skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have read a good deal from Nagel to Chalmers and somehow missed this particular question.

Chalmers' "Hard Problem" is very similar, although not exactly the same. My understanding is that it asks "why is there something called consciousness at all", as in, a robot doesn't have the notion of "I", but for some reason we do. The question is hard because it is hard to explain it only by our brains being more complex than a robot's CPU. Hellie's question is "why am I me and not someone else".
Choosing a cloud based on its jurisdiction was always foolish anyways. You should choose the one you believe has the most robust technical protections for your data privacy and security.
It ultimately depends on your threat model. But assuming a state actor has access to NetFlow data, an attack could work like this:

* State actor determines that an IP belonging to a VPN company had a session on example.com around t1-t2

* You -> VPN server at t1

* VPN server -> example.com at t1+latency

* More traces from both sides until around t2 as you browse the site

By correlating multiple samples, and accounting for latency between you and the VPN server and delay introduced by the VPN itself, they would be able to get decent confidence that it was you.
That is so absurdly naive, I'm not sure if you're serious or trolling.
Not just that, so are the tax returns of private businesses. You can look up any company and see exactly how it's doing.

In Finland they publish everyones salaries over a certain threshold in the newspaper every year.
Not a government agency.
In your case, you could start with an AI tool to streamline your recruitment process. For example:

Build a simple AI-powered resume screener to filter candidates based on key skills or an internal chatbot to answer common applicant questions.

Once you’ve tested and refined it within your own business, you can expand the tool’s capabilities or offer it to other companies facing similar recruitment challenges.

Start small, solve a real problem, and grow from there.
That plus we know Trump and IRS are not best friends...
Asking whether Buddhism is a religion is like asking if Christianity is homophobic. You can point to parts of the scriptural canon where it indubitably is, and you can point to practitioners who clearly subscribe to a version of it that is, but not everybody who practices it or makes it a part of their lives subscribes to every part of it indiscriminately. Anybody who engages with it as an influence on their own lives, as opposed to keeping it at an academic arm's length, inevitably starts to make their own version(s) of it, even if they don't intend to, because any two people's understanding will be conditioned by two different cultural backgrounds, two different personal histories, two different ongoing experiences, and two different sets of relationships to other people.
Chicken tenders are chicken tenders, not nuggets.

And there's absolutely nothing wrong with nuggets. Nobody criticizes Italian meatballs, which are ground-up beef in balls. But then for some reason ground-up chicken in a different shape isn't "real chicken"?!
I made one of these a while ago

https://github.com/scottmsul/Password-Generator
I think experts in all kinds of fields should write more about their thinking process. Just showing final result often feels like it was easy for them and discourages other from even attempting to understand and contribute. Especially in mathematics, the ideas are simple (they have to be because no one would be summing infinite series in their head like Ramanujan) but they are hidden behind lot of symbolic jargons.
HN ranking history for this thread, https://hnrankings.info/43067002/
You teach people to stay the hell away from bears, and everyone is better for it.
What took them so long
"You seem to be confused about the basics of constitutional law and the separation of powers. EOs are not at all subject to judicial review."

Funny, I could say the same about you...

https://www.fjc.gov/history/administration/judicial-review-e...
He literally declared himself king multiple times yesterday.
He literally campaigned a promise that we wouldn't need future elections.
He literally states he is the one true interpreter of the law with respect to the federal bureaucracy.
lack of bleaching force owners to keep high standard (hygiene and vaccinations)

If you wash your eggs before using them, you will never get salmonella.
Amazon Ends Support for Chime
Where do you get this total misinformation?

You're trying to propagate an urban legend. HN is not the place for that.
They specifically say "connect personal stuff" not "browse the web"
Perhaps the whole situation will finally convince the "I don't mind, I have nothing to hide" crowd about the need to scrutinize & limit as much as reasonably possible the personal data collection and retention by government and other entities. What good are rules, statutes, checks & balances, passwords and ACLs, if at some point someone you don't like or trust can just come in "as a root" and circumvent everything?
Texas banned abortion, then sepsis rates soared
Yep. 5 eggs a day between my wife and I. Then there are uses for food prep.
Another commenter on this called it “Licensing” but it’s more like credentialing to me.
Yep, this is a problem right here. Once something does make it in it's a massacre.
thinking the world can only get better is another thing too
Please educate yourself.

https://www.fjc.gov/history/administration/judicial-review-e...
> all three of them

or even one
> Don't forget to ask for forgiveness

And thank them for their help and for providing you with food.
I’d prefer it if random citizens don’t have access to my personal information, that happens to be stored in federal government systems. Especially without any guarantees or regulations around the access.
From an email with the author:

"On Unix, I used RCS fairly happily. It was too verbose, but I fixed
that. RCS, like most version control systems, also believed that the
RCS archive or repository was authoritative and I don't accept that, I
think that the checked-out source is authoritative. If you are
grepping source, you really don't want to grep the archive files, and
you shouldn't have to check out source just to compile. I view the
archive as just history. So I added options to do things my way.

For my purposes, the Plan 9 dump, cp, diff and idiff work well. I
don't miss a formal version control system.

Git is a horrific botch of a version control system: wasteful, slow,
stupid, and unpredictable. When I check in source file(s), I want a
snapshot taken always, and I don't want to be told, no, you can't do
that, you have to rebase. The fundamental problem is that companies
want to believe that multiple programmers can edit the same program at
the same time. That's a great way to introduce bugs and break things.
When editing a program, you want to have a stable view of it, so you
know what you can rely on, you don't want it to be shifting underfoot.
The idea that you can apply an arbitrary set of diffs, or subset, to
some version of that program, and get a meaningful and correct program
out is absurdly optimistic; I wouldn't trust it."
I cannot tell the difference between backyard eggs and fancy store bought (organic, free-range) eggs, but I can tell the difference between that set and industrial store bought eggs.
> - Your wife may one day want a chicken to live inside the house. You may one day agree to this, and then miss it when the chicken is living outside the house again...

Isn't the more likely case that they shit everywhere but the family loves them so much they won't let you put it back outside?
Eggs have obvious health benefits. Land encroachment + emissions is modest, and notwithstanding, that's just something to manage, not avoid altogether. Everything we demand for ourselves encroaches on land.
Hey Carl, sorry to hijack the thread but I have a question for you. Being the operator a small website (5M views/month, 200k users), I am often plagued by targeted cyber attacks. Over the years many of these come from privacy enhanced networks (eg Tor, Mullvad, etc). I have approached Mullvad many times with abusive user reports which they seem to simply ignore. How do you plan to address this in your product? Will you simply allow bad actors to abuse the internet via your service? Or do you have some plans to address this issue?
> without years of hardwork on test you can't say you are correct

Before, I have the myth in my head that RDBMS development is like cryptography/kernels: Something not mean for humans to do.

Now working as part of one (http://spacetimedb.com) I see now that is hard, but doable.

Certainly MORE EASY than working in ERPs that is the thing that I have done for more than 20 years (now THAT is what is insane). Literally doing RDBMS is more relaxing than doing ERPs.

But what I have learned is that what make RDBMS truly hard is not the usual suspect: ACID.

You don't need 'years of hardwork' to reach it and to prove them is right (only some insanity when you need to target very weird os/archs and deal with faulty hardware).

What is truly hard and will eat your time is sql. SQL is hard. Is *bad*. Is *very hard* to optimize, and is so anemic that your time is expended more in the query optimizer (that has hard time because sql more than anything else) and because sql is bad, I tell you, it leads to insane stuff like having a single query with 1000 joins, and people have not means to good, optimal designs (and what you have like CTE and all that is poor bandaids) so now you get a bad input and have fun.

But if the RDBMS stay in the relational part and you could make a better lang to interface it then is far more easy. Still query optimizer is big part of your time, but if you have control of the input language you can do your life easy.
Interesting that they are still supporting the Chime SDK: https://aws.amazon.com/chime/chime-sdk/

Not sure I'd want to build on that shaky foundation, though.
This whole conversation is depressing me. when I left work a couple years ago due to health reasons, AI was just beginning to become a problem. Now, thanks to a clinical study, I may possibly be able to return to work, and it sounds like the industry has changed drastically.

Not looking forward to it.
Other qubits in general do not scale the same way. Some for example do not allow arbitrary point-to-point interactions, which means doubling your physical qubits doesn’t double your number of logical qubits. There are other ways in which scaling was sometimes nonlinear.

Note also that this isn’t a simulated result. Microsoft has an 8-qubit chip they are making available on Azure.
Intersection set with genes from set A and B.
Multiple questions here :

1)How can I trust that you are sending the data to mullvad only , is there some way of proving this instead of trusting you ?

2) What if all the VPN companies merge together to create such network with 2-3 hops yet still having maximum privacy.

3)Off-topic? But couldn't this theoretically be done if lets say the mullvad vpn connects via https to something like piping server but instead of a single write -> multiple reciever , we fork it a little bit for multiple write -> single receiver & this can work itself on curl and its encrypted. I can in my rough mind draw exactly what obscura is trying to do but with piping server which is so much easier to self host & even host it on multiple cloud providers. Though a big thing is that the nodes would have to be a little configured for this specific purpose (maybe this is where obscura can come in?)

Supposing that this can be done , then what threat model difference would have it as compared to current obscura.
https://github.com/nwtgck/piping-server
> It's a natural and normal part of life

So is dying of smallpox.

Wikipedia:

> Smallpox is estimated to have killed up to 300 million people in the 20th century and around 500 million people in the last 100 years of its existence.

Completely natural, and completely normal.

That doesn’t mean we should be engaging in it in 2025.

The naturalistic fallacy is not justification for killing living things.
The purpose of the electoral college was to protect slavery.
>If your average person buys a house for 200k, it goes up to 400k and then they have to move

Maybe we should be questioning a system that demands a house double in value in a few years.
Total noob question: if I am to buy a 3D printer, would KiCad be useful to draw things to print there?
What FOSS software that runs on Linux is used to do 3d prints?
I doubt passion is needed to execute at a "great" level once the skills are built to do so, but I think it's pretty likely that passion play an important role at building the capability
>> Is it an actual government agency?

Yes. In 2014, after the disastrous rollout of the Healthcare.gov site, President Obama created the "United States Digital Service" (USDS). Its stated mission was to modernize technology and improve efficiency across all US departments and agencies.

President Trump renamed the USDS to the "United States DOGE Service" (USDS) and created a temporary "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE) organization within the USDS that will operate until July 4, 2026.

Every US government agency is required to establish a DOGE team within that agency to work with the USDS to "improve the quality and efficiency of government-wide software, network infrastructure, and information technology (IT) systems".
Modest egg consumption has a negligible impact on cholesterol. Most blood cholesterol is produced by your liver, impacted far more by other variables. Eggs are also not that high in fat.
> Are you saying that federal spending should always be done in chunks of less than $8 million?

I'm saying that focusing on an incorrect zero ($8b) distracts from the fact that $8m is easily spent wastefully by people (and systems) whose job it should be to be accurate.
Heh I meant £1 egg boxes of course, like GGP mentioned.
I think you are drawing a distinction that is not what I said and not relevant.
They didn't want to just call it "Sauron," huh?
Eggs are also an ingredient in lots of things, especially baked goods.
The threat actor most use to talk about this is a global passive adversary: a threat actor who can see all relevant traffic on the Internet but who can't decrypt or adjust the traffic.

This adversary would have the ability to ingest massive amounts of data and metadata[0] it acquires from tier 1 ISPs all over the country[1] and the world[2]. They'll not see raw HTTP traffic because most everything of interest is encrypted, but can store and capture (time, srcip, srcport, dstip, dstport, bytes).

From there, it's a statistical attack: user A sent 700 kilobytes to a VPN service at time t; at t+epsilon the VPN connected to bad site B and sent 700 kilobytes+epsilon packets. Capture enough packet flows that span the user, the VPN, and the bad site and you can build statistical confidence that user A is interacting with bad site B, even with the presence of a VPN.

This could go other directions too. If bad site B is a Tor hidden site whose admin gets captured by the FBI and turns over access, they'll be unmasking in reverse – I got packets from Tor relay A, which relay sent packets at time-epsilon to it, (...), to the source.

There's very little you can do to fight this kind of adversary. Adding hops and layers (VPN + VPN, Tor, Tor + VPN, etc.) can only make it harder. It's certainly an expensive attack both in terms of time consumption, storage, and it requires massive amounts of data, but if your threat model includes a global passive adversary, game over.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XKeyscore

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FVEY
>Do you cook eggs daily?

Yes. This is very common.
Most days breakfast is sunny side eggs. Egg drop soup, ramens, and steamed egg dishes also consume a lot.

weekly shopping list is a dozen eggs and 2 roast chickens.
That says he is trying to make it neutral, not aligned with him.
I think this paper is the key to the next speedup in local LLM inference. By making the model sparse (using the ReLU activation), we can save around 80% of memory accesses and computations of the Feed Forward Layers. ReLU sets the output of a layer to 0 when it's negative, and since any number multiplied by zero is zero, the next layer doesn't need to load the rows of the weight matrix that would be zero after the multiplication.

Unfortunately there aren't a lot of models currently trained with ReLU activation.
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Fairness and efficiency. If someone is making significantly more money than you, they are either:

a) creating more productive value than you or doing something more in demand by society [strong signal you should join them!]

or

b) manipulating their situation for better outcomes unfairly or fraudulently

In both cases it's in the interest of the greater good to have these things out in the open.
Bugs are all over your average yard.
If you are shocked by this, I suggest not reading his other recent topics.
> It's bad enough that I've had at least a dozen apps disappear from my iDevices over the years because the companies running them went out of business, pivoted, exited, or otherwise disappeared or stopped supporting their product. The last thing I want is for an entire app store's worth of apps to suddenly go away.

This happens just the same on iOS when Apple drops support for a device. First-party stores are not a defense against this. It's theoretically easier to plan for, but you're still at the mercy of Apple's support window.

Once upon a time you could download an app and it would work indefinitely, but that's not the way any modern app-store based systems really work. What Amazon is doing here is probably less impactful than when Apple kills certain APIs and breaks a bunch of apps with an update. (I'm certain Amazon and Apple both do estimated math about the number of devices/apps/users they're breaking, and I'm also certain just based on volume that Amazon is breaking fewer people/apps with this change than Apple does routinely.)
> I generally agree with what you are saying, however I'm quite surprised at the pushback about homegrown eggs tasting better than mass-produced.

There have been many studies on this and in true blind tests people do not prefer one over the other. The Kenji tests are interesting as he even dyes the eggs green to prevent the color from giving it away.

> Send me as many papers as you want, but respectfully, I have empirically tasted the difference.

You think it tastes better because you know the provenance of the egg. It's like a placebo effect. Try your own blind study and see if you can actually tell the difference.

> I have no interest on imposing my opinion on anyone, but to me it's pretty obvious and easy to understand and accept that a better fed, better cared for chicken will produce better eggs.

There's plenty of non-taste reasons that they're better. You might care about the welfare of the animal. And the vitamins or balance of fatty acids might be different. But they all taste the same.

> A bit like with Wagyu steak, no?

A Wagyu would be significantly more marbled than your off the shelf USDA Choice steak. So of course it would taste different. The balance of protein v.s. fats and distribution throughout the meat would be completely different.
We are potentially looking at hiring folks in the US too. Feel free to add your application to the Canada job ad, and add a note in the questions that you are coming from this thread.
Worth drilling down on Direct Instruction- https://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/guest-the-drawbac...

> Want to raise reading comprehension scores? Direct Instruction (or direct instruction) is a surefire way to do it.

> But the strengths of the program are also its weaknesses. The program dramatically narrows the aims of education and leaves little room for creativity, spontaneity and joy in the classroom.

It strikes me that the problem here, much like with phonics vs "holistic" learning, is that educators don't want to do it. It's too grim and serious, and culturally, that's not what people who go into education in America are about.
What Do Van Halen and Brown M&M's Have to Do with Safety?
Depends on the nature and breed of the dog too.

My GR goes into livestock guardian mode whenever the rabbits are free roaming in the garden (even though he's a bit scared of them ever since one bit him on the nose), but some dogs, terriers especially, will just instinctively chase and kill a rabbit.

I assume it's fairly similar with chickens.
> 1. The people voted for smaller government, and if the executive doesn’t have the power to reduce the size of its own bureaucracy, then there is no check on ever-expanding government.

Congress specifies the size of most government bodies through its Article 1 power of Appropriation. The Executive's job is to administer what the People's delegates have decided to do. Deciding how much to spend is not the President job, and never has been.

The Republican Congress that was also presumably just elected to reduce government can at any time send legislation to the Republican President that will reduce the size of government; in fact, they are working on a budget bill right now. They are free to restructure government as much as they want, because Congress has been explicitly vested with that power.

A lot of people don't like this, but the Constitution is very clear on this point. It's also quite readable; you can read it yourself and verify that I am not making this up!
Earth's ice caps are temporary and rare, study suggests
Yeah I more concerned “God Mode” is a thing that exists. One would hope that these systems are heavily locked down but my experience maintaining legacy systems makes me think “God mode” is a thing you get because you have to run a quarterly report and it is too much of a hassle setting up the correct permissions.
As much as I would love this to happen, a high-speed rail network has been discussed along this corridor for decades at both federal and provincial governments, with no tangible actions to making it actually happen. Given the current Prime Minister is on his way out, and the party likely to follow (barring some large swing in the polls), this is unlikely to go anywhere. I'd love to be wrong though.
While that’s true in theory, we don’t observe a sufficient fiber intake for most human omnivore. That is Erfgh point : the classic diet don’t meet nutrients goals when studied on the field by researchers.
Why would it be, when you consider that countries with far less condensed supply chain (e.g. Canada) have not been impacted? If we blame commercial agricultural practices for exacerbating the risk then it makes no sense to frame backyard chickens as doing the same.
Or Trump fucking referring to himself as king yesterday .. signs are clear.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/business-productivity/customers...
In this case, a ton of progress had already been made. The conjecture had been proved in some cases, reduced to a simpler problem in others. This couple went the last mile of solving the simpler problem in some particularly thorny cases.

You're really standing on the shoulders of giants when you rely on the classification of finite simple groups.
Meanwhile, friend of mine's last name was Li, and IDs were first initial + last name + #

Her number had three digits.

I'm guessing it's the birthday that really messed the system up though?
Right on slack's webpage.

https://slack.com/blog/news/slack-aws-drive-development-agil...

Unofficially, this agreement happened at the same time Amazon started using slack internally
I found that gap annoying, when they finally did address it it was such a hand wavey thing that doesn't actually say it's bad for you. We know particles are being produced, because smell doesn't come from nowhere, so in some regards the whole bit of research could be read as "thing that produces particles, produces particles. Surprise!"