skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I cannot fathom this is an effective way to turn things around.
I was thinking about how somone with a bit of self respect and decent skill set will just find another employer where they can be valued more (the bar is really low now) .

This, to me, seems like an effective way to get rid of effective talent.
That’s what Elon Musk said they could’ve done.
I pay 3$ / month (with the annual plan) and I get 10Gb of storage + 5 aliases
What is the benefit of having employees screened this way? Especially when there's a data breach exposing SSN's, it begs the question of whether such third party data collection was necessary in the first place.
Didn't she steal billions of dollars? What do you think bank robbers should get, a 5 minute time out?
>Many European leaders have acknowledged Trump was right regarding a lot of things in his first term, and that Europe would have been better off had they listened to him.

Well, no, this didn't happen in many countries and not even being right on a lot of things
China struggles to master high-end machine tools
> In order to guarantee that an addition will not overflow you need to check that the integer is below a certain value, for example. Or to be sure that indexing an array will not be out of bounds you need to check the index value. For this last case Rust enables out of bounds access checks for Vecs in debug builds, but disables them for release builds.

This is backwards. In Rust, using the indexing operator on an array is a bounds-checked operation; the alternative is the unsafe .get_unchecked method. This is true regardless of debug mode or release mode, and there isn't any flag or configuration variable to override this.

It's integer overflow whose behavior (currently) changes between debug and release mode, where in debug mode it panics and in release mode it's defined to wrap around (and this can be configured as you please via a build flag).
Consumer awareness boosts demand for low-methane beef, study reveals
Do you have any examples of this happening in corporate America outside of the Twitter takeover?

I have never heard of this approach. I’ve heard of new management coming in with a strong opinion and firing people, or new management spending some time understanding the situation up close.

Also: Corporations don’t have a mandate to serve the public writ large. A corporation imploding itself through dramatic reinvention every 4 years is perfectly fine. A government doing this type of purge every 4 years is obviously fucking insane, though I assume you’re operating under the assumption that the other side can’t/won’t/shouldn’t conduct ideological purges when they get into power?

Most administrations know there are people with varying levels of ideological commitment to their causes and they accept this friction because relative operational stability is a feature of a democratic government, not a bug.
> It’s all so speculative.

Yes and no. DOGE already set up a site that gave the public write access. There are stories to be told already.
the thing is, to spearhead prison reform, you need someone who was once a prisoner, and the intersection of that with "compassionate, honest, empathetic" characteristics would not appear to be very large
Then you have to double-up all your higher-order functions, like Java 8 futures with their thenApply vs thenAccept.
I just use kdiff3 - automatically solves most merge conflicts & it’s rarely to never done so incorrectly. And when it can’t resolve the merge conflicts, line alignment is very nice. I prefer it to the cluttered experience of BeyondCompare and other more “feature-filled” options.
Not sure if you are right, but it really made me laugh.
Encoding temporal dependencies (or exclusions) between methods is hard. You can get partially there by using something like a typestate pattern (common in rust).
As someone who moved out of Berlin a year and a half ago — you truly do not want to find out how other people live.

I know getting something on the same level as Rüyam would be impossible; but I would pay a not-insignificant money for something resembling a random Bude near my old place.
That’s because you know the people you work with and trust them (hopefully well placed) to have the same incentives you do.

If you had more experience in large organizations with political dynamics other than the success of your as-of-yet unproven business (things change when people aren’t worried about going out of business if they play hardball with some other part of the organization - most startup people know they can’t afford to shoot holes in the boat), you’d understand the traction: for example, if you worked at a Fortune 500 and some McKinsey consultant sent out an email demanding you explain what you work on, most people would correctly interpret that as “senior management wants to fire as many of you as possible”.
What's the logic that you used? I never saw any.
It'd be nice if this were a solution to the problem. Instead, they're randomly ruining the lives of tons of families, killing american businesses, and completely kneecapping the ones who are "lucky" enough to remain. "This restaurant has mediocre food and service, burn it to the ground with everybody locked inside!"
obviously some government employees are not providing value for money to the people because that’s just what happens in big organizations (public or private). The point being made by critics of DOGE is not “there’s no waste in the government” it’s that the DOGE goal is to gut government services, whether they’re wasteful or not is immaterial.
almost certainly something like marburg, which has been found there before and is carried by bats
I have unpopular opinions about this, because Signal has been so hostile to anyone other than Signal themselves being involved.

But to be specific: "open source" claims go out the window when they're;

1. Not reproducible (before anyone links me to the "reproducible steps" please actually read them because they tell you directly that they will not create a reproducible output).

2. Able to hide development of mobilecoin (somehow) from us for nearly a year. To be clear: There were updates to the Signal app on iOS and Play, otherwise there would have been security bugs, but those patches did not make their way into the repositories.

Signal operates on a "trust us bro" mentality, and no matter how trustable they seem to be- something about that doesn't sit right with me and never has.

EDIT: I don't really care if bots or shills downvote me, can you really, with a straight face, say it's NOT "trust us bro" ideology that makes people use Signal?
Please do your research before throwing that term after me. I don't care if you think its markedly different for crime recruiting earlier. Point is contracts for killings are put online and planned through Signal. The Swedish police find it annoying as it makes it hard to find the money men. That's the reason for why Sweden want the back door. If it makes sense or not has no bearing on what I wrote.
Oh no! I missed this. Got links?
No, we know, and we're not okay with it either. I understand it's often an improvement over other options for employment. That makes it understandable and even supportable to some extent, not okay.

Here in the US, we spent centuries fighting and dying for better options. Tools like this are used to launder the dismantling of the results of all that work through a fantasy of objective metrics.
> they operate?

How are they operating? It might as well be viewed as citizens of Sweden interacting with a foreign service out of their own volition.

In general, laws are backed up by the threat of violence. To the extent that Sweden's police can't confiscate Signal's assets in the US, they do not have to comply with anything. The only leverage Sweden's government may have is ISP level censorship, which is likely to cause unintended disruptions. Signal is in turn free to attempt to circumvent the censorship.
Sweden has rapidly devolved from a high trust society to one where firearms and grenade attacks are a weekly occurence [1]. It is the perfect opportunity for law enforcement to demand more surveillance capabilities.

[1] https://la.stnight.in/Sweden/
> Invading the privacy of one's digital space is a violation that goes as deep as reading someone's diary when we look back and the time when life was more analog.

Which police with a warrant can very much do.
Happy to notice I already use most of these. The only ones I didn't know are diff.mnemonicPrefix, diff.renames and commit.verbose.

My config if you'd like to steal it, also here: https://github.com/silvanocerza/dotfiles/blob/master/git/git...

Mind that you need diff-so-fancy for this work correctly.
https://github.com/so-fancy/diff-so-fancy

[alias]
co = checkout
ci = commit
cl = clone
st = status
f = fetch
br = branch
lg = log --graph --abbrev-commit --decorate --date=relative --format=format:'%C(bold blue)%h%C(reset) %C(bold green)(%ar)%C(reset) %C(yellow)- %an%C(reset)%C(auto)%d%C(reset)%n" "%C(white)%s%C(reset)' --all
lgg = log --graph --abbrev-commit --decorate --format=format:'%C(bold blue)%h%C(reset) - %C(bold cyan)%aD%C(reset) %C(bold green)(%ar)%C(reset)%C(auto)%d%C(reset)%n'' %C(white)%s%C(reset) %C(dim white)- %an%C(reset)'
type = cat-file -t
dump = cat-file -p
# Lists all local branches that have been deleted on remote
gone = ! "git for-each-ref --format '%(refname:short) %(upstream:track)' | awk '$2 == \"[gone]\" {print $1}' | xargs git branch -D"

[color]
ui = true

[push]
default = simple

[merge]
tool = meld
conflictStyle = zdiff3

[diff]
algorithm = histogram
colorMoved = dimmed-zebra
colorMovedWS = no
mnemonicPrefix = true
renames = true

[rerere]
enabled = true

[pager]
branch = false

[core]
pager = diff-so-fancy | less --tabs=4 -RFX
fsmonitor = true
untrackedCache = true

[color "diff-highlight"]
oldNormal = red bold
oldHighlight = red bold 52
newNormal = bold
newHighlight = green bold 22

[color "diff"]
meta = yellow
frag = magenta bold
commit = yellow bold
old = red bold
new = green bold
whitespace = red reverse

[diff-so-fancy]
markEmptyLines = false

[filter "lfs"]
clean = git-lfs clean -- %f
smudge = git-lfs smudge -- %f
process = git-lfs filter-process
required = true

[pull]
rebase = false

[init]
defaultBranch = main

[column]
ui = auto

[branch]
sort = -committerdate

[commit]
verbose = true
He was named after the elon in von Braun's book.
What if you could take out insurance on your career?
The study was apparently for the Delta IV. https://x.com/mcrs987/status/1848070131781455911
It will be interesting to see if the emails can be FOIA'ed, along with the DOGE analysis.
Muggers are bad people.
The people who worked in these companies are usually incredibly grateful for the opportunity to do seated work indoors for reasonable wages.

Applying Western labour practices to third world countries would prevent them from ever developing...hurting the very people we all want to help.
NB: your followup (immediate parent) is far superior to, and lends context which greatly improves, your original comment.

Consider making your full thinking clearer up front rather than leading with a vague-but-ominous statement.

Your original comment could be read as an implied endorsement of the stated question, or as a concerned inquiry. Your follow-up suggests the latter. Regardless of viewpoint, it lends a further avenue for discussion the original comment lacked. Given the frequency, heat, and importance of current political discussion, veering from tropes and generic tangents.
I don't see how you can know that "because" is incorrect. This seems like it could be possible to me:

(Possibly) SAF is negative because they use Signal, and don't want a law that would introduce vulnerabilities into Signal that could be utilized by third parties.
The "fiscal nightmare" (your phrasing) is the result of mandatory spending like Medicare, Social Security, interest on the debt, etc. Please educate yourself by understanding where the money actually goes:

https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...

https://usafacts.org/articles/this-chart-tells-you-everythin...

Even if you reduced the federal payroll to $0 tomorrow, you'd still be running deficit.
https://archive.ph/EvZjE
Daily updates have been a basic requirement of almost every tech job for the last 20+ years.

That timeline is about right for government adoption of best practices.
Apple Voice Dictation Writes 'Trump' When You Say 'Racist'
They want that, but there's a huge number of ordinary Americans who've always been against the Federal government for seemingly no gain to themselves. For years. All the John Birch/2nd amendment types.
I'm sorry, but that's not what OP said. OP didn't say anything about the essential-ness of the entire workforce. They solely spoke to the larger, well documented and endorsed by major SV players, plan to transform our government structure.
I appreciate the sentiment, but I think it’s making the wrong pragmatism/purity tradeoff. The test is brittle - what happens when a future update of the dependency in a couple of years makes a change to the default timeout value? Aside from making test runs quicker which is good for anyone running the test suite without caring about this 1 test itself, it future proofs the test flakiness better against defaults changing out from under you.
It's becoming clear that EU politicians are far too easy to manipulate by companies with products to sell.

> Since the revelation of ‘Chatcontrol-Gate,’ we know that the EU’s chat control proposal is ultimately a product of lobbying by an international surveillance-industrial complex. To ensure this never happens again, the surveillance lobbying swamp must be drained.”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43171861
It may be wrong, but it proves that technology can't beat politics and policy.

The issue with Apple caving to UK demands regarding encryption, and now Signal being in a similar situation, shows that you can't just focus on technology and ignore policy and politics.

And you'll find out that a ton of people here on HN will care, but most of the public won't.

People should take XKCD 538 really to heart (The 5$ wrench one). It's not the same point, but very similar.
https://xkcd.com/538/
If debt/deficit reduction was the goal we wouldn't see tax cuts on the rich, gutting the IRS, and teases of $5k rebate checks.
She's a mechanical engineer, not a rocket scientist (though the term is overrated anyway, there are plenty of "rocket scientists" who do very boring things).
There are structures already in place for oversight. If someone is somehow hiding from the management, inspector general, and both internal and external auditors, this email isn’t going to flush them out.
But there are typical practices we agree are good: using a VCS, writing tests, write comments when needed, separate different level of abstractions, etc. Right? This comes from years of common experience in software.

Over time we get to find patterns, common issues and ways to fix them, etc. It doesn't have to be strict patterns but overall strategies.

If we don't do that then it's just vibes right? Where's the engineering part?
Minions – hooking up local and cloud LLMs
You don’t need constant monitoring to find the bottom 10% though. People performing that badly are easy to pick out with spot checks.

It’s the same with software. Your direct manager should know if their employee is in the bottom 10%. If they don’t, they aren’t doing their job or they have too many reports.

What constant automated monitoring allows is cutting back on the number of managers and like you said, pushing high performers even further.
Not familiar with Swedish law, but in most of the world the courts have a concept of jurisdiction. Otherwise a small country could just fine Apple $1T and solve its budget woes, and probably build a giant waterslide.

I would be surprised if Swedish law allowed for prosecuting a foreign company with not one bit of operations in the country.
Neither area I referenced is remote.
Can you point out where it says it won't be a reproducible output?

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/main/reprod...
o3-mini-high solves this correctly:

```

We can “stick‐to the order” of the digits and allow concatenation. For example, one acceptable answer is

40: 1 – 2 × 3 + 45 because 1 – (2×3) + 45 = 1 – 6 + 45 = 40

and another is

80: 12 ÷ 3 × 4 × 5 because 12÷3 = 4, then 4×4×5 = 16×5 = 80

In both cases the digits 1,2,3,4,5 appear in order without rearrangement.

```

However, it took 8 minutes to produce that.
No, what specific action would you have had them do?
Google had installed this app on Android devices without users consent
Working on Circuitscript, a language based on python to describe electronic schematics/circuits: https://circuitscript.net/

The main motivation for creating Circuitscript is to describe schematics in terms of code rather than graphical UIs. This makes it easier to track changes and version control with a text based schematic. I have used different CAD packages extensively (Allegro, Altium, KiCAD) in the past and wanted to spend more time thinking about the schematic design itself rather than fiddling around with GUIs.

The main language goals are to be easy to write and reason, generated graphical schematics should be displayed according to how the designer wishes so and to encourage code reuse.
I'm currently dealing with one of those codebases representative of the consequences of blindly following "Clean Code", et. al.

My experience has taught me that you never want to be the first person to recommend a rewrite. Since I am a mere contractor on this one, I am strongly inclined to let it unwind on its own. There seems to be a lot of ego embedded in those pointless data access layer wrappers. I'd hate to get on someone's bad side right now. The market is quite rarified.
I have Gemini set to decipher HN comments that I don't immediately understand. This is a macos only command `pbcopy`?

Aside: Gemini mentioned it didn't want me to ask it questions about bikeshedding what shade of blue on a website header so I think it's got our number.
Taiwan catches Chinese-owned ship in act of cutting subsea cable
Doing this on the scale of a couple of million people, with incredibly diverse roles is very different to a startup. That said as someone who spent a bunch of time working in companies and startups this isn't a technique any new management has ever thought appropriate in my experience, especially coupled with an ultimatum.
Who would make that decision? What would happen next after they did?
> Ghost payrolls.

Oh, wow, talk about not understanding ghost payrolling.

Providing bullshit filler tasks for ghost employees is ghost payrolling 101. Anyone who actually has ghost payroll "employees" working under them can answer that email with bullshit ten-point bullet lists in a matter of minutes. The farther whoever's evaluating the bullet list from the actual list, the better, because the farther they are, the less likely they are to figure out if the list is bullshit.

Bulk audits are literally what enables ghost payrolling in the first place. The bulkier, the better.
We used to see innovative disruption that would grow the pie. Generating large and broad benefits, and capturing a fairly small fraction for the company.

My sense is this is in decline
i did not read the book but i did read the news when google gave up on serving censored search results in china
I can not speak for Europe generally but Sweden has very serious problems with gang wars the last couple years, and people are really tired of them shooting each other and setting off explosives. That's the reason for this particular proposal (and many other questionable expansions of police power too).
Is Signal hosted in just 1 country?
Noise-cancelling headphones may be linked to rise in Gen Z neurological problems
https://archive.ph/RqC9T
Broken clock does what?
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which app? twitter doesn't load for me since my administrator has blocked it as a racist site.
And AfD has topped out at 20% after Musk's "help".
I mean, American kids are eating chicken during a bird flu outbreak.
Totally! I'm also not saying — at least didn't intent to — that we're doing the exact same approach as Sentry here :) I meant that as "Directus is like Sentry in the sense that it moved away from FOSS as it ran into the OSI rules around no-license-discrimination-against-groups-or-use-case.

Part of the trickiness for Directus specifically is that it's intended to be self-hosted first software. Going all-in on the SaaS as the moneymaker means divesting in self-hosted and focussing on differentiators for the SaaS offering to make up for the loss in funding of folks who self-host.

> I do want to reiterate that a specific "total revenue"/"total funding" figure != "making a lot of money" and I don't think your license captures this nuance at all, today.

Agreed! It's been the best I've been able to come up with, but it isn't perfect. Out of curiosity (not snark), what metrics would you have used as a more generic measurement of (large) company?
Despicable and humiliating.
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.15964

Blogpost at Hazy Research: https://hazyresearch.stanford.edu/blog/2025-02-24-minions

GitHub repo: https://github.com/HazyResearch/Minions
I like the pattern described too. Only snag is deletes and updates. Ime, you have to delete the underlying file or create and maintain a view that handles the data you want visible.
It covers things like criminal background, education verification, immigration status, validation of driver's license (think couriers, etc), professional licenses, credit reports, DOT drug testing, etc.

The problematic one to me is the criminal background. They can report arrests rather than convictions, misdemeanors or not, juvenile records, etc. I like the way Australia does these. A govt agency does the check, and they only send the employer back a 'yes' or 'no', based on the background and the job position.
So it appears that automating managers is easier than automating "unskilled workers"
Canada has (had?) something similar. Once the movie and music industry got a significant tax levied on recordable media (flash cards, optical media, etc.) pirating became defacto legal.

At least this is what some Canadians explained to me once.
Legal protections are great and everything, but if I had to choose between abstract legal protections or concrete protections based on physical properties, I'll choose the later every time. Obviously both is ideal, but I'd use encryption for most of my correspondence regardless of my levels of legal protection.
Except I just want to say that we don't support the cobblers ?

Would they even be cobblers if they are out of business / are heavily impacted by it (like it wipes out 90% cobblers , making their lives actively worse , forcing them to go into the factory lives which actively sucks for them)

I am not sure this is a nuanced topic.
“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should”

just kidding, this is pretty cool.
I was wondering if this was a Ratner moment. There are a lot of similarities.
You Should Test Less – how to run half your tests with no loss in safety
Would you want to be reliant on American companies right now?
For understandable reasons
Sure, everyone who commits tax fraud, including the wealthy and powerful, will go to jail then. We're going to need more prisons.

edit: just realized that al capone was busted for tax evasion, not tax fraud. we're going to need even more prisons than I realized.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9036688/

> In recent years there have been reports of viral haemorrhagic fever (VHF) epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa where malaria is endemic. VHF and malaria have overlapping clinical presentations making differential diagnosis a challenge.