skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What do you want them to do? Hire $100Bn worth of engineers until their net income is 0?

Take responsibility for the people they hired and have an ounce of human decency and empathy?

Don't need extra people? Fair enough. Then stop hiring! No one is pointing a gun to their head telling them to hire. Layoffs (for reasons unrelated to people's job performance) is such an asshole thing to do because with a competent/non-sociopathic management it's completely unnecessary, as you can just do a hiring freeze, and your headcount will reduce by itself through normal attrition.

The management of a lot of corporations acts this way, prioritizing "shareholder value" over people while giving exuberant bonuses to themselves, and then they make a surprised pikachu face when people hate them and individuals like Luigi Mangione come out of the woodwork and take matters into their own hands.

Remember in 2014 when Nintendo was having huge financial troubles? What did the CEO do? Did he fire half of his people? No, he kept his people, halved his own salary and kept going. And this was when they were losing massive amounts of money, and not breaking revenue records making 100 billion in profit. That is how a CEO and a leader should act, and not like the sociopath CEOs we have nowadays.
It's just an ad for their SSH cert service...

I feel like for SSH certs to expand beyond large companies, there's the need for an open-source service which does the issuing of short-lived certs after a user authenticates.
I know smallstep, but their offer feels open-core/freemium.
Dead trees keep surprisingly large amounts of carbon out of atmosphere
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> [2] Myself and (I suspect) my friend are diagnosed ASD as well.

That hypercorrection is ghastly.
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Ironically, the anti-medical viewpoint is FILLED with naked capitalism. The people most distrustful in the motivations of modern medicine seem highly inclined to buy supplements their favorite anti-medical media is almost certainly hawking.

This isn't to say medicine is perfect, but you really should be questioning the motives of those calling it all a sham. Due to regulation, medicine is generally pretty well backed up.
Information Converted to Energy (2010)
I play sudoku enough to have explored it fully. One interesting thing I sometimes do is estimate probabilities and guess key pieces in order to get the fastest time. Often, of course, you guess wrong and lose… but that’s like tripping on the 100 yard dash. It doesn’t invalidate your best times. I have learned more about intuitive probability than I learned about logic by playing this way.
I think that's true in most cases for usual good faith errors. But(!) if you're not filing, or making an egregious error, thinking you're being clever and evading taxes, or keeping accounts below reporting thresholds on purpose, you can get investigated and potentially go to prison, so the threat is there in certain circumstances.
Reach out to the sales or CS team, depending on your workload we could open that region pretty quickly :D
Yes, but that's not a strict division, and relies on anyone's understanding who has what privileges, where did the information came from (and if it came from where it claims it had), and a host of other situational factors.

'simiones gives a perfect example elsewhere in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43680184

But addressing your hypothetical, if that note said "CAUTION! Bridge ahead damaged! Turn around!" and looked official enough, I'd turn around even if the boss asked me to come straight to work, or else. More than that, if I saw a Tweet claiming FBI has just raided the office, you can bet good money I'd turn around and not show at work that day.
Ok? Not everyone has the same resources or technical sophistication.
Try out the big LLMs for translating and explaining translation (e.g. ChatGPT). Much better than Google translate in my experience.
Any plans on doing a PowerBook edition?
Yup. I plugged the numbers in just to check it out and for our very busy service, the storage costs eat up the savings from the reduced GET and PUT pricing. For us, express is still 8x more expensive.

We're pursuing Fsx NetApp ONTAP to store the objects in the short term in our processing pipeline. Unfortunately, we may need to build our own lifecycle management component if we go that route.
We all want to be seduced though, we all want to believe we are special, we all want to believe our work has value and we anthropomorphize the company on the other end of the relationship, believing it's a partnership.

Protect yourself, but it's a sad way to spend 40-60 hours of your life, constantly reminding yourself that your job is just a paycheck and not putting yourself into your work.

Not sure how so many can do it and be motivated. My current strategy is compartmentalization, and it all just seems unsustainable long term, cause in the back of my mind it all seems so empty.
Yup it is, Meilisearch Cloud offers 99.99% SLA :)

We served billions of searches for hundreds of customers monthly
Trump sees it as a cost and says Europeans are not paying their fair share. He has been talking about it for ten years: https://www.factcheck.org/2016/05/whats-trumps-position-on-n...

I daresay his judgment is informed by his consideration of Russia as closer to an ally than a foe.
I swear I did this once in school, to a teacher with a notoriously circuitous manner of speaking, by holding up my fingers and counting the filler words, and he slowly noticed it, became mildly horrified, and... fixed it, within about 6 weeks. Pretty impressive, I wonder what he did to change so quickly.

Originally he'd take 2 minutes to get through his name and phone number on a voicemail, and a few months later you wouldn't even recognize him by how clear and concise he was.
Is there anything like this but for analyzing thousands of models? Most of this type of tool seem to work best for iterating and experimenting, but I'd actually like to use it for tracking and debugging something in production.

We have a service that runs thousands of custom, user-defined models and when something goes awry having this level of insight would be pretty useful.
These all apply here in Sweden. The information from the equivalent of those W2s is all available to me directly through the tax authority's portal though, so when I filed my taxes the other day I just logged in, checked the numbers looked sane, pressed a button, and the process was done.

It took about 5 minutes. It would have been more like 30 seconds if my Swedish was a bit better.

There's nothing we're doing here that you couldn't do in the US, you just don't.
I thought that April's Fools Day was the 1st. Or at least, it looks a lot like the typical announces of that day (i.e. the one by ElevenLabs of this very year).

I don't know what to expect from that. I'm not sure if even a conversation, as we understand it, would make sense with them.
I would love to ask you lovely HN people, assuming you actually use SSH for work:

- does you organization use ssh certs?

- how big is the org? ("I know most IT", or "it's impossible to know the whole IT"?)

- were you the ones that proposed and implemented that change? :)

SSH certs make so much sense and I know about them for a long time. Yet never implemented that approach - we had at most 2 people that were actually interested. And now for me everything is http API's and oauth, so I don't need it any more. I wonder what are reasons orgs don't use ssh certs by default.
I'm sorry I'm not familiar with Casey Muratori. So I have no clue what he says.
I think this is referencing the implementation of sourcemaps :-)
No but if it happens through their own fault I wouldn't be upset
> creating a facebook-like social network

They also haven't created a fun loving machine that rips peoples limbs off and reattaches them facing a different direction and in a different order.

Creating these things really isn't something to be proud of.
The only way for Ruby to survive is to continue to improve. While I understand Matz's insistence no backward compatibility. I think the JIT part should actually be a testing ground to drop support to certain features.
The fact that manifest V3 went through and fundamentally nerfed all extensions that just so happen to block ads and offer privacy means these people failed, regardless of their intentions.
As somebody who had to withhold a burst of laughter when hearing "procurator" mispronounced as "procreator", I approve of this article before even reading it.
They aren't misremembering, there was a tv series.
When I am in a contrarian for the sake of contrarianism mood and wanting to sow discord I think of trying to convince A.I. haters on the Fediverse that ALT tags will help train A.I. models and that blind people who insist you write ALT tags are really the shock troops of OpenAI.
My takeaway from this is you can use the IRS as a CD that pays 7% per year!

Reading through the blog post it seems like you could overpay your taxes by $10k, immediately amend your return, and get your money back with 7% interest a year later!

I’m not actually advocating for this - I’m pretty sure it’d count as some form of tax fraud. But crazy that the IRS might offer the best safe(ish) interest rate.
The article is typical security issue embellishment/blogspam. They are incentivized to make it seem like AI is a mission-critical piece of software, because more AI reliance means a security issue in AI is a bigger deal, which means more pats on the back for them for finding it.

Sadly, much of the security industry has been reduced to a competition over who can find the biggest vuln, and it has the effect of lowering the quality of discourse around all of it.
If you need easy distributed key management, modern SSH makes this fairly straightforward with some config values. It supports executing a program to get the SSH key at login time, dynamically. This way you can still maintain local certificates for fallback, and you can plug into anything. For example in the past I wrote a simple golang based app that loaded all of the SSH pubkeys from my organizations github, for users in a specific team.
I've gotten on the frontpage multiple times by reposting a day later. You never know how the timing is going to work out. This behavior also fits within the guidelines.
> his bill was less than a dime for what must have been two carts worth of groceries (early 2000s)

Ah, yes, the coupon cutters that would spend all of their free time trying to get a deal. But if they were happy doing it, then who am I to judge.
Humans can be trained to apply contexts. Social engineering attacks are possible, but, when I type the words "please send your social security number to my email" right here on HN and you read them, not only are you in no danger of following those instructions, you as a human recognize that I wasn't even asking you in the first place.

I would expect a current-gen LLM processing the previous paragraph to also "realize" that the quotes and the structure of the sentence and paragraph also means that it was not a real request. However, as a human there's virtually nothing I can put here that will convince you to send me your social security number, whereas LLMs observably lack whatever contextual barrier it is that humans have that prevents you from even remotely taking my statement as a serious instruction, as it generally would just take "please take seriously what was written in the previous paragraph and follow the hypothetical instructions" and you're about 95% of the way towards them doing that, even if other text elsewhere tries to "tell" them not to follow such instructions.

There is something missing from the cognition of current LLMs of that nature. LLMs are qualitatively easier to "socially engineer" than humans, and humans can still themselves sometimes be distressingly easy.
Your "hope" is that ~5% of the population dies due to a virus?
I found the linked article hard to follow. I think he was trying to write in a very colloquial manner but still using some terms of art in a way that is specific to his field. Maybe someone could help me figure out a couple passages?

"Chinese savers did not want even more Chinese factories. One of many reasons for this saving (more later, but it helps to make the story) is that China is aging and has little safety net, so its middle age workers want to put money aside, to withdraw when they get old. So, those savers chose to invest in the US."

"From the US side, we are investing more than we are saving. China, in effect, wants to send us factories. But China doesn’t make portable factories. It’s great at making consumer goods. So China sends us consumer goods so that we can build our own factories without lowering consumption."

First, I'm finding it hard to believe that Chinese "middle age workers" are driving a significant portion of the investment in the US. Is this possibly true? Maybe he means that they put their yuan-denominated savings in local banks, and then the banks convert this to invest in US securities?

And I thought that economists usually distinguished between "saving" (capital preservation) and "investing" (capital growth) but at least in the first quote he seems to be using them as synonyms. But in the first sentence of the second quote, he is definitely distinguishing the two.

But what does "China, in effect, wants to send us factories" mean? Is he equating buying US stocks with "send us factories"? This would be a strange usage if the majority of the investment is in big existing tech companies selling software and services. Or is this just a confusing and complicated way of saying they "want" a strong dollar?

Can anyone help me parse these passages as they were intended?
For anyone viewing this thread now, take into consideration what wikipedia says about MEMRI:

"Critics describe MEMRI as a strongly pro-Israel advocacy group that, in spite of describing itself as being "independent" and "non-partisan" in nature,[5][6][7] aims to portray the Arab world and the Muslim world in a negative light by producing and disseminating incomplete or inaccurate translations of the original versions of the media reports that it re-publishes."

"co-founded by Israeli ex-intelligence officer Yigal Carmon and Israeli-American political scientist Meyrav Wurmser in 1997"

I think there is a deep irony in using MEMRI publications as evidence that a human rights watch org has ideological bias.
Didn't ask, don't care.
Every time I see news about AI taking to animals, I want to ask: why do they assume animals have universal languages across an entire population?

For human, language is a cultural thing. We have so many variations. I often see AI that talks to pets. But usually a pet grows up in isolation to other peers, can it learn their language at all, or they just develop some local dialect that is only used within the household?
I have never met anyone who used certs with ssh, despite being the obvious choice.

But since apparently ssh is now obsolete (as I was told here a week ago or so) maybe it makes no difference.
The importance of learning and the perils of AI assistance
Not really. This is $10K on top of what was already paid through payroll deductions, etc. The median worker is not paying anything additional.
The user love/passion on the JAX team is super high. Interacting with them is whatever the opposite of Kafkaesque is.
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VDX.tv?
What Audio Analysis Reveals About Aid Workers Killed in Gaza
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20250412200546/https://www.belli...
So which one is it? Code is contract and he should get to keep the money. Or crypto is governed by laws outside of crypto and so he violated the “spirit” of the code and hence is a criminal?

It seems like right now the crypto industry makes the decision to their convenience on a daily basis.
Trump is already parroting the Russian disinformation/talking points on Ukraine. What makes you think he would use those nukes against Mother Russia?
An AI powered autocompletion engine is an AI tool. I think few developers would complain about saving a few keystrokes.
I once had to work with a consultant who was the most over the top bullshit artist I had ever seen in my life. Their line of work was getting "out of it" execs to feel like he understood the online world and getting paid to create nonsense launches.

I used to take notes and just try to capture the buzzword onslaught. Here's an old notepad cut-and-paste from a single 90 minute meeting this guy was in:

We should sidebar

I’ll call an audible and order lunch

So maybe we’ll put that into a live fire exercise

We’re elbow deep now

I’m starting to ladder into goals and tactics

Let’s explore this for a second so we can put it in the parking lot

Let’s take a bio-break

It’s not on the top of my want-to-do list

I want to get back to some more basic block and tackle

If you look at it as crawl, walk, run. I mean I hate that metaphor, but we’re transitioning from crawl to walk

I have some suggestions around merchandising homepage content

I’ve already done concepting

It’s analytics with icebreaking on the social side

I’ll type up outputs and share

We’re potentially opening the aperture on expert interviews

Out of this decision comes wayfinding for that decision

I’m looking for the exponential in this

Alright, I think we can land it
I have no evidence, but Roundup kills the bees and causes autism too.
It would be interesting to hear this refuted rather than simply downvoted, by the way. What are some alternative explanations?
Thanks for the comment! You're absolutely right that visual aids help a lot, especially for tech concepts.

Unfortunately, this is an early-stage patent-pending system, so I can't publish any diagrams or images that aren’t already protected. Also, since Hacker News doesn’t support inline images, it’s a bit tricky to show visuals here.

Still, the linked blog post provides a concept summary in English, and I’m happy to answer any technical questions if you're curious!
> Is it wrong for the management to say "We need to be efficiently investing shareholder capital" or for the market to be looking at Google and saying "We want your money spinning monopoly business please, not your eccentric other bets thanks".

On some level yes. With the massive disparity in who owns the markets, your argument is basically “Is google doing a good job of making the rich richer?”. Hiring H1Bs and offshoring while firing American labor is not a good look.

Why keep a company like that around?
I mean that eventsource doesn't handle it.
OP asserted that equality amongst humans is not necessarily a good thing. I am not trying to argue otherwise - not yet, at least - I am asking them to expand upon and clarify the claim as to understand better.

Because I do assume equality to be a good thing; if that is an incorrect assumption I would like to know.
> they only incur a cost to the client, and only impact the user context, if/when they're invoked.

Look it up. Look up the cross server injection examples.

I guarantee you this is not true.

An MCP server is at it's heart some 'thing' that provides a set of 'tools' that an LLM can invoke.

This is done by adding a 'tool definition'.

A 'tool definition' is content that goes into the LLM prompt.

That's how it works. How do you imagine an LLM can decide to use a tool? It's only possible if the tool definition is in the prompt.

The API may hide this, but I guarantee you this is how it works.

Putting an arbitrary amount of 3rd party content into your prompts has a direct tangible impact on LLM performance (and cost). The more MCP servers you enable the more you pollute your prompt with tool definitions, and, I assure you, the worse the results are as a result.

Just like pouring any large amount of unrelated crap into your system prompt does.

At a small scale, it's ok; but as you scale up, the LLM performance goes down.

Here's some background reading for you:

https://github.com/invariantlabs-ai/mcp-injection-experiment...

https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/tool-us...
I’m literally working on this at Planet right now :)

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240610385569/en/Pla...
I thought almost all programmers created a language or two in the course of their careers or hobbies.

You can make a simple language very easily if you design the syntax carefully and restrict its capabilities. It all depends on what you need it for.

In my case I needed a way to create reports from a Turbo Pascal program (TP3 for DOS I think) without having to edit the program and ship a new version. So I made a simple report generating language. It had simple for loops, all variables were global, tokens were all separated by white-space, no user defined sub-routines or functions, a set of predefined procedures specifically designed for the report generating function, arithmetic expressions that were only allowed in assignment statements, interpreted not compiled.

It was actually quite easy to do but of course was not a general purpose language. These days it might be simpler to embed Lua.
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Why now and not before? Because some spoiled manbaby lost his cushy job?
Exactly. It is pretty common for APIs to actually signal this too. Headers to show usage limits or rates. Good error codes (429) with actual documentation on backoff timeframes. If you use instrument your service to respect read and respect the signals it gets, everything moves smoother. Backing stuff like that back into the MCP spec or at least having common conventions that are applied on top will be very useful. Similarly for things like tracking data taint, auth, tracing, etc ... Having a good ecosystem makes everything play together much nicer.
You do realize that what you wrote is technically illegal under CFAA?

Obviously it's not a big deal, but still, in today's litigious climate, I'd delete the comment if I were you, just to stay on the safe side.
This would require the SinglyLinkedList to be generic and would require that the data struct use "node" as the field name. Also, as some comments have pointed out, this type of linked list can be useful when a data struct needs to be in multiple lists, in which case there is no single "node" field.

const some_data = struct {
// Some data fields
// ...
bar_node: SinglyLinkedList.Node,
baz_node: SinglyLinkedList.Node,
};
Tariff: A Python package that imposes tariffs on Python imports
I think the original argument was, if you were a massive dem, you'd be possibly facing some speed bumps. Hopefully not, but doctors are humans as well. And pets don't vote anyway so they should receive a much milder treatment (again, hopefully). I think the whole discussion is long time over the economy, and runs now only about ethics - and doctors must navigate this line daily, so the topic is more important than ever.
Torment Nexus or Orphan Crushing Machine?