MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fnands | 2025-04-14 07:43:25+00:00
> It can be upwards of 90 minutes before a satellite passes over it's ground station.

Planet Pelican will have the ability to communicate with other satellites, meaning you don't necessarily need a ground station: https://www.planet.com/products/pelican/

> 1. Don't have to transmit as much data

There is definitely a bit of a move to do some work on the actual satellite, depending on the use case. This is pretty doable if you have a very specific use case for which you can optimize this, but gets a little bit harder if you have to have it work for every possible use case.
by fspeech | 2025-04-14 07:45:20+00:00
Your conclusion isn't logical. US per capita income is far higher meaning its economy is far more leveraged. To put it simply Costco employees need to push through way more goods per person, Google employees way more ads per person to sustain their much higher income. On the other hand, Chinese unskilled migrant export factory workers, while low wage, have a rural home to go back to and their standard of living won't change that much, while their skilled technicians can not be replaced en mass anywhere in the world. There's no way you can win a contest of pain against China. Think of the comparison as throwing sand into gears that are running at different speeds. You do far more damage to the one running at high speed.

The reason I brought up the NYT article is to say that even if you think change is important doing it rapidly is going to put the people that the policy is supposed to help through the wringer.
by alex1138 | 2025-04-14 07:48:39+00:00
It doesn't have to be bots or astroturf either, you get a bunch of ideologically-leaning mods to ban anyone they disagree with, make them control a bunch of subreddits (potentially), some subs will even ban you for posting in other subs

Reddit as a whole isn't interested in fairness, it's quite clear the direction they took as a site
by raesene9 | 2025-04-14 07:48:51+00:00
Well it depends on what you mean by "real" :) I'd say CSPM (like many security tools) can help if used well, but it's quite common to see it used as a blunt instrument, which does not help.

CSPM helps to apply sets of security rules across cloud resources, with the rules usually being based on external standards or custom rules per organization.

It suffers from the downsides of any rules based check system which is that it can be quite inflexible and noisy. Like many security systems it needs to be tuned to the specific environment its running in to be really useful.

What can complicate things is compliance requirements from external or internal bodies that require 100% pass rates or similar. That kind of inflexible approach often just causes needless work and people focusing on the wrong areas to achieve that externally imposed requirement.
by jmpz | 2025-04-14 07:49:46+00:00
This is only a problem if you treat employees in a way that makes them want to go rogue and sabotage some systems.. maybe don't fire them without warning or cause, or clear reasoning? I suppose if someone is actually able to tangibly impact some critical system, limit their access to that, but beyond that, it's just an excuse to make it sound OK to abruptly dump someone from a social and professional context. Maybe it's legal, but is it necessary? No. Is it traumatizing? Yes.
by petesergeant | 2025-04-14 07:50:02+00:00
My favourite part of this was 10-15 calls a day with potential buyers, and they kept changing what they were offering until responses went from “that sounds cool” to “when can I get a PoC?” presumably without a line of code being written.

Having launched a couple of dead startups that started with several months of writing code first, this way definitely sounds better.
by watwut | 2025-04-14 07:50:04+00:00
Border Patrol Checking US Visitors' Phones, Social Media are a thing and it is quite large escalation over what was happening before. The claim that nothing changed is just not true.

> We don’t believe it is safe for everyone to travel to the US, particularly our trans and diverse colleagues

From the article. So, there are groups that are at more risk and those as less risk. And these people worry about at risk groups.

> The focus on that is really troubling. That, if you legitimately have a different passport than you were given at a young age, you could be detained.

So, despite you not believing it is an issue, per their claims, it is the fear.

In addition to America not being safe anymore, actually, the risk can be small for people to act on it. Americans are constantly scared of low probability events - think child kidnapping. Why would it be different for someone else?
by fastball | 2025-04-14 07:50:19+00:00
I realize this is still confusing, so here is a concrete example with made-up numbers.

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Netflix offers you stock options that themselves are worth $100, based on various input factors like fair market value of NFLX, interest rates, volatility, dividend yield, etc). Now let's say the strike price of those options is $900. You decided you want all of your $300k/y comp in the form of these options (which are valued each at $100), so you end up with the option to buy 3000 NFLX shares at a later date.

Netflix has a great year (partially thanks to you!) and now NFLX is trading at $1200. You exercise all of your options, buying 3000 for $900 each and immediately selling them for $1200. Net profit: $900,000.

If you'd taken the cash you'd have $300,000.

If you'd taken the cash and immediately invested all of it in NFLX (and then sold them at the same time as the first example), you'd have $400,000.
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-04-14 07:50:31+00:00
the OPs point about who allows the AI to do stuff without reviewing it is undermined by reality in multiple ways

1. a dev may be using AI and nobody knows, and they are trusted more than AI, thus their code does not get as good a review as AI code would.

2. People review code all the time and subtle bugs creep in. It is not a defense against bugs creeping in that people review code. If it were there would be no bugs in organizations that review code.

3. people may not review or look only for a second based on it's a small ticket. They just changed dependencies!

more examples left up to reader's imagination.
by ahazred8ta | 2025-04-14 07:50:53+00:00
For reference, Poul Anderson's 'Uncleftish Beholding' -- an essay on atomic theory written in modernized anglo-saxon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncleftish_Beholding

Up Goer Five; rocket science explained using only the one thousand most common english words.

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1133:_Up_Goer_Fiv...

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Thing_Explainer
by sneakerblack | 2025-04-14 07:50:55+00:00
I work in the security industry and use WIZ and while I do despise all of the buzzword acronyms this industry has come up with, CSPMs have been one of the few tools that have actually made my life significantly easier. Due to the nature of the industry I work in, there is a lot of regulation that we need to comply with, and CSPMs (and wiz in particular) gives us both observability and alerting for all of our resources in our cloud environments, including the configuration of the cloud environments themselves. I don't know how they managed to get a $32B offer so soon after coming out of stealth, but considering the amount of problems it solves for me and my team, I can see why they're doing well financially. We're definitely happy with the pain point the product fixes.

I can now say "I know for a fact we have x number of AWS/GCP/Azure accounts that are either not using our IdP or 2A, here's a list" without having to script across multiple cloud APIs

Similarly, I can say "here's a list of people that accessed x resource in the last y days". It really makes my life easier when I want to access metrics about my company's cloud environments
by baloki | 2025-04-14 07:50:58+00:00
They’re API used to work via just providing a VIN however that also allowed remote control so you could just run through all the VINs Nissan uses and turn on remote heating, etc.

This was reported in the media which caused Nissan to start locking down their API something fierce.

Then the three years free of many services have started to expire for most vehicles, so locking it down more became a potentially profitable exercise so now they actual have development work against it.
by TobTobXX | 2025-04-14 07:51:30+00:00
Reminds me also of the "Up Goer Five". An xkcd poster which roughly explains Saturn V with only the top 1000 used words in English[0]. Even better IMO is the collab video with MinutePhysics[1].

[0]: https://xkcd.com/1133/

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p_8gx-XHJo
by lvncelot | 2025-04-14 07:51:39+00:00
I think it's the exact opposite, as they operate on a token-level, not a character level, which makes tasks like these harder for them. So they would generate a sentence with multiple es in it and just proclaim that they didn't.

(Just tried it, "write a short story of 12 sentences without one occurence of the letter e" - it had 5 es.)
by layer8 | 2025-04-14 07:51:45+00:00
The default sorting on Reddit usually isn’t sequential, and there is no way to track how far you’ve read along the sequence or subthread. In addition, threads get “archived” and you can’t reply anymore. In old-style forums, threads get usually sorted by last activity, meaning that active threads, including resurrected ones, are reliably at the top (sequential by last activity, if you will). On Reddit, orderings like Hot and Best give you some unreliable heuristics, unsuitable for keeping track of current discussions.
by yunusabd | 2025-04-14 07:51:57+00:00
Saw this on HN a while ago [1], really eye-opening: https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/b1a1jn00hc

> The first sales come from the loyal CISOs who work with the fund.

> This "loyalty program" - which encourages deepening the relationship between the CISO and a party other than his employer - is seen by many in the industry as a red line crossed by Ra'anan and Cyberstarts.

> Cyberstarts vehemently denies [...] and claims that CISOs were never remunerated for purchasing the products of the portfolio companies.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41042462
by ajuc | 2025-04-14 07:51:59+00:00
I don't think so, you can do this well in D&D, and you can do it badly in narration-focused RPGs with mechanics allowing for various degrees of success. It's more about DM ability to let the party "fail forward" than about any particular system.

Yes it's easy to fall into the traditional boring "here's 5 orcs, now fight to death" trap, but it's more about the D&D culture than about the system itself.

D&D wasn't my first system (it wasn't popular in Poland - we mostly played WFRP) and I certainly did fall into that trap a lot early on.
by Arnt | 2025-04-14 07:52:04+00:00
I doubt you can get statistics on that… You may have heard stories about visa applications taking so long that the trip became pointless, e.g. granting visa for travel to a conference on the last day of the conference? That's a "yes" in the statistics, a granted application.

And often there isn't any data at all. I've been questioned by immigration for ten minutes a couple of times. No record was made as far as I could tell. I suspect that if a country wants to, people can be kept for quite a while without any record being made.

So if you want to know whether the US is moving from a top-25% position to something rather worse, I fear you might not be able to get enough reliable data for a comparison.
by ZiiS | 2025-04-14 07:52:18+00:00
> Rate limit and monitor your own usage. You should anyway. It's not the road's job to make you follow the speed limit.

A better metaphor is the car, not the road. It is legally required to accurately tell you your speed and require deliberate control to increase it.

Even if you stick to a road; whoever made the road is required to research and clearly post speed limits.
by heresie-dabord | 2025-04-14 07:52:19+00:00
> I recommended learning how to separate your value from your employer. It's not easy but it's necessary.

Agreed, it is necessary to make deprogramming oneself easier — less painful — to the extent that one has come to identify with the work and/or culture and/or employer.

But it is also exhausting to maintain a façade of allegiance to a harshly indifferent power structure.
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by reissbaker | 2025-04-14 07:53:22+00:00
They were not occupied in 1948 by any definition. The British territory of Mandatory Palestine was being split into two countries: Israel, and Palestine, much like British India had been split a year prior into the new countries of India and Pakistan based on Hindu/Muslim religious groupings. The Israelis accepted the U.N. partition plan, and the Palestinians rejected it and invaded Israel, attempting to control the entire territory. They lost the war, although almost all of the Palestinian territory was taken by their supposed "allies" of Egypt and Jordan. Israel captured that territory from Egypt and Jordan in 1967, and eventually offered most of it back to the Palestinians to form a Palestinian state in 2000; the offer was rejected by Arafat, the leader of the Palestinian Authority at the time, who instead chose to launch the Second Intifadah (yet another bloody uprising) which largely ended the Oslo Accords based peace process.

A short-lived attempt to reboot the process after Arafat's death happened in 2007 between Ehud Olmert and Mahmoud Abbas, which was aborted when Hamas won the Palestinian elections and triggered a Palestinian civil war. There were again direct talks in 2010, which ended when Hamas (who by then fully controlled Gaza) said they wouldn't accept a peace deal and would continue attacking Israel; from the Israeli perspective there was no point in continuing land-for-peace talks if the other side was firmly refusing the "peace" part.

Of course the Palestinian situation is quite sad. But that is in large part a consequence of horrendous leadership that has repeatedly insisted on maximalist territorial demands and refuses to give up hope of destroying Israel and ruling the region in its entirety; they have been offered many options over many years that are far better than their current semi-state and refused them, since they would need to give up on destroying Israel. Even blaming "horrendous leadership" is a bit generous... After all, Hamas was popularly elected into power in part based on their claims that violence could extract territorial gains from Israel. Just as Trump couldn't have done much without being elected by his massive MAGA base, Hamas couldn't have ruled Gaza without their large Palestinian base that voted them into power — and Hamas continued to be extremely popular in Palestinian polls until late 2024, when the consequences of their actions began to become clear even to their ardent supporters.
by npodbielski | 2025-04-14 07:53:46+00:00
I do wrote that implying that you did anything wrong.

I just wanted to point out that the lengths you are willing to go through just to write 'I hate moomins' proves that it is extraordinary.

And remember that not everything is for everybody. If you do not like it, fine!

Just think about how traumatizing it was without depicting a violence or sex, achieving that with cute animation... Yes it is an extraordinary feat.
by ArtTimeInvestor | 2025-04-14 07:54:07+00:00
It is surprising that with all the new uncertainty around the future of the USA, that in dollar terms, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq 100 are both still traded higher than a year ago.

Gold is up 36%. Not that much.

Bitcoin is up 29%. Also not that much.

Is the uncertainty not yet priced in?

STOXX Europe 600 is down 2%. Shouldn't it increase in value? European companies will earn less in a recession, but I would think investors do not want to invest solely in bonds, gold and bitcoin. So I would expect a shift of a lot of capital into European equities once investors fully digest the new uncertainty in the US.

Is there any potential upside to US equities I am missing?
by madrox | 2025-04-14 07:54:43+00:00
Nothing the author said is wrong, but I don’t know how much it matters or if it would’ve been better if it handled all this out of the gate. I think if MCP were more complicated no one would’ve adopted it.

Being pretty close to OAuth 1.0 and the group that shaped it I’ve seen how new standards emerge, and I think it’s been so long since new standards mattered that people forgot how they happen.

I was one of the first people to criticize MCP when it launched (my comment on the HN announcement specifically mentioned auth) but I respect the groundswell of support it got, and at the end of the day the standard that matters is the one people follow, even if it isn’t the best.
by xelxebar | 2025-04-14 07:54:55+00:00
I lived in a small village deep in the West Fukushima mountains for a bit. Population: ~1000.

The summers bustle with rice, baby's breath, and millions of dragonflies in the paddies. The mountain water is so clean it almost tastes sweet, and people keeps tight tabs on the comings and goings of each other.

It's one of the most densely alive places I've experienced, with food growing everywhere, even in the cracks of the driveway, and mountain creature sounds wafting about.

Heck, the place even casually boasts village remains dating all the way back to the mesolithic and the second oldest swamp in Japan.

I wouldn't say it's any more or less real Japanese than other places here, but it's definitely singular!
by watwut | 2025-04-14 07:55:31+00:00
> Where would we be without a thorough understanding of diverse trans psychiatric history?

You write about this as if there was something wrong with study of psychiatric care for trans people or for non-whites. Trans have above average suicide rates, they have own specific issues. It 100% makes sense to study it.

That large parts of population actively want them to suffer does not mean psychiatry should not study those.
by dailykoder | 2025-04-14 07:55:34+00:00
> Just like that.

These statements always catch me a bit off-guard. Is there no such thing as a cancelation period in the US? When my employer wants to kick me out, he needs a good reason for that and I'd still be paid for 3 months. Which is often even longer, depending on how long you belong to a company.

Edit: I'm in germany
by navane | 2025-04-14 07:56:37+00:00
"some mechanism to not reode existing equity" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. 65% of the households are homeowners, who financially might easily be convinced they have nothing to gain and much to loose by building more housing.

Which also shows that lack of home ownership cannot be the driver of this situation. It might be one of the lies of the left, their "trans" story. Where I'm from the left is also pushing this housing narrative but it's not pulling in the votes, its impossible to solve, and i dont know if its the problem enough people have.
by prabhu-yu | 2025-04-14 07:56:47+00:00
Can life evolve to slow down the process of increasing entropy? For ex: Sun is throwing energy in space. What if life tries to store it and use it only when it needs? Has the sunlight gone into space (without being captured by fossilized life), it would have thinly spread out in universe(high entropy, low energy density). But plants and humans (solar cells) capturing it to create fossil fules or create some infrastructure... Is it not life going against this theory? Or is it just intermidiate step of life which eventually (life will) blast all energy in short period of time at the end like an expontial system does?
by Kichererbsen | 2025-04-14 07:57:05+00:00
I like to use LLMs to create random tables that I then use to spark my imagination. You can easily get o1 to create a bunch of random tables on a topic. Create multiple columns that you can then mix and match results from - or just roll multiple times on the same column.

I also find the image generation great for getting a "feel" for what a room / location might look like so I can improvise describing it a bit better.

LLMs are _really_ good at finding words that "go well together" - so use it to come up with a bunch of words to describe the atmosphere of a particular location or the mannerisms of a particular NPC.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-04-14 07:57:46+00:00
> Sounds like our elites should put some limits on themselves

America's 1% owns around a third of its assets [1]. We'd have to more than double that rate to approach ancient Rome.

We have problems with income inequality and political stability in the West. They are probably not informed by this comparison.

[1] https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualized-the-1s-share-of-...
by jillesvangurp | 2025-04-14 07:58:44+00:00
Any interpreter can run malicious code. Mostly the guidance is: don't run malicious code if you don't want it to run. The problem isn't the interpreter/tool but the entity that's using it. Because that's the thing that you should be (mis)-trusting.

The issue is two fold:

- models aren't quite trustworthy yet.

- people put a lot of trust in them anyway.

This friction always exist with security. It's not a technical problem that can or should be solved on the MCP side.

Part of the solution is indeed going to come from containerization. Give MCP agents access to what they need but not more. And part of it is going to come from some common sense and the tool UX providing better transparency into what is happening. Some of the better examples I've seen of Agentic tools work like you outline.

I don't worry too much about the cost. This stuff is getting useful enough that paying a chunk of what normally would go into somebody's salary actually isn't that bad of a deal. And of course cost will come down. My main worry is actually speed. I seem to spend a lot of time waiting for these tools to do their thing. I'd love this stuff to be a bit zippier.
by saidinesh5 | 2025-04-14 07:58:59+00:00
The main benefit I see for cloud platforms: caching/co-hosting various services based on model instead of (model + user's API layer on top).

For the end user, it would be one less deployment headache to worry about: not having to package ollama + the model into docker containers for deployment. Also a more standardized deployment for hardware accelerated models across platforms.
by orwin | 2025-04-14 07:59:12+00:00
Not OP, but I personally think the original Win10, despite Cortana, was good, thanks mostly to powerToys and later wsl2, but since the Skype/teams kerfuffle happened around the same time, it's hard for me to think they weren't mostly slop at the time.

So I'd say windows XP? 2003-2007?