, despite a fact that such a program doesn’t necessarily block you from manually filing your own taxes (don’t know if the American implementation has that, but the UK one certainly allows you to override PAYE).

Yes HN commenters, this is the genius behind Government reform.

EDIT: Jesus Christ someone is going to convince him FedNow is a conspiracy and kill another basic system other countries have easily managed.
Generated some Prolog programs and looked at them and they were wrong.

Specifically, it usually decides it knows what the answer is (and gets it wrong), then optimizes out the part of the program that does anything.
there was no massive popular mandate.

much of congress is actually just too afraid to say anything because they'll get labelled as RINOs and voted out.
I think the word you're looking for is "immaturity".

It is not exclusively found in young people, as one can plainly see with the plutocrats in charge today.

FWIW, even when it is justified in a software context, we understand that there will be a (usually large) business cost.

When implementing this in a political context, there's no way to skim over the fact that there will be a huge human cost. But here we are anyway.
Look at the growth of the national debt during the last Trump presidency.
"move fast and break things"

just imagine how insecure and fucked up their solutions will be? waiting for the S3 bucket that has global read permissions on a literal "select * from usa_citizens" dump of data.
Burr was acquited of treason.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burr_conspiracy
If anticheat worked then it would be an interesting, perhaps tolerable tradeoff for some. The reality however is that games are absolutely packed with cheaters, there's an international industry in creating cheats for popular games, so what you get is an arms race that as usual only punishes honest users. It's like DRM, pirates don't seem to have much of a problem, but it sure can hurt the rest of us.

Unfortunately both the executives who buy into these things, and the average consumer, are simply too... simple, to understand or appreciate that.
Any remotely serious attempt to balance the budget will have to involve serious cuts to some or all of Defense, Medicare, and Social Security; along with tax increases, either new taxes or closing loopholes. Trump and Elon are completely uninterested in doing any of those things, and are in fact going to make them worse.

Indiscriminately firing federal workers whose salaries will collectively make up maybe one tenth of one percent of the budget is not at all about reducing debt, that's just the thin justification they are using the destroy any independence and competence within the government that might get in the way of their looting and corruption.

Anyone who thinks that Trump and Musk are serious about reducing the federal debt at this point aren't likely to be swayed by anything I say. But for anyone who genuinely believes that I hope you will look at what the national debt and deficit are right now, and then to check on them in a few years when both are dramatically worse. You will find that two of the most prominent bullshitters in the world are in fact bullshitting on this topic as well.
The traditional way to demonstrate this is how little we know about the ocean floor and the types, styles, and varieties of life therein.

Every time we look we find a textbook's worth of new types of creatures, and usually break at least one minor "rule" of how life works, for example, "dark oxygen".
They are looking for The Cathedral.
People who are not hopeless tend to care more about their jobs and relationships and thus can prioritize stopping easier. They also have a lot less of a need for the relief that drugs offer.
i now know the phone number that i will use whenever some form wants a number and i don't think they really need it. 555-1212 is my go to, but 338-6855 is so less obvious.
This comment reminds me that despite having built lots of cool stuff in my career, that in reality I've just barely done anything that can be called "software engineering".
You seem unable or unwilling to understand:

1) why they were bought by the American companies

2) that having an American owner doesn't make them directly American or magically cause them to be in Silicon Valley

3) The country names I put in brackets

4) The location of Zürich and CERN

And instead want to focus on the fact that one specific example of a top ranked app is not all by itself an entire sector, while ignoring all the other examples *right next to it* or the fact that this was trivial to find.

To demonstrate why you're missing the wood for the trees, consider: I can accurately say "Facebook" isn't really all that important, it's just an advertising provider getting in the way of people trying to talk to each other — but that it isn't all of Silicon Valley all by itself doesn't mean its headquarters are not relevant as an example of "Silicon Valley".