skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Except that they, an unelected private group, have already attempted to get all private and confidential citizen data from the US treasury, and have been blocked by the courts as it is illegal.

It is not illegal. You can bookmark this comment for when it finally winds its way through the courts. Whether you love or hate the idea, this is a clearly legitimate exercise of executive authority and this judge is going to get smacked down hard, and the foolish abuse of TROs is going to wind up getting their use by lower-court judges severely curtailed. Read the legal justification in the orders yourself.

Unfortunately a lot of people have lost their minds over this, and are burning through their credibility - some judges and journalists included. I don't know why, other than Musk is a moron and a polarizing figure. The Alantic breathlessly quoting government employees terrified to file their taxes because they're afraid Elon Musk will have their bank account number and routing info had my eyes rolling into the back of my head. This is fearmongering, not journalism.

I don't understand why we can't oppose this without reporting on it honestly. The problem on matters like this seems to be getting much worse over time.

> They are unelected, and have been given unprecedented access to government data.

So is everyone else in the Treasury Department.
Pretty sure I read something long ago (20 years back?) about the 9900 and some strange problems in a missile controller application.

Turns out there was a variant called SBP9900 which was hardened for military use.
When it comes to government spending though, shouldn’t the public have a right to know precisely, with dollar-level accuracy what they are being asked to pay?

As far as the experiences of the Stasi and previous German governments, it must not have too much of a scar: Germany still asks people to register their religion — ostensibly for tax purposes, but if I recall correctly, Germany had a problem in the past with having a list of all people in a specific religion.
I killed so many slugs eating my broccoli it started to get to me. I technically didn't kill them myself, I put the cannibals in a bucket together. 1/3 to 1/2 bucket per day. About 30 full buckets for 20 broccoli plants of which about 8 were ruined.
European here. Governments in Europe, even ones that have GDPR on their books, literally act as oppressively as they want to act: U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users' encrypted accounts [1]

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/07/apple-e...
Craig's original post https://x.com/HCraigBlue/status/1892453976655765845
Is there a way to remove the author trust factor? I suppose you'd have to pay in crypto to keep it anonymous, and this app would give you a random QR for a strangers wallet. How can you confirm that it's not the authors wallet, or an alt. Seems tricky.

That said, a donor could do the same thing by dropping cash in an area with high pedestrian traffic, and walking away without looking back. That said, those interested in the data collection aspect would be disappointed by that method.
Surely it's 'dog mode'
> The executive branch is the branch that controls military, FBI, CIA, BATF, US Marshals - the law enforcement agencies with guns, tanks and planes. Congress and the Courts don't have any similar enforcers.

military and law enforcement also swear an oath to uphold the constitution of the united states and to defend the nation against threats, including domestic ones. I think it's reasonable that they would defy a president who went totally off the rails to the point where he became a threat and violated the constitution.
Take a bow.
I would not count on those separate databases using a common key. Joining could be quite a pain.
The curse of a poll. You always get more than you asked for because any question is too flat.
Here are a bunch of easy ones:

1. Don't write your passwords on paper next to your PC
2. Don't push production passwords to VC
3. Set up an e-mail spam filter
4. Follow the principle of least privilege

There's probably a bunch more and any decent LLM can give you a good starter list.
Discretionary income, really, not disposable. What we really should care about is the cash people have left over after they've paid for all their essentials, not just what's left over after taxes.

It might seem like it would sound impressive to say that someone has $20k/month of disposable income, but not so much if the housing market has gone crazy and groceries have become scarce and they have to spend $15k/month on a small apartment and barely enough food to feed themselves.
I generally agree, but the same thing also happens to Mullvad exit nodes (though not to the same degree.) Imgur is perpetually "over capacity", breaking images across multiple websites. Twitch tells me "your browser is not supported, try Chrome or Firefox" when trying to log in on Firefox. Netflix blocks all regional content, etc. Not to mention the constant Cloudflare captchas. I once had to use Tor because Mullvad was blocked (creating a foreign Steam account)

Google Search comes to mind as the most Tor-hostile website though, and that allows Mullvad just fine.
The executive branch was intended to be separate from the judicial and the legislative branch, not separate from itself.
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-purge-of-the-deep-sta...
That's... not how things work in general. It would be possible for an ISP to do that, and I'm sure somebody somewhere does, but they could do the exact same thing on v4 so you don't get to blame v6 for it.

If your ISP runs the default router for your own LAN, they'll have full visibility into it on both v4 and v6. That's just how IP works.
It's the other way around; the presidential pardoning power is limited to federal offenses.
The only issue I have with that claim (ignoring the obvious blurring between whether it's fraud or waste), is that it's all being reported by a single party with no validation or accountability.
It detects meetings automatically and pauses itself. Additionally, you can add apps to the deep focus apps list so when those are active, it never shows any breaks.

I've been evolving it for over a year and many such use cases have already been taken care of :)
Trump won 77,284,118 votes, or 49.8 percent of the votes cast for president.

Voter turnout nationally in 2024 was 63.9 percent (below the 66.6 percent voter turnout recorded in 2020).

So 31.8 percent of the eligible voters in the USofA voted for Trump in the 2024 elections, most eligible voters didn't vote for Trump.

Eligible Voters aside, an even greater percentage of people in the USofA didn't vote for Trump being too young or otherwise disenfranchised.

Of those that did vote for Trump it's a leap to say that all of them voted to fire the chief government records keeper, to empower DOGE to gut departments, etc; like Brexit, many of those who voted for it had no real idea what they had voted for.

In the campaign Trump ran to avoid jail he repeatedly stated he wasn't aware of the Project 2025 playbook, that he would be all things to all people. People who voted for Trump voted for what they heard, what they thought he promised.

Most of the citizens in the USofA did not vote Trump, not all of those voted to gut the government, the sciences, foreign aid, etc.
Not quite a majority, but a narrow plurality:

49.8% Trump, 48.3% Harris

Though you could include the .49% that voted for RFK (you'd maybe need to decide which side to add Jill Stein Green and Libertarian candidate too).
If you already have a job, you don't strictly need a different one. If you really need one, it should be okay to quit the old one first, perhaps work on open source as needed, then get a new one. As it is often said, looking for a job is a full-time job.
European here.

There are vast differences between how the different governments operate.
That's equivalent to emergencies being permanent and not subject to oversight.

There is very little difference between the president saying "there's an emergency until I say there isn't", and repeating every year, "there's an emergency for the next year".

Though that Wikipedia article does say that Congress is supposed to review emergency orders, but in practice they just let the president do whatever.
I know nobody likes doing tech interviews but how has AI killed it ? Anyways you do want to know basics of computer science, it is a helpful thing to know if you ever want to progress beyond CRUD shitshovelling.

Also wtf is inverting a binary tree ? Like doing a "bottom-view". That shit is easy.
The problem that Rust runs into is that the community settled on wanting enforced semver extremely quickly, combined with an overall tendency to really not want to do post-1.0 releases if they can help it.

The result is that most Rust crates sit on the 0.x version forever (since anything before 1.0 in semver is pretty much a free-for-all), even though they're probably going to be perfectly usable in most cases with the same library breakage you expect in other languages.

IMO it just shows another dent in thinking that a simple string can confer any information about the API contracts on offer. Semver is a neat indicator, but practically that's all it is.
Not gonna lie, sitting here in a collapsing and feckless Europe, I'm supper jelly.
Yes, like the 7 DoJ prosecutors who chose to resign last week rather than sign a dismissal of the charges against Eric Adams, because it was an obvious quid pro quo, and the case against Adams is very strong. There's absolutely no legitimate justification for not prosecuting Adams.

The dismissal was eventually signed and filed by Emil Bove, a very recent Trump appointee, whose former job was as one of Trump's criminal defense lawyers.

The stink of corruption is heavy around Trump and Musk.
That's orthogonal to what op is saying.

You're saying agencies can be directed to opress people and organisations.

Op is saying agencies don't get to willy nilly look into the db of other agencies.
Then you're playing Balatro.
All systems should have an upper limit harder to them, it's not that hard to implement and it's just an ultimate safeguard.

In the backend, limit image size to say 50mb, the number of images a user can upload to 1k and the amount of users that can be signed up to 10k. Then you have some numbers which will let you say "regardless of what happens, I've got a hard cap of 1 TB of stored data".

You don't have to show the user their usage and you can always lift the caps with a deployment. What you don't want to happen is a side-project costs you tens of thousands because one fool thought it was funny to upload a million hi-res pictures of Rick Astley while you were asleep.

Slightly more work would be to limit the number of images that a user can upload in 15 minutes. Or depending on what your signup flow is making a user confirm their email but putting a short delay in sending the email out.
$10k/month (after taxes) for the rest of your life? Ok, I agree. But if it’s just for the next couple of years, it’s certainly not a game changer.
Have fun with that

https://hackaday.com/2017/01/03/make-logic-gates-out-of-almo...
Google Career Dreamer
You call the first and one of the most successful democracies in the world a monarchy/dictatorship? The American Executive branch is given broad powers since the very beginning and considering the success there might be something to it.

In contrast the Europeans have descended into petty mass wars and dictatorial regimes multiple times, and each time America has come to save Europe through that very Executive branch.

A bit thankless don't you think?
Doge isn’t private. They are government employees. Also USAID was unelected. Nobody working at the IRS was elected either.
> So not only is it normal that the president defers to agency heads on the interpretation of the applicable law that they are experts in, it is the only way the system can function.

[Emphasis mine.]

Yes, well said. This is the ultimate bottom line argument!

The Constitution might as well not exist if individual actors with expertise the President does not have, are not expected to put their specialized understanding of previous orders, laws and precedent (and reality!!!) ahead of who they report to.
While I appreciate many routine bug fixes and some longtime awaited features and UI improvements, Affinity apps still lacks general stability, UI consistency, and a huge number of essential features, making it hard to use these apps in professional context of for critical work.

The are no official statistics, but from own observation and counting the evolution of key indicators is very bad and going into the wrong direction:

Rate of solved long term issues (for basic/essential functionality) stays constant or going down. E.g.

Wrong handling of alpha channel adjustments layers
Rendering issues depending on zoom level
Merge down leading to blurriness
Handling of layer or position or size leading to blurriness
Unable to render 16 bit color depth within the app
Wrong CMYK color profile preview / soft proofing (paper simulation)

Rate of features implemented (based on user feedback in forum) low
(E.g. LTR writing, handling of 1-bit BW documents, missing vector trace, supporting functions for game devs like zero in alpha channel, PAR (pixel aspect ratio), blend tool, …

Instead Affinity often adds features which where never requested by users before and server only small very user groups (astrophotography stacking)

Countless regressions of UI bugs (UI elements not working/unusable)

Some „design decisions“ of the developers are insane:
- older releases unable to open files edited by newer releases (this effects almost every minor release), so all users working as team or family must always upgrade to latest
iPad versions lacks dozens of essential functions available on Desktop versions. Gap increases with every release
Instead of fixing bugs for existing functionality, Affinity introduces new functions, covering the use same use case by a totally different workflow. E.g. combining blend ranges and mask layers vs. Live mask layers.

If needed I can provide links to relevant posts in the official Affinity user forum proving these claims.
softmax is badly named and should rather be called softargmax.
Funny how just over the past few years things have gone from: "Is Google getting worse?"

To: "Google is definitely getting worse?!"

To: "Google is getting worse unintentionally, because they're incompetent." (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40133976 - 878 comments)

To: "Google is getting worse intentionally, because they're malicious."

I feel like they can still turn the ship around, but jeez they've got their work cut out for them. On the PR front as well as in terms of engineering and vision.
That's a bad-faith argument. Yes, it's true that both parties engage in gerrymandering. But Republicans do it a lot more than Democrats do.

Out of the 25 examples in your second link, it seems like 23 of them are GOP gerrymanders?
In my experience Discord is mostly popular among the gamers. Not for me personally, I find Discord bloated and overwhelming. Slack for work is barely tolerable
> WTF is this hobby coding bullshit expectations? What other professions expect you do more work after work as a hobby and show it? Do bus drivers film themselves driving busses after work as a hobby? Do surgeons cut up people in their spare time as a hobby?

I think programming has more commonality with other creative, 'soft' jobs like graphic design (which itself can involve programming), architecture, media, marketing, etc than meets the eye.

Many of these roles require that applicants have some sort of portfolio that can be perused by the interviewer freely. I feel co-opting that word—'portfolio'—would do us software developers a big favour instead of trivialising outside-of-work programming as 'side projects' or 'hobbies'.
Doge doesn’t need a congressional mandate. There’s Article II.
It's not about needing or not needing a car.

I perceive in the US this general distaste for "things that benefit society as a whole" versus "things that benefit me, all else be damned".

Many things here in Europe don't benefit me directly, and I pay taxes for that. And I think that is a good thing. I can still live a fairly comfortable life, could buy a house, raise a family, have nice things, etc.

A nice public park may not benefit you directly, but it doesn't mean it is not something desirable to have around. "I can't live in a public park" is indicative of a pervasive attitude that irks me to no end.

May all public parks near you become concrete parking locations. Then you can park your car there.
Hopefully it can fill the void in Linux and Windows Systems.
And please without subscription. If it works fine id love to pay 50$+ like the Alfred Powerpack
A big upside; with chickens you have the best possible composting system. They will eat almost all food waste. (but, please be careful to avoid the small number of foods which are unhealthy for chickens) And, they turn that waste into compost. Depending on volume, they can also completely handle leaves, grass clippings, and other yard waste. For leaves, they love to scratch through them and will poop on them. They'll break down the leaves in record time.
Regardless of the actual implementation, do you agree that it's likely much easier to match data when you have it in an organized digital form than an organized physical form?
I had a leaky air freshener attached to wall, it dripped on top of baseboard, the chemicals did a better job removing the paint on the baseboard that regular paint removers…
And, as I stated, your own sources say it's a mild improvement at best. Despite what you're insinuating.

Listen: it's a fun toy. Engineers love toys and shiny distractions.

Don't confuse shiny rocks for gold.
The Amazon Appstore for Android devices will be discontinued on August 20, 2025
I would personally say that the time delay between that pop-up displaying and you needing to have already been that pessimistic will be a matter of nanoseconds.
Just imagine one second if Poutine really have a file on Trump and this is the ultimate holdup to give Russia access to all US systems...
I respect them for not immediately renaming the Gulf of Mexico in their product to cater to the whims of the current administration, enough to download the app as a situational replacement for Google Maps. But I’m confused by this. It seems even more insulting in some ways, especially since they don’t even include the most basic moderation / blocked word list.
Sounds about right. Trump worships Putin, and Putin misses the Soviet Union.
What I found significant here is that Trump (yesterday) and/or the Whitehouse stated that Elon Musk does not work for Doge and has no authority over it at all, that Elon Musk has no authority regarding anything and is solely an advisor to the president.

Of course, in practical terms "in the field" this is obviously not the case. But I wouldn't be surprised if it was Elon's ego that triggered this: that at the end of the day needing a pardon would be an insult and would bruise his ego so he wants to prevent any pathway for him to be charged with a crime. I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know if the Doge "interns" would need one regardless.
The issue lies in a number of areas:

1. Politicians are watching their favorite pork barreling disappear day by day

2. Since Trump was elected President the waste identified is going to be what Trump thinks is waste

3. The job of the Democrats is to get elected, and you don’t get elected by sitting by as your opponent keeps doing things many voters are supporting, you try and stop it

Because government waste is high on the list of priorities of many voters and DOGE seems to have only improved Trump’s approval rating, the Democrats can’t come out and say “stop cutting government waste”!

So instead they try to politically attack DOGE by saying many of them are young (so are the soldiers we send overseas to fight wars), they are unelected (so are all government workers), they aren’t allowed to do this (to be determined by courts) and they are cutting the wrong things (the voters will decide this in the end).

So if you like what DOGE is doing, sit back and buckle up because it’s going to be a bumpy ride.
'Audit' is not something where you turn in the keys to your locker unconditionally to some random stranger who just walks in making demands. Audits are based on pre-determined and documented criteria, with the participation and supervision of responsible in-house officials. They just check if everything is in order. Auditors are rarely given unsupervised access to any data - especially to sensitive information. Meanwhile, the auditors themselves have to be held to a high level of integrity - elimination of conflicts of interest being the most important. This is a sham audit if it can be considered to be one at all.
I read heading and thought jumped: How are they gonna test eggs for phentanyl?
Nice reading. But...

> And of course, we must defeat git.

What's wrong with this guy and Git ?
my mother in law brings us two dozen eggs every week. I laugh at her for raising chickens and giving them names. Who's laughing now?
Have you read Article II?
This actually makes me wonder if it is possible to preserve post-startup state and then restore it as a way to mitigate long computational stage during startup. I bet it is, maybe we could just serialize the application context and restore it.
In the opening blog post they mentioned it to be 1 m tokens.
Trump primarily cares about two things:

1) Staying out of prison

2) Being adored

What happens to the country is beside the point, from his perspective. Which is why he's more than happy to let Musk and the Heritage Foundation call the shots. He has no interest in actually running things, that's too much work.
You can make logic gates out of almonds???
Trumperor and Darth Musk
Europe has more or less managed to avoid descending into a mass war for almost a century now, if we assume the one brewing now is just a mirage, so basically they've got it all figured out and their smugness is totally justified.

This is what democracy looks like, Americans should learn from Germany's example:

> According to the court document, the public prosecutor stated “public interest” in pressing criminal charges as the retweet was “punishable as an insult against people of political life”. It potentially constituted “incitement of the people”.

> Publicly insulting a politician has been a criminal offence in Germany since 2021 when a set of laws “against hate and hate speech” were passed under then-chancellor Angela Merkel.

https://brusselssignal.eu/2024/11/german-police-raid-mans-ho...
Culture is more important on whether or not a country can slide into a dictatorship.

Americans are ultimately conditioned to accept leadership.
Belgians have never and never will agree on anything.
They already are, via cabinet members and their deputies/undersecretaries. Those people are appointed by the president, but need to be confirmed by the Senate as a check on the president's power.

Trump is doing another end run around the confirmation process with his "liaisons".
> some lousy newspaper doesn’t want to address it, trying to pull some conclusions out of thin air, mis- and disinforming the people makes me sick.

Would you agree that from an outsider’s perspective, reading your thoughts here without citations and with a lot of wide-ranging assertions looks a lot like pulling conclusions out of thin air?

If data exists that vaccinating resulted in more harm than good on anything other than a very small scale (e.g. only looking at folks that experienced an adverse reaction), I would imagine it would be very interesting to a lot of people, including me.

Even if you are speaking purely anecdotally, myself, my immediate and extended family, all received at least three vaccinations, for a total of somewhere around 100 vaccinations, and none experienced side effects worse than a sore arm and a bit of a runny nose.