skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Applying this logic, there is literally nothing NIST could have done here other than not run the competition in the first place; if it's not enough that almost every participant in the competition agrees that it was well conducted --- if the consensus of the whole academic field of post-quantum cryptography doesn't count for anything --- then all you're really saying is that there's no way to create a trustworthy standard.

And, to that, I say: hell yes. Cryptographic standards are, in my view, a force for evil. Nobody uses Blake2 because it's "standardized"; they use it because there's a rough consensus of credible, credentialed cryptographers that it's strong, and it's obviously fast. We can do Internet cryptography without entities like NIST and the IETF.

This is something Bernstein believes as well; he's said it before (I have my view on standards in part because of his own). But he's not being honest about that here: had his submission won, he'd have endorsed the competition, even though the exact same logic holds --- he should, by this logic, trust his own submission less if it wins.

But I also want to be especially candid here: this "NIST is acting as the catspaw of NSA by selecting the weakest standard" argument is also the standard rhetorical fallback for arguers who have just this instant learned that NIST didn't itself design CRYSTALS-Kyber, but don't want to surrender their credibility by admitting it.
There is value in a society that upholds norms even if you don't agree with them, even if nobody is watching.
I will wait in a ghost city for a green light, ridicule away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-trust_and_low-trust_socie...
I believe you based on my experience with the salve, but I’m the opposite.

Very much, “I just want it to work.”

Here’s what I’ve found useful from a smart home:

* I can leave for a week or weekend, let the house get quite hot or cold (obviously within some safety parameters) and then turn in the heat or AC a couple hours before I get home.

* I get alerts when a package or other delivery shows up at the front door.

* I can set a timer to turn off any lights my kids left on during the day, late at night every night.

* I can set a timer to turn off the heat or AC in an outbuilding no-one sleeps in late at night, in case my kids were out there and forgot to turn it off.

* I can set my outdoor lights to go on at sunset, and turn off around “it’s unlikely anyone will be going out here and need a lit pathway” time.

* I can set my espresso maker to turn on and warm up before I’m ready for coffee, and turn off when we’re a bit past “you should stop drinking coffee or it’s gonna mess with your sleep” time.

* When we leave town with an arrangement for a dog sitter to come by and take care of our dog a few hours after we leave, I can check to make sure they actually did and poor Rover isn’t lonely and unfed.

But I do 100% agree with the author’s frustration, and wish things “just worked” and just worked together.
Or the reverse. Some kids could work through a whole year of math in a single day. School hours feel like prison time, ltterally watching the wall clock ticking second by eteral second going completely crazy from boredom. These days kids have phones, I know. Back then, you sneaked in books, then got punished with more prison time (detention) when caught.
As usual, Lewis had unbelievably impeccable timing with this book. He started working on this book and shadowing SBF before everything blew up. So it seems like he shouldn't need to shift gears for attention.
All the endless babbling about code reviews, yet here we are.
Perhaps the problem is the mismatch between the class inherent composition (static, social but might be unequal) and the personal learning itself (inherently divers and dynamic). So instead of sitting in a static class, maybe the students should have their personal learning time, THEN convene per interests or social connections, for whatever they choose. This way, students will build themselves the social connections they wish.

Another problem might be just the stupid statistics. 75% of any population are just followers, who only differ minimally from each other in no significant way (more in appearance than substance). Thus, 75% don’t need much personal learning beside what traditional teachers can already provide. The rest 25% can benefit greatly from personal learning and teaching but either they already doing that in some forms or they don’t build enough mass for a wider adoption.
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I read the headline and immediately thought of ways I’d could sneak mushrooms past my mushroom-disliking child.

For him it’s the texture, so we might be looking at some cream of mushroom soup.
> Maybe with a focus on Windows they can finally implement zooming in and out of VIs

Can I Zoom In or Out in the LabVIEW Block Diagram? https://knowledge.ni.com/KnowledgeArticleDetails?id=kA00Z000...

>The zoom in and zoom out feature in LabVIEW is only available starting from LabVIEW 2023 Q3.

We really live in the end of times!
I asked you to defined what is genocide and how you can call what's going on in Ukraine a "genocide".

You failed to reply to either question. Because it's clearly not a genocide. Even UN acknowledged that.

So, instead you're repeating propaganda lines you've read yesterday in WaPo or Bloomberg or BBC, in order to deflect the direct question. And call me "brainwashed".

I'm not sure who's really brainwashed here.
Burglar here. Actually we prefer the sticky film, because then the glass comes out as a one piece. Makes entry much safer, and workplace safety is important!
Whenever the topic of DJB vs NIST comes up, there are always people saying "this may look petty, but he has a spotless track record, so we have to trust him".

I want to push back on this a little by linking this Twitter thread:

https://nitter.net/FiloSottile/status/1555669786826244096

It shows that there's a pattern of Bernstein and his associates threatening fellow cryptographers.

It's entirely possible to be a brilliant cryptographer and also a petty person, those things aren't mutually exclusive.
This entirely misses the point. Using travel insurance for "loss or theft" of something when something is actually, well, lost. The guy has possession of his property, how has anything been "lost"?

I really, really doubt a travel insurance company would pay out on this one.
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Know your market. If you aren’t a heavy Mac user then you probably should develop for your space. Any attempt will be met with headache as you fight Apple certification, design aesthetics, and enshitification of your code base to support the nuances of Apple.

Ask yourself, what tools can I build that are not only useful to me, but maybe useful to others, and start there.
I'm running the tech for a global startup with 100M EUR turnover. It's still pretty small, but it's something.

You need to plan ahead, sure. Portability was one of my main concerns (including the possibility to go self-hosted). But it's definitely not impossible, nor too hard to do.
Related:

https://www.mathjax.org/#demo

https://www.w3.org/Math/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MathML
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> or I can spend $250 for them to diagnose the issue (the price of a new set of AirPods).

FYI they are on sale right now for $199 on Amazon, and Costco has them for $10 less. Hopefully you can get Apple to do the right thing though! At the very least you should be able to "return" the AirPod you bought from them, since it doesn't actually work.
This is a succinct description of a view commonly held among cryptography engineers. It's not snark.
If not a staple, at least common in cyperpunk.

There is a [Warning: Time-sucking Wiki] list on TVTropes: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VirtualCelebrity
On windows at least the middle button could be used to anchor a virtual scroll wheel or whatever that feature was a called. I’ve used it quite often on large content with small windows.
That's very random but very cool! I'm glad the books were useful to you :-) This post was actually motivated by my wanting to write some material on data science, wondering what the modern approach to teaching it is, and falling down a rabbit hole.
Could you explain this point to me? I just checked and out of those two, it was _Firefox_ that has tiny, barely visible, vanishing scroll bars and _Chrome_ that has thick, well-visible, persistent ones. (And no, I didn't configure that on either)

The only thing that IMHO needs improvement in Chrome scroll bars is that the knob is light grey on lighter grey.
As always, Apple wasn't first but sure made it more easy. Any dumbass with bad intent can now buy airtags instead of getting a sim card and a gps device.
> But when I opened it up, a stranger’s profile greeted me. Evidently we had swapped laptops going through security. So I raced back, and returned the stranger’s laptop, and explained the situation.

A friend had this exact problem going through airport security. It ended up being a huge ordeal getting things settled.

Before hearing his story I was against putting stickers on my laptops, I felt it ruined the clean aesthetic. However, after hearing that story I always add a sticker to my laptops just to be damn sure there are no mixups like this.
Well, I did honestly think that was what a pair of airpods cost. Apple isn't known for being cheap. Apple's website says they want $170 for "AirPods (3rd generation) with Lightning Charging Case" though so I don't know what you have to buy to pay $250 for pair when you already have a charger!

I also assumed that non-airpods were not an option because most people who have airpods only have them "because apple".

I mean, airpods aren't known for being the best when it comes to sound quality compared to other bluetooth options. Even Macworld thinks beats sound better (https://www.macworld.com/article/550796/beats-fit-pro-review...). Beats as in "Beats by Dr. Dre" which are also well known for being expensive and stylish while under-delivering in terms of quality. I'm not even an audiophile, but I've seen it said over and over again that you can get more for your money if you're willing to avoid overpriced status symbol brands.
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> have a specific Android app open

Google integrated this into Android, no need for an AirTags detection app anymore.
> ...but you'd struggle to get close to even GPT 3.5 let alone 4 for generic tasks.

But tasks are only generic in the aggregate, and with local models you can hand-off between different models for different tasks.
I use a mouse and a keyboard and an external monitor. Please don’t tell me about gestures since they’re absolutely useless to me.
I love oxygen theme. I was so glad to find out that it was still installable as an application style in KDE 5. I hope it still is in the next one
but does that matter legally for health, finance and legal sectors? I am not familiar with the laws themselves but I worked in finance for a long time and the internal rules where that sensitive data cannot move off premises no matter what the external party promised/had certified.
I’ve been frequenting here for perhaps 5-6 years both lurking and posting and no one other company as far as I can tell has even remotely made as many “X is Hiring” posts as Flexport. Maybe Smarking. I bet it’s possible to pull numbers to prove me wrong but my memory at least says that Flexport is a specific outlier in terms of how many times they have posted vs other YC companies
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For a subject as mathematical as encryption, the debate is surpisingly... subjective. Are we seriously at the mercy of non open-source geniuses for this? Was RSA this much unprovable objectively in its security?
Actually, I don't really mind the scrollbar behavior in Steam, as the UNCHANGEABLE font size is so friggin tiny I can't see anything anyway (no, the "scale text" option does not fix this for me).
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The US has a southern border crisis because nearly every country from Mexico to Chile is experiencing severe economic and social problems.
I agree completely, but the argument remains the same - there's not much utility in using the big clouds as VPS providers, and it's definitely costly to do so.
I dunno, I’ve never been head-over-heels passionate about writing code, though I’ve been at it for 15 years now and I still get quite a kick out of it in the right circumstances. I tend to gravitate towards bug fixing, integrating work others have done or improving it slightly, testing, deployment/monitoring automation, etc.

I’ve also 100% had lulls where I just hate it and cannot be bothered to do my job or do it well, I think it ebbs and flows with what you’re being asked or required to do.
On which planet this chord is called a gesture?
Israel has bombed airports in Syria only a few days ago. They seem willing to strain the American protection and could little by little provoke an escalation involving regional powers, leading to our involvement. The one thing that could make this catastrophe worse is if America is drawn in.
It is very likely the NSA has an good understanding of the weaknesses of various algorithms in the face of their technology. After all that's their job. The comment above also makes sense when the NIST is advised by the NSA to influence their processes as to choose algorithms to their liking, no design by NIST needed.
You can also use this (locally-hosted) proxy of mine which transparently adds OAuth 2.0 support to any IMAP/POP/SMTP client: https://github.com/simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy.
Framework's idea looks like a great model for corporate devices. Instead of replacing the whole laptop every X years, they can just incrementally reolace broken/outdated parts. I wish my company adopts this.
> Intel has a line of cards that only work on their CPU lines

Intel sells CNVi versions of their WiFi module lineups that only work on chipsets that support it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNVi
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Log is just a curve that save image differently. Extra data are in chroma sample (4:2:2), bitrate and bit depth (10bit). For example log in 8bit is absolutely useless. You wont get higher dynamic range, that is what size of sensor does.
I worked on research projects with large traditional live TV broadcasters. Their viewer demographic was 56+ and aging year by year. Even in those early days of Twitch top online streamers were attracting larger audiences than their top programs and that was not even on their radar.
Wired headphones used to drop much more frequently for me - cables get snagged and headphones yeeted. Cables used to last much less than wireless.
100.3 or whatever
> Interestingly, I had booted into recovery mode, and I found I could mount the SSD

I was under the impression that Apple Silicon Macbooks had disk encryption enabled by default and that this wouldn't be possible. Turns out while that is technically true, it's only relevant in the case of the SSD somehow being removed from the device and installed in another. In the case of real disk encryption FileVault needs to be enabled. Apparently it's easy to miss that step during setup, especially if you setup the Macbook without an Apple ID/iCloud.
It's so you can doomscroll for hours without realizing how much content you have consumed. It's pointless to know how much is left because the feed is infinite. You can't ever get to the bottom that a scroll bar would imply as new content is loaded.

It is an enabler of information overload, not a solution or respite.
That sounds terrible.

In Australia at least I’d feel confident that getting in contact with the ACCC (govt consumer protection agency) would at least get that (eventually) resolved (new AirPods).

A software bug that bricks a new device is definitely a defect of workmanship and warranted for the expected life of the device.
Could someone help me understand how to interpret this line:

> Higher mushroom consumption was associated with lower risk of total cancer (pooled RR for the highest compared with the lowest consumption groups: 0.66; 95% CI: 0.55, 0.78; n = 17)

Specifically the “0.66; 95% CI: 0.55, 0.78; n = 17” line?

ChatGPT told me:

> The “pooled RR” of 0.66 indicates that the risk of cancer was 34% lower in the group with the highest mushroom consumption compared to the group with the lowest consumption. The “95% CI” represents the confidence interval, indicating the range within which the true risk reduction is likely to fall. In this case, it’s between 0.55 and 0.78. “n = 17” likely refers to the number of studies or datasets included in the analysis.

Is that accurate? The top line conclusion of this study was that eating more mushrooms was associated with a 34% reduction of risk of all cancers?
My toddler doesn't like mushrooms — except on pizza. I think it's partly the texture, and partly because it's masked by the rest of the pizza flavor.
The "major security problem" the previous commenter is referring to is an NSA design, not a competition winner. I think what's happened here is that you've read the preceding comment too generously, in particular by skipping big chunks of it.
About ten years ago, I left my iPad in the seatback pocket on a Southwest flight. I reported the lost item assuming it was gone forever and instead was notified that it has been located and that they were sending it to me. I got it in perfect shape a few days later.
Genuine question: why is this a problem? Every modern email provider allows you to set up filters that move all the mailing list emails into a seperate folder/tag, skip your Inbox, and set up auto-cleanup to delete emails older than X days so that the volume doesn't result in you exhausting your storage allocation. And if you find yourself never actually taking part in that software's discussion and it actually turns out to be completely irrelevant to you, then unsubscribe...
This article is misguided, because it compares self learning with the presence of a good teacher. For all kinds of reasons, there are places in the world where a child might be much better off watching a Khan Academy lecture than their local teacher. And the personalized learning approach is easily scalable, whereas replicating good human teachers is extremely hard. It's not that Zuckerberg and Gates are dumb, it's that they are working on a different problem than this person assumes.
> Your expensive speaker is still broken.

Well, they didn't break it. Why should it be their responsibility to replace something they didn't break for free?

Now if the product was defective or something, sure, but this is asking way too much.
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Isn't a telegraph an electric appliance? It is electric and according to Oxford an appliance is:

appliance
/əˈplʌɪəns/
noun
1. a device or piece of equipment designed to perform a specific task.
"electrical and gas appliances"
2. BRITISH
a fire engine.
"three fire appliances were rushed to the scene"

I'm guessing it's electrically performing a specific task, i.e. an electric appliance.
Dark letters on white background are objectively more legible, there’s research on that - unless the screen is trying to burn a hole in your eyes.
seems like what all these issues have in common is when apps just go "fuck your configs, we want our app to look like/do this instead"

that last paragraph would really solve things, but also not being able to have that level of control does sorta suck for when you might really need it (and not just want to piss of the user lol)
Look, Apple haters: there’s much to criticize about this company, and I understand everyone who wants to be in full control of their devices (and all related encryption keys), but this story is just documenting the feature working as expected. If Apple would unlock the devices after validating a proof of purchase, the next HN headline would be about some unlock scam for used devices on eBay. And if you cannot foresee what would happen if people would have to manage the unlock keys themselves, then you probably should get out of your bubble.

So maybe you can argue that this feature should not exist at all. Or be able to be deactivated permanently by burning a fuse in the device. But in that world there would be more people without their devices than in our current one.
Sounds like it's time that academia form a crypto equivalent of NIST amongst universities so they can put out transparent versions of new cryptographic algorithms that can be traced back to their birth so that other cryptographers can look for holes, if NIST is unwilling to be open about their processes.
> I noticed Slack was incredibly fuzzy…. it doesn’t use Wayland.

People should stop using that crappy Electron Apps, that does exactly the same thing that opening a webapp page on a tab of your browser. Seriously, you are wasting RAM and CPU (and battery) doing that. And this it's totally independent of you using Windows, OSX, Linux, BSD...

I use Slack and Discord from the web browser, and I don't have any issues. Also, I get fro free, better support of that webapps running in Wayland
The man walked into a bank many times over his life, no way he could decide to rob it one day.
passkeys are orthogonal to this
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That's like saying the LG Prada was the first mobile phone with a capacitive touchscreen...
It means that everything about the web, but especially the critical parts like privacy vs surveillance is increasingly and sadly dictated by Google. If you distribute their vision for the web, their literal web platform, Blink, you are harming the web by increasing Google's stranglehold.

And yes, the web would be better served by people building their own, hard forking an existing, or using any of the two or three remaining not-Google solutions. The web would be far better if Google was the only Chromium distribution because we wouldn't have the illusion of a dozen choices that are all just Google's and we'd likely have more and more viable alternatives.
From an usability perspective Windows 3.1 is better than Windows 10. You have scrollbars, titlebars, window menu and a window border.
IME, government teachers have at most 2 weeks of required work days during the summers: one right after school ends, one right before school begins. Depending on the state/ district, that leaves 6-8 weeks of summer break.

They also get more than a month of vacation during the school year: 1 week in fall, 2 weeks in winter, 1 week in spring, plus state holidays.

Even with mandatory continuing education (which many jobs require), government teachers are still getting a few months of vacation. It's not comparable to folks who have to work 11+ months every year.
Why aren't other participants in the competition --- most of them didn't win! --- saying the same thing? Why are the only two kinds of people making this argument a contest loser writing inscrutable 50,000 word manifestos and people on message boards who haven't followed any of the work in this field?
How small the features need to be until electromigration destroys the devices in a matter of days/weeks/months?

Although I guess "3 nm" is nowhere near that small in reality.
I would like to see alongside the results of all corresponding "Higher X Consumption Associated with Lower Cancer" metastudies, where X is every other healthy food infatuation over the ages (Vitamic C, Mediterranean diet, Spinach, Broccoli etc).

For sure there might be some benefit for some types of cancer or other diseases, but the constant barrage of marginal results about different food categories does not help create confidence.

Somewhere in the background there is a hugely profitable supplements industry with dubious impact.