skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A wild tale. That one seems to be paywalled, here's another article:

"Tom Goldstein Ran Out of Luck - How the most influential Supreme Court lawyer of his generation gambled it all away."
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/tom-goldstein-scotus...

Tom Goldstein has argued 45 cases before the Supreme Court, single-handedly changing how lawyers get cases in front of the nine justices, and taught a generation of Harvard and Stanford law students how to do the same. and founded SCOTUSblog.

He also led a double life as an international high-stakes poker player who evaded millions in taxes and used his law firm as a slush fund to pay gambling debts and support multiple girlfriends. He was recently convicted of tax evasion on his earnings.
TFA means well, but it's just disingenuous to end it at the 13th Amendment. Even setting aside the glaring loopholes in the 13th Amendment, the story of slavery doesn't end when the slavery does.

A generation of slaves continued to live in the US, surrounded by their former slave-owners. You have to tell the story of what happened to them.

Nor does it end when that generation died. Slavery remained a huge part of the American experience, including an enormous effort to pretend it was never so bad.

As written, we give students the impression that all wrongs were righted and everything was fine. This is pervasive in the way we teach American history: "We're great, and even when we're not so great, we eventually right all the wrongs". That's just not true, and it discourages critical thinking of who we are now.
The disdain I can personally speak to is with the system that creates job programs funded by my taxpayer dollars instead of using said dollars for effective governance. I have lived experience, lots of it, with people who are living stereotypes of government employees, whose entire work product serves to sustain a self-perpetuating bureaucracy and who contribute very little to the statutory mission of their employer. So do many other people.

I don't blame those employees for thriving in the environment that was created for them. I don't wish them any ill. But I don't think I need to fund that kind of systemic dysfunction anymore.
I certainly did complain! And I'm sure I'll do it again if the new features aimed to supplant the old ones are worse.

If you search anything about React now, 90% of the docs are hook-based. Beginners of React in 2025 will be guided to use a default pattern which has worse runtime footprint and adds a whole suite of new tool-specific coding guidelines ("rules of hook"). After years with it, I struggle to see what it has added in terms of building front-end SPas, yet the pattern is now the default for all using React.
There's a lot of middle ground between the righteous protesters putting their lives on the line and the lazy, complacent bourgeoise with their contemptible heads in the sand.

I don't have the energy or time to join protests. I donate substantially enough that it's noticeable in my finances to Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, Fair Fight, and a handful of others. Tell me I'm not doing enough, that's fair. Tell me I'm doing nothing, and that's a little insulting.
There’s a point where you realise you are now supporting cast in the movie of your life.
Ask HN: Safeguards for Agentic Apps?
I don't trust AI with my credit card. But I want AI doing simple things like booking a flight it's helped me choose.

The only solution I can imagine feeling good about is strong controls on all the outbound API calls made by these agentic apps. Don't spend more than $x; book a car rental at the same location as the flight's destination.

RAG-controls with database-level permissions on reads works if you own the database, but when we are running against public APIs it's a different ballgame.

Am I alone here? What are people doing for this? What workarounds have you seen?

(Looking at this with a couple of hats on, btw.)
Bulker: Streaming and batching large amount of data into data warehouses
Yeah, the reason I used OpenSUSE is that someone told me that YaST was more or less analogous to the Windows Control Panel, and that SUSE was relatively friendly for people who had mostly used Windows. I think that description is fairly accurate, I didn't really much trouble navigating around SUSE.

I'm an annoying math person now so I use NixOS for everything, and I don't really plan on leaving any time soon, but if I did SUSE would honestly still be a contender.
Texas wants to invite in NYC’s most brutal-cunning capitalists for a bit, I guess to see what it feels like to learn 40 years of hard lessons all at once.
It literally just meant a Linux distribution with German localization.
Apple Vision and its wrappers provide bounding boxes for each line of text. That's slightly less convenient than Tesseract which can give you a bounding box for each word, but more than compensated by Apple Vision's better accuracy. I am planning to fudge the word boxes by assuming fixed-width letters and dividing up the overall width so that each word's width is proportional to its share of the total letters on the line.

Once you have those bounding boxes, it's pretty simple to use a library like [1] (Python) or [2] (JavaScript) to add overlay text in the right place. For example, see how [3] does it.

[1] https://pymupdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/recipes-text.html#h...
[2] https://github.com/foliojs/pdfkit
[3] https://github.com/eloops/hocr2pdf
This has been my experience too. There were a couple of years (like 2016-2018) where I saw a handful of people pushing the RIIR line, but I've seen many more people for many more years complaining about how those RIIR people are everywhere. Any time there's an article on Phoronix that mentions Rust, the trolls come out in droves to whine about how toxic the Rust community is and how they make everything political, while the only people in those threads making anything political are the anti-Rust trolls themselves.
Don't ask for people's location just to show them a poem.

(Asking someone to share their location is like walking around a bar asking for sex. It makes you look like a fool, and gets people angry at you. Plus, you lost my upvote as a result.)
> new music

I keep thinking I'm going crazy until Rick Beato explains that yes, I am just an RNN Meat Popsicle and the world is interpolated:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_9Larw-hJM
Yup, definitely the human needs better context training. Then again, for an account that's only 6 months old, it's possible you're not really a human.

Edit to insert: WHAT DRAWING? There's a can of coconut milk that is turned so the word coconut is not fully visible. In front of that can is a real red bell pepper with a green stem still attached that is partially obstructed by the bowls in the foreground. What you're attempting to claim as a drawing is just a real life object in the table top setup. Since this is a CNBC branding image, I'm assuming this is a still frame from a video clip. Based on being a video type person, this view probably changes based on time with different things being obstructed/revealed by the camera's movement.

Your RLHF could really use some improvement. To be this argumentative when you're clearly wrong is quite amusing, but not in an entertaining way. It just reinforces my sentiments towards the joke the industry has become
Where would you have expected to see that?
The photo looks like it's an 80ies synth-pop band.

Also, "Sure, one could download all forty Slackware floppy disk images, but it would take quite a bit of time on a 28.8kbps modem"

Yes...yes it does.

On a more serious note, I miss the days when Linux and open source software where on the rise. Things weren't perfect, but there was a lot of idealism and a desire to build cool stuff and the whole "tech bro" thing wasn't what it is today.
Two helicopters with two pilots = 8 eyes. One helicopter with two pilots = 4 eyes.
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But also this:

"Running meta-commands can extend psql's functionality, and it's through these that an attacker can feasibly achieve ACE by using the exclamation mark meta-command to execute a shell command on the operating system. Attackers can also use the vulnerability to execute SQL statements of their choosing."

I don't know PostgreSQL very well, but being able to execute shell commands by default seems like an obvious footgun.
Warning, comments in this thread include spoilers for the short story.

If you upvote this comment, people will see this spoiler warning before the spoilers.

Probably that would be beneficial to a substantial fraction of the people reading the thread.
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43049838
A case with similar circumstances from a neighboring state where the officer was indicted by DOJ:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-nv/pr/former-reno-police-office...
IMO back in the 90s anyone looking to do harm on the internet was working alone or in a small group. That's bad, but not a system-level danger. It wasn't trillions of dollars worth of market cap conspiring against us.
Well, I mean, it's an idea.
> 100% of people who dislike systemd can't come up with a better solution that solves all of the problems that systemd was created to solve.

Perhaps because these people consider that solving all the problems that systemd claims to solve does introduce too many other problems, so they tend to consider it to be the better solution to solve, say, 90 % of the problems that systemd solves, but introduce less new problems.
It's been flagged
I have sympathy for the reporter, but that CPU is literally 10 years old.
I'm unsure whether the most charitable reading of your comment is to assume you missed that these linked phrases exist on the original site but were not included in the text copied into the comment above, or something else:

* "bad actors" links to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Farms

* "destroy lives" links to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Farms#Suicides_of_harassm...

While you may be correct that initial "trolls get flagged", the statement on the Asahi site agrees that while the initial comment may be flagged & killed, the other comments in the subthread are still indexed, visible & tend not to get moderated/flag:

"Unfortunately, when a comment is flagged and killed, its child subthread is not. [...] but the reduced moderation activity enables abuse to continue. Although you don't see those threads, search engines do."

Based on other remarks about the content of such subthreads it seems surprising to claim that follow-on comments are made by "honest nice people".

I'm as much of a fan of adverbs as the next person but using words like "categorically", "extremely" & "patently" doesn't seem to leave much room for nuance of interpretation when written by someone who I'd have assumed was a third party observer?

While I could understand someone describing JWZ's HN-tailored "banner" (I wouldn't suggest researching this if anyone is not already familiar) gauche and immature, it feels like somewhat of a stretch in relation to a plain text message who last sentence starts with "Please".
https://scholars.org/contribution/twenty-lessons-fighting-ty...

> Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.
Is it common in academic research for the left hand not to know what the right hand is doing at times?
Women absolutely make better stories.

I saw a crypto scam article with a fairly attractive girl who *could* of probably meet someone in real life. Instead she let a crypto scammer take her for like 300k. Her dad was scammed too and invested another 200k.

The entire story was shaped to make her look like a victim who could have never just said, wait you want me to put $50,000 into a random account and I've never met you in real life, I think I'm going to delete this app and talk to Billy down at Cafe.

There's no way on Earth, if some 400 lb guy thought he was talking to a supermodel and ended up losing his life savings would people react the same way. Everyone would correctly point him out as being an idiot, why would a supermodel want you, don't you know anyone who's that attractive is probably not on a dating site looking for 400 lb guys to go out with?

Although, what I'll never understand about these higher end scams is that at a point you can literally just book a flight to Berlin and pay a professional for services. These service providers have health care, access to affordable higher education, and arguably a higher standard of living than the average American.

Anyway, regardless of gender I think most media outlets are reluctant to look at the elephant in the room. The match group knows a lot of fraud occurs on their platforms, and doesn't take basic steps to ensure the safety of their users. It's to the point where you're much more likely to get robbed, scammed or worse then to actually meet a partner.
Anecdata: here in California, when CalTrans needs road work done in a hurry, e.g. disaster recovery, they bring on contractors that are paid bonuses for completing their jobs speedily (hooray, incentives). When time is less of a factor, they do the work themselves.
PHP everywhere?
> OneDrive

> I'm sure in the EU it is GDPR-compliant.

Sure ain't, especially not in Germany with the BDS.
This has it backwards: “telemetry” or otherwise collecting info without explicitly asking each time was definitely, for-sure just spyware as late as the mid ‘00s. We only later decided a bunch of that definitely-not-ok stuff was ok.
This was the topic of an amazing podcast Scam Inc from the Economist https://www.economist.com/audio/podcasts/scam-inc that I finished last week. It's subscriber only but absolutely worth it.

Key points are:

"Pig butchering" scams were developed and mastered by Chinese organized crime targeting chinese citizens first, before going worldwide.

The crime is industrialized with call centers with thousands of people working on this. Many of these people are victims themselves, doing this against their will, trafficked from all over the world. Most call centers are in asia/asia adjacent, but also in eastern Europe and near Ireland

Amount the scams steal is $500B<amount<$1T, more than all illegal drug trade in the world.

Money is then washed via incredibly clever ways including sports betting. In fact there is very heavy connection to rise of betting everywhere.

Final clean money is invested into real estate worldwide. Heck, my little island has fancy huge houses bought by chinese sitting empty all year long, likely from this.

Nobody is safe from scams, especially the older/lonelier people. And yes, it is very much a national security threat. The podcast called out Singapore for doing a government sponsored and very empowered task force to combat it. USA was called out for sitting complacently.

Listen to the podcast if you can. Great stuff.
The literal president of the US is issuing scam-crypto and the supreme court has ruled that they can take bribes.

From my perspective - honor and integrity in the government is clearly gone. The moral leadership has exited the building, and is currently getting buried in the ditch out back. There's not even enough accountability to pretend anymore.

It's going to be a long, hard road back to anything that approaches "ok", and my guess is it's going to have to happen at the extreme local level.
In the US, note that for many foreign students, PhD is a (in many cases, much faster) pathway to permanent residency compared to your standard PERM/H1B things
Have you ever seen a goth downtown?
Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says
This longer video has more context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7fRGKntV1M

Yours cuts off about half the bit, which is frustrating.
They're already on your graph maintained by a slew of data brokers.
> moral leadership matters in government

Yes, but I think it's pretty clear the "majority" of Americans don't consider moral leadership to be of much value, certainly not compared to the price of eggs or making sure trans people use their "God ordained bathroom".
BTW company-1 == Google and company-2 == FB/Meta.

In addition, Google has completely removed local storage from their servers, so there is no disk I/O at all.
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The Netherlands had that system as well. But entering the number first is faster: the number needs to be exact, but the street can be autocompleted easily.
"you are clearly not worth the oxygen you consume" is obviously against the site guidelines. Ditto for "Please get help, you are indoctrinated and incapable of holding a useful conversation", "You are projecting your own behavior upon me (and others). Get some help, my dude", and so on.

Anyone who has read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html should understand why we ban accounts that keep posting like this. If we didn't, we might as well have no guidelines.
> In a world where AI is writing the code, who cares what libraries it is using? I don't really have to touch the code that much, I just need it to work. That's the future we're headed for, at lightning speed.

This attitude works for write-and-forget workflows where the only thing that matters is whether it returns the answer you want (AKA "hacking it").

Once you add in other concerns: security, performance, maintainability, it can fall apart.
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I love how we generally hear very little from Anthropic and don't have to deal with the constant hype. And they still have the preferred coding model despite its age. Looking forward to this release. Hope it will be a good one!
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The same way it does everything, by letting it go to a court and have them figure it out, like every one crime or civil action - why would the cops be different if they are doing illegal things?

This is not a sliding slope, its just acknowledging police are also just people.
Wow, that's such a lazy thought process. They clearly already have your social accounts. The vast majority of people are already linked to their parental units on some sort of social platform.

The point is, if they have your SSN, they know who you are. Or, possibly the person whose identity you've stolen with your fake credentials, but that's beyond the scope of this little thought exercise.

They have your accounts, pictures, SSN, yet only a partial name? Seriously?? They have your SSN for pete's sake. It's not like the gov't only stores a partial name with that SSN. The whole thing is a farce of an attempt to make it sound less than what it truly is. Your attempt at making it sound like it's not doxxing is also farcical.
There's no way that doctors in the US continue their training.

I suffer from a chronic illness. I saw 5 different specialists over the past 2 years, and each one gave me different treatment. A couple even relied on information from the 70s and 80s. One even put me in the ER because he changed my treatment after I explicitly told him not to.

Another example: Back in my 20s, I injured my back. I took my MRI results to six different doctors - and I'm serious here, every one gave me a different diagnosis. In the end, I fixed it myself by doing my own research and treatment (2 years of physical therapy). One doctor said I had pain because spine fragments were lodged in my spinal cord (not true). Two of the doctors were even pushing me into invasive surgeries, and I'm so glad I told them no.

I don't understand the praise for doctors. If I had to generalize, I'd guess the majority give up learning after achieving wealth and status. seems like an art and not a science. I will emphatically welcome AI treatment.
So what are the ways people get exploited, or tricked? Is it a lack of knowledge on part of the people, are scammers just really sophisticated, or just one trick ponies that work at scale?

Any ideas on how to stop or how we can protect he people around us from these scams?
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Which is exactly what Hector is doing now
> Yet Palmer testified in his deposition that Carpenter twice offered him a copy of the thumb drive and told him, “There were things on the cell phone that, ‘once you see them, you can’t unsee them,’” according to the ruling.

Wouldn't that be copyright infringement?
Just say its against your religion to associate with the mark of the beast.
OK, substitute your favorite overlord in what I said and it's still the same.
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Is there some way to see these dupes? I always search first but when searching this URL, it didn't come up.

Seems I can't delete this now either so...
Safari gets far more respect than it deserves. Its refusal to implement standards and features (while being installed on sufficient devices) holds the web ecosystem back in the same way IE6 did. Safari is a painful nuisance, and we'd all be better off if Apple just shipped Firefox on their devices.

(I work for a company that makes a browser that is neither Firefox nor Safari, all opinions solely my own)
Mam, I wish I had your blind trust into multibillion corporations. I am experienced enough to know that I simply don't. Champions of privacy should do better, no they should clearly lead the market, like it was with updates.

I mean thats the main value proposition for Apple these days, no? At least for more tech users.
New AI tools policing women's bodies on Bluesky
Is there anything worthwhile that costs the same now that it did 50 years ago?
It's cool but is there any doubt that this will be very obsolete very soon? This is like how image recognition worked pre-CNN.

(It looks like the project started in 2022. So maybe it wasn't obvious at the time)
https://archive.is/JLxvS
> They get to fly where ever they want

In controlled airspace aircraft fly where they are told to fly by controllers:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_airspace