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by wiether | 2025-04-03 10:03:36+00:00
And also, the programmers that got "promoted" to management are people that are here for the money/power and asked to be promoted, not because they care about coding. And absolutely not because their peers wanted for them to be promoted because they saw a good manager in them while they were working together.

So they'll definitely make it worse for everyone than a guy that doesn't know anything about tech but wanted a career in management because they care about managing.
by pjmlp | 2025-04-03 10:03:41+00:00
It gets love alright, the same as in other ecosystems, using tools without paying the authors.

Not everyone is employed at big corp, with enough time to keep FOSS tooling as side gig.

Maybe if everyone gave back as they expect to be paid themselves, this wouldn't be a common thing.

Turns out shareware and demos was a better business model than FOSS giving everything away, unless one is building a portfolio for being hired.
by Svip | 2025-04-03 10:04:30+00:00
> Without having deeply researched the piece, I wonder if 639 years was chosen with any relation to Tesla's 3–6–9 idea.

From http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2728595.stm

> They settled on 639 years because the Halberstadt organ was 639 years old in the year 2000.
by pjc50 | 2025-04-03 10:04:32+00:00
I can see the value in this, but .. originals, and the gear to read them, do not last forever. Plus for many formats the act of reading puts wear on the physical artifacts. So if you want to actually use the information, you have to format shift it to digital in the first place. And then you're back to the same question as the rest of us, how to maintain the bits.
by cometapi | 2025-04-03 10:05:19+00:00
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by cess11 | 2025-04-03 10:05:21+00:00
Less known than 4'33" being "silent" (which it's not) is that John Cage was an anarchist.

"Both Fuller and Marshall McLuhan knew, furthermore, that work is now obsolete. We have invented machines to do it for us. Now that we have no need to do anything what shall we do? Looking at Fuller's Geodesic World Map we see that the earth is a single island. Oahu. We must give all the people all they need to live in any way they wish. Our present laws protect the rich from the poor. If there are to be laws we need ones that begin with the acceptance of poverty as a way of life. We must make the earth safe for poverty without dependence on government."

https://monoskop.org/images/9/9c/Cage_John_Anarchy_New_York_... (PDF)

A shorter read here:

https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/09/15/john-cage-silence-...
by AnAfrican | 2025-04-03 10:05:32+00:00
I don't see how it's even possible to negotiate .

VAT countries apply VAT on all domestic transactions (and that includes imports). VAT countries do not apply VAT on exports because they _rightly_ assume that the importing country will apply VAT or whatever sale tax equivalent is in place in their territory.

This is not a distortion. There's really no other way to make it work.
by philipwhiuk | 2025-04-03 10:06:26+00:00
> He and Gackle have discussed diversifying their team, and adding a third moderator who is non-white, non-male, and, Bell joked, “non-balding.” Gackle clarified: “We've talked to each other about that. But we wouldn't make it a requirement.”

Without any negativity on Tom, whom I'm sure is excellent, I suspect you failed on this one @dang.
by pabs3 | 2025-04-03 10:06:28+00:00
For supply-chain security, you need basically two things; 1) audit all the source code 2) build the source code (almost) without using any binaries.

The CREV folks are working on distributed code review, and the Bootstrappable Builds folks are working on building an entire Linux distro without any existing binaries, starting from an MBR worth of commented machine code.

https://github.com/crev-dev/ https://bootstrappable.org/ https://lwn.net/Articles/983340/
by flowerthoughts | 2025-04-03 10:06:29+00:00
I'd classify this as theoretical skills vs tool skills.

Even your engineering principles are probably superior to ancient Greeks, since you can simulate bridges before laying the first stone. "It worked the last time" is still a viable strategy, but the models we have today means we can often say "it will work the first time we try."

My point being that theory (and thus what is considered foundational) has progressed as well.
by pembrook | 2025-04-03 10:06:47+00:00
The laws are specifically designed to target US firms without affecting EU ones and enforcement of fines and the size of them is highly selective -- the most attractive targets with the highest willingness to pay without getting to the point where they would pull out of the market.

If you do not see the moral hazard in this, I don't know what else I can tell you. If the EU had a seriously competitive tech industry, many of these laws would have never been created, as the EU is not some moral believer in privacy (they fight against encryption domestically), they are just run-of-the-mill protectionists like all governments.
Ask HN: Your company puts its secrets into Google Docs, MS365. Why not AI?
by wewewedxfgdf | 2025-04-03 10:07:46+00:00
Companies put all of their most secret material into cloud services every day, into Outlook, Gmail, Google docs, Microsoft 365, any number of Amazon systems, cloud based accounting systems, workflow systems, development systems and source code systems.

Why do they trust these yet freak out about putting information into AI systems like ChatGPT and Claude?
by noduerme | 2025-04-03 10:08:10+00:00
This is easy. We're sitting here texting on an American platform and both willing to say that the imprisonment rate in America is abysmal, that in its history America has supported awful dictatorships and racist regimes.

You can't do that in China or Cuba or Russia. You can't even mention it or you would be black holed and your family would be taken away in the night.

I'm in America and I have no fear of telling the authorities what I think.

As awful as some of the things America has done in the past 249 years are, you really can't compare them to the actions of non-democracies and authoritarian regimes. To do so is an insult to the people who struggle every day as prisoners under those regimes. You can hate America with all your heart, but you can't reasonably compare its foreign policy to that of Napoleon or Hitler or Stalin. You can't say that America ever attempted a Great Leap Forward leading to the starvation of 40 million people, or the Holodomor, or the Holocaust, or the Rwandan genocide or even the current genocide against Uighurs by China. Even the British empire looks incredibly cruel by modern American standards.

Is it still a big world power dominating other smaller countries? Definitely.

America has acted as if it were a global empire in its own self interest. But it's probably been the lesser of most evils, certainly throughout the 20th Century. What it is or may be now, it's harder to say, and we'll find out. But comparatively speaking, only a person who hadn't been to the countries you listed would make the claim that it was worse to have America running the world.

Someone's going to run the world, you know.
by lifestyleguru | 2025-04-03 10:08:31+00:00
> you're single-handedly pulling an important project

Never do it on employment contract in Europe. Even if you really are and then quit your job, from next Monday everything will operate as if you never had worked there.

> you're never going to make the same as people who push numbers, papers and money.

That's why the top EU companies are loathed ERP company, perfumes and purses company, and obesity drug for Americans company.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-04-03 10:09:10+00:00
If absolute gender equality is what we're after, I think the premise is flawed form the start.

Men have less rights by nature/biology because they are expendable (women are the reproductory bottleneck of the species) and they are the only gender with the physique optimized for physical fighting and hard labor, hence the famous line "women and children first".

We can say it's unfair and imbalanced but that's not gonna change biology and the status quo when push comes to shove and an enemy invades or a natural disaster hits and human meat is needed for the grinder, hence why there's no sympathy towards men and why much less societal help available to men in need (men have 10x the suicide and homelessness rates than women).

Men and women can never be equal in absolute terms outside an utopia of peace and prosperity, because evolutionary biology and gender dysmorphia has engineered our bodies to be good at completely different tasks meant to complement each other in order to ensure the survival and procreation of the tribe/species.
by mtlmtlmtlmtl | 2025-04-03 10:09:22+00:00
It certainly could. Depends a lot on the specifics of how the UBI is implemented, and how UBI affects salary levels. If everything remained the same and everyone just got x more income each year, then yes, inflation is very likely. On the other hand, something more like no questions asked/no demands made social security, where the only requirement is being unemployed, could improve conditions for people who are unable to work while paying for itself in eliminating heaps of red tape, and also freeing up a lots of manpower towards helping people sort out their lives instead of pouring over disability pension applications, without paying out a bunch of money to people who don't need it because they earn plenty from work already.

One could also pay out ubi universally, but have a one time down-adjustment of salaries the first year.
by Ukv | 2025-04-03 10:10:04+00:00
Large-scale pre-training is not specific to chatbots. There are undeniably a huge range of beneficial uses for machine learning: language translation, video transcription, material/product defect detection, weather forecasting/early warning systems, OCR, spam filtering, protein folding, tumor segmentation, drug discovery and interaction prediction, etc.

"simply don’t train anything" does not seem ethically (many models have the potential to or already are improving lives), politically (staying in the lead is currently seen as an important issue), or legally (as noted in this brief, "the ultimate test of fair use is whether the copyright law’s goal of ‘promoting the Progress of Science and useful Arts’ ‘would be better served by allowing the use than by preventing it.’") viable to me.
by roenxi | 2025-04-03 10:10:35+00:00
The umbrella could already be gone. There are big question marks over how much the in-practice umbrella looks like the Ukraine war where the US State Department provokes something then Japan gets flattened in the crossfire. How much should they be paying for that?

People are coming out of the 90s mindset where the US was substantially more important than its competitors. It was easily worth paying for US protection then because it was obvious the US could back it up with muscle. Now the calculation is a lot less clear.
by csmpltn | 2025-04-03 10:10:54+00:00
European VAT makes it difficult for American companies to compete in Europe. US has no VAT, making it easier for European companies to compete in America...

Combined with the fact that the US is the de-facto largest benefactor of NATO, Ukraine, UN, etc... then the US is getting shafted by the EU and Trump is correct in seeking ways to mitigate that.

Applying this economical pressure on the EU is a valid strategy, IMHO.
by aurareturn | 2025-04-03 10:11:33+00:00
Vietnam: Exports 136.6, Imports 13.1 Deficit = 123.5

Taking Vietnam as an example, keep in mind that the trade deficit calculation only uses physical goods.

Vietnam exports low value physical goods to the US. The US sells high value non-physical services such as Microsoft office, ChatGPT, Netflix, Facebook ads, iOS Appstore fees, iCloud subscriptions, etc to Vietnam. Other services include engineering consultants, US tax auditors, US consulting companies, etc. None of these are factored into the formula.

So a country like Vietnam gets royally screwed by this formula. They are actually buying way more from the US than just the physical goods.

If you're Vietnam, it's very hard to "just take it" as suggested by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. The formula is flawed in the first place.

If we truly want fair, the formula should be based on total profit of the goods and services sold. Services have much higher margins than physical goods typically.
by lurk2 | 2025-04-03 10:13:04+00:00
> MEGAs illegal CEO abduction from their home soil in the 2010s for a particularly egregious example

I’m assuming you’re referring to Kim Dotcom since I can’t find any other reference to what you are describing. Kim was not abducted; he was arrested in by New Zealand police in 2012, and has since been fighting in court to avoid extradition to the United States. There was nothing illegal about this; it all went through the court system.
by dubbel | 2025-04-03 10:13:18+00:00
They answered your question "are there any issues that you think should be decided by men only?"

In this sentence, you are looking at different parts of the equation depending on case 1 and 2:

> Apparently men ought not to get a say in "women's issues", but it is also right that men be forced to put their lives on the line.

No, in the first case it could be argued that men shouldn't have a say, and in the second it could be argued that women shouldn't have a say. In the first case women are (potentially/allegedly) negative affected, in the second (young) men.

> Can you think of a female equivalent where females are ordered by the government to put themselves in harm's way?

Anti-Abortion laws in the US would be such an example.
by jkaplowitz | 2025-04-03 10:13:59+00:00
Trademarks are not like the rest of what you listed - they’re effectively a consumer protection law to reduce confusion about the origins or endorsers of a commercial product or service, though its protection is not restricted to consumers. A lot of advocates of software freedom and the non-software equivalents are more okay with trademarks than with the rest of what is often called IP.

Nobody is prevented by trademark law from offering any product or service, including commercially; the trademark holder’s consent or an applicable exception is only needed in order to use the trademarked name/logo in their own offering’s name/logo.
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by cycomanic | 2025-04-03 10:14:43+00:00
What I don't understand with your argument is, how do you account for the loss of trust of your trading partners? Even if the WH responds and tweaks the tariffs there is no hiding the fact that they have damaged trust in the US as a trading partner. I mean just look at what is happening in most western countries already, there a serious reorienting away from partnership with the US. Also consider that the US is primarily a service export economy and that it's generally much easier to divest from services than manufactured goods, I suspect the moves will have caused serious and long lasting damage to US companies.
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by robertlagrant | 2025-04-03 10:15:05+00:00
> Honestly, I'm surprised anyone on HN would defend that sort of behavior.

Saying "that's legal; if they didn't want it to happen they'd have trademarked" is the correct response. We can socially shame a behaviour on a random comment section on the internet, or we can actually provide the solution to all future people: trademark it if you want it.
by sam_lowry_ | 2025-04-03 10:15:27+00:00
> provable violations of the law

If you ever tried reading GDPR or DMA... you will realize pretty quickly that there is little meaning in them.

I am totally unsure someone can prove a DMA violation. It's simpler with GDPR because a lot of concepts from it have been already somehow interpreted and agreed upon. But we do not have case law in EU, so I guess even known GDPR violations are often dubious.
by pontiacbandit8 | 2025-04-03 10:16:13+00:00
Trump must be a Russian asset. There can be no other explanation. To weaken NATO, remove U.S. dominance by withdrawing forces from bases worldwide, abandon maritime security, weaken the dollar, and implement hostile economic policies that maintain the dollar as the world’s currency, it seems that the final step of “America First” is to make the dollar the sole currency used only in the United States.
by pembrook | 2025-04-03 10:16:30+00:00
Yes, both Europe and the US fine companies.

But specifically when it comes to tech (which is overwhelmingly US companies), there is a massive imbalance. Tariffs are one mechanism by which that imbalance can be tilted.

"EU privacy regs are just laws you can choose to follow if you don't want to get fined!" Yes, and tariffs are laws you can choose to follow (by producing US market products in the US) if you don't want to get fined.

Again, US companies will also need to pay tariffs on imported goods, so it's not just targeted at EU companies. It's a tariff on geographic production.

I don't agree with much of this administrations policies, but to claim the EU hasn't created an imbalance in the way it extracts "fines" from US tech companies (and the incentives around that) doesn't reflect reality.

AGAIN, I don't agree that either the EU fines or US tariffs are a good idea. But the logic of using a tariff to correct this imbalance is sound.
by Draiken | 2025-04-03 10:17:47+00:00
Or, you know, profits.

Capitalists only care about profits.

I live in a country where we have many protectionist tariffs and the locally produced goods are expensive and lower quality compared to imported goods which guarantees profits at the expense of consumers.

I don't understand why people still believe in this day and age that wages will ever increase despite data showing the opposite for literal decades.
by weatherlite | 2025-04-03 10:19:04+00:00
> Europe already has the mindset US military support is no longer a given. Europe is already re-arming.

As you said it will take at least half a decade (which sounds quite optimistic to me actually to go from barely any forces at all to independence) and then there are many more unsolved questions like where does Europe get all its energy from - Russia again? It will have to be a mix of U.S LNG and the rest I suppose from Arab/African countries. Or you could be right , and everyone will dump the USD - I think not though. Europe isn't in good shape as it is, I'm expecting more carefulness going forward.

BTW - I'm not advocating for anything here, I have no personal skin in the game and I think Trump is a horrible bully. I'm just not certain he's a complete idiot yet.
by Nemrod67 | 2025-04-03 10:20:15+00:00
On average people are incapable of holding a moral position through to the end.

- Bad parenting is bad, we should have a permit for it --> are you ready to get denied the right to try having kids?

- Thou shalt not kill --> except those really bad people I don't like!

- Stealing is bad --> except when you're "starving"

Our perception of good and evil are multifaceted, with most of it happening in our background cognition.

There is a strange "mirror" stopping people from exchanging once a rift has opened. Someone else posited that it might be a fight or flight reaction.

I posit that our cognition is based on negation, and thus the shape of our tool impact our results.
by 63stack | 2025-04-03 10:20:28+00:00
>so I became an employee, but that turned out to be a massive step back in terms of income. Despite the fact that I worked closely with lots of stakeholders and solved complex problems for them, their internal rules didn't allow them to pay me as more than a code monkey.

Surely there was a negotiation step before signing contracts? What happened there? What was the blocker that did not "allow" them to change their own internal rules that they themselves control? Surely there is a way to do that.

>I left, they ruined the application (it's apparently slow as molasses now), and now I'm about to go back

Then state what you want before going back, if it's important for them they will find a way. Don't accept these kinds of zero effort "oh our policy doesn't allow us to pay you more" explanations.
by renegat0x0 | 2025-04-03 10:20:48+00:00
I have been playing with idea of one big SQLite for domains. I can search it relatively fast, find things related to "amiga", "emulator" etc.

https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database

I must admit, that this is a difficult task. There are many domains for "hotels", "casinos", so I have to protect myself, just as google agains spam.