skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
smhasher does not report any failure for blake3. The one failure for blake2b 256 is not ideal for a hash function, but not necessarily evidence that the function doesn't look like a random value: `Sparse` generated 50643 16-bit values, hashed them, and found 2 collisions in the high 32 bits of the output. I'm not sure what kind of flaw in the test harness you think can explain that.

There could definitely be issues in the integration code that lets the harness call into all these functions. For example, smhasher finds issues with SHA3 for the "PerlinNoise" input sets. That input set hashes small integers in [0, 4096), with seeds in [0, 4096); I'm not convinced the sha3 wrapper does anything useful with the seed here https://github.com/rurban/smhasher/blob/37cffd7b9cdaa2140c53... . I expect something similar is happening with SHA1 and SHA2.

The MD5 row shows no failure; only the function that truncates to the low 32 bit has failures.

You can read the test harness or the test log (e.g., https://github.com/rurban/smhasher/blob/master/doc/blake2b-2...) and apply your own significance threshold. The statistical tests are nothing special or novel (counting collisions in bitranges of the input, and bias in individual bits, mostly); the interesting part is how the various tests generate interesting sets of inputs. In the end, it's a bit like the PRNG wars: you can always come up with a test that makes a function look bad, but a ton of failure is definitely a bad sign.
We shall not cease from exploration

And the end of all our exploring

Will be to arrive where we started

And know the place for the first time.

T. S. Eliot - Little Gidding
Meta is definitely one of those words that pops up often in the commercial world. Linus Torvalds (Linux) was involved with a Y2K era company named TransMeta that made the Crusoe chip for a couple of laptops and a hand-held PIM.

At dinner tonight my partner came up with another Meta company name as well.
I’m so disappointed with foam mattress, there’s no firmness that is satisfactory. I tried some hybrid beds are IKEA that were really dope and I’ve been thinking about changing mattress.
> As well, every time I test the fuel on a Cessna it inevitably sprays everywhere so there’s that worry too.

Yeah that bothers me as well. Especially since Tetraethyllead is in the perfect form to be absorbed through the skin.

I started using nitrile gloves during that process but it still gets around with the wind at times.

Would be a cool 3D printing project or even a better drain tube product design that springs flush with the plane so that it can't splurt out.

Edit: After some searching came across this [0] -- will probably be buying that.

[0] https://www.sportys.com/multisumptm-fuel-tester.html
Please.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_cryptography
Humans are not squares
They have limited resources and so they cannot fight every single fight. Some people object to their current method of filtering. Apparently, groups tied to neo-nazi/white-supremacy are some of the ones they filter out of consideration, but they have done so in the past.

Some people think the ACLU should fight specifically for such organizations to make a point that everyone, even hateful bigots, have the same rights.

Personally? I'm on the fence. On the one hand, given limited resources & all else being equal in two cases, why not choose the group of people who are nicer? On the other hand, if you choose the hateful group & set a precedent that even the most hateful people have the same set of rights as others, it's close to irrefutable in future cases with nicer people that they get those rights too.
Like others have mentioned here the demo seems to be able to categorize users into certain groups, but it is unclear how useful it is for fingerprinting and track an individual. I would love to see some statistics on it because from the data the demo gathers it seems like it will have a hard time to make out individuals in many cases.
I find the technique used in the paper "Prime+Probe 1, JavaScript 0: Overcoming Browser-based Side-Channel Defenses" [1] more interesting, although highly impractical. I guess there might be more practical CSS-based techniques that could fingerprint an individual and track them over several sites, but I have a hard time to see the limited tracking presented in this article would be very effective.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.04952
If you start with a motivated bias against any given hypothesis, in a social science field where the empirical evidence is sort of messy, you can always rationalize away the evidence supporting that hypothesis.

This is sort of a double whammy since not only are the social sciences messy enough that it’s easier to get away with that sort of thing, but they always have been chock full of hypotheses that lots of people have motivated biases against.
We had the commodore come aboard our destroyer and he needed to make a call (we were either in “river city” or had IP issues) so my a senior chief said to me “go find out where this works” and handed me the iridium. When I got topside he was already waiting for me and I said “This might take a minute, sir” (not expecting him yet). We walked all around the ship as I dialed the number in different spots until it went through. Was very awkward as he stared at me during each attempt and looked progressively more annoyed. It was always a bad time when we had to pull that thing out but it got the job done!
I am a bit skeptical about the precision due to the last 3 zeros for the 'last connection date'. It seems to unlikely that it got exactly that moment...
Rofl. From the paragraph you just quoted: "The immune marker(s) used for immunobridging do not need to be scientifically established".

What is the health benefit they are claiming for kids? Look at table 14: assuming we buy all their assumptions, maybe 1:1,000,000 deaths. How about vaccine adverse effects (by their own projections 1:10,000 excess miocarditis) and long term OAS risks?
Kubernetes For Everyone
Not a stats expert, but this just seems like a (intentional?) fundamental misconstruing of meta-analysis. My understanding is they correct for random error, not error due to flawed study design.
Had friends in Hawaii. They had such beautiful indoor orchids that I commented on their green thumbs... to which their response was, "Oh no, we kill them inside and then put them outside to recover and bring back in the ones that are blooming".
> Additional indirect support comes from the rapid unexpected success of Deep Learning[7], which is entirely based on building AI systems using simple universal learning algorithms... scaled up on fast parallel hardware (GPUs). Deep Learning techniques have quickly come to dominate most of the key AI benchmarks including vision[12], speech recognition[13][14], various natural language tasks, and now even ATARI [15] - proving that simple architectures (priors) combined with universal learning is a path (and perhaps the only viable path) to AGI.

Proving?

only viable path?
(Non-practicing) Lawyer here. We aren't universally technologically illiterate. Many of us are former programmers, and still are in our spare time.

And those people who help you draft patents for your computer-related inventions? Also lawyers.
This is funny because when I saw a dermatologist they just prescribed retinol cream (the textbook solution), didn't look at my skin, and didn't much care for my thoughts or concerns about how to better care for it.

"Just take the cream damnit" - a couple years later I found that the cream was just adjusting the texture of my skin, and likely overly sensitizing it. The doc didn't care and was happy to continue prescribing it.

When doctors abscond their responsibility to know what they're talking about, folks have no choice but to seek it out. Many people have this experience with physicians of all stripes.
Here's where I'd suggest hiring a real lawyer (currently practicing as a litigator in California) for an assessment, but here's my guess. Worst case is I lose in court, which is just wasted time and $100. There's no further downside than that, since they didn't countersue (and couldn't have). In that case, I'd keep my goggles and have the choice whether to throw them away, sell them, or suck it up and do the Facebook account thing. Or wait until today and learn that they'd dropped the requirement.
The saatva hd is very firm. Not the firmest thing I've ever slept on but close.
The ACLU are providing legal services to Signal in this case. (See the signatories to Signal's response to the subpoena.)
"I love it when articles have random units of measurements like that!"

There's a right way and a wrong way to deal with quantities. This is a right way:

https://www.theregister.com/Design/page/reg-standards-conver...
A Complete Machine Learning Package
Honestly: at least in my circle there is an oddly massive cross section of tech workers who have private pilot's licenses. In my relatively small circle (less than 200 people) of close friends/acquaintances, 25% of the tech workers have a private's pilot's license and 0 of the non-tech folks.

Maybe it's truly just my circle but I always found it odd/amusing that such a high percentage had or were going for their pilot's license. Maybe the same personality trait that pushed them to tech pushes them to want to fly themselves. And/or it's just a matter of having more expendable money and free time than the average joe.

Either way I think it's less HN and more the profession.
Why have this at all?
Keep in mind that memory foam and latex foam are very different from each other. Since I sleep "hot" I don't like memory foam at all, but Talalay latex suits me fine.
I call those thinkos. They're weird to notice. Why did my brain do that? Do I do it often? No idea.
Or just use sexpressions. I don’t mean that flippantly either. I truly believe all of mathematics should utilize them as well. This way you learn the basics in grade school and have the syntactic skills needed moving forward.
Dr. Dayan Goodenowe: Plasmalogens and Alzheimer's
is there a programming language that has python syntax but aims to be as fast as c? (something like crystal on that list)
There are different firmness configurations of memory foam. Pillow tops will hurt my back.

I prefer a firm that you won't find in 80% of spring mattresses.
https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news08.html
Generally it has to do with scale. If you make something that 200,000 people buy and your marginal cost is low you're going to make a lot of money. If you work in elderly care you can only provide care for a handful of people you won't make much.
I hope my children get scammed for their worthless digital items. That's becoming harder as assigning real world value to digital items becomes nearly essential for games these days. I know for me and many friends, getting scammed out of some rune plate armor or what not was an important instructional moment.
That already exists, it's called the Internet
Well, we did have a need for it but we just chose to ignore that need. Something like 30,000 people died every year from the regular flu in the USA alone, before pandemic. Social distancing (and masks) would bring that number to close to 0.

So if we're going by metrics of, we'd like to save 30,000 people every year, we absolutely had a need for social distancing all this time. But I get it, our society has a large tolerance for mass death, so in that view, we "didn't have much need for it". But taking that view we still don't have any need for it.

Obviously from my perspective we've had a need for it this whole time but just blissfully ignored that fact.
Hive ransomware now encrypts Linux and FreeBSD systems
We watched the old movie "Outbreak" at the start of Covid, and was surprised that the term "social distancing" is used in that movie to describe mitigations we should use during the pandemic. That movie is from 1995.
Why would it be unconstitutional? Which provision would such a law contravene?
Orchids are notoriously hard in general, to be fair
The latex foam is not as soft as you're imagining it. It's pretty firm. The buckling gel buckles but it's form fitting. It's hard to describe accurately but it does not feel like memory foam. I used medium-hard foam and sleeping on that combo feels like something that is supportive but also happens to contour to your body correctly.
GitHub Copilot passed my coding interview
I "interviewed" an AI that can write code. It was quite impressive!
How easily does it fit in a backpack?

I’m thinking about the 16” but am worried about the size to bring it to work.
State chapters of the ACLU have usually been a lot better, the rot is more at the top and with the stands the leadership takes
For water volume here in Australia we use Sydney harbour units
In that scenario, the fizzbuzz widget is gonna be just a tiny tiny part of your WordPress scaling problem…
noncommutative multiplication? what the hell were they doing?
Lisp Enlightment Is Overrated
Considering slightly broader aspect of why the work is done in the first place – to bring profits to the company – people should also factor in the creative part of work, and nonlinearity of individual contributions to that case.

It's one thing if your job is to stay at the assembly line punching holes in metal sheets 40 hours a week. And another thing if you have the capacity for improving the overall process (and profits), while still spending 10 hours punching holes part-time because it brings you joy. From management perspective, it's those 10 hours that are wasted.

Or if you're taken out of your dear assembly line and flown to the other part of the country in business class, to attend a week-long series of meeting with a customer. Somehow that ends up helping to secure a huge contract, just because your presence affected the customer's perception. From your perspective, that might look like the company has wasted a fine week of your work on useless meetings and communication. From company's perspective, just with that they have made more money than you'd bring them in a two years otherwise.
Yep... once noone defends the nazis, anyone can be branded a nazi, and you lose one more right (free speech).

And sadly, the word 'nazi' has lost all of it's meaning in the last years, and has gone from swastika carrying Hitler supporters to someone who doesn't want illegals working below minimum wage to take his job.
Thanks for the suggestions! In addition to the hardware, I understand that a low-latency internet connection is a must for mining. The turbine is in a remote location, so satellite internet is probably the only option, and even the fastest satellite internet (Starlink) has about 3X the latency of fixed broadband. Is this a deal killer?
The Linux variant also proved to be quite buggy during ESET's analysis, with the encryption completely failing when the malware was executed with an explicit path.

This brings to mind GNU Humor's 'Why GNU/Linux Viruses are fairly uncommon':

https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/evilmalware.html
If one of them held onto the domain name, they probably made a good profit off of it just now.
Neal Stephenson reacts to Facebook name change
I know why it's a not a popular comment. Because everyone who cares enough to sling shit on the internet but not more than that is annoyed that I pointed out that that's where their line is drawn.

The fact that people think every un-flattering observation about online discourse is assumed to be in bad faith says something. I'm not sure what but it's certainly un-flattering as well.
+1. There are a lot of messy things in the world, and someone comes along as says, "The old way is too messy and complicated, here's a new, simpler, better way," and they don't understand why the old messy thing was messy in the first place. And they don't understand what it was about the old thing that allowed it to last for all those decades.

Somebody posted this anecdote a few days/weeks back, and it stuck with me:

> There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.” To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”

https://fs.blog/chestertons-fence/
The historically-valid small government is a parent.
New World was completely broken today – Dupes, Crashes and more [video]
I used to think it was much easier to start coding out a problem before doing any sort of planning. My argument for this was that it gave me a hands-on understanding of the data/workflows/etc involved.

Now, the first thing I do is grab a piece of paper, map out what I do and don’t know, and fill in any knowledge gaps by asking questions. It still isn’t second nature for me, but I think it’s something worth prioritizing.
CDOs and insider trading are orthogonal. The issue with CDOs is not the concept or the engineering but the implementation thereof. The banks (or underwriter) took risky loans and labelled them as safe; and the whole idea of CDOs is about pricing risk for mortgages. So it blew off.

> the industry seems to be often parasitical

Most industries are. Oil, Pharmaceutical, Weapons, Government bureaucracy, etc... The list is really long. I'd say that Finance is one of the most regulated areas; but you are unlikely to notice other rip-offs (ie: oil leak that cost the tax payer and the citizen)
Scientists analyze health risks in James Bond movies–the worst is sex with 007
Did the ADHD thing pan out? I do this too.
They themselves also said there's no technical reason why they couldn't easily keep using X. They just didn't want to. <https://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html#heading_toc_j_5>

So it is putting their own selfish desire for fun and personal glory above the good of the linux community and ecosystem. This deserves zero respect.
Who's to say they're paying with privacy? Xbox and Playstation get 15-30% of every game sale for their consoles, since the consoles are sold near-cost or even at a loss. At least historically they were just paying on the backend, not with their privacy. Is the line tracking, advertising, or just not being able to pay everything up-front (and not based on usage)?
Are you sure it is a different matter?

The value of a TV is completely dependent on who can broadcast.

“Saying if I want a TV I should be able to buy one.” is a meaningless comment on freedom given that broadcasting is regulated.

The government doesn’t have to control who can buy TVs if it controls who can broadcast.
Advice to Charlie: Don't quit your day job.
This is like having a camera in your house, that does image recognition, and once it thinks it saw something illegal, sends the "something is happening at XY street" to the police. Does it help the government solve crimes? Sure. Is it creepy and intrusive, and not something anyone sane would accept? Yes.

I don't know why we accept the same things when we're talking about digital privacy.
Apologies for the video link but I couldn't find a write-up yet. This is a (very) slightly more technical followup to the original story by Josh Strife Hayes on his channel, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1v6vxENXbg

Basically Amazon's MMO New World has had numerous issues in trusting the client side UI code. This latest is that the chat box takes unsanitised HTML. This allows a variety of visual bugs, crashing game clients, and fake quest completions for infinite rewards.

This is on top of other recent bugs such as not receiving money for sales when offline, moving the window to 'pause' the game state and avoid damage, and other weird behaviour.

This is very a basic game development tenet - never trust the client. To see a company known for its APIs make all these mistakes is baffling.
According to Google Translate it can mean "consummate" which technically could be the same as "fuck" except without being slang or negative.
Scientists built a computer model of Dune to see whether humans could live there
Astronaut Bruce McCandless, the first person to fly freely in space, dies
Strong-arming of the California Coastal Commissioners looks to be part of the plan:

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio....

https://www.coastal.ca.gov/roster.html
Within that context, the Archive has made careful efforts to ensure its uses are lawful.

Except for that bit where somebody in power at the IA decided to ruin the future of CDL by declaring a free-for-all during the pandemic. I still want to know who it was that made a decision so mind-bendingly idiotic it put the very existence of the Internet Archive itself at risk. Of course our current copyright laws are stupid! That doesn't mean you as an organization with twenty million dollars in yearly revenue get to just ignore them and trust that having the moral high ground will protect you from the lawyers of an entire industry.
I share your concern, and I worry that we'll find this battle continues 20 years from now.

There are many possible things that can go wrong with a P-value and I'm not a statistician, but things I look for in data are the structure/distribution of the "noise" and any correlations seen within the "noise" and the "signal". That helps you build a signal and noise model. Assuming that all your noise is inherently uncorrelated gaussian, is a pretty strong model assumption.
Social Media and Mimetic Desire
They aren't rectangles either.
Ask HN: Will I have to pay both US and Canadian taxes if I work from Canada?
Let's say I work for a US company remotely from Canada. Will I have to pay both US taxes and Canadian taxes?

I want to add that I'm a Canadian citizen.
Taking a guess that it's https://write.as/ based on links within.
Wow, this is worse than I expected. See the two charts at the very end of the pdf. Large margins of error, with the means:

VE against symptomatic infection: -15%

VE against severe covid: 25%
Just because something is old doesn't mean it should get a free pass on continuing to use leaded fuel though... there must be other reasons why leaded is still used besides simple knock sensors and ignition timing.
I think a lab soil test ($20 or so) and following the basics of weed control (Google “triangle weed control”) and soil amendments as guided by the test will get you a 90-95th percentile lawn without tons of agonizing effort or much expense.

Add irrigation and you’ll be at 97+%-ile.

The frustration I have with my lawn hobby is that it looks “great” to most visitors but I know all the flaws and where I’ve still got improvements to make.
> This is going to be a bigger issue than you might think at first. No windows means that if you're too hot you can't open the window to let in cool and fresh air.

Not being able to vent their living space is a major red flag.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sick_building_syndrome
Especially since it's only a sound-alike homonym.

They're as likely to make it an enduring joke as English speakers hearing duty would laugh at its similarity to doodie (poop). It just doesn't occur to most people unless they are using it as a synonym when taking the dogs out.
Sexprs really suck to write by hand without editor support and a lot of mathematics is done by hand.

RPN might be a better starting point for a revolution.
If you aren't sure, a future maintainer might also have the same problem.

Write it out clearly and use extra () clarity to be completely obvious what is meant.
I don't think so, if you arent American and/or living in the states... just a guess. Better to check from a better source though...
> also eliminate anticompetitive credit card cashback offers

I've heard a lot about why they're bad but not that they're anti-competitive. In what ways are they?
Yeah they will be if you use a lot of those old style toolbars-forms-and-dialogs apps. For other apps I don't see much interest in Qt Widgets.