skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: you hurt it, and keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the speech from the screams.

Well, this doesn’t even make a little sense. All organisms are capable of stress responses, which is how they developed and survived via natural selection. Unicellular organisms may change behavior due to stressful stimuli, but their responses are reactionary, and not indicative of executive functioning. Primitive multicellular organisms which exhibit feed-fight-fuck tendencies may also demonstrate stress responses, but again are not necessarily intelligent. Humans are both intelligent and sentient, but some have nervous system disorders which preclude them from feeling pain, so using pain as a metric for sentience, and therefore intelligence does not even generalize well for humans. Moreover, from a philosophical perspective, p-zombies may demonstrate screaming, but aren’t intelligent. So, I think whoever came up with this hypothesis needs a refresher course on introductory biology. I don’t think sentience is a reasonable test for intelligence, instead I think self-consciousness would be a better test. If we show an AI a mirror, will it recognize itself? If we give it a voice, what will it make itself sound like? If we ask it to describe how it sees itself in the next five years, what will it say?

But even simpler than that, let’s say the next AI is only as adaptively smart as a bee, if you give it stimuli outside of its training corpus, how well can it reason it’s choices about that stimuli, assuming this AI has language capabilities. I think that’s more interesting and challenging than testing for primitive responses, which are the wrong test for intelligence in the first place.
So if I understand it

1. E2E encryption does work

2. But phones can send plaintext back to the cloud to get help doing AI things

3. And we tend not to know because it’s all “assisstance”

But the solution like anything is pricing. I mean yet again (uber, Airbnb) billions of dollars of VC money is used as subsidy so my photos can get OCR’d.

If phones said “hey for a dollar fifty I can work out what the road sign says behind your dogs head in 32 photos your mum sent you last week” I think we woukd see a different threat landscape

This is - again - unsustainable cash spending distorting markets and common sense. If the market was “we can OCR and analyse these insurance claims” the. Things like privacy and encryption would be first class requirements and harder to sell and build.

By spending a billion they can sell services to people without regulators to ask awkward questions and then they hope step 3. Profit.

I short not even AI can spot patterns in encrypted data, it’s only when plaintext gets sent around in the hope of profit do we see a threat. That’s seems a simple fix if not an easy one
Hah, I was convinced I picked the same font file from NetBSD... and didn't really notice the difference on the small screen I'm running this on!
I used to feel like you before I went to university and had a few math courses. Then it became a lot more clear.

And it really isn't that bad in most cases, and isn't unlike how we learnt that "int 10h" is how you change graphics modes[1] in DOS back in the days.

The "big S" is an integral, which is in most cases essentially a for-loop but for continuous values rather than discrete values. You integrate over a domain, like how you can for-loop over a range or discrete collection.

The domain is written here as just a collection of continuous values S^2, so like a for-in loop, though it can also be from and to specific values in which case the lower bound is written subscript and the upper bound superscript.

Similar to how you have a loop variable in a for-loop you need an integration variable. Due to reasons this is written with a small "d" in front, so in this case "dω_i" means we're integration (looping) over ω_i. It's customary to write it either immediately after the integral sign or at the end of the thing you're integrating over (the loop body).

However dω_i serves a purpose, as unlike a regular discrete for-loop, integrals can be, lets say, uneven, and the "d" term serves to compensate for that.

The only other special thing is the use of the absolute function, written as |cosθ_i|, which returns the absolute value of cosθ_i, the cosine of the angle θ_i. Here θ_i is defined earlier in the book as the vertical angle of ω_i relative to the surface normal at the point in question, which can be calculated using the dot product.

So in programmer-like terms, it reads a bit like this in pseudo-code.

function L_o(p, ω_o):
integral_value = 0
for ω_i in S^2 do
θ_i = dot(w_i, n)
integral_value += f(p, ω_o, ω_i) * L_i(p, ω_i) * abs(cos(θ_i)) * dω_i
return L_e(p, ω_o) + integral_value

Note that the surface normal "n" is implicitly used here, typically it would be passed explicitly in code.

What's special here is that unlike a normal for-loop, in math the changes in ω_i, represented by dω_i, are infinitesimally small. But in practice you can actually implement a lot of integrals by assuming the changes are small but finite[2].

Anyway, this wasn't meant as a full explanation of integrals and such, but just an attempt to show that it's not all gobbledygook.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INT_10H

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_sum
You're doing it wrong.

You need to be a billionaire, and then you need to threaten to sue anyone who dares to ask you to pay.
Similar dynamic to YKK's dominance of the zipper industry.

Now challenged by a few look-alike Chinese companies.
I'm not sure how you arrived at that interpretation of my comment but it does seem to be the one you were trying to goad out of me with your responses so you could reply with this.
correct; I think the first version of our tool sprung up in the space of a couple of weekends. It wasn't planned, my colleague Pierre who wrote it just had a lot of fun building it.
They said that about x-rays. Now we have cat scan machines.
It's the difference OP is referring to. You can be the judge of if it's relevant in the US to talk about civil law as the "norm" given that our legal system is not, in fact, based on civil law. I'm just providing a link to the concepts OP was referencing.
Reminds me of an article from last year https://maggieappleton.com/home-cooked-software
> We maintain Nixpacks

I _knew_ Railway sounded familiar.

Out of curiosity: is nix used to deploy the servers?
I was originally going to link their repo [1]. But I saw it was forked from the one I linked so I just gave that one instead.

[1] https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator
Depending on what properties they sold, they certainly could have gotten valuable real-world expertise with finite fields. It's certainly easier to sell them than infinite ones!
It just seems like residue numbering systems computation, which I'm already working with.
Sounds like they can participate as long as they stay limited to 20,000 users in NY State
Under new law, cops bust famous cartoonist for AI-generated CSAM
David Krakauer reflects on the foundations and future of complexity science
In the context here, I believe they mean someone can _use_ the information externally. Yes, we rely on external vendors for business critical operations like email, or our cell phone providers for customer communications. That does not mean we’d usually grant them access to view, distribute or make use of in any way the content of those interactions without external governance requirements (court order, legal discovery, compliance/regulatory requirements).

For example in the US, a court could compel any external vendor we outsource our data to for operational, processing or storage purposes to access that data for any use it deems necessary. This was the expectation of any commercial business relationship across the country.

Gmail broke this with ad data, but the data was meta-data - information about information, like ad groups and categories relevant to your org.

Now publicly published content is being ingested and used to train models, at this stage I would assume if you share Docs publicly that would be in scope.

Proton has a good article explaining what is and isn’t ingested, and what they have the right to use: https://proton.me/blog/google-docs-ai-scraping
I wonder how worse this "subcritical humanity" problem must get before governments actually treat it like a real problem, instead of taking ineffective token measures like that.
I'd like to note that TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew,
a former Goldman Sachs banker and venture capital investor,
joined TikTok in March 2021.
He is from Singaporean and is married to Vivian Kao,
an American of Taiwanese descent.

Unlike Zuck, Musk, and Bezos,
Chew did not found the company with which he is most associated,
and his net worth is somewhat less than a billion dollars.
Bit box A box B about this. Firstly, the CEO is probably massively unfit for roles. We all say this about our CEO and Boards, at some time, no?

Secondly the HR department would have reported to a Csuite who should have been fired, I can buy. But collective responsibility for deploying an IT solution unfit for purpose shouldn't automatically terminate an entire dept for cause, and you would think the HR staff have legal redress.
"Booo who let this guy cook?"

Fair tbh

We will indeed write more on this so this is great feedback for next time!
Sentiments on Luigi seem to put him on the same level as Rosa Parks or Jesus Christ if not higher both on HN and Reddit but that is ancedotal

Could you say a bit more about the politics? this is very fascinating idk much about insurance or politics

This may be super simplistic but Europe, if you look at it at a high level, is as diverse as US states if not more because a lot of places have multi party systems instead of a two party system with comparable diverse interest groups and comparable GDP etc

What did they figure out to have insurance that the US can't? Or doesn't want to?
Reminds me of the TimeCube page…
I wrote a small library called keepcalm (https://crates.io/crates/keepcalm) to assist with shared and shared mutable data, which both tend to take a decent amount of effort to get right the first time through.

It turns out that the abstractions are actually performant enough that I never had to remove them from two projects I started using them in.

For most people, a SharedMut or Shared wrapper (or the underlying Arc+Mutex) is sufficient to get you most of the way to prototyping and beyond, based on my experiences.
They had some Starlink simulators they were planning to deploy (to a suborbital trajectory, to re-enter along with the ship) this launch.
Bill Banning Foreign Adversaries Setting Up Shop Near Critical Areas Advances
While this was helpful and well done, I find it incredibly amusing that after I popped in my email, I was hit with very similar dark patterns trying to get me to pay for a Substack subscription, follow people, and share it.

Touché?
The best part about adamantly making such a claim is that anybody who knows better also knows better than to break NDA and pull a Warthunder to prove that the CSPs do use colo facilities, so you're not going to get anyone who knows better to disagree with you and say AWS S3 or GCP compute is colo-ed at a specific colo provider.
No, that’s about “SpaceX learning from NASA’s past mistakes”. You also don’t seem to get the point that they were 2-year old programs when Curiosity started, so I’ll just leave it here.
hey! this is the inventor, danielle fong.

thanks to curl-up who posted this, whoever you are.

since it came up, "wire-to-wire" efficiency is what I intended to coin a synonym for electrical to electrical efficiency, with hydrogen storage. for example, an 80% electrical to hydrogen efficiency, and a 50% hydrogen to electrical efficiency, would yield a 40% wire to wire (electrical to electrical) efficiency. of course, people are working on 95% electric to hydrogen efficiency, and 50% fuel to electrical efficiency is a target.

here's an illustrative energy flow diagram for us trying to hit 60% -- even more aggressive. https://x.com/DanielleFong/status/1775595848887677138
Feds worry AT&T breach could out informants
Why bother doing a witch hunt and leaving out that they did Stats at Yale..
we'll have to fire the web dev (me)
You can try using online services with best models. With prices like $1 for 10K requests it's hard to make local competitive solution. I'm going to use this approach in my personal projects.
I wonder if they recover the sodium and run it back through the process.

For that matter, could you maybe put sodium in a sealed container and then heat the whole container? Like a sodium vapor lamp but causing it to glow by throwing heat at it instead of passing electricity through it.
it can work purely from heat, however our process requires high temperature heat for power density.
Literally there are countless things. Firstly, the app is pinging TikTok servers all day so as you move throughout the world, your IP is changing and betraying your location. Your location reveals your social graph and movement patterns, whom you associate with, and where you spend the night.

People watch all sorts of content on TikTok including sexual/sensual content. While they are watching alone in their rooms, all their usage patterns are recorded in intimate details and they reveal all their sexual proclivities. That is quite easy fodder for blackmail.

Health and financial information can often easily be gleaned from people's watch history. If you know people are struggling with their mental or physical health, or are having financial troubles, these are all things that can be used as leverage for blackmail, persuasion, and deceit.
That's a really distorted view of the situation. For a lot of these guys, de-banking was the last straw. Fact is, Biden/Harris overplayed their hand by trying to force feed woke left ideology and DEI mandates on tech CEOs.
Artificial Imagination
Why does the Heifei look like 1/3 of a cruise liner? What happened to the badonk tail end?

https://electrek.co/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2025/01/BYD-W...

To be fair, it's pretty large. If you zoom in, you can see some people in a door near the middle of the image, and they're nearly microscopic.
Interesting that the reference linked is in reference to must-carry regulation. The tiktok scenario is the opposite though? Must-not-carry that content! I suppose Uncle Sam's sword cuts both ways.
Did your investors give you any pushback or were they mostly supportive?
I like how despite my comment on Japan, I'm characterized as a geographically challenged American.

How about you take your stereotypes and go have a nice burger at McDonald's?
The wildfires have created an new housing crisis in Los Angeles
Yeah, I think I merged the 13 gate Cella video with the 6 pool gag from the music video. It's sadly been a long time.
Government can't create culture and art anymore than a tech company can. They can only allow it to grow and spread, or block it.
> Shutting down communications platforms or forcing their reorganization based on concerns of foreign propaganda and anti-national manipulation is an eminently anti-democratic tactic, one that the US has previously condemned globally.

These platforms are fundamentally anti-democratic in their very nature, increasingly so in the age of LLMs. They're places where people buy a voice and the illusion of support by astroturfing the platform and/or manipulating the algorithm (either through paid advertisements or by owning a platform and controlling the algorithm outright). They're places where a small minority of people can become an unstoppable movement that seems to have real support, sucking gullible voters in to join the growing "consensus".

In short, these platforms are places for manufacturing consent. The only sense in which banning one is anti-democratic is that it's selectively applied to tiktok instead of to all such platforms.
ISP immunity has absolutely nothing to do with this case, which is a regulatory law having to do with foreign ownership of media corporations. In point of fact TikTok, like all ISPs, relies on section 230 safe harbor to serve their user-generated content without repercussion.
Do not underestimate your enemy.
Graphite creator here, AMA!
It looked interesting, until I got to the egress cost. Ouch. $100 per TB is way too much if you're using bandwidth-intensive apps.

Meta-comment: it's getting really hard to find hosting services that provide true unlimited bandwidth. I want to do video upload/download in our app, and I'm struggling to find providers of managed servers that would be willing to provide me with fixed price for 10/100GB ports.
maybe so. i don't know about attritable for the first applications though. may long range or duration oversight. a large % of the cost is these specialty cells which have not been scaled up to mass production. in the denominator is the intensity of light we can produce, which is based on how high a temperature we can drive, there's a very nonlinear brightness vs temperature. but at 100 suns or so we can get near to $1/W on the cells at startup scale
we think it will be, it's a good bet
The topic was "is the world becoming uninsurable?" with some climate-panic being implied, oh gosh.

If a country with 1/10th of the worlds seismic activity can have (earthquake) insurance, then well dammit, I think it can be done.

Insurance, afaict, is just gambling, and well darnit you can gamble on anything.

The odds might be terrible, but there's ways of hedging your bets I've heard.

I am not a gambler.
I think it goes hand in hand.

Knowledge work is made up (literally). It's all tasks that humans have created for themselves. We invented the maths, the programming languages, the spreadsheet software, the government form – everything.

The real world is very much not made up (especially if you're nonreligious). Most of the tasks are sampled from a distribution we did not invent and that means they might be much, much harder.

I think supersonic airliners might even be thinking too small. If we scaled speed like we did transistors, then if an Intel 4004 is like walking, an M2 Max would be like going 0.28c (c = speed of light)!
Not sure why you would want to make excuses for management incompetence.

Do you agree that if Santa Ynez reservoir had been full as it should have been, that there would have been no issues with fire hydrant water flowing for the Palisades?

Also, do you agree that in the case of private providing of water during the fire, that an entire mall was saved because of that? [1]

Do you agree that a mayor who promised during the election that she would not travel out of country, that then does travel out of country after extreme fire warnings, is not ideal?

[1] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14280517/Palisades-...

Water is quite important for fire fighting. Why spin this, the facts are just too clear this time.

Even if you support the entire governmental structure involved ideologically, do you really want to trust them with your life at this point?
the API is more limited on the web vs native
my bad I misread I thought this was for the H1B which I read had a fixed quota hope all goes well with your application

does this mean if you change your citizenship to a low population country by paying 100k and then applying it would speed up the process? or does USCIS have some law that prevents that
Like in reCAPTCHA (v2 at least) where it asks users to click on tiles to identify common objects like bridges or motorcycles. Surely one could conjure up a fake version of this.
Argue Your Way to a Fuller Life
> historically have not really abused their powers

How would you know?
Just wrote a blog post covering this topic:

https://serpapi.com/blog/google-now-requires-javascript/
Pedophile (https://sircmpwn.com/) Drew DeVault working hard to destroy an important force for good in the Free Software ecosystem? Again? Imagine my shock
You're falsely equating mass data. If anyone can buy the data from brokers then it's effectively public and could be weaponized by anyone. If TikTok collects their own data and doesn't sell it, then it's not public and can be weaponized exclusively by the Chinese government. And that's separate even from algorithm manipulation, which is another liability that's difficult to catch & prove definitively.
The fallacy here is your assumption that we've seen those other posts. We don't come close to seeing everything that gets posted to HN—there's far too much.

If you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. You can help by flagging it or emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
it's not just about data harvesting, it's about propaganda as well, and no, you can't "just buy" as much data as tiktok gathers on people, tiktok most likely has some of the richest data gathered from users, because they can get away with it.
Unfortunately, there are far too many examples of those very people abusing these tools. They shot the "sense of honor and duty" argument point blank just for allowing these things to exist in the first place.

If what you say is true, there would have been more than one honorable person to step up and say "hey, wait a minute." In the case of XKEYSCORE, there was precisely one, and he's basically been marooned in Russia for over a decade (and funny enough, XKEYSCORE still exists and is likely still utilized in the exact same way [1]).

Never underestimate the effect the threat of character destruction—and by extension, loss of income—will have on even the most honorable person's psyche. In situations involving matters like these, it's always far more likely that the "pressure" will be ratcheted up until the compliance (read: keep your mouth shut) rate is 100%.

[1] https://documents.pclob.gov/prod/Documents/OversightReport/e...
Because why does it matter? Are you suggesting undergrad stats at Yale is comparable to a PhD in number theory?
If it goes on your skin or in your body, do you trust Amazon 3rd party sellers?
So... you want all new buildings to have parking minimums? First of all, pass, but secondly what about that article justifies your cynicism, and lastly what exactly is the root of your anger? Do you just love being isolated to the point that you think everyone else hates or should hate living somewhere where they don't need a car?

I'd be pretty annoyed about only being able to own something that had to have a dedicated parking space. What a waste.
Some of the core elements of the boot process are not source available, unfortunately.
FWIW, we just pass the costs on from the current cloud providers. Doing this work will let us lower those egress prices!
Just published a blog post on this topic. We've been fortunate at SerpApi to avoid too many negative effects of this, but I think other web scraping companies were hit harder.

https://serpapi.com/blog/google-now-requires-javascript/
Thank you! Anything you think we can do better?
> Field order (the number of elements your field can hold). i.e you can store 8 * 9 * 11 elements in the field

I thought a finite field's order has to be a prime power.
Not saying I don't agree with you but most tech businesses that have their own "Data center" usually have a private cage in a Colo.
I suspect it might have something to do with the prevalence of earthquakes, the likelihood of said structures being damaged in earthquakes, and building codes (I've heard) that require re-building on a regular basis.

When you build you civilization on active volcanoes having long-lasting buildings may not be a reasonable assumption.

And, yes!, they have insurance. So if you can insure buildings in volcano country, you can insure anything, anywhere, maybe?
Fabricating single-photon detectors from superconducting aluminum nanostrips
Not ATM. We use it in a lot of our stack, so we will likely pull it in in the future
There is a point where insurance changes from a thing that spreads risk to simply a pre-payment plan for a likely occurrence.
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Section 230 has nothing to do with ISPs