skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On mobile screens the cards that were previously selected take a lot of space in the background; if you click that background card, intending to “deselect” the foreground card, then you suddenly play the background card. But yes, if you click anywhere else then all cards are deselected. Still, I find this very unintuitive.
The story seems to only discuss fluorescence, not glow in the dark characteristics.
Hazard Lee on YouTube has a great video going into the new system they have for fighter pilots to pee in their planes.
The main problem to my mind is that we have none. OVH are perhaps the only semi serious option and that's super depressing.
We're using Hetzner and BunnyCDN, never store any data on US servers. The decision for it is independent of the current political situation, mostly to avoid the US legal system as best as we can and to ensure GDPR-compliance.

There are plenty of other alternatives, e.g. Softmaker Office and Papyrus are German word processor and office applications.
This could be fixed with a single confirm().
Presented without comment: https://english.nv.ua/amp/european-and-us-military-aid-in-nu...
Thanks, they definitely will be in the future! Hoping to get a grant to help support the work.
you only spend the return on the endowment, so that the endowment lasts "forever"
I feel like some things that consistently gets in the way of the clean separation between (crudely speaking) deciders and doers, and keeping the doers out of the war room (so they can work effectively) are:

Poor, or fear of poor communication. The "do-ers" become compelled to be in the war room to try to mitigate communication failures.

Unclear decision making processes and ownership. People with high technical expertise (who would be top tier do-ers who maybe should be kept out the war room) are kept around because their immediate feedback in the war room can significantly shift the decision making process and decisions made.

I should be more specific - I believe there's often a desire (and makes instinctive sense) to fall back to decision by consensus. Once everyone understands that this is how these things work, then obviously you want to pack the smartest, most competent people in the room, either because you're playing political games, and you want more "votes", or because truly you believe that you need the best people in the room to guide consensus.

These are structural and cultural (non-cynical) issues that drive both doers and decision makers to -want- to keep smart, competent doers in the room, even though separation -should- lead to better outcomes.
> I do know this was the point of the conservative party in the US

No incumbent president, democrat or republican, has ever meaningfully restricted America's digital surveillance capabilities. Backdooring domestic hardware for the sake of "national security" is a bipartisan effort in America.
America is literally allying itself with Russia, trying to turn Ukraine into basically colony (by demanding their resources forever), threatening annexation of Canada (repeatedly). Oh, and in the process of starting a trade war.

Non-EU can trust EU waaay more then anyone except Russia can trust to America. American leadership made it clear that norms, laws or morality are only for suckers.

The levels of behaviors between the sides here are not symmetrical
SBoM-Centric Workflows
But would they still if the EU used tariff like policy to prohibit it? "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the next best time is now." Make the law, enforce the law, encourage the behavior and outcomes necessary to achieve the success criteria.

As someone with an infra background a lifetime ago, I am confident I could spin up Kubernetes and Deepseek R1 in OVH or Hetzer within a few days. The primitives exist, the EU simply needs to lean into cultivating and supporting them (orgs, platforms, etc) to push EU entities consuming these services away from US Tech. Perhaps the tech stack is a national security interest, just as a manufacturing base and supply chain is. Better to be prepared than to be entrenched in the US Tech ecosystem and then suddenly be held hostage for reasons.
Agreed there has been blowback, but the 20% of true believers don't accept its validity. But I would argue the indoctrination has been very effective.
Nothing could be more in line with the American forefathers vision than what trump and Elon are doing

the problem with people like you (I sincerely do not mean this in ANY derogatory way, just generalising people that make these arguments) is that you are using “American forefathers” as you see fit. American forefathers would be ROLLING IN THEIR GRAVES seeing and hearing what Trump and Elon are doing. They literally fought against people like the two of them.

If I have too choose between bloated federal government and having a President who thinks he is above the law and his Supreme Court cronies saying so in so many words and having a fucking african immigrant with god access to government computer systems I choose bloated government any day of the week and twice on sunday
Better that than bestowing that power on newbies and sock puppets.
The same author has full articles on Jedi Knight [1] and X-Wing/TIE Fighter. [2]. If you go through his archives [3], he's also written a lot about LucasArts' adventure games; I think the first posts that talk about them are the three "A New Force in Games" posts.

[1] https://www.filfre.net/2024/04/jedi-knight-plus-notes-on-an-...
[2] https://www.filfre.net/2021/02/the-second-coming-of-star-war...
[3] https://www.filfre.net/sitemap/
Which doesn't protect these companies. The CLOUD act allows the US to access the data even if hosted outside of the US, if it's a US company - since 2018. That has been a looming threat ever since, but is now more perilous than ever.
Who? the democrats? they are a minority party in both houses of congress ass such they cant force anything through committees bring bills to the floor or call witnesses in official congressional investigations.

the federal workers union? they got told they don't have standing in a recent court case only the workers can bring a case despite the fact that the whole point of the union is to represent said workers.

the workers well being fired and told by the court their union can't help they are pretty much out of luck they don't have the money as they had paid it to the union that isn't being allowed to do its job.

the courts? maybe some but thanks to Mitch McConal leading the republicans to block filling many of the open judicial seats as possible they were left unfilled for much of the Obama administration allowing Trump to pack the federal judicial system with supporters during his first administration.

we are in the middle of an auto-coup

at this point the only thing that can stop in the shortish term is the democrats winning the next three special elections and having a 1 vote majority then having no defectors in any consequential vote. but even then that will only allowing the to block legislation not pass any as the republicans will still control the senate.
There has been a lot of flagging lately. Of my recent submissions there are a couple expected flags (subjects that tend to descend into uncivilised discussions - Musk, DOGE, Tesla), but also some very harmless ones as well (one about Apple’s Severance online series-related goodies).
Time for Ericsson to resurrect their phone division?
The advertised mechanism of action was that once the mRNA itself had dissipated, the cells would no longer create spike proteins. The idea wasn't that the shots would cause some of your own healthy cells to become targets of your immune system.

When we don't understand how the spike protein is still being created in the first place, I don't think we could say with any confidence that it will stop once cells are cycled out.
Doesn‘t matter thanks to the CloudAct.
The British government only fairly recently decided it needed to remove Chinese cameras from sensitive sites. They were complete happy to, for a long time, to give that power to a country that is an actual fascist dictatorship.

Governments are too short termist to care. Its probably OK for the next few years so keep it cheap

The danger is not just governments. Its businesses, and even consumer systems. If another country can brick all your vehicles or look through all your spy cameras or take down your telecoms then they have a great deal of power over you.

This will only change after something happens.
If China does anything it will be in support of the Tatmadaw, either overtly or covertly.
CP2077's not American but it largely came out of the usual mould of big-budget, big-studio game software, especially after CD Projekt Red ended up abandoning promises to do certain things differently.
> But apparently the US research universities like UPenn did not get the memo and cut the number of graduate research students instead of the admin staff.

If you reduce the number of staff, the people who are going to hurt first are the graduate researchers. I run my lab with a whole host of college and department staff who make all of our jobs easier. If you cut them, their jobs are going to fall to professors, and if they have to do more admin work, graduate teaching and research assistants are going to get more shit work, and also there's going to be fewer than them.

For instance we have a whole office that help us get our research funded. These people are "bureaucratic administrative overhead", but they make everyone's job easier by providing a centralized resource for this particular problem. Get rid of them an you can save millions of dollars in salaries, but you're going to lose more than that in lost contracts and professor/student productivity. This would mean students probably would get cut anyway, so they're making the smart move of supporting only the students they can, and not leaving anyone out to dry.
That comes on top
Pretty sure they’re listening to the AllIn podcast
What else does it do?

You understand that firing a program manager doesn't de-obligate the spending of the program he managed, right? Because I'm seeing a lot of people online who don't seem to grasp that.
No matter if you use iPhone or Android - in both cases a US company has full control over it.
In the jackass. Until now I thought I’m surrounded by people who cannot understand reasonably complex code. Currently I hope that both can be true at the same time. I’ll enjoy my job safety, although now more humbly.
So a different American company?
It also doesn’t help that if you Google “bird flu mortality”, the “featured” answer is 49%, and there is no mention of the fact that the vast majority of recent US cases have been mild.
Tokyo. It continually rebuilds, rents are affordable to people who work there.

Manhattan does not build anymore, but people still want to live there, so it gets ever more expensive.

Prices are merely an indication of how many people want something but can't get it.

Your observations on density only apply is building is highly restricted to keep people out. And if building is suppressed everywhere, dense places will just be the indicator of future rises to come in less-dense and less-desirable places. Just as we have seen recently.
"Free trade is good, actually" where different places can focus on doing what they do best and trade for other goods and services.

But you have to have reasonably sane trading partners for that to work and that has gone out the window.

And yeah, it's going to hurt a lot of people.
> We lag Europe by five years in life expectancy, despite spending 2x as much on healthcare.

Delete the bottom 5 states from the data (red Bible belt places) and suddenly this is no longer so true.

This trend holds for a lot of the things on your list: homicide rates, physical health, and so on. I'm not saying that these things you list aren't legitimate, but they are hardly pan-American.

The Deep South is a third world country that happens to be part of the United States, and there's not much the rest of us can or will do to fix problems that Southerners themselves have no desire to fix.
Curious to know how you'll manage the infra cost if customers just pay $15 for lifetime
I wonder how many others are doing this? If I even mention AI in a comment it usually gets instant downvotes, regardless of whether I am speaking positively or negatively about it.
US is truly hostile tho.
How to say this... it was not in the first place. And it is not specific to the US, it is the external cloud operator which is the issue.

It is a very complex matter. Roughly speaking, if you rely a lot on information systems, in the end you are own by the real operators of those information systems.
Well, as a fellow alum, I can tell you they definitely screwed up the last two points (esp ITAR) within living memory.
Trump was a reality show star, the other people were not.

I think you made it too political for HN by bringing up other politicians and concerns about them that are irrelevant when talking about the effect reality tv has had.
Thank you so much! When I start working on the book, I think a chapter will be dedicated to the use of the torii as a symbol in the US military, especially the Rakkasans. That's an excellent tip about Afghanistan, I'll see what I can find! _/\_
XGBoost Is All You Need
There’s not a great alternative in the next few months, perhaps not in the next few years, but in the longer term European countries should take this as a critical warning. Failing to cultivate a domestic software industry in 2025 is like failing to cultivate a domestic manufacturing industry in 1825.
Germany has 16 states

France has 27 states

Poland has 16 states

Bulgaria has 28 states

Italy has 20 states

so on... Shall we start counting state wise?
I think "international cyber-relations" is something that's more
generally coming into mainstream attention [0], whereas it's always
been a bit muted and behind the scenes because people never questioned
where the Internet is. Another factor moving attention back to
geography is energy. We started caring about what "the cloud" costs
the planet. The magic of "The Cloud/Internet" was to make location
disappear. Now, who has your data is an issue again. Clearly the
Danes are not on BFF terms with US at the moment. Here in the UK our
problem is GCHQ using a lot of AWS. I've no doubt current US politics
will lead to big changes in how computing and storage is
structured. Maybe we'll get some good new protocols and practices (I'm
thinking of real massively distributed systems) out of this which make
things more resilient and less parochial for everyone.

[0] https://cybershow.uk/episodes.php?id=31
> I guess "Make America Great" may spawn a big Cloud Industry in Europe.

Unlikely.

I've worked at an american cloud provider and (in another job) i've worked with an european cloud provider (in this context, when I say "worked with" I mean i was in contact with the people actually managing the hardware as well as the software that serves the "cloud").

It's just a completely different mindset, and I don't see that changing any time soon.

The main issue i see is that european cloud providers mostly have technically-ignorant upper management for which providing a cloud offering essentially boils down to "buy this software component from company xyz (likely an american company) and install this open source product abc, then slap a cloud marketing name and unleash the salespeople". They can't even contemplate the idea hiring somebody with FAANG-level skills, paying it FAANG-level money and let it do FAANG-level work. They hire a few underpaid 20-somethings and have them manage, at best, an OpenStack installation.

I kid you not: in late 2021 i was in a meeting with (among the others) the head of cloud engineering of one such companies and asked when are they planning on offering ipv6 connectivity. The guy had a loud laugh and said they had no plans to even consider ipv6 connectivity. And that was at a company that does both "cloud" computing infrastructure and connectivity (!!!). That's the mindset.

I don't see europe building a realistic alternative to american cloud providers, and the core issue is not technical.
You're still a Trump supporter? Still?!
Except, MAGA hate all those companies. They view them as non-ideologically diverse breeding grounds for progressives.
Why not raise it to $50/hr? While we're printing money without side effects we might as well go big.
Not only cloud, but the entire defense industry that was hibernating for the past 70 years, for you know good reasons.

All of these nice F35s made in USA, will soon have no buyers except the USA itself.
> They give useful probabilities

Yes, compared to an all-or-nothing approach, it's better to be upfront about the uncertainty, especially if the tool surfaces the probability by-sentence.

But how are those probabilities computed? You mention gptzero, but https://gptzero.me/technology doesn't clarify at all how it works. They link papers using GPTZero (i.e. from other researchers), e.g. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.13606

And these very same papers highlight how everything is still unknown

> Despite their wide use and support
of non-English languages, the extent of their zero-
shot multilingual and cross-lingual proficiency in
detecting MGT remains unknown. The training
methodologies, weight parameters, and the spe-
cific data used for these detectors remain undis-
closed.

GPTZero seems to be better than some of the alternatives, but other discussions here on HN when it was launched highlight all of the false positives and false negatives it yielded:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34556681

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34859348

But all of that is pretty old, there have been a couple of posts in the last year about it, but both are about the business, rather than the quality of the tool itself.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=fal...

So, to check if now it's any better I tried it myself: I got it to yield a false negative (50% human and 50% AI rating, for a text which was wholly AI-generated), and I haven't got it to yield a false positive.

But all of this is just anecdotal evidence, I haven't run a rigorous study.

For sure, if some competent people believe that the tool won't generate false positives, I'll be mindful of it and (In the rare cases in which I write a long posts/blog articles, etc.) I'll check that it doesn't erroneously flag what I write.

It's bittersweet: if a tool that can be relied upon really exist, that would be good news. But if that tool is closed source (just like ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.) that doesn't inspire confidence. What if the closed source detection tool will suddenly start erroneously flagging a subset of human texts which it didn't before?

At least, even with the closed source LLMs, we have a bunch of papers that explain their mechanism. I hope that GPTZero will be more forthcoming about the way it works.
So we're about to finally get the year of Linux on the desktop?
Money now is more valuable than money later. It's an enormous subsidy that shouldn't exist; don't quibble over semantics.
Yup you already can specifically sequester your data to Microsoft's or Amazon's EU-only servers, and even smaller companies like 1Password offer to store your data on 1password.eu instead of 1password.com.

However there can be weirdness sometimes. I vaguely remember a case where Microsoft had to hand over EU data to a US law enforcement agency due to a court order, but giving that data would violate Irish law. I know there's a new variant of the EU-US Privacy Shield, but with the current US administration that could get ignored very easily.

Which raises the question: can for example Microsoft-the-US-entity in de jure sense cleave off Microsoft-the-EU-entity whilst still maintaining de facto connection between the two? If not, there are definitely big opportunities abound.
I feel like the second you allow functions you've thrown the spirit of the game.

Ex, the gamma function is (n-1)! So now you're making 7 with four twos and a one. You've broken the spirit.

If I can hide numbers in a function call... It's trivially easy to always succeed.
Unless you're using Graphene or similar, you're still plugged into a US corporation when using Android.
Arguably 4G networks were developed in Europe and they are widely used.

It's a marathon, not a sprint. I live with a high living standard with access to good health care. Hey, I also live in a democracy, and you're right that I think we need to defend that well. Let's hope & see if we have what it takes..

And most of the world doesn't run on fancy new gizmos (that don't make money for the shareholders anyway). Europe is still rich because it produces high value items like steel from iron ore, and machines and cars from steel.
Grid scale batteries would immediately impact electricity costs. The potential is 2/3 of the cost of current electricity costs.
This is such a bad argument, because for a functional modern smartphone (for non nerds) you need to get into bed with either Apple or Google.

The way out of this is not expecting consumers to install fdroid. It’s putting in place proper regulations to preserve privacy and security for EI societies.
The part of the ballot that contains the voter selections does not have an identifier on it that can be connected back to the voter. If you have concerns about your particular state’s process, you can contact the state office that manages elections for clarity on how they separate the ballot from voter metadata.
Our children are already being bullied with deepfakes. Democracy is already being weakened. Artistic pursuits are already being devalued. And I'm told the best thing to do is embrace it... the prison has already arrived.
So, the formula is really about making any integer with three 2s, but historical precedent calls the game with four 2s more interesting, so the (stronger) result is monkey-patched by replacing a 2 with sqrt(2+2).
There's an issue with the rights to the No One Lives Forever games which is why it hasn't re-appeared on Steam (et al). Nightdive Studios tried to get the rights to republish it but couldn't nail down between these parties who actually had the rights to the game and could authorize this.
What's going to happen is another pandemic. Millions will die, and this is what opportunity cost looks like. We recovered from the last one due to mRNA research from NIH grants (NIAID, one of my clients) and DARPA blue sky funding, almost certain to be cut. These people are literally cutting the funding that saved millions of lives from the last pandemic. Full stop. They don't wanna hear about your facts.
Yeah. I had probably around 70 flagged submissions, and maybe 5 or 6 of them were on purpose. I read HN on mobile a lot, and didn't even notice that I accidentally flag things (although I know I accidentally hide things all the time, so it's not a surprise)
A Tutorial on Linear Logic
In the defense/other industries, everything is put under the "cost" part. There's just a lot more line items that cover all that stuff.

The overhead simplifies this to a large extent in that the PI only needs to account, as a "direct" expense the cost of his team (salaries, and things not covered by the university such as compensation to human subject volunteers, etc.)
> he admits that AI has generated no value so far

He didn't admit that. From TFA:

"Us self-claiming some [artificial general intelligence] milestone, that's just nonsensical benchmark hacking to me"

He lamented the states of AI benchmarks, not that AI had generated no values.

Further:

"So, the first thing that we all have to do is, when we say this is like the Industrial Revolution, let's have that Industrial Revolution type of growth,"

He was saying the hype could only be justified when there was substantial return in terms of productivity. That doesn't mean AI has no values.