skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was mainly devils'-advocating, up until this guy.

With this guy, I can find no fault. If you watch his 60 Minutes interview, it seems heartfelt and authentic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grj328-hlhA Plus, if he was born Palestinian and is now a Buddhist, that means that he willingly chose to endure the risk of getting killed as an apostate of Islam.

Something must be done... at least in his case.
> Typically, stuff like this gets flagged off the front page within minutes.

Why would that be, because it's too "political" for tech news? Or are there actual DOGE sympathies within the HN population?
Looks like git diffs are the new gold for training LLMs : https://carper.ai/diff-models-a-new-way-to-edit-code/
Having them always coupled disincentivizes bad ISP's from MITM the connection.
They'll likely try to give us a re-do of Covid inflation to juice unadjusted numbers, but without an actual external emergency to even sort-of justify it.

I'm wondering how closely banks' rates will follow the Fed, this time. I'm guessing less-so than usual, making the measures less effective than normal. Lowering rates even further to compensate may signal panic and incompetence (even more) to the markets, which will be... fun.
There's already no path to citizenship for anyone that entered the US without a visa or parole, and if deported it already eliminates the eligibility for a visa for 5 to 20 years.
It seems like for all the silliness and inefficiency that comes with a decentralized system ... the decentralized nature of US science research allowed for more "possibilities" and that paid off economically in spades.

Like speech, ideas require an open field with a lot of garbage to hit many home runs.
You realize that an Empire does not need to be configured the exact same way as the Roman Empire, right? A combination of soft power, clandestine operations, and targeted military intervention is more resource-effective than a constant occupation, and should still be considered an empire.
Do you mean Abrego Garcia? What's your source that he is "a legal resident alien" ?

This says he is illegal and shouldn't have been here in the first place: https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/04/14/icymi-dhs-sets-record-st...

Or is there another person?
Ubisoft is on the forefront for accessibility.
The P in remote stands for productive.
> was well documented

By trustable 3rd parties?

> last year

But this year it has MORE "AI" doesn't it?
getssl was written with a bit of a focus on this:

> Get certificates for remote servers - The tokens used to provide validation of domain ownership, and the certificates themselves can be automatically copied to remote servers (via ssh, sftp or ftp for tokens). The script doesn't need to run on the server itself. This can be useful if you don't have access to run such scripts on the server itself, e.g. if it's a shared server.

* https://github.com/srvrco/getssl
Are the 47 days to please the current US Administration?
Linux Foundation: Open Source Guides
Congrats on the launch. Another happy user here. (Caught a really sneaky issue too!)
A while back I created a fallback for use from my dotfiles that can be used from the command line: https://github.com/gbraad-dotfiles/upstream/blob/02deb3ef922... using zsh, openssl and xxd

This is not the first attempt I made. That was about 11 years ago with https://github.com/gbraad-apps/gauth using JavaScript as an application that would work on a Nokia Symbian/Maemo phone and as a webapp.
"The two areas where it’s not yet a good fit are web frontends (though you can try) and native macOS apps."

Could you please elaborate?
"At least 25% of the time I have to hit the stop button and go back to a checkpoint because the automatic lawnmower has started driving through the flowerbed again."

I absolutely love this analogy! And yes 25% seems right. Interestingly in like 50% of those cases all the models get into the same loop.
My point is this is naive in the real world, especially online. Many people appear to be engaging in good faith but are actually just baiting, trolling, trying to make a spectacle, etc.
The point wasn't about if 4chan is unique.
For extremely sensitive systems, I think a more logical endgame is 30 minutes or so. 30 seconds is practically continuous generation.

An semi-distributed (intercity) Kubernetes cluster can reasonably change its certificate chain every week, but it needs an HSM if it's done internally.

Otherwise, for a website, once or twice a year makes sense if you don't store anything snatch-worthy.
There's minimal security in an unauthenticated encrypted connection, because an attacker can just MITM it.
People will just roll out almost forever-lasting certificates through their internal CA for all systems that are not publicly reachable.
Purely from inflation, sure. But an $800k seed round was considered large in 2011/2012. I know because I was there.

Now? That would be a small preseed round.
appreciate the honest reaction! We'll think about this more, what we were trying to get at is that cursor is more about code writing, and we're tackling the review/collaboration side :) curious if anything else would have immediately stuck out to you more?
> you wouldn't expect someone who's an assistant manager at McDonald's to finish their law degree and start a new job as senior partner at the law firm

I think the metaphor's a little off (I have programming experience, and what'd be more apt is a McDonald's corporate ops manager moving into in-house legal after getting law degree + passing the bar), but I get what you meant!

If you were in a similar position, how would you build a portfolio that shows you have programming skills, and aren't just good at prompting?
No, but there was an "AHOY" https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2024ahoy
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pQGFeKvjydztpgnsY/occupation...

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MnFqyPLqbiKL8nSR7/my-experie...

https://medium.com/@zoecurzi/my-experience-with-leverage-res...

https://maxread.substack.com/p/the-zizians-and-the-rationali...

The last link and especially the second half expands from examining the latest example into the broader landscape of Rationalist cultism.
Interesting to see that its tied to gmail, which already has pieces of this and is likely working towards the same things.

Notion is vastly superior to Sharepoint, OneNote and Docs, it's a shame MS and Google abuse their position to push inferior products for the same price.
One thing I've found helpful is to coax them to imagine dems in charge. You can't outright mention dems in charge, because they will (mostly correctly) point out that dems _have_ been in charge of our institutions for a long time.

You have to understand their position: They don't feel in danger. They feel in power - the opposite of danger. Asking them to perceive danger is asking them to give up their feeling of power - tantamount to admitting everything they voted for is void.

But the path I found was to tease out that expansion of powers are permanent, making any changes from expansion of powers temporary. And we don't want temporary positive changes, do we? With all this legislative power, couldn't we just, you know, pass laws?

I've also come to accept that we should (for the sake of progress past issues) just:

* build the border wall, but suddenly nobody seems interested - what gives?

* slash costs to balance the budget, but suddenly nobody seems interested, what gives?

etc

The problem with true discussion of these issues is that you find yourself mostly in agreement with each other's viewpoint (at least subject to their "axioms"), and have to mellow out a bit. You can't really stand still and say "Come over here" all the time.
What “outcome” would meet your standards for justifiable research spending? Is a 26% cap on the percentage that indirects can go to all administration - all staff apart from researcher hours directly dedicated to the project - a sufficient “outcome”?
That first link is about Khalil. The original post is about Mahdawi, an entirely different person.

Mahdawi was actually interviewed by 60 Minutes a year ago. This is hardly a Mahmoud Khalil clone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grj328-hlhA
Looks like a case where there are tradeoffs to be made, but the people with authority over the decision have no incentive to consider one side of the trade.
In SW development you need to make compromises. You can not have all of: quality, performance, memory/cpu/disk efficiency, security, development speed, low effort, cross-platform app, accessibility, all the business features, etc. Which corners would you cut? You mention native tech but you seem to ignore the enormous tax in development time/knowledge, etc. So let's say you aim for the best UX. Are you ready to sacrifice business features, or any other aspect? I'm not advocating for crappy UI/UX, but I would rather use an electron app that has all the features I need, than native app that doesn't.
They saw extra profit $ and didn't consider the consequences. I suspect there was a bit of racism involved where they thought the Chinese would never learn to go from manufacturer to designing products nor master the entire pipeline and end up competing with them in the domestic market. China obviously did because they funded engineering education heavily and learnt all they needed to and surpassed the companies they built for some time ago.
I remember one user who made a really fun arcade flight simulator.
Because, naturally, people on here want to harm you. We can't say it out loud, but that's where the U.S. climate is right now. HN is not immune from it, and is likely more susceptible to it given the demographic. They flag to keep people from saying it.
> The whole point of an argument is exploring ideas and learning something new

Exactly. Which is why argumentation becomes boring once you are at the point where you feel there is nothing left that you can learn. Not only does it become boring, but it encroaches on the time you have to broach subjects you want to learn about, so there is great incentive to move on for that reason as well.

But when you are in a state where you still feel there is something left to learn, where you might drum up an argument to continue to learn and explore, you're not going to make a mind. That would be nonsensical.

So the idea of argument changing your mind isn't practical, even if theoretically possible. During argument, there is no mind to change. Once a mind is made, argument ceases (fake argument with ulterior motives aside).
In what situation would you want to encrypt something but not care about the identity of the entity with the key to decrypt it? That seems like a very niche use case to me.
I love how you respond to a huge spoiler comment with another huge spoiler!

At this point I will never play this game, I guess
She's right, they have bureaucracy and eurocrats
> Thing is, manufacturing in America is up.

I'm looking at the first chart, "Manufacturing Sector: Real Sectoral Output for All Workers" [1]. It grew until Q2 2000, when it was at 97.2. In Q4 2024 it was at 98.6. And let's not ignore how almost all leading semiconductor manufacturing (which are in and required for nearly everything) has moved to East Asia.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/OUTMS
Depends -- do you want the US to become a vassal state of China? That's the trajectory we were on. China is going to catch up rapidly on technology, AI, and services, and before a few months ago the US was going to continue falling behind in every other conceivable area.
Gerald Chan is the king of Harvard Square real estate. No one ever heard of him?
Probably referring to the Ziz cult which was born out of the rationalist community, which recently murdered bunch of innocent people.
Oddly, I thought this discussion would be about actual toddlers.

There is a way to win an argument with a toddler. You find out what's bothering them, usually something emotional, and you validate it. "Yes! It's fun to stay up late! Yes! You don't want to eat your vegetables!" Once they feel heard, you've got a shot at getting them to do what you want.

That's a good way to win an argument with a non-toddler as well. Acknowledge that what they want is legitimate (if it is). Concede points of agreement. Talk about shared goals. Only then talk about a different path to the solution.
That CRL is going to be HUGE.
I think that's still unit tests if that "standard MongoDB container" is actually hermetic.

It's pretty easy to make testing stuff like "We'll conjure into existence a loopback network server" hermetic and likewise for the Entity Framework trick where it runs tests against a SQLite db even though that's not how your real DB works, it's often good enough. Containers are something which could be hermetic, but I am dubious.
I see, so the general idea is that there are certain people in the federal govt that really have a mission, and the mission opposes these inmates.

To the point that they are willing to collaborate across states to rotate them around.

Confidence and morality are the underlying feelings across this part of the govt then, I am guessing. As a processed, your only solution now is to hope you get placed in the right moral category. That is a risk the processor is confident enough to take.

Thank you for the links.
Isolated Execution Environment for eBPF
Trump being an actor is pretty important though. Does Vance really have the Charisma to keep carrying Maga?
To argue that someone should stop doing something implies that they already are doing that.
Or maybe the endgame could be: creation of a centralized service that all web servers are required to be registered with and connected to at all times in order to receive their (frequently rotated) encryption keys. Controllers of said service then have kill switch control of any web service by simply withholding keys.
I dunno. Self-hosting w/o automation was feasible. Now you have to automate. It will lead to a huge amount of link rot or at least something very similar. There will be solutions but setting up a page e2e gets more and more complicated. In the end you want a service provider who takes care of it. Maybe not the worst thing, but what kind of security issues are we talking about? There is still certificate revocation...
I don't understand how this is different from Meshtastic. Can someone compare and contrast?
That's a crazy statement. It is clearly not true that every single person in the US capable of making board games now or in the future is instead already making high-grade aerospace and medical components.
docker run --rm -p 8080:80 -v "$(pwd):/usr/share/nginx/html:ro" nginx:alpine

will host the current directory on 8080
I mean, we do TOFU for SSH server keys* and nobody really seems to bat an eye at that. Today if you want "insecure but encrypted" on the web the main way to go is self-signed which is both more annoying and less secure than TOFU for the same kind of use case. Admittedly, this is a little less concerning of an issue thanks to ACME providers. (But still annoying, especially for local development and intranet.)

*I mistakenly wrote "certificate" here initially. Sorry.
Reminds me of the last lines of the diamond sutra.

> So you should view this fleeting world—

A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream,

A flash of lightning in a summer cloud,

A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.
Same, seems that it is in some way broken at least for now.
If you have the inverse requirement = identity and no encryption I heartily recommend: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2289
Gamergate and Donald Trump was a 4-6 year period depending on where you put the needle. There were 10 years before it and now close to 5 years after it. The people who continue to hammer about it are just announcing that they don't understand the site and are complaining about ancient history. The most popular board right now is the video game generals board, and second place belongs to the regular video games board.
> yes lots of cybersecurity experts were black hat hackers at one point

It makes some sense to hire a former blackhat to secure your computers, with appropriate supervision. It's a lot less reasonable to hire a former blackhat to get into your own computer and treasury systems to run audits. I could almost buy an argument like "If you have a legal right to get in but the door is locked, you hire a locksmith to crack the lock. So they needed hackers to take control of the systems away from obstructionists." But you would then send the locksmith home, not have them root through all the records in the building and decide who to fire.

> At one point Obama had then-VP Biden in charge of government efficiency efforts utilizing USDS to do it: literally the DOGE playbook with a different name, except the person in charge now actively wants to have fewer federal employees.

Could you provide more information on Biden's nominal assignment, and what exactly he was supposed to make more efficient? I couldn't find it by Googling, as everything is about DOGE now.

Anyway, on USDS in general. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Digital_Service:

> It provides consultation services to federal agencies on information technology. The agency's 2014 mandate was to improve and simplify digital service, and to improve federal websites.[7][8][9] The mission of the agency is to "deliver better government services to the American people through technology and design."

I could agree that these could be termed "efficiency", but clearly they are very different from the goals of DOGE. USDS had a 2016 value statement that included "Hire and empower great people." So yeah, they didn't reduce the government headcount, as it wasn't their goal and that's not the only way to deliver "efficiency" or government improvement.

The Obama origins are a historical footnote and possibly done this way by Trump for legal expediency reasons. But USDS and DOGE have basically nothing else in common. Most of the USDS staff were fired, their mission statement is replaced. You're holding USDS accountable to DOGE's goals, when USDS didn't share those goals. In 2024 USDS reported "$285 million in projected estimated savings over five years in infrastructure expenses for the Social Security Administration" according to Wikipedia, so it's not like they were allergic to saving money, they just didn't do it by axing the bureaucracy.

You can think DOGE is better or more effective than USDS if you want, but it's partisan distraction to claim they are nominally doing the same work.

Here's some more information about the differences between the original USDS and DOGE: https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/03/05/trump-doge-obama/
> once or twice a year makes sense

You don't say. Why are the defaults already 90 days or less then?
Also one can't ignore that the GOP managed to remarked the CHIPS act as a key source of inflation, which they also managed to pin on "Bidenomics". Which was another source of "vibes, basically"
Based on the linked-to page, no:

47 days might seem like an arbitrary number, but it’s a simple cascade:

* 200 days = 6 maximal month (184 days) + 1/2 30-day month (15 days) + 1 day wiggle room
* 100 days = 3 maximal month (92 days) + ~1/4 30-day month (7 days) + 1 day wiggle room
* 47 days = 1 maximal month (31 days) + 1/2 30-day month (15 days) + 1 day wiggle room
Yeah, sarcasm does not work on internet, I know. I tried to paraphrase the ruler in chief.
Too many smart people doing smart stuff. Got to destroy that!
Victory to the Idiocracy.
I agree with your examples of language dilution being harmful, but sorry I just don't agree with this one. I think we're seeing a smarter form of disappearance, one where we know who took them, we know where they end up, but there is a clear and - I think to most reasonable people - obvious bad faith attempt to place them outside of due process or monitoring for constitutionally compliant treatment.

> No. That’s disappearance. The CIA doesn’t comment on its renditions, much less argue them in an open court.

You didn't engage with the hypothetical and changed the situation since it's not representative of how things work today. One year ago, the current situation would have been similarly described. I don't think it was an unfair thought exercise given the circumstances.

> Challenged, not ignored. From what I can tell the administration is begrudgingly complying with the letter of the judges’ (and justices’) orders

I guess we'll see.

On this topic, I think reasonable people can disagree, which we clearly do. I think a smart administrative state would disappear people just like this, it feels like an evolution of KGB tactics that adds some documentation, but the outcome is precisely the same.
I didn't see pricing on the page. How does this compare to superhuman?
How is an attacker going to MITM an encrypted connection they don't have the keys for, without having rogue DNS or something similar, i.e. faking the actual target?
I don't know about that but I believe the EU and Canada have the opportunity to take advantage of this and incite a brain drain in the US. All of those talented grad students have to go somewhere and they will likely go to UBC, Waterloo, or University of Toronto. All of those entrepreneurs who are afraid for there safety in the US will go somewhere else. Canada and Europe should make strong moves for them.
You can avoid using Twitter web or app by using a (hopefully self hosted) Nitter instance.
The English will be glad to hear their empire remains!
Good.

If you can't make this happen, don't use WebPKI and use internal PKI.
Exactly. And all in the name of security! Think of the children!
sorry buddy, but it's the nazi bar analogy. Let one nazi into your bar the whole bar is a nazi bar.

I don't care if some other sub-board is all sunshines and happiness, it's a nazi forum because of all the nazis that are coddled there.
Unless there could be a less black and white option in the middle?

Like a bit more taxes on the wealthiest, a bit more social safety nets for the neediest?
> People wigged out over non-reciprocal tariffs, where we tariff at 50% what they charge the US.

The "reciprocal" tariffs are based on not the tariff duties foreign countries imposed on US goods, but the trade deficit the US has with said foreign country. There's a lot of idiocy in the tariffs, but this was one of the loudest complaints people had with them.

> People wigged out at 10℅ flat rate tariffs. "Heard island penguins get charged 10%!)

Because the list of "countries" being charged made it clear that it wasn't being based on a list of countries as people understand them. Uninhabited islands and islands consisting only of US military bases being on the list were strong signs of the lack of competence in the planning for the tariffs.

And really, that's why people are complaining so hard: it is abundantly clear that tariffs are being rolled out in a botched manner by incompetent people for inane reasons, so whatever positive effect they might have is completely ruined and all of their negative effects are intensely amplified.
Just make it easy to start a company, accept payments and hire/fire people. That’s all you need!
Some Thoughts on SQL vs. NoSQL
What was hard to understand about it?
If you don't think you would be able to fool the person that you have the same views as them, you probably will not be able to have a productive argument with them.

i.e. if you couldn't sit at the table with a bunch of (insert ideology) adherents and blend right in, you probably don't understand their views well enough to dissuade them from it.