skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right. And Paypal's business support hotline, which I am now intimately familiar with, is already very bad and their backend merchant portal is a bad joke - I found dozens of bugs, untranslated strings, weird workflows...amazing what you can get away with when you're a monopoly :(
Polar H10 basically works like that. It's great until you are suddenly unable to connect to it via bluetooth, and have to blindly debug the reason. Is the device even on? Battery low? Broken? App issues? Who the fuck knows.
Chromosomal sex is established at conception but physical differentiation occurs later. The idea that all humans start as female is mistaken. It stems from the observation that in the absence of male specific signals embryos will follow a developmental pathway that results in female characteristics. But biologically speaking embryos are not inherently female. They start in an undifferentiated "bipotential" state.
Yes, the very last thing to do is respond to spam (calls, email, text...) and inform that you are eligible to more solicitation.
That's not happening. Because they too will need to pay for access to the PEPPOL network. And it seems like there might be some KYC requirements in addition to the money and the audits.
They didn't say reproducibility, they said determinism.

If you use a container with the same apt-get commands and the same OS, you already separate out almost all the reproducibility issues. What you get will be a very similar environment.

But it's not deterministic as you point out, that takes a lot more effort.
Government grant, you say? My my, where can I apply for my $500B?
Well, green roofs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_roof) are having a comeback all over the world, so it's quite possible Iceland will pick them up again as well...
Someone might have already pointed it out but for me, the sentence of RA is not the main issue, the issue is allowing a single person to stamp through an entire legal system and undermine all of the time and money that is invested in it, even if that person is a president.

I suspect that the idea originally was to give some safety valve but if it is used more than a few times by a President, it makes a mockery of it and it should be removed as a power. How can a President ever decide that the entire legal process is flawed and their opinion is right? If the sentence was too long then change the sentencing guidelines.
Seems like folks would rather engage in ad hominem attacks than address the points being made.

It is possible to envisage and even admire ways of life which are not your own. Whilst I don't live there I have found Denmark to be a great place to be.

Having an open mind seems to have gone out of fashion.
AWS and starlink have exposure of risk. You would think DHS work here went to net beneficial outcomes for both of them, and the wider telco sector. (Assuming you meant the tech sector)
So are online illegal drug marketplaces legal now if they’re run entirely on crypto?
I guess that is one way to solve the under representation in tech?
"A implies B" does not mean "B implies A".
What? - whatever nasty stuff happened because of those drugs being distributed and sold still falls back on that guy, and lets be real, some shitty stuff has to have happened with a direct link back to those drugs.
> Another question: where will LLMs get coding Q&A training data in the future?

Maybe Big Tech starts paying professionals for the professional material they provide for training LLMs?
There’s still a difference between ordering a hit and killing 4000 people, some of them yourself.
Silly physicists spent generations trying to confine plasma with magnets and lasers when all along we could have just used plastic wrap.
Lumen Orbit
I was listening to this interview https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-startups/... and the vision of basically free power to run a data center that could be dropped into orbit by space x - struck me as very transformative. Especially when thinking about speed of build once fully operational. What do others here think?
That is just the "legal" system. Not whether someone is morally guilty or not.

Hitler was never convicted of the holocaust in a court of law. Does that make him morally innocent? No.

Bin Ladin was never convicted of 9/11 in a court of law. Does that make him morally innocent? No.
I was thinking about this, and the definition I came up with for slop is 'aspirational and highly detailed content that resolves its details in an uninteresting or nonsensical way'.

For example, an AI picture of a bush is not slop, because we don't expect much from a picture of a bush (not aspirational).

A hand-drawn picture of a knight in armor by an enthusiastic, but not very skilled artist is not slop either - it has tons of details that resolve in an interesting way, and what it lacks in details, it allows the viewers to fill in for themselves.

A 'realistic' knight generated by AI is slop - it contains no imaginative detail, and allows very little room for personal interpretation, and it's not rewarding to view.

Slop doesn't need to be AI - creatively bankrupt overproduced garbage counts as slop in my mind as well.
> afaik Ulbricht didn't sell drugs himself

FWIW he kickstarted the marketplace by selling shrooms that he grew himself.

Hardly the worst he did. Note a certain Trumps position on the issue though:

"We're going to be asking everyone who sells drugs, gets caught selling drugs, to receive the death penalty for their heinous acts,"

https://reason.com/2023/10/24/trump-who-freed-drug-offenders...
How can the disclaimer say this> GetTrumpMemes.com is not political and has nothing to do with any political campaign or any political office or governmental agency.
I really doubt that. Coming out isn’t the same as “realizing.”
Thanks for posting this! We're planning a trip to Iceland this year, so the full trip description on this site is just what I needed...
11111111111111111111111 is prime (1©23)
> Societies in their late stages of decadence and decline have done all sorts of crazy things.

So we have you on record saying that traditional Native American societies like the Zuni were "in their late stages of decadence and decline"?
Yes, I thought it was an interesting blend of past and present. If this were a scene in a show or movie it could be edited beautifully - the reader, sitting alone in a corner, looks up and in a lucid, almost psychedelic way, the past comes to life with Ulbrict sitting in front of him, that unfold as he continues reading.
Why now? Is this to compensate the campaign donors or to scare Putin?
> White House officials clarified that these issues were unintended and temporary.

Yeah, they'll be fix in 4 years (hopefully).
>to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell

What is the large reproductive cell? The egg?
I use https://lazyjot.com. It has a lot of weirder imperfect rhymes than other rhyme dictionaries, which makes it a lot more useful for me. Makes me a bit more creative. No AI generated slop yet.
The fashionable thing for a while now has been to write your react webapp as a single app.
Here is one example of a "fullstack" react template: https://create.t3.gg/
I'm from Germany. I could tell you something about blindly following the "rule of law". If you throw morality out the window the law can become a very ugly instrument.
Net vs. Gross Salaries in Europe
You can use the number with your local area code just about anywhere at the pump to get a gas discount as well (a common loyalty reward program benefit).
https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/01/trumps-dhs-pick-says-...

Current South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem wants CISA to be “refocused” on critical infrastructure and to no longer address mis- or disinformation efforts online.

So less/no fact checking, including Trump claims.
We're talking about Masayoshi Son here lol.
Chesterton's Fence

"There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it"
I still do. Personally, I only use LLMs to generate boilerplate code and for inline predictions. Sometimes is just faster for me to lookup an answer on SO than trying to ask something to a LLM that may be outdated or wrong (at least on SO I can see the date of the answer and what other people think about it).
I thought the counterintuitively hard part of this was getting rid of heat in space? They mention they're working on cooling but no details that I saw.
Yes. 4chan had this unfortunate effect of turning “ironic” use of Nazi memes into full blown embrace of the Nazi movement.

I’ve seen the same thing happen in my own life by listening to Vaporwave. Vaporwave’s ironic use of 90s smooth jazz has given way to me seeking out the depths of Kenny G’s discography. I actually love Pat Metheny Group now.

Be careful out there. You become the memes you consume.
The only real problem the Japanese economy has is their top-heavy population, which isn't a result of monetary policy.

By your own metric of Japan's failure (stock market value), the US economy has excelled tremendously since 1971 (yes, even adjusting for inflation), so now I'm confused about what argument you're making. I also assume all the other points I made stand.
There’s a very strange ad running in the UK for Apple Intelligence.

It features an employee writing an email to his boss in extremely poor language, and then magically making it clear and professional with Apple Intelligence.

What’s odd to me is it then shows the employee looking proud, and the boss looking surprised.

Presumably the employee is aware he’s semi-illiterate, so why is he proud?

And why is the boss surprised, except to confirm he doesn’t believe the employee wrote it.
This is running here as a story about cybersecurity, but it's apparently every advisory committee at DHS; there were a bunch of them, mostly not about technology; for instance, the National Commercial Fishing Safety Advisory Committee.
I don't think Chesterton has much to say about DHS, which is relatively new.
I liked the way you wrote it, I could picture you sitting in the library, picturing the arrest yourself :-).

The reactions remind me of a philosophy class I had, where the professor went for a thought experiment in order to explain an idea. "Imagine a world where ...". There was a physicist in the class who kept interrupting the professor, saying "well that's not possible because of how physics works". I would have asked him what he thought about Star Wars or The Lord of the Rings; could he enjoy them at all? But he ruined the class for me so I didn't :-).
You missed that the "victims" did not exist and were invented (and Ulbricht's defense could have claimed that he was aware of that, and it would only need one juror to find that credible). I'm pointedly asking what a "real" plan is if it involves fictitious people invented by the two govt agents - both of whom (Bridges and Force) subsequently went to prison for corruption. If the conspiracy-to-commit-murder charges hadn't been dropped, cross-examining Bridges and Force likely would have destroyed the prosecution case (for conspiracy to commit murder).

UPDATE: apparently I'm wrong that "factual impossibility" is not a defense [0]. But Bridges and Force's criminal behavior tainted the prosecution case on this charge. Presumably why the prosecution made sure those two agents were not mentioned in the trial.

[0]: https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/62360/can-you-charge...
I stopped using IMDB after they removed their message boards. What a strange move that was.
Sadly no..., I browsed quickly and found this post https://slate.com/business/2011/12/are-mutants-human.html which leads to a dead link to the podcast. Did not listen to the podcast (yet).

I also expected somebody from this community to enlight me :)
Well the contrived benchmarks the industry selling the models made up seem to be improving.
How does that make any sense? So you could never pass a law to reduce risk because in most cases, breaking it won’t create a victim?

Speed limits are done to reduce the risk of you killing someone. Do you really think you should be able to drive however you want and until you actually have an accident, it’s fine?
Is GitHub id tokens a misuse-resistent though? It seems a very weak machine identity.

1. It's a repayable bearer token and not a proof of possession. A compromised action (which 99% of people do not pin to specific hashes) could exfiltrate an id token and use it for 15 minutes.
2. There is no proof of provenance of the build machine attached to it all. No attestation about machine state. The only thing you know is "signed by GitHub" which doesn't really tell you anything interesting. Given Microsofts track record of security vulnerabilities in Azure regarding cross-tenant contamination I'd like to see a stronger attestation statement here.

Minimally this provenance stuff should be built on top of some proof of possession mechanism where a challenge is generated and the builder signs the challenge with its machine identity key.

Then ideally have an attestation statement that shows you the provenance of the entire machine (what packages , dm-verity hashes, whatever) together with that public key.

Sure it's better than nothing what GitHub has now. And an attack is obvious in hindsight and clearly in the transparency log . But its definitely not a misuse resistent machine identity. We need something better for this IMO.
Yes, Ross Ulbricht is basically a revolutionary.
Interesting

In the article:

> 34% of adults in America did not exercise their right to vote. Why?

In the referenced news:

> ... “Currently my biggest issue with U.S. politics is the response to the Palestinian genocide," Rojas said. ...

Back to the article:

> I think many of the Americans who did vote are telling us they no longer believe our government is effectively keeping America fair for everyone. Our status as the world's leading democracy is in question.

> We should make it easier for more eligible Americans to vote, such as making election day a national holiday, universal mail in voting, and adopting ranked choice voting so all votes carry more weight.

Is there any serious polls show how many Americans choose not to vote for the same reason? is it a number so small that it can be ignored?
The already highly compromised ideologues who seized control of the federal government are dismantling it because they said they would.

Every comment on this post is frighteningly uninformed about current events.
It was my impression that OpenAI was struggling to make money on their $200 pro subscription, because they've underestimate how much people would use it (https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/06/altman_gpt_profits/).

So I do question if OpenAI is able to make a profit, even if you remove training and R&D. The $20 plan may be more profitable, but now it will need to cover the R&D and training, plus whatever they lose on Pro.
>it's painful to use now without an account.

Now??? Its been just as painful to use without an account for around 10 years now.
You absolutely need a clearer way of telling us how to play. It was very confusing and it's only because I saw this on HN that I bothered trying more.
There are a couple of reasons this is not convincing either:

- Other factors can often dwarf the separate deployment overhead, especially given that the deployment steps are done so often it will force the team to make it efficient and get used to it.

- There is no hard requirement for separate deployment in the first place, if we are just talking about react / spa you can deploy it in a single step. (Not saying you should)

The point is: yes there is quite a lot of overhead. From separate deployments, from separate state management and I think the big ones are often having two different programming languages and having to align schema on frontend and backend. It is hard to deny this. But then saying that because of this overhead, these kinds of apps take 2x time to code implies denying there are benefits as well, that under given circumstances can outweigh the overhead.

I think it is more interesting to assume that in some cases the benefits outweigh the cost of the overhead, and in others they do not.
You're correct, but just for fun's sake:

The amperage of static elecricity discharges like this can be quite high, tens of amps is common.

So walking across a carpet and getting a shock can easily be tens of amps at thousands of volts, and we're just totally fine (because it's for a tiny fraction of a second).
Either way this is gonna be a rocky 4 years. Time to buckle up eh.
Tarides: 2024 in Review
Sure, but the crime isn’t murder. And they aren’t getting life for it.
A full unconditional pardon is one thing, reduction of sentence through judicial processes is another. He never pardoned Snowden and Assange .

Why do they still have courts in the US again?
A state with famously stable power infrastructure.
With a full pardon it's as if he never did anything in the first place.
> there's a tendency here to these these people behind the scenes are all charlatans, fueling hype without equal substance hoping to make a quick buck before it all comes crashing down, but i don't think that's true at all. I think these people really genuinely believe they're going to get there.

I don't immediately disagree with you but you just accidentally also described all crypto/NFT enthusiasts of a few years ago.
From slop to even bigger slop, congrats!
Reminds me of something from a few months ago:

Someone on r/HomeNetworking cursed whoever invented the RJ45 connector, and in the comments, Richard Benett, vice-chair of the first IEEE 802.3 task group that wrote a standard around RJ-45-style connector, appears and offers to take the blame.

That led to this short documentary: "TWISTED: The dramatic history of twisted-pair Ethernet" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8PP5IHsL8Y
I'm sure there's warnings about possibly loading code alongside the weights since they distribute the weights as pickled data, but:

1. It's trivial to go look at what's being loaded.

2. Any code that's in the distributed pickled data is not weights. The GP suggests that there are backdoors hidden in the weights which is nonsensical unless the code runs eval on the weights or something similar, which would make anyone looking at the code immediately realise it was doing something dodgy.

As an example of (1), here's all the GLOBALs in the pickled code:

GLOBAL 'collections OrderedDict'
GLOBAL 'torch HalfStorage'
GLOBAL 'torch._utils _rebuild_tensor_v2'

None of these could be used for anything malicious as far as I know.
A blend of both? Drop in a React component where needed on a given page! People forget (me included) that even React can be mounted into a single DOM element.

With all this framework nonsense its hard to forget at the end of the days its all just javascript.
My philosophy is climb a mountain with friends and family and reminisce about it in person. Then climb some more!
I tend to think this way about ideal leadership, but in reality big systems I can see end up having exception paths, or even processes
A diffractive lens works by having small holes in a plate, at least as I understand it. The diffractive pattern then interferes constructively at the focal point. So the transparent material is just 'air' or more likely, vacuum. It doesn't need to be solid.

The problem I forsee is that it doesn't let much light through. Because most of the lens isn't holes, but instead solid non transparent material.
> AWS and starlink have exposure of risk

What risk? There isn’t a consumer liability, and they can control the cybersecurity risk-reward balance they’re exposed to. From their perspective, oversight is the liability.

A good rule of thumb, at least for the next couple of months, is that any rules and regulations that have been criticised by the billionaires, banks or oil & gas industry are likely to be shredded. (The “deep state” stuff is mostly whoever has the king’s ear sort of politics. It’s unclear that had any influence here.)
Smart people can differentiate between a market place and the sellers themselves.
Silk Road 3.0 here we come!

(Silk Road 2.0 already existed. The guy running it is in prison now, I think.)

edit: ah seems Silk Road 3.0 existed too. So, 4.0 then
Regarding your edit. The first paragraph kind of lines up with you reading about it. But the second one is kind of confusing, and I think it's because "then" can mean two different things here. You meant "at the time of his arrest". If you casually read it without cross referencing the first paragraphs context, you might think it means "as I was sitting there".

And there's nothing in the following sentences that corrects this garden path assumption.

>Then Ulbricht walked into the public library and sat down at the table directly in front of me

Would not confuse as many if you wrote

>At the time of his arrest Ulbricht walked into the public library and sat down at the table directly in front of me

Or even clearer

>At the time of his arrest Ulbricht had walked into the public library and sat down at the table which was now directly in front of me
How accurate are the classifications?
OpenAI and SoftBank are starting a $500B AI data center company
I thinks "undifferentiated" would make the point just as well.
So Trump keeps his promises to the ones who supported him. Makes one think how what other promises he has made to other people and groups having funded and supported his campaign.
Did you see the GIF? It's able to triangulate.
Noem has practically zero influence over anything right now.

Her explanation, moreover, doesn’t make sense. The infrastructure advisory committees are also being disbanded.
That's "two wrongs make a right" logic. Because the justice system fucked up in the past, even once, that should prevent anyone else from receiving a proper sentence?

Secondly, Ulbricht was an accessory to thousands of drug deals. You think that none of those consumers of those drugs died as a result? He could easily be responsible for multiple, dozens, hundreds of deaths - far more than most anyone locked up for life.
> As an aside, in Canada, a sentence of life without parole is considered unlawful because it conflicts with Section 12 of the Charter guarantees that individuals have the right not to be subjected to cruel and unusual punishment. Courts have ruled that life without the possibility of parole deprives offenders of any hope of rehabilitation or reintegration into society, which could amount to cruel and unusual treatment.

Germany's highest court has held the same thing.

This is right and proper. We need to defend these principles, now more than ever.
Since prime numbers are very useful in secure communication, such easy-to-remember large prime numbers can be of great advantage in cryptography,

That's nonsense. I'm sure there thinking of RSA, but that needs secret prime numbers. So easy-to-remember is pretty much the opposite of one want. Also they are way to big. 2048 bit RSA needs two 300 digit prime numbers.
They are decent but not incredible. The adjustment mechanism is mostly plastic so it's fragile and easily broken in a drop. The grinding mechanism is solid metal but also basic and doesn't produce a very even grind at any setting.
If you shoot someone and hit their head killing them or just their ear, its a matter of luck (and possibly skill), the charges are different. The justice system judges based on intent as well as outcome (i.e. execution X luck).
Obama ordered a drone strike on a wedding killing 500 people - yet he's walking free.

It's almost as if the state was a highly immoral construct.

Read Hoppe.