skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Besides, this kind of hyper-polite passive-aggressive "erm akchually" conversation happens in every CAB incident discussion.

As somebody who doesn't spend much time scrolling CAB reports, this was jarring to me.

Digicert's legal action seems nuts, and there seems like a real, risky issue in the idea that a company's customers can use the legal system to block the company from complying with its obligations to other entities, but it's hard to see any way that could be productively addressed given the back and forth in the thread. It's like I'm watching a theatrical production staring the most stereotypical corporate drones trading comments with the most stereotypical IRC nerds, both sides doing circles around an interesting topic but too busy trading blows to ever really get to it.
Silly. It's the 0.0000001% of the most valuable data (to the US) that matters.
Lol so true: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43111062
Don't get so depressed. The Executive branch in the US does not have a lot of power when it comes to influencing the states.

For example, Trump can't actually force states to change their school athlete programs. It doesn't have any power over individual states (or schools). All his DoE can do, is to threaten to withhold funding. And even that is being contested because the Congress has not authorized it.

However, if he does manage to withdraw the funding, that's just 6% of total spending on schools in CA ( https://lao.ca.gov/Education/EdBudget/Details/900 ) and 8% in NY. The states will just shrug and go on.

The discretionary part of the US Federal budget is not large, on the scale of the country.
At what point can we start calling them Texas Tech Bros? The two primary ones are pretty much living mostly in Texas and Florida at this point.
the only use case I can see for voice is while driving. Maybe some other professional setting where you need to be hands free. I would never use a voice assistant in a cafe or something along these lines.
I might be the kind of person that requires external validation, what I noticed is I simply stopped writing online, for the most part. It just feels like writing/tweeting/etc into a cacophony, makes me slightly uncomfortable adding to the noise and discouraged that nobody (no human at least) will read anyway. So I just write what would be blog posts on Notes app and don’t post anywhere…
1. Install ublock origin

2. Spend less time on their website. Go touch grass or something

3. Mobile apps are right out
Surely you can find some green plastic herbs somewhere.
If you tell someone they're going to be fired if they don't send the email, and they don't have work email on their phone, then they'll drive to the office to send it.
Why not just use AI, you don't need "top" front developers if AI can generate your Figma designs.
I'm not convinced TTS can get all the way to the quality of professional actors for things like audiobooks.

I'll take a professional actor over TTS any day - incomparably better quality even with the best TTS.
> Voice agents allow businesses to be available to their customers 24/7 to answer questions, schedule appointments, or complete purchases. Customer availability and business availability no longer have to match 1:1 (ever tried to call an East Coast bank after 3 p.m. PT?). With voice agents, every business can always be online.

I don't get it -- textual support chatbots have been around for decades. Even if we accept the premise that people would rather speak to them by voice, how do voice agents represent some kind of sea change in availability?

(And I personally find customer support chatbots deeply frustrating to use for reasons that have nothing to do with the modality or the quality of the AI model. I only ever need to use one when the question I have is not answered in the documentation, which is often the extent of the chatbot's business-specific training data. Inevitably I end up being led in circles, screaming for a human.)
Are there any books to read that talk about the military missions of the Space Shuttle?
This post was worth reading and I think it's something very important to think about.

It's a bit similar to the succesful artist syaing follow your dreams and then analyzing the odds. That it's not a meaningful strategy on its own.
if the government can unencrypt in any capacity whatsoever there is effective zero encryption at play. US are already failing physical audits lol
Oh, I agree, finances are going to be poor. But these departments cost a lot more than salaries, so firing everyone does save real coin.

And it plays very well with an electorate who wants to see "big changes". That thr changes will hurt them is the point missed by most.

Killing federal departments also plays well with those encumbered by red tape. If there's no CFB there's no one getting in my way to treat customers badly.

USaid buys (bought) a lot of food from US farmers , so in effect that subsidy is going away (without the bad press). The money "going to Ukraine" was being spent at US munition suppliers, so really, it'll hurt those suppliers.
Crypto bros are the perfect victims. Nobody likes them.
> Only parts are uninsurable.

But the X zones keep shrinking, don't they?

I worry that FEMA's FIRMs will stop reflecting reality in the current political environment. Then many homes will be below flood levels. Then what happens?
If you must use mobile apps, patch them with ReVanced Manager.
It's actually fairly easy to setup a 3rd party app to use Claude via API, to get extremely generous limits.

I wrote a step-by-step guide for the app I built: https://prompt.16x.engineer/guide/claude
The future of fast code: giving hardware what it wants [video]
If it went even further the demand for ships would be even lower. You want to copy what South Korea did, which is basically the opposite approach.
I don't know, but very recent Gemini models have certainly seemed much more impressive...and became my daily.
there are two tiers of program managers. there are those that are pulled from academia, as you say, but theres a 3-5x? multiple of "junior' PMs that are say MS or BS scientists, rarely PhD (usually the case when the PhD is... subpar), these are career and eventually thet are promoted to senior management and decision making roles.
> In 4 years the people will vote again.

There's legitimate concern that won't be a viable option, and the admin has hinted that will soon be the case.
From what I've experienced I have to agree.

"However, this transition presents a paradox: who will oversee and correct AI-generated code? Even the most advanced AI models are prone to errors, necessitating human oversight to ensure reliability and security."

I see a new role for programmers. The ex-coders will oversee quality control and step in as needed in the future.

Programmers will probably have a few more years -less than 10yrs- but long term their role will radically change.
OK - yeah I saw your video didn't work

sometimes, it seems like lambda cold starts are getting in the way
It’s all so speculative.

I was contacted by a reporter asking about the possible security implications of the Doge stuff.

All I could think of was the false/misleading claims about DNS traffic on Trumps server back in 2016.

I said something like, “if the humans in charge grant access to another human, a secure system would grant the new human access.”

They didn’t use my quote.
Richard Feynman on Education in Brazil
States need a military to enforce their independence, but almost none have one of note. The National Guard is under the executive branch and state guards tend to be tiny (e.g. just 900 enlisted for CA).
> The code worked in our original monolithic system but was not implemented properly when we moved to our micro-services systems

:chefs_kiss:
to steelman the issue:

what if there was overinvestment in science? as in we chased money after talent that didnt exist, or was mismatched to the difficulty of the available and fundable open questions.

a few things: you'd expect a lot of fraud and misallocated science to have been recently uncovered.

after the cuts, you would expect the quantity of science to go down, but the quality to go up
I've been wanting something like this for a very long time. I always imagined seeing the "scientific classification" metro-style path where at some point it splits showing how far apart are two species.
ok i'll bite and in good faith: how do you think DOGE is a pretext for destroying the govt?
Just checked my 2024 Toyota Rav4 manual, I can confirm it is there.

Page 393.

https://cdn.dealereprocess.org/cdn/servicemanuals/toyota/202...
I wouldn't put it in the same league as dating, but it still has that element where effort doesn't correlate with success, or at least you personally perceive it as so. You can try to schedule plenty of get together and still feel like loose colleagues. Or sometimes you randomly invite someone at the 11th hour and now you're best friends who meet every week. That can be a bit frustrating for someone perhaps someonhwre on the neuro divergent spectrum.

But in a way, yes. Shared moments of triumph or suffering can accelerate that process. Those aren't necessarily moments you can always replicate, though.
There isn't much point to HTTP/2 past the load balancer
Dogs may have domesticated themselves because they liked snacks, model suggests
> Yep. Method names make terrible comments. No spaces, hard to visually parse, and that's before acronyms and ambiguity enter the conversation.

Which is why snake_case or kebab-case (if the language allows it) is much better than PascalCase or camelCase.

Even worse when camelCase enters into JSON because people want to automate the serde but are too lazy to make the actual interface (the JSON Schema) easy to read and debug.
If DigiCert were to lose browser trust (at this point, that's still a big if), it would happen the same way it happened with prior CAs, some of which were pretty big themselves (Symantec): all certificates issued after some date would not be trusted, yes. But all existing certificates would remain valid.

This gives certificate owners ample time to look for a different issuer and no certificate buyer would deliberately purchase a certificate from an issuer when they know some percentage of users will not trust that cert.

So for the end users, everything will keep working: the existing digicert certs stay valid and newly refreshed certs will be signed by a different authority. There is no need to turn off automatic updates over this.

Between Entrust and Symantec, we've already seen this happen to large well-known CAs and everything remained fine (not for the offenders, but, hey, that's the system working as intended)
Too true sadly.
For context, you should read about how USAID historically has acted to interfere in the politics of other counties: https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/04/03/cuban-twitter-and-other... https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/04/15/when-is-for... https://www.jstor.org/stable/4017728

As to Bangladesh specifically: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/south-asia/usaid-b... https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/29m-usaid-fund-went-bangl...

There is no such thing as funding to “strengthen democracy” or whatever euphemisms USAID uses. It’s election interference directed against whatever administration is currently in power in a foreign country.
> He's not a dictator.

Not quite yet. An admirer of dictators. He's a wannabe dictator. Stacking the decks with loyalists and purging those that don't roll over. Never failing to take an opportunity to divide, to tear down, to fabricate, to create chaos for the 99%. Constantly crossing lines that would've been unthinkable for any other president - including previous Republican candidates.

Offtopic: I often think of the alternate universe in which John McCain won the Republican nomination over Donald Trump. What a different world we'd be in! Good chance Biden wouldn't have won in 2020. Good chance Russia wouldn't have had an opportunity to invade Ukraine a second time.
That looks beautiful but it’s a bit spendy. Not overpriced, but spendy. If the software is nice, though, that’d be almost exactly what I’d want.
Roast
You've posted so much about government waste that the IRS probably has a special folder just for your tax returns.
Your hatred of VCs is so strong, I'm surprised you haven't built an app that automatically downvotes any HN post containing the phrase 'we're excited to announce our Series A'.
You're the only person who reads the comments section on a post about electric vehicles and thinks 'This is the perfect place to explain fractional reserve banking!'
In my area of London, burglary is a virtually abandoned trade.

Anyone with anything of value works from home at least part of the week. Why risk entering someone's actual house when you can make easy money on drugs, fraud, crypto, bicycle theft, phone snatching, or umpteen other hustles I don't even know about.

Bicycle theft especially. You could easily clear a grand or two a week with zero fear of prosecution.
Reading and writing are both intimate activities. The reader holds the writer's thoughts in mind, and the writer knows this and acts accordingly.
Personally, I don't particularly enjoy reading material that was made by an LLM. The fact that so little effort was applied suggests that there is not much reason for this to exist beyond a chance to serve a few quick links.
Since the llm is also running this as a business, I would also point out the social connection between reader and writer does come with some expectation of a reward. Whether it is to be paid in cash or respect is beside the point. People often expect some reward for their efforts and they are not wrong to want that. People are often uncomfortable to put it so bluntly because that would compromise the quality of the relationship, but upending this relationship is really a perversion of logic carried out for purely selfish reasons ("I want what you are making, and I will give nothing in return").
How big is the payload bay on this thing? The whole craft is only 29 feet long, so it's not carrying a Hubble in to orbit.
Haven't tried Numi, but I made a calculator with variables as a side project on a whim: https://calc.li/ - it is online, but there is no backend and you can save the whole page as an offline file if you want, using localStorage for state.
Something simpler that has helped me break off some websites is to just log out. Twitter and Facebook have no feed if you log out. Reddit on the opposite will show you an empty feed if you're logged in but follow no subreddit. YouTube does neither, but I like long videos so it's unlikely I mindlessly open one.
The future of programming is SRE work for an engineering team of robots.
I think it would also be helpful if it could pronounce or vocalize specific words you click on to learn the definition of, if not entirely transcribe the subtitled text in another language.

Keep up the good work, cool idea.
> We're looking at the US wilfully letting go of the possibility of remaining the most powerful nation in the world.

It’s not hard to understand why people believe Trump Is a Russian asset
This is essentially my prediction; either that or something functionally equivalent.
You're right, but that's a flaw of democracy itself. It is known since ancient Greece.
> almost as good as Slack

I'm sorry, what?! I will grant you almost as good as Zoom but Teams' actual chat functionality is awful.

I can't fathom why they didn't just clone Slack for their chat UX, it would have been less effort and better.
Another metaversish prediction.

Someone proposed this nice project AI will fail at:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43120035
You mean we can’t grow food asking an LLM?
I know, that is quite the URL
Does anyone know how this “user decides how much compute” is implemented architecturally? I assume it’s the same underlying model, so what factor pushes the model to <think> for longer or shorter? Just a prompt-time modification or something else?
Name one farmer who doesn’t use satellite weather imagery
> It was always like that. And Fowler the same thing with his criticism of anemic domain model.

What leads you to disagree with the fact that anemic domain models are an anti-pattern?

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/AnemicDomainModel.html

I think it's obvious that his critique makes sense if you actually take a moment to try learn and understand what he says and where he comes from. Take a moment to understand what case he makes: it's not object-oriented programming. That's it.

See,in a anemic domain model, instead of objects you have DTOs that are fed into functions. That violates basic tenners of OO programming. It's either straight up procedural programming or, if you squint hard enough, functional programming. If you focus on OO as a goal, it's clearly an anti-pattern.

His main argument is summarized in the following sentence:

> In essence the problem with anemic domain models is that they incur all of the costs of a domain model, without yielding any of the benefits.

Do you actually argue against it?

Listen, people like Fowler and Uncle Bob advocate for specific styles. This means they have to adopt a rethoric style which focuses on stressing the virtues of a style and underlining the problems solved by the style and created by not following the style. That's perfectly fine. It's also fine if you don't follow something with a religious fervor. If you have a different taste, does it mean anyone who disagrees with you is wrong?

What's not cool is criticizing someone out of ignorance and laziness, and talking down on someone or something just because you feel that's how your personal taste is valued.
Pretty far. In LEO it's hard to see much of Earth in one shot since you're still so close.

https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/x-37.htm

This source indicates an 38,000 km apogee, which is is about 1/10 the distance to the moon, and just barely beyond geostationary.
AI augmented coders from India rather
It literally cannot be worse than the website. Reddit has always sucked except for that brief period between the creation of the new UI and the enshittification of the new UI. I never used the old UI before because it was so bland and there were so many better alternative UIs.
Music industry version goes something like: how to get a million dollars making music? Spend 100 million
Lol, this reminded me of those engravings we put on spacecraft. Like, if we had to communicate the algorithm to an alien civilization then sure, this might be the best way to do it!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque
OP failed to reject the null hypothesis of no correlation at the given power level.
> And yet states aren't allowed to form alliances with other states

That's not quite correct. The judicial practice in the US is that the intestate compacts (agreements) require Congressional authorization only if they infringe on the sovereign Federal powers.

One good example for the 2nd Amendment lovers: states are free to make reciprocal agreements with other states for concealed carry permits. It doesn't require any authorization from the Congress.

Another example are the laws for taxation of multi-state corporations that the neighboring states can negotiate together.
Me, I am simple
Haiku poems fit me best
Refrigerator
Slightly off-topic, but here’s a video comparing a real voice actor to a mod in a video game. Personally, I think the mod sounds much better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug4h-3qTd1E
Zero

I applaud Larry for trying here

He doesn’t have to answer to anyone
For people who want to know more about the Muon optimizer: https://kellerjordan.github.io/posts/muon/
One thing Americans don't seem to realize is that the current constitution needs to be rewritten once we get out of this mess. One of the consequences of dictatorships is that they deform the constitution for their purposes. It seems that republicans have done enough to deform the system in an irreparable way.
Sounds like they want to make sure the "AI systems developed in America" are free to hallucinate without consequence, including ideological "facts"
Exactly

Show me any farm that doesn’t use them

I’ll wait
> I wonder whether somebody from the opposing side can provide a reasonable logical explanation for the Musk/Trump actions.

i am not on trump's side (i hate trump; i am neutral on musk except these past few weeks i think he's said -- but not yet really done -- things that are a bit beyond the pale, even for him) but i think this will be positive for American science.

as i posted in sibling comment:

> to steelman the issue:
what if there was overinvestment in science? as in we chased money after talent that didnt exist, or was mismatched to the difficulty of the available and fundable open questions.

two things: you'd expect a lot of fraud and misallocated science to have been recently uncovered (Reproducibility crisis, amyloid hypothesis scandals e.g.).

after the cuts, you would expect the quantity of science to go down, but the quality to go up.

i guess technically this isn't a logocal explanation since i dont think trump is doing this in good faith but i think the US might be better off in the end.
In a nutshell:

DigiCert has delayed revocation beyond what's allowed in the Baseline Requirements a few times; most recently, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1896053 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1910805. In the former case, it seems DigiCert chose to delay revocation to appease certain clients; in the latter case they were prohibited by a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) from performing timely revocation.

Tim Callan from Sectigo has publicly lambasted DigiCert for these delays, since in both cases it seems DigiCert hasn't pushed back hard enough on its clients. In the latter case, there's concern that measures like TROs might be employed more often to stall revocation. Sectigo (and others in the WebPKI ecosystem) seem to want DigiCert to make the revocation policies very clear to clients and to ensure that clients can actually replace their certificates in a timely manner.

Sectigo is clearly the most vocal but they don't seem to be the only ones telling DigiCert to get their delayed revocation under control. So the escalation to legal threats is really uncalled for, and DigiCert could face some very significant pushback for trying this tactic.
The model showed that over 15,000 years, natural selection could potentially drive dog self-domestication. But for this to happen, two conditions had to be met: Wolves had to choose to stay near humans to eat food scraps, and they had to select mates with a similar temperament.

Why would humans feed wolves scraps without them providing something of value in return?

Wolves have to provide something to humans in order for humans to keep feeding them right? In this case, humans would want some wolves around them. Therefore, it seems very unlikely to be self domestication because humans would have a heavy sway in how dogs evolved.
The levers of accountability could have been pulled any time, so it stands to say that they were still accountable. Perhaps they weren't held accountable as much as you or I would have liked. But the authority was there.

But either way I don't really see what greater point you're trying to make.
Now it includes the highly anticipated PTX! Of course, I don’t understand it, but I’ve already click the star and even the fork button, which basically means I’ve mastered it, right? I feel incredibly powerful right now...