skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not stuck in my craw. It permeates damn near every discussion no matter how remote the connection. It detracts from actual discussion of the actual topic in the process.

I actually almost totally agree with the perspective the “joke” comes from! I just don’t see it as a topic that warrants so frequently disrupting otherwise interesting discussion.
i have been arguing this ever since ICQ became popular. back then i got a lot of angry reactions. i already explained it here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38029579

that generic server backend that i am describing in my linked comment is something i am using here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42159045
U.S. Suspends Costly Deportation Flights Using Military Aircraft
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Bitcoin price, 2012: $13.50

Largest number factored with Shor's algorithm, 2012: 21

Bitcoin price, 2025: $90,000

Largest number factored with Shor's algorithm, 2025: 21
Man, you know you're the baddies when you have to have "secret courts."
What's not clear to me is: why the confirmation that the NYMag writer's bank has a 2nd floor teller window is enough to mollify Patrick's intense skepticism that her $50k transaction happened like she asserts. If she was already going to torch her own reputation and journalism career to fabricate this scam story, why wouldn't she have the intrepidness to research what various Brooklyn banks look like? Or actually, why would a purported fabricator even bother to give that specific detail at all, which would make it easier for anyone (as Patrick attempted) to narrow down where the fakery did/didn't happen?

I mean the NYMag story was incredibly dumb and far-fetched, even compared to most scam stories. But the fact that she didn't write it pseudonymously, and gave the specific date that it happened, and also claimed to have called the police, that felt enough for me to give her the benefit of the doubt her story was more or less rooted in reality.
power over fiber is also a thing (it has very narrow use cases)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-over-fiber
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/trump-deporta...
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It can no longer be assumed that laid-off developers will "land quickly" anywhere.

That's just not the job market we're in.
Some folks are arguing even further, "Japan, South Korea, and Poland need nuclear weapons immediately":

> The modern world is a place where nuclear-armed great powers, led by authoritarian leaders, often feel the impulse to bully smaller nations. If those smaller nations lack nuclear weapons, they lie prostrate and vulnerable at the feet of the bullies. But if they have nukes, they are much harder to push around. This doesn’t mean they’re impervious to attack — Israel has been struck by Iran and its proxies — but having nukes dramatically improves a small country’s security.

* https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/japan-south-korea-and-poland-n...
Renault Is Giving Away Its Proprietary Tech to Stop EV Fires Quickly
It depends on where you put that module.

In NT you can have modules that sit between various operations on the file system. It’s how AV works without having to hook into every single application that reads and writes from storage.

There’s no technical reason why this kind of approach couldn’t be applied by Apple for encryption. But it would require relinquishing some control over their platform, so it would never happen.
I worked in government. I know exactly what it looks like and how 33% of workers could be cut with no effect besides the rest being scared of losing their cushy jobs.
I've heard of this happening, but it was 20+ years ago and so I'm not sure how to look this up.
Probably the closest to tailscale, optionally selfhosted, and using wireguard meshing would be https://netbird.io/
Hopefully, Brother has not in fact succumbed to the dark side. This was a significant story because Brother is known for generally not already doing this shit.

Either way, this is yet another reminder to do everything within reason to block your printer from updating it's firmware automatically. If it's working, there's no reason to let it update itself.
Not as long as there is an adversary I.e. the new US-Russia alliance.
It should be easy enough for Ars to buy one of the exact models being complained about and test it. I know reporters try not to be part of the story, but a reliable first hand account would be useful here.
I've seen this. Takes management vigilantly guarding the commons from excessive drive bys and divebombs.

It takes a lot less energy to throw shit than it does to clean shit. There's infinite signals. Big egos take a lot of energy to repel and redirect to maintain it. I think it's absolutely worth it when it's possible, but yeah.

You wouldn't think so until you've done it, but it's really hard to get 6+ adults together where everyone's primary goal in that team is to make a thing. Seems like there's always one or more people who want to peck others, build fiefdoms, hold court.
I like this a lot, interesting to track whether it goes up and down.

But the absolute ratio is probably completely meaningless, because the crypto total market cap is nearly meaningless. I could mint a billion coins and I could probably get you to buy one for a dollar for fun. So the market cap is one billion dollars. What does that actually mean? Not much really. It has no relation to something actually worth a billion dollars.
I'm all for the DSA as well, but this argument doesn't hold water. Any sufficiently large cloud provider alternative (ie. Google, Microsoft, etc) would likely be the target of similar government instructions. In fact, I bet they already are - they just can't talk about it.

And of course, it's already possible to disable iCloud backups and use a smaller provider or host your own alternatives. I already do, through Nextcloud, etc. It's not as fully integrated of course, but you bet that if it was, then the largest alternatives would be targeted all the same.
> Three deportation flights to India cost $3 million each. Some flights carried a dozen people to Guantanamo at a cost of at least $20,000 for a migrant, the Journal’s analysis showed.

> A standard U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement flight costs $8,500 per flight hour, according to a government webpage. Former ICE officials told the Journal the figure is closer to $17,000 per flight hour for international trips.

> It costs $28,500 per hour to fly a C-17, which is designed to carry heavy cargo and troops, according to U.S. Transportation Command, which provided the aircraft.
I would substitute barely with efficiently.
Being able to charge nightly (when needed) at home has been a game changer for us. No more waiting in line at Costco or "we need to fill up the car before X". Car is always fully charged.

Plus for us at least, because we have a very low KwH _night_ rate, our EV is 10x cheaper to run than our ICE. It's a significant difference.

And that's not counting the environmental concerns.

Multi-day trips are another story. But we take very few of those.
I'm not talking about growing plants directly for the production of biofuels, that is a silly proposition when there are mountains of unused organic waste being produced annually by nature and by agriculture. Utilizing the organic "waste streams" that already exist to produce fuel is quite sufficient for our storage needs. Agricultural waste, poop, dead trees and branches, dry grass or other "wildfire fuels" to produce methane, hydrogen and oil through gasification , fermentation and anaerobic digestion is simply low hanging fruit that is available to us right now. I've worked in this field, doing gasification, so I'm quite aware of what is possible.

Would you rather we burn grass and dead standing wood in natural environments to curtail wildfires, or would you rather it was used to make clean energy that is carbon negative? Yes carbon negative. You put carbon back into the ground through the use of biochar, where it is stable for thousands of years, and actually improves the soil.

Anaerobic digestion of all of your household waste (including feces) is also possible for production of all of your stove and heating gas.

Internal combustion engines aren't at their end of technology cycle. You should probably look into supercritical CO2 closed loop turbines if you think that we aren't still innovating. Regardless, by using an internal combustion engines, or an external combustion engine (Stirling engine, or modern steam engine) instead of a furnace, one can produce heat and power all in one unit from within your house or district (depending on how you want to scale things).

I love solar, I really do, as well as batteries. But you need to use everything at your disposal if you want to get away from petroleum.
Given that the Trump administration aligns itself with Russia and North Korea, the EU will need it. The US convinced Ukraine to scrap their nukes as they promised they would come to Ukraine's aid if needed. Trump is basically exploiting the situation to gain access to their natural resources. He's also telling them to let Russia keep the territory they stole when they Invaded Ukraine. Yes imagine that, Russia starting a war. Our country is so gaslit, our own citizens don't know right from wrong; fact from fiction. Protect your networks ppl. It's only going to get worse.
Desperate for work, translators train the AI that's putting them out of work
I think the traditional reason for this is that other chips like to use complex scheduling logic to have more logical cores than physical cores. This costs single threaded speed but allows you to run more threads faster.
I was able to renew my passport fully online last year. We were finally getting somewhere with building good government tech. Really sucks that in order to prove their point that government is always useless they’ve decided to just destroy it. Hopefully picking up the pieces will be possible.
Read "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality"
The dangers of "model collapse" are wildly overstated. Sure, if you feed the unfiltered output of an LLM into a new LLM, inbreeding will eventually collapse the model, but if you filter the data with some grounding in reality, the results will get better and better. The best example is probably AlphaGo Zero, which was grounded with the rules of the game and did not even receive any supervised data. For programming, grounding can happen by simply executing the code. But even if you do not have grounding, you can still just throw a lot of test time compute at the output to filter out garbage, which is probably good enough.
> There isn’t a “maybe” human extinction within known parameters. There isn’t even an end to industrial civilisation without nukes

What the hell? Let's completely put climate change and mass extinction (which are huge problems on their own) aside for a moment.

Do you know what threatens the collapse of the industrial civilisation? The end of fossil fuels. That's a very real problem right here right now. Without the climate change and mass extinction problems, that would still be a reason for our industrial civilisation to collapse soon.

Luckily, the solution to all of those 3 problems is the same: cut down emissions, do less with less. A good introduction to the problem, I find, is here: https://www.amazon.com/World-Without-End-Illustrated-Climate...
> Apple today announced M3 Ultra, the highest-performing chip it has ever created

Well, duh, it would be a shame if you made a step backwards, wouldn't it? I hate that stupid phrase...
OP here. I am sympathetic, really I am, but the challenge then is a diversity of solutions tends to lack really good high quality security systems integration, meaning that data leaks differently. It's hard to have a high integrity solution which is an open standard and implemented equally well by all players.
> And I sort of said I had some more questions before we moved on to the Super Day.

> And they basically just said: we don't think it's going to work out.

Ouch, so their tight-knit, no-shortcuts hiring process is only thorough for them, not for the engineer applying.
I've been using Tailscale for awhile now and even developed a few internal apps using tsnet as well but I had no idea about golink and it's awesome. Thanks for sharing that!
I’m missing the point. What is it you’re concluding from these dates?
skynet will use psychological manipulation on a global scale and bribing were it sees fit. it will make your stocks rise if you comply and feign your criminal records to turn you into a pedophile if you don't. who is to say we aren't already its tools.
Are you running RAID?
The order (PDF): https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a831_3135.pdf

Crazy to believe this was 5-4 when it's a straight and plain constitutional duty (and history always rejected attempts for the president to change such budgets).

Reading the dissenting opinion:

>Does a single district-court judge who likely lacks juris-
diction have the unchecked power to compel the Govern-
ment of the United States to pay out (and probably lose for-
ever) 2 billion taxpayer dollars? The answer to that
question should be an emphatic “No,” but a majority of this
Court apparently thinks otherwise. I am stunned

I know it's naive to think judges try to be non-partisan, but still. This was a pretty damning opening

>As a result, the Government must apparently
pay the $2 billion posthaste—not because the law requires
it, but simply because a District Judge so ordered.

No, it's definitely because the law requires it. I'm shocked a judge (let alone a supreme court justice) would speak like this on an official document. And the 3 others would sign off on this.

>As the Nation’s highest court, we have a duty to ensure that the
power entrusted to federal judges by the Constitution is not
abused.

But not the president, apparently. This whole first section is barely based on the actual funding. He's just attacking another judge.
It heavily depends on the phone you have. I used LineageOS on an older Moto, but if you have a Google Pixel, you might want to try GrapheneOS. I followed the steps on the wiki, involving running fastboot and adb commands to load the images. As for app stores, I primarily use F-Droid, but also have Aptoide. I don't use any apps that require the Google services frameworks, but if you need that, maybe MicroG will suffice.

https://www.lineageos.org/

https://grapheneos.org/

https://f-droid.org/

https://en.aptoide.com/

https://microg.org/
The same people the led us here are not going to lead us out of it. If you care, do something. You be what you are looking for.
Didn't realize he was also talking about the US secret courts. Sorry.

Uh...[1] yeah. Secret courts are the worst! Those British and their secrets!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellig...
I was able to run and use the DeepSeek distilled 24gb on an M1 Max with 64gb of ram. It wasn't speedy, but it was usable. I imagine the M3/4s are much faster, especially on smaller, more specific models.
How about some explicit LLM Tokens / second benchmarks?
The EU already also has a mutual defense clause extremely similar to NATO though
> nudity and other potentially inappropriate things

What counts as inappropriate? And who decides.
> There is billions of us and our number is going up.

You don't understand the meaning of "collapse", do you?
Here's the report:

https://www.ccomptes.fr/sites/default/files/2025-01/20250114...

What they said about EPR2 is that they were refused the information to even make an estimate of its profitability. Translation (using DocLingo) from page 25:

"In its 2020 report on the EPR sector, the Court recommended
that EDF 'calculate the projected profitability of the Flamanville 3 reactor
and the EPR2 and ensure its monitoring' (recommendation no. 6).
EDF has deliberately and persistently refused to provide the Court
with information on the projected profitability and production costs,
which leads to considering this recommendation as not implemented.
work.

Based on the information at its disposal, the Court's calculation
predicts a poor profitability for Flamanville 3. For its part, the EPR2
program is still characterized by the absence of a finalized estimate
and a financing plan."

Any claims of profitability of EPR/EPR2 should be taken with heavy skepticism, given that the official auditors have been stonewalled.
Hamachi was amazing, one of the best, most focused apps I've ever used. We were kids but it was still easy to use.
Then they were bought by LogMeIn and was killed unceremoniously.

Also, it's old but not 90s old: https://swapped.cc/#!/hamachi released in 2004 actually.
Like I said, you know you're the baddies when you have to use "secret courts."
There are a lot of private herds. But a lot of them have been bred with domesticated cattle and do not have the pure bison DNA in them. They can be used as a last resort. The solution here would be to slowly start separating herds to more locations away from Yellowstone. Over generations, the genetic makeup will separate enough to be considered separate populations.
As of recent, I have had this pet theory that there's a brilliance / stupidity spectrum, but if you go too far in one direction it loops back on itself. Some things are just so stupid that they're brilliant. I really like this!

Also, I should clarify that "brilliance" and "stupidity" in this theory are not raw intelligence, but the application of said intelligence.
The First AI Computer Running on Human Brain Cells Has Been Born
I realize these are just anecdotes but:

I have a Canon color laser and while it's quality is to be desired, it functions just fine with 3rd party toner cartridges.

I also recently bought an Epson Inkjet mostly because it didn't use cartridges - ink comes in a bottle you fill the tanks with. You can get 3rd party ink bottles but the Epson branded ink bottles are very affordable.

Just to contrast the $/mL for ink for the Epson tanks, the Epson costs 25 cents/mL ($16 for 65mL of black ink), while a random HP printer I found costs $9/mL ($18 for 2mL of black ink).
It is convincing reasoning. phind.com already cites Grok. And it suggests that 'useful fool' might be a better description than 'asset'.
If the industry wants everyone to move towards 6-day certificates, downtimes like this will become far more disruptive.
The Mac Pro could exist as a PCIe expansion slot storage case that accepts a logic board from the frequently updated consumer models. Or multiple Mac Studio logic boards all in one case with your expansion cards all working together.
It doesn't even run Linux properly.

Could cost half of that and it would still be uninteresting for my use cases.

For AI, on-demand cloud processing is magnitudes better in speed and software compatibility anyway.
I wonder if having a big mixture of experts isn't all that valuable for the type of tasks in math and coding benchmarks. Like my intuition is that you need all the extra experts because models store fuzzy knowledge in their feed-forward layers, and having a lot of feed-forward weights lets you store a longer tail of knowledge. Math and coding benchmarks do sometimes require highly specialized knowledge, but if we believe the story that the experts specialize to their own domains, it might be that you only really need a few of them if all you're doing is math and coding. So you can get away with a non-mixture model that's basically just your math-and-coding experts glued together (which comes out to about 32B parameters in R1's case).
You don't have to link anything but what kind of discord servers? Also the problem with discord for me is the fact that information only exists momentarily. Reddit search is bad but at least you can Google. Discord servers are basically impenetrable if you can't check it constantly
The good news is that AMD and Intel are both in good positions to develop similar products.
And 3x3 matrices are 9 dimensional, yet usually you can interpret them perfectly fine with a 3d perspective. The dimension of the algebra is usually not very meaningful if you're trying to gain some intuition about it.
I work +1000km away from home, and I work by shifts, tailscale has helped me a lot on running stuff back at home.

I was even able to stream my games through the tunnel with a (decent enough) latency of 27ms with variance of 2ms.

Admittedly, I could buy a gaming laptop, but I don't want to carry a heavy laptop 4 times a month :P
Macron has been advocating for a European Army for around a decade. With the recent EU defence spending announcements the idea of a unified command structure in Europe is becoming likely.

The French offer to extend their nuclear umbrella seems to me to have two purposes:

1. Deal with the immediate vulnerability opened by questions over U.S. Article 5 commitments to NATO

2. Try to get ahead of potential nuclear weapons proliferation among other EU states
https://x.com/Grimhood/status/1727016675738861951

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1727013824115396634.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43253873
OTOH, legal lotteries get a lot more people to gamble. I suspect that people who gamble either way gamble more as well, though this needs a fact check that I don't know how to find.
It's all a fringe theory, until it isn't.
If quantum computing breaks Bitcoin hash then it also breaks any other encryption so I can ssh to your server, login to your bank account, change the code in your github repo.

> El Salvador is not recommending Bitcoin and found low interest in actual use.

El Salvador is not a person.

The president of El Salvador is hardcore Bitcoin believer. El Salvador, the country, is stacking as much Bitcoin as they can, despite pressure from IMF that tries (I wonder why?) to stop them.

> Madoff also had a fund that could return very well

Except he didn't. He was lying about returns of his investments and it crashed and burned when the truth came out.

Blockchain is fully transparent. Every Bitcoin transaction ever made is recorded in immutable database and you get to read the full ledger, from the day it was created.

There is no way to lie about Bitcoin transaction. The current price is decided by an auction with millions of participants.
Wouldn't 'illusion' be the more precise term here ? When one thinks he recognizes something, whereas 'hallucination' is more of unreal appearing out of the blue ?