skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Should we look at the people who are saying they're going to remove all Palestinians from Gaza and turn it into a resort?

You know, the ones actively saying "let's go do a genocide"?
That's why there is a Nuclear Triad, giving multiple ways to deploy them in case one method fails.
Interesting. Could you provide a better alternative? Preferably even remotely as user friendly as signal/whatsapp?
I just love how responsive the editor is.

The biggest downside is that now I dread switching to overleaf after typst!
Just like fusion energy it is pointless and you are not allowed to have excitement about it because some anonymous stranger on HN said so.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43093939#43094339
Per Grok, no NSF funding was used to develop CRISPR. I'm too lazy to fact check other.

This doesn't affect the NSF grants. They fired 10% of middle managers distributing the grants. The actual scientific work is not done by employees of NSF but by employees of universities etc.

Finally, it's a stretch to argue that even if NSF grants go away, the progress of science stops.

Universities have other sources of funds and I don't see why businesses need government subsidies. They are not giving free lasik surgeries or MRI scans, they can fund their products and services from profits not taxpayer (i.e. you and me) money.
Wintertime Mindset
A better approach would be to tax properties worth more than $2 million and use the revenue to improve public transit. Another option: increase income taxes on those earning over $500K a year.

But, of course, the wealthy resist any tax that actually affects them.

And Trump looked the polls found out that nearly two-thirds of New Yorkers oppose congestion pricing and now he is “hero”.
NIST researcher here, obviously a throwaway account.

About half our postdocs (all the federal scientists who came in through an extremely competitive fellowship) are on the chopping block, and a ton of really awesome staff scientists as well, some of whom have won awards for their work. We knew this was probably coming, but it’s still such a waste :(
Hormonal contraceptives linked to higher heart attack and stroke risk
Probably not very significant, though it's always frustrating when you read about mass layoffs at these corporations, only to see that the executives are all still getting raises and bonuses.
Would you be willing to share more about how you guys did click ranking at Blekko? It's an interesting problem.
You can't get better than this wonderful website: https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

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...and there's also the best one: https://thebestmotherfucking.website/
It's entirely possible I have rose-colored glasses on. Still, VoLTE is terrible compared to any other audio service I've used aside.
So what is it called then
Satya Nadells About the Majorana 1 chip breakthrough
I read "Majorana 1 aquarium processor". I am not high.
Is survival of the human race worth it if some of the "baddies" get into power? USSR was not a great place to live. There is a lot about China I don't like. (there is also a lot about the US I don't like, but in theory at least I have some voice in changing it unlike the other two)
Genuinely disgusted to read any of that. All they can think of is ads, AI, and "fundraising campaigns" (which I presume will be more popup garbage)? This has pushed me to move to librewolf
Depends on what you mean by alternatives. Some gear focused forums (ModWiggler, Lines, Elektronauts, etc) necessarily cover some of the same ground. The Dogs On Acid forum is also still around, though it's changed hands over the years.
Discussion (206 points, 3 hours ago, 86 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43104071
You cited this so I think this is what you mean:

"Signal is designed to never collect or store any sensitive information."

I interpret this, I think reasonably, to not include encrypted information. For that matter they collect (but probably don't store) encrypted messages. The question is, does PIN+SGX qualify as sufficiently encrypted? This line is a lie only if it does not.

Sorry I skimmed those articles, I don't want to read them in depth. But it sounds like they are again ultimately saying "PIN+SGX is not secure enough".
I paid for a VPS for like 5 years ahead. They cancelled the whole offer (line of VPSs) completely and simply sent me an email it will be deleted in a few months. No migration, no refund, no alternative.

This thread reminds me that it's around.. a year (?) and I was able to get back 1/3 of what I overpaid.

I still think they are a decent player with reasonable prices, but the cost of dealing with their insane portals and random issues like above is just too much for individual.
I use wifi calling and it still sounds bad compared to facetime. Like, exactly as bad as over cell.
The only issue is now you pay for icloud for life. Terrible service just try pulling a lot of photos off of it. Basically can't be done because no matter the tool you try you get connection timeout issues after a couple dozen photos. I have like 60k photos on a family members icloud account that we can't get at all. Stuck paying icloud now for that person. Frankly at this point I'd pay for physical media mailed if that were an option.
>The alternative was someone with no obvious positions other than her predecessor’s, who was not elected by her party, and who was honestly just unlikeable as an individual for most people.

We used to live in a democracy, not a dimocracy. There were more options than the 2 major parties. Always have been.

> I’m not convinced he sexually assaulted anyone

Yeah, and his name totally didn't show up in Maxwell's black book, and he totally wasn't a pal of Jeffrey Epstein. /s

You're fucking kidding me.

> I don’t think personal financial enrichment was really a goal of his either time.

My brother in Christ, financial enrichment has been the only goal of Donald Trump, ever. He ran in 2016 expecting to lose so he could use the base as viewers of the new Fox-alt media platform he was trying to raise money for.

This is a guy whose life mission is to convince everyone else he's a billionaire, while simultaneously threatening to sue anyone who claims he isn't, while also simultaneously avoiding lawsuits that would open his finances up to discovery. He tried to sue his own biographer when said biographer claimed he wasn't a billionaire. Trump dropped the case when it went to discovery.

>I think his initial run was mostly on a whim, but (Hillary) Clinton offended him and he doubled down in response. His second run was personal - he felt personally attacked on both socially and legally, and has basically made it his mission in life at this point to destroy everything those who did that to him care about.

His first run was in 2000. His second run was 2012. Third run got him elected. His fourth run saw him defeated. His fifth run got him re-elected. Get your facts straight.
> bluesky is almost 100% political and almost 100% left-wing. There is literally no one else to follow, at least for now. X still has non-political content, I mainly follow AI, technology and cryptocurrency, and I couldn't find similar content on bluesky.

Not op, but chiming in. There's a lot of content regarding aquatics and home automation (separate topics). I avoid the politics stuff entirely, and much of the crypto stuff on X tends to be promoting scams and rug-pulls.
That's an easy situation to deal with. Have someone who isn't an officer sit at the computer and pretend they are a 12 year old girl to catch a child predator and turn the evidence over to the non-lying police.
The type of work the people working at an APT do, is mainly office work, while it still is very much "hands-on-keyboard" work (so you cannot set an action to automatically occur when nobody is checking the results in the middle of the night). You might want to try shuffling this up when you are in charge, but your (usually highly skilled and expensive) employees probably don't want to be working weird shifts all the time. Especially when they have families.

It also may not be worth it. Generally APT's want to stay under the radar while they are executing. But after the goals have been reached, most of the time it doesn't matter much if they get attributed. We have yet to see real consequences against any APT's. So paying your employees more to work night shifts, likely doesn't stack up against the consequences of attribution.
France is in Europe and NATO no? They might not have enough nukes to end the world, but they have more than enough to kill 90% of the population.
I don't have a good answer. Personally, I'm using Jami for secure communications but I won't pretend it replaces signal in terms of user-friendliness especially back when signal allowed SMS and secure communications in the same app!
Cheap HDMI to USB-c adapter was relatively painless with Orion app for video display on iPad Air/Pro.
Not my site but definitely curious how this works -- if the author spots this submission and fancies sharing?
The Impact of Working in a Product Trio
Quantum computing is a generalization of classical computing. Thus, they CAN do classical computing. But, in practice, it'll be not as fast, more error prone and at a bigger cost.
Can you explain?

My point is that

1 they train AI on internet data
2 they then try to fix illegal stuff, OK
3 but then they try to put political bias from both extremes and make the tools less productive since now a story with monkeys is racist and a story with violence is to violent and soem nude art is too vulgar.

The AI companies could decide to have the balls to only censor illegal shit, and if their model is racist or vulgar then cleanup their data and not do the lazy thing of adding some lazy stupid filter or system prompt to make happy the extremists.
all during covid and the biden admin we couldnt talk about any politics here. what a bunch of poppycock.
This EO says nothing about the Judicial branch and presents a perfectly reasonable policy statement about how legal decisions and interpretation should be made within the executive branch. What specific language in this EO do you have a problem with?

I’m no fan of Trump, but this pattern of people hallucinating that Trump said something he didn’t and then freaking out about their nonexistent hallucination, is getting very tiresome.
I have a pet project and some topics I want to learn. I will try to finish the pet project and see if I can generate some income and then I will start to find a job.
> That's extremely concerning. If we rely on MAD for survival, we should never signal weakness or unpreparedness with our nuclear arsenal.

Not as much as you would think. Ballistic missiles are not the most reliable things in the world, you expect some degree of failures, especially at longer ranges. When Iran launched its massive ballistic missile barrage at Israel last year, I saw estimates that as many as half failed, either during boost phase or during the midcourse phase. And while that isn't great, it's not entirely unexpected. American ICBMs are expected to be more reliable than that, but we're probably talking about 70-80% in realistic conditions (My source is the "Iran and Israel's Missile War" episode of the Arms Control Wonk Podcast, where Dr. Lewis makes those statements. A quick google didn't give a written source). The reason this doesn't matter overly much is because the US (and other nuclear powers) have a lot of missiles. Even if your missiles have 50% reliability, if you just make twice as many missiles as you need there isn't really an issue. You still want your missiles as reliable as possible, of course, and you want your tests to be especially reliable for signaling purposes. But a failed test every now and then is not going to fundamentally alter the risk calculus.
I'm not sure what "isolating" means in "isolating you from the vast majority of people who don't use it".

I'm assuming you're saying that, since FF has a low browser share today, Mozilla focusing their effort to improve it would be wasteful, because that would be putting more resources behind a product that isn't popular.

If so, I wonder how that's different from any other company that wants to grow their market share. They probably face many of the same choices, e.g.: keep your core users satisfied, or try to bring in a new market. It's pretty intuitive to me that putting ads in Firefox would alienate their current core users, but how would putting ads in FF bring in new users? Wouldn't the result just be fewer people using Firefox?

If what they care about is the mission, then that seems like a bad idea. If what they care about is revenue, then I wonder how the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, which oversees the Mozilla Corporation, squares that tradeoff with the mission they exist to serve.
author here- great to know, thanks!
Great article. This is especially true for every new product slapping on an input field for LLM chat in the same way.
That doesn’t disprove the point.
I will throw one in: James P. Hogan's Thrice Upon a Time, from 1980.

Micro black holes, terrorizing the minds of sci-fi writers for decades!
I guess I hadn’t considered that search engines could be reranking pages on the fly as I click them. I’ve been seeing my DuckDuckGo results shuffle around for a while now thinking it’s an awful bug.

Like I click one page, don’t find what I want, and go back thinking “no, I want that other result that was below” and it’s an entirely different page with shuffled results, missing the one that I think might have been good.
>let you insert chunks of TeX

Honestly a better first step would be getting inserting another pdf plot to work, but seems hard https://github.com/typst/typst/issues/145
One point of view is, post hoc, ergo proctor hoc, doesn't really tell you anything at all.
> He has a degree in Physics

Consensus seems to be that he has some kind of a dual degree (obtained simultaneously) which includes B.S. in economics and a B.A.(!) in physics. That A would imply that he probably took the easier physics related classes (and probably not that many in total given the 2 degrees for 1 thing).

Regardless, a bachelor degree hardly means much anyway...

Is there any indication that he's a particularly (or at all) talented engineer (software or any other field)? I mean, yeah, I agree that it doesn't really matter or change much. Just like Jobs had better/more important things (not being sarcastic) to do than directly designing hardware or writing software himself.
> breaking things

You mean: "killing people"?
> if instead of proselytizing this was framed as a sort of luxury preference

> Personally I'm fond of venison

You just talked right past me. I was saying specifically—read the comment again—about factory farming and how that is distinct from wild caught food. If you really feel strongly that hunted meat should be consumed more, you should proselytize the ability to sell it. Animals can live their happy lives in nature, we lose a significant X-risk, and those with this 'luxury preference' of eating meat can do so without the extra step of lifelong torture. You might find some resistance from factory farms that have built a business model upon this kind of misery, and also from established fast food chains, and everyday consumers, that want access to consistently cheap meat.
Nothing like grabbing your phone by the button in your pocket and having it unlocked and open before you even lay eyes on it. As fast as they advertise faceid being it will never beat the fact you can engage touchid as soon as you lay a finger on the phone.
Latency is a different thing, though. Yes, latency is worse in some cases than copper-connected phones were, but that's a highly subjective statement relative to the connections. But quality alone has never been higher than it was, and it was much lower on landline phones.
> The administration has at points said social security and medicare won't be touched

That's also in the 2024 Republican party platform: "FIGHT FOR AND PROTECT SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE WITH NO CUTS, INCLUDING NO CHANGES TO THE RETIREMENT AGE". (Shouting copied from the source).

There are however a couple reasons to doubt the sincerity of that.

First the Republican Study Committee, which around 80% of House Republicans belong to, keeps proposing that the retirement age be raised.

Second, if nothing is done to either cut benefits or raise revenue or both the Social Security trust fund runs out of money around 2035. Around 20% of benefits are paid out of the trust fund. If that is allowed to happen then the only way to not cut benefits would be for Congress and the President to make that up out of the general budget.

The only thing Republicans have said along the lines of increasing SS revenue is that their policies will lead to so much economic growth that tax revenue, including the payroll taxes for SS, will go way up and that will be enough to avert the trust fund's insolvency.

Meanwhile, many of their proposed tax cuts will shorten the time to insolvency. The proposal to eliminate taxes on tips and to eliminate taxes on SS for retirees with high non-SS income will move the insolvency up by up to a couple years or so.

Anyway, I'm sure that if the trust fund is allowed to become insolvent those who let that happen will say that since they did not actively cut benefits they did not violate the party platform.

The Democrats also have repeatedly introduced bills to address the trust fund, which concentrate on raising its revenue. The main method in these bills is to raise the cap on income subject to the payroll tax. Right now you pay 6.2% on the first $176100 (in 2025) of your pay. The Democrat proposals are to include some income above that cap in payroll tax. I believe there have been proposals to get rid of that cap, to raise the cap, or to put a cap on that cap (e.g., payroll tax on first $176100, then no payroll tax from there to $400k, then payroll tax again on income above $400k).

A poll of a proposal that would do the cap on the cap thing (with the numbers given above), gradually raise the payroll tax from 6.2% to 7.2%, make the annual COL adjustment more accurately reflect inflation, and a few other things which would result in there being a small surplus got overwhelming support from voters [1] (here's the PDF with the detailed results) [2].

Overall support is 82%. This doesn't vary much by education level or income level or age. By party affiliation support is 88% for Democrats, 82% for independents, and 74% for Republicans.

Note: the above results are for a proposed package that includes several things. The poll also looked at the individual things in isolation and at variants of them.

[1] https://www.aarp.org/social-security/survey-raising-taxes/

[2] https://www.nasi.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/NASI_SocialS...
I think the dichotomy between how developers have reacted to LLMs (mass adoption) and how authors, illustrators, etc. have reacted (derision, avoidance) demonstrates that coding was never an art to begin with. Code is not an end in itself, it's an obstacle in the way of an end.

There are people who enjoy code for the sake of it, but they're a very, very small group.
5a - consistency with the President not the law. Classic principle of Russia and the likes.
And bureaucracy isn't always bad. State and federal bureaucracies are probably largely responsible for protecting the 2020 US election from fraud and interference.
The power calculation is way off.

Sure, a local model may use a maximum of 65 watts during inference.

However, an H100 runs on 350 watts. Even accounting for the fact that a larger model will need more than one slice, it’s so much faster that this almost balances out.

That’s not the largest difference, though. The H100 can run multiple user queries in parallel, and because LLM inference is limited by memory bandwidth, using large batch sizes this way will dramatically improve efficiency. In short, it takes less power to run it in the datacenter.
The UK also has nukes.
Feeding it with social networks posts was a bad move.
England And France have long had nuclear bombs of their own. Other countries have made them. Iran and Israel officially don't have them, but everyone knows that at minimum they can have them in months if they want them (and they may have them). It is a big engineering task, but not something impossible for nearly any country if they really want to (but in general it costs more than they are worth and so isn't worth it)

Even today, the vast majority of your military spending should be in something else. Precision targeted small explosives generally get the job you need done much better that destroy the whole earth.
Thanks for sharing! It's so helpful to hear real world experiences like this. Would you be interested in meeting up on a call sometime? I'd love to chat about how you're using MCP to help inform how we can make all of this easier for folks. We're actively thinking about our APIs for tool use and MCP right now.
I can't speak for this org, or any given org.

But there's nothing that prevents some org from doing the thing, even if it isn't on a website or official policy...
If you watch the demo video you will see the cloud platform we are building at the end. Right now it’s in beta.
This comes as news to me, and rather disappointing news at that. Do you have a source I can read further?
This is a dilemma I'm deferring making a decision about on my most recent product (named Preppy [1]). I created an app which simplifies meal planning by letting you add ingredients for any online recipe to your grocery store's shopping cart for pickup or delivery.

It uses LLMs for many things including parsing ingredients from the site.

The ethical dilemma is that the recipe website owners have spent time creating and publishing these recipes. They make their money by people visiting their site and clicking on ads. My app reduces a user's dependency on their recipe site once they've added a recipe to Preppy.

I'm genuinely interested in ways my app can benefit users and recipe website owners. I don't know what that solution is yet but would love to figure this out. Generally speaking, I don't think these recipe website owners are going to come out ahead with the availability of LLMs.

[1] https://getpreppy.app
Sure, stuff goes out of date, but rarely does it fail for hardware reasons. Practically the only electronic components that fail with any regularity are chemical components like electrolytic caps and batteries.
Take time with the people to do the boring stuff on their phone/computer:

- install [the thing]

- start it, show how it works

- search for yourself, start a convo, exchange messages

- add them to the group

IME the friction comes from having to do the first step, because it's really an annoyance no one cares about, so if you take it for yourself and do it they'll like that
Do people really need a 60hz display? Most people are just messaging and scrolling tiktok with their phone.
That’s not a choice to be made by superpower heads of state, but by individual people.
I think nuclear winter is probably worse than the soviets, yes?? the USSR eventually fell. you can't really recover from enough nukes.
Just because some nuclear armed countries pinky swear they won't strike first doesn't mean MAD is suddenly not needed...

Even if every known nuclear weapon in the world was decommissioned it'd likely still be needed, in today's dollars the Manhattan project was $30 billion. And you gotta assume modern technology and knowledge would make it quite a bit cheaper.
"The ICBM test and evaluation program helps validate the reliability the nuclear umbrella our allies and partners rely on, eliminating the need to obtain their own nuclear weapons to counter potential adversaries."

Yeah, about that. For how long?
So, deuterium needs to be obtained from sea water through distillation and electrolysis - both energy intensive operations. And tritium comes from nuclear reactors.

I have always wondered - assuming that the confinement problem is solved, how does the cost of the fuel compare to fission (or other generation methods?
Especially notable is the Sprint accelerated at 100g! That's Mach 10 in < 4s.