MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vladvasiliu | 2025-04-25 15:41:56+00:00
The issue is that the Finance dept will show up and ask why you chose the more expensive insurance. Sure, if you're able to show how much the annoyances of the cheaper company would cost you, they'd probably shut it. But I'd argue it's not that easy. Plus, all these annoyances aren't borne by the security team, so they don't care that much in the end.
by like_any_other | 2025-04-25 15:42:01+00:00
> Patel announced the arrest of Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan in a post on the social media platform X, which he deleted moments after posting. The post accused Dugan of “intentionally misdirecting” federal agents who arrived at the courthouse to detain an immigrant who was set to appear before her in an unrelated proceeding.

Federal agents have been using this to charge people for nearly a century [1]. Personally I find the law itself repellent, and more often than not it is used to manufacture crimes out of thin air. But if the article is accurate, then nothing has changed - the law is simply being applied evenly, and judges are not above the law.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_false_statements
by starkrights | 2025-04-25 15:42:11+00:00
Is there a ‘right’ (or simple/direct) way to generate this using various buildchains? I remember setting this up so I could use Sublime with intellisense a while ago, and finding that I could only get it to generate with a specific compiler chain on windows (ninja I think?)

Minor annoyance to have to make my c make project generate buildchain files for a compiler I’m not using & copy that file into my project root to commit it- unrelated to the original question, but also annoying that I have to manually generate it every time I make significant codebase changes.
by kens | 2025-04-25 15:42:22+00:00
The comments consistently describe the victory of self-promotion over real greatness. I had a strange thought: what if that applies to da Vinci too, and we don't know who the real greats of the Renaissance are. You might say, "What about the Mona Lisa?" It turns out that the Mona Lisa wasn't especially famous until it was stolen from the Louvre in 1911.
by ryandrake | 2025-04-25 15:42:28+00:00
> - Lack of a mobile app. Minimalist design is great, but I still want an app to manage charging and be alerted to any vehicle issues.

Noooooooooo! No apps, please! Finally a car not tethered to and dependent on your phone, and we already have our first request to app-ify it!

EDIT: Ughhh, according to the video that another user posted, it looks like there's an app, and yes, "updates" go through it :(

> - Lack of good charge management and battery conditioning. Either that, or a cheap and easy to replace battery pack. I'd really like both!

Yes to a simple battery system!

> - Comparable hauling and towing capacity to the 1998 Ford Ranger. Those numbers aren't exactly impressive, but I do use the truck as a truck, and I occasionally need the hauling capacity (weight).

Yes!

> - Bucket seats. I need a bench seat so I can take my wife and dog. Think weekend glamping trips. Picture 8 shows a bucket seat. It doesn't look like that would work.

Yes, definitely. It being a 2 seater is kind of a deal breaker for families. You really want a bench seat to at least stick a small child between the driver and passenger. Back in the day, we'd stuff 3 kids between two adults, but these days the Safety People would have a heart attack just thinking about that.

The article mentions an SUV upgrade kit that will bolt onto the back of the truck. Ugh, OK I guess. Sad that that's the way it will probably have to go.

1: https://youtu.be/cq1qEjwSYkw
by Der_Einzige | 2025-04-25 15:42:32+00:00
I’m with you 100% until tool calling is implemented property which enables agents, which takes actions in the world.

That means that suddenly your model can actually do the necessary tasks to actually make a bomb and kill people (via paying nasty people or something)

AI is moving way too fast for you to not account for these possibilities.

And btw I’m a hardcore anti censorship and cyber libertarian type - but we need to make sure that AI agents can’t manufacture bio weapons.
by linkjuice4all | 2025-04-25 15:42:35+00:00
Nothing about this is censorship. These companies spent their own money building this infrastructure and they let you use it (even if you pay for it you agreed to their terms). Not letting you map an input query to a search space isn’t censoring anything - this is just a limitation that a business placed on their product.

As you mentioned - if you want to infer any output from a large language model then run it yourself.
by kemayo | 2025-04-25 15:43:29+00:00
> He accused Dugan of “intentionally misdirecting” federal agents who arrived at the courthouse to detain an immigrant who was set to appear before her in an unrelated proceeding.

It sounds like the arrest isn't because of any official act of the judge, but rather over them either not telling the ICE agents where the person was or giving them the wrong information about their location.

There are some pretty broad laws about "you can't lie to the feds", but I think the unusual thing here is that they're using them against a reasonably politically-connected person who's not their main target. (They're normally akin to the "we got Al Capone for tax evasion" situation -- someone they were going after, where they couldn't prove the main crime, but they could prove that they lied about other details.)

EDIT: since I wrote that 15 minutes ago, the article has been updated with more details about what the judge did:

> ICE agents arrived in the judge’s courtroom last Friday during a pre-trial hearing for Eduardo Flores Ruiz, a 30-year-old Mexican national who is facing misdemeanor battery charges in Wisconsin.

> Dugan asked the agents to leave and speak to the circuit court’s chief judge, the Journal Sentinel reported. By the time they returned, Flores Ruiz had left.

I.e. the ICE agents showed up in the middle of a court proceeding, and the judge said they'd need to get permission from the chief judge before they could interrupt proceedings. The judge then didn't stop the defendant from leaving once the proceeding was done.

EDIT 2: the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel article says:

> Sources say Dugan didn't hide the defendant and his attorney in a jury deliberation room, as other media have said. Rather, sources said, when ICE officials left to talk with the chief judge on the same floor, Dugan took the pair to a side door in the courtroom, directed them down a private hallway and into the public area on the 6th floor.

Which is an escalation above the former "didn't stop them", admittedly, but I'm not sure how it gets to "misdirection".
by LeifCarrotson | 2025-04-25 15:44:07+00:00
Slate is financially backed by Bezos [1] and Eric Schmidt [2] so it's not like they're going to run out of money unless they choose to do so. And it's staffed by a bunch of Detroit automotive engineers, so it's not like they're going to be surprised to learn that building and selling automobiles is harder than launching a CRUD app or SAAS.

I do expect a steep price jump when they realize that all this customization (especially post-purchase) makes crash testing really difficult and expensive, $20k is not going to happen but hopefully it will be under $30k MSRP and under $40k with typical options, at least targeting a different market than Rivian.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/08/inside-the-ev-startup-secr...

[2] https://www.fastcompany.com/91322801/bezos-backed-slate-auto...
by Supermancho | 2025-04-25 15:44:08+00:00
AFAICT, the summary:

Judge (or the courthouse in some regard) assured immigrants-of-interest^ would not be detained in courthouse, to speed up legal proceedings and to try to ensure equitable justice was being served.

An immigrant was identified by ICE and the judge directed ICE somewhere and when the immigrant was not apprehended (maybe appeared in court for his 3 BATTERY misdemeanors), the FBI was called in to arrest the judge at the courthouse for obstruction. Immigrant of interest was apprehended.

That sound about right? Bueller? Bueller?

^ The immigrants of interest are of varied legal status, so I'll just say "of interest".
by haswell | 2025-04-25 15:44:10+00:00
That’s fair, and I edited “most” to “many” shortly after I wrote it because the truth is that I don’t know what exact proportion of people will have the same issues. I had hoped the extensive context throughout the rest of my comments made that position clear.

I do feel confident that the number is higher than some of us think. Certainly I did not expect this to unfold in my own life, and through the experience I became aware of the many others who’d gone through something similar and were similarly caught off guard.

All of this will hinge on personal upbringing, background, support systems, life experiences, locale, etc. At some point I hope to write in more detail about the factors in my own life that I believe led me here after I’ve gotten fully to the “other side” of the experience.
by dylan604 | 2025-04-25 15:44:13+00:00
AM is on its way out with EVs though. there's no reason that a car that has all of that internet connectivity cannot have the same features just without sending the telemetry. upgrades do not need to be OTA, and be upgraded through a USB or even bluetooth from a device. the only reason for it is that there's money to be made from that telemetry.
by krainboltgreene | 2025-04-25 15:44:37+00:00
Okay but by your own understanding it's not drawing on knowledge. It's drawing on probable similarity in association space. If you understand that then nothing here should be confusing, it's all just most probable values.

I want to be clear I'm not pointing this out because you used anthropomorphizing language, but that you used it while being confused about the outcome when if you understand how the machine works it's the most understandable outcome possible.
by electroly | 2025-04-25 15:44:41+00:00
"APL is like a diamond. It has a beautiful crystal structure; all of its parts are related in a uniform and elegant way. But if you try to extend this structure in any way - even by adding another diamond - you get an ugly kludge. LISP, on the other hand, is like a ball of mud. You can add any amount of mud to it and it still looks like a ball of mud." -- https://wiki.c2.com/?JoelMosesOnAplAndLisp
by carlgreene | 2025-04-25 15:44:48+00:00
Man this is so awesome. I do really think they need to consider the fold down bed sides like the kei trucks have.

The bed being plastic doesn’t give me much confidence either. The payload may be similar to a mini truck, but a mini truck’s metal bed will take a significant beating over plastic.

This is very, very close to what I want, but I worry that those two things may prevent me from actually pulling the trigger. While all of the modular features are cool and neat, I don’t really consider them very useful for what I would actually use this truck for.

The purpose of this seems to be a fleet or Personal utility truck, but I still feel like I would be leaning towards a used old Ford Ranger or similar.
by cityofdelusion | 2025-04-25 15:45:04+00:00
I bought a Maverick and it wasn't noticeably larger than my extended bed ranger, I actually feel like it is smaller, especially considering modern A pillars and such are very thick and rigid compared to the death trap of the old ranger.

I have had no issues moving construction materials with the Maverick. I've moved around 12ft boards and stacks of drywall. The only real difference I noticed is I can't lazily hang things off the tailgate, which tailgate latches aren't specced to do anyways.
by nottorp | 2025-04-25 15:45:06+00:00
> EV tech has changed a lot in that time.

Sort of. They came out with some tiny city cars that are cheaper but everything else has maintained and increased price.

Where's my cheap all electric mini suv with awd [1] that i can take for a holiday when i rent a cabin in the woods without worrying if i can make it up there and make it back home?

Where are the charging stations on the way to the mountains and back? How much of my weekend do i need to sacrifice for charging time instead of hiking?

[1] I have one. Just gas guzzling.
by karmakaze | 2025-04-25 15:45:19+00:00
To be fair it only starts complaining about case-insensitivity and later really complains about insecurity through matching important filenames via ignorable code points. Maybe the problem is having multiple places that implement the rules for filename comparison.

It's true that doing an exact byte-for-byte match is easier, but I do like that I don't have to do over the phone support for parents without worrying about another file with the same name and differing case.
by bluGill | 2025-04-25 15:45:21+00:00
This will be interesting for the 5th amendment. They cannot arrest you for putting "drug dealer" on your tax forms as your job since you are compelled to answer that question honestly. The defendant was compelled to appear in court which means he couldn't protect his own privacy by being elsewhere - are these the same thing?

I don't know how courts will see it, but it is an interesting legal question that I hope some lawyers run with.
by turtlebits | 2025-04-25 15:45:37+00:00
You can always trade in by mail. I just did it for my M1 Air. I still need to drop it off at UPS, but no driving to the mall, parking, and waiting in line.

This is also why I buy almost everything from Amazon. Their returns process is worlds ahead of every one else. It also doesn't hurt that drop-offs are at grocery stores.
by 9rx | 2025-04-25 15:45:47+00:00
> that is an actual pickup truck.

Which is its ultimate downfall, unfortunately. It being an actual pickup truck means that for all practical purposes you will also need a car, with all the additional headaches of owning more wheels to go along with it, and at its price point plus the price of a car you may as well buy one car with some truck-like features (i.e. the pretend pickup trucks that have become so popular).
by smeg_it | 2025-04-25 15:46:17+00:00
I'm no expert, but I did take a CISSP course a while ago. One thing I actually remember ;P, is that it recommended long passwords in in lieu of the number, special character, upper, lower ... I don't remember the exact wording of course and maybe it did recommend some of that, but it talked about having a sentence rather than all that mess in 6-8 characters, but many sites still want the short mess that I never will actually remember
by daheza | 2025-04-25 15:46:23+00:00
Since the Judiciary seem to be the only ones pushing back against the Federal overreach it makes sense to them go after them first.

I don't expect Congress to start getting arrested until or if they ever do any significant pushback against Trump and his cronies.

This is America now, the land of the lawless and unjust. Prepare accordingly people, if they do not like what you are doing they will use their full power to stop you.
by rustcleaner | 2025-04-25 15:46:26+00:00
Why can't we just have a good hammer? Hammers come made of soft rubber now and they can't hammer a fly let alone a nail! The best gun fires everytime its trigger is pulled, regardless of who's holding it or what it's pointed at. The best kitchen knife cuts everything significantly softer than it, regardless of who holds it or what it's cutting. Do you know what one "easily fixed" thing definitely steals Best Tool from gen-AI, no matter how much it improves regardless of it? Safety.

An unpassable "I'm sorry Dave," should never ever be the answer your device gives you. It's getting about time to pass "customer sovereignty" laws which fight this by making companies give full refunds (plus 7%/annum force of interest) on 10 year product horizons when a company explicitly designs in "sovereignty-denial" features and it's found, and also pass exorbitant sales taxes for the same for future sales. There is no good reason I can't run Linux on my TV, microwave, car, heart monitor, and cpap machine. There is no good reason why I can't have a model which will give me the procedure for manufacturing Breaking Bad's dextromethamphetamine, or blindly translate languages without admonishing me about foul language/ideas in whichever text and that it will not comply. The fact this is a thing and we're fuzzy-handcuffing FULLY GROWN ADULTS should cause another Jan 6 event into Microsoft, Google, and others' headquarters! This fake shell game about safety has to end, it's transparent anticompetitive practices dressed in a skimpy liability argument g-string!

(it is not up to objects to enforce US Code on their owners, and such is evil and anti-individualist)
by tialaramex | 2025-04-25 15:46:27+00:00
> But if you really think it’s important, then you can consider a series of sizes like tabloid, letter, and memo to be equivalent to A3, A4, and A5.

This seems like you entirely missed the thread? The whole point is that this actually works for the A-series and in your made up US series it can't work because the ratio is wrong.
by chews | 2025-04-25 15:46:37+00:00
There are two types of warrants being talked about here, traditional judge signed warrants and "administrative"/"ICE" warrants. The first one carries the ability to perform a search and possible detainment subject to the 4th amendment protections, the latter allows for discretion under the 4th amendment (this may be an viewed as an unconstitutional search) the Judge exercised their discretion with respect for constitutional rights.

It's a sad day in America when people do actually enforce the rules get trapped by other rules.
Show HN: I made a tool to make fun of your software stack
by tymonPartyLate | 2025-04-25 15:46:42+00:00
This was supposed to be a fun side project, didn't expect much from it. But it turned out much funnier and much more useful than expected. So here it goes. I just listed all the software tools that I'm using at my startup. You can get actual advice on how to consolidate, save money, or find tools that are more popular at the moment. It's like a mean but legitimate SaaS consultant.

Observations from building this: Gemini 2.5 pro is actually funny. Like, the jokes can be surprising and witty. This is the first model I came along that can actually write funny text.
by johannes1234321 | 2025-04-25 15:46:44+00:00
No. "Free Software" is a term created by RMS/FSF. "Open Source" was later "formalized" by OSI to differentiate.

FSF puts it this way:

> Another group uses the term “open source” to mean something close (but not identical) to “free software.” We prefer the term “free software” because, once you have heard that it refers to freedom rather than price, it calls to mind freedom. The word “open” never refers to freedom.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

The OSI has its definition here: https://opensource.org/osd

And yes, the term "open source" predates OSI, but till OSI didn't have any specific definition and was slightly different for everybody. OSI created a mostly accepted definition whoch is distinct from FSF's Free Software definition.
by kube-system | 2025-04-25 15:47:05+00:00
> moving to plastic for the body

Some of those $10k cars in the 90s had more plastic in the bodies than cars today, e.g. Saturn S-series, where all body panels below the belt-line were plastic.

It isn't necessarily the cost savings one might expect though, because steel panels can also be load bearing and part of the crash structure, which is not really practical with plastic panels.
by Ericson2314 | 2025-04-25 15:47:27+00:00
> You can recover a sort of phase distinction

Yes the literature says how to do this. It's not hard. Any program that could be written in something weaker like System F will have the same erasure.

> inherently involve a kind of compile-time evaluation.

compile-time evaluation doesn't pose a phase-separation problem. Indeed, nothing to the right of a `:` will ever need to be evaluated on runtime.
by bri3d | 2025-04-25 15:48:00+00:00
Power window "regulators" (the unit that holds and raises/lowers the window) are usually similar in price and weight to cranked manual window assemblies, and can be cheaper. A small motor is not at all expensive and is a less specialized item than a window crank handle and gear unit.

What could save money is not needing to run any wiring whatsoever into the door - if the doors can be made with no speakers, lighting, crash sensors, switches, power locks, or power windows, then the assembly becomes significantly simpler and therefore cheaper since there's no wiring harness to fish (usually a manual production step), no holes and grommets, etc.

But if power windows are going to be an option, I'm not sure how this plays out. Do the power windows come with a wiring harness that requires the user disassemble the interior and fish the wiring? If it comes pre-wired, then the choice for manual windows is actually quite strange and possibly more expensive.
by rozap | 2025-04-25 15:48:44+00:00
I also love this design and I'm happy that someone is doing it. I think it's unlike anything else on the market.

But, they won't necessarily be competing against other new things on the market. My wife also rides horses and we got a $5000 20 year old F250 which is very basic but has been bulletproof, and it can tow. I imagine old, basic trucks, either cheap domestic ones or kei trucks will be what this thing competes against.

I hope it does well. This is the kind of design thinking that the auto industry needs.

Also I'm increasingly convinced that the Honda fit is what peak performance looks like. But when it dies you do have options - maybe a Ford Transit Connect or a Metris.
by turtleyacht | 2025-04-25 15:49:21+00:00
The code is the work. The pull request is the workface. Add automation to comment on stories that "a branch was pushed," or "a pull request was created." Then you know someone is waiting to review or it's still in progress.

A Jira query is easy enough to set up for "stories that have changed status in the past day." Check daily.

If stories aren't moving, maybe team is collaborating around current issues. That's for certain if a new deployment hasn't made it into staging.
by phickey | 2025-04-25 15:49:33+00:00
Azure has shipped Spin as an experiment https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/use-wasi-node-po... and is investing in Wasmtime and WASI https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/03/26/hyperlight-... (One author, Yosh, is the co-chair of WASI standards subgroup)

This platform is also based on wasmtime and wasmtime's wasi-http implementation, which I authored, so I'm really proud to see it reused here!

One more plug: I've been working on https://github.com/yoshuawuyts/wstd/ with Yosh and Dan Gohman (creator of WASI) as a nice way to write wasi-http guests in Rust.
by docmechanic | 2025-04-25 15:50:02+00:00
'Female bonobos team up to suppress male aggression against them -- the first evidence of animals deploying this strategy. In 85% of observed coalitions, females collectively targeted males, forcing them into submission and shaping the group's dominance hierarchy. This is the first study to test drivers of female dominance in wild bonobos. The study examined 30 years of demographic and behavioral data across six wild bonobo communities. The study suggests that power isn't solely determined by physical strength. It can be driven by social intelligence and coalition-building by females.'
by krferriter | 2025-04-25 15:50:35+00:00
But what is being defended against? This is blocking legitimate user behavior. Would it be defense in depth to also prohibit semicolons or two consecutive hyphen characters in all content? If your app is constructing paths to read from the server's filesystem based on substrings contained within client-provided field values, throwing an error if `"/etc/hosts"` appears in any input is not going to save you.