skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quick Thoughts on Agents
So someone mentioned that OpenAI's Deep Search is now better then their research team that was hired for $150k. See https://x.com/blader/status/1886547925612028329

AI Agents like Deep Research is allowing (almost) everyone to research anything in detail. I wonder what the implications are...

3 quick thoughts:

1. The rich will get richer/healthier/smarter. People with money will always have access to the best AI sooner. $200/mo is more than what most of the world earns. Maybe free access to agents should be universal and govs should invest in this for their citizens.

2. How do we know the agent's findings can be trusted? The risk of making life-affecting decisions on bad data is real. Bad data could be introduced into the system accidentally, intentionally or maliciously. I think citing sources isn't enough - a better trust model is required.

3. Specialists need to start delivering more value. Doctors, lawyers, architects - be prepared to be challenged by patients and clients and their agents. If you can't show why you're more trustworthy than the agents, then you're obsolete.
Security implications? This is a win for distributed security - it's a "vulnerability" in the sense of the end of a movie where the evil overlord's plan falls apart.

> This vulnerability could be used by an adversary to compromise confidential computing workloads protected by the newest version of AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization, SEV-SNP or to compromise Dynamic Root of Trust Measurement.

I don't know whether the people who write this upside-down corpo newspeak are so coked up on the authoritarian paradigm that they've lost touch with the reality, or if they're just paid well enough by the corpos to not care about making society worse, or what. But I'll translate:

This "vulnerability" might be used by the owner of a computer to inspect what their computer is actually doing or to defend themselves against coercion aiming to control the software they're running.
It lives in one of those grey areas of "nobody has been murdered over it brutally enough to make national news so it persists" just like all the other abuse the police do. At least they don't suffocate people as much anymore...
Everyone on my dad's side of the family gathered for xmas each year - maybe 20 of us. Full house. And everybody felt obliged to buy personal presents for everyone else.

Finally someone stood up and said "Instead of everyone stressing about buying twenty cheap gifts, how about a secret santa where everyone gets one nice gift".

Made the holidays less stressful for everyone. It just hadn't occurred to us - we bought into the obligate gift ritual without thinking.
"This decript junk" includes institutional knowledge that will take decades to reconstruct, USAID agents suddenly cut off from all official communication and equipment in the middle of war zones, and basic security guarantees about the payments system used by the US Treasury.
Apple denied appeal in Google trial
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Just a suggestion, but I have done 3-5 projects a year for a long, long time, and as an executive (for almost a decade) had dozens of projects annually I was overseeing and/or contributing to. I am not a fan of LinkedIn, but I did eventually start logging at least some of the projects I do in their "projects" section. That helps me remember and revisit some of the projects, and when you go back 10 years later it's sort of joyful walk down memory lane sometimes.
Author here -- that is surprising. What browser/OS are you on? I haven't had anyone else report this problem before.
All the dramatic language they use to dress up their claims is completely ridiculous.
Deepseek's release has shown that there's no great risk in getting left behind. All the info is out there, people with skills are readily available, creating a model that will match whatever current model is considered frontier level is not that hard for an entity like the EU.

For everyone here shouting that the EU needs to do something, be a leader, what have they lost so far by choosing to lead in legislation instead of development?

They've lost nothing. They've gained a lot.

They can use the same frontier level open source model as everyone else, and meanwhile, they can stay on top of harmful uses like social or credit scoring.

Also speaking as a European, legislation is kind of the point of a government in the first place. I do think the EU goes too far in many cases. But I haven't seen anything that makes me think they're dealing with this particular hype train badly so far. Play the safe long game, let everyone else spend all the money, see what works, focus on legislation of potentially dangerous technology.
middle name -- are you kidding me, of course. other than that, i wouldn't sweat it too much -- maybe just drop the recruiter a line saying "hey just fyi..." right before you sign the offer.
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I have personally found that when the government wants more of your money through taxes, they tend to raise taxes or lower credits or do something to incentivize behavior. They don’t tend to try to confuse people into not knowing what they owe and thus only private companies can get me the lowest taxes. So I don’t find that argument persuasive.

I do think the tax code is too complicated, but don’t think that’s a conscious choice by some government official or office. It’s a result of small changes by many generations of people over long periods of time. It does seem like it could be simplified, yet the IRS also seems to know how much most people owe because it’s reflected in forms like W-2s and 1099s and such. So maybe they should just send most people a transmission telling them how much the IRS thinks they owe, and provide the refund or a bill accordingly, and whoever disagrees with the assessment can file.
I agree.

It is the future of cheating, completely undetectable
Seems very reasonable. Not all software has the same risk profile, and autonomous+adaptive software certainly have a more dangerous profile than simpler software, and should be regulated differently.
GDPR is one of the best pieces of legislation to come out of the EU this century.

It is the utter bane if "move fast and break things", and I'm so glad to have it.

I will never understand the submissive disposition of Americans to billionaires who sell them out. They are all about being rugged Cow Boys while smashing systems that foster their own well-being. It's like their pathology to be independent makes them shoot at their own feet. Utterly baffling.
_syncFromMazdaRepairShopSFTP_ failing is also just as likely to cause a human to deny a claim.

Just because an automated decision system exists, does not mean an OOB (out of band) correctional measure should not exist.

In other words if AI fixes a time sink for 99% of cases, but fails on 1%, then let 50% of the 1% of angry customers get a second decision because they emailed the staff. That failure system still saves the company millions per year.
Ah, I definitely misread. Thanks!
Seems like a straightforward case of malpractice. The guy had every ability to double check the hallucinated references, but didn't do so; he used AI to replace his own expertise, rather than augment it. I.e. he didn't "use AI to help write", he instead outsourced his work to AI with no oversight.
id.me is valued at $1.8bn and has more than 130m users and has "partnerships with 15 federal agencies, 40 agencies in 30 states and over 600 retailers".

Bit of a stretch to call them a low cost outsourcer. They seem pretty legitimate.
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They just create new accounts. But anyone who thinks sending home all the inspector generals is cutting waste/fraud is clearly arguing in bad faith. Unfortunately, I've argued this was the case well before the election -- but everyone told me, "only Trump seems to know this is about grocery prices!".
Tesla Megapacks chosen for 548 MWh energy storage project in Japan
For the author, if they revist this, they might look into 7-bag random generator. TLDR, most modern tetris games, including tetris 99 select a permutation of the 7 unique pieces every 7 pieces; this means even though Tetris 99 shows you the next 6 pieces, you may know more about the next pieces.

For example, at the beginning of the game, it shows you 6 pieces, but you can determine the 7th piece because it's the one that's not shown. The 8th piece could be any of the 7 pieces, but when you see the 13th piece, you know the 14th piece (and when you see the 12th piece, you know there are only two possibilities for the 13th piece).

Additional look ahead every so often might be helpful, given that they found

> When looking only 3 moves ahead, Jeff achieves a Tetris percent of 8.9%. When looking 6 moves ahead, he improves to 9.7%—nearly perfect!

I'd also be interested in seeing optimization for combos. Or t-spins; t-spins send 2x lines of garbage for each line cleared; which I hate, because I grew up before t-spins were encouraged. :P
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What tricks do you have in mind, like super personalized retargeting?
While not as strict, you can filter lints by their description and apply a policy to your crate
https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/rust-1.84.0/index.ht...
Remember, if you can vote, vote the next time you can. Convince your friends and neighbors to vote, too. Apathy has real consequences.
As a regular Claude user, incorrectness is not anywhere near solved; it may be domain-dependent, but just yesterday 3.5 invented a Mac CLI tool that does not exist (and would’ve been pretty useful if it had). I cannot take anything factual at face value, which is actually OK as long as net/net I’m still more productive.
At Sun, instead of firing incompetent executives, the would promote them to "Vice President in Charge of Looking for a New Job".
PlayAI's new Dialog model achieves 3:1 preference in human evals
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> Rules for thee, but not for me.

No, I have not personally insulted you.

> Smells very musky.

You should read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Been playing since Civ 1. Reviews here are mostly positive, but some reviewers complain about the lack of some mechanics I hate from Civ 6, like the world council and religious victory content.

Religious victory is the most micromanagey and worst condition to shoot for, and it overlays a totally different zone of control consideration at the worst time - late game - I've never liked it.

World council is .. fine, but always has felt like a win-more mechanic to me. It's not a comeback mechanic, or a place you could commit to to beat out a strong opponent when you're weak in other areas.

Anyway, curious to try it!
https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch09-01-unrecoverable-errors-...

```
[profile.release]
panic = 'abort'
```
Law enforcement literally everywhere has a license to kill. They dress it up with a bunch of process to keep it from getting used on a whim but that is literally the point of law enforcement, to kill you if you don't comply with the will of the state as enforced through them.
Show HN: Kendrick Lamar appears 4x in top most syllable-dense Billboard hits
We analyzed the Top 100 Billboard songs by syllable count, word count, character count, and average syllables per word.

We believe that the average number of syllables in an artist’s lyrics are a big indicator of musical proficiency, for the same reasons that syllable counts are used as a primary input in Flesch-Kincaid readability testing. Through our research we aim to more objectively and quantitatively determine how complex a musician is.

A few interesting takeaways:

-Kendrick Lamar appears 4 times in the top 10 songs by syllable count, speaking to his lyrical complexity and dense rhyme schemes

-Not Like Us by Kendrick Lamar has the most syllables, words, and characters of any song in the Top 100
Defying Gravity by Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande is the longest song in the Top 100 at 7 minutes and 40 seconds.

-The average length across all Top 100 songs is 3 minutes and 29 seconds.

-Bad Bunny appears in 6 of the top 10 songs when considering average syllables per word, meaning he packs more syllables into fewer words compared to other artists. This could indicate a broader trend in reggaeton and Latin trap toward more complex lyricism.

Would love your feedback on how to improve our data study (and the site overall) before we circulate it more widely. Thanks!
This seems to obviate a lot of Rust's advantages (like a good std library). I wonder what it would take to write a nopanic-std library?

Panics really seem bad for composability. And relying on the optimzer here seems like a fragile approach.

(And how is there no -nopanic compiler flag?)
Why was the law involved in any of this in the first place?

Had Woods not been charged with identity theft in the first place Keirans' crime would have been victimless.
It was for glide bombs which don't free fall. They're, as the name implies, gliders so fly further from the release point and don't fall ballistically. No idea if they got as far as actually strapping the guidance device onto an actual bomb though to see if they would work under stress.
Same, the web view in my Android client crashed after a couple seconds.
Want me to link the latest mass deportation that USA is doing and compare with one person?
I've had an unpleasant amount of crashes with Rust software because people are way too quick to grab `panic!` as an out.

This was most shocking to me in some of the Rust code Mozilla had integrated into Firefox (the CSS styling code). There was some font cache shenanigans that was causing their font loading to work only semi-consistently, and that would outright crash this subsystem, and tofu-ify CJK text entirely as a result.

And the underlying panic was totally recoverable in theory if you looked at the call stack! Just people had decided to not Result-ify a bunch of falliable code.
They did not, but you are absolutely correct that it's very widespread with boys here in the US, and the varying reactions to those two things are a good point about social norms for sure.
It's true in the meaningful, procedural sense, which is obviously what someone would mean with "find guilt".
I haven't found names or docket-stuff, but this page has more details like exact dates that may help someone with the right databases.

> On October 31, 2019, the District Attorney’s office filed charges of identity theft and false impersonation against Woods.

On December 23, 2019, Woods’s public defender expressed concern over Woods’s mental competence because he kept insisting that he was the real William Woods.

> On February 10, 2020, following an examination by a physician, Woods was declared incompetent to stand trial and was sent to a California mental hospital for treatment, including psychotropic medication.

https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedeta...
Source? and what's the median?

Also, that was during WW2 which would likely skew those #s (though I would actually expect to much older, as in not most-fit-military age)
I can't imagine many people agreeing with you here.

You need to be (a) able to walk and drive, (b) in driving distance to a post office and (c) able to work around the post office's opening hours and (d) willing to waste the time to drive/line up etc.

Or you can spend less than a minute to upload a photo of your passport.
They're already projected to save hundreds of billions through the voluntary redundancy scheme implemented last week.
Great idea! It is cool seeing how you took this concept and made it real, end to end. I'm also considering getting a flipbook.
The wrong propaganda
> Musk is a convenient fool for the trump administration.

Exactly this. And he doesn't even see it. There will be no "Elon dismisses Trump". Elon is not a natural born US citizen, Trump is. Trump wins, because if one has been paying attention, the people who put Trump in office don't like immigrants all that much.
> Windows 10 has many entropy sources; these work together to ensure that the OS has good entropy. Different entropy sources guarantee good entropy in different situations; by using them all the best coverage is attained.

> Interrupt Timings

> The primary entropy source in Windows 10 is the interrupt timings. On each interrupt to a CPU the interrupt hander gets the Time Stamp Count (TSC) from the CPU. This is typically a counter that runs on the CPU clock frequency; on X86 and X64 CPUs this is done using the RDTSC instruction.

> ...

> The Intel RDRAND instruction is an on-demand high quality source of random data.

> If the RDRAND instruction is present, Winload gathers 256 bits of entropy from the RDRAND instruction. Similarly, our kernel-mode code creates a high-pull source that provides 512 bits of entropy from the RDRAND instruction for each reseed. (As a high source, the first 256 bits are always put in pool 0; providing 512 bits ensures that the other pools also get entropy from this source.)

> Due to some unfortunate design decisions in the internal RDRAND logic, the RDRAND instruction only provides random numbers with a 128-bit security level. The Win10 code tries to work around this limitation by gathering a large amount of output from RDRAND which should trigger a reseed of the RDRAND-internal PRNG to get more entropy. Whilst this solves the problem in most cases, it is possible for another thread to gather similar outputs form RDRAND which means that a 256-bit security level cannot be guaranteed.

> Based on our feedback about this problem, Intel implemented the RDSEED instruction that gives direct access to the internal entropy source. When the RDSEED instruction is present, it is used in preference to RDRAND instruction which avoids the problem and provides the full desired guarantees. For each reseed, we gather 128 output bytes from RDSEED, hash them with SHA-512 to produce 64 output bytes. As explained before, 32 of these go into pool 0 and the others into the ‘next’ pool for this entropy source.

https://aka.ms/win10rng
No, they listed the principles they were willing to tell you about during the test. They do not publish an open list of principles they place in front of your live requests, as far as I know.
>It has been a kleptocracy for decades and they've been looting all of us with no resistence or accountability.

And yet, the average life in US has gotten better and better under democratic rule, while worse under republican rule.

The problem with people like you is that you are so bought into a narrative of "government bad" that any sort of mistake or non optimal that the government does is seen by you as corruption.

And then when you have people like Musk, Rogan, Hotz, and other prophet wannabes that amplify that messaging, it solidifies that in your mind and you move become farther and farther from reality, until you are solidly in MAGA land where anything liberal is automatically bad, even if your side does the exact same thing.

There is a shitload of government bloat and inefficiencies, but these things need to be trimmed over a long period of time, not by Musk style of breaking things without giving a fuck about what he breaks.
There will always be a market for smart people who are willing to be fearless of the unknown, willing to be lifelong learners and who are in technology because they can't imagine doing anything else.

I got in to this space because it was fascinating. It still is. I worry a lot of people got in to software because they couldn't decide what else to do while in high school? If that's you, find the overlap between what you like to do, what you are good at and what pays enough for you to live.
You just know Musk defenders having been going through some serious cognitive dissonance the last few months.
I didn't know the team was so small! Just wanted to say that I love both apps, makes commuting much easier. :)