skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
[citation needed]

No dude, the central question in this thread is “When?”

Realtime, accurate, up-to-the-minute manifest information is sensitive. Manifest information from last week, perhaps less so—especially considering other ways to infer movement of people.

But being able to know, “bdangubic just presented a boarding pass at El-Al Gate 8A in Kiev” or the details of USPS cargo stowed in the downbelow; or “AStonesThrow just 3 seconds ago landed with 74 other souls at KSFO and there are 11 Lyft Drivers nearby” that’s the crux of sensitivity. Like where to aim the MANPADS.

furthermore, passenger manifest data is not one blob of perfectly accurate information, like the digits of pi. it's ever-changing, and so the accuracy matters when considering the value, and the resale value, of such data. and the costs of litigation. imagine that a preliminary manifest is you know two weeks prior to the flights departure. and it gets leaked. it's preliminary, and it indicates who's booked the flight, but you have no idea who's actually going to board the flight or who did if this is looking in retrospective.

or I mean you can conceive of situations where a manifest would change while in flight. for instance somebody checks in and boards the flight, but they get sucked out of a door. or they die on route. and so the body shows up but the passengers soul is no longer present. Conversely, a hypothetical,pregnant mother boards a flight in shanghai, she gives birth to triplets, and these additional “formerly uterine passengers” land in San Francisco. how's that manifest look?

and so that's going to affect the accuracy, and therefore the value, of your manifest when considering sales to third parties, or litigation situations. or you know regilatory Federal Agency fines and stuff court fees.

Private jets and General Aviation have other rules. I don’t know what happens when Dad takes 8 children on a Piper Cub from Podunk Field Runway 18, but perhaps that’s going to be sold 30 days after they land safely?

At that point in time, it hardly matters who reads a list, compared to the realtime shit you assert without citing any reliable sources.
It's fun to see everyone arguing about what "everyone" thought.. when... we can just... look... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3817840 is a fun thread from 2012.

The top reply to the top comment has some useful quotes for the purposes of this discussion...

> This is not going to be one of the best tech acquisitions of the next decade.

> Instagram is a photo service in a sea of other photo services.

> Bookmark this comment. See you in 2022.

Heh.
Yes it was between the two if I remember correctly. If they bought both it'd be crossing into near total monopoly, at least before Tiktok took off. But they are pretty far from that now IMO. At least in terms of competition from tons of other services. It's possible they did other shady things outside of that.
As a US citizen my only hope is the rest of the world saves us
People have asked this question before and there are a multitude of different potential ways. Supposedly Lyft can sync or calendar and in some cases was being sync'd automatically, perhaps it knew from that?

The app might pull accelerometer data in a way that suggests you just landed or were on a plane? Could it be that the cell towers in that area are known to be based at the airport?
There have been and continue to be technological improvements that reduce the dosage required. There is not a single dosage for all CTs. The dose for a head CT is an order of magnitude less than for abdominal/pelvic CT.

"The current average effective dose of a CT study is ∼10mSv, with the implementation of dose reduction techniques discussed herein; it is realistic to expect that the average effective dose may be decreased by 2–3 fold." 2010
https://www.ejradiology.com/article/S0720-048X(10)00311-6/fu...

It would be neat to see a chart of the average effective dose of CT studies over the past 40 years. And any accounting of how much it declined as a result of Moore's law and software improvements for producing the "Computed Tomography."
I wanted that, too. Then, integrated with something like Synflow:

https://www.synflow.com/
Before Covid I thought I'd chuck a few hundred dollars into a trading app to understand that 'game' a little bit better. I chose a few companies I knew from work and some biotechs that had fun ticker names. One company had 'mRNA' which I thought was funny, so I bought 50 dollars of stock.

Turns out mRNA stands for Moderna and I wish I put in more than 50 dollars as it went from ~$19 to almost ~$400 per share.
Yeah I agree. That was my main takeaway... just because you have a running program doesn't mean you got a product... the vibe-coding thing is just the flashy headline
I think a better example is just hot gas. Heat up a tube of gas, and its entropy will increase, with no effect on its complexity. Still not terribly compressible either though.
> FPGA is not a growing segment

What is replacing it? Single board computers? Or are APUs from ARM "good enough" and "cheap enough" now to replace FPGA?
Most of these have very serious issues, especially with regards to labor violations and general treatment of employees.
> Good luck? Have you done basic programming with rust?

Have you? I am sorry that the good luck did not shine upon you. With the types remaining intact, I modified the (pseudo)code:

match getFile(fileName) {
Some(file) => do someghing
Error => do something else unintended
}

It still compiles. You failed.

> The thing with the match operator is that the program DOES not compile if you do not handle both SOME and ERROR.

But as you come off your hubris, you can now see above it will compile even when you screw up the error handling. So you haven't gained anything. You still need to write tests to ensure that you are actually doing the right thing. And once you've ensured you are doing the right thing, how do you think crashes are going to go beyond that? Right. Not going to happen.

> Fuzz testing is something our start up doesn't have time for.

Testing, is testing, is testing. If you have time to write tests, you have time to write fuzz tests where they are appropriate. To throw a test out the window just because it has a slightly different execution model (as provided by the language; not something you have to build yourself) is bizarre. In fact, in your case it seems it could have supplanted the other tests you wrote, actually saving you time not only while writing the code, but also later when you had to waste time dealing with the issue. Time clearly isn't as constrained as you let on.

> For golang you can handle the Some and then it crashes if there's a problem. You aren't required to explicitly handle it.

Technically, in Go 'Some' should always be valid, regardless of whether or not there is an error. That is a fundamental feature of the Go language. Given (T, error), the values are not dependent. You don't need to explicitly handle the error. That is a huge misunderstanding. The same would not be true in Rust, which does consider them to be dependent by design, but Go is a completely different language. You can't think Go as being Rust with different syntax. There is a lot more to languages than the superficial.
Im so confused on what vibe coding is.

Is it:

- just pressing tab and letting copilot code whatever?

- asking an llm to do everything that it can and falling back on your own brain as needed or when its easier.

I guess probably more like the latter. I was just surprised to hear there was a special term for it. I thought everyone was doing that.
It's a new language. I haven't tried cel, but USL transpiles all of the logic--I'll keep working on it and make sure it works as you've mentioned.

I was curious to see if I could do something like this for fun. It currently works with 111 languages from the 40/50s-today.
They were trying to get both, there was no contingency of getting one and not getting the other. Snapchat just refused to be sold for the same price.
Carbon dust is nasty stuff. I don’t think it’s any better than sand coal or asbestos for your lungs.
But nothing stops companies from doing this today, without forcing everyone to make the change also.

You can refresh your cert every single day. the cert that gives me https on my home routers web interface doesn’t need that level of scrutiny.
By Jeeves, it's rentropy!!

Sean and Stephen are absolutely thoughtful popularizers, but complexity, not entropy, is what they are truly interested in talking about.

Although it doesn't make complexity less scary, here's something Sean's been working on for more than a decade. The paper seems to be more accessible to the layman than he thinks..

https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.6903
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=762

[When practitioners say "entropy", they mean RELATIVE ENTROPY, which is another can of worms.. rentropy is the one that is observer dependent: "That's Relative as in Relativity". Entropy by itself is simple, blame von Neumann for making it live rent-free]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_entropy

@nyrikki below hints (too softly, imho) at this:

>You can also approach the property that people often want to communicate when using the term entropy as effective measure 0 sets, null cover, martingales, kolmogorov complexity, compressibility, set shattering, etc...
The top comment compares it to YouTube.
> and AI-generated key points. Firefox uses AI that runs locally on your device to read the linked page and create the key points

Hey, if it works it works but was there something wrong with the "what every other piece of software does" and just use the meta tags? Website operators happily provide this info for you in a machine digestible format.
>wasn't there already talk that China is poised to lift the great firewall anyway?

considering what happened in Hong Kong, I can't imagine the lifted firewall decision would last very long at all. But for that window, it would be the best of both worlds, with the rest of us enjoying eternal jiǔyuè (九月)
Usually you do that before the trial. Using that as the tactic is shady. Although this has always had the vibe of being about clamping down on big tech power not protecting upstarts. So the goals might be broader. A lever to pull through threats of more of this.
Q-CTRL publishes GPS-denied quantum magnetic navigation flight trial results
Fantastic job, are the charts generated by the LLM itself or you have some kind of postprocess that inserts them? I'm working on a similar problem space and charts are difficult. Thanks.
Instagram was and still is in a highly competitive market. Previously it was Snapchat at the time and now it's Tiktok. Not to mention YouTube shorts, Reddit, Twitter, and every other service focused on video and pictures.

I don't think any social media consumer is lacking choice.
Sounds bad.

- "Firefox uses AI that runs locally on your device to read the linked page and create the key points." --> Last time I played with local LLMs they were gigabyte sized models. So this has to mean Firefox is shipping with a very small model, not gigabyte-size?

- And so does this mean Firefox visits these links beforehand, or when you hover link or what? How many unnecessary requests are made? Since this is "local", I assume you reveal your IP/browser fingerprints to unnecessary sites?

- If the content behind the link is already LLM generated, it gets double LLM generated.

- And what about webservices (shopping carts, management dashboards, banking..), if it is hover based, it might easily and accidentally request url that cause some action, right?
That's a good example of of what it should be.
Our AI trivia game was rejected by the a16z Speedrun program.

It stung. We built a lightning-fast trivia engine that generates infinite questions using generative AI, optimized for fun, speed, and learning. It’s working—people are hooked. But we didn’t fit the mold.

We’ve been bootstrapping, iterating like crazy, and shipping daily. We built an API for trivia-as-a-service. Launched a live web game. Building native apps next. People are playing. People are coming back. How do you find the confidence to keep building, knowing all the signals are positive with zero funding?
You can examine the code at any time, ask for an explanation, and even make changes yourself. In other words, you get out of it exactly what you put into it.

If you choose to let the AI do all the coding and never dig into the actual code, you'll learn more about how to communicate with an LLM than you will about how to write code.
This is an example of how university press offices hype results. They are worse than street vendors in a bazaar. Researchers could do a better job of policing the press offices too.
Can you post it so I can see please? Which languages did you try?

It's the first release--early bird pricing to raise funds for development.
Covid-19 (and other covirus) are dangerous, like the flu. So there is a recommendation for an anual flu vaccine for old people and other special cases. It make sense to have a similar recommendation for a few species of coronavirus that are around.
The affliction he’s imputing is born of absolute dominance over decades. Apple has never had the same level of dominance, and NVidia has only had it for two or three years.

It could possibly come to haunt NVidia or TSMC in decades to come.
So I would have to hover over a link, press a key combo that might conflict with my OS, wait for a full page load in the background, then see what a small-scale LLM decides the link is about along with a thumbnail? Who asked for this, and how does it keep me "organized" and "focused" vs just clicking on the link?

"the AI that generates the key points may miss context from the webpage and make mistakes" You don't say...
Yeah, I read HDR might be the issue. Didn't know X-Rite and did not come with the laptop, but did play with disabling / trying to adjust HDR, making sure sRGB was set etc. Did not help. Also ran all the calibrations I could find for gamma, brightness and contrast many many times to try and find something that was better.

What I settled on for quite some time was manually adjusted color balance and contrast and turning the brightness down. That made it bearable but especially right next to another system, it's just "off" and still washed out.

If this was HDR and one can't get rid of it, then yeah agreed, it's just bad. I'm actually surprised you'd turn the brightness up. That was one of the worst things to do, to have the brightness too high. Felt like it was burning my eyes.
Did you benchmarked combo: DeepSeek R1 + DeepSeek V3 (0324)?
There is combo on 3rd place : DeepSeek R1 + claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022 and also V3 new beating claude 3.5 so in theory R1 + V3 should be even on 2nd place. Just curious if that would be the case
I love Safari's link preview feature (on iPad, at least). Tap and hold a link, and see the target page preload in a widget. I prefer that, previewing the actual page, rather than seeing a header image and a generated summary.
Entropy is expected information. That is, given a random variable, if you compute the expected value (the sum of the values weighted by their probability) of the information of an event (the log base 2 of the multiplicative inverse of the probability of the event), you get the formula for entropy.

Here it is explained at length: "An Intuitive Explanation of the Information Entropy of a Random Variable, Or: How to Play Twenty Questions": http://danielwilkerson.com/entropy.html
The pure definition is to have AI do everything for you without caring about what the actual code is.
Sometimes I want to cook a home meal.

If I wanted to open a large world class fast food chain, I wouldn't be cooking home meals then. That would be silly.

Copilot can help me cook the equivalent of a McDonalds special in terms of software. It's good, I think McDonalds is delicious.

But it cannot help me cook a home meal software. It will insist that my home made fries must go in a little red box, and my fish sandwich needs only half a slice of cheese.

Deeply into that metaphor, maybe someone who has only worked for fast food chains might forget that a lot of good industrial dishes are variations of what previously were home cooked meals.

I am glad that copilot can help young cooks to become fast food workers. That really looks like something.

Well, I take pleasure in cooking home meal software. Can you make a copilot that helps with that?

You know what, nevermind. I don't need a copilot to cook home meals. I have a bunch of really good old books and I trust my taste.

It's not like some big company is going to be interested in some random amateur dish, is it? It was definitely not cooked for them.
If you ever do get a CT scan I highly recommend requesting the DICOM images from the hospital. The open source Invesalius program can do some nice volumetric renders and you can see things your doctor probably isn't going to take the time to bother with showing you.
If you're wondering what a 32-bit descendant of the 6502 might have looked like, especially one that incorporated the "radical simplicity" ideas of RISC alongside the radical simplicity of the original 6502, there's already an era-appropriate design you can study: the original 32-bit ARM.

In an 2014 interview¹ with the Computer History Museum, Bill Mensch said:

> We think of ARM as our prodigal son. Got to do what they got to do, and it's not something I want to do, but I'm proud of them. They started with my technology, and I wish them well.

¹: https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/20...
I am currently re-reading LOTR in my forties and having done quite a lot of hiking since my childhood read-throughs, and filming various landscapes from the air, I think I have a much greater appreciation of his descriptions. The journeys remind me a lot of backcountry hiking. A friend is reading the books to his son and they are finding the landscape descriptions thoroughly tedious. To me, they rarely seem long-winded and I enjoy slowing down to make sure I have more than a vague idea of what he's describing.

I wonder quite frequently whether he had photos or views of actual places, or a strong and consistent imagination for each area, or perhaps just that this was something that mattered enough personally that he put in the detail where others did not.
Change in IP location? If you suddenly jump across the country but your traffic is still coming from a cell provider (so unlikely to be a VPN) Lyft could infer that you've flown, and to which airport.

Alternatively maybe barometer? All modern iPhones have one, but I don't know if apps are allowed to access it in the background (or without location services), and it wouldn't let Lyft tell which airport you were at.
It would be pretty bad to hire someone who doesn't respect their colleagues, without even knowing them.
I want the other solutions that will inevitably arise, likely as the sum total of many individuals’ organic actions, because I believe they render your solution unnecessary and would have less unpredictable negative externalities.
Good catch. In my mind storing that random number is similar to storing a plain-text password, thus I thought they were generating TOTPs. Let's hear from others how they implemented it.
At least one of the more obscure platforms openbsd supports are often due to someone(one person) willing to step up and do the builds.

I love reading when the luna88k maintainer comes out of the woods a month or two after release to announce that the packages are done building. Realisticly I expect there are a few 88k users. But based on the radio silence I see on the lists it feels like there is one heroic user who really likes openbsd and is willing to make it happen. I find it very inspiring.
> Most of these services that we enjoy simply aren't sustainable and are running on borrowed time (or VC money).

That's also what HN said about Uber and many other services still running today, including old Twitter.
It's 2025's ROT13 cipher for API. /s

It's also "Model Context Protocol", a protocol for LLMs to interact with third-party services.
New SSL/TLS certs to each live no longer than 47 days by 2029
Just want to note that I didn't downvote (I can't yet) or flag your comments. I don't think your comments should be flagged either.
> Is Intel just handing over the FPGA market to AMD?

Maybe? But who cares. From all of the comments above, I learned that the FPGA market is stalled or shrinking. Even AMD likely overpaid for Xilinx.
> It's not, for the reason they put in parentheses:

>> note: no pointers in user_data_t

I feel like I am taking crazy pills: where, in my intrusive example, are pointers in the `user_data_t`?

My intrusive code sample had no pointers for the user_data_t. It's exactly the same as GP's intrusive example.
https://youtu.be/qpKekNpziAk?si=Umk8nm0pYCYCEfsc

There was a remake in the pipes for a while using the Anniversary/Legend/Underworld engine but it was a one-man effort and seems to have been abandoned. Shame because it looked phenomenal.
Buku does this. You have to run bukubrowse server locally, but the extension then connects to localhost. I have a cli that lists my bookmarks and makes it easy for me to copy/paste or clickopen.
So exactly what “power” does Amazon have over your life?

Our politics is in shambles because of religious nutcases, anti science, anti intellectuals, who are afraid of the country becoming majority-minority and straight out racism and bitterness.

Amazon has nothing to do with that.
Cow manure. Not kidding. Look up cowpods.
I have fond memories of the KOA in Klamath Falls from two bike tours that went through Crater Lake. Last time I was there we had just finished a section of the trip that included a 90 mile stretch with no stores or even a lot of water for that matter. There were hot showers, washing machines, a camp store that sells beer. The camping spots were pretty nice, too.

And there was much rejoicing.
I think you need to rigorously define your macrostates. If your two states are "my friend's password" and "not my friend's password" then the macrostates are perfectly objective. You don't know what macrostate the system is in, but that doesn't change the fact that the system is objectively in one of those two macrostates.

If you define your macrostates using subjective terms (e.g. "a string that's meaningful to me" or "a string that looks ordered to me") then yeah, your entropy calculations will be subjective.
I'm a long distance hiker. As far as water filters go, the Sawyer Squeeze is a great choice. But—and this is important—do NOT get the Sawyer Mini to save weight/space. Get the full-sized one; you won't regret it. I've tried both and the Mini version simply does not have enough through flow to not be annoying over the course of a major trip.
We used to call that "the zone", and it's not exclusive to coding.
>In what way is hiring faculty and and admitting students based on merit instead of their identity anti-education?

It's not. Calling universities and professors the enemy is. The government taking away funding because you want international students to adhere to an ideology is wrong.

>is your position that you get a better education from a professor who was hired because of their race instead of the quality of their scholarly work?

How do you rank the quality of scholarly work?
How come the system rewards someone like Musk with so much but doesn't do the same for people like Norman Borlaug (green revolution), Frederick Banting (insulin), Karl Landsteiner (ABO blood groups) or Katalin Karikó (mRNA vaccines)?

What sort of things can our society do to ensure that the people who dedicate their lives to eliminating the suffering of so many are compensated for what I'm sure we can agree are absolutely amazing accomplishments?
So you're saying that Eru and Miles Davis are one?