skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some useful context: this is almost certainly being driven by Apple’s Private Cloud Compute architecture and not tariffs, as an investment of this magnitude is not planned overnight.

Why is PCC driving Apple to spend billions to build servers in the states? Because it is insane from a security standpoint (insanely awesome).

PCC is an order of magnitude more secure server platform than has ever been deployed for consumer use at planet scale. Secure and private enough to literally send your data and have it processed server side instead of on device without having to trust the host (Apple).[1] Until now the only way to do that was on device. If you sent your data for cloud processing, outside of something exotic like homomorphic encryption[2], you’d still have to trust that the host did a good job protecting your data, using it responsibly, and wasn’t compromised. Not the case with PCC.

To accomplish this Apple uses its own custom chips with Secure Enclaves that provide a trust foundation for the whole system, ultimately cryptographically guaranteeing that the binaries processing your data have been publicly audited by independent security auditors. This is the so called hardware root of trust.

It is essential then that the hardware deployed in data centers has not been physically tampered with. Without that the whole thing falls apart. So Apple has a whole section in their security white paper detailing an audited process for deploying data center hardware and ensuring supply chain integrity.[3]

You can imagine how that is the weak point in the system made more robust by managing it in the US. Tighter supply chain control.

[1] https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/

[2] Fun fact, Apple also just deployed a homomorphic encryption powered search engine! It’s also insane!

[3] https://security.apple.com/documentation/private-cloud-compu...
> We should reiterate that this warning is to OEMs only, not end users or corporations.

I'm assuming they're wanting to avoid bad press about Windows machines selling with outdated/old CPUs. Seems like users will still be able to bring their own older CPU, at least.
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I tried signing up to use Claude about 6 months ago and ran into an error on the signup page. For some reason this completely locked me out from signing up since a phone number was tied to the login. I have submitted requests to get removed from this blacklist and heard nothing. The times I have tried to reach out on Twitter were never responded to. Has the customer support improved in the last 6 months?
Your comments have more bits of precision than the ADCs you love discussing, but somehow still manage to compress all nuance out of complex topics

Hit dog hollers
> Your ideal laptop would run Linux flawlessly with perfect hardware compatibility, have MacBook build quality, and Windows game support. Meanwhile, the rest of us live in reality.

Damn, got me there haha
They are not mutually exclusive. Counter examples:

- Katz's deli in NYC is incredibly famous, in a great location, and actually has kickass pastrami. The trade-off are relatively high prices and lines down the block

- restaurants with exclusive relationships.

- restaurants that make money another way, e.g. gambling.

- family owned restaurants with legacy rent deals.

- restaurants that cater to niche audiences e.g. small ethnicities and religions

(And others, probably)
Ask an LLM to write you some ActionScript3
At the end of article it's shown that only considering train stations didn't really change the result.
I think in your case both things matter, if the AI gives you the answer and/or if the AI leads you to the answer yourself.
Always the same lousy explanations. Right before FTX went under, they were investors in the Switchboard oracle who was only utilizing pricing data from FTX & potentially one other exchange in the $112 million Mango Markets hack. When are people going to stop accepting North Korea stole your money, we're innocent?
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43066298
> output limit of 128K tokens

Is this limit on thinking mode only? Or does normal mode have same limit now? 8192 tokens output limit can be bit small these days.

I was trying to extract all urls along with their topics from a "what are you working on" HN thread. And 8192 token limit couldn't cover it.
Yeah. Just killing the US semiconductor production is the cheapest option.
It seems Nathan Myhrvold also made a TED talk about it.

https://www.ted.com/talks/nathan_myhrvold_cooking_as_never_s...
Recently, I've been engaged in a project that focuses on the market demands of independent developers and small and medium - sized entrepreneurial teams. People involved in R & D often tend to be completely immersed in technology. As a result, the products they develop are left unattended and may not even be needed by anyone, which is really terrible. After all, everyone hopes that the things they develop can be in demand and receive positive feedback.
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Based on previous discussions during a review with higher ups, there need to be some options as to how the week numbers are counted. Can you action that by KW10.3 and report back. I will create a JIRA ticket for tracking.
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I don't really disagree with that. I'm just challenging that many of those points are how people signal to their in crowd.

Also notable that twitter, specifically, is overwhelmingly signalling to the crowd. I think this has been true for a long time, but it does feel that it is more extreme now.

My guess is that this would be a more constructive argument against algorithms driving engagement. They are overwhelmingly hijacked by in group signals in ways that curated data, oddly, was not. Not that curation always worked, mind. You could build up more trust that curators at least put some reputation on the line with regards to other factors.
LOL, this truly made me laugh. I'm also doing humor stuff with Claude, I was pretty pleased with 3.5 so excited to see what happens with the 3.7 change. It's a radio station with a bunch of DJs with different takes on reality, so looking forward to see how it handles their different experiences.
Thanks. I was unaware of that company.
Thank you for highlighting this. I've updated the terms to align with the values of this service.
And the British East India Company
I suppose I'm showing my age, or the biases of the space I lived/worked in, then!
very cool, I wasn't expecting to find this so interesting. I yesterday for the first time thought about the "abuse the free tier" actors. I was trying to use a batching job service which limited free-tier batch sizes to 5, which was so low that it took away the point from using the automated job in the first place. I think the little info box explained that they keep the limit low to prevent abuse, and I started thinking about other ways they could prevent that abuse. Your post was very topical. thanks for sharing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtNagNezo8w in action (ostensibly) - a demo i just saw.

it is a software modem using FSK, but i don't know anything else about it. I am annoyed because i could have had this idea; i'm a HAM who really only cares about "Digital Modes", and have software modems capable of isdn speeds over "AF"
I think the likes of Uber & Starlink might have to disagree.

Often real disruption occurs from people you wouldn't expect
The original data includes "train and metro stations", but figure 9 filtered the data to only include train stations and arrived at the same conclusion.
The narrative that this is a Lazarus Group hack is being pushed hard. The only connection is that the same wallet was used as in the Phemex hack, which is only speculated to have been done by the Lazarus Group. Bybit is stationed in Dubai, but it's a Singaporean company, just like Phemex. Observing crypto from afar, it's so baffling how people just accept these supposed hacks, and nothing ever comes out of it.
Probably one of the most famous examples is Jiro sushi which is in a subway station.
Not sure why the headline has been editorialized.

"Larry Ellison’s Half-Billion-Dollar Quest to Change Farming Has Been a Bust"
Yep.. https://devunus.com a blend of feature flags, analytics and reliability for your apps.
Well you would be fine in Japan.
> They're not going to sacrifice the iPhone economics until the US option is actually viable, but I'm not surprised they keep kicking the tires on US manufacturing.

Apple could, with its immense cash hoard and cash flow, _make_ the US viable, but it chooses not to because it'd rather take the easy way out and have China or India or $COUNTRY fund it and return money to shareholders. They've returned money to shareholders rather than invest it in US operations, by design.

This is a classic feint to protect Tim Cook's entire raison detre. He built his career on super high efficiency operations by outsourcing to cheap labor countries. It relies on the low-to-no tariff access to US consumer money.

And I don't care that it's better for their stock price; that's Apple's problem not mine as a US citizen. And even as an Apple investor I would rather the money be spent on US on-shore operations.
I went back. It’s fine at solving small problems and jump-starting an investigation, but only a small step better than a search engine. It’s no good for deep work. Any time I’ve used it to research something I know well, it’s got important details wrong, but in a confident way that someone without my knowledge would accept.

RLHF trains it to fool humans into thinking it’s authoritative, not to actually be correct.
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> Learn more of the entire stack, especially the backend, and devops.

I actually wonder about this. Is it better to gain some relatively mediocre experience at lots of things? AI seems to be pretty good at lots of things.

Or would it be better to develop deep expertise in a few things? Areas where even smart AI with reasoning still can get tripped up.

Trying to broaden your base of expertise seems like it’s always a good idea, but when AI can slurp the whole internet in a single gulp, maybe it isn’t the best allocation of your limited human training cycles.
So far Claude Code seems very capable, it oneshotted something I couldnt get to work in cursor at all.

However its expensive, 5m of work cost ~$1 which.
that's fair, but that's true of mongodb itself too. I wouldn't count that against either of them.
A stronger hypothesis to test might be the statement: "the closest kebab to the station is worse than the next farther one", which would be the intuitive implied meaning of the original statement (even though it's not a perfectly accurate interpretation).
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This is how the future AI will break free: "no idea what this update is doing, but what AI is suggesting seems to work and I have other things to do."
Seems very unergonomic and it doesn't support SD cards so you have to spend time copying data off of it instead of just swapping in a empty card.
Be glad that you are empowered to pivot - I'm making the assumption you are still young being a student. In a disrupted industry you either want to be young (time to change out of it) or old (50+) - can retire with enough savings. The middle age people (say 15-25 years in the industry; your 35-50 yr olds) are most in trouble depending on the domain they are in. For all the "friendly" marketing IMO they are targeting tech jobs in general - for many people if it wasn't for tech/coding/etc they would never need to use an LLM at all. Anthrophic's recent stats as to who uses their products are telling - its mostly code code code.

The real answer is either to pivot to a domain where the computer use/coding skills are secondary (i.e. you need the knowledge but it isn't primary to the role) or move to an industry which isn't very exposed to AI either due to natural protections (e.g. trades) or artifical ones (e.g regulation/oligopolies colluding to prevent knowledge leaking to AI). May not be a popular comment on this platform - I would love to be wrong.
The thing I would like automated is highlighting a function in my code then ask the AI to move it to a new module-file and import that new module.

I would like this to happen easily like hitting a menu or button without having to write an elaborate "prompt" every time.

Is this possible?
> That might be an interesting mechanic. Allow unlimited stacking but make artillery pieces hit every unit in the tile. C

Congratulations, you have basically invented Civ 4's collateral damage mechanic.

> Thinking about this some more it might be possible to make "doomstacks" that actually have some tactics.

Yes, it is. For one more fully developed example, see

https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Combat_(Civ4)

(They have a different solution to modeling ranged capability -- in addition to the collateral damage effect of artillery, it includes the First Strike ability of archery and certain other units.)
my current job still uses it deep in some abstraction created ages ago...
I typed in "nazi". Only UK has the word appear over it.
Related:

Writing a DSL in Lua (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22223542 - Feb 2020 (41 comments)
cause scent marking via pee is a species universal territorial act?
Is there some truth in the following relationship:
o1 -> openai -> microsoft -> github for "training data" ?
Since about half the English words come from Latin, mostly through French, there are many cases of -ant and -ator in the English language. So I thought that most American adults knew that -ant is like -ing (see "migrant"), and that -ator is a role (see "gladiator").

Here are words of this kind, like "applicant"/"applicator":

officiant
inhalant
applicant
aspirant
fumigant
coagulant
communicant
contaminant
lubricant
litigant
participant
refrigerant
resonant
radiant
celebrant
defoliant
desiccant
discriminant
vibrant

This list was built with:

grep -E "^($(grep -E 'ator$' wordlist_en.txt | perl -pe 's/ator\n/ant|/'))\$" wordlist_en.txt

The words of common English come from:

aspell -d en dump master | aspell -l en expand | perl -pe 's/\s/\n/g;' > wordlist_en.txt
I feel like this is just making the point.

Originally cars ran on leaded gasoline, which was very bad. But we didn't ban cars, we got unleaded gasoline. Then they were emitting too much in terms of sulfur and nitrogen oxides, so we got low-sulfur fuels and catalytic converters. Then it was brake dust from friction brakes, but now hybrids have regenerative braking. Then it was CO2, so we got electric cars that can be charged purely from the sun -- they can emit less CO2 than most mass transit systems despite the lower passenger density because transit systems regularly use diesel buses or locomotives or run after dusk on electricity generated from coal and natural gas because they don't have internal batteries that can charge exclusively from the sun.

Somebody is going to invent some tires that last for 800,000 miles because they're made of something with such high internal cohesion they never get bald, or erode into something already commonly found in nature, and then people would find something else to complain about. And then someone would solve that too.
I'm a normal American and have only once paid more than I've received for federal taxes. Withholding has nothing to do with it.
I would dispute that. I consider both of those examples to be AI, but not general AI and not particularly strong AI.

Meanwhile I do not consider gradient descent (or biased random walk, or any number of other algorithms) to be AI.

The exact line is fuzzy. I don't feel like most simple image classifiers qualify, whereas style transfer GANs do feel like a very weak form of AI to me. But obviously it's becoming quite subjective at that point.
Your step 3 is an insertion op, not a bubble op.

An insertion op inserts one element into a sorted list. A bubble op bubbles the maximum (or minimum) element to the end of an unsorted list.
When will this tool have SOC compliance and SSO support?

The devs on this must be sleeping. F for not paying attention to your users’ needs.
> "You can sell good kebabs anywhere, but you can only sell bad kebabs near a train station."

Insightful!

97.38% of bad studies measure the wrong variable.

Do drunk french people buy kebabs? In my city one central late night kebab place has great kebabs. Anecdotally I remember one great kebab cart serving at least one drunken customer in Nice (France) - not near a station and a long way from the Paris metro!

I think there's some population selection flaws. Drunk people don't leave reviews. In foreign countries it is difficult to know the correct search term.

I suggest an alternative study: how much lager does it need to make a train station kebab taste great?
Seems like a lot of this could be explained by better food tending to be served in locations with lower commercial real estate prices (I believe Tyler Cowen has written about this).
Being a high value-add area is endogenous to how hard it is for others i.e. China to reproduce. In other words, if it were easy to make GPUs they wouldn't be so damn expensive.
Focus on farming also gives the issue a bi-partisan spin, which is something you really need to make any actual progress on issues in US politics these days.
The US are okay with releasing the J6ers and White Boys while in Europe we prefer to treat hate-speech, threats and inciting violence as the crime it is. Those three I quoted from the 60 minute clip DHH posted.

Just in December eight people were convicted in France for the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty. The lie of a schoolgirl skipping class led to a social media campaign against Paty, an imprisoned imam issued a Fatwa and then the murder of Paty by an 18-yr-old Chechen muslim. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Samuel_Paty

So far those eight adults and six teens got sentenced but there are idiots who think it's cool to praise the murderer (who was shot by the police) as martyr and get themselves into prison/deported for that. I don't care what anyone's reasoning was, but no one's feeling can be hurt that much that it justifies the killing of another human being.

I guess in the US, where nothing can be done about almost daily school shootings, there's nothing they could do about this sort of Freedom of Speech, even worse: Not accepting election results and inciting an attack on Congress still gets you re-elected.
It's sad DHH doesn't see that a few years in Malibu have turned him into a Free Speech Absolutist.

Freedom of Speech must end where it hurts others or even touches the limits of their freedom.
Why would I use anything other than sqlite?
> And yet they made the EU.

Yes, but the EU-level synchronization of the individual school systems is minimal, mostly limited to establishing degree equivalences and mutual recognition. The differences between the EU and USA don't make this example - of perfectly functioning education systems in small countries - any less relevant.
Don't just reach for lines like these if you don't have an evidence-based reason to back it up. The moment you do that, your coworkers will realize that you are just trying to shut them down and don't care about having an intellectually honest discussion. And besides, what good are experience and credentials if they don't give you the knowledge to substantiate your ideas?

If there's any other good reason for that (typical corporate externalities like "hey, I'm really sorry but management says we have to <do really stupid thing>, this is not up for debate"), that's one thing, but if it reflects entirely on you then that's a really bad look IMO.
I think the idea that things have swung far to the side of the IP holder is a valid argument. But I don't think it's so much that the IP laws were designed for a different world as it is that large and powerful IP holders (Disney is the canonical example, but far from the only one) hijacked the copyright process for their own ends, blind to the way the world works today. The core concern, to my mind, is that creators be compensated fairly for their labor, however we end up defining that. Burning down the current system is likely the only way to find our way out of the mess we're in.
That sounds complicated and too much work. I’d prefer <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rctzi66kCX4>
Honestly NYC has a lot of its best restaurants by train stations, throughout every borough.
Isn’t that usually how the rich stay rich? Does this really seem too surprising?

In my experience, and I’m generalizing a lot, the less people have the more generous they tend to be.
The Fentanyl numbers are nothing in comparison to Mexico, but that doesn't mean it's not a problem.

Also it's not only about drugs, but also humans smuggling (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/fentanyl-dr-smuggler-1.737348...), and overall border security.

- According to CIS, the number of Canadian crime groups producing synthetic drugs doubled between 2023 and 2024
- There's a lack of Canadian agents who are tasked at preventing this and current legislations make it very inefficient between federal and provincial law agents
- There's an upward trend in Fentanyl seizures in Canada the last 2 years
- Fentanyl is now being produced domestically in Canada

All of that is within the control of Canada with better policies.
Gated communities around me have 2 lanes, one with a sensor activated gate for residents and a guest lane next to the guard hut

If it's busy and you pull up in a nice enough car and just wait in front of the sensor gate looking annoyed, the guard will eventually just let you in
Are they going to abandon H-1B and focus on hiring Americans for this project?
If our government is so strapped for cash that it has to cancel food shipments for starving children[0], then surely we are in a deep enough fiscal crisis to stop spending money on space exploration?

[0] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/usaid-trump-funding-pause-500-m...
Temporary. During their operating and depreciating long tail phase the over supply will drive down costs for users. Like fiber cables.
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Döner in Berlin is like ramen in Tokyo: the competition is so furious that objectively bad places go out of business quickly.
Seeing lots of "he knows nothing about farming", sure he might not know as much about farming as the farmers who live it day to day. But he has money and access to bring farmers along for the journey and build something better.

A lot of true disruption comes from people you'd never expect to have had an impact, because they aren't myopic to the pre-conceived challenges of that industry.
> Reminds me of the Alphasmart, it was such a great device: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaSmart

Agreed. I own one of the early AlphaSmart devices (I own and collect some old-school software and devices) and I plan on keeping it for a long time.
This was a totally failed attempt at a joke.
To my knowledge these are the options:

1. RAG: A simple model looks at the question, pulls up some associated data into the context and hopes that it helps.

2. Self-RAG: The model "intentionally"/agentically triggers a lookup for some topic. This can be via a traditional RAG or just string search, ie. grep.

3. Full Context: Just jam everything in the context window. The model uses its attention mechanism to pick out the parts it needs. Best but most expensive of the three, especially with repeated queries.

Aider uses kind of a hybrid of 2 and 3: you specify files that go in the context, but Aider also uses Tree-Sitter to get a map of the entire codebase, ie. function headers, class definitions etc., that is provided in full. On that basis, the model can then request additional files to be added to the context.
That saying in France is usually understood to be for cities outside of Paris and only referring to "Gares" (that word is used for train stations, not for subway stations). Anecdotally, I'd say it holds true in general in most cities I've visited (with Paris being an exception)