skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When the government actually cares, they're able to track these things down. But they don't except in high profile cases.
A Pinch of Salt Boosts Aluminum Batteries
For context, this is likely related to an Elon Musk tweet earlier today https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1887185381797343504 quoting Ian Miles Cheong

> Can someone explain to me why the Department of Defense provided $9,147,532.00 to Reuters for "ACTIVE SOCIAL ENGINEERING DEFENSE (ASED) LARGE SCALE SOCIAL DECEPTION (LSD)"
Google was not serious about LLMs, they could not even figure what to call it. There is always a risk that they will get bored and just kill the whole thing.
Why? The number of federal employees has hovered around 2 million for decades even though the population has grown. Sounds pretty efficient to me
One of the most useful skills I gained from programming competitions is the ability to write and debug an algorithm in my head. And I suspect your 60-page design document was written by essentially doing the same thing: coming up with a prototype design, and mentally testing it against the use cases to figure out if the design is workable, and committing the notes to paper only after you confirmed that it worked in your head.
What’s missing in that analogy is that humans tend to have a good hunch about when they have to think more and when they are “done”. LLMs seem to be missing a mechanism for that kind of awareness.
OK, I see, pity. I'm interested in similar applications but in contexts where the material is proprietary and might contain PII.
I analogize this with sleep. Perhaps that is what is needed, 6 hours offline per day to LoRa the base model on some accumulated context from the day.
Interim CEO Tom Conrad's letter to employees: https://www.sonos.com/en-us/newsroom/sonos-announces-restruc...
This is to be expected for /r/all. But who cares because why would anyone want to go there in the first place? In general once something becomes a certain size wrt users, its value to those users plummets. The only thing to do is leave.
if only these models were good at web development and could be used in agentic frameworks to build high quality website... wait...
Slack can't just willy-nilly hand over US government data to the public. There's a process that needs to be followed for FOIA requests as some classes of information are just not public. In fact, most of the data on a government Slack server would probably fall under those FOIA exemptions.
Talk about the people you are gathering together in the district.
>With color e-paper technology, a display consumes virtually no power when displaying a static image – though with clear limitations.
NES Zelda Recreation in Python with the Pyxel Retro Game Engine
See, again: this is how message board logic turns these kinds of guides into LARPs. "Turn off your cellular connection whenever you need to not be tracked. Also use ProtonVPN."
for the record, not everyone in the US thinks the sky is falling. it's the same extremely vocal groups as before that do, from what i can see.

Some of us are cautiously optimistic.
Because to certain people, when a company lowers prices to compete because of an increase in supply, it's the competitive free market doing its things (not generosity), but when they increase prices because of a decrease in supply, it's greed.
You said

> neither Obama nor Biden went to war.

I believe this is false.
Agree, BM25 honestly does an amazing job on its own sometimes, especially if content is technical.

We use it in combination with semantic but sometimes turn off the semantic part to see what happens and are surprised with the robustness of the results.

This would work less well for cross-language or less technical content, however. It's great for acronyms, company or industry specific terms, project names, people, technical phrases, and so on.
> OpenAI's defense, which I am not in a position to verify, is that ChatGPT can not be used to reproduce NYT's articles verbatim without a great deal of prompt engineering.

That's really stupid. It's akin to claiming that I can serve pirated copyrighted content from my server, just as long as it's served from a really convoluted path. If you can get to it through any path, it's infringing. The path literally doesn't matter; it's a total red herring.

> Furthermore the verbatim reproductions that ChatGPT did end up producing after these 10000 prompts are available on numerous public websites unaffiliated with NYT.

Also stupid. So it's only piracy if you download it from the original source, and somehow not-piracy if you download it from another pirate? Or every single commercially released movie is fair game to distribute, because they're already being served up on numerous pirate BitTorrent sites?
Good article. For me, this is the fundamental concept:

> Both Norvig and Jeffries are genre programmers; they have spent most of their career solving a specific kind of problem. And that problem, inevitably, lends itself to a particular kind of solution.

I wish more people would be circumspect about the genre of problem they're trying to solve and how their framing railroads them into a particular type of solution that might have a better method.
> DOGE is private citizens giving their opinions about how the government should work to a politician who happens to be listening to them

No, DOGE was formalized as a division of the US Digital Service. Employees of DOGE are federal government employees. Some of them, like Elon are "Special Government Employees" which is a short-term category and avoids certain disclosures.

Creating DOGE and enabling them to have access to certain IT systems is legal ... but what data, how much control they have, what they can demand of other departments is subject to all sorts of laws and controls which may or may not be being followed at the moment.
Sad, for sure.
Take a screenshot of the pdf page and give that to the LLM and see if it can be processed.

Your PDF might have some quirks inside which the LLM cannot process.
What's the iptables invocation that will let my 10Gbps connection drop a a 100Gbps syn flood while also serving good traffic?
you mean like Time magazine or LA Weekly?
Check out Andurils Anvil
I'm married to someone who grew up on a chicken farm, have never so much as threatened to own a chicken, and still hear the litany of how awful chickens are at least a couple times a year. They're apparently really, really nasty animals.
It is also a bundler and minifier and dead code tree-shaker. It combines all your modules into one file (or a few) for production. In development it doesn’t do the bundling part (for now — with Rolldown[0] replacing Rollup[1] in the future, bundling will be fast enough to do the same in dev and prod).

It also serves as an integration point for other kinds of tooling that involves processing or generating code. For example, the latest versions of React Router[2] (which now integrates Remix's features) and Tailwind[3] are designed primarily to be integrated into projects as Vite plugins.

[0]: https://rolldown.rs/

[1]: https://rollupjs.org/

[2]: https://reactrouter.com/home#react-router-as-a-framework

[3]: https://tailwindcss.com/blog/tailwindcss-v4#first-party-vite...
Let's say I'm doing all of those things, and am prepared to atone for my sins.

And I just want to know what you found echo chamberry about the other comment. Can you enlighten me? Maybe that way I can avoid all of the mistakes that I'm making.
Edit: Whoops. I incorrectly believed that Caffe was developed with DARPA support. I see DARPA acknowledgments on papers written at BLVC by some of the same authors, but not on Caffe itself.
Won't somebody please think of the AI?
Loved it! I'm so so at chess but was able to get it in 3 tries. Nice execution with the UI.
Huh. In that case, the upthread commenter likening the new model to being more "linux-like" seems confusing.

Given that they didn't mention which Linux security model the new system was like, I presumed they meant the most commonly referenced model for performing administrative tasks: sudo/doas - which elevates a process for its entire runtime.

But if it's a per-operation model, I guess they might have been comparing it to the "desktop portal"/"policykit-dbus" model instead? Which does kind of fit, but I don't think is the security model that most people think of when someone says "linux-like just-in-time escalation"?
I would say an extraordinary amount of effort from foreign adversaries had to be undertaken to get that outcome.

Careful not to assume the public is composed of rational actors all of whom have good information, when they're demonstrably not and haven't. Drawing people's attention to the ongoing issues can result in a huge amount of buyer's remorse among people who tried hard not to pay attention to the election in hopes things could be more 'normal' if they voted for what they thought would be the political party they knew.
BOYCOTT TESLA, TWITTER and SPACEX.
TESLA SALES PLUMMETED in the UK, France, and Germany.
TESLA SALES PLUMMETED 60% in January in Germany compared to the same period last year.

The world is watching. You guys in America better fix this shit. And fast.
You're hysterical. Trump hasn't suspended habeas corpus, nor can he, nor has he even said he would. He claimed about ten thousand times, probably literally as many times as that, that he would put Hillary Clinton in prison. Has he? Has he even tried? Anybody who takes his bullshit at face value is a moron.

This country is filled with tens of millions of people openly defying Trump. None of them have been illegally arrested for it, none of them have been assassinated for it. Reddit's executive team isn't on the run from Trumpian death squads trying to murder them for defying Trump. There is no credible threat to people for defying Trump, least of all to people with the extreme resources available to Zuckerberg and Bezos.
If I were hosting a web page, I would want it to be able to reach as many people as possible. So in choosing between CDNs, I would choose the one that provides greater browser compatibility, all other things equal. So in principle, the incentives are there for Cloudflare to fix the issue. But the size of the incentive may be the problem. Not too many customers are complaining about these non-mainstream browsers.
I imagine the legality of that depends on the exact details of the law that created the organization. If it specifies that it be an independent organization, then that's probably not allowed either. If it's just "these things must be done" then State could probably handle it.

(Either way, the exact approach they've taken so far with the total freeze and shutdown, then later saying they'll totally start doing the job again somewhere else later on, seems sketchy.)
He didn't even get a majority of the 60% of voter aged Americans who voted.
You’re upset that reality aligns with the rhetoric? Why not just accept that maybe there is something to the rhetoric?
Yeah, I think both of the following would have worked if they wanted the password involved in a cache key and they wanted bcrypt to be used:

* bcrypt(SHA-512(PW || stuff))

* SHA(stuff || bcrypt(PW))

Disclaimer: Not cryptography advice.

It's still unclear to me why the password is in there.
I guess I'll save a click for other readers. The post linked is completely unrelated to the subject of this thread. This person isn't interested in real conversation.
yes, the people choosing to stalk, assault, molest are the problem and I’m sorry you experienced that and its good you found a mitigation.

its important that everyone else knows this has no bearing on whether they can approach at all, and simply choose not to stalk, assault, molest.

the issue (and proof) is the lack of accountability to those that harassed you, lots of guys believe they will be marked as one of those harassers from simply saying hi. when its much more likely thats not so, and the issue becomes the lack of accountability for the person overfitting and accusing in their attempt to filter out actual harassers

we can create accountability in both scenarios.
This will not turn out how Musk, Trump, Republicans and conservatives think it will.

Remember the "Canadian Pharmacy" spamming 2000-2010? Right after the Soviet Union collapsed and all their spies and hackers were out on the street, with no prospects of a good job.
> Is it your position then that the president can legally wield any power described in any legislation?

I think Myers v. United States was correctly decided: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/272/52/#tab-opin...

"The vesting of the executive power in the President was essentially a grant of the power to execute the laws. But the President, alone and unaided, could not execute the laws. He must execute them by the assistance of subordinates. This view has since been repeatedly affirmed by this Court. Wilcox v. Jackson, 13 Peters 498, 38 U. S. 513; United States v. Eliason, 16 Peters 291, 302; Williams v. United States, 1 How. 290, 42 U. S. 297; Cunningham v. Neagle, 135 U. S. 1, 135 U. S. 63; Russell Co. v. United States, 261 U. S. 514, 261 U. S. 523. As he is charged specifically to take care that they be faithfully executed, the reasonable implication, even in the absence of express words, was that, as part of his executive power, he should select those who were to act for him under his direction in the execution of the laws."

The Constitution, of course, imposes limits on executive power, and statutes create private rights and obligations and provide procedures and substantive standards. But if the executive power otherwise may be exercised, Congress cannot constitutionally insulate the exercise of that power from the President's influence. Put differently, the procedural framework of a law can't merely be there to insulate the exercise of executive power from the President's influence.

To address your examples:

> Can he, for example, raise and lower interest rates over the objection of the Fed?

Probably.

> Approve an IPO that the SEC rejected?

It depends. The securities laws regulate private conduct--that's important--and impose various standards and procedures. So the president can't alter private rights without following those procedures and standards. But can the president supervise and direct how the SEC does it's job? Yes. The Arthrex case is relevant here: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/19-1434_ancf.pdf.

> Lend money to his supporters through the SBA and deny loan applications from his adversaries? Refuse to deliver Hunter Biden's mail?

No to both, because nobody at SBA or USPS could permissibly do those things.
Termite Architecture [video]
"childhood household income. That transcends race or gender"

vs

"targeting childhood household income will see representation of the groups you're trying to help drop to nearly zero"

Did you misunderstand the point? It seems right that if you want to help poor people, you should target poor people, how could that be counterproductive?
there were suppose to be protests today in all 50 States. I saw nothing about that on mainstream media.
Thanks for sharing, I've been thinking about what you wrote and I'm glad that despite the challenges, you felt you were still able to gain understanding from what happened.
https://archive.is/SgIsR
You can just pull this up in FRED and match the spikes to HPAI outbreaks. People aren't making this up. If it's a spurious correlation, it's a really weird and powerful one.
Bill Gates' mom + top guy at IBM = Microsoft DOS/Windows (a bad copy of Jobs/Wozniak's work).

https://silview.media/2020/10/16//microsoft-created-by-ibm-t...

Gates' mother Mary Maxwell was a board member of United Way, along with John Opel, the chief executive officer of IBM who approved the inclusion of MS/DOS with the original IBM PC.
> In a post on Bluesky, former Republican strategist Stuart Stevens called the takeover of the Treasury’s systems as “the most significant data leak in cyber history,” adding: “Private individuals in the data business now have access to your Social Security information.”
Traditional Methods of Black Magic
Judicial branch has basically no enforcement. They can judge all they like, if the other branches or even states tell them to shove it up their ass, what can they do?

Not long ago Hawaii told the Supreme Court 'spirit of aloha' and the broken paddle trumps _Bruen_. And nothing stops them, the Supreme court has a few armed marshalls and little else.
A wild take only possible if you don't understand how the Internet works.
Just to bring some context around what fentanyl weights.

- Fentanyl is ~100 times more potent than morphine

- 2mg can kill

- Medical use is around 100ug/hour for patches
Derek Lowe: Revised and Extended: What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF
If we step away from the traffic controllers nonsense for a moment, the actual problem sounded like a military pilot to me. It's my understanding that people who have a family line of pilots go into that funnel knowing a specific nepotism related result occurs such that when it comes time to become a commercial pilot you are probably from such a family.

I have no idea if helicopter pilots work the same way or are starting to work the same way, but whenever I see a BS move like this I think that there's probably an opposite interpretation that doesn't fit what their demographic wants to hear.
I lost 1-2 videos due to a lost hard drive, but I have not found alternative video hosting. Any that you recommend?
I do not get why electing a leader with anti democratic tendencies should be viewed as the pinnacle of democracy
> DEI advocates came up with DEI to do precisely what you suggest - the right wing rebranded it as “everyone hates white men”

Ironic that you're posting this on a story that shows DEI was applied in exactly the opposite way you're claiming, because certain people passed the AT-SAT at higher rates so they had to be eliminated from consideration before they could even take it.
International stocks will beat US stocks over next decade: Vanguard Group (2018)
I think this is probably accurate and what remains to be seen is how "compressible" the larger models are.

The fact that we can compress a GPT-3 sized model into an o1 competitor is only the beginning. Maybe there is even more juice to squeeze there?

But even more, how much performance will we get out of o3 sized models? That is what is exciting since they are already performing near Phd levels on most evals.
In American democracy winning a single election doesn't change the constitution or even the laws at all. There are separate processes for those things that haven't happened. The monetary decisions the executive branch is making right now are explicitly reserved for Congress, which notably hasn't passed a law for it.

Voting for someone doesn't imply they aren't bound by existing rules.

Edit: There's also more to be said here about restrictions on American democracy (e.g. gerrymandering, first past the post, disenfranchisement, financial barriers to entry for candidates, lack of choice for political parties, etc) that make the US not some bastion for democratic governance. I'm not an expert but the current chaos is at least partially enabled by the flaws in American democracy (rigid 2 party control is a good example of a generally undemocratic force, many Americans would prefer more parties but aren't being represented, that is enabling executive overreach).
bcrypt-pbkdf (used in OpenSSH) exists for that purpose.
I'm still waiting for a $150 refund from pieter levels from his crappy ai interior site, didn't log in once.
Also malicious compliance is an option. Maybe they could name a single person the official administrator, given them an office in a basement and officially comply, while effectively shutting everything down. The extent to which fulfilling the intent of legislation vs relying on the discretion of the executive to interpret it within, and as a matter of precedent deferring to executive discretion by default in court cases, probably enables many more abuses than have been contemplated prior to this presidency.
With the cross symbol I thought you were proposing to... Deal with doge in an unconventional, yet fast, disruptive and mangionesque way
10% is almost certain but yes I wasn’t adjusting for inflation.
What is a "junk" request? Is it hammering an expensive endpoint 5000 times per second, or just somebody using your website in a way you don't like? I've also been on both sides of it (on-call at 3am getting dos'd is no fun), but I think the danger here is that we've gotten to a point where a new google can't realistically be created.

The thing is that these tools are generally used to further entrench power that monopolies, duopolies, and cartels already have. Example: I've built an app that compares grocery prices as you make a shopping list, and you would not believe the extent that grocers go to to make price comparison difficult. This thing doesn't make thousands or even hundreds of requests - maybe a few dozen over the course of a day. What I thought would be a quick little project has turned out to be wildly adversarial. But now spite driven development is a factor so I will press on.

It will always be a cat and mouse game, but we're at a point where the cat has a 46 billion dollar market cap and handles a huge portion of traffic on the internet.
"used to be"? when? I had an L.A. Times subscription in high school and there was no way, even with 2 hours of bus ride a day plus lunch and breaks to finish that paper.

I think a lot of discourse is colored by the midwest. The midwest influenced movies (what does a US neighborhood look like? are there hills/trees/snow?), TV, radio, and literature. I imagine midwest newspapers to be like southern newspapers, 2-3 broadsheets per section if that.

I wonder how many words i can write on this subject
Love the look under the hood! Specially discovering some AI hack I came up with is how the labs are doing things too.

In this case, I was also forcing R1 to continue thinking by replacing </think> with “Okay,” after augmenting reasoning with web search results.

https://x.com/0xmmo/status/1886296693995646989
That sounds weird. I can understand that you cannot take money that was promised for thing X and spend in thing Y but if you can reduce the X spending I don't think there is any issue.

Now I do not know if Congress has explicitly required X to provide certain thing. If they did then there might be some issue if X fails to provide it. It's probably easy to say someone is accountable for it if it's something objective (let's say building for Congress) but if it's subjective it could get tricky.
Now just imagine every future administration does this, and we have more or less returned to the Spoils System through a loophole.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoils_system
Ask HN: GraphQL will enable generative UI's?
I was studying more about graphql, having used it for years. There has been many phases of critiques towards the technology/paradigm; however, there is something interesting about it's role in a world of agentic AI.

If queries can be dynamically written on the fly, we wouldn't need automation/agent to interact with the UI (as is the case with chatGPT operator or anthropic computer use). Instead, an intelligence layer for the frontend could dynamically query based on a graphQL schema and render with some basic html elements.

Thoughts?
This whole operation is as related to finding corruption exhibits as the Moscow trials were to finding traitors in the Red Army.

It is a (ridiculous) pretext for purging the system from people that the new power deems “uncooperative”.