MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by drewbug01 | 2025-11-05 01:46:57+00:00
Here’s a letter from a Senator, asking Kristi Noem to correct the record after it came to light in court proceedings that the DHS lied: https://www.murphy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/murphy...

Here’s an article discussing how Noem recently claimed that “no American citizens have been arrested or detained”, despite mountains of evidence to the contrary: https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/04/homeland-security-bo...

Here’s an article discussing how the recent video published by DHS about their success in DC was in fact composed of footage from different cities and months old: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2025/10/29/tru...

Here’s another article discussing some of the same incidents and others where DHS put out false statements and would not correct them: https://reason.com/2025/10/22/homeland-security-wont-stop-ly...

Here’s another letter from a congresswoman demanding DHS retract false statements made about an alleged criminal, who was later proven to be framed: https://gwenmoore.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?Documen...

So why should I believe anything they say these days? They are blatantly lying, in ways that are manifestly obvious to anyone that is willing to look. We don’t owe the presumption of good faith to people who time and again have been publicly caught lying - and worse, who haven’t even tried to correct the record.
by z3ugma | 2025-11-05 01:47:02+00:00
After you flash the exploit and SSH into the thermostat you can see it at https://github.com/codykociemba/NoLongerEvil-Thermostat/issu...

It's a boot script called /bin/nolongerevil.sh that supplies its own trust material and redirects traffic intended for frontdoor.nest.com to a hard-coded IP 15.204.110.215. 99.9% of this image is the original copyrighted Nest image. Maybe it's enough for the bounty though? And I suppose you could change that IP to a local server. If you wanted to publish the server side Nest API discovered through WireShark . Just stand up your own http rest server.
by varispeed | 2025-11-05 01:48:38+00:00
That's how democracy was bypassed. Whoever you vote for, they'll do what Fink says, not what voters choose.

In the UK, it's the duty of MI5 to ensure such corruption of state doesn't happen. See how well they protect British public:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LabourUK/comments/1gx4qoa/keir_star...

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-digital-id-scheme-to-...

Security services should start doing their job and restore our democracies.
by treetalker | 2025-11-05 01:49:03+00:00
On the one hand, such citations are subject to sanctions rules/motions like Fed. R. Civ. P. 11 and Florida Statutes § 57.105.

But why give the opponent an opportunity to withdraw? I like spending the time to meticulously call out their BS and slop. Once the other side is shown to have filed slop once, its credibility is destroyed for the rest of the case. As a bonus, the court might issue, sua sponte, an order to show cause why sanctions ought not be imposed anyway.

But say the client is very cost-sensitive. There, one can still make a bullet-point list of all the cases cited, placing them under the heading "Cases that Do Not Exist" or similar.

The court should get the idea.

Obligatory disclaimer: this shouldn't be construed as legal advice; it's just part of my thought process regarding the OP's hypothetical.
by caminante | 2025-11-05 01:49:06+00:00
> from inference capacity to the power generation needed to support it.

Power gen = yes. Reasoning is trivial due to long useful asset life.

For compute, why would it be any different than fiber in the AI bubble pop case? Less useful, but not useless. Are you misremembering the fiber overbuild era? The fiber investments were impaired and sold off for pennies on the dollar. The value here wouldn't go to zero, either.
by alephnerd | 2025-11-05 01:49:44+00:00
But most oil exports that are subsidizing the Russian economy and providing forex are being exported from the Russian Far East.

Hitting infra in Western Russia makes it painful for civilians and does have a psychological impact of highlighting to the Russia public how war has consequences, but by and large it doesn't do much given that Russia still has the capability to continue garnering foreign currency or operating with foreign markets.

Furthermore, those strikes aren't truly crippling [0] to Russian ONG capacity and the associated sanctions won't have much of an impact given how diversified Russian ONG companies are [1], with JVs and stakes in Western ambivalent countries like China, Congo, Egypt, Iraq, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and others.

The psychological impact of such strikes cannot be understated, but it's not really painful for Russia given that they have chosen to dig in and believe that they can win an economic war of attrition [2] as it stands. If the much more isolated Maduro regime in Venezuela or the Khamenei regime in Iran are able to hold onto power, it's hard to see how these strikes can impact that Putin regime in what has become a war of attrition, especially when regional powers like Vietnam have begun pivoting back to Russia [3], and larger powers like China [4] and India [5] are doubling down on Russian investments.

[0] - https://carnegieendowment.org/russia-eurasia/politika/2025/1...

[1] - https://carnegieendowment.org/russia-eurasia/politika/2025/1...

[2] - https://www.csis.org/analysis/russias-war-ukraine-next-chapt...

[3] - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/world/asia/3-takeaways-fr...

[4] - https://www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/power-of-siberia-2-rus...

[5] - https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-signs-pact-with-sa...
by Nursie | 2025-11-05 01:50:29+00:00
We replaced a boiler in our last house a few years back. We got a Vaillant, at least in part because I found that there was a Vaillant add-on board available which could do OpenTherm, and the nest controller could do that in theory too.

When it came to the install I was told in no uncertain terms that even though they produced the board and it was compatible with my boiler, any attempt at installation by myself or their approved installation engineer would immediately void the warranty.

So that was the end of my OpenTherm journey. Thanks Vaillant!
by burnte | 2025-11-05 01:51:33+00:00
> Right, so you admit that it's an unknown process, which means you literally cannot conclude that it is different to what LLMs are doing.

If you truly feel human thinking and LLMs share more than a cocktail napkin's worth of similarity, I don't know what to say. Just treating it like a black box I can prove in minutes it's not thinking. Come on. I really don't get why people are so emotionally involved in this stuff.

It's not thinking. It's ok that it's not thinking. Maybe someday we'll get there, but it's not today.
by shoobiedoo | 2025-11-05 01:52:54+00:00
My mom just lost about fifteen thousand dollars. The sad part is, she knew full well, for years now, if you hear a certain accent from a cold call, just hang up the phone. She received calls almost every day since she still needs a landline to talk to family, so she is very well versed in avoiding them.

So for her to fall for a scam has us worried, it might be a sign of neurodegenerative disease. She went from sharp as a tack when it came to ignoring scammers, to falling into it. I'm sure this is a very common theme. These parasites prey on the elderly losing their mental acuity
by sbuttgereit | 2025-11-05 01:53:15+00:00
It's a fair point. I actually posted the article mostly to get discussion... and before I realized exactly what the rest of the website was about. So I would urge taking things in that spirit, including feeling free to call out that the assertions in the article are wrong in fact or interpretation.

I do think it raises some fair questions about the drive to certain forms of digital commerce and identification. Perhaps, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.... at least sometimes...

For the record, I've seen no convincing evidence for the existence of a divine presence of any sort and don't support most of the site's messaging. Sure, we could be on the edge of real apocalypse, but am very doubtful that, should that day come, it will be the Christian Apocalypse or the same prophesied from any other faith for that matter.
by capitainenemo | 2025-11-05 01:53:18+00:00
Article claims python 3 uses UTF-8.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1838170/ "In Python 3.3 and above, the internal representation of the string will depend on the string, and can be any of latin-1, UCS-2 or UCS-4, as described in PEP 393."

Article also says PHP has immutable strings. They are mutable, although often copied.

Article also claims majority of popular languages have immutable strings. As well as the ones listed there is also PHP and Rust (and C, but they did say C++ - and obviously Ruby since that's the subject of the article).

I'm also a bit surprised by the last sentence. "However, if you do measure a negative performance impact, there is no doubt you are measuring incorrectly." There must surely be programs doing a lot of string building or in-place modification that would benefit from non-frozen.
by eru | 2025-11-05 01:54:00+00:00
> A union does whatever its members want the union to do.

Just like a democracy does whatever its voters want it to do?..

Different people want different things.

> I'd argue that an environment where pay negotiation is a case of every person for themselves isn't actually good for anyone but if the majority of members disagree with me then the union won't get involved in pay.

Well, I feel for the minority that doesn't want the union to get involved in their affairs.
by eru | 2025-11-05 01:54:56+00:00
> The assembly line is as good as the worst/slowest person on it, so there is no advantage in being faster at putting bolts in, or whatever you do [...]

I guess you have no experience with assembly lines?

> (unions can sometimes push safety standards, but also comes from others who have the union take credit)

Btw, health and safety are what economists call a 'normal good'. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_good

> In economics, a normal good is a type of a good for which consumers increase their demand due to an increase in income, unlike inferior goods, for which the opposite is observed. When there is an increase in a person's income, for example due to a wage rise, a good for which the demand rises due to the wage increase, is referred as a normal good. Conversely, the demand for normal goods declines when the income decreases, for example due to a wage decrease or layoffs.

That explains fairly well, why rich countries all have more-or-less similar health and safety standards despite very different histories and especially histories of labour activism, and why poor countries fare worse in this respect--even if some of them have laws on the books that are just as strict.
by senfiaj | 2025-11-05 01:55:21+00:00
I think a more realistic comparison is a BMP image (16 or 256 color) because the game didn't compress the image the way PNG or WebP does. When I converted that tiny ~3KiB image to 16 color BMP the size was 28.1KiB, for 256 color it was 57KiB. But some colors were lost.

Anyways I don't think we can have 100% apple to apple comparison, because the game used a different compression and rendering technique. Also consider the actual amount of RAM / VRAM the images are occupying. In RAM / VRAM they are probably in a decompressed form which is much more memory.
by Mitran09 | 2025-11-05 01:55:57+00:00
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by tito | 2025-11-05 01:56:24+00:00
I just got back from the Millennium Seed Bank in the UK and was marveling at the size of a small footprint facility that stores samples of more than 10% of all known living plants.

Reading this thread, I was curious about what the size of California's sample collection looks like. I made an estimate using a little 1ul vial and an estimated 40 million people born in California since 1930. 100 samples in each box means 400,000 boxes. It's something like a 60 foot by 60 foot room with shelving.

If you extended it to a bank of 100 billion (about all humans ever born), that gets you to a pretty low tech solution that stores samples in the footprint of five Costcos.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-11-05 01:58:10+00:00
A 2024 International LT Series semi-truck costs $130,000. That's very expensive compared to a $30,000 Ford Maverick.

Both of these trucks can technically be used to pick up groceries and commute. But, uh, if you bought the semi-truck to get groceries and commute? Nobody scammed you; you bought the wrong truck. You don't have to buy the biggest, most expensive truck to do small jobs. But also, just because there's a cheaper truck available, doesn't mean the semi-truck is overpriced or a scam. The semi is more expensive for a reason.

I wonder about people who write articles like these. I imagine at one point he believed he had to use the cloud, so he started using it without understanding what he was doing. As a result, he was charged a ton of money. He then found out there were cheaper, simpler ways to do what he wanted. And so, feeling hurt, embarrassed, and deceived, he writes this long screed, accusing people of scamming him - I mean scamming you - because you (not him!) could not possibly need to use the cloud, even though you (not him!) assumed you had to use the cloud.

Yes, dude. The cloud is expensive. Sorry you found out the hard way. And for what it's worth, you don't need a datacenter either; stick a 1U in your closet and call it a day.
by yunnpp | 2025-11-05 01:59:35+00:00
Do you have a technical background?

WASM offers a false sense of portability only because it is basically useless. It's not even POSIX-compliant (WASIX is a WIP). By the time it becomes useful, they will have realized they have re-implemented Java. And even then, it'll only offer a half-assed subset of functionality that you'd get from going native.

WebGPU is a similar story. It's based on a decades-old API, lagging severely behind present-day Vulkan. And it's not even well-supported across browsers. Again, you'll get better portability and more functionality from just going native.

To suggest that all of this is a "sofware update" away seems very naive. The kind of thing somebody without a technical background would suggest.
by yhzan | 2025-11-05 02:00:23+00:00
Introducing CapRL, the first study of applying GRPO for the open-ended and subjective image captioning task. The trained CapRL-3B model achieves image captioning performance comparable to Qwen2.5-VL-72B. CapRL introduces a novel training framework that redefines caption quality through its utility: a high-quality caption should enable a non-visual language model to accurately answer questions about the corresponding image. Currently, CapRL is open-sourced, with total downloads of the models and datasets surpassing 7,000. The research team is continuously iterating with stronger base models and improved training recipe.
by refurb | 2025-11-05 02:00:24+00:00
I would respectfully disagree. While Singapore likes to “kill the chicken to teach the monkey” they absolutely are examples of kid gloves.

The recent corruption case of a Minister taking gifts of hundreds of thousands resulted in a few months custodial sentence for the Minister and nothing for the rich “donor”.

Massive money laundering scam? Stiff punishment for the foreigners and kid gloves for the local lawyers and bankers who facilitated it all.

Singaporeans constantly complain about how being rich in Singapore protects from actual punishment.
by codeforafrica | 2025-11-05 02:02:02+00:00
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by bloppe | 2025-11-05 02:04:13+00:00
Fair. Running in the browser isn't novel, but JS/TS are some of the most popular languages in history and that almost certainly never would have happened without monopolizing the browser.

Expanding margins are fine by me. Anticompetitive markets are not. My hope is that wasm helps to break a couple strangleholds over platforms (cough cough iOS cough Android)
by eru | 2025-11-05 02:04:50+00:00
> Usually, it's not an "inner wish" of the electorate, but the electorate gets manipulated to feel that way by mass media, especially tabloids. Outrage sells, after all, especially when it can be laced to make it more effective.

As you say, the tabloids sell what people want to read. Who's manipulating whom?

> The problem at the core is that immigration is vital for societies, especially the low-pay-hard-labor segment. Has the UK found a replacement for Ukrainian and Polish farm workers yet [1]?

Immigration is also good for the would be immigrants.

Though if you are only interested in cheap labour (and giving foreigners jobs which are better than what they can get at home), you can run a guest worker programmer without giving them the right to stay. Singapore has a few successful programmes like that.

Ie you can have cheap labour without permanent immigration.

I'm in favour of open borders; but if for political reasons you can't have permanent immigration, guest worker programmes are better than completely closed borders.
by arcfour | 2025-11-05 02:05:00+00:00
I've always found AWS IAM quite simple, but then again it is my job, so I might be biased. I haven't really dug into GCP well enough to understand it, but I did find it quite daunting to start the few times I messed with it. What's complex about it to you?

For personal projects, honestly, the built in roles AWS provides are okay enough for some semblance of least privilege x functionality IMO.

Plus, most of AWS's documentation tells you the specific policy JSON to use if you need to do XYZ thing, just fill in the blanks.
by nine_k | 2025-11-05 02:05:31+00:00
What would actually help the scammed families would be getting the lost resources back, at least partially. I realize that it may be hard, for the resources may have been squandered.

Scamming would be much less prevalent if money were trackable, scam transactions would be possible to roll back, yes, transitively, from all the downstream users. The downstream users would then be keenly interested in the provenance of the money they're being paid. Ironically, blockchain-based currencies are perfectly trackable (at least in theory; mixers make it harder). Sadly, this has a ton of obvious privacy implications.
by alephnerd | 2025-11-05 02:05:54+00:00
That's why China, India, and Vietnam have continued to purchase Russian oil, even if resorting to barter agreements such as Vietnam's procurement of the SU-35 [0] and India's agreement for a JV to domestically manufacture the SJ-100 [1] (which also helps their French partner Safran recoup costs, as Safran is part of India's domestic jet engine program and was a partner in the SJ-100 project before sanctions began).

And it's not like Asian countries are purchasing less from other sources either - they're just using the Russian barter to force MFN deals and discounts from other suppliers.

[0] - https://defencesecurityasia.com/en/vietnam-russia-su35-fight...

[1] - https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-signs-pact-with-sa...
by pstuart | 2025-11-05 02:06:24+00:00
> What's there to lock when the data is read only?

That's my point (it was an intentional understatement). Data that is rarely updated can be treated as read only and updates are done offline and swapped in as needed. This is very much a cope for SQLite's limited concurrency but I think it's worthy of consideration for when the situation merits it.
by dredmorbius | 2025-11-05 02:07:10+00:00
I usually experience this in the other direction, as toot.cat rather aggressively defederates other servers.

It's sufficiently well administered that I'm not aware of any instances defederating it. Where I'm aware of instances being widely defederated, it's almost always been gross abuse and failure of admins to respond in an appropriate or timely manner. I'd left one such instance on account of just such a failure. (Several others shut down, another not-uncommon occurrence.)

Profile migration still has many failings, but it does make moving to and establishing connections from a new instance pretty painless. Losing your old history is a bit of a drag.