skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The TSA’s own internal tests have people getting handguns through.

And the results of those tests are widely misunderstood. Security isn't about a 100% success rate - that's the goal but not the outcome. It is about disrupting the planning process.

That someone, somewhere might sometimes get a gun through TSA security is one thing...but is that person intending to carry out a terrorist attack in doing so, or did they just leave it in their bag?

Is it possible for anyone to organize a coherent plan which involves as a first step smuggling weapons onto a plane in a way which is not more likely then not to be detected?

And is the correct conclusion from "in a test (where we motivated someone to try a plan they couldn't be sure would succeed but which would have no personal consequences for failure) they succeeded" that the security is pointless, or is it that they need to modify their procedures to improve the detection rate?
>Come on ... think!

Explain their moat to us dummies.
What may be useful is clear law that makes it mandatory to share energy usage over past 3 years or so and the associated costs.
That's been our experience as well. Just scrapping any of the metadata associated with the PDF and treating it like an image. Since you never know when a document has a screenshot of an excel table inside.

The .NORM files (https://xkcd.com/2116)
Probably not. Most statistics is new, due to the explosion of interest since the advent of computers.
Working for a cruise line, I got pulled out of line in Genoa, Italy and had my stuff searched for having a multi tool. Which they kept.

So it depends I guess.
Either bison or cattle will demonstrably work

No, this is demonstrably not true. Cattle graze differently than bison do. (See, e.g., https://westernwatersheds.org/gw-cattle-v-bison/)

Cattle graze in dense herds. Bison herds are more spread out.

Cattle move less frequently while grazing, and consume a significantly greater portion of the available foodmass in an area before moving on. Cattle also generally avoid native grasslands when possible; bison prefer native grasses.

Cattle consume significantly more water than bison.

Cattle hoves are duller than bison hooves, and impact the ground without cutting it up; bison hooves are sharp and essentially actual like natural tills.

Cattle can only graze during limited portions of the year and in limited terrains; bison can graze year-round and on a much wider variety of terrains.

Bison are able to generate more useful...plop...than cattle are due to the significant differences in their digestion. This plop is more suited for fertilizing natural grasses (for example, the "green wave" https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1913783116).
He's just being louder about it than most billionaires.
That's one of the things involved that should die, yes.
Genuine question: do people like having their websites move around while scrolling? Just show me the text
Sorry, I missed your reply!

Local LLMs previously weren't good enough, but I've recently done another set of benchmarks (https://nuenki.app/blog/llm_translation_comparison) and llama 3.3 70b is getting there with some languages. Currently I'm in the process of integrating it via Groq, but it could plausibly be done with local LLMs.

Above a certain scale I'll start self hosting, but I'm nowhere near justifying those fixed costs yet.

Would you prefer to run ollama locally, or just know that the translation server is running its own models rather than forwarding onto cloud providers?
There was an HN thread that talked about how “just” is a 4 letter word. It significantly risks underestimating emergent properties and behaviors.

Every time you see “X is just Y” you should think of emergent behaviors. Complexity is difficult to predict.

> R1 Zero has similar reasoning capabilities of R1 without requiring any SFT

In fact R1 zero was slightly better. This is an argument that RL and thinking tokens were a genuinely useful technique which I see as counter to the author’s thesis.

I also think a lot of what the author is referring to was more generously arguing against next token prediction (exact match of an answer) rather than the sequence-level rewards in R1.
> When people delegate their brains to others

I dunno, Linux distros have a pretty good track record at the same problem, over multiple decades of evidence.

The difference is that they don't allow self-publication. Canonical and Red Hat et. al. work downstream of an active community of developers cross-attesting good software. So their problem becomes "This software is known to be good, let's package it!". So to get malware into the machines of users it's not enough to fool the users, you need to fool the packagers too. And it happens, but very rarely (c.f. the xzutils mess from last year).

Node and similar repositories thought they could short-circuit that process, and as has been extensively documented, it doesn't work because users are too lazy to authenticate their own software.
https://archive.ph/1tV88
So, since both sides are easy to state but hard to prove, we should conclude that this is an uncertain matter, right?
Identifying scheming in the latent streams would be harder as you would have an extra layer of obfuscation between you and the model’s reasoning.
"Quasi"?

The only argument for increasing the population, given the so-called "demographic crisis" is becuase the modern economic system is a ponzi scheme.

The human population is massively over bloated, and straining every physical resource on the planet. But our universal system of make belive, in a word "finance", overrides physical reality and calls for an ever increasing population, to support ever growing uber wealth.

Just as a clarification: make believe can form very valuable models that are very useful in physical reality. But it is important to remember what is real and what is make believe. Physical resources can't endure ever increasing utilization, whereas a make belive resource, like ever increasing debt, with the right guard rails, can be sustained.
HN appears to be obsessed with killer whales eating great white sharks.
Well the nonprofit theoretically controls the for-profit, so the argument would be that the subsidiary for profit is somehow worth more than its parent? It’s a complicated legal structure but I don’t think that could be true.
> the name that was given to you when you were born

Try telling that to Queen Victoria.
The safest cars basically saturated the safety tests. To the point where car companies are making up their own tests, simulating much more dangerous collisions.
you now have a significant percentage of the educated populace thinks he's an asshole at best and fascist at worst; this was most not the case before he bought twitter and went full-MAGA

I'd call that a fail.

Also, he was supposed to "save" Twitter and make it into a bigger social network and "everything app" (like WeChat). He instead decimated its revenue and so poisoned the brand that it'll never become an "everything app" other than among the same people buying $Trump coins.
this is from Jan 30th, 2025. Also I thought Microsoft was infamous for performance based cuts
Dupe (309 points, 2 hours ago, 256 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43004889
> killing off the independent alternatives to Reddit/Disqus

I haven't encountered a captcha using Lemmy. There might be one on some servers for account creation.
>He then went on to what he considered dangerous and mentioned a couple of powders which you can easily bring on board which are much more devastating.

So this is why we also can't bring own cocaine on board in addition to not having own booze. What a shame
Microsoft is the most influential business wise, and they did not align themselves with the new administration.
Super neat. Worth noting that some of these, e.g. Reverse-Scrolling Columns and Horizontal Scroll Section, kill the ability to use the macOS trackpad to swipe through history on Chrome.
I'm not deflecting I think we just have different points of view.

> The point ... is to defeat them while you can.

That can be your point, and with that framing almost anything is permissible!
My point is generally to let free, open democracy run its course without putting our fingers on the scale too much.

I'm not scared of people doing a salute in the style of a movement that's been dead for almost a century. I'm not scared of communists flags or chants, or people chanting from the river to the sea. I think it's all healthy as long as it's non violent. The argument that it leads to violence is not logically sound and very minority reportesque.
If Firefox does release support, it shouldn’t be long before adoption is widespread:
> Since Mozilla throttles the rollout of a new version (incrementally upgrading the percentage of the population getting upgrades), it takes about four weeks for about 70% of clients to upgrade before stabilizing.

https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity
When I'm reading? No. I don't want a unique experience to consume your text context.

There are some websites where this is done and it's really cool, but I'm not there to read text on those websites.
> For example, Obama's decision to nullify immigration law as it applied to "dreamers"

And you support this, I’m assuming?
He's only 50% evil :)
The US could also have a migrant worker program a la Singapore
We live in wild times, where billionaires share pathetic quips on social media. Like they are 12 and on a playground.
Turns out there's a lot of hardcore porn on Australian government websites
If pre-Musk twitter was in the hands of censorship, what is it now? By all accounts it is a bot-infested echo chamber for his own bizarre obsessions where dissent is quickly stamped out.
TFA was a detailed explanation of a specific and complex failure. The comment was essentially "works for me", which, compared to that, was not useful.
> But I've seen plenty of developers cry that they need 256 GB RAM and 36 CPUs to do React front-end development.

Seems a bit hyperbolic. I do front-end development, and upgraded from a 5yr old 13" MBP with 16gb of ram to a 16" M4 Pro with 48gb, and a second lesser M3 Pro for a client. Both are fantastic, and probably the minimum I'd bother trying to work with professionally, anything down to M1 Max would likely be fine, but anything older or with less ram might be too sluggish to be palatable, and it would introduce more friction than necessary. There's not much of a direct time savings to be argued for, but plenty of less obvious pain points that just add up and become irritating when there are better tools one could be working with.
Or the SR-71...
https://archive.today/wo0uB
Well, they'll end up having to convince a judge that that those "non-market forces" are worth $50 billion+. Good luck!
Since sales taxes are added at the time of purchase in North America, none of that ends up mattering because the randomness of someone's shopping cart plus the percentage of sales tax makes it impossible to price your inventory in such a way as to consistently benefit the retailer.

Worth mentioning that despite not having a one-cent denomination, products are still priced in cents - e.g. in Canada you still price something at $2.79 even though we have no pennies. It's only at the payment step, when cash is being used, that anything is rounded off.

I mean, retailers could certainly increase their shelf prices, but if they were going to do that they would do so anyway, and the $X.99 pricing pattern exists for a reason so there's not really anywhere to increase those prices by some small amount that wouldn't put people off anywa.
I think there are people who like the aesthetic. I don’t think many put thought to whether they objectively like the concept of it.

Given the choice of a page with information readily available or a page where you have to scroll and it does whacky animations to present the information.. I don’t think many would choose that.
I see clear sentiment change in HN. And that is why I love this forum. People here do change their opinions when presented with facts :)
Proud to be a member of the community.
> something you can almost self-teach from widely available free online content.

I think you massively underestimate just how much data is online for everything, especially once you include books which are freely available on every possible subject (illegally, perhaps, but if Meta can download them for free then so can everyone else).

There's less noise for many other subjects than for software engineering, there's often just a couple rather than 100s of competing ways to do everything. There might just be one coursebook rather than 1000s of tutorials. But the data for self teaching is absolutely there.
Tested a starlink in a depopulated outer suburb of a city and it performed worse than our government copper vdsl. Lifted that very antenna inland 400km and suddenly it was performing perfectly.

This is part of the issue. You really do need to "Suck it and see" when it comes to starlink. Is the ground station over subscribed? The Satellite? Its not like their support will tell you anything.

There's nothing wrong with having alternatives, I put my father on to starlink because his area is perfect for it. But there are cheaper alternatives in metro areas. I was slinging 2-300M 60GHz links for cheaper than starlink 6 years ago. 60GHz is getting cheaper and faster at an impressive pace. I worked on a POC in canada for 5GHz at 80MHz that was doing 150M for residential. Half the price of Starlink.
His personal contribution was $20 Billion. The rest was other investors and loans Twitter is responsible for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquisition_of_Twitter_by_Elon...
Slightly off topic, I rarely see paper talks about their failed training runs, and why those runs failed. This paper is definitely a breath of fresh air. And their analyses of their failures, the changes they made to fix them, and the rational behind that, are all very insightful.
This was old news decades ago[0] but people don’t want to hear it.

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainstream_Science_on_Intell... an editorial written to tell the public that this is not some shocking, fringe claim. You can follow links from the page for the full text.
Deep Dive into Matrix Optimization on AMD GPUs
No idea. megacli was always a weird program you had to sort sneak on the server however you could fit it. it got renamed to cmdtool at some point(I think because intel were shipping lsi cards). Honestly I am fairly happy we no longer use hardware raid here. Too many mysteries.
Is there a theory as to why? Do we just taste bad? Something else?
The Quest to Save the World's Rarest Pasta
First off, thanks for providing all of the moderation energy and you clearly maintain a level of civility on hacker news across a wide range of controversial topics.

However, I think placing this long list of stories all under the same MOT demonstrates that conversation is "happening", but at the same time it isn't really happening.

One of the key strategies used by Trump and Putin is to flood the zone (“Flood the zone with shit”: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/1/16/20991816/i...)

As an example, the parent story of this comment is no longer on the front page and instead of anything related to Musk at the fed there is now another distraction about him trying to buy OpenAI.

I haven't read all of the above articles, but from just a cursory glance it looks like many different important events are happening. If they happened one at a time over the course of a year no one would consider it MOT, but because its all happening in the same week it gets mashed together. Individual stories quickly fall off the front page.
Isn't the authentication unidirectional? Alice can confirm its Bob, or Bob can confirm its Alice, but they can't both be sure they are talking to the real person.

"Malice" could ask Bob for his code, and lie about it matching (or maybe Malice has no code at all and is pretending to match), lulling Bob into thinking that authentication was successful based on taking Malice's word for it.

Seems like you would need two codes for mutual authentication. One for Alice to Bob, and one for Bob to Alice.
Oh, I didn't realize he freed twitter from the clutches of censorship...
China also has security checks, I believe.
So who maintains the database? Or is it hashed? Or what?
Seems like a textbook example of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
Amazing work! Thanks for sharing
That's why we don't call them Sea Pandas
For this to become true, agents first have to transcend 'chatbot' as the primary interaction layer.

There's a reason we're still using apps instead of talking to Siri…for a huge number of tasks, visual UIs are so much more efficient than long-form text.
a=0 at cruise.

you're thinking of the drag equation, where force is proportional to velocity squared.
I recall some major US chain (TJ Maxx? JC Penney? Target? Something?) that decided to start pitching some kind of 'honest pricing' scheme, where all their stuff was just rounded up, so instead of $24.99 it would be priced at $25 flat.

A noble goal, but it apparently backfired on them spectacularly because of the same reason why retailers did that in the first place.
> Try this: touch a; ls -?

I don't see it. What are you trying to show with 'a' instead of '-l'? Why would a file named 'a' interact with a glob like '-?'?

$ touch a
$ ls -?
zsh: no matches found: -?
$ bash -c 'ls -?'
ls: invalid option -- '?'
Try 'ls --help' for more information.
$ dash -c 'ls -?'
ls: invalid option -- '?'
Try 'ls --help' for more information.
$ touch ./-l
$ ls -?
.rw-rw-r-- 0 user 10 Feb 18:32 -l
.rw-rw-r-- 0 user 10 Feb 18:31 a
In 2024 we spent $1.5T via Social Security so that 70 million people could be economically unproductive. We're a wealthy country that can afford many little dalliances to expand our understanding of the natural world (which so far has been a prerequisite to human flourishing).
I've never used little snitch but I'm betting Simplewall is what you probably want on Windows.
So opposition spending $250M to win an election and then given control over government spending by that same president, while owning companies that have billions in government contracts, is Marxism? In most non-Marxist democratic countries, the above would be considered corruption.
A lot of people are unsurprisingly throwing shade on Musk being involved here but I think it's really important to understand what this is fundamentally about: stopping or fundamentally changing OpenAI's plans to be spun off.

The issue at hand is that OpenAI (the private, currently "capped profit" entity, henceforth in this post referred to as OpenAI-P) is trying to get spun out of control of the OpenAI non-profit (henceforth referred to as OpenAI-NP).

In order to do this, OpenAI-P must compensate OpenAI-NP for its ownership of OpenAI-P. Currently they are trying to value this at $40B. This is a swindling for numerous reasons. Firstly, OpenAI-NP has complete control over OpenAI-P. They OpenAI-NP board can do whatever it wants with OpenAI-P. OpenAI-P has some financial obligations to those who have purchased its PPU (its equity instrument) but ultimately OpenAI-NP controls OpenAI-P and could do whatever it wants with it (eg shut it down, fire Sam Altman on a whim, etc). Further, the cashflows that OpenAI-NP still has ownership of are, at least under the claims of people like Sam A, clearly worth dramatically more than the $40B valuation would imply.

In addition, the OpenAI-NP mission is "Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence—AI systems that are generally smarter than humans—benefits all of humanity". The control of the leading AI Lab is the only way that they can possibly live up to their mission. To abdicate control of OpenAI-P is to abdicate their mission. If the OpenAI-NP board follows their mission as they are obligated to, they cannot possibly be willing to abdicate this control and they must surely value it far beyond $40B.

EDIT TO ADD TL;DR -
Musk is trying to force OpenAI to value OpenAI-NP's stake in OpenAI-P at a reasonable level which is far greater than the current $40B which will help Musk by potentially derailing OpenAI-P's goal to be spun off.
> its criticisms—while often valid—are entirely one-sided

If the criticisms are valid but one sided, then is it a problem with the ABA, or is that the two sides aren’t equivalent?
And in trouble with the SEC by claiming someone he was going to take Tesla private.
I've been writing elixir for years (i think since 0.14?) and have been writing liveview for years. I'm all in on elixir in general, but I'm not sure I'd use liveview for another big project. Maybe it's just rose colored glasses because the TS/React world certainly has its own issues, but I think TS/react and regular old phoenix is a sweet spot. The composability of live view components still has a number of footguns (duplicate IDs, etc) and I think it has higher coupling than a nicely structured react app. You also have to treat liveviews and components fairly differently. All these design choices are for good reason, but it ends up being annoying in a large app. Also in deeply nested trees with lots of component reuse, static typing from TS really helps with refactors. As the projects grew to be large, I think I'm more productive with phoenix/TS than I am with phoenix/liveview.

I think there's a certain class of small to medium sized application (I'm building several) where liveview can be a good fit, but after writing it professionally and in hobby projects for several years, I'm less convinced that it's a great solution everywhere.
Alexa/Siri/Google Assistant.

Except this time with full admin access to everything.
I don't think what makes PDF an 'unfortunate' format for (1) editing, (2) on-device reading, and (3) extraction of semantic information (as opposed to presentational information) is any sin on Adobe's part nor 'bloat.'

It's a page description format, not a data format, so all its decisions follow from the need to ensure that you and I can both print the same 'page' even if we use different operating systems, software, printers, exact paper dimensions, etc. I suspect the main reason it holds on so well is that so many things operate in a document paradigm, where 'document' means 'collection of sheets of paper.' Everything from the After-Visit Summary from the doctor, to your car registration document already has a specific visual representation chosen to allow them to fit sensibly and precisely on sheets of paper.

Could HTML (say, with data URLs for its images and CSS so that it can stand on its own), or ePub be a better format in most ways? Sort of, but it is optimized for such a different goal that if you went in to evangelize that switch to everyone who makes PDFs today, you'd be met with frustration that the content will look a bit different on every device, and that depending on settings, even the page breaks would fall differently.

Relatedly, it's interesting to me that even Google Docs, which I suspect are printed or converted to PDF far less than half the time, defaults to the "paged" mode (see Page Setup) that shows document page borders and margins, instead of the far more useful "Pageless" mode which is more like a normal webpage that fits to window and scrolls one continuous surface endlessly.
> I don't quite understand how he suddenly got so much influence.

memetics
And Tesla, who (in)famously doesn't regularly publish their GPL-derived codebases.
That’s true at normal levels of rich. But at Musk levels I’m not so sure. Even Twitter paid off handsomely even though he ran its financials into the ground, because he leveraged it to elect Trump, and immediately became worth $100B more the day after the election.
Discussion on the pasta (44 points, 2 months ago, 45 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42500244

BBC article on the same (2022): https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20161014-the-secret-behin...