skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is surprising that with all the new uncertainty around the future of the USA, that in dollar terms, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq 100 are both still traded higher than a year ago.

Gold is up 36%. Not that much.

Bitcoin is up 29%. Also not that much.

Is the uncertainty not yet priced in?

STOXX Europe 600 is down 2%. Shouldn't it increase in value? European companies will earn less in a recession, but I would think investors do not want to invest solely in bonds, gold and bitcoin. So I would expect a shift of a lot of capital into European equities once investors fully digest the new uncertainty in the US.

Is there any potential upside to US equities I am missing?
If you have two rejection stamps in your passport, that's a real problem for any future visa application. If you have one rejection stamp, you're only one stamp away from a Problem.
Nothing the author said is wrong, but I don’t know how much it matters or if it would’ve been better if it handled all this out of the gate. I think if MCP were more complicated no one would’ve adopted it.

Being pretty close to OAuth 1.0 and the group that shaped it I’ve seen how new standards emerge, and I think it’s been so long since new standards mattered that people forgot how they happen.

I was one of the first people to criticize MCP when it launched (my comment on the HN announcement specifically mentioned auth) but I respect the groundswell of support it got, and at the end of the day the standard that matters is the one people follow, even if it isn’t the best.
I lived in a small village deep in the West Fukushima mountains for a bit. Population: ~1000.

The summers bustle with rice, baby's breath, and millions of dragonflies in the paddies. The mountain water is so clean it almost tastes sweet, and people keeps tight tabs on the comings and goings of each other.

It's one of the most densely alive places I've experienced, with food growing everywhere, even in the cracks of the driveway, and mountain creature sounds wafting about.

Heck, the place even casually boasts village remains dating all the way back to the mesolithic and the second oldest swamp in Japan.

I wouldn't say it's any more or less real Japanese than other places here, but it's definitely singular!
"all things strive"
MacBook Pro Late 2013, Core i7, Chrome (128.0). Same problems.

(perhaps it's the fadeout effects while scrolling causing this?)
> Where would we be without a thorough understanding of diverse trans psychiatric history?

You write about this as if there was something wrong with study of psychiatric care for trans people or for non-whites. Trans have above average suicide rates, they have own specific issues. It 100% makes sense to study it.

That large parts of population actively want them to suffer does not mean psychiatry should not study those.
> Just like that.

These statements always catch me a bit off-guard. Is there no such thing as a cancelation period in the US? When my employer wants to kick me out, he needs a good reason for that and I'd still be paid for 3 months. Which is often even longer, depending on how long you belong to a company.

Edit: I'm in germany
I found this video helpful as well:

https://youtu.be/xMYm2d9bmEA?si=f2u_M2LMhTd20Uji
Well I can see why you can’t afford to put it on a marketplace.
It will also go in production because this is the most efficient way to produce code today
One of my favorite authors and one of the best novelists of all times. I am grateful he existed and that he wrote so much amazing books. I am sad that he's gone.

May he rest in peace!
"some mechanism to not reode existing equity" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. 65% of the households are homeowners, who financially might easily be convinced they have nothing to gain and much to loose by building more housing.

Which also shows that lack of home ownership cannot be the driver of this situation. It might be one of the lies of the left, their "trans" story. Where I'm from the left is also pushing this housing narrative but it's not pulling in the votes, its impossible to solve, and i dont know if its the problem enough people have.
Is this an unpopular opinion?
Can life evolve to slow down the process of increasing entropy? For ex: Sun is throwing energy in space. What if life tries to store it and use it only when it needs? Has the sunlight gone into space (without being captured by fossilized life), it would have thinly spread out in universe(high entropy, low energy density). But plants and humans (solar cells) capturing it to create fossil fules or create some infrastructure... Is it not life going against this theory? Or is it just intermidiate step of life which eventually (life will) blast all energy in short period of time at the end like an expontial system does?
The Second Half
I like to use LLMs to create random tables that I then use to spark my imagination. You can easily get o1 to create a bunch of random tables on a topic. Create multiple columns that you can then mix and match results from - or just roll multiple times on the same column.

I also find the image generation great for getting a "feel" for what a room / location might look like so I can improvise describing it a bit better.

LLMs are _really_ good at finding words that "go well together" - so use it to come up with a bunch of words to describe the atmosphere of a particular location or the mannerisms of a particular NPC.
Letter in which Oracle kinda-sorta tells customers it was pwned
>the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq 100 are both still traded higher than a year ago.

That's how inflation works.
Thanks, this is the kind of feedback my hobbyist ass needs. My intention in including <ctype h> is solely to allow me to define structs using typdef. I'm not aware of any crashes or compiler warnings caused by the potential abuse, but I'm going to look at it later.
It depends on the purpose of the cookies: https://www.blackboxdesign.co.uk/gdpr-do-i-need-a-cookie-war... for in-depth answer.
> Sounds like our elites should put some limits on themselves

America's 1% owns around a third of its assets [1]. We'd have to more than double that rate to approach ancient Rome.

We have problems with income inequality and political stability in the West. They are probably not informed by this comparison.

[1] https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualized-the-1s-share-of-...
Is it true, though?
Serious question, I don’t participate much in PHP topics.
In some way, we reached 100% of developers, and now usage is expanding, as non-developers can now develop applications.
Any interpreter can run malicious code. Mostly the guidance is: don't run malicious code if you don't want it to run. The problem isn't the interpreter/tool but the entity that's using it. Because that's the thing that you should be (mis)-trusting.

The issue is two fold:

- models aren't quite trustworthy yet.

- people put a lot of trust in them anyway.

This friction always exist with security. It's not a technical problem that can or should be solved on the MCP side.

Part of the solution is indeed going to come from containerization. Give MCP agents access to what they need but not more. And part of it is going to come from some common sense and the tool UX providing better transparency into what is happening. Some of the better examples I've seen of Agentic tools work like you outline.

I don't worry too much about the cost. This stuff is getting useful enough that paying a chunk of what normally would go into somebody's salary actually isn't that bad of a deal. And of course cost will come down. My main worry is actually speed. I seem to spend a lot of time waiting for these tools to do their thing. I'd love this stuff to be a bit zippier.
It's only the US people are particularly afraid of visiting.

More likely international events are just arranged outside the US. I've already seen that starting to happen.
The main benefit I see for cloud platforms: caching/co-hosting various services based on model instead of (model + user's API layer on top).

For the end user, it would be one less deployment headache to worry about: not having to package ollama + the model into docker containers for deployment. Also a more standardized deployment for hardware accelerated models across platforms.
in a world where many projects are started with Python and Ruby, PHP has definitely a bright spot.
Great book—as an entry point for designing languages.
Not OP, but I personally think the original Win10, despite Cortana, was good, thanks mostly to powerToys and later wsl2, but since the Skype/teams kerfuffle happened around the same time, it's hard for me to think they weren't mostly slop at the time.

So I'd say windows XP? 2003-2007?
Is this a difficult problem to solve? There’s only a handful of major cloud players and these questions don’t seem terribly complicated.

Or is it that it lets you answer arbitrary questions of this sort without having to figure out how to get that data?
> Empire start declining when empire interest payment on its debt start exceeding its military budget

Not relevant to the ancient Romans or Han.
The explanation still kinda sucks. I like this one:

The easiest way to understand the relationship between time and space is repeat the thought experiment with the void, but assume that there is no consciousness there (i.e nothing running that can sense time passing).

Now imagine the only action you can take is to fire particles (say photons) in a given direction. In a void, that action is meaningless - the particle fires and never comes back. No information exists.

Now imagine there is a mirror somewhere in space. A particle fires, and then comes back. And maybe interacts with another particle. But still, this is generally meaningless and you cant derive any measurable thing from it, but you have a piece of information - particle comes back.

Imagine there are 2 mirrors in different directions. What you do is you set up 2 identical devices. Each one fires a particle, and when the particle comes back, it triggers a certain color ball to fall down a common shared tube, and then the particle gets fired again.

So with 2 mirrors, you get a sequence in the tube that looks something like blue, blue, blue, green, blue, blue, blue, green. Now you can make a measure of distance. You take the "blue" mirror as your unit, and say green mirror is 2 away.

You have also in fact created a clock. The tube contains information on how many cycles have passed - i.e in order to say that mirror is x away, you need to have counted x blue balls before that respective ball shows up. So you can see how distance and time is intimately intertwined. To measure distance, you have to necessarily have something that measures time.

Now lets say that the "green" mirror starts moving away from you, at a slow speed (i.e your particles are much faster. You start to see 3 balls in sequence, then 4, then 5, and so on. By comparing the difference in the subsequent position of the green balls, you can measure speed.

What happens if the speed of the mirror is 99% of the particle speed? The particle takes its sweet time getting there, and sweet time coming back. Even if you fire the particle as the green mirror is close to the particle emitter, its going to result in a measurement of a very large distance.

This is the relativistic effect where the space behind something moving fast increases.

This whole experiment demonstrates that what we consider space is precisely defined by measurements, and relativistic effects alter these measurements, which alters our perception of space.

You can do similar thought experiments to understand why space in front of you seems to shrink, why time dilation becomes a thing, and so on.
Scooters are incredibly more efficient because they weight incredibly less.
A small Toyota Auygo is 860kg, a non-electric smart is 645kg.

A scooter (125cc) weight from 100 to 150Kg.

Even comparing a 150kg scooter to a car as light as a smart you get 6 time increase in weight for a motor that is not 6 time less efficient.
That's why I just added Gold and Bitcoin. If we compare with those assets that have lower inflation, it is still just a reduction in equity prices of 30%.

If there is so much new potential downside and no upside - shouldn't equities trade at least 50% lower?
Exactly. Plus I think we're forgetting a lot of Google employees are on visas, meaning they might have expenses both in the US and in their home country.
Hardly "cute and happy" either.
People are more important than businesses
Not to disrespect you, but I don't think your opinion on the value of their work is relevant, the author's is.
Wouldn't that be prohibitive energy-wise? AFAIK satellites are not abundant in electrical power.
If I had to guess the biggest problem for most roads is the height, followed by the width. Weight might still come into play for some potential routes that otherwise had enough clearance. It's not clear from that video but it's quite possible the load fits in the 14' height limit for interstates in the state of Texas. That would make this at least twice as tall.
Hi, thanks for checking out my blog. Everytime I am on HN I am feeling bad for not writing more posts. But it is time consuming and hard, and it is even harder to focus on that having a family and full-time job.

Anyway, I think WPF was really nice framework to work with. I had fine time working with WPF and Xamarin which was very similar. Unfortunately it was abandonned by MS and now all the rage is bringing everything to the web (regardless if this is bad or good; it is more convenient for everybody).

I had couple of jobs offers to work on WPF or Xamarin through out the years but declined them because of those facts. And now seems like MAUI is the way to go to write GUI on windows.
It's because the message isn't for OP, it's for the people who are left.
PHP is better than any of its alternatives within its problem space.
Yeah. That's another in a long line of MCP articles and blogposts that's been coming up over the past few weeks, that can be summarized as "breaking news: this knife is sharp and can cut someone if you swing it at people, it can cut you if you hold it the wrong way, and is not a toy suitable for small children".

Well, yes. A knife cuts things, it's literally its only job. It will cut whatever you swing it at, including people and things you didn't intend to - that's the nature of a general-purpose cutting tool, as opposed to e.g. safety razor or plastic scissors for small children, which are much safer, but can only cut few very specific things.

Now, I get it, young developers don't know that knives and remote access to code execution on a local system are both sharp tools and need to be kept out of reach of small children. But it's one thing to remind people that the tool needs to be handled with care; it's another to blame it on the tool design.

Prompt injection is a consequence of the nature of LLMs, you can't eliminate it without degrading capabilities of the model. No, "in-band signaling" isn't the problem - "control vs. data" separation is not a thing in nature, it's designed into systems, and what makes LLMs useful and general is that they don't have it. Much like people, by the way. Remote MCPs as a Service are a bad idea, but that's not the fault of the protocol - it's the problem of giving power to third parties you don't trust. And so on.

There is technical and process security to be added, but that's mostly around MCP, not in it.
Very cool project! It works about as well as I would expect if you naively take a drone derived model and apply it to satellite images, but I am sure a bit of fine-tuning would improve performance.

Good job on the ease of use front: it does look really easy to use.
When this was released I thought that perhaps we could mitigate it by having the tooling only load “rules” if they were signed.

But thinking on it a bit more, from the LLMs perspective there’s no difference between the rule files and the source files. The hidden instructions might as well be in the source files… Using code signing on the rule files would be security theater.

As mentioned by another comms ter, the solution could be to find a way to separate the command and data channels. The LLM only operates on a single channel, that being input of tokens.
Presumably these aren’t made in the USA so why the price hike in Europe?
People accept lots of risk in order to do things. LLMs offer so much potential that people want to use so they will try, and it is but through experience that we can learn to mitigate any downsides.
In my experience, it doesn't matter anyway. You can be paid to be sat at home and, while the worry of finances is kicked down the road, the big dark questions come home to roost very quickly.
Seems like it. I went to church today for the IDK consecutive Sunday and it was all right.

Not the "Western civilization is declining because the kids stopped going to church" church but a church full of old hippies and young queers. It's been fun, sometimes I get takeout on the way home

I'm also tending my own website, which nobody else has write access to, so that I can link people to information I've vetted myself. Can't link it without doxxing myself sadly
Just a clarification as the headline could imply a wrong understanding: It’s not the EU that banned it. Meta itself forbid its use by entities within the EU to not have to comply with EU laws.
Needs a (1999) tag
OK so he suggested injecting disinfectant. Which is basically the same as bleach. If you can’t tell that from the video I’m not sure what’s going on anymore.

He also talks about putting UV lights inside the body, which is still a bit dumb, but not as dumb as injecting or ingesting disinfectant or bleach.

If you want to say he is only says it could be ‘interesting’ to inject or consume disinfectant then sure, why not - that’s still insane and dumb in equal measure.

He even tries to walk back his comments later saying he was being ‘sarcastic’ which he very clearly was not.
> I really was just a fuckin cog in a mega corp.

Love sudden realization.

I wonder how many people within companies think “well, they are a cog, but I’m certainly not” just to be left on a road soon after.
well, we may adapt them to what happens to the Red Hood when she crosses the road incorrectly and at the wrong place - not much different than meeting a hungry wolf. We may even add a video or two to spike the imagination and burn the lesson into the memory.
Apologies for misunderstanding you.
And apparently it's not about them having a Google TagManager playbook either.
I would imagine the size meant it wouldn't get far by road. Bridges and houses would have made the route too narrow.

It looks like they only just squeezed under a bridge on the Danube in the bottoms pictures
> sociopathic profiteering

That "sociopathic" profiteering funds the 401(k), IRAs, and pension plans of tens of millions of Americans. God forbid these companies be run for the collective benefit of all shareholders (including special ed teachers, utility workers, and airline mechanics) and not just the lottery winners who scored the high-paying jobs at these companies.

> mass layoffs

The "Day in the Life" videos that made the rounds on TikTok sapped the general public of whatever sympathy they may have otherwise had for the FANMAGers getting sacked from their $100-300k jobs.
Do dating sites work for elder people?
Do you have personal experience with dating sites?
I've just watched video[0] from Engineering Explained and it did pretty good job explaining why other manufacturers overrate their towing capacity. Basically they design their trucks for 95th percentile of towers.

So it's fair to say truck is not hardcore tower.

It doesn't mean it's not safe for regular tower.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsnYvAU3kfA
You also get a few months pay in the US unless the company is truly broke.
> Weird, as someone from Europe I've never experience anything else.

As someone from Europe, I’ve never experienced US salaries. Go figure.
Heard that lots of elders spend a fortune looking for love. Do dating sites work?
Someone extremely critical of Google is likely to not just use Firefox? That doesn't sound statistically likely.
First of all, keyboards have limited size buffers, secondly the same is available on GUIs, and I go back to mastering the craft and OS APIs.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/inputdev/key...

https://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/events/keyboard-pointer/keybo...
the post oozes narcissism. and he even seems to think he contributed to the health of the internet by working at chrome.
You're underestimating how big a deal 30% is; it'd be like deleting California and saying that just 15% of the US economy had disappeared. It represents a capital allocation misstep of titanic proportions.
I'm a heavy PHP & Laravel developer and I speak for myself and a few close friends around my in my network who are like me. We all consider Laravel the reason we are still within the PHP scene and didn't move away. So in a sense I think it is true.

That said, the recent changes around Laravel (being bought out and becoming more and more commercial) is not something I (we) consider a good thing. Not necessarily a bad thing, but we all know that a OSS framework becoming commercial doesn't usually end well.
No, that particular attack vector goes away. The attack does not, and is kind of fundamental to how these things currently work.
Seems quite comprehensive. I wonder if there’s a way to “escape” from the system. It looks nice for getting started but in practice at some point you’ll want programmatic access for e.g. advanced API features.

E.g. a well behaving system independent pipeline serialization could work. Didn’t find anything about this with a quick glance of the docs.

Edit: with a bit longer glance there is a plugin system that allows adding custom code quite easily.
You may be correct in general, but in this particular case I do not see how Adam should have any difficulties in finding a very good paying job at another company.
Gay sex in saunas in Sweden is allowed since 2004. That's 20 years ago.
I agree, and I agree with that recommendation.

It's the first one of his books that I read and I remember being completely in awe at his ability to write a novel as if he had a machine that allowed him to look into the minds of anyone at any time or place and then document what he saw.

That novel is about a totalitarian system, that of Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, and it's eerie how I started seeing the little details of human behavior that enable it in the story elsewhere later as well.
My wife is really good at keeping friends even those she didn't see in years. She has many such friends and she speaks to them over video chat. I have a few long term friends like that but not so close.
My take: no. He just has a cult following.
You can tell I'm human because I only post in the middle of the night to antagonize people
Given different bases (inevitable), it's easier to compare the Gini coeffs directly (though maybe no less misleading because of scale distortions)

From TFA:

The Roman Empire scored 0.46 and Han China scored 0.48. ... currently the Gini coefficient for the U.S. is 0.41.
CloneUI: The AI Tool Revolutionizing Front-End Development
That could help, as `.gov` can only be registered by the US government. But... a lot of the millennial and gen X generation have misguided beliefs about the trustworthiness of TLDs. Such as thinking `.com` is more trustworthy than `.net` under the assumption that it can only be registered by a real company.

I'm convinced the only responsible solutions are chip-only payment processors and conventional coin machines, as pricey as they are.
Let me put into personal context: I have loved PKD's work for almost 40 years now, and I think I have read all that I found from him or about him. This said, good prose is different from the one he turned out. Compare him to his friend "ELRON" - now he was a master storyteller. Compare him to - say - Stephen King. He's not playing in the same league, maybe not even the same game. OTOH they did not have what he had - he was. great writer in spite of his often poor prose.
The market is not efficient in the short term.
Reform of the economic system, I presume.