skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is interesting, but it misses the most practical and unambiguously safe way to generate streams of random data: Use cryptography.

To generate a stream of random data, use a hash function with arbitrary-length output (XOF) such as blake2x[^0] or shake256[^1]. Make sure your key contains at least 256 bits of entropy. Absolutely never use a key with less than 128 bits of entropy.

Since it's impossible to know how much entropy there is in a key, you probably want to use something like the Fortuna RNG[^2]. Substitute the sha2/AES based construction for your XOF. Bruce Schneier designed Fortuna back when XOFs were harder to come by.

If you want more performance, you can use blake2 to compress your input seed into 256 bits and generate the random stream using chacha20[^3].

All of this is usually handled by the Linux kernel[^4], so it's best to just use the getrandom(2)[^5] system call or just read from /dev/urandom[^6]. If you are writing a Rust program, you can use the rand[^7] crate, which uses a mixed approach reading a seed from the operating system and expanding it in-process using chacha[^8]. This is a valid strategy.

I am omitting some subtleties[^10] about mathematical definitions of randomness extractors as used by the author of the article. When you are using a cryptographic approach, you are dealing with a complexity-theory based security notion[^9], which does not precisely equate to creating a stream with a specific amount of entropy. Everywhere – except for a physics or a math paper dealing with information theory – I would call this a technicality. For most intents and purposes, cryptographic security notions are the most real-world robust conceptions of randomness available.

[^0]: https://www.blake2.net/

[^1]: https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/fips/202/final (shake256 is part of the SHA-3 standard)

[^2]: https://www.schneier.com/academic/fortuna/

[^3]: https://protonvpn.com/blog/chacha20

[^4]: https://lwn.net/Articles/884875/

[^5]: https://man.archlinux.org/man/getrandom.2

[^6]: https://man.archlinux.org/man/urandom.4

[^7]: https://crates.io/crates/rand

[^8]: https://docs.rs/rand/0.8.5/rand/rngs/struct.StdRng.html

[^9]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_of_cryptographic_hash...

[^10]: In particular, PRFs are not guaranteed to output tokens with a certain amount of entropy – if I recall correctly – because they can map two inputs to the same output.

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I am the main author of the Rosenpass[^11] post-quantum secure key exchange for WireGuard. My expertise comes from developing this protocol, as well as a couple of years of engagement with the real-world cryptography community and from my own scientific research on cryptography and secure implementations of cryptography.

[^11]: https://rosenpass.eu/
That's true. I do wish the Discover algorithm were open, but I understand that can open it up to abuse. So far it mostly just shows me nice things. There was no point with Twitter's algorithmic feed when I could say that.

I can't speak to any secret motivations but it seems like the folks running it care about making a nice place for people to hang out. We've seen how a desire to not be evil can clash with a desire to make money, but I remain optimistic.
> I am not calling for government intervention or any of such BS

Why is this BS? It wouldn't be unheard of to pass stricter age restriction laws so that at least the kids are not so easily exposed to brain damage. Same thing with the drugs you mentioned.
That looks super cool.

I started to build a game around my wired-logic proof of concept (https://github.com/martinkirsche/wired-logic) but never had time to finish it (the ideas are still developing in my head, tho).

However I am very happy to see that publishing it, was not for nothing.
Acode – powerful text/code editor for Android
ImplicitCAD is more powerful than OpenSCAD. See the FAQ:

https://www.implicitcad.org/docs/faq
These kind of schedulers often harm servers' I/O usage. And the opposite it's true too. Server based loads are bad for multimedia/gaming desktops.
CSSnano
Just the last sentence. I can see the WiFi manager, you never need to leave the writing app to connect to the nearest wifi.
Being completely fair to the article writer, it looks like this is all part of coverage for a trade show. Do folks at trade shows usually get multiple hours to personally spend with devices they write about such that we could have expected this article to have information about what it feels like to wear for hours at a time?
Oh no. That one hurts...
Bloomberg article: https://archive.is/dwj0l

Research paper: https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2024/sep/dating-ma...
The article does it around half way through,

...the inequality the way I learned it²:

E[f(x)] ≥ f(E[x])

…if f(x) is convex
You’re an easy mark to hit a quota. Thats unjust.

I’m not a defender of the IRS. I’ve worked for my share of large corporate and government bureaucracy. They are dumb organizations if you design them to be. The folks who have controlled the purse at the committee level in congress want that org to be dumb.

I’ve consulted for a few DMVs. Fundamentally, they are tax agencies. They sell stickers and plates. They are unique, however, as they are one of the few state level organizations that directly interact with the entirety of the public. They often do a mediocre job, but they see themselves as customer service orgs and make effort to give you a positive experience. Most states have governance structures where individual legislators cannot micromanage agency functions as well.
> One major pitfall to avoid is letting an "us vs. them" mentality take hold on the team. Naturally, the stress of painful decisions can erode trust in leadership and other departments, but reinforcing a negative mindset will hurt you more than the temporary warm camaraderie you'll enjoy by joining the chorus of cynics.

Then proceeds to encourage managers to gaslight folks into believing leadership is fine in the next paragraph.

In my experience, during this "wartime" the author discusses, management knows the ship may be sinking/is sinking and are making their way towards the lifeboats. They still need to be seen as doing something though, so they string along the ICs hoping they can keep being "productive" even though management is completely checked out, and a lot of the ICs will be laid off or not survive the upcoming aquihire/turn down.
The guy has earned a net worth of maybe $700 million starting with YouTube. Saying it's all a bunch of contrived bullshit hides the fact the he is obviously brilliantly talented and dedicated at making a business from YouTube. If you or others blow off a document he wrote or an interview he gives because most of his videos are "just" gaming an algorithm then you must not be a very curious person.

I don't like coffee but I still might learn about the business since it's so big.
How to accidentally electrocute yourself and start a house fire
The grind to do what? Make an endless stream of shit content? Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
Did OpenAI Just Have Its Skynet Moment?
It is interesting that a proxy won't be able to see the complete response anymore. It will see the dictionary ID and hash but without a copy the server's response won't be fully intelligible to it.
> They don't look nearly as bad as the title suggests.

Come on, yeah they do. You don't have a car-style cellular antenna sticking up any more, the way you would in the 90s. But that, and incremental refinement in materials and profile, is really all the aesthetic difference from what you'd see back then. It doesn't do enough to help.

Granted, you're not wrong about the potential benefits, although I think I'd need a lot of convincing that it's enough of a qualitative improvement to be worth the cost and complexity over fixed magnifiers. But I'd never consider these at all if you could see my electronics bench from the street.
This is the first time I've heard of an ACE score; I had to look up what it stood for: https://www.christineortollcharity.org/post/adverse-childhoo...

I suspect I'm not the only one here in this boat.
This is like Joy, but for non-PhD's.
great tutorial!
IO_uring Async Discard Submitted for Linux 6.12
Fundamentally, I agree with you. I pay a premium to game on PC because I care about digital persistence and refuse to accept a world where Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo ultimately draw the line on my usage of their software. That being said, I would comfortably wager that the majority of console owners aren't concerned with whether they will be able to play Star Wars: Outlaws and Far Cry 6 in 2035. Most of them aren't even thinking as far ahead as next month, if Game Pass and Playstation+ subscriptions are anything to go off of. Hell, the PS5 Pro just got announced with no disc drive - the Xbox Series S has shipped without physical media for years now. Millions of console gamers have accepted their fate as digital-only households, for better or worse.

Betting on the frugality and apathy of console owners is an incredibly smart bet on Microsoft's behalf, and I say that as someone that considers the Xbox a failed product. Microsoft spent the past 10 years trying to promote a vertical integration of Windows and Xbox services, something which almost nobody cares about. Betting against next-gen demand for new console hardware is a move that only seems smarter as the economy gets worse.
Fixing an Elgato HD60 S HDMI capture device with the help of Ghidra
You need to visit rural areas. Not everything is a city.
Obligatory dogpack404 link [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@DogPack404
> Change your words from "delivery" to "processing" and you in alignment with reality.

You are not the first to say this, but so far no one has been able to explain what the difference between "delivery" and "processing" is. How do you do "delivery" (on a computer) without also doing (at least some) "processing"?

> Delivery is from the sender's point of view, not the recipient.

I don't see what difference that makes. In fact, I don't see why a "point of view" should enter into it at all. Whether a message has been "delivered" or not (whatever that actually turns out to mean) is (it seems to me) a property of the system, independent of anyone's point of view.
I like the idea that entertainment made for broad appeal is an existential threat to society worthy of comparison to drugs that kill hundreds of thousands of people per year. People have been appealing to the lowest common denominator for forever and yet the world soldiers on.

Your larger question of “why haven’t they made things I don’t personally find appealing illegal yet?” is worthy of exploration, though I don’t think many posters here are in a position to dig into it deeply for you
Yes, see the sugar industry. I find it quite similar how both use brain hacks. It makes behavior extremely hard to change once people are hooked.
Theory of Constraints is fascinating because, as MrBeast points out here, it seems extremely obvious. I've had numerous interactions on this site where a person dismisses an insight from ToC as "obvious" and then 2 sentences later promulgates the exact type of intuition that ToC disproves.
Two Trellix employees get called out for stolen research
Is it shallow entertainment? Sure.

But sometimes you want to eat a soggy kebap and not a Michelin-star gourmet meal, and that's fine too (and I can't stand people who malign what other people enjoy because it's "not pure enough").
Meh getting too reductionist doesn’t necessarily help anything. Branching is a concept, not an implementation detail. There is a “main” branch in git because that’s how people talk about it, and what they usually mean when they refer to “main” or another branch; people are not usually referring to a singular tip-of-the-branch commit, but the whole branch and it’s history. A branch is different from a tag or a commit because the branch is expected to move frequently (point to different commits) and tags/commits aren’t. The implementation isn’t different, but the usage and meaning is. Branches in other SCMs are really no different conceptually. Perforce doesn’t identify any unique path from the tip of the branch to the root it came from, you can merge both directions. Same is true in other SCMs.
The IRS has been chronically under-funded for decades. They probably are not trying to be malicious, they are just over-worked and can't keep up. Their software system is many, many decades old and their staffing shortages are chronic.

Congress just recently decide to throw the IRS a bone and let them hire a few more people, but they are still chronically under-staffed.

Every time I manage to find a real human at the IRS, they have always been awesome to deal with. If you want to get a real human, the best way is to go to your local congress critter and have them contact the IRS for you. If more people do this, it also helps incentivizes Congress to eventually properly staff the IRS..... hopefully.
Trying to discern whether YouTube or TikTok influencers are better than the other is like picking which tooth you want pulled. Both are so gratingly painful even compared to normal cable television.

I have really no respect for the people that abuse a broken status quo to only improve their own personal standing. The fact that a lot of HNers seem to look up to Mr. Beast is almost as tellingly acerbic as the reliance on Steve Jobs for intelligent business quotes.
Can you do better?

If 100's of millions of people are watching something, then clearly it has entertainment value.

His management philosophy might rub people the wrong way but it's hard to dispute it's effectiveness. Nor do you have to work there.

His success is all the more impressive given he started with nothing and how competitive the space is.

On some level he's the personification of the youtube algorithm - don't blame him, he's just giving people what they want. On some level this feels like the same outcry parents had to video games in the 90's.
Clearly consciousness isn’t a unity or it would be a one thing. Instead, by unified we mean it is integrated or harmonized— like a song made of many elements but harmonized into a whole. A whole has elements of unity, but necessarily contains parts. Plato’s Parmenides is all about the mystical inability to resolve this paradox of the existence of unity and parts.
This reminds me of how every corporation I've ever seen operates. Why is this strange or interesting?
I just got a 6 on the ACE test you linked.

I lost interest in formal education and ended up having a baby and dropping out, then going back to study psychology as the foundation stuff covers child psychology and development a lot. I found a combination of this and being mindful not to repeat the mistakes of my parent(s) really helped raising the kids incredibly easy. We were never going to be rich, but we were happy.

I got into health and fitness, which I always considered lame, because my dad died from being unhealthy and unfit and didn't want to inflict that pain on my own baby. It helped me think clearer and faster and made me feel safe, confident and I became quite extroverted. I felt that this and reading a good chunk of philosophical literature in my spare time really "fixed" a lot of mental health issues I had. I've spent most of my life working jobs around my lifestyle, even if it means having less money, I seem to be pretty good at living off a small amount of money and not living in misery even with the family, I have more in savings and investments than people I met that work 2-3x more than me. I work less hours so I get more time to read, create, be with family, get exercise and sun, meet friends, prepare meals, work on community projects etc.

Maybe it's a cope for being constantly told that I'm going to "go far" and being too lazy, distracted or disinterested in doing it (I wince every time someone praises my intelligence) but I'm happy that I have the freedom and opportunities to always be improving myself and trying new things, my only complaint is that life is too short for me to possibly indulge in everything that interests me.
> The whole modern social media / influencer sphere seems like a huge bubble that will pop eventually.

Before teenagers were looking up to YouTubers, they were looking up to TV celebs, musicians, sports players, and so on. You had entire publishing empires built around following such celebs around and reporting on their private lives.

I don't think this is hugely different. The tech has evolved and the formulas have been perfected, but it's still catering to the same obsessions and urges that we had for a good while.
Mr.Beast is in some big controversies right now, and it's honestly much more interesting than this PDF, I expected to see the "no does not mean no" section in this PDF.
Well, the 'PAIP' book for sure does it, literally.
Explain how you would deal with CI in a kernel?
I recall one could use the Windows API to obtain a certain window handle, then pass it along with the desired coordinates to a function (SetWindowPos()?) that would move it to the desired coordinates; also setting size and other parameters was (is?) possible.
Under Linux one would use the X11 API to do more or less the same. Not sure under Wayland but I'd be surprised if it wasn't possible with that as well.
Of course not. And he is relatively more popular than some others on his level of expertise. But I think Tao's opinion is a bit more interesting than a general PhD/professional.
My ink supplier actually provides refunds on their own ink whenever HP pushes another OTA update. They just keep doing it, the industry is aware. And when my next toner runs out I’m buying Brother and never touching HP again.
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But what conclusion this supports? Unity by itself was an argument for something else, wasn't it?

So, what does this partial unification implies for that something else? That something else being qualia, in contemporary terms.

That doesn't solve _the original question_, or _the hard problem_ in any way. It just breaks it down in a different way. It's ok, the hard problem is hard anyway.

When reading it, I get a strong sense that the text softly implies qualia as an emerging phenomenon. A christmas-tree-like composition of smaller qualia units, those coming primarily from senses and building up into more elaborate experiences.

However, the argument for qualia was never about individual senses. Thought experiments like "what is like to be a bat?" and "what if I see colors different from everyone else?" were never about individual, specific senses. It was never implied to be literally just about a single sense, but the experience of being as a whole.

That idea of "being as a whole" already includes the unconscious-until-conscious experiences. Julian Jaynes puts the "light in the refrigerator" not as a stationary light, but a flashlight that you can swing around in a dark room: wherever you point it to something, that something becomes highlighted in your consciousness. In the same way as the "light in the refrigerator" experiment, when you're not pointing to something, it doesn't mean it's not there.

The "flashlight in the dark room" thought experiment also brings up important questions, like: what if there's someone else in the room? How should we deal with things that seemingly move around? It also brings up the idea of object permanence to the context of consciousness. Are we just like small children too naive to perceive what it really is?
Meh, we don't know what the counterfactual of a different media environment would be. For example, it seems not-even-crazy to believe that media's addictiveness has played a major role in sedentary lifestyles which in turn is a major contributor to several of the top causes-of-death in the developed world (far greater than drugs).
To reiterate, I was making a general point. You making it personal does not negate that point. If you re-read what I wrote, I was not implying you were mislead, but also that it isn’t rare in lesser programs. Not everything has to be true about you and your personal experience to be valid.
I personally believe it is hard to see a better graphics right now, but! After you start playing better graphics, it is pretty noticeable when you go back.

Examples:

1. Switching to retina displays. For a lot of people that was not noticeable, but after you start using only retina displays everywhere, going back really sucks.

2. Going to ProRes displays, also hard to notice, but now I cannot use my iPad Mini, because it is noticeable. And I definitely see it on my spare iphone mini.

3. Gaming in 60/120Hz, it is impossible now to play 30Hz games.

So yes, if your mind is not spoiled, you can play low resolution games on Steam Deck on 30Hz with some drops. But if you spoiled your mind with 120Hz on 4K display/TV, you will see such a difference going back.
In my opinion there is a strong disconnect between the title and the advice. If in fact your house is on fire, there is a decision tree you can follow that goes something like this.

1. Are you or others in immediate danger? If so, get out and help others get out.

2. If not, then determine if someone addressing the fire. One would expect that higher ups are aware of the fire, but this is not always the case. Sometimes the higher ups are not aware. Sometimes they are too busy saving themselves to address the fire.

3. If someone is addressing the fire is there a way you can assist?

I do not mean to be snarky in this- there are real people who work for real companies that are not doing well. If you are a manager, your team's well being should be high on your list.
Yes, but there's a difference between drugs and this. The lack of evidence that they are the same or even similar for example.
Stretchable, wearable device lights up an LED using only the warmth of skin
Other corporations seriously have employee handbooks with sentences like this in?

“… instead of starting with his house in the circle that he would live in, we bring it in on a crane 30 seconds into the video. Why? Because who the fuck else on Youtube can do that lol.”
Banardos, a UK charity for kids that need help, did a study as to where people accessed their website from… one of the most popular locations was MacDonalds free WiFi
I've tried this a bit and I think it's probably the best solution for an experience similar to i3 in Windows. I had tried various other solutions to the past but didn't get the i3, mouseless experience.

The only thing I couldn't find is a way to define the "new window tiling mode", i.e in i3 you open two windows with vertical tiling, then change the tiling mode to horizontal and open two more windows. Now you'll have one tall window to the right and three windows splitting the right part one below the other.
https://x.com/financialjuice/status/1835421291299623020?s=46...
The unwavering fixation on metrics like Click Thru Rate, Average View Duration and Average View Percentage explains why so many of my previous channels get formulaic over time. It sounds like a small thing, but for some reason the thumbnails/titles with the Youtube face enrage me the most.

Thankfully there are still enough channels which are not that optimized.

But I wonder: How would the scene of Youtubers cope, if Youtube suddenly changes its algorithm to something completely different? I remember the tears in SEO-land, when Google did it.
The kind of use you describe is almost certainly a small minority of the whole.
Feel free to click on the link.