MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pempem | 2025-09-09 17:31:15+00:00
No.

Are men "leaving their children and working all day"? Should we not pay them to stay home?

This view is either fully gendered or assumes that all families are made up of two people and one person's wages should support a family. Neither are the conversation on this table.

The conversation on this table is: Our current economy, in nearly every state and for every metro requires more than minimum wage to rent not own, an apt and live, not save for the future. Childcare has gone up 30% in the last few years alone and wages, as you have likely experienced, have not.

We cannot continue to expect people with choices to have children given this economic situation.

Trust me. You want people to continue having children, and you'd prefer them to be positive additions to society, for your own well-being in old age.
by tavavex | 2025-09-09 17:31:28+00:00
The scary thing is that if you swapped out the 1984-speak for regular modern euphemisms and corporate jargon, and cut out the last few sentences, this could've totally been something posted on one of these website's help pages or in their press release, otherwise unedited.

Though, these websites aren't driven by some misguided but well-meaning vision to treat society of its ills. They only care about making money, and advertisers have just converged on demanding that anything complimenting their ads be squeaky-clean, inoffensive, always happy. They dictate their preferences to services that primarily make money off ads. The way advertiser interests end up clashing with people's desire for free expression is just a side effect to them.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-09-09 17:31:37+00:00
> Of course enforcing pro-labor laws against multinationals isn’t exactly what this admin is known for, so it’s probably a fuck up. But until we know the details we don’t know.

It is pretty obvious now that the Korean sub-contractors thought they were above board on the proper visas for the consulting work that was being contracted. Now, whether that was actually true or not will take a few years of litigation to figure out, since visa law is complicated. If they were doing custom specialized work (that is definitely allowed by ESTA/B1), then the visas were correct. If they were hammering nails into wood, then the visas were incorrect. See https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-us-georgia-raid-hyund...
by dghlsakjg | 2025-09-09 17:32:40+00:00
I think people rip on EDR and security when 1. They haven’t had it explained why it does what it does or 2. It is process for process sake.

To wit: I have an open ticket right now from an automated code review tool that flagged a potential vulnerability. I and two other seniors have confirmed that it is a false alarm so I asked for permission to ignore it by clicking the ignore button in a separate security ticket. They asked for more details to be added to the ticket, except I don’t have permissions to view the ticket. I need to submit another ticket to get permission to view the original ticket to confirm that no less than three senior developers have validated this as a false alarm, which is information that is already on another ticket. This non-issue has been going on for months at this point. The ops person who has asked me to provide more info won’t accept a written explanation via Teams, it has to be added to the ticket.

Stakeholders will quickly treat your entire security system like a waste of time and resources when they can plainly see that many parts of it are a waste of time and resources.

The objection isn’t against security. It is against security theater.
by zahlman | 2025-09-09 17:32:51+00:00
> U2F/Webauthn key as second factor is phishing-proof. TOTP is not.

Last I checked, we're still in a world where the large majority of people with important online accounts (like, say, at their bank, where they might not have the option to disable online banking entirely) wouldn't be able to tell you what any of those things are, and don't have the option to use anything but SMS-based TOTP for most online services and maybe "app"-based (maybe even a desktop program in rare cases!) TOTP for most of the rest. If they even have 2FA at all.
by ariwilson | 2025-09-09 17:33:21+00:00
I have a more nuanced take here. For low performing or junior employees, remote work was generally a terrible thing that led to less productivity (and more managerial overhead). For strongly performing employees with obligations at home, there were many who preferred working at home.

I fall more into the latter camp (at least I hope so) and, given I've only worked in nice offices with catered lunches, gyms, video games, offsites, etc, I enjoy a 3 day hybrid schedule works best for me.
by bolom | 2025-09-09 17:33:35+00:00
I've been exploring a simple, discrete formula as a potential meta-pattern across scales in nature:

ϕ:=Ω−Ω/2 with Ω←Ω+1 where Ω is an integer counter.

To test it, I looked for characteristic length ratios in various systems. The results are intriguing:

Bacterial Vortices: Spacing between vortices (~25µm) / cell length (~5µm) = 5.

Ocean Eddies: Eddy radius (~120km) / Rossby radius (~50km) ≈ 2.4 (very close to 2.5). The formula gives φ=2.5 at Ω=5.

Jupiter's Great Red Spot: Long axis (24k km) / short axis (12k km) = 2.

Turbulence: The famous energy spectrum slope is -5/3 (≈1.666). The formula gives this at a fractional state Ω=10/3.

The pattern suggests that stable structures across scales tend to "lock in" to simple integer or half-integer ratios. It feels like a signature of discrete, information-theoretic organization underlying physical phenomena.

I'm not a professional physicist. I'm an autodidact and entrepreneur who has been thinking about this for a long time. I'm sharing this here to get feedback from this community.

Is this just a case of cherry-picking and numerology? Or could it point to a deeper principle? What other systems or datasets should I look at to test or break this idea?

More details and visuals are in this Twitter thread: https://x.com/qiox178191/status/1965440143504154896
by axus | 2025-09-09 17:33:40+00:00
According to the article they are documented, have B-1 temporary business visas. The employees don't know US law and are following the companies instructions. The company directed them to perform work outside the scope of the visas.

It's the company that's at fault and should be the target of enforcement; do that and the employees have no reason or desire to stay in the US.
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-09 17:33:42+00:00
I wonder if it is Nepal. China does have an interest in influencing and controlling and exploiting its bordering countries, especially the ones that let it contain India. And Nepal just recently took a sharply authoritarian turn by banning social media platforms, leading to mass rioting. The YouTube videos of the demonstrations are incredible. But it certainly seems like a turning point one way or the other.
by trunnell | 2025-09-09 17:34:16+00:00
They need to focus on fixing reliability first.

Maybe. What would you rather have?

A) rock solid Sonnet 4 with Sonnet 5, say, next April

B) buggy Sonnet 4 with Sonnet 5, say, next January

Seems like different customers would have a range of preferences.

This must be one of the questions facing the team at Anthropic: what proportion of effort should go towards quality vs. velocity?
by mh- | 2025-09-09 17:34:24+00:00
The problem is twofold:

- They're reporting that only impacted Haiku 3.5 and Sonnet 4. I used neither model during the time period I'm concerned with.

- It took them a month to publicly acknowledge that issue, so now we lack confidence there isn't another underlying issue going undetected (or undisclosed, less charitably) that affects Opus.
by ndriscoll | 2025-09-09 17:34:36+00:00
It's not a crab bucket mentality. Subsidizing one group that competes in the same markets (e.g. only dual income families, who compete with single income families for housing in desirable areas to raise kids) actually increases costs for the unsubsidized group. It doesn't just make them relatively worse off, but absolutely worse off. It shifts the margin of who can afford a single family lifestyle, all else equal.

Since it's subsidizing specific behavior and not merely being poor or whatever, people will naturally look at whether they think that behavior ought to be incentivized, or whether the government should stay neutral.

My wife is also a stay at home mom, and I've argued before that an increase in the child tax credit with a phase out for high income (so we might not qualify) makes more sense than a childcare credit/deduction for this reason. Then you're just subsidizing having kids, which seems fine to me (assuming we're subsidizing anything) since that's sort of necessary to sustain society.
by oceanplexian | 2025-09-09 17:35:09+00:00
>People have this propagandized view that the "free market" (which isn't real) is responsible for innovation.

In the last century and a half, we went from candle light and horse and buggy, to the lowest level of global poverty in the last 5,000 years of recorded human history.

If capitalism wasn't responsible then what was?
by smeeth | 2025-09-09 17:35:17+00:00
…so?

A realistic stay-at-home subsidy would max out around $30k. Your proposal only meaningfully shifts incentives for the bottom income quintile. For everyone else:

- Upper-income families can already afford to choose whatever setup they want.

- Middle-income families couldn’t take it because it’d mean too steep a drop in income.

So the alternative you proposed economically benefits the bottom quintile while leaving their kids worse off. For everyone else, it probably either doesn't matter or gives them cash they don't need as much.
by NoiseBert69 | 2025-09-09 17:35:31+00:00
To LTE? Doesn't work there either.

There are IMSI catchers - but they all require GSM. At least on Google Pixels you can turn off 2G with a switch. The phone even shows a message about its insecurity.

In Germany I'm running 100% on LTE/5GNR-only for many months now without having a single coverage gap.
by fragmede | 2025-09-09 17:35:31+00:00
If the problem with bought army commissions is that they turned out to be incompetent for actually leading people into battle, but that the corresponding scenario in software is "are you conscious enough to feed things into ChatGPT", and their GitHub portfolio shows that they are, and then they are, where is the problem? Are we just invoking the spectre of fallen comrades in battle as an emotional plea?
by puszczyk | 2025-09-09 17:35:54+00:00
The in-ear HR is interesting. I wonder if Apple can make it accurate, e.g., Sennheiser Momentum are not very accurate[0]:

> Look, I’m not gonna waste your time – this thing is dumpster-fire inaccurate level in almost every realm of heart rate accuracy except for indoor cycling.

[0]: https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2024/05/sennheiser-momentum-temp...
by commakozzi | 2025-09-09 17:36:00+00:00
> That is not how humans perform physical tasks though

is it not though? wouldn't it just be that our processing center isn't located completely in the skull as we typically think, but is extended to our spinal cord and nervous system? Something is being processed, you're just not conscious of the entire process. This is especially clear to me as a musician: as you're learning to play, you have to be absolutely aware of all of those processes until you can finally just let go and play!
by isatsam | 2025-09-09 17:36:06+00:00
This makes sense, but in this case, isn't the company behind Huntress having direct access to this data still a problem? For example, if the government purchased Outlook licenses, I'd assume DoD can read clerks' emails, but Microsoft employees can't. I imagine worst case compromising a lot of Huntress' users is just a question of compromising of its developers, like one of the people in the authors section of this article.
by cubefox | 2025-09-09 17:36:12+00:00
> Nope, nor did that repo have the system prompts that brought is MechaHitler

False, you made that up.

https://decrypt.co/329365/bye-bye-mechahitler-elon-musk-xai-...

> The Grok repo is a smokescreen for deniability (just not particularly plausible).

Completely unfounded conspiracy theory.
by pempem | 2025-09-09 17:36:38+00:00
Your argument smacks of insincerity due to its limited scope of viewing SAHMs as moms providing childcare.

1/ You haven't mentioned how that SAHM must get a cooking credit, healthcare, retirement or house management credit or anything else in the litany of jobs required outside of immediate childcare and costs incurred by simply existing as a woman. Just a voucher for the hours, I assume, at which childcare would be open and none of the other hours

2/ A SAHP (thats stay at home parent) should be incentivized by raising wages and allowing life to be more affordable but your argument seems to be very focused on "moms" and "capitalist enterprises" and does not consider the reality that when SAHMs were more economically viable, it was not viable for all families.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-09-09 17:36:41+00:00
Both nuclear & solar produce power at times when it's not wanted. Same defect.

If you were building a grid from scratch in a typical American region, and you were aiming for lowest cost, you'd overbuild solar enough that it handles 100% of demand on a sunny evening, add enough wind to handle 100% of demand on a dark + windy evening, then add about 3 days of battery storage. That'll supply you over 95% of your energy needs.

But that's not 95% of the power, it's 100% of the power 95% of the time. So you also need to supply 100% of the power 5% of the time somehow else. That's not 100% of peak, since peak is during air conditioning demand when solar works, but 100% of almost peak.

The cheapest way to do that is low efficiency single cycle natgas. CCS natgas is 1/20th the cost of nuclear, and single cycle is about half the cost of CCS.

So if you make 2.5% of that nuclear, you've doubled the cost. And you've saved a few hours worth of carbon emission, 2.5% of 5%.

If you want to be carbon-neutral, you use syngas instead of natgas. Yes, syngas is 6X as expensive, but fuel is not the main cost of a peaker plant running <= 5% of the time.
by wongarsu | 2025-09-09 17:36:42+00:00
If you steal the cookies from dev machines or steal ssh keys along with a list of recent ssh connections or do any other credential theft there are going to be lots of people left impacted. Yes, lots of people reading tech news or security bulletins is going to check if they were compromised and preemptively revoke those credentials. But that's work, meaning even among those informed there will be many who just assume they weren't impacted. Lots of people/organisations are going to be complacent and leave you with valid credentials
by Pxtl | 2025-09-09 17:36:49+00:00
Literally what Canada did under Harper, and then grew substantially larger under Trudeau.

End result is that Canada's child poverty rate was cut in half over the aughts.

https://x.com/trevortombe/status/1100416615202533377

And yes, it hit the same political hurdles you'd expect. A Liberal-party aide helped lose the 2006 selection by saying parents would burn it on "beer and popcorn". He's still around as a consultant and professional trash-talking commentator. This is ironic considering how the party championed it's success after they (rightly) expanded the program.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/liberal-apologizes-for-saying...
by lambdaone | 2025-09-09 17:36:54+00:00
> If an election were called tomorrow your next government would be Reform with a massive majority of 339 seats. It is the most popular party in the country by far. It would collect 33% of the vote vs Labour's 18% and the Conservatives would get only 17%, translating to their near-total destruction (only 35 seats).

If. But since the Labour government has a massive Labour majority that doesn't have to hold another election until 2029, that's not going to happen any time soon. Four years is a long time in politics.

For non-European readers, Reform are the equivalent of Germany's AfD or France's RN - or America's MAGA. It's a populist culture war party.

In response, far from doubling down, Labour has swung dramatically to the political right (by UK standards) of their normal political position in terms of the culture war issues like immigration and transgender rights that have been driving support for Reform.

We're having bad times in the UK, and no-one likes the incumbent government during bad times. (Never mind that the bad times are largely due to factors beyond their control, as is generally the case until a party has been in power for long enough to start turning the ship.)

Reform, meanwhile, are currently playing on easy mode; voters can say anything they like at the moment, and Reform are picking up the fantasy-football protest vote based on making wild promises they are unlikely to be able to fulfil.

None of this is to say Reform are not a serious threat. But the concept that their victory is inevitable is part their schtick, and should be resisted.
by perihelions | 2025-09-09 17:36:58+00:00
I wouldn't put it past the US to coerce Microsoft into injecting malicious payloads into these types of projects. EFF is putting complete trust in Microsoft's infrastructure: there's no out-of-band verification not served up by Microsoft itself (is there? It's just GitHub.com's TLS, and in-band SHA-1 hashes stored in the repo itself, which Microsoft controls; it can serve whatever bytes it wants, or different bytes on different requests...)

Microsoft has billions of dollars in US intelligence-cloud contracts and should leap at a chance to get an edge in on those. They've done things like this before; they provided incredible (and illegal!) cooperation with the NSA back at the time of the Snowden Leaks[0].

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-... ("Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages" (2013))
by tptacek | 2025-09-09 17:37:25+00:00
I think embryo selection companies, to the extent they don't actually result in people selecting for embryos with autism, are brilliant products. They're "magician's choice" setups: embryo selection promises single-to-low-double-digit improvements in metrics that aren't fully evaluable for over a decade after the product is paid for, on metrics with huge variability and low test-test reliability. The people paying for the products are generally upper-income and already predisposed to invest in educational achievement, which is the actual outcome the customers care about to begin with. It's a can't-lose proposition for the vendors.

So, no, of course I'm not going to take you up on that bet. It's like betting against Bitcoin. I think Bitcoin is a farce but I'm not dumb enough to short it.

I'm not an "anti-heriditarian". I think there's probably a lot of value, long term, in embryo selection for things like disease avoidance. I also believe there's natural variability in cognitive ability; I don't believe all people are "blank slates"; that's a caricature (or, if you like, a deliberate wrong-footing of people who reflexively reject psychometrics and genetics for ideological reasons) of the actual concern I have.

Finally, I don't know what anything you said has to do with what I said. I said, very simply, "heritability != DNA". That's an objective, positive claim. Was this bet your attempt at rebutting it?
by bombcar | 2025-09-09 17:37:35+00:00
It's a confusion the whole world seems to have, even if you ask everyone and they'd deny it.

GDP of a country is flat for 10 years, but everyone is happier and healthier and feels better? Bad country!

GDP is soaring for ten years, but everyone is depressed, suicidal, deep in debt, overweight, and dying early? Good country!
by DennisP | 2025-09-09 17:38:35+00:00
Until we can manufacture solar panels on Mars, maybe the best option is solar power satellites with microwave transmission.

One of the big drawbacks on Earth is that you have to launch the satellite to orbit. For Mars, stuff is in orbit when it gets there, and landing it is the challenge.

Mars has an axial tilt similar to Earth's, which means that, like Earth, a satellite in stationary orbit will have full "noon" sun 99.5% of the time. A solar panel in stationary orbit around Earth will collect five times as much energy in 24 hours as one on the ground. The Martian atmosphere would filter less sunlight, so call it 4X for Mars.

Batteries are getting cheaper on Earth but they're still a lot of mass to send to Mars. Near-constant uptime with satellites mostly eliminates that problem.

At first, you do have to land the ground collector, but it's mostly antenna wire. Should be pretty robust and you won't have to worry about keeping the dust off it. Once you're making metals from Martian dirt, you can produce most of it locally, from dirt.

The biggest downside compared to nuclear would be that dust storms would at least partially block transmission.
by rimunroe | 2025-09-09 17:38:50+00:00
> The combat in the original is really bad/way too easy, and the exploration is just okay

Personally I find combat to be one of the less important aspects of Metroidvanias. I prefer the main source of difficulty coming from platforming around environmental hazards.

I felt like exploration in Hollow Knight was a bit too broad, and lead to too much unnecessary backtracking. Backtracking is a balance. It's a staple of Metroidvanias, but if the backtracking search space is large enough and places aren't distinctive enough then the search for a previously insurmountable obstacle can start feeling like looking for a needle in a haystack. That was my experience in Hollow Knight, and something I felt like the first Ori game did better.
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-09 17:38:51+00:00
> Critically, American surveillance technologies allowed a brutal mass detention campaign in the far west region of Xinjiang — targeting, tracking and grading virtually the entire native Uyghur population to forcibly assimilate and subdue them.

It’s interesting to see videos on YouTube of Xinjiang. Foreigners haven’t been allowed there for a long time now, but recently there have been lots of influencers showing how great it is and how everything is normal and how happy people are. The thing that always stands out for me in these videos? There are very few older people in them. They’ve been mostly detained and sent through reeducation (concentration) camps. The children are raised by the state. Sent to state schools that separate them from their families and culture. And the goal is to make them part of the Chinese ideological state.

It’s a playbook China’s government has used over and over again:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinicization_of_Tibet

But yea as the article clearly portrays, the extent of dystopian surveillance and harassment is deeply disturbing and straight out of a horrific fiction. I can’t imagine having cameras pointing straight into your house and having local goons show up and detain you every time you want to leave to complain to higher officials about the local ones. You’re a prisoner. Not a citizen.
by swiftcoder | 2025-09-09 17:38:58+00:00
I'm not a financial wiz, but it seems like they are playing games here, as a huge chunk of their stated losses for the year is some sort of loan write-off against their parent company.

> £1,271 million of expected credit loss provision recognised against the intercompany loan receivable from TWUL’s immediate parent company, Thames Water Utilities Holdings Limited. This balance is fully provided for, as it is not deemed recoverable
by AfterHIA | 2025-09-09 17:39:03+00:00
In other words there will be no/positive economic and social downsides for those engaged in, "world levels" of unethical conduct.

This is the world that software developers create. Any society which rewards less laborious work for significantly greater pay will eventually find reasons to reward, "profits over people." Whether they're Neokantian or free-market liberal justifications it doesn't matter. Thankfully you people have to put up with Forever Trump which almost makes the thing bearable.

-Silicon Valley before the 80's