skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So looking at this from a technical point. NIH.gov has three name servers. Each host are still up, but only answering dns on TCP and not UDP. All three are located under the same AS, which implies that there is a single operator responsible. No ipv6. From the outside I can't see any sign that they have delegated operation of either the servers or the service to any external company.

Doing some more looking around, it seems like NIH has a department/group/structure called Center for Information Technology, which is the IT support side of NIH and are the operators for the DNS servers.
Did I miss that in the article, or did you just make it up?
This network of (almost) city-states existed before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleinstaaterei

It was a time of wars and economic turmoil.
Radisson doesn't load on Firefox for me, only on chrome.
Marriott doesn't load on chromium.

I'm talking about the rooms pages, they show errors when loading prices. Static resources still load.

The situation is similar with other websites behind akamai, such as US ESTA, the static resources load but all API calls fail.

The IP address probably also matters, indeed.
What Is 'Dead Weight'?
What's useful about blockchain? (Outside of situations where you need to move money outside the law)
Gentoo offers firefox built from source with various privacy defaults such as disabling telemetry:

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/www-client/fi...

It's regularly updated.

It also offers a binary package with privacy default configs such as disabling Normandy which "allows Mozilla to push changes for default settings or even install new add-ons remotely":

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/www-client/fi...
> Why are American taxpayers spending thousands of dollars detaining tourists who are perfectly willing to leave,” she said

Elementary, Watson. "Private contractors" make their money billing the government. She is a source of income.
While I think the detention was completely unnecessary and cruel. It appears that her Instagram still lists dates she was planning to be in LA, right after a date range of being in Mexico, with a request for DMs under it for scheduling an appointment. It seems like this phrasing in the article of "accused of maybe violating her visa" could have disclosed that she looks to have a public declaration of her intent to work.
Be specific. I did read the article. She's stuck with ICE and nobody in charge gives a shit. Did you read the article? Tell me the part of the article that changes the fact that going to the US today is moronic. You realize she tried to cross the border on the 25th? 5 days after Trump's presidency started and 4 days after Trump started rounding up and deporting illegal immigrants. Or is that too difficult for you to understand?
It seems obvious from what? Is there another source you have that supports this supposition? I'm not disagreeing. I'm just asking
The US prison system is definitely designed to be punitive, not to release reformed individuals back into society.
How to employ and feed and compensate the masses.
I read that part of the visa application does include social media accounts and a lot of other details, such as funds, medical insurance and history and more. So they can just check. If she stated as an occupation she's a tattoo artist then that does not even involve social media checking.
one word VENGEANCE
It is astonishing that your response to people facing injustice is that more people should face injustice.
> Before I got my US passport, the German immigration staff would always treat me like shit, but with the US passport, I'd make sure to flaunt it so I'm not treated like yet another South Asian or Middle Eastern national.

Given the behavior of the current administration, I fear soon you will be back to be treated the old way even with US passport.
Looks great! I truly believe that mobile and scrolling addiction are causing people to disengage, especially those who value the real world, real people, and genuine human connections.

AI is undeniably empowering and accelerating almost everything—faster, faster, faster. But what comes next for us, as regular human beings?

Still, grounding ourselves in nature—touching grass, watching sunsets, hiking, cycling—remains essential to our well-being.
And yet the quality of that channel is absolutely excellent, and the polar opposite of what the thumbnail clickbait suggests. I'd say it's on the same level of the Admiral Cloudberg blog actually.

And to be clear I completely agree with your reaction to the clickbait. If I didn't already know the channel I would probably avoid the videos too. And I've seen this happen with other channels. It seems to be an unfortunate effect of the current youtube "meta".
At this point, you'd be crazy to visit the USA at all.
> What the fuck? She did everything right. She had a passport, an entry visa, and a return ticket?

None of that is guarantee of entry into the US, which is completely at the discretion of the CBP officer. And the protocol on denial of entry for much longer than this administration has been around is to detain you until you can be put on a flight back to your country of origin. The saga also goes on your record, and you will have to mention & explain it in the DS-160 form for any future visa applications.

Those of us from certain countries who've had cause to visit the US have been well aware of this for decades, with the corresponding game you have to play with the CBP officer (Everything is designed to trip you up. Have every possible document on hand, even if not explicitly mentioned as a requirement. Never use certain trigger words (like work) even if travelling on company time, instead say that it's a business trip. And so on).

It's not even unique to the US either, though US border (and embassy) officials IMO tend to have a pretty big chip on their shoulders. The only place I've had a more hostile experience is the Maldives (the manager of my hotel very kindly vouched that I would leave the country on my return ticket date even though we hadn't spoken at all before my rather frantic call to him, which was the only thing that swayed them enough to let me leave the airport).
AI bill seeks government authority to probe developers
Hello there, brand new account. Curious topic for your first post.
There is difference between legal evil and neutral evil. See my other comment for the evils.

Compared to Russia there is little corruption and lawfulness. The justice system reflects the conservative retaliation values most Americans have when it comes to justice system. People just want justice system to cause suffering. Nothing is more American comedy than men being raped in prison.
I think the key is "private contractor".

The more detainees they have, and the longer they have them, the more they get paid.
Not a professional, but still use it like that. They also have a new smartblast thing, which works much faster (really, really like Google!) but only on highly similar proteins.
I am sorry, I don't quite understand where the "abuse" comes in. Attaching function pointers to structs? I've done that in production twenty years ago (and others have probably done it in the 70s) and I see nothing wrong with it. C gives us function pointers for a reason, and it's not to not use them... to me, at least, they're actually one of the premier features of C! (GCC's goto *ptr on the other hand, now there's some potential for getting a little bit wild...)
What is futurist about an oligarchy...or a monarchy? Surely it's essentially what China is now. We want that?
Feels like too many mid westerners expat from 2000s-2010s who never got taste of premium expat life don't realize how a well compensated PRC employee can live real fancy, more so since they're not trapped in expat bubble.
It doesn’t seem open and shut at all, why not just deny her entry if they’re so sure at the border? It’s popping up on HN because apparently she’s been detained for over a month… well after her scheduled return flight. why would this ever be necessary?
It's not that simple. Democrats are responsible for plenty of stupid ideas, and Republicans have pushed through some good ideas.

Being overly reductionist makes one easier to reject as partisan.

What is new is the MAGA/2025 hijacking of the Republican party to enact its goals. To the extent that the current Republican leadership is essentially a different party than it was 6 years ago.
what are you talking about? its a hardware issue. did you even read it? heres the actual recall"
"The recalled Model 3s and Model Ys could face a loss of power steering assistance "when the vehicle reaches a stop and then accelerates again" if they experience an "overstress condition" in the printed circuit board for electronic power-assisted steering (EPAS), Tesla said in a recall report submitted last week to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)."
Oh? My understanding so far was that she claims to have wanted to visit a friend in the USA, and is only accused of wanting to work. Can you please pinpoint to me where you got the information?
Pubmed is one of the most reliable services in the history of the internet. Sure the exact issue is opaque, but the fish rots from the head.
That's what happens when you lose focus while going bananas.
It is certainly intentionally that NCBI is miraculously down for no real reason. But usually when the political debates are heated it happens more often. What one can observe now is just funny nothing of unhappy political activists.
The current government threatens to invade allies (well, ex allies now) and make nazi salutes, but would still win the election.

And those are only two examples out of many. You can put as much nuance as you want, fascism is fascism.
If there was AI made for public benefit, maybe yeah. But for now AIs are made by companies and governments and they're trying their best to encode their interests into them.
Russian oligarchs are explicitly welcome under the planned new "Gold Card" program.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-end-eb-5-immigrant-in...
If that was the case they seem to have known at the border and like every episode of border patrol they should just have denied entry. Instead they are wasting thousands of tax payer money. They also did not put her on the plane for which she already had a ticket.

What is the plan here? To send her to Guantanamo?
People traveling to conferences in the US might want to know. What if you post on your website that you are going to work on a feature with others from the US while at the conference?

You may be detained indefinitely.

The EU should make US citizens go through the same humiliating and euphemistically termed "visa waiver" program. Make US citizens tell their whole life history, whether they have firearms experience, whether they have psychological issues, whether the are members of a terrorist organization (!) and so forth. EU citizens have to fill out a humiliating four pages form in order to enter G_d's own country.
We extensively use Maestro in our testing setup. We test our Android (+ Android TV) and iOS apps on a couple of different emulators, and use it to take a bunch of screenshots to generate diff reports.

The only thing we don't like so far is that it is not extensible at all. And the AI direction is one that we absolutely don't care for either.

We built a huge wrapper script in python that allows us to spin up and control a wiremock server, as well as help us implement features that are not supported by maestro directly. We make calls to a local webserver (spawned by our wrapper) from the maestro test to do this, which works surprisingly well but it feels like we could perfectly leverage custom yaml commands or something like that.
Rich, coming from a green account...
No, he's just pointing out the double standards, and I agree with this sentiment. It's very difficult to visit the US (or really any Western country) with my passport, and always has been. You have to put in a lot of money and collect many pieces of paper for even a tourist visit (forget about working there or — god forbid — trying to legally immigrate), and there's a large chance you will be denied regardless. Nobody gives a flying fuck about this.
Rightfully = Solitary detention for 9 days... without a set date for said deportation 20 days later, making it an indefinite detention?

Seems like the USA has very low standards for what's "right" these days.
Surely the detention facility wasn't responsible for sending her to a detention facility.
US Department of Defense orders its cyber arm to stop operations against Russia
You need several million dollars per year to be useful. Anyone can form a foundation but if you don't have that much or more it was a waste of time.

it need not be money a dozen developers donating code full time would work but that is harder to get.
I don’t know why this is on HN either but even if it is true, why detain for her so long? Why let her in at all? If it’s “open and shut” why hasn’t it been shut? Why is she still here?
Yep. Becuase I'm tired of this holier than thou crap.

It's very easy to follow visa laws as a German national to the US. You don't face any of the same amounts of hurdles that non-Western nationals face.

And your countries would treat us the same if we didn't have a US passport (I remember those experiences in Frankfurt Airport before and after I got the American passport)
I think you underestimate the role of misinformation. I don't think "all" saw it coming even though many or most did.

I share your frustration with how someone could have voted for these criminals but I've also seen very well educated accomplished individuals — who are also not right wingers — essentially brainwashed into thinking Trump was a victim and his ramblings were meaningless showmanship or a media mudslinging campaign. I've also seen interviews with these people during the campaign, people who expected this to be like his last administration.

Trump openly lied about Project 2025 and people who refuted those lies were accused of "TDS", etc in these outlets. Even relatively centrist outlets were accused of sanewashing him.

You can be dismissive but I know people as I type this who are genuinely upset and feel betrayed by the GOP and Trump because they didn't believe they would do all this. Maybe it's a form of stupidity or weakness but the level of fraud and deception throughout cannot be forgotten.

There's a reason for propaganda.
Respectfully, there’s a lot of justifiable political information that’s relevant, but does that mean it should be posted here?

In any case it does seem from the downvotes that this site is more like Reddit for now, that’s ok.
Interesting, I can type CSS much much quicker than describing to an LLM what kind of layout I want and with what look
Is this page correct, indicating they are undergoing maintenance?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/down/
One of the requirements to issue a recall notice is information about how consumers will access the fix, which is communicated to the government as part of the process.
Thankfully most of the corporate interests that have already seeped into Linux have been a net positive. If corporations remember the lessons of the 1990's, it will remain that way.

(In the 1990's businesses either had to develop and maintain their own operating system, or license it from someone else. Both routes are expensive. There were also collaborative efforts for larger operating systems, none of which seemed to reach positive conclusions since the businesses who owned the rights to the operating systems were ultimately in direct competition with each other. For whatever reason, the open source collaborative model used by Linux has been successful. In all probability it is because nobody "owns" Linux in the conventional sense.)
Firefly's Blue Ghost becomes second private spacecraft with moon landing
While I don't agree with the response and long detention. This is the artists current Instagram bio. I understand it is likely hard to get a visa for a week that allows you to work, and it is a would be a lot more convenient to serve US fans with a brief trip rather than ask them all to individually fly to Germany. But it does appear she had a public declaration of her intent to work.

https://www.instagram.com/jessica.lia.tt/?hl=en
Jessica Lia
Blood Bank

Mexico - 06.12 -25.01

Los Angeles - 26.01 - 16.01

Berlin - 24.02 -20.04

DM

Edited to add back locations, she has used fun UTF8 characters for stylized letters that got stripped out by hacker news.
The only thing that saves Safari syncing for me is the tab groups. iCloud automatic syncing is terrible. I'm pretty sure it's not even syncing my iPad's open tabs for some reason and I have no idea how to start troubleshooting it except for removing my iCloud account and then signing back in.
> CBP agents at the border accused Brösche of planning to violate the terms of the visa waiver program by intending to work as a tattoo artist during her trip to LA, Lofving said
This makes no sense. What law do you think she violated? And you're certainly painting Latin immigrants with a wide brush, there are a TON of us who came in illegally.
Oh, by the way...

Just mentioning that you used LSD in your past, may be enough to cause problems today[0] (especially in today's climate). Myself, I don't care. I use my experience to help others, so I'm fairly open about it.

[0] https://www.wired.com/2007/04/canadian-psycho/
Move fast and break things.

We don't know the root cause, but the kinds of moves that Musk is pulling are straight from a sabotage manual.
How are they funded? Or, in other words, how do we know they won't end up in the same situation?
the chief challenge is: how does one actually value land?

if I own 1000 acres in the middle of nowhere that holds an enormously profitable business, I could end up paying almost zero tax simply because I dont have any nearby real estate development
It's the only browser that supports Manifest V2. If you want true ad-blocking capabilities, use and support Firefox. If you're up to Chrome tyranny or Brave lies then go ahead and switch. I consider changing the privacy notice meaningless when I block everything and disable telemetry etc. But at the same time I know y'all are prone to internet drama to get more ad traffic and attention.
The idea that politics shouldn’t be in a place for “tech stuff” is like saying water should not be discussed in a place for “fish stuff”. Politics is already in tech and has large effects. It’s a part of the stuff.
Serious journalism gives the accused a chance to respond. Serious sympathy articles confront the subjects with the core accusations brought against them.

Needless to say, this doesn't clear the bar.

Neither of the women even deny the accusations..
I think in a perfect and just universe, the most fitting end for this post would be for it to be perfectly preserved, with your actual name, in perpetuity, in the worlds most popular and enduring history textbook. Imagine your children's grandchildren reading this sublime example of the casual banal brutality of our time, even among regular everyday people.

I sincerely hope for that future for you, and for all of us.
Thanks for the info. I agree but as others said not sure why then the policy is to detain and deport if she's at the border. Just deny entry.
It’s crazy how aligned history is right now to support the rise of an AI Monarch in the United States. We have a president with a cultish base, but he’s old and there is no real heir to his following. AI tech has been advancing rapidly and some people practically worship AI like if it’s some all knowing god. The President has also surrounded himself with tech leaders like Elon Musk who have some very radical ideas.

You don’t have to suspend much disbelief then to imagine a project that perfectly replicates Trump as an AI to replace him after his death. How this AI is actually used is unknown, probably future republican presidents use it in campaigns, interviews and even some advisory role, effectively making the AI Trump a president in perpetuity. And as future generations grow used to this idea and the AI evolves, there is a path to maybe having direct AI leadership.
"still that deeply not civilized."

All countries, including EU countries put restrictions on foreigners coming for work and require specific visas. And rightly so.

Not sure how to interpret your quip...
The US is being liquidated
C#, to match the performance of reference implementations in C and Rust, and completely crush the performance of those in Go :)
Some things in the interface are white-on-white if viewed in light mode. It only looks correct if the browser is in dark mode.
Did you read the second line? "Tesla put out an over-the-air software update for the issue"
Both sides were bad. Biden and Kamala were terrible candidates for the Democrats to run, and their campaign positioning lacked a unifying aspirational message.

What was Kamala's 2024 campaign slogan?
Same here. What a shame.
Brave is just bag of privacy lies. They have to make money somehow. If the browser is free, who's the product? Ask your AI or just Google it.
What's the bugzilla number / link ?
> Those private health insurances are subsidized by the public healthcare because they piggyback off of the public healthcare system.

Most nomads I know have insurance that is either global or based in their home country. If I had been injured in my host country I would have been required to pay full price for my medical services, which is why I bought insurance in my own country. If you're at the point that you've purchased insurance in the place you are living, are you really a nomad anymore?

> The amount of taxes avoided by the poor majority in such countries don't compare to the taxes avoided by the rich white collars.

Do you have any evidence of this, or are you just speculating? I've read about this with regards to South America and what I took away from it was that the informal economy is largely made up of low wage laborers, not white collar professionals. In either case, this is kind of irrelevant to the discussion because any taxes the nomads pay represent revenues that the host would not otherwise have had. As a nomad you aren't going to be consuming more in services than you're spending unless you're camping in a tent and end up breaking a leg.

> They don't. People think that but neither tourists nor nomads nor short term-renters (whatever the kind) bring money into the economy:

I spent more on rent in 3 months in my host country than most people spend in a year. I ate out at restaurants almost every night I was there, and took taxis every day. These aren't normal consumption patterns where I was living. Your point might hold if you're talking about Europe; but if we accept that it does, we would then have to ask how it's possible for nomads to be driving rents up.

> Those few businesses make bank even as other businesses in the same neighborhood rot.

Does the economy improve or does it not?

> And those few businesses that benefit don't buy dozens of employees to make up for the added workload - they hire one or two and everyone works harder and that's it.

This is pure speculation on your part and there's no compelling reason to think that it occurs.
What "other web companies"? Everyone has an app or an app store.
> CBP agents at the border accused Brösche of planning to violate the terms of the visa waiver program by intending to work as a tattoo artist during her trip to LA, Lofving said.

I wonder what made them arrive at that assumption. My best guess: she was carrying work equipment (for working as a tattoo artist) in her luggage?!
This is her instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jessica.lia.tt/?hl=de

She lists LA like a tour date in her bio. I'm not sure if that already qualifies as intent to work in the eyes of border patrol though. But it might.
Ultra tax the ultra rich.
Interesting. There having multiple instances of boycott against Israel for the Gaza genocide but I never heard about any of those in Hacker News.