skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very different.

I'm sure it was brought up before with things like IDEs, UML, etc., etc.

But now these tools are actually competent at generating code and improving fast.

Coding up until now has still mostly been a craft or an art and less of a true engineering discipline.
Thank you for your efforts. Unfortunately people are people and the loudest are usually the complainers. I wish we, your supporters, were able to muster as loud of applause when the complaints come in, but we are too busy enjoying your work. Thank you again.

Sidenote: thank you also to all those project leads that put themselves out there. Not easy being the $h1t magnet.

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>The SAVE Act lists several types of documentation that would be accepted, including a form of identification issued consistent with the requirements of the REAL ID Act of 2005, a valid United States passport, valid military ID, forms of Tribal identification and proof of naturalization. Many of these forms of ID, other than a passport, either include a birth certificate or must be presented alongside a birth certificate.

I do not understand why it is "alongside" most of these forms of ID require a birth certificate in the first place.
Repurposing a comment I made when this was first reported:

This is from a procurement forecast. The department is listing all the things they might be interested in so that a small business/vendor has an opportunity to try to sell the government something. AKA this is the government's way of doing window shopping.

If you look up the attributed code DS/C/DEAV, DS stands for "Bureau of Diplomatic Security" and DEAV stands for "Defensive Equipment and Armored Vehicles Division". So these are armored cars for diplomats security details.

The same person put in the following orders:

- Armored Tesla (Production Units)

- ARMORED SEDAN

- ARMORED BMW X5/X7

- ARMORED EV (NOT SEDAN)

- R&D

The NAICS codes are wrong, and the cost numbers were clearly pulled out of thin air. Luckily, the Acquisition stage was only "PLANNING".

All this information is publicly available https://www.state.gov/procurement-forecast
> U.S. government has proposed three potential cooperation options to TSMC

> 2. TSMC joining other firms as investors in Intel Foundry Services (IFS), a division being spun off from Intel, with TSMC transferring its technology as part of its shareholder role.

> On the other hand, if TSMC rejects the proposals, the U.S. government could impose a 100% tariff on chips made in Taiwan

When US can't compete, they have to blackmail/steal/sanction to rescue their failed corporations. The same stealing accusation they level at China.
You also couldn't feasibly do that for derivations that actually build packages, instead of fixed output derivations only, because if you the update the package set to include a newer version of the compiler, which would often produce a different output, in addition to having to rebuild everything, you would have to update all of the affected hashes.

What you should be able to do in the future with a system like nix plus a few changes is use nix as a common underlying mechanism for precisely describing build steps, and then use whatever policy you like to determine who you trust.

One policy can be about having an attestation for every build step, another one can be about two different builders being in agreement about the output of a specific build step.

That way you can construct a policy that expresses reproducibility, and reproducibility strengthens any other verification mechanism you have, because it makes it so that you can aggregate evidence from different sources.
and then have different build hosts
I'm entirely against what the UK government wants, however I would say:

Although you're right that tech people would still be able to choose secure encrypted options, the fact is that the majority of criminals by pure numbers are not very sophisticated - so while this sort of backdoor obviously wouldn't be a guarantee that every criminal conversation could be snooped on, it would work on the 90-99% (I'd guess towards 99) who aren't both cautious enough to try to be secure and tech savvy enough to make the right choices.

(But it's still a terrible idea, both for the sake of general privacy principles, and for the risk that current or future governments or personnel will abuse the access, and for the risk that criminals outside government will be able to take advantage of the same backdoor.)
Someone created an issue in their repo and @ mentioned hundreds of people with two word ragebait message. It is just a feature that sometimes very useful that was used for spam. Nothing new, really.

You might've heard about someone accidentally sending email to thousands of people on Github a couple years ago: https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pull/24
My point of view is based on this very paywalled article.

In science a study doesn’t just become bunk just because its original conclusions no longer hold, or because a journalist says so.

The data is solid and is widely replicated. All the guardian article attacks is the analysis and conclusions.

And it is correct to do so, as that is how scientific discourse works. The journalist was however incorrect in saying it had been debunked.

Mischel is indeed still taught and students are taught to think critically about it.

Modern pedagogy uses it as a solid reference point both in terms of development and also in the limitations of empirical data.

Psychology is not like other sciences. It’s very nature is questioning established shibboleths and you’d be crazy to think that prevalent thought hadn’t moved on from a study done more than 50 years ago.
That’s not true. BSD (including all the existing flavors/descendants AFAIK) has a monolithic kernel.

Perhaps you’re confusing it with XNU? (Which is Mach merged with some BSD stuff).
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> I blows my mind (and often aggravates me) how rude some people can be.

That seems to be a general characteristic. I strive to be cheerful and helpful whenever I'm asking for something. I feel like (sadly) it sets me apart from the crowd and helps me to get what I'm asking for. And IAC, with so little effort on my part I may brighten someone else' day and that makes me happy.

Just last week I asked housekeeping at a hotel for an old style coffee pot since I had brought my own coffee and filters. I started with "Can I pester you a moment?" and the conversation went up from there. Housekeeping was extremely friendly and helpful. Later I guessed this might have been her way to disarm some of the typical hostile interchanges she's been the brunt of.
I'd call this "interesting new phenomenon"
I'm having a hard time understanding your statement. Both functions are done by the same head so if there is any wear from either function both functions are impaired. An entirely worse scenario than using two separate bits.

This combo-bit is essentially an exceptionally dull 4 fluted drill bit. Any time possibly saved in not swapping bits is lost to the slower drilling speed due to the dullness. The fact that it only works with Phillips screw heads also slows things down due to the greater care needed to avoid stripping the screw head and the work required to remove a stripped screw head when it does occur.

It's not like people have not though about how to do this faster it is just that there are existing alternative solutions that are far superior. Amortizing swaps over multiple screws, using a second drill, having a quick change chuck, using self tapping screws and possibly others that I don't know about.
I am just praying for the day that Musk takes on the Pentagon.

They will destroy him. (There's a reason Bannon is egging him on to do it.)

And if they don't... well, Pentagon is one agency where we know the financial inefficiency is legendary.
I think what little we do know about the research also exposes flaws. For example, although the BBC prompted the AI to only use BBC sources, it admits that other sources were used to compile responses. But the BBC only judged the accuracy of the answers against its own reporting. So, the AI summaries might well have contained info that wasn't in the BBC reports, but it may have gleaned those from other sources.

It would be interesting to see the experiment repeated, but with the BBC feeding the AI PDFs/text of the initial reports. I suspect it would be much more accurate.
One word: money.

They (CEOs and executives, shareholders, etc) don't like how much it costs to make software. They think software engineers make too much money.

You (a human) are always a cost they will try to reduce.
Is there some sort of bot that auto-flags any DOGE article? Enough with that.
This is the same person that resigned as a kernel maintainer (focus on Apple/Arm unsurprisingly) about a week ago.

I don't know this person so this is completely baseless speculation but I assume they are "going through it" in some way and experiencing significant burnout, which based on my own experience in the past has a way of (negatively) amplifying all sorts of interactions that are related to the source of your burnout.
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I had a wide panel at one point after a statistically unlikely health event.

It was something like 300ml of blood spread over ~40 vials. They tried to charge me $7500.

It did lead to a diagnosis.
https://www.justsecurity.org/107087/tracker-litigation-legal...
GAO reported that there's over $200 B in fraudulent payments made a year, so it seems perfectly reasonable to let DOGE in and review that. It's new, it's messy, and unusual, but it's absolutely necessary.
People are already dying, and quite a few more will. You can't turn the clock back on that.
Actually, most of the items that an activist judge initially blocked have since been overturned and allowed to progress through higher-court judges.
This will probably stay becasue it paints the Elon doge thing as at least neutral and the media in general as hysterical.

If this is all true I don't get how these departments are being shut down then. Whole thing is messy
$93B paid in Expense Ratios per year
This reads as a list of security fundamentals, however it is a "never at all acceptable" list; A blueprint for generating resume generating events. Nobody in a controlled environment could justify giving same-day hire developers write access to prod. Any mature financial institution would have asses hitting doors before the end of the day.
That's nice. Electrical engineering is engineering and "software engineering" is not.
oh please.....how on earth can you assign any blame to OBAMA..
The problem here is people die when those things are removed even for a few weeks or months. You don't get to "put back" security for SSN data when it's already been accessed by foreign governments. He's not doing this in good faith, he's convinced he's the smartest man in the world and should literally be a dictator.
That's when they understand that they have to start fighting their peers and talking with the big boss to get their P1 ticket moved in front of the other P1 tickets.
> Having in the person taking these meetings for a software vendor, it can get really toxic quickly [...] hearing them out was part of the job

Does it have to be a meeting? Although it's about sales calls, I'm reminded of https://keygen.sh/blog/no-calls/ (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42725385 )
> I get part of the strategy is exhaustion and make sure no-one wants to ever work for federal government again

It's difficult to tell what their strategy is. There's so much chaos going on that it's impossible to say for sure what the end game is. But we can make some guesses.

They could be assuming the supreme court overturns the lower courts, allowing them to do everything unopposed. They may be trying to overwhelm the system, allowing at least some stuff to get through. They may be trying to drive out federal employees, weakening the federal bureaucracy. Or they might just be idiots who are moving fast without stopping to consider the consequences of their actions.

Ultimately, regardless of their specific end goal, the best course to stop them is to try and slow them down at every opportunity. We may not be able to fully stop them, but the more we can slow them down, the more we can minimize the damage.
My main desktop at home is a 2011 hp envy. I sometimes think of upgrading, but why? It works. my main laptop is a roughly 10yrs old thinkpad. Outside of macbooks, PCs haven't really given any reason to upgrade unless one is a hardcore gamer.
Make people unemployed and desparate so they will work for some other private company like Amazon or Tesla for pennies. It works fine in Russia, literally millions are volunteering to kill people in Ukraine for money, so why not try it in USA?
Yes all far left people are saints and would never do this. Ridiculous.

I guess you missed every time they called Tim Scott and Judge Thomas uncle toms.
Most of the people that voted for this (at least the ones I've interacted with) are happy that it's happening. They think Musk is just trimming the fat of the budget and getting rid of all the frivolous taxpayer spending.

But then, even ASSUMING THAT IS SO, why can't they see the problem in HOW it's happening. Can you imagine the outrage if, say, Biden handed the keys to the kingdom to George Soros?
> I got into woodworking because I was astonished at the price of decently-made furniture here in the US. You can literally buy all the materials AND tools for less than one solid wood rustic-chic kitchen table and bench costs to buy.

Not really surprising, the majority of the cost is the actual work. Especially in high-wage countries like the US. Buying a computer to build a website is also much cheaper than getting a website made by someone else.
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Ok, so you are just "spreading awareness" but Linus is "indicting". I guess it is good if you and Linus go their separate ways.
except when things break, actual people in the country get harmed, and "Repairing" in this case will be privatization
Odd they aren't going to best of breed with DeepSeek
I’d love to see the UI, you don’t by chance have any screenshots? I’m always interested in how people organize their own knowledge based especially wiki style
The problem with this analogy is that the hard part of writing software isn’t about bulk jobs that are easily specified with cut and dried success criteria. It’s about designing and implementing things where many tiny details matter and are connected to real world outcomes in ways that can not be fully deduced from the symbols present in code. If you get these things subtly wrong than programming is net negative because you now have more mess to wade through than if you were starting from scratch. LLMs in the hands of weak engineers will actually be net negative. I do think jobs will be lost because there are currently a lot of net negative programmers out there simply because knowing syntax and algorithms has historically been enough to get a lot of jobs even if higher level systemic thinking and communication is lacking. That will cause a reduction in overall numbers, but I would argue that was already an existing inefficiency and it will be interesting to see how much it impacts the big picture as ultimately we still need people to understand and debug all the biz critical code out there.
So again, not fraud. Just things they don't like.

And rather than set up a team to look for it and target the things they don't like, which would be more reasonable and more legal, they decided to shut entire agencies down and break 100% of operations.

PS it's a good thing that USAID is not a part of State.
Since not everyone remembers the Great American Recession or the origins of Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB), I link to a Nov. 2008 piece in Harper's magazine by Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi "Protect Financial Consumers": http://archive.harpers.org/2008/11/pdf/HarpersMagazine-2008-...

"For most of the country’s history, state and lo-
cal usury laws imposed modest consumer protec-
tions by setting caps on interest rates and fees. But
in 1978, a federal statute was used to bypass these
laws. Creditors quickly rewrote the rules, issuing un-
intelligible contracts that increased fees, penal-
ties, and interest rates. The fragmented financial
regulatory bodies that remain have operated as if
their main goal were lender profitability."

[...]

"The ever-widening information imbalance between
consumers and creditors has only made borrowers
easier marks. In a Federal Trade Commission study
conducted last year, for instance, nine in ten mort-
gage customers examining relatively straightforward
fixed-rate loan agreements could not figure out
the up-front costs on the loan; half could not iden-
tify the loan amount. Of all the borrowers who were
sold subprime mortgages in the past five years,
nearly 60 percent would have qualified for prime
mortgages if brokers had offered them; the sub-
prime mortgages carried so many rate escalators,
prepayment penalties, and other traps that even
would-be prime borrowers defaulted."

Elizabeth Warren back in this era was also famous for talking about the twin-income trap, here's a 2004 talk about 'The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akVL7QY0S8A&feature=youtu.be
Disagreed, competent businesses analyze this stuff at least a high level. Its why many of us spend so much time classifying various projects and efforts into capital expenditures. Large corps understand the value of a lawyer these days, who are highly specialized, because they can see the sort of returns it gets them. But at the end of the day they need to see why any effort is either earning them more money or costing them less money.
There are so, so many posts on HN about this and they're getting flagged, I would guess, because people can see this content on literally any corporate news site or a million different subreddits, and there's not much value to it being on HN specifically, and the conversation around these topics is never interesting or productive. I flag it because for these reasons, and also I'm ridiculously tired of seeing 6 different posts about Trump and Elon every single day.
I read the entire article and it doesn't mention what this "key" US tech agency even does.
$400M armored Tesla gov contract
Right. Who would be the first country the US might go to if it wanted to spy on it's citizens from abroad? Perhaps one who already does this for them using other methods such as wire tapping?
TTS runs Cloud.gov (government cloud provider similar to AWS) and FedRAMP certification. These aren't small programs.

TTS also runs data.gov, which hosts tens of thousands of local/regional datasets. I don't think there's anything close (please correct me if I'm wrong) to providing this level of access to this kind of data. Off the top of my head, data.gov has historical tap water data, lead/toxic substance tests in public spaces (schools), EV vehicle/charging infrastructure, crime data, air quality, etc. A lot of this data is collected at the regional/state level, but data.gov warehouses it all.
Maybe not the best testimonial. From what I've heard, Mastodon is a bit of a beast to scale. While some of this is probably due to ActivityPub (a la https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2022/11/14/scaling-mastodon/) itself, some of it may be related to Ruby's execution model: https://lukas.zapletalovi.com/posts/2022/why-mastodon-instan...

My issue with Ruby (and Rails) has always been the "ball of mud" problem that I feel originates from its extensive use of syntactical sugar and automagic.
you may not care about politics, but politics cares about you.
Just because you're ignorant doesn't mean the rest of us are.
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The existing downsides of a might-be-cancer hit on a test are real, for now - a statistically significant number of people with a breast cancer diagnosis end up killing themselves out of despair or doing radical surgery "to be sure", which detracts from the social benefit of mammograms. But there's no indication that they would persist if false positives were more common because proactive testing was more common. There would be a pipeline of followup testing and risk evaluation, which would be normalized by how common it was and how nonlethal diagnostic hits would become.

It would become "Oh, yeah, my cousin got a hit, but followup biopsy said it was a mutation that doesn't metastasize. Guess we'll see next week." rather than "My great-grandmother died of breast cancer, my mother died of breast cancer, my friend's aunt died of breast cancer, this feels like a death sentence", which is the information people who receive hits on their mammogram testing are acculturated with now.
State governments and politicians derive power from being able to control identity documents.

For example, they decide who can get the documents, what services they are valid for, the information collected to get one, etc.
Never ever give away anything for free if you intend to support it is an evergreen advice.

Selling ads? Using it as a gateway to a commercial product? Selling support? Have some genius business plan that allows you to make money in the future? Fine, give it away no strings attached but expecting that users will be grateful is a mistake developers keep repeating. The free users are just as entitled, even more entitled as they don’t have a price tag for your efforts and don’t have a document specifying what are your obligations so they can assume scope of entitlements anyway they wish.

Since you gave it for free, you can’t refund an unhappy customers to make it go away. If it looks like a product, You will be stuck with people who think they did their part by using your products and you failed them. Some may make it a full time job to take a revenge on this injustice.

I’m not even sure that these users are at fault, you actually took something in exchange(like fame, street cred etc) and you are not delivering your part.
I'd also say that there's a lot of technical detail in this, about how government systems work and what sort of access the doge-associated treasury employees have to them.

That seems like the sort of news about this that HN should keep.
That sounds thoroughly unremarkable by itself. A staffer asked for an explanation of something he was seeing and got one (he was incorrect about the data). This interaction repeats a zillion times per day for any consultancy project.
Yup, but it gets them out of my hair, and they understand the support guy isn't in a position to wave a magic wand for them. If sales guy wins his fight with the folks in charge and I get time / resources to work on his thing, fine with me.

Otherwise he knows he's 6th in line.
I wrote some stuff musing about this but it didn't make much sense so I'll just leave this quote and article as (hopefully) helpful context for folks.

> It is both a political issue and a practical one, and the idea of federalism is cited as supporting federated (regional) identification. All legislative attempts to create a national identity card have failed due to tenacious opposition from liberal and conservative politicians alike, who regard the national identity card as the mark of a totalitarian society. [0]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_documents_in_the_Unit...