skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a UK citizen, my concerns are that U.S. companies are difficult to trust with PII data as they're not really covered by a sane equivalent of GDPR that I know of. If they do break UK law about how they treat our data, then there's a good chance that the U.S. administration may step in and tell the UK to get lost and start imposing punitive measures against us.

There's a remarkable lack of trust over here now with regards to U.S. companies.
while i agree with that, i don't quite understand why this is an issue if the main index.html file is from the local filesystem too. the filesystem should only be off limits if the main file is loaded from a website.
Gemini 2.5
It's when if we are still a democracy.
That is a sad story. And I think the referenced doc fragment is even worse than they described; they wrote:

> BigQuery charges based on referenced data, not processed data!

(emphasis theirs) and linked to a doc that says:

> When you run a query, you're charged according to the data processed in the columns you select, even if you set an explicit `LIMIT` on the results.

I would have interpreted the latter to mean something else, like that you get charged for scanning all rows when you do something like the following:

select a, sum(b) as b_sum from table group by a order by b_sum limit 10;

...because my post-group LIMIT clause doesn't actually prevent it from needing all rows. But their query should genuinely not need all rows. It does need all partitions. I suppose if they have way too many partitions (such that each is <= the minimum fetch size, note: see edit below) then GCP genuinely needs to fetch all the data. Otherwise I am surprised they were charged so much.

edit: a caveat on "such that each is <= the minimum fetch size", I suppose their "select *" together with the columnar format might mean that I should word this as something like each (partition, column) is <= the minimum fetch size.
In the banking world, employees have been fined significant sums, or even forced from their jobs [0], for unauthorized use of messaging platforms. And here, it's barely a shrug. Unbelievable.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/morgan-stanley-hit-...
Really cool! Bookmarked for inspiration when programming drums
Has the decline of knowledge work begun?
Windows and Linux are desktop OSes and should be compared to macOS, which does allow you to run your own software without paying the fee.

I will concede that Android does allow you to install apps for free and if that is a feature that is really important to you, you should switch to that platform. iOS has always been this way, there wasn’t a bait and switch, and many people (myself being one of them) consider the higher barrier to entry to be a feature of iOS, not a bug.
There are (were*) armies of low-paid humans informing RLHF in response to awful inputs.

https://slate.com/technology/2023/05/openai-chatgpt-training...

And aside from that, we know there is more content in obscure subreddits and phpbb forums than in the mainstream few most folks visit, many threads of which devolve in similar ways?

* ?
Delta Lake and Iceberg are great for managing offline, big data workloads like batch analytics and ETL on data lakes. They're not built for real-time queries or high-throughput writes.

GreptimeDB, on the other hand, is optimized for real-time, time-series data like IoT and observability metrics, but it's not suited for offline batch processing.

Choose Delta Lake or Iceberg for offline analytics at scale. Use GreptimeDB for fast, real-time data ingestion and queries. Together, they can complement each other: GreptimeDB handles real-time data, while Delta Lake/Iceberg manages offline analytics.
In Australia too. And not just recently, you could do it when I left Australia for the US in 2006.
The problem with greylisting is that it delays subscription confirmation emails when you sign up for a new service. I found that to be more trouble than it was worth. YMMV.
Can your share your experience and observations about where Supercut excels vs Loom?
Outreach founder Manny Medina has a new startup that helps AI agents get paid
What's the history here?
Super cool! Is there the possibility to get a students discount? Will try the free trial for now :)
Anti-corporatocracy, not anti-corporatism. A fair chunk of the left, if not the majority, is very much in favor of Corporatism (Tripartism and/or social corporatism like the Nordic model).
A disappointing amount of "research" that seemingly forgets the whole Blake Lemoine incident [0].

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/11/google-...
why we care about biological pain so much is because we know - we ourselves feel it. everyone has felt how miserable it makes them. For AI, one way to see these experiments is at some point it will help us know or atleast have the right tools at the right time -> to discover if such empathy needs to be extended to AI systems.

So my suggestion to OP is what you are doing today will help us give these systems the right treatment someday when they will qualify for it.
To put it simply, to fully model X, you must recover all relevant information dynamics related to X. If the training corpus captures the variance inherent in a cognitive system's interactions with the world, then a strong learning model can potentially recover the dynamics that ground cognition. In other words, recovering an isomorphic structure to cognition is within the solution-space. Machine learning exists on a spectrum between memorization and modelling. If the raw information in the training corpus surpasses an algorithm's ability to memorize, this puts pressure towards the modelling side of the spectrum. The papers on grokking demonstrate this.
OTF,which backs Tor,Let's Encrypt and more, sues to save funding from Trump cuts
Oh shit, I didn’t catch the name - strongly recommend that whole series. It’s one of the most wildly inventive sci-fi series I’ve read in a long time.
Makes more sense regarding contributions. Are you using a NUC or something, or are you just referring to the CPU (and maybe GPU)?
It has a module system so maybe it can but it seems more people are using Aider or Continue for that. There's a bit of stitching things together regardless of whether you show your project to some SaaS or run local models but if you can manage a Linux system it'll be easy.

Personally I heavily dislike the experience though, so I might not be the best one to answer.
Gotta disagree here. When you choose to have kids you're giving yourself to something greater. Ignoring them to dedicate yourself to a career is not someone's "yum", it's just being derelict in your duties to your children. Don't have kids if your "yum" is dedicating your life to your career, and no one will have any problems with your choice.
Yeah, an asm marked as memory-clobbering is the proper thing; not the first time I've forgotten that volatile entirely doesn't imply anything to other memory. (in fact, doing "((volatile uint8_t*)x)[0] = 0xaa;" in my godbolt link in a sibling thread still has the optimization happen). Don't know how exactly it interacts with aliasing rules; maybe you'd have to explicitly pass the mutable reference to the asm as an input, otherwise it'd be illegal for the asm to change it and so the compiler can still assume it isn't? or, I guess, not have any references live during the asm call is the proper thing.

Probably indeed possible to do it with proper guards (the pre-pooping your pants issue is probably not a problem if you also have the asm guard in drop?).

> I see at least couple of those, which seem to be "just" the usual unsafe-done-wrong sorts of things (double frees) rather than anything inherent to the mirrored buffer.

Yeah, possible. I was just saying that from the perspective of proving that all the ring buffers not taking extreme care are incorrectly implemented.
I tried that a long time ago and the problem with it was that it produced a lot of false positives for me because I subscribe to a lot of Google Groups.
We do use TS already. And yeah sure, we could save a second or two on our deployment, but I'm not sure that's worth the mess
Only if brand quality actually declines. The idea that having found a good product one should then never purchase another product from the same manufacturer is bizarre.
Sorry but that's nonsense. Partitioning is THE central cost controlling mechanism in BigQuery and the docs clearly state this. And it's an easy to use feature, so I'm not sure what makes you think using that would be as challenging as building your own query engine.
Oh, I totally believe that that is his perspective. And he's entitled to that.

The bigger issue for me is that he's making decisions, ignoring (and now "canceling") regulators who prevent or minimize the impact of decisions he makes along that line to protect our QOL. Because Musk sure as hell isn't bringing along anything up to 8 billion of us with him.
Yeah, conduit makes sense. The future in homes - from this current vantage point - is likely all wireless via multiple APs around the house that have short range but very high bandwidth. Only us power users will have wired ethernet.
Chinese Weaver Ant hackers spied on telco network for 4 years
Why haven’t you switched to Android which provides the feature you want? It’s a problem you can easily resolve, without making any one else change.
A mail service run by an advertising company fails to filter out advertising emails? I'm shocked. Shocked!
They look like a cheap knock-off of Skinners.
I disagree. Moving stuff to an API with full local control is a UI decision. Moving it to the cloud is a privacy and obsolescence decision. Huge difference.
Agree. Washington DC in fact provides all the incentives silicon valley needs to flourish. It's just that silicon valley needs more self awareness and stay out of politics.
I can imagine these "relative text patches" could just commit as is written but could be committed with a corresponding metadata and referential locations array backed by some kind of encoding that lands in the same commit. That would unlock a visualization tool that could render a strikeout for the earlier precedent legal text or something like that in whatever way the modification applies.
From what I've been hearing is its all marketing and no farmers are actually using it. Basically it is financially nonsensical compared to chemical herbicides. That and driving a tractor through the fields 2, 3 or 4 more times at 2-3 MPH per season isn't great. Basically more of a solution looking for a problem.
People have been saying Tesla is wildly overvalued for a decade now. Which logically I can't really dispute but at some point you can't logically continue to ignore how the market values it either.

I'm rooting for Musk to fall on his face as much as the next guy. But I'm not delusional enough to substitute my desired reality for actual reality. By any measure Musk has had a remarkably successful year or so. He's much richer and wields more influence over the government than any non-president in history that I can think of.
There's room for a sequel to CT or to finish the trilogy. CC left a lot of unanswered questions.
I mean it's widely theorized that Trump eats Adderall for breakfast, lunch and dinner, too...
TL;DR: DeepSeek V3 failed so spectacularly on a brain-dead simple task. 2/10, would not use
The Revelation of St. John the Divine is taken as a true eschatology by a smallish and very novel heretical splinter sect, arising in a land known for its tendency to produce such wild-eyed, footless new religious movements, and which has had a lately outsized profile. Don't mistake that for the doctrine of any of the Eastern or Western orthodoxies, or indeed even any of the mainline Protestant denominations. And "divine," in this usage, is a countable synonym for "mystic."

You said yourself you weren't catechized in that stuff. Neither was I, and I was also raised by Catholics. Your catechists should have warned you off this crap when they noticed you getting into it, the way mine did, and told you not to presume to know the mind of God. Not that that helped me a few years later, but at least I knew enough then to take the happy-clappy foot-washing Southern Baptist stuff as cynically as it deserved.

It's hard to argue much else in direct response here, since that confusion seems so pervasive - not precisely a criticism, only I would rather we start from a true axiom. I guess I would say I also see the cosmic horror aspect of it - something Land knows he's doing and Bostrom doesn't, though for the latter this is only one case of his pervasive confusion of genres - but I don't really see much cause to credit with similar insight most people who actually cherish the belief.

(Note specially also the phrase 'semiotically indistinguishable,' which is unusual. One example might be that stories based intentionally closely on Campbell's 'monomyth' structure tend rarely to be very semiotically distinct from one another. Here of course we discuss not a thousand-faced hero but a Tausendjährige kingdom of God, but in both cases we see the same superficial variation in expression of a consistent animating myth.)
Google Testing Blog: Root Cause of Singletons
For your hypothesis to be true you'd see falling Model y numbers but somewhat steady Model 3 numbers, since that was refreshed only in 2023 and is in no danger of getting a new refresh.

That is not the case. I took a look at the German numbers for Januaries 2025 and 2024 and Model 3 fell proportionally the same as Model Y in the YoY numbers:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43027039

Numbers are rational, are they?
Endpoint integrity is also critical. If Apple or Google were compromised, they could silently push an update that replaces the real Signal app with a modified version that forwards everything to an adversary.

Any system where the government doesn't have total control over software deployment will never be viable for handling claasified information.
Yes. I use this with VS2019 for generating enum names, and they interact fine with auto complete and go to definition.
Seccomp is not an access control system, but Landlock is. Seccomp limits the kernel attack surface and Landlock enforces an access control. They are complementary.

With Landlock, the access control is at the right layer, and the semantic is guaranteed to be the same even if the kernel gets new syscalls. Landlock is the closest thing to Pledge/Unveil we can get with the Linux constraints (and it is gaining new features).
Do you procure data often when you're building your agents?
>It's the higher level emergent stuff that makes a difference.

Those who dismiss the idea that LLMs could be sentient because its "just math" or whatever are implicitly assuming there is nothing emergent going on within fully trained networks that might be similar to psychology to warrant ascription of mental terms. The point is that dismissing LLM sentient because of its most basic substrate is equivalent to dismissing human sentience because we're made of atoms.
You have one memory of all the time before you could walk, and it just so happens to have been caught on film? You don't find that suspicious?
The Modern AI Workspace
My question was legitimate, though.
Valkey 8.1's Performance Gains Disrupt In-Memory Databases
Step-ca is really cool and has a lot of templating and policy stuff opkssh doesn't currently have. However step-ca does require two trusted parties: your IDP and the SSH CA.

The advantage of opkssh is that there is only one trusted party, your IDP.

While not available in opkssh yet, OpenPubkey even has a way of removing the trust assumption in your IDP.

I wonder if step-ca would ever consider using opkssh or the OpenPubkey protocol
Yes the whole consultancy situation really is the icing on the cake - as the customer you pay for (alleged) experts in the field and get this as the result...
I've often wondered if automatic updates and nag-screens are being used by bad-faith actors as vectors to sneak trojan horses into nominally-open-source apps. I tend to assume that any sufficiently-large open-source project will be well-enough scrutinized enough that they can't be used in this way but when you're obtaining binary builds somebody else made, and especially when those builds are being pushed out on an almost-daily basis for extremely mundane reasons the chain-of-trust is has several weak links. Only accepting signed binaries is not a good answer to this problem because if you aren't involved in a project then you have very little insight into how those binaries were signed or whether the private key is even private.

But even so, when stakes are high enough victim-blaming becomes both warranted and healthy. Even if there really was a deep-state conspiracy to embarrass the presidential cabinet (not that i think there was), the ultimate responsibility should still fall on their heads for not taking obvious precautions while planning an airstrike. If you can't verify that everybody in your signal conversation is actually supposed to be in the conversation, let alone that they are even who they appear to be, then it's obviously not an appropriate platform for this discussion.
Has git ever made the necessary updates so that you can have proper datestamps on the 80 yr old laws? Last I had checked, nothing prior to unix epoch can be put into git.
> The second part is much more ambiguous, and unfortunately, the bill lacks specificity.

OpenAI wants to ban the use of DeepSeek models: "As with Huawei, there is significant risk in building on top of DeepSeek models in critical‬‭ infrastructure and other high-risk use cases given the potential that DeepSeek could be‬‭ compelled by the CCP to manipulate its models to cause harm." from: https://cdn.openai.com/global-affairs/ostp-rfi/ec680b75-d539...

> I’d be surprised if it made it very far, and even more surprised if any of the hyperscalers supported it

OpenAI is calling for legislation:

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/13/openai-calls-deepseek-stat...

> no one in the Western world is going to run a Chinese-hosted model anyway

AWS offers DeepSeek already:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/deepseek-r1-mo...
There’s no shock in seeing an old person enjoying a job. The shock is when you see someone who obviously isn’t, who looks like they’re in pain, doing physical jobs.
well, Mike Bostock left to create Observable, and in its latest iteration Observable Plot https://observablehq.com/plot/ is amazing.

This makes the old data viz examples from NYT accessible to the rest of the population who aren't D3.js / canvas / svg whisperers like Mike
Isn't every new AI model the "most <adjective>"?

Nobody is going to say "Announcing Foobar 7.1 - not our best!"
Is Financial Arbitrage Broken?
Archive: https://archive.is/PndgO

Some interesting data points in there. Does seem to me like something is suboptimal about how banking supply functions if what they speculate is true.

And/or the market is funky now.
From a bit of googling I see some people say it's from French "monter", meaning to climb, which does come from the same root as English "mountain".
The answer is a NonEmptySequence type. The `max` function doesn't make sense in the context of an empty sequence.
Also very good is “The Scariest Library” https://www.exurbe.com/the-scariest-library/
I always assumed the roots kept growing, so I didn't know that wasn't already an established idea. That kind of strikes me as strange and interesting. I figured it was common sense?

This was extremely evident by the red maple on our curb destroying the sidewalk even through the winter months. Even my dwarf magnolia tree has a notable increase in its trunk size in its dormant phase.
You have that mixed up, storage and ingestion is cheap in BigQuery but processing is exactly were they grab $$$
AI Mirrors Humanity–and That's the Problem
As Animats mentioned in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43455514, Doug's team didn't invent chorded keyboards; Émile Baudot did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudot_code#/media/File:Clavie...

You can see that he designed his character code, like Morse, to make the most common letters easier to send: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudot_code#/media/File:Baudot...
why not enable Canvas for this model on Gemini.google.com? Arguably the weakest link of Canvas is the terrible code that Gemini 2.0 Flash writes for Canvas to run..
As you’re running, your foot lands, you put your weight down on it, then you push off. If you step on something sharp when running barefoot, you can’t avoid the first part, but you can avoid putting all your weight on it or pushing off hard. Basically just a little skip. You’re not going to be able to do much at a full sprint, but it’s fine for anything less.
gobble 2.0 - a bit of a turkey
Wrong answers only
It's an 8-9 year old 800 series dishwasher. So far it's outlived our previous two dishwashers combined lifetimes with zero issues.
GDM's GraphCast/GenCast require an "analysis state" of the atmosphere. This is a 3D, gridded dataset with key variables like temperature, humidity, and winds. Generally speaking, an analysis is produced by a physics-based weather model through "data assimilation", an optimization process which tries to create a 3D state that is consistent with observations over some window of time.

"Observations" is overloaded; it's really any "raw" weather data product, like satellite imagery, surface station measurements, or weather balloon traces. I'm handwaving away a lot of complexity here.

The AardvarkWeather model is a significant new development and paradigm shift - it's one of the first models of a new class which do not require an analysis, and can directly use the "raw" weather data observations that are typically used to perform data assimilation.
Late Progress (The Feynman Cyphers)
It rather assumes you could enforce them. Those rights will be great against a responsible outfit. But if the data is exposed in a breach, or if the outfit goes rogue (or if a future government decides to change the law and sell your data, as, by the way, the previous Conservatives tried to do), then you're lost.
Its free for students through the GitHub Student Developer Pack :)
An Electric Man
Slight tangent: Interesting that they use o3-mini as the comparison rather than o1.

I've been using o1 almost exclusively for the past couple months and have been impressed to the point where I don't feel the need to "upgrade" for a better model.

Are there benchmarks showing o3-mini performing better than o1?
Separating the "What" from the "How" is a pretty old idea originating from Prolog, and yes you can do that. Erlang for example, in which many of Lamport's ideas are implemented, is a variation of Prolog.

Prolog by itself haven't found any real world applications as of today, because by ignoring the "How", performance suffers a lot, even though the algorithm might be correct.

That's the reason algorithms are implemented procedurally, and then some invariants of the program are proved on top of the procedural algorithm using a theorem prover like TLA+.

But in practice we implement procedural algorithms and we don't prove any property on top of them. It is not like the average programmer writes code for spaceships. The spaceship market is not significant enough to warrant that much additional effort.
I wonder what about this one gets the +0.5 to the name. IIRC the 2.0 model isn’t particularly old yet. Is it purely marketing, does it represent new model structure, iteratively more training data over the base 2.0, new serving infrastructure, etc?

I’ve always found the use of the *.5 naming kinda silly when it became a thing. When OpenAI released 3.5, they said they already had 4 underway at the time, they were just tweaking 3 be better for ChatGPT. It felt like a scrappy startup name, and now it’s spread across the industry. Anthropic naming their models Sonnet 3, 3.5, 3.5 (new), 3.7 felt like the worst offender of this naming scheme.

I’m a much bigger fan of semver (not skipping to .5 though), date based (“Gemini Pro 2025”), or number + meaningful letter (eg 4o - “Omni”) for model names.
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Seems farfetched to believe that you happened to have the exact moment you discuss on video