skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of folks are saying big ships are outdated. Keep in mind that war is 80% logistics: and if you are going to engage an enemy far away from your landmass (or project power for that matter), you need huge capacity to move materiel to said location, and that normally means ships.

An interesting thing to look at is something called the "Fully Burdened Cost of Fuel": for every gallon that the US delivers to a Forward Operating Base, they spend something like 6-20 gal getting it there.

The point is that you need to move insane amounts of stuff to fight a war effectively. The actual fighting is just the tip of an iceberg of logistics.
If you believe they found that I have a bridge to sell you
The platform is not live yet (MVP will be in ~two weeks), so we are still exploring, but:

- Open core -> Feel free to self-host and have it for free.

- Cloud -> for less than 50 employees, it will be cheaper than $250 monthly (no engagement)
Even if you look at just computer games, Windows has a smaller share than any time since the 1980s.

If you include the massive mobile gaming market, Windows gaming is an even tinier percentage of the overall market (maybe even <10%).
Thats for giving you credit. Not for spending your own balance.
The point is there has to be meaning for reasoning. I think the claim in this paper is very clear and the results are shown decisively.

Research papers relating to reasoning approach and define it in many ways but crucially, the good ones offer a testable claim.

Simply saying “models can’t reason” is ambiguous to the point of being unanswerable.
Rich people have a prisoner's dilemma if they are sufficiently self-aware. Maximum individual wealth and profit will come from maximally embracing AI. But if everyone does that, they are indeed rolling the dice on whether they'll instead be eating canned beans in New Zealand instead of upgrading their 150ft. yacht to a 155ft. yacht.
A "History" website with no history for users to see when they visit the website.
I wish there were better more accessible tests available, that you could take as a consumer to show how much plastic you have accumalated in different parts of your body.

I saw bryan johnson take a test like that recently but couldn't find a vendor close to me that I could use. Gathering more data would be a great step in understanding the problem better
But these days, isn't it similarly the case that security cameras, routers, phones, and similar products could have security-related concerns just like ammunition? I can't imagine cold-war-era US would have been happy buying their telephone networking equipment and fax machines from the USSR, even if they could have somehow offered a better price and performance.
Benn Jordan did a good video that covered the bots and bias on X recently. Don't know if it or the papers were submitted here before (anyone feel free to submit it not):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ5XN_mJE8Y
Everyone gets a vote.
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This looks better than EMO (also closed source by Alibaba group https://humanaigc.github.io/emote-portrait-alive/). See the rap example on their page. They apparently have EMO2 now which doesn't look as believable to me.

EMO covers head + shoulders while this OmniHuman-1 is covering full body and its looking even better. I would have easily mistaken these for real (specially while doom scrolling) if I was not looking for AI glitches.

UPDATE: Googling animate bytedance site:github.io returns many in the same domain (all proprietry). Found a few good ones.

- https://byteaigc.github.io/X-Portrait2/ Very expressive lifelike portrait animations

- https://byteaigc.github.io/x-portrait/ (previous version of the same, has source https://github.com/bytedance/X-Portrait)

- https://loopyavatar.github.io/ (portrait animations, looks good)

- https://cyberhost.github.io/

- https://grisoon.github.io/INFP/

- https://grisoon.github.io/PersonaTalk/

- https://headgap.github.io/

- https://kebii.github.io/MikuDance/ anime animations
Probably because no matter how agile you are, you'll never be more agile than the market. And being much slower isn't worse than being a little slower.
> Finally, drones haven’t been useful against ships in Red Sea

Comparing a Houthi attack against a peer adversary drone & missile attack would likely have very different results. Defense depletion (i.e. out of ammo) is the current weakness of defenses. That is why energy weapons are the next big thing - you don't run out of shells for a laser. Counting on defense is a historic proven way to fail at war-fighting.

> Speed matters for getting through defenses.

As does stealth, surprise, maneuverability, timing, rules of engagement and many other factors. Defense is really difficult - especially given you may be countering something unprecedented. The recent Red Sea activity did not have the element of surprise, no stealth weapons were used and the timing was well known. Not a good bellwether.
Money flows to the things people want. The real housewives, the view, twilight, etc. Hell people make millions simply playing video games on twitch. But nobody is owed an income for doing something they love.

The question you should be asking, is how do you increase demand for the things you value? How do you make people want the thing you have to offer. Musicians, comedians, and other artists who figure out that answer (or luck into it), get very wealthy indeed.

> For. Doing. Nothing.

That's obviously not true. I've tried doing nothing for a long time, and am not anywhere close to a billionaire.
If people's ability to produce slop outpaces the ability for content delivery and discovery platforms to separate the wheat from the chaff, the category as a whole will diminish.
The goal is to enrich themselves, weaponize funding, and shut down parts of the government that they dislike.
There's a public relations firm somewhere out there that really hit the ball out of the park for you to have this knee-jerk reaction, don't you think?
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What was the incentive structure, and how was your experience overall (esp. comparing to traditional companies if you’ve worked at those)?
Why are you bringing up nonsense hypotheticals when there's real voter suppression. Trumps stolen election ignited states to create many new restrictive voter laws and threw out millions of votes in swing states alone.
Since Twitter is running just fine several years later despite the shredding (which many said it will crumble its operations), maybe he has a point?
That is not what is happening. The agreement is to use El Salvadorian prisons instead of US prisons for prisoners. El Salvador said they would be willing to accept any prisoner, regardless of nationality. The US citizens would not be deported, but imprisoned in another country. However, it is not clear if the US will use El Salvadoran prisons for US citizens, only foreigners or not at all.
Do you have any concerns around scaling? I like LikeKit stack, but if not mistaken their agent architecture is based on multiprocessing (one os process per 'session'/'conversation') which doesn't sound very scalable. Btw, great demo, this is a cool technical problem to solve. I've spend a couple of months in this space (using a similar stack) and know for a fact that's not easy.
What would that prove? Great coders are not necessarily competent leaders of the civil service.
FigShare and Zenodo grant (DataCite) DOIs for git commit tags.

Maybe papers need to contain executable test assertions.
and it does https://top-of-the-poops.org/
The Interstate Highway System took like 36 years to build, wouldn't that be a better analogy, since it's an entity that exists in many different places at once? Whereas the bomb was built on eminent domain-seized property so you didn't have to deal with local jurisdictions or landowners.
There is a social norm to treat panics as unrecoverable (in most cases — some do use panics to perform cancellation in non-async code).
why does everyone just assume that Taiwan and China, which both consider themselves to be "one china" would not simply find some kind of peaceful resolution once the US backs off?

most likely, without a U.S. backer, they would just more closely integrate their economies and this would eventually result in a political solution
> Now he is trying to do the same thing with over 2m federal employees, in an attempt to cut $1trn—more than half of all discretionary spending—out of the federal budget.

That's not even a balanced budget.
Plenty of software has been developed on the command line, chat is just a more powerful and flexible version of that. The missing part with current AI systems is a persistent workspace/filesystem that allows you to store things you want to keep, discard things you want to get rid off and highlight things you want to focus on.
This is interesting but I still think we have some responsibility here. What if most people hold some view in a low-grade kind of way but algorithms like this could accidentally (or intentionally) amplify it to the point of genocide. The story of Rwanda is well known and we can imagine it being much worse if we're not careful with this kind of technology.
After using the AI chatbots for some time, I think that they are not so useful for non programmers other than for doing small tools, that may be difficult to modify and polish by a non programmer.
But they still fail and have subtle errors too often so they are more useful for programmers which already know what the AI is doing and can spot mistakes.
Fungus-infected 'zombie spiders' found in caves are unique to Ireland
Musk got himself into this hole, so if a democrat president comes in 2029, there's a high chance now, he'd be deported. Can happen sooner as well, depending on midterms.
Humanity has obviously chosen to just charge on ahead and see what happens.

I can't imagine why that would be a good idea, but that is, factually, what we are doing.
> If you need to go to the IMF for a loan of ~3% of your GDP to mitigate the risks associated with Bitcoin, well, that's a pretty good sign that adopting Bitcoin as legal tender was a pretty disastrous failure.

In addition, the whole country ditched Bitcoin as a payment system as soon as they cached out their sign on bonus. How is a national currency depicted as a success if no one uses it at all once they cached out the free money?

Crypto bros need to stop moving the goal posts they themselves plant arbitrarily and against any reason.
The game theoretic problem with this scenario (and thus why a Pacific escalation scenario is so dangerous) is that China has essentially all of its forces in the area around China, whereas the US and its treaty allies have their forces scattered around the world. Thus even if the US has a bigger military most of it won't be in theater on day 1 of a conflict, leading China to have every incentive to move as fast as possible and present a fait accompli to the West. If they choose to just do nothing to the US and hope America sits it out, it just gives the US time to redress this force imbalance in the region by moving in assets from around the world. That leads China to be strongly incentivized to strike US forces on day 1, in much the same way the IJN was incentivized to strike early and strike hard 85 years ago.
Or wolves in Yellowstone. Or grizzlies in Washington.

Everybody loves the idea of reintroducing wildlife. Nobody likes the idea of releasing a grizzly bear within 500 miles of their house.
Vanguard FTSE Europe ETF (VGK) is only 0.06%
Show HN: Sundry – A context API for tool calling LLMs
Hello fellow open source LLM enthusiasts!

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How do you host bug trackers, git repos, CI runners or mailinglists on Bittorrent?

Admittedly I am rather surprised by the storage requirements from Freedesktop.
The Dark Truth About Bots [video]
That was certainly my experience with it. Overwhelmingly so, even. Not just “Republican” per se, but all sorts of reality-denying nonsense, propaganda, and clearly foreign-influenced trolling. Depressing enough that I removed the app that I once loved to use.
I was reading about the Great Oxidation event theory in which new bacteria converted CO2 into oxygen and changed the atmosphere. After a while, there was so much oxygen in the atmosphere that they could no longer survive in their own waste.

One life form used CO2 to generate oxygen. Billions of years later, another life form (humans) used the abundant oxygen to generate CO2.

Maybe this is just how life works. Life just uses up all the resources they find, regardless of what happens in the future. Maybe humans can't stop this even if we're aware because it's just coded in the laws of physics. Entropy?
> but this implementation has been haphazard (at best).

Also, this doesn't save us any money at all. Congress allocates money and in many cases specifies employment levels. But like the OMB memo says -- taxpayers still have to spend the money for these employees whether they do any work or not.

The reason they are doing this haphazard mess is that their positions are not popular and therefore cannot pass in Congress.
> My point is that most of the cheating comes from structuring the game around pro-play

I wanted to address the same point txpl did. As someone who's made multiplayer games, I'm stunned that so many players cheat, even when the stakes are low. It's not just the pro-players; it's at every level.

Some are optimizing their experience because they don't have as much time to play as they'd like. Some feel they deserve the enjoyment of winning without the effort. Some justify it with the belief that everyone else is doing it. And the really difficult ones to deal with feel rewarded by behaving badly (anonymously, of course).

So every design decision comes with an evaluation of how players will abuse the system, and there are no easy answers. And that's why you see companies adding (invasive and ineffective) anti-cheat solutions to band-aid the problem that developers were unable to anticipate or solve.
It was only for solo 401ks and small business with less than $20M in assets.
The difference being is that it's not a resource controlled by the attacker, it's an attachment hosted by Signal. But yes, removing previews for everything would mitigate the issue.
As a long time (actual) hip-hop fan, I do find it quite hard to muster sympathy for this weirdly isolated, and perhaps disposable, genre? Kind of like, okay, how much did you try to build with the origins of the thing you're using to make new music?

Reminds me a bit of "nerdcore" hip-hop; which also made little sense because e.g. Del the Funkee Homosapien and RZA were also nerds making VERY nerdy music, but for "some reason" weren't seen as the same thing.
You’re right, that’s one vulnerability in the system.

I don’t know how common it is for someone to want to impersonate a homeless person, though, considering in Sweden you’d probably have to pay up that homeless person’s debt…

Ok, I’m slightly kidding here, but really this kind of long con is not a common mode of identity fraud in Scandinavia, probably because it’s harder to get away with.

The more common identify fraud here would be to assume the identity of someone with a stable economy and then try to take out payday loans in their name. Which a homeless person would be declined for, of course.

It gets rather involved and usually involves phishing the victim into signing something malicious using a digital ID. Not to mention no bank would agree to pay it out in cash. So it requires not only determination but skill as well.
People can't make up their minds, did dems push insane ideology or did they fail to stray far enough from the status quo?

I'd argue they ran one of the least controversial campaigns in comparison to the current global political climate. I think those in disagreement were successfully convinced by the opposing party.

Trump's first few weeks makes it clear he was the big mover and shaker.
I don't think there's any shortage of Republicans posting on X about how dumb progressives are; I'm skeptical that liberals are any more prone to outrage than conservatives are. Check out, say, liboftiktok if you want a prime example.
Show HN: Play with real quantum physics in your browser
I wanted to make the simplest app to introduce myself and others to quantum computing.

Introducing, Schrödinger's Coin. Powered by a simple Hadamard gate[0] on IBM quantum, with this app you can directly interact with a quantum system to experience true randomness.

Thoughts? Could you see any use cases for yourself of this? Or, does it inspire any other ideas of yours? Curious what others on HN think!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_logic_gate#Hadamard_ga...
I wonder what 20,000 Employees are doing there though. I know saying "I could do that with 10 people, what are they even doing" is a meme here, but I really can't make a good guess what the employees are actually doing. Risk assessment, looking for new investment opportunities, regulatory paperwork, marketing? 20,000 is a lot of people.
> get a commercial shipbuilding market going again domestically.

How do you start a flywheel? Our industry is light years behind China and would be prohibitively more expensive.

Tariffs? That's a moral equivalent of the Jones Act, just with more options for buyers.

The thing that worked really well for China was to force Western manufacturers to partner with their domestic industries so that they could learn the tricks of the trade, then be kick the Western companies to the wayside and discard the relationships when they're no longer useful.

I don't think we can mimic the China playbook because of our labor costs. There's no gradient or arbitrage to exploit. Maybe a partnership between the US and Mexico where we take advantage of Mexican labor, yet use US capital and retain ownership?
Flexplay
That biological sex is a social construct, for one, and elementary school children need to learn about it.
Starting end of Nov 2024, Vanguard is actually beginning to roll out proxy voting capabilities to fund holders (in the US). This looks to be the beginning of deeper proxy voting capabilities, but not much information out there yet.

https://corporate.vanguard.com/content/corporatesite/us/en/c...
Glad to see the latest generation coming online has rediscovered and embraced adult contemporary genre / muzak / elevator music / smooth jazz.
Have we watched the same events unfold?

Virtually every tech CEO was standing behind Trump at the inauguration. The takeover is the tech feudalism. They are not the heroes.
This wasn't a random offer btw, Trump has been asking for it and is looking for a legal avenue

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-floats-f...
corporate wants you to find out the difference between these two pictures…
> pro-Palestinian content

This is an issue heavily pushed by the Republican Party
Show HN: Airweave – Turn App Data into Agent Knowledge
Hi HN, Lennert and Rauf here

We built Airweave, an open-source dev tool that turns your users' app data into agent knowledge by making any source (app, db, api) searchable for AI agents. It handles authentication, ingestion, and keeping sync with your vector store + graph db. You can do other nice stuff like white labeling and monitoring your sources, destinations, and sync jobs in a ui.

We believe agent builders should be able to focus on their verticals, and not have to worry about infra like this. So we're building all the necessary tooling and integrations to enable that.

Feel free to try it out and we'd love to hear your thoughts!

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disrupting millions of people who REALLY need CIA slush fund money to do "good things" with it, they promise. USAID needs to go into the dustbin and fast.
I haven't been to Portland since 2018, but I have been to and seen LA and San Francisco downtowns. They didn't decriminalize, but their downtowns are pretty unpleasant too.

I wonder to what degree Portland is a product of its local policy (like this decriminalization/recriminalization) vs the national trends that are seen across the USA.
I would guess it's still there but buried in some UX hell hole
Quantum computing full page ad in WSJ
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal featured a full page ad directed to any remaining skeptics of quantum computing from the CEO of D-Wave Quantum.
Twitter has bleed so many advertisers strictly because it no longer offers a competitive ad platform.

It's a myth that twitter is running fine. People always wonder why these companies need so many people and it's because of all the back operations. Sure, it takes 1 guy to make a static webpage or whatever singular feature you think the company does. The company has tens of thousands of features you're missing though so you end up with tens of thousands of people.
> For Japanese soundtrack producer Nujabes, the “lofi” sound wasn’t an aesthetic choice. It was an artifact of creating such forward thinking music with the dusty equipment from 20 years ago.

I trying to figure out where the author got this from? Audio hardware/software hasn't changed that much in 20 years, and Nujabes' lofi aesthetic seems intentional.

According to Wikipedia, it originated from an effect button on Roland samplers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lofi_hip-hop
They're taking orders from bad actors, it's absurd to assume good faith.
“Infantry wins battles, logistics wins wars”

That said, for smaller engagements when you have a forward operating base, you can air drop a massive amount of tonnage on a dime with C-5s. And if we ever turn Starship into an orbital equipment delivery system, we'll be able to open new salients quickly.
So communism it’s the answer cuz Marx?
Cool idea, but just watching your demo it looks like it doesn’t work. Is there any change in the video? The lip movements certainly don’t look synchronized, and audio often continues after the person stops talking. It also doesn’t do any audio mimicking. It really doesn’t look like it does anything that Google Translate doesn’t.
>Of course those videos get more attention [...] and therefore get pushed more by the algorithm.

From the article:

"These differences were consistent across all three states and could not be explained by differences in engagement metrics like likes, views, shares, comments, or followers."
In the Halo universe, the "Hunter" enemy, the hulking shitheads covered in armor and blasting you with a fuel rod cannon and you have to shoot their orange weak spots, are actually colonies of little orange worms!

Also IIRC they work in pairs because they are mates. When you fight them you are killing a couple.
Spotify the split is 70% rights holders and 30% for Spotify