MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by neilk | 2025-04-26 14:28:10+00:00
I am not a lawyer, but as far as I know this is completely wrong.

There is a conspiracy theory that “anchor babies” will help undocumented parents avoid deportation from the US.

As far as I can tell, the usual thing that happens when undocumented parents of a US citizen are deported is that they have to give the child to a citizen relative to raise, or they take the child with them.

It seems to be extremely rare, though “prosecutorial discretion” can allow for a parent to remain in the US. There is no guarantee; an undocumented parent can and is often deported later, sometimes for minor crimes. I couldn’t find any stats about how often this happens but immigration consultants stress to their clients that they can’t rely on it.

If the undocumented parents have been in the country for 10 years they can apply for relief for deportation but that is capped at 4,000 cases annually. If the child remains in the US until they become an adult, and can plausibly sponsor a relative, then they can also apply to reunify with their parent. The deported parent may have to spend a minimum of a decade outside the US.
by robinsonb5 | 2025-04-26 14:28:13+00:00
To me the biggest problem is the buy-to-let market, which means anything affordable is snapped up in seconds by people with money to invest, rather than people who just want a home to live in.

I think it's mainly a symptom of the unusualy low interest rates over the last 20 years: people have invested in residential property not because they particularly want to be landlords, but because it's perceived as the easiest way to get a better return on your money than a savings account that pays near zero interest.

I know of more than one person who's now looking to sell their rental property because they found out the hard way that "landlord" is actually a job title, not just the name of their savings account, that properties need to be maintained and that letting agents will find a way to swallow the vast majority of any profits.

I also know more than one person living in rented accommodation with appalling maintenance lapses. One had a shoddy roof repair last year which left the gutter missing. When the next rainstorm caused water to cascade down the outside wall and flow in above the back door, the letting agent had the nerve to shrug and say "old properties do that".

Another had a rotten wooden lintel above a street door scraped out, filled with expanding foam and painted over.
by stevenwoo | 2025-04-26 14:28:31+00:00
When they separate undocumented children from their families in the first Trump term and did not bother to leave a paper trail so that these families could be reunited so it would take years if ever for these children to be returned to their parents, not one person in the entire chain of command was punished for it. When there are zero consequences for doing wrong, we should not be surprised the wrong doing continues. Same with Bush Jr using private servers to hide his administration's emails - now every GOP administration is going to use this tactic with whatever technology permits it like Signal is being used to bypass laws for record keeping today because no one holds them to account and no one will.
by NemoNobody | 2025-04-26 14:28:35+00:00
That was a stupid study. Phones know if they are being used - the phones for 3 days around ads is meaningless.

Tracking isn't all the time - that would be tough. They do record stuff when you doing certain things tho...

It's not impossible at all, actually it's rather easy if you have access to their actual online activity too.
by bigyabai | 2025-04-26 14:29:09+00:00
FWIW, any interesting information about the JFK assassination is still likely withheld. The newly released files still have plenty of redactions and include a warning that they are not every record related to the case. You will probably die before seeing anything surprising come from JFK's CIA folder.

> in case of UFO, well - we have some smartphone video

We've got FLIR videos too, it's kinda what GOFAST et. al are famous for. Plenty more interesting than the Kennedy files, but that's just my opinion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_UFO_videos
by geerlingguy | 2025-04-26 14:29:15+00:00
I backup to Amazon Glacier S3 Deep Archive backed buckets. The price is only a little higher for a few TB than other providers, though egress fees in case of restore are a lot higher. That's a tradeoff I'm willing to make as I'd have two have two separate local NAS replicas corrupt or die before I need to rely on the Deep Archive.
by knorker | 2025-04-26 14:29:36+00:00
Interesting that you would bring up Go. Go is probably the most head-desk language of all for writing portable code. Go will fight you the whole way.

Even plain C is easier.

You can have a whole file be for OpenBSD, to work around that some standard library parts have different types on different platforms.

So now you need one file for all platforms and architectures where Timeval.Usec is int32, and another file for where it is int64. And you need to enumerate in your code all GOOS/GOARCH combinations that Go supports or will ever support.

You need a file for Linux 32 bit ARM (int32/int32 bit), one for Linux 64 bit ARM (int64,int64), one for OpenBSD 32 bit ARM (int64/int32), etc…. Maybe you can group them, but this is just one difference, so in the end you'll have to do one file per combination of OS and Arch. And all you wanted was pluggable "what's a Timeval?". Something that all build systems solved a long time ago.

And then maybe the next release of OpenBSD they've changed it, so now you cannot use Go's way to write portable code at all.

So between autotools, cmake, and the Go method, the Go method is by far the worst option for writing portable code.
by andsoitis | 2025-04-26 14:30:17+00:00
While the 3 minors are US citizens, their parents are not and the parents can be deported because they are in the country illegally.

That means you have the following options:

a) deport nobody, i.e. you don't apply the law

b) deport just the parents. What do you do with the minor children? Separating them from their parents (different countries) would be cruel.

c) deport the entire family, including the US minors. Since they have US citizenship, they can always return to the US.
by washadjeffmad | 2025-04-26 14:31:45+00:00
Does anyone recall the national discussions surrounding what constituted metadata following 9/11 when ThinThread and Trailblazer were brought to public attention?

I also recall reading about members of the TIA "Total Information Awareness" program leaving to join advisory boards for rising social media platforms, Facebook most notably. These weren't tinfoil opeds in fringe outlets, but regular reporting by journalists published in trusted local newspapers.

Are there any outlets left who aren't part of consolidated media groups that can or do still track and report on movements like this? I've having trouble finding original articles that haven't been "revised for historical accuracy" or hidden behind paywalls of the few entities that remain.

Edit: For context, I was looking for the earliest articles about Google citing legal justification for scanning the contents of emails under a favorable interpretation of metadata that allowed for tokenization by an automated process (ie- the contents were not read by a human or made personally identifiable, which met the letter of the law). It follows that the same justification is not limited to any source or data type, but I couldn't recall any more recent reporting or statements from companies over the last 10-15 years, or, the "don't break Google" era.
by simonw | 2025-04-26 14:31:54+00:00
I added a section just now with something I had missed: o3 DOES have a loose model of your location fed into it, which I believe is intended to support the new search feature (so it can run local searches).

The thinking summary it showed me did not reference that information, but it's still very possible that it used that in its deliberations.

I ran two extra example queries for photographs I've taken thousands of miles away (in Buenos Aires and Madagascar) - EXIF stripped - and it did a convincing job with both of those as well: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/26/o3-photo-locations/#up...
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-04-26 14:32:41+00:00
> Sometimes that's presented as deception/misalignment but that's a category error: "find the answer" and "explain your reasoning" are two distinct tasks

Right but if your answer to "explain your reasoning" is not a true representation of your reasoning, then you are being deceptive. If it doesn't "know" its reasoning, then the honest answer is that it doesn't know.

(To head off any meta-commentary on humans' inability to explain their own reasoning, they would at least be able to honestly describe whether they used EXIF or actual semantic knowledge of a photography)
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-04-26 14:32:46+00:00
> No, this kind of deportation and treatment of prisoners/detainees has been happening forever.

Another assertion without any justification or data.

> Remember the "kids in cages" saga?

Yes, of course, and that's the point. There was huge outcry then, and that cruel policy was implemented by the same person responsible for this policy. It doesn't make sense to say "this has been happening forever" and then bring up an example from 2017-2020. We are all well aware of Trump's view on immigration and the rule of law. The whole point is that Trump's policies are a huge aberration from what any other administration, Republican or Democrat, has put forth in the past 50 years.
by krosaen | 2025-04-26 14:33:29+00:00
If what chatgpt said is incorrect, I would love to know. Are you not interested in the legal details of these cases so we know what can be fought under current law and not? The cruelty of the actions should be judged harshly, and in the longer run we need to reform immigration law so they are not possible, but knowing what can currently be fought legally matters to me.
by user32489318 | 2025-04-26 14:34:08+00:00
Deviating from your argument, but 10y battery life is a EU regulation. In some EU countries, you cannot rent out a living space without smoke alarm that has a 10y battery in it, even if it’s wired in. If you’re looking for a high quality smoke alarm (ability to trigger on different types of fires and certified for EU) I failed to find one that came with a replacement battery, and only a few that are wired in, all of which will have a 10y lasting battery. The more expensive units do connect with internet/vendor and can do smart stuff like call fire department etc, you’re right that there’s a choice. But, the choice is very limited.

I’m not sure that an average consumer is even aware that some smoke alarm sensors degrade with time, or not trigger at all types of fires, there is probably some logic in forced unit replacement every decade.
by rayiner | 2025-04-26 14:34:13+00:00
Words have meaning. Setting qualifications is different than “suppression.” The former determines who are legitimate voters. The latter is an effort to keep legitimate voters from voting. Conflating legitimate qualification rules with “suppression” is fuzzy thinking in service of propaganda.

Restricting by birth right is simply an extension of the universal practice of restricting voting by citizenship. Every democracy decides who has sufficient stake in and familiarity with the society to be able to vote.
by erlend_sh | 2025-04-26 14:34:14+00:00
Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.07096 (original blog title was too long so I used the paper’s title)

HF: https://huggingface.co/allenai/OLMo-2-0325-32B-Instruct

GH: https://github.com/allenai/infinigram-api
by ThinkBeat | 2025-04-26 14:34:26+00:00
At the time I am typing this, the title on the page is:

""Your phone isn’t secretly listening to you, but the truth is more disturbing""

Which is presently also the title on this post.

Then as I read it becomes clear that it is merely focusing on Facebook.

However the confusion that may stem from "Your phone isn’t secretly listening to you"

The blog post never attempts to establish that your phone is not listening to you, just that some companies may not be going it.

The truth is that your phone may well be listening to you . There is plenty of malware / spywear that uses exploits to achieve it.

Like the NSO group¹.

Tools to do so can be bouught on the malware market from other sources as well and we must assume that Mossad, NSA, and other major intellitence agencies have tools that exceed what you can buy on the open market.

You phone may aboslutely be listening to you. but probably it is not.

¹

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-01-24/nso-group... https://www.britannica.com/topic/Pegasus-spyware https://citizenlab.ca/2016/08/million-dollar-dissident-iphon...

https://newatlas.com/computers/smartphone-listening-conversa...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-01-24/nso-group...
by acdha | 2025-04-26 14:34:28+00:00
People who buy trucks because they need a tool to do a job? The guys who buy one instead of getting hair plugs are commuting to work at 85mph but people who actually haul things tend not to want their cargo getting damaged. This isn’t the vehicle for someone doing long distance towing but it’s a great choice for someone who wants to carry cargo around a farm, supplies and tools around their local job radius, carry bikes or surfboards, etc. and the modest size means they’re not only saving a ton of money up front but also paying less over time since it’s cheaper than gas and they can charge without a special trip.

The guy who mows my lawn drives under 100 miles a day, doesn’t need a huge cargo capacity, and certainly doesn’t want to overpay for a work truck. I’d bet there’s a sizable market of people like that.
by Spooky23 | 2025-04-26 14:35:15+00:00
I’d make the exception for Google Drive, OneDrive and whatever the AWS one is. The hyperscalers are able to get prices way cheaper with economies of scale and price models in a sustainable way.

When O365 launched, they were using spinning disk for exchange. The issue was that they stranded capacity because of the IOPS needs of exchange. So “free”, (low iops) SharePoint and OneDrive for business data utilized that “free” capacity.
by thadt | 2025-04-26 14:36:07+00:00
Agreed, this case is bananas.

If his "plutonium sample" is actually (probably) trinitite which you can just buy online [1], and if we assume an exposure of 1 uR/hr at one inch[2], then convert that to BED (Banana Equivalent Dose[3] - that taken from the naturally occurring potassium-40 in bananas) that's (handwaving actual dose calculations) about, what, 1/10 of a banana?

[1] https://engineeredlabs.com/products/plutonium-element-cube-t...

[2] https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/nuclea...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose
by whatshisface | 2025-04-26 14:36:22+00:00
One of the obstacles to getting that point of view across is that very few of the people in countries with a majority religion (which is most countries) see criticism of their government's history as criticism of their religion. I've never really heard a Christian complain about the treatment of the thirty years war in history books, and that's presented in an extremely negative light. The equation you're making doesn't have a lot of traction in the broader world.
by thegeomaster | 2025-04-26 14:36:22+00:00
See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43804041

4o can do it almost as well in a few seconds and probably 10-50x fewer tokens: https://chatgpt.com/share/680ceeff-011c-8002-ab31-d6b4cb622e...

o3 burns through what I assume is single-digit dollars just to do some performative tool use to justify and slightly narrow down its initial intuition from the base model.
by sireat | 2025-04-26 14:36:24+00:00
For an earlier example see KLF - It's Grim Up North https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20XLWEjN9eI

As a non British I though this was always a bit of dark British humour tradition.

See Black Adder, also

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Heroic_Failures - which mentions towns like Keynes.
by acdha | 2025-04-26 14:37:14+00:00
> There was the whole IRS targeting of conservative groups under Obama.

There was a lot of talk about that but I note you left out the part where it wasn’t real. The IRS investigated both liberal and conservative groups, but only the conservative groups lied about being singled out as part of a defense strategy.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180225112702/https://www.treas...
by AIPedant | 2025-04-26 14:38:31+00:00
I have one link that illustrates what I mean: https://chatgpt.com/share/6802e229-c6a0-800f-898a-44171a0c7d... The line about "the latitudinal light angle that matches mid‑February at ~47 ° N." seems like pure BS to me, and in the reasoning trace it openly reads the EXIF.

A more clear example I don't have a link for, it was on Twitter somewhere: someone tested a photo from Suriname and o3 said one of the clues was left-handed traffic. But there was no traffic in the photo. "Left-handed traffic" is a very valuable GeoGuesser clue, and it seemed to me that once o3 read the Surinamese EXIF, it confabulated the traffic detail.

It's pure stochastic parroting: given you are playing GeoGuesser honestly, and given the answer is Suriname, the conditional probability that you mention left-handed traffic is very high. So o3 autocompleted that for itself while "explaining" its "reasoning."
by parsimo2010 | 2025-04-26 14:38:35+00:00
I’m sure there are areas where the location guessing can be scary accurate, like the article managed to guess the exact town as its backup guess.

But seeing the chain of thought, I’m confident there are many areas that it will be far less precise. Show it a picture of a trailer park somewhere in Kansas (exclude any signs with the trailer park name and location) and I’ll bet the model only manages to guess the state correctly.

Before even running this experiment, here’s your lesson learned: when the robot apocalypse happens, California is the first to be doomed. That’s the place the AI is most familiar with. Run any location experiments outside of California if you want to get an idea of how good your software performs outside of the tech bubble.
by kasey_junk | 2025-04-26 14:38:40+00:00
> No one's gonna come and kick you out of it.

Real estate suffers from the whims of the market, governmental policy and especially war. Even if you rule out outliers like imminent domain (used on many many homeowners in the first half of the 20th century in the US) or destruction via war, simple economic changes as we saw in 2008 cause people to lose their homes.
by DavidPiper | 2025-04-26 14:38:59+00:00
At the end of the day, it's all just maths and physics.

You didn't specifically ask about game development, but that domain is where the majority of graphics, mathematics, lighting, physics, etc, knowledge is distributed. And it can be difficult to find information solely about (e.g.) cloth simulation and other niche topics without it being coupled into game development resources.

I happened to read https://alextardif.com/LearningGraphics.html today, which might give you some pointers in various directions. https://learnopengl.com/ gets a consistently good rap, even today when there are newer APIs like Vulkan, Metal and DX12. Consider the API as 5% of the problem to solve though (less tbh, though Vulkan is proving even heavier than I was warned).

If you don't want to learn C/C++, I understand there's a large community around WebGL, so finding their subreddits and other forums could be a good starting point too.

However, again, the API and platform is really just a wrapper around the actual physics simulation (the impressive/novel part).

(Source: I'm a web dev/gradle/java developer who is once again building a game engine in their spare time after a previous attempt many years ago)
by esperent | 2025-04-26 14:39:25+00:00
By coincidence I just spent several hours today comparing exactly these two services (Wasabi vs B2) and even though I am familiar with Backblaze and have used it before, I went with Wasabi. It's basically the same price, has more regions, a very simple interface, and rather than having to manage both hot and cold storage Wasabi is cheap enough to just throw everything into hot.

The only downside I found is that they limit free egress to 100% of your storage (so if you store 1tb, you get 1tb egress). In practice I don't think this will be an issue for my use case.

So I'm an example of a person who this morning had almost never heard of Wasabi, knows Backlaze well, and after an hour or two of research I have completely switched over.
by thegeomaster | 2025-04-26 14:39:49+00:00
For all of the images I've tried, the base model (e.g. 4o) already has a ~95% accurate idea of where the photo is, and then o3 does so much tool use only to confirm its intuition from the base model and slightly narrow down. For OP's initial image, 4o in fact provides a more accurate initial guess of Carmel-by-the-Sea (d=~100mi < 200mi), and its next guess is also Half Moon Bay, although it did not figure out the exact town of El Granada [0].

The clue is in the CoT - you can briefly see the almost correct location as the very first reasoning step. The model then apparently seems to ignore it and try many other locations, a ton of tool use, etc, always coming back to the initial guess.

For pictures where the base model has no clue, I haven't seen o3 do anything smart, it just spins in circles.

I believe the model has been RL-ed to death in a way that incentivizes correct answers no matter the number of tools used.

[0]: https://chatgpt.com/c/680d011a-9470-8002-97a0-a0d2b067eacf
by giraffe_lady | 2025-04-26 14:39:53+00:00
I almost completely agree with you here. But it is striking that they didn't need to create any new agencies to do this. All the parts of it were in place. They were in place already for trump to use the first time, and they were still in place when he got back into power.

Due process and transparency on border & immigration interactions has been alarmingly bad for a long time now. Has this never happened before, hidden inside this apparatus? I'm not confident of that. This is certainly different in its scale and ferocity. But I see where they are coming from too.
by begueradj | 2025-04-26 14:40:07+00:00
>In women, breast cancer has a similar death toll, but the breasts have an excuse: they’re much bigger; there are many more cells to go bad. They’re also much more metabolically active, capable of producing enough milk to feed a baby; the prostate’s output is tiny in comparison.

Except that you make work your prostate everyday, multiple times, since your adolescence, whereas a woman doesn't breastfeed everyday since adolescence.
Show HN: Pixwop – Buy and Sell Advertising Space, One Pixel at a Time
by ivancici | 2025-04-26 14:40:50+00:00
Hello everyone!

I have just launched Pixwop, a site where anyone can buy individual pixels and use them as advertising space, digital art or customised messages.

I'd love to know what you think of it!

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by ty6853 | 2025-04-26 14:40:52+00:00
They have land that can be taken or voted away. I don't think only land owners should be able to vote, but it's worth noting worldwide having significant property is one of the most common ways for immigrants to qualify for a resident visa (other two common ways is job or business investment). Right or not it signifies enough skin in the game to many if not most societies to reflect reciprocated integration the community.

Remember in the early days there was almost no immigration control as well, so finding proxies for skin in the game might have been more challenging than today, when emigrating is almost impossible for the poor so they are stuck with their skin in America whether they like it or not.