skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who has done this I take issue with characterizing the certificates as stolen. I exploited a security vulnerability in the device's web UI to extract them, from a piece of equipment I paid for. Its my equipment the provider required me to buy it for service, I can do with it as I please.

I would be in agreement with it if we were using all this to steal service, we just don't want to use their unstable and unacceptable equipment.
Everyone is sympathetic to that line of thinking. Most, here at least, have the brain cells to rub together to recognize that the costs of civil rights' absence are greater than the costs incurred by those rights.
I don't think you need to tag it as music. You can listen to any Youtube video in the Youtube Music app.
Are you joking? Democrats cannot resist pointing out that the founding fathers owned slaves, while the GOP basically treats them as saints.
Slack Themes
This is extremely useful. Sincere thanks. I consult HN to learn how something became broken and what mitigation is offered. Then I trip over AI or LLM which are (personally) disturbing & end up saying something foolish.
"Corpocracy" is, quite literally, capitalism.

What do you think capitalism is, exactly?
Is it the same for judging all MAGA as Nazis?

I ask that in all earnestness. I am not a MAGA or a MAGA apologist.
speaking of The Last Leaf short story:

I searched for and found a version of it:

https://americanenglish.state.gov/files/ae/resource_files/th...
Presumably so you can test it on-page
Or election were hacked, but not the way you think.

Social media was weaponized and turned into a tool that manipulates people's view of the reality. Each person gets a personalized feed that presses their buttons to think certain way.

For example with war in gaza.
If for example you were pro Israeli, you will see content that Harris was siding with Hamas, and trump actually was the most Israel friendly candidate.

If you were supporting Palestine you would get that there's no difference between Harris and trump, and it is best to do protest vote.

Same with leaning too much to the left, or not enough to the left etc.

Pretty much every issue was handled this way. People who got their news from social media had no idea what her stance were on any topic, because that was filtered.

Few years ago we had huge scandal about Cambridge Analytica, there was a bit loud about it and then died out, meanwhile it all continued and was perfected.

Twitter, Instagram, Facebook manipulated older generation. While TikTok managed to capture younger, left leaning generation and make it more apathetic.

I don't think it is a coincidence that pretty much all social media (except the Chinese TikTok) was present on his inauguration.

I also don't think it is a coincidence that all social media companies have involvement with AI. With it, they no longer need humans to generate content, so the whole manipulation is much easier to do.

This isn't just isolated to US and it is being used in Europe too. Look at elections in Moldova, Romania, what's happening in Germany etc.

Timothy Snyder's "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century" book is a must read so we can prevent this.

Here's summary of the lessons: https://substack.com/@snyder/p-155209838

The book is quite short and he also reads and discussed them on his YouTube channel.
Make sure you absolutely eradicate the power base you were in conflict with?
None of the best or most famous poets of the last two centuries ever made a living off of their poetry. That's not why anyone does it.
I highly doubt adults use "instinct" as an accessory to the scientific method.
I can kind of see why this should have been. The 1401, which was really intended as a replacement for IBM's punchcard appliances, was widely known as IBM's small mainframe. On the other hand, there are the 701, things like the 7030 (Stretch), and then the ranges of the S/360 and S/370. – Considering this rather inconceivable wide class of machines, stepping in and deciding, what's a mainframe and what's not, is a losing game, from a marketing perspective. So better keep silent and reap the fruits…
There is some honesty with this argument. You can admit that your own bias overrides your ability to be impartial. The dishonest bit is that by attempting to refute a premise of impartiality, you're really making a case for the dominance of your personal bias against impartially. It's a posture that seeks a win condition in the form of a society that has abandoned impartiality, and with it ideas of justice, democracy, self rule, scientific progress (basically everything that depends on the pursuit of impartiality).

Your siren's song to a new and better dark age, isn't as appealing as you think it is. Get psychological help.
Pipeline to analyze Norwegian criminal justice data
I thought the first step was to gain control of the media.
Granted, it’s one step at a time — but what’s to stop them for disobeying the legal order if it’s against them?
Optics are an important part of being effective
I got that, and the reason why I said "even if just as a hobby" is that part of the satisfaction many (including myself) get from their art comes from sharing it with other people, even without profit, and right now, poetry is probably more devalued by AI (thanks to LLMs) than any other art form.
Seems like a more costly and complicated version of Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM). What's the benefit of using lasers vs. simple electrical current?
I'm guessing a 5G mobile option is too expensive.

It's more about availability.

I have 5G for home internet, and it's $55/month, including taxes. I get 100 to 300 mbps, though during lunch on weekdays that can slow to 50.

There are two other 5G Home Internet providers in this state. One wants $100/month for 5-100 mbps. The other won't let me sign up because it doesn't have the capacity where I am.
For the majority of people, the ACA just meant "insurance has an excuse to raise premiums without end (far more than the number of new people covered)". There was some corporate trickery involved, but that doesn't matter to the individual who's paying more.
Related:

Avoid ISP Routers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41092571 - July 2024 (26 comments)
The simple answer is that Trump can do whatever he wants, because the majority party in congress isn't going to challenge him.
Magnetocaloric cooling is used in cryogenics as are thermoacoustic chillers. I think there are some aerospace applications.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42902670
> If you don't fund science, you give the world to other countries, especially China.

Who are you telling this to, me or the government?
Sadly, I completely understand after reading all the links in this thread tonight.

The specific theory they're speaking in: https://zizians.info/

Backstory (7 chapters): https://aiascendant.substack.com/p/extropias-children-chapte...
There is no text of the bill, but based on its title, this could outlaw publishing any public AI research.
Wine Merge Request Opened for Ntsync In-Process Synchronization with Linux 6.14
Sorry, I couldn't get through your third paragraph without hearing the "Team America: World Police" pussies/dicks speech in the background.

But your argument is inherently flawed. Part of the point of government is to regulate and direct the use of force. We have mechanisms that are supposed to apply force to "bullies". The problem is that the "bullies" have co-opted that system to use it for their own ends. This happened gradually so it didn't become obvious until the most recent "bully" decided he didn't even want to pretend that he wasn't in control.

Individuals who directly stand up to this administration will be hammered down with the full force of the government. The best we can hope for is a passive resistance and malicious compliance. That combined with grassroots efforts to fill the media with protests of objectionable policies is probably the best we can do for now.

The only other option is to apply force outside of the system to correct it, but things are not nearly to the point where revolution is the better option.
Plenty of comments older than yours are pointing this out. A bit hyperbolic to claim 99.9%.
> Xcode used to be good at around version 3.

before the merging of interface builder into xcode: it never recovered...
Anything vaguely anti-Trump on this forum is going to be flagged and removed, as it has been for many years now.
What communism principles are those?
Welcome Back to C++(2022)
That’s not what the APA means at all. “Arbitrary and capricious” means basically irrational or illogical. Agencies can change their minds on a whim “just because” so long as they articulate a policy reason. This happened several times with net neutrality and was upheld each time. See also: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/556/502/

Also, the APA was enacted to protect private rights, not to restrict changes to the internal operation of the executive branch. There’s some bizarre cases that have allowed civil servant suits (Crane v. Napolitano) but the practice of that is fraught.
There is no "cause." It's a network of forces. Tariffs were one of the very significant forces.
I've never had an issue with using my own hardware here. It's definitely one of the only good things about australian internet.

Regionally is a total crapshoot as to ISP choice, in my experience. Even in the massive regional cities it's often appalling. People living in rural or remote areas might as well not exist. If I moved somewhere that only telstra serviced I'd seriously consider just not having internet at all. It's roughly equivalent in internet access as paying telstra but it sure is cheaper!
The Surprising Ingenuity Behind "Goodnight Moon" (2017)
Nucleic acids are a more reactive species, and the half life of DNA is only on the order of 500 years or so.

The best bet we have to get something resembling dinosaurs is to invent them. By using extant theropod DNA, we could genetically engineer our way backwards. Basically improvisation.

The technology for this doesn't exist yet, and the ethics would be extremely questionable.
I’m curious about what will happen if they get to the parts of this Project 2025 like agenda that involves telling people to do things, or banning things people like.

We already see that abortion bans are unpopular. When they are put to a vote they lose, even in very red states.

How much more will people take? How will the Joe Rogan dudebro crowd react to banning porn? That’ll be interesting.

I’ve been predicting for years that it’s these guys — the Christian Nationalists / NatCons — who are going to mass confiscate guns. Would that be the third rail?
Smedley, not Smedlet.

But yes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler

I had read about him earlier, in connection with the Banana republics.

let people form their own opinion on these issues.
Then let me pee up my COSMAC Elf - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COSMAC_ELF
if you live in “the hood” the lan is nuts and you can get by by just treating your local network as completely untrusted, which I personally believe is good practice anyway.
It sounds like you’re sort of starting from the position that AI is inherently unjust and then reasoning backward to justify it. But shouldn’t the argument start with actual harm rather than assumed unfairness?
Worth listening also to Reagan's commentary on this matter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp1T7kPEdDY
You need an SFP module that you plug into your standard router. https://github.com/Anime4000/RTL960x
Not 'quite literally'. You can have capitalism that is not dominated by corporations.
Work to do what?
What I describe isn't the current system, it's the reform I propose. The current system sadly often is you can't self-publihsh because "lol no marketing" so you sell your rights for a one-time fixed payment and the new owner profits for years or decades.

The new owner is also usually a large company which has fundamentally more bargaining power than an individual so even if you get a propertional payment, the ratio of effort to reward of the company vs individual is unfair (if you put a 1000 man-days of work into your game and Steam takes 5%, do you think it's actually putting 50 man-days of work into selling it?).

As for naturally occurring principles... there are some, ehm, methods of negotiating, which you could consider natural but the state you live in would generally not approve.
That’s not saying much. Read the “Careers” section of NeuroVigil’s website:

https://neurovigil.com/index.php/about-us/careers-form

They are ‘recruiting’ student interns. But only after a ‘traditional three-day vetting period.’ I kid you not.

As much as I dislike Elon Musk, this guy is a quack. Gives me strong Tim Ferriss vibes, only less polished.

It looks like NeuroVigil has been effectively defunct for over a decade.
Not collapsing "bad enough", and overshadowed with advertising losses caused purely by Elon being a dick
Lossy codecs at 120-190k in 2022 are probably transparent.
Trump has the power to fire them! Even if I accepted your premise, he still can't require their personal loyalty.

Their job is to do what they were hired to do, not swear fealty to the president. There is a reason why some positions are political and some are career - it's because you do in fact need "credentialed technocrats" if you're trying to run a developed country in the 21st century.
If you go read your poetry at an event you will be less satisfied because others may have done theirs with an LLM?
I think we're using 100 year old technology. Compressors and stuff.

Whatever happened to acoustic cooling?

Did peltiers ever get efficient?
Midi-chlorians?
https://archive.ph/d7XfZ
“Ziz seems to go out of her way to target transgender people.” https://zizians.info/
My experience in the Bay Area - if you rent the gateway from Comcast ($25/mo) then you have no data cap. If you use your own modem and want to remove the data cap it costs $30/mo, more than renting the gateway. The data cap is 1.2TB per month in my area.

I think that is what the commenter meant: "...unless I pay a whole bunch of extra fees or accept a stupidly low monthly data cap"

(edit: I initially thought it was $15/mo for the gateway + no data cap but just checked and it is $25/mo. They are called "Xfinity Gateway" vs "xFi Complete").
Keeping quiet about your faith is probably a wise and respectful way of navigating a multi-cultural, multi-religious society but I don’t think its particulally supported Bibically as most of the New Testamemt after the gospels is about spreading the faith.

Jesus says not to pray loudly like the Pharisees which could be interpreted as not bragging about ones faith, but he also says “Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven” so it seems like an instruction to share faith with others.

In present day USA if you loudly announce your faith its hard to escape tribalism associations so I agree with your advice, but I also think its important not to water down religion by ignoring the parts that do not fit with modern sensibilities because then we are having a totally different conversation.
The actual answer is that congress has already authorized the president to set tariffs by executive order.
Now that I've wiped off my screen & keyboard

THANK YOU for

> kool-aid
As rachofsunshine suggested, there are quite a few factions and splinter groups within the larger "rationalist" subculture, not just people who happen to be trans and were recruited because of it. My takeaway after spending a few hours down the rabbit hole is that they all seem to be composed of very smart people who have a screw or three loose.

I'm afraid that at some point, some of these people are likely to talk themselves into doing something seriously fucked up. If I worked on AI at OpenAI or Google or Meta, I think I'd prefer to work from home... and if I occupied a visible position on the org chart, I'd hire a damned good private security company to keep an eye on my family.
If you have any unusual identity (e.g. a person inhabited by a fox spirit) you have a responsibility to be the person you can because you could be the first person in that category they meet.

I grew up in Manchester, NH which was almost 100% white until 1990 or so. [1] My family was out for a bike ride and got a flat. A black couple (the man had just been transferred to the Raytheon factory where they make the radar for Patriot missile) came by and helped us fix the flat and shared lemonade with us in the kitchen. If you have an experience like this you think "I want more black people to move into my town."

One branch of my wife's family comes from southern Italy and is pretty conservative, one of her cousins is dating a black guy who is an EE and works on robots at Amazon. The family is pretty old school but he's won everyone over by making a point to be really awesome. He talks about every prominent thinker about what blacks in America should do from Marcus Garvey to Malcom X. He thinks it's a terrible act of racism that 'Black Wall Street' was bombed but also thinks people who are still stuck in the pathologies of the projects he escaped from need to take responsibility: he thinks it's unfair but he knows black people have to work twice as hard to get ahead and accepts the burden. He's really won the family over.

To link it to transgender issues, this poll [2] from 2022 says that 57% of Americans don't know personally know anybody transgender, and this 2024 poll of Asian-Pacific Islanders in the US [3] gives the same number.

People are getting their ideas about transgender people from the media where stories like this [4] are pretty widespread; whatever you do you don't want to live up to those stereotypes.

[1] I think because the bottom fell out of the economy at the end of the 1920s and never came back until the 1990s; you had no reason to go there unless you had family, black people leaving the south were going to Detroit because (a) there were already blacks there, and (b) the car industry was expanding despite the Great Depression.

[2] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/09/21/does-publ...

[3] https://apnorc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/AAPI-Data-AP-N...

[4] https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-witch-trials-of-j-...
There are ways now (as in, very recent) to bypass the ONT for AT&T, people have developed custom GPON SFP module firmware that lets you connect directly. There are also multiple ways to bypass the gateway authentication, be it extracting the certificates or doing Ethernet proxying of the authentication frames.
Tools for 2025
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Degenerate
The anti-aircraft shell that won WWII [video]
Check out MonkeyBrains? It's wireless broadband and they have LoS to many parts of SF. I used them back when I lived there (admittedly some time ago) and I had no complaints. Very much a small ISP with personalized service.

It won't be fiber speeds though.
With made up numbers, yes.
you're right, actually noticed gpu clocking up and down with 32b, 14b clocks up fully and actually runs faster
That relies on whoever's defining the Writer knowing every implementation of Writer in existence though, right? Same reason why Rust has both enums and trait objects; it's the expression problem.
everything from arch repos, well cachyos and arch :)
https://youtu.be/uhiCFdWeQfA
no matter what the reason is, the result is the US is draining golds from all over the world

good for dollars, bad for us

fyi https://archive.ph/95I9l
> There's a subtext here of "what do I do when the high-level libraries like Sodium don't do exactly what I need", and the frank answer to that is: "well, you're in trouble, because consulting expertise for this work is extraordinarily expensive".

...which is exactly why people roll their own crypto. Security folks don't seem to realize/care that money is a real constraint at most companies (esp. startups) and security can easily become a money furnace. When the only two options are: "use sodium" and "extraordinarily expensive consultant" then devs turn to the third option: https://pkg.go.dev/crypto/aes

Boom, file encrypted, requirement fulfilled, money saved, sale made. Perfectly secure? Probably not. The docs even say "The AES operations in this package are not implemented using constant-time algorithms". But maybe that's an acceptable tradeoff for your target risk profile.
Pretty confident that now that critical thinking has been thrown out the window and accountability has disappeared in political discourse this would just result in endless objections in any debate deliberately used to add noise and misdirect conversation.

I don't know what the solution is in today's climate, but I suspect it no longer matters. America is post-truth and he who controls the data and pathways to information (Murdoch, Meta, Google) directly influences a large percentage of the people.
Full text here https://www.hawley.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Haw...
Forever Fresh: How we keep food alive [audio]
Checking your own IP on Shodan to see if any unexpected services are detected is a good starting point.
Yeah, especially if the LLM was trained on my work.
Very cool! I take a look :)
If you have big system using specifics of their databases, switching can be expensive. Maybe good in long term, but risky.
Awesome we just fixed these issues thanks for letting us know.
I just want to say thank you for mentioning qutebrowser. I'd never heard of it before and I'm now hooked.
Impact of the DeepSeek Moment on Inference Compute with Benchmarks
this is awesome. thanks
GitOps Secrets Management
That was the announced plan. Then they renamed United States Digital Service to United States Doge Service and put Musk in charge. I'm not sure how the legality works, but they're doing something different than what they had first stated.
Some analysis I've been reading on the implications of DeepSeek says that model optionality is probably here to stay. If so, I think incorporating model choice would be a valuable aspect of this kind of product. Conversely, I agree with parent: I'm not installing this software with that privacy policy in place.
One good option is FTC action. They have worked on this in the past, e.g. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2018/10/... https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2018/01/...
If you’re on ios, you can tap the clock for fast scroll up.
Things that look magical often stop being magical when you have the right perspective and the right abstractions. The step from a toy example to proving any verifiable statement is just NP-completeness. Which is simple enough that undergraduates are often expected to understand it.

Interactive zero-knowledge proofs are also technically non-interactive. They are defined in terms of the verifier evaluating a transcript of the protocol. If the verifier accepts some causal assumptions about the provenance of the transcript, they will accept the proof. If they disagree with the assumptions, the proof is indistinguishable from random noise they could generate themself. An interactive commitment – challenge – response protocol is one possible causal assumption. A source of randomness could replace the challenges, making the protocol non-interactive. Or there could be a pre-committed secret, making a single-round protocol effectively non-interactive.

These are things a sufficiently interested CS undergraduate can prove and understand. Public-key cryptography, on the other hand, remains magical. There are many things people assume to be true. Which need to be true for public-key cryptography to function. Empirically these things seem to be true, but nobody has been able to prove them. And I don't think anyone really understands them.