MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by firesteelrain | 2025-04-25 18:24:46+00:00
Unless you can point me at a security classification guide then it’s a moot point. MSM is reaching again. These are all hit pieces. I can’t evaluate something objectively without a security classification guide.

Everyone here is confusing classified and op sec which can overlap but also cannot. No one here can point me to say what he reportedly did was release classified info. We also don’t know if the President who has the ultimate classification authority will allow it either.
by timschmidt | 2025-04-25 18:24:46+00:00
> That's a single example

> megacastings

Wow, you brought your own counterexample! Cast frames were suggested to Elon by Sandy Munro. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNWYk4DdT_E

To quote Sandy: "These guys at Tesla, they take everything you say literally, and then they go basically implement! It's amazing! It is truely to me amazing that these guys can do so much in such a short period of time."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Munro
by Gabriel54 | 2025-04-25 18:24:51+00:00
I don't blame them. If I were them, I would do the same thing. However, as someone with the ability to vote and influence (to a very small degree) public policy, I would prefer we move toward a system in which strong labor rights exist in this country, and this is simply impossible in an environment in which employers are free to hire labor off the books for "pennies". To be clear, I think both political parties in the US are terrible, and all of this debate serves the interests of the employers that benefit from this situation.
by sophacles | 2025-04-25 18:24:55+00:00
I mean criminals: people convicted of a crime for which one of the punishments is revocation of gun ownership rights.

The important word here is convicted. As we were all taught in elementary school - there is a process required by the constitution in which a person goes to a special meeting (called a trial) where a whole bunch of people examine evidence and ask a lot of questions about that evidence to determine if a person is a criminal. If the decisions is they are a criminal, then they have been convicted. HTH!
by daxfohl | 2025-04-25 18:25:50+00:00
In a way, nondeterminism could be an advantage. Instead of using these as unit tests, use them as usability tests. Especially if you want your site to be accessible by AI agents, it would be good to have a way of knowing what tweaks increase the success rate.

Of course that would be even more valuable for testing your MCP or A2A services, but could be useful for UI as well. Or it could be useless. It would be interesting to see if the same UI changes affect both human and AI success rate in the same way.

And if not, could an AI be trained to correlate more closely to human behavior. That could be a good selling point if possible.
by bdelmas | 2025-04-25 18:26:50+00:00
To be honest, for me personally having cities that have that much power is weird to me. It should be something at the state or federal level. But as a counterargument: if this is not monkey patching, why not create a full sanctuary state? Sounds scary to me.

We need better laws. Current laws are also in place because it's just easier and works for now. Like instead of redoing visas and how they are processed for the 1M undocumented persons working in agriculture (that's 40% of ag workers!), people are fine with how things are now and also can justify to give lower unlawful salaries. Like this state is also bad for undocumented people too. They can just be taken advantage of and fired/used/disregarded when their managers want to...

Solutions that go against the rule of the law are overall a very bad idea for everyone.
by pcthrowaway | 2025-04-25 18:27:01+00:00
Undocumented immigrants who are charged with murder should not be deported without a trial first. If found guilty they would typically serve their sentence before facing deportation (though perhaps this is different now)

Though I personally don't see the point in making people who are going to be deported anyway serve a sentence... taxpayers would then be paying the bill for both their incarceration and their deportation.

But I also think incarceration should primarily be focused on rehabilitation, which it's currently not designed for, so what do I know.
by jmull | 2025-04-25 18:27:06+00:00
An aside: “monkey patch” doesn’t mean what you think it means.

More on topic… crimes aren’t all the same, and the willingness of a person to commit one kind of crime doesn’t necessarily mean they are willing to commit another kind of crime.

For example, a large proportion of drivers in the US break the law every time they drive, from speeding to rolling stops, etc. By your standard all of these people are criminals who we can expect to keep reaching for “criminal solutions”. Why shouldn’t we imprison or deport all such people? Or at least take away their driver’s licenses and cars?
by EvanAnderson | 2025-04-25 18:27:51+00:00
> ...what happens 40 years in the future, when our phones don't run the app anymore...

40 years? How about, like, 3 to 5 years? Remember when Apple decided to kill all 32-bit iOS apps for new hardware? I have an old iPod and iPhone 4S with "landlocked" software I enjoy using but can't anymore because Apple.

Phone manufacturers have shown they don't give a damn about allowing old software to function. Physical devices tied to software is a terrible idea.
by hugs | 2025-04-25 18:28:19+00:00
Samsung Galaxy A Series (A15 / A15 5G, A14 / A14 5G, A25) all have headphone jacks. These are their "lower-end" models, though. The higher-end ones don't. And of course, iPhones haven't for a long time, too. Alternatively, for other phones with just a USB-C port, you could get a USB-C to headphone jack adapter.

edit to add: if Slate is successful, I wouldn't be surprised if a decently sized ecosystem pops up around easily installed custom sound systems and the tablets (possibly with headphone jacks!) to control them.
by dylan604 | 2025-04-25 18:28:59+00:00
You can have 20 assault style weapons in your gun safe, but if that's where they are they do not act as a deterrent. They are only a deterrent when they are ready to be used. The purpose of a gun is to be shot. Confusing this is just some very excessive bending of logic. The intent of the shooter is an entirely different matter. They were not manufactured and then sold/purchased just to be in a display case. That's just what someone decided to with their purchase.
by masklinn | 2025-04-25 18:29:12+00:00
> All micro cargo van providers have stopped building them. The Transit Connect, Metris, Promaster City and NV200 are all now discontinued.

This is an entirely american problem, because the small van is largely dead in the US. They're doing fine elsewhere.

The Metris is still manufactured (as the Vito, or V260 in China), and is not the smallest model which is the Citan (based on the Kangoo, with its second gen based on kangoo III in 2021).

The Promaster City (Fiat Doblo) still exists, as a rebadged Berlingo since 2022.

The NV 200 was replaced by the NV 250 (a rebadged Kangoo II) in 2019, which was then replaced by the Townstar (a rebadged Kangoo III) in late 2021. There's also the Docker / Express below that (which descends from the Logan MCV / Van).

And the Transit Connect was replaced by the Caddy (rebadged), but Ford dropped its original plans of a US release.

> There is an enormous category of consumers that just want an auto that's simple, affordable, safe, fuel efficient and reasonably sized.

Apparently not sufficiently so (or with a consistent enough need) that they can be catered to. Or at least not so that you couldn't make more money selling them pavement princesses.
by PhilipRoman | 2025-04-25 18:30:41+00:00
If structured logging is too much, unique prefixes solve this issue. Basically you need some token that user provided data is unable to output to the log. If you rigorously escape all newlines, you can then use start-of-line and end-of-line as unforgeable tokens. The possibilities are endless and it all comes down to understanding whether the intersection of two grammars is empty.
by neogodless | 2025-04-25 18:30:48+00:00
Just about anyone who doesn't mind the slight inconvenience and has space for a trailer... would be better off with a trailer than a truck.

But this could easily handle a mild commute and nearby errand running. Most "truck" stuff is like buying 5 bags of mulch from the Home Depot that's 10 minutes away. This will handle that perfectly well.

But yes, 20-80% battery usage makes the base model daily range 90 miles, unladen.
by yowlingcat | 2025-04-25 18:30:55+00:00
Putting aside the conclusions about alternatives (which I can't say are necessarily persuasive given externalities they would cause), I think the methodology could be improved here. In particular, why choose 36 million as the divisor? A more reasonable divisor would be 340M, or the total US population. At least that way, you could get to tax burden per resident, which feels like a far more useful unit quantity.

To take it even further, you could group current annual revenue sources by individual/business/transaction based revenue/taxes and then determine unit burden for the different kinds of units. I think that would lead to a more illuminating analysis and set a framework for a potentially more revelatory discovery process.
by firesteelrain | 2025-04-25 18:31:25+00:00
Your premise is incorrect. Laws allow use of these types of apps. Excerpt from FactCheck article

“ According to the National Archives and Records Administration: “Agencies that allow employees to send and receive official electronic mail messages using a system not operated by the agency must ensure that Federal records sent or received on such systems are preserved in the appropriate agency recordkeeping system.” Guidance from NARA in 2015 stated, “Employees create Federal records when they conduct agency business using personal electronic messaging accounts or devices. This is the case whether or not agencies allow employees to use personal accounts or devices to conduct agency business. This is true for all Federal employees regardless of status.”

An update of the federal records laws in 2014 allows federal employees “using a non-official electronic messaging account” to provide records of those communications to federal archivists within 20 days. So as Josh Gerstein wrote for Politico on March 25, “That means the officials involved in these discussions on Signal still have time to comply since these messages came about 10 days ago.””

https://www.factcheck.org/2025/03/was-the-signal-chat-illega...
by backflippinbozo | 2025-04-25 18:32:02+00:00
The ability to accurately estimate distances from RGB image input is just at the frontier of current AI model capabilities.

Nonetheless, distance estimation is a critical for perception and planning in embodied AI applications like robotics which must navigate around our 3D world.

We just released SpaceThinker, a 3B open-weight VLM designed specifically for spatial reasoning tasks like distance and size estimation from RGB images. It’s small and fast enough for on-device use, trained entirely on open-source data/code.

* Model: https://huggingface.co/remyxai/SpaceThinker-Qwen2.5VL-3B

* Data: https://huggingface.co/datasets/remyxai/SpaceThinker

On the QSpatial++ benchmark, SpaceThinker sits between GPT-4o and Gemini 2.5 Pro in performance, see this comparison table: https://huggingface.co/remyxai/SpaceThinker-Qwen2.5VL-3B#qsp...

Interesting finding: By switching model name in this colab, using the non-reasoning variant SpaceQwen (https://huggingface.co/remyxai/SpaceQwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct), you'll find using the step-by-step reasoning prompt actually hurts performance, challenging the convention that reasoning models don't benefit from complex instructions the way non-reasoning models do.

Additional resources:

* https://github.com/andrewliao11/Q-Spatial-Bench-code/blob/ma...

* https://huggingface.co/blog/NormalUhr/deepseek-r1-explained#...

Feedback, suggestions, and collaborators are welcome!

If you're interested in contributing, we open-sourced VQASynth—our implementation of the SpatialVLM approach for generating VQA-style datasets from images. VQASynth was used to create the SpaceThinker dataset, which powered the fine-tuning of the SpaceThinker model showcased here.
by dooglius | 2025-04-25 18:32:25+00:00
>it's assuming that i wasn't laid out directly after arr in the stack frame

The compiler isn't "assuming" that so much as choosing not to put i in the stack frame at all. And I don't think it's correct to view the lack of a register spill as an "optimization" per se. It does remain true that code writing past the end of an array will be UB in typical scenarios (i.e. when not using asan/valgrind).

(Now, if the compiler also removed the store, that could legitimately be called an optimization based on assuming no-UB)
by Thrymr | 2025-04-25 18:32:30+00:00
It's hard to see any of this as "trivially fixable." Taxes are inherently political, politics are complicated, changing incentives on this scale are pretty much impossible in our political system.

"Taxes are simple... and they don't have loopholes" is not at all how taxes work in the US. Perhaps your imagined perfect carbon tax is simple, but a simple tax with no loopholes is not likely to happen. Everyone wants a break or exception, and many of the interested parties are powerful.
by openasocket | 2025-04-25 18:32:57+00:00
The act of being in the country without a valid visa is not a crime, it is a civil infraction. Entering the country illegally (i.e. sneaking through the border) can be a crime, but around 50% of undocumented immigrants entered the country legally (e.g. entering on a student visa and not leaving when it expired). And very often, unless border patrol catches you on your way in, you aren't going to be prosecuted for illegal entry.

And the difference between a misdemeanor and a civil infraction is not a matter of splitting hairs. Here's some differences:

1. In a criminal case, you need to be found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. In a civil case, the standard is simply a preponderance of the evidence, meaning more likely than not. If there is a 51% you are here illegally and a 49% chance you aren't, you get deported.

2. In a criminal case if you can't afford a lawyer one may be appointed to you. In a civil case you have to either pay for a lawyer yourself or represent yourself. This has serious consequences for people. If a child ends up in immigration court and their families can't afford to hire an attorney, they have to represent themselves. Even if they are 4 years old: https://gothamist.com/news/4-year-old-migrant-girl-other-kid...

3. You might assume that immigration judges are just like any other judge and are part of the judicial branch, a so-called "Article III Court" (referring to Article III of the Constitution). But immigration judges are not Article III courts. They report to the head of the Department of Justice, who has hiring and firing powers over them. Meaning the prosecutor arguing for your deportation and the judge deciding your case both report to the US Attorney General
by ty6853 | 2025-04-25 18:33:04+00:00
That's not true.

You do not need to be convicted, you do not even need to be charged.

Since this is a hot topic, look at Abrego Garcia. His wife filed a restraining order. The initial order was slightly different than the temporary order 3 days later, which added one thing -- surrendering any firearms (this is bog standard, they do this in Maryland even for citizens). No matter that she did not even bother to show up for the adversarial final order, so he had his gun rights taken totally ex-parte without even a criminal charge or a fully adjudicated civil order nor any chance to face his accuser wife. Even david lettermen had his gun rights temporarily revoked because a woman in another state claimed he was harassing through her TV via secret messages in his television program [].

But that's not all, you can totally have gun rights taken away without any civil or criminal process. If you use illegal drugs, you cannot own weapons either, that is established without any due process to decide if you use or not, simply putting down you use marijuana on a 4473 will block a sale as will simply owning a marijuana card whether you use marijuana or not.

[] http://www.ejfi.org/PDF/Nestler_Letterman_TRO.pdf
by EvanAnderson | 2025-04-25 18:33:08+00:00
> Noooooooooo! No apps, please!

I wish devices could have web servers and web-based UI rather than thick "apps" that end up rotting when device manufacturers arbitrarily decide that old software won't work anymore (cough, cough-- Apple-- cough, cough).

I know we can't because "security", no end-to-end over the Internet anymore, etc. >sigh<

It seems like we've engineered the networking and software ecosystem to promote disposable "smart" devices. It's almost like somebody profits from it. Hmm...
by foldr | 2025-04-25 18:33:25+00:00
I’m not trying to defend this arrest, but that’s not really how it works. If there’s an obvious illegal motivation for doing X and the person who did X can’t supply a plausible alternative explanation, then a jury may conclude that X was done with the illegal motivation.

Say that I take an item from a store. That’s only a crime if I did it with the intent of stealing it. But the prosecution doesn’t really have to “prove” in any practical sense that I had that intention. If I don’t have a plausible story about why else I did it, then I’ll probably be found guilty.
by UtopiaPunk | 2025-04-25 18:33:26+00:00
Some people would argue that understanding ancient civilaztions and cultures is a worthy goal. I don't think it has to be an either/or thing.

Also digital literacy is a fantastic skill - I'm all for it. And I think that digital (and cultural) literacy leads me to wonder if AI is making the human experience better, or if it is primarily making corporations a lot of money to the detriment of the majority of people's lives.
by tryauuum | 2025-04-25 18:33:27+00:00
this is the usual approach with web application firewalls, block all the 100500 known attacks. Doesn't matter if they are not applicable to your website. Some of them are obviously OS-depended (having .exe in the URLs) but it doesn't matter, it's blocked just in case

I do understand this appoach. From the defence point of view it makes sense, if you have to create a solution to protect millions of websites it doesn't make sense to tailor it to specifics of a single one
by ffsm8 | 2025-04-25 18:33:28+00:00
Purely anecdotal of course, but as a person that struggles to do sports consistently: for me, the thing you are saying this does not prove is absolutely correct. As far as my body is concerned, not doing any sports for months will get me way better sleep then when I do any amount of exercise after 6pm.

As a matter of fact, if I do exercise (cardio) that late, I can guarantee that I will not be able to fall asleep before 1-3 am. Even if I do it consistently for a few weeks.

Obviously just an observation of my own body. But it's the reason why I will no longer even attempt to do anything remotely like cardio post 4pm
by ivanimprv | 2025-04-25 18:34:27+00:00
Thanks for the question! Yes, Status Observer MCP handles varying API formats through a hybrid approach. While some platforms provide clean JSON responses, others like GCP required custom helpers in a separate backend that parse the specific data formats and normalize them before delivery to the MCP server. This lets us handle platform-specific quirks while maintaining a consistent devolution. If you have any platform suggestions you'd like to see added, please create an issue in the repository. I'd be happy to work on implementing them!
by mmooss | 2025-04-25 18:34:57+00:00
The issue here is not the facts of this incident. The issue is an attempted expansion of power and reduction in the liberty to dissent.

The Trump administration have been talking for weeks, maybe months, of finding ways for US attorneys to prosecute local officials who do not support Trump's immigration policy. Note that they also are threatening punishment through budget and policy.

Also, realize that immigration is just the first step:

* It's the first step in legitimizing mass prejudice - including stereotypes, in this case of non-wealthy immigrants - and hatred, and legitimizing that as a basis for denying people their humanity, dignity, and rights.

* It's a first step to legitimizing government terror as a policy tool.

* It's a first step in expanding the executive branch's power - I suspect chosen because the executive branch already has a lot of power in that domain. Note their claim to deny any check on their power by Congress (through the laws, which are made by Congress, and funding, which is appropriated by Congress) and the courts.

* It's a first step to expanding federal power vis-a-vis the states.

The next steps will be to use those now-legitimate tools on other groups, other forms of power, etc.

Part of the way it works is corruption: people make an exception or support it because it's following the herd, because opposing it is harder and sometimes scary, because they don't like this particular group and it seems legitimate in some way ....

Then when they turn these weapons on you, what standing do you have to disagree? I think in particular of politically vulnerable communities who are going along with these things or saying, 'not our problem' - you're next. That's where "First they came for the socialists ..." etc. comes from. (And you'll note that, not coincidentally, they are also coming for some socialists now and laying the groundwork for more, but most people don't like the socialists anyway so that's fine!)
by fnordpiglet | 2025-04-25 18:36:11+00:00
Being accused of a violent crime is not the same as being guilty of a crime. She has obligation to conduct her court in an orderly fashion that ensures due process and compliance. Police marching into proceedings of the court administering due process and trying to arrest people in front of the court without even providing a warrant violates all sorts of laws - including the fact the judge has say over the events in their court and the disposition of the accused during the session. This is crucial because if people who are at risk from arrest by federal authorities are routinely arrested when they appear before the court, people will stop appearing before the court. This means the administration of justice breaks down fundamentally and victims have no real opportunity to press their cases. If someone is a murderer or committed assault we should absolutely NOT deport them. We should send them to prison and punish them; then deport them. However this structure of ICE using the courts to make their burden of finding people easier breaks that system for the expediency of ICE, but our system isn’t built for the expediency of the police but for the expediency of justice.
by anthomtb | 2025-04-25 18:36:16+00:00
I figured out in high school/secondary school that doing strenuous exercise within a few hours of bed time would kill my chance at a decent sleep. I have always found it easy enough to do formal workouts in the late afternoon or early evening.

What gets me sometimes though is the "unexpected" exercise. A few months ago, while on vacation, I decided to climb the 10 flights of stairs up to my room, not wanting to deal with the slow and crowded elevator. 4 hours later, it's 2:00 AM and my mind is racing and it's like "why can't I sleep, that was a long day!". The next morning I remembered my trek upstairs and reminded myself that anything which elevates the heart rate is best avoided before sleep.