skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's already been a thing for quite some time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Inspector_General_(U...

They are independent of the things they review, they find inefficiency, overspending, fraud, and embezzlement. They make their reports public and work with transparency. There are also other similar departments like CIGIE. There have been very substantial results.

What DOGE is doing is not finding inefficiency. They are doing two basic things. 1) Completely eliminating programs they don't think the US should be spending money on. And 2) Reducing headcount. Both of these actions may reduce costs, but may end up costing the US more money in the long term.
"Over a year" according to the founder: https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1892578309344502191
Well, they also promote people based on impact and, with rare exceptions, if you're holed up in a corner someplace you're probably not having a huge amount of impact.
Otherwise said, you want to destroy government, because you never cared about learning what various agencies do. And you want reform it, but without knowing what it does and without knowing what you want to improve other then "let it go away".

If on DOGE, that is ill intent.
> Our "gotcha," which doesn't apply to most languages anymore is, "What's the difference between a function and a procedure."

My answer would be along the lines of "It's 2025, no one has talked about procedures for 20+ years"
giving DOGE sudo is a whole article?
Tailscale Operator for Kubernetes sounds like it'd fit your second bullet point. It's has a really good experience. I've only used for my person homelab but I've been more than impressed by it.
> no input validation, string concatenating for the database access (SQL injection), no input scrubbing (XSS), based on the call pattern there were some missing indices, a few bad data type choices (e.g. integer for user ID), a possible infinite loop in one case

I'd say all this stuff is junior-level (maybe ~mid for things like user ID integers). It's just a checklist of "obvious bad practices", it doesn't require experience.

The senior stuff is much higher-level: domain modelling, code architecture, consistency guarantees, system resilience... system design in general.
I think the problem with this argument is the assumption that nature is inherently good. Nature is cruel and uncaring. Moving beyond it is a good thing imo. We’re just lucky that as a species by the roll of the dice we were given the power by nature to usurp it.
Thank you for taking the time to respond. I personally lend at least some degree of credence to their claim, given that this is Microsoft we're talking about and not some startup.

If their claim is true, then would that present an issue to RSA encryption? I find it difficult to find information on this topic that is digestible to a layman.

My understanding is that the benefit of quantum computing is parallelism, and I'm not sure how today's encryption standards would be safe from brute force attacks.
It’s an issue of who watches the watchers. If their intent is transparency and auditing, why are they not reflecting that intent?

This is why I do suspect their intent. They are not walking the talk.
Pairing on something close to whatever real work they'd be doing, but familiar to the applicant is my favorite way to evaluate someone (e.g. choose a side project, pre agree adding a feature).

I don't care if someone uses modern tools (like AI assists), google, etc - e.g. "open book" - as that's the how they want to work. Evaluating their style of thinking / solving problems, comms, and output is the win.
I hate how they connect those words, i much prefer the random choices that i can get from 1Password:
WRIGGLER$airborne2GENEALOGY!wainscotings

Now, i have had several sites that i cant accept passwords longer then 16 or 20 characters so i have to return to P@55w0rd like passwords (random, not work based).
Yes; failures generate data. But you need devs who can understand why something fails....
Seen today "I would dig an app that showed you how many lines of code you committed each day across every Github repo. Is it out there?" https://bsky.app/profile/ianlandsman.com/post/3lilcgtt7nc2c
These Are the SpaceX Engineers Working Inside the FAA
There was a cartridge with an assembler & text editor plus a little CPU RAM. (4k? My memory is gone but it certainly wasn't much even for the 80s.) You'd still need to use cassette tape to save your work. Ah it was this: https://www.arcadeshopper.com/wp/ti-99-4a-faq-mini-memory/

For actually usable development you could buy a TI expansion box, 32K RAM expansion, and 5 1/4" floppy drive. This cost the equivalent of like two thousand bucks today. Less than an Apple ][, somewhat more than a base C-64, but a lot more than the TI-99 itself.

My parents were very indulgent in this. Once I had this setup, I bought a third-party Forth and coded my own Forth assembler vocabulary, and finally had a reasonably capable dev env, for maybe a year before leaving for college. But still had basically no way to share my work (wasn't online).
It's pretty obvious isn't it? Trump stacked the Supreme Court the first time round which turned out to be the best thing he ever did.

Now they'll control payments to defund opponents as well as sacking anyone who doesn't support them to gain total loyalty. In fact, the way they're doing this is clever: Sack and then make former colleagues compete to be rehired. That way they'll feel extra grateful to have a job and will toe the line in future.

I expect they'll use this data for leverage against opponents in future. They probably haven't decided how yet, which is why they're in hoover mode. Loot the systems quick while they still can.

But it's ok. Half the US thinks there's nothing to worry about. Good luck getting fair elections ever again.
Thanks. I do wonder why you are a mac only app.

Mac apps by default ping the apple servers before they can connect to wireguard over quic and what not.

So its definitely not as secure as using linux or bsd.

Please I want to understand what makes linux / cross platform development harder.

It was for zeditor , arc browser and what not. Things make me treat as third class citizen and mac users as first kind of feels a little .. weird.
Care to elaborate on what they meant by that?
Since the title is a question: no, no it's not. Because the primary driver is bird flu, so the odds have never been higher of you buying birds only to have to cull them the next week. Now is the worst time to get your chickens, and the best time to just go "whatever, it's not like we need eggs, we'll start buying them again when we actually have enough chickens in this country to lower prices again".
In the abundance of precaution, DOGE should indeed be quarantined and all its work reviewed. CAT should be operating alongside DOGE to review everything.
I’ve hear another downside is the sheer amount of poop to clean up.
The comments section of that blog is truly a wild ride.
I'm all for cutting government waste, I think there is probably quite a lot. Here is why I do not like Doge:

Doge is using a sledgehammer when they need to be using a scalpel. There's already been so much chaos with things like federal disbursements being frozen then unfrozen, firing and rehiring employees, moves being blocked by courts due to being unlawful, etc. You can't "move fast and break things" with a trillion dollar bureaucracy, people's lives are at stake and something might break catastrophically.

I also don't trust Musk with so much power because (1) he's an ideologue and (2) there are numerous conflicts of interest. I am skeptical he would be held accountable for any potential wrongdoing in this political environment.
Excellent development! I saw first Obsidian years ago but my main use case would have been for myself at work and I wasn't willing to battle the bureaucratic hoops at my job to try a product I wasn't sure I'd actually stick with long term (like my attempts with logseq). Ended up not even trying it on a personal level. Looking forward to seeing how it goes and who knows maybe I'll end up stick with it and battle to contribute some funds.
Did they mention which tax payers those 20% will be going back to?
Do you think they can be trusted to tell the truth?
Are you talking about the man who does Nazi salutes from the bottom of his heart? A good person?
Boycotts typically have stated goals to them. They want the boycotted businesses to change some specific behavior. You measure the success of the boycott based on whether there was a resulting shift toward the change the boycott was seeking.

History is filled with examples of both successful and unsuccessful boycotts.

> Maybe instead of outright failure of a given company we want it to act with moral integrity.

That is the goal of almost all boycotts.

> It would seem to me that voting with your $ is the only way

It is the only way ordinary people can have any influence at all, yes.

Personally, I don't do or advocate for boycotts -- instead, what I do is recognize that every dollar I spend is a vote telling the company I spent it with that "I love what you're doing and want you to keep doing it." So I don't spend my money on companies that are doing things I find objectionable (as far as possible -- there are so many defacto monopolies around that it's literally impossible to live without funding some awful company or another), and advocate for others to do the same.

It's not really a "boycott", which is a specific form of activism aimed at changing specific behavior of particular companies. Instead, it's a mindset the guides my spending across the board. It doesn't matter of "the mob" joins me or not. It's a personal ethical stance that is independent of whether or not others behave similarly.
> Art doesn't have source code.

Drawn art absolutely does have something like it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/learntodraw/comments/nibjjn/any_adv...

It could be considered similar to scaffolding or boilerplate in code, except usually none of this is visible in the end product, while the code boilerplate is always there. These lines are drawn light and completely covered up by the end result - sometimes even manually erased depending on the medium.
Yes. I borrowed plenty of tired rhetoric and I'm deeply troubled by the knock-on effects of eugenic policies, but from a grassroots view here among the human weeds, I confess that I'm also describing the status quo in the developed West, and the duty of citizens of that Western culture to engage and participate in the darker side and a culture of death, according to the Divine Plan for each of us.

From across the pond, it seemed that Nazism resulted in the expelling/extermination of foreign, undesirable influences and a stirring up of nativist fervor in order to validate those actions.

Also here across the pond, we've had major immigration by Eastern Bloc or Soviet refugees in the past century. They're a huge influence on our culture and ideology and the direction we've taken since the Civil War. And we see nativist fears and xenophobia in things like the McCarthy "Red Scare", but were they entirely unjustified when today we're screaming about Facebook and soviet interference in elections? ... And our voices are raised in chorus of "get these homeless off the streets, expand [mental] [women's] [right-to-die] health care, defund Churches [and mosques, synagogues and Wiccans?] will no-one rid us of these troublesome [cops, judges]?"

Surprise plot twist: the vicious military expansion that was nipped in the bud left more of a historical mark than the mass emigrations and migrant movements going on underneath the wars. The USA got Albert Einstein, rocket science, a regime change in Hollywood, new captains of industry and finance, and lifeboats full of philanthropists. We children of the Cold War wouldn't know one another at all if it weren't for the IETF, NSF, ARPA-DoD, and TLAs that you can't stand.

Eugenics may be a pseudoscience or a discredited ideology, but is it also entirely without merit, or unjustified? What does a nation do when she's deeply in debt, and more people are struggling for smaller pieces of the pie, and her reputation and huge tracts of land are an attractive destination for refugees and migrants? I guess some of her citizens log into free websites and give unpaid "Billion Keyboard Monkeys" labor to the guys who host the servers.
Lives of the Rationalist Saints
Documentary about the Portuguese Timex factory that assembled the ZX Spectrum computer in the 80's. English subtitles available.
Do you use ECL in QUIC? This combo is outright blocked in most DPI-heavy countries.
Were that the case, you’d see vegans advocating for eating classically-husbanded animals. But I for one have never seen such a thing. And when I’ve spoken with vegans about this very topic, they’ve insisted that no animal can possibly be raised/slaughtered humanely – the belief seems almost axiomatic to them.
How can they be described as transparent when they fired people who administer FOIA requests?
You give them the benefit of the doubt because they tell you exactly what you want to hear?
Newbie question: It seems like even with VPN, various websites know the time zone the traffic is coming from (perhaps the browser or the OS reveals the time zone settings). Is there a way to mask this?
>The common thing is that civil servants/officials are bribed. At usually on the cheap too, so it'll take a lot of digging to find it, and worse, prove it.

While no doubt that brazen bribery occurs at all levels and in a large range of dollar amounts, I do not think this is such a serious problem that it requires the nuclear option he is employing. There is a bribery-adjacent phenomenon that is far worse. I don't know what to call it. Favor-trading? But there is no quid pro quo sufficient to prosecute in most cases, and any attempt to do so would look like (and probably actually become) a witch hunt.

If a civil servant is just being extra cozy to some private entity knowing (but without anything that would amount to evidence) that they'll be able to sail into some nice lobbyist gig in 3 years, where is the bribe? It was never promised. It's not guaranteed (circumstances could well change before that becomes possible). How much is that shit costing us? And while I'm sure that some would call that bribery too, it's juvenile to do so and counter-productive.
Just as well as any of the other ones for Android phones. Heck, you can even buy adhesive magnet rings to stick directly to any case or phone back, as long as you align them properly.
I generally try to assume that people are well intentioned. But when they start doing Nazi salutes...
You're giving them the benefit of the doubt because they made a vague promise to give you a bigger tax refund?
Maybe.

Maybe now, or maybe in a year or two, AI coding tools will be good enough that a single semi-technical person can be Product Manager for a small product, and implement all the feature through AI/LLM tools.

Probably not for something of the complexity of Google Maps, but for a simpler website with some interactive elements, that could work.

But then, this was just an example. There can be lots of reasons that companies still need engineers, my point was that they need to think about these reasons, and then use these reasons to decide how to select their engineers.
I’ve thought about your comment, and I think we’re both right.

Fundamentally, computers are a series of high and low voltages, and everything above that is a combination of abstraction and interpretations.

Fundamentally there will always be some level of this-it’s not like an A(G)I will interface directly using electrical signals (though in some distant future it could).

However from what I believe, this current phase of AI (LLMs + Generators + Tools) are showing that computers do not need to solve problems the same way humans need to because computers face different constraints.

So abstractions that programmers utilize to manage complexity won’t be necessary (in some future time).
We're moving to a four-day week to attract staff
My two cents.
God-mode privilege already existed before DOGE, someone else had (or still has) this privilege.
Priority - How to limit power of such privilege in future.
With well defined and documented file formats, and with OSS applications supporting them, they can be read for all eternity.

You don't need binary compatibility. You can load a gif on any computer today, and it's old. I can view aiff image files from my Amiga still.

We're already 50 years in on many formats.

Where it becomes uncertain, it DRM laden, closed source applications with bespoke file formats.
who said mail should be given 'inviolable privacy'?

Now there is enough reason to open private mail if the mail is a little squishy and it was sent from the wrong address.
As the other commenter said, k3d is definitely the way to go in 2025. It uses k3s under the covers which you can actually use in production after you learn with k3d locally.
That's bad. Glad we got some good Bond before getting garbage.
Iirc, it’s only the US and Japan that acid wash their eggs, thus stripping the natural protective layer, and require refrigeration.
> They need to move fast in order to replace the old system.

Why?
What always amazed me about Chickens from raising them first hand is how much nutrients they produce from so little. They’re so efficient. I think this is more of a lifestyle choice because raising them is not cost effective even at these prices.
I use iCloud, had no problems so far - it's just markdown files anyways
Probably because no one wants to be on the street with a bunch of drivers that only see snow once a year just to pick up some eggs. More than a quarter of accidents happen in such conditions even though most of the population only sees snow for a short time out of the year so it’s not unwarranted.
I did not say small farms are inherently kosher. Please engage in good faith or don't engage at all.
Groups are important because they are the algebraic way to describe symmetry: if you have some operation that leaves a thing invariant (e.g. rotating an equilateral triangle so that a vertex lands on where another started), then the operation is invertible and the inverse leaves the thing invariant. You can compose such operations and the composition will still be invariant. The identity function always leaves everything invariant. So your symmetry operations form a group.

Slightly trickier is that every group is a set of symmetry operations for something. So groups exactly capture the idea of symmetry. To a mathematician, "group" and "symmetries" are synonymous.

Finite groups can be interesting as the symmetries of e.g. molecules (e.g. rotating atoms around onto each other), which can tell you something about molecular structure, energy levels, spectra, bonding potential, etc. Infinite groups appear in physics (e.g. the laws of physics are the same when you rotate or translate your coordinates by arbitrary amounts). Symmetry also comes up as a way to study other mathematical objects, and mathematicians might just want to know what all possible groups look like.
What should happen, and nobody is talking about this, is the USA is severely downgraded in its overall credit rating due to an unhinged and ongoing "fire, aim, ready" self-audit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_governme...
Do I have this roughly correct?

They can use light to set and unset quantum qbits? This being both efficient and providing very high data density?
You won't have to call HP support if you don't buy HP products.
I’m sorry but the naivety of your comment is absolutely hilarious. Good luck getting your refund when the IRS is being ran by a handful of angsty young adults
83% is pretty bad. You might be surprised if you put a new battery in it.
This is amazing but it also made me realize I just don’t trust these videos. Is it sped up? How much is preprogrammed?

I now they claim there’s no special coding but did they practice this task? Special training?

Even if this video is totally legit I’m but burned out by all the hype videos in general.
A Craigslist adventure: hardware-hacking HP printers for $0
Isn't it basically the same? Nazi Germany in 1934 was relatively advanced, too.

I think the difference is^W was that USA celebrated it in a Homer Simpson kind of "Ha ha! NERDS!" way, while meth-Hitler was like "let's sterilize them but try to extract math from them to... (whatever batshit goal)"

Anti-intellectualism seems to be a thing when the intellectual/moderately-competent people have already brought success. (Until then it's more like anti-witchcraft, or whatever...)
It doesn't sound like you are in an emotional state to have this discussion, which is ok, but the findings are undeniable. I don't see anyone arguing, "they're making up the fraud". So from an objective point of view, an audit of this magnitude has been dreamt of by both parties for decades, heck probably going back a century. No one has been able to do it, lacking either collective will, or, more famously, bureaucratic pushback. My argument is, and you can ask any senior or experienced executive this(tho I think it's actually an accounting principle), anyways...when a top level professional arrives at a new job/department/unit/etc, the first order of business is "finding your salary", this is essentially your brain finding your salary among the waste or leaks in the space you were asked to manage. This is what DOGE is tasked with, no matter the cost, stopping the waste will pay for the cost, even if it cost trillions(which I highly doubt), you can amortize that and still get USA's bottom line in the black.
1) Survivorship bias

How many image formats CAN'T you read today that you could read 50 years ago?

2) Images are much much much more ubiquitous than book formats
The complication here is that the ADL and Netanyahu and others at that level all said they do not believe it was a Nazi salute. I am relying on what they said.

https://x.com/netanyahu/status/1882392668497756279?lang=en

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5097676-elon-mus...
The replies are addressing the reality of the interview landscape that fails to live up to your theory of how whiteboarding interviews should be.

It's all well and good that you and other "wise interviewer" commenters on HN actually grok what the point of interviews are, but you are unicorns in the landscape.
The point is not opsec but speed, under the GP's assumption that Mullvad exit nodes have better reputation than tor exit nodes. Not sure if the case, I don't use Mullvad.
They should have made them talk. It’s a little dehumanizing otherwise.
Elon has been operating in bad faith since the Twitter Files (so, the very start). Announce X, publish receipts that show ~X, but nobody reads receipts so checkmate.

The "140 year old people in social security DB" post is just the latest example of bad-faith. Either there is actually >>$100B of social security fraud and that's the story or he wants to pretend like that's the case when he knows full well that presence in the DB does not indicate eligibility or payouts.