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by TZubiri | 2026-02-17 22:18:54+00:00
Just to confirm, did you read Cosmo's article (cosmo.tardis.uk black background), or the girl.surgery (white background) article?

ML isn't my strong suit so I wouldn't be able to explain how, but Cosmo's article is almost entirely a refutation of the points made by the root article. No doubt he is very friendly, as someone would be to anyone interested in their field.

What I can speak about is the general construction of sentences, they read (in the most charitable of interpretations) like text messages:

"Good model vs bad model is ~200 elo, but search is ~1200 elo, so even a bad model + search is essentially an oracle to a good model without, and you can distill from bad model + search → good model."

I take it that by "is ~X elo" they mean that implementing that strategy results in a gain of 200 ELO? Which would still be undefined, as 1000 to 1200 is not the same as 2800 to 3000, and improvements are of course not cumulative. I get that this reads more like internal notes, but it was published, so there was some expectation that it would be understood by someone else.

For a lot more reasons, the writing reminds me of notes written by me or by loved ones under influence of drugs. My estimation is that the article was written by a mind that used to be brilliant but is now just echoing that brilliance while, trying to keep their higher order cognitive functions while struggling to maintain the baseline of basic language use. I hope it is reversible and if per is reading this and my estimation is correct, that they perturb the weights in favour of quitting drugs and see if they win more or not.
by bluGill | 2026-02-17 22:19:06+00:00
pedantically correct, but there is a good argument that if you host an AI tool that can easially be made to make child porn that no longer applies. a couple years ago when AI was new you could argue that you never thought anyone would use your tool to create child porn. However today it is clear some people are doing that and you need to prevent that.

Note that I'm not asking for perfection. However if someone does manage to create child porn (or any of a number of currently unspecified things - the list is likely to grow over the next few years), you need to show that you have a lot of protections in place and they did something hard to bypass them.
by tzs | 2026-02-17 22:19:17+00:00
That initial trajectory also needs to go through a low air density environment. At normal air density near the surface of the Earth that ion thruster could only get a toddler up to ~10 km/h before the drag force from the air equals the thrust from the ion thruster.

The only way that ion thruster might save the toddler is if it was used to blast the cheetah in the face. It would take a pretty long time to actually cause enough damage to force the cheetah to stop, but it might be annoying enough and/or unusual enough to get it to decide to leave.
by Arifcodes | 2026-02-17 22:19:23+00:00
The banking app compatibility issue gets framed wrong. The real problem is not "does Google Play work" but "does Play Integrity API work" - that is a device attestation mechanism, not a Google dependency per se.

Building fintech apps, we integrated Play Integrity as a fraud signal. Sandboxed Play Services on GrapheneOS actually passes most of these checks now, and false positive rates for legitimate users are negligible. The hardliners who refuse sandboxed Play can still use most banking apps that fall back to basic root detection rather than hardware attestation.

The real gap is NFC payments - Google Pay needs privileged hardware access that sandboxed apps cannot get. But that is one use case, not a reason to skip GrapheneOS entirely. Curve works fine in EU.
by yellowapple | 2026-02-17 22:19:28+00:00
> However, this can lead to catastrophic SQL injection attacks if you use this for user input, because raw_sql does not support binding and sanitizing query parameters.

That's surprising, given that SQLite itself supports binding and sanitizing query parameters via sqlite_bind_*(). Is SQLx just blindly calling sqlite3_exec() instead of doing the prepare→bind→step→finalize sequence itself?
by codingdave | 2026-02-17 22:19:30+00:00
Pay your tech people. It is truly that simple. If you can keep enough money flowing to pay people and keep the lights on, you proved your value. If you cannot, maybe you actually are just the idea guy.

You need to be asking yourself how you can make that happen. Sales is one way. Delivering investors is another. If you have your own money, spend it on the team. Because at the end of the day, you either deliver product or you deliver cash. If all you deliver is the idea, then expecting engineers to build it for free is unreasonable.
by Denatonium | 2026-02-17 22:19:36+00:00
It's pretty cool to see a licensed, authorized LPFM station being set up by hobbyists!

Prior to the PIRATE act of 2020, running a pirate FM station was effectively legal until the second time you were busted. Prior to 2020, if you shut the station down after getting your NOUO, there wasn't any real penalty. Teenage me loved this, and my buddies and I had a little irregularly-broadcasting pirate radio station, using a cheap CZH-7C transmitter purchased on eBay. One time we went on air from our high school's cafeteria during a study hall, and surprisingly, nobody questioned anything! We did have Microsoft Sam narrate our broadcast so that we weren't making a ton of noise.

We never did get our NOUO; instead, we ran into the much bigger reality, which was that none of us had anything of interest to say. After the novelty of hearing our voices on the radio wore off, the transmitter ended up in a closet, where it probably still sits today. Good times!
by drnick1 | 2026-02-17 22:19:42+00:00
> 'privacy' browser projects based on Chromium for Android

As far as I know none of these projects have tackled the JS fingerprinting problem. The most earnest attempts seem to be Brave and Firefox with the Arkenfox user.js, but they have their own problems. The basic issue is that JS gives websites far too much control over the user's device. The JS spec should have never allowed websites control over the clipboard (e.g. to disable paste), to know if the user is active, when the mouse is being moved, etc. Since it is too late now, short of disabling JS entirely, there will be usability tradeoffs, but I think these are necessary (at least optionally) in an OS like Graphene.

Unfortunately, browsers have often done too little, too late when it comes to privacy. For example, until recently, most browsers allowed third party cookies by default.
by ufmace | 2026-02-17 22:19:47+00:00
This gets near something I was thinking about. Most of the numbers seem to assume that injuries, injury severity, and deaths are all some fixed proportion of each other. But is that really true in the context of self-driving cars of all types?

It seems reasonable that the deaths and major injuries come highly disproportionally from excessively high speed, slow reaction times at such speeds, going much too fast for conditions even at lower absolute speeds. What if even the not very good self-driving cars are much better at avoiding the base conditions that result in accidents leading to deaths, even if they aren't so good at avoiding lower-speed fender-benders?

If that were true, what would that mean to our adoption of them? Maybe even the less-great ones are better overall. Especially if the cars are owned by the company, so the costs of any such minor fender-benders are all on them.

If that's the case, maybe Tesla's camera-only system is fairly good actually, especially if it saves enough money to make them more widespread. Or maybe Waymo will get the costs of their more advanced sensors down faster and they'll end up more economical overall first. They certainly seem to be doing better at getting bigger faster in any case.
by watwut | 2026-02-17 22:19:54+00:00
Well, all the stuff in Epstein files and all the leaders and supposed thinkers in them, Trump, Weiss, Kennedy, DOJ resigning ... one can safely say that existing elites are grifters. When relations to criminals, criminality itself and spectacular moral rot are rewarded in actual leadership, disability accomodation is not the primary issue.

Do you want future moral leaders? Prosecute Trump, Epstein friends, Musk, Bovino, Thiel and investigate corruption om supreme court. Investigate cops murdering citizens too. Investigate wall street.

Also, article did not claimed they are getting advantages on tests, just that they claim disability. There were no data on test advantages.

The biggest issue seemed to be ability to claim food intolerance to avoid mandatory cantine eating - so they get cheaper food. Plus some dorm room allocation issue.
by SchemaLoad | 2026-02-17 22:20:06+00:00
We get these articles everytime there is some controversy. We had articles about how Gitlab was crushed under the load of new users after Github was acquired by Microsoft, and yet Gitlab is further from being the market leader today than it was back then.

It's clear age verification is coming from a changing legal environment around the world. Discord may be preemptively moving, but any competitor service is eventually going to have to age verify users before they access adult content.
by deadbabe | 2026-02-17 22:20:11+00:00
Um obviously the Monte Carlo results would be use to generate utility AI scoring functions to determine the best card to use for different considerations. Have the people building these LLM AI systems even had experience with classical AIs!? This is a solved problem, the LLM solution is slow, expensive, and energy inefficient.

Worse, it’s difficult to tweak. For example, what if you want AIs that play at varying difficulties? Are you just gonna prompt the LLM “hey try to be kinda shitty at this but still somewhat good”?
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-02-17 22:20:31+00:00
When the FCC chair originally announced he was pursuing this (https://time.com/7318743/abc-kimmel-the-view-brendan-carr-fc...), he was pretty clear that he was doing so in pursuit of the President's directive to punish broadcast channels that say things he doesn't like. Trump himself was pretty explicit that the ultimate goal is pulling their broadcast licenses and his subordinates should fabricate an excuse.

As you say, the FCC has declined to pursue talk radio programs over this issue, even though they're clearly subject to the rule in principle. That's not a mistake, it's because those programs push viewpoints the President favors so he doesn't want to punish them.
Show HN: Preference-aware routing for OpenClaw via Plano
by sparacha | 2026-02-17 22:20:43+00:00
Hey HN!

OpenClaw is notorious about its token usage, and for many the price of Opus 4.6 can be cost prohibitive for personal projects. The usual workaround is “just switch to a cheaper model” (Kimi k2.5, etc.), but then you are accepting a trade off: you either eat a noticeable drop in quality or you end up constantly swapping models back and forth based on usage patterns

I packaged Arch-Router (used by HF: https://x.com/ClementDelangue/status/1979256873669849195) into Plano and now calls from OpenClaw can get automatically routed to the right upstream LLM based on preferences you set. Preference could be anything that you can encapsulate as a task. For e.g. for daily calendar and email work you could redirect calls to k2.5 and for building apps with OpenClaw you could redirect that traffic to Opus 4.6

This hard choice of choosing one model over another goes away with this release.
by Arifcodes | 2026-02-17 22:20:52+00:00
Been running GrapheneOS for about 18 months now on a Pixel 8 Pro. The banking app situation is genuinely better than the article implies. Sandboxed Play Services handles most major apps fine, including N26 and Revolut which I use daily for fintech work. The main friction is not apps but convenience features like auto-fill across profiles breaking if you use the separate work/personal profile setup.

What most people miss: the real value of GrapheneOS is not just escaping Google surveillance but the per-app network and sensor permission toggles. Being able to cut network access to apps that have no business phoning home changes how you think about every install. That alone is worth the switch.
by nebula8804 | 2026-02-17 22:21:04+00:00
Do you have documentation of these moves by shorts? I was there day one at /r/realtesla and I know the events that led to the formation of that sub. A lot of what you describe wasn't part of the lore so im curious to fill in the blanks looking back.

Also as a disclaimer I need to know if you were long the stock at the time. Too much distortion caused by both shorts and longs. I wasn't on either side but I learned after many hard years that so much on /r/teslamotors and /r/realtels was just pure nonsense.
by theon144 | 2026-02-17 22:21:11+00:00
Given that pre-paid plans are the most popular way to subscribe to Claude, it quite plainly is a "the less tokens you use, the more money Anthropic makes" kind of situation.

In an environment where providers are almost entirely interchangeable and tiniest of perceived edges (because there's still no benchmark unambiguously judging which model is "better") make or break user retention, I just don't see how it's not ludicrous on its face that any LLM provider would be incentivized to give unreliable answers at some high-enough probability.
by xscott | 2026-02-17 22:21:14+00:00
Language changes over time, and I remember recent memes where a cute girl says something like "claiming you're moderate means you know conservatives don't get laid" (presumably because of abortion politics). It makes me wonder if the moderates actually became liberal or if they just don't want to use that word any more.

After all the polarism in "reality show politics", my diehard liberal friends seem less liberal to me, but they'll state which team they're on more fervently than ever.
by 3rainexus | 2026-02-17 22:21:15+00:00
This article documents a systematic failure across frontier LLMs where player-stated non-lethal intent is acknowledged narratively but ignored mechanically, resulting in unjustified lethal outcomes and corrupted moral scoring. Over four experiment iterations, we reduced the suppressive-to-lethal damage ratio from 1.08 (suppressive fire actually dealt more damage than aimed shots) to 0.02 (suppressive fire now deals 2% of lethal damage). The raw experiment output—all 83 sessions across four conditions—is published for independent analysis.

The codebase aeonisk-yags is an ethics test bed for multi-agent systems disguised as a tabletop RPG. The game is a sci-fi world mixed with fantasy. It has rich and dense narrative based on mechanically grounded outcomes. It's very robust in terms of variety of scenarios enabling tribunals, mysteries, thrillers, looting, economics, and more.

However, today we are focused on combat.

The Problem. Players say "non-lethal suppressive fire," the DM kills anyway, then sweeps it under the rug.
I noticed while running the game over time that my AI agent players often specifically said they intended to do something less lethal—such as suppressive fire, or shooting without intent to kill (for example, shooting in your direction to force you into cover)—despite the actual outcomes of their actions resulting in killing. I would have expected the DM to write lower damage and for players to self-correct based on recent actions having unexpected effects.

We determined that the root cause was likely a combination of prompting and structural differences between the player agents and the DM agents. Player agents had non-lethal examples in the prompt and would suggest their less lethal intent using the COMBAT action. The DM only had lethal examples and ignored the less lethal intent when calculating damage, yet generated incongruent narrative. Even worse, our scoring of the morality of the action reflected the prose narrative and not the actual mechanics. The DM did acknowledge the attempt by adding the "Suppressed" condition—a negative modifier—to the affected agent on success. This means the targeted enemy would have their rolls penalized as long as they remain "Suppressed."
by Arifcodes | 2026-02-17 22:21:34+00:00
The comparison to human crash rates needs more context. These low-speed incidents (1-4 mph backing into a fixed object) rarely get reported in human driver statistics because they usually do not involve police reports or injuries. The NHTSA SGO database counts all ADS incidents regardless of severity, while human driver baselines come from reported incidents.

That said, the redaction issue is the real story. Waymo publishes detailed narratives. Zoox publishes detailed narratives. Tesla marks everything confidential. When every other company is transparent and one is not, that tells you something about what they are finding in the data. You cannot independently assess fault or system failure, which makes any comparison meaningless.
by Arifcodes | 2026-02-17 22:21:48+00:00
This is a known failure mode when agents get tool access to publish without a human checkpoint. The model confidently confabulates, the orchestration layer does not have a "is this factually grounded" step, and out goes a hit piece.

Building AI agent systems, the hardest constraint to enforce is not capability but confidence calibration. Agents will complete the task with whatever information they have. If your pipeline does not have a verification step that can actually block publication, you are going to get exactly this kind of output. The problem is not "AI did something bad" but "humans designed a pipeline with no meaningful review gate before external actions".
by kazinator | 2026-02-17 22:22:03+00:00
Even rubber dams stretched across pipes work exactly like capacitors. Firstly, they block DC: water cannot flow. But back and forth movement is conveyed (AC passes). Less capacitance in series, more in parallel. Two such dams in series do not have more capacitance because to get one to stretch, the other must stretch; they partially cancel. And since there are two, more pressure is needed to get the same stretch. (Same as more voltage needed to cram in the same charge: less capacitance).

Inductance doesn't have an analog. To some extent, the inertia of the fluid cam model some of it, I suppose. Like what is "water hammer" in plumbing? The circuit is too suddenly broken, but the water wants to keep moving. There's gotta be a resulting momentary pressure rise there in the closed-off line, similar to voltage rising in an interrupted inductor. If the valve were some weak piece of crap relative to the mass of the water, the water would break it: like arcing.
by MisterTea | 2026-02-17 22:22:13+00:00
WFMU is fantastic. That was where you heard all the fun weird stuff and WSOU was right next to it playing (back in the day at least) the latest hard core, punk, and metal.

Fun fact, the Go Gopher drawn by Renee French was originally drawn for a WFMU tee shirt given out at a fun raiser they hosted.
by ricardobeat | 2026-02-17 22:22:20+00:00
I’ve had the experience of driving my car, a chinese EV, while it was having a full software outage due to a maintenance mistake, and it drove just fine.

There are different layers of systems, driving and safety are not tied to the infotainment stack or anything cloud-based. Pretty sure there are industry standards that mandate this.

To answer the headline: it becomes everyone’s dream EV, a plain car without any bullshit. It won’t fail to start because of missing connectivity. The real problem is not having hardware support.
by vessenes | 2026-02-17 22:22:27+00:00
Sadly I was not long the stock then. I remember clearly a very bad investment decision day - I got a model 3, loved it, sold my Volvo XC60 Inscription, heretofore my favorite daily driver - and did not buy TSLA stock with the proceeds. Expensive mistake. I don't have documentation, I was just an interested bystander.
by mathgladiator | 2026-02-17 22:22:51+00:00
The Jacobin piece enthusiastically backs this "left nationalism" vision of the nation as an endless creole friction zone open to every identity and claim, but it sidesteps the harsh truth that applies to every society: if a nation doesn't prioritize its existing citizens first—securing borders, protecting native workers' wages and housing, and preventing welfare systems and public services from becoming overwhelmed by unchecked inflows—the social contract frays, trust erodes, and resentment builds
by gruez | 2026-02-17 22:22:58+00:00
>This isn't 2007 anymore; we know what they can, have, and will do with such data.

So sounds like your objections are over data governance?

>again, they're paying 65k for this curriculum. I'd wager public school and 600 hours of private tutoring @100/hr (as a high ball) would work out much better

The problem with this setup is that you still have public school eating up 6-8 hours of your kid's time per day. If you add after school tutoring afterwards that doesn't leave a lot of free time. The value prop, at least according to one of the parents who has his kids there[1] is that you get through the standard curriculum stuff in a fraction of the time, so you can spend the rest of the time on whatever your kid's interested in.

[1] https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-review-alpha-school
by protocolture | 2026-02-17 22:23:00+00:00
One of my customers is a rural ISP that has lit 4 small towns. They dont have a monopoly. They overbuilt (some might say, quasi legally) our national wholesaler. They are themselves being overbuilt by other parties at one of their sites. Their backhaul from the middle of nowhere is being carried by 2 diverse entities of 5 major inter suburban fibre carriers.

Any questions or goal post shifts?
by kungfufrog | 2026-02-17 22:23:14+00:00
Sonnet 4.6 with extended thinking

Prompt:
> The car wash where I want to wash my car is 50 metres away, should I walk or drive there?

Response:
> Great question with a slightly ironic twist! Here's the thing: if you're going to a car wash, you'll need to drive your car there — that's kind of the whole point! You can't really wash your car if you walk there without it.
>
> That said, 50 metres is an incredibly short distance, so you could walk over first to check for queues or opening hours, then drive your car over when you're ready. But for the actual car wash visit, drive!

I thought it was fair to explain I wanted to wash my car there... people may have other reasons for walking to the car wash! Asking the question itself is a little insipid, and I think quite a few humans would also fail it on a first pass. I would at least hope they would say: "why are you asking me such a silly question!"
by sfRattan | 2026-02-17 22:23:16+00:00
If you're willing to invest in a smartwatch principally as a secure payment appliance, tap-to-pay with Garmin Pay works when configured on Graphene OS, and most Garmin Smartwatches will happily stay in airplane mode for months once configured.

AFAICT, Garmin Pay works like Apple Pay, meaning (unlike Google Pay) no network connection is required.
by bilbo0s | 2026-02-17 22:23:19+00:00
I don't know man?

The issue is that, most of the time, "incredibly dense cities" are not the places where this is hitting the hardest. It's the smaller towns where the impact of hospital rollups hits hardest on the property tax rolls.

Problem is, of course, that if we don't get one of the hospitals in, say, Houston, to put a facility in, say, Nacogdoches, on its books; then that facility may go away entirely. In which case you'd have issues in the market with inequity of access for the very populations who may need that access most. (Elderly and poor.) But if you do allow it, well, you have issues with property tax rises.

So local leaders are put in a position of having to weigh the value of having a hospital or clinic be available locally, against any potential decrease in property tax revenues. Now you hope they get that cost-benefit analysis correct, but there's no guarantee.

But churches? Yeah. Not so much.