skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The funny thing is that supercollider people try way harder to reproduce it whenever possible than social or nutritional sciences group. e.g. Higgs boson detection was only made public when it was found by two independent teams looking at different data(CMS and ATLAS). Also astronomy is good example where reproduction is the norm.
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If you haven’t, check out “Philip K Dick is Dead, Alas,” by Micheal Bishop. Same vibes — Dick without the speed :)
> that I could only buy using a terminal which required chip+pin

Some machine have contactless payment support, it's indicated on them. Sure it would be better to have more but the option exists at last, and I guess more equipment will be upgraded in the future. If anything this is the smallest issue with the subway and the capital in general.
"Machine learning is not a magic wand. Artificial intelligence is powerful and applicable in some contexts, like ChatGPT and medical imaging, but there are just so many applications in health where it doesn't work yet, and where projects are not scrutinized enough. To some extent, machine learning has become a kind of hocus-pocus term that makes people forget their otherwise healthy skepticism. In reality, in some cases, it becomes mere 'The Emperor's New Clothes'."
Navigo has had an anonymous version for at least 15 years. Navigo itself is older than Oyster.
The approach definitely works. Some time ago I saw .NET listed but discovered it wasn't complete. I was eager to replace an existing Hashids implementation so I made some comments, shared a starter-snippet, and then someone was excited enough to complete in just a few days. It was great to see how quick the community stepped in. Maybe there was a bit of Cunningham's Law in effect with my contribution, ha.

https://github.com/sqids/sqids-dotnet/issues/2#issuecomment-...
You, like everyone else, have never read about the smartest/luckiest criminals in the world because they don’t get caught.
There was a time when you could know everything there was to know. Those times are long gone. To give an example, Carl Friedrich Gauss was the last one to know all of mathematics and physics. The idea of a renaissance man who could be a master of all things is long dead.
A master carpenter that only uses hand tools is a master of their craft, and should be respected as such, but refusing to ever use power tools because of a moral objection to electricity would be seen as quite the eccentricity. Which, the Amish sell furniture, and it's really quite good, if niche, furniture.
>is quite simple, very useful, and occurs in nature.
I could not agree more, but what do you mean happens in nature?
“Taking mental illness more seriously” is a vague and double edged sword. In the sense that we have been taking mental health more seriously, we have only made it worse, especially with children and teens. It’s normal to feel down or to be anxious sometimes; a lot of kids will pathologize these feelings rather than treating them as ordinary life obstacles to overcome. I agree with the goal of helping kids be more emotionally resilient but I don’t think the mental health framing is helpful in this regard.
This exploit the fact that the game use a PRNG instead of a true RNG, and can work regardless of whether the PRNG is a CSPRNG or not.
That one was done over a hundred years ago, sadly. The public wasn't original and topical statements for every new opening.
I wish I'd had this kind of material in high school, and I wish my kids had, as well. Of course you couldn't possibly teach this material in school. Adult US citizens are expected to be economic humans, impervious to the frivolity of advertising.

I boiled it down to "advertising is all lies" when talking to my children, but that's maybe overly simplistic.
From the CGA era that brought you Alleycat... with far better sound... https://rawgit.valky.eu/gabonator/Work-in-progress/master/Do...
T+ ticket are officially phased out right now, but for some reason still work. You can install their app to buy and use electronic tickets or a temporary card where you can store electronic ticket.
The discussion between Nicolas Boneel and the author in the comments of the article is interesting and Nicolas expresses the doubts I had when reading this. The whole point of the DK effect is that people are bad at estimating their skill, so if you assume that they randomly guess their skill level then of course you will replicate the results.

The correct model for a world without DK should be something like (estimated test scores)=(actual test scores)+noise, and then the only form of spurious DK you'd expect is caused by the fact that there's a minimum and maximum test score. But this effect would be proportional to the variance of the noise, and I assume the variance on the additional dataset is too low to fully understand the effect seen there.

Also, in this model on average everyone should still guess correctly in which half of the distribution they are, but even the bottom quartile seemed to estimate their abilities as above the 50th percentile
I wish there was a study on being in a noisy environment for years. In hwich you can't control the lighting or the ergonomy of every peripheral you have. A study on a person's stress levels after being forced to concentrate in a large 11-person room in which everyone is on the phone, all the time.

Or to spend hours in traffic forced to wait and breathe bad air.

Or to have only cafeteria food for lunch for years on end.

that is taking a toll on your health, not working from home.
This reminds me of a project I did in school, a multi-user web browser. You could both control the same window's size, scroll position, and other state on each other's screens. The intended usage was having 2+ windows side by side.
I find it pretty interesting that many of these studies happened in 2021-2022, which is after everyone has been infected with covid at least once. Then to not put any correlation to biological cognitive dysfunction, fatigue, or other challenges given most people still work remotely.

i.e. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/13/upshot/long-covid-disabil...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8715665/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8798975/
I can’t see prices without filling in my email? And there are so many recipes out there for free, why would I pay for more?
An alternative to the post is to take any PRNG's output and calculate the SHA3 hash of it, then use the hash as the random number. If SHA3 is not available, use AES. In either case, all statistical weaknesses and side-channel attacks will be eliminated.

The platform is far more likely to have support for either of those in the system libraries, than a bespoke CSPRNG, which would need to be packaged with your app/game.
They’re not
It is, in the minds of many.

And FYI it is not even a law.
The NYC metro pass system has all of those exact same issues. I find it frankly absurd to be nitpicking such details in the face of such an accomplishment.
From what I understand the goal at the moment is to get GitHub closer to feature parity with ADO before they start to deprecate it .. so hopefully it's coming.

And obviously, grain of salt, third-hand knowledge, etc.
There are workarounds to build latent VARs, but it's not available right off the box. There'll be more developments on these type of models early next year! Reactive aspect of the toolbox makes the inference in these models fast
There are ways to make much faster PRNGs; I designed one that reaches 53 GB/s[0] (0.06 cycles per byte) with better quality than those listed in the article.

But I agree with tczajka: good engineering practice ought to be to start with a CSPRNG. First make it work, then make it fast. With truly random data, you know your algorithm works, and can then check if there is a quality loss when switching away. The performance of CSPRNG is so optimized that it is seldom the bottleneck anyway.

[0]: https://github.com/espadrine/shishua#comparison
I think I understand the motivation, but I'm not sure it is thought through. Taking the signed integer example, would platform defined wrapping be suitable behavior in the setting of erroneously defined behavior? If not, that would make it a poor fit for integer overflow, adding a branch to most signed integer math ops in release builds is a non starter for C++ projects.

Regarding the diverse compiler point you made, that argument can be used to torpedo most ideas in this space. For example sanitizers started in clang, and now gcc and msvc have similar options, if something is a good idea, chances are the others will copy it. And relying on erroneously defined behavior (EB) to be a hard error, means relying on behavior that can differ across implementations and platforms which is problematic in itself. Plus, even relying on a hard error implies that EB has to be an error which is problematic for the reasons outlined above, or means it can't be used in the places you'd like to use it like signed integer overflow.
Another eristic found on the Web.
Compiler Construction (2008)
The best don't tend to overestimate their skill; they underestimate it. The D-K results show a consistent bias in estimates toward (somewhere near) the mean. Hence an overestimate at the bottom and an underestimate at the top.
If someone AI generated a bunch of nude images of me, I am pretty sure I could survive that. I might even find it amusing.

https://x.com/tylerthecreator/status/285670822264307712
He means relative to inflation. He's withholding information so you think he's mysterious and smart and worth the consultation price. Trust me, you do not want to do business with those type of consultants.
The reason not to use CSPRNG is performance and efficiency. There are many applications where you only need randomness, and don't care about the resiliency provided by the CSRPNG. I mean, I'm not going to run a cryptographically secure generator on a GPU just to scatter a few rays for my raytracer.

IMO, suggesting that CSPRNG should be the default choice is a bad engineering advice. This leads to software burning processor cycles for no reason at all. I agree with the author that the default PRNGs provided by many environments are of very poor quality, but that's hardly a reason to choose something you don't need.
Justify to me where my rights should end on the spectrum of trading someone a piece of fruit for another piece of fruit, or giving him precious metals for it, or giving him fiat, or giving him electronic dollars, or giving him monero.

please pick the point on that line where my rights should end and I should be submitted to bureaucracy, KYC, etc.
Not to mention F2P games, which make a small amount of money on their “monthly pass” IAPs, but make tremendously more on the “whales” who will buy $99 pack after $99 pack to stay competitive/max-out the characters they love.
> Nvidia did hire him precisely for his previous experience at this rival company, on the very same project that the two companies were partnered on, which is the same project that Nvidia hired him for.

Yes, this happens all the time.

> There is no argument to be made that Nvidia wasn't aware he'd be coming with secrets.

This is not a logical conclusion from the above. Hiring for the exp is fine. Hiring for the trade secrets obviously is not. No serious company would do the latter, esp a company the size of Nvidia.
Bitcoin Miner Gets Caught Censoring Transactions
Article mentions 2016 somewhere. They explain a bit on top of that, with more depth ... at least my rough take on this
Great analogy. Haven't seen a successful acquisition, only lots of failed ones.
Not a manager thing, it is a consensus in at least one major EU government sweatshop.

Go figure.
> The best don't tend to overestimate their skill; they underestimate

I wrote the wrong word, I fixed it. The best can't overestimate their rank, so of course that wasn't what I meant.
Why America Abandoned the Greatest Economy in History
Yes. This article highlights the 2016, 2017 and 2020 debunkings of DK. But it hangs on as an oft repeated scientific fallacy.

The fact that anyone has to ask if it has debunked shows how desirable some people find the DK myth. Even in the comments here, people are not willing to be skeptical of DK. That's interesting psychology.
You say it's moreso, but moreso than what? Can we actually make statements about the dimensionality of human based word prediction functions?
And they will get a slap on the wrist at best. They made billions this is just peanuts.
and in Napoleon’s case reinstating slavery
*.europa.eu websites have been known to infringe on EU rules forever. Shoemaker without shoes, you know.
Ok, fair enough. But the question still remains - what are the odds of not getting caught? Just because a handful of people win the lottery every year doesn’t mean you and I will, correct? In the case of lottery, all I am gonna lose is a few dollars that I paid for the ticket, but doing illegal activities can cost me my freedom and life.
Not being quite sure how git deals with this even though, as the parent argues, it is the sensible default behavior, is really the problem. Everything is possible with git but nothing is easy or easy to remember.
No, the meme is new. There is no new phenomenon deserving of such a term. Yes, I can point to ridiculous things people said about Trump and call it TDS. It's still just a cynical, myopic, partisan take on a subset of behavior from a subset of people, wrapped up in a cute term, meant to dehumanize the opposition. It's propaganda.
> creates a positive feedback loop of lauding them instead, allowing them to lie to the next person

That's just pyramid selling, isn't it?
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it seems that Chuck was describing a simple markovian process, which is very linear in nature.
My biggest use case for random numbers is for fuzz testing. I fuzz test all over the place - any time I have some clear invariants and some complex code to test, I’ll generate random data in a loop and make sure the invariants always hold. This finds so many bugs.

But for this kind of work, a good prng is better. The reason is simple: when I find a failing test, I can print out the seed that generated that test. Then I can rerun just that one seed (so the error shows up immediately) and debug. Every time I rerun my program, a fixed seed means it will use the same input and fail in the same way. Perfect.

High quality, modern PRNGs shouldn’t have the kind of bugs that cause the problem listed at the start of this article. I think part of the problem is that C has so many ways to get random numbers that it’s hard to tell which are high quality, and on which platforms.

Rust’s rand crate is the poster child for me of what this looks like done well. Here’s a bunch of prngs and csrngs, implemented and listed in a simple table for you to pick which one you want to use. For each rng they show rough performance numbers and the prngs have a rough quality guide:

https://rust-random.github.io/book/guide-rngs.html

And if in doubt, thread_rng() is always a good choice.
The airport line from and to the city (RER B) is literally the worst I ever took anywhere in the world. Two issues: there's no room or equipment at people's height for luggages which is infuriating. And it's shared with the local people going to and from the North suburbs, making it very crowded at times. I don't understand why there isn't a dedicated line, or at least a dedicated express train going on the line.
Small suggestion: change the background color, the labels at the bottom are barely legible.
I just avoid NVIDIA because they hate Free Software, not for any other reason.
Betula v1.1.0
How are stock exchanges not also guaranteed to win in the long run due to the bets of their customers?

That's the entire business of both types of exchanges, collect fees on every trade that the users make (besides some newer stuff like the robinhood model).
James Tiptree Jr (yes, aka Alice Sheldon) is often forgotten? That would be criminal!
> if you don’t have to pay for it ... the BBC isn’t funded through taxes, the consumer has choice ... just don’t pay for it. watch something else ... vote with your feet like you can do with any other streaming service

You keep talking as if the license fee is a normal TV subscription. Are you British because there seems to be a really deep misunderstanding here?

The license fee is a tax. You have to pay it if you watch or record any TV broadcast and that includes streaming, any live TV at all in the UK, and that applies even if you never watch the BBC and don't want to. Got a Sky TV or cable subscription? Doesn't matter, you still gotta pay the BBC. There is no just watch something else and don't pay. There is no vote with your feet. That's why it's called a TV license and not a BBC license.
The fair use analysis is done on the work as a whole, the Zelda game that's registered on the Copyright Office. Not the code only.
During the pandemic they stopped making salads and haven't started making them again (at least in Texas).
I simply don't trust NSA people and those who take their money. Why would you? We've seen nothing but shady moves from them in this space.
This is what I come to HN for. I'll see if ChatGPT could maybe generate some relevant Anki cards as well.
It's not like when you post a link in a chat they all load it at the exact same time. It's spread out over a minute or few. I'm currently on a relatively slow Comcast connection with 5 megabits/s upload and it works just fine for hosting and posting links for several (or more) people to look at.
It is a very advanced book from literary standpoint. The new wave is now an "old" wave with all the weird stuff, but Niven would read as fresh today as back in the 70s.
Never one to miss a spot of self promotion. Yann is basically the new Schmidthuber at this point: irrelevant old man shouts at clouds about how he totally had an idea before everyone else.

Yann is a nobody at Meta (lol at calling FAIR a top lab at this point, it’s not even the top org in Meta for AI) and keeps trying to claim credit by association for Meta LLM success.
The stupid simple way I did this ages ago was:

1. Start with a-z.

2. Drop all vowels, numbers, most homoglyphs, and the letter 'x'.

3. Map digits 0-9 to one of the remaining letters.

4. Stringify the integer and replace the digit in each decimal place with its corresponding character.

For my use-case, all the numbers were >7 digits long, so the odds of you getting an offensive acronym were reasonably low unless you started combining them.

But there's no perfect solution. As this dataset shows, you can find offense in almost anything if you look hard enough:

California Personalized License Plate Requests Flagged for Review 2015-2016: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18IUVU9Q4uN_lxqNd5AsN...
The current version of this is basically like giving the government to issue passports for all countries. And preventing people accepting said passports as IDs from being able to say 'hey, this passport which claims you are the president of the US seems a little fishy'. Which seems pretty bonkers to me.
BWI doesn’t have subway, but it does have light rail service to Baltimore and Amtrak service to DC.
And they don’t get caught because they don’t take too much. So less interesting
I didn't think of that, but this is a nice trick!
"You are Sir David Attenborough. Narrate the picture of the human as if it is a nature documentary. Make it snarky and funny. Don't repeat yourself. Make it short. If I do anything remotely interesting, make a big deal about it!"
The state of the art in super-fast PRNGs is about 0.3 cycles per byte at the moment. I believe this is done with SIMD versions of the xoroshiro algorithms right now. 0.3 cycles per byte compared to "a few" cycles per byte is an order of magnitude difference in throughput.

Here's the comparison from the maintainers of Julia: https://prng.di.unimi.it/#shootout

Still, most crypto libraries are designed with extreme performance in mind, and very few PRNG libraries are. You can do a lot better than 0.3 cycles/byte and still beat the NIST test if you try for speed.
That's a bold claim, any source?
Some of the code he pointed out is dreadful.
I wish more motherboards would just have the ability to split it first place. No real advantage to doing the physical splitting of the lanes from the motherboard on the GPU body instead.
Both Korean and Japanese societies are quite paternalist, so I'm not surprised. In Korea they have all kinds of exaggerated expectations from women and the largest gender pay gap in the OECD.

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/03/1135162927/women-feminism-sou...

There's also a book by Korean author Kim Jiyoung called Born in 1984 outlining this.
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Try reading the article again and understanding the argument.
> That doesn't seem possible. How would that work?

agree; b00b, DlCK, cntfcker

But I suppose, if user doesn't get to craft input, the collision space of converted numerical ids and words like above is sufficiently small to be ignorable.
And how long have you been able to load daily tickets?
Jumping into the Mail-in-a-Box discussion: setting it up is pretty smooth, but watch out for those tricky DNS settings. If you're battling with Outlook acceptance, you're not alone - seems like a common headache. Some folks just route through Gmail to dodge the hassle. And hey, if you're looking for a cheap alternative, AWS SES might just be your ticket. So, whether you're DIY-ing your email server or seeking easier routes, the email server world's got a bit of everything. Stay nimble!
The app is incompatible with tons of phones. I have a pixel 4a, hardly an obscure or ancient phone, and for some reason it's not compatible with the app.
The rubber wheel metros are mostly a result of lobbying by Michelin. They're an interesting curiosity, but I think there is a reason why they haven't really caught on outside of France...
> You can install their app to buy and use electronic tickets

Does this work on iPhone now?
Cool! I wonder if the rand crate would be interested in adding this. I love all their sampling functions - shuffle, choose, uniform, etc. But it looks like shishua is way faster than any of their rngs.
Yes, to a large extent they are.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31036800
It takes a lot to differentiate yourself from the many, many, many other 'makes a meal plan' services out there, many of which are free. If this is just a fun thing for you, that's fantastic. If you intend it to be a commercial product what do you see differentiating this from the alternatives?
The crime is the product because that's what's left after the media makes it sound like everyone using crypto is either an idiot or a criminal, so most businesses avoid it because they don't want to be labeled as either.
There are a bunch of terminal apps that emulate CRT look-and-feel, and you can surely run NC in an emulator.
> Dick's genius was recognized only after his death

Yes and no. It should certainly be noted that he was very popular during his life, not a nearly unknown author. Book clubs selected multiple of his novels, as one of many examples of that.

His stuff became a huge fad when they made many movies based on his works, but that's not the same thing as him previously being an unsung genius.
Just because the data appear random doesn’t mean you’ve gotten at the cause though.

From those charts it could equally be low skill throughout, or something nuanced like lack of skill at estimating at the bottom, improving skill in estimating through the middle, and high skill and learned modesty at the top.
You've heard of security through obscurity, now it's time for... data integrity through obscurity...?
Anymore? People have never RTFM.
You should read Accelerando, if you are not referring to it :)
This is wrong for two reasons

Firstly

Reproducibility

Using "true" randomness sacrifices that

Secondly

Performance

In simulations you often need billions of these

There are cases for true randomness, it is a good thing it is available those rare occasions5
This is the fork of GNU Bazaar which is from 2005, before git was a thing.