skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I figured linking straight to the site was good way to just show what’s going on and assumed most people interested would understand the context, but I see how it might not have been the best idea.
I'm not sure I'm any less concerned than you about other areas of government, I'm asking why we should think these cuts apply to the people working in airport towers instead of the kinds areas Trump usually focuses on.
Mistake +mystery = mistery
Trying to reason everything out from first principles can lead to some seriously bizarre conclusions if there's even a little bit you missed or got slightly wrong. It can be a fun exercise if you make sure to constantly look for predictions to check against observable reality, but if you're young and naive and take it too seriously without doing that...
I just got AT&T fiber installed and the gateway has 8192 conntrack slots. Two steam clients scanning for Counter-Strike 2 servers at the same time can chew through that many connections.

I joined the 8311 discord and will be doing a full bypass as soon as feasible.
Generally speaking, the responsibility of proof falls on party making the claim.

If I claim that you beat your wife, you are not expected to prove your innocence by showing that you don't do it. Proving a negative is difficult if not impossible in some cases. I have to show evidence to back up my claim.
I was around for the development, launch, and replacement of windows 2000. It was absolutely not a security nightmare when it came out and completely revolutionized desktop security (though not enough and was further enhanced through today)
Thank you for posting this here. I am glad many people are sharing their story in the comments.
I wish. I own my own modem and router, but Comcast won’t let me use them unless I pay a whole bunch of extra fees or accept a stupidly low monthly data cap. I’ve got my router downstream of theirs which is a bit annoying, especially considering their modem-router combo overheats and needs to be rebooted via unplugging power at least once a month.

Sadly I have no other options here in San Francisco. My house is not wired for phone service so I cannot get DSL. The various fiber services that are becoming more available in San Francisco are generally only available downtown or large apartment buildings. My freestanding house can’t get any of that. AT&T‘s new fiber doesn’t connect to me either. And webpass doesn’t have a good line of sight from my location to any of their microwave towers so I can’t get that. It is Comcast or nothing. It always amazes me that San Francisco is supposedly the tech capital of the world but internet connectivity here is worse than rural China. (And that’s not an exaggeration, I’ve spent plenty of time in rural China and in the mountains there, both the cellular and hardline service is infinitely better than San Francisco, aside from the firewall issues of course)

…I guess that turned into a bit of a personal rant but holy crap how is it 2025 and this is still a problem in a major tech city?
Medical billing firm Medusind discloses breach affecting 360k people
as a note I've had a fritzbox turn those settings back on itself without my doing anything

the thing went in the bin the next day
What if you were worried about getting your domain revoked? What would you do in that case? What if your domain was your livelihood?

I think your claim about low demand could be taken more seriously even as recently as ten years ago but when you include "social media handle" in with "domain" then getting your online identity revoked is an every day occurrence and has been for years for a huge number of people who were not extremists or trolls. Later to be revealed by internal documents to be guided by the hand of the US government under false pretenses.

So it's not just extremists and trolls but also, every day people with opinions the government doesn't like who are getting their accounts and content taken away.
With things like tariffs on prescriptions, I guess get the population to riot then declare marshall law and just fully coup the US successfully this time.
As you surely know, the legal requirement to retain records does not extend to a requirement to maintain those records on a public web site. You are not arguing in good faith. Please stop muddying the waters with your buffoonish rhetoric. Thanks.
Better is `using static my.namespace.ClassWithMyStaticMethods` that gets you exactly the consuming syntax you want, even though the methods still need to be static on that class.
Waste water heat recovery, which heat exchanges with inlet water, would probably be more effective than heat exchanging with a fridge. Realistically both options are too costly for the limited benefit.
that does not make copyrights unenforceable
AVM/Fritz is kind of a ‘premium’ option, though. Most ISPs provide hardware from e.g. Sagemcom or Zyxel (with locked-down firmware).
This site is blocked in the Netherlands. Does anyone have an archive.is or archive.ph of it?
CEOs need to be stopped or at least be told to shut the fuck up.
Ziz clearly doesn't consider himself/herself a "Bay Area rationalist": E.g. he/she uses that term twice here, both times to talk negatively about them:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230531043930/https://sinceriou...
Glad to see the author making a serious effort to fill the gap in public documentation of RLHF theory and practice. The current state of the art seems to be primarily documented in arXiv papers, but each paper is more like a "diff" than a "snapshot" - you need to patch together the knowledge from many previous papers to understand the current state. It's extremely valuable to "snapshot" the current state of the art in a way that is easy to reference.

My friendly feedback on this work-in-progress: I believe it could benefit from more introductory material to establish motivations and set expectations for what is achievable with RLHF. In particular, I think it would be useful to situate RLHF in comparison with supervised fine-tuning (SFT), which readers are likely familiar with.

Stuff I'd cover (from the background of an RLHF user but non-specialist):

Advantages of RLHF over SFT:

- Tunes on the full generation (which is what you ultimately care about), not just token-by-token.

- Can tune on problems where there are many acceptable answers (or ways to word the answer), and you don't want to push the model into one specific series of tokens.

- Can incorporate negative feedback (e.g. don't generate this).

Disadvantages of RLHF over SFT:

- Regularization (KL or otherwise) puts an upper bound on how much impact RLHF can have on the model. Because of this, RLHF is almost never enough to get you "all the way there" by itself.

- Very sensitive to reward model quality, which can be hard to evaluate.

- Much more resource and time intensive.

Non-obvious practical considerations:

- How to evaluate quality? If you have a good measurement of quality, it's tempting to just incorporate it in your reward model. But you want to make sure you're able to measure "is this actually good for my final use-case", not just "does this score well on my reward model?".

- How prompt engineering interacts with fine-tuning (both SFT and RLHF). Often some iteration on the system prompt will make fine-tuning converge faster, and with higher quality. Conversely, attempting to tune on examples that don't include a task-specific prompt (surprisingly common) will often yield subpar results. This is a "boring" implementation detail that I don't normally see included in papers.

Excited to see where this goes, and thanks to the author for willingness to share a work in progress!
Have you seen it come up with bott periodicity and the onto ele in twister space?
> At best, with mentioning religion, you have declared your rightful intentions and at worst you have added yet another layer of tribalism to a ... debate.

I don't think you understood what they were saying. They were saying that as a Christian, they've experienced being blamed for the misdeeds of other Christians which they personally had nothing to do with.

The most important part of that statement isn't the word "Christian": you could replace "Christian" with Muslim or atheist or whatever and there'd be someone else who could truthfully say it.
Interestingly enough, I initially thought so too! I have received several E-Mails, skimmed through them, and then when my account was gone I first thought “Oh, I've ignored the 'Final Warning' E-Mails for too long and now they've nuked my account” but now! That's (sadly) not the case.

I know this for two reasons: First of all, I manage two separate Oracle Cloud Accounts (one for a different person). The second one wasn't nuked, despite both using the same cloud computer and being created on the same day.

Second, I have MFA enabled since day one. I logged in many times, before, during, and after these E-Mails bombarded me. They never applied to me as my security policies were already like the mails requested!

So, sadly. It has nothing to do with Oracle enabling MFA. Especially because I'm not stuck at an MFA screen, but because they disabled my account and support said it was deleted, without notice or warning, and they can't tell me why and there's also nothing they could do.
>The OP is just taking the "everything I don't like is fascist" trope to it's natural conclusion. Up next: Stalin actually a Nazi.

That's terminologically wrong, yet practically sensible conclusion. Some European countries in fact ban both communist and nazi ideologies and public display of their symbols as their authoritarian and genocidal tendencies are incompatible with democratic principles in said countries constitution.
I agree, but it's derivative work that infringes almost indiscriminately on all publicly available cultural goods and can be very useful while doing so. That's why I think copyleft is somewhat a fitting consequence.
http://archive.today/uJmE4
> All his talk about getting to Mars to "maintain the light of consciousness" or about "free speech absolutism" is actually BS Elon knowingly feeds people to manipulate them. Everything Elon does is about acquiring and consolidating power. That is why he likes far right parties, because they are easier to control. That is also why he gave himself $56 Billion which could have gone. to the people actually doing the work and innovations he is taking credit for at Tesla (the reason he does not do patents is because he would not be listed as an inventor as putting a fake inventor on a patent would kill it and moreover it would reveal the superstars behind the work). His lust for power is also why he did xAl and Neuralink, to attempt to compete with OpenAl and NeuroVigil, respectively, despite being affiliated with them. Unlike Tesla and Twitter, he was unable to conquer those companies and tried to create rivals. He announced Neuralink just after I invited his ex-wife, which she and I notified him about, to a fundraising dinner for Hebrew University in London (The fact that she tried to kiss me - I immediately pushed her away - while taking a photo at that event, even if playfully, clearly may have added to the alienation and possible emasculation he may have felt when she spoke to me in a pool at a party when they were together and she was naked. To not be disrespectful to her or to him, I stayed but looked at the sky whilst talking to her). I fired him with cause in December 2021 when he tried to undermine NV. It is ironic that years later, he clearly tried to undermine Twitter before buying it, and in my view, blowing it up and using it to manipulate the masses to lean to the far right in country after country, including the USA...

Wow
This also pushes long term bond rates higher to price inflation into the yield, pushing both government borrowing and long term consumer borrowing (mortgages) costs higher.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/31/us-treasury-yields-investors...

https://www.usbank.com/investing/financial-perspectives/mark...
Fluid: A declarative cross-platform user interface library for D
I've always been neutral on Musk, and I don't think all the facts are out, but one thing from the comments is sure as sin:

>‪The hero that solves this Musk problem is going to be remembered in the history books forever.
An intelligent person makes deductions based on evidence. Low knows Musk's character from working closely with him; knows he's smart enough to understand how his salute would be perceived; sees his close connections with far-right groups (e.g. AfD) around the world; observes his public reaction (Nazi jokes, ha ha) after the controversy. It's not difficult to put two and two together here.
> keep the server up

Oh maybe I didn't understand from the site - it's not a standalone desktop app? What processing do you do on your server side?
The sheer volume of uncopyrightable work will soon kill the system. Let us dance on its corpse
> I don't think that you need to be a Christian to empathise with anyone. The big geezer's (JC) teachings imply to me that keeping quiet about your faith and simply doing good (for a given value of good) is the Way.

I encourage you to read the four gospels at the beginning of the New Testament. Jesus didn't teach "shut up and let your good works speak for you". No, he was very much more in your face than that. He spent all of his ministry preaching (IE, talking about God and religion) and teaching and healing.

> ... tell you to keep it quiet

Uh, no? See Matthew 28:18-20

And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.

Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

The "Great Commission" as we call it, is a command to spread the good news of Jesus Christ; His death, resurrection, and the promise of eternal life for those who choose to follow him.

> There is no need to put your religious heart on your sleeve

I spoke as one aggrieved class to another. Modern Christians get a lot of hate for things that have happened in the past, because we wear the name of our God.

As for wearing a 'religious heart on my sleeve', I have nothing if not the hope of forgiveness and grace from the Almighty. Of course I'm going to wear it on my sleeve.
I assume the GP is talking about the fact that almost every rocket, except SpaceX' Falcon 9 and the Space Shuttle, is designed to be dumped in the ocean. Specifically the first stage of a rocket usually falls down into the ocean at a relatively high speed (probably in pieces), but it's speed is usually not high enough to burn up. The second stage of a rocket goes all the way to orbit with the payload, achieving speeds like 7 km per second, and then reenters the atmosphere and burns, but some pieces can still come down intact, so it's preferably also over the ocean. The second stage may also stay in space indefinitely, depending on the target orbit of the payload. Anyway, dumping space stuff in the oceans is the default since forever.

SpaceX' Falcon 9 is an exception, because its first stage is designed to land on the barge in the ocean or fly back to the coast and land on the landing pad, allowing it to be reused. Falcon 9's second stage still burns up/breaks down in the atmosphere after launch, in a controlled way (over the ocean). The goal of Starship is to have the first ever wholly reusable rocket, of which no part will be dumped in the oceans.

In the case of the last flight of Starship, it obviously wasn't meant to explode inflight, so the place where the debris has fallen was much closer to any land than the usual "intentional" rocket debris. If the flight was successful, Starship's second stage would simulate landing in the Indian Ocean and then sink (and probably also explode while sinking and the debris could show up on the coast of Australia). They aren't allowed to land this thing on land yet, and with this failure they certainly won't be allowed to do that soon.
Promo gotta pro mo'

But upping the effect from 0.1c to 1.7c is pretty good. I doubt there's a lot more to come from this, so i doubt the path finding too.
You could get Miyoo Mini Plus for plus sized hands ;)
Compared to Linux?

Compared to Solaris?

Compared to OS/2 Warp?

Compared to the completely underdeveloped operating systems of the time?

Don’t stop your comparisons at the low hanging fruit :D
Their cloud management and firewall situation is quite terrible. Not any better or worse than AWS or GCP or Azure, but still quite terrible.

It's actually quite neat for large deployments with thousands of containers so you don't need to manually interact with a billion firewalls by just generating all the cloud settings automatically, but for the free trial stuff you're going to need to brute force the security settings web interface until you've checked enough boxes to allow traffic on all ports.

As for the 2FA thing, IMO any cloud company like Oracle should enforce that. Companies get stuck with giant bills all the time because someone got into their cloud accounts and started spinning up crypto miners like crazy.

Jumping straight into the unnecessarily complicated world of Big Cloud seems like a challenging way to begin learning about servers, you'd probably be better off renting a small VPS somewhere instead. Or running a server in your home network, that'll also work just fine at first!
If you consider the winners to also be "dehumanised" by their ongoing winning in cultural and financial terms, as this Freire apparently did, then sure. But they themselves -- the ongoing winners -- certainly did not, that being the reason for their actions in the first place.

The other relevant opinion would be that of the "losers" -- the people oppressed by the winners. Did they feel that the winners were oppressing themselves? I'm certain they did not!

I think Freire is either deluded, or deliberately conflating the notion of what a powerful party views as good for itself with some higher, ethically tinged notion of how we all ought to behave.
Hell, hope it's the 1890s and not a speed run of the 1930s.
> We risk destroying the framework that enables valuable creative works or new technologies to be developed in the first place

I think we are starting to see not just historical empirical data but also strategic intelligence that this assumption might be somewhat inaccurate. - which is what Anna's archive is pointing out here in the context of AI development and copyright restrictions.
Looked through their privacy policy, and they state the collect and use basically everything they can from your browser & system metadata, to the content you share and/or create. Not that different from every other attempt in the frothy AI space, but a real turn-off and hard no for me.
I am surprised by how quickly I get downvoted to hell any time I try to propose that people should be compensated for their work fairly. And I get replies like the above, full of fallacies, which basically feel like trolling. So first, thank you for a sane reply.

Now, it boils down to the typical issue of a current system being bad and clearly not serving its stated purpose so the choice is whether to abolish it or whether to reform it (and how).

And just like any other time people have to agree on something, the simplest-to-describe solution (abolishing) will get a huge following because the more fair solutions (reform so it actually protects and rewards creators) are way, way more complex.

I fundamentally think if you build on other people's work, they deserve 1) credit 2) compensation according to what percentage of your work is based on theirs.

We could for example compare the performance of the same model depending on which parts of the training data you omit. If you omit all copyrighted work and the result is useless, we know the copyrighted work is responsible a large part of the value.
Always treat hardware you get from someone else as not just untrusted but hostile until proven beyond any reasonable doubt otherwise.

Put an OpenBSD machine to act as a router/firewall between supplied devices and your own network to keep things clean.
As per your second question the copyright office came out this week with the following guidance:

The new guidelines say that AI prompts currently don’t offer enough control to “make users of an AI system the authors of the output.”(AI systems themselves can’t hold copyrights.) That stands true whether the prompt is extremely simple or involves long strings of text and multiple iterations. “No matter how many times a prompt is revised and resubmitted, the final output reflects the user’s acceptance of the AI system’s interpretation, rather than authorship of the expression it contains,”

They are suppose to come out with guidance regarding the first question in a month or so.
>- look for the substantive reform, not lipstick on the pig

Mitch McConnell made it his personal mission to prevent "substantive reform" of any kind from being passed through the Senate.
Some of the comments here about ISP behaviour are crazy. Australia has had our fair share of fucking up the national internet infrastructure but at least I can pick pretty much any ISP and use any router I like. Haven't used an ISP supplied router in something like 15 years.
I voted for Jill Stein, so don't mistake me here, but the head administrator resigned a full week prior to this memo (rather than wait a few weeks to presumably be replaced normally) and an acting administrator has been put in since the memo. How is it this is evidence the memo will affect things when the exact opposite order of operations has occurred around it?

If one wants to complain about the perceived impacts the current administration as a whole will be having... well sure, there's always room for that. I'm talking about why the memo linked above doesn't seem related to the conversation it's in reply to though.
Absolutely. I think the rationalists feel this way too.
Irrespective of the product, I think that you could have posted without the pseudo cussing. Having a little respect for your audience, and trying to appear professional, goes a long way in attracting users.
Here's the interesting part: I have two Oracle Cloud accounts (one under a different name, basically made by a different person and I just manage it). That other account runs a Fediverse instance, basically a social network where images and posts are “federated”, which could practically mean ANY content, including the illegal kind.

If that account was nuked for disobeying the terms of service, I would've somehow understood the reason. Most likely because some CSAM was uploaded which was federated to my / Oracle's servers.

However, that server and account wasn't deleted. Only my account, which simply had a Nextcloud instance on it, was deleted in this strange way. Now, technically you could also host horrible stuff on Nextcloud, however I am VERY certain this isn't the case. Additionally, I think they'd need to tell me if that was the reason?

Everything about this is so strange.
If your responsibility is to the team's mission, and the end of this mission is not at hand, then there's really no limiting principle other than the number of butts-in-seats hours your work culture considers reasonable.
Ask HN: Which startups have huge/inspiring missions?
I see a lot of "AI for note taking" or "AI for hiring"... by this I mean I see a lot of startups that are working on kind of unambitious or uninspiring things (not to say they won't work or won't make money).

Where are the Tesla and SpaceX startups of today? Who is out there really trying to push the limits? Which startups are the most inspiring to you subjectively?

I'm sure they exist but am not super sure where to find them.
See maternal mortality in Texas.

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/12/06/texas-maternal-morta...
W.T.F.!?

Let us hope this is just a temporary thing.

Let us hope the disappearing data will resurface again at some point.

Let us hope this isn't driven by ideological motivations.

Sigh.