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by programd | 2025-04-02 21:12:04+00:00
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by JeremyNT | 2025-04-02 21:12:21+00:00
A truism, but:

There are a lot of Trump supporters on HN. More data points that highlight how incompetent or corrupt this administration is might eventually sway them.

Midterm and special elections are real points where negative stimuli could occur. If polling gets bad enough, swing state Republican politicians might start sweating sooner.

So maybe for you this is just obvious confirmation of what you already know. But by reporting and following up on this story, maybe some people will learn and understand something they did not before.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-04-02 21:12:24+00:00
Owning the domain your email address uses gives you a greater degree of ownership over that email address and makes you service provider agnostic.

Using an @gmail.com address for example, if you decide to move to another service provider at some point or especially if your Google account gets banned, you’re stuck manually migrating over however many things you have attached to your address (some of which may not be easy or possible without access to the original address).

In contrast, if your address is on a domain you own, the provider becomes moot. It doesn’t matter if you migrate or get banned, you still have your email address, and after a small blip between providers all is as it was.
by hnburnsy | 2025-04-02 21:12:28+00:00
Current EU tariffs on US goods...

Product Category Tariff Rate ----------------------------- -------------- Dairy Products (e.g., cheese, butter) Up to 50% Processed Foods (e.g., chocolate, confectionery) 30-40% Alcoholic Beverages (e.g., whiskey, bourbon) 25% Steel and Aluminum Products 25% Automobiles 10% Industrial Goods 5-10%
by mindslight | 2025-04-02 21:13:07+00:00
Can't hear you! USA. USA. USA.

Politically it's going to be just like how most everyone fell into line fervently supporting the Iraq War when the corpo media told them to. Then after the unavoidable truth finally seeped in, equivocation and rationalization from "I didn't really support it" to "we were misled". With a lot more visible economic pain, of course.

Then that anger from having been "tricked" will be used as raw energy to drive the next con, and so forth. A broken clock is at least right twice a day, but these low information voters will sabotage themselves every single time.
by nappy-doo | 2025-04-02 21:13:32+00:00
Well, it's clear this was leaked so they can throw Waltz to the wolves. "He was a rogue employee, and he is the only one who did this."

I am not conspiratorially minded, but I bet this was because Waltz had Jeffrey Goldberg's number. I bet Waltz leaked things to Goldberg in the past, and this is the Trump administration cutting ties with him in the most "sleep with the fishes" way possible.
by wongarsu | 2025-04-02 21:14:05+00:00
It all comes down to your definition of "act". Which maybe does split into at least two criteria: the "trigger" (is running "git push" every time I ask it to enough, or does it have to decide to do that on its own, for example by monitoring my workflow) and the "action" (is running "git push" enough, or does it have to be able to order movie tickets?).

On the action my view is fairly lax. Anything that modifies the world counts, which does include a git push run on my computer. Tasks aren't less real just because they have a convenient command line interface.

The trigger is a bit trickier. We expect the agent to have some form of decision-making-process (or at least something that looks and feels like one, to avoid the usual discussion about LLMs). If a human doesn't make decisions they are a tool, not an agent. Same rule for AI agents. But defining the cut-off point here is indeed hard, and we will never agree on one. I'm not at all opposed to deciding that IFTTT is an agent, and that slapping some AI on it makes it an AI agent.
by mikepavone | 2025-04-02 21:14:09+00:00
> I think the problem in a nutshell is that it's not trivial(?) to build an executable on a modern Linux distro that links against an old glibc version number (and if it is trivial then it needs to be better communicated).

I wouldn't say it's trivial, but it's not rocket science either. Basically there are two main approaches. One is to just build inside a chroot or container with a sufficiently old distro inside. This is generally the path of least resistance because your build system doesn't really have to have any awareness of what's going on. You just build normally inside the chroot/container. The main downsides with this approach are that it's kind of wasteful (you have a whole distro's filesystem) and if you want to use a newer compiler than what the old distro in question shipped with you generally have to build it yourself inside said chroot/container.

The other main approach is to use a sysroot. gcc and clang both take an optional --sysroot parameter which is an alternative root for header and library lookups. This lets you use a compiler on the normal host, but old headers and libs. You can also bake this parameter in when compiling gcc (and also I assume clang, but less sure there) if you want a dedicated cross-toolchain.
by x0x0 | 2025-04-02 21:14:33+00:00
Sure, but this sort of thing (email, plus likely mostly shitty calendaring and contacts) is a very ok business. The fastmail people make a fine living at it (their product is as good as anything outside gmail. If you haven't, you should try it! I'm a happy decade-long customer). But it's not the sort of business that supports the massive employee count that Mozilla has.
by cmurf | 2025-04-02 21:14:41+00:00
The cost to move these industries to the U.S. exceeds the cost of these tariffs. The market will pass the cost of what are import taxes to the American consumer, resulting in inflation.

True, the shareholders will take a pay cut too, because something less than 100% of American consumers will just suck it up without changing their behavior. But in aggregate, we will all save less.

If inflation takes off again, maybe eventually there's some monestizing of debt. But in less than 4 years these tariffs will go away, which is why companies won't spent billions of dollars investing in state side manufacturing that'll take maybe 5 years to plan and build. Therefore I'm not sold on the montizing debt motivation yet.
by dragonwriter | 2025-04-02 21:14:52+00:00
> our findings suggest that compared with enforcement by police officers, appropriately located automated technologies, such as speeding cameras, could help reduce selective enforcement of traffic violations

This seems to presume that automated enforcement replaces, rather than enabling departments to even more precisely focus, the selective human enforcement of traffic laws. Given the role of selective traffic enforcement as a conscious tool in generating contacts to look for non-traffic issues, rather than a product of mere implicit bias, I find it extremely unlikely that this would happen with any real-world police department.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-04-02 21:15:06+00:00
I say this all the time, but the point of the permissive licenses is you're making a donation to private industry.

There are reasons to do this, for example if you believe that private industry adopting some technology is good and you want to make that happen.

But people keep seeming surprised by the fact that these donations aren't reciprocated (or at least people don't seem to plan for them to never be reciprocated). It sounds to me like the AGPL license was more consistent with their goals.
by PJDK | 2025-04-02 21:15:36+00:00
Coming from a UK background something I've been long curious about is is there a constitutional reason for when the opposition presidential candidate is selected.

It seems like the current way of doing things leaves the opposition rudderless through most of a presidential term, followed by a bitter fight where their own side rip each other apart followed by only a few months to try and establish oneself as leader in waiting.

Could the democrats do their primaries now? It feels like that would 1. Distract from Trump so he doesn't get run of the news 2. Mean that all the "candidate X is a bad democrat" stories could be long forgotten by the next election. 3. Give a pedestal to the actual presidential candidate as the go to person for the media to get reactions from 4. If they turn out to be genuinely terrible there's a lot of time to find out and potentially replace them.
by renatko | 2025-04-02 21:15:47+00:00
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by packetlost | 2025-04-02 21:15:59+00:00
> There aren't really union filesystems per se, the plan 9 kernel provides unions through its namespace model.

Yes, this is what I'm referring to. It's really many filesystems unioned into one namespace that is controllable per-process.

> In my opinion part of the reason why the userspace tools can be as nice as they are, are due to the use of file system interfaces and the simplistic syscall API. Could you elaborate more on the issues you see with the use of these?

I didn't say I had any issues, I said I preferred them! Aside from a lack of familiarity and needing to install plan9ports on other systems, I haven't had issues.

> In regards to using it for a "cloud native" stack, the issue is that people want to run code that isn't designed for Plan 9. You could build whatever backplane type thing you want out of plan 9 but the end goal is still likely to be to run some web app or REST api server.

Right, language support is the biggest issue with running on Plan 9 from that perspective, at least for "server" workloads. Excluding graphical APIs, the basic stuff (file IO, networking, etc.) isn't all that hard to add to a language (it of course depends). The real trouble is things that have no equivalent in Plan 9, such as mmap and shm.

> This feels similar to what Joyent did with lxzones in SmartOS, where the backplane was solaris based but the apps they were running for clients were using Linux.

This is also what Oxide is doing. Their rack's OS is IllumOS but their customers are expected to only interface with the OS via their tooling and instead provision VMs.

> It's hard to make the plan 9 backplane better enough to warrant dealing with integrating the guest and host environment

If I were doing it, I would do it the other way! Run Plan 9 in a backplane/hypervisor and target it from the language level. The nice part is the systems programming model!
by Arathorn | 2025-04-02 21:17:01+00:00
MAS and Next Gen Auth open up the way to things like QR-login (complete with syncing all E2EE state and verification!) which should help enormously with common-case UX.

See https://youtu.be/ZiRYdqkzjDU?t=966 for a demo of it from The Matrix Conference in Sept, or https://youtu.be/lkCKhP1jxdk?t=1832 showing it working in on a fresh instance of element-docker-demo at FOSDEM 2025.
by seanbeever | 2025-04-02 21:17:06+00:00
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by rfurmani | 2025-04-02 21:17:11+00:00
I'm building such tools at https://sugaku.net, right now there's chatting with a paper and browsing similar papers. Generally arXiv and other repositories want you to link to them and not embed their papers, which makes it hard to build inline reading tools, but it's on my roadmap to support that for uploaded papers. Would love to hear if you have some feature requests there
by iwanttocomment | 2025-04-02 21:17:54+00:00
While I'm totally in favor of getting BYD and a larger variety of EVs on the road in the US, and I wish I could do a test drive of a BYD, I absolutely can't imagine that importing a $5000 2021 Wuling Hongguang Mini EV, paying the fees, having it shipped (per the article) to Oklahoma (!) and then having it capped at 35mph (!!) would be in any way superior than buying a 2018 Nissan Leaf, which almost certainly would have cost the same price all told and could legally do highway speeds across the country. It is genuinely not clear from the article what advantage the very small and limiting Wuling would have had.

Does anyone know? Why would you take a 2021 35mph-capped Wuling over a 2017-18 Leaf in the US? (IIRC, they were going in the $7k-$9k range at in the early aughts.)

I find the import restrictions on Chinese EVs bizarre, but I find the desire to import a 2021 Wuling Mini EV (where there does not seem to be a price or performance advantage) equally bizarre.
by throwawaygmbno | 2025-04-02 21:18:14+00:00
It is more dire than that. The south was basically completely forgiven for starting the civil war and fighting for slavery. Then as soon as they were given a little bit of leeway they enacted Jim Crow laws, began erecting statues of the losers of the Civil War, and started the KKK to drive out black people they could no longer use as slaves.

Many of the people you see in films and photos furiously protesting the civil rights act, picketing with signs against MLK Jr, lynching people during that time, putting glass in the seats of children because the schools were forced to end segregation, etc are still alive. Trump was grown and had started college when the Civil Rights act passed.

Its time to start just forgiving them because they never seem to forget.
by Remnant44 | 2025-04-02 21:18:16+00:00
Thunderbird is my daily driver email client for all my business email for over a decade.

I've never had a single corruption problem in that time, with probably hundreds of thousands of emails. Take that for what its worth.

The only complaint I've ever had is when they redid their UI a year or two ago it got unbearably slow - which improved over the next few iterations until its now fine again.
by bee_rider | 2025-04-02 21:18:39+00:00
Despite being a small-ish site, HackerNews does still suffer from the Reddit problem of having enough users that you often don’t get to really know anybody. Realistically most conversations here only go back and forth for like 3 or so comments on each side. I mean, the site is structured to promote that kind of thing; reply buttons start getting hidden after a point, right?

I don’t think anyone really can be convinced to deviate from a strongly held political belief in a handful of posts. At this point I think most people with any interest in politics have already seen every path through 4 or so posts around their opinions.

Standard talking point, standard counterpoint, standard objection that the the counterpoint is not back by data, request for citations, citation, argument that the math was wrong, and by now the thread is a week old and we’ve forgotten about it.

So, I wouldn’t say it is an issue of people being bad faith or overly obstinate. It’s just a bad format. Old phpBB boards and those sorts of sites were better for this sort of stuff, despite being mediocre, because at least you could remember who was who.
by eigenvalue | 2025-04-02 21:19:14+00:00
I can assure you it’s not a joke. Compute power is increasing at a ridiculous pace, and highly capable models are getting smaller and smaller, now at the 30b parameter size and under. So even if it wouldn’t be pragmatic now, it could become highly relevant in 4 or 5 years if trend lines continue at anything like the recent pace.
by mdhb | 2025-04-02 21:20:30+00:00
That theory really doesn’t work. It’s not a situation where one person went rouge and did something. The thing about a group chat is that it’s literally by definition a group activity and that particular group now includes:

1. The head of the CIA

2. The secretary of defence

3. The vice president

4. The director of national intelligence

5. The White House chief of staff

6. Chief of Staff for the Secretary of the Treasury

7. Acting Chief of Staff for the Director of National Intelligence, and nominee for National Counterterrorism Center Director.

8. The Secretary of State

Plus a bunch of others including random trump political allies like Steven miller and witkoff, a journalist and an as yet unidentified person known only as “Jacob”.

But they collectively got together, and decided repeatedly to do this over 30 different occasions in just this story alone.

But don’t let anyone try to convince you this was some single persons problem, this was the absolute textbook definition of a conspiracy at the highest levels of government to knowingly and repeatedly violate the law with regards to both handling classified information and around government record keeping laws.

And this line they are trying to spin about signal was somehow approved for use is here in black and white proven to be wrong with the NSA making it clear there was a known vulnerability in the platform and it wasn’t even approved for unclassified but official use communications as recently as February 2025: https://www.scribd.com/document/843124910/NSA-full
by neom | 2025-04-02 21:20:35+00:00
Now that we have an Australian, suppose I'll have to change my tactic of waiting for dang to go to bed before being naughty, how annoying.

Nice to see another helper. Dan, you are truly wonderful and I hope you never leave us, however, I also hope this affords you some much deserved "time off". Welcome Tom, and how.
by mkw5053 | 2025-04-02 21:20:52+00:00
I think the problem is that it's not actually reciprocal. The numbers in the first column appear to be inaccurate and misleading. For example, The South Korean average tariff rate on imports from the U.S. is approximately 0.79% [1] [1] https://www.korea.net/Government/Briefing-Room/Press-Release...
by chatmasta | 2025-04-02 21:21:17+00:00
Call logs are printed on every billing statement by default. I believe it may even include SMS messages in some cases.

This data has likely proliferated widely throughout the company, subsidiaries and contractors, to reside on an unknowable number of systems. I would assume call record metadata is fully compromised at this point.

That’s not to take away from the finding in the blog – I’m merely commenting on the question in its conclusion, about the implications of a barely know technology vendor controlling the vulnerable server holding this data.
by SJC_Hacker | 2025-04-02 21:22:07+00:00
> The Dems have no talking points. A few of them are organizing now around 'economic populism' - in other words, they are completely cowed and will avoid all the major threats to freedom, democracy, the rule of law, safety; the corruption, cruelty, and hate. They are going to their safe space - economic policy!

Because sadly, thats what the people respond to. When given the choice between food on the table / roof over their head / cash in the bank account and abstract values like "republican government", "rule of law" and "protecting human rights" etc. they will choose the former. Especially as long as its OTHER people's rights, and OTHER parties getting surpressed, they don't care quite so much. We've seen this play out in Russia. Granted they did not have the long history of Republican government that the US has had.

The irony with Trump is they may get neither. At least some of them. Authoritarians have way of mollifying that minimum % that actually matters. Mostly people with guns and willingness to use them. In the US we're talking as low as 25% (so 75% of us are effectively screwed). And when you have billionaires controlling the information space, it would be very difficult to organize opposition.

I'm now looking out to 2028. Trump and his cronies may be plotting to crash the system and "declare an emergency" so elections get suspended. Or the alternative, he just runs again and dares anyone to stop him. The blue/purple states should at the very least, bar him from appearing on the ballot there's a question of whether there will have enough backbone and could not be sufficiently threatened/bullied into backing down, or if he tries to pull a 2020 again with an "alternate electors", at the very least cause confusion so the election can be thrown to the House where GOP almost assuredly would have control over the state delegations. Lastly, the various Federal agencies, possibly even the military would be sufficiently "Trumpified" such that they will threaten, maybe even resort to force.
by guelo | 2025-04-02 21:22:41+00:00
I would say two things. 1) security inherintly is annoying, the more secure something is the more it sucks to use. Military communication channels have to withstand the most powerful attacks in the world, everyone, Russians Chinese Europeans Israelis, would all love to get access. So these have to be extremely secure and thus annoying to use channels.

2) their are laws about storing government communications which are built in to the official channels. Trumpists are suspiciously intentionally breaking these laws.
by dogleash | 2025-04-02 21:22:46+00:00
> I’ll go against the grain and say that fake deadlines are incredibly useful.

If everyone's on board with your definition of deadline and it always works that way, then sure yeah whatever I'm not going to argue the point.

But I'd argue the "fake" in "fake deadline" is admission to deliberately exploiting information asymmetry about where exactly a "deadline" sits between the "time box" definition of deadline and the "point when we stop working because the deliverable is now worthless" definition of deadline.