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by bitpush | 2025-10-02 06:02:38+00:00
People always prefer convenience over other things. The whole privacy conversation got to the forefront starting with Edward Snowden, all the way upto Cambridge Analytica.

If you look at technology innovation happening during that time (2012-2022), much of that was in the infrastructure and (early) machine learning space. Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud, and later Tensorflow, pytorch etc.

The important note here is none of that impacted end-users directly.

Enter ChatGPT and LLMs.

User lives have profoundly changed since the introduction of those tools, and it is reasonable that privacy takes a backseat in service of those.
by zwnow | 2025-10-02 06:03:02+00:00
LLMs can not reason. We'd need a very very different technology than LLMs to get there. Not to mention new "models" are basically old model agents with access to some more tools. Training actual new models is currently not cost efficient. Also LLMs plateaued, idk how Mr. Hassabis got to that conclusion but I call bs. A "couple" major breakthroughs can take 1000s of years.
by thevieart | 2025-10-02 06:03:16+00:00
Update: Chapter 15: New Behavioral Side-Channel Data Encoding Through Virtual Mouse Movements (CursorHoppingEncoder) 15.1 Foundations of Behavioral Side-Channels and the Role of Mouse Movements 15.2 Analysis of the CursorHoppingEncoder Technique 15.3 Impact of the CursorHoppingEncoder Exploitation Technique 15.4 How to Defense: Monitoring Input Behavior and Entropy Analysis
by leakycap | 2025-10-02 06:03:45+00:00
The more high-quality tools available without handing over cash, the better.

Learning on pgAdmin 4 was harder than it would have been to use DataGrip or DBeaver Community Edition when I was first learning concepts.

For those curious, it quoted me $10.90 US / month (without yearly agreement) for DataGrip if you end up needing a license for a commercial project.
by devmor | 2025-10-02 06:03:46+00:00
This reads like someone AI-generated prose to defend something they want to invest in and decry something it competes with. It does not come off as honest, written by a human, or useful to anyone outside of the specific, narrow contexts the "author" sees for the technologies mentioned.

Frankly, reading through this at makes me feel as though I am a business analyst or engineering manager being presented with a project proposal from someone very worried that a competing proposal will take away their chance to shine.

As it reaches the end, I feel like I'm reading the same thing, but presented to a Buzzfeed reader.
by fragmede | 2025-10-02 06:04:01+00:00
If we need those two things to occur, then any money spent not on salesmen and golf tee times is a waste. There are so many outside factors that aren't product features that make or break a company and a product's success and while we, as software developers who work on the product and its features want to believe things like code quality are relevant, but they're not as important as we'd like to think.
by bloomca | 2025-10-02 06:04:56+00:00
The article brings a lot of examples of people who lived and breathed something, so it was essentially their life.

Telling people to dive into something even if they don't feel it is dangerous advice (especially for kids) -- people will just get burnt out.

Of course, there is nuance here -- you don't necessarily want to achieve world-class in something, and sometimes pushing is indeed worth it.
by SanjayMehta | 2025-10-02 06:04:57+00:00
My answer is “do your own research.”

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last few decades, you would know that British Pakistani rape gangs have been shielded from prosecution.

This only changed recently.

FYI, the first documented such case is from 1973. Over 50 years of systematic abuse can only be hidden by a complicit establishment.
by fredwu | 2025-10-02 06:05:07+00:00
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by glenngillen | 2025-10-02 06:05:10+00:00
I was previously working at https://autonomy.computer, and building out a platform for autonomous products (i.e., agents) there. I started to observe a similar opportunity. We had an actor-based approach to concurrency that meant it was super cheap performance-wise to spin up a new agent. _That_ in turn meant a lot of problems could suddenly become embarrassingly parallel, and that rather than pre-computing/caching a bunch of stuff into a RAG system you could process whatever you needed in a just-in-time approach. List all the documents you've got, spawn a few thousand agents and give each a single document to process, aggregate/filter the relevant answers when they come back.

Obviously that's not the optimal approach for every use case, but there's a lot where IMO it was better. In particular I was hoping to spend more time exploring it in an enterprise context where you've got complicated sharing and permission models to take into consideration. If you have agents simply passing through the permission of the user executing the search whatever you get back is automatically constrained to only the things they had access to in that moment. As opposed to other approaches where you're storing a representation of data in one place, and then trying to work out the intersection of permissions from one of more other systems, and sanitise the results on the way out. Always seemed messy and fraught with problems and the risk of leaking something you shouldn't.
by kimixa | 2025-10-02 06:07:58+00:00
Sure, but they're already paying that cost for every non-static function anyway. Any DSO, or executable that allows function interposition, already pays.

Ideally you should just multiversion the topmost exported symbol, everything below that should either directly inlined, or, as the architecture variant is known statically by the compiler, variants and a direct call generated. I know at least GCC can do this variant generation for things like constant propagation over static function boundaries, so /assume/ it can do the same for other optimization variants like this, but admittedly haven't checked.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-10-02 06:08:00+00:00
Absolutely. As luck would have it, many epithermal mineral deposits have both sparkly hematite and copper ore in the same structure. This is a well-known motif in mineral exploration. They show up in the same geography but are separated into different layers. You can find many papers on the structure of these ore bodies. These are known as supergene deposits[0].

The most important features of these deposits is that they act like distillation columns for metals. Due to weathering and associated sulfuric acid, different metals separate out at different layers of the geology. This creates valuable concentrations for mining purposes.

In modern mining, we kind of ignore these structures for iron mining purposes even though they are frequently > 50% iron by mass. If you find such a thing, you are more interested in the gold, silver, copper potential that is capped by an iron-rich gossan mineral. Iron is a cost sensitive commodity, you need to be able to mine it at very high concentrations and scales to be profitable. If that mineral has a pile of gold, silver, etc distilled underneath it, you’ll be more interested in that.

Not all copper comes from these mineral formations but a lot is. Often, the hematite is mixed in with the copper mineral. I have a mineral exploration prospect right now which is essentially this. Amazing hematite crystals mixed with copper with strong assay signs of gold underneath. It is a predictable motif in mineral exploration.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supergene_(geology)
by akssri | 2025-10-02 06:09:54+00:00
Note: there have been actual Iron-working sites discovered in India that are older than this, dated to 1600 BC [0]. A lot of this has been ignored (just like the Painted-Grey ware continuity from IVC), partly I imagine, because it calls into question a lot of the racial non-sense that passes for "Indology".

[0]https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/isijinternational/54/5/...

[1]https://www.lkouniv.ac.in/site/writereaddata/siteContent/202...

Edit: Apparently Tamil Nadu state in South India has claimed to have found a site from 3500 BC (not yet peer-reviewed AFAICT),

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62e36jm4jro
by bloomca | 2025-10-02 06:10:32+00:00
It unironically is. Maybe if you can afford not working, it's fine, but with a regular job you simply don't have that much free time. In vacuum, there is a lot of it, in practice once you get a few commitments, it gets very challenging.

There are some tricks -- if you are already good at something, maintaining that good level is usually not that hard (you already know how and can recalibrate your level to the available time), but picking up new concepts is very time consuming.

I'd also say that the article talks about living through something, that's probably more involved than just passionate.
by defrost | 2025-10-02 06:12:12+00:00
Got a link to a Technical Economical Feasibility Report on this?

As in, what can practically be achieved in the real world at large within the next 25 years that can be immediately funded with a forward capital loan to break ground on a plant within 12 to 18 months and start operating within five years?

How does actual atmospheric carbon capture scale out within a useful time frame?
Ask HN: Resources at the Intersection of NLP and Philosophy
by SonOfZion | 2025-10-02 06:12:40+00:00
I’ve just started a PhD in computer science focused on NLP. My background is in both CS and philosophy, and I’m looking for resources that connect the two.

I’m less interested in the standard AI ethics discussions, and more in technically grounded or conceptual work that explores philosophical questions arising from the models we build — not just meaning and representation, but also broader issues that emerge from the behavior and design of NLP systems.

If you know of academic papers, blogs, or authors who seriously engage with these questions, I’d love suggestions.
by energy123 | 2025-10-02 06:12:50+00:00
> Spreading the credit around a bit is perfectly reasonable.

I'm not against spreading credit. I'm against misrepresenting situations to spread false credit, which creates incorrect perceptions and leads to poor decision making and political tension. If an individual did a unit of work, I will acknowledge that, to the extent that it is true. If an individual jumped on a grenade and did unpopular work, I will praise that individual for doing that work.

This is not antagonism towards teamwork, it's to make the team function better by ensuring information propagation is accurate, that the people pulling the weight in the team feel recognized, and that free riders are held to account which is a form of respect to the productive team members.
by RossBencina | 2025-10-02 06:13:06+00:00
JackTrip can be used over the internet. Dante is LAN-only.

Dante is proprietary. As I understand it, it doesn't interoperate with anything (without incorporating licensed Dante IP in your product).

The open standards in a similar space (along various axis) as Dante are RTP/RTSP, AES50, AES67, AVB, AVB/MILAN. Often on dedicated networks. JackTrip is closest to RTP: lossless audio in UDP packets. Best-effort clock-recovery based on packet arrival times.

The main distinguishing features of all of these protocols are: - Ethernet Layer 2, or 3? - Packet formats - Method of time and clock distribution/clock recovery (PTP1 or 2, other) - Control plane protocols and management interface - Dependence on PTP and traffic reservation implementation on all intermediate Ethernet switches (AVB, Milan: yes, others: no)

MILAN (an AVB profile/subset) is the most direct competitor to Dante (aiming at the Plug-and-play capabilities of Dante). None the less Dante is actually a product offering, whereas MILAN is a technical standard.

From a technical standpoint clock distribution and control plane are the big differentiators.

If anyone wants to talk about open source development in this space please get in touch.
by ycombinete | 2025-10-02 06:15:53+00:00
Yes. There’s something cruel there, or perhaps simply resigned, to reflecting the most brutal aspects of humanity in their most casual, logical, and inherent expression ([0] spoiler).

You certainly never shake the feeling that something terrible is going to happen at any moment.

I have read The Road and All the Pretty Horses. I won’t read any of the others. AtPH has less horror than The Road, for what it’s worth. It’s very much a bildungsroman.

If you enjoyed the road and want more like that, but without the horror; I’d say try our Steinbeck if you haven’t. He’s a greater writer, and less cruel.

[0] AtPH spoiler: For example mangling that boy’s feet. It’s not arbitrary, not entirely necessary, but it had a logic to it; and is exactly the type of thing people do to each other.
by listenallyall | 2025-10-02 06:16:33+00:00
more than controlled, enslaved - 24/7 location monitoring (but also no need to ever go anywhere, as everything will be delivered), "perfect" nutrition (fed via IV or tasteless shakes), only "intelligent" conversation taking place between you and an AI agent (even if initially resistant, AI will successfully convince you to drop ties to relatives, friends, that is if ever allowed to make friends), all news delivered via AI-curated channels but is meaningless anyway since AI can create fake video of any leader or important person committing crimes, lying, etc, also all evidence of YOU committing a crime, or just embarrassing stuff like having a sex drive will be recorded and used as blackmail. A "job" to keep you occupied much of the day but your output is never actually needed and discarded by your AI agent "boss".

How is this not entirely obvious to everyone that this is the future? Could be 20, 50, 100 years, but coming for sure.
by konstantina_ps | 2025-10-02 06:16:51+00:00
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by bloomca | 2025-10-02 06:17:25+00:00
I think the article itself mixes these concepts. It starts with the world-class level example, and then jumps into learning new skills over a week.

In order to be great, indeed, you don't need to be obsessed, and very rarely you cannot achieve it -- you just need to be relatively consistent. And I 100% agree that if you start early, maintaining a skill on the "better than vast majority" level is not too hard (the hard work was done in the past).

But to achieve truly outstanding results, you definitely need to dedicate tons of time and ideally be obsessed with it (at least very-very interested).
by yieldcrv | 2025-10-02 06:18:00+00:00
nah, I don't care about my employer's suboptimal decisions enough, I'll just collect a paycheck and if let go I just close that laptop and wait for the shipping instructions.

let them careen off a cliff, the cash in your bank account matters. we get paid enough not to care. just buy LEAPs on VOO or a hot sector's ETF, its literally that easy.

in my experience this take has gotten me promoted, sometimes I take it. cash cash cash.
by canucker2016 | 2025-10-02 06:18:15+00:00
Listening to the podcast, I realized that Ryan Knutson and Jane Goodall were talking in front of an audience. Was there video?

a quick search and, as the french say, "Viola" :)

see https://www.wsj.com/video/is-jane-goodall-fighting-a-losing-...
by skirmish | 2025-10-02 06:19:01+00:00
I can say that even now lots of machine learning datasets are kept as rows in gSheets and processed by Python running in Colab. In our team, all our evaluations: read input data from gSheet, run model inference, store outputs in gSheet for manual review if needed, process outputs to compute metrics and plot graphs in Colab. It is great because evaluation logic frequently changes, and without Colab you would sit and wait days each time for code reviews and stupid readability approvals.

And then, of course, if you want reproducibility, you just check in Colab notebooks into the source control.
by solatic | 2025-10-02 06:20:59+00:00
There's a long tail of smaller clouds: Digital Ocean, Oracle, IBM, Linode/Akamai, not to mention server providers like OVH and Hetzner, and not to mention Chinese clouds like Tencent and Alibaba (which both have US regions), not to mention PaaS providers who run on their own hardware like Fly.io.

I think it's very hard to make a claim that the market is not price-competitive. The problem is that most decision makers don't actually prioritize price, they prioritize support and the larger ecosystem. It's easy to find engineers with experience on the big 3 clouds and they will be able to pick up where the previous engineers left off. No CTO goes to sleep worrying about whether they being vendor-locked into AWS will result in catastrophic business failure tomorrow due to catastrophic hardware failure. There is a larger ecosystem - observability, FinOps tooling, cloud security tooling, managed databases, that are virtually guaranteed to support AWS, sometimes support GCP and Azure, and almost never support any of the other clouds.

It's questionable whether the current situation is really due to companies like Oracle and IBM being unable to compete on price and make strategic partnership deals to build out ecosystem support for their clouds. I think it's more likely that AWS/GCP/Azure "won" the cloud market, and that if regulators were worth a damn, they'd start to address the market concentration instead of ignoring it.
by modeless | 2025-10-02 06:21:00+00:00
Touch is a 2D field of 3D vectors. Easily stored and transmitted as images, and easily processed by neural nets. You could add temperature and pain/damage channels if you want, though they don't seem essential for most manipulation tasks. (Actually I don't believe touch is as essential as he argues anyway. Of course someone who learned a task with touch will struggle without it, but they can still do it and would quickly change strategies and improve.)

The problem with touch is making sensors that are cheap and durable and light and thin and repairable and sensitive and shape-conforming. Representation is trivial in comparison.
by grayhatter | 2025-10-02 06:21:03+00:00
The GPDR is far more complicated than just that superficial example.

But I'm curious about how far you feel that assertion goes. Ignoring what the GPDR says exactly, how do you feel about the various examples?

I have http request logs from requests that you've made. Do I have to delete them when you ask?

You sent me an email, do I have to delete my copy?

I host an email service for me and a friend exclusively, you request that I delete your data, do I have to delete emails you sent to him as well?

You answered a long thread about an esoteric computing question, hypothetically under the name denvercoder9, do I have to delete that comment? What about the replies to it which quote you?

I have evidence that you committed a crime of some sort, do I have to delete that?

Someone else posted true information about you to my site intended to categorize comments to HN posts. It's someone else data about you, do I have to delete that when you ask?

What if the information is actually false?

Where should the line be drawn, and why?
by RossBencina | 2025-10-02 06:21:19+00:00
The ?modern reference specification is UML statecharts. However I'm under the impression that not all features are efficiently implementable. For example Miro Samek's book covers a subset for real-time systems: https://www.state-machine.com/psicc2 I highly recommend that book even if you end up rolling your own implementation.
by gsa | 2025-10-02 06:21:33+00:00
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by mstaoru | 2025-10-02 06:21:37+00:00
They forgot to include:

* Broke users' keyboard shortcuts again.

Seriously, every Cursor update adds another override, their most favorite seeming to be Cmd+E. If I'm not mistaken, poor Cmd+E changed what it does already 3 or 4 times. And every time I have to remove the newly added shortcut to restore "find with selection"...