MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SauciestGNU | 2025-04-02 20:54:38+00:00
Thank you for the additional context. However, this individual would not have been eligible for expedited removal as he entered the US in 2011, and the arrest where he was alleged to be a gang member was in 2019. To be eligible for expedited removal a person must have not been present continuously for the previous 2 years. No indication that's the case here.

I suspect the judge would allow a deportation to a country other than El Salvador as soon as the government presented an option of a country willing to accept him. I also suspect few governments in the world would assent to such a transfer.
by overfeed | 2025-04-02 20:54:48+00:00
> The legal system, including the equitable power to split up companies under antitrust law.

And how well has this been working out? There hasn't been a real threat of forced divesture since Microsoft's anti-trust case back in the 1990s, and large companies are willing to pay fines that are dwarfed by the profits earned from destroyed competition. How does paying a fine undo consumer harm?
by alephnerd | 2025-04-02 20:55:02+00:00
> as countries will retaliate

Depends on the country. India is negotiating a Bilateral Trade Agreement by mid-2025, Vietnam has sent a trade delegation to DC to negotiate as we speak, and tariffs on Colombia, Brazil, Philippines, and Turkiye are the lowest for middle income countries.

The harshest pain will be felt by Cambodia and Vietnam, because both are part of ASEAN like Philippines and share similar trade partners (Japan, SK), Bangladesh as they have an FTA and significant capital from India, and China as EU (looking at you Poland and Czechia), Turkiye, Japan, SK, and India are now cost competitive

You'll be seeing more "Made in Philippines", "Made in Colombia" "Made in Turkiye", "Made in Brazil", and "Made in India" shirts, auto parts, and assembled electronics now.

We might also see a return of Malaysia in the semiconductor industry, as they are now cheaper than Taiwan - great for whoever buys Intel Foundry Services (Penang reax only)
by colechristensen | 2025-04-02 20:55:49+00:00
I'm on my 16th year with my Jetta, bought new. For appearances I should probably buy a new car (it's totaled), but I'm pretty sure it will last another 16 years and will only be replaced out of necessity (were I to have a family) or vanity (were I to have a midlife crisis). I've worked from home or commuted by bicycle most of the time I've owned it so I've averaged < 8,000 miles per year.
by Calavar | 2025-04-02 20:56:09+00:00
> the compiler can prove that code runs UB, it is invalid code

The *potential* to hit UB is not invalid according to the standard. If it was, then an unchecked array access would be illegal.

If every possible input state for an operation hits UB, then sure the compiler could diagnose that and emit an error. But apart from stuff like type punning, how often does that happen in the real world?

Real world UB pops up in corner cases that weren't considered carefully: What you get weird input and your divisor ends up being zero? What if your string or list ends up being empty? Or, like the example in the article, what if your std::sort predicate encounters a NaN? You might not realize that your code has these corner cases, but the compiler does, and it optimizes assuming that you're aware of these corner cases and assuring it that the executable will never actually hit those corner cases. The compiler can't emit errors for that because it's not invalid code - it might be the intended behavior. The best it can do is a warning.

It boils down to the programmer-language contract on UB being implicit and difficult to grok. Compilers can't fix that.
by vFunct | 2025-04-02 20:56:15+00:00
Trump really thinks America is in the 1950's. He thinks people want to work at factories doing manual labor. He doesn't understand that we DON'T want to work at factories. Americans like our plush corporate office jobs building intellectual property. We aren't oxen doing physical labor.

And we designed it that way. We pay thousands of dollars to each citizen in our public schools to teach them calculus, literature, world history, and science, so that they DON'T work at factories doing manual labor like we were oxen. We're supposed to be doing more valuable jobs in intellectual property and services.

It's going to be hard lesson to be learned by Trump and his working class supporters when the inflation hits them because our economy doesn't have any workers that want to work at factories, but it'll have to be a lesson they learn the hard way.

The correct economy is to let people do labor they're best at. If a foreigner can make a shirt cheaper than an American can, LET THEM. Our economy is already taken by the people that design the shirts.
by kstrauser | 2025-04-02 20:56:23+00:00
> They also have our enduring gratitude for their time with the company.

I hope the RIF'd employees can pay rent with that gratitude.

If I were considering using Wordpress for anything, which I am not, this would end those plans. If they're laying off and keeping the CEO, they must be in dire financial straits. That message says "we're doing all the right things and have good leadership with a track record of making good decisions, but we have no alternative but to fire a sixth of our employees". That's not a good sign.
by rdtsc | 2025-04-02 20:56:49+00:00
> “If you ever get asked the question, ‘Did you pass a target to the Ukrainians?’ you can legitimately not be lying when you say, ‘No, I did not,’” one U.S. official explained.

That's some shady word mincing. Who are they afraid of, US Congress? journalists? Who would be asking these questions.

This is in the same vein as "we never engaged in water torture!". But did you use "enhanced interrogation techniques using water?". You can still answer "No", if you use diesel fuel instead, you see.
by aerostable_slug | 2025-04-02 20:56:54+00:00
There was a rather interesting criticism of the recent wide-ranging cuts to USAID that basically said it wasn't unlikely that some of that USAID money was being used in clandestine intelligence operations (supporting the tribe of this warlord or that, paying someone off, rewarding allegiances, whatever) that DOGE and perhaps even most at USAID would never, ever be cleared to know about. With the inability to prevent those aid packages from being cut without also blowing their operations, the intelligence community would just have to sit and watch it happen.

I of course have no way of knowing if that's true or not, or if it is what damage may have been done, but it's interesting to consider.
by bigyabai | 2025-04-02 20:57:18+00:00
Native mobile apps are a dying breed. If you want to make money, web is the only option and it's not even close. The margins on web-native content makes App Store money look like a joke.

It's a shame, because everyone loves native apps. But from a developer standpoint it is nothing but a waste of billable hours, a ritual where you kiss the ring of your respective platform owner so they can exploit your profitability. Skip Swift and Kotlin altogether, they're both tools used to hold you back as a developer.
by balderdash | 2025-04-02 20:57:27+00:00
I’ve usually just hired a lawyer, but went once myself, I’ve never paid more for the lawyer than I would have paid for the ticket so it’s usually been a 0%-50% discount to the ticket. But the real cost a speeding ticket is the 5%-30% increase in your insurance which could be hundreds of dollars a year ANNUALLY so it always just seemed cheaper short and long term to pay someone to deal with it (mind you I’m talking a grand total of four speeding tickets)
by Arathorn | 2025-04-02 20:58:13+00:00
Element is the company formed by the team who created Matrix to work on Matrix, almost all of whom are still there; there is no falling out :)

The Matrix Foundation is the non-profit set up by the Matrix team in 2018 to keep Matrix itself independent of Element and other Matrix vendors - to act as a steward of the protocol and a standards body. Originally Element donated almost all of its code on Matrix to the Foundation (e.g. Synapse, the original Matrix server) as permissive Apache-licensed FOSS, assuming that if Matrix was successful, folks would want to fund it.

In practice, by 2023, Matrix was very successful... but it transpired that the vast majority of folks commercially building on the Foundation's Apache licensed code failed to route any funding back to the Foundation (as the hosting body) or to Element (as the primary code contributor), despite many polite requests. As a result, there wasn't enough $ to pay folks at Element to keep working on the core Matrix projects as their day job. So, to keep the lights on, Element stopped donating their work to the Foundation, and changed license to non-permissive AGPLv3 in order to sell AGPL-exceptions to the folks commercialising it. This has helped the situation somewhat (although Element isn't at breakeven yet). Meanwhile, it's left the Foundation focused on governance, the Matrix standards process, trust & safety and hosting core libraries like E2EE and matrix-rust-sdk.

There's no beef between the Foundation and Element over this. In a utopia the projects would certainly have stayed as Apache licensed code in the Foundation - but then again, other standards bodies like W3C or XSF don't publish code these days: it's a phase that a given protocol grows out of once third party organisations get busy building implementations.

Disclaimer: i'm conflicted on this, being project lead/co-founder for Matrix, and then CEO/CTO at Element.
by emptysongglass | 2025-04-02 20:58:15+00:00
And every time someone makes this comment. MTProto 2 uses standard crypto primitives. Besides this, do you know who else rolled their own crypto? Moxie. You don't get to roll your own crypto first and then weaponize this against your opponents but that's exactly what he did along with abusing words like "plaintext" to describe any encryption not E2EE.
by dealbreaker | 2025-04-02 20:58:42+00:00
How did reverse engineering m16c prove challenging? I recently extracted a 4 stage encrypted payload from an M16C arch that also used time-based encryption. Each time it was run, the output was different. The time based key was also rotating.

It used a very simple custom encryption for the time stuff and AES in ECB mode.

Protip Ghidra does not emulate inherent CPU behavior of INDEX instructions, behaviour not specified in ISA. I had to backport M32C instructions and patch M16C slaspec to emulate this behavior, caused by compiler bugs.
by generj | 2025-04-02 20:58:46+00:00
For China maybe, I doubt any serious analysts were expecting this high of tariffs on most other countries, like Mexico, the UK, and Canada.

The methodology of counting non-price barriers on certain goods then applying it across the board on all goods as tariffs is bonkers. Doubtlessly they aren’t including all the non-price tariffs the US imposes on other countries either.

I’m extremely skeptical the EU has effective tariff rates of 40% on all US goods, and furthermore skeptical that if so the US doesn’t have countervailing effective tariff rates at the same rate.
by vharuck | 2025-04-02 20:58:46+00:00
This analysis doesn't say whether minority drivers were more likely to be pulled over for traffic violations, only that they were more likely to be issued a citation and that those citations came with higher fines. I would guess a cop rarely knows the race of a speeding driver before pulling them over. The discrimination would happen either when deciding whether to issue a citation, or after looking up the driver's info on the police car.

When the police look up your info, do they see past citations? If so, it's a self-reinforcing cycle: people more likely to receive citations are more likely to have citations listed, and a cop who sees past citations might be less willing to let the driver off with a warning.
by bilbo0s | 2025-04-02 20:58:48+00:00
What's the variation in ticketing with respect to different police departments? How about geographic location?

Teasing out that data is actually a more fruitful exercise. I don't mean to sound callous at all when I say this, but having a study that says "In the US blacks are discriminated against" is a bit lacking in new data or understanding. Any intellectually honest observer already knows they face discrimination.
by haberdasher | 2025-04-02 20:59:07+00:00
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by dragonwriter | 2025-04-02 20:59:41+00:00
> The damage to Tesla's brand is irreversible.

I tend to believe that, while this may be a slight overstatement, the damage will take more time and effort to mitigate than it took to create, but even so, the market likely has priced in Musk continuing in his current role and extending the damage, so from that perspective a bounce back when it appears that the end of that is near still makes sense.
by mdhb | 2025-04-02 21:00:25+00:00
That message is in 100% direct contradiction with literally every other piece of evidence to come out of the IC. I would put it to you that he lied under oath.

Here’s evidence in writing from NSA from earlier this year that makes it extremely clear that isn’t the case: https://www.scribd.com/document/843124910/NSA-full
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-04-02 21:00:35+00:00
Hey, Dan. I'd be really interested if you could share more about the metrics. As the climate of the world around us has changed, I think a lot of us at least feel flagging has become a cudgel used to silence opposition. Me, for criticism of the current administration. Others, for their views on topics like gender.

Maybe we just care more and notice it about that subject now. Maybe it's always been this way. But while you often leave long comments that go into how these systems work and the struggles with trying to adjust them or understand of it's even necessary (good stuff), I would be fascinated to see a blog post or something where you really give us a talking to about the state of the community and anything y'all have been trying on your end.

Just a thought, obviously, you have a whole job moderating already! Have a good day!
by 1shooner | 2025-04-02 21:00:36+00:00
The article called Real ID a North Korea-style domestic passport. That is not what it is. There is no categorical control on domestic travel. Commercial aviation is regulated by the federal government. If you believe that no ID should be required for air travel, that is one thing, but if you accept the need for a credential to fly, of course you'd expect it to use a standard defined by the entity requiring it.
by thelittlenag | 2025-04-02 21:01:23+00:00
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by ike2792 | 2025-04-02 21:01:39+00:00
Another very common thing in the US is having to validate your dependents for employer-provided health insurance. Since most married couples use just one of the spouses' insurance for cost reasons (even if both of them have jobs that provide it), this involves submitting copies of your marriage license as well as birth certificates for all children. This has been a thing for years and I've had to do it a few times. Like getting a RealID, it's a bit of a hassle but not that big of a deal for 99% of people.
by munificent | 2025-04-02 21:02:05+00:00
It's a cute article, but I don't think it holds up under scrutiny. I suspect it is much more a collection of unrelated reasons:

* Historical objects in museums are likely more colorful because we cared to preserve the most visually striking objects. Classic survivorship bias.

* Music has less dynamic range than in early recordings because producers were competing to be the loudest sounding song on the radio (see "loudness wars"). Those wars are actually over now and dynamic range has been increasing for about a decade.

* There is a whole lot going on behind trends in cinematographer color grading if you look into that world. But in the example here, I think it's largely that audiences expected "muted brown" as the color grade to send a "period film" signal. Witness also how every medieval or fantasy movie feels compelled to have all of the castle walls bare gray rock when they were in fact plastered and brightly colored. Likewise Roman architecture being alabaster white. Audiences wouldn't believe a Roman movie with painted statues or a fantasy film with colorful castle walls.

* Cars have muted colors because consumers moved towards a model where they sell cars every few years. When purchasing a car, they choose neutral colors to maximize resale value. Also, I think cars are simply much less a part of someone's social identity and status symbol and more of a utilitarian object than they they used to be. (Witness that when people buy expensive sports cars, those are more likely to be brightly colored.)

* Interior design trends come and go, but I think one of the drivers of gray walls was that it became a popular style for Airbnb rentals to avoid turning off potential renters. That led it to become associated with internationalism and modernity, and from there it sort of took off. Also, an increasing number of people are renting and are simply unable to paint their walls more interesting colors.
by deepfriedchokes | 2025-04-02 21:02:07+00:00
Wilhoit is essentially claiming conservatives are all narcissist, which I don’t think is the case. “Rules for thee, but not for me.” People with NPD have a sense of entitlement, which is a result of the in-group/out-group framework of themselves and others that their minds create to hide their damaged sense of self worth.

Wilhoit is kind of participating in the same in-group/out-group behavior, intellectually, by dismissing conservatism as just a bunch of narcissists, which itself is a very narcissistic thing to do.
by chatmasta | 2025-04-02 21:02:45+00:00
I still can’t believe this. It’s just so comically absurd, like it’s straight out of the plot of Veep. Of all the people to add to the group chat, you add your most vocal critic with the largest megaphone?

There are a few possible explanations:

- “It was intentional.” This doesn’t pass the smell test and it’s not clear who benefits.

- ”It was a setup.” I suppose this is possible, if the Intelligence Community is preloading the application onto the devices in question.

- ”It was an accident.” In some ways this is the most believable and unbelievable. What are the chances that you just happen to add Jeff Goldberg to the chat?! Which leads to the final possibility…

- ”It was an accident, and not the first time.” We just heard about it this time because Goldberg was the one included. This would explain the astounding coincidence, because it changes “the one time they messed up was in front of the editor of The Atlantic” to “this time they messed up was in front of the editor of The Atlantic.”

If they did it once, what are the chances the most vocal recipient was the first example of the mistake?

I’m sure we can count on an extensive audit of the participants in these 20+ other chats……
by tgv | 2025-04-02 21:02:47+00:00
And what do you think artists are going to do when nobody pays them? Something that does pay the bills, obviously. It really is a danger to the continuation of the arts.

And let's be honest: communist art is generally rather poor. The state, or the avant-garde of the proletariat for that matter, does not have good taste, but does tend to towards nepotism.
by generj | 2025-04-02 21:02:57+00:00
If you bring back goods worth more than $800 it has to be declared and a duty paid.

Judging from the changes (currently paused) to the de minimus shipping rules (also formerly $800) I’d expect the threshold to be lowered substantially. Possibly arbitrarily while I’m on a trip and have already bought the goods.

The risk being if detained by DHS for who knows how long is not worth saving $400 on a MacBook personally.
by harmmonica | 2025-04-02 21:03:00+00:00
Is this actually true about Larry and Sergei? A substantial amount of their net worths is still tied up in Google stock. I realize not all centibillionaires are cut from the same cloth, but still find it hard to believe they wouldn't be majorly involved since the downside of a major stock drop would impact them disproportionately. That said they could be the types of billionaires who actually think they have enough even if their net worths were "only" in the tens of billions (a long ways to go down from where they are today).

As for headless chicken, I feel similarly, but then I sort of see a path where they have defensible businesses in YouTube and maybe GCP, and then Waymo and robotics as green field upside, so that even if they don't end up with material market share with the "software-only" side of AI, and search gets further and further eroded, they could still be a formidable player.

Ultimately I do think their best days are behind them largely because they can't seem to turn the work of their talented engineers into great new products.
by mjrpes | 2025-04-02 21:03:02+00:00
They are using stalwart, another open source product, for the backend stack. So you should be able to host your own server instance with custom domain when it gets built out. Stalwart itself just received a European funding grant to build out the features needed. From Thunderbird announcement:

> Thundermail is an email service. We want to provide email accounts to those that love Thunderbird, and we believe that we are capable of providing a better service than the other providers out there, that aligns with our values. We have been experimenting with this for a while now and are using Stalwart as the software stack we are building upon. We have been working with the Stalwart maintainer to improve its capabilities (for instance, we have pushed hard on calendar and contacts being a core piece of the stack).

https://thunderbird.topicbox.com/groups/planning/T437cd854af...

https://stalw.art/blog/nlnet-grant-collaboration
by hydrogen7800 | 2025-04-02 21:03:09+00:00
>how much of the effect is due to first order bias directly due to racial prejudice -- and how much of it is second order biases and miscommunications due to the inherent social tensions of a minority traffic stop in the US.

To me, this sounds like the difference between individual (your "first order") and systemic racism (your "second order'), which is pretty well studied. Some people only choose to recognize the existence of the former.