skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The proposals include encrypting data so it cannot be accessed, even if leaked, and requiring compliance checks to ensure networks meet cybersecurity rules.

This didn’t sound like much to be honest. If your company needs to be told in 2025 to encrypt your data, the company should be shut down.

There need to be fines and jail time for breaches, along with audits that go far deeper than typical certifications where auditors just rely on evidence a companies volunteers. And also there should be required disclosure of what was leaked for each individual - retroactively - since companies like United / Change refuse to tell patients what info of theirs was stolen (same with other healthcare breaches recently). Oh and compensation for each incident to patients - this should be standard for any breach in any industry.
I'm sure that as the new pseudo-president he will avoid doing anything that might sabotage SpaceX competitors.
Sounds like they’ll move too slowly and eventually do the bare minimum, if even that.
The opening paragraphs are nauseatingly written by AI. Who uses 'delve' all the time? AI, that's who.
Which gets back to the original point, that the real answer is to minimize how much data is held in the first place. Controls will always be insufficient to prevent breaches. Companies and organizations should keep less data, keep it for less time, and try harder to avoid collecting PII in the first place.
Check out PiMiga especially if you have a Pi 400 turns it into a super cool retro setup..

https://youtu.be/PYR9MtSkjE0?si=18uOhM0Qww_NNaTW
just sent a pretty wild message across the waves. No real information about our clients in there but a lot about me + my biz partner since we're the ones w/ our heads out.

The main client we're supporting is a former telecom executive who I suspect has just been talking to a bunch of bots for the last 6mo+ across mediums so i'm trying to safeguard her against any more unknowns since she's old and I can't do much to help.

i'm currently drowning trying to support another client (a black church) that comes closer to direct health services that has had even stranger problems over the last 2 years imo.
Logged in just to say happy new year, also a lurker :-)
I mean people in the software field absolutely push for LLMs to write code…

Obviously people not in the software field wouldn’t care…
Firefox released a very easy to deploy local LLM around a year ago.
https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile
https://ai-guide.future.mozilla.org/content/running-llms-loc...

It works.
Attributing any mention of possible positive impacts of British colonialism to apologism on the part of the poster is itself a bad look. Let the good and bad be dredged out of the swamp of the past, washed off and compared. Nobody alive has any significant skin in the British Raj at this point.

Save your self-censorship argument for Tibet, Kashmir, Taiwan, Ukraine, Kashmir, etc. Talk about bad looks (and actual personal danger for some).
My first drone was a Parrot purchased at a Verizon store ~10 years ago. They definitely have been around for a while but not sure about the current state of the company.
I feel like you’re telling ford how the Model T production line can’t work because someone wants a different color.

Yet, it’s ironic that we still end up with cookie cutter houses, but they are all built as if they are bespoke.
Do you have some references of New Glenn being positioned as a Falcon 9 killer by any industry professionals, commentators or press with credibility (at the risk of no true Scotsman)?

This was certainly thrown around with Tesla, but it's not something I've personally come across with SpaceX.

Regardless, if semiconductors have taught us anything over the last decade, strong competition is essential for a healthy market. It's hard to imagine a true (haha) fan of space exploration that isn't cheering on Rocket Lab and Blue Origin (as you are), even if they're destined to forever be runners up. Even if you believe Musk will operate SpaceX entirely selflessly, he won't be in control of it forever.
Have a HN Year HN!
P values are why llms hallucinate
Yikes.

Clearly said, yet the general sentiment awakens in me a feeling more gothic horror than bright futurism. I am stuck with wonder and worry at the question of how rapidly this stuff will infiltrate into the global tech supply chain, and the eventual consequences of misguided trust.

To my eye, too much current AI and related tech are just exaggerated versions of magic 8-balls, Ouija boards, horoscopes, or Weizenbaum's ELIZA. The fundamental problem is people personifying these toys and letting their guard down. Human instincts take over and people effectively social engineer themselves, putting trust in plausible fictions.

It's not just LLMs though. It's been a long time coming, the way modern tech platforms have been exaggerating their capability with smoke and mirrors UX tricks, where a gleaming facade promises more reality and truth than it actually delivers. Individual users and user populations are left to soak up the errors and omissions and convince themselves everything is working as it should.

Someday, maybe, anthropologists will look back on us and recognize something like cargo cults. When we kept going through the motions of Search and Retrieval even though real information was no longer coming in for a landing.
>They are also great at doing boring tasks for which you can provide perfect guidance (but that still would take you hours)

All the tasks I can think of dealing with on my own computer that would take hours, a) are actually pretty interesting to me and b) would equally well take hours to "provide perfect guidance". The drudge work of programming that I notice comes in blocks of seconds at a time, and the mental context switch to using an LLM would be costlier.
The story is a little longer than this. A bunch of folks from academia and industry have been fighting the inclusion of wiretapping mandates within encrypted communications systems. The fight goes back to the Clipper chip. These folks made the argument that something like Salt Typhoon was inevitable if key escrow systems were mandated. It was a very difficult claim to make at the time, because there wasn’t much precedent for it - electronic espionage was barely in its infancy at the time, and the idea that our information systems might be systematically picked open by sophisticated foreign actors was just some crazy idea that ivory tower eggheads cooked up.

I have to admire those pioneers for seeing this and being right about it. I also admire them for influencing companies like Apple (in some cases by working there and designing things like iMessage, which is basically PGP for texts.) It doesn’t fix a damn thing when it comes to the traditional telecom providers, but it does mean we now have backup systems that aren’t immediately owned.
May I know what is the name of app that is built using LLM? 10k MRR is highly successful app.
Trump won both the electoral and popular votes and won all the swing states. The Republicans took both Houses of Congress and held all governorships up for election.

Yes, he won by a landslide and the biggest factor was the bad economy.
Two game consoles! Full back-compatibility with PS1, if you didn't already have one or were short on space or TV inputs.

Wasn't the PS3 the cheapest Blu-Ray player available at its launch? Like, it was a free console if you wanted a Blu-Ray player.
Catala seems interesting for that kind of thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37546874
I also find LLMs to be more exhausting than Googling, but for me they’ve been ultimately more enriching and efficient.

Specifically, I’ve been using Kagi Assistant over the past 1.5 months for serious and lengthy searches, and I can’t imagine going back to traditional search.

I’m currently sold on this model of LLM assisted search (where explicit links are provided) over the old Google foo skills I developed during grad school.

Example search topics include deep dives and guidance for my first NAS build, finding new bioinformatics methods, and other random biomedical info.
Happy new year from the US South y’all.
I don't think its hosted on their servers, they don't mention that specifically its software, thats why the mac version requires MacFUSE for a secure encrypted drive for the at-rest security
Curious why “enterprise” would need capabilities that seem tailored to hunting down people
US Central Time here, so still a couple hours to go, but HAPPY NEW YEAR to y'all fellow HN-ers -- HN is probably the least guilt-ridden procrastination I do on the whole wide internet. Thank you to every one of you who has made HN among the most intellectually dense places on the web -- I wouldn't be where I'm today without reading all the insightful comments, submitted links and perspectives of all the HN-ers over the last 7 years.

My wish for the new year: hopefully, AI singularity is still a few years away and doesn't happen in 2025!
Selling an insolvent company is pretty common especially in an acquihire situation
Boy does this author know how to segment me out of his readership.
Ozempic economics: How GLP-1s will disrupt the economy in 2025
Yes, the card is a peripheral device to the phone - a hardware security key. It can't steal all your data for the same reason your Yubikey can't.

Answer delayed by hours due to HN rate limiting.
Even better, all of these are also 2025:

(20+25)²

(∑n)² and ∑n³ for n 1..9
https://archive.vn/UxLXt
Finland Finds Anchor Drag Marks Left by Tanker That Broke Cables
Happy New Year. I hope 2025 brings the best to you and yours!
That is my complaint against the next fashionable language. Once you have some level of proficiency in around 10 languages, adding more to the list is a chore. It lacks the enjoyment that came from the first few. At least, that is my experience. That is why I am resistant to learning new languages unless software I want to modify is already written in it. Then, I am forced to learn and time spent on it is time that actually needed to be spent, unlike my brief time spent teaching myself FORTRAN in college, which was largely a waste of time.
Unluckily because they can only be issued by registered and licensed members of the GSM alliance, IIRC.
And that one page refresh is probably also 100MB these days.
I'm...not sure. I know it's not really helpful answer, but I don't want to lie to you or to myself. I'm concerned about the long-term effects of staring at this 5+ hours each day.

Have a look at /r/VisionPro subreddit to find more impressions. The best answer is: it depends. It really bothers some people a lot, others can wear it for hours.

I'd suggest everyone to at least use the free 2-week trial and test it out for themselves. I love how futuristic it feels and all of my friends (no past VR experience) have been completely blown away.
Happy new year, HN!
Poachers and illegal fishing vessels are better PR than foreign dissidents. :9

The federal government wouldn't pay hundreds of millions of dollars[0] to catch one or two fishing boats.

[0] https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_N6600122C0065_970...
Happy new year from a torrential north England!

Stay amazing HN, and have a brilliant 2025.
It's unclear that there are actors below the regional-conglomerate-of-nation-states level that could credibly resolve the underlying issues, and given legislation and enforcement regimes sterling track record of resolving technological problems realistically it seems questionable that solutions could exist in practice. Anyway this kind of stuff is well outside the bounds of what a single org hosting an online forum could credibly address. Pragmatism uber alles.
"I have a dream of giving people power over their own digital selfs and digital memories, I imagine a world where the transmiter is a third party that cant influence the messege. Comunication is the base for everything, and people should be free to communicate without fear."

Sounds like you're looking for Nostr!
The people who would have left these platforms for the dangers, have already left.

The remainder of people left on these platforms are those that lack the introspection or other natural abilities needed to notice and avoid situations in which torture can occur. They in effect volunteer themselves for such torture without their knowledge, and yes this is just as described.

Distorting reflected appraisal in an inconsistent way breaks people's minds. The mere exposure is harmful, and the more exposure occurs the greater the effect. There is no defense aside from limiting exposure with this blindspot.

They have already been called out for bots taking over, before they could claim that each username was a person for purposes of advertising but that is no longer profitable with the greater scrutiny.

These watering holes have already become pools of toxic bot-driven torture. They are just bringing it somewhat more out into the open now that they can no longer claim it isn't happening.

The people involved are quite evil, and a characteristic attribute of evil people is that they are blind to the consequences of their actions. They accept and plan for destructive outcomes for short term profit.

If you don't want to take this at face value, feel free to look up the books from respected experts in this subject matter. Robert Lifton, and Joost Meerloo. Robert Cialdini covers the psychological blindspots used as levers, though distorted reflected appraisal is not covered in significant detail.

They cover brainwashing, torture, and cult deprogramming. They cover the foundations of these things, the limits of rational thought and how psychological stress and trauma overrides it, and how structured methods are used. What is covered easily applies to these platforms.
True, but modern "western"[1] medicine is not about the specific chemicals used, or even knowing how they exactly work at a chemical level, but the process for identifying what does and what does not work. It's an "evidence based" science with with experiments designed to counter known biases such as the placebo effect. Much of what we consider modern medicine was developed before we were entirely sure that atoms actually existed!

[1] It isn't actually western, because it's also used in the east, middle-east, south, both sides of every divide, etc... In the same sense, there is no "western chemistry" as an alternative to "eastern alchemy". There's "things that work" versus "things that make you feel slightly better because they're mild narcotics or stimulants... at best."

(I don't want to focus too much on Chinese herbal medicine, because I see the same cargo-culting non-scientific thinking in code development too. I've lost count of the number of times I've seen an n-tier SPA monstrosity developed for something that needed a tiny monolithic web app, but mumble-mumble-best-mumble-practices.)
This. I'm making a game and I have an Android and iOS experimental branches. Even with a multiplatform framework (Monogame), compilation and basic run isn't a given. Then thing like small buttons needs biggee touch target, text input requires adaptation. All those 3 days + 1 day + a week + ... quickly adds up.
> code targeting the NES

Well, the 6502 in general. It's an extremely important processor in history. People want to emulate NES, Commodore, Atari 8-bit, Apple II - so an accurate 6502 emulator has a HUGE base of nostalgic geeks to improve it.
That really sounds plausible. They could open a training farm in Vietnam or Mongolia (or even Taiwan, or really anywhere the internet goes) and just use it, the GPUs don’t need to be located in the mainland. The only way to lock down the GPUs would be to just restrict completely to who could use them, and then prevent them from contracting with sanctioned entities.

When I was working in Beijing, we definitely had resources we couldn’t access locally but could easily access remotely so it didn’t really matter.
How much data do you guys reckon they gather during this 24-second window? Gigabytes? Terabytes? I imagine they have redundant sensors for every measurement, if possible. The LHC generates 1 PB/s, though it filters it down to roughly 200MB/s[0]. I wonder how this compares.

0: https://www.lhc-closer.es/taking_a_closer_look_at_lhc/0.lhc_...
Right now I'm using my work Mac, which I can't install Minecraft on.
My personal Mac is not in my hands, and the kid using it is the one I want
to surprise with a Minecraft level of the area.

If anyone could post a zip file of Minecraft worlds so I can fool this app
into using it, I would be much obliged.
Just to be clear, he was charged with a single firearms offense, and is presumed innocent of that. If other charges appear then they should be discussed.

>do you think that nothing about the pipe bombs, etc., was criminal?

Seems like the FBI don't, for now. Just like when someone is reported as having "an encrypted messing app" - fear mongering nonsense.
If I’ve learned anything about security it’s that once someone has admin access there’s no way your system is clean. It might look that way, but the system is lying to you, and even if you clean that part up there’s backdoors and Trojans just waiting in firmware, boot loaders, network stacks, backups, everything. Like does your system have any “workarounds” or can you wipe everything and redeploy? Guarantee it’s the former. Ok well then how do you know this bespoke thing is what was originally written by that guy five years ago.
What are the chances of an extinction level event occurring in 2025? By now, that's about the only black swan event left to happen.
I love that the OpenStreetMap community provides a mature toolscape that allows projects like this to access geospatial data for anyone, no questions asked. It's hard to overstate how valuable this kind of resource is to the free software community.

Just to give some perspective: More than 10 years ago I built an open source project that generates cities for a different game (maps4cim [1], a map generator for Cities in Motion 2). It relies on OSM data to generate roads and buildings and stuff, and NASA SRTM data for elevations. The OSM part of the application is far more complicated, since it covers so much data that is changing every day, yet you can make the exact same query against the Overpass API and get a response with the latest data in the expected format. NASA however at some point decided to shut down public access to SRTM data, which is in the public domain, and hide it behind a non-RESTful webservice where only registered users have access.

To me this feels like such a loss. I never would have started this open source project a decade ago if there was no free access to all the data the users would need. Yes, it's still public domain data, therefore someone could go through all the hassle of signing up for the service, scrape all the data and then host it free of charge, but right now there is no such service. Don't get me wrong, I don't feel entitled to this kind of free service, but I feel like these barriers to entry really matter and we all lose access to great tools that are built on the shoulders of giants. Very sad to lose NASA as one of the giants that once gave us free and easy access to highly useful data. More power to projects like OSM that live the spirit of open data!

1: https://github.com/Klamann/maps4cim
The Chicken Tax was initially a response to Europe's protectionist measure against American poultry imports. I see how it eventually turned into a protectionist racket, but most never seem to look at the source of the problem.

I feel that the same way about EVs, or EV batteries in particular.
They kill people based on metadata - they told us so. They don't need the rest.
There is an efficient way to generate a random maze!

First you create an initial maze, and randomly remove a wall. This generates a loop in your maze. Then in the loop you randomly add one wall, this removes the loop in the maze while keeping all cells reachable. As you iterate this operation your maze will get more and more different.
This is too cool. Way to represent your rust peers
Innocent people hate being punished for the behavior of other people, whom the innocent people have no control over.*

FTFY.
Yep. Same for most of Asia too.

Cloudflare's filters are basically straight up racist.

I have stopped using so many sites due to their use of Cloudflare.
++year;
I would argue most people working software jobs either haven't heard of TIOBE or don't care about it. I only occasionally hear about it from strange internet comments that are far too focused on language particulars.
> Blue Origin has an awfully long way to go if they want to catch up to SpaceX

Maybe we should just give the whole space industry to SpaceX because obviously nobody can touch them. /s
Nice. A unique year indeed, since the last one was 1936, 89 years ago. It's obvious to me now - that's 2025-(45*2-1) and I can picture a row and a column at the edges of a grid being removed, wth one cell being shared between the row and column. I think maybe at some point I saw that. 1600 and 2500 are more obvious, and 2050 is the midpoint between them linearly.

The others in Python:

sum(range(1, 10))**2
sum(n**3 for n in range(1, 10))
don’t start the year by mutating state, geeeeeez :)
You're really just exploiting hidden O(?) implementations inside the CPU, so it still applies, just less visibly.
> No, it's actually the reverse. You have to compare at equal annual vol, and the S&P already has something like 20%.

Stop thinking like a hedge fund.

TQQQ commonly is used as a benchmark because it represents a low-friction, practical alternative to VTI, VOO, and even private equity investments including hedge funds trading public securities.

Once your Sharpe is high enough, you stop caring about volatility. The only volatility is how many zeros in your almost-always positive PnL.

Hedge funds (and traditional asset managers) care about drawdown, vol, sortino, beta and all that shit. But hedge funds have a different business model than prop trading firms.
> Lying requires intent to deceive

Since when do we ask people to guess other people's intent when they have better things to show, which is called evidence?

Surely we should talk about things with substantiated matter?
Without intending to be inflammatory, I think that the mindset that you are espousing is broken.

Security is is a real issue for a subset of computing tasks. To further your point, for those tasks you can argue that constant vigilance and patching are a necessity of the modern world (an alternative and arguably better approach would be that formal verification and not updating, as often applied in safety critical control systems.) However, security is often used as a pernicious ruse for forcing obsolesence: want the latest security patches? update to the latest OS version. Oh look, the latest OS version no longer runs on your perfectly good hardware. Or similarly, oh look, your perfectly good software no longer runs on the latest OS version.

But now consider the subset of computing that does not need to involve security either because it has literally no security implications, or because it can be sandboxed by the OS (e.g. games, music and video production, architectural design, scientific simulation, mathematical research, ...) There is a large body of this kind of software that works perfectly well for any number of years (modulo forced obsolesce initiatives like "modernising" the UI or moving to the cloud). I would argue that the primary function of the OS should be to provide a stable platform for running such software securely. Yes, the user could learn how run it under emulation, in a container or VM, but then what is the purpose of the OS?

The alternative is a high software maintenance burden/cost to everyone (for applications to just keep the lights on, or users to stay current in a churning software landscape) and/or the destruction of a massive amount value in developed but no longer easily able to be run software: this value destruction here is twofold: (1) the licensee can no longer run the software that they pay for, and (2) the effort expended to develop said software is discarded.