skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me remind you guys that "just 20 light years" = roughly 200 trillion kms. At the speed of voyager 1, it takes roughly 1600 yrs to travel 1 trillion kms. 200 trillion kms would take 320,000 years to reach there. Even if you increased the speed of voyager 1 by 10 times, it would still take 32000 years to reach. We really need to up the speed by a factor of 10000 before we can get anywhere close to human lifetime achievable travel times.
I say a lot of things, Monica. I say a lot of things.

https://youtu.be/XM7_eqtljUg?si=d27SGVUiZ7oZJCA3
Not much different than in the U.S. - what would happen if Meta or OpenAI attempted to be sold to China?
If you're so poor that you can't afford food, what are the chances that you have access, time, and ability to turn ingredients into meals every time you need to eat.

I'm totally fine with a person on SNAP using it to get a hot or prepared meal if that's what they need. We have already decided to allocate the resource to them for the purpose of buying food, why does it matter if they spend it on a premade sandwich instead of a frozen burrito.
Billionaires don't think about you at all. That's what nobody seems to get.

We enjoy many luxuries unavailable even to billionaires only a few decades ago. For this trend to continue, the same thing needs to happen in other sectors that happened in (for example) the agricultural sector over the course of the 20th century: replacement of human workers by mass automation and superior organization.
Same here, mine got pickpocketed. My mates laughed at me because they thought I was an idiot not be able to login to my accounts.

Was easily solved though, got a new SIM card from my network from the local store when I got back and recovered my Authy account via SMS which I can then generate 2FAs for my password app through. Was always a backup method I had up my sleeve. My browser keeps logged in as well so was able to get into most stuff through my PC once I got back.
obviously theres also a multimodality gap to be overcome to intimately understanding the $100M screw to turn, but i suspect most reasoning that matters has already been translated and is embedded into/in words. i wouldn’t underestimate the amount of useful knowledge that exists in embedding advance texts into an LLm model. the challenge is contextually hierarchalizing it (a matter of reasoning) and decoding it back into reality (words are dimensional squished encodings of reality).
Capcom abandoned game balance in X-Men vs. Street Fighter due to time constraint
I personally think that having hands on keyboards is still going to be imperative. Anyone can have an idea, but not everyone is going to be able to articulate that idea to an AI model in a way that will produce high quality, secure software.

I'm by no means an expert, but I feel like you still need someone who understands underlying principles and best practices to create something of value.
Go has been a masterclass in disparaging industry learnings as "unnecessary" (dep management, generics, null safety), then gradually bolting them into the language. It's kinda hilarious to watch.
Well there isn't always a random passerby.
Mega-Breaches Bump Up 2024 Victim Count
New theory: this is a short-long play by the fund. They shorted NV, now they're hoovering up stock. In the process of making their billions from a small 50$mm investment!
I'm not sure _anyone_ is as smart as most of them seem to think they are, if we're measuring by how much their success should be attributed to their intelligence compared to other factors.
A fair amount has been written on how to debug things, so it's not like the next generation can't learn it by also asking the AI (maybe learn it more slowly if 'learning with AI' is found to be slower)
Today, I almost had a heart attack cause I couldn't log in into BW Web. Strangely, both mobile and Desktop versions worked fine with the same password... The issue resolved automatically in a few hours, still no idea what this was.

Still, I backed up my passwords as soon as I logged into the mobile app, so like some people here say I highly recommend everyone do periodic backups and not be like me (:. I would have lost everything if something did happen to my vault access
True but I was thinking about what a boom ticket would cost. Should have clarified though.

But also that charter is more expensive than I thought then yes. Though top execs rarely travel alone of course.
The people who are spending time manually doing a task that could be handled by a program are usually the exact same people who don't have the experience (or authority) to be able to say "this is a thing that could be automated with a tool if we paid a few thousand dollars to develop it".

Hiring someone to remodel a bathroom is hard enough, now try hiring a contract software engineer, especially when you don't have budget authority!

That said, I heard about a fire chief last year who had to spend two days manually copying and pasting from one CRM to another. I wish I could help people like that know when to pay someone to write a script!

I imagine even in that role figuring out how to hire someone so solve a problem would still take longer than manually crunching through that themselves.
This makes ScaleAI obsolete right?
It's pretty similar:

- a grid of hidden tiles containing monsters

- that you fight by clicking on

- where you balance exploration and combat

- using your HP and level-ups as resources

I'd say this game was directly inspired by Desktop Dungeons (which isn't a bad thing!)
tangential: can Macsyma/Maxima do symbolic boolean algebra, reducing formulae to bog standard "OR of ANDs" form?

(I've tried looking at the doc, and it's clearly not a feature they showcase, and as others have said, the way it works is not intuitive to me. I really need this, but trying to do it in lisp is becoming its own project and I want to get back to my project. I found some really nice online reducers, but the UIs are not conducive to pasting/putting in simultaneous equations, and using those outputs as inputs again)
"Intersecting" the habitable zone isn't the same as "within," I find it curious that discussion of the ramifications are far down, it seems pretty salient to me...

The idea of an ecosystem hence culture for which a fundamental cycle is a year of fallow hibernation followed by a year of fertile plenty is quite compelling as a scifi trope though.

Me I'd name the planet Persephone for this reason.
For many reasons.
1 - it might be very unique itself
2 - it might be very close to us
3 - it might be orbiting a very interesting star, a star type we didn't expect to have that planet type or so many planets, or so close, or so far, etc
4 - the more exoplanets we discover the more we learn how star systems come to be. the more we know how rare ours is, how it might have formed, etc. It helps us answer age old questions.
(Sorry btw Clubber if I sounded annoyed. You were trying to post helpful advice, that's nice. At the same time, from my perspective, there's misunderstandings going on.)
Yeah - selection bias and apathy is the root of it, IMO.

GoDaddy attracts the unwashed masses who don’t care about security, and who remain unphased after learning about breaches. Meanwhile, the tech-savvy crowd who would care about breaches already know to avoid GoDaddy and view the inevitable breaches as the plebs reaping what they’ve sown.

Ergo, no one getting breached by GoDaddy cares, and nobody informed watching it happen feels a need to intervene.
Just don’t ask it what happened on the 3rd of June, 1989!
A better way to mitigate lockout risk is to use a 2FA mule:

https://kozubik.com/items/2famule/
Honestly a really bad take given the current environment. This is the not the thread for it but I'll point out that just today funds families around the USA and world require to live were pulled out from underneath them, regardless of law. I have a child who depends on those funds so it impacts me greatly, and I don't know if that child will be around long enough without funds for her care.

So please do not minimize what people are going through, it may not impact _you_, but many people are negatively impacted by the insurrectionist taking over the USA.
Apple fixes zero-day flaw affecting all devices
Yeh, until your coworker thinks that he should be storing the phone numbers as an int in the database, and the ones in the Pacific northwest keep getting truncated (but only if they include the leading 1).

Numbers might be represented by numerals, but that doesn't mean every string of numerals is a number. If you need to know the difference, ask yourself if you'd ever do math with it, (add to it, subtract from it) if only principle.
Generational migration can be done.
For a grad student. It's about 2 burritos in Berkeley. :)
> Courses that are centered around coding with AI.

Everybody is a Manager now?
An interesting question is whether AI can be manipulated effectively.

In other words, can I teach a state of the art useful model that believes 2+2=5

Sure you can get it to state 2+2=5 if asked, but there are a lot of ways to ask about 2+2 and various implications of a system of knowledge that believes 2+2=5. If having the LLM believe untruths borks the models, then that's a good thing.

I think a similar question is about encryption. Is the nature of encryption defensive or offensive. I don't know enough to say its directly related to p=np but I imagine the question is if there is a way to encrypt something such that the physical laws of nature make cracking the encryption impractical.
A genetically edited citrus tree that controls insects responsible for greening
One doesn't have to be a liar to be untrustworthy

Why was he removed from leadership positions at Loopt, YC, and OpenAI?

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/kara-swishers-story-about-sam-...
Not sure if this a trivial or naive thought - is that perhaps because in non-discrete ideas there is more granularity of information encoded compared to a numerical solution?

Separatelt, but on a related note - do we need analog or quantum computing to "truly" scale?
similar. i switched to Apple Passwords, and pretty much stopped using Chrome except for gmail. I use a multitude of browsers, but I am 99% safari for sites where I need the PWM.

I hate building a lock-in to the ecosystem though, and have been meaning to look at Enpass.
US AI shares battered, bruised, and holding after yesterday's DeepSeek beating
Would it be correct to summarize that the general conceptual shift is optimizing MOEs on more specific smaller tasks? It smells like borderline overfitting to me for some reason.
It's not mandatory, it's a default. I asked the help docs team to update the FAQ to include that there is an opt-out option under account settings.
The first two are not the same thing.

DeepSeek never claimed to have trained the base models they used. Now maybe a lot of people inferred that they did, but that's not what they claimed.

Their breakthrough was more along the lines of, "given a model, we can train it to reason using a certain class of RL techniques". Which is, to my mind, more useful in any case.

But yeah, if there are people out there thinking they can train base models from scratch for USD6 Million with no data, they're likely to be disagreeably surprised when they make the attempt.
Something easy like the number of images may be good enough for a first version. Are you randomizing the questions? Perhaps start with some easy examples with 1 object and 1 place, then 2 small objects and 1 place, then 2 small objects and 2 places, then 3 small objects and 2 places, ... Or something like that. (I remember a few other options like "cut the apple", that has no "places" so take my recomendation only as a rought idea.)
Use the Reuse specification and tooling instead: https://reuse.software/

There is no need to reinvent a solved problem by rewritting it in rust with a different format, particularly considering that reuse was developed by the FSFE in collaboration with some lawyers.
Compare to what you think a single run cost then.

It was orders of magnitude more before DeepSeek.
Yes that's what I mean. I wish all models were uncensored and it would just be up to the implementer to decide how to finetune on top of that. Save for the super crazy stuff of course.
I don’t have an answer for everything you are looking for, but I wrote bonk[1] to solve a similar issue, as I needed to ensure users weren’t uploading porn[2]. Maybe you can find an use for it too.

[1]: https://git.sr.ht/~jamesponddotco/bonk

[2]: Because I host in Germany.
The fact that you claim to be indian while also claiming that "Many Indians haven’t had a relationship with caste for generations" is laughable.

Caste is VERY much alive in India and in indian-descended communities around the world. Please, for the love of goodness, stop repeating this lie.

People's surnames, the colour of their skin, where they live are all indicators of caste.

Here is just one piece of evidence showing that intermarriage across caste lines is still relatively rare - https://www.science.org/content/article/india-s-fragmented-s...

With respect, it is you who has fooled themselves into ignorance.

If you are open to having your views challenged (and proven wrong), please listen to The Seen And the Unseen podcast, specifically the episode with Chandra Bhan Prasad.
I wouldn't even call it "risk tolerance". Assuming that they weren't complete idiots with the money - which, admittedly, is quite an assumption at times - the backing of a SV VC should theoretically set up a person for a comfortable living for quite a while, regardless of the success of the venture itself.

Psychopathy - the willingness to see humans as little more than what they can give you in your quest for self-fulfillment - is a far better measure for this kind of work.
How does the 0.01% look in comparison to the natural variability of star brightness, due to cycles, spots etc? Would that be a concern in terms of false positives? And also, given the specific line-up needed for us to see the pass, how likely it is for us to be able to observe the same planet in front of the star in the following years?
> specific term of art...

And that's fine, but when communicating outside the speciality, I'd really like to see some other term used.

https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/politics/government/2025... for example says "Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is now America's largest in recorded history", where "recorded history" is apparently the CDC's "term of art" for "since 1950", which isn't what a layperson hears.
I worked at AWS for three years (Professional Services). Using Amazon as an example of a good corporate culture and how companies should behave is not the argument you think it is.

But I see a few scenarios.

You have a strong network and the resume is a formality. In that case it’s easy enough to tailor your resume for the job. I don’t need to put that I wrote FORTRAN and C on VAX and Stratus mainframes in the mid 90s. There is no need for an 8 page resume. The year before last I had two offers for strategic positions based on my network.

The second case you are targeting a company where you know you have a competitive advantage, again in that case, you only need to have a resume that focuses on what gives you a competitive advantage. In my case, now I focus on strategic cloud consulting positions that focus on app development. In that case, I only need to focus on my job at a startup in 2018, talk in broad strokes about my time at AWS (working there automatically gets call backs by the way), and when the day comes, when I leave my current job as a “staff architect”.

The worse case is if you are spamming your resume far and wide and you are looking for any generic job. I look at an 8 page resume and then I have to take the time to see what is this person trying to communicate - it goes in the trash and I move on. I have hundreds of other resumes that I can get through quickly.

Of course if the company is reaching out to me, it’s even easier to tailor my resume for the job requirements. I have my “career document” to pull from either way that is as long as needed.

But even then I’m not going back even to the low level work I did in 2012 for Windows CE devices.
Towards Large Reasoning Models: A Survey of Reinforced Reasoning with LLMs
Also, there's immense variation in the carbon intensity of electricity generation - an order of magnitude difference between Australia and France. How much electricity we use matters far less than how we're making that electricity.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/carbon-intensity-electric...
Mostly agree. We all know how awful swatting has been for many victims. Also personalized scams and deception at scale. I also worry about homebrew automated weaponry used for cowardly terroristic purposes and how that could imaginably be around the corner. It's a pretty scary topic to consider the depths of what can be done by individuals using these tools without regulations.
There are infinite solutions to coding problems.

You could have lots of comments and pass statements and unnecessary conditionals.

I don't think it matters that there is only one correct answer.

It matters that you can verify reliably if the answer is correct enough.
'replication' requires matching benchmark performance, definitionally.

more like 'demonstrates the technique generalizes' here. HN has really been inundated with blogspam recently
It's pretty different
Looks fine to me (Fennec 134 on Android).
The most interesting part of this particular attack was the attackers delivering cross platform malware.
SocGholish is a well known commercial malware previously seen to be associated with infecting victims with ransomware while Atomic macOS Stealer is new.
Playbit Launches Early Access
NSA can track powered-down phones
Same reply as in the other thread: they don't think about us at all, nor should they have to. What they want will be good for us, too... as long as it's available to us.
Yeh, but we're not talking about "Hitler drank water, if you drink water you're a Nazi".

We're talking about a practice that is intended to avoid abuse detection. In the case of the non-sketchy parties, they're hoping to avoid false positives, but they're still doing the same thing. I'm not criticizing, I'm pointing out irony. When legitimate users have to do the same things as sketchy users, your abuse detection sucks.
I can understand adding some friction to discourage using Bitwarden without 2FA, but requiring it seems very wrongheaded to make it mandatory. I've been using 2FA on Bitwarden for a while and it adds a lot of friction and made me very nervous that if I lost my phone that I'd be locked out of literally every account I have. I mentioned elsewhere (link below) that I have solved this issue for myself, but people shouldn't be required to jump through these hoops and introduce a greater opportunity to lose access to their accounts if they should lose their phone.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42853696
Ask HN: How are you using AI for testing nowadays?
People get wicked good by solving hard problems. Many young developers use AI to solve problems with little effort. Not sure what effect this will have on the quality of future developers.
the core insight is that you can train on extremely sparse deterministic reward signal and it just works

that MoEs are better for a given compute budget has been known for a while.
One smell test for me is what the LinkedIn and Twitter "technologists" (0) are excitedly and hurriedly talking about. If they're onto it, the tech is a probably about to hit the saturation point of the s-curve as the hype lag catches up. This is the sweet spot where early adopters can find ~~bagholders~~ late series investors.

Right now, this part of the internet is obsessed with genAI. Same folks that couldn't stop talking about crypto and web3 a few years ago.

And I could be wrong! But everything about this industry smells wrong. NVidia boosting to obscene highs turning out to be because developers couldn't be bothered to write optimized code. Everyone and their mother talking about AI but I still can't see real world impacts, besides customer service chatbots getting worse. Meanwhile the world burns and people die of curable disease, and we spend money making sand go brr instead.

(0) I really don't have a good term for this that isn't something like "posers." They're the folks you meet at conferences, always giving talks and writing blogs, mostly talking and very little doing. They're the people that are obsessed with technology but can never get below the surface level. This sounds dismissive, and it is, because this kind of person has wasted a lot of my brainpower over the last decade before learning to weed them out (aka - they're not "well aligned" as customers or coworkers).
Not _all_ the code. Just the relevant parts.
Update your whois to bogus information, transfer the domain, restore whois information. Cloudflare is the cheapest domain registrar long-term, you might get cheaper ones for the first year or first 3 years.
GH copilot code completion is really the only one I’ve found to be consistently more of a benefit than a time sync. Even with the spiffy code generators using Claude or whatever, I often find myself spending as much time figuring out where the logical problem is than if I had just coded it myself, and you still need to know exactly what needs to be done.

I’d be interested in seeing how much time they spent debugging the generated code and and how long they spent constructing and reconstructing the prompts. I’m not a software developer anymore as my primary career, so if the entire lower-half of the software development market went away catering wages as it did, it wouldn’t directly affect my professional life. (And with the kind of conceited, gleeful techno-libertarian shit I’ve gotten from the software world at large over the past couple of years as a type of specialized commercial artist, it would be tough to turn that schadenfreude into empathy. But we honestly need to figure out a way to stick together or else we’re speeding towards a less mechanical version of Metropolis.)
They've existed for years

https://www.fastcompany.com/90651242/how-the-drivers-coopera...

https://www.wired.com/story/gig-economy-worker-owned-apps/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Drivers_Cooperative
This is correct, reheat / afterburner was used from Mach 0.9 something to 1.7, after which they'd were off. So yes, Concorde could supercruise.
>And that's fine, but when communicating outside the speciality, [...]"

The IAC, where this article is from, is the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (literally the "Institute of Astrophysics")

That's about as far into the specialty as you can get.
Is it even "crack" when what you're actually doing is "just reading plain text requests and responses"? Maybe if you squint the whole "trying to find a valid email address" is cracking, but that's a bit like calling poking at doors to see which one swings open and then walking through it "forced entry".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42471927
Reposting the comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42843959:

This is blogspam of https://github.com/Jiayi-Pan/TinyZero and https://nitter.lucabased.xyz/jiayi_pirate/status/18828393705.... This also doesn't mention that it's for one specific domain (playing Countdown).
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42819262.
You don't need your phone. You need access to your email account. This is described in the article.
This anti-vax crap is appearing up in Canada too. It's sad and infuriating.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/covid-19-alberta-vacc...
Explaining persistent hydrogen in Mars' atmosphere
So, we have a very good left-brain model.
I've had some registrars lock the domain from transferring for a few weeks after changing whois.