Geez, it's almost like Russia handed them a priority checklist of organizations that needed to go toothless as soon as possible. CIA influence in Europe, aid to Ukraine, nuclear strike capability...
> Geez, it's almost like Russia handed them a priority checklist of organizations that needed to go toothless as soon as possible. CIA influence in Europe, aid to Ukraine, nuclear strike capability...
Trump and Musk have a penchant for Alpha men - Putin and Xi. Have you ever heard them talk against any of them? There was minor criticism of Xi from T during COVID-19 though, but that's it. Whatever they are doing is very strategic! First they wiped off all the credibility of the media and during that process - bought conservative political YouTuber commentators to get the Stag votes. Now, pick any YouTube video about Trump or republicans, it almost has all the positive comments about them; Meta has mixed though now, before swearing-in, it was all positive though there as well.
They could have taken a methodical approach to federal purge, not sure what's the rush. Whatever they are doing, it has all the ingredients to start a civil war. It's not going to end well.
It's possible that the Dems will get a backbone and shut down the government in March when the budget needs renewing. That's why I think the rush is on.
It blows my mind how quickly everything even remotely critical of the trump administration gets flagged since they've taken office.
While I'd expect some to get flagged, the speed and throughoutness of it is really unusual for HN.
I'm not American so the discussions were always interesting to read for me - but this time around, every thread I click on is dead by the time I see it. Never been like that since I've started frequenting HN in 2012
Conspiracy to me but it seems like coordinated flagging.
I've noticed on a local US subreddit any political action or protest is immediately swarmed by people criticizing it or calling it useless. The comments might end up down voted but the level of engagement far exceeds a typical thread.
Then looking through their comment history they're doing it across many other city subreddit. No trend of them being an active participant in any one location.
There won't be a "here" anymore because of the politics, at least not a recognizable here. That's the absurdity of trying to ignore the 800 lbs. gorilla in the room when he's bashing your head in. Sometimes, the rules need to change to adapt with unusual times. Because silence gives consent.
On HN we discuss tech, which was mostly apolitical until Elon decided to make it very political. So yeah, politics is now in. I don't like it either, but you'll have to take it up with him. Flag all you want, it's not going away until that situation changes.
Sure, but the US president and his latest asinine crusade is more political than the 3D printed robot arm that's a few links ahead of this one currently
It's a gradient, where everyone has an individually-set line, I won't disagree with you there. Some things cross a majority of people's line though, and other topics do not
There's so many prolific posters here debating the same simple facts over and over, pointing out they don't care about a discussion without contributing any of it. But surely all that weird stuff we see cannot possibly ever influence flagging, because the people who state their motivations for flagging are the only people who flag. If anyone did anything fishy they'd just say it, obviously.
You cannot "point out" an internal motivation anyway, you can only claim it. At this point, the question "why should I believe you?" seems an appropriate response, since not a single one of them I've seen could explain why why they don't click "hide" instead of "flag". Or allow people to opt-in to a view that ignores flags. Can you?
And hey, there's a link in the footer of every page to something that mentions Musk of a group of "the world’s top AI experts", to garner interest in a "100% free conference and every attendee is hand-picked." But that has nothing to do with anything, either.
I'd say some people bank on fascism winning but also don't want to be seen in case fascism doesn't win. Trapped between two kinds cowardice. Simple as that.
much handwringing and I have no idea what your point is? There’s guidelines and people flag when they think it violates the guidelines? I did t flag but am just sharing what I’ve seen. If you don’t like the guidelines, send your political monologue to the mods and see if they care
I once got let go from a company, and then, 2 weeks later, they offered to re-hire me. They acted like they were doing me a favor, boasting that they'd even pay me the same salary. I declined, as I was planning on quitting anyway. Then, a few days later they sent me a threatening letter, claiming I stole company proprietary data, and they were gonna report the situation to the district attorney if I didn't contact them. I didn't respond and never heard from them again. I heard from former colleagues that no one knew the admin passwords for their critical systems except me. That's true. I told management, over and over, that the whole sysadmin operation revolved around me, which was doomed to fail. That's actually why I was planning on quitting. Oh yeah, when they let me go, I offered to stay on for a short time to cascade to whoever was gonna replace me. They declined and rushed me out the door.
Hmmm. Not exactly. I did give the admin passwords to others (rotated every 90 days), like my manager, but I guess they never wrote them down or otherwise stored them. I also maintained operational documents for the systems, but was told to just keep them on my PC, since I was the only one that would read them.
I always viewed my termination as a version of the "sysadmin paradox". If a sysadmin does her job poorly, stuff breaks a lot, and she gets to save the day - she's the hero! Everyone recognizes her awesomeness. However, if she does her job well, nothing ever breaks, everything is quiet, no heroism - well, someone in management will eventually think she's useless and eliminate her position. I think that's what happened in my case. I took pride in the "quietness" of my systems, and I think someone took that as my job being unnecessary.
I don't think they ever said they knew they were the only one to know the admin passwords. Looks like they've heard it from former colleagues after they left:
> I heard from former colleagues that no one knew the admin passwords for their critical systems except me
And looks like they tried to address the fact that the entire sysadmin operation depended on them and management did nothing?
That's a lot of hostility and assumptions about some person on the internet and by the looks of it I'll make the assumption you've never worked on chaotic places where management is just shitty? I'm in the same situation at my company where I'm the only person managing our legacy CI/CD pipelines which are quite complex and nobody wants to learn it and management keeps saying they'll hire somebody as backup but they never do so I can relate to parent.
> Firing an employee and then begging them to come back because of how essential they are?
Typical Elon style - Fired entire Supercharger team, then hired right back. Maybe for PR. Same stunt with Tesla stores and Twitter. He fired Twitter's 80% team is a lie.
"If you don't find yourself in need to add back at least 20% of what you removed, you didn't remove enough". Elon's word. Sounds like an excellent engineering principle, with some caveats of course.
I talked to a McDonnell Aircraft structural engineer in the 80s. He said something like Old Man McDonnel told us to design for a 0.85 factor of safety on the F101. If anything broke during testing, we'd redesign it.
I'm not sure if that was how it really worked out.
Then you are wildly mistaken about the field of engineering.
Imagine needing to add back 20% to a bridge because you removed too much, or a rocket ship, or a team of nuclear scientists (like is actually the case here).
I'm looking forward to Elon applying the same strategy to aviation. I wonder how many crashes it'll take for him to realize that this is a horrible engineering principle?
That's as much as an "engineering principle" as him thinking minimum character level of an item is more important than the actual attributes of the item in PoE2. He's just saying stuff his target audience thinks are smart, and whenever checked on it he lashes out. He's got nothing.
The administration claimed that the first year or two of employment is part of the "application process." We all know that's nonsense. A generation of skilled workers is learning to distrust and avoid government service at all costs, precisely the people government should want to attract. Wrong move, DOGE bros.
Just got someone on LinkedIn asking to connect from one of these national labs with their status set to Looking for Work. Had a sinking feeling, saw the story online, looked for the articles here, didn't see any, then searched and found they were all (like the current one) flagged and hidden.
Do you want to just complain about no accountability or were you actually interested in one? I'm not aware of any more accountability alternatives - feel free to add any you know of.
I mean, civil nuclear is the main topic that drew me to HN (that and cybersec), isn't this about civil nuclear safety? Or did I misread the article? Also, it reads like a Dilbert strip, which is pretty much on-tone with HN.
How is this propaganda? Please explain. The story is factual about what the government is doing and comes from a reputable source, corroborated by other journalists.
Strictly speaking anything can be demonized as propaganda by people that don't want to hear it. I don't love or hate Musk but this seems like a perfectly level-headed assessment of the issues with spending cuts at a federal level.
well, lets see. These events are previously unheard of, and therefore "new", and a "phenomenon" due to their significant impact, which therefore makes them "interesting".
So yeah, it fits.
thanks to Musk, there's about one of these every day, thus the number of HN posts
