skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i am very long on TS as the future of agent applications. nice work team
> use subtrace in an ephemeral pod for debugging purposes

That's a great suggestion. It'd be like kubectl exec-ing into a shell inside the pod, but for network activity. I think I'm going to prototype this tonight :)

> pod filtering such as namespace and label selectors

Yep, Subtrace already tags each request with a bunch of metadata about the place where it originated so that you can filter on those in the dashboard :) Things like the hostname, pod, cluster, AWS/GCP location are automatically populated, but you can also set custom tags in the config [1].

[1] https://docs.subtrace.dev/tags
You are dying on the hill of a pedantic point. A president also has the power to declare an emergency and deploy the military domestically. Doing so would still be a power grab. The term just doesn't have the precise narrow definition you seem to be arguing for. Its colloquial understanding encompasses the use of heretofore unused powers.
I would love to add a good RRB implementation to the persistent benchmarks at [1] to get a state-of-the-art comparison between RRB and BST in a persistent context. Duration, of course, but also number of bytes copied etc.

https://rtheunissen.github.io/bst
They get something out of it and lack of scruples? Money, influence, seeing their religious views pushed on others, who knows what else.
How do? It has frequent vulnerabilities.
Mistaking a well-funded, highly coordinated project that started over 15 years ago[1] for 'those clowns in Congress are at it again!' is a huge part of what has prevented us from digging out of this crisis.

[1] e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REDMAP
Have you seen numbers that back up your unsourced assertions? I have sources for mine.
I refuse to use it because it offloads human cognition into an external prosthetic. Computers and writing are already playing with fire. I’m being unironic because I’m already preempting the “writing is obviously a pure good” comments
>Not only is it a good thing to replace jobs or partial jobs with automation, it is the only way that humanity moves forward for the long run!

The fact that this has been true so far doesn't mean it always will be. It seems perfectly possible to me that there is an actual peak, after which human happiness will decline with increased advancements.
If the store clerk took home some of the supplies, what would the impact on the company's balance sheet be? Not significant but she'd be setting the wrong example by doing so. If the CEO of a non-profit insists on "pay equity" with her for-profit equivalents she should look for a job in a for-profit, not leach dry the non-profit. Enough of the bullshit with overpaid and underperforming Mozilla CEOs, time for a real change there. I propose Mozilla creates a DOME department - Dept. of Mozilla Efficiency - which goes through the organisation, top to bottom. Make Mozilla concentrate on its core tasks again, i.e. creating and maintaining browsers to serve as bulwark against the Blink-Webkit duopoly. More developers, fewer executives, more releases, fewer distractions, Make Mozilla Great Again!
It’s not going to happen. Nothing ever does
That's not an ambiguous date because Nov 2 2025 is PST, not PDT.
I have no confidence at all. In fact, preventing further Russian aggression might not be Trump's goal to begin with. After all, Trump did say he would encourage Russia to invade a country that didn't pay its due.
Valve Release Team Fortress 2 Source Code
> but without profit, people can't get paid, and they'll stop building

I wholeheartledly disagree. People build things all the time for things other than profit. In fact, most of the greatest things ever built were a loss for those who built them.

Dignity is the best motivator. Profit only supercedes dignity when dignity is not on offer.
What makes you have the impression that the government doesn't do audits, with actual professional auditors? Because it does, and does so regularly
I think I understand your friend.

I have a century+ old house and want a candlestick phone in my foyer for the effect. Asterisk is super fun. I've been looking into what it would take to candlestick (NLP->) <-> Asterisk <-> some cell phone as my "home" number. The hard part for me is that the candlestick needs to "talk to an operator." [Edit: no dialing]
His project2025 handlers (lets be clear hes not that smart) have calculated exactly how much opposition each outrageous thing can stand, beyond which there would be too much coordinated pushback. So its all about divide everybody against their own little thing to try and get as much fuckery through as possible
We’re all a different POV for the same experience/entity
But conversely higher quality goods may take more energy and material to produce. It's actually not obvious how this maths out! You'd have to look at it empirically.
I recently just set this up for my 5 year old.

I bought a Grandstream HandyTone 801 as a bridge. I use voip.ms as a service provider. Both are geared toward more technical users, but the service is very reasonable for the price. Instructions for configuring it are clunky but not too bad: https://wiki.voip.ms/article/Grandstream_HandyTone_802_-_HT8....

I had previously tried Ooma, but I didn't like that it wanted to sit between my router and modem.
Ah, right, I forgot about those issues (I'm thankful I don't write that sort of code myself - I can't say I ever enjoyed C even if I used to use it regularly many years ago). I guess PEP 725 is meant to address this sort of thing, too (as well as build-time requirements like compilers)... ?

I guess one possible workaround is to automate making a wheel for each version of the compiled library, and have the wheel version move in lockstep. Then you just specify the exact wheel versions in your dependencies, and infer the paths according to the wheel package names... it certainly doesn't sound pleasant, though. And, C being what it is, I'm sure that still overlooks something.
This law is about lying during interrogation. When a police officer is wearing the uniform, asking questions, acting in their capacity as a protector of the public, I think directly lying to your face should be a crime. Their authority as an officer is the very thing they are using to get you to believe their lie. That is a critical piece.

A detective doing undercover work may require a degree of duplicity to achieve their aim, their authority as an officer is not what gets you to believe their lie, they almost always conceal that fact from you.

I think these are clearly distinct arenas of law enforcement.
> He's been flipping the same coin for 20 years and it has never come up tails. That's quite the coin.

That also means nothing, because you said nothing about how often the coin is flipped.

The first papers that show up in google say "Mountain biking athletes were found to have an overall injury risk rate of 0.6% per year and 1 injury per 1000 h of biking." and "75% of the injuries were minor, such as skin wounds and simple contusions"

4000 hours per serious injury would mean 2000 hours per coin flip. A hypothetical person that bikes twice a month, 4 hours each time, for 20 years with these accident rates, would have flipped the coin once.

But if the accident rates were 10x higher, you could easily still get the same results. One person is just not enough data here. Let's use the real data that show it's pretty safe.
I think the "solely" part isn't necessary to the claim that the NSF is a large net benefit to industry by supporting early research. Apparently the NSF did provide support for IntraLase to pursue commercializing a device for LASIK cornea surgery.

https://www.nsf.gov/science-matters/invention-impact-story-l...

With PCR, their own claim, which other sources seem to agree with, is that research on extremophile bacteria supported by NSF in the 1960s found the bacteria from which a heat-tolerant DNA polymerase enzyme was isolated.

I think this is actually a pretty good example of research which initially might have seemed purely exploratory that facilitates valuable applications which couldn't have been seen at the outset.
The attack in that paper assumes you have compromised the user's long term private identity key (IK) which is used to derive all the other keys in the signal protocol.

Outside of lab settings, the only way to do that is:
- (1) you get root access to the user's device
- (2) you compromise a recent chat backup

The campaign Google found is akin to phishing, so not as problematic on a technical level. How do you warn someone they might be doing something dangerous in an entire can of worms in Usable Security... but it's gonna become even more relevant for Signal once adding a new linked device will also copy your message history (and last 45 days of attachments).
The energy usage concern is also funny in that it doesn't try to compare the energy usage of a human doing the same task (if one were to not use LLM to do the task). If we assume it's true that asking ChatGPT a question costs 3 bottles of water, you should take into account how long that question takes to answer by a human doing the research. If it takes you a couple of hours, you need to include the food and drink intake it takes to power yourself for a couple of hours. If it's anything like beef or almonds it takes way more than 3 bottles of water.
i hear you. only the black case is soft touch, other cases are not. white is currently most popular, ~60% of sales. black 35%, translucent 5%.
Things you can do to clean up a fresh install of Windows 11 24H2 and Edge
I always got a grumble after reading a long email and seeing tldr at the bottom. It would take only a few seconds of the writer's time to put it at the top...
I agree, but I would go further and say (written) English language is as easy to emulate. There are technical people with great written English skills who will give away their non-Anglophone identities at the first sentence they speak.
Yes, I think they should rephrase it so that it's literally correct. Personally, I have a very high trust in the safety of Signal's encryption and security practices. But privacy policies aren't for the Signals of the world, they're for the ad networks and sketchy providers. For example, many ad networks collect "Safely Encrypted" email addresses—but still are able to use that information to connect your Google search result ad clicks with your buying decisions on Walmart.com. Whether something is "safely" encrypted is a complicated, contextual decision based on your threat model, the design of the secure system in question, key custody, and lots of other complicated factors that should each be disclosed and explained, so that third parties can assess a service's data security practices. Signal is a great example of a service that does an excellent job explaining and disclosing this information, but the fact that their privacy policy contradicts their public docs lessens the value of privacy policies.
Yes, it makes it untenable. There is no way I can remember 4 IP addresses at once.
Follow the instructions under "Self-hosting PDS" here: https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds
iPhone 13 mini, i mean 24 hours
It's a topological superconductor.
Wouldn't a hybrid approach makes sense?

Periodically classify users as hot/cold based on their activity, build hot-follower timelines on write, and build cold-follower timelines on read.
I think the claim is more about people's consistency in their choice. "If you care so much, start to [insert any environmental friendly acivity] and then we can discuss about LLM environmental impact".

Which is stupid.
The person you replied to was joking, but it makes it even funnier that you didn't think they were.
I’m old enough that, growing up, rotaries would have worked on our phone line but not old enough to have actually had a rotary phone. It did used to cost more for touch tone service though (incredibly) and my dad was cheap so our digital phones were all set to pulse dial mode.

All the “high tech” of a digital phone with the “fun” of having to wait for the digits to pulse out! Also I figured out at a young age that pulse dial was just toggling the rocker switch so I got pretty good at dialing by tapping the switch myself.
You have to set it for the whole OS... it's like someone who works at Microsoft decided that you should never work on a file generated in a different locale.
> so we can likely just train only on properly sourced data in some way

But are we? I _can_ source chocolate and coffee from sources that don't use slave labor, but it becomes very important whether you _are_. You can't just shove the moral implications under the rug because an ethical option _exists_. Obviously this is less extreme than my chocolate/coffee example, but considering this is kinda the point of the questions being asked.

3 & 4 & 5 you just completely disregard as issues?!

"3 is not a problem given we do <highly controversial X>" - but what if we don't?

"4 is not a problem because we'll just get better" - but what about now when it isn't and what if we don't?

"5 is not a problem - just make X available and be rich"
LLM training has nothing in common with search engine web crawlers, from an ethical standpoint.

Web crawlers index your content and direct people to your website, giving the writer some credit (arguably a lot of credit).

LLMs gorge themselves on everything youve ever written in order to improve their ability to regurgitate/mimmick intelligence, while rarely ever giving credit to anyone at all.

I think the ability to block ai from including your work in its training data is important. Pointless? Maybe. But it should be an option for those who feel strongly enough about it.
Trump: "Long Live the King"
So you do not understand what a democracy is and how it works.

Balance of the three branches of government and the rule of law and protection of minorities are the complementary requirements to the majority vote, to qualify for a democracy.
PBS Spacetime is great. Excellent, accessible explanations of advanced topics without feeling dumbed down or overhyped.
You're confusing language that causes a strong emotional response within you, with language that was written by a person experiencing strong emotion.

It's colourful language for sure, but gimme a break.
Gut microbiomes role in sugar preferences
He's literally said he wants to be a dictator.

He's saluted Kim Jong-Un's generals.
He's bent the knee to Vladimir Putain
He's whined that it's not fair that he doesn't have the powers that Xi Jinping does.

Growing up in the 90s and early 2000s, it was widely known that Donald Trump was a fraud and a complete clown. It will be studied for decades how many people just willingly gave up their ability to call a spade a spade and ignore reality when it comes to Donald Trump. How did people become so fucking stupid?
Physical attractiveness is not just health lol. Lots of counterexamples to that. As for "spectrum of thought" nobody cares much about what your IQ or thoughts are if you're hot enough.
it's a bit like LED and incandescent light bulbs
rice cookers and kamado-san
sure the new is efficient and full of add-on functionalities
but somehow it's still being compared with the old, and still playing catch up

we got "HD" sound, but latency is still there for phones
we got energy efficiency for LED, but it's blasting us with blue light (i got some chicken light bulbs lol)
we got keep warm and scheduled cooking for rice cookers, but it's tainted with PFAS coating and still don't taste as good as kamado-san

makes me wonder what other inventions that beat the old in every possible way..
silicone chips i guess?
Ah thanks for this one, I spent a good half hour earlier today trying to recall where I know that intro from. Whosampled doesn’t have it
> Even within the US in the 70's, there were subcultures where chest hair was not considered attractive. These subcultures tended to align fairly closely with certain ethnicities

Can you be more specific on the ethnicities? This seems unlikely given how pervasive the shift was, as there was not a huge ethnic genetic shift since the 70s (AFAIK).
Is this suggesting that a single QR scan can on its own perform the device linking? If so, it seems like that's kind of the hole here, right? Like you shouldn't be able to scan a code that on its own links the device; you should have to manually confirm with like "Yes I want to link to this device". And then if you thought you were scanning a group invite code you'd realize you weren't. (Yeah, you'd still have to realize that, but I think it's a meaningful step up over just "you scanned a code to join a group and instead it silently linked a different device".)
I'm doing theorical research in the topological quantum computing.

The idea behind topological quantum computing is to utilize quantum materials whose low-energy physics looks like an error correcting code. Since these systems are very large (macroscopic number of atoms), the error rates are (theoretically) very low, ie the qubit is fault tolerant by construction, without any additional error correction. In reality, we do not know how good these qubits will be at finite temperature, with real life noise, etc.

Moreover, these states do not just occur in nature by themselves, so their construction requires engineering, and this is what Microsoft tries to do.

Unfortunately, Majoranas in nanowires have some history of exaggerated claims and data manipulation. Sergey Frolov's [1] twitter, one of the people behind original Majorana zero bias peaks paper, was my go-to source for that, but it looks like he deleted it.

There were also some concerns about previous Microsoft paper [2,3] as well as the unusual decision to publish it without the details to reproduce it [4].

In my opinion, Microsoft does solid science, it's just the problem they're trying to solve is very hard and there are many ways in which the results can be misleading. I also think it is likely that they are making progress on Majoranas, but I would be surprised if they will be able to show quantum memory/single qubit gates soon.

[1] https://spinespresso.substack.com/p/has-there-been-enough-re...

[2] https://x.com/PhysicsHenry/status/1670184166674112514

[3] https://x.com/PhysicsHenry/status/1892268229139042336

[4] https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.107.2...
I think we know you're happy to say it plainly, since you've been saying it plainly for over 4 years.
Not sure what the stigma around blockchain energy usage is?

Other than bitcoin which remains a large proof of work network, most of the large public blockchains now use a proof of stake mechanism or other forms of consensus that can and do operate on modest hardware.

Yes, running them does require some hundreds of machines, but not more than your typical silicon valley darling like Uber or Airbnb would use to run their infrastructure.
No, it instills a reality about so-called "rights". Liberal society is full of lies like this and I'm just pointing them
out.
I had mostly forgotten Chime exists, and I'm guessing most of Amazon's customers had too. The only time I've ever used it was to talk to people working at AWS.
Digital archivists combine efforts to preserve complex government sites
According to some quick research (grain of salt, used ChatGPT deep research) KitchenAid stand mixers cost over $3000 (inflation adjusted) when released in 1919, and perhaps $1500 (inflation adjusted) in the 1970s, so they too are cheaper than ever at $500 today!
That’s my point. The influence done through the appointments. Influence in the branch, not in the individuals
I fractured my greater trocahnter (not sure if this is the proper english name) in a bike crash 2 years ago. My doctor, seeing the MRI told me I need an operation asap. None of the hospitals that he sent me to (including a sports clinic) wanted to operate it, and just told me to let it heal, with check-ups every 4 weeks. Another doctor in another country told me to get the operation, stay in bed 3 months and get blood thinners. 1 month after the accident I couldn’t take it to stay at home and stand still so I started walking again quite a lot and started weight lifting (upper body and trying to not stress the hip too much). 4 months later you couldn’t even notice that I had the accident, no limping, could start running again, fracture was fully “welded” on its own.
Previously: Postgres Language Server (963 points, 121 comments, 2023) (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37020610)
Perplexity post-trained deepseek-r1 to remove Chinese Communist Party censorship
I’m pro non-fossil fuel power generation but I have issues with offshore wind. Right now we don’t have good ways of disposing of the turbine blades and the noise does have a negative effect on sea life. I would rather see wind farms on land, so I don’t see this as a bad thing.

Ultimately though, I’m pro-nuclear and eager to see what comes of small modular reactors.
Does this qualify as an answer to Dwarkesh's question?[1][2]

[1]https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/02/dw...
[2]https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/1888164523984470055

I don't know his @ but I'm sure he is on here somewhere
You can't make that statement blindly without knowledge of the entire cryptosystem and threat model. For example, to me, an encrypted version of my email address, as used by many ad networks to do retargeting, is still sensitive information if it lets Walmart serve me ads based on my Google search history.
Is this like a SaaS version of mealie?
Prop 13 was passed on the back of California choosing to redistribute school funding away from local communities where the taxes were paid.

The result was predictable. Nobody wants to pay higher taxes that don't go to their kids or communities. They would rather opt. This is why most affluent school districts have complex parallel funding streams that don't go through the government.

More to the point, school costs are also out of control. Average tax spend on k-12 education in California is ~25k per student, or 750k for a 30 student class.
I don’t have it in me right now to work out whether this can actually cause corruption, but as for equal pointers simply converting to unequal integers, sure:

$ cat mismatch.c
#include <stdio.h>
char abc[48*1024U], def[48*1024U];
int main(void) {
void *p = &abc[sizeof abc], *q = &def[0];
printf("%d\n", p == q); /* pointers are equal */
printf("0x%.5lX == 0x%.5lX\n", /* linear addresses are equal */
((unsigned long)p >> 16 << 4) + (unsigned short)p,
((unsigned long)q >> 16 << 4) + (unsigned short)q);
printf("0x%.8lX != 0x%.8lX\n", (unsigned long)p, (unsigned long)q);
return 0;
}
$ # compile&link for DOS, 8086, huge memory model, create map file
$ wcl -bcl=dos -0 -mh -fm mismatch.c
Open Watcom C/C++16 Compile and Link Utility Version 1.9
[snip]
creating a DOS executable
$ egrep '_abc|_def' mismatch.map
0371:0000+ _abc
0f71:0000+ _def
$ emu2 mismatch.exe
1
0x10080 == 0x10080
0x0408C000 != 0x10080000

(I said large memory model earlier. That was incorrect: if you compile for the large memory model, with -ml, the first line of the output will be 0, because then pointer comparisons will not canonicalize pointers. You need the huge memory model for that. Both 0 and 1 are OK according to the standard, as it does not guarantee anything about comparing a pointer one element past the end of one object to a pointer to another object.)
As someone living in Poland and tracking the developments in the US, when I used the word "plausible", I meant it.
My kitchen sponge, I always rinse well , and then let it drain of water and dry out.
I was being glib, but exactly this. Electricity utilities should be publicly owned, with a service motive, not a profit motive.
Honestly don't use Signal for privacy or anonymity. I switched to it because it is not owned by a sycophant of Trump.

Oh how Americans make fun of the CCP but watching all the tech bros bend the knee was embarrassing.
The bottom type 'never' in TypeScript