skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Might be worth revisiting, we've seen great improvement in the last year :) I use Element X as my mobile daily driver, and use Element Web on my laptops. Feel free to ping me if you have any questions!

(meta: I need to create a new account here... but engaging here with this one since it'd be suspicious to have a new account with zero karma weighing in.)
OMEMO is the only E2EE standard to use now (I mean, barring occasional outliers, but OMEMO is the norm). That's cool, I'm talking to people on XMPP every day with people who have zero intention of moving unless something better (by their definition) comes along. XMPP seems to be gaining popularity as one of the last possible options for a genuinely decentralized encrypted chat protocol that isn't beholden to a singular closed org/corp. I just personally onboarded like five people and they're all like "this is awesome" and.... wait, did you just say "at least I can run this in a browser tab where it can't pwn my system"? Please search "browser exploit rce" on your favorite search engine. Here's one from two weeks ago: https://windowsforum.com/threads/cve-2025-21279-remote-code-...

I used to have a couple 1:1 Matrix chats with friends where I was trying to bridge the whole "different OS" issue for E2EE chat. Neither of them use Matrix anymore, and we were all having issues with Signal (my account is still b0rked). It was just too much hassle. So I mean, the anecdotes go both ways here.
Treasury didn't want DOGE having access so agreeing to block DOGE access seems like weird wording here.
i dunno well known but Symfonium, a subsonic client for android is a one time purchase of $5 or so. Some games by decent developers are a single purchase, but i can't recall any offhand. Most games are freemium and there's a really bad discovery process, so i just don't play games on my phone.

i'm not in the habit of buying apps anymore. I did drop a lot of money on the wolfram alpha iOS app when it first launched (it was over $50 at the time iirc, but to hedge i'll say "adjusted for inflation")
> Like 290 year olds getting social security benefits.

Please do share what you're referring to here.
Yes, and this example right here tells you how much research DOGE does (with anything they are doing). Highly inept people if measured by what their stated goal is...although we all know what the real goal is.
It's a problem, of course. But if you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. You can help by flagging it or emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com, rather than by piling on and making things even worse.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
>Taxpayers, however, require accountability

What do you think is unaccounted for? Especially on an electronic credit card?
The average american uses the one page form 1040 ez and just sends it in electronicly or in the mail.
Agreed, I like to have a "general use" environment to use for various one-off interactive python sessions, scripts or jupyter notebooks.
It's one of those things that's basically impossible to study because language leaves no signs until you get to writing.
DOGE employees don't understand the basics of SQL
You could watch the video to actually understand the issue instead of making wild assumptions about me.

Until very recently and still to a degree today, you couldn't host a matrix server that has public registration without someone registering, joining a CSAM room and having all that material replicate to your server.

This would be LESS of a problem if the content was actually encrypted and you as an Admin couldn't access it. But sure, it's not an issue just some bad journalism that's why Matrix just recently actually addressed it (thanks Arathorn for replying): https://matrix.org/blog/2025/02/building-a-safer-matrix/

But if you don't think it's a problem, i'm sure you are willing to link to your publicly open server and let people register, i'll write an e-mail to your local law enforcement to let them know you are knowingly hosting childporn on your server, i'm sure the courts will agree with your opionion
Good. If, however, DOGE gets access, then, like some Nordic countries, I think we should demand public disclosure of all of it.

The public deserves seeing what the richest rich pay in taxes, the middle class, and the poor. There’s so much fud and fog in the political discourse around tax burden.

Current POTUS famously, notoriously, refused to disclose his, as has been tradition.
Worth noting that it is not at all dumb if your objective is to degrade the power and effectiveness of the US government. There are effective people in charge this time who know exactly what they're doing here.
> a) Based on polling, only 3/10 Americans support DOGE [1].

and yet, here's an article that says the almost all of their focus group supports doge[0], saying explicitly:

> "These swing voters are delighted by Musk's Trump-endorsed government housecleaning,"

Got any sources for your "c" claim?

[0]: https://www.axios.com/2025/02/14/arizona-voters-trump-elon-m...
With Explosive Goggles, Ukraine Sought to Blast Russian Drone Operators
Maybe $2T too much?
Thank goodness for small mercies.

I wasn't looking forward to Musk posting my tax return on a twatter rant.
"nuclear-tipped ICBMs"

Not unless someone is suicidal, the ultimate glass-cannon is practically only an economic-weapon designed to bankrupt anyone foolish enough to compete in such programs.

Besides, there are rumors of far worse things now like geriatric Fox media. lol =3
I was in a cast for 6 weeks. Once they cut me out of it, it was straight into walking.

I wonder now if 6 was a bit long. It has healed fine but its still a bit sore over a year later.

But I also have a metal plate which probably doesn't help the soreness.
Even if you did, "no strings attached". That's goodwill that's rare to see these days; these offers are usually a trade of a meager (relative to potential damages in a successful lawsuit) but expedient and guaranteed payout in exchange for indemnification and other promises.
There's also "eww" that comes with Emacs.

IME it's usually good enough for reading docs and stuff like that.
Yeah the post is new but we've been steadily ramping up investment in Trust & Safety the whole time I've been leading the Foundation :) Having added a couple moderators to the team late last year, our T&S team now has a little breathing room to do more proactive, strategic work to improve the situation. Previously, they were almost constantly on their back foot trying to keep up incident management.
One of my favorite tech interview questions for any position is, "Describe in excruciating detail, everything that happens when you request and load a website in your browser."

You learn a LOT about how a candidate thinks and the depth of their knowledge.
Kontroler: Kubernetes Workflow Engine
Process isolation of drivers is just not very useful when the driver is interfacing with a device that has full access to system memory. Which is the case for many devices today unless you use IOMMU to prevent this.
Meta Drops Employee RSU Refreshers by >10%
Yes ... my matrix.org account is still many times slower than my other chat apps and there's spam everywhere. It's not a great experience. I'm really hoping to see Matrix go big but it feels like there's still a long way to go.

That said, ElementX's video and audio calls work really well. If you added the ability to ring people's phones, so I don't have to first negotiate people into the chat using text messages or a phone call, I could see using it instead of FaceTime.
Another political post got bumped off the front page again.

Not that anyone gives a shit what I think, but it seems like there should just be a filter for politics on this site. That way the people who want to talk about it can, and the people that don't can ignore it. Clearly the upvotes suggests people are interested in these topics, not to mention the actual debates in comment sections about how they're being moderated.
It's more sustainable than many other business practices. Nobody is worried about sustainability when CEOs are making hundreds of times more money than the average employee at the same company or when shareholders relentlessly enshitify everything so that they can keep getting more and more profit quarter after quarter.

pension plans were not only sustainable since they started in 1875, but the economy thrived and companies grew powerful while workers had them. Historically, some companies tried to screw over their workers and mismanaged their pension funds, resulting in problems down the line, but that was mostly greed.
Except most children have empathy.
It's amazing how much "galaxy brain 4d chess" these musk huffers play with themselves to justify the stupidity.

"Uh, no, you don't see the brilliance! He's advocating for deorbiting the ISS while calling astronauts retarded to trick people into keeping the ISS up and running!"

SMDH.

You don't have to justify his every thought. The simplest answer is typically the right one.
Walking Shaped Simone and Hélène de Beauvoir's Art and Thought
Fearing U.S. will cross border militarily, Mexico moves to reform constitution
I kinda want to change my middle name to "undefined" now.

I wonder if I could legally define my middle name as starting with a lowercase letter.
Are you a native speaker of Esperanto?
So DOGE is in fact pro-beauracracy?
I mean it seems very intentional and a passive aggressive technique to make the read feel disoriented while reading the content.

I can literally feel it assaulting my reading speed.
There is a lot of knowledge that devs gain by seeing how their code evolves over time.

Things like "This encourages people to add features here, here and here".

Without that experience, the code becomes inscrutable very quickly.
Here's a rabbit hole to go down:

https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/caring/index.html

What is a "150-day fallow"?
In fairness, I think it's misleading to you due to the details you are interested in. They don't say otherwise and they can't lay out every detail that anyone might be interested in; it's not an RFC.
I think he knows he did something non-standard, as his previous post from seven weeks ago has correct capitalization.

https://kyunghyuncho.me/bye-felix/
Matrix works fine for many people. If there's something similar but better, it's free to compete.
>They could benefit some people? They benefit the workers who would otherwise be worked literally to death.

The problem is that they benefit workers not through productivity increases, but via collective bargaining, i.e. at the expense of society. Consider that when unions go on strike, they reduce economic productivity and disrupt the economy. Likewise, when unions fight to prevent factories from closing to protect the jobs of workers, this causes an inefficient allocation of resources - so now companies must bid up the prices of raw materials to produce things that nobody wants just to keep some people employed. Unions oppose automation for similar reasons, which is why we have the most inefficient ports in the world (worse than Africa!).

So in sum, unions do literally nothing to make society better off. What benefits unionized workers receive come at cost of society (including other unionized workers!)

>If you could come up with an equitable and non exploitative system that works for everyone, suddenly you no longer have a need for unions.

Capitalism is working great, actually. It would work better without unions.
Also, an explanation for why more companies aren't doing them given their effectiveness? They're extremely easy to administer.
Thank you! I am optimistic that we'll pull through.

And yes, I think you're right to be a bit worried about how frequently we need to ask people if they've tried Matrix recently. First impressions matter a lot, and a lot of early adopters had bad first impressions. At some point we need a more concerted communication and outreach strategy to address that issue.
I don't see it as very different than humans who must follow a narrow script. And scaling support is a good thing. And then there's still prompt injection in lieu of social engineering
Does anything like this exist for just flying around cities (not SF, anywhere) in general? Would love to experience what a drone sees even if it's in a limited area.
I think it would help to be able to move up and down (ex. space and shift keys) without changing the camera angle. This seems a better solution, to me, than existing pan with 3rd mouse button.
> Can you trust their assessment of wastefulness

No we can’t because they control the narrative. There should be more transparency in an objective manner without using the qualifiers like “wasteful” so that readers can decide for themselves. Or at the very least express both the arguments for and against, similar to how voter guides often come with a listing of arguments from both sides of the coin.
I wonder if it's the dude waving from inside the gantry at the top?
Why would someone acting in good faith do as much outrageous trolling as Trump and Musk do?
Actually the kernel of a good idea. Over a certain level of wealth taxpayers have a right to know why you're denying them millions of dollars of income, so your tax returns are a legitimate public interest.

Basically if you're paying close to the "full amount" of your tax rate in say the $5 million dollar range, then no disclosure required. If you're substantially under that your deductions should be public.
I'm quite conflicted on this. While I do not think one needs to remember/memorize a bunch of brainteasers or past computer scientists'/mathematician's PhD discoveries in order to build CRUD applications.

However, I do feel like there is perhaps some amount of truth to the thought behind the interview questions, no? As in, I would imagine someone that could invert a binary tree in 15 minutes on a whiteboard could probably learn React. However, I am not sure everyone that can learn React can invert a binary tree in 15 minutes on a whiteboard.

However, maybe I am projecting my own insecurities because I wish I could invert a binary tree in 15 minutes on a whiteboard as well as being able to solve all those other problems.
Anyone with experience in a large org will hate this because it's a stupid, hamhanded way of forcing people to continually beg for the resources to do their jobs. Leaders think it's brilliant because it relieves them of the need to know what's actually going on in their organization, externalizing their responsibilities.

"Unplug it and see who screams" is not effective systems management.

People aren't rockets.
Billions in Tampa Bay hurricane relief funds in limbo amid proposed cuts to HUD
Can you explain what is so difficult to move to another place? I mean choosing homelessness or new life where you don’t know anyone but have roof over your head makes me pick only one choice here… I am an immigrant and changed my locations several times.
Am I the only one that read that title in Dr.Evil's voice?

All kidding aside. This looks promising
I bet if you audited the company cards and other discretionary perk-spending of the top brass (who are in Elon's orbit) at Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter, you'll find tons and tons of "inefficiency and waste" if not outright strip clubs and hookers type stuff.
Smartphones store data; radios (depending on the radio) do not. The Russian military likely has tools for bypassing typical security.
> His father is a manager at Google, which means we shouldn’t assume that Google’s hiring decision is based solely on merit.

What would that change? If you know how those companies hire, it’s not like his father would be allowed to even interview him, let alone hire him. You still have to make it through several interviews with other people.
Geoblocking the UK with Debian and Nginx
It's unpopular because it's incorrect. This isn't fiscal "restraint", this is a spanner thrown into the federal government with the intention to cause dysfunction. When the government is no longer able to meet the needs of the people because it has been intentionally kneecapped, the billionaires who made this choice will push to privatize the affected services instead.

And in doing so, they will take the value and experience that was built up in our federal institutions over generations and throw it away to enrich themselves.
I liked "Effective Modern C++" although it is somewhat out of date by now. Stroustrup's recent article "21st century C++" https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/21st-century-c/ gives an overview (but not details) of more recent changes. There are also the C++ core guidelines though maybe those are also out of date? https://github.com/isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines

I've been looking at Rust and it's a big improvement over C, but it still strikes me as a work in progress, and its attitude is less paranoid than that of Ada. I'd at least like to see options to crank up the paranoia level. Maybe Ada itself will keep adapting too. Ada is clunky, but it is way more mature than Rust.
"eww" is also my reaction to Emacs users (sent with vimium on firefox)
Yes, yes, we know. You won't believe us until we actually are living in the feudalist society they're working, right now, to create brazenly in public. Enjoy gloating about crazy we are until you realize we really are not.
You have yet to explain how this is an attempt to improve accountability in any way, shape, or form. All your comments in this thread are smug, vague nods to unrelated issues or platitudes. Neither you nor DOGE has presented anything resembling a coherent, logical plan. From your comment history it’s clear you have the mental capacity of a can of beans and I’m fucking appalled I (probably) have to live in a country where your votes influence policy decisions which affect my life.
The cruelty is the point. Never forget that simple but sharp observation. The point is to make an example of federal workers. They are the scapegoats now. Every power grab needs scapegoats to justify the power grab. The more the scapegoats suffer hardships, the better. It has to be public humiliation.
https://www.project2025.observer/

Trump is either in charge and actively supporting its goals, or he is not really in charge and is being duped into supporting its goals. “Some overlap” is an understatement, especially only this far into his presidency. They’re doing exactly what they said they would.
The SeL4 microkernel specification assumes the use of a memory management unit, and is required by default.

https://docs.sel4.systems/projects/sel4/frequently-asked-que...
i was going to collate a list, but instead https://www.lemkesoft.info/files/manuals_gc12/GraphicConvert...

That supports 200 image file formats as inputs, and you can then export it to PNG or GIF or BMP.

Your question, on its face, seems ok, but really, there's probably millions of image file formats lost to the sands of time. Shareware image creation programs, tiny fly-by-nite company's software that only ever had one major release (probably some cad formats in there. Those were where i used to always have problems 22 years ago when i did this for work.)

however, at least 200 of them are preserved through that "company's" dedication to this topic.
Okay but when you’re in Nyc you’re not traveling from NJ any longer, your interstate travel completes when you hit the west side highway. Interstate travel is the period while traveling from one state to the next. NJ has it’s own tolls. Ny did not put a toll on the west side highway. So you can exit back to NJ if you do not want to pay the toll exiting the interstate roads into the streets of Manhattan.

The streets of Manhattan are not highways and are exempt from federal tolling laws. Even so, the program was already approved. The Potus does not have the power to defund federally approved programs. The basis that cp is violating laws is incorrect, it has followed them all even the laws that did not actually impact the roads that are being tolled (federal review).
Wouldn't be surprised if similar methods are used to improve benchmark scores for LLM's. Just make the LLM respond correctly on popular questions
Could you please stop posting flamewar and ideological battle comments? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

Also: please don't use 'edit' to do deletions that deprive replies of context. That's unfair to readers.
i feel this question correlates more with the generation of the SWE more than anything.

expecting current gen SWEs to talk about network layer protocols while answering this is kinda the same as expecting 1990s SWEs to include wire physics and dispersion statistics in their answer to this question.

Depth alone isn't always a good indicator. We have to move on from some of the low level stuff at some point and it is okay for engineers to know in detail about things that have been solved long back.
Could you please stop posting flamewar and ideological battle comments? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
the thing that changed is that Element rewrote the mobile apps and made them not suck. Web will follow shortly: https://element.io/blog/we-have-lift-off-element-x-call-and-... etc
Wow then I guess everyone finds me very rude. I capitalize, use correct grammar and spelling to the best of my ability in text messages just like any written communication. I find it rude when people don’t as I interpret it as they don’t even care enough about our communication to take the small effort to make their writing easy to comprehend and understand!
> Surely the people doing an audit should be just as accurate no?

Yes they should. These are not auditors though. They have an axe to grind with confirmation bias driving the zealotry.

The plus side is that they are publishing information in real time so we can all judge it, which one could argue is an improvement over not publishing.

A counter argument would be that this is just to create the illusion of transparency, but I suspect they are not playing 5D chess.
That's mainly because there were multiple pairing sessions, and even if you knew the person was going to pass, there are still a couple more people who need to meet them, and a schedule to make sure they're available to do that. Plus due diligence, etc.

Nor am I saying it was a perfect system, just the best I've seen in terms of results.
swiss model, zero regulation for sales that are direct from the grower to the consumer, no middle men allowed in any form, hand to hand, as this allows for full vetting and any issue is one to one.
Anything else is full regulated. just another grocery store.
Everyone griping about red tape don't understand that the red tape is the point. If your expense is important enough to go through the paperwork then it can be addressed and petty cash increased. Otherwise, what do you think is better in the long term for effectiveness. Cutting the limit on thousands or hundreds of thousands spending accounts and going through the exceptions or letting them spend without oversight forever while you try to comb the queue looking for fraud, trying to get people to answer the phone and playing email tag?
there's also Adam Croot, who liked to register the handle "undefined" where possible

Bring me the head of Adam Croot - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1501799
The issue is the goal with SpaceX is clear and something cool, whereas the Trump administration's goals are vile and DOGE's goals are at best unclear but probably just the same as Trump.

An aggressive anti-waste campaign would be more believable if it wasn't coming from an administration vowing to destroy the federal government and openly subverting the Constitution, led by a man who gets his political views from neo-Nazis that tweet at him.