MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ajross | 2025-09-09 17:05:37+00:00
> keyless entry, 360 cameras, nor level 2 ADAS

It's the only non-luxury brand I'm aware of with all of those features. Who are you thinking about?

Also you're misdirecting: "keyless entry" isn't remotely the same as "your phone is your key".

And the "level 2 ADAS" business is a transparent attempt to troll an FSD argument to which won't engage except to say, again, that the user experience of letting your car drive a 200 mile leg of a long road trip is also not remotely the same as always bouncing around and stomping on brakes experience of the lanekeeping offered elsewhere.

You know both of these truths, which is why you want to redefine the features to make them false.
by rhcom2 | 2025-09-09 17:05:47+00:00
The argument with Stringrays is that even with a warrant to target an individual the police end up sucking up a large amount of random people's location and cell phone data.

Like license plate readers and facial recognition, you're out in the world without the expectation of privacy but I think for most people that feels different when a giant automated system is sucking everything up without recourse.
by ryandrake | 2025-09-09 17:05:49+00:00
I addressed your second point in another comment. If voters thought there was a societal advantage to financially encourage stay-at-home parenthood with a subsidy, I'd be open to listen to the pros and cons of that, too, but that's kind of a separate issue. This one is about easing the burden for those who already pay for professional childcare, including those on the margin.

The first point is just unfortunate humanity crab bucket mentality. "Others shouldn't benefit if I don't." I don't think there's anything we can do about that :(
by Aunche | 2025-09-09 17:06:00+00:00
> In other countries what goes as 'lobbying' in US would be mostly classified as blatant corruption of the politics.

Sorry, but you have no idea what you're talking about. Every democratic country has professional lobbyists.

> Corporations are centralized entities that have access to a lot of money and (also through money) to lobbying specialists

Indeed the purpose of money is to purchase goods and services. That doesn't contradict anything that I said. My point is that you don't need a lot of money to lobby. There are plenty of people who are willing to lobby for just causes for their bare minimum expenses. Nowadays, people have forgotten it is even an option.

> Normal citizens face and uphill struggle in every step - they have to get organized, get money, get specialists.

Achieving goals requires investment and effort. Boo hoo. The demographic that frequents HN absolutely has the time and money to make meaningful changes in the world that they complain about, yet they act like they're helpless victims.

> Shouldn't voting for the people who represent your interests be actually enough?

For one, voters only care about vibes. They don't give a shit about policy. Mitch McConnell reassured fellow Republicans that voters would "get over" the Medicaid cuts. He may be evil, but he is good at what he does and is 100% correct here. This attitude goes across the political spectrum. The most popular politicians on the left (e.g. AOC and Sanders) have some of the weakest

Even in a best case scenario of an informed voter base, voting still isn't enough. Politicians and their dozen or so staffers can't be experts in every aspect of society.

> Colonisation of North America was not a central plan.

It's almost as if you brought up a famine in a different continent. Colonization of land and resources is different from the colonization of a people, which is central planning.

> Ultimately, it is not about who has the power and where does the legitimacy of power come from, but how is that power wielded.

I don't really disagree with anything below.
by thewebguyd | 2025-09-09 17:06:09+00:00
> My work laptop, depending on the period of my life, you could have had access to stuff you wouldn't believe either.

What gets me is everyone acknowledges this, yet HN is full of comments ripping on IT teams for the restrictions & EDR put in place on dev laptops.

We on the ops side have known these risks for years and that knowledge of those risks are what drives organizational security policies and endpoint configuration.

Security is hard, and it is very inconvenient, but it's increasingly necessary.
by neilknowsbest | 2025-09-09 17:06:19+00:00
I've been to the Moffat Tunnel many times and I never realized there was a water project associated with the better known rail tunnel there. FWIW, I've also never seen any sort of security there. Besides a lone Gilpin county sheriff's deputy who lives out along that road and makes it his life's mission to ticket any vehicle parked illegally on the county road.
by kwar13 | 2025-09-09 17:06:33+00:00
Job interview scams have always been a thing on LinkedIn but I've noticed they have gotten more sophisticated. With the arrival of LLMs they're able to "speak the language" so to speak and don't immediately stand out as scams unless you're paying attention.

Here's the latest scam I encountered on LinkedIn which while from a technical standpoint might not be the most sophisticated is well socially engineered and IMO could dupe people who are non-technical and might not have their guard up.
by mindslight | 2025-09-09 17:06:39+00:00
"Biden years" is doing even more work. The suicide cultists generally ignore the trillions in helicopter money that was dumped into the economy under Trump's "watch", right when we were also dealing with supply shortages. It took a few years for the economy to start moving and that new money to go from asset prices into consumer prices, right in time for short memories to blame JOEBIDEN.
by nalllar | 2025-09-09 17:06:55+00:00
> 1. NEVER EVER login from an email link. EVER. There are enough legit and phishing emails asking you to do this that it's basically impossible to tell one from the other. The only way to win is to not try.

Sites choosing to replace password login with initiating the login process and then clicking a "magic link" in your email client is awful for developing good habits here, or for giving good general advice. :c
by mrguyorama | 2025-09-09 17:07:16+00:00
>'mudblood' from harry potter a bit, also from pop fiction -- and similarly considered harmless

Considered harmless? The entire point of the "mudblood" slur is so JK can clearly signal who agrees with the literal Wizard Nazis! Anyone and everyone says "muggle", but calling someone a mudblood in the harry potter universe was how literal children reading knew you were the bad guy!
by triceratops | 2025-09-09 17:07:20+00:00
> when you need to store energy from the summer to feed the grid in the winter

Surely you don't need to power 100% of winter hours with summer sunshine. Electricity isn't grain to be stored in a silo.

Most places humans live in also get sunshine in the winter. Less sunshine admittedly, but that's where overbuilding panels and interconnecting grids comes in. And even dark, cold places get windy.
by aeternum | 2025-09-09 17:07:27+00:00
Good government policies generally avoid step functions otherwise you get perverse incentives.

For example, if you lose too many benefits when you get a job, it can easily make getting a job yield negative expected value, this is bad because often it stunts future career potential.

There may be families that cannot quite afford to be a stay-at-home mom even though they want to. Providing the waiver also increases the overall fairness. In rural areas there are generally far fewer childcare options, so this becomes a benefit that accrues to those that live in cities. Not very fair.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-09-09 17:07:34+00:00
Given that Trump recently fired his head of labor statistics, because he didn't like what was being reported, I'd take this with a grain of salt. Presumably whatever numbers are now being released are whatever "alternate facts" he wants to put out.

There could be various reasons Trump wants to report bad numbers, such as pressuring the Fed to lower rates, or to establish a horrible baseline from which he can then report improvement on by the midterms.

It reminds of the soviet union reporting all sorts of bogus improvement statistics by implicitly using the worst possible baseline they could - from decades earlier.
by nashashmi | 2025-09-09 17:07:44+00:00
There was a situation where specialized artisan skilled workers were brought in from India on the respective visa and were given housing and food in exchanging for working on a BAPS temple. The workers were paid nothing (like $1/hour). This was abuse. But the workers were not at fault. The temple builder was. And the workers were rescued from the abusive environment. Later the temple claimed that the workers were "volunteers" so they got away with it.
by abirch | 2025-09-09 17:08:22+00:00
Are you quoting from the Forbes article listed above?

"In a recently-unsealed search warrant reviewed by Forbes, ICE used such a cell-site simulator in an attempt to track down an individual in Orem, Utah. The suspect had been ordered to leave the U.S. in 2023, but is believed to still be in the country. Investigators learned last month that before going to Utah, he’d escaped prison in Venezuela where he was serving a sentence for murder, according to the warrant. He’s also suspected of being linked to gang activity in the country, investigators said.

When the government got the target’s number, they first got a warrant to get its location. However, the trace wasn’t precise–it only told law enforcement that the target was somewhere in an area covering about 30 blocks. That led them to asking a court for a Stingray-type device to get an accurate location.

The warrant was issued at the end of last month and it’s not yet known if the fugitive was found."
by mothballed | 2025-09-09 17:08:27+00:00
Childless people are getting the best deal of anyone. They get new social security payers with a better invested upbringing, all for paying out a pittance and offloading most of the cost onto parents -- all the meanwhile having their social security payout almost completely untied to making the investments needed to get their payment.

Childless people basically get their cake and eat it too under the social welfare scheme of most western countries, getting the benefits of children without having to deal with much of the drawbacks.
by boston_clone | 2025-09-09 17:08:31+00:00
Could folks share more accessible methods for developing counter-Stingray type activities described in this paper, or rather, which ones they themselves have used with varying degrees of success?

https://www.cise.ufl.edu/~butler/pubs/ndss25-tucker-marlin.p...

Ideally, this is something I could hack together in the next few days since ICE is prepping to invade my city.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-09-09 17:08:40+00:00
New Mexico is filled with poor people, news at 11. But seriously, a lot of things go into your state's education outcomes: state of the kids coming into the system is actually very important, as is parent participation, before we even get to funding by the state. As the only poor blue state, New Mexico has a lot to make up for, and it can't just magic its problems away.
by tensor | 2025-09-09 17:08:54+00:00
Ads have long been weapons. It's time the west woke up to the threat of propaganda. And no, addressing this is not incompatible with "free speech." Propaganda is not free speech. The person paying for the propaganda has a voice they can use, that is their free speech.

Whenever did it become somehow a "right" to be able to pay for large scale propaganda? Oddly enough this right is not afforded to those without the funds to pay for it.
Ask HN: Could scammers have infiltrated the IRS callback system?
by supportengineer | 2025-09-09 17:08:56+00:00
We called the IRS to discuss an issue and we utilized the callback system. We entered our phone number and were told to expect a call back within 30 minutes, from a West Virginia number. I have used this system before so all this was familiar. The call came at the expected time, from the expected area code. However, it turned out to be a scam call center. How is this technically possible?
by cma | 2025-09-09 17:09:13+00:00
If it uses a lot less power it could still be a win for some use cases, like while on battery you might still want to run transformer based speech to text, RTX voice-like microphone denoising, image generation/infill in photo editing programs. In some use cases like RTX-voice like stuff during multiplayer gaming, you might want the GPU free to run the game even if it still suffers some memory bandwidth impact from having it running.
by commandersaki | 2025-09-09 17:09:18+00:00
The technical protection measure is the digital certificate and possibly even the proprietary game cartridge form factor.

(2) No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that—

(A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title;

(B) has only limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title; or

In my opinion (A) is violated because the non fungibility of the game cartridge is violated by copying the certificate to present an inauthentic cartridge as genuine.

(B) is pretty straightforward.

But I don't know, maybe I'm wrong, maybe Nintendo lawyers are wrong, and this guy could've fought this specific charge over a technicality. Reminds me of how Sov Cits always get out of traffic infringements because they're "traveling".
by unethical_ban | 2025-09-09 17:09:21+00:00
We need, at the very least, to revoke "emergency" powers of the presidency, and we need to reinforce that Congressional action overrides executive whim.

The administrative state is a good thing, not a bad thing, and people like Steve Bannon are cancers on American success.

Ideally, we would also ban gerrymandering, revoke unlimited anonymous political spending, and implement ranked choice voting.
by perihelions | 2025-09-09 17:09:22+00:00
I.e. the inference is that ICE is unconstitutionally tracking and assembling lists of protestors exercising their First Amendment rights.

> "A post-scan analysis confirmed the detection of 574 IMSI-exposing messages."

That's roughly 574 unique protestors, give or take.

Full-on autocratic tyranny—this is also what Putin's oligarchs did to Ukranians at the Maidan Protests, in Kyiv in 2014. Used IMSI-catchers to assemble lists of everyone present, and intimidate them.

https://slate.com/technology/2014/01/ukraine-texting-euromai... ("How Did Ukraine’s Government Text Threats to Kiev’s EuroMaidan Protesters?" (2014)).
by steveBK123 | 2025-09-09 17:09:26+00:00
It's clearly a combination of stealth layoffs and "because we can" attitude by a lot of C-suite right now.

Labor market is soft, so they will take as much as they can while they can, on the status quo bias of "in-office must be more productive, especially if employees don't like it".

It's the dumbest form of stealth layoffs as it's random untargetted regarding the company's actual department/role staffing needs.
by legacynl | 2025-09-09 17:09:38+00:00
Yeah but an AMD/Intel CPU supports many different types of configurations. Isn't it unfair to compare a chip that only supports one configuration with one that supports many?

It feels to me like we're kind of comparing speeds between a personal automobile and a long haul truck. Yes, one is faster than the other, but that's meaningless, because both have different design considerations. A long haul truck has to be able to carry load, and that makes the design different. Of course they'll still make it as fast as possible, but it's never going to be the same as a car.

Basically what I'm saying is that because it's impossible to strip away all the performance and efficiency improvements that come from apple's total control of the software and hardware stack; is it really possible to conclude that apple sillicon itself is as impressive as they make it out to be?
by panick21_ | 2025-09-09 17:09:44+00:00
You can also put my SMR onto one location with one control room.

The answer to generic defect is not to have a bunch of incompatible stuff with no commonality.

The NIMBY effect can kill literally anything, the issue with nuclear is cost, far more then NIMBY.

NuScale was always a bad idea. The PWR is the problem, making it smaller doesn't really solve the issues with them.

Project in Canada are struggling because the market in Canada is just to small. The reality is, you need massive amounts of funding, but with the way regulations work, even if Canada were literally perfect in every way, as long as large markets like the US, has unusable regulation, and Europe has wildly all over the place regulation, the needed money is just almost impossible to happen.

You are right that there is nothing new here, except maybe that large private institutions are starting to do some investing.

But the reality is, Rickover was right, Alvin M. Weinberg was even more right. An France did maybe the smart decision in their history when they embraced that philosophy. Sadly they only did so for 1-2 decades and then the next generation came in, was convinced that all those old people were idiots and now that the problem was solved for them they no longer had to pay attention to energy policy.
by warrenm | 2025-09-09 17:09:47+00:00
I was on the Fediverse for a while with my own Mastodon instance a few years ago[0]

Then a minor update broke it[1]

Have not been back since

Like you, I want to like it / use it ... but it simply takes too much mental space on top of the other social media / comm channels I use (professional and personal)

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[0] https://antipaucity.com/2019/02/07/sweetree-ga-the-newest-ma...

[1] https://antipaucity.com/2019/07/16/goodbye-self-hosted-masto...
by yepitwas | 2025-09-09 17:10:01+00:00
To be very blunt: trashy parents with too much time on their hands will become enraged and raise a huge stink if their kid can't text them or answer their calls(!) while in class. So many will do this that schools just gave up.

That's why it's nice when states just make it a law. That shuts those people up (or at least forces them to go complain somewhere else, where they're more easily ignored and it takes more effort so they'll probably just give up).

(That's the middle-class schools—in really rough schools, teachers have to pick their battles because actual violence is on the table as a response, even among lower elementary kids, and admin's too busy dealing with things way more serious than some kid texting in class to back teachers up on small stuff like that)
by jonstewart | 2025-09-09 17:10:03+00:00
Their customers are companies. Almost every company, of at least a certain size, has one or more security tools installed on every host in the organization; there are called Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) tools. Some marquee products are SentinelOne and CrowdStrike Falcon, but there are dozens. Huntress makes their own security tool but operates it for their customers as a service, which is called Managed Detection & Response (MDR). Everything on this page is legit.
by close04 | 2025-09-09 17:10:38+00:00
Honest question. Would you even dare to say you work at Twitter and then spill the beans on some very public lie or misdirection? It’s trivial to match your writing style between your HN comments and your work emails to identify you. Musk is famously a very petty, bitter, and vindictive person with an easy to bruise ego.

I don’t have any knowledge of the reality inside Twitter but I also have no reason to believe the company would be transparent given the many past controversies, or that any one employee would be able to look at this code which has obvious redactions and say “everything else is definitely 100% prod” and not exactly what GP suggested.
by singulasar | 2025-09-09 17:11:01+00:00
I think it's quite good, there's a sense of urgency, but it's also not "immediately change it!" they gave more than a day, and stated that it would be a temporary lock. Feel like this one really hit the spot on that aspect.

You should still never click a link in an email like this, but the urgency factor is well done here
by viccis | 2025-09-09 17:11:04+00:00
Having worked in the computer security world for many years and been completely on board with the "it's good to open source attack tools so that everyone knows what can be done", it's still sometimes hard not to feel like a useful idiot when I see attackers operating with big stacks of almost all open source tooling that are now mature and full featured enough to make almost any skid into a decently effective procurer and vendor of stolen information with a bit of effort.
by giantg2 | 2025-09-09 17:11:15+00:00
I fail to understand what value your initial comment holds. The grandparents of that comment was talking about financial feasibility of the program in the context of a proposed waiver. This necessarily implies that on-topic responses to that should be weighing financial feasibility of the program with and without the waiver. Your most recent comment seems to just be clarifying that your initial comment is just the same generalized explanation for the current expansion - expanding the benefit to the currently working higher earning parents where the return is unclear and logically dubious, thus providing some much lower percentage of X while X is much larger. The only way to claim what your comment is trying to is to also display some evidence that this current expansion will provide economic activity benefit beyond the previous program that had 4x poverty level means testing. Otherwise, it's simply "some much lower percentage of X while X is also much larger" vs the same thing with X being even larger.
by simoncion | 2025-09-09 17:11:17+00:00
> These companies tell customers to be suspicious of phishing attempts, and then they pull these stunts.

Yep. At every BigCo I've worked at, nearly all of the emails from Corporate have been indistinguishable from phishing. Sometimes, they're actual spam!

Do the executives and directors responsible for sending these messages care? No. They never do, and get super defensive and self-righteous when you show them exactly how their precious emails tick every "This message is phishing!" box in the mandatory annual phishing-detection-and-resistance training.
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-09 17:11:22+00:00
This feels like a strawman. I didn’t say that “all a child needs is their parents”. I am saying however, that parents in most cases will provide higher quality care and more attention to their child than what a daycare can provide. Have you tried watching 3 kids simultaneously? It’s just not possible even in the controlled environment of a daycare room. Kids that are raised by parents aren’t in a bubble - they’re still going out and meeting with other families and kids and doing things. The notion that children raised by parents are not exposed is itself a common myth used to diminish the value of parents.
by sublimefire | 2025-09-09 17:11:25+00:00
It mentions this was based on some “data” (in emailsto employees) that it will yield better output but I somehow doubt it. I wonder what happens with the stock. It sort of makes it worse for the teams that are distributed and harms collab between sites in different zones like Europe/Asia and US/Europe. When you are working from home it is easy to stay later or start earlier and join calls. If you are in the office this is not that easy due to commute.

Given that MS does not have top salaries, my bet is that folks will leave to other companies given that the main leverage like WFH is gone.