skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had several comments. I posted below but here are some

This was my first and only research paper submission under my MS in Systems Engineering. It wasn’t a requirement but the department head was impressed that any Masters student might try to submit at all.

It was to IEEE. Maybe that was hard mode? It was for a Cloud Conference in 2023.

One of the comments

“ This paper shows a linear programming problem to address cloud security. It's not clear why the LP program addresses security. Comparison with SOTA is also lacking.”

“ The paper attempts a fresh perspective on Cloud Security Decisions using a well-known approach.
Unfortunately, as currently presented, it does not deliver any significant research results, and thereby its contribution is limited.
The paper as formulated is closer to a vision paper -- not that it actually is -- than to a research paper. This reviewer notes the limited results. No surprises, the paper is also missing an evaluation analysis of the results.”

I had evaluation of results. I had never heard of a vision paper.

This was one of the better comments that actually provide the best feedback. The section that they mention was exceptionally long was my literature review:

“ This paper describes the idea of leveraging linear programming to determine how to allocate security resources in the cloud.

It would be better if the paper focused more on describing the proposed solution. The current description in Sec III is insufficient. First, there are many assumptions that were made to explain and formulate the linear programming for security resource allocation. These assumptions need to be explained further, e.g., to provide information on parameterizing values such as the budget and weights. Second, it would be better if the paper describes the system models based on a current cloud service provider so that the discussion is more concrete.

The implementation section can be reduced significantly, e.g., the Sec V.B. can be condensed to only show important lines of code.

There is no evaluation of the proposed solution. It is hard to assess how well the proposed solution will work without evaluating the formulation based on existing cloud service providers. Additionally, it is important to choose some baselines to compare the proposed solution.

The related work section takes 2 out of the 6 pages and feels unnecessarily long. It might be sufficient to describe how prior work solves this problem and how this paper differs.

A final remark is about the problem formulation. It is unclear what the challenges of allocating security resources are and how those challenges differ from other cloud-based resource allocation problems.”
No. Musk being a shithead does not vindicate a regime that routinely practices mass murder in flagrant violation of their own Constitution (which presumably only exists as a sick joke to them.) Article 35 of their Constitution guarantees free speech, but they murder people who try it. Read the rest of their Constitution while you're at it.

Even as a less than serious rhetorical argument, what you said is insane. Get a grip.
Ever since the salute thread, I have a lot of respect for you trying to continue these conversations. Thanks
I was wanting a graphic t shirt with a skull in be style of a topographic map, with the empty space between the ears labeled as the Gulf of America. Alas, I have art skills and didn’t want to fuss with midjourney for a result half way there only to realize I wasn’t ever goiing to pull the trigger.
Solution: giant tunnel to underground downtown terminal.

Planes land outside the city, taxi to the downtown terminal.
> Today, a tariff is quite literally the same thing as taxing Americans […]

Not just a tax, but a subsidy as well:

> Executives from U.S. steel companies were enthusiastic backers of the 2018 tariffs and have urged Trump to deploy them again in his second term. They have called for the elimination of tariff exemptions and duty-free import quotas, saying those carve-outs allow unfairly low-price steel to enter the U.S. and undermine the steel market.

[…]

> Higher prices for imported steel are often followed by domestic suppliers raising their own prices, which then get passed through supply chains, manufacturing executives said. For consumers already reeling from rising retail prices and inflation, pricier steel and aluminum could further lift costs for durable goods like appliances and automobiles, as well as consumer products with aluminum packaging, such as canned beverages.

> “The issue with tariffs is everybody raises their prices, even the domestics,” said Ralph Hardt, owner of Belleville International, a Pennsylvania-based manufacturer of valves and components used in the energy and defense industries. Steel and aluminum are Belleville’s largest expenses.

* https://www.wsj.com/economy/trade/trump-tariffs-mexico-canad...

Why not just go directly to the subsidy and skip taxing the public?
The school shooters do that because it's shocking and gets in the news. We have so many crowded situations throughout the world where an equal splash could be made.

We need about as much security around the airport as we need around a subway or a concert.

After the dark knight shooting, we didn't find the need to put up xray scanners in every movie theater. It's dumb to do that with airports.

Were I to guess, the reason we focus so heavily on airports is because our lawmakers fly more than most of the population. The theater is likely their safety blanket.
> “I don’t trust employers anymore,” Lee said. “I was under the mindset previously, ‘Oh, this is my family. This is my professional home.’ I no longer have those thoughts.”

https://xkcd.com/1053/
The spark was the Paris agreement and Europe pledging to reduce their CO2 emissions. EVs were already a common sight in France way before Tesla.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_electric_vehicles_in_F...

I think your narrative is correct in the US, but not in the rest of the world.
You don't think it's hard to alter or completely redesign the human body to make it compatible with living on Mars?

Ok, bud, whatever you need to tell yourself. I'm done here.
Buy an existing business.

If you have any cash saved up, this would be a way to go because:

- cash flow
- existing customer base to talk to
- product - market fit has happened (hopefully)

You'll get a crash course in everything after the 0 to 1 phase of the business.

And you'll get some energy from talking to customers and building for them.

source: I'm doing that with https://www.fundedlist.com after many years of doing what you described.
Yet, according to a Wikipedia citation, Aquinas is a revered saint in Lutheranism. Which surprised the heck out of me.
I would tend to assume that "Harry" was short for "Harold", not that it was a standalone name.
I'm sympathetic to the sentiment - founding engineers take on much of the same effort and ups and downs as founders, the relative difference in stock is not commensurate with the work.

While I don't like VC math and we (I'm CEO and co-founder) at Aryn AI give more than 1% for founding engineers, numbers like 5% to 25% are really a reflection of the risk and not the work. Prior to an equity round, you can give that away and you're treating the founding engineers like minor founders. Post an equity round, there isn't enough left to give everyone that and still build a decent team.

After an equity round with decent funding for 2-3 years, the co-founders have convinced someone to part with lots of money with no guarantee of an exit. There are innumerable YC startups and well-known VC-backed companies that have been sold for parts. After an equity round, you are joining a startup with some runway that you would not have gotten on your own, and hopefully, working on an opportunity that is outsized. Otherwise, you shouldn't take it.

Outsized means that even if the founders are gazillionaires, you may be 1/20 of a gazillionaire, which is still a gazillionaire. Otherwise, it would have been better for everyone to have worked for some big tech firm anyways. It really is a zero to one game, and you don't get to do it often. So do it if its compelling and fun and the outsized reward is and has always been a lottery ticket.
Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion: Manned Aircraft Progress Report 1956-1958 [video]
I got this film digitized recently and it's really something. It was classified until 1985 and then just sitting in the vault at the National Archives until now. I put a little summary/highlights page with some key snips from the video and a few related links here: https://whatisnuclear.com/news/2025-02-03-declassified-nucle...
Good. I don’t know why Pride or Black History Month, which are activist / political things, were forced onto everyone’s calendars to begin with. To me it felt like Google employees were forcing their personal religion or politics on the entire world. As I recall, you could not remove these things from your calendar either, unless you chose to opt out of all official holidays as well. Even in Google apps at work. It was unprofessional and it should have never been this way.

That said, I agree with the article that this change is not happening because Google leaders or shareholders have changed how they think, but for other reasons. Personally, I think it is to avoid the antitrust scrutiny they deserve. Because they and other tech companies went along with the previous administration, they avoided things like investigations or fines or breakups. The right wants to enforce antitrust law and Trump has also said he would go after big tech, so this is a way to gain their support.
Washingtonians prefer we use Washington for the state and DC for the Federal District of Columbia.
What country were you in? I took two domestic flights within Japan last year, and it was crazy how similar it felt to boarding long-distance trains there. I showed my ticket, but did not need to present any form of personal ID, just the ticket. I checked two bags, then walked through a metal detector while passing my carry-on through a conveyor belt on the side.

When I take domestic flights within the US (between places like St. Louis, Denver, NYC, and LA), security takes far longer for several subtle reasons. Everyone has to show a government ID to a TSA employee (and get your photo checked against a database) before proceeding to the actual security lines. Then, most of the security lines use full-body scanners, not just metal detectors; some have moving parts and some don't, but they all require you to actually stand there for a second instead of just passing through. Every single person also has to take their shoes off before they go into those scanners, and you put your shoes through the same slower scanning system that the baggage goes through (which basically doubles the load and halves the bandwidth of the baggage conveyor belt).

In my experience, flying internationally out of/into the US (with both Japan and Canada as the other side) is no more security than flying domestically within the US. Which basically means we have full international-level security even for flying domestically here.
This effect is a particular favorite of Apple: https://www.apple.com/ipad-pro/
> Gulf of America is a more inclusive name anyway since both USA and Mexico are part of North America

gulf of america is not more inclusive. the "renaming" was not meant to be inclusive, it was very clearly meant to be divisive.

this is a similar argument to one often used when people call canadians americans: "umm, ackshully, canada is in north america, so it's correct to call them americans"

and of course the flaw in that argument is that literally nobody on earth considers canadians to be americans except people on the internet trying to sound smart.
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Circa 2010 he still had the image of being an outsider and optimist instead of whatever we've got going on today.
Was just talking to a Cambodian wildlife biologist about this very thing last night. In a South East Asian context rather than North American that is.
Some books I have read have left terms untranslated (typically rendered in italics) where the concept doesn't really translate. That might work quite well for master/sir.
And if you like that pdf you're going to love this declassified and recently digitized film: https://whatisnuclear.com/news/2025-02-03-declassified-nucle...
I'm not going to be as extreme as saying "california has integrity". But California was wise to prioritize its people over a robber baron who's just mad his cars weren't selling. He probably still couldn't buy off CA to this day.

Switching to a side of fellow billionaire politicians was simply a way to be among his own people, with similar levels of empathy for the working class.

>By moving much faster than the bureaucracy and legal system can respond, the question on whether he has the power or authority to do the things he's doing may become moot.

I think long term someone is going to shut down his shenanigans for good. Maybe even Trump himself will throw him under the bus. But I do wonder how deep he can get and what his consequences are. Like, could he simply leak government data to Russia/China and only get away with a fine? He's not military, but Court Mashals have given the death sentence over much more mild causes.
USPS is equal priced as you say. A letter sent to Manhattan is cheaper for the USPS than a letter sent to Nome, Alaska, but both cost the sender 73 cents. Parcels sent by USPS are priced based on regional zones (roughly corresponding to distance traveled), but these are very coarse-grained.

UPS and FedEx and some of the other private shipping services have much more fine-grained pricing based on where something is going. This means that if you are Amazon, it is generally cheaper to send packages to cities by private carrier and cheaper to send to rural areas by USPS.
Google addressed the claims in this paper last year, and one of the authors challenged the company's responses.
See:
https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/24/googles_recaptchav2_l...
I wonder what would happen if Musk just paid $1 million to every single women who was willing to be inseminated with his sperm and $100,000/year/child to raise them and he ended up having thousands of kids.
> pack-a-lunch affair

You can tell it was pre-9/11 because you didn't need to throw the lunch away before getting to the part where you have to wait the longest.
I think everyone that thinks this way are smoking something. I use the latest and greatest AI tools and they never fail to disappoint, make shit up and just waste hours of time because they would rather answer with nonsense than ask questions or just say I don’t fucking know or something isn’t possible.
Dupe (20 points, 3 hours ago, 6 comments so far) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42969993
It’s kind of insane how no profiling is allowed whatsoever.

Has a plane ever been hijacked by a couple of European descent traveling with their own children? The lengths we go to to pretend everyone is the same is mind boggling.
OpenAI is currently in talks to raise at a $340B valuation.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/30/openai-said-to-be-in-talks...
Emancipation was politics too bro
I always see this "excuse". Our fund isn't focused on alpha; we minimize beta. It's just unclear to me whether this is shown out in the data.
All that fertiliser that gets put into Cattle grazing lands increases the methane and other emissions, so your read on this is to a significant extent incorrect.
No and we’ve observed evidence to the contrary
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It’s often higher than this, but your talking about the people in positions of power and leading our society…so my expectations are lower.
Unrelated but from that link "But why profiles? Why not just measure new user rate? Because we don't track users." is a weird thing to write after showing Monthly Active Users.
I think one of the key problems here is depending on the system prompt and the prompt itself the LLM will take on completely different personas, but I think OP very correctly takes a look at "well then how do different models handle the same system prompt" and look at differences there. I think in general though the system prompts themselves and the effects they have are far more interesting than slight differences between established models.
The difference is that enough Alaskans had always called Mt. McKinley “Denali” that the State of Alaska petitioned the U.S. government to change the federal name in 1975.

Who asked to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico?
How is this bad news for OpenAI?
That's probably the real goal. I was a little skeptical about Project 2025 but it really looks like they are following it.
Plastics from the Oil industry, they have plenty of energy to keep going, and they won't rest until our planet gets those extra 5 degrees C.
BYD seems to be in a similar league. Unit sales 3x tesla in the last quarter and:

>... big event showcasing its autonomous driving tech on Feb. 10, rolling out driver assist features to EVs as low as $10,000.

They also have a funky supercar while the Tesla one we still await: https://youtu.be/6M3QdN43yqI
That's a Hindu Nationalist website and a claim. They forcefully fit Indus Script into Sanskrit, to try to outflank the Aryan Invasion Theory. It is not making anywhere but only in Brahmin circles.
AOC said the same thing herself. Looks like both sides unfortunately agree.
" By moving much faster than the bureaucracy and legal system can respond, the question on whether he has the power or authority to do the things he's doing may become moot."

This is a risky strategy if it is later determined that Musk broke laws with DOGE and is arrested and convicted.
We'd see a plane hijack roughly once per year. Though it wasn't common for the hijacker to try and kill everyone on board.
I can't stand all the beeping. It is wild how police are so against using mobile phones while driving (and they are right) but allow all these other distractions to run rampant in modern cars and distract drivers.

How we allow massive touch screens in Tesla's and other modern cars is beyond me.
Just tried it. I wanted a way to switch sides of the cards so I always have to produce the phrase in the language I’m trying to learn. Also a way to deal with cards where I doubt the translation. I was trying Spanish, and there were a bunch of translations that made me suspicious, especially translating Spanish future with English present. Even if it’s used that way, seems misleading? Also think I caught a misplaced accent mark and some other translations that seemed a little off, though I’m not fluent enough to be sure.
Lonestar prepares Freedom lunar data center for space launch
Nothing is more depressing than hunting for a parking spot, down a long one-way strip of parked cars, right behind another car hunting for a parking spot.
Damn and people complain about Mastodon being hard to get started on, "okay now download this text file and look at it to make sure it matches some of this text" followed by "Now you have the possibility to split your nsec in 3 using a technique called FROST and distribute each shard to an independent trusted remote signer" is just absolutely incoherent to anyone who is not a programmer.

I did that and a progress bar popped up over the "activate the bunker" button and now when I hit it the bar goes backwards and then refills and then there's just the "activate the bunker" button to press and that happens again, I do not think Nostr is anywhere near ready for prime time.

And now I unchecked the checkbox in that screen and skipped activating this "bunker" and it's showing me some random techbro-looking dudes and asking if I want to clone their follower lists? Who are these dudes and who are they following? Can I look at their feeds before making this decision? Evidently not?

And now it's telling me I need to go to yet another place to actually sign in, okay lemme try this Coracle thing, it's the first app in the list, how do I sign in here, what's a "remote signer", or I could download a "signer app", or I could just close the tab, I think I'm just gonna close the tab. Goodbye Nostr, you are absolutely incomprehensible.
> I'm beginning to think that the best way to approach a problem is by either not being aware of or disregarding most of the similar efforts that came before.

Everyone likes to focus on why you cannot do and why trying will be futile.

You don't have to disregard prior efforts. You just have to focus on one simple question:

"how can I do ______ ?"
This is Trump we're talking about. 100% guarantee that if the metric system crosses his mind, he'll actively try to rid the world of it any way he can. He'll claim it's "gay" or some other stupid shit he thinks and ban teaching it in schools. He doesn't care about any "legacy". He's just there to do as much harm as he can manage in the short time he's got left on this planet.
He's been posting on Twitter obsessively for years now, it's definitely one of his worst addictions. He blew $44 billion to satisfy his cravings, which has to be a record spend on an addiction.

But he's also addicted to drugs, work, gaming and who knows what else.

He will either shake his demons or die early after having destroyed his life and probably many other people's lives. I wish him well for everyone's sake.
As an anectdotal data point, I live in Poland (Warsaw) and I can't remember the last time I had a power interruption at my home. I don't use UPSs at all, and my NAS gets years of uptime, unless I decide to reboot it.

This gets much worse if you live in the countryside, for obvious reasons, and I would guess that the German average is mostly driven by countryside, not big cities.
To get to President Musk, longer than that. On the other hand, he was called Prime Minister Musk by a congressman all the way back in December.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/gonzales-elon-musk...
you make up some argument no one actually makes and point out its flaw? congrats I guess.
>In 1986, Congress passed Public Law 99-244, which designated February 1986 as "National Black (Afro-American) History Month.” This law noted that February 1, 1986 would “mark the beginning of the sixtieth annual public and private salute to Black History.” The law further directed the president to issue a proclamation calling on the people of the United States to observe February 1986 as Black History Month with the appropriate ceremonies and activities. President Reagan issued Presidential Proclamation 5443 External

https://guides.loc.gov/black-history-month-legal-resources/h...

It has been on the calendar for over a generation. It has been on every single paper calendar I've seen in my entire life well before Google was even a thing.

Black History month has been attacked and removed because the President and many of his supporters are racist. That's why
(Not OP) I liked his willingness to invest so much in exciting, lofty goals (Tesla, SpaceX).

Twitter wrecked his mind. I'm not talking about buying it, I'm talking about being such a heavy user of it.
Citation needed. Last I checked EVs are much less likely to catch fire than ICEs. (They are, however, much harder to put out if they do.)
ItsMarloe is another good gaming channel. He does Minecraft without the screaming, brainrot editing, and semi-scripted server drama that is so prevalent.

https://youtube.com/@ItsMarloe
Luckily users can add those, and other events to their own calendar. I'm happy users will understand none of these corporations actually care about {insert pet issue of the day}.
Most of the free world also doesn't have a regular problem with mass shootings.
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Yes, it is. It's not actually an opinion thing. It's a "what did the people who came up with the idea of copyright think it was for?" thing.

I haven't read the primary source material, so you could teach me something here, but my understanding is that the idea was to incentive creators.
Executives are salivating at the opportunity to cut 80 staff with no repercussions. They're so eager they're keeping the blinkers on. The fact that the AI has no clothing is ignored because the promise is so attractive.