skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The argument seems sound: America has no authority over waters beyond its territories, and its territories end some miles off the US coast. Beyond that border it is only logical for a company to refer to a body of water by the name more commonly accepted internationally.

While i hate this gulf of america bullshit, i'm not sure i agree this argument is so sound. I don't think there is any rule of international law requiring countries to refer to other country's territory by the preferred name of the state that has soverignty over that territory. Maybe if you take it as an implicit threat of annexation or claim of soverignty, that would be a violation of the prohibition of acquiring territory by force, but that seems a bit of a stretch at the present juncture. [Ianal].

Basically i think there is a big difference between saying someone is acting illogically and someone is acting illegally.
This is probably an unpopular opinion - but if you're going to rename the Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of the Americas is a much better name than Gulf of America.

But its stupid, and Trump making a sideshow.
If that's the second most embarrassing thing that happened to you this week, and the first is something that only nearly happened, then I'd say it's been a good week.
I agree wholeheartedly. The more unnatural the scent the more it impacts me. Cinnamon is tolerable but as we trend towards “beach day bonfire” it creates a feeling in my olfactory system similar to tasting something sickly sweet. I think it ties back to my brain smelling what I expect to be eating.
Yes, this. Choose one important piece, focus on that, move the needle if you can. Do not let yourself get bogged down with all this nonsense!
Idiots do idiot things, and then the world suffers the consequences of idiot things.
An early consulting gig was to write a tutorial for ed (on the Coherent system). I often use ed--in fact I used it yesterday. I needed to edit something without clearing the screen.

Earlier, I wrote an editor for card images stored on disks. Very primitive.
> Maybe all humans should speak 1 language

Your argument is a straw man. When we agree upon standards, wonderful things happen.

HTML, Email, TCP, DNS, and every other protocol are an example of what happens when we collaborate openly and don't have one company lording over everything.

Apple just wants to control the iPhone and the money printer it has built. It has distorted computing for over a decade.

Mobile computing belongs to two companies, not to us.
That's essentially what they did (and IIRC still do) with Crimea and other annexed territories. That's not Google's first rodeo for sure, although it can be more difficult given that their headquarters is in the US.
Well said. I'm not the first to say it, but: common sense ain't so common.

Here's some recommendations from our household, related to my previous battles with mold-related illness:

RabbitAir hepa-level air purifiers. Pricey, but worth it.

Dr. Bronner's soaps. We use them for showering, washing hands and dishes. No dishwasher here; our son has taken responsibility for it, in exchange for our fascilitating his chess-oriented lifestyle.

7th Generation laundry detergent. Unfortunately, we have to use a public laundramat, so we're getting some of the polluted stuff washing through the machines' detergent/softener resevoirs, but the poor have no choice.

We keep the windows closed during rush hour timeframes, and I keep watch on wind directions and know where the fresh air comes from.

We also try to get out into green space away from traffic and get a walk in or just let the teens knock the soccer ball around a bit.
> Very few disagree with DEI programs and LGBT issues.

Americans as a whole are close to evenly divided on DEI programs. A recent YouGov/Economist poll found 45% support abolishing DEI programs in education and government, 40% opposed; a Reuters/Ipsos poll found 44% supported “closing all federal government DEI offices and firing federal employees working on the issue” with 51% opposed. [0] Unfortunately I don’t have detailed crosstabs (which tend not to be very reliable anyway), but I expect they’d show that there is a decent minority of Democrats and Biden/Harris voters who are opposed to DEI programs

“LGBT issues” are a whole bunch of different issues, and attitudes vary depending on which of them we are talking about. A Gallup poll from May last year [1] found 69% of Americans support same-sex marriage, a slight decline from 2022-2023 but still close to an all-time high. Yet, the same survey also had 51% of respondents labelling gender transition as “morally wrong” [2]. And in 2023 the same survey found 69% of Americans opposed transgender athletes being able to compete as the gender they identify with [3]. So it seems like the average American supports some “LGBT issues” but opposes others

> If those are "woke" I suppose Women's suffrage 120 years ago was also "woke".

It all depends on how you define “woke”. The African-American anti-woke Marxist Adolph L Reed Jr defines “woke” [4] as a form of progressivism that rejects the traditional Marxist analysis that class oppression is the root cause of non-class-based oppression. He wouldn’t call women’s suffrage “woke” because most Marxists historically supported women’s suffrage as a means of empowering working class women, and saw it as fundamentally compatible with their class-first analysis of society’s problems; but he does criticise a lot of contemporary “wokeness” as being in fundamental contradiction to that analysis

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/bowmanmarsico/2025/02/03/how-po... - I think the difference in results may be partially due to the question asked - I expect some respondents would have said “Yes” to the first question but “No” to the second, because while they support shutting down government DEI programs, they’d prefer to see the government workers involved reassigned to other tasks rather than simply fired. Asking a question “Do you support A and B?” is problematic because you don’t know if people answering “No” oppose both A and B or only one of them

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/646202/sex-relations-marriage-s...

[2] https://news.gallup.com/poll/645704/slim-majority-adults-say...

[3] https://news.gallup.com/poll/507023/say-birth-gender-dictate... - I can’t find 2024 figures but I assume they haven’t substantially changed

[4] https://newrepublic.com/article/160305/beyond-great-awokenin...
At the end of the day, most consumer software boils down to simple CRUD apps with various skins. Sure people have been able to make those for years but it was still time consuming to wrangle the no code tools. Now people can do it in an hour or two with simple English instructions.
The NATO phonetic alphabet was one of the highest reward-for-effort things I've ever learned. It doesn't take long to commit to memory and become proficient with and the amount of time I've saved on repeating spelling (or even just "A as in apple, M as in Mary" nonsense) over the decades has added up.

It's clear enough that even people unfamiliar with it previously can follow it when you're using it to spell something and by design it's clear even over poor audio connections (or in a noisy server room).

It honestly should be taught to everyone in elementary school.
Shouldn’t you be able to look at the API logs for all the calls and at least check the IP address they were made from?

I doubt someone who had the ability to access stripe would waste it on a 40k payday. Also I wouldn’t rule out someone internally, however the attack makes it seem it was done by someone who is familiar with draining stripe accounts
Is having an API key a necessary condition for this?
I want to caveat that the “horror stories” you hear about have two biases built in:

1. Happy users don’t talk about their experience on the internet, while unhappy users do.

2. You only hear one side of the story, and it’s always negative towards the other party (Stripe).
Illegal border crossings have plummeted to historic lows after Mexico sends 10,000 troops to the border would be one indication. [1][2]

[1] https://nypost.com/2025/02/13/us-news/illegal-border-crossin...

[2] https://www.wola.org/2025/01/weekly-u-s-mexico-border-update...
Do you think the Native Americans the Europeans first encountered were the ones there continuously from the time the Americas were populated? Or did their groups at one point or another conquer other groups on the land? Europeans were already on the continent when a major migration (not forced by Europeans) led huge groups from the great lakes area down to the American southwest, displacing native groups that had been there for at least hundreds of years.

Native Americans used winner takes all in the same manner that Europeans did. What's the big deal?
This makes it sound a lot more fun.
Outrage and illegality are not the same thing.

That said, those disputed territories are a bit of a hot button issue in the territories in question, just like this is a hot button issue for mexico.
This is probably more of a job for a lawyer.
> good concurrency story like Elixir make much more sense

Agree, that's why I've been building this: https://github.com/agentjido/jido
The kind of path US has taken, it might be sensible for Mexico to impose a fine on Google maps. We will see an increasing hostility towards American companies in other countries.
Nx-Cugraph: GPU Accelerated NetworkX Back End
It's not all stupid, some of it is evil too.
My prediction was that Trump would abandon the Ukrainians and suck up to Putin, and as of today that's right on target. This calibration exercise is not reassuring at all.
> How on earth would you organise elections for every single DMV employee? Or every single park ranger? Or every single government accountant or secretary? Every single civil servant involved in collecting the data used to drive policy decisions.

You can't. Which is exactly why the civil service is supposed to impartially implement the policies of the elected government rather than making their own judgements.

IMO the increasing partiality of these bureaucrats (who are drawn from the professional-managerial class and have the views of that class, which are increasingly out of step with those of the average citizen, especially on social issues) was one of the big contributors to Trump getting elected.
Mexico should officially rename the US to "North Mexico".
Okay, but Google has no legal obligation to anyone here, right? They're just a private company, and they can put whatever they please on their map. They could call it Gulf of Cuba, or Gulf of Poopy Pants, and no one would actually have any legal standing to sue, would they?
Yeah, I stopped going to houses that ran those plug-in diffusers.

The rule is: don't put it into your lungs or onto your skin if you wouldn't put it into your mouth.

Those people are just paying people to poison them, however slowly.
I don't really understand what problem this aims to solve. "Postman meets ChatGPT" means about as much to me as "TV meets food trucks"... Doesn't tell me why I would use it.

I'm saying this to be critical, not snarky. Maybe you have something worthwhile here, but I can't tell.
Throwing out multiple crazy things per day to saturate the media and opposition so they have trouble resisting or reporting on everything was an explicitly stated plan by members of the administration, before the election. Sometimes you can’t come up with anything even hypothetically substantive, I guess, so you rename something that zero people wanted to be renamed.
And Mexico has no authority over the waters beyond its territories and its territories end some miles off the Mexican coast?
haha damn it I didn't see that typo.
> lawmakers rightly recognized that they are neither environmental scientists, nor economists of the industries those acts regulate

The problem that this EO may be trying to address is that environmental scientists and economists aren't any more above moral reproach as presidents or legislators. Therefore, the status quo was such that if some unelected career civil servant working at an agency decides to interpret stuff under their expertise in one way or another that may be wrong, there was little possibility of redress on the part of the people.

Vote for a different president? No matter; career civil servants can't be fired because the president isn't king! Vote for a different Congressperson? No matter; they aren't experts so they'll defer to the civil servants! And therein lies the "deep state".

The correct answer, in my opinion, is that lawmakers need to sit down with the domain experts and write specific legislation with that expert input. That way, policy remains accountable to the people, who are the ultimate legitimate source of power.
IDK i've never played it
Excluding the part of how the access was gained (i.e. fault of end user etc) - I would have thought Stripe would have far better security measures in place for obvious signs of fraud?

If someone changes the bank account of a business for funds to be sent to - why not have a short (?48 hours) delay in allowing funds to be sent there. Especially if the business has been running a while (not sure in this specific case) with no bank account changes - then its not unreasonable for a built in delay for new accounts to be used.

Coupled with some basic stuff of "new bank account, new express accounts, spike in charges, sudden request(s) for withdraws" seems like something that a smart team in Stripe with their development experience could easily implement as an automated security trigger, and hold the funds pending additional security checks?
Judging by the cycle counts, it's a 16 bit cpu internally? Word operations are almost always cheaper, even when there are no additional memory accesses for the long case. (I think long register to register moves are the only free long case. It's been a while, though.)
Maybe if the passenger is literally wearing a suit, that's a suit. Or any shirt color besides white. And you can't get a flush of non-suited passengers.
> I have no faith that the American public is up to the task. It will demand too much discomfort, and sacrifice

More up than many. There is no other way to prevent power grab. You can see it in post-USSR space what happens when there is no push-back from public.
you have to open the box to see if the quantum computer is alive or not.
I live in one of the states mentioned in the article. It’s been really cold here for the last two days, but being from the Midwest, you kind of get used to it. Tomorrow’s just going to be another cold day
Yes, Roma/Rome, Koln/Cologne, London/Londres, Turkey/Turkiye, etc.

Those countries ain’t suing Google for calling those geographical places differently in different languages.
Palantir Drops 10% on Report of Pentagon Slashing Budget
A better argument is that the president doesn’t determine the common, accepted name of bodies of water in English. Even American English. And especially ones outside US borders.

The name’s the same as it was.
The Don should rename the Bering Strait to "Strait of America", then build the TrumpStream pipeline between Siberia and Alaska and resell liquefied Russian gas to the EU at four times the price.
I see [flagged] in your comments future
> This is exactly the same issue AP was protesting, in reverse, with the kicker that Mexico has no sovereignty over the US.

You somehow got it entirely backwards. The Trump Administration decided it was a good idea to rebrand random geographical areas with nationalistic names and force that change upon the world. The world woke up to see this "freedom fries" nonsense forced upon them through the likes of Google Maps. In the very least, Google must not change the experience for anyone else accessing their service outside of the US.

Ask yourself this: why would anyone in the world be subjected to these whimsical nationalistic banana republic renaming stunts?
And methanol is not good for anyone, in any measure.

I'm pretty sure that's why, 100 years ago, there were so many blues folks with names like "Blind Lemon Jefferson" -- they had drunk bad hooch that got too much methanol instead of ethanol. Blindness is direct side effect of methanol poisoning.
If you think I am arguing that, then I need to write better sentences.
Fine then, display that to users in Mexico if that's the law.
Cursed fire or #define black magic
This is a pretty ideal response by Google. Of course they'll be criticized no matter how they handle this.
Edit: I'm wrong here. They are doing it based on IP address, not domain for some reason. https://www.google.de/maps will show the parenthetical only when accessing it via a non-US IP and will show just "Gulf of America" when on a US IP even on that domain.

--- original ---

I don't know why they decided to to do that in Canada. In the UK (for example), it only says "Gulf of America", same with Germany.
I mean... Sure? Go buy an actual VT* unit ( maybe https://www.ebay.com/itm/176698465415?_skw=vt+terminal&itmme... ?), get the necessary adaptors to plug into a computer, and run simh on it running your choice of *nix. I recommend https://jstn.tumblr.com/post/8692501831 as a reference. Once you have it working, shove the host machine behind a desk or otherwise out of sight, and you can live like it's 1980.
That sounds exactly like what GP wrote.
hypothetically, if you sign a noncompete where they're enforceable and resign (without disclosing anything to anyone), how would they even know where you're going or have the basis for a lawsuit?

maybe they'd know with execs where their occupation is public, but for line employees it just seems like a scare tactic. I kind of doubt they're going to drop thousands of dollars on a lawsuit because some associate SWE hops from amazon to microsoft
Oh so they could hypothetically make food they just choose not to. Makes sense.
The concern would be that it normalizes expansionist rhetoric, which is very concerning for the countries on the borders of USA. Setting the information space up for future events is a serious thing in geopolitics. It is not just a distraction but can (when combined with many other things) have a real affect down the line.

Its also just a giant middle finger to mexico.
His comments imply he is outsourcing his development, and they have his production keys. Seems like a good chance they were not managing the keys securely. Very high risk to not control your own keys, deployment, and production environment.
What should they have said to make it non-misleading?
> Ask yourself this: why would anyone in the world be subjected to these whimsical nationalistic banana republic renaming stunts?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Google_LLC_(2...
Most things don't fully disprove most things, especially in politics. Trump will never announce Project 2025 by name, that doesn't mean he's not implementing it. Putting that as the bar is bad faith.
There are many places with disputed names. However that is a very different thing from just a translation of a name.
This is less a question of perfection and one of trade off's. Laws of physics put a limit on how efficiently you can keep data in NYC and London in perfect sync, so you choose CAP-style trade-offs. There are also $/SLO trade-offs. Each 9 costs more money.

I like your example it is very interesting. If I get to work on (or even hear someone in my team is working on) such interesting problems and I can hear about it, I get happy.

Interesting problems are rare because like a house you might talk about brick vs. Timber frame once, but you'll talk about cleaning the house every week!
I suspect that the vendors keys got inadvertently leaked, and that stinks because ultimately the liability will be on the vendor and not Stripe.

However what if Stripe could allow their customers (vendors) to limit what IP address(es) their API call could originate from? That would at least add an extra layer of security in the case an API key was leaked.
It's not noise, it's a shibboleth, a way of identifying conformance and compliance.
that's literally the point.... it is really hard to confuse bravo with Victor, or Quebec with uniform no matter how crappy the ambient noise environment
https://www.thevibes.com/articles/world/101600/singapore-los...

Some are moving HQ, some are just downsizing HQ and expanding offices in Malaysia or Thailand.

I agree it’s not a wholesale move out, but the trend is noticeable.
My experience has been the opposite. The number of customer service representatives I speak with that simply can't comprehend the NATO phonetic alphabet never ceases to surprise me, somehow. More than half the time I'm nearly finished with my last name ("foxtrot india november charlie hotel...") when my interlocutor just says "whoa whoa whoa, what?" and I have to fall back to the annoyingly slow and frustrating "eff as in foxtrot..." form while effortfully disguising my palpable disappointment. It's just one more way for humanity to disappoint me.
Americas is a big place....
Oxford English Dictionary- pathological: "involving, caused by, or of the nature of a physical or mental disease"

Trump doesn't suffer from any physical or mental disease, despite what many people would like to falsely claim.
Those agencies were created by law and given a command by law to fulfill a role in the executive branch. The executive branch doesn't get to decide how to organize itself since that would make a mess when the next guy comes up, so laws are there to make sure the structure is kept in a _continuity of the state_, such that just because the head changes, not everything needs to change. You could argue all you want about that, but stability is a desire feature of the state. It not only helps citizens to be able to have long term planning, but also saves the resources by not needing to figure out how things work constantly.
> no one would actually have any legal standing to sue, would they?

Countries would get all uppity about doing business in their jurisdiction if that were the case.
Hm. I wonder how hard it would be to write a neofetch (...er, "oldfetch"?) for v1 Unix. Maybe hardcode some of it? Should work.
/Me looks at the sea that China, Phillipines and Vietnam dispute.

Names matter.
Doge Teen with Cybercrime Connections Now Inside Cybersecurity Agency CISA
Sadly at this scale and using this very premium fuel (medium enriched uranium fuel in low-density, highly-safe TRISO form), this is very likely to be super expensive for those homes. People in Antarctica might find it a great deal though.
> Yes, this is a problem, because it would mean that if the President (for simplicity, the order also specified the AG, but it doesn't really change the issue) had an opinion on the law, and the courts issued an order to an executive officer such as a department head in a lawsuit contrary to that interpretation, the department head would remain bound by the Presidential interpretation until the President relented, since the meaning and effect of a court order is no less a matter of interpreting the law than the meaning and effect of a regulation, statute, or Constitutional provision.

I don't think that's true? Court orders are orders, not laws, and the two are very different.
The lockfile is good, but I'm talking about this inline dependency syntax,

# dependencies = ['requests', 'beautifulsoup4']

And likewise, Deno can import by URL. Neither include an integrity hash. For JS, I'd suggest

import * as goodlib from 'https://verysecure.com/notmalicious.mjs' with { integrity="sha384-xxx" }

which mirrors https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subres... and https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

The Python/UV thing will have to come up with some syntax, I don't know what. Not sure if there's a precedent for attributes.
I’ve never used stripe, but wondering if they don’t allow you to set permissions for API keys.

This sounds like way too many permissions being granted for something used in a storefront.