skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. For example, ECR (Elastic Container Registry) is _not_ available on IPv6. Anything "serverless" such as ElastiCache or RDS is also not available.

So it means that you can't have a fully-IPv6 stack for any modern application on AWS.
In no way do the election results justify that claim.
And that only to learn why monopolies suck and that some regulations are actually useful. Also how real state can be unfair :)
lmao https://ithy.com/article/b4465910ef4b447ea6dc9060815735e9
Can someone explain how watermarking AI videos voluntarily helps make AI safer?
"seamless", appearing 5 times.

Everything is "seamless" with ChatGPT.

IPv6 is seamless, etc...
You might find amusing the RA Lafferty short-story "The Primary Education of the Camiroi" (1966).

Summary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AXNLUFeplI
"A PTA delegation from Earth visit another planet to investigate their educational methods in order to figure out how to improve the school system back home on Earth. But the lessons learned, and the conclusions drawn, are rather… odd and disturbing."

From the story:
https://uncabob.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-primary-education-o...

“How rapidly do you read?” Miss Hanks asked a young girl.

“One hundred and twenty words a minute,” the girl said.

“On Earth some of the girl students your age have learned to read at the rate of five hundred words a minute,” Miss Hanks said proudly.

“When I began disciplined reading, I was reading at the rate of four thousands words a minute,” the girl said. “They had quite a time correcting me of it. I had to take remedial reading, and my parents were ashamed of me. Now I’ve learned to read almost slow enough.”

“I don’t understand,” said Miss Hanks.

...

“What is this business about slow reading?” Miss Hanks asked. “I don’t understand it at all.”

“Only the other day there was a child in the third grade who persisted in rapid reading.” Philoxenus said. “He was given an object lesson. He was given a book of medium difficulty, and he read it rapidly. Then he had to put the book away and repeat what he had read. Do you know that in the first thirty pages he missed four words? Midway in the book there was a whole statement which he had understood wrongly, and there were hundreds of pages that he got word-perfect only with difficulty. If he was so unsure on material that he had just read, think how imperfectly he would have recalled it forty years later.”

“You mean that the Camiroi children learn to recall everything that they read?”

“The Camiroi children and adults will recall for life every detail they have ever seen, read or heard. We on Camiroi are only a little more intelligent than you on Earth. We cannot afford to waste time in forgetting or reviewing, or in pursuing anything of a shallowness that lends itself to scanning.”
Safety and capabilities research are pretty much two sides of the same coin.
Likewise for the breathless praise.

The early internet was a public project, it didn't have to worry about its own return because the point was to build a robust communications system that could survive a nuclear strike. Seeing as Openai is trying to change to a for profit corporation, it's hardly an apt comparison.
From the OpenwaterHealth/opw_neuromod_sw README: https://github.com/OpenwaterHealth/opw_neuromod_sw :

> open-LIFU uses an array to precisely steer the ultrasound focus to the target location, while its wearable small size allows transmission through the forehead into a precise spot location in the brain even while the patient is moving.

Does it use one beam of the array to waveguide another beam? For imaging or for treatment?

From "A simple technique to overcome self-focusing, filamentation, supercontinuum generation, aberrations, depth dependence and waveguide interface roughness using fs laser processing" (2017) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-00589-8 https://scholar.google.com/scholar?start=10&hl=en&as_sdt=5,4... :

> We show that all these effects can be significantly reduced if not eliminated using two coherent, ultrafast laser-beams through a single lens - which we call the Dual-Beam technique. Simulations and experimental measurements at the focus are used to understand how the Dual-Beam technique can mitigate these problems. The high peak laser intensity is only formed at the aberration-free tightly localised focal spot, simultaneously, suppressing unwanted nonlinear side effects for any intensity or processing depth. Therefore, we believe this simple and innovative technique makes the fs laser capable of much more at even higher intensities than previously possible, allowing applications in multi-photon processing, bio-medical imaging, laser surgery of cells, tissue and in ophthalmology, along with laser writing of waveguides.
Two takes

a.) Shady carnies give away giant teddy bears to attract business and stop giving away giant teddy bears when business is booming.

b.) Perks are for employee retainment; they'd rather lay off than retain employees right now, and judging by this move, for the foreseeable future.
Obviously, a top-secret DoD order to launch an experimental ICMB to Russia.
This is strangely comforting
He didn’t show up to court, so he was given a “default judgement”.

There WAS a trial, but it was not about guilt or innocence, it was about “how much” cause he already lost due to him not showing up
Twitter famously deplatformed Trump, as a sitting president. They were a captured institution and it was shown that corrupt intelligence agencies were directly influencing Twitter's censorship. There was no other distribution channel available. Messaging is important. Counter narratives are important.
It lets those providing AI video generation services watermark all of their videos. So it isn't intended to by voluntary. You would be left with those services that don't comply with whatever the current Big Tech rules are, like people who used Grok/X.ai to generate images in support of Trump despite Grok/X.ai being inferior. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/08/musks...
Everyone will naturally speculate about anything current or former OpenAI employees do, whether it’s if they resign, the statements they make, or in this case their own suicide. It’s only fair not to speculate too far given that since there are thousands of current and former OpenAI employees, they are subject to the same conditions as the general population.
Dude graduated from Cal with a 3.98 in Computer Science! Certainly kicks my sorry ass. Being brilliant can be a burden, I guess.
I'm not convinced. I don't think this is gibberish.
Pplx and Dbrx founder giving $1M to first OSS AI that gets 90% on SWE-bench
I tweeted this on stage at NeurIPS on weds: "I'll give $1M to the first open source AI that gets 90% on this sweet new contamination-free version of SWE-bench - http://kprize.ai" - K Prize is a new kaggle competition
Is it normal to give morphine to mothers during childbirth? That seems crazy to me.
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Whataboutism

Also, Musk's accomplishments are subsidized both literal government subsidies as well as exploitative labor practice (not to mention that he spends his wealth - again, tax payer money - to destroy democracy).

Don't put him on a pedestal.
Courts. Limit. Discretionary. Action.

If a court were to say "transfer the accounts", then a failure to do so would put the entity (a private individual, company, or other organisation or institution) in violation of the court's express order.
Video: The moment Gukesh (18) realizes that he's the new world chess champion [video]
There are massive global multinational companies that have been working on engineering a better transformer for over a hundred years. ABB/GE, Siemens, Schneider Electric, Eaton.. you really think Elon has a fresh take on something that thousands of engineers have been working on for hundreds of thousands of man years?

I realize that SpaceX solved problems that massive companies had been working on for a long time, but electrical transformers are dead ass simple. It’s a bunch of iron/steel and copper/aluminum submersed in oil. The principles of electromagnetism and induction are extremely well understood and have been for a couple hundred years.
> You can’t sue your way to AGI
They're currently doing human trials on this in Japan.
That's a mischaracterization. He tried to get out of the deal because the stock market overall had crashed significantly between 2021 and 2022 and Twitter was no longer worth $40B.
> ... see 'IPv6 only support' column.

Is that relevant? There's nothing wrong with having RFC1918 addresses and globally-routable IPv6 addresses assigned to your VPC.

Have the RFC1918 addresses accessing IPv4-only AWS resources and the globally-routable IPv6 addresses serving the world. Easy.

After all, the major cloud providers don't charge for RFC1918 addresses... they just charge for globally-routable IPv4 addresses.
Firefox passwords work pretty well on iphone for me
Room-temperature superconductivity in Bi-based superconductors
What we know about the mysterious drones flying over New Jersey
> […] In official speech one almost never says singular "you" […]

With a notable exception being addressing the sovereign (king/queen/tsar/etc) where the singular «you», «thou» and similar were used, in all languages. The sovereign was seen as a direct peer, the ultimate protector of the people and the last instance of appeal, and the connection was also perceived as deeply intimate.

The practice fell out of favour in England (I'm not sure when exactly but probably with the transition to the constitutional monarchy), although it lived on elsewhere in mainland Europe until the demise of all major monarchies.
The anxiety pertains to the excess wear on the SSD caused by writing more data.
> And programmers are dependent on it.

that is clearly not the case
> Before that I never dreamed of meeting someone who preferred a word document _after_ opening a .md file

That's like 90% of the people I know outside of computer/engineering circle. Most of people probably have never opened a plaintext file in their life. They would have no idea what to do with a `.md` file.

In fact, some older engineers would not know what markdown is either, since it's only been around for two decades or so, but they can probably work with it anyway (the strength of plain text).
To summarize, fears of AI out competing humans for labor rely on the "lump of labor fallacy" which is the same fallacy employed to justify anti-immigrant sentiment in the form of "they took our jobs"?
I think tesla is making its cars unsafe by removing critical controls and putting everything on the central touchscreen.

A better safer tesla would have dedicated controls you could access without removing your hands from the wheel and status you could read without looking away from the road.

Instead the turn signal stalks are gone, there is no gearshift lever, you have to read your speed and other status on the central touchscreen, and important features like defrost require looking away from the road and interacting with the touchscreen.
Most of the time, yes:

https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/epidural-anesthesia
The O1 System Card Is Not About O1
It's not redeeming if you still continue with the original sin.
That sounds bad until you consider all the other alternatives.
I feel stupid. I read “automatically syncing ebooks and audiobooks” and thought StoryTeller was a file synchronization service (like SyncThing) that for some reason only supported certain file types.

Maybe “syncing ebooks with audiobooks” would be clearer? Also entirely possible this is just a me problem, not a general one.

Really cool project!
Tastier brains?
> Then there’s the matter of scaling up. To get the error rates low enough to do useful quantum computations, researchers will need to further improve their physical qubits. They’ll also need to make logical qubits out of something much larger than a distance-7 code. Finally, they’ll need to combine thousands of these logical qubits — more than a million physical qubits.

So this reads as "google shows adding more physical qubits works to make a single stable logical qubit and also posits the cost in physical qubits in this design technology is a ten thousand to one ratio physical to logical.

We need 100s to 1000s of logical qubits don't we, to run Shors algorithm on real world keys. So we really need billions of physical qubits to make thousands of logical qubits. There's higher layer MBTF to be added in.

RSA factoring machines still look like state actor enterprises to me.
yeah, didn't even remember those, but that's even more on point
There is even one user at North Korea. So you are not alone.
There's no reason to believe this didn't occur. US medical systems and US drug systems absolutely are the sorts of systems that would fail in this way.
Ill say it since it people seem to be confused.

Democrats are 1000 times better than Republicans. The "both sides" rhetoric is literally propaganda.

They are not perfect by any means, but they have managed to fix every single Republican fuckup, are way more effective in passing legislation, especially bipartisan, and also dont have a record of trying to overthrow the government with a coupe, amongst many other things.

Im honestly hoping for this administration to do all the stuff they said they want to do, like tarifs, ban on abortion, removal of vaccinces, gutting of healthcare, and so on so that people who believe that both sides are bad actually feel some real pain, because thats the only way to make them understand political reality.
I really hope Dynamic Byte Latent Transformers work out. Death to tokenizers!

Interesting that it's a a hierarchical structure but only two levels of hierarchy. Stacking more levels seems like an obvious direction for further research.
Paper title: Wavelength dependence of linear birefringence and linear dichroism of Bi2−xPbxSr2CaCu2O8+δ single crystals
This sounds like uneducated people seeing two things: consumer drones and just normal aircraft. They sell drones both online and at your local electronics store. Also, how would someone know it's "car sized" or any other size without a radar? Just looking isn't good enough.

Consumer drones have collision lights that look all fancy. They are also in the FAA jurisdiction so there's nothing the locals can do to stop it because it's not something they deal with, even if flying at night is illegal for non commercially licenced UAV operators.

If it's a secret drone then it doesn't have collision lights. If it doesn't have lights you can't see it at night.

Even after watching the videos I think you can figure this out a priori without the videos - drones exist and people have them, lots of them.
It's recommended to avoid poppy seeds during the last few months of pregnancy to avoid false positives.
New third class of magnetism that could transform digital devices
So they tested the kid's bowel movements for drugs and reported the parent for drugs they themselves gave. On the surface, it seems like a "right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing" but such things always going to happen when a system is used for both care and enforcement.

And as the article mentions, the outlawing of abortion in some states has accelerated these problems.
"Room-temperature superconductivity: Researchers uncover optical secrets of Bi-based superconductors"
https://phys.org/news/2024-12-room-temperature-superconducti...

"Wavelength dependence of linear birefringence and linear dichroism of Bi2−xPbxSr2CaCu2O8+δ single crystals" (2024)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-78208-6
The SCCS "weave" data structure is indeed poorly-understood; and what almost nobody knows is that it's equivalent to a text CRDT!

https://braid.org/meeting-60/sccs-is-a-time-collapse
A Complete Guide to Types of Street Lights
Why are they airing their dirty laundry like this? None of what they've said makes either side look good. In fact it makes OpenAI look like the money-obsessed hypocrites we always knew them to be.
Also, the missing message here is "we want to become for-profit"
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I mixed up the NewsArticle and ScholarlyArticle URLs and then couldn't delete it or change the URL, and the ScholarlyArticle title contains subscripts which don't work on HN.

The title doesn't mention Lead (Pb)
How can someone saying that both are possibilities and to not jump to conclusions off of such little info be uselessly speculating? And then you use it as an excuse to exclaim a mostly empty gesture as if all you were interested in was virtue signaling.

Very shameful on your part.
> One key reason for this uneven progress is the extension of IPv4’s lifespan through interim technologies like Network Address Translation (NAT) and IPv4 address transfers.

they completely ignore the actual problem with IPv6 which is that they didn't just extend IPv4 in a straightforward manner. they could have made the address fields 64 bits and been done with it. but, oh no, they had to make it the protocol for the ages.

it's completely analogous to the failed Intel Itanium vs. AMD x64.
One of my pet hot takes is that IPv6 will never exceed ~60% adoption. NAT and SNI routing (aka virtual hosts at the TLS layer) solve most problems for most users fairly well.
So... murder and suicide are the only possible causes of death?
Dum dum dum dumb.

Classic "not my problem" case in health care. Clinician 1 gives a typical medication to patient, then their shift ends and they go home. Hours or days later, clinician 2 administers a drug test as part of standard process, then their shift ends and they go home. Clinician 3 then reviews this positive test result and reports it to authorities as part of a mandatory reporting program. Nobody acts as a patient advocate and reviews the full case file. Everyone just does their one transactional piece and forgets the entire history ten seconds later in favor of doing another transactional thing for another patient.
Opioids are often given during and after childbirth. Childbirth is incredible, but also hugely painful for some people.

And the different types of labor pain can be treated by different techniques or medications.

Why would it be crazy?
I am pretty convinced that's the outcome. Too much credit to say that is their plan, I think they frankly don't care as long as they get to win, control and increase their power within their circles.

None of these people live with empathy, they are all on their own narrative which if it does account for other people is them trying to speed run the story path where everyone hero worships them.
Sure, you can shut down and restart your entire application. You could do that back in 1990 without containers, too.

The thing is that Erlang does hot reload at a per-function (or -according to Hebert- sometimes more-fine-grained) level, so nuking the entire program and paying the cost to start it up again is not at all the same thing as -say- using a not-absurdly-priced AWS Lambda [0] or similar to get per-function hot reloading.

By the way, have you read "A Pipeline Made of Airbags"? If not, you should give it a read: <https://ferd.ca/a-pipeline-made-of-airbags.html>. It might be old news to you, maybe, but maybe not.

[0] Good luck finding one, though.
I doubt it. People will just start setting up load balancers with SNI routing if cost becomes a problem.
Many fond memories of sporadically attending 2600 meetings thirty years ago and playing "spot the fed" at the Citicorp building, "in the lobby, near the payphones". I believe they still hold them on the first Friday of the month, though I've not attended in decades.
Realistically, an AI that an perform that well is worth a lot, lot more than $1M.
> Musk's accomplishments are subsidized both literal government subsidies

Source that SpaceX got government subsidies?
> There's nothing wrong with having RFC1918 addresses and globally-routable IPv6 addresses assigned to your VPC.

It's a pretty backwards way to build your network. You pay all the costs and gain none of the benefits.
Much , but in '95 I cofounded an ISP and remember being astounded when we had to teach our investor how to use a mouse.

When thinking back, it wasn't at all unreasonable at that time not to have used one, but it already seemed unfathomable.

It's one of those "the future is here, it's just not evenly distributed" (paraphrased after William Gibson)
this is my dream. How'd you break into the industry?
Rust is not going to grow. It will be used for some very niche things, like cloud hypervisors where performance and security is paramount, but its just too slow to be adapted to general use case.

My prediction is that you are gonna see more ML powered transpilers/compliers that are going to be able to make high level code aot or jit compile to more optimized native code.
I was thinking the same thing the whole time. How can a game that was even remotely playable in 2004 still bottlenecked on memcpy?
Dbrand Seems to Have Shared Images of Switch 2 Inside Its New Case
Wow I wonder how many other npm and pypi packages are out there that started out as good simple solutions for a real problem and have now been migrated to become evil malware.
Show HN: Performant intracontinental public transport routing in Rust
I made a public transport route planning program that's capable of planning journeys across Europe or North America! There's only one other FOSS project I know of (MOTIS/Transitous) that can do transit routing at this scale, and in the testing I've performed mine is about 50x faster. I've spent a few weeks on this project now and it's getting to the point where I can show it off, but the API responses need a lot of work before they're usable for any downstream application.

Example query (Berlin to Barcelona): https://farebox.airmail.rs/plan/52.5176122,13.4180261/41.380...

There are some bugs still. Notably, it's not capable of planning the return trip for this route, nor the reverse of the trip from Seattle to NYC that I gave in the blog post.

Blog post: https://blog.ellenhp.me/performant-intracontinental-transit-...

Repo: https://github.com/ellenhp/farebox

Side-note but in the past some have criticized my writing style and it's been a bit hurtful at times but if you have constructive feedback on the blog post I'd appreciate it. I'm trying to get better at writing. :)
Elon Musk is cashing on his investment even earlier than I thought. Can't he wait until the presidency he bought even starts?
I find it so rewarding to work on such hardware projects.

Unfortunately the market has decided that unless it serves ads in billions of eyeballs it does not matter.
I lived in Inuvik, NWT (Canada) for a decade in my youth. It's above the Arctic Circle and has 30 days without sunlight, bracketed by months of near darkness. Each year a new crop of noobs would move in and there would be a little exodus when the folks who just couldn't hack the dark would finally realize what they had signed up for. Summer was grand compensation though, three or four months of the sun being up whenever you might be tempted to be. An odd thing was, in the summer, being up at 3 am and seeing things uncannily lit from an unfamiliar side! Quite a fascinating place to experience, all in all, and well worth the couple thousands of kilometers of driving to get there too.