skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could the advantage be that a military monitoring installation of cameras is less detectable than a high-frequency radar monitoring installation? My understanding is that active radars are easily detectable, but perhaps cameras could be less so and that advantage could allow them to be deployed closer and might require less protection themselves.
> They'll never be enough ICE agents to deport all illegal immigrants

This is why they are deporting anyone who looks like an immigrant. Not checking immigration status saves a lot of time. The idea is not to make only illegal immigrants fear the ICE, but anyone who might look like one.
No I mean AI will replace EVERY worker in that industry
I come from a family of hunters. We have those types, but we also have the types which just love the outdoors. Even the latter type has some manly-man schtick to their love of hunting, but it's partly about spending time with male friends and family. When someone ends up bagging a deer, the meat is shared around the family. Doesn't happen that often, but I look forward to it - I really love the gaminess of wild deer.

With fishing, I've observed a similar trend. There's plenty of people who just really love to geek out about fish (I am one of these), and keep detailed notes of the species they catch, where they caught them, the conditions, the baits/lures used, reading up on their ranges, behaviors, feeding habits, etc. There's other people who really love eating fresh fish, and they aren't into the process and community as much. There's a few ladies in my Chicago fishing group like this (one of whom is a high powered lawyer, as I understand it).

Some of the trophy fishermen want more rules and regulations, these tend to be the Musky fisherman who want their bodies of water to be mandated catch-and-release only.

The MAGA leaning fishermen seem like they can come in any of the above (and more) flavors. I'd be hard pressed to put a number on what % of fishermen I've run into are which types as well, regardless of their politics.
It's the Juicero of whatever market this is.
Their point is that it seems to function like an LLM even if it's more advanced. The points raised in this comment don't refute that, per the assertion that each of them is in the future of LLMs.
Was Gemini 2.5 trained on TPUs thought? I seem to be struggling to find that information. Wouldn't they want to mention it in every press release?
Ask HN: Biggest non-tech scientific innovations of the 21st century?
The tech industry often dominates headlines here on HN, but what are the major scientific breakthroughs in other fields (biology, medicine, physics, chemistry, climate science, etc...) in the last two decades?
Hi everyone,
I built @promptrepo/score because we’re no longer using generative AI just for suggestions — we’re making decisions with it. But generative AI is probabilistic, not the deterministic systems we’re used to. So when AI makes decisions, we need to know how confident it is, and how much we can trust each field in the output.

This tool looks simple — it just converts OpenAI’s logprobs into field-level confidence scores — but that changes how you use AI in production. It lets you mark low-confidence fields, send them for human review, or retry with better grounding. In high-volume systems, you can also track low-confidence patterns to improve prompts or fine-tune with better data. Its a lightweight npm and has no dependencies, so its easy to integrate it into your AI workflows. Would love to hear your thoughts!
I mean, this and native compilation. And the new json parser that landed. And... (I'm sure I could go on.)

What it doesn't have is a marketing department pushing it. But it has plenty of new users. No?
I remember reading his book 'The Naked Sun' back in highschool and one of the things that stuck to me was how Earth was kind of a dump bereft of robots, meanwhile the Spacer humans were incredibly rich, had a low population and their society was run by robots doing all the menial work. You could argue he envisioned our current world even if accidentally.
Comparing animal cruelty with what is pretty widely seen as one of the single most horrific things humans have ever done to each other serves to weaken your argument for people that don't already agree with you, not strengthen it.

I know comparisons are a tempting tool, since they're a very effective way of communicating a lot of information and, more importantly, an impression very economically. But part of what made the holocaust so horrible is that people were being treated like animals. It's like trying to argue that dogs should be kept inside by saying "What if you made your toddler sleep outside in a dog house?", it's a comparison that defeats itself.

If your goal is to feel righteous on the internet and demonstrate your strong love for animals, by all means proceed. If your goal is to change hearts and minds, reconsider your rhetoric; you'll have much more luck if you tune it to people that don't already agree with you,
You can post images using Markdown but the images themselves have to be hosted elsewhere.

Ah I see. That's easy enough, though I have found people nowadays find that to be too much friction. Old timers are good with it as that is all they had on IRC assuming DCC was disabled as it should be. The current generation expects files to be hosted by the same platform.

In terms of memory the one thing I would want to avoid is swap. Slowness aside it is on disk and data can be recovered from it and automating mounting encrypted swap adds a weakness as well. ZRAM can add some compression to memory. [1] I think your idea of pruning replies matches the current pattern used by sites with space restrictions. Great work, I hope more people follow in your footsteps and also contribute to your code.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zram
I also saw British plugs from China that had no fuse in it (just a plug adapter that was attached to the charger).
I suppose it's the same as those who keep 100's of deserted discord servers open.

FOMO? That odd chance you may need that contact.
We’ve definitely saturated the namespace of tokens in compsci. I came here to see how network mesh comms were being compressed.
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I think it's malice masquerading as incompetence. They go after everyone who doesn't look American enough, don't do any checking, and, by the time someone notices, they are already working as slaves for The Glory of El Salvador.
Even the conspiracy theory community has become like this. What used to be a community of passionate skeptics, ufo-ologists, and rabid anti-statists has turned into the most overtly boot licking right wing apologists who apply an incredible amount of mental energy to justifying the actions of what is transparently and blatantly the most corrupt government in American history, so long as that government is weaponized against whatever identity and cultural groups they hate
> The people with all of the money effectively froze wages for 45 years

Yep. And they didn't accomplish that 'peaceably' either, for the record. A lot of people got murdered, many more smeared/threatened/imprisoned etc. Entire countries get decimated.

> What makes you think that they'll peaceably agree to UBI for people who don't sell them labor for money?

I don't imagine for a moment that they'll like UBI. There is no shortage of examples over recent millenia of how far the parasite class will go to keep the status quo.

History also shows us that having all the money doesn't guarantee that people will do things your way. Class awareness, strikes, unions, protest, and alternative systems/technological advance have shown their mettle. These things scare oligarchs because they work.
Why Tap a Wheel of Cheese?
I too long for different ways of interacting with a computer.

Unfortunately, I think the ship may have sailed as it's getting too hard to both start from scratch and also provide support for everything from a web browser to drivers and so on. It was a lot easier when the to do list was 1/100th the size. The workaround is to utilize what has already been done, but then that kind of defeats the entire purpose and you just get a slightly different flavor of the same thing.

The only other real option would be a radical revision of what a computer is. Something really simple that maybe a bit closer to what Carl Sasserath was doing with iOS (no, not Apple iOS, but the internet OS via Rebol thing) iirc, or what the Forth folks do with hardware. I think Alan Kay may have talked about this as well from a smalltalk perspective. The question is if you can do anything interesting with it. I'm sure there are dozens of us that would give up YouTube and social media to have a fully understandable computing system :)
That's fine. I'm not trying to convince you to change your stance, simply bringing a perspective of Nix being used in production in a company of 500+ engineers. It's not an exhaustive example, but I've always used it as a data point of the general dislike of Nix I see across the board.
Political data analytics firm Crowdpac (https://www.crowdpac.com/about). The data I randomly looked at was reported from https://www.thecornellreview.org/cornell-is-4th-most-liberal...

It is always hard to measure political affiliations by organizations. If you think they are wrong and that Cornell should be defined as a conservative university, or neither, I would read that. Do you?

As for how it relate to the question, the political affiliation of universities are a known factor when account for research bias in studies. While the findings are usually not incorrect, as a matter of fact, results has a tendency to align with political views. A part of the theory that explains why such bias exist is that universities/countries tend to fund research which align with their view of the world. Meta studies that compare findings from different countries often has to account for this when trying to make sense of conflicting results, especially when comparing US vs China. You also get this effect when comparing results from different time periods.
IMHO yes you’re “losing neurons” and the obvious answer is to stop using Claude. The work you do with them benefits them more than it benefits you. You’re paying them to have conversations with a chatbot which has stricter copyright than you do. That means you’re agreeing to pay to train their bot to replace you in the job market. Does that sound like a good idea in the long term? Anthropic is an actual brain rape system, just like OpenAI, Grok, and all the rest, they cannot be trusted
Which is why they went with vehicle instead. A travois is a vehicle, absolutely.
there is a more detailed write up on the "why" behind the refactor on Medium -
https://medium.com/@miki_45906/advanced-mcps-in-python-how-t...
The Soft Skills Renaissance
not really as most modern airborne weapons platforms operate bvr, even if they were on the horizon, and your array of cameras were operating in optimal conditions there is a still a hard limit on the effectiveness of such a solution.
> The Star Trek computer from TNG is basically an LLM, really.

Watched all seasons recently for the first time. While some things are "just" vector search with a voice interface, there are also goodies like "Computer, extrapolate from theoretical database!", or "Create dance partner, female!" :D

For anyone curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CDhEwhOm44
>Go sit in a bar in hunting country during deer season. You won't hear people talking about how peaceful, relaxing, or enjoyable it was. You either hear (1) them bragging about how big of deer they got (2) how big the deer was that "got away".

There is nothing wrong with this. Its isn't mutually exclusive with a love and appreciation and respect for nature.

Yes there is an ego component, and that is OK too. It is a challenge and people derive satisfaction from success and accomplishment. How is it different than people excited about how productive their garden is or how many sweaters they knit for family.

I caught a big fish last weekend. I put in time, thought, and effort and paid off. I was happy and my friends were excited for my success (and dinner).

That doesn't mean I'm some nature hating egomaniac.
Probably depends who you refer to by "we". On a global level, the answer is definitely yes.

Extreme poverty decreased, child mortality decreased, literacy and access to electricity has gone up.

Are people unhappier? Maybe. But not because they lack something materially.
Add another $10M and build passive radars from consumer stuff that listens for ruccus in telecom and television fields and you have a pretty annoying defensive baseline.
China-Based SMS Phishing Triad Pivots to Banks
Hey, it's not like that at all. I don't have a rotary phone or a cat.
This is a clever approach to providing LLMs with specific, up-to-date package documentation context. How does it handle versioning if multiple versions of a package exist? Does it pull docs for the specific version used in the project context, or just the latest?

Also curious about the performance impact – is the doc retrieval fast enough for real-time use within an LLM interaction flow?

Nice tool for improving the accuracy of LLM responses related to package usage!
I guess you’re pointing out that there’s no identification. But it’s still locating stealth fighters.
They are limited in viable political candidates, same as the left. So naturally the policies they get are not a perfect reflection of their preferences (if not an outright betrayal, as was the case in the UK where, after Brexit, the alleged "right-wing" government massively increased immigration).
That's my biggest peave wrt climate change...

Why do they keep trying the doomsday messaging?

Its too far into the future, hence irrelevant for most current consumers. And even if they thought it relevant, if you take it at face value: whatever you're doing won't solve the issue anyway, because it's a global issue.

The messaging has to go back to local effects. Literally everything you should do for the climate has a lot of positive effects short term... I e. don't try to outlaw ICE vehicles in cities because of climate... Massively tax them because the they reduce the air quality and cause noise pollution
That’s how most schooling has already been in a lot of South and East Asia. If you don’t do your homework, you get punished in other ways, but it doesn’t have any impact on the overall grade, the grade solely depends on the final exam.
I feel like the quote and setup here doesn't make sense.

Yes design can contribute to human mistakes, like "oh noes I texted my friends to pickup milk at the store when I meant to text my wife while I was out on a walk".

The context in this case was a high ranking official and secret information. The onus is on that person far more than a casual text to your wife while out for a walk.

Personally I think it should be a job disqualifying mistake. The biggest security risks are always those people who the rules don't apply to and have no consequences.
It's only ~100 years since seafood was the primary protein source of most coastal regions. The rampant mismanagement of fish/shellfish stocks that put an end to that has had knock-on effects across our entire food supply, that continue to influence agricultural policy to this day
No, OP is correct. I was teaching CS at a uni two years ago... files, directories, filesystem hierarchy, but yes, even just a file, this is a strange concept to them.

It is not a insurmountable hurdle, but it is interesting in the sense that things like git, programming, etc, all deal with files and filesystem hierarchies, and the students have never seen this, so it makes it one more thing to add to the (ever growing) list of things they need to know before we jump in.
> While 75% of company leaders thought their AI rollout over the past 12 months has been successful, only 45% of employees said the same.

The term "rollout" implies a ready-made and well thought-through implementation, but isn't AI itself too new of a technology for that? A rollout indicates to me possible wrong assumptions about the thing. "Successive evaluation and adoption" would be a better strategy. Perhaps the framing of the relationship with AI as "rollout" reflects how decision-makers think of "AI"—through a vague imagination of efficiency that seems self-evident, but actually is not.
This is the way LLM-enhanced coding should (and I believe will) go.

Treating the LLM like a compiler is a much more scalable, extensible and composable mental model than treating it like a junior dev.
In the context of Hacker News, when the "worked conclusions" are that of an AI (however accurate or well trained), yes, I suspect that people tend to prefer that less than the opinion of a random stranger.

I'm here for the people. No AI is going to tell me what you think about something.
after a wave of demos, we're starting to see what's needed for sustainable mcps
> I don’t believe in voting for the lesser of two evils. It’s a myopic viewpoint that doesn’t take into account long term consequences.

I fail to see that position. There's always a choice between better and worse; even if the choice of better isn't what you want right now, it bends the arrow in the direction where the next choice starts from a better position.

Is your argument that there's a risk of local maxima? Perhaps. But I think it's hubris to imagine that if you bend the arrow down, you'll get to decide who survives the local minima to see whether there's a better maxima after it. That's a choice to put a lot of blood on one's hands.
I work from home and this would be cool to communicate with my kids when I'm on a call before they barge in asking questions. HOWEVER, the price is WAY too high. This is at most a $50 dollar thing.
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Back in the 1990s Cornell had three conservative newspapers and I regularly remember seeing speakers like P.J. O'Rourke and Dan Horowitz. Of course we had Pataki as Governor in New York back then.

I came to Cornell in 1993 and felt really out of place and got interested in the far left and teamed up with my friend Harel to get all the left-wing organizations pulling in the same direction. Other people formed "Progressives United" which completed our work. Interestingly I learned a lot of lessons that "woke" people haven't: I got a real talking-to from some black nationalists about how my vanguardism was bullshit so I found that making people your "allies" is about listening to them and being supportive of them over a long period of time and not about adding a stripe to your flag or another letter to an acronym.

When I started we were really afraid of conservative organizations because they had a counter-protest every time we had a protest. As it turned out my wife-to-be and one of my best friends were members of the Cornell Republicans but that group fell apart because of the antics of Donald Wagda who was trained at the Leadership Institute in how to be like one of Nixon's plumbers.

In the last two years I think labor militancy has been the interesting theme at Cornell. Dining hall workers have gone on strike and I've seen the trade unions that Cornell doesn't work with, particularly the glaziers, out and about with a giant inflatable rat. Grad students formed a union a year and a half ago and just signed a contract. TCAT bus drivers almost went on strike.

As for the Gaza protests Cornell hasn't had anything like Columbia. Last year there was an encampment on the arts quad

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/112437028728530911

which was really pretty polite and they never did anything that disrupted classes. There was an incident where students disrupted a job fair, they were dealt with reasonably harshly (suspension, one has just left the country.)
In theory, the economy should create new avenues. Labour costs are lower, goods and services get cheaper (inflation adjusted) and the money is spent on things that were once out of reach.

In practice I fear that the savings will make the rich richer, drive down labour's negotiating power and generally fail to elevate our standard of living.
These papers don't appear to say that: the first one describes the behavior as statistically optimal, which is exactly what you'd expect for a sound set of defeasible relations.

Or intuitively: my ability to determine whether a bird flies or not is definitely going to be statistically optimal, but my underlying cognitive process is not itself inherently statistical: I could be looking at a penguin and remembering that birds fly by default except when they're penguins, and only then if the penguin isn't wearing a jetpack. That's a non-statistical set of relations, but its external observation is modeled statistically.
It's https://sheep.horse/
It's simply a narcissist's revenge
> it must support everything modern rsync supports to be considered compatible, right?

Apple's openrsync says that it is compatible with rsync protocol versions 27 - 29, which predate rsync 3.X. I don't consider it modern.
I'm all up for better error messaging. :)

Can't use Clang where I'm at, but I do get to use fairly cutting-edge GCC, at least for Windows development. So I may get to see these improvements once they drop into MSYS.
I have read about a town insulating a big block of soil and then putting water pipes in it to heat it up over the summer and use the heat in the winter and vice versa.
Very cool, but I thought this was going to be ancient-technology bullshit. I'd love to see quotes around "vehicle", or a different word.
> Their point is that it seems to function like an LLM even if it's more advanced.

So did ELIZA. So did SmarterChild. Chatbots are not exactly a new technology. LLMs are at best a new cog in that same old functionality—but nothing has fundamentally made them more reliable or useful. The last 90% of any chatbot will involve heavy usage of heuristics with both approaches. The main difference is some of the heuristics are (hopefully) moved into training.
smartfunc doesn't really treat the LLM as a compiler - it's not generating Python code to fill out the function, it's converting that function into one that calls the LLM every time you call the function passing in its docstring as a prompt.

A version that DID work like a compiler would be super interesting - it could replace the function body with generated Python code on your first call and then reuse that in the future, maybe even caching state on disk rather than in-memory.
The state level variability is fun. I know it's required for CA from personal experience, and checked TX, FL before posting. Also checked NY (talk about bad documentation). All require it currently.

Some states also don't like accepting online bills. That's the reason I wasn't able to ever get one in CA.
There are a very small minority that seem to have a genetic component requiring less sleep for them (4-6hr).

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2018/03/410051/scientists-discover...
chroot can be a alternative to setting up fussy cross-compilers. It'll be slower, but that slowness pays off as long as you spend less time on extra CPU cycles than you do on getting cross compilers to work.

It's also useful for reverse-engineering router/IoT firmware.
Depending on the war, you might not have cell phone (basestation) signals everywhere during actual fighting, relying on that seems a bit limiting.
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