skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course not. We must however be reminded in the West that weakness is not the same as goodness and that all the pontificating on virtues doesn't matter if your society can be dominated by another (ie. Athens losing to Sparta). My problem with the article and your response is the notion that anyone interested in the (supposed) military capability of the Spartans are de facto Nazis, when in fact it might just be interesting history we can still learn from. There's a saying about babies and bathwater or something.
Yet we shouldn't not forget, we create things to make our lives easier, we create tools that assist us - not the other way around!
Or, as JD Vance wrote, "Judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power." (https://x.com/JDVance/status/1888607143030391287). You really have to read it twice to understand just how far out that phrase is. So now it's the executive itself deciding what's "legitimate" (=conforming to the law), not the courts, whose role it is to interpret and enforce laws?
It would likely much increase salmonella infections. Which currently appears as a far nastier problem.
A newer joke is that Ken Thompson (along with Rob Pike and Robert Griesemer) designed Go while waiting for C / C++ to compile.
I had hopes for this to have an LCD screen, but alas. I will order a few iPhone SE today if it's still possible to find them.
Unlikely. No one really cares about temporary low-value ad-hoc arrangements like the one between Starlink and USAID. It's too small to matter.

The FAA and EPA have been much much bigger headaches for Musk.

USAID was just a juicy target, since it was essentially a slush fund.
> Second date has capabilities of network eavesdropping, MiTM, and code injection

This is probably a dumb question but doesn't that require an SSL cert? Obviously the NSA can get someone to issue a cert for a domain they don't own but wouldn't that be visible?

Couldn't you have every user device log the SSL certs it sees to detect this attack? What about CT?
Isn't this the idea of an audit ?...
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It had little to do with the contract size. Starlink was being investigated to determine how the Russians were getting/using them.

https://www.newsweek.com/usaid-elon-musk-starlink-probe-ukra...

This raises a potential conflict of interest, as Musk's company was under investigation by USAID shortly before he began calling for the shutdown. Starlink's activity in Eastern Europe has been criticized, with many Russian operatives claiming to have access to Starlink despite Musk's assurances that only Ukraine was using the service.

Additionally, in September last year, Ukrainian forces downed a Russian drone that had a Starlink terminal integrated with its systems, raising questions as to how secure Starlink's operations during the Ukraine war are.
Is that an objective truth or rose-tinted nostalgia speaking? (I wouldn't know, I wasn't alive then.)
Pandora: Exoplanet Atmospheres via Smallsat
The typical problem of a centralized infrastructure.

Indeed:

> This means each user gets their own Timeline partition, randomly distributed among shards of our horizontally scalable database (ScyllaDB), replicated across multiple shards for high availability
What are your thoughts on a more communal approach? Say we have a neighborhood of 20 single family homes that all participate in tending a large garden and raising chickens. Would the cost and chore time drop to a level where it was saving all involved enough money to justify the effort?

I ask because I used to have a good sized garden at my old house, growing enough veggies to both preserve and distribute to neighbors because I grossly underestimated the yield. While it was nice to have the neighbors love me, it was also a lot more work than I had bargained for (especially when otherwise working 40+ hours per week) and it got me thinking about community gardens and whatnot, why those might make more sense these days
There were signs but people thought it implausibly stupid:

> Vice-president JD Vance has cited Yarvin as an influence, saying in 2021, "So there's this guy Curtis Yarvin who has written about these things," which included "Retire All Government Employees," or RAGE, written in 2012. Vance said that if Trump became president again, "I think what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, and replace them with our people. And when the courts stop you, stand before the country and say, 'The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.'"[17][52]
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7 steps to junk science that can achieve worldly success
I agree that the choice of softmax is arbitrary; but if I may be nitpicky, the average weight and the temperature determine one another (the average weight is the derivative of the log of the partition function with respect to the inverse temperature). I think the arbitrariness comes more from choosing logits as a weight in the first place.
Anecdata but I agree. Had two spine surgeries at two highly regarded places and those surgeons had no clue whatsoever on the recovery. They've fixed their part and the rehab part is someone else's problem.

Luckily I have a good therapist. But still I'm disappointed as they should know that part better.
Surgery has very well documented known risks and doctors recommend surgery.

Also surgery has outcomes that are barely better than non surgical interventions, sometimes, and they still recommend surgery.
Yeah, if we (even in other countries) weren't all personally affected by it, I couldn't stop laughing. The way things are, I'd rather go with Max Liebermann, who reportedly commented on the previous wave of fascism with the words "I couldn't eat as much as I would like to throw up" ("Ich kann gar nicht soviel fressen, wie ich kotzen möchte" - https://www.aphorismen.de/zitat/93763).
I mean, it might confirm Stormy Daniels’ unflattering description of his naughty bits. Trump seems like precisely the sort of insecure weirdo who’d be _super_ sensitive about that (remember his hand size obsession?)

Like, I think it’s not particularly consequential, but the tape, if it exists, probably actually is very good leverage over Trump, because he’s Trump. Say what you want about the FSB; they know their job.
How's that? I know American eggs get cleaned and bleached, but that doesn't happen in Europe yet salmonella is not a huge issue.

(cleaning eggs also removes some of its natural barriers, making it mandatory to refrigerate them to keep them edible)
Adjustment: not progress, the hype.

People belive that LLM progress will become foundation of the future economy expansion the same way as microelectronics did. But for now there are few signs of that economic benefit from AI/LLM stuff. If one do math of what productivity increase tech should give in order to have positive ROI, one would be surprised how reality is far from feasibility of investments https://www.bruegel.org/working-paper/tension-between-explod.... Yes, anecdotally people tell stories how they can code twice/trice/ten times faster, or how they atumated their whole workflow or replaced support with LLM. But that's far not enough for AI investment feasibility in existing businesses (AI startups will flurish for a while on venture money). Also anecdotally there are many failed attempts to replace people with LLMs (like mcdonalds ordering which resulted in crazy orders).

So what we have is a hype on top of beliefs in progress as continious phenomena. But progress itself has slowed greately. Where are all breakthroughs which change our way of living? Pocket computers and consumer electronics (which is not a discovery rather an optimisation) and internet (also more about scaling than inventing) were the last. 3d printing, cancer treatment, robotics thought to be the new factors. Till AI/LLM. Now AIs/LLMs are the last resourt for believers in progress and technooptimists like Musk.
The enforcement of these laws should be a function of the executive. There are ways for the supreme court or congress to intervene when the executive isn't doing their job. Sadly that requires them to believe a series of checks and balances is necessary.

Given that it is down to the voters, and they thought a racist, rapist, conman should be president giving them the power of the executive - which has been growing increasingly powerful for my adult lifetime.
That reminded me of the compiler that used to include a large poem in every binary, just for shits and giggles. You've heard of a magic number, it had a magic sonnet.

I thought it was early versions of the Rust compiler, but I can't seem to find any references to it. Maybe it was Go?

EDIT: Found it: 'rust-lang/rust#13871: "hello world" contains Lovecraft quotes' https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/13871
It's only tech heavy if you decide it should be though.
Have any multimodal models been reasoning-trained yet?
The most distressing thing I learned in the past 3 ~~Years~~ edit: months,, was how MUCH laws are about norms.

Norms, are basically the way laws work in the real world.

I despaired, because this is natural to lawyers, and alien entirely to the layperson.

No one is going to think Justice, and then accept “Oh, our norms are how laws work”.
My understanding is that everyone takes the same oath of office to the constitution, not their boss:

> The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution …
Vastly overstating its capabilities? SF is ~crawling~ with them 24/7 and I've yet to meet someone who's had a bad experience in one of them. They operate more than well enough to replace rideshare drivers, and they have been.
Postulate 1: The music is created by the radio in the form of sound waves, the end.

Postulate 2: The music was played by a band in the form of sound waves, some time in the past. The band recorded their music on to some storage medium so that it could be transmitted to the future. In the present, the storage medium is connected up to a piece of equipment that turns the recorded signal into some invisible power transmission that spreads throughout space in a way you can't experience directly with any of your natural senses. The radio however can sense these invisible power transmissions and can turn them back into audio that sounds like what the band played in the past. So we're saying that it is possible to create music in the form of sound waves (that's what the band did), and it is possible for the radio to output sound waves that sound like music (that's what the radio does), but the radio is curiously not the thing that is producing music and instead we have an enormous system of technology transmitting the music across space and time.

You'd need an awful lot of evidence to convince me that postulate 2 is true and postulate 1 is false.

On the one hand you have "consciousness can be created, and it is created by the brain". On the other hand you have "consciousness can be created, and it is created somewhere, but it's not created by the brain, instead it is created somewhere else and there is a system of consciousness transmission that gets it into the brain".

There's just no reason to prefer the second explanation. It is a more complicated story.
It was a typo. No one was paid that amount and wouldn't have been paid that amount. If fixing a typo in a reporting system is a huge win for you I guess...ok.
No it’s an observation about the benefits the covid vaccine delivers of which literally just one is left and the vast number of side effects and mishaps which occurred on appliance, storage and production.

Take into account that the left benefit protecting against a specific spike variation works only for this specific spike variation and when the virus mutates to another spike variation the necessity for the so called booster is given to gain the protection again. On every appliance increasing the risk of harm.

This type of virus mutates frequently and a booster can only be created after the mutation happened, always delayed and only useful if no natural infection occurred previously with this specific spike variation.

The appliance of a covid vaccine with a specific spike variation makes only sense if the natural infection could be so intense that one wants to avoid it and of course didn’t get it yet. Since this group of people was quite small there wasn’t the need to vaccine everybody in the first place and causing harm.

All the damage people received and are still suffering from what a tragedy and then some lousy newspaper doesn’t want to address it, trying to pull some conclusions out of thin air, mis- and disinforming the people makes me sick.
> Perhaps surprisingly, the CEO of YC and Paul Graham have been publicly supportive of the DOGE team, despite all the racism and existential threat. I don't know if that's from fear, or greed, but there are strong arguments for both.

> …

> If discussing this openly and often this isn't possible due to very simple flag abuse, then what is this community actually even worth.

Just want to add to this topic that HN advertises YC AI Startup school: https://events.ycombinator.com/ai-sus - where Musk is listed as a first speaker.

Though it doesn’t surprise me - YC is in the same circle of radical technocrats (a16z, Altman, Musk, etc.) and hosted Balaji talking about dystopian plans about techno-authoritarian city states 10 or 15 years ago.
Shawn has a follow up:

https://youtu.be/uIweHUjkUrc?feature=shared
Better use 9front, the new version even has a new filesystem (gefs).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juFndFy72gI

And a good plan9/9front yt-channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@adventuresin9/videos
There is no constitutional way the president to not have access to any data in the executive branch. And since doge is reporting to him - it just send the data to the president and he will forward it to whomever he pleases.

Even the concept of independent executive agencies is probably more vulnerable constitutionally than more people think.
Nice. One small bug: on small laptop screens, the lower parts of chessboard overflow out of view and it's impossible to scroll down to see them :)
> government actor can intercept the text message Signal and others use for verification and set up the victims account on a new device

Yes, but if they only control the phone number, you they will register a new account (different cryptographic keys) for you, which is why everyone previously chatting with you will get that "Your Safety Number with Bob changed" message.
US has an egg import deal with Turkey, no? https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/international/turkey-export...
European here, giving my two cents on how this looks from the other side of the Atlantic. Heh

In my country there are laws stopping agencies doing a simple SQL join between two databases, even within the same government agency. There is a separate agency that handles the requests when agencies want to join information.

I am not an expert in the matter. But my gut is telling me that our experiences with east Germany and Stasi left a scar.

It can quickly turn into a real nightmare, and there for there are check and balances to make it slow. It’s deliberate inefficiency.
It is because there is a disassociation between earning money and living. You eat what you hunt, you eat what you farm, you live the house you build, you trade your crops for other crops.

Today we work for money and spend money to live, the two are linked but also disassociated. I find it that the most successful people are the ones who find joy in seeing "number go up" (money go up) as their work and life. The people who want to use money are the ones who find the least joy in getting more of it.
Most people have still written code for school or a hobby project. Maybe I'm missing empathy, but I cannot understand how some developers have no code to show.

If that's the case however, just let them make a small project over the weekend and then do another interview where you ask stuff about what they've made. It's not that deep
Is the paperwork in the UK (I'm assuming you're UK-based, hence £) particularly onerous? I heard things were getting more complicated if you just wanted a few chickens in your garden.
I mean if you add everything up - land value, labour, food costs, etc - I'm fairly sure they're selling eggs at a net loss, however, it's not a capitalist endeavour unlike the industrial production. And IMO that is the key difference, that is, they produce for themselves and sell the excess and earn some money off of it, it's not their primary goal to do so.
Even though the examples have a clear green-screen effect, I would think some of the tricks/filters they used in old video games to make them look "realistic/cinematic" could work here, then advertisers would be able to plug in a picture of a model wearing their latest outfit to a stock video for social media and digital ads.
Best-of-n-prompt-jailbreaker – open-source AI prompt tool
Hi HN!

I built an open-sourced best-of-n-prompt-jailbreaker tool https://bestofn.vetonce.com/

since I heard about this technique and haven't seen any updates about it since https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.03556

Inspired by https://github.com/jplhughes/bon-jailbreaking

Would love your feedback
Prices have little to do with cost when monopolies are involed, that's the point.

DB quote for "high"speed train from Frakfurt to Paris: from 151 €

Flight from Frakfurt to Paris: options as low as 76 €

This isn't a 100% fair comparison but hopefully serves to demonstrate the absurdity.
Given the context in which you answered, it is wrong. The president carries out the law, but isn't above the law, doesn't decide what is the law, and his actions are to be verified, if necessary, if conform to the law. His authority is not the law, but executing the law.
Probably not.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposition_Matrix
Usually writing to eink screen requires proprietary stuff (drivers, waveforms...). Especially if you want partial refresh or low latency.

I suggest to look at reMarkable tablet, a device with an wink screen which runs Linux and respects the GPL.
Has been discussed before on HN [1]
They recently added documentation about developing apps for the devices [2], but the community has been doing that for years

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25124211
[2] https://developer.remarkable.com/documentation/qt_epaper
OT: refusing to capitalize the first word of each sentence is an annoying posture that makes reading what you write more difficult. I tend to do it too when taking notes for myself because I'm the only reader and it saves picoseconds of typing; but I wouldn't dream on inflicting it upon others.
It doesn't make you wonder at all? All over this thread are supporters saying anyone fighting an audit is hiding something. Trump and Musk are literally fighting against transparency and your response is they have the discretion to do that. The cognitive dissonance around Musk and Trump is really unbelievable.
This was the specific argument raised in the SC verdict - but this is a question of whether the President is immune.

The question here is just BS. The President created organizations to enact the executives will.

The executive is now saying they want the power to come back to them. Which it always was - they had to work through the structures they created.

Apparently they dont want the institutions.
> Chickens are very sweet animals, and are quite intelligent.

I hated chickens, the only animal I may have disliked more were sheep and that’s only because sheep are so unbelievably annoying.

Chickens to me were nothing more than noisy garbage disposals.
USAID has no ability to investigate or enforce sanctions, so that doesn’t make sense.
Yeah my thinking is even if they don’t have the users IP, knowing and seeing all the traffic associated with a specific public key would allow them to build a profile of the user.

Eg based on the specific sites visited, payload sizes potentially, domains looked up, etc you’d be able to characterise the person. Especially so if anything they did was not encrypted, or they have their own vanity domain (for emails or anything else).

> Mullvad only needs to associate each decrypted IP packet against an assertion that the packet was paid for.

The idea of Obscura is by using two middlemen (them + Mullvad) that neither party can figure out who the end user is. So I’m looking at Mullvad from the perspective of: if they were evil, what about this solution are safeguard protecting the end users privacy. And my conclusion is they’d still be able to break the users privacy in the same way as knowing the users IP, just without the IP.
Mobile SDK Showdown: Unveiling 2025's Most Popular Frameworks Powering 30K Apps
Quick overview of the current state of mobile ecosystem including stats for Game Engines, Mobile SDKs, Libraries and Frameworks.

If you have advice for changing anything, please let me know or contact me via Discord.

Next up I'll be adding tags for better organizing the various terms like framework / library / language etc which can be quite fuzzy when looking through the app data.
They may have updated just now, but https://www.calendlystatus.com/ does show a "Major outage" on calendly.com and a red notice with

> Investigating - We are currently investigating this issue.

> Feb 20, 2025 - 04:37 EST

Update:

It's now green and says:

Feb 20, 2025
Calendly Outage
Resolved - This incident has been resolved.
Feb 20, 04:57 EST
Monitoring - A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
Feb 20, 04:49 EST
Investigating - We are currently investigating this issue.
Feb 20, 04:37 EST
I've had prior experience with NTAuthority. He's an incredible technical wizard. While I won't claim he is always the easiest to work with, the idea that any of these people contributed even 10% of what NTA contributed to FiveM is laughable.

Worth noting that he's now become a game publisher [0].

[0]: https://x.com/refintg
Which laws? The article describes security clearance.
Unfortunately this line of argument doesn't quite work either. You could replace "real numbers" by "rational numbers" and it would still be true except for the last line. The size of the integers is the same as the size of the rationals. You have to think in terms of injective functions.
> We should attribute no normative weight to whether something should or shouldn't be scientifically analyzable. So we should always improve our means of observation, as well as our culture towards the things that are difficult [...]

I don't mean it necessarily has to be scientifically analyzable with current technology, but it must have some impact on the physical world (even if indirect) - else it cannot be what we're referring to.
Very few countries have as strong executive branch as the USA.
There’s no suggestion that DOGE analysts are cross referencing data between agencies.

They have simply been tasked with eliminating waste from over 400 agencies, which requires them to distribute their team and parallelise their activities in order to meet the 12 month deadline.
So you ask their age or what?

when is a women a women? and when does she become 'elderly' ?

you also cannot see if a teenager is 19 or 20.
But also when you make cuts, you go hard, fast, and recover from there. Any effort of small trimming over a long period achieves no saving while producing the same negative publicity. I doubt such cutting effort will happen for another 30y.

There is a french say I like. If you need to cut a dog’s tail, don’t cut an inch every day, chop the whole thing quick
The organisations were designed to be separate, and the systems design follows that.