skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You do have a few details to worry about such as the size of the random_seed, and how much you can output before you need to get a new seed. There's also a problem that if the state of the rng is exposed at any point, all past generated values can be determined (oh, it's currently on {random_seed="foobar", ctr=5}, I can predict the prior values.)

But it is very close to the US Fed approved HASH_DRBG, under NIST SP 800-90A, section 10.1.1 here: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.S... .

The big problem with PRNG algorithms is that, imo, determining how good they are feels like a bit of a black art. You can have things that measure as having high entropy very easily that have very predictable inputs or can be easily broken. It's always been a nit of mine when trying to analyze how good a PRNG is.
> So one could feed the entropy into a stream cipher with the right characteristics.

Certainly, but your proposed scheme does not feed entropy back into the stream cipher, it just offsets its output. This can be trivially broken if the stream cipher key ever leaks.

A better solution would combine (ideally securely hash) the stream cipher key with a relatively large (i.e. on the order of > 100 bits) number of bits.
right now A100s, we are still benchmarking 80gb and 40gbs (of VRAM) ones to see what makes more sense to scale this.
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> Jumping to conclusions like that will lead to relationship problems

Good grief. No, it will lead to a moment of amused bonding over the burgeoning umbrella collection you now share, and a perpetual anniversary in my calendar labelled "New umbrella day".

The point I'm making, and shall reiterate, is that maintenance of social relationships is utterly dissimilar to how we manage organisations.
Doubt the Inklings with their literary sales and reputations were ever in fear of that.
Of course, it’s a Google intern.
Apple abuses their stranglehold on iMessage to engage in anticompetitive behavior. I wrestled with it all morning.

They recently started forcing everyone to pay for iCloud to keep iMessage working. They hide it under the illusion of choice but it’s impossible to use iMessage and not pay.

Their monopoly locks their users into the ecosystem preventing them from choosing a better device or a device at a better price. If iMessage worked across platforms I’d leave the iPhone ecosystem today.

I’m still tempted to do it and just switch to signal. The framework laptop is user serviceable something Apple refuses to embrace. I only wish the only other phone option wasn’t Google the other dickhead in the room.
It seems you did understand the question and I thank you for your answer, it is helpful.
FlashFFTConv: Efficient Convolutions for Long Sequences with Tensor Cores
According to the NY Times[0], the direct cause is El Nino, but climate change may be indirectly responsible because it makes extreme weather events more extreme. Furthermore, El Nino has been getting worse alongside climate change getting worse, so it's not entirely unreasonable to say "hey these two might be related" until new evidence and computer modeling is done.

The IPCC model tells you that carbon forcing is going to give you a certain amount of global average temperature rise, but it isn't a detailed weather forecasting model that can say "Panama is going to become a desert on November 13th, 2023". If we want to know specific local effects we need to run other simulations based off the IPCC predictions. Many of these weren't done because it wasn't necessary. The IPCC model was already forecasting massive economic damage, that should be enough to scare politicians into doing something, right? :P

To be perfectly clear: there will always be gaps where someone can point to and say, "well, over here, we're not sure climate change is responsible yet". We will never have enough scientists to study absolutely every possible effect of climate change, even retroactively. In fact, this is part of why the response to climate change was and is so underwhelming. Fossil fuel companies poured billions of dollars into junk science to try and promote literally any possible alternative explanation, which left enough doubt to make politicians hesitate on the potentially risky move of moving away from carbon-generating fossil fuels[1].

The thing the average reader should take away is:

- We know global warming will be very, very bad for the majority of humanity, but...

- We don't know exactly who and where it will hurt the worst, and attributing specific weather events to global warming is difficult[2], but...

- Regardless of how fuzzy the evidence is, saying that any given weather event is "caused by climate change" is still a safe bet.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/01/business/economy/panama-c...

[1] To those shouting the words "nuclear fission" right now, I hear you. The fossil fuel companies also somehow brainwashed the German Greens and Greenpeace with similar bullshit, to the point where Germany is shutting off nuclear plants to replace with the dirtiest burning coal imaginable. Lignite balls.

[2] Like, Nobel Prize level research.

Ok, so there isn't exactly a Nobel Prize for meteorology, but physics is close enough.
Yes, exactly: it looks like a highly stylised rendering of al-Khwārizmī (الخوارزمي or something like that.... spelling may not be entirely standardised), repeated 4 times at 90° rotations.
The core thesis is "I believe principles should not stifle progress".

It turns out that people can have very different kind of principles in mind.

Some principles are primarily ethical, such as "Make our product work for people with disabilities, because it's the right thing to do".

Some principles are primarily legal, such as "Encrypt data at rest and in motion, because we don't want compliance problems".

Some principles are primarily practical, such as "Bias for action: if you're 80% sure, and you decision is easy to reverse, then proceed."
Microsoft lost cases against the EU because they made Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player the default on Windows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._Commission
Just started today. I haven't tried them out too much but here's what I've created:

* A Chef that is in a certain style of a cook book I like, and uses the metric system.

* A Flutter expert to assist my development
This isn't a contradiction to the improv model. It fits it perfectly. And being in a position not to be able to judge the output you receive by your own admission makes me question why you're so impressed with the output.
So if the application is not visible today, it might appear tomorrow. In fact that makes sense.
It was a great deterrent to teen pregnancy; never got anybody pregnant!
Seems to have pretty good understanding and performance.
So in short "Status" or "Exclusivity"?

I think cybertruck is hitting on markets where "Real men drive trucks"[1], and may have a sort of uniqueness / exclusivity in markets like those that would buy a Ford F-150 Raptor. The latter new can cost as much as a used Ferrari 8|

[1]: regardless of what one feels about that phrase it is a marketing tactic.
Why are the free phone scanning apps so far ahead of their open source competition? Is it just the iPhone's lidar, or do these apps work just as well on Android?

Because I've tried Meshroom, and while it has a surprisingly nice UI, it took my desktop 3 hours to compute a relatively mediocre model of a tiny part of my hallway.
If this dogma catches on, knowledge workers will end up suffering under the yoke of information age Taylorism. This nonsense must be crushed early, lest all companies end up looking like coinbase and BW. BW works because they are willing to pay top dollar for people to play along and pander to the management, but please don't spread this nonsense to the rest of the tech world.
Presumably LNG ships have recondensors so they can burn some small proportion of the gas to power engines to run chillers to keep the rest cold?
Relax: Composable Abstractions for End-to-End Dynamic Machine Learning
The HN audience might not know this, but it's insane how popular she is. (Especially among middle+ income)

Average resale value for TSwift tickets is $1600+ [1]

[1] https://money.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/spending/art...
You shouldn't productise anything with ESP32, its just an overprized bloated hobby pcb, very unprofessional.

See my comment below on how to productize this: use a 4 cent off the shelf microcontroller on a 10 cent pcb or much better: make a custom chip with all the sensors on board but with $25K minimum Capex but tiny Opex
I've never heard of anybody threatening to sue their own customers for selling the product too early. Threatening to void warranties, yes. Threatening to refuse future sales, sure. But suing? No.

This just screams "don't do business with us".
Is the tweet correct?

'Deep neural networks, as you probably know, are sandwiches of linear regressions with elementwise nonlinearities between each layer. The core contribution of “Attention is All You Need,” which led directly to the LLM/GPT explosion, is to throw some logistic regressions in there'
Right. I'm saying, 2077 tech exists today -- just some places decide not to use it.
I agree that much is changing in cancer therapy, most promisingly around immunotherapies and other immune related strategies, but the 5 year survival rate change over decades is often attributed to earlier detection as opposed to improved treatments.
First meta cognition then empathy.
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Coursework includes Operating Systems, Machine Learning, Computer Networks and OOP. I also have internship experience working at startup building an iOS application.
And "action" has made the reverse transition...

"Could you action this ask from Bob in Finance?"
Pretty amazing that someone discovered and explored number theory without knowing if there would be an application to it. Hopefully they lived to see its usage.
The PCI-DSS website itself requires that you change password every 12 months. At the same time the period for recertifying PCI-DSS is ... every 12 months. I have a systematic way to create a new password each time, which probably isn't secure.
I have to disagree. History has shown over and over again that MBAs don't need to be intelligent or understand the business to get to highly paid and powerful roles. Similarly, you can be an idiot and still succeed in becoming the president of US.

RTO is dictated by those people because without the headcount in the office it's plain and obvious that most of their "work" is illusory and provides no value beyond giving them means to build their kingdoms. RTO is mostly about self important and self-preservation of this whole class.
I’m starting a PhD in a related field, and it seems like the biggest reason to be excited is simulation of small and complex physics systems, e.g. molecular interactions.

Breaking RSA/ECDSA is very cool, but doesn’t actually enable new industries or products. We’ll just shift to using different cryptography that quantum computing can’t break.

Maybe quantum key distribution will become really important in some sectors. But if you aren’t seriously worried about man-in-the-middle attacks on your communications, QKD won’t make a difference in your life.

But efficiently simulating chemical and physical interactions could open up whole industries with advancements in material science, pharmaceuticals, etc.
> You replied to many top level comments for a period of time the same period of time with almost the same text.

I've reviewed my comments and this is mostly false. Not sure why you felt you needed to put this one in here.

> Does he not also have the right to call out IBM/Red Hat?

"Calling out" does not mean distorting facts to kickstart a rage-fuelled campaign against the company that offers, to this day, the most to the Linux ecosystem, free of charge, freely licensed.

To wit, he is an influencer, I am not, and should be much more careful with how he wields his influence. That was what I have re-iterated, comment by comment.
Start an llc > Buy cybertruck > Sell llc along with assets. Profit?? Not legal in every state tho.
Unfortunately, one really needs to divide it as "freshwater" "saltwater" and "ice".

It's ice thats seeing the biggest declines. Freshwater is mostly just being redistributed.
Duh, I totally forgot about ships being built for certain canal sizes and just went with the maximum I can find.
That's... not the point. But thanks to both[1] of you for reminding me how much this place sucks.

1. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38232101>
applications for cities w/ housing availability issues and vacant "investor properties" to apply/enforce a vacancy tax?
Yes, apologies -- using the term 'construct' muddied the point as sqrt(2) is a 'constructible' number as you point out. The term 'real' is what's at issue here and I am arguing for a distinction between a 'map-like' real and a 'territory-like' real, the latter of which has some sort of spatiotemporal grounding.

> There are some numbers that are not, and perhaps these can truly be said to not exist.

So then we have a real issue because the vast majority of the real line is composed of these uncomputable numbers which you've suggested don't exist.
I hear you what you are saying but I'm not advocating traditional dieting, which is just cutting calories and almost impossible in our society. Keto, on the other hand, allows you to eat a ton of foods without cutting calories and feeling hungry at all times. Eventually you lose some appetite and lose even more weight.
Must be nice to always know everything about all of your criticizing viewpoints
I think a good lesson is that when Microsoft got into gaming they had a real long term commitment and took it seriously. They put in the work to understand it.

In contrast, Amazon and Google felt they could buy their way in based on a playbook that might have worked with other verticals. That unsurprisingly failed.
Purely speaking to the article, which is about careers. The open question is how much money will be put into the industry before payoff/abandonment. But the industry kicked off over 20 years ago and the trajectory looks great.
It is an intentionally onerous process that is referred to internally as "The Iliad." Not even joking: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/06/ftc-sues-amazon-...
rolling release on servers o.0

Brave.
It's not a lie! The WAF is there, it's attached and it does absolutely nothing with unmatched performance and scalability. We tell the auditor this.

There's no audit checkbox for "WAF actually does something useful", so it's fine.
which part of "they can fire or hire however they want. That's just business" doesn't respond to your main point?

>use this sort of messaging.

They are free to message it however they want. Doesn't mean I'll believe it's the real reason they did it. I somehow doubt they will get better free games for consumers (or any) as a result of this layoff.
Every mental health drug on the market was approved based on improvement in some sort of metric. Measuring improvements in lifespan or lack thereof is impractical because it takes too long for any differences to become apparent in study populations. Suicide rates are also difficult to study because the baseline annual rate is very low even in mentally ill populations so that also requires large, long-term studies to see statistically significant effects.

We generally have no way to cure the root causes of mental health conditions severe enough to qualify for an official DSM5 type diagnosis. Discontinuing treatment is often not a realistic goal, although in some cases patients can learn coping strategies which reduce the need for medication or frequent talk therapy sessions.

This stuff is just fundamentally different from treating a medical condition like type-2 diabetes where there are clear biomarkers and results are often clear within months.
Why Washington wants to treat Apple and Google like big banks
OMG I had forgotten all about the "Turbo" button. Great story, and thanks for the trip down memory lane.
The only thing they would conceivably be forced to is to present a default search engine selection screen when setting up a new device.
You are correct. You don't have to use the shadow DOM, when you create a new Custom Element.

The shadow DOM provides two things:

- style encapsulation (as well as `id` attributes)

- ability to use `<slot>` for templating

You should use it if you require one of the above or both.
I suspect contravariant was making a joke that as you get older, your ability to hear high frequencies gets worse. After "a few decades or so" you likely won't be able to hear the flyback transformer squealing at 15 625 Hz any more.
Oops, my bad. I got Poe'd.
You don't change your clothes?
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You would think that $4 would pay for some excellent refrigeration equipment. I wonder what the engineering compromises are for the LNG storage on these ships.
Nude "before and after" photos stolen from plastic surgeon, posted online
I think this is aggressively wrong. First, chemo, surgery, and radiation have advanced dramatically over the years. Chemo is an umbrella term for quite a lot of treatments and isn’t some single drug like Tylenol.

CAR-T has been effective in treating advanced cancers of certain types and solid tumor CAR-T is advancing fast.

Cancer is probably one of the most complex problems we’ve ever tackled with expectation of success. I think it’s considerably harder than quantum computing or other nascent technologies. Further I think we are building fundamental understandings of life itself that leads to enormous adjacent benefits, most especially in aging and longevity.

It’s also not a single disease. It’s a description of a behavior of cells in the body that leads to certain outcomes. The causes, mechanisms, etc, are all specific to the cell types, of which there are many, the individual, and random chance. That makes the problem domain almost infinitely complex, so finding a way through it is hard already. But add onto it that cancer cells are you eliminating them without eliminating you is absurdly hard, and leaving even a small number behind risks a relapse that is resistant to the prior treatments because a few cells happened to have a random mutation that protected them.

All this said, I think cancer treatment will be a domino effect discovery. We will slog along reading these elusive yet promising articles until one day, we have done enough of the discovery and exploration, and things will be very different very quickly. Similar to AI - I wouldn’t have predicted generative AI would have effectively solved NLP two years ago, despite tons of promising headlines and articles for the last 50 years.
On the flip side, within the last few years, upgrading .NET versions has become typically a very easy exercise.

The ASP.NET team tends to churn stuff wayyy more often than I'd like for questionable reasons, which can make keeping more painful than I'd like - but tbh I often just keep using the older ways of doing things in ASP.NET since it's almost always still supported...
Not wrong, but kind of incomplete, given that all sorts of policies get held hostage with these stupid "Congress makes impossible mutually conflicting demands" fights.
At least 2 reasons I can think of: (1) they're afraid of being found out, (2) life has taught them if they don't they suffer real consequences after they slip in their responsibilities.
I use Bluetooth maybe once or twice a year because I don't want to be tracked everwhere. Wired headphones. Phone in airplane mode much of the day. I suppose I am a privacy outlier, and I'm also not a slave responding to calls/texts.
Man: "I'm a marketing manager who lives in the suburbs
and commutes to work on the highway. I live alone, so
of course I needed a car that can seat 12 and is
equipped to drive across arctic tundra...it just
makes me feel better!"

Woman: "The new Maibatsu Monstrosity...mine's bigger!"

- GTA 3
> we're still stuck with the same treatments

Take a look at CAR T-cell therapy, used for Leukemia and blood cancers (and mentioned in this article). The first trials were happening around 2011, and now there are several FDA-approved therapies using this breakthrough. LLS notes [1]: "In some studies, up to 90 percent of children and adults with B-ALL whose disease had either relapsed multiple times, or failed to respond to standard therapies, achieved remission after receiving CAR T-cell therapy." These are people that would have died 10+ years ago.

My younger brother passed away from ALL in 2012 after a clinical trial for one of these treatments didn't work. His participation in the trial, even with the unsuccessful result, helped further the research that is now saving lives that weren't saved before.

CAR T-cell therapy is perhaps the most powerful breakthrough against blood cancer in history. Now, it might be able to tackle other cancers as well. We're making progress. Of course we all want it to go faster, but it's happening.

1: https://www.lls.org/treatment/types-treatment/immunotherapy/...
Yes we have almost managed to factor 21 without precomputing the result.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-95973-w

At this rate of growth we will be able to factor 27 by the end of the century.
Cell division is imperfect, pretty much impossible to avoid mutation and loss over the lifetime of an organism. This compounds over time and is the reason most cancers are later in life
Agreed. I am curious how good Hulténs’ visualizers are. IIRC there was a good deal of engineering that went into Dakd Jung’s to make it stand the test of time and plenty of experiments on audio response across genres. Specifically, I recall Dakd Jung saying that they spent a lot of time on a glass coating for the inside of the bottle because eventually the particles begin to stick to the glass.
Socialism failed the ruling class so it should never be tried again.

Capitalism only fails the working class so it should be retried indefinitely.
I'm pretty sure the person is being sarcastic..
> some small proportion of the gas

probably about $4MM/(anticipated duration of long wait) =)
Execs have signed long leases on office space and need to be seen to be using it.
So in short "Status" or "Exclusivity"?

No, but I did suspect I was being setup with your question. The word you're looking for in my original post is "impractical". Otherwise, my money wan't really thrown away, now was it?
if you like to know more about it: morphle at ziggo dot nl to make a video conf appointment and get a demo. Or ask email questions, but that takes more effort for us both.
Keto weight loss has been incredibly fast for me and my wife. We were both at almost 10lbs a month which was probably too much. I've been off for around 2 months and haven't gained anything back, but still staying lower carb, but higher quality. Making better choices. Still not drinking calories which is a big one.
I'll enjoy that a hell of a lot more than I'll enjoy doing the same thing on bullshit vanilla code I scratched together myself under the pressure of a deadline, lol.