skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Too bad the playful “Accept cookies” button didn’t have a “no” option.
The Logic of Liberty
IBM Thinkpads did. Lenovo Thinkpads are not the same quality.

I've personally spilled about the same number of drinks into one IBM Thinkpad as I've completely fried Apple laptops with; about 3-4. The Thinkpad would probably still work today.
Where's the Business Model in Chat-Based Search?
Democracy, even Athenian democracy, is not a feasible large-scale system and there’s a reason we have never been a democracy. Not even the inventors of democracy were democratic in the modern sense. There were heavy restrictions on who could vote and how, namely: only males, you had to be a proper citizen of Athens by birth, you had to publicly serve military, and you had to actively participate in the politics in order for your vote to count. Mob rule is what modern “democracy” is, and that’s dangerous.
Without commenting on the (important) political or reputational considerations here, I want to talk a bit about the operational risk presented by this practice. There is a somewhat sizable "So what? Signal is e2e encrypted. Nothing bad happened and you're all overreacting." narrative floating around. (not so much in this thread, but in the general discourse)

If this operation was planned in Signal, then so were countless others (and presumably so would countless others be in the future).

If not for this journalist, this would likely have continued indefinitely. We have high confidence that at least some of the officials were doing this on their personal phones. (Gabbard refused to deny this in the congressional hearing -- it does not stand to reason that she'd do that unless she was, in fact using her personal phone).

At some point in the administration, it's likely that at least one of their personal phones will be compromised (Pegasus, etc). E2E encryption isn't much use if the phone itself is compromised. This is why we have SCIFs.

There was no operational fallout of this particular screwup, but if this practice were to continue, it's likely certain that an adversary would, at some point, compromise these communications. Not through being accidentally invited to the chat rooms, but through compromise of the participants' hardware. An APT could have advance notice of all manner of confidential and natsec-critical plans.

In all likelihood this would lead to failed operations and casualties. The criticism/pushback on this is absolutely justified.
This does not bode well for genetic AI
Thriving Antarctic ecosystems found following iceberg calving
That smart but not ideal - think of the people who will navigate directly to the app store and type "wikitok"
The article mentions that Gatsby's stories are a little inconsistent, and that Nick would have realized this. Do critics generally think that Gatsby fully made them up and perhaps bought a Montenegro medal, or is he just being loose with details?
I do not intend to take anything away from the technical achievement of the team. However, as Satya opined some weeks back, these benchmarks do not mean a lot if we do not see a comparable increase in productivity.

But then there are two questions. First, are the white collar workers specifically consultants, engineers responsible for increase in productivity? Or is the white collar workers at the very right tail e.g., scientists?

I think consultants and engineers are using these technologies a lot. I think biologists at least are using these models a lot.

But then where is the productivity increases?
Or when they renamed Lync to Skype for Business, which had nothing to do with Skype.
Conferencing tips as an autistic and ADHD conference-goer
The site is too hard to navigate (I couldn’t find the reject cookies button, so there was a giant hand taking up half my screen). Do you happen to recall what the actual typeface was called?
Fun fact, initially when places were setting up police forces, people railed that it was an infringement on their right to do a Citizen's Arrest.
I love this concept. I live by a popular head trail, and when I do work in the garage (on my bikes or other projects), I usually keep the door open. That simple thing led to meeting many people from around the neighborhood.
I was just listening to a podcast that made the observation that in the tech world, decisions often have tight feedback loops, if Musk lays off a team it could be as fast as days or weeks that he figures out that that team was necessary for something.

But seed vaults? We may be talking decades long feedback loops.
The periodic table poster under "High binding problems" is billed as evidence of model limitations, but I wonder if it just suggests that 4o is a fan of "Look Around You".
I might have been phrasing poorly. With _L_ (or L as intended), I meant their state-of-the-art model, which I presume Gemini 2.5 is (didn't come around to TFA yet). Not sure if this question is just about model size.

I'm eagerly awaiting an article about RAG caching strategies though!
Encrypt/decrypt messages and send as a link
Tracking Using a 3D Lidar and Point Cloud Projection for Human-Following Robots
I see. So it sounds like you have the MBP set to the non-retina setting then passed to quest via immersed? (ie if you look at the laptop screen IRL everything is very small) But in the headset it functions almost as though it was nearly a 50" 4k TV. So presumably has the macOS text issues but worth it otherwise.

And the mouse latency is fine wirelessly?

(Sorry, I don't love the retina word but I haven't found a substitute since high DPI resolves to so many other things.)
Is there any way to see whether a given prompt was serviced by 4o or Dall-E?

Currently, my prompts seem to be going to the latter still, based on e.g. my source image being very obviously looped through a verbal image description and back to an image, compared to gemini-2.0-flash-exp-image-generation. A friend with a Plus plan has been getting responses from either.

The long-term plan seems to be to move to 4o completely and move Dall-E to its own tab, though, so maybe that problem will resolve itself before too long.
How is it possible that I can't find this. I found my dads highschool friends garage band from eastern europe from 1960 on my trackers but can't find this.
I love these stories. My adult home city feels off compared to where I grew up in terms of neighborly-ness. So while I'm not a coffee drinker, I have been doing the pancake breakfast thing monthly in my front lawn/driveway for a decade, also an annual crawfish boil that is a big draw for the surrounding neighborhood (probably 300 people show up, free beer never hurts attendance)

FWIW, I live in a mid-century suburb that's now part of the urban core but also still very low density and single family housing oriented. The challenge is that there is a huge disparity of the census in a neighborhood like this. You have 90 year old people who raised their kids long ago and you have newly married folks who bought their first home. You even have some people who are just renting houses and don't really care about getting to know their neighbors. Unlike in the the newer exurb/suburbs where most people are raising family and all going through similar life phases, or in the denser part of the city where most people are single or DINKs. It's also varies alot by when you moved here, because it started out as a very affordable middle class neighborhood and is now extremely affluent with people building new construction multimillion dollar McMansions, etc. Anywho, it's been a good way to get people into a super casual setting and let them get to know each other. It certainly feels more like 'home' to me now.
GhidraMCP: Now AI can reverse malware [video]
Envkit, The environment variable helper for developer teams
World Athletics to introduce mandatory sex testing for female competitions
But what are electrolytes!? Da ya even know?
This is an unnecessarily combative comment.

The author doesn't claim to be implementing the C++ standard library. They clearly say they are implementing a C++ standard library.

It's obvious from the context that they mean a hobby-scale set of basic datatype and algorithm libraries. It would take an uncharatible reading to not realize that they mean a lowercase "standard library", not "conforming implementation of the ISO C++ Standard Library".

The article literally says "It's my time, and I'll waste it if I want to!" and uses "pystd" as the namespace.
Well, in the idea of the system there is: The system is built around the assumption that Congress would impeach a president who fails to to the right™ thing (or fails to make his administration do ...)

However once the legislative branch surrenders oversight over executive there isn't much left keeping the system in balance. Even if judicial branch would call a measure unconstitutional, who'd execute that ruling?

The system is built around the assumption that a notable part of the system wants to keep it alive.
I remember seeing a documentary or a video clip of this being followed. I don't recall whether or not it was in Spain, but it was definitely a Spanish-speaking village. That clip came to my mind when I read this post.
I didn't mean to accuse you of being biased, I was just calling you not to be in case you were. I am sorry it came across otherwise. Your point of view is just as valid as anyone else. Also the editor project is completely separate to the main V team, I suppose I help with V itself in my own small way by finding occasional issues and raising them with the core team, but I am not equipped nor frankly interested in putting my own efforts into the language dev itself, it seems pretty well staffed over there atm.
If you could _effortlessly_ eliminate any word you mean?
Yes it does, and that's one of the most important parts of it being multi-modal: just like it can make targeted edits at a piece of text, it can now make similarly nuanced edits to an image. The character consistency and restyling they mention are all rooted in the same concepts.
Let's assume for the moment that the discussion of military plans on Signal was covered by this policy. That's debatable as others have said. Other parts of that policy would seem to suggest this kind of conversation is expressly forbidden on Signal and similar unofficial chat apps, while other less sensitive conversations are permitted.

How does that excuse the lack of attention and validation that resulted in an unintended party being added to the chat?

Regardless of Signal usage policy, that is a massive fuck up.
Yeah, earbud noise cancellation may as well be non-existent unfortunately.

You’d think a phone could do cancellation between the bud microphone & it’s own microphones; maybe once the audio data from the bud has been pushed through bluetooth audio compression there’s no longer enough information to do that effectively?
Reading other comments in other threads on HN has left me with the impression that iterative improvement within a single chat is not a good idea.

For example, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43388114
Just Intel laptops with integrated Intel graphics. Dell, ASUS and Thinkpad are the ones I've been using between work and personal during the last 20 years.
Please don't do this here, regardless of how wrong someone is or you think they are.
Assuming suffering is bad suggests there is some cosmic morality that the universe is judging us by. Perhaps spreading suffering across the universe actually doesn't matter at all.
What's important about this new type of image generation that's happening with tokens rather than with diffusion, is that this is effectively reasoning in pixel space.

Example: Ask it to draw a notepad with an empty tic-tac-toe, then tell it to make the first move, then you make a move, and so on.

You can also do very impressive information-conserving translations, such as changing the drawing style, but also stuff like "change day to night", or "put a hat on him", and so forth.

I get the feeling these models are quite restricted in resolution, and that more work in this space will let us do really wild things such as ask a model to create an app step by step first completely in images, essentially designing the whole app with text and all, then writing the code to reproduce it. And it also means that a model can take over from a really good diffusion model, so even if the original generations are not good, it can continue "reasoning" on an external image.

Finally, once these models become faster, you can imagine a truly generative UI, where the model produces the next frame of the app you are using based on events sent to the LLM (which can do all the normal things like using tools, thinking, etc). However, I also believe that diffusion models can do some of this, in a much faster way.
Chevron was not about deciding regulation details.

It was about who interprets what a law an agency administers means.

Before Chevron, an agency could say "we interpret this law to mean we can do X", and then no one could stop it from doing X. That's a huge amount of unchecked power!

Now an impartial court get to interpret what laws mean. Seems like the obviously right thing to me.
Looks like it's this benchmark [1]. It's certainly less artificial than most long context benchmarks (that are basically just a big lookup table) but probably not as representative as Fiction.LiveBench [2], which asks specific questions about works of fanfiction (which are typically excluded from training sets because they are basically porn).

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.12640

[2] https://fiction.live/stories/Fiction-liveBench-Feb-20-2025/o...
Pro tip. Being a good neighbor helps you click with your neighbors, and that can be the difference between life and death in an emergency, or your house burning down or not if a neighbor catches something and calls you because you’re chill, friendly and helpful.

It is worth extreme efforts to cultivate good relationships with your neighbors.
They don't use a residential IP space; they use Azure Data Center (which, being less popular, isn't blocked as often as for example EC2).
Interactive playground for the puzzle: https://claude.site/artifacts/832e77d7-5f46-477c-a411-bdad10...

(All state is stored in localStorage so you can come back to it :) ).
These are all practical reasons, not really philosophical. Unless any form of logic is philosophical but then everything is.

If your claiming your philosophical stance is setting passwords doesn’t provide security, by your own reasoning in your case that’s just a matter of practicality. There is no philosophical argument.

> More generally, I don't think that closed networks substantially improve security and I don't like the push to require them.

I mean that’s just your opinion, not a philosophical stance, and it happens to be a empirically demonstrably false one.

> I don't like technology that tries to enforce its own opinion about social norms.

This statement is so vague it’s practically useless. It can just be selectively applied against anything you don’t like. All technology is opinionated. From the layout of your keyboard to this site, everything is shaped by and shapes social norms. It would also be an opinionated technology if it decided not to ask you to set a password by default. You might as well have said I don’t like WiFi passwords because I don’t like WiFi passwords and it would’ve carried the exact same message.
What is Microsoft aversion to their "classic" Outlook? I never understood why they didn't just bundle that version with Windows. They've always attempt to foist an inferior version upon home users, starting with Outlook Express.

And why rewrite and push a new inferior version to users who already paid for the "good version". This is a tools that millions of their users rely on to do their job every day, it's extremely unprofessional.
Laws are distributed through the Bundesgesetzblatt, the official announcement publication for laws of the German Bundestag. Their online presence is here: https://www.recht.bund.de/de/bundesgesetzblatt/bundesgesetzb...

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A degap buffer.

queue : deque :: gap : degap

(Use a ringbuffer, instead.)
This song is in my library, completely forgot about it, thanks for bringing it back to me.

Some other artists I can recommend with similar specific Japanese vibes, Denki Groove and Yellow Magic Orchestra are really good.
This is the sort of counterargument I'd have liked to see instead of disagreement-driven downvoting, yes.
I'll look into a better way to collect emails. We have a quite a few people sign-up for the daily email as it's a good reminder to play each day, but we could place the sign-up elsewhere :)
Pretty sure the modern Gemini image models can already do token based image generation/editing and are significantly better and faster.
A Go Puzzle: How can this panic?
Modern? Everything has been 'new and improved' since the 60's
I would be interested to see this reproducibility study.
Interesting! Noted. Will look into improving the synonym match...
A fascist is not “far right”. I think the dictionary definition is more accepted.

So far the people in power have not used violence to suppress opposition. They have not promoted one ethnicity or race above others. They have not made trump a dictator. Trumps authority has remained scoped to the executive office of the government…

I mean come on. Just because the party in power across the board is effective at pushing policies you don’t fully agree with does not a fascist regime make.

Every single president back to Clinton and probably beyond, including Obama, has spoken out against government waste and spending abuse. These aren’t new soundbytes. Everyone is just up in arms when it’s not their party getting shit done.
To make cleaning the house as fun as doing drugs.
hey neighbor :) we should totally do this in oak park. oak parkers already kinda do "stoop coffee", but usually only twice a year during a pre-planned block party. i could see this expanded to something a little more frequent, like maybe sunday mornings from memorial day to labor day.
I work on opkssh and I agree with everything you have just said.

The value of opkssh makes sense in an environment in which already have OpenID Connect as the foundation for identity in your system.

OpenPubkey[0], the protocol opkssh is built on, supports cosigners, which parallel identity attestations. OpenPubkey is currently is designed to use cosigners purely for security, i.e., to remove the IDP as a single point of compromise.

OpenPubkey is built on JSON Web Signatures and JSON Web Signatures can support any number of signers. One could easily extend OpenPubkey to something like, 0x1234 is Alice's public if her public key signed by 7 out of 10 identity cosigners.

What you are describing is the same dream I have: decentralized, secure, human-meaningful names. This is hard to build [1] and you have to start sometime, so I started with the existing identity provider infrastructure but that the beginning. If you are interested in building this future, come work on https://github.com/openpubkey/openpubkey/

[0] OpenPubkey: Augmenting OpenID Connect with User held Signing Keys https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/296

[1] Zooko's triangle is a trilemma of three properties that some people consider desirable for names of participants in a network protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle
It works of course but it’s a short term solution. Because you’re trading off long term success for success right now.

It’s like a cash advance on a credit card. Great for getting 500 bucks in your pocket, but the interest is steep.

People, like most resources, can be extended past their maximum value at the cost of longevity.
And then they have OneDrive, SharePoint, Office365, and Teams as ways to share files... which are all the same thing/infrastructure under the hood.
You‘re right. I’m actually doing this quite often when coding. Starting with a few iterative promts to get a general outline of what I want and when that’s ok, copy the outline to a new chat and flesh out the details. But that’s still iterative work, I’m just throwing away the intermediate results that I think confuse the LLM sometimes.
This is the entire thesis of Jane Jacobs’ work: urban living works because of friction-by-design.

Inadvertent interactions between people you see every day build a sense of community over time — the “sidewalk ballet”.

I always wondered what she would have thought about her ideas in the context of COVID.
That's weird, I went to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_fascism and saw a lot of definitions but nothing about Hegelian Dialectic. I did see this list of defining characteristics of fascism:

1. Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism
2. Disdain for the importance of human rights
3. Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause
4. The supremacy of the military/avid militarism
5. Rampant sexism
6. A controlled mass media
7. Obsession with national security
8. Religion and ruling elite tied together
9. Power of corporations protected
10. Power of labor suppressed or eliminated
11. Disdain and suppression of intellectuals and the arts
12. Obsession with crime and punishment
13. Rampant cronyism and corruption
14. Fraudulent elections

By my count, Trump and his movement score 14 out of 14.
I can recommend Michael Lewis's The Fifth Risk that covers Trump #1 doing this sort of thing - go after the public bodies that protect against low probability but high consequence events because you'll get minimal pushback from the general public who are unlikely to notice.
And in 2007, a Doctor Who episode featuring the Titanic... In space!
But the probability of life arising is an unknown. Intuitively I too feel it probably isn't that small, but it wouldn't be the first time intuition about the universe is wrong. How do you _know_ the odds of life arising aren't 1/10^30?
Khalkhin Gol: Soviet Victory over Japan That Changed the Course of WW2 in Asia
Sorry, I didn't clarify something.

Require a fee to deliver email. If the email is deemed legitimate by the recipient then refund the fee.

> No, they will happily pay money to spam you

It's a question of price. They can't spam at scale at high enough price.
OpenAI's new image generator aims to be practical enough
thanks! I'm using an AI prompt (via the OpenAI API) to compare a player's guess to the survey's answers, and determining if it's a similar enough match to count as as correct.
Just a couple of days ago I wrote on reddit about how long context models are mostly useless to me, because they start making too many mistakes very fast. They are vaguely helpful for "needle in a haystack" problems, not much more.

I have a "test" which consists in sending it a collection of almost 1000 poems, which currently sit at around ~230k tokens, and then asking a bunch of stuff which requires reasoning over them. Sometimes, it's something as simple as "identify key writing periods and their differences" (the poems are ordered chronologically). Previous models don't usually "see" the final poems — they get lost, hallucinate and are pretty much worthless. I have tried several workaround techniques with varying degrees of success (e.g. randomizing the poems).

Having just tried this model (I have spent the last 3 hours probing it), I can say that, to me, this is a breakthrough moment. Truly a leap. This is the first model that can consistently comb through these poems (200k+ tokens) and analyse them as a whole, without significant issues or problems. I have no idea how they did it, but they did it.

The analysis of this poetic corpus has few mistakes and is very, very, very good. Certainly very good in terms of how quickly it produces an answer — it would take someone days or weeks of thorough analysis.

Of course, this isn't about poetry — it's about passing in huge amounts of information, without RAG, and having a high degree of confidence in whatever reasoning tasks this model performs. It is the first time that I feel confident that I could offload the task of "reasoning" over large corpus of data to an LLM. The mistakes it makes are minute, it hasn't hallucinated, and the analysis is, frankly, better than what I would expect of most people.

Breakthrough moment.