skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
* discovering that research or teaching are not them living their best life sounds either very sad or pretty good depending on your perspective.*

It’s not the research or teaching that drive people out of academia. It’s the endless and humiliating scrambling for money. Everyone who’s not a psychopath hates that part of the job, and the people who are any good at it have options outside of academia.
Coastalists
blatant entrapment and gaslighting for more than a year by law enforcement dedicating 24h to it.

the real criminals for that prank were never even tried.
> Countless lives were saved via the harm reduction effect of a peer reviewed, reputation based platform.

The basic immorality/pointlessness of the war on drugs aside, I don't know how you can assert this: it's not like there's a chain of provenance, and there's no particular guarantee that whatever grade of pure drugs was sold on Silk Road is the same purity that ended up in peoples' bodies.

My understanding of the Silk Road case is that, at its peak, it was servicing a significant portion of the international drug market. The dimensions of that market include adulteration; Silk Road almost certainly didn't change that.
I guess this is why he was upset about Mexico sending drug dealers and murderers - he didn't want competition for our homegrown drug dealers and murderers.
As well as online drug marketplaces? Or would running one without legal trouble require a campaign-contribution booster pack?

What a beautiful political anschluss between people who just want to ban contraceptives and abortifacients, and people who just want to shoot up heroin. Not sure how you square that circle[1], but it's 2025, and here we are.

It's very telling about libertarian priorities when a cryptobro running an online drug marketplace who tried to hire a hitman gets amnesty, while hundreds of thousands of people who have been convicted of drug possession[1] do not. Likewise, somehow reproductive rights are just not a libertarian issue, either. It's not a party of freedom, it's a party of freedom for wealthy men.

[1] Biden gave a blanket pardon for people convicted of marijuana posession, but that's far less important for libertarians than Ulbricht.
Have you backtested this in times when markets were not constantly green? Nearly any strategy is good in the good times.
Yeah. In my prior analyst stint, there was a lot of automagical cloudbursting talk (and migration between clouds quickly based on pricing). In addition to the platform stickiness you mention, there was the matter of, as Scotty would have said: You canna change the laws of physics.
Yes. My colleagues and I have been working on it (and related concepts) for six years.

glasklarteknik.se

system-transparency.org

sigsum.org

tillitis.se

This presentation explains the idea and lists similar projects.

https://youtu.be/Lo0gxBWwwQE
I mean the error rate in the bible is already quite high. I'm sure LLMs won't do more damage than hundreds of years of oral transmission.
Some biological damage (from microplastics, pollution, etc), some social, some "path of least resistance" when economic conditions favor it, and probably all together: extreme rat race, extreme individualism, extreme narcissism, loneliness epidemic, depression epidemic, reduced sperm potency...
GoReleaser author here.

I think jRelease was based on some of GoReleaser's ideas.

GoReleaser just recently started adding support for more languages.
It's absolutely one of the reasons why it was politically beneficial for him to enact the pardon.
The charge was dropped, but the court did hold a hearing on it when deciding on sentencing. They heard the evidence for and against and ruled by a preponderance of the evidence that he did in fact do it.
It is just hypocritical: even his time most people knew slavery was unjust.
He is just a guy, even if he is exceptionally good at business.
Who is "we"?

This isn't your money
"Psychic crap" that went on for 20+ years ? Sure.
How much is allocated to alignment/safety research?
who else will buy new treasury DOGE coins?
Is it unjust to prohibit the sale of illegal drugs, weapons, etc.? Society has good reasons for regulating certain goods. I regularly see people in my community who are enslaved by fentanyl and I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy. The society I live in decided to make selling it illegal. What is unjust about that?
Largest GPU cluster at the moment is X.ai's 100K H100's which is ~$2.5B worth of GPUs. So, something 10x bigger (1M GPUs) is $25B, and add $10B for 1GW nuclear reactor.

This sort of $100-500B budget doesn't sound like training cluster money, more like anticipating massive industry uptake and multiple datacenters running inference (with all of corporate America's data sitting in the cloud).
Sultan Jahan Begum of Bhopal
The seven offenses in question: distributing narcotics, distributing narcotics by means of the Internet, conspiring to distribute narcotics, engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, conspiring to commit computer hacking, conspiring to traffic in false identity documents, and conspiring to commit money laundering
Then why would they drop the charge if they thought the evidence pointed to the fact he did it.
"...I'm a course designer for PGA2k23"
By your own admission, Ikea eliminated 0 jobs and you gave no number for Meta.
Thanks for the detailed breakdown. This is an important nuance to my short reply.
He tried to have multiple people murdered.
But there were also abolitionists at the time, even amongst that class. Jefferson not being among them does, actually, diminish his standing and his views on justice. This quote, for example, does not acknowledge that there are also laws which are unjust to obey; such as the owning of human beings in chattel slavery.
That caching is something you can turn off, at least for every CDN that I have worked with.

The Cache-Control http header has a `private` directive specifically to inform CDNs and similar not to cache the response.
A lot of really smart people in the 1930's were also really into eugenics and forced sterilization and so on. Hitler had a lot of support, even in the US, for what he was doing openly. Being smart doesn't prevent you from being an asshole. Only being empathetic does, and you don't have to be smart to be empathetic.
The recipient would need to have this enabled, though it is by default. You can deactivate allowing others to initiate chats with you from your phone number (Settings > Privacy > Phone number)
It's a typical Trump-style announcement -- IT'S GONNA BE HUUUGE!! -- without any real substance or solid commitments

Remember Trump's BIG WIN of Foxconn investing $10B to build a factory in Wisconsin, creating 13000 jobs?

That was in 2017. 7 years later, it's employing about 1000 people if that. Not really clear what, if anything, is being made at the partially-built factory. [0]

And everyone's forgotten about it by now.

I expect this to be something along those lines.

[0] https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2023/03/23/wha...
Trump went around to a huge number of niche communities and promised to fix their core concerns in exchange for their support. The crypto and libertarian communities are obsessed with freeing Ulbricht. It was honestly a brilliant strategy, and probably the reason he won. Ironic that an authoritarian fascist was able to get elected by enlisting the help of anti-authoritarian communities with a single issue promise.
It was sort of a thing for southern California machinists to start peppermill companies, or at least two. I have a vintage William Bounds one marked "made on the third planet from the sun" and I used to have an Olde Thompson I think.
I'd say anyone who doesn't believe in UFOs is just not observant enough. That doesn't mean aliens among us or secret government spy planes, but if you watch the sky long enough, you'll see some odd, hard to explain things.
Because people don't live on mechanical function alone, and beauty serves a nourishing purpose

The same way that eating Soylent like slop can make you depressed and demotivated, even if nominaly it has all the nutrients you need.
America can subject itself to domestic and international turmoil by invading as many allies as it wants. China's winning strategy is still to keep innovating on energy and protein at scale and wait for starvation while they build their soft power empire and America becomes a pariah state. They're in no rush at all.

Our military and political focus will be keeping neighbors out on one side and trying to seize land on the other side while China goes and builds infrastructure for the entire developing world that they'll exploit for centuries.

Is this a serious suggestion? America can just keep invading people ad infinitum instead of... applying slight thumb pressure on the market's scales to develop more efficient protein sources and more renewable fuel sources before we are staring at the last raw economic input we have?

Brilliant
The last four years have been nothing but a lesson in how much everybody hates inflation and how absolutely toxic it is to re-election campaigns
Dang, thanks and respect. I suspect this hasn't been an easy couple of months to be the HN mod...
Yep. He's not opposed to a scam so long as he's on the money-receiving side of it.
'preponderance' is the clue, criminal is 'beyond all reasonable doubt', civil is preponderance. Ross was being charged under criminal law.
The first rule is to follow 3-2-1. Keep 3 copies on at least 2 media formats with at least 1 copy in a different geographic location.

HDD drives, SSD drives, and flash drives are out, because you have to keep checking file integrity at some cadence and then replacing disks every 5 years anyway or whenever you decide is right. Unless you want to maintain disk arrays as a hobby, that seems out. Tape backups are out too, for similar reasons, because doing that right too becomes a time-consuming and expensive hobby quite rapidly.

So, best as I can tell, that leaves us with:

- Print any important text. File this in labeled 3-ring binders in boxes or on shelves, or put the paper in labeled hanging folders in file cabinet drawers. Use whisper to convert audio or video to text transcripts before printing, if needed.

- For multimedia or software files, burn them to 25GB Blu-ray M-Disc media (or pick another capacity if better for your needs), and store these in the most moderate/stable environment you can easily provide with respect to temperature, humidity, and vibration.

If you want to pay continual fees and rely on someone else to rotate disks, you could throw a copy on Backblaze or Amazon Glacier or Wasabi or whatever, but personally I wouldn't necessarily count on that because to me clouds seem like they could evaporate accidentally, YMMV.
From what I know* (heavy on the asterisk there), they are. I'm guessing at their setup at this point, but it sounds like the "large" data is probably being stored (while encrypted) in a different way / separately than the messaging. Since it's supposedly E2E (not gonna pretend I've hand verified it), it's decrypted on the device, but it needs to be grabbed in the first place from said separate place.

So, I'm guessing the images are encrypted where they're stored. And from his post it sounds like it doesn't happen with the messages, so the motivation for using CloudFlare probably is around egress pricing, or they could be using CloudFlare R2 for storage as well.
Money isn't the issue any more, wowww
this would be a criminal charge preponderance of the evidence wouldn't be enough to convict
Please tell me you have a blog/archive of these somewhere. This was such a joy to read!
If it doesn't make as money as addition tech it will lose.
>Ultimately, it is the same as censorship.

No, freedom of speech is not censorship, no matter how hard so many try to push the idea. Censorship involves the use of force, be it direct or implied, not others choosing not to give you support. Inherent in the right to express an opinion is the right to not express an opinion, both yourself and on your own private forum. Hacker News (or any other private site) are not public forums, the public forum is the internet. If HN wishes not to allow certain things, that's literally freedom of speech. Of course, those choices can in turn be criticized (both here within rules at HN's choice but also on other forums entirely or by creating your own), and the criticism criticized in turn and so on. Depending on the arguments made and social and economic pressure it creates some involved may change their stances, or not.

But none of that is censorship. Censorship is the death of that process, force being used to put an end to the circle of social/economic discussion.

>That's why it's so tough to find the right balance between fostering a community and extinguishing it.

It's hard to do so sure, but not because of some "censorship" thing but just because managing human relationships and networks and community is hard.
Maybe eventually. Based on this quality I don't see this happening any time in the near future.
My list of calm (+), somewhat calm (o), and non-calm (-) pieces of technology that I have owned:

+ kindle from 2010
- laptop
- phone
- Ipad (but it's still much calmer than my computer or my phone)
+ Harmonica (musical instrument)
o Amplifier (I use it with my harmonica through a mic)
- Linnstrument (musical instrument that requires computer or ipad connection)
+ Pencil and paper
+ Paper books
o Handwritten notes on Ipad
- Notes in obsidian
o Nintendo Switch
+ Paper dictionary (for language learning)
- Dictionary + Claude AI on my phone
How many people live in a 250 mile circle around their Cloudflare POP?

Which Cloudflare POP I hit depends on which RSP I use. In the country I live in, our biggest RSP peers with Cloudflare in a neighboring country (as it is much cheaper for Cloudfare to send traffic via that RSP's peering exchange there). So something like 40% of traffic will seem to be from a entirely different country than reality.

My RSP is a small RSP which until fairly recently only had two POPs in the entire country. So regardless of where you lived, customers of my RSP would have traffic exiting onto the internet via only one of two exit points. Rural users would seem to be coming from one of the two largest cities in my country even if they are easily >250miles way from their particular POP. They do peer with Cloudflare but obviously only at the locations where they and Cloudflare are in the same city (and I'm not sure this is the case -- it is possible all national traffic to Cloudflare traffic actually goes via the one POP in our biggest city).

The only reason this attack identifies the city I happen to be in is because I live in the same city as my little's RSP's biggest POP and Cloudflare happens to peer with that RSP at that POP. Where I am is a large city so doesn't narrow things down very much -- but even worse is that whoever is looking for me would actually need to look anywhere in my country.

I don't think I am an unique case as internet routing is rarely the most direct path for various technical, financial, political, etc reasons.

De-anonymization is definitely stretching the reality of what this 'attack' is capable of IMHO.
Nope. Any crypto you can break with a real, physical, non-imaginary quantum computer, you can break faster with classical. Get over it. Shor's don't run yet and probably never will.

You are misdirecting and you know it. I don't even need to discredit that paper. Other people have done it for me already.
thank you peter for doing this. I am on H1B with 140 approved and EAD. What are my options if i want to leave my job and open a start up? how it would affect if my priority date becomes active?
Nintendo Switch modder arrested in Japan setting new harsher precedent
This is a rare Trump win. There are many things to criticize him for, but this pardon isn't one of them. I don't think anyone, after researching this case, would be okay with the life sentence handed down to Ross.
I think there is real potential here, for smart browsing. Have the llm get the page, replace all the ads with kittens, find non-paywall versions if possible and needed, spoof fingerprint data, detect and highlight AI generated drivel, etc. The site would have no way of knowing that it wasn’t touching eyeballs. We might be able to rake back a bit of the web this way.
Few months? The really huge shift started back with Gamergate and similar things.
Looks like the "real criminal" was charged.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/silk-road-drug-vendor-w...
Trump pardons Silk Road founder Ulbricht for online drug scheme
I'd go with that the industry has changed and that the makeup of the HN users has changed. I'd venture to guess that a much larger percent of HN users back in 2013 were really into startups than merely tech news.

What's really interesting is that the industry has changed. Back in 2013 or earlier, there were still many new scenarios. The mobile ecosystem was rapidly expanding, we probably tried new apps on a weekly basis if not daily. The cloud was still relatively new and many companies were either trying to figure out how to use cloud or leverge cloud. The enterprise world was getting interesting too, many infrastructure systems were popping up left and right. There was this genuine vibe that our life and work could benefit from tech. Now I'm not so sure. It feels like many people are quite content with the life, and it is increasingly harder to see what changes we'd really desire. As a result, the optimism about startups has also abated.
Liskov substitution will not save you. One of the worst cases of inheritance I've ever seen was in a hierarchy that was a perfect Liskov fit -- an even better fit than traditional examples like "a JSON parser is a parser". See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42512629.

The fundamental problem with inheritance, and one not shared by any other kind of polymorphism, is that you can make both upcalls and downcalls within the same hierarchy. No one should ever use inheritance in any long-term production use case without some way of enforcing strict discipline, ensuring that calls can only go one way -- up or down, but not both. I don't know to what extent tooling to enforce this discipline exists.

(Also I just realized I got punked by LLM slop.)
> As Carmack pointed out the problem with AR/VR right now - it's not the hardware, it's the software.

The third option is peoples' expectation for AR/VR itself: it could be a highly niche and expensive industry and unlikely to grow to the general population.
Wow nice! That's literally the best result I've seen yet!
maybe this is to employ the hundreds of thousands of federal employees that are about to lose their jobs?
> Oracle is OpenAI’s cloud computing partner,

I thought Microsoft was OpenAI's cloud computing partner?
> can’t even hold five complex ideas in their head

As an aside, my observation of beginning programmers is that even two (independent) things happening at the same time is a serious cognitive load.

Amusingly enough, I remember having the same trouble on the data structures final in college, so “people in glass houses”.
Haha thank you for doing the math! I was lazy and just added the populations and a plus at the end.
Do you think Sam Altman ever sits in front of a terminal trying to figure out just the right prompt incantation to get an answer that, unless you already know the answer, has to be verified? Serious question. I personally doubt he is using openai products day to day. Seems like all of this is very premature. But, if there are gains to be made from a 7T parameter model, or if there is huge adoption, maybe it will be worth it. I'm sure there will be use for increased compute in general, but that's a lot of capex to recover.
Racism.

Most of socialism and social programs replaced by "market forces" are roundabout ways to whitewash racism.
Currying favor by letting Trump take the credit
Let me avoid the use of the word AGI here because the term is a little too loaded for me these days.

1) reasoning capabilities in latest models are rapidly approaching superhuman levels and continue to scale with compute.

2) intelligence at a certain level is easier to achieve algorithmically when the hardware improves. There's also a larger path to intelligence and often simpler mechanisms

3) most current generation reasoning AI models leverage test time compute and RL in training--both of which can make use of more compute readily. For example RL on coding against compilers proofs against verifiers.

All of this points to compute now being basically the only bottleneck to massively superhuman AIs in domains like math and coding--rest no comment (idk what superhuman is in a domain with no objective evals)
Is there really any government involvement here? I only see Softbank, Oracle, and OpenAI pledging to invest $500B (over some timescale), but no real support on the government end outside of moral support. This isn't some infrastructure investment package like the IRA, it's just a unilateral promise by a few companies to invest in data centers (which I'm sure they are doing anyway).
> building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the United States

That's nice, but if I were spending $500bn on datacenters I'd probably try to put a few in places that serve other users. Centralised compute can only get you so far in terms of serving users.
Ask HN: Anyone using data movement tools willing to share painpoints
what are your current pain points with data movement tools? where is data engineering is your effort spent ?
Over what time frame? They could easily spend that much over the next 5 to 10 years without outside investment (and they probably will).
If you didn't intend your comment to be a snarky one-liner, that didn't come across to me, and I'm pretty sure that would also be the case for many others.

Intent is a funny thing—people usually assume that good intent is sufficient because it's obvious to themselves, but the rest of us don't have access to that state, so has to be encoded somehow in your actual comment in order to get communicated. I sometimes put it this way: the burden is on the commenter to disambiguate. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

I take your point at least halfway though, because it wasn't the worst violation of the guidelines. (Usually I say "this is not a borderline case" but this time it was!) I'm sensitive to regional flamewar because it's tedious and, unlike national flamewar or religious flamewar, it tends to sneak up on people (i.e. we don't realize we're doing it).
> What in particular did you find "bad" with Python tech stack?

Stateful virtualenvs with no way to check if they're clean (or undo mistakes), no locking of version resolution (much less deterministic resolution), only one-way pip freeze that only works for leaf projects (and poorly even then), no consistency/standards about how the project management works or even basic things like the directory layout, no structured unit tests, no way to manage any of this stuff because all the python tooling is written in python so it needs a python environment to run so even if you try to isolate pieces you always have bootstrap problems... and most frustrating of all, a community that's ok with all this and tries to gaslight you that the problems aren't actually problems.
One of the things I'm curious about is given Zuck's reputation for childish behavior and jealousy if alternative links will even get outright censored in the feed (or even through Messenger?!)

Google+ "failed" (for various definitions thereof) and while it had numerous failures of its own I wonder how much critical mass it failed to achieve because Facebook was hijacking the sharing of it

Like they hijacked email addresses, to make it hard to move them to another social network https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4151433