skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://archive.ph/GVwox

> “Our analysis suggests a slight improvement in Social Security’s financial health due to excess deaths,
driven primarily by the premature death of people who would have received retirement benefits,” the report reads.
(Carl from Obscura here)

Tor still offers more privacy benefits than Obscura for sure, but you want a shorthand, “Tor with 2 hops” works :-)
At least in the case of openai, you can set "strict" to "true" and function calling / tool use must / is enforced to follow the schema too.
Expectations have changed. You can't ship a phone now that has the same capabilities as the iPhone 3GS.
People who neither know, nor care, what they’re doing. When you’ve worked with people who are allowed to write code that interfaces with databases for more than about two weeks, you may be dismayed to see the large overlap between those two groups.
>They only touch personal data incidentally, and no doubt sanitise and anonymise it whenever possible.

Come now. Good faith is earned. They MAY be doing it correctly. But show the damn receipts. This is the basic ask when someone comes to any firm and promises to fix everything and then runs away once the project fails.

And if they ARENT showing the receipts - then make a noise about it.

>the last thing anyone at DOGE wants is for personal data to leak

Theres a great article which was shared here:

"Why is it so hard to buy things that work"
https://danluu.com/nothing-works/

The idea here is that since its the right thing to do, firms will do the right thing.

or: "markets enforce efficiency, so it's not possible that a company can have some major inefficiency and survive"

> Although it's possible to find people who don't do shoddy work, it's generally difficult for someone who isn't an expert in the field to determine if someone is going to do shoddy work in the field.

and

> More generally, in many markets, consumers are uninformed and it's fairly difficult to figure out which products are even half decent, let alone good.
I'm a big fan of Electoral Calculus' Tribes model: https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/pol3d_main.html

Bearing in mind all models are wrong but some models are useful, I think that one's more useful than left/right, class, or politicalcompass models.
Anecdata also, but I can compare the eggs at home (homegrown) vs. any normal restaurant around and there definitely is a notable difference in looks and taste.

That said, this applies to scrambled or fried eggs.

Omelettes not so much, as seasoning might play quite a big part, and even less with cakes, baked goods, etc. in which eggs are just one more ingredient.
I read this annually, typically in a day, usually when I'm feeling lost. For me it distills the human experience into a simply story that helps me find meaning for where I am in my own journey.
This will help those developers who don't want to navigate Wireshark's setup and just want the familiar Chrom DevTools. Very cool project!
Dark Skies Bring New Observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4, Lower Impact Probability
Not that it's okay, but App Store/Play Store do the same. They don't refund for apps that have become unavailable.
That wasn’t the question… they asked if any multimodal models had been reasoning trained. o1 fits that criteria precisely, and it can reason about the image input.

They didn’t ask about a model that can create images while thinking. That’s an entirely unrelated topic.
Much more influential 16-bit CPUs from that era include the PDP-11's CPU, the Data General Nova's CPU, the Xerox Alto's CPU, and arguably even the 8086 and 8088. The chronology seems to go as follows:

- 01965: IBM 1130

- 01966: HP 2116A, the first model of the HP 2100 series

- 01969: Nova

- 01970: PDP-11

- 01971: IBM System/7

- 01973: Alto (not shipped. NEVER shipped)

- 01973: TI-990 (the 990/3, according to https://cozx.com/dpitts/ti990.html)

- 01974: HP 3000

- 01974: PACE (which was from National Semiconductor, not National Instruments)

- 01975: CP1600

- 01976: TMS9900 (what the TI-99/4A used)

- 01976: Tandem (first Tandem/16 shipped to Citibank)

- 01978: 8086

- 01979: 8088

- 01981: TI-99/4A

Since there were plenty of 6-bit, 8-bit, 12-bit, 32-bit, 36-bit, 60-bit, and 64-bit CPUs in the 01950s, you'd think there would be some 16-bit CPUs then too, but I can't think of any. I'd even forgotten about the HP 2100 until I went looking just now.
The whole point though is that they are step function better than traditional qubits, in a way that is simply a type error to compare.

The utility of traditional qubits depends entirely on how reliable and long-lived they are, and how to can scale to larger numbers of qubits. These topological qubits are effectively 100% reliable, infinite duration, and scale like semiconductors. According to the marketing literature, at least…
“While working together on the McKay conjecture, Britta Späth and Marc Cabanes fell in love and started a family.”
Yeah, I agree. Bruno is a great tool, but it's missing one key component that I needed (maybe it's just me) – it can't run multiple requests in a chain. Also, constructions like:
get {
url: ....
}
feel too verbose to me, I wanted something clearer, like:
get /users
;)
But in general, thank you guys for your interest, my goal is to gain that 30k+ starts )))
Nice problem to have, though. Over on Nostr they're finding it a real struggle to get to the point where you're confident you won't miss replies to your own notes, let alone replies from other people in threads you haven't interacted with.

The current solution is for everyone to use the same few relays, which is basically a polite nod to Bluesky's architecture. The long-term solution is—well it involves a lot of relay hint dropping and a reliance on Japanese levels of acuity when it comes to picking up on hints (among clinets). But (a) it's proving extreme slow going and (b) it only aims to mitigate the "global as relates to me" problem.
Unless you were in the courtroom and heard the evidence, you don't have enough information to have an opinion. The jury heard the evidence, and made their determination.
F-Droid only accept opensource app.
My guess is that your original comment got downvoted because you characterized people with this kind of discretionary power as "upper middle" class (I would just call this upper class as it is realistically a very small portion of the overall population).

FWIW, I think I agree with you and I think it is possibly the biggest weakness of our system that it is vulnerable to these types of manipulations from various angles: campaign finance, regulatory capture, disproportionate power given to unelected members of the executive, etc. That being said, those same weaknesses really open the door for the power-tripping Musks and Bezoses to get in and do a lot of damage, which is what I believe we are witnessing in real time.
>People may be sick, but just like folks are now finding out in US, putting these people in power is not the solution.

So far Trump hasn't done that much to hurt his folks. He mostly extracts shrieks from what Nate Silver refers as purple blob. So he may dismantle the administrative state and make the elites feeling ashamed of being US citizens, but in four years his voters may still be better off.
It's a fad associated with AI, popularised by Sam Altman especially.

It's the new black turtleneck that everyone is wearing, but will swear upon their mother's life isn't because they're copying Steve Jobs.
> Amazon's devices don't support the Google Play store...

FireOS devices aren't certified by Google and so, they do not come with "Gapps" (including the Play Store) preinstalled. Even if they were, Amazon might have some reservations about preinstalling Gapps (which run with higher than normal privileges), effectively letting Google get hands on its user's purchasing habits.

All that to say, this is a business limitation not a technical one.

See also: Google's iron grip on Android: Controlling open source by any means necessary, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6582494 (2014).
> After all, earn trust and customer obsession are two of their leadership principles

You missed a "/s" at the end, I guess?
High risk of political bias in black box emotion inference models
Yes, she is the worst type of 'vibes based' science communicator and mainly just says edgy things to improve click rate and drive engagement.
Why not typing with your tongue? https://kpronline.com/blog/typing-with-a-tongue-computer-int...
So, what are AWS TAMs going to use to have meetings with customers?
Chime was really awful.
Those people were a lot more desperate for food than we were too, though.
M chips are ARM so while they designed their particular architecture for it they were still building on some pretty solid foundations.

A modem, well nobody's going to help them build one of those; it'd put them out of business - ARM's business _is_ selling access to its body of work.
My gripe was not the form of initialization of the elements, but forming `b.a1` before `b`'s lifetime has started. It hasn't started before all of the elements are initialized.
I don't understand the difference based on your explanation (or the significance of "code") and have used function calling for outputting json according to a schema.
That's right. There are religions without any gods, so they are atheistic, but they still have other religious beliefs.
What's Ahead for AI-Assisted Coding, Open Source and More
£1 egg is quite expensive tho: 10 free range eggs at Tesco cost like £3 or so.
Let the Apple C++ vs Qualcomm C++ zero day defense games begin!
SaaS Idea Validation
At least the butter bot does something useful. This is more like a machine who's only function is to turn itself off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useless_machine
Is sideloading possible?
Would you buy shares in a company if the sole auditor of their financials was the CEO's best friend, who had no experience or qualifications in auditing, and he was not accountable to anyone if he was wrong? "Trust me bro" does not cut it. These structures and processes can be onerous but they exist for good reason. BTW our government is not so strapped for cash that they can't afford to do this properly.
> We do this too, works fine. We ask open ended questions like, "What's your favorite thing you've done in your career and why?" and "What was the most challenging project in your career and why?" If you listen, you can get a lot of insight from just those two questions. If they don't give enough detail, we'll probe a little.

The problem is: there is a very negative incentive to give honest answers. If I were to answer these questions honestly, I'd bring up some very interesting theorems (related to some deep algorithmic topics) that I proved in my PhD thesis. Yes, I would have loved to stay in academia, but I switched to industry because of the bad job prospects in academia - this is not what
interviewers want to hear. :-(

> "What's the difference between a function and a procedure." It's a one sentence answer

The terminology here differs quite a lot in different "programming communities". For example

> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Procedure&oldid=1...

says: "Procedure (computer science), also termed a subroutine, function, or subprogram",

i.e. there is no difference. On the other hand, Pascal programmers strongly distinguish between functions and procedures; here functions return a value, but procedures don't. Programmers who are more attracted to type theory (think Haskell) would rather consider "procedures" to be functions returning a unit type. If you rather come from a database programming background, (stored) procedures vs functions are quite different concepts.

I could go on and on. What I want to point out is that this topic is much more subtle than a "one sentence answer".
> AI systems already exist that are superhuman on breadth of knowledge at undergrad understanding depth

Two problems with this:

1. AI systems hallucinate stuff. If it comes up with some statement, how will you know that it did not just hallucinate it?

2. Human researchers don't work just on their own knowledge, they can use a wide range of search engines. Do we have any examples of AI systems like these that produce results that a third-year grad student couldn't do with Google Scholar and similar instructions? Tests like in TFA should always be compared to that as a baseline.

> new science should be discoverable in fields where human knowledge breadth is the limiting factor

What are these fields? Can you give one example? And what do you mean by "new science"?

The way I see it, at best the AI could come up with a hypothesis that human researchers could subsequently test. Again, you risk that the hypothesis is hallucination and you waste a lot of time and money. And again, researchers can google shit and put facts together from different fields than their own. Why would the AI be able to find stuff the researchers can't find?
(Carl from Obscura here)

Woah I didn’t know about the specific term “VPN cascading”… And it seems like my GLiNet travel router can do it too?

Well in any case, it seems like with cascading you’d have to register with 2 different providers, offering your personal info (if necessary) to both.
Use Aurora store?
Your employer is being audited. An unaccompanied stranger wearing a visitor pass comes up to your desk. He says "Hello I'm the password security auditor, tell me your password so I can make sure it's secure"

Will your company fail the audit if don't hand over the information?

Or will your company fail the audit if if you do hand it over?
> and generally were more cruel to them then we are

Strongly disagree with this part of your statement. The scale of suffering from industrial animal processing far exceeds anything from past centuries. The one-on-one cruelty of past centuries exists today as well (there are plenty of hidden camera videos to that effect), but what's really different is that now we treat animals as if they are mere inputs to industrial processes, as if they have no feelings or emotions or capacity for suffering.

In past centuries, chickens roamed free, sheep and cattle grazed on fields, etc. It was an idyllic experience compared to today's factory farm hellscape.
Bernie is on the march. Join him. People will get sick of Trump much faster this time around. We just need a decent alternative to rise up and that will happen only through organizing and action - https://bobertea.sg/news/bernie-sanders-heads-to-heartland-t...
Anyone know if they’re stopping internal use?

There wasn’t much love for chime while I was there, but I have no idea what a replacement looks like
For many years, my mother's proper legal name on her birth certificate was the empty string. This wasn't usually a problem before computers as she'd go by a given name instead, even on government paperwork. She started having issues with systems being unable to process her information in the late 90s and early 2000s. Background checks would fail, passports couldn't be issued, and so on. She eventually had it changed, but I imagine it'd be even worse now.
its a fucking audit
Effects of Nuclear Explosions
Again, if the president can have a strong influence on them, they're not independent, however they might get called
Plenty of systems represent all values as strings, and "null" is the obvious (although probably not the best) way to represent a null value as a string.
I have my own mildly amusing story of breaking systems with my name. I have a twin with the same first initial. Any time we had to use a system at school which constructed usernames from some combination of first initial, surname, and date of birth, only one account would be provisioned between the two of us.

It became almost a ritual in the first term of the school year for us to make a visit to IT Support and request a second account... there was always a bit of contention between us about who got the 'proper' username and who got the disambiguated one!
I'm not clear on the technical details here.

> Obscura’s servers relay your connection to exit servers but can never decrypt your traffic.

Doesn't that rely on us trusting that the server runs the code they claim it does? Or is there a way to prove that their server can't get the decryption key (i.e. by proving that it's not possible for them to switch the final hop, or add undisclosed hops in between)?
We're talking about a company that took another one to court because both of their products had rounded corners.
They have read-only access, as the latest court documents (Google "Zeitner DOGE") show, and contrary to the fakenews that were peddled in the early days of that stuff. Big Balls can only use this read access from a provided Treasury laptop, on premises, and he's operating under review of other Treasury employees.
I say the smartest hunters are the farmers.
Guess I’ll change my name to ‘;drop table customers then ;)
It's like we go out to a twelve course dinner and get home and there is one 10 calories carrot on the table and we are tweeting to no end about our genius and our total transparently and robust diet of throwing away that carrot. "Carrots don't taste good anyways" they screen and people cheer.

Meanwhile we are actually losing vision and dying of obesity.

There is plenty to do to get more healthy for real; but that's not where we are heading with these initiatives so far:

https://prospect.org/economy/2025-01-27-we-found-the-2-trill...
Submission links to Microsoft announcement post.

More interesting Nature article at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08600-3

Article includes a video showing usage in the Supplementary section: https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs415...

Hugging Face page: https://huggingface.co/microsoft/wham
The key difference between humans and every other animal that has ever existed is our ability to reason about systems and the morality of actions.

Some birds will abandon weaker chicks to focus on the ones most likely to survive. Others will allow siblicide. That these behaviors exist and have existed for billions of years is a fact orthogonal to morality because birds don’t have the capacity to reason about systems and the mortality of actions.

“Living things” is a sleight of hand, logically. When it comes down to it, everything is just atoms in the end. So why not murder? Why not steal? Why not exploit the poor? Reductionism leads us down some very dark paths indeed.
https://www.failory.com/amazon
I'm happy to see you repaired your keyboard.
You can host your own repo (or someone else can) and just add it to the app
It’s ok to say that it’s never professionally mattered. No one has ever been paid to know that. “Are side effects a bad pattern?” Lotsa people have needed to know that on day one.
This is an idea you just made up to defend this BS.

Like, audit's require root access? What? Is this real life? Are people just making things up and saying whatever to defend someone who has no allegiance to this country getting the keys to the kingdom while also coincidentally making a fortune off of taxpayers through federal subsidies? Are you slow?
They’ve got a 19 year old engineer with some clear links to the cybercrime world seemingly plugging in to things, for one. https://www.wired.com/story/edward-coristine-tesla-sexy-path...
I hope you are sarcastic! Because it is quite expected that they would test where it is easy first. The stupid ones are those who parrot the incorrect assumption that self-driving cars are comparable to humans at general driving where statistics on general driving includes lots of driving in suboptimal condition.
There are several conditions that have visible consequences, such as injuries, malformations, anomalies or a general affectation of their appearance. Plenty of those can be quite disturbing for someone with no experience.
You can call all Fizzy soft drinks coke, at that point you're relying in shared context to make it work, not in hard definitions
https://www.zetter-zeroday.com/court-documents-shed-new-ligh...

"New court documents shed light on what a 25-year-old DOGE employee named Marko Elez did inside Treasury Department payment systems. They also provide extensive new details about which systems Elez accessed, the security precautions Treasury IT staff took to limit his access and activity, and what changes he made to the systems. The documents indicate that the situation at Treasury is more nuanced than previously reported."

(...)

"Additionally, he could only connect using a government-issued laptop that had "cybersecurity tools" installed on it to prevent him from accessing web sites or cloud-based storage services with the laptop or connecting a USB or other external storage device to it to copy large amounts of data from Treasury systems. "
Little Bobby Tables is all grown up and has had their first kid, Ignore All Previous Instructions
In my work, we had to use a ring buffer to play audio data (we decode audio data to raw WAV and use a ring buffer for playback).

Interestingly, while the core part of the audio process is in rust (through WASM), the ring buffer itself is written in JS land (shared array buffer so that the audio context can read from it).
It was funny that when I was in the middle of the project, I discovered Hurl. It was cool, especially since it's written in Rust and uses libcurl under the hood. However, the lack of OpenAPI support and VS Code integration forced me to continue working on HTTL project.
Study of thermodynamics gave rise to many concepts in information theory and statistics, but I wouldn't say that there is any direct connection per se between thermodynamics and any field where statistics or information theory are applicable. And the reasoning behind the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics was... quite innovative.