skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Non-technical people absolutely love this story, and also spitballing all kinds of wacky things you can measure for entropy.

Technical people always give exceeding lame answers, like read 16 bytes from a HWRNG to seed a CSPRNG like Fortuna and then be done with it.
They're both sources.
Any idea if these work fine with android auto? First I'm hearing of this company and the Jelly 2E for $159 is kind of awesome.
> You're on daily dexamphetamine right?

Haven't been able to get my new prescription yet (ran out yesterday) but other than that, I take 30mg/day dexedrine XR.

> ADHD makes us time blind and that robs us of motivation to do things.

That's one way to put it. I like to put it as "your own brain will stop listening to you", because it will. No matter how much you yell and plead at yourself to do something, it won't happen if your brain just won't let you.

> But that aside the urgency and focus that dexamphetamine provide is tiring over long periods I think, which is why I've not sought it out as a medication option and settled on slow-release methylphenidate

I've consistently been recommended ritalin/methylphenidate as something to try, I do plan on trying it at some point but dexedrine helps me so much I don't think I need to go to anything else. I still want to try methylphenidate though to see how it is.

> tolerance is when your brain adapts to the medication and that's actually what I want, right?

Probably~ I was somewhat high for 4-5 days at first but it was actually incredibly distracting because I would do crazy stuff like fall over in the shower because it felt too good for me to focus. That shower was just repaired, I nearly broke it again.

> Not sure if any of that was helpful or not, but that's roughly how I see things.

Always nice hearing someone else's viewpoint~
In 1962 I was a Conservative
I felt SymPy needed some adjustments for it to be fun and useful for my day-to-day calculations, so I wrote this:

https://github.com/idanpa/calcpy
Replacing the battery used to be just popping off the back cover, sliding out the battery then sliding in a new one.

These days it’s a perilous task that requires multiple spudgers and picks, a screen heater, finger acrobatics to make sure you don’t slash or rip any fragile cables, and then you have to wrestle the battery from its adhesive coffin.
Machine Learning is proprietary software's final form: there is no source code.
Or it just starts out that way. ;)
TikTok altered the narrative.

This is why the US Government keeps freaking out about TikTok. They don’t know who gets to pull the strings with the algorithm. Is it pro environmental, antigovernment, anticoporate? They don’t have to censor, just figure out what slant do they want to promote ever so gently. And right now the US government is freaking out because they don’t know when or why the Chinese government exercises its control
meh "crypto" means nothing nowadays.

The only relevant "crypto" is Bitcoin, when you're actually holding the keys and not delegated to an exchange, and it's primary purpose is not speculation but just transfering money without a trusted third party. I've been using it to move money for over 10 years, and many people I know do too.
Women in LATAM are also much more likely to get a boob job as teenagers (it was so common that until a law was passed preventing it, 30 percent of plastic surgeries in Colombia were on underage girls). LATAM cultures are in some ways more warm and welcoming, but in other ways more regressive/toxic, such as their gender roles and sexuality. Seems great to you because you're benefiting from it, but American women probably enjoy greater independence.
I just wanted to follow up here. Yes, people have been hospitalized. Would you care to revise your statement?

https://twitter.com/StatusCoup/status/1629530227146731521
Lately I’ve been relying on AI to write IsOdd classes for me when the need arises. I tell it what I need, and it works out all the messy details. No more third-party libraries!
ChatGPT and it's future variants completely automates propaganda production. And by enabling the creation of an unlimited on demand stream of fact free opinions targeted to the individual reader, it also undermines the economic basis for independent journalism and the fourth estate.

It's Kissinger's wet dream.
No it's not, it might be acceptable in a few societies but in a vast majority of societies across the globe sex work is both frowned upon and illegal.

You are naive if you think all prostitutes are willing participants that chose this as a career. Across the world forced prostitution/sex work is fuelled by human trafficking of women and minors.

In an ideal world human beings should be free to make their own choices based on their context and society free to judge them based on it's context. One can't have it both ways. One cannot have absolute individual freedom within a social substrate and be an accepted member of said society without adhering to the norms of the social contract, what ever that might be.
I have a few in my collection. They are good check sources for radiation detectors. Don't eat them.
Since fast moving objects appear to contract (to an outside observer) the faster they go, if you have an object traveling at near light speed, it will appear vanishingly short, regardless of its true length.

So let there be a one mile long object, let it travel at nearly light speed for five seconds. As God, freeze time after 5 seconds and place two measuring stations: one touching the head of Object from Observer's point of view, and one touching the tail of Object from Object's point of view (we can teleport around instantly so we can verify that we've got everything set up correctly with no penalty).

Observer Head thinks Object Head and Object Tail are at about 5 light-seconds + 1 mile from origin (because Object is vanishingly short, and Object Head started at 1 mile from origin). But within Object, the Tail is 1 mile behind.

So Object Tail will signal Observer Tail at about 1 mile/c before it reaches where it supposedly is, and Observer Tail instantly signals Observer Head, thus Observer Head receives causality from its signal before it sends its signal.

Not sure how the universe resolves that. Unless the universe can "overclock" and become indefinitely fast at propagating and processing information when need be.

I think my example isn't entirely sound because I forget the exact math (it's been a long time), so you might have to tweak the example to be fully mathematically sound, but the general concept of causal contradiction within one's own frame of reference should be sound, I think.
The job market for new grads: worse than in 2008, but better than 2002
Thank you. Now I understand.
> As I side note I suffered anxious sweats for a few years - except when I took ketamine. Now there's a substance that can make you really feel connected to your body (operate your body in manual mode!) while also letting you experience your mind trying to retrofit a coherent narrative for the previous 20 minutes or so during which it had been basically turned off, leaving the brain in charge.

Hehe, ketamine is definitely something I want to try at some point. Dexedrine is probably going to end up being somewhat of a gateway drug for me. But there are tons of resources online for harm reduction, to learn how to try things safely, without hurting yourself or getting addicted. Ketamine and LSD are definitely on my list of "things I want to try before I die".
This is fun but a more practical solution would be for “ssh host” to GET the host’s public key from https://host/.well-known/.

The OpenSSH daemon could host it for you if you could fit a tiny, vuln free httpd inside it — not an enormously onerous task given that the codebase already includes the implementation of a robust TCP daemon. Add ACME support and you’ve moved the TOFU MITM attack from being possible on every-new-client-connection to also having to coincide with the once-every-X-days for the HTTPS certificate renewal.

It’s a lot of new functionality which probably isn’t cool for the OpenSSH codebase, but it’s a pragmatic solution to plugging the gap between mankind’s universally deployed PKI and ssh’s ephemeral peer-to-peer verification.
My granite countertop registers roughly twice background dose rates with my Geiger counter. Hardly enough to raise any eyebrows, let alone temperature.

I know you're joking but just wanted to add that I measured it.
If they launch a smaller form factor it should gain traction quick! No one covers this demand space
I completely agree with this if you're just talking about dating apps. When you give everyone the ability to look at every attractive person in their area, it changes people's perspective of what's attractive/not. Also, people are almost solely rated on how attractive they are and 100 words to describe yourself (sometimes less depending on the app), you get a situation where the attractive people get tons of matches and less attractive people get fewer even if they have more to offer than just their looks. Finally, women seem to rate attractiveness on a long tail distribution. It's a nightmare all around.

What's funny to me though is how different the IRL dating scene is. I got 1-2 matches a week (very few where I would get a response back) when I was on the apps, but through meeting friends-of-friends, casually going to a bar, meeting people at church, or other normal events, I can consistently get dates that would be out of my league on the apps just by introducing myself. I don't have stats for "epic bed partners" since that's not something I'm interested in, but I'm sure it would translate for those that are.

I find that people in my age group (early 20s) are moving from app dating to irl because apps can seem hopeless unless you really optimize which seems unauthentic. I think there's going to be a generation who will have trouble finding partners, like you said, but I feel like my generation and the folks younger than me will be alright.

Edit: I also want to point out that it's pretty bad in tech where people are constantly moving (I know a guy who moved once a year between SF, Seattle, Denver, NY, and Charlotte) to new cities all the time and can't create good, deep friendships. First, if you're dating irl, it's tough meeting people who can introduce you to single women. Second, it's hard to be a good date if you don't have friends. I don't even want to explain that, but it should be obvious.
I think Azure has an internal a service just to generate 429 http response codes - they send us so many of them!
> unless you are sweating the (let's be honest, trivial) bag fee.

$50 is not trivial to everyone.
the undrafted men, and thus most likely survivors, were largely ones who failed to meet minimum physical standards of the military, so not sure on that last point
Otherwise she'll die alone, along with his ugly friend.
And yet here we are, eight years later, DNSSEC adoption still growing.
I've often wondered if there might be a more efficient propulsion design using modern materials, using something like a whale's fluke, or some flapping wings. Seems like in addition to personal zeppelins, there's room to innovate with more biological designs.
I’m on my phone and haven’t double checked this, but from my understanding, I believe it’s part of an effort to encourage compatibility with other tools like podman. The ambiguity is somewhat intentional, as an active decision to separate the implementation name from the configuration standard.
Kinda the same with Twitter (and likely Facebook) bans.

You did something against our terms and now you're banned. We will not tell you what was the offending Tweet though ...

I was hoping Elon Musk would change this, but I don't believe anything changed regarding this issue yet. I think there's probably some legal reasons why companies follow this approach.
How many people are using their macs to listen to iTunes? I get YouTube, Netflix, anything you can watch on chrome, but iTunes is more of a phone, home pod, Apple car thing, and even then many people use Spotify rather than iMusic. Are other providers using QuickTime or similar encodings for non-Apple provided media?
I need the XKCD radiation chart to put this in context
Not much of a gold standard really.

I've also a laptop built in 2006, it runs [any flavour of Linux I want] and will be supported indefinitely.
As a dev I'm happy with Arc [0] & Codementor [1]. I assume clients have a good experience here as well.

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[0]: https://arc.dev

[1]: https://www.codementor.io
Equally confusing and often misunderstood is that the latest version of a compose file should not have a version field at all!

It is a blend of v2, v3 and any newly added attributes (v3 some times supported less than v2), that is now called the compose spec.

Implementations are supposed to do feature detection based on what attributes are used in the file. Make sure your docker compose is new enough, otherwise it thinks absence of version field means v1!
do you feel the same way about long-term rentals as well?
I wouldn’t expect a terminal session at all in that case.
I am not a cryptographer. There's probably a fatal mistake in my post. (Do let me know if you've spotted it! I've found & fixed a couple but you know what that say, anyone can come up with a cryptosystem they can't break, and I can barely break a Caesar cipher.)

You'll need to cheat somehow and give the service either entropy or a keypair out of band. You can't bootstrap your entropy from absolutely nothing via a remote service, unless you trust the adversary can't compromise the connection between the foo service & the camera service (which is equivalent to the foo service having a good local entropy source to begin with, it's just that part of your motherboard's bus extends over Ethernet to the camera service).

The simplest way would be for the foo and camera services to have keypairs, which you exchange manually/out of band, & communicate with classic asymmetric key cryptography. (You could come up with a similar protocol using symmetric encryption as well, using something like AES-GCM combined with a challenge-response protocol. You could also bootstrap the foo service with entropy out of band & use Diffie-Hellman to establish a shared key rather than moving keys out of band. Probably the better option in practice since there's less coupling. [Actually this doesn't quite work because it doesn't achieve authentication.])

The important part is that it's both authenticated and encrypted. You need to encrypt it so that adversaries tapping your connection don't know what image you're using to seed your CSPRNG. But if you allow unauthenticated connections to your entropy service, they don't need to tap your connection, they'll just connect to the camera service at the same time & pull down the same image that you do. And if they can't get it perfectly at the same time, well, a known image of a lava lamp taken around the same time as a secret image of a lava lamp gives us a lot of information about the state of that lava lamp, and we could conduct a search to discover the secret image (we record the encrypted traffic, and we fiddle with the image, and attempt to decrypt the traffic. When we get valid data instead of gibberish, we've found the right image.)

Let's say we've done all that. Great, we can actually lose the authentication requirement now. We can create an entropy service which does all of this song and dance, and seeds a CSPRNG. The entropy service accepts a public key, uses a CSPRNG to generate some entropy, encrypts it with the public key, and returns the result. Only the client is able to use their private key to retrieve the entropy. Because we've moved away from a camera system, past outputs are no longer correlated with future outputs, and concurrent requests always get different outputs. So we can leave this service unsecured. It's dependent services still need to be bootstrapped with a keypair out of band, however.
> Or are we saying that more men have polyamorous relationships?

Seems to be this one.
Writers need paid. Do you prefer paywalls or ads? There doesn’t seem to be consensus ;)
Perhaps the economic rules need re-writing. Perhaps Twitter will innovate this space and the outcome will be better for the world. I bet Elon M and wellwishers have insight.
This is absolutely fascinating. What appear to the layperson to be trivial anatomical differences (large pelvic to leg ratio etc), turn out to have significant consequences when tested at the extremes - in elite sports for example. I wonder whether diving into the minutae of these differences might be potential pathway in how to handle the transgender controversy sports - perhaps you can aggregate the anatomical differences and come up with non-gendered classifications (i/e this particular match is in the class X, for pelvic-to-leg length ratio athletes)
Yes, though there's a worse consequence of this attack: any sort of distributed training system (e.g. a hypothetical "Training@Home" cluster).

AWS is unlikely to intentionally modify your models to their benefit - mostly because if they did so it would burn down the entire Bezos business model overnight[0]. However, any sort of donated computer time or blockchain that runs off completed training jobs can't rely on lower loss = model is trustworthy. It needs some kind of reproducibility requirement, which is much harder to meet[1] and is less efficient.

[0] It may also be illegal, though companies these days are very good at constructing the sorts of "opt out of the law" nonsense that sovereign citizen types could only dream of.

[1] Debian's ML guidelines defines two different levels of reproducibility. The most stringent one is that all the bits match; the less stringent one is that every weight matches to within a particularly low floating point tolerance. The reason why they have a second definition is that floating-point calculations generally do not reproduce across different hardware architectures. The exact same hardware will repro, but not between, say, an Intel CPU and Nvidia GPU; or an AMD x86 CPU and an Apple M1's ARM CPU.

[2] No, not that one.
i know your not supposed to talk about ↑ downvotes, but honestly i'd really appreciate someone to share why the massive downvoting of my comment?

what rules/guidelines of hn did i violate here?

i've never had a comment voted so badly before, so i'd really appreciate some feedback....
Lol, I didn't catch that. You know what I mean.
Health Checking
If a woman has made it to late 30s without reframing her perspective she is unlikely savable and anyone who tries will be punished for it by her ad infinitum.
Think you're just wrong here. First, the VPN they ran (still run) is Hola, not Hotspot Shield. Second, with just a bit of research, I found that it was always part of the agreement that Hola could use your internet for this type of activity.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/hola-a-free-vpn-with-a-side-of...
Not that, but what if it has an effect on bacterial and fungal growth? Being resistant to contamination is an excellent quality for a food surface.
Simultaneously, it takes some balls (sic) to claim that sex work in all countries is definitely the result of human trafficking (etc).

How about: "In some countries, sex work seems to be illegal and problematic. But in other countries, it's regulated and successful.".
The trick to efficiency is to accelerate more mass at a lower delta v. Doesn't matter if it's rotating or oscillating. I.e. long flapping wings/tail or long, slow propellor blades. One benefit of an airship is large propellors are more practical than on a small plane.
If you polled educated laypeople, i.e. people who are successfull in non-STEM fields with little programming experience, I believe that many would say that ChatGTP has achieved spontaneous human intelligence using “the giant network has started to think” type reasoning.

At the liberal arts college Wellesley College in 1971, 80% of the courses were aimed at teaching students to regurgitate the dominant theories in the arts and social sciences, and then to defend these views with university-level paper writing. Not much different than Feynman’s encounter with Physics in Brazil. Indeed, isn’t that what the scripts written for the TV meat puppets are, at a ninth grade level?

Then the indeed, LLM, by regurgitating stuff that it has “read,” is indeed “intelligent,” and a lot of people better get good at using it, lest they be part of the percentage that is not good, and is therefore redundant.

No new information, zero understanding. If that’s you, you’re f*cked, the machines are ready. It’s certainly a revolution.
To be fair they probably meant more like, "from the horse's mouth," or "from the font where information about Cloudflare originates" - like the source of a river rather than as in something you could cite. In the sense of, "go straight to the source."
To test this out I installed apps from 3 of the largest banks on a Nexus 5 running Lineage OS 20 (Android 13 - yes a 9 year old phone with 2GB of RAM running Android 13 very well) with a minimum install of Google Play Services. 1 app said I was running a modified version of Android, but let me proceed to log in. The other 2 let me log in immediately with no warning message.
Wow, so cool. Brings back so many memories. This is a way better version. Torpedo targeting was such a drag in the original. I love the new targeting bar.

I can't remember, were you able to destroy a starbase in the original? (I thought you could in the spirit of screwing yourself, but I don't recall an instant death or other repercussions.)

In this new version, I got into a battle with a Klingon in the same sector as a starbase, and fired off a torpedo ("accidentally") at the starbase to see what happens. It simply says you missed.
> It's only controversial in the US

This is just plainly false unless you consider all the red regions in the map to be "US"

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries...
> but in other ways more regressive/toxic

That's a bit unclear. Would you be ok to expand on that? :)
AudioLM advantage is that we have orders of magnitude more audio than text.
Skipping Breakfast May Compromise the Immune System in Mice
There is a Sapir-Whoorf element here. My brain hurts at the thought of trying to read a real 2-D language. But is this due to a fundamental limitation in the nature of the human brain, or is it more akin to the way my brain hurts every time I learn a new tricky piece of math? if I make and become fluent in a 2-D language, will I expand my horizons and be able to think multi dimensionally as well?
"Unfortunately, analyzing the importance of tens of thousands of patents is impossible"

Couldn't ChatGPT help with this?
Replacing screens has always been a pain point for me. I wonder if these screens are also glued in.
I was wondering partway through if I had lost the ability to comprehend text, and then I realized this is just terribly written. Regardless of the fact that I disagree with the author completely (99% of all the meetings I have ever attended at every company I have worked for were a complete waste of time), I found it physically painful to read this thing. I actually thought, "She seems exactly like the type of person to put on a 2 hour long bullshit meeting".
This is fantastic! Just what the doctor ordered!