skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> These references suggest deep integration with ByteDance's analytics and performance monitoring infrastructure

I mean when I visit a random website or open a random app, I kind of expect that it will use something like Google Analytics or Firebase Crashlytics so that my "user data" is shared with Google.

If the article wants me to feel outraged about this practice, I don't. I understand that analytics and performance monitoring are often outsourced to a third party, often without a choice of turning off the analytics and performance monitoring features in the first place.

I use the DeepSeek app happily without giving it any data I consider private. I have a separate local DeepSeek distilled model for that.
One of the big wins was login.gov which is modern, easy to use, more secure, and less expensive than the crazy array of ancient agency-specific login systems it was in the process of replacing.

What happens to it now, I have no idea. It’s probably going to be scrapped in favor of “login with X”.
IT department does not like that, but I had them install Firefox on the machines of my team, so we can install uBlock Origin. People are _amazed_ how the internet does look without ads.
WEST side is the BEST side
Related:

South Korea bans new DeepSeek AI downloads

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43076325
for me, perfect introduction to catalytic computing was this lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KEORzRpxY8
You have to purge the people that are actually mission-oriented because they are not sufficiently subservient. Also, the voting base seems to hate the fact that federal workers tend to enjoy a lot more stability in their job than private sector workers do.

What boggles my mind is that the feds were made into political enemies so quickly and the public had zero empathy for the callous method that they were fired in. Meanwhile, in Dec 2024, you didn't see the level of bile aimed at the feds like you see it today. And worse, very few people seem to realize that they've been politically hoodwinked. They'll simply retcon their belief that they've always disliked the feds that much, and their guy is finally giving them their just rewards.
Just because you cannot "solve" an issue, does not mean you should do nothing. By that logic valve should not implement VAC, because after all, cheaters will always find a way.

They play the anti-cheat game of cat and mouse, because if they do not, users will stop playing. No one wants to play with cheaters unless they are cheating.

They could definitely invest some resources into this. But they have no monetarily incentive thus they do nothing. I fully expect legal action or fear of it, will eventually make them do something.
I bought a Purple mattress because I thought it would fix my back and neck pain and it has only made it worse. I will also be going back to a more traditional spring mattress soon.
Would be really NICE.
I've only recently switched to Cursor so am not clued up about everything, but they mention that the embedded indexing they do on your code is shared with others (others who have access to that repository? Unsure).

It did seem to take a while to index, even though my colleagues had been using Cursor for a while, so I'm likely misunderstanding something.
1. Post the thing itself instead of an indirect Twitter comment about it.

2. Don't link to Tweets which require creating and using a Twitter account to get anything useful out of them. (I only see a screenshot, no link.)

3. It's already been submitted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43074852
> What is checking "if anything looks too off"? Pretty sure there's software involved there.

It's not just software: is software running on redundant systems that can check one another for consistency and performance. You're never going to see that level of engineering in an automobile, cars would be far too expensive if they were as complex, electrically, as an aircraft. Aircraft are only getting away with it because, as you correctly observed, if the computers malfunctioned, they're going to fall out of the sky and kill all your passengers. If your car malfunctions, it just won't move/will stop moving.
The US Treasury can't track $4.7 trillion in payments.
Medicare sent $2.7 trillion overseas to people that weren't eligible.
Pentagon lost track $2.5 trillion.
Social Security sends $100 billion a year to people with no identity.
Department of Education spends $50 billion a year to make your kids gay.
USAID spends $50 billion a year to make everybody else gay.

And you think all of that is 'not fraud'? IDGAF what it's called, people should go to prison and no other president has even tried to get in touch with this filth.
> What makes them industry leaders?

They have a plausible relatively well understood path to fusion, have credibility with their background (coming out of fusion research at MIT), and have raised something like 2 billion dollars in funding.

> Can they get Q>1, much less >5 or similar for what will be needed to break even on all the rest of the inefficiencies

They think so

> and are going straight to plans for a 400MW "commercial" plant

They aren't. They're currently developing "SPARC", a Q>1 demonstration plant targeting 2027. The 400 MW commercial plant, ARC, is a follow on design targeting 2030s.

> This looks, walks, and talks like a ploy to get in on AI energy demand hype

They predate the AI boom by a lot. The project started in 2018. They had a $1.8 billion dollar funding round in 2021.

The basic concept is "hey look, someone figured out how to build better superconductors. What if we took what ITER is trying to do, but used modern super conductors to make it smaller and actually achievable". I'm not saying I think they're certain to succeed, but I don't think they're a scam and I think it's very reasonable to include them amongst the group of "industry leaders"
Sounds like they already are.
I know that higher bandwidth is good for LLMs but are there actual workstation use cases where the speed outweighs the context and parameter limits imposed by 16GB of total system ram? I don't follow it that closely but it just feels to me like quality >>> quantity for laptops or mini PCs where an APU would be relevant.
30% may be a lot but you get more than a store page;

- anticheat

- voice chat, friend list, ...

- matchmaking

- marketplace for mods, maps, skins, ...

- clips and videos

- forums/ discussion board

- cloud saves

- rankings

An indie would have to implement and host those by itself or rely on third party services.

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/
Bruhh, your iphone and android will literally “share” what you are saying even in private with anyone they can find for advertising… so this should not be surprising
I happen to be a man who gets migraines with aura, but I do think they’re more common in women. They started when I was 14.

I get visual issues like tunnel vision and sparklies, but I also get numbness in my face and extremities, confuse my words (right parts of speech, not what I intend to say), and often vomit.

Needless to say, the first one scared the crap out of my mother and I.

I may or may not have a headache when this happens.

Neat, eh? I was talking to a guy who suffered from seizures in college, and apparently his “aura” is very similar, and I've always wondered if there was some connection since my father also suffers from epilepsy.
Discussion (43 points, 5 days ago, 20 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43045010

Related Arm secures Meta as first customer for ambitious new chip project (14 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43039901
> The team for TF2 is probably very low double digits now

Double digits? That's very very optimistic. It's closer to like two people.
It amazes me how many "high profile" researchers have blatantly fraudulent work.

As an example, take this rather recent ICLR submission that is egregiously plagiarized[0] (I mean attempts to hide the plagiarism are minimal to nonexistent). Clicking on the authors you can view their profiles and you'll find that most authors have several thousand citations and one north of 25k[1]!!!! They also have an i-10 of 400, which is highly abnormal for that citation level while the last author has an i-10 of 126 with only 7.3k citations.

The problem I see here is that there's lots of suspicious activity and clear evidence of fraud, yet little to no action is taken. If anything, it seems we mostly ignore it. The ICLR submission is a bit odd too, since decisions and comments are public, most of the time this happens behind closed doors and we don't observe the evidence. As far as I'm aware, no one is making network graphs to track fraudulent authors. I think we want to sweep it under the rug because at the end of the day our system relies heavily upon trust. Unless we strongly incentivize reproduction we require high trust and we're afraid to acknowledge fraud in the community because we believe it will make more distrust science. But I think in reality, the reluctance to pursue fraud and the reluctance to have high clarity creates more distrust. The truth is that this system poorly scales even before we incorporate the reverse (bureaucratic) incentives.

I think we lost sight of the goals of research and publishing. Publishing exists to facilitate communication among our peers. We publish in venues for two reasons: to improve/error check works and to facilitate social networks. Publish or perish is detrimental as well as the push for highly subjective measures like novelty. I strongly advocate for returning to the old paradigm, where the conditions for publication are: are there any major errors, is there plagiarism, and does the work sufficiently provide evidence for the experimental hypothesis (note: I intentionally do not say "prove".). This system accepts the reality that we cannot sufficiently judge significance. Breakthroughs by definition come from research areas that are under studied. Frequently from directions that had previously been rejected. Unfortunately, this is becoming more common due to the speed in which researchers must publish and exacerbated by the rise in thresholds to get a work published. Many ideas are abandoned not due to evidence that they will not yield progress, but that the belief to achieve "sufficient" evidence would require too much time. While tenure should "resolve" this, it ignores the fact that a tenured professor still has students that must publish as well as they've been working in a very different way for years. And old habits are hard to break.

I think we need to take a hard long look at our system and I suspect we could do so much more if we rebuilt the structure.

[0] https://openreview.net/forum?id=cIKQp84vqN

[1] https://scholar.google.com.hk/citations?user=D-TS1fAAAAAJ
There was an article a while back about using HN as an IdP. I've thought about setting up a society-politics forum using HN as identity.
Discussion (43 points, 5 days ago, 21 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43045010

Related Arm secures Meta as first customer for ambitious new chip project (14 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43039901
I don't find per mile all that useful when comparing modes of transportation for safety, because for some modes of transportation the risk of a trip doesn't really depend much on the distance.

To give an extreme example, imagine someone starts passenger service from Earth to some planet in the Andromeda galaxy. Each flight carries 100 people. Once the warp field is stabilized the rest of the trip is 100% safe. However when the warp field is turned on their is a 99% chance that it will collapse rather than stabilize, which will destroy the ship and kill everyone aboard.

These Andromeda flights are 5 orders of magnitude safer than commercial air travel when measures by passenger fatalities per mile.
It's not like this is new behavior from him. He wants people who agree with him and will do what he asks. He doesn't want pushback, and he definitely doesn't want to be told he's wrong.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/data-scientist-resigned-twitter-b...
For my personal watching? Almost agreed. Jellyfin does make it a little more interaction free to watch on multiple devices and to binge watch without interruptions an entire series.

But I can live without that.

The one thing it offers that folders do not is a simple way to interact with the video library when guests are using it.

They can grab a mouse and meander over the available shows with no explanation and watch what they want within minutes of being shown the link without exposing my nas to them or giving them the ability to alter my media files without my knowledge.
Valve has given Facepunch the Source 2 license for S&Box[1] which will indirectly allow making games in Source 2. That's as far as they've gone towards releasing it as a game engine so far.

[1]https://sbox.game or https://store.steampowered.com/app/590830/sbox/
It is kinda possible to do store that in browser, but as I've been finding with my own browser-based front end for the API, the browsers seem to clear this data a bit more than one might expect.

Or at least, Safari on Mac clears it.
Pancreatic cancer: blocked nerves as a possible new treatment strategy
so.. resurrect the dark(red) room for paper-photo-development.. and go there in 9.AM ?

too bad the dark red bulb was thrown away together with all the other no-use-anymore equipment..
Different. The nomex tends to wick contaminants to the skin, especially around the neck. Any exposure to the foam is a risk.

There’s a lot of people on fire service in my family. The old guys have bad knees, are dead, and have smoking related issues. The younger (<50) guys are getting neck, throat and lymph node cancers. 70% of line of duty deaths are due to occupational cancer.
> It seems to me that now, instead of that tug-of-war discussion happening between the two parties,

I'm REALLY looking forward to 2028, because I think that potentially will be the first election where we start to see what modern politics will look like. I wouldn't be surprised if there are multiple new parties, and multiples of them have a real chance. If it seems one sided right now, it's just because one side found their way to the start line first... but make no mistake, history shows that over time new political factions will form that offer resistance to bad ideas, and clear a path for the good ideas.

Given the rate of change with AI, We're going to have a real idea on what a world being disrupted by AGI (whether that is true AGI, or something close to it) looks like. At the same time Healthcare is only getting worse, and Trump is NOT going to fundumentally address it. China is going to be rising, and they're a real geopolitical threat. The war in Ukraine has completely changed what warfare looks like, and we're going to have to completely restructure our military (just like we have to restructure our healthcare). I also wouldn't be surprised if Trump's war with the cartel turns out to be far harder than expected because cheap autonomous drones allow a small military to compete against a large traditional military.

All of our prior assumptions on retirement are different too, retired boomers are not the same as the pensioneers from their day. They're not impoverished, instead they're flush with cash. I'm not sure in a world with an aging workforce you're going to be anti-immigrant... and all these benefits we give to retirees may not make sense in a world where retirees are wealthier than the regular workforce supporting them.

The general theme for the next decade is going to be throw out all the old books, 80% of our prior assumptions no longer apply.
Word on the street is that Satoshi was actually Bruce Wayne all along
*even if you pay up.
I would never buy one because I also try to avoid anything Meta or Google but I received one anyway as a birthday gift. Wife’s thought process was “he likes tech, he wears sunglasses, he’ll love it”. They’re fine glasses and the video recording is surprisingly good quality. But I don’t need AI enabled, video recording glasses.
There's still people getting into it right now, in 2025. It's not too late (and it's a lot of fun...).
Try https://safepiercing.org/ !
An interesting analogy. But note that movie output is a fixed blob with NO degrees of freedom, makers have fewer combinatorial problems, and staffing according to a well-defined set of fixed roles with little or no pressure to change that. In contrast, the output of a software project is an interactive machine with enormous degrees of freedom, makers deal with 3 OOM more combinatorial problems (by dint of logical dependencies changing 1000x faster than physical ones), and staffing roles are ALWAYS subject to change with enormous pressure to "innovate" those roles, particularly by smushing them together (e.g. full-stack, devops roles, the end of sysadmins and db admins). What you suggest may be possible within a large and static consultancy that fixes the roles and dependencies for 5-10 years at a time, but such a firm might have a tough sell. Even success stories like 37signals who've been using the same language consistently over its 25 years probably could not do what you suggest.
To be clear, Robert Hess was the primary engineer on WinDoom, Newell was the team lead.
The system is not breakeven and the plasma was contained for 22 minutes so the situation would be the plasma was contained until it ran out of fuel. It is made out of tungsten for heat dissipation, has active cooling, has magnetic confinement with superconductors to prevent the system from destroying itself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WEST_(formerly_Tore_Supra)
it is indeed one of important techniques in catalyitic computing that either 1)you can compress the catalyst, giving you space or 2)uncompressible catalyst gives you a source of randomness
It’s not a VR device. It has a camera, mic and speakers, that allows you to take photos/videos and talk to an AI agent
Was this an accident? Why is the link to a github diff? Why is there no announcement?
Have you tried a rice bucket?

I had some upper forearm pain (likely from pullups, but perhaps coding as well) for around 6 months last year, and after a long break from pullups and trying the rice bucket it seems that the pain has subsided.

Could be worth a try anyway!

https://www.reddit.com/r/kettlebell/comments/1759tyo/elbow_t...
I think you're misapplying the term "blackmail" here and thus poisoning the well. The EU is applying pressure to companies and companies are applying pressure back--that's not blackmail. They each have their own means of leverage, and they both use them.
Aren't AAA game companies hurting at least partly because of the blowback from those models?
Man I was doing ok this afternoon, why did you have to go poke a stick in people's totally rational responses to respiratory PPE?
Cassette tapes are underrated. They sound great on my cassette desk, and they will always be cheaper than the other formats. If you sold your physical media a long time ago, or are building a collection for the first time, consider getting some tapes.
Yeah, thanks for proving my point. Have a nice day.
"undo their disgusting propaganda, apply our beautiful correct opinions"

This is so cringe.
Wait what ads? I've never run ads. Wonder if disqus is jamming something in there.

Can you send me a screenshot or something?

Edit: Damn looks like it is Disqus, I'm going to remove that. I've got no interest in running ads.
I like the idea of the passively-safe, waste-reducing LFTR but it's still a materials science issue at this point, and there's no real solution in sight.

Fission still has this huge stigma about "nuclear=dangerous and bad" which clearly isn't true with the growing number of passively-safe designs... but nobody wants to fund development of those into proper commercial reactors.

Meanwhile, fusion is still different and futuristic enough to have support from governments and the general public.
They can definitely hire 2-5 people to do something, and at least try to crack down.
Challenge there is limiting exposure to damaging UV rays while maximizing near IR
The entire TF2 team was famously one guy for years
> environmental waste

From the article:

> It concluded that one could send the lake ice 286 miles by truck, 1,438 miles by rail, or 4,284 miles by container ship until it broke even with the energy required to produce a Clinebell block.

This report was of course commissioned by the business in question so it is likely biased, but generally speaking it seems clear that shipping natural ice and freezing your own ice are roughly comparable in terms of environmental impact.
Yep. And there are established processes to handle reduction in force (RIF) directives and performance issues.

None of that was followed. No attempt was even made.
One of the two ejected rear passengers in Asiana 214 (neither of which were wearing their seat belt) was unlucky enough to have initially survived, only to be doused in firefighting foam and then run over.

When it's your time to go ...
"Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation" by Joseph Weizenbaum
18F/TTS repeatedly was cited by the Inspector General for breaking rules and making false statements, often for political reasons. E.g:

March 2023: "GSA Misled Customers on Login.gov’s Compliance with Digital Identity Standards" (refused to use mandatory facial recognition because it believed it was racist) [1]

June 2017: "Investigation of Whistleblower Reprisal Complaint" (finding that an Obama political appointee retaliated against a career official for blowing the whistle on mismanagement) [2]

April 2017: GSA acknowledges "gross mismanagement" [3]

October 2016: "Evaluation of 18F" (finding that it spent thousands of dollars on things like "inclusion bots") [4]

May 2016: "GSA Data Breach" [5]

February 2017: "Evaluation of 18F’s Information Technology Security Compliance" (misrepresented severity of breach) [6]

[1] https://www.gsaig.gov/sites/default/files/ipa-reports/Alert%...

[2] https://www.gsaig.gov/sites/default/files/foia/Investigation...

[3] https://osc.gov/Documents/Public%20Files/FY17/DI-17-0642/DI-...

[4] https://www.gsaig.gov/sites/default/files/ipa-reports/OIG%20...

[5] https://www.gsaig.gov/sites/default/files/ipa-reports/Alert%...

[6] https://www.gsaig.gov/sites/default/files/ipa-reports/OIG%20...
Ok, well, the more the reason!
Python support of Iceberg seems to be the biggest unrealized opportunity right now. SQL support seems to be in good shape, with DuckDB and such, but Python support is still quite nascent.
Can you point to the specifics? Or have the DOGE-stylists not released verifiable quantities and recipients that match the headlines?
Like when a state considers itself a global superpower but hasn't had any notable impact on an unremarkably sized rock orbiting an average sized star in a barely noticeable galaxy?
My tv after a recent update has begun randomly crashing with audio looping for a few seconds before rebooting. When an update comes through for that you can he damned sure I’ll be disabling all future updates.
Not simpler in terms of technology, but simpler in terms of deployment, regulation, and security. Those are the majority of costs in fission power plants.