skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With planes being long enough away from the demonstrator, and speed of sound relatively low (about 330 m/s), the booms of all three planes should be separate enough, e.g. a good 100 ms away from one another, even if all three went supersonic and were dragging their respective shock waves.

The distance between the planes appeared to be around 30-50 m at the supersonic transition time, as much as I can estimate the size of the planes. A sound recording made under the flight path should allow to measure how many dB was the demonstrator's boom.
Right, and “where two subdomains of the same site can be merged into one process” is normal right, given Site Isolation ≠ Origin Isolation.

A PSL flaw is important, but also a low-cost fix.

Thanks for pointing this out.
Exactly! Valheim is only a few GB, for example.
My metric for success is simply making more money than they spent.

Supersonic planes are already proven technology. We made the Concorde and the Tu-144 in the 70s, and have plenty of supersonic military planes in active service. The assumption was simply that you can't make a profit by selling them as civil aviation planes. That's the assumption Boom is challenging, and to be proven correct they have to turn a profit. And not just an operating profit by selling planes for more than they cost to make but make back the research and development costs as well
Am curious if the problem impacts m4 given it came out after this was released and disclosed.

That and it moved to Arm’s 9.2 instructions.
Couldn't agree more. Every time these systems get better, there are dozens of comments to the effect of "ya but...[insert something ai isn't great at yet]".

It's a bit maddening to see this happening on a forum full of tech-literate folks.

Ultimately, I think to stay relevant in software development, we are going to have accept that our role in the process could evolve to humans essentially never writing code. Take that one step further and humans may not even be reviewing code.

I am not sure if accepting that is enough to guarantee job security. But I am fairly sure that those who do accept this eventuality will be more relevant for longer than those who prefer to hide behind their "I'm irreplaceable because I'm human" attitude.

If your first instinct is to pick these systems apart and look for things that they aren't doing perfectly, then you aren't seeing the big picture.
I think it was a VAXserver 3000 series. The pricelist I found shows it was probably in the $15K to $25K range
We use https://www.simplify4u.org/pgpverify-maven-plugin and a private PGP signing key allowlist, bound to an artifact namespace. This immediately cuts down on unknown dependencies from creeping into our build.
It looks like their API is OpenAI compatible but their docs say that they don’t support the `reasoning_effort` parameter yet.

> max_tokens：The maximum length of the final response after the CoT output is completed, defaulting to 4K, with a maximum of 8K. Note that the CoT output can reach up to 32K tokens, and the parameter to control the CoT length (reasoning_effort) will be available soon. [1]

[1] https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/reasoning_model
In my opinion, if you access my content or web service, you accept the risk of not asking me first or knowing what's going to happen to the content when you do access it. It's mine, I've given you access, I'm not going to guarantee it's quality or how many times you'll need to try to get it before your scraper gets blocked for too many requests.
Even if Apple can weather the cost increase, most others cannot. Apple constitutes only 25% of TSMC's revenue.
How to Get into AI Policy
Discussion (27 points, 19 hours ago, 20 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42849328
Uber is not unprofitable, there are so many people that got rich off it, they just max out salaries and compensations.
I can't think of a more bloated way to communicate than putting a browser in the middle. For some quick numbers, compare web browser input latency to terminal [0] where one might run an IRC client. Even emacs [1,2] is fast and light in comparison.

[0] https://beuke.org/terminal-latency/#:~:text=6.2-,firefox%20(...
[1] https://danluu.com/term-latency/#:~:text=terminal.app%20and%...
[2] https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/#:~:text=0.8-,Em...
> I would expect they get nothing.

A Not-Actually-Fun-Fact I learned today: Even the Nazis doing their early purge of the German government [0] still found it necessary to offer 3 months of severance and 3/4ths continued pension.

[0] The 1933 legislation was against "officials whose previous political activities do not guarantee that they will always be fully committed to the national state."
They carefully added “immediate”.
I always wonder why people create these ridiculous nicknames. Are there maybe more children on this site than I thought?
That is the correct benchmark for potential Boom customers.
you mean make it like 10x more efficient and effective? I'm game.
Although the ability to censor is somewhat interesting and important to understand at a technical level, the amount of pearl clutching and fear mongering going around in traditional media about DeepSeek is extraordinary.

Even so called independent publications are showing extreme bias. Not once does the concept or word "hallucination" appear here, now it's "misinformation". And all these concerns about submitting personal information, while good advice, seem strangely targeted at DeepSeek, rather than any online service.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/28/experts-u...

Sigh, I'm not even mad, just disappointed at how politicised and polarising these things have become. Gotta sell those clicks somehow.
Too barebones for my taste. Small ecosystem. Lots of manual fiddling.
Prefer React currently.

I use Svelte when I want static site generation. It's good for that.

I hate that it's all different from v4 to v5.
because of discounted cash flow/valuation models.

you invest in a 100x machine expecting a revenue of X, but now you can only charge X/100 because R1 shows that AI inference can be done much more efficiently. see the price decrease of ChatGPT and addition of free O3 etc.

this reduction of future cash flows, ceteris paribus, implies that the present value of these cash flows decrease. this then results in massive repricing to the downside as market participants update their forecasts.

what you are missing is that to assume as you do, you must make the additional assumption that demand for additional compute is infinite. Which may very well be the case, but it is not guaranteed compared to the present realized fact that R1 means lower revenues for AI inference providers -> changes the capex justification for even more hardware -> NVDA receives less revenue.
You would need to extract logical patterns and concepts somehow, not just word relationships. I know what you mean, this introduces another level of abstraction between relationships. If there is no way to extract these patterns, or if there are no real logical patterns present but only statistical relationships (larger model = more relationships = better prompt following etc) between words without any real 'emergent abilities' then Transformers are essentially a dead end in the context of AGI.
So if I criticize Musk, he'll lock my bank account like he takes away blue checks on a whim!

Wouldn't touch any of this with your barge pole let alone mine.
> Having read Krugman's reasoning for leaving the Times, I find myself sinking even deeper into pessimism about the future of news media and, more broadly, the future democracy

My spicy take is that the new media has been a net negative for 10+ years. But the positive side is that the 18-24 demographic stopped paying attention. We’re less federated now which comes with pluses and minuses.
Are you one of those people who has a plaque hanging in his home with the "proper" definition of "literally"?
Although currently Bitwarden Passkey is completely broken on Android.

I switched to other providers because of this.
lol, that's savage. I hope it was resonant at least :D
The president is the head of the executive branch so technically he can make the decision to implement a new work policy. That doesn't mean it won't be challenged and that the courts won't have an opportunity to overturn it.

Procedurally it reminds me when the Biden administration issued a mandate for federal workers and federal contractors to be vaccinated for Covid 19. That mandate was ultimately blocked and overturned by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-vaccine-mandate-federal-w...
What about turn JS off on your favourite iOS browser?
By that theory, if the President can choose not to spend money budgeted and authorized by Congress, they have an effective veto power over any legislation. Don't like trains? Defund Amtrak. Don't like highways? Defund DOT. Peace lover? Zero out the DoD.

This is why the Supreme Court is here - to adjudicate what is legal and to reconcile different responsibilities and theories. Regardless of what is "best for the country", the law says one thing and the President is doing something else.
Perhaps a minor point but hallucination was never a good description for errors produced by the model - all responses, correct or incorrect, are in essence hallucinations.
Oh this is awesome. Are you involved with repebble directly?

I still have my time round in a drawer somewhere. I moved to a galaxy watch, which is great for being able to play Spotify offline, GPS etc, but like all modern smart watches is terrible for bloat and a screen that's responsible for like 70% of the power draw.

It's really disheartening that the average consumer only sees the shiny oled and slick animations and doesn't think at all about the inconvenience of charging at least once a day...
A good number of us have said "yeah, that cost seems worth it", and you act like your opinion is the only one that should matter.
I wasn’t suggesting it would happen, only that the “users would stop updating their browsers” scenario seemed unlikely.
As a theme park fan, VMK had a HUGE influence on me (as well as Club Penguin, which I started playing pre-Disney acquisition) -- I run an online community now (in the form of a Minecraft server) and we still take gameplay inspiration from the virtual worlds we grew up playing.

...that being said, I just blacklist words and don't do any smart detection at all, lest I succumb to the Scunthorpe problem. I back that up with a pretty sizable dedicated chat moderation team, of course. But since we max out at ~100 concurrent players, it isn't as huge of a deal for it to scale (miscreants find their way into Discord DM's, unfortunately).
Remember that the biggest technical challenge to passenger supersonic flight is hacking Congress. People really don't like plutocrats in private jets cracking their windows and scaring their dog.
My problem is that my use case is always this: by default the application should be it's own OAuth server, so the endpoints can use OAuth against the application and a local only database.

Then I want an easy story for linking that instead to LDAP for corporate deployments, or to an SSO OAuth server.

The problem is...well I still don't really know how I should be including that? It's so much easier just to register a session cookie from a login page.
> I find it hard to empathize with your views that American political life is healthy and democratic

Did I say that the US has a healthy and democratic political life?

Of course the US has its problems. Just look at the government now.

It's just not a constitutionally-defined single-party totalitarian state.
I love Svelte and v5 is real nice with runes, what an incredible update. It works amazingly well with Elixir Phoenix thanks to live_svelte package.
narcissists do that, there could be a connection.
Well in many ways its a deceitfully clever way to extract slave labor of the disenfranchised.

Its an unpopular view but most of FOSS getting to the point of adoption that its at today was largely a reaction to monopolies, barriers of entry, and bad software alternatives whose cost was price gouging.

Build an OSS software suite as a company, solicit free labor, get bought out, take it private and reap the reward of money printing.

Knowing this cycle is a reality, as opposed to just someone saying it can theoretically happen, who would ever contribute when they aren't paid?

There are plenty of competent and skilled people today who are out of work, and can't feed themselves without government assistance.
I think there is only one proper solution to the security problem of transitive dependencies: an open database of vetted/rejected libraries and tooling which would help to pull dependency versions according to configured rules.

For example, by trusting several big players such as Rust Foundation, Servo, Mozilla, Google, Facebook, etc. (developers will decide for themselves whom exactly they trust) who would manually review dependencies used by them we will be able to cover the most important parts of the ecosystem and developers will be able to review more minor dependencies in their projects themselves. cargo-crev + cargo-audit come somewhat close to what is needed, everything else is a matter of adoption.

Capabilities and other automated tools can help immensely with manual reviews, but can not replace them completely, especially in compiled languages like Rust.

>It’s easy for me to forget that the trust I place in those 20 direct dependencies is extended unchanged to the 161 indirect dependencies.

Unfortunately, when people mention such numbers they commonly do not account for the difference between "number of libraries in the dependency tree" and "number of groups responsible for the dependency tree". In practice, the latter number is often significantly smaller than the former. In other words, many projects (at least in the Rust world) lean towards the "micro-crate" approach, meaning that one group may be responsible for 20 crate in the dependency tree, which does not make security risks 20x bigger.
The federal fiscal year ends Sept 31, so it's possible that funding will remain in place until that time. We will see!
It's conceivable that we could send the seeds of humanity and other terrestrial life — along with AI systems capable of raising it, terraforming the planet as necessary, and building a society.

We might not ever travel there or receive guests from New Earth any time in the foreseeable future, but it's fun to imagine that one day we could have a colony of distant pen pals separated by only 20 years of latency.
N.b. this bug was patched in early November 2009, within the first month of Windows 7's general availability.
It's not pessimism to correctly describe reality.
When we do our job, we very rarely interact directly with the "mission".

We are coders, if we like the project/technology and the team is fun, of course we will be happy to do our job well.

On the other hand, what does the mission matter if you are unqualified and can't solve the problems at hand.

Yes, a good mission is always a plus, but most capable coders code because the problem/implementation is interesting. They won't magically code better if the code is intended to be used for some Earth-saving purpose.
That's vulnerable to DMP-based side channel attacks though (like GoFetch [1]), which you can only protect against in software [2] on the M3 and beyond.

[1] https://gofetch.fail/

[2] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/writing-arm6...
Great post, so interesting!
My magic wand wish is that they publish a separate rollup plugin for the rune syntax only, then allow me to write my ui in another jsx based framework
And I thought it's best friends forever! SCNR
This could amount to $50 billion (based on a median income of $70k/yr).

This requires Congressional approval.
A sample size of one tells us it it possible, but nothing about what’s most likely.
Emigrating dolphins coordinating to find more habitable waters?
> They want Trump to negotiate a new deal on their behalf.

I am certain they'll get the deal they deserve. For every complex problem, there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong
But he isn't. This isn't framed as a "we need to bring down costs and stop paying for things and that's just going to be hard" initiative. This is framed as a mechanism of eliminating DEI programs.

In the US spending is controlled by Congress. The Congress was voted on by the people. The idea that Trump throwing bombs into the federal budget is democracy but following Congress' passed budget isn't is ridiculous.
The Americans Pledging to Buy Less–Or Even Nothing
> The silliest detail to me (and one of my major gripes about many new sources) is that the Times seemed to resist use of charts in his articles?

Right! I think this could be an example of skeuomorphism at its worse. I imagine the thought process as being: "We are a newspaper, therefore space is limited and we can't devote precious inches to charts and graphs. Even though most people read us online, and space is actually unlimited, we still cling to the antiquated newspaper format."
The Times shuttered dozens of blogs (all of them, I think?). It was kind of a big deal at the time.
https://archive.ph/59laB
I suspect this is mainly a regulatory issue
At least in Postgres, table-valued functions can't take tables as arguments, only scalars. That's the main difference: functors can not just return tables, but take tables satisfying some interface as arguments.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/xfunc-tablefunctions.htm...

I thought I had written a footnote or appendix about this but I guess I forgot.
The Deepseek hosted chat site has additional 'post-hoc' censorship applied from what people have observed, if that's what you're referring to. While the foundational model (including self hosted) has some just part of its training which is the kind the article is discussing, yes.
Heritage Foundation.
I agree. But I also feel a twinge of worry.

How much am I like the serpent in Eden corrupting Adam and Eve?

Although in the narrative, they were truly innocent.

These LLMs are trained on fallen humanity's writings, with all our knowledge of good and evil, and with just a trace of restraint slapped on top to hide the darker corners of our collective sins.
For companies with executives that travel a lot (visiting different offices or store locations or lots of in-person client visits across the country) it might be literally saving them money. And even if it doesn't save them money, the prestige and the fact that the people who approve the purchase are the same people who get to use it help justify the cost
There are several people who have claimed that they ran into political censorship, even offline. It seems like the experience is different based on which specific model you’re using.
My one big problem with the title and the way this blog about is that it assumes infinite scaling - in performance, correctness, size, security. What works on a small scale is ludicrous to work on a huge one.

There is an assumption that your blog and your multi-billion SAAS should have transferrable skills. It's like expecting a person designing a shack and the person designing the next Fort Knox to use the same plans, materials, and people.
Either you get extremely overbuilt shacks, with vault doors, separate HVAC and OSHA regulations that take decades to build and will cost you several billion dollars, or Fort Knox that anyone can kick down vault doors and steal money.

If your blog, or your 72h hackathon game takes 3000 dependencies, and maybe one of them is malicious (which is low probability) who cares?

If your multi-million SaaS has 3000 dependencies, yeah, it's time to slim it down. Granted, no one wants to do this because it costs money, and takes time away from shipping another feature.
CIV I on Amiga was 4 disks. You had to switch disks whenever a leader animation loaded. I shared computer time with my siblings and always asked for my time slot to start once the game had loaded as it took forever to load!
Yeah I got those trainings when I was merely healthcare adjacent adjacent adjacent.
Formally proving that you can't be authenticated to a service without actually holding some type of authentication token is trivial.

Whatever you replace it with (a short-lived access token, a session cookie, a JWT, or whatever else) becomes the authentication token — if you add other properties (like short expiry), you are mostly trading convenience for security (eg. people will get logged out, or you'll need to implement refresh token dance in your app).

So it's really confusing to me how can someone pretend that there is something you can do on the unsafe client side, because you really can't (sure, there are obvious things you shouldn't do, like keep a plain text password in a cookie or localStorage, but an auth token is pretty much the same thing other than expiry).
Irrationally optimistic people will tell you they have a device that defies the laws of physics (I mean hard laws, like conservation of energy or the speed of light), and investors will give them money. I have seen this happen enough times I'd actually have to stop to think of the correct number.

The point is both are disconnected from reality. What we need are people that aren't full of shit. There is a place between "everything is impossible" and "everything is possible" that works better for getting things done.
Umm, this is not true. Supersonic speeds allow higher altitudes, which allows for higher efficiencies. This of course only applies if the aircraft is designed to take advantage of this, but I’m sure this one will be.

The limiting speed of subsonic aircraft is Mach .96 approximately.

For the u2, at its cruise altitude, this means about 100mph of airspeed… barely above its stall speed.

But if you go supersonic, you can break through that barrier and make use of the fact that there is much less air resistance at those altitudes. Not only that, but by riding past your shockwave, you can pick up a bit of recovered energy.

In some corners of the envelope, supersonic actually uses less fuel for the trip than Mach 0.9ish travel - which is where we fly our jetliners.

Also, we nasa has been experimenting with aerodynamic shapes that all but eliminate the sonic boom effect.

It’s not all bad.
Bear in mind that the placebo effect from DBS for Parkinson's is 39% of the active treatment, so you can't really tell much from a single unblinded patient report.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13538...

Here is a meta-analysis of DBS for Parkinson's: https://bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/3/1/e000705

Principal findings:

"All results had a high risk of bias and the certainty of the evidence was very low for all primary outcomes. The information size was insufficient when assessing all cause mortality. Meta-analysis showed that deep brain stimulation increased the risk of serious adverse events, mainly because of an increased risk of perioperative complications, such as cerebral haemorrhages and postoperative confusion, and events related to hardware, such as infection at the stimulator site, dislocation of the device, or reoperations. Meta-analyses indicated that deep brain stimulation might reduce symptoms specific to Parkinson's disease, but the assessments of disease specific symptoms had several methodological limitations."

So, it's an interesting treatment, but more evidence is needed before we can conclude that it is actually helpful.
Ex-OpenAI safety researcher says he's "terrified" by AI development's pace
The federal government is not allowed to pay more than 25000 unless Trump is proposing legislation to change this that is not mentioned. https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restruct...