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Tell HN:GitHub can remove issues at any time
by karussell | 2025-04-07 13:56:22+00:00
I'm one of the maintainers of the open source routing engine GraphHopper. The project is around 6k stars so not that small and also we have private repositories and pay Github a monthly fee for this.

We recently found that one of our longer issues disappeared:

https://github.com/graphhopper/graphhopper/issues/446

See this archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20241112051113/https://github.co...

I contacted Github and they wrote: I can confirm that the issue isn't a technical problem on GitHub's side, but is related to the user status of the creator of this issue. For privacy reasons, I cannot share additional details without permission from the user in question, though.

I ask them why they don't handle it like reddit does (just removing the comment content and the user name), but they say they can't do this:

Unfortunately this is not something we can do at this time, because as soon as the affected user will fix their account, all of the dat related to them will be visible again.

I still don't understand why they can't do it like reddit and also don't understand what this means and the ticket is closed now.

With a script we found 3 more such removed issues, but those don't have an entry in archive.org and are now lost.

This is concerning that in order to have a properly functioning open source hosting we would have to archive regularly.

What would you do?
by throaway1989 | 2025-04-07 13:56:32+00:00
Your comment is very reddit-esque.

"do you think the US is a monoculture?" implying that the commenter does think that, and that that thought is ignorant and absurd. Instead of asking what they are referring to so you can discuss the point they're making.

What fear mongering politics? The commenter is obviously talking about the reported cases of people being detained, deported, and harassed for their political views.
by pjc50 | 2025-04-07 13:56:35+00:00
Odd media literacy take? Yes of course the propaganda is supposed to influence you, and of course if you're actually trying to analyse media you shouldn't let it.

(I retrospectively put the high point of recent West-China relations some time around the release of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_at_Lake_Changjin , which is an obvious propaganda war film with Americans on the "enemy" side .. that was shown in Western cinemas. Certainly in the UK, I think in America as well. Very odd. BTW, MOSFILM is on Youtube if you need some classic Russian cinema)
by xyst | 2025-04-07 13:56:37+00:00
Good. Take your money elsewhere. Urge conference organizers to move venues away from USA. If organizers ignore pleas, then cancel it all together.

I’m American and this administration has set this country back decades. The only way people will rise up here is if their pockets are hurting.

401K accounts are down bad.

Imports of American goods down significantly.

Industries that relied on global trade partners (agriculture?) are getting decimated.

Folks have effectively self owned themselves.
by skeeter2020 | 2025-04-07 13:56:59+00:00
Parts of this feel a lot like Canada's SRED program, which is intended to be a subsidy for technology research but the expected bureacracy has spawned an industry of consultancies that work solely to find marginal & questionable activities within companies that qualify. It can be worth it for a company to jump through the hoops - especially if they get something while another company does all the work - but it's an incredibly inefficient way to grow tech businesses.
by amluto | 2025-04-07 13:57:08+00:00
Aside from this nonsense, being “healed” after measles is relative. Measles causes immune suppression for at least a couple years. And then there’s this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subacute_sclerosing_panencep...

On the bright side, most likely none of those 300 kids will end up developing SSPE.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-04-07 13:57:13+00:00
My point is very clear: Hamas purposely doesn't issue uniforms (they are extremely wealthy, so it's not like they cannot afford it) in order to muddy the waters between civilian and combatant. Put another way: Hamas's choice camouflage is "Civilian attire".

Sorry if I wasn't clear, I'm not talking about war crimes like you brought up, I'm talking about general combat between the two sides, like you can see in the gazillions of videos posted (both by Israeli sources and Palestinian sources).
by somenameforme | 2025-04-07 13:57:18+00:00
This administration has tens of billions of dollars in spending and an immense amount of waste. Even if they were 99.9% accurate by this metric or that, there's going to be many mistakes. And the media is going to work to drag out the worst of the worst mistakes. And those worst of the worst are things like this - a guy being accidentally placed on leave pending dismissal for less than 24 hours?

Obviously everybody would prefer there be 0 mistakes, but I think in general this is, ironically, quite a good indicator!
by bhouston | 2025-04-07 13:57:19+00:00
Tobi's been really weird lately.

He's been posting straight out conspiracy theories. For example, just yesterday, he re-posted (re-tweeted) this unfounded rumour claiming election interference by unions across the whole Canadian government:

https://x.com/mario4thenorth/status/1908652063808270398

There is no source but "trust me bro" on this - thus it can not be refuted - and it is portrayed as being done in an untraceable fashion. So yeah, it is just spreading distrust.

This is harmful to Canada to be spreading distrust in this fashion, although it is in keeping with the fashion of a lot of posts on X these days.
by alp1n3_eth | 2025-04-07 13:57:23+00:00
You're a frontend web developer, so I'm assuming you're going to want to work in the areas of either:

1) application security engineering 2) application penetration testing 3) devsecops 4) vulnerability management

It really is a big difference from each person on how they "break into" it. You've got great foundational qualifications, and probably just need to layer on extra "security" ones, if you don't already have them. If you're looking to start a company / start freelancing -- I've got no clue about that though.

If you're just dipping your toes further into the web app security side, OWASP has great labs, resources, etc. They have the WSTG (more for pentesters) and ASVS (more for devs), and of course their cheat sheets as well.

PortSwigger has great resources to read through on vulnerabilities and labs that will cover a ton of different vulnerabilities. HackTheBox also offers certification pathways: CBBH and CWEE, CBBH is more beginner/intermediate and involves a blackbox approach, where CWEE is more whitebox (from what it looks like).

Just because systems have gaps, doesn't mean the orgs actually want help with those gaps, esp. unsolicited. You could always take a look at bug bounty as well (through HackerOne or BugCrowd), but it can be pretty brutal for a beginner as it can involve a ton of recon or "going deep" to reach untouched areas of an app.
by immibis | 2025-04-07 13:57:24+00:00
It's a very common mistake in free software to not design a system end-to-end. Free software people will design some kind of generic container format and go "look! you can put anything in the container!", declare the job done, and then not write tools which actually do put anything in the container, or tools which can make use of anything in the container other than one specific thing.

(See: ActivityPub)
by bilbo0s | 2025-04-07 13:57:34+00:00
The bad news is that 2024 was one of those elections where both candidates were so bad, that the winner didn't even manage to get 50% of the cast votes.

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/elections/2024

Trump/Vance got 49.1% of the popular vote, and Kamala/Walz got 48.3% of the popular vote. None of those clowns even cracked 50%.

The candidates were so bad, that you could win without getting a majority of the popular vote.

So, yeah, just a wholesale failure by both sides to inspire the vast majority of Americans. I guess right now, we're kind of seeing why no one was enthused about these guys being in power.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-04-07 13:58:01+00:00
> This is the nature of social media. If you see 10 examples of something happening in another country there is a good chance you will alter your behavior

That's actually the nature of bayesian probability: if something is happening a higher proportion of the time vs. before, it's more likely to happen now vs. before. If that something is bad, that means higher risk. It's expected that a rational actor would act to minimize risk to them.

> As someone who spends a lot of time on both locations, I know that both scenarios are rare

Precisely how rare is it, over the last couple months, for US immigration officials to detain someone (perhaps "for further questioning", perhaps to a prison) who hasn't violated any laws? Claiming "it's rare" isn't very useful. Remember, the expected probability is ~0.
by onionisafruit | 2025-04-07 13:58:04+00:00
Going by memory, server reset buttons were bigger and more prominent 20 years ago. But maybe those were just the particular Dell servers I happened to work with the most. I don’t remember ever needing a paper clip to trigger one, but I don’t doubt there were some of that style.

My mental image of this story has a pencil stub taped to the cd tray so the eraser hits the button, but rereading it today there is no mention of that. I wonder if I saw that somewhere else or just imagined it last time I read this.
by pjc50 | 2025-04-07 13:59:13+00:00
At the border? Well, it's not a high chance in absolute terms, but the risk of being deemed to have broken the law due to visa/ESTA noncompliance is a lot higher.

I would certainly no longer do US travel for a conference on a tourist visa in case that's deemed "work". (pop quiz to Americans: what visa do I need for that situation, and how difficult is it to get?)
by rickdeckard | 2025-04-07 13:59:18+00:00
A patented format where Adobe standardized the exact syntax for each parameter, with mandatory and optional elements to be compliant, and (!) a patent license with some non-trivial implications which is also only valid if the implementation is compliant.

In a development environment, this format competes with an already-implemented proprietary RAW-format which already works and can be improved upon without involvement of a legal department or 3rd party.
by GardenLetter27 | 2025-04-07 13:59:30+00:00
Everyone seems to be saying it's "tough medicine" and will help bring industry back to the USA, but what if the reverse is true?

The tariffs hit American companies hardest - it is companies in the USA actually paying the tariffs, and it's paid on every step of importing in the supply chain.

People are acting like Ford and GM will bring back the factories and make America great again, but it's just as likely that the other countries lower their trade barriers and while Ford is stuck dealing with the hit from tariffs, BYD etc. just take all of their market share internationally - as they aren't affected.

This might actually accelerate the decline of US industry, as manufacturers cannot move their entire supply chain to the US overnight (and wouldn't keep the same profit margins even if it were possible), meanwhile they become much less competitive in foreign markets. E.g. when OpenAI is stuck paying tariffs on GPUs, then DeepSeek will be even more competitive. Same for Boeing vs. AirBus and COMAC.

> Third, there are a lot of other things the Trump administration could be doing, particularly in terms of relieving regulation, ensuring equal opportunity throughout the economy, etc. It seems like a missed opportunity to be burning political capital on deficit reduction and trade rebalancing when there are major pro-growth opportunities still available. This seems particularly pertinent given the rise of AI, which has very high variance in terms of potential outcomes.

I agree with this completely, I'm surprised Trump didn't couple it with a bonfire of NIMBY regulation to help jump-start domestic growth that way too.
by otikik | 2025-04-07 13:59:31+00:00
It does count for me.

The border crossing is the first experience that you get from a country. It has definitely gone worse. And it was not great to begin with.

In the past, I had the ... pleasure ... of being put in the "back room" for 3 hours after a long transatlantic flight at SFO. I was not afraid then, just annoyed and tired. I would be afraid now and I would rather avoid it. There's many other places I can choose to visit.
by davidmurdoch | 2025-04-07 13:59:36+00:00
Did you honestly think my question about monoculture was directed at their "political climate" comment and not the comment about cost?

I did not think their comments implied a connection between the value of being a tourist in the US and a their concerns over politics. Maybe if it were much cheaper they wouldn't care about the politics, but that doesn't seem likely to me.
by yosito | 2025-04-07 13:59:37+00:00
You're right. But as someone who has been internationally nomadic for 15 years, I don't think most people understand how many tens of thousands of people travel internationally on tourist visas doing work exchanges to be able to afford their tourism. It's commonplace. Yes, it's usually illegal. Most countries don't dedicate a whole lot of resources to enforcing that. And in most countries, getting caught working while on a short term tourist visa will get you 1) a fine 2) deported (probably self-deported, on a commercial flight) and 3) banned from re-entering the country for a period of time.

What does NOT usually happen in these cases is 1) having a full body cavity search 2) being shackled in the back of a van 3) having your phone confiscated 4) being forbidden from contacting any family or legal representation 5) having your clothing cut apart 6) being transported to a different city without being informed of what is happening 7) being cut off from access to your foreign funds 8) being detained for 19 days.

The notable thing isn't that she broke the law. The notable thing is the cruel and unusual severity of the punishment for a relatively minor visa violation. Typically, when countries punish tourists so severely for what should be a slap on the wrist, tourists stop wanting to go there.
by atmanactive | 2025-04-07 13:59:41+00:00
Zigbee is using 2.4GHz. Add 50 Zigbee devices and watch all 2.4GHz connections in your home suffer (WiFi, Bluetooth, wireless mice/keyboards/gamepads...).

Z-Wave is using 800MHz range. Add 100 Z-Wave devices and watch your Z-Wave network getting stronger and stronger while all your other 2.4GHz devices continue to work as normal.
by hmmm-i-wonder | 2025-04-07 13:59:41+00:00
Anyone paying attention may have been mislead as you have been, but your own sources highest estimates aggregated (which is likely 1.5-2x higher than reality) put the US around 1/5 of all deaths combatant and civilian in this cherry picked time period. The reality is that there is a LOT of war happening and death happening and the US is only one of the players.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/civilian-and-combatant-de...

Acknowledging the mass harm war causes and the role the US has to play in that is absolutely true and valid. Pretending the US is acting egregious in comparison to others and only hyperfocusing on proving "US bad" when someone asks for context of how bad the US is overall doesn't serve anything than show your opinion and lack of willingness to discuss it on open and reasonable terms.
by neogodless | 2025-04-07 13:59:47+00:00
I don't blame your sentiment, but as part of the 57% that MASSIVELY DISAPPROVES of that nutjob, I don't like the "most" word being used here ;)

Try to remember our weird Electoral College, and that ultimately the vote came down to ~230,000 votes in swing states. (I'm in one of them, and I voted against the felon.)

Also hate that "mainstream news" like ABC and CBS covered Saturday's protests with the phrase "tens of thousand" while the protest organizations reported MILLIONS of protesters (about 1% of the population.)
by _fat_santa | 2025-04-07 14:00:10+00:00
> even a relatively small deal would produce a life-changing outcome for the founding team.

I run a SaaS with a business partner and this is basically our thesis for getting rich. My saying around this is "This amount of revenue/profit will cause a company of 500 or 1000 to go bankrupt, but it will make a company of 5-10 filthy rich"
by nucleogenesis | 2025-04-07 14:00:23+00:00
Idk I don’t think of it as fake - it’s creative fiction paired with sometimes highly skilled performance. I’ve learned a lot about how magic tricks work and I still love seeing performers do effects because it takes so much talent to, say, hold and hide 10 coins in your hands while showing them as empty or to shuffle a deck of cards 5x and have the audience cut it only to pull 4 aces off the top.
by tudorgirba | 2025-04-07 14:00:35+00:00
Thanks for the feedback.

A question: Why would you say that the Download button is mysterious? I think I might have missed the issue.

Still we now changed the "Download" button to "Get started" that links to a page with more concrete steps. Is this improving the situation from your point of view?

The worry about the enhancements being trapped is interesting. All of GT sources are in Git and extensions can be packaged next to your own project. We will try to address it explicitly in the main page. Would you say that a Frequently Asked Questions section would help with this?
by chimeracoder | 2025-04-07 14:00:41+00:00
> Racial profiling is everywhere. Also in the EU. And some EU countries are more "famous" for it, the Balkans e.g.

Some countries are more "famous" for it, but that's really just a matter of perception and how it fits into an existing narrative, not based on actual evidence.

It's not like there's data showing that racial profiling is lower in France, Germany, and Sweden than it is in Eastern Europe.
by Ajedi32 | 2025-04-07 14:00:51+00:00
???

What kind of clunkers have you been using that lose charge on the 12 volt after just 3 days in the cold? I've occasionally left my ICE car out in the cold for a week without using it and it never once even crossed my mind to worry about whether it would start after that; I've never had that issue on any car built in the last 15 years.
by rekoil | 2025-04-07 14:00:53+00:00
Same here. There's one or two things I can't bear to cancel, but I've moved all my email from Google Workspaces to Proton, cancelled Netflix, cancelled plans to go to DEF CON, downgraded storage for Apple iCloud to just above what I need instead of way above, cancelled plans to get a new MacBook Pro this year, stopped buying groceries from companies with American owners, etc.
by cdavid | 2025-04-07 14:01:07+00:00
This article makes the naive assumption that "what is making money" is an objective thing.

Once a company reaches a certain size, basically once it has a financial planning department w/ different VPs owning their PnL, who is making money increasingly becomes a social construct. "how to get promoted" by spakhm is much more closer to how a large, successful org works IMO: https://spakhm.substack.com/p/how-to-get-promoted

I've seen this in my career multiple times. For example, when I was involved in search for some companies, we would demonstrate through A/B testing that we would make X more money per month. Executive team changed, they decided that "A/B test does not work and slows us down", the definition of making money changed, we overnight went from a money-aking org to a cost center.

Nowadays, most companies are pushing GenAI everywhere. Most of those things don't make money, and yet a lot of promotions will be obtained across the board until the tune ends.
by shakna | 2025-04-07 14:01:13+00:00
> Colossal’s dire wolf work took a less invasive approach, isolating cells not from a tissue sample of a donor gray wolf, but from its blood. The cells they selected are known as endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs), which form the lining of blood vessels. The scientists then rewrote the 14 key genes in the cell’s nucleus to match those of the dire wolf; no ancient dire wolf DNA was actually spliced into the gray wolf’s genome. The edited nucleus was then transferred into a denucleated ovum. The scientists produced 45 engineered ova, which were allowed to develop into embryos in the lab. Those embryos were inserted into the wombs of two surrogate hound mixes, chosen mostly for their overall health and, not insignificantly, their size, since they’d be giving birth to large pups. In each mother, one embryo took hold and proceeded to a full-term pregnancy. (No dogs experienced a miscarriage or stillbirth.) On Oct. 1, 2024, the surrogates birthed Romulus and Remus. A few months later, Colossal repeated the procedure with another clutch of embryos and another surrogate mother. On Jan. 30, 2025, that dog gave birth to Khaleesi.

The process seems to have dictated this. They needed an easy surrogate, a dog, and wolves required no need of introducing anything new into the genome, it's "just" reactivating what is already there.
by meristohm | 2025-04-07 14:01:24+00:00
I wear a facemask when around a lot of people or around any vulnerable people (hospital, clinic) to help protect both myself and other people. I may be contagious and not know it.

I wash my hands for the same reason.

I am fully vaccinated (I don't travel much anymore, but when I did I got those vaccines relevant to my destination) for the same reason.

I am increasingly okay with dying because I increasingly understand that I'm just one of many humans on the "bleeding edge of life", in it together; it's not all about me.
by ajb | 2025-04-07 14:01:34+00:00
This sort of thing doesn't happen because of just one person. The situation reminds me of the (fictionalised) account of the Roman Empire in "I Claudius": the narrator remarks that corruption had well set in in the centre under Tiberius, but everything looked ok to those outside the City until the madness of Caligula. That's not to say that the majority of Americans are bad people, but the political culture must have been diseased for some time for this to be possible.
by t43562 | 2025-04-07 14:01:37+00:00
Absolutely. Some genius outsources IT to Malaysia....I ask for an IP address to be statically assigned to a test machine and the ticket is opened and closed.....next day the IP has changed. Repeat x20 till we give up - telephone calls and complaints notwithstanding. Someone closes 20 tickets and looks productive because that's the way they're being managed.

I bet the MBA who made this happen got a promotion and wouldn't understand how they crippled everyone.

I admit this is an old story but IMO it does show you how management by people who don't know and don't care screws a company quietly. That's a famous company that did in fact have a major problem.
by stevenAthompson | 2025-04-07 14:01:56+00:00
> I think that Trump’s approach, while more theoretically valid than it is being given credit for, is the wrong one.

I disagree that Trumps approach is "theoretically valid". So do 16 Nobel Prize-winning economists and the entire stock market.

> These tariffs, however, are much more complicated, because they exist (for now anyways), while a war does not.

I think the author means to imply that the tariffs will be short lived here. However, I initially misread it to mean that a war was coming, and found it to be prescient. Republicans lost the house/senate for 50 years the last time they tried tariffs. It's going to take a pretty large distraction to keep the retirees from noticing that cat food doesn't taste as good as it used to.