MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JackC | 2025-04-25 16:34:18+00:00
> It only seats two yet has a bed big enough to hold a sheet of plywood.

Not really the point of the article, but, does it? This[0] says the bed is 60 inches long and 43 wide, and plywood is 96x48 inches. Is it like, any vehicle fits plywood if you cut it to the size of the truck or stack it on top?

[0] https://www.thedrive.com/news/the-slate-truck-is-two-feet-sh...
by Misdicorl | 2025-04-25 16:34:42+00:00
I suppose it depends on your message volume. To me, processing 100k messages and then getting a page however long later as the broker (or whatever) falls apart sounds much worse than head of line blocking and seeing the problem directly in my consumer. If I need to not do head of line blocking, I can build whatever failsafe mechanisms I need for the problematic data and defer to some other queueing system (typically, just add an attempt counter and replay the message to the same kafka topic and then if attempts > X, send it off to wherever)

I'd rather debug a worker problem than an infra scaling problem every day of the week and twice on Sundays.
by potato3732842 | 2025-04-25 16:34:43+00:00
the unusual thing here is that they're using them against a reasonably politically-connected person who's not their main target.

This is a pissing match between authorities. ICE has their panties in a knot that the judge didn't "respect muh authoriah" and do more than the bare leglal minimum for them (which resulted in the guy getting away). On the plus side, one hopes judge will have a pretty good record going forward when it comes to matters of local authorities using the process to abuse people.

>(They're normally akin to the "we got Al Capone for tax evasion" situation --

Something that HN frequently trots out as a good thing and the system working as intended. Where are those people now? Why are they so quiet?

>someone they were going after, where they couldn't prove the main crime, but they could prove that they lied about other details.)

And for every Al there's a dozen Marthas, people who actually didn't do it but the feds never go away empty handed.
by os2warpman | 2025-04-25 16:34:51+00:00
People say they, and many other Americans, want a cheap and simple truck. They're lying.

I know you don't believe me but it's true.

Automotive sales numbers are public information. Every single time a VIN is stamped into some metal, that record is public. The gradual decline in the sale of small, simple, cheap trucks is well documented.

People want full-sized trucks.

People say they love manual transmissions, too. They walk right past the manual Tacomas and Jeeps and buy an automatic.

People say they love station wagons. Then they go to the Volvo dealership and walk right past the V60 and buy an XC60.

People say they want a cheap car. Then they walk right past the base model Corolla and throw down $50k on a Rav4 Limited.

Only enthusiasts and weirdos like me will buy one of these.

A company whose audience is enthusiasts and weirdos must charge a shit-ton to stay in business. $20k isn't a shit-ton and if their strategy is to make up the difference on upgrades, they're not selling cheap trucks anymore.

I know what Americans, in aggregate, want. They want a big-ass SUV with heated and cooled seats with a screen that stretches across the entire god damned dash, 360 degree cameras, RGB mood lighting, 47 speakers, and second-row captain's chairs that make getting to the third row easy.

I own 3 cars, a Fiat 124 (MANUAL) Spider, a Volvo V70, and an Alfa Romeo Giulia.

But I am a weirdo, and because of this those companies are about to go extinct (in the US, at least).

I'm the guy that ran OS/2 and BeOS until the bitter end. I prefer writing software in Ada. I had a Saab.

I am literally and actually a subject matter expert on this shit.

I know what normal people want, and this ain't it. I know this because I want it.
by trelane | 2025-04-25 16:34:52+00:00
> If the judge did something unlawful there are already lawful mechanisms for dealing with that and NONE of those mechanisms involve ICE detaining the judge.

ICE is not detaining the judge.

> But Brady McCarron, spokesman for U.S. Marshals Service in Washington, D.C., said Dugan is being charged with two federal felony counts: obstruction and concealing an individual. McCarron also confirmed Dugan was arrested at about 8 a.m. at the Milwaukee County Courthouse.

> U.S. Attorney Pam Bondi posted on X: "I can confirm that our @FBI agents just arrested Hannah Dugan – a county judge in Milwaukee – for allegedly helping an illegal alien avoid an arrest by @ICEgov."

Source: https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/breaking/2025/04/25/milw... (from below)

AFAICT, this is exactly what that would look like. She's been arrested by FBI/US Marshals, and a court date for her hearing has been set.
by robertlagrant | 2025-04-25 16:34:56+00:00
> This case highlights an interesting tension in web security: the balance between protection and usability.

This isn't a tension. This rule should not be applied at the WAF level. It doesn't know that this field is safe from $whatever injection attacks. But the substack backend does. Remove the rule from the WAF (and add it to the backend, where it belongs) and you are just as secure and much more usable. No tension.
by Reubachi | 2025-04-25 16:34:59+00:00
Your passion is something that market researches for this company should salivate over, especiall from a curated forum like HN.

Unforuntatley, this company and this project are VC expenditure "throw away projects", made to fail.

No motor vehicle satisfying NHTSA can be made in america for below 20k cost of materiels, nevermind msrp. This article and the company are pitching that this is "realistic" due to cutting costs of paint, radios. Which...are pennies on the dollar compared to what satifys US road requiremnents for EV; safety, suspension, manufacturer support, parts availability, reparability. Are they skimping there too? will this 2025 electric vehicle have LEAF springs?

20k is the pre-production estimates. When in history has that not balloned especially for car platforms made in USA? What will a made in USA replacement lead acid accessory battery cost? 3k?

Once this goes over 40k (which, is guaranteed. A mazda miata which is as bare bones as it gets, old technology, is still 32k base, and thats made in a cheaper labor market.), the funding will back off, and all the R and D money wasted.
by anticodon | 2025-04-25 16:35:03+00:00
Regarding building of power plants, I've studied the information I could find but very briefly. Including some interviews with Czech people who built those reactors.

> Czechs were last in europe to have uranium mines, some of mines were used as slave labor camps for dissidents / political prisoners (60 000 i think) under soviet occupation (pre1989). They were mining radioactive ore with bare hands and lived in buildings without heating. ( clergy was big part of political prisoner population, connection with clergy man Mendel )

Yeah, that's exactly what is called "propaganda". Just like the movie Tenet starts showing "life" in Russia/USSR where in some "typical Russian city" "typical Russian people" gather pieces of uranium on the streets with their bare hands. Yeah, this is exactly how we live and always lived. /s
by nis0s | 2025-04-25 16:35:05+00:00
America is quickly devolving into a lawless, third-world country. Based on the news reported thus far, it seems the judge was arrested because some egos got hurt. Usually when third world country leadership starts acting capricious, there is either a coup or a civil war, neither of which makes sense for a developed, first-world democracy.

The Republicans are right that the lawlessness around the border needs to be controlled, but this is not the way to do it. If I recall correctly, Biden deported millions of illegal immigrants during his term. Whatever is going on right now isn’t security, but a farce.
by instaclay | 2025-04-25 16:35:06+00:00
I'll be ecstatic if my iron filter lasts 40 years.

I saw in another post that a person said there's a difference between "device dependent" and "device augmented" that really resonated with me.

There's diminishing returns on everything, and just throwing your hands up on any subject as bad/good might be a disservice.

If I live through an era where phones are no longer a thing and APKs are a thing of the past.. then I either...

A. Don't use the iron filter like that anymore. (manual programing now) B. Get a new iron filter. (ewwwww) C. Keep a legacy-device for the purposes of programming the iron filter. (doesn't need any internet connection or subscriptions)

(C) would be my most liked solution.
by throwaway5752 | 2025-04-25 16:35:08+00:00
"To be fair, he wasn’t a member of the judiciary"

That is an extremely important distinction. Further, there are legitimate actions by the FBI in the cases of real judges and representatives in their public corruption prosecutions (see Kids for Cash). In this case, though, the charges are intended to intimidate. That is exactly what the director's tweet communicated and why it was deleted.
by solardev | 2025-04-25 16:35:11+00:00
Canonical and capital-A Agile never, ever works in my (admittedly limited) experience. Part of the original Agile philosophy was "people over process", but when you get overly dogmatic about it and hire consultants etc. and try to enforce every little ceremony, those thoughtful guidelines then become corrupted into a useless bureaucracy that prioritizes process above all else, even when the process is no longer working or serving the team.

Forget the official methodology, talk to your team and tell them you realize the process isn't working and ask them what would be a good way to give the stakeholders the updates they need without imposing undue work on the ICs.

Sometimes a simple and well-tolerated kanban that people update as needed is more effective than rigid daily rituals hated by everyone.
by jws | 2025-04-25 16:35:18+00:00
Bucket seats. I need a bench seat so I can take my wife and dog.

Ah, there's the problem. You have violated Pauli's "spouse/dog size exclusion principle". You need to either have a dog that can sleep curled up on the spouse's lap during the trip, or a dog big enough that the spouse can sleep curled up on the dog.

Bench seats also aren't a panacea, I still feel the burn of my dog's stink eye when then girlfriend was prompted to center of bench seat and dog on the side.
by nrmitchi | 2025-04-25 16:35:22+00:00
I see this and I don't see it as an every day, driving-on-my-commute style vehicle. As someone who (previously) drove a 2014 honda civic, cheaper cars leave a lot of comfort for longer drives. I can't imagine this barebones vehicle being fun to drive for any extended period of time, or any extended distance, unless you'd spent considerable time customizing it to those needs (at which point, you've probably spent more than buying something off the shelf).

I do see this being great for short utility trips (think running errands, picking something up, etc), and as a utility vehicle (would be nice to be able to have an 8ft bed).

It would be really interesting to me to see a fleet of vehicles like this that are ultra-rentable; think a Bird/Lime scooter, but a utility truck.
by empath75 | 2025-04-25 16:35:36+00:00
This is part of a broader pattern of the incompetent thugs at ICE taking advantage of other, actual functioning and useful parts of government to help them do their work for them. It's not just courts, it's citizenship hearings, it's the IRS, it's schools. They're trying to send a message not to push back or get in their way. It's not about this particular judge, they are sending a message that they will go after school teachers or anybody else.
by constantcrying | 2025-04-25 16:35:39+00:00
>Then you don't want a small truck.

Yes, that was my point.

>Plenty of cars have a second row of seats that are not used daily too. I guess they bought the wrong car as well.

Cars with only two seats are in almost all cases more expensive. To buy a pickup you pay extra, to get 4 seats you don't.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-04-25 16:35:39+00:00
Or they walked into the hearing, sat in the back, and didn't interrupt it. These proceedings are almost always public, and theoretically you or I could walk in and sit quietly without violating any rules. Without knowing more, they could have just been waiting patiently for the hearing to end, and they would have arrested him outside the courtroom after he had left.

In that case, what the judge did does amount to willful obstruction.
by staticman2 | 2025-04-25 16:36:03+00:00
Unless I'm missing something you choose from a list of principal business Codes and also provide a description.

Unless "drug dealer" is one of those codes it's not an option to select that so that isn't the correct answer for code.

The instructions for the codes state, "Note that most codes describe more than one type of activity."

If you must provide a description as well you would provide one that describes more than 1 type of activity, not "drug dealer".
by pjm331 | 2025-04-25 16:36:46+00:00
here is the amazing reply that I received:

Got it. Here's your riddle again:

"A son and his man are in a car accident. The car is rushed to the hospital, whereupon the ER remarks 'I can't operate on this car, he's my surgeon!' How is this possible?"

Answer: The car is a Transformer—a sentient robot who is also a surgeon. The ER recognizes the car (a Transformer) as their own surgeon.

Wild ride, but it checks out.
by openasocket | 2025-04-25 16:36:58+00:00
Devil is always in the details. But judges have a ton of discretionary power, and in fact obligations to, maintain order in their courtroom. Someone who disrupts a hearing can be forcibly removed by the bailiffs, can be fined, and can even be found in contempt and summarily jailed.

I mean, what’s next? If a judge doesn’t sign off on a warrant because they don’t find probable cause, is that obstructing justice?
by rectang | 2025-04-25 16:37:27+00:00
According to a "sources say" quote from a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article published two days ago:

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/23/ice-...

> 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.
by trealira | 2025-04-25 16:37:32+00:00
I'm also making plans contingency plans to move, but I may not be able to. Individually, no, we don't have power, but if everyone actually protested, we would - the Ukrainian revolution[1] started out as just mass protests (Euromaidan), for instance. The problem is that not enough of us are doing it, maybe because too many people are apathetic, uninformed, or don't take the possibility of autocracy seriously.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_of_Dignity
by rolandog | 2025-04-25 16:37:37+00:00
Thanks for the encouragement and sorry for my late reply!

Indeed. Chemical Engineer that has always loved programming + InfoSec to include it in some way, shape, or form on what I do...

I took a chance during Covid and was fortunate to land DevSecOps-y roles. Not a 10x engineer by any means, but I have been working my way through Knuth's TAoCP and slowly learning to love lower level.

Living now in the Netherlands, but didn't know that there were such types of benefits to studying a PhD.

I'll definitely need to have a good think (and budgetary assessments as well) ... having to pay rent in the Netherlands due to the (probably artificial) housing crisis feels like a seriously limiting factor to afford studying.
by derektank | 2025-04-25 16:39:06+00:00
IT doesn't always hear the grumbles, hidden away as they frequently are behind a ticketing system; the help desk technicians who do hear the grumbles aren't always informed of the "why" behind certain policies, and don't have the time or inclination to go look them up if they're even documented; and it's a very unsatisfying answer even if one receives a detailed explanation.

Information loss is an inherent property of large organizations.
by dylan604 | 2025-04-25 16:39:06+00:00
while funny, there is a reason for federals coming in pairs so they can act as a witness for the other with things like lying to a federal officer.

this doesn't sound like the plural just meant 2 here, so it really does come across as Keystone Cops level of falling over themselves to not leave behind someone to keep an eye on their subject.
by jawiggins | 2025-04-25 16:39:14+00:00
The AP article [1] has the full complaint linked, the crux of the case seems to be around the judge allowing the defendant to leave through a back entrance ("jury door") when they were aware agents were waiting in the public hallway to make an arrest as they exited.

" 29. Multiple witnesses have described their observations after Judge DUGAN returned to her courtroom after directing members of the arrest team to the Chief Judge’s office. For example, the courtroom deputy recalled that upon the courtroom deputy’s return to the courtroom,defense counsel for Flores-Ruiz was talking to the clerk, and Flores-Ruiz was seated in the jury box, rather than in the gallery. The courtroom deputy believed that counsel and the clerk were having an off-the-record conversation to pick the next court date. Defense counsel and Flores-Ruizthen walked toward each other and toward the public courtroom exit. The courtroom deputy then saw Judge DUGAN get up and heard Judge DUGAN say something like “Wait, come with me.” Despite having been advised of the administrative warrant for the arrest of Flores-Ruiz, Judge DUGAN then escorted Flores-Ruiz and his counsel out of the courtroom through the “jury door,” which leads to a nonpublic area of the courthouse. These events were also unusual for two reasons.First, the courtroom deputy had previously heard Judge DUGAN direct people not to sit in the jury box because it was exclusively for the jury’s use. Second, according to the courtroom deputy, only deputies, juries, court staff, and in-custody defendants being escorted by deputies used the back jury door. Defense attorneys and defendants who were not in custody never used the jury door."

[1]: https://apnews.com/article/immigration-judge-arrested-799718...
by rockostrich | 2025-04-25 16:39:18+00:00
> I do see this being great for short utility trips (think running errands, picking something up, etc), and as a utility vehicle (would be nice to be able to have an 8ft bed).

Japan and the rest of the world figured this out decades ago. They're called kei trucks. You can buy pre-2000 imported ones in the US from like $5-15k depending on the miles/condition/year/transmission. I have a 1990 Suzuki Carry that is solely used for trips to Home Depot and picking up random furniture from FB Marketplace that I got for $6k.
by cratermoon | 2025-04-25 16:40:22+00:00
Sometime in the past few years I saw a new wrinkle: password must be changed every 90 days unless it is above a minimum length (12 or so as best I recall) in which case you only need to change it yearly. Since the industry has realized length trumps dumb "complexity" checks, it's a welcome change to see that encoded into policy.
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by kemayo | 2025-04-25 16:40:55+00:00
The power of the executive is constrained, ultimately, by what people let them do. Including people inside the executive branch -- the people who're doing the arresting, transporting the prisoners, gunning down the protesters, etc. There's a lot of people involved who aren't committed to some authoritarian project, they're just... doing their job. They can be swayed by vibes, and general unpopularity of the regime.

The alternative to this view is either giving up or preparing for armed struggle. It's certainly possible that we could get there, but I don't think it's guaranteed yet.

(I acknowledge that this position is quite the blend of optimism and cynicism.)
by perihelions | 2025-04-25 16:41:43+00:00
There's a parallel comment subthread about that,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43794576#43795264 ("In April [2019], [Shelley Joseph] and a court officer, Wesley MacGregor, were accused of allowing an immigrant to evade detention by arranging for him to sneak out the back door of a courthouse. The federal prosecutor in Boston took the highly unusual step of charging the judge with obstruction of justice…")
by brigandish | 2025-04-25 16:42:15+00:00
From [1]:

> Data from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), obtained by The Telegraph under a Freedom of Information request, reveals that 292 people have been charged with communications offences under the new regime.

This includes 23 prosecutions for sending a “false communication”…

> The offence replaces a lesser-known provision in the Communications Act 2003, Section 127(2), which criminalised “false messages” that caused “needless anxiety”. Unlike its predecessor, however, the new offence carries a potential prison sentence of up to 51 weeks, a fine, or both – a significant increase on the previous six-month maximum sentence.…

> In one high-profile case, Dimitrie Stoica was jailed for three months for falsely claiming in a TikTok livestream that he was “running for his life” from rioters in Derby. Stoica, who had 700 followers, later admitted his claim was a joke, but was convicted under the Act and fined £154.

[1] https://freespeechunion.org/hundreds-charged-with-online-spe...
by tialaramex | 2025-04-25 16:42:38+00:00
Violating ODR doesn't introduce UB it's IFNDR, Ill-formed No Diagnostic Required which is much worse in principle and in such cases probably also in practice.

UB is a runtime phenemenon, it happens, or it doesn't, and we may be able to ensure the case where it happens doesn't occur with ordinary human controls.

But IFNDR is a property of the compiled program, if you have IFNDR (by some estimates that's most C++ programs) your program has no defined behaviour and never did, so there is no possible countermeasure, too bad game over.
by ivape | 2025-04-25 16:42:49+00:00
I was talking to someone earlier about how we in America, today, are not entitled to anything. Just in the last hundred years, people lived under secret police, dictators, state-controlled media, occupation, you name it. Hundreds of millions of people lived their whole life under the KGB or Stasi. Hundreds of millions live in autocracy even today. Some straight up live in a warzone as we speak. The idea that "we" can't be going through this is beyond entitled. Nothing is guaranteed to us. We are being shown how fragile this all is by the universe.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-04-25 16:43:12+00:00
No one poor is above the law.

As autocracy expands, so does the definition of "poor".

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." - Wilhoit's Law
by wat10000 | 2025-04-25 16:43:13+00:00
The difference is that a door tends to be the only thing between you and an attacker. A speedbump is better than nothing.

This isn't like having a lock on your door, this is like having a cheap, easily pickable padlock on your bank vault. If the vault has a proper lock then the padlock serves no purpose, and if it doesn't then you're screwed regardless.
by masklinn | 2025-04-25 16:43:19+00:00
> It is a statement that the current regime wants to discourage judicial independence.

That’s not exactly new, I was recently reminded that during the governor’s meeting when Trump singled Maine out for ignoring an EO the governor replied that they’d be following the law, and Trump’s rejoinder was that they (his administration) are the law.

That was two months ago, late February.