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> the very system of unaccountable executive power which has been built up, is now being used against the executive itself

Musk is a fever dream incorporated by its own paranoia. There was never a deep state as potent and destructive (to say nothing of incompetent) as DOGE.

The problem with its illegality is twofold. On one hand, this will be a multibillion-dollar process to undo. If it persists, it means the next D President can just order the Treasury to e.g. shred student loan records and wire money to whomever they want and ignore anything the Congress or courts do. (If there is no next D President, we shift to an imperial playbook and it will be good living for anyone already rich and really bad for anyone who isn’t.)
If they would rather lean into bureaucratic evils like TSA with similar ferociousness (and saving hundreds of millions or even billions easily), they would get some points to burn on unpopular fascist moves. But no lets target the weakest in society, for sure easy targets with little to defend themselves.
From Europe this is especially "terrifying" because most countries have massively bigger state sectors than the US and they are very often very ineffective and wasteful. So what is happening in the US is a nightmare for some this side of the Pond because, if it does not lead to catastrophe of course (big caveat), it will give ideas...

No later that yesterday the EU Commission released this (no relation whatsoever, of course):

"we will radically lighten the regulatory load for people, businesses and administrations in the EU. To boost prosperity and resilience, the Commission will propose unprecedented simplification to unleash opportunities, innovation and growth." [1]

Hopefully this means that the EU bureaucracy is waking up.

[1] https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-making-process/planning...
Nearly everyone will reach 30 in their life, so it is safe to say we give them to everyone. It isn't a one and done test, cancer can form at any time in your life. To be useful we need to give this to everyone over 30 (40, 50....?) , on a regular schedule (yearly?). The article doesn't specify those details (or at least not before I hit the sign in wall)
> Will we look at this some time later and think "well, that was really stupid, do not try again" or will the world burn down over this?

Well, considering this is like the N-th time this happen, with the last times being extensively recorded and philosophized about, I'd say we will look back at this and say "How could that have happened? Why didn't anyone do anything?", just like we did the previous times.
Show HN: Scorekeeping App (For Pickleball Users)
When I started playing tennis, and later did some pickleball as well, I was overwhelmed by all the things I had to remember, all at once. I needed to watch out for technique, rules of the game, where my partner and opponents are, tactical moves to make, the wind direction, how (un)cool I was looking, ...

One thing I realized quite early on, is that keeping track of the score of a match, en who is serving from which side of the court was rather easy to put in an algorithm. It is easy to explain, but hard to keep track of with all other things in your mind. So as a programmer I was set out to fix this.

I recently got a hold of a smartwatch (as a gift from my employer), so that was the go-to tool. So after some iterations, and scope creep all over the place, I have now released an app to take the score keeping out of your hands and onto your wrist.

Let me present to you all: PickleballWithFriends.

All apps are linked on my landing page http://www.pickleballwithfriends.com
You can run it on Apple watch, Google wearOS watches and some Garmin activity watches as well.

If you drop me some email at admin AT pickleballwithfriends DOT com with your username and telling me you found me on this site, I will give you free access to the entire thing for a year. It only is 1.99 (+taxes) anyway, but it would be nice to have some reviewing eyes and exposure.

Best regards.
The checks and balances assumed the entire country didn't vote the exact same people into majorities in all 3 branches
there's an duckdb extension[0] for it too

0 - https://duckdb.org/community_extensions/extensions/prql.html
No.

Every time someone says or implies "bOtH sIdEs" a hungry child gets kicked out of a free and reduced school lunch program and called a parasite.
There’s an entire class of browser fingerprinting methods which does not rely on cookies or IP addresses whatsoever; this would be hashes of various browser functions such as webrtc, webgl, as well as other information provided by the client.

These technologies are increasingly relied on because privacy efforts have chipped away at how useful cookie or IP-based tracking can be. Google’s efforts to “improve privacy” when it comes to cookies or IP addresses benefit Google directly; the other tracking methods, which are built into Chrome and enabled by default slowly become the only viable method for tracking, and blocking cookie or IP address information becomes less and less relevant with regard to privacy.
Interesting how "it all works out and we realize that there was a lot of mismanagement and misappropriated funds" isn't one of your options. My money is on that one.
He is getting paid in the sense he has a lot of power over everything that happens financially, it's how he will make a lot of money going forwards (if he doesn't get ousted somehow).
That and there wasn't any VC culture as such.
Nice, and I agree - maybe… the desktop version gets a nav and on the phone it’s all one elder scroll. With section links if it gets too long. … but still need the entry point for lang versions
Forgot to add: it does not have AI at the moment, but if that is required I could add some. ;-)
There aren't enough areas where it is discussed.
SCOTUS did their part in declaring the POTUS effectively more equal than everyone else.
Let’s hack it?
>By using this, It gets your IP because you have to sign into Google

If you're already signed into google then they already have your IP. If you're not signed into google they continue to not get your IP or proxied traffic. What's the issue?

>But other advert platforms don't get your IP

No good deed goes unpunished. Google gets flak for making chrome privacy better, but they also get flak for making chrome privacy worse (see comments about fingerprinting in this thread).
There are already groups organizing protests across the land. Join one in your area. Or just show up when a demonstration is happening near you. Numbers are important.
I think I like this new pipe syntax a lot better than PRQL. Feels like it has the potential to become officially supported by DBs like MySQL since it's a relatively small change to existing SQL syntax.
Republicans are their own best argument against big government.
I am asking if any journalists, many of whom are active on social media and forums like this, with the resources and access have gotten independent confirmation and, perhaps, written about it for their publications, yes.

edit: I don't know why this is so vexing to sections of the YCombinatorati.

bonus edit after a reply since I'm rate limited for a while: IME people here are happy to share articles when people ask if there's more info. Hackers, at least a broad subset who loosely identify with the principles, love to share knowledge. Some even to the point of exfiltrating it! It's almost a defining characteristic.

That's why this is so vexing!
People were worried about the economy and inflation. To say that most voters wanted to dismantle the government is a bit of a stretch.

I remember all the posters here expressing their belief that Doge would do nothing and was just an advisory role.
We're watching the checks and balances fail in real time. By the time the first court order comes through the DOGE boys are already doing something else somewhere else. The legal system can't create injunctions as fast as Trump can sign things. It's proving impossible for a legitimate system to keep up with the wanton pillaging.
What does that say for the rest of us? If the leader of the free world has decided laws don't matter, then as far as I'm concerned that applies to the rest of us, rendering it "legal" to remove him via whatever means we as polite society choose fit.

At least, my hope is that they don't push the limits with ignoring laws because they're afraid that would happen...
I wonder how that would work out. It's a bit of an inverse-Ouroboros where the people that are the government keep saying they are 'doing something about the government' without realising that that's them. Maybe they see themselves as something that is not the government, but the whole race they took part in was the race to get elected for government work.

At some point, enough destruction will have happened where the tools for useful government functionality no longer exist in usable capacity.
> Meanwhile Europe has been in freefall for a decade and nobody here seems to notice.

We all have different values that matter. Europeans (for better or worse) tend to prefer stability, probably because of past experiences, over oligarchy and free capitalism, while the US is almost the exact opposite.

So both parties look at the other and see "freefall decline for decades", both being smug about the other being worse, while we in reality care about different things.
Where are all the $500 hammers and toilet seats?

Some of the items on there may be things he doesn't like personally, but things like $1.4M to contract out the operation of the Department of Education's mailroom are everyday operating expenses.
You must be kidding, the last decade is about Europe totally shooting themselves in the foot and giving up leadership in almost every field. US and China have been the big winners here.
Well, it is not truly random. I first filter out all the games with a video and with positive review score (with at least 20 total reviews and 10 recent reviews), then randomly pick from there.
hey it doesn’t hurt to ask
> By the end of the training, they learned to name an average of 7.08 pitches (ranging from 3 to 12) at an accuracy of 90% or above and within a response-time (RT) window of 1,305–2,028 ms.

That doesn't actually seem very promising, or at least useful at all. It still seems way less useful than my accurate and near instantaneous relative-pitch. What could I do as a musician with 2 seconds of latency to be wrong some amount of the time.
The difference in the UK is, there is no recourse. It's actually why America exists as a state to begin with. They have parliamentary supremacy and no enshrined checks and balances against parliament. Nor do they have a formal constitution. And the populace is disarmed. A sufficiently united parliament can in theory do what it wants. The only practical risk they have is a coordinated coup by the military.

The US system, while far from perfect, does have enshrined checks and balances. A formal constitution that limits the powers of branches. And an armed populace with a history of protest and unrest when things don't go their way.
> doing small short-lived branches of coherent chunks takes practice but it’s very possible.

Indeed, chunking and sequencing changes is a learnable skill, like many other things such as system design, effective unit tests, or writing code that compiles in the first place. Out of those it's not the hardest - it's hardly like learning a new programming language - and it is very beneficial.
How will local/state prosecute it?

The crimes are on the federal level and pretty sure they'll receive pardons.
Didn't see any proven corruption, just claims.

Didn't see them targeting military funding, where we all now corruption is a big player.
Not to mention financial. Its all but inevitable this will have expensive financial fallout, likely for individuals and the government.
There's an alternative future where some genius figured out a technical innovation for hydrogen and batteries struggle to scale. There are definite disadvantages to hydrogen in retrospect, but some of that has to do with the relative success of the engineers.
The stability of Europe is an illusion. Politically and economically Europe is becoming a lightweight who will not be able to do anything without the US permission.
> These are ex-employees, so they’re not vesting anything any more

Vesting is the gradual accrual of ownership. Time-based vesting is based on time employed. Liquidity-based vesting typically instantly-vests the whole package on IPO. For an employee that means acceleration (whole package vests, irrespective of the time component) and conversion (RSU converts into equity). For an ex employee, it typically means just the latter (already time-vested RSUs turn into equity).

There are a lot of degrees of freedom with the above, which is partly why I believe RSUs are a scam next to options despite being pitched as being more downside resilient. (You aren’t being granted shares. You’re being granted a derivative that conditionally converts into shares.)
Yes! Exactly. :(

Just like Web3 and decentralized tech got a bad rap because of Luna, FTX and other centralized grifters. First they came for the decentralized BFT developers, and I piled on, because I wasn’t decentralized…
100% agree

All replies focus on "service" or cloud-in-general is needed to implement sync between devices.

Why we don't have "own" sync-my-files as-service that can be connected to many apps?

I would prefer this one (in all incarnations - desktop/mobile/watch) to be just apps, but connected to something like "folder in dropbox" or "folder in gdrive" ...

My cloud my choice. Their program my data (here or in my cloud).

I know that it doesn't work in todays economy when everyone expects free in exchange for some invonvenience like ads/data-scraping by vendor.
Was that executive power really accrued as a result of a resistance to Trump during his first term? My understanding is that the executive branch has been exerting more power for while now, regardless of who has been in office.

And does it really matter? The authority for doing many of the things Trump's current admin is doing don't actually fall to the executive branch; they're doing them anyway.
My dad got lucky to get his detected relatively early (they happened to be doing an unrelated test and "saw something", but that just meant two years of chemo and all those side effects before he died. If they hadn't found it when they did it would have been 1 year of side effect free life followed by 6 months of pain for something untreatable - in short overall a better end of life though he would have lost 6 months. If they had found it 6 months sooner though odds are it would have been treated and he would still be with us.
They're looking up data from the official government spending website then claiming to have found a bunch of spending.

https://www.usaspending.gov/
https://openai.com/index/elon-musk-wanted-an-openai-for-prof...

> However, we felt his proposal was not compatible with the mission, saying: “The current structure provides you with a path where you end up with unilateral absolute control over the AGI. You stated that you don't want to control the final AGI, but during this negotiation, you've shown to us that absolute control is extremely important to you.” As we told Elon, “The goal of OpenAI is to make the future good and to avoid an AGI dictatorship.”

> We concluded, “Thus we are concerned that as the company makes genuine progress towards AGI, you will choose to retain your absolute control of the company despite current intent to the contrary.”

> Elon replied, “Discussions are over” and “To be clear, this is not an ultimatum to accept what was discussed before. That is no longer on the table.”
The US fell in a month much deeper than the EU in a decade.

Like I said the EU falls slower.
Trump's admin already said that they will defy court rulings.
And spent 28 billion dollars (more than the entire State Department budget) paying off farmers for the contracts they lost because of the trade war.
This is a multifaceted question, because there isn't one use case, it depends on who you are.

If you are somewhat nomadic and always moving systems, having a "home" you can dial back to and pick up where you left off from is a massive boon (with a remote system like this, my phone is now powerful enough to do pretty much any development task as now it's just rendering the front end and not doing real heavy lifting)

If you're an enterprise programmer working on locked down networks and devices with more end point protection tools than endpoints, an unencumbered authorized system with access to the right network assets, as well as standardized and project specific tooling is the difference between coding and coding with one arm tied behind your back and a blindfold on. (actually the benefits for enterprise are many and not just DevEx -- think security, network admin, vendor access, governance, AI rollout, reduction in project specific on-boarding documentation....)

I'm sure there are many other use cases, though these are just the immediate ones that spring to mind.
> And they don’t just want to gather intelligence—they also want to understand how to disrupt these systems in a crisis.

Considering that these are payment systems, how can they be used during wartime
For others of like interest, NHKOnline is an ever-growing and fantastic collection of videos in English (or at least subtitled) that showcase Japan's fascinating sub-cultures, many of them craft-oriented.

Our favorite is "Design Stories" (which used to be "Design Talks Plus") that features many such fantastic Japanese crafspeople. Our family hasn't missed an episode in quite a few years.

And, of course, there is the Canadian resident of Japan, David Bull, who does traditional wood-block prints in the style of the magnificent Hokusai. His attention to detail in his work is inspiring to us as well.
Back in the 60s homosexuals were insisting that their sexuality was legitimate and demanding that everyone else accommodate this belief. Many at the time viewed it as a false belief contrary to biological law. That was wrong then, and this is wrong now.
That is probably because you live in the states that you think that. The EU is so regulated its hard to do anything nowadays.
X-ray surveys help unveil Quipu, the universe's largest known structure
So, the things they've (illegally, according to the courts) chopped have included vast numbers of local infrastructure projects, domestic renewable energy projects, FEMA support, critical programs to prevent HIV abroad (PEPFAR is still not back online https://pepfarimpact.vercel.app/), domestic cancer trials, and pretty much all NIH funding is still currently at a standstill.

Let's say that, unlike pretty much most Americans, you think none of those are worth the comparatively tiny overall costs in the USGOV budget.

OK. And then let's say, you also dispute or otherwise disagree with the likelihood that most of those actually return a net economic ROI for our country.

OK. And then let's say you also dispute the likelihood that despite their minor costs, and despite their positive ROI, the sheer chaotic nature of this approach is wasting a ton of money by gumming up the federal government and creating dozens of lawsuits for weeks.

Fine. So despite the tiny costs, positive ROI, and inefficiency of this approach, there's still a massive economic issue being caused here.

When you cancel ongoing legal federal contracts, you are telling every private contractor loud and clear: you cannot trust the US government to keep their legally binding word. Price that in.

That will in fact be priced in going forward now and cost us dearly. Disastrously stupid.
It certainly uses native machine code, but I don't think it generates any at runtime outside of the reverse-FFI closures (at least on linux)? PROT_EXEC at least isn't used outside of them, which'd be a minimum requirement for linux JITting.

Running in a debugger an ffi_call to a "int add(int a, int b)" leads me to https://github.com/libffi/libffi/blob/1716f81e9a115d34042950... as the assembly directly before the function is invoked, and, besides clearly not being JITted from me being able to link to it, it is clearly inefficient and unnecessarily general for the given call, loading 7 arguments instead of just the two necessary ones.
I have a math brain as well. But I also have 5 kids, and despite my teaching them very similarly, one of those kids cannot do math at all, another is average, and the remaining three are brilliant at it.
Withholding funds? What are you on about?

https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20250207/north-carolina-1...

https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20250122/helene-survivors...
He did say that you tune them to minimize false negatives.

I do find it interesting that in the early days of HIV testing even most people who got a "positive" result were in fact negative. The tests have since greatly improved and the number of people taking a test due to hysteria rather than likelihood of infection declined.

But I can imagine a world in which we get very many forms of liquid biopsies like this every year, and false positives become a thing we understand and are used to.
> That's not a cashless sale. The company sells enough of your vested shares to cover taxes.

That’s cashless cover. (Cashless exercise is the company “sells” shares to itself to cover exercise cost, which is typically strike plus withheld taxes.)
I think these days they do recommend screening all children for cholesterol.
If you change things without the consent of stakeholders, you will find the changes undone in short order (or even overreacted to) despite their potential. The early wins are pyrrhic and take on a new opportunity cost as the community churns through events of no confidence.
Why does everything D0G3 get flagged?
The most data intensive thing you can stream to a device is video. For two reasons:

1. The whole point of video is that you need all of the data, in order

2. Video is the only thing, really, that requires that much data per second of sensory input.

Mobile devices aren't really getting more pixels. And hardware isn't improving enough the we have spare cycles for decoding/decrypting/rendering 16K video or whatever, and even if it did, the batteries can't handle that. It's obvious to me that we don't need more bandwidth. My phone would be instantly dead if I was downloading and processing data at a gigabit per second.

Other than downloading very large files (why?), I don't think we'll invent any new use cases that can make use of more bits or second.
But sqrt · square = 1, where "sqrt: R⁺ → R⁺" is the square root operation, "square: R⁺ → R⁺" is the squaring operation, "1: R⁺ → R⁺" is the identity operation, and (·) is function composition: i.e., working in the monoid of functions R⁺ → R⁺. So x² and sqrt(x), as elements of R, are not inverses, but sqrt and square, as elements of R⁺ → R⁺, are.

It depends on how you parse the phrase "fast inverse square root".
> I think there's value of having good people there when the trump administration is gone.

I'm not sure about the assumption that there is "when Y is gone", it isn't fully clear. One of the campaign promises from the group that won was that people won't have to vote in the future. Not sure if that's actually feasible or not, but that it was brought up should at least be considered.

But yeah, I hear and agree somewhat with your point otherwise, there might be value in people resisting in small ways (delays, confusion and so on, basically the CIA playbook for corporate sabotage) rather than in big ways of just saying "No" until you get fired.
> What we are talking about now is a fundamental shift from that

Agreed. And you arguing that a democracy (or constitutional republic) cannot make a fundamental shift in policy via elections. That administrations have to be bound to decisions based on prior administrations, even if that is directly against the will of the electorate. Did I state your position correctly?