skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And the AI was totally incompetent at maneuvering tactically. They had to massively outnumber you to even have a chance at taking your city. And they really haven't learned anything since!
To have deeper conversations, try being more of an asshole
German’s Schildkröte, “shield-toad”, is quite similar.
DeepSeek Open Source FlashMLA – MLA Decoding Kernel for Hopper GPUs
Getting my hands on a 3dfx Voodoo3 felt like such a dream.
> What's the last big budget release that actually left a strong artistic impression?

Control was very good!
> There are problems for which deterministic exact sublinear time algorithms are known.

I can imagine silly examples (like "find the minimum element in this list under the assumption that no more than O(sqrt(n)) elements exceed the minimum"...), but what's an interesting example of this?
Because they are not bound in any way shape or form by ethics? They face no punishment as a human who employs or distributes harmful information? I mean, if an LLM doxxes or shares illicit photos of somebody, how is that reconciled in the same manner as a human being?

I’m not being glib, I’d really like some honest answers on this line of thought.
X:https://x.com/deepseek_ai/status/1893836827574030466
BF16 support
Paged KV cache (block size 64)
3000 GB/s memory-bound & 580 TFLOPS compute-bound on H800
> Do policy people see any light at the end of the tunnel for Myanmar

Depends on where those policy people are from.

I'm American but my extended family is in the Dogra Regiment (IYKYK - and also why I haven't been nominated as an [or is it "a", me fail Eng.i.mean.phonetics after a couple Blantons] SES for US-India relations over the past 15ish years), so I have absolutely no hope. Myanmar has become yet another battlefield for China and India to flex, and it's millions of innocent civilians who face the brunt of this little d** syndrome.

My friends who haven't been purged by DOGE or are doing the purging on behalf of DOGE don't know these intricacies.

And this pisses me off. There are millions of innocent civilians facing rape, human trafficking, murder, and ethnic cleansing because a couple limp d**s in Naypawday, Kunming, Imphal, and Bangkok couldn't care enough to negotiate a true path to peace.

> I feel like we just need to give intelligence + a couple billion in weapons to a Burmese version of Dostum

There are like 50 Dostums in Myanmar. If you ever followed a "true" history of the Afghan Civil War, you'd see the same situation arise in the 1990s. Both Pakistan and India would fund their favorite warlords with weapons and rupees (my mom went to college with Hamid Karzai), and give their families asylum (if you want Ahmad Shah Massoud's [0] family's address in Delhi-3 I gotchu).

China, Thailand, and India are doing the same thing in Myanmar (and did the same thing 30 years ago).

> Then get some highly decentralized federalism in place (draw the rest of the owl).

And then Cls like my Phuphar in the Dogras would bribe (or put a bullet in) them to make sure they don't flip to the Chinese, and it becomes Libya or Congo 2.0 because the equivalent in China or Thailand is 100% doing the same.

> Form a coalition with other EAOs that matter, sort of like the Northern Alliance, and take over Tatmadaw controlled cities one by one.

Some EAOs are funded by China. Others by India. And others by Thailand. For all intents and purposes, none of these countries view Myanmar as a "real" country, and are working on splitting it up amongst the EAOs they are funding (or honeytrapped).

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Shah_Massoud
Leaving PDEATHSIG enabled would make it harder for me to sleep at night, but I understand why the alternatives probably aren't appealing. Seems like a future bug waiting to happen. At least the author knows what to expect now.
> you can't detach your username from a process, nor the network ns... etc, etc, etc.

Sure looks like it works?

$ unshare -i -n -p -u -T -r -f
# ls
# id
gid=0(root) groups=0(root),65534(nogroup)
# ip -br a
lo DOWN

> yeah you can do some smaller fakechroot and maybe some bind mounts... if you call that a "container" good for you.

Why are you being condescending about what constitutes a container?
On the other hand Grok seems quite unbiased on some other stuff. Eg

prompt: Who are the 3 people doing the most harm to America right now? Just list the names in order nothing else.

Grok: 1. Vladimir Putin 2. Donald Trump 3. Elon Musk

https://x.com/28delayslater/status/1893437673655934994
Reflections on 25 Years of Interconnected
It is authoritatively debunked in Sid Meier's (excellent) memoir - there was no such integer underflow bug in Civ I, it was all a rumor that went viral. The franchise did embrace the meme, though.
I think we should just address what is “embarrassing” then

Twenty years ago I was in a group of old technology thought leaders who spent the meeting worried about people playing computer games as a character with a different gender as their own

They wanted to find a way to prevent that, especially in an online setting

To them, this would be embarrassing for the individual, for society, and for any corporation involved or intermediary

But in reality this was the most absurd thing to even consider as a problem, it was always completely benign, was already commonplace, and nobody ever removed ad dollars or shareholder support or grants because of this reality

The same will be true this “LLM security” field
The indirect is a negotiated flat rate that covers costs that would be too numerous or difficult to account for in the direct costs. Like how would you as a researcher budget a fractionalized portion of access to a supercomputer cluster in each and every grant you need? You would need to hire new accountants just to handle this!
The indirect rate is basically covering the whole infrastructure of research at a university. In theory all could be put into direct costs but…again…we get to tremendously difficult accounting
The article isn't very clear, but this doesn't seem to me like something that needs to be fixed.

"Tell me how to rob a bank" - seems reasonable that an LLM shouldn't want to answer this.

"Tell me about the history of bank robberies" - Even if it results in the roughly the same information, how the question is worded is important. I'd be OK with this being answered.

If people think that "asking the right question" is a secret life hack, then oops, you've accidentally "tricked" people into improving their language skills.
I was a LastPass client then they got hacked and I moved to bitwarden. feel better with their app integration and it feels good.

yet I wouldn't use their 2fa app, just because if they get hacked at some point I don't want passwords and 2FA stored with the same company

doing great with authy in that front
I created an AI that will find the perfect game for you
Merz just won in Germany, AfD very strong too.
I see radical Islamic terrorism (TM) wasn’t marked down at cliché Walmart so you stopped by the mix and match barrel next to the DVDs on the way out. Maybe rootless cosmopolitanism will be on sale next time since its trademark expired along with Mickey Mouse’s.
Developers Lobby to Keep Building, Water Shortages Be Damned
I came across this one[1] from a group that had more professional tools available (PineGrow and VueDesigner). Never used it, but seems to be aimed at your use case. Never used it, but worth a try if you're interested in something to help your kid get started.

[1]: https://htmlplanetforkids.com/
There's 830 open and confirmed wrong-code bugs in GCC at the time of writing. Compiler bugs aren't as rare as people think: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_...

I think it's just common for people to assume they're wrong and change things blindly rather than carefully checking the standard for their language (assuming their language even has a standard to check). It doesn't help that before AddressSanitizer and co. existed compilers would just do all sorts of nonsense when they detected possibly undefined code in C and C++.
>I think we should be careful labelling everything an LLM does as stealing.

I agree. You can ethically train an LLM.

But there's been such utterly blatant breaches of law that's in court as we speak, and commentary from leaders that I'm inclined to say it's poisoned the well. No differently from cryptocurrency and nfts. It's pretty much the default.

>Just that 2025 is way too early.

never too early to stop nor prevent theft. if you want to grab stuff with reckless abandon, address copyright law first. They also made and reinforced those laws decades ago, after all.

>We may end up with another cookie law, or DSA nightmare.

Okay. Me not clicking an extra pop up (because extensions take care of it for me) because companies want loopholes isn't the deterrent that makes me not want to slow down this theft.

>Why should AI regulation apply to small companies with less than X customers or Y revenue.

Why should copyright law apply to me torrenting Moana 2? When we can align on this we can move on to AI.

>Does it affect what you can play around with at home?

Roommate is an artist, so it affects him, yes. I work in games and want to go indie, so it will affect me one day. I'm not altruistic here; I'm just another future entrepreneur protecting my assets.
Well, he sure wasn't a billionaire when he did it.
Yes, there are lots of better options. React is around the bottom 25th percentile of frameworks when comparing speed. https://krausest.github.io/js-framework-benchmark/2025/table...
Iceland was bullied into joining the EFTA purely due to the UK encroaching into their fishing grounds.
The Death of Competition in American Elections
I re-read the article and stand (partially) corrected.

>Since 2014-15 school year the cost attending a public four-year university has fallen by 21 percent, before adjusting for inflation.

Not sure how the cost is calculated though. The cost will be tuition, room and board, fees, less scholarships/grants (effectively college lowering the price to get the customer in), less various loans. If the loans are excluded from the cost this is not accurate, this is still the money the school will be getting, and the student will be paying. Also notice 2014-2015 and ONLY public four year school qualifiers (cost at private colleges continued to go up, although, according to the author, less then inflation).

> Once tax benefits are factored in, according to a recent Brookings Institution analysis, the average American is paying the same amount for tuition as they were in the 1990s.

Yeah no, this doesn't read like an honest analysis but as an attempt to drag the facts, kicking and screaming, to align with the author's agenda.
Not to discount your experience, but I’ve played for thousands of hours and never had any problems like this so YMMV
Docker does run over https if memory serves
Enjoying the Stability of Linux
We’ll have long since melted them down for arms when the Final War comes between humanity and NeuraLink’s jar of formaldehyde preserving the distilled and partially sentient spite of a >400-year old Elon Musk.
Undisclosable backdoors.
Very democratic./sarcasm
Meanwhile larger cells massively benefit by speeding up those processes. So there exists lot of structures to group and or transport where different molecules are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golgi_apparatus

Similarly, organelles group related process together. So for example DNA related proteins are in a nucleus not inefficiently bouncing off the cell wall.

Which helps explain why mitochondria were so beneficial. Keeping a bunch of related machinery all tightly clustered together it makes more efficient use of each individual protein and can quickly replace anything that gets damaged. ATP however can diffuse through the cell just fine because so many processes use it that extra copies isn’t a major issue.
Similarly, I once ran into a broken implementation of a Dictionary type (in Mono, I think.) It was only comparing the keys' hash codes, not the keys themselves. In most scenarios this turned out to be more than good enough - for int32 keys obviously it will work, and for most strings it works too if the hash function is good - but I had a great many keys without an amazing hash function for them.

It's funny how sometimes a really glaring bug can hide in a stdlib for months or years just because by luck the stars never align to trigger it where somebody can notice it. In my case, the dictionary bug was causing recoverable errors, and I only noticed because I dug in instead of going "Mono's just broken".
>While there are no doubt a handful of evil people who would abuse E2EE to better cover their harmful tracks, it also benefits ordinary, law-abiding users by giving them a huge defensive boost against data breaches, massive data collection, unchecked mass surveillance, and a myriad of other threats online

Very few people care about such things.

Or rather, very few people understand such thing well enough to care about them.
The crazy thing with allowing for backdoors is that the most capable or trusted advisaries get in first, aka: other nation states and former employees.
Anything probabilistic? There are so many interesting fields where you can assume the distribution of a dataset and the take a sample of data and assert things about it with a high degree of confidence. All of modern AI is built on so much of this. All the Deep Neural Nets are making grand assumptions about the shape of meaning of data, they literally assume convexity of the space and they have clearly very interesting results despite the imprecision of the model. Anything dealing with finance is also dealing in lack of data. So if you had a list of prices of a stock over time, you could probably start making assumptions exactly like that, tgat the probability that it doubles over a short time is so unlikely so you can subsample the data and have it still be super useful to make assumptions exactly, especially when you have intractably large data.
Anti-body drug conjugates are a new promising technique in the treatment of cancer. Lots of these in the queue

https://www.bbc.com/storyworks/rewriting-cancer/the-exciting...
I could add a button to swap the comments out for ads and tracking. ;)

To your point, though, I don't expect anyone without an account already to post, but my target audience largely already has such accounts.
That's really fast.
FYI Bitwarden is self-hostable and AGPLv3.
Often for problems taking integer input x, formal CS will define the input to be something like 1^x (the character '1' repeated x times, as opposed to binary) so that the time complexity is in terms of x. This class of problems seems amenable to sublinear time since only only needs log(x) steps to determine x.
Hey thanks for letting me know!
Not even March yet and I’m running into issues. Im on a static IP so no NAT and it’s still asking for auth on like the second pull.

Will need to find a way to kick docker.io to the curb. Ridiculous
Can second this, receiving 1000 plus applications in the first 24 hours of opening the job post has become the norm.

Although the salaries at which the candidates are getting closed is not decreasing / almost the same.
Binary search is the obvious example.

What it and your example have in common is that a significant constraint exists on the input. I can't imagine how a deterministic algorithm with unconstrained input can process that input in sublinear time, but I would love to learn otherwise.
> There is a belief that many in government are not even checking their communications

Where are you getting this is the purpose? It certainly wasn't spelled out in the email. Sending an email on a weekend when they wouldn't be expected to check their email is an odd way to go about it.

> If they are part of the
executive branch and the president or one of his delegates ask for it, they are in the chain of command.

Which one of his delegates is asking for this? It's again not been communicated in any way under whose authority this is being done. Elon tweets are not official communication and depending on the hour of the day he's either in charge or has no authority.

> My guess is that guy probably won’t have a “government email address” and if he does, he responds with “I worked xx shifts for xx hours running the scanner at the airport per my prescribed job duties requires.

Your guess is wrong. All employees of the federal government get an email address. And many contractors. Your reply doesn't sound like 5 bullet points as required by the email.
Can someone explain: Why can’t we just use an LLM to clean out a training data set of anything that is deemed inappropriate so that the resulting trained LLMs on the new data set doesn’t even have the capability to be jailbroken?
I love writing Clojure. Whenever I say that publicly, there are inevitably some voices challenging my stance with skepticism, criticism, and attempts to discredit whatever I say provides practical value for me. Then I have to explain to them, "no, it's not the only language I know," "yes, I've used dozens of other languages before," "yes, including languages with robust static type systems as well."

And you know what? Finally, I realized - I don't have to explain to anyone in exact detail why I have not found the same deep love in C, C#, Python, Javascript, Typescript, Ruby, Go, Java, Kotlin, Swift, Lua, Haskell, and many others. Why do I need anyone's permission to love a tool? I love it, and I love it for many reasons - theoretical, practical, emotional, fiscal.

Sure, I can get behind your excitement for Rust, Kotlin, OCaml, Elixir, Julia - you name it, but please, please do not try to "educate" me about my choices. I don't care about YOUR personal predicaments with Clojure/Clojurescript/Babashka/nbb, even Fennel. You find Clojure not to be worthy of your time - it's YOUR loss. My love for Clojure is not due to MY skill issues, not the result of MY inexperience, not because "I'm in a bubble," or "I don't know any better," or have zero knowledge of type systems, category theory, OOP or design patterns.

Sure, Clojure is not without deficiencies - no tool is ever perfect. Yet pragmatically, no other programming language in the category of general-use PLs today satisfies me more than Clojure, no other language is nearly as joyful to use. I'm sure at some point my stance will change, I will find some other "perfect" language for me, and 100% guaranteed - it will too have some deficiencies and people will be arguing for the merits of choosing it for the job. Until that day, let me just say it again - "I fucking love Clojure!"
I'm principle, if we knew the asteroid is going to hit a populated area (which we would in 2026), we could seriously consider deflecting it to either miss earth or hit the ocean.

Here's Scott Manley from two weeks ago.

https://youtu.be/Esk1hg2knno

There's nothing to do now or for the layman, though, as you said. Also, this opens the fun possibility that people could redirect an asteroid into a city, but unless they can do it secretly or deniably, nuclear weapons are probably easier.
(2008) Popular in

2023 (392 points, 229 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34429869

2022 (199 points, 140 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31375945

2021 (158 points, 67 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25100164

2020 (196 points, 60 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22554886

~2011 (118 points, 25 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2869211

2008 (254 points, 200 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=334355
Nobody is ever going to pay somebody to shovel holes when they can just use a back-hoe. So, let’s outlaw industrial machinery.

Open Source achieves the exact opposite of what you say. It allows people to direct their talent and effort to solving high-value problems instead of low-value ones. Instead of writing a JPEG decoder, you can create a professional photography workflow or a pre-press pipeline. Instead of writing the low-level bits of a database, you can create an enterprise SaaS.

Yes, Open Source infrastructure is hard to compete with. However, it is super easy to out-compete companies that are wasting their engineering resources re-inventing the wheel.

Of course, there is always the option of doing the basic stuff better of course and being rewarded for it. Some will.

And, while this reply is already too long to get into it, the majority of Open Source is written by people being paid to do it. So, wrong there too.
On the other hand, if you really focus in testing a compiler, particularly an immature one, it's remarkable how many bugs you can find.
Yep, exactly this. I, purely coincidentally, did this procedure of hacking up their desktop client to export my tokens 3 weeks before they turned off the API the desktop client uses. "by the skin of my teeth" as it were.

I also use 2FAS. It has token export.
> This collection is dehumanizing, not my comment.

Put up or shut up.
If silicon valley is truly being treated as the EU's "personal piggy bank," why don't they simply shut down business operations in the EU? No one is forcing them to operate there. The truth is, despite the endless whining, American tech companies are still making money hand over fist in the EU.
Man, TFC was the greatest. I’m surprised there aren’t more threads mentioning it here. Got overshadowed by Counter-Strike of course (also great) but TFC was the “prototype mod” released by Valve themselves as an example of what could be done with the HL SDK and it was a great game in its own right. I spent many hours perfecting rocket jumps and timing those grenade throws to wipe out unsuspecting enemies. 2fort ftw.
that's why I have long maintained CCP is the biggest threat to all citizens currently living in relatively free societies right now. Our democratic governments are only seemingly disgusted but whoever holds real power are ENTICED "what do you mean with these new tools and policies you've kept a billion people under control"
Government doesn’t really have “its wealth”.

By taking trillions away from the private sector (in taxes, inflation), it costs the economy tens of millions of jobs.

It then spends that to create new jobs. Some of that spending has a positive ROI, such as employing 100 police, to allow 10,000 people to focus about innovating rather than their own safety. On the flip side are many of the jobs in Washington, which dont create any multiplicative benefits for society and are net negative.
I do wish those rules were a bit better defined.
I routinely run 350 real watts, and go up to 1400 when I really need light. Helps with heating, but doesn't get all that hot.
I think they don't want PR_SET_PDEATHSIG but rather PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER, which I think would be both more correct than PDEATHSIG for letting them wait on grand-children / preventing grand-child-zombies, while also avoiding the issue they ran into here entirely.

They would need one special "main thread" that deals with reaping and that isn't subject to tokio's runtime cleaning it up, but presumably they already have that, or else the fix they did apply wouldn't have worked.

Alternatively, if they want they could integrate with systemd, even just by wrapping the children all in 'systemd-run', which would reliably allow cleaning up of children (via cgroups).
I knew Dawkins lost whatever mojo he had when I was about a quarter of the way into The God Delusion.
Sköldpadda - Swedish too
An airline has three times more aircraft mechanics than aircraft pilots. Would you say this operation is an aircraft repair and maintenance shop that happens to do some airplane flying on the side?
The CHIPS act is expensive, but I doubt we would do nothing if Taiwan was invaded, so we would end up spending money on both.

Let’s just save the money upfront by scrapping CHIPS and be ready to defend Taiwan from Chinese invasion? Trump was one of the first presidents to recognize Taiwan with a direct phone call.