MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bko | 2025-04-26 15:15:37+00:00
From Claude

> According to a Migration Policy Institute report, the deportation system dramatically changed over the past 19 years - moving from a judicial system prior to 1996 where most people facing deportation had immigration court hearings, to a system during Obama's administration where 75 percent of people removed did not see a judge before being deported.

You have to understand that most what you read about online about this administration is not written in good faith and reported honestly. Everything is unprecedented and a constitutional crisis. Really unforgivable when basic questions in an LLM can provide you meaningful context

https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/speed-over-fairn...
by Calwestjobs | 2025-04-26 15:15:57+00:00
That website is like Terry Davis brains rsynced backup. So many rabbitholes leading nowhere, just try this page - https://www.complete.org/encrypted/

What exactly it says ? Encryption is good, and lists other services which provide encryption. Ok so click on NNCP, on newly opened page, click encrypted. on newly opened page click NNCP. Continue.

Yes thank you.

Also i thought CURRENT usenet is just scam.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-04-26 15:16:14+00:00
I don't see how this is mind blowing, or even mildly surprising! It's essentially going to use the set of features detected in the photo as a filter to find matching photos in the training set, and report the most frequent matches. Sometimes it'll get it right, sometimes not.

It'd be interesting to see the photo in the linked story at same resolution as provided to o3, since the licence plate in the photo in the story is at way lower resolution than the zoomed in version shown that o3 had access to. It's not a great piece of primary evidence to focus on though since a CA plate doesn't have to mean the car is in CA.

The clues that o3 doesn't seem to be paying attention to seems just as notable as the ones it does. Why is it not talking about car models, felt roof tiles, sash windows, mini blinds, fire pit (with warning on glass, in english), etc?

Being location-doxxed by a computer trained on a massive set of photos is unsurprising, but the example given doesn't seem a great example of why this could/will be a game changer in terms of privacy. There's not much detective work going on here - just narrowing the possibilities based on some of the available information, and happening to get it right in this case.
by simonw | 2025-04-26 15:16:23+00:00
Same as with other forms of automation: it makes this capability much easier for bad actors to obtain.

I've got the impression that geoguessing has at least a loose code of ethics associated with it. I imagine you'd have to work quite hard to find someone with those skills to help you stalk your ex - you'd have to mislead them about your goal, at least.

Or you can sign up for ChatGPT and have as many goes as you like with as many photos as you can find.

I have a friend who's had trouble with stalkers. I'm making sure they're aware that this kind of thing has just got a lot easier.
by fnordpiglet | 2025-04-26 15:17:02+00:00
Except that’s not the situation here and you left a key option out.

D) the child remains with the legally resident / citizen parent or their immediate families

In these cases they have legally resident parents, just not the one who the child was with when snatched without due process. They’re being denied the ability to coordinate the handoff of the child to the other parent or family who can take responsibility. ICE is not allowing the families to coordinate the child’s care - they’re isolating the parent from their broader families, denying due process, access to legal representation, and unilaterally deporting US citizen children who have other options but were denied the ability to access them.

In the United States our constitution assures -all people- due process and basic human rights. There is no carve out that if you’re visiting the country or otherwise not a citizen that you can be summarily detained, deprived of liberty, and handled however the government chooses including extraordinary rendition to third countries for indefinite imprisonment without recourse. Nothing that is happening is allowable, or even defensible because however you feel about immigration - every action being taken could be taken to tourists, students, or other guests if allowed under the premise only citizens enjoy protections.

And in these cases, even citizens are being given no deference - and the fact they’re toddlers should be even more frightening.

Here’s a quote from the release that basically implies ICE is murdering one child summarily:

“””a U.S. citizen child suffering from a rare form of metastatic cancer was deported without medication or the ability to consult with their treating physicians–despite ICE being notified in advance of the child’s urgent medical needs.“””

So, the headline as written dramatically understates the situation, and the proposed dichotomy is false. There are many other options, spelled out in the law and regulation and requirements - even constitutionally - and they’re being ignored as an apparent matter of political policy.
by tomrod | 2025-04-26 15:17:25+00:00
> here illegally

I have to wonder what horrors and shames ones pathway of life must have taken to think a person existing in a space is summarizable as illegal. A person cannot be illegal. They cannot exist in a space illegally. They could enter a space illegally. They could be unauthorized to be in a space. But by simple fact that they exist in the world, if the law makes them illegal to exist, then that law is unjust and should be considered void ab initio based on the very few common similarities among coherent moral frameworks.

From a practical perspective, as parents and tutelaries of children who have citizenship, they should be allowed to stay as guardians and join the US society. We have so many who thumb their nose at culture in the US, whether the right wanting to commit genocide against the outgroup under the guise of MAGA or the left self-shaming because they know the US can be morally better, but of all people, immigrants, especially undocumented and unauthorized immigrants who risk everything and worked outside standard pathways just for the chance to be at the periphery of US society, vulnerable to the predators and outlaws that inhabit that domain, they should be given extraordinary respect and consideration -- which is what we grant all persons who are in the United States and subject to its jurisdiction (which is geographically defined).
by hansvm | 2025-04-26 15:17:36+00:00
> why science in particular?

Because we can't usually measure our goals directly. We want outcomes like relativity and the two-slit experiment. Those results take a lot of time to uncover and have a meaningful chance of failure. If you look at an early-career scientist who hasn't produced (m)any papers, chances are they're fully qualified _and_ doing all the right things with respect to our society-level goals. However, that's hard to distinguish from outright fraud and freeloading from the outside, so we've imposed a crappy proxy measure, used for career advancement.

That's different from many jobs, where it's easy to measure incremental progress and where the results are more certain. You can directly weed out poor performers because you can watch them perform poorly.

> no decade long ongoing crisis of corporations lying about their products

Really? Flame retardants in our "food-grade" spatulas, lead leaching out from ceramic bowls into your soup and cereal, products "sold" as physical devices with a backdoor to start requiring a subscription years later, the pattern of building a brand on quality and then gutting the bill of materials to ramp up profits while deceiving customers into thinking it's the same thing, WalMart explicitly requiring manufacturers to not have any change in product numbers for the sub-par products sold there, .... Fraud is rampant, enough so that for most products I find it quite hard to actually make a sound purchasing decision, and those corporations seem to be wildly profitable.

> individuals get punished

That's true to an extent, but how many doc jockeys exist in some unimportant department in FAANG? You can have a very comfortable career skating by on minimal productive output when cause and effect for the business operate on sufficiently long timescales and with nonlocal, diffuse connections.
by jimmaswell | 2025-04-26 15:18:53+00:00
The cognitive dissonance can be disturbing. A frightening number of people never grew past a child's logic of "X has problems -> X is the worst thing ever -> if I hate X then that must mean I love the opposite of X" and suddenly they're a trans activist (which is a good thing, to be clear) frothing at the mouth in absolutist terms to defend people who want them dead..

Someone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I can appraise the situation, Israel sucks and has a somewhat higher incidence of committing war crimes than other western countries, but Palestine would suck even worse if you switched their places around, the only thing holding them back from committing much worse atrocities being lack of resources, going by their human rights record and direct statements from their leadership. Israel isn't executing anyone for being gay for example. But out of many factors, one being some left leaning people taking the mental shortcut that the anti-American option is always more intellectual and "owns the conservatives", we've ended up in this nonsense scenario.
by GuestFAUniverse | 2025-04-26 15:19:15+00:00
Yeah... this Ed Martin? -- rhetorical question! " Martin was a CNN contributor in 2017.[38] From 2016 to 2024, Martin appeared more than 150 times on RT America and Sputnik, both of which are Russian state-controlled news agencies.[39] None of these appearances was disclosed to the Senate on a Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire asking for a list of all media interviews.[39] Nine days before the Russian invasion of Ukraine he said there was no evidence of military buildup on Ukraine’s boarders and critized U.S. officials as warmongering and ignoring Russia security concerns.[40] "

Time to archive a lot of snapshots.
by mouse_ | 2025-04-26 15:19:17+00:00
Cybersecurity is this ephemeral, nebulous sort of thing that can theoretically absorb any quantity of capital you have to throw at it. Sort of like Raytheon or Lockheed, but in a dotcom bubble "Do It On the Web" sort of way.

It's a powerful force with the right kind of cultural and emotional backing, but it's ultimately just theater and posturing. People will always be the weakest link, and no amount of money, policies, processes or punishment will be able to fix that.
by MyPasswordSucks | 2025-04-26 15:19:26+00:00
But then you wouldn't necessarily know that their current sperm is valuable.

A better method would be to confine the program to monozygotic twin pairs of young women with spotless genetic heritage, and inseminate one twin with frozen sperm and the other with current sperm. The "current sperm" child (CS) could be closely monitored, and the "frozen sperm" (FS) child fitted with an explosive chastity device which, in the event that CS is found to have developmental issues, are remotely-detonated to ensure the tainted line does not persist.

Simple-as.
by quantadev | 2025-04-26 15:20:10+00:00
Good stuff getting "lost in the firehose" is a big concern. If there were a 'not easily game-able' way to have people upvote great content in a way that votes could be tallied that would help, but I'd much prefer, dare I say it...a "decentralized" protocol for that if possible. Maybe Nostr based where stuff is crypto signed with your key, and you choose who to trust maybe even. Not sure how much of this "follow.it" is doing, if any of it, because I haven't dug into it yet, but I'm optimistic we can revive RSS in a big way. It's too good of an idea to let BigTech and BigMedia kill it off simply by ignoring it. Big companies and AD agencies of course hate RSS because it puts users in charge if what they read rather than having to wade thru tons of AD views to get to content.
by koolba | 2025-04-26 15:21:14+00:00
It’s not the case already for foreign diplomats on US soil. If the Russian ambassador’s wife gives birth at a US hospital while visiting the embassy, the child does not get citizenship.

Mark my words, Trump is going to win that court case. It’s not far fetched at all to interpret “* and subject to the jurisdiction thereof*” to mean people that have legally entered the country.
by jfengel | 2025-04-26 15:21:17+00:00
It's not quite that Congress has sat on its thumbs. Individual Congressmen have been (figuratively) screaming at each other. Committees are at each other's throats trying to get some sort of legislation to the table. Nobody can stand the possibility of giving the other side what they want -- at the insistence of their constituents.

The net result, of course, is identical to if they had all stayed home.
by brewtide | 2025-04-26 15:21:20+00:00
This is why I will most likely never own an EV, and most likely never own a car newer than 2015 or so (depending on model).

The entire world offerings are moving to this type of model under the part guise part reality of tech dependencies that just don't exist in a stand alone product.

Stand alone products are disappearing more and more every year that passes. It is certainly no accident.
by crazygringo | 2025-04-26 15:21:23+00:00
That doesn't have anything to do with special interests.

Literally nearly every Wikipedia page for a fictional work or creator will have a section on "controversies" or similar, if there have been any. Regardless of which political direction they go in. If it's been covered in the media or a book or whatever, it tends to be included.

This is a good thing. It helps situate everything in a broader cultural context. When I look something up on Wikipedia, I want to know these things. It's not irrelevant and it's not an opinion piece.

It's not like the articles takes sides. They just objectively describe the controversies which are real objective things which exist.

I find it curious that you seem to want to be shielded from the existence of these controversies. Nobody is forcing you to read them. But many people do genuinely find them useful and informative.
by ModernMech | 2025-04-26 15:22:56+00:00
Not ironically, yes, that's where we are. I remember when we would say such things about a school of children being gunned down. "Really?? That's where we are now as a society? How did we let this happen?"

We let it happen by not saying "enough" when the last thing happened. If a school of kids gets gunned down and a society lets that slide, that society becomes one more tolerant of violence against children. We said we were powerless to stop that, so here we are now, bringing violence against children as a matter of federal policy.
by os2warpman | 2025-04-26 15:23:15+00:00
Each I/O drawer is 16 x16 hot-swappable PCIe+ slots, an interconnect module, and a management unit.

Each CPC drawer can up to 3 I/O drawers for up to 48 x16 hot-swappable PCIe+ slots and a system can have up to four CPC drawers for a total of 192 potential PCIe+ modules.

If you set it up right any process running on any CPC drawer can directly access any PCIe+ device in the system no matter where it is.

If you're super slick, any process running on any CPC drawer in a Z17 that is directly connected to another Z17, even one many miles away, can directly access any PCIe+ device in the remote system. I don't know if anyone is actually doing that. That would be silly.

Doing that requires a lot of stuff, which takes up space.
by eggy | 2025-04-26 15:23:35+00:00
Nice! I have been toying with KolibriOS and MenuetOS for my anti-social platform. You can network on both, and sometimes requires a direct hardwired Ethernet cable. Originally I was interested in them given they are written in assembly using FASM. I was a 1977 CBM (Commodore PET 2001), so I am more of a lime-green on black screen vs. the DOS grey/blue. Cool!
by voxic11 | 2025-04-26 15:23:41+00:00
My reading of the policy is that if the real person is above the age of 18 then they can consent to the editing of images which depict themselves under the age of 18. So I could upload and edit a childhood photo of myself because I am a real person above the age of 18 and I am the person "contained" in the image. But I couldn't do the same for my niece who is a real person under the age of 18.
by rsfern | 2025-04-26 15:23:58+00:00
The habeas petition for VMS (the two year old) indicates the father (who was not detained at the time of the filing) transferred provisional custody rights to a US citizen relative, and that communications with the mother (who was removed along with their US citizen child) were cut off when he tried to share their lawyers contact info

PDF: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.21...
by gpm | 2025-04-26 15:24:05+00:00
The mother and child were in custody, the father was not, and was prompt in acquiring legal counsel, arranging this, and suing, leading to exceptionally clear circumstances in this case. This is the docket for the lawsuit: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69940863/v-m-l-v-harper...

The mother was also technically able to speak with the father, though monitored, for less than a minute, and they were interrupted when the father attempted to give a number for the attorney to the mother.

To be clear, I'm not defending any of ICEs actions here, I'm saying that they kidnapped this child who had arrangements made to remain in the US despite ICEs best (also almost certainly illegal) attempts to prevent that from happening.
by belter | 2025-04-26 15:24:30+00:00
"...At this point, Zuck's CFO – one of the adults in the room, attempting to keep the boy king from tripping over his own dick – wrote to Zuck warning him that it was illegal to buy Insta in order to "neutralize a potential competitor."

Zuck replied that he was, indeed, solely contemplating buying Insta in order to neutralize a potential competitor. It's like this guy kept picking up his dictaphone, hitting "record," and barking, "Hey Bob, I am in receipt of your memo of the 25th, regarding the potential killing of Fred. You raise some interesting points, but I wanted to reiterate that this killing is to be a murder, and it must be as premeditated as possible. Yours very truly, Zuck...."
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-04-26 15:24:31+00:00
To be clear this was initially stopped at the border as the old smoke detector he ordered was clearly labelled "contains radioactive material".

The authorities decided they wanted to build a case rather than stop it there though so they allowed the delivery to proceed. So it was delivered by a courier without protection because they knew it was harmless. They then subsequently sent in a full hazmat crew to close off the street. Not because they had to, they just had the courier deliver it after all. They closed off the street because the drama would apparently help the prosecution build a case of how dangerous this is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0JGsSxBd2I
by eleveriven | 2025-04-26 15:25:01+00:00
There's a lot of honest reflection here that you don't often get from writers revisiting their earlier work. I think it captures something important about how the culture around humor, offense, and public discourse has shifted. It's easy to blame "people being too sensitive" or to nostalgize the past, but the truth is more complicated: humor that punches up tends to age better than humor that punches down, and the line between the two can shift as society changes.
by karaterobot | 2025-04-26 15:25:54+00:00
I couldn't be more excited about this vehicle (I put $50 down to reserve one), but god damn, that customizer tool is bad. I'm someone who goes to a lot of auto manufacturer websites and makes imaginary builds, so I think I've spent time using the majority of builder apps that are out there, and this is one of the worst. On a laptop, with a shorter screen and a touchpad, it's really hard to use. Which is too bad, since customization is their whole deal.
by SamPatt | 2025-04-26 15:26:01+00:00
I made it myself.

I use Obsidian and the Spaced Repetition plugin, which I highly recommend if you want a super simple markdown format for flashcards and use Obsidian:

https://www.stephenmwangi.com/obsidian-spaced-repetition/

There are pre-made Geoguessr decks for Anki. However, I wouldn't recommend using them. In my experience, a fundamental part of spaced repetition's efficacy is in creating the flashcards yourself.

For example I have a random location flashcard section where I will screenshot a location which is very unique looking, and I missed in game. When I later review my deck I'm way more likely to properly recall it because I remember the context of making the card. And when that location shows up in game, I will 100% remember it, which has won me several games.

If there's interest I can write a post about this.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-04-26 15:26:01+00:00
If the person is already a stalker you'd think they'd already know this, no? There's that anecdotal stuff in japan where a vlogger was located by her "fans" from a reflexion of their home bus station or something. The weird people will do weird stuff regardless of technology, IMO.

And the governments are already doing this for decades at least, so ... I think the tech could be a net benefit, as with many other technologies that have matured.
by donnachangstein | 2025-04-26 15:26:09+00:00
The problem is controversies can be embellished. In this case, the controversy focused on a minor detail among hundreds of others in a nearly two hour long film.

Is there guidance on what makes a controversy 'notable', or can anything be listed there? E.g. "Nobody blogger and her Twitter army were upset about $thing" - does that qualify? Nearly anything can be controversial, or have fabricated controversies. You see this a lot on political articles.
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-04-26 15:26:24+00:00
They did know. It was well labelled and initially stopped at customs.

They asked the ordinary courier (without hazmat gear) to deliver it in person to help build a stronger case.

Details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0JGsSxBd2I

The hazmat crew was literally manufactured drama for a prosecutor (who somehow continues not to be named in this ridiculous case) to build a better case.
by benfortuna | 2025-04-26 15:26:36+00:00
>The other challenge is finding people, especially as you get older. I've posted this before, but as you get older you really need to seek out established communities. Sports, trivia nights, things of that nature. Something where you can hop in and immediately meet 5+ people. Then you need to show up, over and over. That's how friendships form.

The article follows similar lines, but I feel "forcing friendships" just leads to shallow "friendships" with little meaning. In fact so many modern friendships are sustained by small talk, which Carl Jung derides as meaningless..
by qarl | 2025-04-26 15:27:28+00:00
> I’m confident it didn’t cheat and look at the EXIF data on the photograph, because if it had cheated it wouldn’t have guessed Cambria first.

It also, at one point, said it couldn't see any image data at all. You absolutely cannot trust what it says.

You need to re-run with the EXIF data removed.
by KronisLV | 2025-04-26 15:28:24+00:00
> The first company's frontend would render a given screen 12+ times for some state changes

Might just be me, but it feels like a good framework/library would put in a lot of work to avoid or at least alert about these kinds of issues so they can’t stay very long without being fixed.

I’ve seen the same in React (even infinite render loops which couldn’t be ignored and had to be fixed) and to a lesser degree with the likes of Vue as well.

I’m not sure what’s missing but having a tool that is easy to use in the wrong way doesn’t inspire confidence.