skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He claimed asylum but it was denied because it was too late. After the deportation order there was an order of withholding from deportation, after which it appears he was granted some form of work authorization and parole with annual check ins.

Nevertheless I strongly believe if the US had just dumped him in a village in El Salvador none of this would be news. They have done that to US citizens and hardly anyone noticed. The real story is he was sent into an experimental contract foreign prison at the behest of the government and the violation of the withholding order provides the wedge to challenge it and eventually wedge to make it easier to challenge more happenings at CECOT. Even if he is an MS13 member, the government never used due process to withdraw the withholding of removal order that they are claiming should no longer exist.
This is one of the main reasons we added anti monopoly provisions to our laws more than 100 years ago. Market dominance is a recognized factor in allowing this inversion of rewards to occur.

That's the face of it. Labor is a market as well. The impacts of these arrangements on our labor pool is extraordinary. It's a massive displaced cost of allowing these types of mergers to occur born out by the people who stand to gain the least from the merging of business assets.
The top 1% aren't the billionaires. It's also not most of the millionaires. It's people earning a tiny bit less than 700k a year.

The suggestion is simply that the top 0.1% pay more - as they will be little affected by it.
No, the issue is not that Trump doesn't have the appropriate understanding. The issue is that they are illegal tariffs.

The President does not have the power to create tariffs. Congress does!

The reason the President doesn't have this power is because the economy should not rest on the whims or understanding of any one person.
The Cost of Being Crawled: LLM Bots and Vercel Image API Pricing
I fundamentally disagree with the framing of this headline. They absolutely would return him if the US government asked them to, which is what they’ve been ordered to do by the Supreme Court.
You are being fazed by two different, annoying things.

Even in physics itself, the word "mass" has multiple contexts (inertial, gravitational, and conversion to energy) in which it is used. Einstein made quite a lot of hay out of relating the three. "Entropy," too, has multiple contexts.

The second thing possibly tripping you up is the tendency for scientific terms to be poorly appropriated into a new context, like "theory." You can fight this but it is a losing battle, so I typically just try to set it aside.
It was a ten-year bet, but they spent the first several years actively sabotaging Altera by trying to move their whole product stack over to non-functional Intel fabs.
If I hold stock in a company, then my company acquires that company, the stock rises, and I liquidate my position in it after 6 months or whatever the cool-down period is, is this considered insider trading?
What evidence do you have of this?
Two ways:

Bonuses by juicing revenue numbers

Bigger next job by doing M&A and having really good-looking resume and interview story.
The IIGS uses a 65816, the same 16-bit CPU that's used in the SNES. Since the MiSTer already has excellent SNES support, I don't think there's anything to be done as far as modeling the CPU for the IIGS.

This is a "fantasy" 32-bit extension of the 65816 that WDC specced out but never built. It wouldn't help with getting the IIGS on MiSTer.
I mean there are several issues at play here. He is being sued for the illegal tariffs since Republicans are spineless and are cool with him just doing anything so I'm focusing on the practical problems.
We could start by not intentionally breaking things
Indeed. I started off making a general "land" for the small city a friend is working up for a prospective module of Dungeons and Dragons. I quickly found myself re-adjusting various distances, estimating the impacts of elevation, considering "rain shadows" caused by mountains, coming up with a new scale of "how far can one reasonably ride on horseback per day?" as a kind of measurement, considering climates and microclimates (then making adjustments based on trying to justify what I wanted), looking at historical patterns of settlement growth, checking in on that set of tables of population centers and occupations long ago, and so on.

If you do not consider these things, you get Monster Hotels and general ridiculousness. If it falls too close to reality, it is boring. At the same time, things can be Too Much. So, for my philosophy, you want the mountains to be taller and the valleys to be deeper ... but only sometimes. Spaces to breathe for the beleagured traveler, but then drips and splashes and slashes of Tolkien, The Black Company, and even a little whimsy to break it up.
The capabilities and general utility of the models are increasing on an entirely different trajectory than model names - the information you posted is 99% dependent on internal OAI processes and market activities as opposed to anything to do with AI.

I'm talking more broadly, as well, including consideration of audio, video, and image modalities, general robotics models, and the momentum behind applying some of these architectures to novel domains. Protocols like MCP and automation tooling are rapidly improving, with media production and IT work rapidly being automated wherever possible. When you throw in the chemistry and materials science advances, protein modeling, etc - we have enormously powerful AI with insufficient compute and expertise to apply it to everything we might want to. We have research being done on alternate architectures, and optimization being done on transformers that are rapidly reducing the cost/performance ratio. There are models that you can run on phones that would have been considered AGI 10 years ago, and there doesn't seem to be any fundamental principle decreasing the rate of improvement yet. If alternate architectures like RWKV get funded, there might be several orders of magnitude improvement with relatively little disruption to production model behaviors, but other architectures like text diffusion could obsolete a lot of the ecosystem being built up around LLMs right now.

There are a million little considerations pumping transformer LLMs right now because they work and there's every reason to expect them to continue improving in performance and value for at least a decade. There aren't enough researchers and there's not enough compute to saturate the industry.
When the "other side" is pretty much evil, yeah, you are the good guys. Like, by default. I would even go so far to say Harvard could do much, much worse and they would still be the good guys.

On a closely related note, you are legitimately out of touch with reality if you believe any part of this is done with the intention of "merit". This is done to strengthen allegiance to MAGA and conservative ideology.

Does that sound a bit scary and fascist-like? You decide. But it's explicitly stated as the goal of this constriction on higher education in Project 2025. So, take it up with them, not me.
>An activist isn't someone with power to do something

Without doubt in this context "activist" refers to those pushing the LGBTQ, race and gender baiting agenda with no regard for education of actual real world value.
A Bohnanza of Tariffs: Trade in Games and Life [video]
My mistake. Like $9.86 in dividends.
Typescript is so much better than almost every other dependently typed language in terms of expressing these things[0], and it's still kind of miserable.

We still have a long way to go in figuring out how to get our type systems to be easy enough to use to where this stuff doesn't surprise people anymore (because it shouldn't! identifier manipulation should be table stakes and yet)

[0]: modulo soundness of course! Though I don't think that's intrinsic to the expressiveness
From the footer:

> "TombEngine is not be sold."

Ironically, perhaps, this makes me trust it more.
There’s actually a good answer to this, namely that narrowly targeting the needs of exactly one family allows you to develop software about 1000x faster. This is an argument in favor of personal software.
Reality is often disappointing.

The Gemini name is most likely one of the blandest names picked out of a selection of similarly tasteless possible choices.

It reminds me of "Germany". Google Germany. Can't shake that impression out of my head.
Imagine spending 13 million per year to detain a 16 year old over accusations. 35 k per day.

It only makes sense if those arranging this get a kick out of seeing what they can get away with.
How quickly we forget "Dear Colleague."
Related: Purple exists only in our brains (43 points, 10 days ago, 74 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43583283
If that's true then the downside to chilling acquisitions becomes... fewer "nice" things destined to rug-pull their users? Still not seeing the problem.
I know, but it's that last bit: it shouldn't be possible to bypass it. C# actually got itself into a similar issue despite being a proper static language, because when it added "nullable reference types" (where you can't assign null to a variable of type `Foo` unless it's explicitly typed as `Foo?`) they did it like TypeScript using purely static analysis to avoid having to change the language at a lower level (for compatibility).

Even though it works 99% of the time, just like in TS you can occasionally run into a bug because some misbehaving library handed you a null that it said can't be a null...
I had a business partner that I agreed on a lot of things with but not about Intel. My assumption was that any small software package from Intel, such as a graph processing toolkit, was trash. He thought they could do no wrong.

Intel really is good at certain kinds of software like compilers or MKL but my belief is that organizations like that have a belief in their "number oneness" that gets in their way of doing anything that it outside what they're good at. Maybe it is the people, processes, organization, values, etc. that gets in the way. Or maybe not having the flexibility to know that what is good at task A is not good at task B.
It's hard to express how absolutely catastrophic this is for the Internet, and how incompetent a group of people have to be to vote 25/0 for increasing a problem that breaks the Internet for many organizations yearly by a factor of ten for zero appreciable security benefit.

Everyone in the CA/B should be fired from their respective employers, and we honestly need to wholesale plan to dump PKI by 2029 if we can't get a resolution to this.
I dunno, maybe? But you don't even have to be cynical to observe that Mark has a lot of power, and he's an opportunist. I don't think the Repubs trust him, and do you really think that Mark has changed his stripes and doesn't try to cozy up to the next administration if he thinks there's another vibe shift? Also, it feels like that would be quite a scalp for Trump to brag about.
Lmarena isn't that useful anymore lol
See item #6 here

https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/valuation/mo...
> My understanding is that entropy is a way of quantifying how many different ways a thing could 'actually be' and yet still 'appear to be' how it is. So it is largely a result of an observer's limited ability to perceive / interrogate the 'true' nature of the system in question.

When ice cubes in a glass of water slowly melt, and the temperature of the liquid water decreases, where does the limited ability of an observer come into play?

It seems to me that two things in this scenario are true:

1) The fundamental physical interactions (i.e. particle collisions) are all time-reversible, and no observer of any one such interaction would be able to tell which directly time is flowing.

2) The states of the overall system are not time-reversible.
I assume this is X11 only or using one of the wayland protocols which is not supported by all major compositors?

(The exception likely being Gnome, which seems to be very set against implementing protocols allowing generic applications like this to work)
Show HN: Generate chargeback responses using LLMs
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We built a free tool to help businesses generate chargeback responses using LLMs. Most businesses lose chargebacks because they don’t know what the bank reviewers want to see, not because they did anything wrong. We wanted to build something that gets them as close as possible to a good response without them needing to know anything about chargebacks.

The way it works is you can upload whatever context and supporting docs you have for a chargeback. We use LLMs first to judge how to make the case better, and then to generate a PDF document with the final response.

We were surprised by how good LLMs are at this. One of the hardest parts about writing a response is taking a bunch of scattered info (emails, terms of service, tracking info, etc.) and turning it into a clear story with arguments. We were expecting to need a lot of prompting to get this to work, but it turns out that models do well with just some basic guidelines and examples.

We’d love for you to try it out and let us know what you think!
If there's one thing I've learned over the years is that the easiest way to tell who one's real enemy is to see whom they extend no leeway to, never forgive, equivocate, or apologize for, whom they actively criticize at every turn, and who's misfortune they enjoy. Even, and especially when, that person or group is legitimately victimized. It's extremely telling.

With all the blaring red signs of fascism taking over the federal government, a brazen and direct assault on free speech staring us right in the face, we get people still taking potshots the "wokes".

I guess it's not fascism if its against people you disagree with.
Preview: Dali's "Giraffes on Horseback Salad" Realized with DeepMind Veo 2 [video]
Use it every single day. Absolutely fantastic tool.
Yeah - I don't recall which company (maybe johnson & johnson) it was but my aunt worked for one that produced a portable machine that used a camera to check moles and used some sort of algorithm to give a predicted score. This was 20ish years ago. I remember she brought it to my grandparents and we had fun checking everyones moles for the day.
In equilibrium we don't have to make an assumption about the dynamics or the mixing. We just expect to see the most probable state when we measure.

It's interesting to try to show that the time average equals the ensemble average. It's very cool to think about the dynamics. That stuff must be happening. But those extra ideas aren't necessary for applying the equilibrium theory.
Did you contact Reddit? A similar thing happened to me a few years ago, turns out I had accidentally upvoted my own content from a different account. Admins replied to the e-mail with an explanation, and fixed it quite fast.
The FPGA market shifted. For a brief moment they were allowed to be on BOMs of end user devices due to the rest of the computing field lagging behind somewhat. That period, as far as I can tell, is over.

My anecdotal example would be high end broadcast audio processors. These do quite a bit beyond the actual processing of audio, in particular, into baseband or even RF signal generation.

In any case these devices used to be fully analog, then when they first went digital were a combination of DSPs for processing and FPGAs for signal output. Later generations dropped the DSP and did everything in larger FPGAs as the larger FPGAs became available. Later generations dropped the whole stack and just run on an 8 core Intel processor using real time linux and some specialized real time signal processing software with custom designed signal generators.

The high core and high frequency CPUs became good enough and getting custom made chips became exceptionally cheap as well. FPGAs became rather pointless in this pipline.

The US military, for a time, had a next generation radio specification that specifically called for the use of FPGAs, as that would allow them to make manufacturer agnostic radios and custom software for them. That never panned out but it shows the peak use of FPGAs to manage the constraints of this time period.
TLDR:Harvard will continue to drive towards a modern edukayshun at all costs

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iKcWu0tsiZM
Have you written anywhere about your product creation? I would like to create a product and it seems like there's a lot of unique things to get past. I'm looking for resources.
> that information applies to all interactions made via that session

Humm.. maybe you should run an llama.cpp server in debug mode and review the content that goes to the actual LLM; you can do that with the verbose flag or `OLLAMA_DEBUG=1` (if you use ollama).

What you are describing is not how it works.

There is no such thing as an LLM 'session'.

That is a higher level abstraction that sits on top of an API that just means some server is caching part of your prompt and taking some fragment you typed in the UI and combining them on the server side before feeding them to the LLM.

It makes no difference how it is implemented technically.

Fundamentally; any request you make which can invoke tools will be transformed, as some point, into a definition that includes the tool definitions before it is passed to the LLM.

That has a specific, measurable cost on LLM performance as the number of tool definitions go up.

The only solution to that is to limit the number of tools you have enabled; which is entirely possible and reasonable to do, by the way.

My point is that adding more and more and more tools doesn't scale and doesn't work.

It only works when you have a few tools.

If you have 50 MCP servers enabled, your requests are probably degraded.
A large part of why it breaks things is because it only happens yearly. If you rotate certs on a regular pace, you actually get good at it and it stops breaking, ever. (basically everything I've set up with letsencrypt has needed zero maintenance, for example)
I suppose this isn’t exactly what you were getting at, but now I can’t help but wonder exactly how delicious a dolphin is.
https://i.imgur.com/gX7RCKs.jpeg

Sometimes they'll go orange in the rind but most times they stay green like a lime.
Not all market share are equal, like iphone vs. android. Also, the value for the leader will cost more than the second in line.
Fantastic book, highly suggest HN readers pick that one up.

"Red scare" is just a term we started using to cope with seeing people we're sympathetic to being judged for their words or actions.
“Merit definitions can be faulty, so completely abandon any attempt to measure merit and admit people based on vibes.”

This is why Harvard students now need remedial algebra classes.
Facebook knew that Instagram was up and coming and instead of competing, it just bought it.

You can read more about initial complaint and following the trial here: https://www.bigtechontrial.com/p/zuckerberg-on-the-stand-the...
This comment and the parent’s are the best retorts I’ve seen yet to the “these people are just stupid” idea we hear all the time. These “rules” are not calculated and brilliant, and that’s the point. They’re controlling at any angle they want.
Was altera the thing they bought to do some really cool networking/switching/SDN stuff? Paging bcantrill.
It sounds like a recipe for the double whammy of recession plus inflation.
What evidence does the parent comment provide?
> That's a little alarmist. It's not going to happen.

For context, this is exactly what was said of _literally everything_ that has happened in Trump's current term.

Is it alarmist, or is it just alarming? And, if it is alarming, shouldn't we be taking it seriously, instead of hand-waving it away?
There Are Two Types of Dishwasher People
Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads
If you don't measure you can just assume all valies are 0.
CPU branch prediction got exponentially better. Better than most could have imagined.
>> I don't know anyone who expected this

You can read the HN threads from when this happened. People expected its imminent collapse.

It was done during the 2022 FIFA World Cup and you had people here predicting that it wouldn't last through the weekend due to that.
I imagine a forward proxy that attempts to connect to a remote host via unencrypted HTTP/2 would make it trivial to access 6.28% of websites, regardless of whether web browsers support it?

No idea whether this is going to be a priority for censoring states to prevent though... wasn't there already talk that China is poised to lift the great firewall anyway?
lol yes.

I believe it’s an Ayurvedic treatment. You can get premixed versions which contain mustard and baking soda plus some other herbal ingredients. However if you end up doing them with any frequency it’s much more economical to just buy bulk ground yellow mustard powder from Amazon or similar.

You soak in a lukewarm warm bath with the powder for about 10 minutes during which you will start to sweat like you never have before (so drink lots of water before and after). You then wrap yourself up in a towel and continue sweating for another 10 minutes or so followed by a brisk shower.

I recommend giving it a try next time you feel a cold or something coming on. I find it very effective and worst you’ll sweat for a while and be out a cup of mustard ;)
Hertz says customers' personal data and driver's licenses stolen in data breach
I don't see the point - ASCII vs. binary doesn't make any real difference. And there's no an actual unencrypted HTTP/2 traffic, so there's no incentive to censor.
Dude that sucks mate. I had a melanoma taken off last year. It was dormant (stage 0) but had been there for 10ish years. But reading shit like this reminds me that even though I'm probably fine, all I can do is just live my best life. Hang out with my family. Enjoy the things I enjoy and not think about it too much. (and get my skin checks every 6 months :D)
Cutting Edge: The Cautious Optimism for Psychiatric Brain Surgery
Before anyone pre-judges this, it appears to be produced by the Dali museum, so this really is a case of the using tech to produce one of Dali's visions, by an organization with the authority to use his ideas. Knowing that, I appreciate it.
Stack Overflow itself is also being more overtly destroyed by the corporation that owns it. Did you know they de-attributed Luigi Mangione's posts in blatant violation of their license agreement to his content?
MongoDB's BSON?
Shout out to https://www.bigtechontrial.com/ which covered Google Trial and is now covering Facebook trial.

Disclaimer: Matt Stoller is big on anti monopoly so he's in support of government in both cases but overall, his coverage is really good and more details than you will probably get from other outlets.
They tried something and it didn't work well. Branching paths of experimentation is not compatible with number-goes-up versioning.
Yeah, but maybe we should deploy the national guard to make sure its happening. Even that would be a better use of our resources than rounding up a bunch of desperate people in a dragnet that might catch the innocent.

Like these people are victims of a system which is exploiting them. Treating them even more like shit isn't going to make the world a better place. Target the exploiters.
Only short term gains are taxed as income. Long term capital gains tax caps at 20%, wildly lower than the top income tax bracket of 37%. And it's always possible to defer short term gains (e.g. put your trading money in an IRA).
The Vietnam War was anticolonial against the French, Japanese and French in succession. It didn’t suddenly become not anticolonial when the US entered en mass after the Tonkin ‘crisis’. It remained anticolonial when China attached.
What? I was repeatedly told that AI is going to take all high-tech manufacturing jobs away from us by 2035. Why ban it for just 6 years?
And you can use podman to run multiple containers together (as a Pod). With or without systemd.