skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been exploring whether AI hallucinations are simply failures or if they might resemble human creativity. The article looks at how hallucinations in AI could serve as a generative mechanism, similar to brainstorming or lateral thinking. Also touches on reinforcement learning as a way to guide hallucinations into productive outputs. Would love to hear HN’s thoughts?
I'm all for transit but congestion pricing never sat right with me. It's as regressive of a tax as a regressive tax can get. Ends don't justify means.

And it comes off like throwing in the towel on making transit attractive enough to draw people away from driving, as if the only possible way to do so is to financially beat them into submission. I don't see that resulting in good public support for transit, stuffing it full of unwilling people who resent being herded there. On the other hand, if you make the transit good enough on its own merit, people will switch without a metaphorical cattle prod behind them. Carrot vs stick.
That is really interesting to me. I admittedly haven't played with it in a while but on previous Android phones I've had basically any patch of skin would register and work okay with the sensor. I know because I used to rock climb a lot which tears up fingerprints so I would register things like the backside of my index finger so I could unlock the phone while it sits on a table. It was definitely finickier than a proper fingerprint but preferable to retraining it every couple of days.
Staphylococcus aureus 'steals' iron from our blood during infections
For those looking for something to Google or concrete facts to back this up, "obstructionism" is the proper term for this.

Some key examples: Reagan saying "the government is the problem", Newt Gingrich starting the modern obstructionist movement in congress with the Contact with America (also backed by the Heritage Foundation, which is behind project 2025), and Mitch McConnel breaking norms to practically shut down congress under his leadership, openly stating his intent several times.

Republicans don't want to lead in any practical sense. They want to break the government and privatize the pieces so they can buy in and profit off of them. Anyone who can't buy in gets screwed, because services will cost more to pay for the investment and profits that the investors demand.

Trump's biggest achievement last term was a massive tax cut for the rich. So to balance to budget, they now want to destroy as many government services as they can, using "efficiency" as an excuse.

Breaking things is great when you run a social media company. Worst case scenario, your website goes offline for a few hours. When you start breaking the government, people die. Of course, if you're richer than God, you don't have to worry about the fallout. It doesnt matter if the FDA falls apart and leads to massive food contamination when you only eat Wagyu beef from your private ranch. People will die, you pay less taxes, and you only see it as a success.

There are many other critiques to be made, but this is just the surface.
You cannot compare uber to Craigslist.

Uber takes on so much more responsibility of the transaction. Setting price, handling disputes, real time coordination, etc.
It's called diversification
The fact that you have to be on “the” relay to meaningfully participate on the network.

If you instead claim that users can always choose to use other 3P relays, then you immediately lose all the nice things that Bluesky is able to do well today (search, discoverability, a “discover” algorithm). Indeed, you fall back to the same old problems that every other decentralized social network has.

Bluesky is just a shittier version of Nostr, except that the people over at Nostr don’t pretend.
According to Balatro, it does
How many qubits on this? One?
This looks awesome! Quick question, are there plans to support SSE MCP servers? I see Stdio [0] are supported and I can always run a proxy but SSE would be awesome.

[0] https://mastra.ai/docs/reference/tools/client
Impossible with just the basic inductive principle of tokamaks, yes. Some years back I learned that you can keep the current going with microwaves, not sure about recent progress. You can also approximate steady state by reversing polarity of the warp - ehm - magnetic field regularly.

Yes, stellarators are different.
It's not coming, it never went away… As I understand it, the "business layer" with all the logic is above the data later, shared by the Postgres and Scylla versions, and the data layer just makes queries to the database. I think they are using the Postgres version locally for development.
I'm an Uber hater, but... yes.

Like, sure, they don't need every single one of those 30,000... but they have to have ground teams in every city in the world. Connections with every airport. Connections with almost every restaurant in the world. Customer support and safety (okay I know they don't nail this, but still). They need to pay out drivers in each country. The app needs to work in hundreds of countries, all with different laws, currencies, languages and more. Some places let you pick up anywhere, others require specific locations. And that's not even including marketing, partnerships, HR, finance, etc.

I don't think the employees are the problem with Uber, it's the shareholders. They need to make X back, so that delta is where drivers get squeezed.
That chip die sure looks cool though!
Congrats to every single person who sanewashed Trump. Particularly those in tech. Thinking about Sam Altman's tweet after the election:

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

> i'm not going to agree with him on everything, but i think he will be incredible for the country in many ways!
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The sitting US President is literally a Russian asset. He is directing his team to divide up a country that Russia invaded in a summit that is not including that country, and stealing a half trillion in their sovereign mineral wealth without their consent. Calling their president an incompetent dictator and claiming being invaded was somehow their fault.
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Very clear that they don't actually care about fraud, waste, etc. This is all about reducing the budget through employment cuts.

That fact is VERY apparent because there's been more than a couple of times where OMB has scrambled to rehire recently fired employees.

This is a haphazard mess that will cripple the government and likely the US economy for a decade or more.
Sure, so 1% of the workforce of an organization generally considered to be understaffed, with the firing criteria being either that (i) their role was a position the FAA had recently decided needed filling or (ii) they had been successful enough with the agency to be promoted to a new role. Having fired them, the agency will now look into whether the radar, landing and navigational aid workers fired performed safety critical functions. Perhaps, like the arbitrarily fired nuclear safety operatives, they might be reinstated

Does this strike you as the approach of an administration that knows what its doing and cares deeply about safety?
Nice demo examples. I'm a casual observer and curious how this differs from Gaussian splatting which also (implicitly?) uses 3D representations.

I could see applying changes at the 3D model level which wouldn't be directly accessible if it was only an internal representation.
Awful shortsighted and uninformed viewpoint that has been beaten into the ground ad nauseum.

Read a couple books. Privacy is a precondition to democracy.
The original Chevron ruling was an expansion of executive branch power; it said courts should give “deference” to agencies in matters where Congress was not specific—usually in detailed findings of fact and definition of regulations, the work of the agency. Congress usually is specific about structure and governance.

The recent decision to formally overturn this precedent was a reduction in power for the executive branch, since it greatly expanded the scope of when a judge could overrule agencies. However, judges were mostly already doing this, so the big headline ruling was more like a funeral than a murder.
I very specifically said heritable instead of genetically heritable because we don't yet know how much of that heritability is through genes.
Oh those young inexperienced guys are quite ready for their big important job, namely, being cannon fodders for destroying the government via fear, uncertainty, and doubt. (And if Trump ever feels they've outlived their usefulness, he can dispose of them freely.)

It's just that it's not the job they thought they were signing up for.
They have never demonstrated even a single physical qubit.

Microsoft has claimed for a while to have observed some signatures of quantized Majorana conductance which might potentially allow building a qubit in the future. However, other researches in the field have strongly criticized their analysis, and the field is full of retracted papers and allegations of scientific misconduct.
It's a joke, because virtue signaling (or whatever name you want to give it) is bad, but Signal the messenger app is good so it's a play on words.
This kind if behaviour is criminal.
I am furious at the Democratic Party for bringing this about. They are the only organization capable of losing to this guy TWICE. With everything at stake, they actually thought it was a good idea to put up an unpopular president who had dementia, and tried to sneak him past the electorate like this is Weekend at Bernie’s 3. Then when that idea collapses, they just give it to the default next person in line. This should have been an easy win.

They got us here. The party needs to be gutted.
I helped an especially non-technical user install Signal and they didn't need my help at all. They were using it in a minute - download from the app store, transcribe a code from a text message, and you're in - and it worked just like legacy text and phone.

I'd tell them that - just download it and you'll be texting me in a minute, and now nobody is tracking everyone you talk to.
You disagree about a lot of things even when the evidence isn't subjective or open to interpretation in the least. Fascinating.

As previously stated, it's not merely an opinion that W7 is the best, but an objective argument supported by reasoning and evidence, also both objective.

But by all means, let's keep discussing this despite your proclamations to want to be done.
We've had this for a while in Illinois:

705 ILCS 405/5-401.6, "Prohibition of deceptive tactics."

https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/fulltext.asp?DocName=0...
It seems like the lack of operations during US holidays would be a big oversight.
Most software businesses operate internationally, so the EU regulation is something you'll have to deal with no matter where you host, assuming you sell into the EU. I don't believe that hosting in the EU means you need to treat non-EU jurisdictions with EU law.

Note too that places like OVH have data centres in multiple countries, just like AWS and Azure do. I can't comment on taxes for companies registered in the EU as I don't live there, but again, where you are headquartered as a business is up to you, and there are many choices.

In terms of being competitive, some European services like OVH, Gandi, and Mistral are absolutely competitive internationally. For AI, Mistral is up there with the best of them.
I prefer my computers to be computers I run and not the Matrix running me. The former is creative.

Hint: [0]

> The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation is the primary manufacturer and supplier of androids, robots and autonomic assistants for the known universe. They are known for their catchy jingles and catchphrases, which are supplied by their Marketing Department.

> The corporation is not known for the quality of their products, and almost all of their known inventions are faulty.

> Their primary claim to fame seems to be constructing just about everything with (unstable) advanced robotics and software. From doors to lifts, to toaster ovens, drinks machines, vacuum cleaners, and "personal massage units" -- Everything has been built with a full GPP or Genuine People Personality. This means that even a set of airlock doors has emotions, hopes, dreams, intelligence, and worse of all, the capacity for boredom. It should come as no surprise then, that the majority of these devices have a neurotic streak a mile wide.

[0] https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Sirius_Cybernetics_Corpo...
Thanks, that's a fair point that I was overlooking. When I say a "federated server", I don't just mean a self-hosted PDS, I mean a third party app that potentially has its own lexicon and design decisions. Creating a robust third-party app that can meaningfully interact with the Bluesky network is still a very difficult engineering challenge, which I think this article does a good job demonstrating—that was the tension I was trying to underscore in my comment. Bluesky may be solving those engineering challenges for those clients who are satisfied with Bluesky's frontend and AppView, but every single other app built on top of ATProto will have to resolve those same challenges. This is directly downstream from Bluesky's "global firehose" topology and various design decisions that stem from that.
> and I am not really worried that he might do a lot of damage

"His" "policy" of firing a large portion of the federal workforce is going to come crashing into the private sector very shortly when it comes time to renew contracts. That's not even mentioning what's about to happen to the job market when the unemployment rate skyrockets all at once and the private sector only has low income positions to offer - or none at all. Republicans are flirting with defaulting on US debt too, which will damage the value of USD - catastrophic when he's throwing tariffs around like confetti. That people keep posting things like "I'm not too worried" is mind-boggling. That's _only_ discussing the financial disaster to the economy and not the plethora of other problems Republicans are signing off on.
Actual leading drivers of federal spending:

- Social Security: 21%

- Medicare: 15%

- Defense: 14%

- Interest: 13%

The administration has at points said social security and medicare won't be touched, no one's been talking seriously about defense spending cuts, and we understand there to be giant risks with screwing around with paying interest. So almost 2/3 of our 6.8T budget is off limits. The 10B for the whole NSF is like < 0.15%.

I'd love us to have a serious conversation about addressing the debt, but that can't start with asking for tax cuts and protecting existing entitlement benefits under their exact current terms.

https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...
>>it is uncritical to paint in broad strokes over a post, or two, in which he uses historical analysis to communicate a progressive perspective

There have only been a couple of posts where he discusses current politics, so that is all I have to go on.

However, from reading his material, I think it would be fair to say he is against the "great man of history" theory, which tends to be a more left wing interpretation.
I thought they recorded the metadata - who talks to who and when. (For the uninitiated, that is as valuable or more valuable than the message contents.)
I get there's no worker rights in the US, but surely do people not have contractual notice period, severance etc? I mean, I'm sure not if you're in a marginal job, but US administration..???
The problem is that it leads to a classic game theory situation - where if you, an informed citizen, know that cops are allowed to lie to you, that the logical conclusion is to never believe a cop under any circumstance.

It is deeply hostile and likely counter productive to the stated goals of police departments.

There is no way for normal people to distinguish a lawful order given by a police officer from a lie.
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The US was never the “hero,” you’re just not used to broad shifts in US policy broadcast so loudly. But this has happened numerous times in the past to other “allies.”
Amazing advice, thanks a lot.
You feel like tech start-ups are too broad of a niche ?
It's semantics but I like to separate money from profits. You need money to pay people and to survive but you don't need to be raking in endlessly growing piles of it. This is something that was really demoralizing about working for a big company, they could be making like 50000000000 a year in just profits but still be ruthless in getting more. Like I just want to make a product I'm proud of and I'm happy living a simple life, I am happier now making less money but not feeling like I'm endlessly milking customers.
My iPhone today last for less than a day while I dont watch any video on it, In fact, i barely use it currently, and it still drains batteries in no time. And yes, I disabled most background services and location services and run screen on low brightness - all the popular hacks to reduce battery usage.
Don't fall for the "us vs. them" distraction. This is about seizing power, not Democrats and Republicans.
Topological Superconductors
If this was today people would say it's your personal right to consume lead and use leaded gas (aka freedom fuel) and we'd never be able to remove it lol
I recently watched a 2 hour congressional committee session, with 5 minute talking points per member. BOTH sides of the aisle used their entire 5 minutes to spout one-sided rhetoric and talking points obviously designed for re-election rather than anything resembling debate or conversation.

I have no idea which side "started it", but where we've landed isn't useful.
Aren't you actually arguing in favor of profit-driven behavior? You're not disagreeing with profit as a motivator, you're questioning if the 30,000 employees is the maximal way to achieve profit.
Yeah, and a car with a knocking engine and multiple warning lights can still drive for thousands of miles before the engine explodes.

How many more alarms before you start taking the situation seriously? Complacency like what you suggest will be the order of the day right until things break, and then everyone will forget they thought this way and talk about how obvious it all was. Granted I don't have any solutions at hand, but better to start thinking about them now than later.
I think it's a matter of which politicians are owned by which interests and pandering to said interests more than political lines. Once you get past the insane screeching reforming the police is popular with the general public on both sides of the isle.
Not something some racist teenagers that told elon he's good at computer games are apt to do.
Technical Debt Is Killing Your Business
If they can't reach you via whatsapp, they will call you.
using wifi routers?
> This is the nature of union employment: seniority >> everything else.

Actors, writers, and directors are in unions in Hollywood, and the seniority plays no part in who gets which part or which crew is hired for a production.

Seniority has often been used in factories because it was easy metric where you had 'interchangeable' people doing the labour: the people were treated almost like machines/widgets themselves. But the advantage of seniority in that context was that it helped stability: you stayed at the same company so it reduced retraining / rehiring costs to the company, and in exchange for your loyalty to the company, the company was loyal to folks that didn't jump around constantly looking for greener pastures.

But there is nothing inherit in being unionized that mandates the use of seniority as a metric.
On the other hand, running something like BlueSky is not terribly expensive. A foundation with a reasonable endowment can do that indefinitely.

Initially, it can be funded by selling tools that do analytics or by donations (like Wikipedia).
So glad it doesn't use the dynamic island which is so distracting as it becomes the foreground and makes the content into background.
The crazy thing that I think about is that if we were debating the 4th amendment today, it wouldn't pass. It wouldn't even come close to passing, we would be arguing how warrantless searches are necessary to keep terrorists away.

An agent of the government can lie to your face, create fake documents to support that lie, and threaten you with prison to confess under the duress caused by this lie and we think this maybe shouldn't be ok, barely, but only for kids.

This is an insane world we live in that this is debated topic.
You don't need to follow anyone (or even have an account) to scrape content… Someone following a huge amount of accounts usually wants to get a lot of followers quickly this way through follow-backs.
By the developers of Gatsby is a minus, not a plus makes me think this is going to be the next abandonware.
Then the hardware is not a purchase, but a lease (without time limits). And the vendor would have to refund lease payment if it stops working.

If you want to go the other way, a hardware that requires a paid service should be jail-breakable. If the designated service stops working, then the service should be open-sourced. (We would love this on HN but just imagine the OpenSource overload engineers like us would be overwhelmed with to the point no one would try.)
We could start with a standard of not willfully lying about facts and see how it goes. I agree that the gray areas could get tricky, but just starting with most obvious cases might provide a lot of the benefit.

I think the current status quo, where cops can lie to citizens about anything and everything with no consequence, is pretty bad. Sure it might help with some specific convictions, but the immense lack of trust and goodwill that generates in the entire public must cause a huge amount of harm and lose a number of other solvable cases.

Even though I'm not engaged in any criminal enterprises I am still wary about saying anything to police. Even though most police are decent people, mistakes happen and they are often under pressure to hit certain metrics. Indictments of innocent people are hardly rare and you never know what a cop's angle is, given their freedom to lie at will.
I assume Trump and Musk are not insane, just cynical and with some unusual objective. Now, what might that objective be? I doubt they really care about US personnel cost, it's not that much in the grand scheme of things. Violent deregulation? But what does this, or WHO membership, or nuclear safety have to do with that?

Or maybe they really are crazy. But that would be a conclusion of last resort.
Others have disagreed with you too.
Repost of mine:

Three-way plan to divide the world in three. Trump, Putin, Xi. Sounds familiar.

Financial Times, archived article [0]

Canada, Trump and the new world order

Real short summary:

> Focusing American power on its own hemisphere would allow Trump, in other words, to square many circles: to make America great again by making America’s imperial footprint smaller, to reduce the tax burden on the rich by cutting into the apparatus that a global imperium required.

So there it is. Give Europe to Putin, the rest of Asia (and presumably Africa) to Xi, and give most of the defense budget (and education and health care) money to the rich.

Confirmed Thursday. (02/13/2025) [1]

Defense stocks drop after Trump says Pentagon spending could be halved

> "At some point, when things settle down, I'm going to meet with China and I'm going to meet with Russia, in particular those two, and I'm going to say there's no reason for us to be spending almost $1 trillion on the military ... and I'm going to say we can spend this on other things," Trump said.

> "When we straighten it all out, then one of the first meetings I want to have is with President Xi of China and President Putin of Russia, and I want to say let's cut our military budget in half. And we can do that, and I think we'll be able to do that," he added.

[0] https://archive.md/XEEtx

[1] https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/business/money-report/defens...
timestamped: https://youtu.be/mFuyX1XgJFg?t=233
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