skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If people checking that the records make sense isn't kosher; why do they need to store those records? The government only really needs to hand out money and the technical details can happen somewhere else; sign them up for #n recurring payments, keep some anonymised aggregate stats and throw away the records. They can even keep their own records signed off by the government; we have the tech where none of this stuff needs to be stored centrally.

I mean, even if it was as simple "$n recurring payments for $drug to $SSN over $period", that absolutely is sensitive private information, especially when linked to originally entirely separate but equally critical records about someone's employment by a body tasked with firing people...

It absolutely makes sense for records to be audited with great care by qualified people in an airgapped environment with anonymization by default, but that's not what's happening here, is it? It's like I'm actually pretty convinced that it's necessary for the state to be able to arrest and incarcerate people, but I'm not convinced that the "due process" bit doesn't matter or that untrained edgelords to be making the decisions on incarceration is fundamentally the same as having police, prosecution and a trial to lock people up. I don't think the answer to the fact I might not like every executive the electorate votes in (or every law that exists) is to defund police, I think the answer is to have due process, and not due process that is de facto abolished on the day a new executive assumes power. It's much the same with governments being able to store some data

> We can call anyone a script kiddie. I know some people who do data analysis for government health departments. Calling them a script kiddie wouldn't be respectful but they are youthful and do run scripts.

I think it's a pretty accurate description for a 19 year old whose short and undistinguished career history involves being fired from an internship at a cybersecurity firm for leaking its secrets to a competitor, and soliciting DDoS attacks on The Com.

Certainly better than "very well vetted".

I imagine young people you know that do data analysis for health departments have more auditing experience, fewer red flags, very carefully controlled access to data and senior people training them and checking their work. They would, I imagine, also be competent enough to be unlikely to confuse $8b and $8m when estimating cost savings...
I loved the "3.3.1 Personality" section, with 18 attributes.

You could take any five of those attributes, any five sections, cut and paste them into a blog, and it would be a nice but middling post. Five good things to be reminded of. Nice quotes.

Probably a good post for applying to lots of other jobs besides software engineering.

But a comprehensive list of 18 distinct attributes becomes more. The extremely tight intersection you get from all 18 personality constraints creates the clearest picture of a "great software engineer" that I have found yet.

Comprehensive coverage adds depth and clarity all its own. Bravo.
Wouldn’t you expect some sort of forensic accountant leading an audit of a multi trillion dollar organization?
Curious what's your questions that's really unanswered?
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Yeah 99% is sour grapes from the other team. I like what doge has turned up so far and will give them the benefit of the doubt. My wife is a long time liberal Democrat and even she admits the main problem is Musk is just doing out in the open what is usually done behind closed doors and people don’t like it.
This isn't really true though... The US tech sector owns big salaries right now.
this article is 100% about food security
Related to a comment on a now-flagged subthread: can anyone who believes that DOGE is uncovering fraud please post a reliable reference that gives a specific example of fraud uncovered by DOGE? To be clear, this should be a third-party analysis of some credibility, not DOGE's or Musk's twitter feed or "receipts" website which shows cancelled contracts with no clear link to fraudulent activity.
DOGE can't fire anyone, only agency directors can.

Secondly, Trump has clearly stated that Musk is not permitted to act where he has a conflict, and the agency directors will be aware of this.

Thirdly, you're giving examples of DOGE "firing" people in agencies where they aren't even active yet.
As someone with a traumatic brain injury, I get a lot of migraines. My favorite piece of advice from a doctor? 'Allow yourself to relax'.......sure.....that's the issue.....
Mathematics isn't English. You don't wear the ring of integers on your finger, and you can't play football on the field of real numbers.

You're the first person I ever see that pretends to be confused by what XOR means. It means what it means, what is this semantic debate going to do for you?
>I was allowed to use any programming language because they knew them all (allegedly).

After 30 years of doing this, I find that typically the people who claim to know a lot often know very little. They're insecure in their ability so much that they've tricked themselves into not learning anything.
Using dark mode to save energy? You might want to rethink
> IMHO it's a bit of a shame that the productivity and efficiency gains that computing and cybernetics can bring to complex systems

They're just firing people at random, they haven't discovered any innovative new way to make systems more efficient.

("at random" is a bit generous and ignores the retaliation against political adversaries)
I think it has to do a lot with C vs Alef/Limbo.

Go has had a strong influence from P9-flavoured C; the first Go compiler was derived directly from P9 CC, and it took the route of generating machine code rather than using a bytecode VM; instead opting for near-trivial cross-compilation (again, very much in P9 style). Even the Go CI/CD workers ran on Plan 9 (I don't know if they still do).

Plan 9 has also had a very strong influence on wmii, dwm, and suckless.org in general; the suckless people consider C and rc as the least-sucky programming languages. There are some pretty strong ties/cross-influences between suckless, 9front, cat-v (RIP Uriel), etc.

Meanwhile 9front is de facto the only community seriously dedicated to carrying the torch. It just looks like Inferno/Limbo (despite having actually been deployed in production by Lucent) turned out to be a dead-end after all.
Can anyone provide a reference on what those file permissions mean? I can make a guess but when I searched around, could not find anything about unix v2 permissions. ls output looks so familiar, except for the sdrwrw!
When your last name is Null, nothing works
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It's the definition of "exists" that is contested. To me, the infinity of anything is a generator (a program that continues to print digits). Does some infinite number exists "now"? Not really (it's being printed). But is the number being printed larger than any given integer? Yes. So, does infinity exists? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

"The Emperor's New Mind" is a great book on this and related topics.
Just stop. The sentence before the one you said is flatly wrong mentions “independent agencies” — those are the “quasi-legislative” agencies like the FTC.

The other poster was right and you posted case law proving their point.
"What happens to my apps after the discontinuation of the Amazon Appstore on Android?"

"Starting August 20, 2025, any apps downloaded from the Amazon Appstore will not be guaranteed to operate on Android devices.
Amazon Appstore will continue to be available elsewhere, including on Fire TV and Fire Tablet devices. "
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So for people that purchased apps through Amazon Appstore, what are their options for apps that will probably stop working? If there are no options for a refund, then this is another reason not to purchase items that you never truly own.
If they have security clearance then the audit would be legal?
Not sure how killing things and then not eating them is morally superior. If you aren't eating meat you are probably getting most of your calories from grains and legumes. The people that grow and store those for you are killing a lot of animals to get them to your grocery store.
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> See I know something of what actually wanting to fix the government's waste fraud and abuse would look like. It would be beefing up the IRS (where every dollar more than pays for itself), it would be banning people in congress from buying individual stocks; it would be a lot of things that deeply nerdy policy wonks have been saying for years.

Where can I vote for these changes??
Six, and the art of staying in the game
Vegan diets are only OK if very, very well calibrated for macro and micro nutrients.
These vending machines exist where few people are
> Given that it is down to the voters, and they thought a racist, rapist, conman should be president

And multiply-bankrupt, and (on the second term) multiply-convicted felon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_and_business_legal_af...

Vox populi, vox Dei, but unfortunately the Deus in question is Κοάλεμος
For it to be bait and switch someone should've said "Rust will forever be only for drivers". Has anyone from the Linux leadership or R4L people done that? To my knowledge it has always been "for now".
Axel Voss is a plain lobbyist and shouldn't be consulted on such topics at all.

His impotent finger pointing is pure populism.
> trying to reduce the size of the government are his prerogative as elected leader

No, that function is within the purview of the legislature, not the executive branch.
Damn. That's some dedication. I really like the personal story, therein. You don't always see that, in STEM stuff.

I hope that their relationship deals well with the new reality, now that their principal goal has been achieved.
Ah, I understand what you go through now. In our case, they came with the parts that we said we gonna need, see that whatever device is dead with their eyes, and just replaced the problematic part.

When the BIOS or the iDRAC is shot, there's no way they gonna get their support ZIP file. If they want they can connect that dead I/O board to a spare part and try. :)
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Yes imagine. So it’s pretty clear the other team is overreacting just like the current team would overreact.
They will twist the narrative and not provide any evidence. I appreciate your request but please don’t be naive. Have you heard of trolling?
You're still going to come back to a child who's learned "Real chicken nuggets come in dinosaur shapes, are very salty, have a uniform breading, and don't require teeth to chew". He's going to think your dish doesn't quality.
I wonder if at some point it would be better to adopt an already existing macro language like M4 instead of reinventing everything and adding a ton of features into the CPP.
Hey there! Founder of Opsmaru here. I didn't expect the post to get to the first page after it didn't get upvoted when I first posted it. Happy to answer any questions about the product and this post!
That doesn't actually argue anything, though. One group can be wrong about something, and another group can be right about a similar thing in a different context and different time.

(For the record, I don't agree with GP, and do believe that we'll have free and fair elections in 2028.)
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How would such an attack work?
You can use a Quest with a Quest account which is not linked to a Facebook account.

The Quest is a standalone headset that is basically an Android device, you can run applications and games on it, walk anywhere you want with it, etc. You can hook it up to a PC with a special cable and use it for PCVR

The Valve Index on the other hand is basically a monitor that you attach to your PC. It can support much bigger and graphically better experiences but you are always attached to your PC via a cable.

I don't know if it requires a Steam account, but the intention behind it is that you'll install games with Steam which requires an account.
Seems like you can sell CRUD operations
I'm more shocked that the MSX2 graphics chip (before the plus revision) had a "screen adjust" register but no border blanking for horizontal scrolling. Massive miss there, much worse than the lack of scrolling on the original TMS9918 which was developed at a time where scrolling wasn't all that common.
What is nutritionally wrong with eggs?
Hi all， As a crypto developer, I recently designed a new encryption algorithm called Eagle.

The Eagle encryption mechanism is indeed different from other encryption algorithms. For example, for traditional encryption algorithms, given the plaintext-ciphertext pair, you can uniquely determine the key; In the Eagle encryption algorithm, the key cannot be determined because any key can construct the known plaintext-ciphertext pair.

Perhaps this sounds a bit strange, as in the Eagle encryption process, each plaintext block is encrypted with an independently randomly generated hidden variable. After encryption is completed, the encryption party directly deletes the hidden variables. For the cracking party, any key in the key space can be used to recover different hidden variables from any known plaintext-ciphertext pair, and the true hidden variables will be deleted before ciphertext transmission.

It is precisely for this reason that the Eagle encryption algorithm can theoretically resist all forms of linear and differential attacks, which is completely different from any previous encryption mechanism.

In addition, this feature of the Eagle algorithm can be used to construct problems that satisfy the condition of one-way functions. Based on the fact that "the existence of one-way functions=>P ≠ NP" indirectly proves the open problem of "P ≠ NP".

See this paper on:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.05022

Finally, I really hope to gain your help promote the Eagle algorithm. Of course, everyone can also provide suggestions on how to better promote the new encryption algorithm?
In life, you must spend some time to enjoy the path as you do not know how long it will be.
You write in absolutes when talking about your own opinion as if it's generally accepted to be a fact, which makes even interesting looking bits look suspicious when you encounter something clearly biased.
You want a rooster, too. A rooster will also keep predators away.
We do this too, works fine. We ask open ended questions like, "What's your favorite thing you've done in your career and why?" and "What was the most challenging project in your career and why?" If you listen, you can get a lot of insight from just those two questions. If they don't give enough detail, we'll probe a little.

Our "gotcha," which doesn't apply to most languages anymore is, "What's the difference between a function and a procedure." It's a one sentence answer, but people who didn't know it would give some pretty enlightening answers.

Edit: From the replies I can see people are a little defensive about not knowing it. Not knowing it is ok because it was a question I asked people 20 years ago relevant to a language long dead in the US. I blame the defensiveness on how FUBAR the current landscape is. Giving a nuanced answer to show your depth of knowledge is actually preferred. A once sentence answer is minimal.

I'm editing this because HN says I'm posting too fast, which is super annoying, but what can I do?
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Yep 9front is alive and well. They're occasionally adding new drivers, fixing bugs, making semi-regular releases, dog-fooding the thing daily, etc. Also the artwork/banter is top-notch (if you ignore a couple loud controversies).
My bet is that Amazon is working on a new OS that's not compatible with Android
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I will however gladly send all credentials to my work-related accounts to authorized individuals in my company (with appropriate verification of course).
So by your logic, after musk donated $288 million to his campaign and then trump fires five inspector generals that are investigating his companies, that's not a conflict of interest?

Secondly, Trump has clearly stated that Musk is not permitted to act where he has a conflict, and the agency directors will be aware of this.

Trump is honest and can be trusted in your experience?

If these aren't conflicts of interest, what would an actual conflict of interest look like?
I use chat gpt for general brain dumping

I've compared my last week's queries and prefer Grok 3
i hope they try to use cjis data bc it's taken me 6 months to build a system that is technically compliant and it still doesn't fully pass. they definitely will fail the data security policy requirements.
De facto/de jure.

He's an advisor with no lawful power to fire, no lawful security clearance for the DOGE team*, no lawful authority to terminate programs.

De facto, anyone standing in his way gets pushed.

Which is why nuclear weapons teams were let go.

* unless President said so. I think the office of President can do that, but has Trump actually done so, or is this like those classified documents he refused to return?
I don't know. I know if they don't, it's illegal.
You've hammered away on this question in multiple comments. Are you under the impression you're consulting with experts in US federal law?
There are autocrats all over the world I could name. Unfortunately there are most likely a whole list of people ready and waiting to step into their place.
Couldn't the same be said for something like medical professions or cyber security? The point isn't to produce something, it's to protect something from being negatively impacted. Or to respond in some way to assess the impact and remediate.

Defending against and responding to harm almost never produces anything but is almost always necessary to have.

However, if your comment was more aimed at the consultant being an inherently misaligned figure with a larger capacity to do harm than good, I don't completely disagree.
Good. The stuff I still deal with (older generation SAS2/3 gear) isn't that way. ;)
The API is compatible, and even if it weren't, it wouldn't matter anyway; everybody has been writing OpenAI API-compatible proxies, including Google, for months now. The only thing that matters is availability, throughput, cost per token (Google is ahead of everyone here: Vertex API is insanely cheap for what it does, Batch API at 50% discount, Prompt Caching at 75%, fully multimodal, better performance in multilingual tasks so actually useful outside the U.S. etc etc etc)
I just opened Excel M365, opened per Data -> From Text/CSV a csv file and coulds chose the delimiter.

I tested semicolon and comma and in both cases the autorecognition selected the correct delimiter but I could change it to equal sign, space, tab, user defined.

You can't change the decimal separator, but the field delimiter is possible.
Sure, but an executive basically just implements the laws, not decide what they are. Given the US system this is important, as it's quite possible for the President not to have a majority in the legislature.
There is a principal in democracy that there Should Not Be strong institutions that prevent a majority of the population from harming itself with its choices. We balance that against a Supreme Court in the US, but that court is almost uniquely powerful & active in forming policy relative to its place in the rest of the world, and right now, most of it has been appointed by fascists; Ultimately the population will have its say in the long term.

Do you want an extra-democratic body who is capable of telling the population "No"?

I think such a body (which exists in some system) would obviously be nice right now, but I am a lot less convinced that it would be a net positive in general.

If we want to find our way out of this, I suspect a lot of people are going to need to feel directly harmed by this administration, and are going to need to basically erect a strong protest culture out of whole cloth. Something like 5% of the population in the streets can topple an authoritarian regime in the right circumstances, but not the 0.5% we might expect for a "large" protest.
Meaning they're achieving their privacy goals without any inherent trust in their systems (eg no databases of user info, etc)
I said neither 'art' nor 'paintings' which you have fixated on for some reason. I mentioned creative endeavours that are generally team-based but all generate some sort of portfolio. Whether that portfolio is from work or done in one's personal time, it is still a portfolio of past work.

Plus, software engineering is absolutely a creative endeavour. And I daresay normal 'engineering' (civil, mechanical, aero, etc) is a creative endeavour too; it's just a matter of egos and that seem to separate STEM versus non-STEM. There are portfolios for everything. I don't understand the desire for software engineers to just waltz into an interview, claim to have done X, Y, Z, with no proof, and secure a job.
Russians Are Hijacking Old US Military Satellites [video]
The program's from the 1970s but Russian military is using US satellites for free in their European conquest.
Having local copies of your data may be a sane thing to do even without a geopolitical disruption. If you can't afford to lose something, have it backed up.

But your digital life is more than just photos. If there is hostility to everything that is US based, then everything made or hosted by US based companies may be compromised in ways that you may not predict now. Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, etc may have to comply with government orders, whatever they are.

Linux may be safer from that, you have Suse Linux if you want something supported locally.
Which rockets and where?
It's interesting that sigma is static and defined ahead of time, how do you determine the initial sigma?
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Can see the potential uses for prototyping, like if you fed in some concept art as the initial frame, but struggle to see the applications for game preservation. I feel the result would be more demanding to run than traditional emulation, slightly off in how it plays, and missing any content/interactions that wasn't covered in the training videos of the original game.
This isnt a dig at you but something i have noticed over the last few weeks. People keep saying X/Y wont be able to do something because of rules, laws, requirements and i have to keep reminding people rules/laws are only as good as those willing to enforce them
Your first link is a not a list of settings, it's an explanation.

You can disable transcoding for a specific device (or user). However, it just means that the client will not show some videos, even though it can play them in reality.

This is determined by the device profile shipped with the DLNA plugin (!). You used to be able to replace that, but that broke for me with the recent changes wrt DLNA.

I don’t even mind transcoding, except that it also maps hdr to sdr, which is just awful.

So I now use jellyfin on computers and mobile, and a minidlna setup on my main tv. That's ridiculous, but seems like the only way to make it work within the hour or two I had for that.
Firefox reader mode estimates 132-168 minutes

I read it in two sittings, because it was getting waaay too late to finish it yesterday.
Also I've never known anyone who has no bias. Even if such people existed, it's not a given that they would make the best decisions. I would imagine the best decisions are made by those who have a good set of preferences and opinions based on experience.
Hi, I'm one of the authors this book and of version 6 of Alloy. Happy to answer any question.
I have two Kindle Fire tablets (they're low-quality as general purpose tablets, but cheap and good for reading comics or books) and both have Google Play on them.

Mind you, I had to sideload it for both of them.