skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Come on... endlessly wealthy and wants to do harm? There's only one real, obvious answer: Engineer a plague, or a series of plagues targeting food crops, livestock, and humans. Make something as contagious as measles that kills a third of people reliably, spread it multiple global focal points at once, and you could topple the world pretty effectively. If you attacked the economy and food supply at the same time I don't think there would be any coming back from that.

It would be insane, an apocalyptic fantasy that few could afford outside of (hopefully somewhat) accountable or at least pragmatic governments. But a very rich person could afford it.

And as much as information warfare is terrifying, biological warfare is much worse. I get your "it's already here" point, but lets really take the question at face value and run with it.

edit: Consider that a group MUCH less wealthy than Elon Musk was able to experiment with nuclear weapons, and managed to carry out a sarin attack.
Oh geez, satin lining on wool pants?!? My legs would start sweating in five minutes.
> Where does it end though? If he decides tomorrow to start calling Canada "Beaverland," will all our maps change again?
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> why waste time and energy discussing silly things he might do when he is literally doing silly things now, for real?

The example used was making a larger point than, oh no, "Canada -> Beaverstan", for laughs.

The point is: What line would be too far for industry to resist presidential renaming by fiat. A kind of power with known risks. Renaming by fiat has a name, "Newspeak", a term coined in the not very silly book, 1984, by George Orwell.

Trump has a history of doing lots of "silly" things just to see if he can. It is a low risk way for him to pre-test, or pre-expand, any barriers to more serious expressions of his power. Such as renaming things in a way that undermines or alters the impact of laws.
Yep. Utopian crazy who can't grasp the ideas or value of government, commonwealth, or regulations except as "red tape" and "waste". They literally believe in anarcho-capitalist libertarianism with extra anarchy will magically be a wonderful world, perhaps for them.
This take us overly cynical in this case—the original and primary use case for LLMs is to model languages in a comprehensive way. It's literally in the name.

Hallucinations rarely make up invalid grammar or invent non-existent words, what we're concerned about is facts, which isn't relevant at all when the goal is language preservation.
Well, now that Wall Street offloaded the X debt they were stuck with for some time they can support great new ventures.

It does all have a bit of Wile E Coyote feel to it. Keep gesticulating wildy to propel forwards before inevitably plunging in the abyss below.

https://www.wsj.com/finance/banks-sell-5-5-billion-of-x-loan...
at that point why not just pass in a struct as your argument
Lix is a fork of nix-the-language and nix-the-program. In doing so, they forked the det-sys installer to install Lix instead of Nix.
Unfortunately that doesn't cut the mustard in most organisations either, with the typical responses being along the lines of: "Who will support it? Can you provide a security assessment? Is your team happy to be responsible for any issues?"

I sorely wish it was as simple as "please deploy", and in days of yesteryear you could probably get away with that either yourself or if you were friends with the linux team, but those days are over now as far as I see.

For context, my opinion comes from being a security consultant for over a decade - I see a lot of other people's environments and how their organisations handle requests like this. Not every environment will have objections, but most won't add it as a standard package across the fleet.
Read some history of the Gilded Age.

What happened to Rockefeller, Carnegie and JP Morgan? It wasn't the plebs and their jabbering (see muckrakers) that directly took them down, though that jabbering did help give an unusual dude from the NY aristocracy named Teddy(who couldn't stand the muckrakers) political cover to move against them.

Also worth reading about the 2 elections preceding Teddy's fascinating rise to power, where the oligarchy bought the Presidency.
Again, there’s no need for hypotheticals. Trump is doing plenty of crazy stuff in reality.

And this is a representative democracy, if the representative does those things, so be it. If we don’t like, we get another to revert.
Uh, I guess one mustn't ask oneself this, judging by downvotes!
C++20 added designated initializers, so they're also an option.

my_func({.arg1 = val1, .arg2 = val2});
My college was a DEC shop in Massachusetts, and I learned how to program in labs full of dumb X terminals with creative names connected to Alpha servers running Digital Unix. There were still a few Ultrix workstations around. Never used VMS aside from the class registration system; no VAX for us students.

Kind of miss those days.
True, but you also need fewer planes if you go faster, though plane costs are linear and fuel costs are square.
At the rate Teslas are recalled, you don’t need to politicize it
Seems like a bigger delay is the #$%^&* hub and spoke model.
Not too long ago I could catch a direct light to many, many cities in Europe.
Now, I need to fly into a hub first - often passing right over my final destination (then having unboard, reboard, and fly back, easily another 1-2h).

And don't even talk about the security theater. Sometimes twice (although that gotten better in that there isn't a 2nd check.)

And, yes, I noticed that pure flight times got longer, about an hour on transcontinental flight. All this time I thought I made that up, but at speeds mentioned in the article this is about right.
This makes no sense. Republicans work for the government too. How are they going to get re-elected if they fire their base?
For the education example, the answer is quite simple:
Sexual reproduction produces varied offspring even among the same two mates.

Same environment, different genes = educational performance gap.
It's more like regulation has not changed since the 60s in aviation industry
I'd be interested to find out what sort of anti-islanding techniques they employ. Most inverters are relatively slow to detect grid failure, and if you pull the plug out quickly you might get a shock.
People don't react to data privacy stuff with rationality, they don't care to understand anonymization. For 95% of people it's only gut instinct, and that's all it will ever be.
No, you can model whether stirring actions should create a representative sample
This provision is going to throw a monkey wrench into Texas's new Electronic Genital Verification system at the Dallas Forth Worth Airport. I guess they're going to have to go back to the manual genital verification system, and hire thousands of Genital Enforcement Inspectors to hang out in the bathrooms, addressing the biggest problem that threatens society today, by diligently saving the children and protecting the rights of women from trans people and drag queens who need to take a dump and would prefer not to go outside on the lawn or on the windshield of a CyberTruck (so easily confused with a prison toilet). At least that will create many new jobs for ex-cons and unskilled American citizens who can't find work elsewhere because immigrant terrorists took their jobs.

https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/47/20/26/27067779/3/ratio3x2_9...

SECURITY NOTICE

Electronic Genital Verification (EGV)

Your genitalia may be photographed electronically during your use of this facility as part of the Electronic Genital Verification (EGV) pilot program at the direction of the Office of the Lieutenant Governor. In the future, EGV will help keep Texans safe while protecting your privacy by screening for potentially improper restroom access using machine vision and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in lieu of traditional genital inspections.

At this time images collected will be used solely for model training purposes and will not be used for law enforcement or shared with other entities except as pursuant to a subpoena, court order or as otherwise compelled by legal process.

Your participation in this program is voluntary. You have the right to request the removal of your data by calling the EGV program office at (512) 463-0001 during normal operating hours (Mon-Fri 8AM-5PM).
I believe Word Crimes are Weird Al's jurisdiction [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/8Gv0H-vPoDc?si=GLlj48cMtoKYVCRP
What's actually interesting is that there exists a model for solving obesity. Mostly it's a matter of having the will and prioritization to solve such a problem.

Japan has an obesity rate of 4%. By law they require every school to employ a professional nutritionist, which requires 3 years of additional training on top of their education degrees. In a particular example of 1000 kids, not a single child is overweight. Every nutritionist is required to design the school's food curriculum such that all meals are made from fresh foods and to be balanced according to all the food groups, and they forbid even the use of processed pastes. All meals are made from fresh foods on-site.

Then the kids are then taught how to eat well and to fully cover their nutritional needs from 6-18. This would be the non-ozempic way to influence a nation to eat well.
> “Where it is nearly (if not entirely) impossible to spend such sums of money.”

I’ve been looking at the idea of a tunnel between the UK and Ireland. Recent rough estimates were €15Bn and that probably didn’t include high speed trains on each side.

A new city, a 500km/h maglev line, paying spacex to build a moon base, launching a billion dollar prize fund for room temperature superconductor or graphene space elevator material research, paying a geoengineering project like military jets releasing reflective vapour into the upper atmosphere (last time I saw that price estimate was 2Bn and that was years ago), building a vanity vehicle project from scratch like reigniting the ocean going Ekranoplans or the Fairey Rotodyne, building the Elon Musk solar power plants in Texas to “unleash American energy“ with his name on it…

You would not casually spend that much on Lamborghinis and mansions in the Hollywood Hills, but if you wanted to do audacious or philanthropic things or get your name on mega-projects there are many countries with billion dollar projects one could fund. $30Bn would pay the city of Los Angeles budget for 2-3 years.

$30Bn he could give every American $90.
I mean, Altman also wrote this (https://x.com/sama/status/1882234406662000833):

> watching @potus more carefully recently has really changed my perspective on him (i wish i had done more of my own thinking and definitely fell in the npc trap).

> i'm not going to agree with him on everything, but i think he will be incredible for the country in many ways!
TSA aren't cops.

They have no authority to take a weed pen or detain you for having one.

They can call cops but they can only confiscate items deemed to be threats to a plane and only detain you for the same.
Steven Levy's Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution is also worth a read, particularly the early part of the book which covers in detail stuff like the guys at MIT writing and playing Spacewar! on the PDP-1 in 1961. They even built their own joysticks.
Correct identification but invalid conclusion using grossly faulty, deceptive logic because beef agriculture isn't some bucolic, pastoral phenomonon but a corporate CAFO machine. Corporate meat ag leads to the unnecessary risks of pandemics, antibiotic resistance, climate change, and overplanting and subsidy of field corn. Nice try with that greenwashing.
I’ve never been asked for ID on a greyhound (~10 trips) or amtrak (~25 trips).

I’m sure they both have policies about it on the books, but I’ve never seen them enforced
Wenfeng built a quantitative trading company upon his search to utilize AI for financial gain. He then leveraged his earnings to take a moonshot on buying a mother lode of NVidia chips – in 2021, prior to the US export bans and the release of ChatGPT – to develop a next generation of AI. Open AI led the way, and Wenfeng was perfectly placed to learn from them and do something better, and, ironically, be more open than OpenAI. Perhaps Deepseek knew they couldn't make money by gatekeeping the model as OpenAI would quickly catch up, or perhaps it was Wenfeng's personal call to make and he just wanted the rest of the world – not just OpenAI, not just the US – to have a fighting chance before the world economy is about to be upended. Or more likely, Deepseek are holding an even more secret sauce that they are using for AI trading.
SpaceX wants to do that with Starship (they call it Earth-to-Earth) but I'm pretty sure even they acknowledge that it's something of a reach.

Spaceflight is still where air travel was in the early 20th century - starting to become available "commercially", but still too dangerous and expensive for mass market adoption.

If we see anything like Earth-to-Earth in the next decade or two, It'll almost certainly be military.
Their infotaiment uses a customized Debian distro. On a Model S you could easily get a shell into it, because they used a freaking SSH with a password-based authentication over Ethernet to connect from the instrument cluster to the computer in the central console.

You could sniff the password with a man-in-the-middle attack, if you knew the host key of the instrument cluster. Here's one from my previous Model S: https://gist.github.com/Cyberax/ad9866ab4306d43957dc480db573...
Vehicle Model | Total Units | Fire Fatalities |Fatality Rate (per 100k)
Tesla Cybertruck| 34,438 | 5 | 14.52
Ford Pinto | 3,173,491 | 27 | 0.85

https://fuelarc.com/evs/its-official-the-cybertruck-is-more-...
That's great to know.

It's unfortunate that there's an insanely high number of folks in the population that are taking FQs and running into toxicity without any hope of figuring out what is going on with their bodies.

It seems that it would behoove folks to be able to take the test and know whether they are safe candidates to take FQ antibiotics.
The stock seems to be unaware though
> And I suppose you could write a validator to make sure that this worked.

Like this one!

https://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy/checks/bugprone/argu...
Really fantastic comment. I would add one criteria to where self-teaching is easier: rapidly testable hypotheses.
Hedge funds are entirely voluntary transactions on the part of participants.
Is there any kind of generalization of this approach that can be used for hot-swapping other servers with persistent connections?
I've been hearing about the inevitable decline of Tesla for about 10 years now.
Tesla took on a lot more losses than you ever did, decreasing their current day tax bill, so that's a meaningless comparison.
Trains don't need wings, so they're a lot easier to build tunnels for..
This [1] discussion on X includes a gene prevalence graph, showing varied groups mostly easily identifiable by DNA sequencing. Such graphs use the prevalence of 2 genes amongst different samples of populations. Including more genes develops a much sharper image.

https://x.com/JoshRainerGold/status/1888468962306142430
There is a point in getting faster. The Concorde run profitably for the later 20 years of it's lifetime. At its best it did the New York to London route in under 3 hours. At more than double the speed of a subsonic flight. I have taken multiple 7 hour and 3 and a half hour flights and I would pay a significant premium to cut the 7 hours in half. It's not that I would have more of the day available. It's that I would spend less time in the plane. Being in a plane for a long haul is miserable. In the nineties if flew profitably for a 10% markup over regular business class.

I would wager a supersonic jet liner could make a lot of money crossing the Atlantic or the Pacific even today. Sure for short hauls it makes no sense.

Btw, Boom is working on supersonic private jets,they recently flew a scaled down experimental jet at supersonic speeds.
Musk is a Xi surrogate
Punnet squares explains this, siblings are not usually identical.
i don't understand your fixation on a direct analogy between flight and birds.

modern aircraft are absolutely simulated to astronomical levels of detail and the compute associated with such simulation is commensurately astronomical - such simulations are exactly what so-called "supercomputers" at national labs do.
> which would take longer than the heat death of the universe to find the global maxima

Sure, if you're using brute force, instead of a polynomial time algorithm.

> It doesn't matter what algorithm you use, finding the absolute best solution and proving it is impossible.

Hard disagree: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_algorithm

Linear Assignment seems a very strange choice to illustrate the utility of meta-heuristics, when that particular problem has a polynomial-time solution algorithm that has been known for 70 years.
That turned out to be the fault of the helicopter pilot, who was flying above the allowed limit.
Repeating myself from another comment.

The dems outspent republicans by a billion or so, so 250M didn't do much. If it did, Kamala would've won by a lot.

Way more billionaires supported Kamala vs. Trump (83 vs 52).
Could you add more context? I’m unfamiliar with Grok. Is Elon being a hypocrite?
But even Google retired their link shortner service.
You are aware that people from US states with no history of foreign travel have self-radicalized, right?
Way too expensive. I will keep using archive.is and forget I ever saw this post.
This is all going to. E irrelevant when everything is crypto
I didn’t really have much guidance and sort of winged it and that was my fault.

I graduated last May and do not have any advisors any longer. I could try to rework the paper myself and fix the problems with it which I may do now that I have more time.
Interesting, I always assumed it was covered by the same law that makes it illegal to burn bills (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/333), but apparently not.
You need rabid fans though to make sure your doubters are yelled down. That's one way Musk gets away with this behavior. Thousands of dimwits yelling down anyone that suggests he may not be operating in good faith.
This is a fun blast from the past. One of my first real programming experiences was working as a (the) programmer on a MUD and I remember learning about this technique somewhere (I think just reading about how forking worked) and then figuring out how to implement it on our MUD.

It felt absolutely magical to be able to hot deploy changes without kicking everyone off of the server - but felt even more magical to have gotten it to work.

The MUD community was a fun early introduction to open source. People (many of them probably "kids" like I was at the time) sharing various patches and features. It felt so cool to release something and have other people use it and provide feedback. Like the author says - at some point the MUD itself became a lot less interesting than the programming.
And cross swords with IBM's legal department? No thanks.
>Iowans have committed significantly more homicides per capita than people from most European countries

That is true only if you start the count in 1946 or later!
Just doing that seems like you will likely be arrested.
Doesn't mean said participants can't get together and complain about it to try and improve market liquidity
I think Singapore has a pretty good experience worked out now, the immigration is automated just with an iris scan.

Additionally moving security to the gate rather than having a single security point for all flights also makes the wait here shorter and more importantly predictable.

If I'm just taking a cabin bag I always arrive 35-40 minutes before a flight and have had no trouble with time, normally enough time to grab a coffee too before boarding.
Ozempic != Wegovy. While both are semaglutide, Wegovy is the therapeutic dosage for weight loss while Ozempic is the dosage to control type 2 diabetes. One is covered by Medicare, and the other is not because somehow being morbidly obese is a "choice".
Discussions

(57 points, 13 days ago, 44 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42855734

(713 points, 13 days ago, 526 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42853633

(75 points, 14 days ago, 120 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42852077
Indeed. When two black hole merge, the resulting blackhole has larger mass and size.
Show HN: A Tiny Terminal Chat App for AI Models with MCP Client Support
Built a terminal-based chat application that interact with AI models while keeping full control of chat data.
Simple but effective MCP client implementation.
I was lost by the second sentence.
This is similar to spoons. It's not you who is bending, it's the spoon.
So there is a plan here. One is to sue or stop the SEC.

Tesla is a meme coin at this point. However there are these pesky shareholders to deal with.
Yes and what would be its job? Making sure that rich people have lawyers who read contracts? That would probably suffice. I don't have much sympathy for people who have enough money to use hedge funds and complain about the terms of their completely voluntary transaction.
You can set up a low voltage DC solar setup + battery yourself, but you aren't allowed to do anything that connects to the grid without the proper licenses/certifications.

But I'd say the reason you can't find product licensed to do it is because the amount of savings to be had with some panels hanging of the balcony is pretty minimal, the difficulty of securing them properly so they aren't ripped off in a storm is pretty high, and no owners corp would allow it just for visual reasons alone.

Australia has an absolute abundance of empty land, no trees and sun raining down on it. Makes more sense to invest in these installations and just wire it in to the grid rather than zip tieing panels to your balcony rails.
How much of that community would jump ship on change of ownership? Not that Altman is any better than Musk but Musk has certainly created a more negative publicity about himself recently and thus more distrust or people of certain political stripes unwilling to use his products (scientific community probably leans that direction).
>> I suppose you could write a validator to make sure that this worked

No need to write it:

https://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy/checks/bugprone/argu...

Efb
What are non intelligent people like me supposed to do for money?
Because it’s my money.
Thank you for that, though I'd rather choose 'The police will not put up with it' and either 'The politicians are too incompetent' or 'Underestimate how much money there is in it'

Anonymous CAPTCHAs are fine so long as they're accessible for people with disabilities. I would not venture to say I know of such one as a service...
Depending on how powerful the language modeling is, I suspect it could lead to an LLM which will confidently and convincingly tell you how to say things like "floppy disk" and "SSD" in every extinct language and even those that went extinct long before computers ever existed, which is... interesting, but not exactly truth.

I've seen LLMs hallucinate nonexistent things in programming languages. It's hard to believe it won't do the same to human ones.
Remarkable story and a glimpse at how nasty vested interests can become as the world starts to second guess the sustainability of an entire century's worth of "growth" at all costs.

Its not black and white, without pesticides we'll probably all perish from malnutrition within a year or two, but the pressure to contain the collateral damage to environment and people will not go away.
Apple software update “bug” enables Apple Intelligence