skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found this story pretty enlightening

https://css.seas.upenn.edu/new-york-times-a-case-study-in-in...

It's certainly not that they come up with outright lies. They have a ton of good people who work there. But there's something rotten higher up in the way they put their finger on the scales.
> American citizens were asked to guess how much US federal spending goes to foreign aid. ... The average guess was a whopping 31%.

What? I'm very curious how people arrived at such a number. I wouldn't be very surprised if people thought it was, say, 5%. But 31% is a wildly implausible number. 15% of people thought it was over half the budget, which is too far from the Lizardman's Constant to just be trolls, but at the same time it's such a wildly high guess that I can't imagine a normal person sincerely making such a guess.
Oof didn't even notice the latter part. Also when saying "change" it shows you every alarm you have (even if they're disabled, I have like 10) and forces you to interact with it on screen. There's no voice-only interaction that lets a user update tomorrow's wake-up alarm. It's so weird, it's like they don't use their own product.
If you're near a port of entry, you actually can be stopped at any time to be asked for proof of citizenship/visa/etc. See also https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone There are plenty of border patrol stops along highways that never cross a border where you'll be routinely stopped.

In practice, that means "near the border with Mexico" where there are border patrol stations along highways well inside the US that do routine stops, but technically it applies to any port city as well.

_Technically_, if you're a US citizen, you're not required to have proof of citizenship on you. But a drivers license in the US does not show that you are a citizen, and they absolutely can stop you from leaving (at least long enough to mess up your day plans) if you cannot actually prove citizenship in practice. It's just a _lot_ easier to have a passport on you. Passport cards exist mostly for this purpose.

E.g. I lived in Texas for a long time and have a passport card for that specific reason. Driving down to the beach or just going on random trips involves passing through border control stations even though you never leave the US or even get particularly near the border. Your chances of just going to visit a friend in south Texas and winding up needing to pass through a border control checkpoint due to unplanned road closures/etc are pretty high, so it's best to have a card in your wallet at all times that counts. Most remote highways have them as soon as you get back near a town. Most of the time, they'll wave you through pretty quickly, but it's just a lot faster process if you have a passport card and not only a drivers license.

Side note: A friend of mine was a park ranger at Carlsbad Caverns. He picked me up at the El Paso airport and we were driving to Carlsbad. We went through a border control checkpoint. They threatened to arrest him on the spot because he had his park service uniform hanging up in the back, but no employee ID or other proof that he actually was a ranger. They said he was impersonating a federal officer. They made a big deal of it and made us wait while they called the park to verify he was employed (and that didn't work because it was about 8pm). We eventually got let go with a warning after he found random online photos of him giving cave tours and convinced them that he couldn't possibly have staged a ton of random folks on the internet to have him in the background of photos.... But still, it was kinda nuts...
That's an interesting point. The bias might or might not be intentional. From the benchmarks I have seen, lot of tools solve slightly different problems altogether and also target slightly different data distribution and in the end have to build best solution around it.

Which is why publishing open benchmarks is first step where there is public scrutiny around whether then benchmark itself irrespective of the results is fair. In the end, the end user will choose the benchmark that's best fit for their usecase or mostly will create a variation of their own, do their own unbiased evaluations.
Yes. Not everyone is going to install Signal (which isn’t end to end encrypted btw), everyone has a cell phone that can support either iMessage/RCS/MMS/SMS and when you send a message to someone else’s number, you have graceful (sic) degradation.
Initiating criminal investigations into the administration's political opponents without evidence is NOT "pretty minor".
Propaganda works. But it works better if the creator(s) are unethical and strongly committed. Usually the most unethical cooperate somewhat for their own gain, rather than compete.
Forcing more people to change busses more often for their routes just to fit some 15 minute max route ideal is going to make more people hate the busses.
You act like this can’t happen on the Fediverse. Defederation causes people to lose their contacts anyways. The two services by mastodon nonprofit makes up 30% of the active Fediverse. If someone purchased mastodon.social & Mastodon.online and did the same things as in your scenarios the results would largely be the same. People would lose their connections and unlike ATProto they’d lose their content as well.
I wonder how much of that is their sense of humor. It is quite obviously hilarious and he appears to be removing all of them.
It's a good example because once you eradicate the disease, the problem is gone for good. We spend zero money on smallpox.

We did successfully eradicate all but one strain of Polio, and I believe they've stopped vaccinating except for the remaining one.
From QED to Neovim
Has everyone lost their inner joy? Sites like this have existed forever, and have always been fun to hack together. Think of Zalgo text.
Dont they crack when you put room temp eggs directly into boiling water
A hot spring in an ancient high-phosphorus soda lake would be a leading candidate, but the jury is still out.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/17/world/last-chance-lake-origin...
Does any carrier still charge for SMS messages?
Fascists rewriting history to fellate and curry favor from their Dear Leader.

Let's not forget this is the same state and superintendent, that recently made a disgusting attempt to merge church and state by forcing Bibles into public school curriculum. Not only that but he tried to use millions in public funds to buy "Trump Bibles" that Trump hawked at $55/piece.

https://apnews.com/article/bible-oklahoma-schools-walters-gr...

It's honestly so deranged to watch these people contort themselves in this weird alternate reality. The future of the US looks supremely fucked when so many leaders seem to disregard education and actual goverance for cult and religion. America's own cultural revolution.
Speaking of email hosting option, I think I am paying too much ($8/month) for the Google business suite with a custom domain. Is there any alternative out there that is cheaper?
Oh I know. I’ve been thinking about keming for 30+ years. :)
Most of us learn in kindergarten that "but he got to do it" is not a valid excuse for bad behavior.

(This should not be taken as accepting your premise)
Imagine a whole git repo of a project materializing like that.
They kind of do, though. Most transit agencies hire consultants to plan out these transitions, and the consultants have expertise in the different technologies and can present the pros and cons. However, the decisions stemming from this information can often be dictated by the transit agency's governing board, which cares less about this fat report that they just paid for and cares more for the hydrogen interests whispering in their ears.
Tech is evolving too quickly; every year the hardware will be much more powerful at the same price (as LLM optimizations reach hardware), so you’d end up replacing the device frequently.
I take them at their actions, not their empty words. Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_New_York_Times_con...

> In an interview in 2013, [NYT Executive Editor] Keller said that the newspaper had decided not to report the piece after being pressured by the Bush administration

Bush told them not to run the story while he was running for president. As always, the boot was presented and they licked it clean.
Chrome Web Notifications are also a complete dumpster-fire. In my experience the average older folk has no idea what web notifications are. They accidentally enable notifications from shady websites over time, and then blindly believe the web-spam notifications being pushed to their phone informing them *HELLO YOUR PHONE HAS VIRUS DOWNLOAD "CLEANER APP" TO FIX BEFORE PHONE DIE* is legit.
I would guess like myself you are denied due to geolocation. I'm in Australia using an Australian ISP. I could load a proxy but due to so many anonyphobic sites or scripts via their API that really try hard to detect and deny proxies, I am not that engaged with a news item to go to the trouble. Also looking at my earlier comment in this tread also pointing out the 403, apparently some people don't like me mentioning that -- I guess I can wonder how long before onion and nearly impossible to load links will be OK at HN.
I’ve been riding electric buses for almost 10 years, and no hybrid comes close to them. The experience as a passenger or as a citizen living next to a bus stop is far way superior: smooth, silent, non-smelly, no hot motor heating the back of the bus in summer… I hate riding any diesel bus after having got used to electric ones.
Why on earth didn't it have e2e encryption by default from the start??

My bet is because everyone involved wanted the ability to snoop messages...
Are you talking about when Obama admin did it, Biden admin did it or Trump admin did it? I mean, I agree but I have this sinking feeling that a lot of the people complaining aren't worried about the idea in principle and they just hate Trump.

There is this weird thing where the big government people have suddenly had a revelation that the day-to-day operation of government is threatening. And I welcome that because it is true, I just don't know what they think has changed apart from that they lost an election.
Where we can find the latest AI Tools with offers and trials?
Where we can find the latest AI Tools that are launching and offering trials or other offers for early users?
I have a very minimal Android phone with no Google account ever added/used on the device, and it says my chats with other Android users are using RCS ...

The phone number is associated in the other direction though (way back when Google didn't be evil and GMail required invites, I dared to trust them with it, I forget for what).
Have you seen Meshtastic (https://meshtastic.org/)? It seems like a similar concept but using dedicated devices and unlicensed ISM frequencies, and it's a proper mesh network (so you can even setup repeaters to provide better coverage for an area). I guess they wouldn't work too well if you're travelling to another country since you'd have to get the right radios for the country but it's a neat idea.
https://theintercept.com/2024/04/15/nyt-israel-gaza-genocide...
You don't need employees anymore just anonymous sources from "government insiders" by journalists who gain social/work credit from being friends with intelligence officials. The quid pro quo is implied and unquestioned because it sells papers. NYT/WSJ/WaPo are the main vectors for that stuff (big journalist outfits get big juicy sources) and they do it proudly.
You don't think transparency is better? Let's try it and see the result.

Will dang try it?
I've been reminiscing about this a lot lately. And you're right, it was a magical time, full of excitement, optimism, and joy. Some of my closest friendships were forged then too.

Thanks for posting this.
I think your analogy about logic gates vs. CPUs is spot on. Another apt analogy would be missing the forest for the trees—the model may in fact be generating a complete forest, but its output (natural language) is inherently serial so it can only plant one tree at a time. The sequence of distributions that is the proximate driver of token selection is just the final distillation step.
Thank you both!

Follow-up question: do US employers ever provide assistance with O-1 or E-2? What is considered "a relatively high level of achievement"?
It’s far more likely that we judges imprisoned for ruling the wrong way.
I'm moving goal-post here since it was not OpenAI (as far as we know): Where Meta training on torrented data fits into this?
I used to think this, but lately I'm not so sure. Beyond financial services, What does "the entire world" rely on US for anymore?
I don't get it.

1) Yes it's true, learning from text is very hard. But LLMs are multimodal now.

2) That "size of a lion" paper is from 2019, which is a geological era from now. The SOTA was GPT2 which was barely able to spit out coherent text.

3) Have you tried asking a mouse to play chess or reason its way through some physics problem or to write some code? I'm really curious in which benchmark are mice surpassing chatgpt/ grok/ claude etc.
It’s not AI, the jobs are going to India and/or Vietnam
The biggest problem for Germany is being in the eurozone, no matter who is in power. A sovereign currency issuer, like the US, UK, Japan, etc. doesn’t have the same constraints as a country that does not control its own currency. Which is why the US debt ceiling is a bogus, self-imposed limitation.
Well... they also need to expand to more than just a few countries. Here in Brazil there's no iPhone RCS support at all.
So an important context here is the server side implementation of RCS is Google's at every major carrier. Google bought the carrier-side provider of RCS services, Jibe, and so the entire RCS stack is still basically just Google Chat with an "it's a standard" label on it.

https://9to5google.com/2024/02/01/verizon-rcs-google-jibe/

Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile all use Google's RCS implementation, the only way to not send Google your messages in the US is to own an iPhone and disable RCS.
Sure, small numbers, low statistics, but it is still in the list of reasons why "Americans don't trust cutting through a random field and see only a dangerous road in a picture like that street view" in some parts of the country. The US has a fascinating relationship to "private property".
my experience having a unique email per domain is basically the hacked companies are the ones where the email is bled to spammers - though going through google's services i think a ton of spam is auto filtered (though i did go through a chunk of emails at one point and flag as spam+ auto purge).

its probably more likely they collect the info on you and associate you with the different domains with those emails (and likely without those emails, too)

email is too easy for the user to filter out spam; why bother with that vs websites that require javascript, proactively treat users like they are bots, and also serve ice cold ads? [ex cloudflare and amazon where you have to verify you are a bot _before_ trying to login; remember when websites allowed like 3 attempts before offering the bot detections / backoff protections? - now we cannot even try to login perfectly once without getting "am you a bot?" prompts - even with TOTP]

but after all is said and done - i still really do enjoy a single email per website - it is a great way to filter items (and takes 1 attack vector out of the public email part; they dont ever get my username unless they hack the server)
Is there a site that tracks the overall state of the Tor network?
Wow, thank you, that is amazing news. Can I ask how you found this fix? I turned up nothing after scouring reddit on this one for a long time.

EDIT: just checked, my router doesn't even support WPA3... I think it's typically the 5GHz network that upsets it, but I suppose I'll just continue resetting it for now.
Please provide citations for when the Obama or Biden administrations initiated criminal prosecutions of political opponents without evidence.
False. PRs do not enjoy all of the same the First Amendment protections that citizens do, especially in the case of Khalil.
This is pretty cool!

I too am working on effortless mcp servers for other developers using cursor and windsurf - there’s so much out there on mcp but turns out a lot of mcp servers don’t “just work”. A lot of other people have been porting APIs but actually you need to put a lot more thought into it because people don’t memorize uuids that are required to make api calls. Memory is a good approach, but afraid of the recall aspect and how that could potentially cause tool calls with bad inputs.

I built https://skeet.build where anyone can try out mcp for cursor and windsurf - we approached it with just brute force thoughtful design and a lot of trial and error.

We did this because of a painpoint I experienced as an engineer having to deal with Jira and Linear - updating slack and all that friction. I noticed I copy and paste a lot to cursor and so spent time building this app.

Mostly for workflows that I like:

* start a PR with a summary of what I just did
* slack or comment to linear/Jira with a summary of what I pushed
* pull this issue from sentry and fix it
* Find a bug a create a linear issue to fix it
* pull this linear issue and do a first pass
* pull in this Notion doc with a PRD then create an API reference for it based on this code
* Postgres or MySQL schemas for rapid model development

Everyone seems to go for the hype but ease of use, practical pragmatic developer workflows, and high quality polished mcp servers are what we’re focused on

Lmk what you think!
Yes, leaving the country for a long time is another way to lose residency. I was focusing more on expulsion.
Your excerpt is a bit misleading, here's a wider cut:

When it published the article, the newspaper reported that it had delayed publication because the George W. Bush White House had argued that publication "could jeopardize continuing investigations and alert would-be terrorists that they might be under scrutiny." The timing of the New York Times story prompted debate, and the Los Angeles Times noted that "critics on the left wondering why the paper waited so long to publish the story and those on the right wondering why it was published at all." Times executive editor Bill Keller denied that the timing of the reporting was linked to any external event, such as the December 2005 Iraqi parliamentary election, the impending publication of Risen's book State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration, or the then-ongoing debate on Patriot Act reauthorization. Risen and Lichtblau won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2006.

In an interview in 2013, Keller said that the newspaper had decided not to report the piece after being pressured by the Bush administration and being advised not to do so by The New York Times Washington bureau chief Philip Taubman, and that "Three years after 9/11, we, as a country, were still under the influence of that trauma, and we, as a newspaper, were not immune."
They can technically store, but not always legally, since storage may be in violation of their privacy policy. For example, Apple won't store the audio, unless you opt in [1].

[1] https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/ask-siri-dictati...
> Other phones with Briar installed can carry your (encrypted) messages

Sounds like an excellent target for DoS
I'm curious why their claims are controversial. It seems pretty obvious to me that LLMs sometimes generate idiotic answers because the models lack common sense, do not have ability for deductive logical reasoning, let alone the ability to induce. And the current transformer architectures plus all the post-training techniques do not do anything to build such intelligence or the world model per LeCun's words.
Now imagine you had no recourse to citizenship and how terrified you would feel. Threatening to call 911 would lead to escalation of crisis rather than its opposite.

Having seen what the US gov't did to Maher Arar 20 years ago, I have never felt comfortable crossing that border since, despite being a white middle class Canadian of no suspect at all. Just place, wrong time, wrong person, and it can go so, so badly, without any recourse.
There is a video out there where a scammer gets scammed, and his reaction goes from fury to terror. I think it's because he'll be held accountable for the loss, and is likely working in horrible conditions. It's sad because this video was very popular entertainment on YouTube for a while.
Honestly I just wish mozilla can get their act together, fragmentation is usually a bad idea...
To continue on this

Israeli Jewish citizens criticize the war

People abroad criticize the war

But outside the country, many Jewish people abroad defend it and have this wildly incendiary defense mechanism against the people abroad, as if every critique from anyone is part of a thinly veiled movement to disrupt their right to existence

Why cant the rest of us be assumed to be at parity with Israeli citizen’s critique?

so unproductive
Show HN: Pdf 2 Cal - AI pulls all events from your pdf 2 any calendar
have a pdf with dates?
- i slice your pdfs
- give to ai ask ai for help
- delete files from ai
- no AI training
- no data storage
- export to gcal, outlook, or an ics download

comment i'll make more stuff also does anyone want an integration if you're doing this often?
You need to educate yourself. This is 100% incorrect. It might be legal for a citizen but not a permanent resident. Endorsing terrorism is a question asked on every Green Card and naturalization application, and will get your deported. Until you are a citizen you will lose your green card for endorsing terrorism.
They also have the atmosphere, with drag that will make all velocities trend towards zero. Don’t have that on the moon, gotta do it all with fuel. More than half of the energy she’s by the returning falcon is aerobraking.

Yes, the moon has substantially less gravity but it’s also exponentially harder to get the fuel there.
Hydrogen fuel (gray) is often about $8-10/kg, which is about an 80% increase in costs per mile over diesel. Green hydrogen is like $14/kg.

Additionally, agencies are experiencing vapor losses of fuel, which results in an overall increase in fuel costs. These losses can occur in different circumstances, but often occur after fueling when the gaseous fuel left in the hose (that cannot be returned to the liquid tank) evaporates. One agency reported double the cost of fuel due to these losses.

Anyway, yeah I think the argument in the article was that this waste heat isn't "free" because you're paying such a premium for it via the fuel costs.
In case anyone wonders why the peak was in 2022, which of course makes no sense if COVID really was the cause of a permanent decline.

https://www.onlycfo.io/p/new-tax-rule-is-terrible-for-softwa...

TLDR: software jobs were tax free in the US until 2022, when congress who widely promised and were expected to repeal a Trump tax raise ... didn't. Now software engineers in the US are expensive for US companies and software engineers outside the US are 3x more expensive.

This was financial engineering by Trump. Not by him personally of course, but by GOP "strategists" that lowered taxes on the extremely wealthy.
Maybe some people have only a handful of numbers: none, one, two, and "many".

Maybe there are cognitive reciprocals of these numbers: "all", "some", "half", and "none".

So when you ask for a fraction, they say 50%.
Every day they build a mesh network and relay some message. The message seems to be very similar every day but a few hundred km away it is completely different.
Sandboxed how? Applications generally are used to edit files, and those are the valuable files to a user.

Ransomeware wouldn't be a problem at all if copy-on-write snapshotting filesystems were the default.