MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mattmaroon | 2025-10-27 02:01:59+00:00
I think it’s more to scare immigrants with pleasing the base being icing on the cake. Stephen Miller is genuinely anti-immigrant. And anecdotally, it is working. Ask any flight attendant on an international route.

They want people to stop coming here, and the threat of being sent to some torture camp in the third world won’t deter a Haitian (whose daily life already meets that description) but it will deter people from less atrocious locations.
by silicaroach | 2025-10-27 02:03:00+00:00
If this were true, there would already be nuclear powered aircraft which would be a much more "achievable" goal given the size and weight of even the smallest nuclear power plants.

But there are no nuclear powered aircraft and so no nuclear powered missiles. And many countries have had nuclear _capable_ weaponry for a very long time because nuclear weapons can be small and relatively light.

So there is no news except for the very gullible.
by epistasis | 2025-10-27 02:03:26+00:00
Indeed, it's a complete lie and fabrication, and those who repeat it are bearing false witness. Take the report it came from, click on any "supporting" link, such as:

> A recent study from the United Nations reported that President Trump’s immigration policies led to a 97% reduction in illegal aliens heading northbound to the U.S. from Central America.

And you find that the document they link does not support their assertion, and in face the "97%" refers to:

> The migrants who returned during the period were primarily Venezuelan nationals, accounting for 97% of the documented southward flow, with most heading to neighboring Colombia.

It's comically bad deception, only people who continuously traffic in lies all day long would even publish something like this.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-10-27 02:03:58+00:00
Thanks for that. Here's a more up to date link https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-system-....

I reject that. There is a steadily worsening crisis, even the current labour government have acknowledged that pledging to take lots of action against it, both now and during the election campaign. Specifically small boat crossings, of which more then 43,000 have already arrived this year. There is not a single politician in this country who doesn't admit that there is a serious problem.
by kragen | 2025-10-27 02:04:15+00:00
Blaming people for a problem only helps if you have the power to take away their ability to cause the problem. In this case, the most effective way to keep Congress from causing you health problems by giving you misinformation about supplements would seem to be to get your information from a source that Congress doesn't control, such as ConsumerLab. Hopefully it's a better source than the FDA rather than a worse one; but, if not, maybe you can switch to a better one, or start one yourself.
by jdiff | 2025-10-27 02:04:35+00:00
The people I work with believe the government, the current administration is funding immigrants. Providing them with handlers who are paid to assist them, open up credit cards in their own names on behalf of non-citizens who otherwise couldn't.

Multiple of them believe this. One mentioned it, after she left I turned to my other coworker to say "that was some crazy stuff she was saying" only to be met with, "Hey, it's happening. A lot of federal money goes missing and this is exactly where it's going."

It's a complete disconnect from reality that's malleable to any form desired.
by georgefrowny | 2025-10-27 02:05:04+00:00
> He founded a company to keep making them

So many companies were set up on the back of this cutting edge stuff, as well as Mercury and Apollo, satellites, nuclear reactors, submarines, jet liners, the SR-71, the Heavy Presses, it just goes on and on. Everything from one guy in a barn up to huge corporate labs. Obviously the war already boosted a lot of stuff, but the Atomic Age atmosphere must have felt like an unstoppable industrial whirlwind.

Even though the recent AI hype has been pretty feverish, it doesn't seem like we have had the same kind of top-to-bottom hopeful dynamism.
by archargelod | 2025-10-27 02:05:55+00:00
Most recent commit on the github[0] was only 11 months ago.

Also, it's not a javascript framework, a stable software doesn't have to update often. Look at Lua, most people still use Lua 5.1 and that was released in 2006.

[0] https://github.com/albertodemichelis/squirrel
by andai | 2025-10-27 02:06:10+00:00
I am confused where this traffic is coming from. OP says it's from well funded AI companies. But there are not such a large number of those? Why would they need to scrape the same pages over and over?

Or is the scraping happening in real time due to the web search features in AI apps? (Cheaper to load the same page again than to cache it?)
by travisgriggs | 2025-10-27 02:06:54+00:00
I observe the following. ICE has not caused a huge step change in people leaving the country. If you look at the stats since Reagan (https://infographicsite.com/infographic/deportations-under-u...), it wanders up and down and is (imo) complicated.

What has changed is the “messaging” around the topic. This is very common with the Trump administration. When all is said and done, when exceptions are made/bought, and the courts and others get involved, it ends up not being much of a needle move. BUT, what is different every time is the messaging. And I have come to believe, that is what the actual goal is to some degree. The real goal is to send a message to people who are immigrants OR (and this is important) look like immigrants. It’s a message of “remember your place” and “be grateful you get to be here”. It’s the same type of tactics that gets sent to Asian communities, black communities, women, etc.

I am white. I am a male. I am 55. I oscillate between despondently sad and disgusted.
by noduerme | 2025-10-27 02:07:41+00:00
Amazon is so completely irresponsible for their marketplace that recently, shopping for a glass oral thermometer (because the digital ones suck) I stumbled on reviews with photos showing products that had no mercury inside and actual blobs of mercury stuck to the tip that goes in your mouth. These were still for sale.

I feel like even 10 years ago, online marketplaces would have taken measures to prevent stuff like this.

From that perspective, all of these services that rate products still place all the onus on the individual consumer. What would be really "luxury" in the modern context would be an online marketplace that vetted every product and whose primary product was trust, as opoosed to logistics and convenience. I'd much rather pay $150/yr for a service that vetted its products and took a week to deliver them, than to have a bunch of worthless or dangerous junk delivered the next day.
by kelnos | 2025-10-27 02:11:09+00:00
Not sure if I agree with you on the thread exhaustion issue. The client can still send a flood of correctly-formed requests; the reverse proxy will pass them all through. As I said above, yes, the fact that babble processes requests so quickly would make this harder, but you could still end up with (tens of?) thousands of concurrent requests if someone is really determined to mess with you.

A solution could be to limit concurrent requests in the reverse proxy, but personally I prefer to write software that doesn't require another piece of software, configured correctly, to keep it safe.

And regardless, even with ~25 years of C experience under my belt, I don't think I'd ever be wholly comfortable exposing my C code to the internet, even behind a reverse proxy. Not coming at you directly with this, but I'm frankly skeptical of anyone who is comfortable with that, especially for a one-off service that won't see a lot of use and won't get a lot of eyeballs on it. (And I'm especially uncomfortable with the idea of posting something like this on a website and encouraging others to use it, when readers may not understand the issues involved.)
by shadowgovt | 2025-10-27 02:11:17+00:00
> no matter what

Well, no... That's the thing about false negatives vs. true negatives. The more effective the safe browsing protection is, the fewer false negatives. I think we can agree to disagree on where one should tune the knob between minimizing false negatives and minimizing false positives, especially since

a) you have to be doing something pretty unusual to trigger a false positive (such as "setting up an elaborate mechanism to let user-generated content be hosted off of a subdomain you own")

b) there is a workaround once a publisher is aware of the issue.

> The government should be the one protecting citizens.

This seems to be a claim "Safe browsing should be a government institution." I don't immediately disagree, but we must ask ourselves "Which government do we trust with that responsibility?" In America, that's a near-vertical cliff to scale (and it was even before the current government proved a willingness to weaponize its enforcement capacity against speech that should by rights be protected).

If I don't like Chrome safe browsing protection, I can turn it off or change browsers. What do I do if I don't like my government's safe browsing protection? Is it as opt-out as a corporate-provided one is?
by kragen | 2025-10-27 02:11:43+00:00
When I'm reviewing commits, I find it useful to see refactoring, which doesn't change behavior, separated from functional changes, and for each commit to leave the tree in a working, testable state. This is also helpful for git bisect.

Often, a change to a new working state is necessarily bigger than a couple of lines, or one of the lines has to get removed later.

I don't want to have to say, "Hmm, I wonder if this will work at the end of the file?" and spend a long time figuring out that it won't, then see that the problem is fixed later in the patch series.

Other people may have other preferences.
by Arainach | 2025-10-27 02:13:02+00:00
>Only a business with this as its core competency is capable of the breadth and depth required for this Herculean task.

It doesn't have to be a business, and it absolutely should not be. Preventing poisoning of people, animals, and the environment is something capitalism has proven utterly incapable of, and in fact (literally) violently opposed to.

This is the kind of thing that needs to be done at the government level. The goal is societal benefit, not profit.
by rmunn | 2025-10-27 02:13:12+00:00
If I was assigned the task of arguing that in court (though it would be really stupid to assign me, a non-lawyer, that task), I'd probably argue that it's not circumventing a locked door when you use the actual key in the lock; "circumventing" refers to picking the lock. It could still be unauthorized access if you stole the key, but that's a different thing than circumventing, and this law forbids circumventing.

Likewise, if the encryption key is sitting on disk next to the encrypted data, it's not "circumventing" the encryption to use that key. And if you handed me the disk without telling me "Oh, you're only allowed to use certain files on the disk" then it's fair to assume that I'm allowed to use all the files that you put on the disk before handing it to me, therefore not unauthorized access.

That argument might fail depending on what's in the EULA for the car's diagnostic software (which I haven't seen), but I feel it would be worth trying. Especially if you think you can get a sympathetic jury.
by rajamaka | 2025-10-27 02:14:32+00:00
> as simple as "with open(...) as f: f.write(data)"

Save where? With what redundancy? With what access policies? With what backup strategy? With what network topology? With what storage equipment and file system and HVAC system and...

Without on-prem, saving a file is as simple as s3.put_object() !
by laurieg | 2025-10-27 02:15:03+00:00
The "making a sandwich" demo is definitely a classic.

Here's another I like:

Give groups of kids 10 identical looking items and a balance to compare the weights. Pre-teach how a balance works to compare the weight of items. Ask them to put the items in order from lightest to heaviest. You're basically asking them to come up with a sorting algorithm. Usually, after much experimentation, someone will come up with an algorithm that works. You can work together to try to write down the steps of the algorithm. You can also explore more mathematical ideas like transitivity when comparing different sorted sets of items.
by jdiff | 2025-10-27 02:15:04+00:00
It doesn't need to be effective, it needs to be a computerized excuse to go after more people. Whenever computers are used to target people, the output is always given far too much weight. Recently we had guns drawn on a child because a computer vision algorithm classified his doritos as a gun with a low confidence score, with explicit advice to only investigate further and not assume correctness. But that child still had multiple guns trained on them.

Take that, apply it to here, and it's clear that effectiveness would actually be counterproductive.
by jonstewart | 2025-10-27 02:15:17+00:00
Oh, I am not at all implying or insinuating this article is connected to populism, nationalism, etc., or advocating for them, nor mean to impugn the author through association. Lead is bad. PFAS and microplastics are bad. Glyphosate maybe is bad. I identify as a mild/moderate environmentalist (while also a mild/moderate yimby; I don’t see a necessary contradiction).

But to be more explicit, I think there’s an undercurrent of Blood and Soil at work in the USA today, it’s seen a little bit explicitly in MAHA, and I’m worried, a lot, about the future political implications, where the real damage we’ve done to the environment becomes an excuse for… more bad things.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-10-27 02:16:19+00:00
Yes I remember liking the idea with that one. And thinking that its "clone families" were a bit like implicit structural typing in a way. And that perhaps there was a way one could do a kind of static typing & type inference with something based around similar ideas. (e.g. this method takes as an arg anything which structurally matches xxxx, which we could deduce via clone families, etc.)
by x-complexity | 2025-10-27 02:18:18+00:00
Counterpoint: Such a market *technically* already existed outside of FIFA, just that it was a more underground/grey/black market.

Strictly speaking, an external market being brought into existing ticketing systems would be net-neutral, since the following pros & cons should balance each other out:

(additional visibility into ticket prices & demand (+)) + (increased assurance of "this is the one place to get a ticket" (+))

==

-( (increased competition for a ticket (-)) + (perverse incentives of platform to increase ticket prices (-)) )

But because of their reputation, the negatives are weighed more than the positives due to their existing track record.

As such, the following constructed scenario should be considered: If it was a fully automated platform external to any party that handled such ticketing systems, would such a severely negative view still hold?
by ggreer | 2025-10-27 02:19:43+00:00
You said "And no Tesla has EVER driven without a driver with Tesla assuming liability for crashes." and I gave a counterexample. I figured you wouldn't count the Austin robotaxi rollout, since there is a safety monitor in those vehicles, just not always in the driver's seat. I also assumed you meant "on public roads", since Teslas already drive themselves from factories to staging/shipping areas, but that's on private roads. And their cybercab demo last year lacked safety drivers, but again that was on private roads.

Are you willing to stake money on your prediction? I'll bet you any amount up to $1k that Tesla will have self-driving vehicles on public roads without a safety monitor in the car by the end of 2026. This could be in the form of their robotaxi service or FSD unsupervised (since many Teslas are insured by Tesla).
by callc | 2025-10-27 02:20:20+00:00
Both regulation and an actually healthy free market are important.

Both have pros and cons

Regulation sucks at directing productions of goods and setting prices, distributing these tasks to the people generally works better.

The free market is unstable though, its actors ever trying to gain advantage and squash competition. Profit first driven people too often push harm to humans as out of mind and externalized.

This is where regulation is needed. (read as: we the people need rules to protect what we deem important, including our health and having a well-functioning society, profits be damned)
by codedokode | 2025-10-27 02:20:49+00:00
With s3, you cannot use ls, grep and other tools.

> Save where? With what redundancy? With what access policies? With what backup strategy? With what network topology? With what storage equipment and file system and HVAC system and...

Wow that's a lot to learn before using s3... I wonder how much it costs in salaries.

> With what network topology?

You don't need to care about this when using SSDs/HDDs.

> With what access policies?

Whichever is defined in your code, no restrictions unlike in S3. No need to study complicated AWS documentation and navigate through multiple consoles (this also costs you salaries by the way). No risk of leaking files due to misconfigured cloud services.

> With what backup strategy?

Automatically backed up with rest of your server data, no need to spend time on this.
by jonway | 2025-10-27 02:21:02+00:00
>the "crisis" is entirely manufactured.

It sure is, the US government has been underfunding the judicial body responsible for adjudicating asylum claims for years and years. As a result there are indeed people here in status limbo.

Wether or not they should be granted some kind of residency is kind of irrelevant, politicians are happy for this to be a problem they can use.

Even now, they aren’t increasing the rate of process, they’re just blowing the cash on mass surveillance.
by MengerSponge | 2025-10-27 02:21:37+00:00
A bit of history: "States' Rights" advocates specifically were advocating "States' rights to enforce chattel slavery". The Fugitive Slave Act is a wild usurpation of States' Rights, but the slavers (who have become the modern Repulican party) didn't mind.

"They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past."
by Esophagus4 | 2025-10-27 02:22:01+00:00
“States’ rights” was by and large an excuse for states to marginalize and oppress their minorities without interference from the Federal Government. (The Federal Government is usually the last line of defense a minority has against the state’s oppression.)

There’s a book that makes an incredibly compelling case called Freedom’s Dominion, highly recommended.

Now when I hear “states’ rights” I complete the thought with, “…to do bad things to people we don’t really like”
by jjmarr | 2025-10-27 02:22:59+00:00
> Chatgpt is pretty bad at "don't keep doing the thing I literally just asked you not to do" but most humans are pretty good at that.

Most humans are terrible at that. Most humans don't study for tests, fail, and don't see the connection. Most humans will ignore rules for their safety and get injured. Most humans, when given a task at work, will half-ass it and not make progress without constant monitoring.

If you only hang out with genius SWEs in San Francisco, sure, ChatGPT isn't at AGI. But the typical person has been surpassed by ChatGPT already.

I'd go so far as to say the typical programmer has been surpassed by AI.
by Rileyen | 2025-10-27 02:23:02+00:00
Sometimes I wonder if I’m using my phone, or if it’s using me. I know things like notifications and vibrations are designed to grab my attention, but the phone always seems to know exactly when I’m at my weakest. The moment I feel even a little bored or empty, my finger just taps open that familiar app before I even realize it. Have any of you found ways to break out of this cycle of being led around by your phone?
by wtfwhateven | 2025-10-27 02:23:12+00:00
>Obviously there is something more to this than the headline and tone of the piece indicate.

So... what is that something? Did you find out or is the article not actually using the wrong "tone" and is in fact just reporting what happened?

>so how can removing the site make it impossible to abide by the law?

Did you find what the replacement for this service is? Has the government actually provided one? Did you read the law?
by knappe | 2025-10-27 02:23:42+00:00
My father just retired as a lab analyst looking at builder samples for both modern and historical construction, specifically for asbestos.

The day I moved into the college dorms he looked at me and said "Don't move the floor tiles, ceilings tiles or the touch the large ventilation pipe outside my door in the hallway." A lot of the buildings at my university were built with asbestos, so much so that the university had a 30 year contract with the lab he worked at to analyze samples.

And it isn't only historical buildings that have asbestos. A very well known mall that was built in the 2000s had incurred some severe hail damage and while the repairs were ongoing samples were taken and found to be hot. Someone had introduced asbestos contaminated materials into the original build and rather than extensive repairs the mall had to do extensive remediation first, before continuing repairs.

Apparently there is still a large stock of "hot" building material that are sitting in warehouses and every once in a while they make it into the supply chain.
by noduerme | 2025-10-27 02:27:31+00:00
Well, yeah, but that type of protection isn't compatible with freedom. Neither the freedom to consume nor the freedom to iterate on a product. I don't blame companies for making their products addictive. I smoke cigarettes. I drink. Sometimes I crave a Big Mac. I don't blame them for selling me poison, as long as I recognize it as unhealthy. The best way to protect yourself is by educating yourself to recognize manipulative patterns, and by extension sharing that with other people. We know from drug addiction that simply banning something doesn't work. And an insight from some great druggies like Philip K Dick and Hunter Thompson and Burroughs is that the list of things that can be addictive is endless. If someone made an app that made people chew their nails, or lick an escalator banister, or shock themselves with electricity, people would get addicted to it.

I was hypnotized a few times as a child by a professional hypnotist. When in college I was invited to a "seminar" which turned out to be a cult indoctrination session, I immediately recognized what I was seeing the group leader doing to the audience.

We don't need external protection, we need herd immunity. It's like"give a man a fish" vs "teach a man to fish".
by notatoad | 2025-10-27 02:28:34+00:00
it should be possible to admit that AGI not only a long way off, but also a lot different to what chatGPT does, without discounting that chatGPT is extraordinarily useful.

the AI bros like to talk about AGI as if it's just the next threshold for LLMs, which discounts the complexity of AGI, but also discounts their own products. we don't need an AGI to be our helpful chatbot assistant. it's fine for that to just be a helpful chatbot assistant.