MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by baron816 | 2025-09-28 20:51:29+00:00
> Engineers, he explains, are driven to build while lawyers are driven to argue, and obstruct.

This is kind of the criticism that’s provided in Abundance. American Progressives intentionally made it extremely difficult to build anything by giving everyone a veto to block anything they don’t like.

There’s a lot of people on the Left (Center Left, at least) who want to revisit this approach and make it easier to build things again.

I also want to note that they point out that the current administration has a policy of scarcity. Even if we get rid of a lot of regulation, tariffs, deportations, and high government deficits make it hard to buy materials, hire labor, and finance projects.
by dbrgn | 2025-09-28 20:52:04+00:00
Quite a few actually do require ID-scan-through-email (which is horrible). Or, they simply delegate to a third party video ident service, often in another country (because cheaper).

How exactly is the status quo not much worse than "I give you a cryptographic hash proving that I am over 18, but nothing else, and without the state knowing that this transaction happened"?
by burnt-resistor | 2025-09-28 20:52:09+00:00
Russia is already at (asymmetric) war with the West. I think you mean traditional military engagement, which is a greater possibility with all of these recent NATO country probings.

Accelerationists + rando crazy people, war hawks, and defense contractors sure want it.

Without finding real perpetrators and verifiable evidence, it still lives in the domain of speculation and politicians can and will use fictional narratives to do whatever they want.

Open war should never be started "preemptively", however NATO needs to and is preparing diligently for possible need for defense. Eastern Europe won't be safe until Putin is gone and replaced by a moderate who isn't a nationalist expansionist.
by majormajor | 2025-09-28 20:52:30+00:00
If you're on HN there's a good chance you've self-selected into "caring about the craft and looking for roles that require more attention."

You need to care if (a) your business logic requirements are super annoyingly complex, (b) you have hard performance requirements, or (c) both. (c) is the most rare, (a) is the most common of those three conditions; much of the programmer pay disparity between the top and the middle or bottom is due to this, but even the jobs where the complexity is "only" business requirements tend to be quite a bit better compensated than the "simple requirements, simple needs" ones.

I think there's a case to be made that LLM tools will likely make it harder for people to make that jump, if they want to. (Alternately they could advance to the point where the distinction changes a bit, and is more purely architectural; or they could advance to the point where anyone can use an LLM to do anything - but there are so many conditional nuances to what the "right decision" is in any given scenario there that I'm skeptical.)

A lot of times floor-raising things don't remove the levels, they just push everything higher. Like a cheap crap movie today will visually look "better" from a technology POV (sharpness, special effects, noise, etc) than Jurassic Park from the 90s, but the craft parts won't (shot framing, deliberate shifts of focus, selection of the best takes). So everyone will just get more efficient and more will be expected, but still stratified.

And so some people will still want to figure out how to go from a lower-paying job to a higher-paying one. And hopefully there are still opportunities, and we don't just turn into other fields, picking by university reputations and connections.
by vladms | 2025-09-28 20:52:46+00:00
Direct voting is relative. Candidates are supported in the last 15 years also by companies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC and coupled with campaigns getting more and more expensive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_finance_in_the_United... that can mean that in practice it is not as direct as it might seem.

Not sure what is the solution, but if people say they would prefer younger "options" and they don't materialize on the ballots, that is a sign that the system does not work as intended.
by cyberax | 2025-09-28 20:53:26+00:00
> Can you please explain how Secure Boot helps at all to mitigate this type of attack?

Secure boot can include the hash of the firmware, computed by the root-of-trust that can't be tampered with by this attack. So the exploit will make the keys stored in the TPM inaccessible.

This will make the tampering conspicuous, at least.
by pessimizer | 2025-09-28 20:53:43+00:00
Could you please update your references? China has been run by Mao's enemies for a very long time (likely longer than you've been alive), and the Cultural Revolution was a desperate ploy to consolidate power when the current way of Chinese thinking was growing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticize_Lin%2C_Criticize_Con...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalist_roader
by DSingularity | 2025-09-28 20:54:33+00:00
I doubt that’s the problem. The public policy government is captured by corporations. The military policy arm of the government is manipulated by a myriad of interests operating indirectly from the shadows — ranging from foreign intelligence agencies (ie Israeli) to military/industrial companies.

Old so competent senators barely matter. It’s all about unelected corporate boards and secret groups within influential government agencies.
by formerly_proven | 2025-09-28 20:54:41+00:00
> Supermicro motherboards also commonly default to having a feature that bonds the BMC network interface to one of the main NICs if you don’t plug a cable into the BMC interface. It’s common for people to be surprised that their BMC is exposed on their main network because they didn’t plug in a cable on the BMC NIC port at all.

Even if you changed the default from "failover" in the firmware you're just one CMOS reset (for whatever reason) away from it reverting back to putting the BMC on whatever network interface. This should really be something you can jumper off.
by benjiro | 2025-09-28 20:54:51+00:00
We know this very well, because of the range the drone are able to fly and the wreckage. Its amazing these days with the wealth of information that people do not do a few seconds of research.

1. Imagine: Your are Russia, are you going to launch drones with the fuel to fly not only into Ukraine, but also all across the map of Poland? Or do you dedicate that space to bigger warheads. Or lighter drones to increase their speed. That alone answers your question.

2. The drones found crashed, has modifications like bladdertank in the warhead section to increase their fuel. You do not accidentally get a drone all the way to Gdansk without increasing its fuel load. See point 1 again ...

3. Having a drone gone stray is not uncommon, but there is a difference between 1 going stray and 20 going stay. Your argument about jamming is flawed by the simply fact that we have the path the drones took, and unless Ukraine magically got the exact same drone misdirecting tech, active on multiple paths, again, check the map. See the issue there?

4. If the drones got jammed / flight spoofed, why did they not fly in a erratic course. You expect a drone that has its course altered to to suddenly start flying in different path.

5. The drone paths again, if the drone left the jamming or misdirection area, it will try to get back to to its intended area. They did not do so.

6. If this tech worked so great, why did we not have more mass drones flying in the wrong direction the following days? Drone attacks happen every day in Ukraine, they are not one off events. If the Ukrainians got this tech to work so good, to send 20 drones into Poland, why no repeat? You do not fix a flaw that the enemy found in just one day. Did Russia ground its drones the next day, the next week until they fix the issue? Added more antenna's and more hardware to make it harder to jam/redirect? No, they continue they typical pattern.

7. ... insert conspiracy that it was all planned and they do not use that tech again to not over use it (while giving the Russians time to adjust their hardware???). Sigh ...

People posting this nonsense that NATO is looking for a war or to ramp up incidents. Here is a simple answer: Who attack first? Was it NATO? Was not Ukraine? No ... Russia invaded a country for the SECOND TIME, triggering this mess.

You claim financial motives to trump up rhetoric ... our arms industries can already not keep up with the orders. We have backlogs that will take 10+ years to fill already, even with the expanding industry.

Like always, some people are just too much into conspiracy but what else is new these days. Hate to tell ya, but the internet / social media is a battlefield these days, just as much as troops on the ground. Please use your mind a bit more and understand that those drones are not a new tactic, its just a modern adaptation of old tactics. The new "remember we have nukes, we can get you", or the old USSR "see our planes flying into your identification zones"...
by jayde2767 | 2025-09-28 20:55:05+00:00
This just seems intentionally bad to show where Rust would be better. This is yet another example of what I call "corner-case" instruction, which I define as, "I am going to take an obviously terrible corner-case that shows what an awful developer can do that will break a program, then demonstrate my brilliance by introducing my (highly-biased) opinionated point I wanted to make..."

In this particular case, it was subtly, Rust is preferred because it doesn't allow unsafe memory operations such as the one demonstrated. Really, all it demonstrates is that you can create really bad C++.
by dalke | 2025-09-28 20:55:36+00:00
You mean Bank-id på kort? https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank-id#Bank-id_på_kort says it only supports MS Windows and MacOS, not Linux.

Fundamentally though, that doesn't change the fact that the US can order a Swedish bank to either freeze access to a customer or the bank can no longer do business in the US.
by estearum | 2025-09-28 20:56:03+00:00
Anyone can go buy a gigantic plot of land for dollars on the acre and do it. What are you talking about?

Here's a lovely 160 acre plot for $100,000: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/E1-4-Sec-15-T-24-R-89-Bk-...

Or do you mean people can't try this out in areas that have already been developed by generations' worth of other people's private and public investments?
by huem0n | 2025-09-28 20:56:50+00:00
> Bullying happens in other species outside humans even. It is very deep evolutionary behavior.

In animals, male parents often kill weak children. Doesn't really mean we just say "oh well, its in our DNA". Over and over society has managed to successfully surpress biological behaviors to nearly zero.

I hope we can agree its an endeavor worth putting effort into. Right?

> The vast majority of school shooters (100%, surely) are mentally ill and had access to a gun.

1. Having a mental illness does not make a person violent. Step one of better mental health (illness or no illness) is reducing bullying.

2. Saying "100% surely" is not very convincing to me. What percentage of shooters are suspected to be born with a mental illness? (Rather than forming one from environmental factors) what data/sources is that conclusion based on?
by mothballed | 2025-09-28 20:57:01+00:00
I've never claimed I thought totally private healthcare might be 1/3 the cost of universal healthcare. I postulated the functions of our government as currently implemented might be able to achieve for 1/3 the cost if privatized. You invented some straw-man that argued I was arguing vs something else, something our government isn't even offering, so I'm unsure how you even got to the point you got to.

If you truly thought our health care was privatized it's all a moot point, because it wouldn't have been included in our original argument. In either case your point is moot because I never compared to hypothetical socialized healthcare but rather our current entire government system.

It blows my mind you would even use the "1/3" statement if you thought it was private because if it was private it wouldn't have even been in the subset of stuff I was comparing relative cost to. I never claimed private things would cost 1/3 the price of things already "private."
by jacquesm | 2025-09-28 20:57:42+00:00
It's not the same because one party is clearly not willing. That's all it takes: consent. If tomorrow morning Friesland decides by majority vote it wants to be independent of the rest of NL I'd be perfectly ok with that. Likewise I'm fine with countries deciding whether or not they want to join one alliance or another.

Languages and history have nothing to do with it, it is all about consent. If you plan to kill people in order to get them to join your idea what your country should look like you've already lost, then you're just another occupier.

I've lived in Poland under the USSR, it was pretty clear what the Russian position was on how they viewed the Poles - and anybody else that wasn't 'properly' Russian for that matter. This was an occupation, not a league of nations, and in a way Russia got more out of WWII than even the Molotov/Ribbentrop pact would have given them. I've lived in Romania, I visited Latvia many times, I visited Ukraine, many times. Everywhere the sentiment is roughly the same: that they would rather die than live under Russian occupation again, they already know what that is like. And no amount of shared history or language (or forced relocation, which in many of those cases is the source of that shared history) is going to offset that.

You're if I'm not mistaken someone with Russian roots living in Berlin. Coincidentally, I know more people that are in that position. Most of them still have family back in Russia so they are very circumspect in the positions that they take. But they have zero illusion about Russia having good intentions in any of the wars they have engaged in since the USSR fell apart and it is patently clear by the indiscriminate attacks on the Ukrainian population that Russia does not care for the people that they in the same breath claim to call their brothers and sisters.
by 1u15 | 2025-09-28 20:57:50+00:00
Beyond “power pose”: Using replication failures and a better understanding of data collection and analysis to do better science https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2017/10/18/beyond-pow...

You need 16 times the sample size to estimate an interaction than to estimate a main effect https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2018/03/15/need16/

Debate over effect of reduced prosecutions on urban homicides; also larger questions about synthetic control methods in causal inference. https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2023/10/12/debate-ove...

Bayesians moving from defense to offense: “I really think it’s kind of irresponsible now not to use the information from all those thousands of medical trials that came before. Is that very radical?” https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2023/12/23/bayesians-...
by pan69 | 2025-09-28 20:58:22+00:00
Back in the 90s there was a zeitgeist where people in different pockets of the world came up with similar ideas and similar solutions to certain problems. Technology hit a certain threshold that allowed for specific innovation to occur.

It reminds me of that movie "The Billion Dollar Code" [1] where some guys claim that Google stole their Google Maps idea. Whereas in reality, it's more likely that due to certain technological advances, different people came up with the same/similar idea of how to store and display maps.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Billion_Dollar_Code
by GreenWatermelon | 2025-09-28 20:59:23+00:00
I felt the exact same as you while reading the article.

I started reading with an open mind, got a bit confused by the "dongle" joke, which the author doesn't remember but somehow it should be inappropriate. It's equivalent to saying "I think he said something bad 10 years ago but I'm bit really sure"

Then there's the part about "leverage control" to extort heroku, which was a blatant misrepresentation of events and shows a clear Agenda.

Not taking sides my ass. I can only conclude the author's reputation, as being ine of the nicest persons in the community, was earned through similar manipulation.

And since the entire article is a "take my word" type of story, the blatant bias already displayed casta a shadow of doubt over the veracity of any other claims it makes, leading me to conclude the opposite: André is actually a nice and likable person, and has good principles.
by eigenform | 2025-09-28 20:59:32+00:00
Since everyone is upset about the lack of technical details in the article, I'll try:

The takeaway from that paper (imo, afaict) is that guest userspace can influence indirect predictor entries in KVM host userspace. I don't really know anything about Xen, but presumably it is unaffected because there is no Xen host userspace, just a tiny hypervisor running privileged code in the host context. With KVM, Linux userspace is still functional in the host context.

Presumably, the analogy to host kernel/userspace in KVM is dom0, but in Xen this is a guest VM. If cross-guest cases are mitigated in Xen (like in the case of KVM, see Table 2 in the paper), you'd expect that this attack just doesn't apply to Xen. Apart from there being no interesting host userspace, IBPB/STIBP might be enough to insulate other guests from influencing dom0. If you're already taking the hit of resetting the predictors when entering dom0, presumably you are not worried about this particular bug.

edit: Additional reading, see https://github.com/xen-project/xen/blob/master/xen/arch/x86/...
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by righthand | 2025-09-28 21:00:42+00:00
The bigger issue might be confusing “progressives” with “NIMBYs”. There are plenty of people across the political spectrum that want to build more as well as people blocking the building. Progressives particularly are aggressive on the desire for more housing. Literally to the point that Nyc and other large cities see huge handouts to developers (even when those developers continuously under deliver on affordable housing).
by adverbly | 2025-09-28 21:01:39+00:00
At best doge was engineered cost cutting.

Engineers are builders - not cost cutters.

Anyone can be a cost cutter. The reason China is ahead is that they're building like crazy. They made and continue making long term capital investments in education, infrastructure, and energy. Guaranteed success. US is basically all in on AI right now for anything long term, and it's not even clear that AI will be something that will be a net benefit to the middle or working classes.

Don't mean to sound like a doomed or China glazer, but if the AI calls don't print when the debt collectors come knocking, it's gonna be serious trouble.
by metabagel | 2025-09-28 21:02:05+00:00
He’s a successful reality TV star, and he has turned our whole political system into a reality TV show.

I like to think that the job of the president is to take care of the nation’s business so most of the rest of us can get on with our lives, but Trump demands constant attention, and he continually invents emergencies which prevent us from being able to just go about our existence in peace.

The never-ending narcissistic distraction is exhausting.
by gslepak | 2025-09-28 21:02:10+00:00
> I don't get the resistance to a digital/national id in other countries. To us it is quite bizarre.

It depends on the country and its relationship with the people. If the people trust that their government represents the people's interests, there is little push-back. In countries where citizens have reason to believe their government is hijacked by interests that do not have their best interests at heart, then every move is viewed with suspicion.

In this case people are tying Digital ID to CBDCs and social credit systems, which is a reasonable thing to do, given this is exactly how China uses them to enforce 15-minute cities with checkpoints between them. All citizens conversations are tracked, their movements are restricted as well [1], and their ability to purchase goods & services are tightly regulated based on their behavior via the social credit system. This is the world that people who are pushing back against this are trying to avoid.

[1] https://x.com/songpinganq/status/1972382547427590401
by TkTech | 2025-09-28 21:02:35+00:00
As recently as August 8th, I reported a phishing site targeting seniors into installing a pre-configured Atera client (who _also_ failed to respond in a reasonable time) by pretending to be an event invite. It was blatant and obvious phishing. This was the response:

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Hello,

Cloudflare received your Phishing report regarding: ----

We are unable to process your report for the following reason(s):

We were unable to confirm phishing at the URL(s) provided.

Please be aware Cloudflare offers network service solutions including pass-through security services, a content distribution network (CDN) and registrar services. Due to the pass-through nature of our services, our IP addresses appear in WHOIS and DNS records for websites using Cloudflare. Cloudflare cannot remove material from the Internet that is hosted by others.

Please reply to this message, keeping the report identification number in the subject line intact, with the required information.

To respond to this issue, please reply to abusereply@cloudflare.com.

Thanks, The Cloudflare Team.

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This is the typical response for me from Cloudflare - it took 2 more weeks before it was finally taken down. If I had to hazard a guess, your high volume of reports gets you into a very different support bucket than the occasional reporter.
by hermitcrab | 2025-09-28 21:03:01+00:00
Churchill probably not the best example:

"In 1953, during his second stint as prime minister, Winston Churchill had a stroke after dinner. “No one seemed alarmed by [his] slurred speech and unsteadiness on his feet, one of the advantages of having a reputation for enjoying alcohol,” writes Andrew Roberts, a historian. For several weeks, as Churchill was incapable of governing, his son-in-law and private secretary in effect ran the country. He never fully recovered, yet refused to stand down until 1955, when he was 80. " https://www.economist.com/briefing/2024/07/03/senility-in-hi...
by andy99 | 2025-09-28 21:03:11+00:00
Canada is like this (possibly worse). Nobody ever wants to do the ostensible thing that they say they are doing, if that makes sense.

Take some kind of government procurement, say to buy a truck. The truck ends up being a pretense for all sorts of political things like regional development or righting some perceived historical inequality, doing an environmental study, subsidising some industry that's not doing well. Nobody cares about actually getting the truck.

I can imagine a world where they just buy the best truck and don't try to make it a pretext for wealth redistribution and solving all the worlds problem, but I've never seen it.

Multiply this by every single things the government spends money on (and in canada the oligopolies as well) and you see why nothing happens.
by huem0n | 2025-09-28 21:03:37+00:00
> “We have a responsibility to develop good human beings that are going to be in society,”

They did, at leat say that^ when talking about why they shouldn't just move him to a new school.

But overall I agree. If this is supposed to be the success story, just imagine all the other cases of silencing/boxing-out the socially outcast.