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Because it is. The "government agency" which is the subject of this thread was named after a Reddit meme, and it's run by a redpilled cringelord shitposter who uses terms like "woke mind virus" and "shadow government," and some tech-bro incels who trade Nazi memes on Discord.

There is nothing about the American government that is serious anymore. The US is not a serious country run by serious people, it's a clownshow and a kleptocracy.
Like went from we're doing it to maybe not so much in record time. This is the "Flood with Shit" plan
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Well, I wonder if this is a good time for people to reconsider what they actually want out of Asahi. Things that I'm sure are on the list are open source, able to run the tools they want (standard gnu userland?), docker, maybe gnome/kde? I am not convinced that the linux kernel specifically is on that list.
They aren't going to dismantle the IRS, not when he and his friends are in a position to benefit from it.
..."can't put the clock back" doesn't literally mean that you can't change the time on a clock. It's referring to not being able to go back and change things that already happened.

This is true. There are things that, once done, cannot be undone. You can try to fix their consequences. You can change what you do going forward, so that the thing would not be done that way again. But you can't, say, un-kill an executed innocent.
Perl was my primary language for eight years and I can't genuinely think of a good example. Even in situations where there are fantastic packages for certain tasks, like with Mojolicious for WebSockets, you can do the same in Node, Go, Ruby, Python, or pretty much anything else now, so it ultimately comes down to preferring the language in most cases.
On Twitter one can see various deepfaked ads of Elon Musk pushing various crypto schemes.

I can't think of any clearer indication that absolutely nothing is being done about these scam ads.

To me it seems like a clear indication that he's lost control of the platform.
Repurposing a comment I made when this was first reported:

This was 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
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What's interesting or new about it? It's deeply concerning politically and as a US Citizen, but there's nothing happening that hasn't happened numerous times throughout history. There's nothing intellectually interesting or stimulating on these stories and there's dozens and dozens of other websites available to get into political debates if that's your motive.
Aspiring pancreatic cancer survivor here. This is excellent news. Part of the reason this is such a deadly form of cancer is that there are often no symptoms until it's far too late. I know that there is a blood marker - CA19 - can indicate issues with the pancreas. I don't know if this blood test is related to that or anything, but any advancements on this disease are great and sorely needed.
No, I think you're misunderstanding.

It looks like in a week, they uncovered over $100M, maybe $200M in fraud (I'm not keeping close track), if you count million-dollar "executive coaching" contracts as fraud (I do). It's most likely telling their friend outside the government "hey, I got some extra budget — you be my 'executive coach,' and we'll split the proceeds."

They've found billions in things that we should not be spending our money on while our own people die of drug overdoses, homeless in the street. Things "we don't like" as you say.
How do the "mail-in" samples compare against the Amazon "take a dab of stool and mix it in this bottle and look for a color change" test kits?
Without more color, aren't you guilty of "tearing down their fence?"

Seems like a forced meta critique.
Capitalism is always looking for ways to make complex, expensive work simpler and cheaper. Why wouldn't it?

The thing is it doesn't really matter what tools you use. The problems are complex and they don't become simpler just because you use an LLM. We will gain a bit of efficiency and then spend that gain on whatever new problems LLMs throw up plus the constant stream of new problems the world generates.

Software engineers are not getting replaced by LLMs any more than they are by UML, visual programming tools, RPA, MDD, code generators or any of the other fads that have come and gone over the years.
Witty isn't it. It seems to have all the hallmarks of the same "total cost of ownership" study of Linux that Microsoft issued during Ballmer's years...
I find this insane, considering how important I find it now.

Honestly, I didn't take enough CS to get into functional langs, but I did learn what a lambda was. The importance of it all came later, after years of struggling with bugs in million-line codebases that wouldn't have even existed in an immutable, functional language without inheritance.
It's also not truthful because many of the Rust maintainers are long time C contributors.

Marcan also linked to this resignation of a Rust Maintainer:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240828211117.9422-1-wedsonaf@...

which references this fantastic exchange:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiPp9YEBV0Q&t=1529s

I am not a C person, or a kernel level person, I just watch this from the sideline to learn something every now and then (and for the drama). But this exchange is really stunning to me. It seems so blatantly obvious to me that systematically documenting (in code!) and automatically checking semantic information that is required to correctly use an API is a massive win. But I have encountered this type of resistance (by very smart developers building large systems) in my own much smaller and more trivial context. To some degree, the approach seems to be: "If I never write down what I mean precisely, I won't have to explain why I changed things." A more charitable reading of the resistance is: Adding a new place where the semantics are written down (code, documentation and now type system) gives one more way in which they can be out of sync or subtly inconsistent or overly restrictive.

But yeah, my intuitive reaction to the snippet above is just incredulity at the extreme resistance to precisely encoding your assumptions.
And yesterday I learned they’re shielded from FOIA despite whatever transparency was promised.
2500W on 240V, single phase AC, 16A, German 'Schuko'-plug is normal. Or was. Some EU-regulation limits that to 2000, or even 1500W only now, for new devices, or something.

Don't care. Still have the old ones, and whatever the electrician wired as '120V 3-phase AC' for the full US-style range in the US.
I don't use DAP so I can't help you there. I use vim for editing code. When I need to debug I run lldb or gdb in a separate tmux window, if I need to see the code I enable TUI mode. There are many wrappers including TermDebug, Vimspector, termdbg, etc. to add visual breakpoints, but I have never found them necessary - because again gdb/lldb can already show you the code in various formats including assembly. It sounds like you are using Pycharm in exactly the same way you can already use a standalone debugger.

For Python I find a built in debugger especially unnecessary. Most interpreted languages have a debugger that can be triggered from the source code to drop into an interpreter, and Python is no exception - see pdb and breakpoint().
User facing? No. Backend batch job services? Absolutely. Taint checking and strict would be globally mandatory. Every service would be aware of all other services and degrade gracefully.
"we were still stuck without DP Alt Mode (a feature which required deep reverse engineering, debugging, and kernel surgery to pull off, and which, if it were to be implemented properly and robustly, would require a major refactor of certain kernel subsystems or perhaps even the introduction of an entirely new subsystem)."

Few maintainers care about the platform in question (to whom it's more a curiosity like maybe 68k), and don't have the hardware to test any submitted patches. It's painful to have to accept code that you can't test (though it may be common in certain parts of the kernel). It's painful to see a bunch of changes for just one random feature on a random platform. It's unclear how the code will affect other platforms, etc.

Now throw in some controversial stuff. The vendor of the platform is Apple and some patches are written in Rust... oh em gee!
Or we could just not muck around with pricing of everything in the country to save 2.5% just because tech bros think everything should cost $20/month.

Are we trying to save money so we can waste a bunch more money on rust bucket cybertrucks? Or is that money we would save for the sovereign wealth fund so we can build a trump dump in Gaza? At least we were already able to save 2% by starving some people and owning the libs. Good job.
For anyone who complains, everyone knows.

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
Generally firebase / supabase do a very good job of providing client sdks to access database directly without the need of a server.

That way your data is still in cloud and you don't actually need a server.
Windows has the worst font rendering of all time. Baby steps, I guess? The difference is marginal.
Yes, I wasn't trying to imply that it was a good approach to apply to the US government. ;_;
I feel you, I had this problem when I worked making marketing websites for a really scummy company and realized I wasn’t making the world a better place. I got burnt out.

I got a new job, I do websites and CRUD apps still, but it’s in service of a large multinational construction company, and seeing engineers and the actual boots on the ground doing construction work really makes me feel like the stuff I’m making means something.

We get an opportunity to go out in the field sometimes and it was an eye opener, a “small” construction site may employee 800 people and have people working round the clock.

There are ways to make this work meaningful, you just have to seek it out. Wish you all the best.
I don't really follow what's objectionable about Ted's email, or why it's being singled out. It matches my experience as an open source maintainer pretty accurately. It's also pretty constructive (it goes on to lay out a plan on how to constructively proceed and make everyone happy).
An interesting thing I read -- which unfortunately I can't find the link to now, will try to add it -- is that back in the '60s the US government had 2.5 M employees with a budget of ~$600B in today's dollars. Today's budget is 10x that, with about the same number of employees.

The gov spending problem is not in how many people it employs, which is actually quite efficient all things considered (though certainly there is room to streamline and increase efficiency, and I'm all for that), but how many contracts it farms out to _private entities_ (95% of its expenses).

The fact that the person wanting to purge gov expenses by cutting employees while receiving Billions in gov contracts is ... well, something you might expect to see in Russia, or Nigeria.
They'll get around to it, they always do.
I think you could convince people that their municipal water treatment facility is waste and fraud. They're dumping the chemicals into the water! And for what reason? It already comes out of the tap just fine; why do I need to keep paying for those useless bureaucrats?
This administration (at least) thinks they spent an entire term learning, and now ith a 4-year gap are "hitting the ground running". The people were promised "we will quicky change and fix everything"; this is "we will quickly change everything", declare mission accomplished and hope they get lucky or maybe the dropped words won't be noticed.
“Have you tried our native app? Please please please download our stupid app PLLLEEEEASE?!?!!??!”
Texas already pulled similar shenanigans under their Voter ID law preventing married woman from voting through that mechanism. They seem pretty determined to prevent people from voting as a means to hold on to power.
Obviously this depends on _where_ you're working, but personally, I like the plumber metaphor -- nobody notices the plumber until things aren't working properly and by then you're in deep shit.

Software is working great: Everything's working great, why do we pay you again!?

Software is broken: Everything's broken, why do we pay you!?
Not to mention that the radicalisation and terrorism USAID helped prevent from fomenting has likely saved the US many trillions in rebuilding efforts and healthcare.
> And then he can't help himself. After being so reasonable, he throws shade on Rust. Shade that is just unfortunately, just false?

Many discussions online (and offline) suffer from a huge-group of people who just can't stop themselves from making their knee-jerk reactions public, and then not thinking about it more.

I remember the "Filesystem in Rust" video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiPp9YEBV0Q&t=1529s) where there are people who misunderstand what the "plan" is, and argue against being forced to use Rust in the Kernel, while the speaker is literally standing in front of them and saying "no one will be forced to use Rust in the Kernel".

You can literally shove facts in someone's face, and they won't admit to being wrong or misunderstand, and instead continue to argue against some points whose premise isn't even true.

I personally don't know how to deal with this either, and tend to just leave/stop responding when it becomes clear people aren't looking to collaborate/learn together, but instead just wanna prove their point somehow and that's the most important part for them.
No billions will be wasted, Elon is gonna get a new lucrative contract.
> I do not understand why it is "alongside"

Because that makes it more difficult.
The problem is that there are legal definitions for fraud, but Trump and Musk are very prone to calling any spending they don't personally agree with "fraud".

The rule of law is important. This is not rule of law.
Elon is calling for any judge that opposes his actions to be impeached.
Do you guys require security clearances (in USA locations)?

Can you do visa sponsorship for the German location for Americans?
US has backdoor to icloud ADP?
I do not think this is a substantial source of power for state governments
The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) is the body doing that meta-analysis and writing recommendations. The recommendations are for general patients (high-risk patients should be identified and guided by their doctors), and are based on how much the screening/prevention will extend or improve patients' lives. The USPSTF explicitly does not consider monetary cost.

https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recomme...
> I hope they have a good think about what they're doing.

They probably did, if you look at it from a perspective of deliberately ruining the government. It looks like they are trying to reduce the government to nothing more than the IRS. Everything else will either get permanently trashed (any kind of consumer protection), sold off for parts, or contracted out to a private company started by one of their buddies.

Yeah, it might result in a very chaotic transition period, but these people don't care. They are rich enough that it's not going to personally affect them, and in the end they'll end up even richer. The entire goal right now is to do so much damage that it is going to take decades to restore - if it's even possible at all.
I wonder if there's a service provider who can help manage all these - akin to your lawyer or "will contract"
It's more nuanced than "let DOGE in and review that"

> Gioeli [told the court], however, that Elez may have "occasionally" taken screen shots of payment system data or records to share with a second DOGE employee working with him at Treasury
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Tons of dev workflows nowadays use docker which in practice means they require Linux.
Against SMS as the only second factor, for sure!
This is already functionaly broken for them, but they can make it even better/worser
As we know, the only important things that exist are things that you are personally aware of.
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The flagging system has good intentions, but seems like it was designed assuming good faith behavior from users. It does not appear to be resistant to partisan brigading.
Good for them for at least understanding at that point. The typical response is to say "I get that, I really do—can you move this one to the front of the line for me?" and then maybe a vague threat like "I can talk to your manager if it would help".
Defeating fingerprinting is a really hard problem to solve. So hard that literally nobody has solved it, because exposing all those capabilities are necessary for a lot of sites and webapps to function.

You say that hiding IP addresses somehow benefits Google -- all I see is them doing something they can do that consumers want. It's not benefiting Google strategically in some way.

My point is, I don't see how anyone can possibly complain about this effort from a privacy point of view. Sure it's not solving fingerprinting, but nobody knows how to do that.
Its not really an interpretation- he has literally talked about this as his playbook dozens of times.

One step in the playbook is reduce - “if you dont break things 10% of the time then you are not reducing enough” is almost verbatim what he has said, and done, for all of his companies.

I strongly disagree with my fellow Americans that government systems should be immune to this process or that people will be harmed. This sensitivity to perceived harm is a problem in and of itself.
That might be a cultural issue then. From what I see in the USA people don’t even trust their own family members.
Well, stop accusing people who's work you don't know of being wishy-washy.

The challenge is not dictating from high above some criteria; the challenge is discovering the criteria that will let the Linux project continue development as well as can be arranged. This is why you'll hear Linus say it's a learning experience, and not just make proclamation of how things shall be (at this stage).
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There's several judges that have made decisions adverse to Elon's actions and I'm not sure why you think they are activist aside from Elon's self-serving description of them. Where did you see that their decisions were overturned, I have not seen that anywhere. The last I did see on the issue is that Elon is calling for all of them to be impeached.
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> their personal goals are simply not aligned with the goals that would be helping the country.

When people express worry over superhuman-AI alignment on forums like this, I find myself wishing they'd shift focus to the fact that we actually already have a problem with the mis-alignment of super-human entities in the form of large corporations and the billionaires who control them. (And yes, governments too; the whole point of our democratic form of government is that it's supposed to keep that behemoth better aligned with the values and will of "the people".)

To me it seems obvious that keeping a misaligned super-AGI from destroying humanity and keeping billionares and large multinational corporations from destroying humanity with climate change in the long-term or just degrading our quality of life (via pollution, wealth inequality, etc.) in the short term are really just differences of degree and not of kind.

But we actually have the latter problem right now, and, as a bonus, if we can figure out better ways of aligning our carbon-based and economic-legal system "overlords" in the present maybe it helps point us toward a better way of aligning our potential silicon-based "overlords" in the future.
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> but there's nothing happening that hasn't happened numerous times throughout history

I respectfully, and with great concern, disagree.
Perhaps it is no longer realistic to push such a huge changeset into linux anymore. Could this be solved with some hypervisor layer? That is, a hypervisor doing most of the work (in rust) and a small support layer upstreamed into the kernel? Of course, no actual virtualization is even necessary. Just some kind of ABI to the kernel running underneath.