MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by brookst | 2025-10-17 16:46:45+00:00
It's an interesting theory, but I'm not sure it works. Do you design in these sensors and build in the normal starlink factory, where most people don't have security clearances? Or do you make thousands of people get security clearances, making it pretty obvious?

And as soon as any data from a specific sensor leaks, adversaries would likely be able to pinpoint what satellite produced it.

And then the contractual terms mandating commercial spaceflight vendors do this work.

It all gets really complicated, with many thousands of people who are not part of traditional intelligence services all having to keep a massive secret.
by beej71 | 2025-10-17 16:47:00+00:00
Good reading for the ever-dwindling group of people who like facts.

I remember there was a friend of mine who was of the opposite political persuasion, generally, than myself. He posted something that was demonstrably wrong to Facebook. And I was embarrassed for him just as much as I be embarrassed for myself having posted something so inaccurate. So I offered a friendly correction, but he replied in an unexpected way. He said that the sentiment of the post was accurate, even if the post itself was not. And he left it up!

The facts of the case were absolutely irrelevant.

That was a decade ago. Since then, that attitude has clearly become more prevalent not just with your average Facebook poster, but also within the government and media themselves. For none of these groups does does "truth" support their goals; fact checking is a complete waste of time, and might even be detrimental.
by bgwalter | 2025-10-17 16:47:21+00:00
That "Executive Director" (whose salary is probably safe throughout all controversies!) does not sound very credible compared to:

https://andre.arko.net/2025/10/09/the-rubygems-security-inci...

I'm only going by the corporate narrative structure of the director's post, who clearly wants to throw someone under the bus and cover up organizational incompetence. "Open" source has become so despicable.
by ctoth | 2025-10-17 16:47:35+00:00
The only cargo cult behavior I see here is Tett's own journalism! She casually drops that same debunked "95% of companies see no AI revenue gains" figure[0] without tracing it to source, performing the ritual of citation while missing the actual mechanism that makes evidence valuable.

[0] https://aiascendant.com/p/why-95-of-ai-commentary-fails
by nerdsniper | 2025-10-17 16:47:39+00:00
Alternatively, the Reolink Doorbell cameras for anyone who doesn't want to be on the Unifi/Ubiquiti platform. Also I believe all these cameras provide a generic RTSP feed which can be consumed by any computer running Frigate[0], an open-source NVR/AI platform.

0: https://frigate.video

(Reolink, Unifi/Ubiquiti, and Frigate are all good solutions for anyone who is not interested in supporting the proliferation of a police-state)
by defanor | 2025-10-17 16:48:03+00:00
> Our survey measured it on a scale of how much people agreed with sentences including “Following coronavirus prevention guidelines means you have backed down” and “Continuous coronavirus coverage in the media is a sign we are losing.” Our interpretation is that people who responded positively to these statements would feel they “win” by endorsing misinformation – doing so can show “the enemy” that it will not gain any ground over people’s views.

The actual study is paywalled and not present on Sci-Hub, but I wonder what were all the questions, whether they tried it the other way around (with true claims, perhaps on some other topic), how different the answers were with those. I would guess it is implied, to support such an interpretation, but it is not stated explicitly, and from what is written, it sounds like people who believed in conspiracy theories (or were otherwise skeptical of mainstream views) were in fact unhappy to go along with prevention measures and annoyed by the mainstream coverage, which is not surprising at all.
by brokencode | 2025-10-17 16:48:39+00:00
Plenty of people must find this worthwhile, otherwise sellers wouldn’t be able to find buyers and they’d be forced to reduce price if they want to sell.

Plus, the listed price is often aspirational. Savvy buyers will typically negotiate the price down.

I have to admit that I’m not a savvy buyer and always buy new though. But I know people who do this very successfully.
by tsimionescu | 2025-10-17 16:49:26+00:00
> I'm not 100% fluent but I don't know a single word which isn't pronounced like it's phonetic writing. If these words do exist, they must be very rare.

I'm saying that even if people familiar with pinyin recognized the (very approximate) correspondnce between Vietnamese tone markers and pinyin tone markers, they would still not understand all of the other diacritics that do other phonetic things that have no correspondent in pinyin.

> At a first glance probably not but it should be very easy to teach them that.

The same argument applies to anything that is teachable. The NYT could start throwing in a few Chinese characters in every article, to get people more familiar with Chinese writing. Would that be nice? Sure. Does it make any sense to wonder why they don't do it? I don't think so.
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-10-17 16:49:47+00:00
Tesla's are also mostly made in China now.

The Chinese Tesla's are also dropping in price if you live in a country that hasn't got massive tariffs on Chinese made cars which is basically everywhere in the world except North America and Europe. Tesla literally won't sell you a Model S in Australia for example since it's made in the USA and there's no way they can sell it for a reasonable price.

It's a little damning for the US car market since Tesla's seen as a success of US manufacturing. Globally they are a Chinese made car.
by tptacek | 2025-10-17 16:50:20+00:00
However, AI-powered technology used by law enforcement has been proven to exacerbate racial biases.

This is a little misleading. Flock is primarily an ALPR that can identify make/model/color/identifying-feature of vehicles. It's not facial recognition. It doesn't itself have a racial component. The modal "proactive" Flock intervention (as opposed to investigative searches after crimes) is to flag a moving vehicle as stolen.

But in practice, the outcomes of deploying Flock are racialized, because the hot lists states keep of stolen vehicles aren't accurate enough for real-time enforcement, so recovered vehicles stay on the lists and false-positive. You're disproportionately likely to have a vehicle on a hot list if you live in a low-income neighborhood.

Even then: it's not clear how any of this is apposite to a Ring/Flock partnership. You can't use a Ring camera to do realtime ALPR flagging of cars. Presumably, this supports Flock's "single pane of glass" product; they just want police going to Flock for all their video needs. Police already canvass Ring and Nest cameras during investigations.
by Aunche | 2025-10-17 16:50:22+00:00
One factor that I don't see getting discussed is that more price conscious consumers are also more likely to have to live in apartments or park on the street. Even if they have a garage, their commutes may be too long to rely on level 1 charging and can't afford to upgrade. As a result, demand for used EVs is significantly lower than a comparable ICE.
by epolanski | 2025-10-17 16:50:22+00:00
How could you even think the opposite to be a better option?

The US does suffer from a serious amount of issues politically (I'm 100% convinced that presidential republics are flawed) but it's still an organization with plenty of checks requiring popular mandate.

No single private individual should ever hold this kind of influence imho, not even if it is Gandhi or a saint and Musk is quite the other end of the spectrum.
by jacobolus | 2025-10-17 16:50:36+00:00
It doesn't present any such data. Only this one vague quotation from the manager of Polish vehicle history report website autodna.pl:

"Premium brands consistently retain higher resale value than mass-market brands, for both ICE vehicles and EVs. No one knows what entirely new Chinese marques will cost in the secondary market – for instance, what a 5-year-old Omoda will fetch"

Everything concrete in the article is about how Teslas, specifically, have precipitously declined in value, except for one paragraph about how nobody wanted to buy used vehicles from BluSmart (an Indian company that "collapsed in April amid financial fraud allegations").
by Traster | 2025-10-17 16:50:56+00:00
In the UK, there are massive incentives for "tax efficient" purchasing of vehicles. ie, there was a point where everyone who could was driving around in a Porsche Taycan because the tax implications of buying it were comically positive. Of course, those benefits don't translate to the secondary market, so of course there's a glut of 3 year old electric vehicles. No one wants them. Oh, and you can't buy a petrol car because the car companies are under the hammer to sell EVs.
by yawnxyz | 2025-10-17 16:50:58+00:00
I build a lot of micro sites, but I still use frameworks — like Deno (node alternative), Hono (for APIs), and Alpine.js (for tiny lightweight sites).

you don't have to though!

if you want to do more pure vanilla, understanding signals is really useful — this basically powers svelte's runs and react's hooks and whatever.

I love nanostores, a 286 byte (!) state manager that lets you build highly reactive pages w/o the weight: https://github.com/nanostores/nanostores

flexible tools like tinybase (https://github.com/tinyplex/tinybase) and unstorage (https://github.com/unjs/unstorage) are also super useful

tools like this lets you build highly reactive, engaging sites that load for under 50-100kb
by lenerdenator | 2025-10-17 16:51:12+00:00
Ofcom does know that they're dealing with 4chan, right?

Ultimately all of these sorts of regulations rely on people feeling the need to comply. 4chan feels no needs, least of all to comply.

It's the immovable object of online forums. It has not encountered a true unstoppable force. I doubt it ever will.

If they want it "gone" they'll have to both block it at the infrastructure level leading into the country and keep people from using internet infrastructure that isn't subject to these blocks from within the UK. That's... not really possible.
by oceanplexian | 2025-10-17 16:51:16+00:00
Once you cross a certain threshold Starlink is superior to fiber optics. That's because it has the potential to be both lower latency and more direct than terrestrial fiber as the speed of light is faster in the vacuum of space.

At a certain scale you're going to have to make the argument that laying a 10,000KM glass fiber across the ocean for 10-20% more latency is a better value than beaming it around in LEO.
by potato3732842 | 2025-10-17 16:51:18+00:00
>why are used sellers so out of touch

Math.

You don't see what sells because it's no longer on the market.

A vehicle that sells in 1mo is on the market 30x longer, seen by 30x more people, etc, etc, than one that sells in 1d and only takes 1/30th as many of them on the market to fill up your FBMP feed.

Now, not a lot of cars are priced to sell in 1d, but also 30d is a comically low upper bound as well. Adjust the numbers as you see fit.
by JohnMakin | 2025-10-17 16:51:26+00:00
Yea, the issue is fewer and fewer people care about objective fact anymore. Reality is whatever you feel it is, or whatever you feel you want it to be, and the internet (the current iteration of it) is perfectly content to feed you that reality, and fake/real is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish.

I've also been in similar discussions and have since given up - even if you show incontrovertible evidence to the contrary, the response is often "well, this is what I believe." I'm not even talking about topics where there is some existing debate - like, things that cannot possibly be disputed, like that the earth is round (not hyperbole).
by scoofy | 2025-10-17 16:51:33+00:00
I don't want people on the money exactly because hero worship is stupid. We should care about our principles, so we should put our principles on the money, not our heroes.

I was using the examples as examples. I agree with you about people who can't handle nuance and imperfection. My point is only that putting people on the money is just dumb to begin with, because it misses the point of what people are trying to do.
by ludicrousdispla | 2025-10-17 16:52:12+00:00
I'll add a secondary, or implicit, criteria that the approach you take should not require a 'build process' for the front end app.

M -> the MODEL is managed by the backend server, or in-browser via WASM

V -> the VIEW is defined by the HTML and CSS

C -> the CONTROLLER can be solely Javascript in the front-end, solely backend server processes, or most likely a mix of the two
by OptionOfT | 2025-10-17 16:52:16+00:00
Another reason to actually get your credit card statement via snail-mail.

I understand it is wasteful, but I go on an evening walk and pick up the mail.

The effort for me to pick up the mail and read my credit card statement is actually quite nice.

It doesn't require you to sign in, and search my house for my phone or my YubiKey, it doesn't prompt me for other credit card offers, doesn't require me to download a PDF reader.
by bahama_mama | 2025-10-17 16:52:20+00:00
> My weekly routine now consists of going to local farmer's market and buying stuff from farms I trust.

This is interesting. What gives you extra trust when buying from this person? How confident are you in what conditions their foods are grown. In a nutshell, I agree that food may feel and seem fresher because it is harvested closer to their prime time, but it says nothing about safety.
by ffsm8 | 2025-10-17 16:52:46+00:00
> It sucks being a journalist. Donate to your local investigative newsroom.

That sounds like absolutely atrocious living conditions for the journalists employed by such a news room.

Honestly, at that point - look for a different job!

I'm not saying this to be mean, I am just picturing myself in such a working relationship of being employed by an organization working in an industry which is hemorrhaging valuation because of various developments like AI (but even before that it was going downhill).

You will be happier doing something else! At that point, learn a trade or similar. You'll be better paid, have a more stable lifestyle and will feel happier long term, even if you love being a journalist now.

Sorry to be such a downer, but hearing messages like that gives me flashbacks to people getting exploited - and I bet ya that the owner of that newsroom will not be suffering like the journalists. You're sacrificing your own happiness in life for another person's wealth gain - just because you thought it was "worth doing" in your 20s. Because yes, money maybe doesn't buy happiness, but it sure as hell gets you an incredible amount of stress if it's absent.
by cpmsmith | 2025-10-17 16:52:52+00:00
If we assume this means "in the next 50 years", they wouldn't be totally wrong. You could make the case airplanes were only on the cusp of being "a meaning[ful] part of life in America" by 1953 – planes only overtook trains for domestic US travel in 1955, and 1957 for trans-Atlantic.

https://airandspace.si.edu/explore/stories/commercial-aviati...
by JohnFen | 2025-10-17 16:53:14+00:00
I had the same question. Apparently, it's an autocorrecting keyboard on steroids: https://www.clevertype.co/post/what-is-an-ai-typing-keyboard...

(That link is to an explainer for an AI keyboard product. I'm not endorsing that product, I know nothing about it, but the explainer seemed very good.)
by tsimionescu | 2025-10-17 16:53:21+00:00
There's another angle here as well: I doubt NYT editors are familiar with Vietnamese spelling. If there are errors in the diacritics, they will not be able to spot them, and may end up with a text that appears more precise than it actually is. If they just remove all diacritics, no reader will be confused they avoid this potential for errors altogether.
by kragen | 2025-10-17 16:53:38+00:00
Yes, groundstations are virtually always highly directional, except for, like, radio hams sometimes. (Even hams usually use yagis.) Possibly you didn't notice this, but I'm talking about the antennas on the satellites, which are the ones that could suffer interference (since they're the ones receiving the uplink frequencies we're discussing), not the groundstation antennas.

You always have to keep track of where each satellite is at any given moment.

What do you mean by "Starlink (and presumably Starlink)"?
by everforward | 2025-10-17 16:53:49+00:00
I think this is partially that for the past decade or two, on-prem was partially preferred by very frugal companies.

One of the places I worked that was on-prem enforced a "standard hardware profile" where the servers were all nearly the same except things that could be changed in house (like RAM sticks). When they ordered hardware, they'd order like 5% or 10% more than we thought we'd need to keep an "emergency pool".

If you ended up needing more hardware than you thought and could justify why you needed it right now, they'd dip into that pool to give you more hardware on a pretty rapid schedule.

It cost slightly more, but was invaluable. Need double the hardware for a week to do a migration? No problem. Product more popular than you thought? No problem.
by austin-cheney | 2025-10-17 16:53:50+00:00
const myHandler = function (event) { console.log(event.target); }; // this is simple and easier to troubleshoot, // but you can only directly assign one value to an object property myNode.onclick = myHandler; // for pages with JavaScript code from third party domains // use event listeners instead myNode.addEventListener("click", myHandler);

When leaving frameworks you have to stop thinking in terms of components, isolated code islands that exist only in their own isolated world. Instead think of areas of the page as parts of a larger whole. You can manage each part independently or not. You wouldn't program outside the browser using something like React, so your programming inside the browser should reflect how you would build an application if the browser weren't there.
by shadowgovt | 2025-10-17 16:54:26+00:00
I don't have any signal one way or the other on whether Shopify retaliated; the fact DHH is on their board I learned from this thread.

I have seen the "soft-hostile takeover" executed in other contexts, however. I don't think it's necessary to presume DHH used his influence as a Shopify board member to seal the deal or that he would have ulterior motive in doing so; in my experience, it's sufficient for a company to see a valuable piece of a puzzle they care about go vulnerable to acquisition offers to make the offer (with the corresponding stick). I'm willing to be convinced otherwise in either direction if more information presents itself; all I know is that Shopify put the offer on the table "We'll back-fill your funding gap or we'll make it much worse; your call." And I've seen that offer made in a completely capitalism-red-in-tooth-and-claw "business is business" way in the past.
by actinium226 | 2025-10-17 16:54:37+00:00
None of these are problems taken separately, but put together they're pretty frustrating. Hooks being 5 years old and being the predominant tool for certain tasks shows that the community only figured out how to solve a particular problem 5 years ago. Compare that, in terms of stability, to Python having coming up with the idea of packages a long time ago, and packages are now a stable part of the ecosystem (packaging is another story which I'll get to shortly).

Revamping the docs is not a problem by itself, but take a look at Python or Django, their docs have the same look and feel for older versions of the code. It's totally a minor problem, and if it were the only one I wouldn't be complaining here, but with the plethora of problems it starts to feel like death by a thousand papercuts.

> Create-react-app was deprecated

Going back to Python packaging, while it's much better than C/C++ packaging, people still love to complain about it! That said, pip is not deprecated. For React to just abandon the idea of helping users to create a project and telling them to "go bother someone else about it" does not seems like something a stable ecosystem would do.

> If this is a bitch fest about React, then the react docs and CRA are fair game, but remix isn't IMO.

It absolutely is a bitch fest about React because I inherited a simple site that should have never used React in the first place and it makes it so hard to do simple things without reinventing the wheel, but anyway, I'd say the ecosystem is fair game now that CRA is deprecated and the docs themselves tell you to go to Next or Vite or React Router or Tanstack.

Anyway, the point is that while React might be relatively stable from the point of view of the larger javascript ecosystem, it's still way less stable than it should be and way less stable than browser APIs.
by adolph | 2025-10-17 16:54:39+00:00
> but may not arrest/fine until such criminal trespassers get off the ferry in UK

Many entities assert extraterritorial jurisdiction [0] for a broad range of activities. The critical question is if the offense would be categorized under an existing extradition treaty's list [1].

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterritorial_jurisdiction

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition
by mckeed | 2025-10-17 16:55:07+00:00
I think you're right that contributed, but at least the federal EV subsidy was trying to mitigate that effect by also subsidizing used EV purchases. I just bought a used PHEV and got a subsidy right before the cutoff. So the effect might get worse now that the program has ended, though I suppose new EV prices should come down too.
by hylaride | 2025-10-17 16:55:28+00:00
I'd be surprised to see a mass-scraping bot behind a NAT gateway. They're probably using public lambdas where they can't even control the egress IPs (unless something has changed in the last 6 months since I last looked) and sending results to a queue or bucket somewhere.

What I'd do is block the AWS AP range at the edge (unless there's something else there that needs access to your site) - you can get regularly updated JSON formatted lists around the internet, or have something match its fingerprint to send it heaps of garbage, like the zip-bombs others have suggested. It could be a recursive "you're abusing my site - go away" or what-have-you. You could also do some-kind of grey-listing, where you limit the speed to a crawl so that each connection just consumes crawler resources and gets little content. If they are tracking this, they'll see the performance issues and maybe adjust.
by bahama_mama | 2025-10-17 16:55:42+00:00
Canned food such as canned tomatoes or canned pickles (if pickled with vinegar/salt/spices) is not considered ultra-processed food. It's considered processed food and can be considered as part of a healthy diet. Well, same could be said about UPF -- your health is unlikely to detoriate long term if you have 1 frozen meal per week. It's just quantity that matters and lack of moderation.
by Spooky23 | 2025-10-17 16:55:43+00:00
I think it’s hard to draw any conclusions about the auto market. The cost escalations of cars and the bizarro economy have changed the market fundamentally.

The weird gaps of supply in model years because of the pandemic and prices are just nuts. The value of my 2016 SUV has gone up $4000 since last year. EVs are super volatile — my brother has netted profit from trading them. My girlfriend sold her 14 month old Subaru for $1000 under her cost - the pretax value appreciated.
by array_key_first | 2025-10-17 16:56:03+00:00
Police aren't doing anything, they're worthless.

Tech companies are doing stuff and giving police free for all access and use. Which is worse, because as stated, police are worthless. You think they consider the consequences or the rights of the people they use those tools on? Come on now.

This can be provided as a service, if it isn't already. Im sure something similar already exists.