MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-01-24 21:12:01+00:00
Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

It is separate from law enforcement with different rules, training, and authority. They enforcement a subset of rules/law. They are not law enforcement in the general sense law enforcement is thought of, no more than Parking Enforcement. For example they can't pull someone over for breaking the law. They don't have authority to enforce all laws, only immigration and customs, and they have much more limited authority to carrying out their duties than REAL law enforcement.

They are immigrations and customs enforcement, not law enforcement. Their minimal training period and requirements indicates as such. The delegated authority of what they are allowed to do indicates as much. But keep building them up to be something more to justify murder of Americans on the streets.

Sorry you don't understand American civics.
by eudamoniac | 2026-01-24 21:12:07+00:00
I understand that, but you're assuming they also stop paying federal tax altogether? Your initial point was to just not allow federal employees to transact, but now we're quickly entering secession territory. The red states mostly grow the food, anyway. Is Manhattan prepared to starve? Feds may block imports to such a rogue state.

If your point is that states should essentially secede to prevent federal agents from doing anything within, that's possible, but I don't think most citizens of even the bluest state want to secede.
by publicdebates | 2026-01-24 21:12:30+00:00
Are you sure? I thought it was Renoir or Batut, or Bresson, or perhaps Watteau, who, when asked for his most useful advice to a new artist, famously uttered this short and mysterious phrase. Could have sworn LaBeouf quoted it in an interview after he collaborated with artist Cantor on their magnum opus.
by tomatocracy | 2026-01-24 21:12:56+00:00
This is exactly how it works in the UK for purchases worth £135 or less which are shipped directly from outside the UK. The retailer has to charge UK VAT as if it were a domestic sale at the point of sale, and there is then nothing to pay at customs so no hold-up for that. It's only consignments worth over £135 where it ends up being stopped for payment at import.

On top of that, Amazon and other large online retailers also have a huge distribution and warehouse network domestically in the UK already so for higher value items mostly they import themselves to their warehouses before sale and then sales are purely domestic.
by nine_k | 2026-01-24 21:14:05+00:00
OK, while I briefly have a bit of your attention: what would you advise to use instead? What I need:

* Server-side filters.

* Tags. No, not folders. Many of my emails have 2-3 tags, some have 4-5. I wonder if it can even map to IMAP4; I see a few ways to model it.

* Good deliverability.

* Reasonable spam protection.

* Not hugely expensive. Ideally near-free, or self-hosted.

What are some options?
by user5994461 | 2026-01-24 21:14:26+00:00
> Does anyone actually know why they don't offer a symmetric product like the niche fibre ISPs?

Short version: The UK regulator OFCOM defines ultrafast internet as 30 Mbps download speed. That's why UK internet providers (openreach and related) have deals starting as low as 30 Mbps and they can't be arsed to provide a faster speed (unless you pay £££).
by codr7 | 2026-01-24 21:15:44+00:00
The argument here, as far as I care to understand it rn, seems to be that micro services could actually live up to the promises if you follow ALL the rules religiously.

From personal experience, the problem is complexity. Which ends up costing money. At a certain scale, splitting off separate services may or may not make sense. But always building anything and everything as a set of black boxes that only communicate over network APIs, each potentially with their own database; is one of those ideas that sounds like fun until you've had a taste of the problems involved; especially if you have strong ACID requirements, or want to debug pieces in isolation.
by 0xy | 2026-01-24 21:16:13+00:00
Yeah, ICE and CBP officers do not carry optics on pistols. Feel free to show me the ICE or CBP purchase order for Sig Sauer Emperor Scorpions, it's all public so it shouldn't take long!

That's if you can get around the Minneapolis Police Chief confirming it was his gun, which might be a steep hill!
by mindslight | 2026-01-24 21:16:17+00:00
> The instruction prompt is absolutely relevant

By "prompt" I was referring to the prompting of the user, by a program such as `sdkmanager --licenses`.

If a user explicitly prompted an LLM agent to "accept all licenses", then I'd agree with you.

> Which it can...

It can be held out as a legal agent, sure. But in this case, is it? Is the coding agent somehow advertising itself to the sdkmanager program and/or Google that it has the authority to form legal contracts on behalf of its user?

> I've counseled you already to study the law - go do that before we discuss this further

While this is a reasonable ask for continuing the line of discussion, I'd say it's a lot of effort for a message board comment. So I won't be doing this, at least to the level of being able to intelligently respond here.

Instead I would ask you what you would say are the minimum requirements to be able to have an LLM coding agent executing commands on your own machine, yet explicitly not having the authority to form legally binding contracts.

(obviously I'm not asking this in the capacity of binding legal advice. and obviously one would still be responsible for any damage said process caused)
by topherhaddad | 2026-01-24 21:16:24+00:00
Moving fast to make launch, we had missed a harness checkout step that would’ve caught a missing comms connection into an FPGA, and it was masked because our redundant comms channel made everything look nominal.

On orbit, we fixed it by pushing an FPGA update and adding software-level switching between the channels to prove the update applied and isolate the hardware path — which worked. Broader lesson, it is possible to design a sw stack capable of making updates to traditionally burned-in components.
by publicdebates | 2026-01-24 21:16:28+00:00
Have you considered using AWS WorkMail? Very easy to set up, even helps you with MX/DKIM/DMARC/SPF if you use Route53, and only $4/month/user I believe. Granted, you won't get anywhere near Google's level of automatic credibility, but even that is relatively low for young gmail accounts.
by arunabha | 2026-01-24 21:16:51+00:00
This was an execution, plain and simple. There is no way around it. There are videos from multiple angles and there was an eyewitness (the lady in the pink jacket) literally two feet away.

I am hoping against hope that people regardless of political association, will demand accountability. America, our democracy and the rule of the law will be on trial in the coming days. Let's see how we fare.
by maqp | 2026-01-24 21:17:09+00:00
* Not end-to-end encrypted by default.

* No end-to-end encryption for groups.

* No end-to-end encryption for desktop meaning normal use when working on computer requires you and your friends to constantly whip out phone to send 1:1 secret chats. Nobody wants to do that so they revert to non-E2EE chats.

* Terrible track record with end-to-end encryption deployment from AES-IGE to IND-CCA vulnerabilities

* CEO pretends to be exiled from Russia but in secretly visits Russia over SIXTY times in 10 years https://kyivindependent.com/kremlingram-investigation-durov/

* Zero metadata protection from server

* Open source, but it's meaningless as it only confirms the client doesn't protect content or metadata from the server.
by Foorack | 2026-01-24 21:18:17+00:00
Both me and partner switching to Infomaniak (also Swiss), can recommend. Not E2E encrypted, but kMail is more usable than ProtonMail (also a lot cheaper on all levels).

Been using ProtonMail for 5 years but so annoying I can't propely search my emails because of the encryption, can't use standard IMAP without a proprietary connector, and their Drives/Docs suite is missing a lot of features.
by arrsingh | 2026-01-24 21:18:23+00:00
I moved my custom domain from google workspace to fastmail a few years ago and didn't look back. Very happy with that decision.

The only two downsides:

1. A few people have reported my emails from fastmail (calendar invites mostly) going to their spam folder. Not enough reports so I'm not worried.

2. Google won't let me sign in and create / edit /comment in google docs with my custom email hosted at fastmail so I have to have a random@gmail.com account just to use free google docs to collaborate with people who only send me google docs.

Overall I think AI features are going to be great but give me the ability to pick and choose which I enable / disable and we should be good. If not then I agree with OP - Bye Bye Gmail.

oh, and don't read my emails and protect my privacy google! - no? Ok bye bye!
by grumio | 2026-01-24 21:19:02+00:00
DHS lies as easily as they breathe. They have proven they cannot be believed.

A previous example:

You can watch the video for yourself of an ICE masked thug grabbing a man's carotid artery, when NOT facing a deadly threat, against DOJ rules. You can watch him seize and his eyes roll back. And you can choose to believe your eyes or DHS' lies. What do you think, zahlman?

See full context here: https://www.propublica.org/article/videos-ice-dhs-immigratio...

> In a social media post after the incident and in its statement to ProPublica, DHS did not cite a deadly threat. Instead, it referenced the charges against Zapata Rivera’s wife and suggested he had only pretended to have a medical crisis while refusing help from paramedics. “Imagine FAKING a seizure to help a criminal escape justice,” the post said.
by CamperBob2 | 2026-01-24 21:19:02+00:00
There is always a feeling of this-time-is-different

I don't know, Dan. This does feel different. Innocent people are being killed on the street, under color of law and sanctioned at the very highest levels of government.

When's the last time something like this happened? Kent State? This incident and the Renee Good killing seem worse than Kent State, somehow. Maybe because they were so up-close-and-personal, because they were recorded in real time, and because of the executive branch's overt, sustained gaslighting about what happened. Lies easily debunked by the recordings, yet still accepted as truth by a terrifying, unreachable chunk of our population.

My fear is that the flames being lit now will consume everything they touch. That seems to be Trump's intention, and he almost always gets what he wants somehow, doesn't he?

I think that's what sig was suggesting. There will be no refuge in neutrality. We will all be forced to stand on one side of the line or the other, and use whatever resources are at our disposal to hold that line.
by londons_explore | 2026-01-24 21:19:11+00:00
> because it's obviously against their interests.

Why? I'd love to be an alternative whatsapp client with all kinds of new features that the official client doesn't have. Obviously you say you're building a compatible chat network, but the reality is users are just using your client to talk to whatsapp users.

Eg. one feature I'd love is some AI to automatically take any date and time someone mentions to me and put it as a draft event in my calendar. I miss so many events from big group chats I'm not paying proper attention to and suddenly everyone is saying "Whoa, you didn't come to Johns 50th birthday?!? Why not? We invited you months ago[in a group chat with 100 messages a day of mostly memes]"
by maqp | 2026-01-24 21:19:18+00:00
The unfortunate problem with Pidgin is you don't have proper cross-platform E2EE chats, especially for groups. OTR is terribly outdated with its 1536-bit FFDH. These days the security margin sits at 2048-bit minimum, 3072-bit recommended. OMEMO might work but it's just not a standard. Good thing Signal made the whole thing just work.
by smileybarry | 2026-01-24 21:19:25+00:00
Not anymore, modern hardware running Windows 11 Home now also has FDE, technically running on BitLocker, just that it's called "Device Encryption" and doesn't have the same options:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/device-encryptio...

> For reference, I did accidentally login into my Microsoft account once on my local account (registered in the online accounts panel)

Those don't usually count as the "primary" MS account and don't convert a local account. For example, you can have a multiple of those, and generally they're useful to save repeated signins or installing stuff from the Microsoft Store that require a personal account.
by nine_k | 2026-01-24 21:19:30+00:00
Not an expert, but I suppose that you can safely receive email using a self-hosted SMTP server. Sending it without being blacklisted / greylisted is trickier. If you don't want to muck with obtaining an IPv4 with a good karma, there are options to send via large providers, such as GMail (IIRC free), or AWS SES, or things like Sendgrid or Brevo. The latter may be effectively free if you send only a handful of emails per day.
by sdoering | 2026-01-24 21:20:01+00:00
I host a few client marketing & transactional mails.

Mostly sending stuff from marketing automation/newsletter software.

Not an issue. Will be migrating the first few domains of off paid google workspace E-Mail to a self hosted solution. I actually don’t expect too much trouble.

But that’s currently still a hypothesis. I have seen a few people do that successfully. So I know it’s possible. Still. Not having hosted a mail infrastructure in 20 odd years…
by nuancebydefault | 2026-01-24 21:20:38+00:00
I don't see fascism, slavery etc as part of progress, it is more of a political/ethical choice. AI is a next step in human progress and that is why i see its use as inevitable. Of course there still need to be checks and balances, just like with free trade, free speech, capitalism, private property etc to keep things fair and balanced. But it is never perfect.
by sothatsit | 2026-01-24 21:20:44+00:00
They haven’t released this feature, so maybe they know the models aren’t good enough yet.

I also think it’s interesting to see Anthropic continue to experiment at the edge of what models are capable of, and having it in the harness will probably let them fine-tune for it. It may not work today, but it might work at the end of 2026.
by dang | 2026-01-24 21:20:47+00:00
I don't see any sidetrack. That's the same argument, and I can only repeat the same counterargument.

I'm not saying that your argument is wrong—I would have to know the future in order to say that, which I don't. All I can do is give the reasons why the counterargument holds more sway from an HN-admin point of view. (Which, btw, is not some sort of disagreement about the politics of this story or other stories.)
by michaelbrave | 2026-01-24 21:21:22+00:00
I sort of already had an experience where it did kinda. I was consulting with it potential fashion choices to upgrade my work uniform, to look professional but still creative, basically to look more like a creative director. It recommended brands, colors, styles etc. Then I was asking about eyeglass frames showed it three pictures, described my facial features and it was like "you have to buy this one now" more enthusiastic than expected. It wasn't ads or anything but there was a bit of salesyness in there.
by ofalkaed | 2026-01-24 21:21:29+00:00
Awhile ago when I logged in to my gmail account I was asked if I wanted to try AI summaries, I clicked "no" and nothing has changed in my user experience in either the web interface or mobile apps. It also told me I could that I could enable or disable AI features with the Gemini icon next to the settings icon, which it looks like I can still do, at least in the web interface. Am I missing something?

Being "an early adopter" is not proof of anything other than being an early adopter.
by eudamoniac | 2026-01-24 21:22:27+00:00
Please respond to the strongest interpretation of posts. You know what I'm saying, and you know you're arguing with rhetoric formed to ignore what I'm saying. What is the point of this? Are you saying that it's not possible for an agent in a scuffle to believe, for a moment, that the man on the ground got his arm free from other agents whom he cannot fully see?

I understand you are angry at the footage, and you want to believe that the ICE agent is ontologically evil, and he executed a guy for no reason at all out of the blue, but it's probably more likely that he panicked at something in the moment. That doesn't make it acceptable, but we should try to understand the truth of events even if we are mad.
by json1manifold | 2026-01-24 21:22:36+00:00
The data on direct integration failures is actually solid—they measured a 36.98% failure rate and a 19.8% rate of price hallucinations.

The float math errors and prompt injection stats track with what I’ve seen in prod. They claim their Architecture has a literal 0.00% failure rate across 80k transactions and an ROI of 415x. They even cite a Z-score of 190.6, which is statistically interesting.

Looking at the sequence diagrams, this looks architecturally similar to the Google AP2 protocol (intent -> signed object -> execution). But looks useful. What do you guys think? Are we almost there where payments can be handled through agents?
by chaps | 2026-01-24 21:23:04+00:00
Heh, I subpoena'd Microsoft once in part of some FOIA litigation I did against the White House OMB back in 2017. They, in no unclear terms, denied it. We were seeking documentation.

I realize it's not a court order, but just want to add to the stack that there are examples of them being requested to provide something within the public's interest in a legal context (a FOIA lawsuit) where their counsel pushed back by saying no.
by dang | 2026-01-24 21:23:26+00:00
Yes, it's what many hackers would do, and have done, and HN has had, and does have, many threads about that kind of thing.

I realize these distinctions get lost when people are feeling heated, but HN has never been an apolitical site and we don't describe it that way. There are more options than just (1) being apolitical and (2) being completely aflame. Not that they're easy squares to occupy.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869 (May 2018)
by sodapopcan | 2026-01-24 21:23:53+00:00
> I will need to keep my address alive and forwarding to my new address at least for a few years. So no privacy gains there either.

Ya, there's no way of not letting google know what your new address is, but you're going to be emailing a lot of gmail addresses anyway so there's no way around that, really. But with the forwarding they only know incoming mail.

I switched off gmail 3.5 years ago and all I can say is that it wasn't anywhere near as scary as I thought it would be. I setup an auto-responder that would hound people to update their contacts for me and slowly switched over services I cared about (and closed others!) An important point, though, is that I don't really care about old emails. I do still have access to my gmail account, of course, but I have yet to go back. Surely there is a way to export everything and import it into something searchable, though?
by sph | 2026-01-24 21:23:54+00:00
> Fastmail’s spam filtering

I had issues with it early on, and after some back and forth with support they explained to me what is going on: it takes about 200 spam emails before your personalized filter kicks in, before that you might see something slip through. Also, the spam filter updates after you delete emails from your spam folder. Just remember to empty your spam folder, and add some custom rules until you reach that 200 threshold.

5+ years in, everything is working great, nothing to complain, best email provider I've ever used. I only wish they had servers in the EU.
by colbyn | 2026-01-24 21:24:07+00:00
Cool I sent you an email and included a screen recorded video demo of that project.

Although FYI: the UI in that demo needs some work since updating iOS but it's an interesting proof of concept that took me some time to figure out (in the future I think I'll do full page swipes of the entire downstream conversation tree and not just at the sibling level although this is less power efficient). Also that demo doesn't include my work in markdown rendering since I have yet to integrate the two. I've been working on both of those projects on and off for the past couple years plus some.
by nicholasjarnold | 2026-01-24 21:24:17+00:00
Fastmail provides an easy way to migrate [0]. I setup a label in my Fastmail account that will tag all mail coming in from Gmail. Then you go through that list at your leisure and make the requisite contact with the people or services emailing at the old address. It's really not difficult at all. I've been on Fastmail for ~4 years now, and haven't once considered looking back or regretted it. Good luck.

[0] https://www.fastmail.com/features/migrate/
by londons_explore | 2026-01-24 21:24:49+00:00
> voice communication that only your device can hear.

This is fairly straightforward - you have the device spew out noise with similar characteristics to human speech (ie. random overlapping syllables in the speaker's voice). Take a recording then subtract the random syllables.

Only your device can do the subtraction, because only your device knows the waveform it transmitted.

Obviously in a room with lots of reverb this will be a bit harder, since you will also need to subtract the reflection of what was transmitted with a room profile and deal with the phone moving in the room, but it sounds far from impossible.
by medunes | 2026-01-24 21:25:09+00:00
Like many of you, I struggled with automating Dependency-Track. Using curl was messy, and my dashboard was flooded with hundreds of "Active" versions from old CI builds, destroying my metrics.

I built a small CLI tool (Go) to solve this. It handles the full lifecycle in one command:

Uploads the SBOM.

Tags the new version as Latest.

Auto-archives old versions (sets active: false) so only the deployed version counts toward risk scores.

It’s open source and works as a single binary (or Docker image). Hope it saves you some bash-scripting headaches!

Repo: https://github.com/MedUnes/dtrack-cli
by usr1106 | 2026-01-24 21:25:27+00:00
Very weird, my experience is the opposite. When changing jobs in 2018 I moved from Bitbucket and Confluence (own data center, but to my understanding powerful and well-maintained) to Gitlab cloud. Atlassian was laggy, overengineered and not pleasant to use. Gitlab was slim and fast. They have added a lot of stuff since then and maybe smreponsiveness has suffered a bit, but I can't really complain. Gitlab works well most of the time. Recently I have had to use Jira cloud. Much worse than Gitlab. Could be that our templates are overloaded and some extensions are particularly bad (looking at you XRay). But pretty sluggish and annoying user experience. With Gitlab over-excited managers cannot ruin performance by having more and more details added to the templates.
by munificent | 2026-01-24 21:25:44+00:00
Neat!

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