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by dralley | 2025-12-06 21:42:51+00:00
What? The very distance involved and difficulty of such an invasion is precisely why resistance is extremely plausible and not being able to do so is indefensible. Even a "token" amount of resistance makes it exponentially more difficult.

You would certainly have been the type of person whining about how Ukraine was doomed to fall in a matter of hours under the incredible size and capability of the Russian military. Like, these guys are just not that competent. You can make the job nearly impossible for them by just giving a single solitary fuck.

To say nothing of the fact that "full invasion" isn't even really the target. They just need to be able to defend their own airspace and sea lanes against errant Russian planes and ships.
by antonvs | 2025-12-06 21:44:06+00:00
Saying that people are "letting it happen" is misleading. What would you do about the situation if you were a US citizen?

People are working on these issues every day. I'm politically involved and my wife, who's a citizen, works on it full time. But as I said, the issues are many, systemic, and quite intractable. Systemic issues like the outsize influence of rural areas, the first-past-the-post system, the effective two-party system, the influence of money which has been ruled to be constitutionally protected, and so on mean that changing the system as a voter or even a large voting bloc is all but impossible. It's why some people believe that letting it burn is the only way forward - it's easier to motivate change when things are bad.

There are some positive signs recently, such as the election of Mamdani as NYC mayor, which is a much bigger deal than many people realize, being a member of Democratic Socialists of America, as well as a Muslim running in a city famous for a very strong Jewish constituency.

Mamdani ran as a Democrat, and powerful, well-funded elements of the party pushed back hard against that, or were weakly supportive at best. The previously Democratic ex-governor of New York ran a racist campaign against him as an independent. Hakeem Jeffries, the currently minority leader, didn't endorse Mamdani until very late, and said that he didn't view him as the future of the party. With political allies like that, who needs enemies?

The reality is that the Democratic Party is "controlled opposition", primarily serving capital interests. Mamdani's election did a good job of making that much clearer.

Having lived in four countries, in my experience, politics everywhere is messy. The countries that have it easiest are basically either relatively small (often with populations less than a single major global city) or else they're ethnostates that are often run by authoritarians.

If you look at Europe, the impact of immigration is fueling the exact same rightward shift that happened in the US. It's why some American billionaires, like Musk, Thiel, and the Murdoch family, are so interested in European politics - they see the potential for achieving the same success in much of Europe as they did in the US.

So unless you live in a country that's heavily multicultural as well as very democratic, you perhaps should be less quick to judge.
by mhb | 2025-12-06 21:44:17+00:00
Thanks for explaining your reasoning. I think you have come to the wrong conclusion for these reasons:

1. Even though a comment about the title may have instigated that 212 reply discussion, the meta discussion about the title was not the focus of those replies.

2. I would suggest that the vast majority of the audience who appreciated the more informative (though not perfect) title couldn't be bothered to participate in a meta discussion about the title.

3. I doubt whether the 800+ people who appreciated the post would have even clicked on it with the completely uninformative original one to which it was reverted. Consequently reverting it does a disservice to the community.

4. An imperfectly descriptive, though neutral, title is clearly better for the community than the opaque original one to which you have reverted it.

5. I did not editorialize the title. I did my best, as you apparently did, within the space constraints to make it more useful to the community.

6. The title which I gave it was a weaker version of the conclusion of the paper, so the opposite of clickbait.

7. Your assertion about the popularity of the submission begs the question of whether it would have been as popular with the reverted title.

I have already experienced the thrill of the 800 upvotes which I propose as evidence that my questioning of the title reversion is meant as a guide for the future rather than an act of karma self-aggrandizement.
by anelson | 2025-12-06 21:44:43+00:00
There’s precedent for Georgian dissidents fleeing to Ukraine. Saakashvili was living in Ukraine for a while before he returned and is AFAIK still in prison in Georgia.

I fled to Georgia when the invasion started and lived there 10 months. I’m grateful to the Georgian people for their hospitality towards me and my Ukrainian colleagues who took shelter there in a very dark time. But having said that we all subsequently returned to Ukraine.

Georgia isn’t a bad country. It’s very under rated in my opinion. The Georgian people are very friendly, their (private) healthcare is high quality, and as long as you don’t run afoul of the ruling party it’s pretty safe as well. But Ukraine even in a time of war is more advanced and has better economic infrastructure. If I were a Georgian dissident I could easily see myself fleeing to Ukraine.
by mason_mpls | 2025-12-06 21:44:52+00:00
> Zebra-Llama achieves Transformer-level accuracy with near-SSM efficiency using only 7–11B training tokens (compared to trillions of tokens required for pre-training) and an 8B teacher. Moreover, Zebra-Llama dramatically reduces KV cache size—down to 3.9%, 2%, and 2.73% of the original for the 1B, 3B, and 8B variants, respectively—while preserving 100%, 100%, and 97% of average zero-shot performance on LM Harness tasks.

This is an extraordinary claim, is there a catch I’m missing? Am I misreading?
by x0x0 | 2025-12-06 21:44:52+00:00
It's extra special awesome how downloading the files regularly breaks too.

And how your albums, instead of being metadata, are folders, into which files are duplicated. It's literally shittily coded malicious compliance so they can pretend to let you have your data.

(Oh, you view your folders as important metadata that should be attached to a single copy of the image? Cool cool, write a bunch of code.)
by adityashankar | 2025-12-06 21:45:45+00:00
Due to perverse incentives and the historical nature of models over-claiming accuracy, it's very hard to believe anything until it is open source and can be tested out

that being said, I do very much believe that computational efficiency of models is going to go up [correction] drastically over the coming months, which does pose interesting questions over nvidia's throne

*previously miswrote and said computational efficiency will go down
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-12-06 21:46:12+00:00
> it was just not a good language compared to others

I think this was one of those things people just repeated, rather than having concrete examples from experience. It's like people saying a Toyota Corolla is better than a Honda Civic. Is it really? Or are they really just two different forms of the same thing? They both get you to the grocery store, they're both very reliable, small cheap. Having a preference is not the same thing as one actually being superior to the other.
by bobdvb | 2025-12-06 21:46:23+00:00
Apple is considered golden because it's hard to tamper with the video pipeline. Windows isn't perfect but you can take steps. But overall 90% of premium content is not viewed on computers, it's TVs and STBs.

If it wasn't going to get blocked by some prominent factions on principle, I think you could build some trusted web technologies that allowed secure video delivery pipelines. But there's too much of a position that nothing like that should exist from some quarters that it'll never happen.
by benbreen | 2025-12-06 21:49:34+00:00
I read Ulysses Grant's memoirs awhile back, and loved his description of being in San Francisco in the 1850s. (Another tidbit I loved is that he imagined an alternate path for his life where he would have settled down in the Bay Area and become a math teacher):

"The immigrant, on arriving, found himself a stranger, in a strange land, far from friends. Time pressed, for the little means that could be realized from the sale of what was left of the outfit would not support a man long at California prices. Many became discouraged. Others would take off their coats and look for a job, no matter what it might be. These succeeded as a rule. There were many young men who had studied professions before they went to California, and who had never done a day's manual labor in their lives, who took in the situation at once and went to work to make a start at anything they could get to do. Some supplied carpenters and masons with material—carrying plank, brick, or mortar, as the case might be; others drove stages, drays, or baggage wagons, until they could do better. More became discouraged early and spent their time looking up people who would 'treat,' or lounging about restaurants and gambling houses where free lunches were furnished daily."
by zrn900 | 2025-12-06 21:49:37+00:00
The general did not 'refuse' to crush the protests because the government did not want to crush them - the protesters were Maoists, who thought that the government had become too capitalist and wanted the army to do a coup to return to Maoism. They were preventing the tanks from getting out of the square - not entering - for that reason, and that's what the Tankman was doing in the magically cut/edited video of the BBC. Magically, because they cut a ~2 minute footage to almost 10 seconds, to parts showing only the close plane, because if you show it zoomed out, it becomes evident that the tankman was preventing the tanks from exiting the square.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq8zFLIftGk

And no, he did not die or anything - he just walked away with his bags full of food in the end - the food which he was carrying back to his comrades in the square, who were preventing the army from leaving.
by Spooky23 | 2025-12-06 21:51:49+00:00
What was a tiny, broke, agrarian country just out of a civil war that was still simmering going to do about the Nazis?

They had a well-justified disdain for being pulled into the British orbit. They chose neutrality.

Do you hold Switzerland and Sweden to the same standard?

If Britain were to join in a conflict with Russia over Ukraine, would you expect Indian soldiers to rally to the cause of their former King and Country?

If you’re an American, would you be in favor of providing VA benefits to US Army soldiers who deserted and joined the Ukrainian army?
by vantassell | 2025-12-06 21:52:14+00:00
> For a while tourette syndrome was all the rage and the platform was filled with kids faking tics.

Kind of like all those kids in Le Roy, NY who began experiencing involuntary tics. IIRC, it was interesting that it was mostly girls who were affected by the "craze".

https://www.npr.org/2012/03/10/148372536/the-curious-case-of...
by nkrisc | 2025-12-06 21:52:24+00:00
Well I remember being taught about the Kent State massacre in school and how it was a stain on our country, and that we were learning about it because things like that need to be remembered, not forgotten.

Compare that how Tiananmen Square massacre is taught in China.

I assume the outsized focus on it is somewhat related to the lack of contrition and accountability.
by btown | 2025-12-06 21:52:39+00:00
I think part of the tension here comes from the way autism is understood both as a broad, fully-continuous, multivariate spectrum, and as a binary diagnosis.

To be sure, clinically, thresholds are useful because services, insurance, and research all rely on clear binary classifications, in our current society. But outside that context, it isn’t obvious that everyday language needs to mirror that line. Self-identification can be a way of making sense of one’s life, not an attempt to claim a clinical label.

But at the same time, the spectrum includes people with very high support needs, and there’s understandable concern that broad or casual uses of the term can hide those realities in ways that impact care.

To me, none of this means people are wrong for wondering about autism. And I do not have the experience to advocate for or against "anxiety disorders" being weighted more heavily in clinicians' priors than they currently are (as the OP article heavily implies with its length). I mean only to highlight the mismatch between a binary diagnostic system and a very heterogeneous spectrum, and the need for language that acknowledges self-understanding without flattening anyone’s experience.
by aniviacat | 2025-12-06 21:53:51+00:00
Hacker News Guidelines [1]:

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by ahartmetz | 2025-12-06 21:53:52+00:00
I've always found Perl just plain ugly, too clever about some things (like iterating over regex matches on stdin or something) and really dumb about other things (variable syntax, the god-awful OOP system). Python is clean and pretty in comparison and usually well thought out. If the communities were reversed, I'd still prefer Python: I just read the documentation in 99% of cases, I very rarely need to interact with the community. Python, as the article says, is mostly not a language for fans - it's mostly for auxiliary tasks.
by reactordev | 2025-12-06 21:54:20+00:00
The point isn’t what is the company doing with the data but rather how secure are these IP cameras?

Some are for government spying while others are for government spying and other bad actors.

I’d love to gain access to said parking garage meter camera and scan plates too, only I’m looking for high value targets that just got to work and thus, left their home.

I’m looking at software used to capture, track, and pull data from all these sources in an attempt to build a dragnet like service where you can ask “where is license plate <bingo>”?
by richardjennings | 2025-12-06 21:54:33+00:00
Indeed.

The suggestion is that classical reality cannot exist without absolute values (an instantiation if you will), consciousness operates where those values have not been established, therefore consciousness is free from classical determinism. As reality appears to function without having been instantiated, there must be an intermediate between the quantum world and the quantified classical one which is independent of any special values, where scale is not a dimension. Or otherwise, relational structures exist without absolute reference frames.

Yes then, it appears that taxes are ratios and numerical values which also exist and are enforceable independently of a fully established classical reality. I do indeed have to pay my taxes !
by ozim | 2025-12-06 21:54:39+00:00
I think in cases of people with Alzheimer’s or other elderly people who can’t really operate things besides play/stop/next dumb screen isn’t going to work. Mostly because you have to hook up something else that will require additional steps to operate.

My father doesn’t have any serious dementia or signs of Alzheimer’s - he is 65 but typing in anything on keyboard is still a major hassle for him. If he could have play/stop/next button it would work for him.
by _wire_ | 2025-12-06 21:56:46+00:00
All you need to make your case is an intelligible definition of thought as an activity.

So far your claim is trapped behind the observation that when an AI produces an output, it looks like thought to you.

In the vein Serle's arguments about the appearance of cognition and your premise, consider the mechanics of consulting a book with respect to the mechanics (so to speak) of solicited thought:

There's something you want to know, so you pick up a book and prompt the TOC or index and it returns a page of stored thought. Depending completely on your judgment, the thought retrieved is deemed appropriate and useful.

No one argues that books think.

Explain how interacting with an LLM to retrieve thought stored in its matrix is distinct from consulting a book in a manner that manifests thought.

If the distinction is only in complexity of internal functioning of the device's retrieval mechanism, then explain precisely what about the mechanism of the LLM brings its functioning into the realm of thought that a book doesn't.

To do that you'll first need to formulate a definition of thinking that's about more than retrieval of stored thoughts.

Or are you truly saying that your 'knowing thinking when you see it' is sufficient for a scientific discourse on the matter?
by splintersio | 2025-12-06 21:57:11+00:00
Hacklore, WiFi thoughts ... If I had to boil it down, I'd say they're thinking like cyber security engineers instead of information security officers and even then all they've done is mask nuanced conversations with foundational advice that has been known for years, well done you've replaced interesting conversations with advice older than the devices in question.

this was the precursor to lowlife.network but I just hadn't gotten round to publishing
by pilingual | 2025-12-06 21:57:23+00:00
I think this targets an extremely esoteric group. (Sort of like an article titled "How to Invest Your $1 Billion.") But it is a cool idea.

Since Esmeralda was mentioned: I hadn't heard of it and am glad to see the emergence of cities/neighborhoods starting from scratch. We need more experiments to jump start strong culture as existing cities and towns decay. Hopefully these places offer a very human experience.
by mannanj | 2025-12-06 21:57:29+00:00
Any was an exaggeration and less than honest on my part, I apologize. I think the speakers in most smart devices though can because they have the circuitry as another comment mentioned to record the input in reverse via software.

I think most speakers would have that today, most modern speakers. Plain speakers that just take a voltage signal though, probably not. Though how many people use those kinds of speakers today I wonder.
by culi | 2025-12-06 21:57:47+00:00
I assume you're referring to the 1952 agreement that the RAF is allowed to intercept unidentified or hostile aircraft in Irish airspace?

That's because the UK does not want Ireland to have an army. Ireland has a long history of standing with Native Americans, Palestinians, and other groups facing colonization. They even have a military base in Lebanon and a very long standing partnership with Hezbollah (Hezbollah was born out of the struggle to take back the bottom third of their country that was occupied by the US and Israel so they are often seen as an anti-colonial movement).

Ireland having any sort of military capacities would directly contradict UK military interests.
by tadfisher | 2025-12-06 21:57:59+00:00
We aren't representing Western civilization here, so it's not hypocritical to believe that massacring civilians is wrong no matter who is doing the massacring.

More to the point, none of us control their country's relationship with massacre-friendly allies, making these discussions less than useful. If there's a useful point to be made by illustrating these relationships, it's that no one is really in control except those in the tanks and airplanes.
by hobberhaven | 2025-12-06 21:58:28+00:00
So this is interesting, they release the patched binaries several months before anyone else does and several months before the source code of the patches is released?

This implies that anyone can download GrapheneOS firmware images and use binary diffing techniques to find what are still 0-day vulnerabilities on every Android other than GrapheneOS.

Useful! Thank you GrapheneOS developers.
by 56J8XhH7voFRwPR | 2025-12-06 21:58:52+00:00
I guess I want to know "oceanic" means in this instance. Is that just going out into the ocean a short distance? They mention the "Yangtze River Three Gorges 1" river cruise ship as an example. This thing has a range of like 100km. It seems we are far away from making true oceanic crossings of any long distance and I doubt that is coming by 2028.
by Nevermark | 2025-12-06 21:58:53+00:00
There are quite a few comments here on code obfuscation.

The hardest form of code obfuscation is called homomorphic computing, which is code transformed to act on encrypted data isomorphically to regular code on regular data. The homomorphic code is hard obfuscated by this transformation.

Now create a homomorphic virtual machine, that operates on encrypted code over encrypted data. Very hard to understand.

Now add data encryption/decryption algorithms, both homomorphically encrypted to be run by the virtual machine, to prepare and recover inputs, outputs or effects of any data or event information, for the homomorphic application code. Now that all data within the system is encrypted by means which are hard obfuscated, running on code which is hard obfuscated, the entire system becomes hard^2 (not a formal measure) opaque.

This isn't realistic in practice. Homomorphic implementations of even simple functions are extremely inefficient for the time being. But it is possible, and improvements in efficiency have not been exhausted.

Equivalent but different implementations of homomorphic code can obviously be made. However, given the only credible explanations for design decisions of the new code are, to exactly match the original code, this precludes any "clean room" defenses.

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Implementing software with neural network models wouldn't stop replication, but would decompile as source that was clearly not developed independent from the original implementation.

Even distilling (training a new model on the "decompiled" model) would be dead giveaway that it was derived directly from the source, not a clean room implementation.

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I have wondered, if quantum computing wouldn't enable an efficient version of homomorphic computing over classical data.

Just some wild thoughts.
by SOTGO | 2025-12-06 21:58:55+00:00
I'm almost surprised that Gemini 3 uniquely has this problem. I would have expected that responses from any LLM that require complex math notation would almost certainly be LaTeX heavy, given the abundance of LaTeX source material in the training data. I suppose it is a flaw if a model can't avoid LaTeX, but given that it is the standard (and for the foreseeable future too) I don't know what appropriate output would look like. For "pure" mathematics or similar topics I think LaTeX (or system that represents a superset of LaTeX) is the only acceptable option.
by drnick1 | 2025-12-06 21:59:19+00:00
If you have a Pixel -> Graphene, if not -> Lineage.

I personally don't care about "security" all that much, my main reason for using Graphene is freedom to use my hardware in any way I wish. This means unrestricted ability to run any program on the phone from any source. Sideloading restrictions don't apply to Graphene, and it is also impossible for state actors to impose things such as client-side scanning of text messages. It's also immune to unwanted AI anti-features.

I use my own "cloud" infrastructure with my phone and I am not interested in using Google's. My Graphene device is configured to route all traffic through Wireguard tunnel and my DNS server. I also use exclusively use my own email server and "cloud" storage for all non-work related purposes. Graphene makes this easy by not leaking any information to Google.