skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree with you, from experience most people and most workloads definitely aren't using SEV-SNP. The hypervisor and the cloud provider are always assumed to be honest.

I personally evaluated this technology a few years ago, and even just moving a small part of our team's workload to SEV-SNP faced so much resistance from the VP level. I'm not sure if that's more of a problem with bureaucracy at my old employer or a general problem.
Because there's a baseline age to have the necessary skills, experience, and cognitive development to be able to accomplish the task.
I wish the times would just call this "identity fraud" instead of "theft". That mindset of "theft" creates a reverse-onus, while "identity fraud" makes it clear who should bear the risk.
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I work primarily on backend systems, with a strong focus on performance and system stability/resilience. I worked as a performance engineer at the mobile add-attribution company Adjust.

Some interesting open-source projects include

https://github.com/fmstephe/memorymanager
An exploratory manual memory allocator for building large in-memory data structures with near zero GC cost.

https://github.com/fmstephe/matching_engine
A financial trading matching engine with a somewhat novel red+black tree implementation.

https://github.com/fmstephe/flib
A set of packages primarily in support of a lock-free single-producer single-consumer queue.

My ideal position would be working on backend systems primarily in Go.
I take your point, but the cement mix can absolutely have an impact on the integrity of the bridge structure. But to further your point, the cement mix was either incorrectly specified, or inadequately provided, and the responsibility for that falls on one of the humans in the loop.
I bookmarked this since all Musk-related stories are being flagged or otherwise downranked off the front page (strictly speaking, it's off topic, and thus expected..).

We are experiencing a historically unprecedented sequence of events.

P.s. If you know any alternate better information source(s), please do share.
But then this is rather a critique of teaching history no? It's basically impossible for anyone to get a good appreciation for any historic subject from studying history. You can read books about WW2 nonstop and it would be futile, hell, I could tell you about what I did last weekend but I'm afraid you just had to be there.
If Trump can make money on it, he will put anyone in jail. Musk is such an easy target, Trump could take him down in a heartbeat , freeze his assets and put ownership of his companies in his control. And let me state this as clear as I can: this would all be perfectly legal “official acts”
What kind of performance level? RISC-V spans from 15 cent microcontrollers with 32 kB of RAM to multi-core systolic arrays with gigabytes of RAM...
Everything about it makes perfect sense because pesky things like consumer protection and occupational safety cut into the profits of the owning class.
Move over Android ROM enthusiasts, real geeks run their own microcode.
Nothing at all!

You do need write access to /dev/net/tun. This is standard for all users for the distros that I've looked into, but it is ultimately a distro-specific thing.
I read the article, but I didn't find a reason as to why they picked the multiplayer Tetris game as opposed to the myriad of singleplayer ones. I think this is a neat beginner project, but can't help but think of the handful of times I tried T99 just to quickly quit again because I got stomped on every time.

How much unnecessary frustration was caused by testing this out in prod? I know they said they only got a handful of wins, but how many people did it knock out over the course of testing it?
100% appropriate for a small to medium business with under 50 employees. The founder really is the face of the company full stop.

For Delta Airlines or a university with 20,000 students the media doesn't expect to hear straight from the president. When they do offer that audience to the media it is something special and they very much are expecting to get hagiography for it.
The diff between budget forcing on and off is all within the (surprisingly large) confidence intervals of evaluation datasets. Why spend more compute for no significant gain? Seems to distract from the high-value minimal reasoning ft set

Also - In the main/first figure, why are r1 and o1 (the best performing models in Table 1) omitted?

If you collect 59K and then pick the best 1K, is it really fair to say your approach is simple? Sifting through 59K examples doesn't seem simple.

Good stuff though, cool to see how minimal we can get to distill good models (esp. at the manageable 32 size).
Interesting that this comes up again after I just discussed this on here yesterday, but you actually can blame your car for accidents.

If a mechanical or technical problem was the reason of the accident and you properly took care of your car, you won’t be responsible, because you did everything that’s expected of you.

The problem would be defining which level of AI decision making would count as negligent. Sounds like you would like to set it at 0%, but that’s something that’s going to need to be determined.
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As the software development market shows no signs of recovery this year, and with the Gen AI bubble potentially about to burst as well, how many of us are considering quitting our jobs and moving into other fields?
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Hopefully the author gets banned from the game for this. It's clearly cheating.
Thing is, the chain of responsibility gets really muddled over time, and blame is hard to dish out. Let's think about denying a car insurance claim:

The person who clicks the "Approve" / "Deny" button is likely an underwriter looking at info on their screen.

The info they're looking at get's aggregated from a lot of sources. They have the insurance contract. Maybe one part is AI summary of the police report. And another part is a repair estimate that gets synced over from the dealership. A list of prior claims this person has. Probably a dozen other sources.

Now what happens if this person makes a totally correct decision based on their data, but that data was wrong because the _syncFromMazdaRepairShopSFTP_ service got the quote data wrong? Who is liable? The person denying the claim, the engineer who wrote the code, AWS?

In reality, it's "the company" in so far as fault can be proven. The underlying service providers they use doesn't really factor into that decision. AI is just another tool in that process that (like other tools) can break.
Chesterton fence == I don’t have an argument but I do have a fence and you don’t, so I guess somebody should have learnt their lesson!
Yeah but it's fine because nobody cares if you kill a few thousand brown people extra.
The reason being that the ruling class benefits from selling out their subjects to financial vultures?

Being rich in a first world countries is very neat, even great. Being rich in a third world country is like thirteen levels above that. For you and for your family.
Have you done the maths to check if that would have fixed things?
What are the actual legal theories by which they're trying (/succeeding) at enforcing these bills? Anybody can send anybody a bill for anything, that does not mean it is valid or legally enforceable.

In general I find discussions of this topic very frustrating because everybody stops short of visiting the if and how of the fraudulent bills actually having an effect. I can certainly believe there are corrupt or dubious ways they get collected on, but those mechanisms need to be focused on and then eliminated as an obvious first step of healthcare reform.
Which of the criteria of the risk levels that will be regulated which are listed in the article do you think would include weather predictions?
> On top of that, forcing everyone to commute up to an hour each way is a blatant disregard for people's personal time.

Commuting is dangerous and stressful. Stressed employees cannot perform their best. It is in a company's best interest to reduce stress and danger.
Reminds me of that scene in The Irishman: "Just show it to him, don't use it."
I can get amazon to deliver a burqa to my door within the week, more than 40 colors to choose from.
> If it costs lives, well so be it.

Remember you said this if/when it's your life on the line.

I have a feeling that, when that time comes, a lot of people will be changing their tune. "I always knew he'd fuck people over, I just didn't think I'd be one of them!"
Better Living Through Geometry
Oh man, drinking is not the example I'd use

That's big industry
I'm not surprised. In fact, I expected it. Lynching is a long-held tradition in the United States after all. And vigilante Justice is hardly an American invention.

I'm asking if it's what is actually being argued and if people believe that it is right.

By the same logic, it's not hard to get this place: If the sheriff won't hold a black man accountable for whistling at a white woman, then of course the white citizens must take justice into their own hands, right?
He is capital efficient because of foreign workers
I was really hoping for this too.

I love WFH and I hope I never have to work in an office again. I was hoping the obvious financial efficiency improvements would have made the concept stick more and enable more mobility in the US

unfortunately it looks like we couldn't get over our need for employee control even for types of work that is largely online anyways. I'm still sad that it isn't likely to grow much.
Instead of war or peace

We could just create an anagram from fentanyl

let fanny
very wrong!
Or, massive recalls across the country change the math. My point is that there are totally legal and constitutional options. Nobody need result to silliness.
Discussion (553 points, 23 hours ago, 393 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42913251
There is not a finite amount of blame for a given event. Multiple people can be fully at fault.
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You cannot practically imprison the richest man in the world. He'd end up running the place like a king, like El Chapo did. The only way forward is to exile him to Mars.
We're still in the "burn it all down" phase, and the problem about "burn it all down" is you get burned too, especially if you're in there looting while the house is on fire.

We haven't yet found the leaders who will be the ones rebuilding. Maybe we have the ones who will be sitting on a charred throne claiming a burned-out husk of a throneroom in their hard-earned kingdom of ash, but not the ones who will rebuild.

So spare me the feigned morality right now, we all know no one's playing by those rules anymore.
We have over 200,000 stray cats in Brooklyn alone--as I learned recently when one cute but particularly insistent kitten tried to make its home in ours--yet somehow they are collectively terrible at hunting rats.
I think it's the price per charger that's the important value here, and the original claim "billions of dollars for 8 EV charging stations" is indeed provably false (even if you amend it to 243 or 214 EV charging stations). The money hasn't been spent yet.
ECMA-48, 5th ed., June 1991: Control Functions for Coded Character Sets [pdf]
A description of Promise Theory, in an article published in the Linux Journal in 2014:

"IT installations grow to massive size in data centers, and the idea of remote command and control, by an external manager, struggles to keep pace, because it is an essentially manual human-centric activity. Thankfully, a simple way out of this dilemma was proposed in 2005 and has acquired a growing band of disciples in computing and networking. This involves the harnessing of autonomous distributed agents." (https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/promise-theory%E2%80%94...)

What are autonomous agents in promise theory?

"Agents in promise theory are said to be autonomous, meaning that they are causally independent of one another. This independence implies that they cannot be controlled from without, they originate their own behaviours entirely from within, yet they can rely on one another's services through the making of promises to signal cooperation." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promise_theory#Agents)

Note: the wikipedia article is off because it is framing agents in terms of obligations instead of promises. Promises make no guarantee of behavior, and it is up each autonomous agent to decide how much it can rely on the promises of other autonomous agents.

So to circle back to this original post with the lens of Promise Theory -- being held accountable comes from a theory of obligations rather than a theory of promises. (There is a promise made by the governing body to hold the bad actor responsible). More crucially, we are treating AIs as _proxies_ for autonomous agents -- humans. Human engineers and potentially, regulatory bodies, are promising certain performances in the AIs, but the AIs have exceeded the engineer's capability for bounding behaviors.

To make that next leap, we would be basically having AIs make their own promises, and either holding them to them to it, or consider that that specific autonomous agent is not reliable in their promises.
More than any other organization, the military can literally get away with murder, and they're motivated to recruit and protect the best murderers. It's only by political pressure that they may uphold some moral standards.
How is this different than any other private company?
"Single payer" means the government pays it. Hard to do in a back alley.
I hate threads like this because of all the misinformed debt hysteria.

People like to bring up places like Argentina and Venezuela, but their debts weren't denominated in their own currencies, so they had to collect dollars in order to repay debts in dollars. As a currency issuer, since we create dollars, we can never run out of them. Nor do we have to round up dollars and take them back from currency holders before we can repay a debt. Doing so just takes those dollars away from the non-government so that the issuer can zero out a ledger somewhere. The interest is interest we choose to pay, for some reason. The only way we could default on our debt is if we decide to. The only way to "pay off" the "debt" is to take all the dollars away from the non-government, which is _us_.
But your reading presumes that you would hold individuals responsible in a company for something that goes wrong. Which, without showing intent on individual actors, feels very very unlikely. Both in actuality, and in desire.

Consider, if it is found that salmonella contaminated the spinach of a local farm, I want it recalled and for better systems in place to catch contamination. I don't want to find the farmer that was responsible for the acre of land that introduced the contaminant.

I think this idea flows from some thought that people will put more effort into things that they think they could be held accountable for. In reality, that just isn't the case. People will instead stall and stall on things they think they could be held accountable on if things go south.

From my vantage, that style of "accountability" just leads to more and more red tape as you do what you can to line item identify who could have prevented something. That is not productive.
Well, Cultural Revolutions are almost always done by young and inexperienced.

Btw, i wonder how many of those raiding the government offices are really DOGE people and not say Russian or Chinese agents pretending to be DOGE - if one to believe the news the security let them into the building once they threatened to call Marshals Service (social engineering DOGE style. That clearly shows couple things - 1. DOGE themselves didn't bother to get proper paperwork, clearances, etc., a "promising" start so to speak and 2. that at least the building security part of the government there got totally rotten as it failed to perform their basic duties. And the agencies' (Treasury(!), USAID,...) employees just giving their laptops and access to internal systems to the first schmuck supposedly from some DOGE - and that all after years of trainings of "don't leave your screen unlocked", "don't give sensitive info to the strangers pretending to be your higher-up or a colleague" . Really shows the effectiveness of all those trainings :)
Thank you! mitmproxy is fantastic - thanks for all the work that's gone into that project. Maybe we can get in touch and chat about all this stuff.
Tariffs will soon educate them.
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spam applications through AI tools have skyrocketed. LI is widespread enough that it covers 98%+ of candidates.

If you think you're the right fit for the role, live in Europe and have a GH account instead, feel free to shoot me an email hermann@gigs.com
How to Make Resolutions That Might Stick
My take is that POSSE [1] is the way to go. (Though I really should get back to blogging to prove my commitment)

Big F Federation in the Fediverse is less important in my mind than the small-f federation that I see something cool on Mastodon I should be able to link to it from Bluesky or Threads or whatever. The notifications and all that are just the cherry on top.

The principled reason to "never link to X" is that X will suppress your visibility if you link out of X. If X punishes you from linking to an HN discussion I think HN shouldn't be linking back to X. The same holds true for Facebook, Threads and Instagram, though it is unusual for someone to get the idea that the HN audience would care about any content on those sites.

[1] https://indieweb.org/POSSE
Discussions:

(24 points, 9 hours ago, 19 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42918285

(38 points, 9 hours ago, 18 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42918395
I think its quite clear gdpr has indeed lead to lower investment and delayed or cancelled products in Europe
I've been getting cold-emails from them lately, and I've been toying with the idea of regretfully informing them that I don't think I could bring of enough of the "Masculine Energy" their CEO has been talking about.
When Doctors with A.I. Are Outperformed by A.I. Alone
Following journalists and news sources on BlueSky will likely be more reliable, as they won't a) be flagged or b) be algorithmically downranked.
No. They want to stop the bleeding from the last 4 years. I blame the person that made the mess. Not the one cleaning it up and showing it to us.
It helps to understand the context for when this was written. Before the personal computer revolution, most people didn't have access to a computer and only knew about them from depictions in popular culture, which depicted computers as all-known-all-seeing entities (think HAL from Space Odyssey 2001)

Because of these misconceptions, some people at the time would think of computers as devices that were (somehow) perfect and infallible.

It was very similar to how people view AI today: The way that AI is depicted in popular culture gives people an impression that AI is far more capable than it is. You only really get a good "feel" for what AI can do if you try it yourself. The main difference between AI and pre-personal computers is that basically everyone can use AI now.
Exactly. And this is a direct consequence of trying to pin things on individuals.
Any specific links you can provide will be helpful.
I'm complaining because I haven't seen any such papers. Which ones do you have in mind?
This is great, can this be used to implement a sampler based on entropy like entropix (implemented in optillm here - https://github.com/codelion/optillm/blob/main/optillm/entrop...)
yet, we give computers control/management over 2 ton vehicles. An ADS controlled vehicle with bad sensors or software update malfunctions and severely maims or kills multiple pedestrians, what happens here?

The computer controlling the vehicle won’t be held accountable. The case will drag on in the court systems. Maybe company is _found_ liable but ultimately allowed to continue pushing their faulty junk on the streets. Just pay a fine, settle out of court with victims and families. Some consultant out there is probably already building in the cost of killing somebody and potential lawsuit into the cost of production.
What kind of soured me on whether to recommend lecanumab in the clinic or not - the effect size and the slope, vs. the risk of hemorrhages/"ARIAS".

I don't claim that it's obviously the right move for every Alzheimer patient at the moment. It would be great to increase the effect size and reduce ARIA rates. My central claim, again, is that the amyloid hypothesis is correct, not that we have a cure.

the issue and maybe the main effort isn't so much clearing out the bad stuff (abnormal amyloid clumps/synuclein clumps) in the cells, it's trying to figure out what biological process converts the normal, functioning form of the protein into the abnormal/insoluble/nonfunctional protein

Yes, but it appears that these are one and the same thing. That is, amyloid and tau (mis)conformation seems to be self-replicating via a prion-like mechanism in locally-connected regions. This has been established by cryo-electron microscopy of human proteins, as well as controlled introduction of misfolded proteins into mouse brains.
Average age of engineers and scientists in the Manhattan Project was 25.

Our current gerontocracy is ahistorical.

Perhaps one reason startups work so well is they are one of the few places that still let young people exert agency.

The average age of NASA’s mission control team during the Apollo era was 27— they put humans on the moon. Young people bring a force of curiosity and creativity that can disrupt the status quo. If we’re serious about cutting waste in gov spending, let’s not turn away new minds.

The guys featured in this gross and irresponsible hit piece by Wired, by all accounts, are brilliant engineers. Top 1%.

- one decoded the Herculaneum Papyrii at the age of 20, winning the Vesuvius Challenge

- another built a startup funded by OpenAI

- one interned at SpaceX and got a Thiel Fellowship

- another was a top engineer at a major AI firm

This is who they are bullying and putting a target on. The best of us nerds. https://x.com/anothercohen/status/1886480470185001025