skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Following that logic it would be literally impossible to trust any part of their infra. They had a bad build container, the rest of their stuff was solid.
I think we're headed towards a state where GoArmMe would be a better alternative.
Looking at the graph it seems pretty clear that spending has out stripped revenues for a really long time. This doesn’t seem like something to be proud of.
Gonna admit, that aged poorly, and very quickly.
You could tax the top 20 US companies global REVENUE at 20% and still only cover half of the deficit.
I think what they are proposing is to replace existing RTTI with their version that actually supports ALL objects, not just directly allocated ones. I assume there is some complex RTTI analysis that goes into determining whether a thing can be cast at runtime, and that check may be omitted if it's not possible to do it. If you pass a stack-allocated variable somewhere by reference, for example, is there any RTTI available on the original object to check a cast? I really don't know.
Nice Job! Editing "World Events" would be nice - perhaps just click on it to give option to delete. "SpaceX Landing" has nothing to do with my life.
i admired 18F's work and their model, and have also seen similar digital service groups get marginalized and coopted by the bureaucracy.

something like it has to exist and it will likely reform as something else post-doge. what i think people need to appreciate is how pernicious bureaucracy is, and that doge is going to get one opportunity to reform it before it develops a new immune response.

18F showed themselves to be some of the most capable and resourceful people in public service doing some of the heaviest lifts, and they will all find private work faster than others.
many will likely immediately respawn as consultants. it sounds like a hard change but as it comes to light how bad things were, i can see how 18F could be coopted into an opposition. that they were taken out first should be a point of honor.
He’s a Christian nationalist. He thinks the Feds doing normal things like science, environmental protection, etc, are not “Christian” enough, or at least somehow are in support of an anti-Christian movement. He therefore wants to dismantle the government so as to reduce the anti-Christian elements of government.
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If that sounds like conspiracy level crazy, it’s because it is.
An hour of exercise in the morning for me has the same effect as the described effects of the drug.
Do you have a source for that video? I'd like to share it.
By cutting taxes. Republicans have been slashing taxes for decades without cutting spending.
All run by one person who doesn't even take donations for the service they provide.

They joined here on an Ask HN about "Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34548908
Like all these things even in a market like Spain thn solution for one area can create issues in others. Barcelona suffers very different problems to Santander.

I think it would actually make it easier if I could just pay 100K tax to have permission to erect any new 2 bed house anywhere in the country. There can even be a price list linked to local salleries or something.
I guess it's a cultural thing, we always reduce American recipes sugar by 75% or so
Is it an accurate presentation of facts or a talking point? The nukes were not 'theirs' to begin with.
The graph shows public money spent. It includes contractors and services from private sector.
Trump's EV Rollback Could Cost Taxpayers $1B
Then they need to gain enough political capital to stay on. In most re-org, downsizing, or budget cut, it's all a political game. If you don't want rich assholes to get the tax cut, get involved politically.
I just saw this design update on substack. For everything's sake, whyyyyy?
> I don’t know if it’s the nature of the products themselves

Isn't this what you were just arguing it was not 10 minutes earlier?
That’s what it’s always been. That’s what pays for you to have the ability to send a letter across the country to some rural area for 30 cents. That’s how it works.
Notice that they are not cutting any of the services that cost the most. That should tell you something.
See recent "Trump bars federal scientists from working on pivotal global [IPCC] climate report":

* https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/climate/trump-blocks-scientis...
Servo is already embeddable, you can use it in Tauri (https://servo.org/blog/2024/01/19/embedding-update/) or Qt (https://www.kdab.com/embedding-servo-in-qt/).
That's a feature. You paid to get the video on the small screen, so you will watch it there.

Netflix has a mobile-only plan in emerging markets that is cheaper than the "SD" plan.

That's DRM for ya
Elon Musk is removing the tech people... in order to replace them with his loyalists.

His strategy is documented here: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/us/politics/musk-federal-...

<quote>
Mr. Musk made clear that he saw the gutting of that bureaucracy as primarily a technology challenge. He told the party of around 20 that when he overhauled Twitter, the social media company that he bought in 2022 and later renamed X, the key was gaining access to the company’s servers.
</quote>

By replacing all tech workers with his loyalists, Musk will have full control of the servers and its operations.
Let’s just say it’s a middle way - where it’s not exactly what they say it’s for (economic boom), but its also not what you fear it’s for (orangegarchy)

What could it be?

Possibilities:

- reorganization of labor in anticipation of the need to soon fight a coming, century-deciding war

- preparing for massive hire-back into some new agency with fresh national purpose

- making the country a less attractive invasion target by making it ungovernable by colonists, and creating a mass pool of expert free agents to staff the resistance

Sounds unlikely. Possible sure, but how probable? What if it really is just aggressive restructuring to make the government a viable going concern?

Presumably Elon will add back some of the “muscle” cut away with 18F unless there are unseen factors that make them an issue.

My historical curiosity question is: where are the labor unions in all this? A few counter judges will not stop the tide with their brooms.

But maybe the most important question to ask yourself is: why the urgency? Why the rush to get it done by mid next year?? Why is that date important? What is anticipated???

After all this I’m inclined to think it is just about the cutting-out-the-rot corporate restructuring. As Elon has said many times: they are going to cut more than they need, to find the limits, and put back what’s necessary.
Hence constitutional convention.
* https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/02/noaa-cut...

* https://archive.is/vk082
and what do you think of him?
It's so much fun when AirPlay doesn't work so I have to go dig out my Chromebook and an HDMI cable to connect directly to my TV.
> I just read your citation and it doesn’t sound particularly provocative. Certainly nothing compared to the dressing-down that followed.

Doesn't matter, my point was that Vance did not start the argument, as WSJ claimed. It was yet more misinformation from the media.

> In the discussion I’ve had in HN challenging Trump supporters in the past 24 hours, not a single one has conceded that maybe he and Vance overreacted

Because Trump and Vance don't need anything from Zelensky. Zelensky needs stuff from Trump. They can react however they want because they're not asking for protection from a nuclear power.

> Regardless, to make it a lynchpin of the argument tilts the scales against justice.

Not a lynchpin, it's yet another example of how Zelensky totally dropped the ball because of his desperation.

The simple fact is that it would be better for his country if Zelensky simply kissed the ring and did the fake politician thing.
Please stop spreading propaganda. Most Americans don't support Trump. At best, a third of Americans voted for him in 2024, which means two-thirds didn't.

And he's rapidly losing support within his own base, from people who didn't expect him to go as far as he has, or didn't expect the ramifications to apply to them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBH9TmeJN_M
I don't understand your comment. You can just do jwt and whatever flavour of front end you want.
Isn't the point that the video isn't sent to external non-DRM'ed HDMI, that it shows up as black the same way it does in a screenshot?
You make it sound like using C++ guarantees memory safety bugs. It most certainly doesn't. Competent C++ programmers don't create many memory safety bugs at all, and consider them easy to fix in general.
Hmm, let me see...who else have had this playbook? Create confusion and fear. Laying the ground for an almighty to seize power. There are a few names that comes to mind.
Billionaires, billionaires billionaires, billionaires!

And multimillionaires,

and somewhat the millionaires.

See also, this post which is one of the most succinct statements on the state of taxes, spending, and the deficit that I have seen:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43224201#43224843
Even a rail line such as RER A only has a capacity of at most 40k people/h/direction. It cannot solve all, or even most, transportation problems of a large city. For that, you'd need tens of lines, as in China or Madrid.
This is so true. I recently listened to Lex Fridman's Marc Andreessen interview and all I could think was, this guy doesn't actually know how government, laws, and regulations work. Like _totally_ clueless and he's pontificating on the subject like he's a founding father.
I couldn’t screenshot non-DRM videos on Windows XP either.

It’s because the video is being rendered on a different framebuffer for performance reasons.

Helpful for DRM too.
Recently, I have been getting into understanding synths and digital music production as they are at the intersection of my many hobbies (music, modeling, programming, electronics). It is a fascinating area, but also very demanding due to interdisciplinarity (and the gear is bloody expensive).

I wish I had the time and skill to read the whole 180 pages of your dissertation with full understanding, but I will spend some time with it. I like some of your diagrams already!
So there were a lot projects listed here, but the one word used to describe the actual work being done by folks at 18F was “technologist” (in the sole bolded phrase of the article).

I know what devs do, QA folks do, product owners, scrum masters, UX specialists, etc. But what were these folks doing as “technologists?” I have my own understandings of the term that are, well… not biased in the direction of “valuable work.”

I’m all about calling out DOGE firings as problematic. But this particular post read as a lot of emotional language, but very specifically sparse specific details about what work they were doing and what they were being paid for it. And that’s, well… how you would actually demonstrate that it was problematic.

I get a vibe here of “politicians’ friends and family paid a lot to write how they think tech should work and wave their dicks around a bit,” to be honest, but really want to be wrong. Are there any substantive PRs to major GPL/MIT repos from 18F folks? Or more tactile explanations of their work? And some accounting of what they were paid for it?
And why do you assume that it must be spending that's out of control?

What's happening is the Republicans keep promising that their tax cuts will be self-funding, they never are. Spending is stable, they keep cutting revenue. It's their intention to cause the system to fail!
Not sure why everyone pointing this out is being downvoted. But we reduced revenue (taxes) while keeping spending the same. So debt goes up.

On top of that some emergency situations have also contributed (GFC, COVID) and then and in the Iraq war.

Right now they’re proposing a budget that will reduce taxes again, and increase our debt by over $4 trillion.

Edit: seriously everyone here knows math, this is math, it is public data, why is it treated this way. Argue the substance of cutting programs, but you can’t argue that deciding to raise less tax revenue than you spend increases the debt!
> What is stopping adoption of such projects?

In my little experience, many big companies are heavily invested in Appium, which was the only viable solution x years ago, and keep clinging on to that.

Also Maestro may not be flexible/hackable enough for some of the things they do with Appium. But in the long term I think everyone would benefit if Maestro became the go-to UI testing tool, the way Docker became the go-to tool for containerization.

> The quality of most mobile apps sucks so not sure why mobile testing is not mainstream?

I think it's actually: mobile testing is not mainstream, so most mobile apps suck, haha.

btw, I think that most mobile apps actually make no sense at all (many are just stupid CRUDs), and should be web apps. But that'd be a whole different rant :)
> you've just passed regulations that make building so expensive that it isn't profitable until rents are unreasonably high

This is just demonstrably false, though. Regulation does cause large overhead especially crossing municipal boundaries, but developers aren't building even where they've been approved to build. Either they accepted the work they knew they couldn't deliver under the current regulatory burden (essentially, committing fraud) or the bottleneck isn't regulations at all, but the other costs that dominate building.

Anyway, you can either pay off your investment or you can turn a profit. Doing both is just antisocial (ie malicious and harmful) behavior. If you're turning a profit, I better also get an equitable return. That would actually make sense.

Of course the world doesn't work like that, but nothing you're explaining helps me understand why this behavior is legal and people don't murder more landlords. This is simply not a reasonable way to divvy up resources in a community.
Government debt is delayed taxation.

If you assume that private sector is more productive than public sector, then it makes sens to delay taxation, because GDP growth will be higher.

Same tax/GDP share with debt pays you more with the same money.

The nominal sum growing means nothing. The thing to watch is debt to gdb ratio and debt service cost to gdp ratio.
> Operators of large web sites then can and should monitor the CT logs to make sure that nobody issued a certificate for their domains, and they can and will raise hell if they see that happen.

The tech is definitely an improvement from the previous situation, but I've always wondered about this step: Suppose you've found an unauthorized certificate for your site in the log (and you're not Google, Apple or Microsoft). Then what? What can you actually do about it?
They weren’t wrong. Both led their countries through a series of terrible decisions that cost millions of lives and destroyed their own societies.

Bumbling fool seems apt to me.
The entire software industry is getting worse every year, yeah.
Is that from personal experience?
The name of this man is Russell Vought.

Don’t forget it. He’s just getting started.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/10/who-is-russe...
That’s nice. Largely irrelevant unless you’re the only person who exists, though.
> Among its other duties, NOAA employs thousands of people to help accurately predict the weather through the National Weather Service; privatizing federal weather data has long been a project of some conservative lawmakers too.

John Oliver had a show on this during Trump 1.0:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMGn9T37eR8
The thing is... If it's the Democrats' fault, why did spending also increase under Republican administrations?
No, but theoretically it was someone Elon would listen to, which was their point.
> overwhelming majority (97%) of the population is non-native and has no native ancestry

Em. First, numbers of "native ancestry" are almost all self-reported which has more to do with self-identified culture than genetic ancestry.

Second, trying to argue through the use current numbers of native ancestry is nonsensical given the US has been an outlier in terms of immigration for a very long time making it impossible to compare against. For goodness sake, around a tenth of the population has been foreign born for the better part of two centuries which has had a dramatic effect on ancestry (both genetic and self-reported).
I'm very curious what one of your cake recipes is!

Because sugar also greatly affects the texture of cake -- it retains moisture, prevents gluten formation, incorporates air... reducing sugar by 75% is going to make for a very dry, tough, and dense cake.

I can't even imagine how you're going to make a cake recipe work with 75% less sugar. And it's not an American thing -- it's not like European cakes are any different. Also, cakes don't work with 4x sugar either. Americans aren't overloading sugar that you need to compensate for, because that doesn't work for cakes either.

Are you sure you haven't confused it with just simply less frosting or something? Because a 10-slice cake with less than 60 grams of sugar just isn't really going to work, with everything I know about baking.
If any of them have something to hide, every single one of them could buy and operate a secure alternative.

So fundamentally speaking, yes, they have exemption with or without Apple's assent.
This is so terrifying to watch. And it’s even more terrifying to see those people to succeed and probably never pay for their actions.
> That wacky article in the NY Times where Sergey Brin recommends everyone at Google put in 60 hours a week

Ah, yes, work 60 hour weeks so that Google can create AGI and lay off half of their employees. A brilliant plan for workers.

(I don't think they will create AGI, and "everyone working 60 hours a week" is the same kind of executive brainrot that leads to AAA games with $100 million+ budgets that get mediocre reviews. Throwing more resources at a problem does not guarantee a better outcome.)
Deficit spending can be stable and also inflate the debt holdings.
Does any of that mean we need to lie and pretend that there's 100B pieces of useful mail being delivered?

I haven't seen any indication that it's a lie. Please post a link to the proof.

Is not a lie simply because it doesn't align with your political view.

Note that what you consider junk mail, other people may find valuable. I know someone who digs those ValPack coupons.
Sorry dang. I'll dial it back.
Yes. There are, of course, plenty of people who work in the federal government who do it because it’s a job with decent benefits and so on. But there is a significant chunk of them, I would guess the majority from my dealings, who take pride and working for the government and serving the country. It’s one of the intangible benefits of the job. That’s what makes this insanity all the sadder.
You also get that warm feeling from sharing with others, which is more than 4k and hdr combined. All we need is connection.
https://www.uspsoig.gov/focus-areas/did-you-know/do-my-tax-d...
Your comments come across as more aggressive than perhaps you intend them to. We've had to ask you similar things before.

Telling someone that their spending is "fucking egregious" and "who knows what else you didn't mention", would land with most people as quite a provocation. The fact that cj replied courteously says something good about cj, but your comment broke the site guidelines and we need you not to do that.

It's easy to underestimate the amount of provocation in one's own comments—we all do that to some extent. I don't know if it's helpful or not but here are a bunch of past attempts I've made to explain this: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Blow something up or get in a big war. Something to rally the nation around the flag and get them to pledge fealty.
Did ChatGPT do the math wrong or is this fact inconvenient?
So that means we'll have a good twenty years of data to finally look at, which is what I was saying. I do not trust any medicine unless it has far more data than what we have in this regard at this point. I work in a related field and I can simply say most things we trust should not be trusted and should require far more testing.
"There's a good reason, and there's the real reason."

So it is with these cuts.
Good, reliable ways to do hole punching were not available until relatively late (STUN, ICE) and were somewhat finicky for a long time, especially on crappy routers.

Also, multiple levels of nat are unfortunately common and make STUN unreliable
The federal government had enough employees for federated SSO within 20 years of the country’s founding.
> True, AI can be more productive

Citation needed. =)
Your claim doesn't seem to reflect the reality. Marketing mail only accounts for 19% of total revenue.

Shipping and packages account for 41% and First-Class mail is about 32%.

https://about.usps.com/newsroom/national-releases/2024/1114-...

Feel free to reply with your sources.
Well, would have been nice to simply look at all the stuff on the 18f.gsa.gov site to look for the evidence you are requesting, but the entire site has been memory-holed.
Fairly sure Clinton left with a surplus. The Asian financial crisis primarily affected... Asia, and the dotcom bubble wasn't a humongous issue outside of IT, which was a much smaller sector back then.
The time will come for nuance.

Right now democrats are the only established group of people in the US with good western values and that are of sufficient size that can turn this shit around.
We are the government. We are a republic.
From what I remember of the windows video apis there is a system for decoding DRM content where you need to use special types of buffers which can’t be mapped to the CPU. There’s special interfaces in MediaFoundation (decoding) DXGI (buffer/device interop) and Direct Composition.

Maybe there are holes or the browsers aren’t doing it properly or it only applies to the MS proprietary DRM.
> What is the point in replicating an employee when the AI could be better than all the employees?

Wishful thinking at this point in time.
It will take years to even properly assess how much impact DOGE is having. Sure, you can look at the immediate effect, "We cut this $100 million dollar expense! We are awesome!" Yet, you have to consider 2nd and 3rd order effects. What is not being done because that money is not being spent?

Monitoring of invasive species has been cut - how many new infections or local fisheries will suffer? Cuts to vaccine research. Supplying AIDS or TB medication. Are we losing food/drug/bridge inspectors as well?
when can i expect the upside to this? Will it come in dollars? Will I save $10 a year now at the expense of a gov capable of building scalable web apps?

Pooling money and resources will always be greater in quality efficiency and quantity than individual or privatized effort. Think about how inefficient decentralized blockchain computations are.

gutting gov services for measly tax cuts is atrocious and an attack on American people.
Parcels are not mail. Parcels are the boxes of stuff that people order.

While spam funds a lot of the postal service, it allows it to price mail lower than the true cost of delivering mail across the country.
> There’s no “checks and balances” within the executive branch.

My comment was more general.

> What we have now is an undemocratic regime where the executive branch is permanently controlled by a city that voted 91-6 for the losing candidate.

The alternative will be an undemocratic regime where the executive "branch" controls all the other ones in perpetuity.

EDIT: Sigh... To me, this is obvious, as I've personally witnessed it happen in several different countries, not to mention historical examples. Worrying about H1B and similar right now is like worrying about hanging the family portrait in the best way possible while the house is on fire.

Note: I would be happy to be proven wrong and I hope you revisit these threads in a few years to see if you have changed your opinion about MAGA (I will surely do).