skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He is trying to "end the war" on terms that enrich himself, in vainglorious pursuit of a Nobel peace prize, and in a way that will almost inevitably result in a wider conflict very soon. Please don't pretend this is about "people will stop dying". That is utter nonsense.
MAD helps make sure they keep that doctrine, and make sure they're not lying about it.
"Russia-aligned threat actors" has a whole new meaning this last week.
The CEO and their "strong cadre of 16 directors" because it’s obviously required to write a HTML parser.
> In order to execute a law, one must interpret it.

This isn't true.

> The exclusive domain of the judiciary is the power to adjudicate cases. In order to adjudicate a case involving a law, one must also interpret.

This is actually true.
> Trump isn't exposing new weaknesses in our system; the weaknesses have always been there.

exactly there; the system relies on everyone following the rules and doesn't have much in the way of remediation, other than impeachment, if the president just decides to ignore the other two branches. possibly SCOTUS, but they've hamstrung themselves with their recent decisions
Exactly. I like to output PDFs with exact layout, and then output to HTML with approximate layout for flowing, ease of use.
How about share revenue with them? Sadly if you don't do it, someone else will (not condoning it). You might as place yourself as a channel for them and incentivised to create more recipes for you?
There are three branches. Just three. If you are a federal employee, you either work for congress, the courts, or the president. A2S1 invests the president with all executive power. All of it. It doesn’t carve out exceptions for the SEC or the Federal Reserve or USAID.

If you’ve put yourself in a place where this arrangement is literally fascism, prepare to be disappointed by the courts.
Very cool! Do you have a directory I can use to browse through?

btw autocomplete lottery brought me this:

https://www.gnoosic.com/discussion/panic%21+at+the+disco.htm...

had a good laugh.
Hm, it really depends. What is your situation? Like, my early 30's were about trying to keep job while being in a failing marriage with a small kid.

I would give somebody in my situation different advice than i.e. single guy just promoted to first ~senior position in his second job after college.
>They didn't have an annoying CEO grandstanding about the amazing tech while handwaving away hallucinations and common bugs, something Valley leadership does way too much of.

From The New York Times' coverage of the company (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/technology/humane-ai-pin....):

> Many current and former employees said Mr. Chaudhri and Ms. Bongiorno preferred positivity over criticism, leading them to disregard warnings about the Ai Pin’s poor battery life and power consumption. A senior software engineer was dismissed after raising questions about the product, they said, while others left out of frustration.

> One [issue] was the device’s laser display, which consumed tremendous power and would cause the pin to overheat. Before showing the gadget to prospective partners and investors, Humane executives often chilled it on ice packs so it would last longer, three people familiar with the demonstrations said.

> When employees expressed concerns about the heat, they said, Humane’s founders replied that software improvements reducing power use would fix it. Mr. Chaudhri, who led design, wanted to keep the gadget’s sleek design, three people said.

> In January, Humane laid off about 10 employees. A month later, a senior software engineer was let go after she questioned whether the Ai Pin would be ready by April. In a company meeting after the dismissal, Mr. Chaudhri and Ms. Bongiorno said the employee had violated policy by talking negatively about Humane, two attendees said.
I changed it to use Cow<str>, performance improved from 121.02 MB/s to 278.66 MB/s

https://github.com/rectalogic/jsonparser
Pointless pedantry. I think you know what is meant by a majority in an election. He won the popular vote. I'm obviously not including toddlers etc in my statement.
no you are wrong.. at a certain legal era, worker rights and protections got very strong in the USA. The bounce-back from that (long ago) includes "illegal" international workers, high-tech "anything to win" business practices, and moribund, glacially paced court cases involving retirement and medical coverage.

Like education, there is a pendulum effect over time.. but the movement is such that "correcting" for one extreme happens over the enaction of another extreme.. etc
A City is not a tree
Oh, and you missed an important one for me, which is that many phones will only use half duplex for the codec (possibly made worse by noise cancelling that will cut the speaker when the mic is active). This is annoying because I used to be able to talk to people on land lines, interrupt them, and then wait for them to finish talking so I can have a turn. Now, as soon as I talk, their audio cuts out, and now I can't tell if they've actually paused to let me talk. I find it very maddening, and difficult to hold a conversation.

Luckily, at least on my phone, when I attach a bluetooth headset, I can still get full duplex audio through the headset
The claim/hope is that topological qubits are fault tolerant or at least suffer from much lower errors (very roughly you can think of topological qubits as an error correction code built of the atoms, ie on scale of Avogadro's number). If, for example they could build a single qubit even with 10^-6 error rates that would in fact put them __ahead__ of all other attempts at the path to fault tolerance (but no NISQ).

It is unfortunately unclear how good the topological qubits practically are.
Exactly. I am the only person I know who actually keeps a maintenance log. I've never bought a car that had one before either. Never seen one advertised with one. It has always been guesswork when you buy a car even new considering issues out of the factory and the headache of dealing with the recall process if they even sufficiently offer one.
This is an old gem dating back to the MX system, which was actually much newer than the Minuteman III system at the time. [0]

MX was deactivated in 2005 per SALT II. [1]

They moved the enhanced RVs from MX over to Minuteman. [2]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a1acYZ93yc

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGM-118_Peacekeeper#Retirement...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=LGM-30_Minuteman&...
No. Since 2016, leftist democrats have promised that if only the democratic party moves far left enough, they will unlock some kind of secret progressive majority. This has been repudiated at every turn, most resoundingly in the last presidential election. The demographics that the leftist democrats had appointed themselves the saviors of went over to Trump, along with the tech industry which had formerly been a huge source of monetary and intellectual capital for the democrats.

Unfortunately, the democratic party seems to be unable to make the necessary adjustment and return to the winning formula of the Obama years because the political hobbyists and professionals that make up the core of the party have purity-tested out anyone with more mainstream views. If they aren't careful, they will end up as a party representing only university HR administrators.
I. don't. know. what he's talking about. that's the problem. If I tell you "I'm thiking of $5T, tell me where it is" where does that leave you?
Author and readers might enjoy this piece by Christopher Alexander - A City is not a tree: https://www.patternlanguage.com/archive/cityisnotatree.html
> Eventually, and in fact about 50% of the time - the OTHER team is in power.. and may just push the overreach further.

Are you sure this is going to be a fact, in the future? How likely is it, that the next elections will still be (somewhat) fair?
The way the story was told, at least, they did NOT hire the experts.
let us know what you think!
An unregistered domain can still be an IoC especially when found through e.g. payload analysis.
Suggesting that people who publish open source should be flattered by harassment is a fascinating take.
and your solution is empowering a dictator and... hoping it goes well?
A couple years ago even suggesting that a computer could propose anything at all was sci-fi. Today a computer read the whole internet, suggested a place to look at and experiments to perform and… ‘not impressive enough’. Oof.
I'm trying to assert that calling Trump a fascist is a left wing opinion, and not one shared by centrists like Obama, given how friendly they were at Carter's funeral.

But you won't see this, as you have chosen self righteousness over knowledge. And no-one is apologising for fascism because he isn't one.
There is no influence. You are just making things up now. Once selected by the President, the judges are independent.
https://web.archive.org/web/20241228215151/https://www.theat...

https://archive.ph/gJ32A
You and I are doing it right now.

Prediction: no effect due to rarity and no effect anyway

Observation: no effect

Theory not falsified.
Be open to changing your mind when others present different ideas and try to understand their thought process.

Buy a rubber duck for your desk. They're very good listeners and often quite inspiring :)
> In order to execute a law, one must interpret it.

I mean, yes, but in a non-judicial sense. The judiciary has the constitutionally assigned duty to give binding interpretations in the course of adjudicating cases.
I believe the proper term is "guard labor".
Millennials Rethink Wealth – Bitcoin or a 30-Year Mortgage?
Network analysis identifies 15 key motives driving human behavior
PCR was invented in industry (although it depended on research funded by NIH and other orgs).

LASIK wasn't solely from NSF funding.
I think they're also confusing power and energy, or at least not clearly distinguishing between them, with phrases like "enough to power X houses".
Just wait until they find out about Tamagotchi!
NSF is part of executive branch.

Everyone in executive branch, as the saying goes, serves at the pleasure of the President of United States.

That's what constitution says.

President ordered reduction of number of government employees, as is his right and authority.

Hence NSF and other government departments are following the President orders and firing people, starting with those easiest to fire i.e. probatory workers. I'm sure that's just the beginning and they will follow with firing people for not showing up to work, having second jobs, lack of performance etc.

Congress is the other branch of government and has no power or authority here.

Contacting representatives and senators would be a waste of time.
It's a pretty cool looking product. It's not wireshark, it's not close to wireshark just because it can capture some tcp pcaps, and there are more protocols relevant to container networking than a handful of TCP app-level protocols.

When I came in I was hoping to see a product that actually was for container networking, not just app data flows. Again - this is a neat tool, and probably incredibly useful for people developing way up the stack like that, but a lot of us live below the bottom of a "full-stack developer's" stack. Some features I would expect in a "wireshark for Docker containers":

* Ability to inspect DNS traffic

* Ability to trace packets the enter the conainter network stack (e.g. the packet(s) generated when the server calls send() ) into the virtual interface for the namespace and through the host machine. Ideally with multiple observation points and correlation of packets in the overlay/underlay contexts (decrypting from local keys whenever possible).

* Ability to see where a packet dies between the app and exit NIC on the host. Including things like "packets delivered to this container even though the dest IP/subnet isn't in this container"

* Similar to the previous point: ability to track packets through all the NAT steps containers introduce.

* See arp traffic on virtual interfaces.

* Ability to observe the TLS handshake and gather all the parameters of the connection.

* Packet dissection and protocol session tracing for all the tunnels.

* Bonus points if you can capture weird teleports caused by ebpf programs in the network path.

I expect this because that's how I use wireshark_+ bpftrace in container environments for the most part. I've also used it to debug while implementing protocols, but that's a less common use case of packet dissection and tracing in wireshark.

What you've built is cool, and I can see it expanding in a lot of directions very, very, usefully. I just really dislike something calling itself a wireshark while not really helping with networking (and in fact - the networking has to work reasonably well for this tool to be effective).
Not over spending, which Elon's seizure of payments infrastructure has made.

Unless you extend it to that, in which case why have courts? Its not like they have enforcement power and the president can stretch discretion to the limit.
You misunderstand me. I'm not saying those internal checks are a good thing; I mean that the President already has extensive mechanisms to control what these agencies do.
AI Models Like GPT-4o Change Without Warning. Here's What You Can Do About It
People have been complaining about AI models surreptitiously changing underneath them for a while now, and we found evidence of it happening in the wild. We build an LLM monitoring and testing tool called Libretto, and we saw GPT-4o start to behave significantly differently on one of our prompts this week. This is a write-up of how we detected the change and what it means for building on top of LLMs that can change at any moment.
Is this why twitter has been blocking signal.me links?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43076710
"I interpret this, I think reasonably, to not include encrypted information"

Why? Encrypted information is still sensitive information.
> The study found that human behavior is driven by 15 key motives, which can be grouped into five broad categories: environmental (Hoard, Create), physiological (Fear, Disgust, Hunger, Comfort), reproductive (Lust, Attract, Love, Nurture), psychological (Curiosity, Play), and social (Affiliate, Status, Justice).
I am not at all familiar with the US system. How come there is a $3500 donation limit to politicians, but the tech billionaires have donated hundreds of millions to the inauguration fund?
It's sad that neovim split the community like this. Now efforts are split.
Europe and the Death of NATO
One would probably assume that there are lots of derelict lead mines everywhere since the world decided to stop using lead...

Unfortunately, lead mining today is pretty much stable[1], with only slight decreases in production volumes.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/264871/production-of-lea...
You're certainly allowed to get excited about it as long as you're patient and don't wildly overinflate the realistic timeline to net energy production. Similarly, nobody will stop you from hyping up quantum computation as long as you're not bullshitting usecases or lying about qubit scaling.

In the wake of cryptocurrency and AI failing to live up to their outrageous levels of hype, many people on this site worry that the "feel the AGI" crowd might accidentally start feeling some other, seemingly-profitable vaporware to overhype and pump.
It also seems to be a financial problem of getting VC funds to run trials to appease regulators. Even if you’ve already seen results in a lab or other country.
Are you suggesting using ffmpeg in US is illegal? As far as I am aware there are plenty of US companies using ffmpeg.
The same trick can than be used in an interrogation.

That’s still lying police just with extra steps.
Court reiterates they cannot.
They've been testing launching these since the 60s, and they are honestly quite reliable given their complexity
Honestly yes. Why would I want an ugly partner? Don’t downvote me because you disagree. Engage in conversation.

I want good looking children. I can provide for my family by myself. Why would I care if my partner is was a super genius or not as long as we were both attracted to each other and she wasn’t brain dead?
Your courts and judiciary don't have any power - he'll just write an EO to release people. Senate and Congress likewise - meaningless talking shops.
> Given Bluesky is a quasi-clone, I wonder why they did not follow in these footsteps.

There are only six users with over a million followers, and none with two million yet.

I'm sure they'll get there.
yes, but no... Limited experience here in California shows a) Feds who can't attract the best talent and b) the power to outsource, subcontract and stall. It would be great to idolize every member of Federal Science but.. survey says.. no, not so simple in reality
Might be a more truthful name honestly too
It can't possibly autocomplete or inspect based off code it doesn't actually have.
I'd guess the founders want to keep it because of a sense of pride/attachment.
Interesting idea. Let’s connect.
Sprint never went into service. An Army Colonel I am friends with got to watch the final experimental launch at White Sands.
That's fair. It's one thing to tell people "don't build things in such a way that other people would be put at risk", and quite another to threaten people with punishment for choosing to take risks themselves.
Fair enough! Out of curiosity, in your words, what have LLMs achieved?
Indeed. It always saddens me how childish and tribal we become when some subjects are mentioned. It can't be impossible for the smart people we find here to have civilised discussion about politics or Elon Musk.
You can just reply to the author and he'll get a notification - it was originally a Show HN (217 points, 2016, 124 comments)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11080539
> occupied by extreme right viewpoints

Could you define 'extreme right' for me? It may surprise you to know that I consistently end up the lower left quadrant, slightly left of center and quite a bit down underneath the X axis of the GAL-TAN test which happens to be the opposite of 'extreme right' which lies on the top right. It would be interesting to hear of your definition of the term 'extreme right' which I suspect is nothing more than a repetition of that term as used in the legacy media and by the "democratic" party and as such not at all related to "traditional" extreme right.

Please give us this definition before I go into the other things you said here, it makes it easier to frame your other points.
I think masklinn is arguing that, if Republican senators truly believed the president should be an elected king with nigh-limitless power, then during Democrat administrations they would have been eager to approve anything the president put forward, as he was the president-king at that time.

Whereas what we saw instead was them blocking everything they could, government shutdowns etc.

Unless "Unitary Executive" means something a good deal more nuanced than the president being king, that is.
I don’t think you have deferred resolving the dilemma—you have firmly decided the question in favor of your product and the LLMs you are using!
> . I also don't think this can be called Poker, really. Poker is an imperfect information game,

There is no game of Poker. It is a wide variety of games like 5-card draw, Omaha, Texas, studs, Chinese open face poker. Also a slot machine where you draw 5 cards or pretty much any game that uses classical poker hand rankings is called poker. There is also a planning poker.

I think the name is fine
> Additionally, beyond this point, it is reasonable for us to not necessarily have a perfect chronology of everything posted by the many thousands of users they follow, but provide enough content that the Timeline always has something new.

While I'm fine with the solution, the wording of this sentence led me to believe that the solution was going to be imperfect chronology, not dropped posts in your feed.
FWIW here's how I resolve the article's questions currently:

1. Energy usage: Using electricity is not unethical. For many reasons we need to transition Earth to use clean energy. This is not a reason to not use new technology, nor is deep learning particularly wasteful like blockchains are.

2. Training data: Seems reasonable to see AI training as fair use. If you disagree, that's fine too, but the legal specifics of the origin of dataset isn't really fundamental to AI training so we can likely just train only on properly sourced data in some way. Many AI use cases don't have this problem anyway, like self-driving.

3. "Replacing people": I don't think you have a right to continue doing the same work your whole life if someone invents a more efficient way of doing it. We shouldn't build an economy around a busywork jobs guarantee. Plus, it's plausible this concern is a moot point, as Noah Smith argues here https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/plentiful-high-paying-jobs-in-... But I'm happy to do UBI or whatever, though UBI may not be as effective as one would hope.

4. "Incorrect information and bias". Doesn't strike me as a fundamental problem (models will get much better at this), nor an ethical question. Just know the information may be incorrect. Most of it isn't. And LLMs and AI have many use cases beyond retrieving reference information, even if most people just see Google search AI blowing it constantly.

5. Concentrating power: Seems like close-to-state-of-the-art LLMs will be commodified, etc. If it really becomes important I don't see why you couldn't just rustle up some donations for a truly open model or whatever.
incredibly revealing statistic, lol
despite the European Commission's attempt to claim the term Europe for itself, the EU and Europe are not the same thing
These mostly end up in the Kwajalein Atoll lagoon, and they are quite monitored, lol.
To put it simple: He only bought the necktie so he can brag how rich he is. He could have bragged even more if he had bought the necktie in the other shop.
Also ironic to nit pick about Trump not having a majority and then quote a poll that queried only 2800 people.
That’s similar to how Google won in distributed systems. They used cheap PCs in shipping containers when everyone else was buying huge expensive SUN etc servers.
New allies, same as the old allies.
The USA is both a democracy (we vote) and a republic (we have a president instead of a monarch). They are not mutually exclusive. It is, in fact, a democratic republic.
It’s worth pointing out that he probably qualified for expanded Medicaid in California, so the PCP visits would be covered by that. It’s just a matter of getting him to actually go.
I will do. However I do also think it was worth sharing this tool too
> regular people, who don't commit crimes and aren't a high value target for government agencies.

> While traveling to not really democratic countries the government can't spy on you (in many muslim countries the typical US/European browsing behavior is probably illegal).

Aren’t these two threat models already completely different?

IMHO if an authoritarian government considers what you’re doing to be a crime, you should not be doing it over a VPN you saw advertised on a billboard
The past 80 years have been the most peaceful in history. Nukes work to bring peace.

The problem is that you trade the virtual certainty of periodic destructive wars for a small but non-zero chance of an utterly apocalyptic war. The big question I don't see people asking is, what probability makes this tradeoff worthwhile? One in a hundred per year? One in a thousand? One in a million? Based on what I know about how these systems work, and the history of near misses, I suspect the probability is closer to one in a hundred than one in a million.
Does the fact that an airline booking system must be perfect explain why so many flights are overbooked or cancelled?
I would just like to say that "advanced JIRA skills" exist.

But if you need them, the business is likely f'ed and you should leave. Rapidly.