skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can add as many user-defined, custom trust anchors as you want, they’re not going to make an expired server TLS certificate work.

Don’t get me wrong, allowing users to add their own trust anchors is absolutely a good thing. But it wouldn’t change anything if the vendor did what GP suggested, which is that the vendor "[does] not touch the backend service." Because one day, their TLS certificate would expire, and they would technically no longer be able to deliver security updates even if the user wanted them.
Do gold miners need to hold gold? Do gold holders need to mine gold?

There are all types of miners, those with a single ASIC miner to those that have a warehouse full. Its completely untrue that the only people who own ASICs are farms. Anyone can buy and run a single ASIC miner competitively if they have a source of cheap (i.e. unwanted) energy.

As I mentioned earlier, mining is inherently decentralised geographically, because as the demand for the cheap energy in any one location increases, so does its price. Miners are therefore effectively geographically repelled from one another.

Pools mean that groups of individual miners with just a small number of ASICs each, are creating hash-rates that compete with large companies who own vast swathes of ASICs.
You can use the Stylus extension to get HN to look any way you want. There are some good community made styles for HN as well.
fair point, when someone's using google push notification service and gboard, that's both ends of the pipe, for the most part
1bi fine? i wish. they just sign up for those carbon buyback scams and won't cost more than 20mi, including the bribes.
Black holes aren't really infinitely dense. The matter isn't concentrated at the centre, its spread out over the event horizon. As i understand the theory, they effectively suggest you could glue another universe onto the event horizon of a black hole. From the outside that is indistinguishable from 'just a black hole'.
"I love deadlines. I love the WHOOSHING sound they make as they go be." -- DA
At those sizes, just get a real CPU and GPU separate. Was my point.
Your secrets will be published to the CI log if you were affected.

I believe it's everything since around 10pm ET last night. I would consider any runs in the past 24 hours to be suspect.
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They are kind of attacking a straw man though. I don't think any of the current AI companies are saying scaling current software will produce AGI. That's why they are all employing a lot of expensive computer scientists to try to make better software.

>most say current AI models are unlikely to lead to artificial general intelligence with human-level capabilities, even as companies invest billions of dollars in this goal

The billions of dollars are at least partly going to develop better models and techniques.
Great points! Harden-Runner (https://github.com/step-security/harden-runner) is similar to Firejail and OpenSnitch but purpose-built for CI/CD context. Harden-Runner detected this compromise due to an anomalous outbound network request to gist.githubusercontent.com.

Interestingly, Firejail itself uses Harden-Runner in its GitHub Actions workflows! https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Anetblue30%2Ffirejail%20ha...
(Complete hypothesizing from a very cursory understanding.)

Perhaps that's dark energy or vacuum energy? If mass and time truly switches places when crossing into a black hole, it would make sense that the spacetime size of this universe translates into observable mass outside it. Which might tie it to the expansion of the universe.
I'm waiting for the executive order declaring π to be equal to 3.
For peanuts specifically, early childhood exposure is pretty well validated to reduce allergy incidence at this point [0]. It's by far the most well validated case of the allergen exposure hypothesis. Interestingly, for the high-risk subset of children, early exposure is likely to increases incidence. Children with conditions like eczema, where the skin barrier is broken and allowing peanut proteins to get through the skin rather than purely orally, is thought to be an allergy development risk factor.

[0] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C38&q=ear...
he said household, that could easily be two incomes, both way below six figures
If I’m not mistaken there are three on commercial aircraft.. Seems like the bare minimum for a lunar lander .. I can’t imagine they’re THAT heavy
I upvoted you before I read the last sentence, and then removed my upvote again.

The US is a terrible ally, for all the reasons you cite, but unless they somehow become a democracy, China would be worse in every way.
An entire universe crammed inside the event horizon seems pretty dense to me! Makes you wonder how much matter would be in the parent universe.
So if they are using a pretrained model and the second llm scores all responses below the ok threshold what happens?
Your users are tolerant of 5-10 minute page request times? Is that a typo?
"All who dare

To cross her course

Are swallowed by

A fearsome force

Through the void

To be destroyed

Or is there something more?

Atomized — at the core

Or through the Astral Door —

To soar…"

https://www.rush.com/songs/cygnus-x-1-book-one-the-voyage/
the richest man in the world decided to do nazi signs. What do you need to be convinced?
in the publishing industry we call that "cooking a press release". the "news" article was entirely written and mailed by the PR of the subject (mayo clinic here) and the "journalist" just copy and paste. at most they will reword a couple paragraphs not for fear of looking bad, but just to make it fit in their number of words required for the column they are publishing under.

so, yes, an advertisement.
Didn’t work for me until I saw pictures of myself where I didn’t recognise myself.

I saw a picture from behind and didn’t think I saw that person at my friends wedding, but then realised it was actually me, and I was not the shape I thought I was.
EV Owners Don't Like Musk
> You just add script and pray it works.

All the cron issues I've had boiled down to a difference in env vars. So testing the cronjob means reproducing the environment like this SO answer explains.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2135478/how-to-simulate-...
How does this work with matter falling into 'our' black hole and hawkins-radiation leaving our black hole?
Heck, Hawkins radiation means black holes can evaporate. Does that correspond to a universa collapsing?

Would matter falling into our black hole come shooting out of the white-hole we see?

Would time on either side of the event horizon even be related?
You understand that GM sold the patent to Chevron and they forced Toyota to quit making the vehicle right?
I haven't re-read. Perhaps I was lucky then to have read it when it was not yet a "cultural" touchstone. "42" was not yet a meme, for example.
Napkin Math Tool
This affects other Bluetooth-using apps too, like the Fitbit app needs to be periodically restarted in order to get data synced from a tracker.
Global state is a tool that will almost always lead to bad architecture in an app where architecture matters. I'm sure you can point to a counterexample or two where a set of devs managed to keep disciplined indefinitely, but that doesn't change the fact that allowing people to reach into a mutable variable from anywhere in the system enables trivially accessible spooky action at a distance, and spooky action at a distance is a recipe for disaster in a medium to large code base.

In a project with more than a few people on it, your architecture will decay if it can decay. Avoiding global state removes one major source of potential decay.
Any Curl Command can be an MCP Server
MCP Servers make it easy for LLMs to call tools. Since tools are mostly API calls, why not turn every API into an MCP Server tool?

This was my thesis behind building this feature into lmsystems.

The goal is simple:

- Add as many curl commands onto the site as possible and call them 'Tools'

- Combine them together into 'Servers' under 1 sse url

- Give every user the ability to do the same

I'm happy to say that we're nearly there !

I'm an indie hacker working on this completely alone so I would love feedback on how I can get the community more engaged and any features to add!

Also I'm interested in your thoughts on why this isn't going to work. What's going to kill this idea?
HTTP cookies, or how not to design protocols (2010)
Black holes need not be dense. The black hole at the centre of galaxy M87 has the density of air in our atmosphere. The larger the black hole, the less dense it is. So that alone doesn't preclude us existing inside of one.
They leverage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURE_algorithm alongside many subsequent LLMs to do ranking and scoring.
I figure our whole universe so far has existed in the first nanosecond (or whatever) after the creation of the black hole in the parent universe, so very little energy or light has had time to enter.

By one or two seconds in the parent universe’s time scale, our universe will have settled down to its extremely long state of being a cold, dark void of slowly decomposing subatomic particles.

No good reason to think this, just feels right.
Porting a Qt Project (SpeedCrunch) to WebAssembly
Look I've lived in India my whole life and this is how it is there. People take a lot of effort to keep their homes clean but public property? Nope. Not my responsibility not my problem, that's how the thinking goes there.

And besides what is the point of talking about how Europe did it 100 years ago? We know better now and still we are not taking an effort to instill some basic civic sense here.
Nile Auth – Authentication for multi-tenant apps
Tesla registrations – and public opinion – are in a free fall
Bravo. A very nice article comparing and contrasting standard trig methods and geometric algebra methods.

And as a bonus, it compares both with Dr. Wildberger's Rational Trigonometry. (Side note: I've known a few Australian mathematicians who embrace some very non-standard methods in mathematics, and I think it's great. We need people to shake up our thinking bout Math every once in a while.)

A very nice piece for some relaxing weekend recreational math.
I blame the consumers mostly. The N900 had the same graphics chip as the iPhone at the time, but that didn't stop my cousin from turning around to me and saying "uh, why did you buy that ugly phone?"

I actually met David Potter of Symbian fame once (he was the Chair of a research hospital in London), and asked him what happened to Symbian, who were the Nokia predecessor/successor/around at the time.

I can't quite remember his answer but it was something to do with different factions within Symbian unwilling to change for the future when it was clear that their best devs had already left for greener pastures.

So I think that time period, in general, had a lot of shifting moods both at the dev level and within consumer patterns, that led to the ultimate downfall of maemo
Isn’t that more because you re-read it? I read it first as an adult, and it was still funny.
Female competition for males with enhanced foraging skills in Guinea baboons
Is Redis using all cores or you're comparing a multi threaded implementation in Go with a single threaded one in Redis?
This dudes (can't write his name) way of thinking on content disrupts fair use by scaling copyrighted material consumption without clear boundaries - and somebody needs to stop this.

Unlike human-driven transformation, AI replicates patterns, creating derivative works that compete with originals.

OpenAI profits from this without compensating creators, undermining economic incentives for human creativity altogether.

All this instead of relying on fair use, it should pursue licensing to uphold intellectual property rights - and if that doesn't work it then means the business plan is bad.

It's just like saying - "If I need to pay for the food, I won't be able to make my plates."

Bad plan - bad business.
> If mass and time truly switches places when crossing into a black hole

What do you mean by that?
Something something Betteridge's law of headlines.
I remember there being a collection of the first 3 called the Complete Hitchhiker's Guide. In typical Adam's fashion, after the 4th book was released a new compendium was released called the More than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide. That titling should have continued, so we'd have gotten the Even More than Complete Hitchiker's Guide and, finally, the Completest Complete Hitchiker's Guide.
> The 'what is good for the web is good for Google' line certainly was true in 2005

...But even then, it did not follow that "what is good for Google is good for the web".

Just because 2005!Google does something that improves its situation doesn't mean that's automatically good for all of us, even if stuff that improves the web for all of us makes 2005!Google's situation better as a side effect.

And 2025!Google is definitely not in that position. At this point, what's good for the web is only good for Google if it fits with Google's own plans and enhances their control.
I don't know about telling better the size from a picture. I can imagine seeing 2 pictures of the moon. One is extreme telephoto showing moon next to a building and it looks real big. Then there would be another image where moon is a tiny speckle in the sky. How big is the moon? I would rather understand a text: "its radius is x km".
An alternate hypothesis which seems equally interesting, albeit for different reasons, is at the end of the article:

> Another explanation for why the JWST may have seen an overrepresentation of galaxies rotating in one direction is that the Milky Way's own rotation could have caused it.

> Previously, scientists had considered the speed of our galaxy's rotation to be too slow to have a non-negligible impact on observations made by the JWST.

> “If that is indeed the case, we will need to re-calibrate our distance measurements for the deep universe," Shamir concluded. "The re-calibration of distance measurements can also explain several other unsolved questions in cosmology such as the differences in the expansion rates of the universe and the large galaxies that according to the existing distance measurements are expected to be older than the universe itself."
He is probably on a rig drilling a deviated well to 30k+ total depth (TD) so that it is not a vertical well 30k+ feet deep or 30k' true vertical depth (TVD), it is instead a deviated well with a long vertical section before the kickoff point which deviates the drillbit to the target at some horizontal displacement from the vertical borehole with the total length of the drillstring being 30k+ feet when they reach TD (total depth). With horizontal drilling and use of steerable mud motors you aren't rotating the drill string constantly as you drill the deviated section and this allows one to push the bit through the formations until you reach the target.

Drilling 6 miles vertically without using a media to conduct cuttings to the surface would be a major change in how things work. I don't think that glassing the inside of the borehole by fusing cuttings as you drill will create a durable borehole. We used to have problems with electronics desoldering at depth in our MWD tools. It gets hot and the pressures can be enormous.

Former Scumbagger MWD engineer here.
The hygiene hypothesis is mostly for childhood allergies and even then it wouldn't explain everything. Here is a counter anecdote: my sister has some skin allergies but I don't. I was allowed to play outside and used to just run around in my backyard and my neighbours. Those places can be pretty muddy. My sister was not allowed to and she has allergies.
Is it really Ruby or they just made a nice interface? I don't see why a hypothetical TypeScript example would be all that different.

// Just ask questions
const chat: Chat = LLM.chat;
chat.ask("What's the best way to learn TypeScript?");

// Analyze images
chat.ask("What's in this image?", { image: "ts_conf.jpg" });

// Generate images
LLM.paint("a sunset over mountains in watercolor style");

// Create vector embeddings
LLM.embed("TypeScript is powerful and scalable");

// Let AI use your code
class Calculator {
description = "Performs calculations";
params = {
expression: { type: "string", desc: "Math expression to evaluate" },
};

execute(args: { expression: string }): string {
return eval(args.expression).toString();
}
}

chat.withTool(new Calculator()).ask("What's 123 * 456?");
The relative time part is a really interesting thought. Thanks!
at the bottom of the article the mundane hypothesis is presented that the measurement seen by JWST might be a calibration error caused by the rotation of the Milky Way making it appear that other galaxies have a preferred rotation.

sadly, this is likely the real explanation, but that's not very exciting
My understanding from earlier encounters with reporting about this company, is not that we can't do geothermal drilling without it, it's that it's not always cost-effective. Drilling is expensive and the cost is a significant fraction of the total capital investment in a geothermal energy plant. In order to make geothermal cost effective everywhere, drilling needs to be made less expensive. This company is not about doing what is currently impossible, it's about doing what is currently possible cheaper
> by generating output in a psychovisually optimal space? Perhaps frequency space (discrete cosine transform)

I've never understood the DCT to be psychovisually optimal at all. At lower bitrates, it degrades into ringing and blockiness that don't match a "simplified perception" at all.

The frequency domain models our auditory space well, because our ears literally process frequencies. Bringing that over to the visual side has never been about "psychovisual modeling" but about existing mathematical techniques that happen to work well, despite their glaring "psychovisual" flaws.

On the other hand, yes a HSV color space could make more sense than RGB, for example. But I'm not sure it's going to provide a significant savings? I'd certainly be curious. It also might create problems though, because hue is undefined when saturation is zero, saturation is undefined when brightness is zero, etc. It's not smooth and continuous at the edges the way RGB is. And while something like CIELAB doesn't have that problem, you have the problem of keeping valid value combinations "in bounds".
I think the collapse might take place in the shape of something like china: self interested elites, self sabotaging economic policy, a hollowing out economically by outside powers, numerous failed rebellions and devolution of central power due to lack of governability, etc. Aka, a period of somewhat rapid decay.
Y Combinator founders raising less money signals a 'vibe shift,' VC says
This newsblog takes one piece of the paper [1] and blows it up like it's the most obvious thing ever and completely hand-waves away the alternative, while the paper itself actually provides some compelling evidence for the alternative explanation: This asymmetry is because of our own galaxy's rotation. It would be an insane coincidence to have the large scale structure of our universe be more asymmetric towards the poles of our galactic plane and the further you go away from our galaxy (especially when velocity blue shifts would obviously make one type of rotation for galaxies more visible in the high-z regime where JWST primarily looked). Forget black hole cosmology, if you believe what this article suggests, then special relativity itself may be wrong. The data is pretty sound and perfectly in line with earlier observations that found no asymmetry if you believe our own galaxy's rotation is the culprit. So if I had to bet, I'd say we misunderstood galaxies and not the universe as a whole. Mostly because galactic physics is incredibly complicated and has very whimsical empirics, whereas we have some really solid theories and data on the universe as a whole.

[1] https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/538/1/76/8019798
Check out rnote. It's similar to xournal++ but has an infinite canvas and a slightly nicer UI, assuming you're into gtk style apps. I don't know how responsive it is comparatively, I've just been doing research ahead of getting a tablet.

https://github.com/flxzt/rnote
slippery slope fallacy. just do engineering good
"One way" to apply the law does not mean the strictest way to do so: it means that it should always be applied the same. Hopefully, in the mildest possible way until a situation requires harsher enforcement.

The fact that courts are slow is a problem unto itself that should be solved independently.
> Well considering the feds have charged and sentenced people for the activity of their exit nodes (CSAM), to which tor project has no response, I wouldn’t bother with Tor.

I'm certainly not a Tor expert, but I don't think bitcoin nodes running over Tor require an exit node. Even if they did they don't need to be located in the US.

> I’m sure the feds could force funding attached to crypto accounts to be verified by a trusted version of the bitcoin network or they are not legal to trade. They don’t have to physically stop the mining or validation, just the on/off ramps and banks who use it as collateral.

We could debate the details on a per-nation basis, but ultimately it's pointless. Even if it is possible for a nation to completely suppress bitcoin use within its borders, there will always be some country somewhere that embraces bitcoin and value looking to be stored will always migrate to the best store of value (bitcoin), just as air moves to the lowest-pressure volume, bitcoin miners move to areas with wasted, unwanted energy and electrons travel to less negatively-charged parts of a circuit.
Only the infinitesimally small singularity that is in the future of all objects inside the event horizon is supposed to be very dense. The space inside the event horizon is supposed to be normal-ish
DoorDash has a button that lets you filter by items that are eligible for SNAP (food stamps) when ordering from a grocery store. So enough people living in poverty are using DoorDash that they thought it was worth building the feature.
When has he ever been wrong?
Briar offers a companion ”mailbox” app for the exact reason you describe (i assume)

where did you read that it hosts an onion service? i guessed that's how it worked but couldn't find anything in their docs that said so.
Thank you, I have fixed the date.
Perhaps dark energy is hawking radiation. We just see what it's like from the inside.

Something to consider is a possible time scale difference. Eg time could be dilated for us for being around so much density.
They always end up in Powerpoint at the end of the day so I just cut out the middleman.
AI challenge: StructEnv, when donet meets JSON
Hi there!

With all the fuzz about Vibe Programming, I, a 59 years old software veteran, had a look at what's happening.

I'm kind of frustrated. Am I getting old?

Anyways, here is a short description of the StructEnv benchmark.

The repo provides the draft RFC for a new format for configurations. Environment variables are used a lot these days and they miss structure. On the other hand json is hard to read. So here a proposal for a fix. But I'm too lazy to code it myself ;)
On the other extreme, I can (and do) leave my keys inside my running car while I shop for groceries!