skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay I think I qualify. I'll bite.

LeCun's argument is this:

1) You can't learn an accurate world model just from text.

2) Multimodal learning (vision, language, etc) and interaction with the environment is crucial for true learning.

He and people like Hinton and Bengio have been saying for a while that there are tasks that mice can understand that an AI can't. And that even have mouse-level intelligence will be a breakthrough, but we cannot achieve that through language learning alone.

A simple example from "How Large Are Lions? Inducing Distributions over Quantitative Attributes" (https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.01327) is this: Learning the size of objects using pure text analysis requires significant
gymnastics, while vision demonstrates physical size more easily. To determine the size of a lion you'll need to read thousands of sentences about lions, or you could look at two or three pictures.

LeCun isn't saying that LLMs aren't useful. He's just concerned with bigger problems, like AGI, which he believes cannot be solved purely through linguistic analysis.

The energy minimization architecture is more about joint multimodal learning.

(Energy minimization is a very old idea. LeCun has been on about it for a while and it's less controversial these days. Back when everyone tried to have a probabilistic interpretation of neural models, it was expensive to compute the normalization term / partition function. Energy minimization basically said: Set up a sensible loss and minimize it.)
Were there real people complaining about that? Or just investors?
Am I misunderstanding you about the 15 minutes interval?

Every workday I take a one-seat King County Metro bus ride that lasts about 1 hr. The bus starts at a layover facility and ends at a different layover facility.

I don’t see how this 15 minute interval maps to my actual commute?
TFA links to what I think is a much more informative article: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/12/judge-epa-climate-g...
No, because the device they are accessing needs to be specifically built for this use case. So you would need to give the user a malicious device then use a malicious webpage. The attack scenario isn't impossible, but is far less then those that are possible with WebUSB.
Lots of college students will regret their CS degrees. And it's a shame because it's not an easy degree to get like, say, communications. Imagine all that hard work just to work at McDonalds.
Jokes on them: I tried and failed to connect it to wifi and gave up.
It's the idea of predestination.
Both sides of the political divide attempt to funnel taxpayers money into their own interests, which are often thinly veiled ways to get taxpayer money into their own pockets. This is nothing new.

Whenever there is a change of admin, the new admin attempts to claw back or redirect money the old admin directed to their own pockets. This is also nothing new.

What's new this year is people are talking about it.
That’s cool. Didn’t know that was an option - But then what happens after that? Once it knows what you want to do a request is usually sent somewhere to fulfil it right?
As my very first comment pointed out, no this isn't new. And it's bad every time. It's always been bad, it continues to be bad. This is just one of the more naked and egregious cases. But no, not new.
The encryption debate is at a dead end (2019)
I’m getting more and more tempted to start a startup to sell a small box for a purely local LLM for HomeKit and google assistant control (and home assistant of course). I wonder if the market is strong enough for this. Sure, it won’t be GPT 4 level but it’ll definitely be better than Siri. Maybe YC 2026.
> The minimum to cause change is judges expending more effort on imprisoning law enforcement agents for perjury.

Is that a thing judges can do? They can imprison you for contempt of court; wouldn't perjury need a prosecutor?
My take is, either everyone should be allowed to scam, or nobody. It sounds very stupid, but I don’t like it when people in power give preference to their own scams.

Obviously I want no scams, but the US has chosen administration that is ok with insider scams. So as an outsider, I’d rather see equality instead.
At a lot of places there wasn't even a redundancy nor backup strategy, so it really was just as simple as registering with a hosting company and ssh+ftp (or cPanel or something like that for what amounted to the managed solutions of the time).

I agree, things before S3 weren't really that different. LAMP stacks everywhere, and developer skills were very portable between different deployments of these LAMP stacks. Single machines didn't scale as much then, but for most small-medium sites they really didn't need to.
I don't think GP said that. Please don't put words in people's mouths.
Tariffs are little better than VAT/sales taxes as taxes imho (I'd rather have more progressive taxes like LVT, inheritance, wealth or at worse income), but in most countries, VAT is set extremely low on essential products like food. Setting global tariffs is idiotic. At least let the food and AG products free.
A president can revert an executive order from the previous administration. But the Inflation Reduction Act is a law, not an executive order. If Trump doesn't like it, he can get Congress to repeal it. But he isn't the king. The constitution requires that the president "take care that the laws be faithfully executed". It isn't fraud when funds that were allocated by the act were distributed according to the act. If someone cheated then by all means they can bring charges if they have any evidence, which they apparently do not.
You've done much more research into this than I have. I read about it in a biography of him (Caesar: life of a colossus by Goldsworthy), but you're probably right.
This is highly regional - any major city with a decent transit system will have excellent bus routes in dense areas. Also, “operators” usually means bus drivers, not transit agencies
Academic institutes on the whole are extremely unusual beasts with a range of abusive relationships fueling their success. That's usually students and lecturers, but staff on fixed length contracts and heads of departments are no better. It's always a power dynamic issue and those who are committing the abuse has never had anyone say, this is bad and not acceptable. Also those in charge at universities seem to rarely be at risk of losing their job, whilst those being abused can lose their opportunity in a moment.
I read that she was scheduled to be released (sent back to Canada) today, but I can't find any more recent news either way.
And yet, they are allowing it.
You can get access to send MMS though. RCS there is no one selling access yet, especially for person to person.
If you leave US mainland customs zone and go to saipan or Guam or something it will probably slow you down and they might claim you need it, even though you don't. Also Mexico never changed their law like US did, iirc you can still enter Mexico with a birth certificate.
Trump signed the trade deal with Canada in his first term. Now he's calling it unfair.

Trump stated that the Canadian tariffs were a reaction to fentanyl crossing the Canadian border into the US.

That has nothing to do with trade fairness or Canadian protectionism.
Why bother to mandate telescreens in each home, when the people will do it themselves and willingly pay for the privilege of being monitored.
...as mediated by individual buyers and sellers deciding whether they'll pay a price based on the quality of the goods. Not based on some kind of dick waving contest that's happening in the corridors of power.

By now it's clear that "fair" in this administration is defined by whoever is the biggest bully in the room, so

> unfairly advantage your goods and services against American products

is just a fancy way to say: "let us push you around."
Is there actually an equitable plan for that? Because everyone I turn around a raid is on then off then on then off.
I smell a sales pitch in there somewhere...
I live in EU so I don't keep eggs in the refrigerator, and let me tell you that
I have problems peeling my eggs half the time. It's not about where or how you store them.
Fortunately, it's a single no-frills MCU running the Zephyr RTOS. It does communicate with another system, but they are so very loosely coupled to the point that we really don't care whatever is running on the other side.

I won't get into details, but in some of the horrors stories I've heard the distributed system happened to be entirely software in nature. There are plenty of creative ways to mess up an upgrade on a uniprocessor system.
Is there an iOS alternative?
This is exactly what Google did, probably for this exact reason: When you want to use Gemini instead of Google Assistant, you need to actively go and "change" the assistant that's on your phone. You can switch back whenever, but you choose if you want the old reliable behaviour or the fancy new AI.
China doesn't spread "Chinese values" any more than America spreads "American values." America is an imperialist capitalist hegemon that exploits and oppresses other nations through debt, subterfuge or violence, and as China (which is very capitalistic, despite it's "communist" veneer) expands into the power vacuum created by America vacating its superpower status, it will inevitably do the same, probably in competition with a newly revived and militarized EU.

So in the end, it doesn't matter whether America fucks you or China fucks you, or Europe fucks you, either way you're fucked.
Cwtch requires setting up onion services, and the app currently does that automatically via establishing a control connection with a Tor process (either launched by Cwtch, or provided by the system).

Orbot can be configured to expose the same control port (or at least it could on Android when I last looked a few years back, I'm not sure about this capability on iOS), and Cwtch can be configured to use a custom control port connection - but that imposes much more work on the user, and is somewhat fragile.

That could likely be made to work on iOS in some factor, but the problem of the stability of the services themselves would remain. Its definitely something we'd like to explore.
Can definitely attest to this. Librewolf is my daily and I run it pretty aggressively (uBO options/lists, strict blocking DNS, etc) and sometimes I'm left scratching my head where things break. Recently had an aha-moment that felt triumphant when disabling the limit cross-origin referers, as silly as it sounds. Alas, I guess I prefer it this way.
No, USB is vulnerable to malicious devices.
Unfortunately, RCS on Android requires google apps, so this isn't really a solution to anyone who doesn't want to be tracked by Google everywhere they go.

I'm still a little confused as to what problem RCS is supposed to solve. It is just as centralized as any other chat app, and is a bit more invasive (often requiring device attestation). Is it really worth all this hassle just to not have to install, let's say, Signal?
There is too much momentum involved in this stuff for people who have no clue what they're doing to take the wheel. All it takes is a year of allowing emitting garbage on the market and we could cripple radio astronomy for a generation. Even if the problem is corrected as quickly as it can be on a governmental timescale, all these junk devices will be in circulation for decades.
Why would you even try to fit three meals into 8 hours? That kind of defeats the point.

You would probably fit a snack and meal into that period. It could be a really big meal, and it would still probably be significantly less calories than breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Still can't use it on my iPhone though...
Interesting CustomGPT
Don't care. They can entice us as much as they want. We will not comply. Some people love rolling coal for that reason.

(My semi-daily driver is over 50 years old.)
URL in the profile goes to a newsletter https://www.akni.org/ "Energize Your Life"
If we can't even trust Firefox anymore, how can we trust these other browsers?
Incredibly relevant tweet [1] about implementing the ideas in this paper [2] on "periodic cooking of eggs."

[1] https://x.com/oldestasian/status/1897450264451293664.

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s44172-024-00334-w
It’s too slow at that scale, pg_squeeze works wonders though.

I only “need” that because one of my table requires batch deletion, and I want to reclaim the space. I need to refactor that part.
Otherwise nothing like that would be required.
Availability is trickier than scalability. An async replica can lose a few recent writes during a failover, and a synchronous replica is safer but slower. A company using some platform might not even know which one they're using until it bites them.
The US is the world's largest domestic economy. Trade with all nations around the world is 24% of the USA's GDP. You could shut it all down and the country would probably enter a mild recession while the rest of the world would face complete economic collapse. For example, 67% of Canada's GDP is reliant on the United States in some way.

The US has an insane amount of leverage. Leaders in Canada, Europe, etc talk a big game but then ultimately talk to an economist and realize they have to come to the table. That's why these leaders keep announcing things and then walking them back.
I wonder if trolley busses will make a great comeback now. Seems so obvious to just put the overhead lines near a few central bus hubs, so buses can recharge during the shift.
This is from a 2 second Google search. I'm sure you can go to scholar.google.com and find your own - it's not my job to do your research.

https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2000/12/verheye.h...
You'd have to compress every single message separately and then encrypt them. That's still a far cry from being able to compress across every message.
https://github.com/tj-actions/changed-files/issues/2463
Well maybe not arrested. CBP has jailed me before but it wasn't an arrest since it is administrative. You can't even contact a lawyer like an arrested person can.
In my opinion Kenji Lopez-Alt wrote the definitive set of instructions for this: https://www.seriouseats.com/the-secrets-to-peeling-hard-boil...

I won’t summarize it here, but it’s worth a read if you like to feel very in control of your egg cooking outcomes.
How are you separating the efficiency of the architecture from the efficiency of the substrate? Unless you have a brain made of transistors or an LLM made of neurons how can you identify the source of the inefficiency?
The complexity comes from needlessly combining two separate things into one: a simple repeating background pattern and a typeface. It's a "serving suggestion" when really all that's needed is the corn flakes.
We use a cassowary based constraint solver within Ratatui [1]. It's kind of neat once you understand the algorithm and add your own UI rules system on top of it. Unfortunately the library[2] that we use for the actual solving is unmaintained for many years now. I've been meaning to rewrite[3] a bunch of things in the lib to be more ergonomic, but it hasn't bubbled to the top of my todo list yet.

[1]: https://github.com/ratatui/ratatui/blob/main/ratatui-core/sr...

[2]: https://crates.io/crates/cassowary/

[3]: https://crates.io/crates/kasuari
What are these silly points good for anyway?
I feel a strong urge to „use“ these points up that HN has granted me. I simply dont feel like collecting them. Its a bit like a social credit score and i dont like the idea. Do you love your points and want more?
Tor is important for metadata resistance.
Trump suggests media outlets be deemed illegal
That is fascinating. Thank you!

Is it necessary to be able to exhaustively enumerate states? I remember a project I worked on some years ago which had me sketching out a statechart for a system which was not structured as an explicit FSM. The end result was surprisingly complex. I imagine some systems might even have an unbounded number of “states.”

I’ll definitely read more about Alloy too.
Probably black :)
I'm just waiting for someone to compile Chromium to WASM, giving us WebWeb.
"Postgres does not scale" means that you can't just give it more machines, which is true. At some point you've got the fastest available machine, maybe you've played with the settings, and that's it. Then you can embark on the kind of manual sharding journey the article describes.

But most of the time, an RDBMS is the right tool for the job anyway, you just have to deal with it.
> If tariffs work at all (which is doubtful)

Of course they work. China has used them to go from people living in huts to the high tech manufacturing center of the world.
So you are pro-salvery then?
I just boil some water and use the steamer basket to cook them for 12 minutes then put them directly into cold icy water. Perfectly hard-boiled and easy to peel.
You have to look past the stated intention. It's quite clear by logical deduction that it cannot be the stated purpose.

If the policy is intended to bring back US manufacturing, it would not be haphazardly implemented where the rates/industries/countries affected change by the hour. The best example are auto tariffs and steel/aluminum tariffs, which are going to absolutely destroy US auto manufacturing (where do we think the steel and aluminum used in cars are coming from?). An actual "reshoring" policy would be (1) targeted and (2) scheduled well in advance. So it obviously isn't that.

It also can't be part of a drug policy, since whatever Trump is saying about Canada is clearly false (Canada accounts for less than 1% of illicit fentanyl trade and is a net _importer_ of illegal drugs and guns _from_ the US), thus no policy can really impact this trade.

It also clearly can't be part of an energy policy, since US refineries are designed to accept a huge amount of Canadian and South American heavy crude (very little of which is produced in the US), so the oil tariffs can't possibly "onshore" more production of heavy crude.

The long-held theory by some that he's wrecking the economy for insider trading also doesn't make sense, because his favoured allies like Musk are losing tons of money right now, and an "insider trading" strategy would be much more regularly spaced rather than changing by-the-hour.

That leaves, by deduction, only a few possibilities:

* Trump really is intentionally wrecking the economy, for known or unknown reasons:

* He's wrecking the economy by instruction from a foreign agent (e.g. Putin - certainly indirect evidence exists)

* He's wrecking the economy because his donors told him to (e.g. Musk, other billionaires - unlikely because why would they want that? They would rather have the stock market go straight up, right?)

* He's wrecking the economy so that his "friends" can trade on the market with insider information (see above - seems unlikely based on the pattern)

* He's wrecking the economy so that his "friends" can buy things cheaply (would have been plausible but for the widespread collateral damage he's causing)

* Trump actually genuinely believes in tariffs (he's a product of the 80s after all)

* Trump actually genuinely hates Mexico, Canada, Europe, and China (seems plausible based on his personality and that of his political base)

* Trump really has no idea what he's doing (judge for yourself)
How about using absolute numbers instead of confusing percentages?
> You are conveniently omitting the provisions about fair use, which is strange since you're clearly aware of them

Fair use didn't come up but I did mention it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43356289. And there's no need for that tone. I'm not a copyright defender.

> That's irrelevant to the current discussion, though I'm fairly certain you realize that.

I said it because it was relevant.

> where is the precedent showing that personal use archival copies of physical goods are not permitted

> Congress declined to weigh in on the matter

There was no "matter" to "weigh in on". The answer to "Can you make a full, complete copy of a copyrighted work without authorization?" has been "Almost always no" from the beginning of copyright. Even the term "fair use" arose in a US legal precedent over a century after the first copyright laws in England. It became an actual part of US copyright law in the 1970s, less than 50 years ago.

"Fair use" is plausible for a library or archive to make full copies, and keep them safe and archived, since that's their job.

Fair use isn't why we have archival rights for electronic media. That right was written into the law after electronic media became a thing.

In my comment above I gave one example why "fair use" wouldn't work for archival copies of physical media made by individuals. An actual lawyer who's paid by the copyright mafia to care about this stuff can surely find more and stronger reasons.

FWIW someone in another comment pointed out Australian copyright law allows making a copy of books, newspapers, and periodicals for personal, domestic use. Which means: a) it can be done and b) even they had to spell it out specifically

> which (as you clearly know) leaves it up to the courts to interpret the existing law.

I don't agree but believe what you like.
Amazing: Mr Free Speech Zuckerberg wants to ban just one book, the one about him
What happened to the techno optimistic abundance of everything that the VCs and tech founders were shilling?

"...the lifting of billions of people out of poverty to share in the new technologies, a renaissance of liberal democracy and human rights."

So we lift billions out of poverty by replacing everyone's jobs? Abundance of unemployment?

Also what happened to the narrative of "There will be new jobs made with AI", I am struggling to understand how can there be new jobs in AI when AI can literally replace it faster than the job was created.

Are there any employers in the market for hiring Prompt Engineers for $250K+?

Anyone?
>They are primarily cultural, education is their main focus

That's...a new one. Are you sure you're talking about the same Hamas, aka the Islamic Resistance Movement? The one that, as of their 2017 charter, declares that "Hamas is a[...]national liberation and resistance movement"?

I'm not here to debate whether or not they're a terrorist organization, I just think it's pretty disingenuous to say that "education is their main focus".
You might be thinking of Donella Meadows.
> Any engineer that built most of the stuff is not a 10x engineer. It's someone that really knows their way around their own house.

How can you meaningfully separate these?
When it "scales", it usually means "scales up". A scalable solution is such that can withstand a large and increasing load, past the usual limitations of obvious solutions.

Being elastic is nice, but not always needed. In most cases of database usage, downsizing never happens, or expected to happen: logically, data are only added, and any packaging and archiving only exists to keep the size manageable.
> does unspeakable things to your USB device

Taken out of context (and meaning), this sounds kinda naughty! :D
What a spineless politician. All talk and no trousers.For once he had to put his foot down and caved instead. And on top NYT gives him a platform to explain.
You are free to enable WebGl in the settings and install a Plugin that allows for blocking/allowing WebGl.

The default should be privacy if you install a browser that focuses on privacy.
You might want to read the quote again.

> “Does nobody make apps for fun anymore?"

The author isn’t making a fun app, they’re making an app for fun. Your crazy incident doesn’t really have much bearing on how much fun the author has writing an app.
“Ties to Stacey Abrams”, by the way, is that she is an advisor to one of the five organizations that founded Power Forward Communities…

I.e. that a community organizer was involved in a community organization…