MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pbhjpbhj | 2025-09-09 16:16:10+00:00
>you are providing significantly less to society than those caring for many kids

And getting paid considerably less. You're almost certainly providing proportionally more for your pay.

A childcare provider can register and only look after 1 child, usually, but wouldn't because they want/need more income.

Presumably nannies (careworker for children from a single family) are registered childcare providers where you are; would a nanny be subsidised able to get paid with a subsidy?
by xp84 | 2025-09-09 16:16:21+00:00
I agree with you in my heart, but I'm worried we both could be overlooking something important, so let me steel-man an argument against:

You said correctly that the private utility monopolist can choose from the menu of raising prices, delivering a subpar (cheaper) service for the same price, or can "defer" (aka skip) maintenance indefinitely. All ways they can extract cash to pay shareholders or even worse, pay management fees to private equity.

But the government-owned utility that we idealize, which provides the reasonable service at a breakeven price, may not be realistic. Government has its own incentives: Some politicians want to take funding from your utility to pay for their pet project. Others (political operatives or even civil servants) may sneak in a corrupt overpriced contract to benefit their corrupt associates. Public unions are known for negotiating unreasonable work rules and contracts that preserve jobs that are not actually needed.

All of the above together create a drain on finances of a government-owned utility, which is the public counterpart of the drain on finances that "the need to make a profit for the owners" places on investor-owned utilities.

I hate my local investor-owned utilities with a fiery passion and can't believe most governments could do worse, but I think we shouldn't overlook how easy it is for nationalized entities to engage in similar amounts of shenanigans.
by cycomanic | 2025-09-09 16:16:42+00:00
None of the European countries meat their energy demands by themselves. All of them regularly import and export electricity from/to their neighbors. That's a good thing and is driving down electricity prices not up.

The reason countries buy electricity from their neighbors is because it's cheaper not because they couldn't meat the demands themselves.

Now Germany is by no means perfect, heating is largely gas based which increases emissions. Ironically the law that was trying to change this, had a big counter campaign that likely contributed to the change of government.

So while the greens energiewende are often blamed for Germanys dependency on gas (although the dependency had been going for much longer), it's the conservatives who likely had a much bigger impact on Germany sticking with gas by preventing to move heating to electricity.
by smeeth | 2025-09-09 16:16:46+00:00
Do you have any evidence for that?

From what I’ve seen, the research leans the other way. For example:

Children from more advantaged families were actually more likely to view unfair distribution as unfair, while poorer children were more likely to accept it. [0]

Mother’s work hours show no link to childhood behavioral problems, it’s schedule flexibility that matters. [1]

For working-class families, more father work hours correlated with fewer behavioral problems.[2]

The idea that “well-off kids” end up with morality deficits because their parents work a lot doesn’t seem to hold up.

[0] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/desc.13230

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9119633/

[2] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7021583/
by frabcus | 2025-09-09 16:16:59+00:00
Looks pretty real:

https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/7f90d0ca342b92...

When this started it really put me off X - I'd have tolerated, and almost liked the idea, of a freedom of speeech place. But a place that boosts its owners posts... Nope.

I'm out - it's such a big personal diss of me, I'm not interested any more.
by autoexec | 2025-09-09 16:16:59+00:00
If "food" were a singular universally used product, and units of food were totally interchangeable I'd say that food should be treated like a utility. Instead there's a lot of different types of food from ultra-processed crap that's sat on a shelf for years to whole/fresh foods and everything from the skill of the manufacturer/baker/chef to the quality of the ingredients used will result in massive differences in the food and its costs.

That isn't really the case with water and power (or even internet access). Water is water. Electricity is Electricity. There's no artisanal organic Electricity made from the finest ingredients that powers your stuff any better. You either have a safe, functioning product or it isn't. Everyone needs the exact same stuff, it makes sense for the government to supply it. Not everyone needs, or even wants, the same foods.
by gruez | 2025-09-09 16:17:02+00:00
>The Banks don't determine if you are a terrorist or what not. They comply with the order when a judge gives them a lawful order to freeze accounts.

How do you think this works in reality when the people getting sanctioned are trying to bypass the sanctions by creating shell companies and false identities? You either have a totally ineffective sanctions regime because it can be trivially be bypassed by setting up new shell companies, or a vaguely effective one because banks are deputized to figure out whether their customers are sanctioned or not. Luckily we have the latter.
by throwway120385 | 2025-09-09 16:17:02+00:00
You can also take them to events at the public libraries and other places, at least in my area. They're often called "Library Story Times" and they're free where we live. That's what my spouse does. There's a very wide spectrum of social activities available even for kids of stay-at-home parents. She will often get together with other parents and let our son socialize with their children too.
by throw912 | 2025-09-09 16:17:19+00:00
Expect this to get much worse soon. Even left-leaning youth will probably start to agree with the idea of destroying it out of spite, and even if they know it won't actually help them. At some point we'll have to admit, it's not easy to explain why youth need to subsidize things for an older generation that enjoys housing, healthcare, and stocks when they themselves have not had the disposable income for any of that. Scott Galloway has a ted-talk where he calls it generational theft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEJ4hkpQW8E
by isatsam | 2025-09-09 16:17:30+00:00
I don't work in cybersecurity and, after looking at the site's homepage, couldn't exactly figure out from all the buzzwords what exactly is this product. The most concerning takeaway from this article for me is that the maintainers of Huntress (whatever it is) can keep a log of, as well as personally access, the users' browser history, history of launched executables, device's hostname, and presumably a lot of other information. How is this product not a total security nightmare?
by catigula | 2025-09-09 16:17:32+00:00
Creating factories in America as a tariff loophole, likely using American taxpayer dollars and infrastructure, and then taking advantage of this to employ foreign labor and claim they have "special guy who welds together a car door skills", is pretty disturbing and emblematic of how stark a failure it is to pour public funding into/for private companies and demand no state stake.

If Google, or Hyundai, get special privileges and resource investment from the state, the state should have an ownership stake in these companies. This is known to most countries and isn't particularly controversial.
by axus | 2025-09-09 16:17:45+00:00
> A Savannah labor union leader said local unions have complained that Hyundai and its contractors were improperly using South Korean workers for basic construction that falls outside the visa waiver rules.

I'm glad there's some small way the US people benefitted from this action. Overall it's insane; did they try an ultimatum with lawyers, and an agreement to send everyone home, before sending in the helicopters?
by MrSkelter | 2025-09-09 16:17:46+00:00
This is also the result of the failure of the third most expensive technical project of the war. The Norden sight. At the outset of the war it was believed that precision bombing from the air was possible. A vast sum was spent making a sight to allow accurate targeting to that end.

It simply didn’t work and the result was a return to area bombing and the massive civilian casualties that resulted in.

Even worse the bombing did almost nothing to lessen enemy output. In fact over the war Germany and Japan managed to constantly increase their output of weapons for various reasons. One being that having a large industrial base pre war meant they could always sift production. Ie at the start you are making bullets in a bullet factory. At the end you are making bullets in what was a sewing machine factory.

We still like to believe accurate weapons make for “clean” conflicts but we never seem able to resist area bombing.
by furyofantares | 2025-09-09 16:18:08+00:00
I am in agreement with the author regarding Silksong. It's the author's understanding about games in general that seems to have a bit of a blind spot (despite being deep in other ways).

These games may be masterpieces but they don't come out of nowhere, there are many other games where skill mastery is much or even most of the appeal. I also somewhat wanted to pick on the line that the Mario games are the only other games that put as much care into how you traverse the world.
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-09-09 16:18:10+00:00
The one I use (KeePassXC) is also a separate app, but there are browser extensions for the major browsers to support autofill. Of course plenty of sites don't actually work with autofill, even the browser builtin autofill, because they don't mark the form fields properly. So autofill not working is common enough that it's not a reliable red flag. Separate password managers have the advantage that they can store passwords for things other than websites, and secret data other than passwords (arbitrary files). KeePassXC's auto-type can work with any application, not just a browser.
by HatchedLake721 | 2025-09-09 16:19:02+00:00
> Hate to break it to you, but many kids actually do better away from their parents than with them.

Is this based on something?

There's research left and right shows that children under 36 months at group nurseries are linked to increased aggression, anxiety, lower emotional skills, elevated cortisol (stress hormone), which is associated with long-term health and developmental risks.

Infants and children do better with one-to-one care at home by their parents and familiar faces, rather than strangers in a group setting.
by jerlam | 2025-09-09 16:19:08+00:00
Some probably did not, but it was common to ignore the law. There does not seem to be a process for getting valid visas for this kind of project:

https://www.ft.com/content/c677b9aa-2e89-4feb-a56f-f3c8452b3...

And they would feel betrayed because their bosses probably told them it was ok.
by GuB-42 | 2025-09-09 16:19:36+00:00
Maybe, maybe not. But it makes a lot of sense as for why it was discussed in the context of tariff negotiations. Tariffs are also an "unfair advantage" and letting American companies compete on mapping is likely to be part of the deal.

But a trade agreement doesn't mean that Google will get to disregard South Korean national security rules, so, blurring.
by barbazoo | 2025-09-09 16:20:00+00:00
Not only no weights. Not sure what people's expectations are but a lot of the time this isn't even valid code with all the redaction they did [1]. I'm confused as to who this is for, this surely isn't the repo they're working on, is it?

[1] https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/main/trust_and...
by feross | 2025-09-09 16:20:09+00:00
Disclosure: I'm the founder of https://socket.dev.

A few concrete datapoints from our analysis of this incident that may help cut through the hand-waving:

1. This is the same campaign that hit Qix yesterday (https://socket.dev/blog/npm-author-qix-compromised-in-major-...). The injected payload is byte-for-byte behaviorally identical. It hooks fetch, XMLHttpRequest, and common wallet provider APIs and live-rewrites transaction payloads to attacker addresses across ETH, BTC, SOL, TRX, LTC, BCH. One tell: a bundle of very distinctive regexes for chain address formats, including multiple Solana and Litecoin variants.

2. Affected versions and timing (UTC) that we verified:

- duckdb@1.3.3 at 01:13

- @duckdb/duckdb-wasm@1.29.2 at 01:11

- @duckdb/node-api@1.3.3 at 01:12

- @duckdb/node-bindings@1.3.3 at 01:11

Plus low-reach test shots: prebid@10.9.1, 10.9.2 and @coveops/abi@2.0.1

3. Payout so far looks small. Tracked wallets sum to roughly $600 across chains. That suggests speed of discovery contained damage, not that the approach is harmless.

What would actually move the needle:

=== Registry controls ===

- Make passkeys or FIDO2 mandatory for high-impact publisher accounts. Kill TOTP for those tiers.

- Block publishing for 24 hours after 2FA reset or factor changes. Also block after adding a new automation token unless it is bound by OIDC provenance.

- Require signed provenance on upload for popular packages. Verify via Sigstore-style attestations. Reject if there is no matching VCS tag.

- Quarantine new versions from being treated as “latest” for automation for N hours. Exact-version installs still work. This alone cuts the blast radius of a hijack.

=== Team controls ===

- Do not copy-paste secrets or 2FA. Use autofill and origin-bound WebAuthn.

- Require maker-checker on publish for org-owned high-reach packages. CI must only build from a signed tag by an allowed releaser.

- Pin and lock. Use `npm ci`. Consider an internal proxy that quarantines new upstream versions for review.

=== Detection ===

- Static heuristics catch this family fast. Wallet address regex clusters and network shims inside non-crypto packages are a huge tell. If your tooling sees that in a data engine or UI lib, fail the build.

Lastly, yes, training helps, but the durable fix is making the easy path the safe path.
by ivape | 2025-09-09 16:20:14+00:00
Elon’s father was not keen on him leaving South Africa from what I recall. There was an element of daddy doesn’t believe in me. He left against his fathers wishes.

https://people.com/human-interest/elon-musk-errol-musk-relat...

’“He was such a terrible human being,” Elon, 46, told the magazine. “You have no idea.”’

Daddy issues out the ass. This is actually the simplest answer, because people that pursue external validation (in Elon’s case it is very extreme, nothing is ever enough) are a genuine product of child abuse (it’s obvious emotional abuse is a major factor here).

I’m not absolving Elon, just trying to understand the initial state.

Edit:

When Elon finally came home from the hospital, his father berated him. "I had to stand for an hour as he yelled at me and called me an idiot and told me that I was just worthless," Elon recalls. Kimbal, who had to watch the tirade, says it was the worst memory of his life. "My father just lost it, went ballistic, as he often did. He had zero compassion."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/book-excerpt-elon-musk-by-walte...

Remember, this is a guy that showed up with a toilet to the Twitter offices and fired everyone, got on everyone’s case to sleep in the offices. He is a literal product of child abuse, and while he may not be continuing the cycle with his kids (which is hard to say because he disowned his Trans kid), he is absolutely unleashing the cycle of abuse onto others wherever he goes.
by ivanovm | 2025-09-09 16:20:15+00:00
one underrated approach more and more people are finding success with: apple watch ultra as a primary device (optionally with a case for a more phone-like factor)

you can do most things an iphone does, but you can't doom scroll. you don't have to eject out of apple ecosystem, you get payments, 2fa, navigation, notifications. your iphone can remain as a backup that's always in sync for when you need it (e.g. traveling)
YC Demo Day: I mapped out every YC company on an interactive world map
by leonagano | 2025-09-09 16:20:21+00:00
Since it’s YC Demo Day, I thought it would be fun to re-share a project I built: a world map of all YC companies.

The map lets you:

• Explore where YC founders are building across the globe

• Filter by batch

• Click into companies directly

Would love your feedback.

ps.: for those who've seen this before, I fixed all companies' locations.
by esseph | 2025-09-09 16:20:36+00:00
> Always use password manager to automatically fill in your credentials

Absolutely not.

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/08/clickjack-att...

https://thehackernews.com/2025/08/dom-based-extension-clickj...

https://www.intercede.com/the-dangers-of-password-autofill-a...
by hedora | 2025-09-09 16:20:40+00:00
Yes, but can you find any that work well when the branch of the government that’s running it refuses to process paperwork from daycare providers or issue checks to pay those providers, and where its leader has prioritized getting the system shut down on the grounds that it’s “broken”?

(Not strawmanning; just summarizing the situation in Oregon, according to that linked article.)
by highonl1fe | 2025-09-09 16:20:45+00:00
I'm on the exact same journey as OP but I think I have a solution that is a little easier to setup.

Simply use Apple's Screen Time but lock all of the Screen Time settings behind a pin. Have a friend or loved one create the pin and keep it secret from you and voila.

With Screen time you can have an "Always Allowed" list and if you use the "Downtime" setting it doesn't actually let you set limits past a one minute exception per app.

You also have to make sure that the downtime setting is 24 hours of downtime.

*Edit: seems like a lot of people are suggesting the same exact thing.
by jeswin | 2025-09-09 16:21:02+00:00
If you're the author of ducklib, and you get an email asking "Did you just publish ducklib 2.4.1?" with a fair number of warnings in the mail text, will you click on the publish link?

I certainly wouldn't. And I don't see it as pointless theater. It requires deliberate action, and that's what's missing here.
by spike021 | 2025-09-09 16:21:04+00:00
For the past two to three weeks I've noticed Claude just consistently lagging or potentially even being throttled for pretty minor coding or CLI tasks. It'll basically stop showing any progress for at least a couple minutes. Sometimes exiting the query and re-trying gets it to work but other times it keeps happening. I pay for Pro so I don't think it's just API rate limiting.

Would appreciate if that could be fixed but of course new features are more interesting for them to prioritize.
by mikewarot | 2025-09-09 16:21:11+00:00
>Saved by procrastination!

Seriously, this is one of my key survival mechanisms. By the time I became system administrator for a small services company, I had learned to let other people beta test things. We ran Microsoft Office 2000 for 12 years, and saved soooo many upgrade headaches. We had a decade without the need to retrain.

That, and like other have said... never clicking links in emails.
by int_19h | 2025-09-09 16:21:25+00:00
I would argue that ANSI color output should be something natively supported in stdlib for any general purpose or systems programming language today. Precisely for this reason - it has been a standard for a very long time, and for several years now (since Windows enabled it by default) it is a truly universal standard de facto as well. This is exactly the kind of stuff that stdlib should cover.
by BobbyJo | 2025-09-09 16:21:32+00:00
> This is probably less an Apple-style culture of secrecy and more laziness and a belief that important details have been abstracted away from us users

As someone who had worked in providing infra to third parties, I can say that providing more detail than necessary will hurt your chances with some bigger customers. Giving them more information than they need or ask for makes your product look more complicated.

However sophisticated you think a customer of this product will be, go lower.
by MisterSandman | 2025-09-09 16:21:34+00:00
I think what ICE is doing is bad, but I do feel a bit annoyed with how the media is reporting this. They WERE misusing the B1 Visa a bit - at least that’s what the facts point to, and that’s the only reason they are sending workers back to Korea.

I understand why they did this (H1B is painful and a B1 visa may have been the only way to get people to train American factory workers), but it’s not like they were completely innocent. South Koreans were still treated with a lot more respect and dignity than almost any other ethnicity has been.
by Simulacra | 2025-09-09 16:21:43+00:00
But that raise is a very important question: are we at the point where we don't follow certain laws because we disagree with them, or do we follow all laws and try to change the ones we disagree with?

I'm certain mistakes were made, by everyone, but how do we draw the line between breaking the law and not breaking the law?

That last part is a very, very good point. It's possible nobody ever told them. Which means the managers and the people who run the plant should be the ones in handcuffs.
by orwin | 2025-09-09 16:21:47+00:00
I knew there were pictures of that, but it was intentional? You tell me your police put foreign people in chains, took pictures without blurring anything, and posted them? It wasn't a leak?

Everything is dumb, but i think this is the worst. Who thought it was a good idea?

And the US union workers agree with this? Even if they were doing illegal work, they cheer seeing fellow workers getting in chains and publicly humiliated i guess? Because of course that's the workers fault their company told them to go work there? Are they dumb?

Sorry i really like your country (well, The Appalachians and the Sierras) but wtf are you doing?
by solomonb | 2025-09-09 16:21:54+00:00
> - it’s way easier and cheaper to launder money through cryptocurrency casinos than art auctions

Sure art sales can be used to launder money, but that can't be the majority of sales. Doesn't laundering rely on being masked by a larger legitimate cash flow?

I think a much more significant portion of the art market is people speculating on prices and people collecting to look cool. Both of which are highly sensitive to changes in mood and sentiment as described in the section of the article talking about Beth Rudin DeWoody .
by bluGill | 2025-09-09 16:22:12+00:00
Women was used in several different places. Each is offensive, because in each case a man could do the same work, and the work could be done. I have no opinion on if a man or woman should be caregiver - I've seen both cases work well - every situation must be taken case by case.

What does full potential even mean? If someone wants to do something, but they have to do something else or they would starve (that is play vs work) which is living up to their full potential - what they want to do, or what they must do?