skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t understand the threat model for plausible deniability in a file encryption tool: any adversary that would physically compel you to provide one key would also know that you’re potentially being dishonest about that key.

In other words: plausible deniability on decryption doesn’t satisfy the adversary; they’re just going to torture you until you hand over the real key.

(Maybe there are scenarios, like airport security, where the adversary probably won’t torture you but needs the appearance of decryption? But I don’t think the adversary in those scenarios is thinking about file encryption tools; they’re thinking about your phone’s PIN or biometric lock.)
>There are obviously people in the world who stim every minute, some every hour, some once a day, some once a week, etc. All of these symptoms fall on a range (be it eye contact)

Those are just the easiest to spot and measure outward symptoms. Not that relevant for giving some imaginary finegrained "autism score", just to diagnose.

Internal symptoms, the important ones, like sensory issues, social adaptability issues, routine issues, emotional regulation issues, and so on, are not quantifiable like that, and those are the ones that actually matter.

But whether external or internal, the symptoms don't neatly fall on some specific range for a single individual, but vary with age, external conditions, factors like stress, sensory triggers, environment, emotional state, masking, and so on.

There's no "this person stims about X% with some specific interval" measurent" (or whatever other symtom you want). And thus there's non measurable "autism percentage within this 0-100" (whether on a linear scale or in some higher dimentional space).
It’s not about protecting against QCs today.

The risk is that adversaries can store today’s payloads, and decrypt them in the future. So the sooner you switch to quantum-safe cryptography, the less of a “backlog” you leave vulnerable to future exploit.
My favorite style of interview was actually a take-home exercise. Back in 2016 I interviewed with Blue Apron and they asked me to create a custom javascript framework from scratch to render a recipe app or something like that. Then I had an interview where I discussed my solution and we reviewed the code together.

It was a time sink for sure, but I can't stand coding in front of people because I usually like to sit and reflect. And I had a good amount of time to prepare my thoughts on what I'd built. No hidden surprises, no anxiety. I loved it.
I want you to answer me, which bits are untrue in the following report: https://www.rootsmetals.com/blogs/news/unrwa-an-update

Is it quotes of UN managers who say “being part of hamas is not a crime” in 2004? or is it the videos of UN equipment being used by terrorists during October 7? or the videos of hostages from the personal phones of UN workers?

Please enlighten us!
You won the internet, last night, fren.

Best of luck in your attempts at working.
Related (coincidentally) — Google also posted research on a much more efficient approach to image generation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39210458
If the overall sentiment behind the bullet points are true, WOW.

From what I can tell - this is a digital pill-mill targeting some of the most vulnerable members of modern society.

Pardon my french here, but how the fuck was this able to IPO? And more than that, what firms actually bought into this?

EDIT: not every facet of the Health/Wellness/Medical industry needs to be subject to Wall Street's rules. Why don't people understand that by now?
Some sort of carbon tax with sanctions/embargo against countries that don’t implement the carbon tax seems like it would be the serious response.

Some burning of fossil fuels might be necessary, but we shouldn’t perturb the market by allowing companies to externalize their environmental costs on the rest of the planet.
> which apparently happens more than you know

There's not much I know everything about so I guess everything happens more than I know... You're right and it's exactly my point: laws are for the plebes. Anyone making the argument "criminal = any punishment is fair" even for relatively small time sleazy criminals chooses to do so selectively.

Regarding the fairness of sending a CEO to jail, CEO remuneration is literally hundreds of times that of the average employee. So they are treated as disproportionately responsible for the company's success. Why not its failures? Is failure all on the one employee? Was the company built so fragile that one employee is able to lead it astray? Disproportionate benefits vs. accountability for executives is again exactly what I'm flagging here as being almost the opposite of how a regular "sleazy small time criminal" gets.

What if the decision leading to the company breaking the law came explicitly from the executives? In all the cases Big Tech was fined by the EU in the past decades no executive was punished for what were explicit business decisions. The (still mostly unpaid) fines weren't 50 years' worth of the benefit. Elon Musk actually is a "sleazy car salesman" in every sense of the words. His decisions lead to laws being broken and losses for others, but no jail time, and barely any monetary punishment.
Although I'm happy with my current neovim setup, I do envy the cursor animations in this. Why hasn't a terminal emulator with cursor animations like this been invented yet?
Yeah, that’s my method as well. Start big and even fix nits along the way. Anything that’s in the way is fair game as long as all of the tests are passing. As fundamental, atomic changes are discovered, peel those off into separate commits and PRs justifying their current and future benefit. Rebase those changes on the big branch and repeat until all the changes in the big branch are merged.

I’ve found that having a lot of small commits in my dev branch also helps makes rebasing easier. When there are conflicts, it’s easier to reason about what atomic set of changes they might affect than the whole wad. It also makes peeling off those changes into their own branch easier if things get to hairy.
> All your points are good ones and were knowable by any researcher at the time who wasn’t, idk, a new grad or new to CV.

I think you are radically overstating how obvious some of these things are.

What you call "just threw the VAE in there using the default options from the original VAE paper" is what another person might call "used a proven reference implementation, with the settings recommended by its creator"

Sure, there are design flaws with SD1.0 which feel obvious today - they've published SDXL and having read the paper, I wouldn't even consider going about such a project without "Conditioning the Model on Cropping Parameters". But the truth is this stuff is only obvious to me because someone else figured it out and told me.
Humans are monkey-see monkey-do. We all believe we're rational independent actors but we really aren't.

That's the whole point of the ad industry.

Media are experienced as authoritative and high status. If they normalise behaviours and beliefs at least some humans will copy them unthinkingly.

There aren't any moral limits to this. If media normalise mass murder, you get mass murder.

Some people are more resistant than others, but everyone has weak spots.
It is not free of influence. This site is incredibly biased in it's moderation. I will be surprised if this comment doesn't get flagged and taken down.
"Humor" was Sam Altman's response to the question "What one word defines `human`?" What happens when AI becomes the ultimate Dad [joke]?
The First 3D Printer to Use Molten Metal in Space Is Headed to the ISS This Week
First Space-Based Gravitational Wave Detector Gets Go-Ahead
When we're talking about their physics being different than ours, I also wouldn't expect any of our predispositions to be analogous or even timescales (if they have time) of what's fast or slow.
Cryptography has a peculiar approach to the threat of quantum computers, because it is not acceptable for some of the data and connections encrypted today to become decryptable even thirty, fifty years in the future. That means that the question is not "are QC coming soon" but "might QC plausibly come into existence in the next half century". Since the answer, despite not having a precise consensus, is not "no", here we are.

This is also why you are seeing a lot more progress on PQ key exchanges, as opposed to signatures: signature verification today is not affected by QC fifty years from now, while encryption is.
At what distance does space dilation compensate gravity?
Intriguing. How did you get it to fit the syllable count?
Ideally they're interested in the "how" part.

Unfortunately though, there are lots and lots of interviewers out there that do not give a shit about "how", but rather if you can provide the right answer or not.

Here are three questions, you have 60 minutes. Please provide the optimal solution to at least two of those questions. Now excuse me while I'm listening to a teams/zoom meeting in the background. Good luck, have fun.
Climate deniers met an AI chatbot?
How many viruses it could contain )
One of the richest countries is considering leaving oil, and by association, money in the ground.

If only they could make a deal with Canada to swap these oil fields for leaving tar sands in the ground, that would be even better.

Lots of countries are going to have to make this selfless decision if we're going to get a handle on climate change. I don't want to guess what the odds of that are.

Technology is probably still our best hope.
Nobody wants to sacrifice. That's why nothing is changing. The masses have this delusional view that we could decarbonize in such a way that only billionaires feel the squeeze, and their lives improve while also becoming carbon free.

If we want rapid change, we have to be willing to make enormous personal sacrifice.
That the responsibility is in the end of the whole pipeline (the consumer) is 90% of the environmental propaganda—plastic bags, plastic straws, consumer lifestyle.
FIPS 203 is not a math paper, it's a specification, giving concrete algorithms that use aforementioned variable names. Maybe they should use more descriptive variable names in the spec (you could tell them about it - they accept and respond to feedback from the public), but in the meantime, I think it's more useful for an implementation to use the same variable names as the spec.
You're attacking a strawman. Nobody "refuses to acknowledge" any of that.

To many, missing out on the upsides is simply preferable, because they consider those powers falling into the hands of a bad government an unacceptable risk. They recognize that taking power away from the government is infinitely harder than not bequeathing power in the first place and also that they might not trust next year's government - even if they trust the current bunch.

Personally I'd prefer there be so many limitations, checks, and balances, that no trust in my government is necessary at all, but as a German I'm strongly biased.
Human performance costs minimum wage. AI products cost a lot to train but a lot less than a (first world) (educated) human's wage to run.
New and better ways to create images with Imagen 2
nice try, but code wasn't even indented back when 4 space tabs became uniformly accepted as the only standard.
What is the best place to use hosted versions of these models?

We want to interact with it same as the OpenAI API.
An unintuitive discovery regarding the speed of canned air
My what a boring media landscape it would be if all characters were goodie little “Mary Poppins” types.

Just because a minority wrongly take inspiration from an ill behaved character is no reason to temper a fictional character actions. Did Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid lead to an increase in bank and train robberies?
Well, uhm, actually, what's stopping me from using this as a simple feature-flagging service?
What you're saying is the market-share of the AI version that does not involve additional exploitation of minors in its creation is going up over time. The evidence is increasing that the theory is right.

If the AI version gets good enough, the supply of a substitute will real CP will go up, the price of real CP will go down, meaning there is less incentive to exploit real children.
Note that I do not discourage comments. Comments in code can be very useful.

But they do not help you find the code responsible for a certain business requirement. Not unless that's what you put in the comment e.g. a BR reference.

I find code comments to be at their best, when they explain how the code works or is to be used or how it relates to something elsewhere. You know, comments about the code or other code. Relevant to understanding what you're about to read.

Comments that are essentially user stories disrupt the flow and don't help interpret the actual logic. Those comments belong elsewhere.
Intellectual curiosity (as per our guidelines)

I'd like you to show some too.

Obviously you won't be able to refute what I said, because there are
no papers out there that show there isn't a causal link between
social media use and harms to mental health. That would be asking the
impossible. But there is a massive and no longer ignorable body of
work out there saying indeed there are direct causal links between
social media use and mental harms. And Zuck just pretended that
doesn't exist.

You know, I was actually hoping someone smarter and with more time
than me would come back with something I'd missed.

Mark Zuckerberg stood up in front of a room full of grieving mothers
and gave a limp, fake apology that made them burst into tears. His
sheer lack of humanity and emotional disconnect with other humans
could hardly be clearer.

"""
"The existing body of scientific work has not shown a causal link
between using social media and young people having worse mental
health," Zuckerberg told the crowded room.

Lori Schott, a bereaved mother from Colorado, said she cried when
she heard Zuckerberg’s comments.
"""

Those mums showed up to the hearing with photos of their dead kids who
had killed themselves as a direct result of using social media.

My point is less emotional. Given the preponderance of evidence
against Zickerbergs comments, he lied.

So, above I said that means Mark Zuckerberg just lied to congress and
that makes him a criminal in the US right? Whether under oath or not.

That's why I was downvoted. Nothing to do with encouraging you to do a
simple search, which you could have done in the time it took you to
write a snarky reply.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/feb/01/parents-tech-c...
Nowadays AI feeds on organic content created by humans. Soon humans will be ultimately discouraged to create organic content and remaining humans will feel "smart" by publishing generated one. How the era of synthetic content will look like?
Article says it’s a 7% cut, so around 5400 employees before the cut. I’d love to know which roles are getting cut the most. I’m not sure if this is tech companies ahead of the curve using ai to eliminate work, or because tech over hired during the pandemic.
And LLMs have made it even better.

There is so much matplotlib and plotly code on the web, that nothing else comes close to the effortless plotting of matplotlib/plotly.

I almost never have to write the styling myself. LLMs understand matplotlibs complex, but well specified docs really really well.

This points to a larger trend. If you want your language or hard-to-learn tool to get adoption. Then you better have an LLM that does 90% of the work for newcomers.

It's the '*a language is only as good as its idee*' phenomenon that every Java user is surely aware of; but 2024 version.
A large and very expensive home or... A cheap and small one works as well.

A garage or driveway or... a dirt 2 track also does the trick.

No need to overstate things.
AbiWord seems like an odd choice for a word processor— it seems to be virtually obsolete.
There's a book called Designing Virtual Worlds from 2003 that might be interesting to you; since it's 2003 it predates World of Warcraft and some of the information is dated, but other elements are timeless. It was re-released under a Creative Commons license in 2021: https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2021/08/richard-bartle-designing-v...

And another recommendation if you're interested in worldbuilding is the Encyclopedia Eorzea books from the Final Fantasy XIV game, three of them; they contain the full backstories, timelines, summarised in-game stories, locations, characters, races, etc etc etc. However, it's written "in-universe", not so much from a developer's point of view.

That said, you didn't specify which part of said games you would like to read about, I can imagine more information about the design and build would be interesting too, a look behind the scenes. The video game resources I mentioned get you there partway though.
EDIT : Well, the original comment disappeared, but now that I have spent time reading around, I might as well still post it...

They did go extinct ? [rather than heavily interbred to make European Sapiens, unlike, say Latinos, which, in addition to their Native American "base", have quite a lot (~20% ?) of European ancestry (and even more culture)]

The most interbred Homo Sapiens individual(s?) we found, that lived (very roughly) around the disappearance of Neanderthals has only 6-9% of Neanderthal DNA.

https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/genetics/ancient-dna-an...

https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/25658429/4537386...

And this typically falls to 1-4% for other non-African Sapiens (and even lower for African ones).

(Though, I have no idea about the Neanderthal culture influences on Sapiens culture ?)

(Also, in case this needs a reminder : Neanderthals were our descendants.)
I'm never gonna write code like this, but maybe one day I can bully an LLM into doing TDD until cries.
Modern gas boilers can extract far more heat from burnt gas than older boilers. https://www.britishgas.co.uk/home-services/boilers-and-heati...

Older gas boilers (esp if 40yo) are likely to be less than 60 percent efficient, potentially far less.

Modern ones can be over 90% efficient - this was a big saving for me on my hot water and the gas power central heating radiators. With older boiler you lose a lot through the flue/exhaust, so it never gets to heat your house.
Guns are what made this country and I personally take pride in them. They are tools and aren't just made "to kill".
Another one of today's lucky 10000.

It's a hard piece but overall I enjoyed reading it.
Show HN: No-code GPT actions builder for Web scraping, YouTuber summarizer etc.
it doesn't (that's subscript 1)?

> invalid character U+2081 '₁' in identifier

Though that's also not surprising given how poor overall Unicode support is
In terms of military strategy, your argument might make sense, but it's unsound from a purely economic perspective. Norway's solution is far better: Drill the oil now, export it, and invest the money abroad. From the perspective of the domestic economy, the result is mostly the same, but now the money multiplies abroad, and is far more easily available when it's needed.
Go is as susceptible to timing side channels as C, if not less. (The difference being that while there is one major Go compiler, which usually does not go overboard with optimizations, when writing C you have to do increasingly complex tricks to defend against the compiler realizing what you are trying to do and replacing it with a more efficient variable-time branch.) This implementation was written to avoid any secret dependent code path.

Power side channels, which require physical access, are indeed outside the threat model of Go.
doesn't seem like it

> invalid character U+2081 '₁' in identifier

But AutoHotkey does allow it

super² := 1, sub₂ := 2
I can think of a few meaningful differences between GTA and CSAM and a few key differences in policing since then.
"2.1mb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8or3ehc5YDo"

2.1 MB installed? The ISO file seemed to be just 1716224 bytes (1.7MB).
A different way of saying the same thing: business-card sized and shaped.
As a kid in school, “Woah, wrong room” was my fav (says the alien who peeks into the classroom of small children).
Redheads were bullied long before the South Park even existed.
It would be fair to include Japan on the list of major semiconductor producers.
Google takes the pain out of code reviews, with 97% dev satisfaction
Hello OLMo: a Truly Open LLM
ORMs are very similar to the back and forth on using ChatGPT/Copilot for coding; they definitely help make it easier to leverage a database and model data within an application, at the cost of becoming further decoupled from SQL and how the data actually lands into the database.

i personally avoid them, but i don't often write complex SQL
... Well, I think many of the genre conventions were established enough that there was even one tabletop Steam Punk RPG that predated the publication of "The Difference Engine" (1990):

Space 1889 - (first published in 1988/89)

However - I think it was essentially just a convergence of cultural zeitgeist within about an 8-year period.

(Myself, I preferred "Castle Falkenstein" (1994) - but that was because I liked just about anything Mike Pondsmith/Talsorian released)
This is the case for all investment, not just VC. Even cash, gold, real estate etc works on the same principle. It is valuable because other people find it valuable, not because the thing will give investor the profit in itself, just the valuation are expected to grow.
Depending on the country.
Isn't this a definition of lifetimes too?

A lifetime is some set of memory a reference may refer to. Consider:

fn foo<'a, 'b>(x: &'a str, y: &'b str) -> &'a str

Aren't 'a and 'b sets of memory a reference can refer to? As far as this function call is concerned, both 'a and 'b will live throughout, so it's not about life and death, it's about what memory the references may refer too.

Is a lifetime and a "provenance" the same thing?
I have 2 actually, I'm lazy as well.
blogpost ends suddenly on “My solution” on ios safari. i’m pretty sure this was unintentionally cut off, OP
Yes people get tired but I don't see that significantly affecting the amount of work done in general, for 8-9 hour work days. Do you?
Iirc DSL used to fit on mini/business card CDs. No real motivation to get much smaller - unless fitting on a floppy. Then for a while there were small usb drives that were interesting, and with better options for persistent user data than r/w CDs.
> 1. Some people think free speech is a pretty good idea. And it doesn't really mean much if you only defend speech that you agree with.

Child porn is not protected by the first amendment, just like it does not protect speech calling for lawless action

"Muh free speech" is very often the weakest argument in any kind of debate.
I think the parent meant that in case of war you can't fuel your tanks with money.
You asked.
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Then given them all the tools they can / want to use.

If you know a candidate is using tools, you can then recalibrate your questions.
They compared a web found in native woodlands to a web in a zoo enclosure to demonstrate the potential to detect local animal populations. The zoo had more species because it's a zoo. They didn't limit the study to only zoo-bound webs as you seem to be suggesting.
If so that would be an unintended side effect. This was an ideologically driven activist ruling that the majority of the population is opposed to, and which is being appealed by the government.
Of generic paperbacks, sure; this is a collector's item multi-volume hardcover photobook though.
Burning it in search of its replacements is a decent idea as well, though.
I disagree with the disagreements. We look naturally at the shock value of the violence but harshly reject the shock of a character turning around out of the blue. We never give "good" the privilege of irrationality.