skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And what happens when they're successful even in part and we dump a lot of unemployed workers all at once into the job market in the private sector? Measured and calculated reform is one things. Smashing things without addressing what happens next is just kindergarten level stupidity.

But then again, maybe crashing the job market with masses of unemployed, which will drive down wages and labor bargaining power, is exactly their strategy.
Prior to all this, I had never heard of the treasury payments system and the GSA.
I bet most people have never heard of the CDC's morbidity and mortality report.

Not sure "has some random dude heard of this?" is a good barometer of "is it important?".
Since i use firefox with these addons:

1. Ublock origin

2. Cookieblock with an additional list that fixed some misscategorization

3. Consent-o-matic

No
Show HN: ParserPete – Make every website a JSON API with JSON SCHEMAS
Hi all,

Parser Pete is a simple web scraping tool that allows you to extract data from any website and convert it into JSON API. You can use it with or without a JSON schema.

This little tool has a POST endpoint and accepts two parameters:

1. url ⇾ which is the website you want the data from
2. schema ⇾ (optional) you can provide it a JSON schema (https://json-schema.org/) in which you define the wanted output.

I needed it myself and thought it might be fun to create a little tool out of it.

Best
Hamed
I think this is a mischaracterization. In my decades of writing software I have seen it replace some job descriptions but typically (and especially for skilled labor tasks) the person enjoys more capability with less effort.

I've seen hardware replace people. I've seen software upend industries. But I haven't yet seen software replace people.
Oh sorry I'm a tech bro and don't know what that means, can you please tell me oh exalted professor?
It's easy to compile and run a program. It's hard to accurately simulate driving.
> There's a growing list I don't have handy but easy to google

If you wanna talk about it, please make this list.

Unless your theory of compliance via exhaustion applies to you too.

And in that case they won. And we're all going to lose.
Here is a ReqBin to quickly test it:

https://reqbin.com/rw8ahyrj
IDK, I've been developing software for 40 years now and have been through several of these "developer replacement" hype cycles. Every single time what ended up happening was even more developers were required. I see this as being the same, at least for the next few years. I do believe that the ultimate end point is quite different - developers will be replaced - but that's several years away and will require major changes to the approach currently being used for software development.
Why would you even suspect this is a troll account? These are clearly genuinely held opinions, stated plainly and without the normal wild rhetoric I typically hear in comments in such threads, yet you read it as propaganda.

This is why I flag all articles on DOGE/etc, because genuine conversation is assumed to be in bad faith.

Expecting someone to read an article having an obvious propaganda hit-piece title like "DOGE as a National Cyberattack" is silly.

Would you read an article titled "technology is the mark of the beast" and take your time to debate its merits?

I personally hold the belief that DOGE and president Trump are acting in good-faith to keep his campaign promises as best as they're able, in a messy and tumultuous environment.

At the same time, I have a lot of empathy for the great number of people that are afraid and hurting right now for a multitude of reasons. People are facing food/job/business insecurity, genuine threats to various core ideological beliefs, an environment of fear and uncertainty for many affected people, threats to the desired direction of our laws and societal moral compass, etc. I hurt for those affected, and I do what I can within my spheres of influence to help.

I don't see why we can't have an honest conversation with each other without assuming that the other is operating in bad-faith. I think BOTH sides should stop using propaganda, and start LISTENING to each other, that eventually we might determine paths forward together without cancelling each other.
I disagree. Provoking up a mob on social media will not endear you to anyone. You're just making the gatekeeper's jobs harder, and since their job is hard enough, they will simply gatekeep you to simplify things.

Regardless of whether you think the project should be maintained differently, that's not your call, that's their call. Fork it if you want different policies.
It feels like america is being run by reddit memeing snickering schoolboys.
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60235#:~:text=In%20fiscal%20...

FY 2022 spending was around $6.75 trillion, civilian pay was $271 billion, or around 4% of the spending for that year. You'll find the numbers have been hovering around 4-5% for quite a while.
That's what "self hosted" usually means.
Looked better before I guess
I hope not because this is a detailed, well-reported article by an experienced journalist based on court documents provided under oath. And it clarifies some earlier sensational reporting.

Edit to add: The author is Kim Zetter:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Zetter
Absolutely not okay and I somehow hope it hadn’t todo with Asahi Linux.
> Don't you need to write your own fair share of code

Do you need to be good at playing football to be a coach? (Andy Reid)

Do you need to be good at making films to be a good critic of films? (Roger Ebert)

Do you need to be a great chef to be a Michelin reviewer or food critic?

Do you need to be a great singer to be a good judge of musical talent? (Simon Cowell)

I think you can tell if some output is "good" without being expert at the doing part. You need to understand the domain, the inputs, the outputs, the range, but not necessarily be expert at the doing part.

In fact, many, many more of us can tell "this book is good", but relatively few of us could write a very good novel. We have a sense that "this show or movie is entertaining", but few of us could produce one!

One of the teams I worked with, our support engineer was extremely adept at reading code. He would trace defect reports to the lines of code and write excellent tickets that deeply understood the root cause of the error because he had a good conceptual model of the design and he was skilled at reading code. However, when it came to fixing the error, he had no clue!
Yea, I'm not sure it's open-source vs other software. It's public vs. professional insiders.

My company's bug tracker is mostly internally-filed bugs, but accepts bugs from the public. The difference in tone and attitude is night and day. The public-filed bugs can be wild, varying across: Rude, entitled, arrogant, demanding, incoherent, insulting, irrelevant, impatient... They are also the worst when it comes to actually including enough information to investigate. Frequently filed without logs, without reproduction steps, sometimes without even saying what the filer thinks is wrong. We get bugs with titles "It doesn't work" and with a text description that reads like a fever dream from someone very unwell.

We do have strong personalities among employees, but bug reports tend to be professionally and competently written, contain enough information to debug, and always, always leave out insults and personal attacks. The general public (at least many of the ones technical enough to file bug reports) does not seem to have the emotional regulation required to communicate professionally and respectfully.
If Marcan (Hector Martin) is serious about quitting Linux development, he will stop contributing to the project using his Asahi Lina persona as well. Until then this is just empty posturing trying to elicit a reaction from the community.
https://archive.md/y5hrC
Debatable. He was on the podium with Trump before the election and saying he wanted to set up DOGE to cut government waste.

They then got elected winning the popular vote and every swing state. It tough for companies selling to the American public to say ok you voted for this lot but you are idiots so we are having nothing to do with them.
Aren't electric vehicles terrible for armored use? Adding a bunch of weight on a giant battery pack that catches fire when punctured, and put that in a situation where they get shot at...
> I would, and do, and I urge you to be less judgemental about things you do not know anything about because you will never learn anything new with that attitude.

The thing is, I am extremely familiar with regexes (I've even written a regex engine), so I know exactly how readable they are - even after knowing them really well. So the fact that you think they are still readable suggests to me that your judgement of K's readability is also suspect.

> Why do you wonder this?

It would be a reasonable explanation of why K exists.
I'm a Linux guy. Have had that as my primary OS for over twenty years.

At work, though, I've been doing dev work primarily in Windows for over a decade.

Never needed WSL.

(Maybe because I use Emacs? I dunno)
Agreed. There's such a victim mentality throughout this post.

While it's clear that marcan faced into headwinds, they're also definitely not somebody that I want to be around me in any kind of leadership position.
They're getting the fox out of the hen house by burning the hen house.

(also they're foxes too).
This is unfortunate, but before pointing fingers, it's worth putting things into perspective.

The linked "thin blue line" message[1] also says this:

> One of the things which gets very frustrating from the maintainer's perspective is development teams that are only interested in their pet feature, and we know, through very bitter experience, that 95+% of the time, once the code is accepted, the engineers which contribute the code will disappear, never to be seen again. As a result, a very common dynamic is that maintainers will exercise the one and only power which they have --- which is to refuse to accept code until it is pretty much perfect --- since once we accept the code, we instantly lose all leverge, and the contributors will be disappear, and we will be left with the responsibility of cleanig up the mess. (And once there are users, we can't even rip out the code, since that would be a user-visible regression.)

Which seems very reasonable. Maintainers shouldn't be expected to support a feature indefinitely just because a 3rd party is interested in upstreaming it. In the case of Rust for Linux and the Asahi project specifically, I imagine this would entail a much larger effort than any other contribution. So just based on this alone, the bar for entry for Asahi-related features should be much higher.

Perhaps this is ultimately a failure of leadership as TFA claims, but it would be foolish to blame the Linux maintainers or its development process, and take sides either way. Maybe what Asahi is trying to accomplish just isn't a good fit for mainline Linux, and they would be better served by maintaining a hard fork, or developing their own kernel.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250208204416.GL1130956@mit.ed...
I do not claim a background in Linux kernel internals. I'm a human who has seen teams miscommunicate in the past, and see it now. I'm not sure what I said that drew hostility.

It sounds like you agree with me though. The Linux team needs to clearly define the expectation they have for code maintenance from the team trying to upstream Rust code (edit) and the Asahi team needs to acknowledge how/if they can meet those expectations.
OTOH,

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

These are pretty off topic based on site guidelines.

I don't personally need a HN rehash of AP News.
You gotta have super thick skin to be a maintainer of an opensource project or even be popular on the net these days. Folks are going to come for you for whatever reason, if you read too much into it you're going to have a bad time.
"Even though I don't know everything, and especially everything about how an organization like a federal government works, I personally haven't heard about these things, and therefore it must be unnecessary and stupid."
This says more about what you know than the importance of said agency.
This will not pass anyway, in the Senate anything like this will need 60 votes. So just a fund raiser for the GOP and to distract people from increased inflation.
Offline support now in public beta for Fastmail
It appears to in fact be on hold:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/us/politics/state-dept-ar...
The wet timing belt reduces fuel consumption by about 1% so you can thank efficiency requirements for that.
Elon's philosophy is the exact opposite. Remove 90% and see what really needs to be added back.
Alibaba's Tsai Says Apple iPhone Will Use His Firm's AI in China
I have my own side projects, which I hoped I could make much faster progress with LLMs. Didn't work... Actually, it decreased progress. LLMs don't code themselves and explaining things to them takes an enormous amount of time and they misunderstand things so much. How could somebody think a statistical parrot can replace any kind of knowledge work?
I don't think it is worth considering the practicalities of this grift meant to prop up falling Tesla sales.
> fully sabotage the IRS

Oh, I'm sure the parts that make sure I pay my taxes will function. But yeah, the parts that make sure Elon and Trump pay their taxes? If they aren't broken today, they will definitely be broken tomorrow.
Ask HN: Is the threshold for flagging submissions on HN too low?
I see highly upvoted stories such as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43035977 getting hidden away because they get flagged, even though the article and discussion are quite sensible.

I understand the need to avoid a political flamefest, I do worry it leads to interesting content being essentially censored.
Bingo. What's amazing to me is how fast the sentiment can change by his follows (or Trumps followers). Musk simply tweets that "XYZ agency if criminal" and all of a sudden you see tons of comments across the internet that "XYZ agency needs to go" "It's been so corrupt for so long". These agencies have existed forever, but all of a sudden tens of millions of people have these opinions on it? They don't actually know the first thing about how it works, but because some billionaire with a large following says so, they believe it.
Nothing in the kernel log and the steam log shows a trace, but no debug symbols, only raw addresses.
Many do not acknowledge this and seem to believe our government runs like a well oiled machine. It's as though they never had to actually deal with the bureaucracy and never noticed anything odd.
I'd say most of my teammates could do this. It's not a unique skill to debug a prod error.

I would say 0% of AI does? What AI can even read production environment vars, find logs in arbitrary parts of the file system, measure usage statistics, and fix the code without causing another bug?
For what it's worth, the Oxide Computing people have written illumos driver(s) in rust: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/opte/tree/master/xde
Here's another chestertonism:
There is one metaphor of which the moderns are very fond; they are always saying, “You can’t put the clock back.” The simple and obvious answer is “You can.” A clock, being a piece of human construction, can be restored by the human finger to any figure or hour. In the same way society, being a piece of human construction, can be reconstructed upon any plan that has ever existed. There is another proverb, “As you have made your bed, so you must lie on it”; which again is simply a lie. If I have made my bed uncomfortable, please God I will make it again.

Chesterton primarily meant that in terms of traditional morality or other things that have largely already been totally rejected, he denied the existence of divorce because it presumes the state can dissolve oaths which is just to reject the existence of oaths.

Artificial institutions that have existed for a matter of decades don't make sense to apply the fence idea to, that's more about things that have been timeless in humanity that we recently started to reject.
Isn't that something screensavers was created to solve?
Wait, what? I haven't heard about any of this in all the articles I've read over this drama.
I tell my friends all the time: You want your product to be accessible? Sell cheap, but not too cheap.

Fair deals attract people with some money, but the almost-free only attract people who are forever broke, who live their life feeling entitled to everything being handed over to them.
So let's tear everything down good and bad because in an organization at a scale of trillions of dollars, we found $50 million we don't like.
It's not just that "people are hard" - it was clear that this will end up this way the moment marcan started ranting on social media about having to send kernel patches via e-mails. Collaborating on software development is a social activity and stuff like convincing maintainers to trust you and your approach is just as important part of it (if not more important) as writing code. Not realizing that is a sure road to burnout (and yes, I'm just as guilty of that myself).
It's not there anymore

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/plans-buy-armored-teslas-vani...
The most charitable interpretation is that Musk's doing what he did at Twitter -- wildly cutting back, and then backing off and repairing when he finds that something he threw away was actually necessary.

I'm not convinced that this is a good strategy when dealing with something with higher stakes than "posting dank memes", though. "Oops, that broke for a few days" matters a lot more when the thing that breaks is, say, paying out money for social security.

That is, as you said, sometimes the fence-that-is-inefficient-processes exists for a reason.

EDIT TO BE LESS SUBTLE BASED ON REPLIES: I think this is bad. Even in the most-charitable interpretation, it is bad. Particularly for the government, but even at Twitter it succeeded at making it smaller but approximately-nobody thinks Twitter is better now.
It's usually said in business that you should spend your first 100 days getting the lay of the land before you start making big decisions. It might even be more ideal to give it 12 months before you tear up the playbook and bring your own.

Obviously, for a government staffed with experienced people, you'll be working with people who know how things work, and an incoming administration will have spent plenty of time outlining a plan of action well in advance of coming into office.

Does that apply to a notorious shitposting edgelord like Musk who is storming around like a bull in a china shop and sees the US as his new plaything? I doubt it - I certainly doubt any level of thinking is involved.
RFK Jr Will Be Confirmed as Secretary of Health and Human Services
"Why are we paying for all these nukes? We don't even use them." -Elon Musk next week (probably)
The Next Bridge.xyz? BlindPay's CEO Wants to Revolutionize Global Payments
To date there is no evidence that any court order has been respected. The crisis continues.
I've heard of Congress, but they seem to want to slash that, and have the Executive Branch take over their job. Also it seems that the Judicial branch is very much in the way and is being deprecated.
I don't even use tmux. I just have multiple tabs open in the terminal (usually gnome terminal but I suppose others would work) and toggle back and forth with keyboard shortcuts.

I usually develop full stack so will have a front end tab (with multiple Vim buffers), a backend tab (again with multiple buffers), dev servers, a database sql tab (if needed) and a command line tab to grep and git and whatever else.

Might sound kind of awkward but it's muscle memory by now and blazing fast for my use case.

The one thing I have not figured out yet is how to cleanly integrate AI tools into my workflow. A lot of cutting and pasting which feels very clumsy. I don't want to give up Vim nor my basic workflow. I never used co-pilot just GPT.
Background Story

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/a869236a-1d59-4524-a86b-be08a15...

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/a869236a-1d59-4524-a86b-be08a15...

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/a869236a-1d59-4524-a86b-be08a15...

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/a869236a-1d59-4524-a86b-be08a15...

1. I think the the DMA maintainer is correct. Don't intertwine implementation languages, that is bad idea and a maintenance hell.
2. Social media "hall of shame"
3. Torvalds is forced to make a statement because of 2. Not 1.
Asahi Lina.

This subject also gets inexplicably downvoted and flagged every time you bring it up on Hacker News (look at that, it just happened to my original post); but again, nobody can prove otherwise, and Marcan himself has never denied it, only thrown flames.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35234480

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32947939

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33792670

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35251905

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36107998

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35238601

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42990443

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37550189

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36231241
In general in languages like PRQL / Pipe syntax, though conciseness is a big advantage, do they help in query optimisation in any regard ?
> It’s unclear how many people are being let go, but multiple sources tell WIRED that list could be upwards of 70 if not more. Prior, there were around 650 TTS employees.

So the worst case scenario that anyone can imagine numbers for is that this department gets hit with 10% layoffs. That's not fun for anyone involved, but it's also not exactly crisis mode yet, and it seems like there are bigger things that this administration is doing to focus our pitchforks on?

There's a very real risk of burning out people's ability to be indignant if we get up in arms about every obscure department that suffers moderate layoffs. Let's save our outrage for the really important things.
Oh that could be, I just have it hardwired. This machine was basically a dumpster dive and was sitting in my closet for the last few years til I found out it had USB3 and gigabit ethernet, did a SSD swap and its working great, but indeed I get "No Wi-Fi Adapter Found"
The topic is the bar for revealing your citizens data. My thesis is that Elon sets the bar. UK as a longtime vetted ally easily clears it.
100% agree.

For the last few years, I've been saying the following regularly (to friends, family and coworkers): communication is the hardest thing humans will ever do. Period.

Going to the moon, launching rockets, building that amazing app... the hardest thing of all is communicating with other people to get it done.

As a founder (for 40+ years and counting) I manage a lot of different type of people and communication failures are the largest common thread.

Humans have a very, very tough time assuming the point of view of another. That is the root of terrible communication, but assumptions are right up there as a big second.

On the Marcan thing... I just want to say, control what you can and forget the rest (yes, this is direct from stoicism). Users boldly asking for features and not being grateful? Just ignore them. Getting your ego wrapped up in these requests (because that's what it is, even if he doesn't want to admit it), is folly.

I contributed to Marcan for more than a year. I was sad to see the way it ended. I wish him well.
xAI and all his friends are going to have fat pockets at least!
I think it might actually be worse. I don't think the judiciary can enforce any of their court orders.