skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> He was a test pilot; he's supposed to put his life at risk.

Are you sure about this?

It takes a lot of time and hours to get a pilot to the point they can probe the edges that test pilots do. The whole goal is to actually keep them alive so their experience and observations can be used. And that just compounds. So while they fly maneuvers and situations that would absolutely overwhelm me as a 300 hour private pilot in my Tecnam, my feeling is that even at that point they fly at less relative risk than I do. They are experts in mitigating, and preparing for risk.

There are old pilots and bold pilots. I do not believe that being a test pilot is a mandate that forces one to transfer to the bold club.
CSV?

it's surely simple but..

- where is meta data?
- how do you encode binary?
- how do you index?
- where are relationships? different files?
I thought military suit/tie would be timeless, but then I compared the dress uniforms of different countries. I guess some uniforms have different timescales for "timeless".
Ug5
Sometimes I wonder if the people designing this stuff ever actually use dual displays day to day
I'm sorry for you, ties (and bowties) are cool :)
Yeah kinda my point…
It’s very hard to draw the line. I see your point I just find it intractable.

For example what if I told you that one of the executive producers of your favorite movie is a horrible felon? What if it was the editor ? Do you background check all of the contributors?

It also seems to me that people who achieved great things were either deeply traumatized or really disturbing individuals. A regular 9-5er who is an excellent family member, friend and has great morals rarely achieves greatness. I guess it really begs the question is it worth it?

I think historically we relied on the great work these horrible folks and conveniently scrubbed their horrible backgrounds.
This is a little bit of bait and click. Of course, SequenceEquals is not as fast as memcmp in absolute terms. In a C or C++ program memcmp usually translates into a compiler intrinsic under optimization. It's only slower than SequenceEquals because of P/Invoke and function call overhead while SequenceEquals is probably JIT-compiled into efficient instructions.
I actually like 2 and 3 in retrospect, but I shut 4 off about halfway through.

I liked the reimagining of agent smith ("the man") from an unnamed government agent to a tech bro. The conversation about the new matrix being made "with or without" the original creator was a great fuck you to whoever was pulling those strings.

I wanted them to add another couple layers to the mind fuckery. We're used to watching the matrix and knowing which scenes are in the matrix and which are in the real world. Mess with that. Reveal halfway through that the "real world" scenes we've seen so far (in 4, not the previous movies) have actually been in the matrix.

In my ideal world, the climax would've been Neo realizing that he's been dead the whole movie, existing as a manifestation of the free machines, giving them individuality and choice the same way that agent smith took away human individuality and choice in 3. Trinity can still be saved, but Neo can never go with her to the real world.
Disagreed. I think LLMs will simply get smart enough to figure out how to call into another API/agent.
There have already been russian operators killed this way -- they re-used the same launch spot and in the morning sun the fiber optics are clearly visible from air -- their position was identified and then shelled.
One of the contributors might be from a sanctioned country, and therefore it's reasonable to block everyone?

That absolutely does not sound reasonable to everyone else.
As a means of stopping myself from walking out on a one year contract to work for a terrible IT telecoms company I learned to fly. But that's probably not exactly what you meant.
The whole point of the result here, which is an implementation of this[1] paper, is exactly that you don't have to take anyone's word for how good their quantum chip is, but rather that you can yourself verify that it is good.

From the referenced paper:

The problem is, how do we convince a skeptic over the Internet, with no access to our hardware, that the bits were indeed random, and not secretly backdoored?

In our protocol, a classical verifier uses a small random seed to generate n-qubit challenge circuits C1, C2, . . . pseudorandomly. The verifier then submits these Ci’s one at a time, presumably over the standard Internet, to a quantum computer server.

For each Ci, the server needs to respond quickly—say, in less than one second—with independent samples s1, . . . , sk from Ci’s output distribution [...]. The verifier, at its leisure, can then calculate the so-called Linear Cross-Entropy Benchmark [...].

If the LXEB scores are sufficiently large, our analysis shows that the verifier can then be confident, under plausible computational assumptions, that there must be Ω(n) bits of genuine min-entropy in the returned samples.

In other words: even a quantum computer should need exp(n) time to generate samples that
pass the LXEB test and yet are secretly deterministic or nearly-deterministic functions of Ci.

Further:

Here, we not only complete the analysis that SA announced in 2018: we also prove security, in the random oracle model, against an adversary who could be arbitrarily entangled with the QC. This goes beyond what SA claimed in 2018, and indeed addresses one of the central open problems raised at that time.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.01625
> I'll believe destroying stacktrace information is a valid complaint when people start complaining that for loops destroy the entire history of previous values the loop variables have had.

That is a common criticism. You're referring to the functional programmers. They would typically argue that building up state based on transient loop variables is a mistake. The body of a loop ideally should be (at the time any stack trace gets thrown) a pure function of constant values and a range that is being iterated over while being preserved. That makes debugging easier.
The article mentions they pivoted to a different business model just before the pandemic. That model was to be a full in-house studio. Their timing was unfortunate.
The fiber will only link to the launchpad, the pilot can be anywhere.
Thanks for the reference! I haven't read Byun-Chul Han yet, but I've seen his name come up more and more lately
> DOGE and Fiscal Discipline: The goal of cutting $1 trillion from the federal budget, a major libertarian priority.

Is the result all that matters, and not how it is reached? Life-saving funding for various programs around the world through USAID? Cutting the budgets of the NIH, reducing what the National Cancer Research has to work with by $1B? Suspending student loan repayment programs?

I understand that your belief might be that the US government should never have been doing any of these things to begin with. Fine. But since we have been doing them, often for a very long time, and with so many programs, organizations, and literal lives now depending on them, is just yanking all of it with no notice, no time to adapt, practically overnight, really the ideal way to handle it because it saves more money faster?

> Freedom of Speech

Pulling AP's press credentials for not acknowledging the Gulf of America? Detaining/deporting people in the USA legally for expressing pro-Palestinian views? Suing media companies for coverage that you just didn't like? Punishing law firms for once taking up causes against you or that you didn't agree with?

> Non-Interventionist Foreign Policy

We're going to take the Panama Canal, Greenland, and Canada?
Thanks for the clarification, definitely makes sense
Yeah, that's basically what I'm saying. Building a state/civic society is extremely hard and generally takes a long time to sink in. In contrast, taking an existing evil state and making it less-evil seems a lot easier, as you can see with Japan and Germany.
Why use Dokku, and not, say, docker-compose?
What’s the old adage, is it “I don’t know how WW3 will end, but WW4 will end with rock paper scissors”?

Right now, my money’s on scissors.
https://i.imgur.com/JTfpiXV.jpeg

I think this is fibres littering trees in Kursk.
Tearing Down the Unitree Go2: A Robotics Expert's Deep Dive [video]
> Wikipedia could fund Oka or other organizations.

It's possible, though I do not know if this is sufficient to cover their legal risk in this scenario. Likely it would require analysis of details beyond what could be reasoned through in hypothetical.
Extremely easy for you to write this treatise from the comfort of your armchair.

Do you understand this failure occurred at less than a thousand feet AGL?
Makes sense. Current networking standards ultimately emerge from ARPA, a single actor - this was a single vendor solution being adopted. AI agent field has many more actors, the situation resembles browser wars or even something more loose common-approach-wise.
I remember the last time a tried it on the steam deck, less than a year ago through their launcher, it was completely broken and unplayable. I would love to give it another go if this was fixed.
I think you confused my statement of caring what other people think about my suit, to wearing a suit. I wear suits. I just don't care what the fashion around them is.
A diploma from the type of school the author describes is already pretty worthless, imo.

I don't get why schools can't just get strict in response to these issues. No electronics in class, period. Accessibility problems can be fixed by having each impaired student get a volunteer scribe for the class.

You're in school to learn, and electronics hinder in-person education more than they help, especially as ChatGPT style AI is available on them.
I am very sorry for casting doubt, the sibling comment makes a lot of sense.
I’m interested :)
Glad you like it!

The tool isn't optimized for GIFs—it's designed mainly for static images. That's likely why it gets laggy when editing GIFs. I might explore GIF support in the future, but for now, it's best suited for still images.

The reset option isn't available yet, so you'll need to reload the page for now. But I'll be adding a reset button in an upcoming update!
> He said they were like spider silk in the dawn.

Russian FPV operators have already lost their life due to this precise effect and the fact they operated from the same building multiple times.
No, the map is of the folks that ended up in a detainment facility in a foreign country without being processed in the judicial system. The majority are in the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador.

People are calling it "Disappeared" because once the people are out of the United States, they're out of United States judicial jurisdiction and administrative jurisdiction. ICE will not arrange for family to communicate with the deported people, so in their eyes, the person has just disappeared and they can't communicate with them.

As a country, we're better than this. Deporting them back to their home country is great. Going up to a judge and getting a conviction if we want to jail them, great. Taking them off the street and putting them in a jail in a country they're not a citizen of without going in front of a judge? No. That's not right at all.
https://archive.ph/W0kiR
The problem is that the value the students get out of the transaction is being lowered by their own actions in the class
The article mentions that "A small backup display was partially functional, but Del Pizzo had to look down to see it".
Would love to read the outcomes
I meant ML is a subset of AI ...
Nah. Humanities professors keep claiming it's phones because that's visible to them when they lecture but read what they're saying carefully and the actual cause is obvious: students don't take it seriously because the professors don't.

The whole way through this sorry excuse for an essay I was thinking, "so your fail rate is way up, right? Right??" Insert padmé meme here. Then at the end he asks what he's supposed to do... maintain standards by failing the students? Heaven forbid! The University might make less money! I'm not kidding, the author actually said this. Well, apparently reading all those novels about the philosophy of the Underground Man didn't help because that's the only explanation needed; phones are entirely superfluous. If a degree is a transaction and you keep lowering the price, of course people will pay that lower price.

It's also silly to claim there's an issue with phones specifically, given the author says he can't stop people using laptops in class because the administration is easily manipulated through claims of disability. One student spent the whole time gambling on a laptop and the professor didn't even notice. Banning phones won't help, phones are just a surface level symptom of the fact that humanities courses at minimum have become completely fake and professors don't care enough to stop it.
Don't matter for what: thinking, aesthetic appreciation, insights on humanity, knowledge of what came before, understanding current events, questioning the status quo, what is it that they don't matter for?
I am working on journaling app targeted at language learners: You write inna target language and see mistakes and corrections.
It’s as pre-order in the app store: https://apps.apple.com/ch/app/language-diary-writing-w-ai/id...
I disagree. Work is real scarce, the food stamp benefits also don't cover a full month of food, more like 1-2 weeks with grocery store price inflation (assuming you have a kitchen to prepare your food, many don't).

The alternative to no work is starving, and there are people where they have been starving and unable to find any gainful employment for years. The most common excuse is being overqualified.

I've a friend who was laid off about a year ago, more experienced than I in SRE, and has had no job offers and he's applied to everything available in and outside Tech.

You got signs everywhere saying "We're hiring", and force you to do a 1-2 hour LeetCode Interview or some other BS, and then within 20 minutes after completing it he'll get an automated reply through the portal saying they've gone with another candidate; they won't take the sign down though, and when he went in person they say "You're just too overqualified", or better yet "Not a good culture fit [pre-interview smacking of ageism]. There are also tax subsidies for businesses to hire discouraged workers, still it seems like no ones doing it.

You've got most places that say they need help when in fact they aren't hiring at all. If anything there are far more people who are not counted than those on just the U6. I wouldn't agree 1:1 shouldn't count.
> Iv seen a compilation of russian fiber drone fails vid recently.

One anxiety of mine is being teased by an FPV drone -- with fiber optics it's much easier to defend against as a foot soldier -- if you can loop once around a tree and find the fiber optics cable, you can easily snap it and bye bye drone.

Also, given the pilot has to be more conservative with his maneuvers, shotguns will be more effective because the target is easier to lead.
i have no skin in the game and honestly i am wondering how this idea contributes to enshittifying the web more?

this idea just seems like it provides the same content as visiting the site in a different view, like reader mode?
> (seriously, it's like watching an LLM execute on CPU).

I dunno, it seems fine to me. The person starts the call by saying they need an ambulance, so she is going through trying to collect information about what the injuries are.

The problem is that the pilot wanted to contact 911 to warn them about the plane crash, but somehow that got misinterpreted by the homeowner and got them on this ambulance track, and the pilot isn't doing a good job of saying "don't worry about me, let's talk about the plane". He keeps chiming in with these questions about the plane crash that seem to come out of nowhere.

He also doesn't even mention that he's concerned that the plane crash might have injured someone else.

Maybe there's more to this that was edited out.

But I'm not sure what the criticism is: she's supposed to stop asking questions about his injuries, and suddenly ask about a possible plane crash that they haven't had any reports of yet? What would that even achieve?
Arguably some self-serving motivations can be good. Again, look at Japan and West Germany. It was very self-serving for the US/West, but in a good way: they wanted strong states as allies, so they made sure to fund, protect, and rebuild those societies, even though they had recently finished an extremely terrible war with those countries. This is different from the blatant colonialism/exploitation that was more typical in earlier decades and centuries.
I mean if the air force is so uncomfortable with soldiers surviving while the $150M gadget bursts into flames, why do they even request for an ejection function in the aircrafts?
The fact that this is allowed is insane. This is not even an election (where his doings were already questionable) but a LAWFUL decision! Money has no reason to even play a role here? This is just Oligarchy hidden in disguise as the "ree" democracy of the US
I am working on an AWS Lambda clone, an app for indian farmers and a hackathon projects which involves multiple agent interactions
In other words to you human lives are worth less than F-35s.
fiber optic is glass and doesn't conduct electricity...
This is easily solvable by using _plain English_ as the interop layer. We have more or less solved natural language input with open source llms that are about as capable as llama3-70b. Searching the docs of the next tool to be called is all you need to get an invocation that does what an agent needs to do.
The fact that a 13th-century Arthurian manuscript was quietly hiding inside a 16th-century book cover for centuries is wild enough on its own, but the way they virtually unfolded it without causing damage feels almost as magical as the story of Merlin itself
He was not a test pilot! The F-35B entered service in 2015, the incident happened in 2023. He was a squadron commander, in charge of training other pilots to fly the plane.
A playground for the rich does not make a country perfect, again you are conflating being wealthy with being good for living. I never said the USA isn't wealthy, it's more that it's rather bad for living a normal life despite being the wealthiest country in history.

It's great to be rich in the USA, life isn't about being rich though, as much as your culture has ingrained that in your head to the point where, clearly on this comment thread, you don't even notice it.
Two Attacks on Naive Tree Hashes
And you can’t publicly talk about state secrets, so you can’t call it free speech.
The journalist who reported it committed treason. Wow, congratulations on having the most unhinged take I've ever seen on this site, well done.
Trump himself has said he wants to end birthright citizenship. EVERYONE in the US is at risk. If you think you're safe, you aren't. This is what fascists do.

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/14/nx-s1-5327552/trump-takes-bir...

https://immigrationimpact.com/2025/02/07/breaking-down-trump...
IMO if Musk serious about going to mars, being mere richest 100 billionaire from wildly overhyped meme Tesla stock simply isn't enough. The smart play IS what he's doing right now... go for government power and get trillions, not just any government, but US government with trillions to extract. Of course that assumes he can secure his influence medium-long term, but dumb execution = doesn't look like he can survive next 4 years with how many enemies he's making.
I'm working on a few closed source projects that are all built on https://github.com/1backend/1backend, my dream microservices platform I've had in mind for 12 years before starting to implement it.

On the frontend I'm rather happy with Angular but backend-wise I was never really happy. So it was time to build it. Been developing it for more than a year now.
I don't think it's clickbait. Even though the title doesn't mention C# or .net explicitly it seems clear from that Span<> stuff that this is talking about some higher level language...
You’re free to support apartheid but I’ve never found slandering your opposition particularly useful. I don’t support any forms of violence, and framing is very important because it leads to peace activists being conflated with war mongering. Israel fascism is at the very heart of why free speech is being banned.

https://youtu.be/9Z1NyTdhZ-U?si=9S4rOI-fQY0Yr0XD
I love how these layers of reuse in bookbinding turn ordinary archival work into a kind of historical archaeology
Because the universities themselves have been constantly lowering standards. It was always a transaction but there was a price. That price is locked in a race to the bottom because administrations and professors don't care about standards.
>"The average college student today" is not uniquely lazy or lacking in character.

Idk, it's totally possible that as COVID happened and they watched the government lock them in their homes away from each other and forced them to miss important moments in their lives (remote graduations for example), then they watched the rise of EZ-Cheat systems (ChatGPT) which made their creators extremely wealthy, combined with crypto frauds (that our own President does in his free time), they started to think that the way to get ahead in life was to lack character and be lazy...
Intel and Microsoft staff lured to work for fake Chinese company in Taiwan
What if you're low on sorbent and can't turn on another scrubber ?

I wonder if sorbent quantity correlates with performance
Are There Anyone Ever Made a Profit Through BYDFi?
After being involved in cryptocurrency trading for some time, I heard about the BYDFi platform. Out of curiosity and exploration of new opportunities, I signed up and used it for two months now. These two months of experience have made me have a deep understanding of BYDFi.
I had a math prof who didn't speak English.

Didn't matter, one of the best courses I ever took. He made the math look beautiful on the old fashion chalk board. Absolutely wonderful and enlightening equations.
many laptops are reaching 100wh limit, dell xps 16 has 99.9wh iirc

And people dont travel with single device anymore. My usually setup has 72wh powerbank, ~20wh phone and 90wh laptop, and various smaller gadget. They are reaching nearly 200wh
You have no real reason to believe that, you are pulling the reasons out of your rear. Read the reports, literally the investigations themselves concluded that most pilots would have ejected and that there was no misconduct.

You don’t know what you are talking about.
They were, but that vision was killed as soon as the phrase you quote was spoken.

LLMs are, in fact, one of the few products in the past decades that - at least for now - align with this vision. That's because they empower the end users directly. Anyone can just go to chatgpt.com or claude.ai to access a tool that will understand their problem, no matter how clumsily formulated, and solve it, or teach them how to solve it, or otherwise address it in a useful fashion. That's pure and quite general force multiplier.

But don't you worry, plenty of corporations and countless startups are hard at work to, like with all computing before, strip down the bicycle and offer you Uber and theme park rides for your mind.