I’ve read articles about how DOGE might have misinterpreted data because of COBOL, just today I saw the announcement of all these “5 things” emails being plugged into AI… there are a lot of people on HN well positioned to comment knowledgably on this stuff but the threads get flagged very quickly.
I was contacted by a reporter asking about the possible security implications of the Doge stuff.
All I could think of was the false/misleading claims about DNS traffic on Trumps server back in 2016.
I said something like, “if the humans in charge grant access to another human, a secure system would grant the new human access.”
They didn’t use my quote.
Yes and no. DOGE already set up a site that gave the public write access. There are stories to be told already.
I’m a little flustered by all this talk of “read-access” and “write-access” in reference to DOGE.
Reading and writing what?
If these transactions systems are well designed, everything is written. They should be using special “write-once, read-many” media ensure everything is immutably recorded.
Even if it’s just a conventional SQL database and not some kind of transaction ledger, you can recreate the state of the DB by rerunning all SQL commands, which should be recorded.
What does “write” mean exactly here?
https://www.404media.co/anyone-can-push-updates-to-the-doge-...
Because it was. To describe what he did as a “wave” is simply not plausible.
It used to be that a single thread with ~200 comments could slow down the server, on the front page there are 3 discussions I saw (quick scan) at or over 200 and one over 600.
Aka completely undiscussable woth any sense of nuance, which ironically enough is a great way to bury a lede.
But on the technical side... Man, reddit cannot handle more than 500 comments, old or new. Open thst pagination and you get repeats, orphaned replies, and a disgusting amount of lag for what should ideally just be static text.
As much as I like a good politics/law discussion, for this "DOGE stuff" on HN I try to limit my support to items which are either:
1. News about technical details
2. Discuss information-security policies and principles
3. Contain a significant niche educational component, like how Impoundment has been historically used and how Nixon's abuses of it led to the Impoundment Act of 1974.
Given the fact that people with very questionable backgrounds "work" on this data, it all looks like a massive potential for data leaks. It happens in plain sight, and apparently not many people object. Or more accurately, as on this website, they are silenced.
Must we have blaring headlines and political flamefests every time a judge issues an intermediate ruling related to DOGE?
It should be news worthy
All the judge has done is to decree that:
a) her opinion is that the plaintiffs are "likely to" prevail, and
b) you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube, so it makes sense to pause the behavior in question while trial is pending.
You're getting worked up over theoretical outcomes. TROs happen all the time, even in cases where the eventual outcome is in favor of the defendants.
I believe that's how case ruling posts commonly work on HN (plenty of "the case may proceed" with tech company news), so I don't see why not. The whole process of law is slow so it's nigh impossible for it to flood HN.
For instance a discussion about Ukraine... what happens there is life-or-death for thousands of people.
It's tough to look away from it right now though. At nearly 50, I still think tech is fun and interesting, but I'm getting to an age where I want to leave a better world for my kids and it looks like what they'll actually get is perhaps much worse than what I grew up with.
Winning a TRO essentially requires that the judge agree you're going to win your case eventually and that you can't even wait until a preliminary injunction hearing to get some relief. On the flip side, losing a TRO doesn't mean all that much.
Maybe nothing of substance to you.
But it's certainly something of substance to US citizens. Which are, I argue, a majority of HN users given YCombinator's location.
A TRO is something of a substance, both literally in itself and its immediate effect, and also as an indicator on the merits since a TRO requires a finding of probability of success on the merits.
Given the hesitancy a few weeks ago, I'd say this is important news to know of.
But sure, politics is popular flame war just like a topic about X vs Y or any AI news.