skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I understand it, they are basically private keys. The idea is to find the wallet address that they go with. Once that is done, the winner can create a transaction that sends the contents of the wallet to their own as a prize.

This would normally be computationally intractable but these keys are much smaller than normal, with most of their leading digits intentionally zeroed out to make it easier to 'steal' the funds from the corresponding wallet. If anyone knows who set this up, or why, they aren't talking.

In the process of creating the transaction to claim the prize, the winner must generate a corresponding public key based on some sort of hash of the private key and wallet address. I don't know how they can tell when they've succeeded; hopefully someone else can clarify/correct this point. But once they do succeed, the transaction is then posted in public to allow miners to add it to the blockchain.

Unfortunately, due to mathematical witchfuckery, knowledge of both the private key and a valid public key makes it possible to solve the puzzle as if the already-shortened private key had half the number of bits. In that case, finding the wallet address might take only a minute or two on a standard GPU rather than the months of time on a whole warehouse full of them that the original winner had to spend.

Knowing this, people who are bad and who should feel bad set up bots to watch for the prize-claiming transactions. The bots are designed to recompute the source wallet address independently and front-run the winner's transaction by resubmitting it for the benefit of the thief, using a higher reward to incentivize miners to prioritize their transaction over their original one. Bitcoin blocks are mined about every 20 minutes, so on average the thief has about 10 minutes to create an overriding transaction once the original transaction is posted. Sucks to be the winner who expended so much effort to claim the prize, as they are now out about $400K. Nothing left but a huge electric bill.
Awesome! Thank you for the proper cite.
That's a good point. I meant to say proxies that don't alter the headers. These methods could easily be stripped if the proxy wants to ensure that it understands the response.
I agree that they're not perfectly similar, but I strongly suspect that MrBeast's idea stemmed from the Welch model. They are suspisciously similar haha
Not defensive. Just telling you my point of view, albeit passionately. I wish you a peaceful week too!
Maybe as a case study for the structural failures of algorithmic feeds. Should founders really be looking at what looks like a toxic micromanagment culture for pearls of wisdom? Maybe I'm just a type C employee who needs to be excised rather than a type A who will pretend they're an owner.
The copyright has expired for the Steamboat Willie short film and a few other things like certain comic strips featuring Mickey Mouse. To me that seems different than "mickey mouse is out of copyright now".
True, though good quality high capacity batteries are likely out of reach for most, and getting them shipped to the Philippines might be a challenge (In my experience things can get shipped and arrive from the US to PH in a couple weeks at most, then they get lost in the abyss for months, in my experience they always arrive, if not months later.)

Also, I do wonder if running on 220V makes the AC side more challenging/expensive, of course if you can run most things off DC this point is moot.
I wonder how prevalent PCs (laptops) are in colleges these days. I get the impression that college students are so used to their mobile phones that they will prefer to use the on-campus computer labs. That's what I did sometimes instead of using my laptop.
Show HN: An API that returns random Alan Perlis epigrams
Alan Perlis was a computer scientist known for being the first recipient of the Turing Award and for his contributions to the ALGOL and APL languages.

Among his other work, he published a series of epigrams in 1982 about computers and programming that have since been widely quoted. I like these quotes for being humorous and sometimes hiding nuggets of wisdom, so I had the idea of making a website and API that puts them prominently on display.

This project was also just an excuse for myself to try out some new tools like Fly.io and using AI code editing tools to build frontends with React (so far my opinion with the latter is that it's helpful, but it still requires a lot of hand holding).
Is it just me or is the way you construct sentences jarring and hard to read? Not sure if it's my dyslexia but I had trouble deciphering the first couple of paragraphs/word jumbles.
Too late to edit, but I've been foiled yet again by touchscreen phone autocorrect. While welding is certainly addictive (albeit in an entirely wholesome non-degenerate sense), what I meant above was additive.
Happy customer here too. Not affiliated, just impressed with how smoothly it all goes.
Spotify absolutely replaces LPs or other physical media. Sure you own the physical media, but it doesn’t last forever, it takes up space and it’s somewhat inconvenient. Most people don’t really care about owning music and are happy to pay a few dollars a month for a service that has every song they might ever way to play and to never have to move a box of records again.
Literally anywhere that isn't a startup.
For simple key derivation no, just the one pubkey. However most crypto wallets use a "hierarchical derivation" [1] scheme.

[1] https://www.ledger.com/academy/crypto/what-are-hierarchical-...
Mickey was selling foods under that trademark in Paraguay since 1835. When did Disney start competing in that market segment with their Mickey Mouse brand?
Pasting from my Perplexity page on the topic:

The core innovation [1] of o1 lies in its ability to generate and refine internal chains of thought before producing a final output [2]. Unlike traditional LLMs that primarily focus on next-token prediction, o1 learns to:

1. Recognize and correct mistakes
2. Break down complex steps into simpler ones
3. Try alternative approaches when initial strategies fail

This process allows o1 to tackle more complex, multi-step problems, particularly in STEM fields.

OpenAI reports observing new "scaling laws" with o1 [5]:

1. Train-time compute: Performance improves with more extensive reinforcement learning during training.
2. Test-time compute: Accuracy increases when the model is allowed more time to "think" during inference.

This suggests a trade-off between inference speed and accuracy.

Sources
[1] Introducing OpenAI o1 https://medium.com/%40sriramramakrishnan.aiexpert/openais-o1...
[2] Learning to Reason with LLMs | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/learning-to-reason-with-llms/
[3] OpenAI o1 models - FAQ [ChatGPT Enterprise and Edu] https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9855712-openai-o1-models...
[4] OpenAI releases new o1 reasoning model - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/12/24242439/openai-o1-model-...
[5] 9 things you need to know about OpenAI's powerful new AI model o1 https://fortune.com/2024/09/13/openai-o1-strawberry-model-9-...
[6] Notes on OpenAI's new o1 chain-of-thought models https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/12/openai-o1/
[7] OpenAI just dropped o1 Model that can 'reason' through complex ... https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/openais-o1-model-takes-ai-to-a-...
[8] Models - OpenAI API https://platform.openai.com/docs/models
[9] OpenAI Unveils O1 - 10 Key Facts About Its Advanced AI Models https://www.forbes.com/sites/janakirammsv/2024/09/13/openai-...
> I really dislike the term "Scrum Master." They're a team captain.

Originally that term was supposed to be a temporary role that someone (rotated each time) would take on during a scrum meeting, and referred to them being charged with keeping the meeting on track.
You are wrong to think public debates are here to reach an understanding between the debaters. Whining that nobody submits to you in a fight is ridiculous: fight, show us your genius, and don't come crying to mommy if we fight back.

Your goal is to convince the audience, not your opponents.
ACE of 8. Only child, single mother with psychiatric problems, absent dad with psychiatric problems, I was nearly killed by him at age 4, homeless twice before I was ten, no extended family to rely on at all. Mom died of Dementia at 65 when I was barely 30, and I took care of her starting when I was 25, giving up a great job in Boston.

I'm a VP of IT in a healthcare company, my third healthcare gig with this particular $12b PE investment firm. I was previously CIO twice at the others, first rising up from IT Director to Executive Director of IT, then CIO. I've been doing IT for 30+ years, and I'm damn good at it. I just cut our phone system expenses by $300k/yr, and I'm in a project to cut our EMR expense by 70% over the next 9 months. I've been a service tech, salesman, programmer, writer, author, datacenter admin, network admin, web developer, dotcom startup "CIO", and more.

I work hard, I care tremendously for my family and my employees, I love where I've managed to get, and I'm not done yet,
Shifting public sentiment seems a worthy goal, but this particular comment ("OpenAI?? more like ClosedAI amirite") gets repeated so often I don't think its doing anything. It shows up on every mention of OpenAI but has no bearing to the particular piece of news being discussed. I think there's lots of more productive ways to critique and shift public sentiment around OpenAI. But maybe I'm just grouchy ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Scored 9. Nearly everything except for 'priestly' abuse.

Feelings are a bit too complicated, I think. Jury is out. Perhaps for good.

Professionally I'm great but that matters very little.
The Origin of the Video Essay
I don’t even think he’s gaming an algorithm. He doesn’t have to.

He’s just making videos people will click on and then watch.

It’s almost like he’s trying to make something people want. I’ve heard that before somewhere…
Yes, reading an article to understand the headline has always been a critical part of news ingestion.
See Also, Hungry Jack's[1].

They're an Australian fast-food chain, named so because Burger King was already a trademark owned by some small Australian store, and couldn't be used by the company that the rest of the world knows as Burger King.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungry_Jack%27s#:~:text=Hungry....
Learning why it’s done the way it’s done before bringing up the beginner questions they get answered over and over is reasonable.
Seeing this submission just reminded me that there are a number of X alternatives growing at the moment. Of the alternatives are there any that you use and recommend?
> if the accusations of faking things and changing rules are to be believed.

The evidence behind the accusations is sooooo bad.
For the feeling of superiority of course, why else?
Apple commentator John Gruber (of Daring Fireball fame) attended Drexel in the early 90s and got a Mac because of this program. He talks about it in Jason Snell’s “20 Macs for 2020” podcast.[1]

[1] https://www.relay.fm/20macs
I don’t need to ask myself. Still, it could be one way to fight misinformation.

Someone who wants to make YouTube videos or not can ask themselves.
> Sure, but Germany has had one of the higher genocide rates of disarmed people in the past century, to the point it exceeds the past century death by firearm inside the US.

They weren't "disarmed" you absolute knob. "They" had guns and weapons and fought back against the nazis and lost. It turns out a bunch of civilians with small arms does not actually pose a meaningful threat to a state level military.

What makes this comment so obnoxious, aside from getting all the facts incorrect, is it helps promote this awful notion that you can be immune to state oppression if you just buy a gun. Shockingly, it does not work that way on real life. If you want the state to not oppress people you have to actually put in work to prevent it from happening, because if a state level military is coming to kill you it doesn't really matter how many guns you have in your closet or how cool your black temu tactical gear is. Artillery from 2km away will just kill you.

(Also as far as I know, when the vast majority of native americans died, they had plenty of guns.)
I agree on money != success in a broader sense, but we live in a capitalistic society where wealth creation is possibly the top indicator of "success", so in that sense wealth captured and created is _the_ metric.
Apple wasn’t that at the start. But it had a few a players.
> Vitalik got indirectly pwned

How exactly was Vitalik "indirectly pwned"?
The specification is so huge and complex. I was interested for a while but that faded fast when I started to dig into it. Also no browser-only support made it a no-go for me. Although I have seem a few cool hacks to run it in a webworker.
I think there's a language gap here, in colloquial English saying "two things in parallel" means they happen at the same time but does not imply anything about when the events start or end. A big mistake among programmers is that "concurrent" and "parallel" are often synonyms in colloquial English while they have more formal definitions in computer science.

> That said I have trouble finding resources on structured and unstructured parallel processes

Because you're searching the wrong thing, you should be looking up sources for parallelism in the context of structured programming, specifically structured concurrency. Googling for "structured concurrency" "structured parallel programming" has plenty of results. In multithreaded code the data structure is sometimes called a "scoped thread."

To be perfectly clear: structured concurrency/scoped threads do not require that the start/end of tasks are equal. They only allow you to rely on the semantics of them starting/ending when structuring a program, which may include that constraint, but does not explicitly refer to it.
Well said. It smells like some sour grapes in some of these comments.

Making videos that click and spread is clearly a skill or everyone would do it.
Is this meta-meta commentary? I genuinely don’t know but if so I salute you.
A casino is the scummiest business this side of drug cartels and real estate. Edgy reality TV is more in the ballpark.
When the brand is strong and outgrows a platform..

The brand could start their own complementary platform too.

Not much different than the content becoming its own media network.
However failure to update your skills will eventually catch up with you if you are in a technical role.

You don't want to be 40 and an expert in some legacy technology that even the trailing edge companies are phasing out.
yeah or a lot of people can just fake progress by attaching whatever viral tag onto their glue code. I mean to start with, unless you do a bit of fine-tuning + rlhf there's no way to do it o1-like.
I wonder how many of those "sour grapes" commenters have actually read the thing–my guess, not many.

Then on the first page of the "silly little book," where I already have the question: "why should I read this? Why would an employee spend time reading this?" Immediately he addresses that: "if you read this book and pass a quiz I’ll give you $1,000." And if you've seen MrBeast videos, it's not inconceivable that everyone who's read the manual has actually received $1,000.

Corporate leaders would do well to learn from just this. What are you saying in the all-hands meeting that takes 1,000 SWE-hours that's actually worth that much? What value does your employee handbook/documentation provide (in my experience, a lot of documentation provides negative value by virtue of being so out-of-date, confusing, or just wrong).

Jimmy has probably done the math (in a intuitive sense; I don't think he has strong math skills), and it's worth the employee-hours for him to pay them $1,000 to read this PDF to avoid having them waste time or make mistakes they've already made. It's probably worth a lot more than $1,000.
And then the AGI instantly gives up on life realising it was brought into a world where it gets promised a tip that doesn’t materialise and people try to motivate by threatening to kill kittens
> Your great-grandfather may have built his own house, your grandfather probably climbed the roof to replace some tiles which got blown off in a storm, your father may have stood on a ladder to paint the walls. They all seem to have survived long enough to reproduce so you are able to warn off people from trying to be self-reliant because it may hurt them.

Survivor bias. Look at average life expectancy up until the 1950s... it was shockingly low. Most people had many MANY many children just to see one or two live to adulthood - accidents and pandemics claimed their lives, workplace injuries and wars took them as adults. Your great-grandfather likely had four to five siblings [1], earlier generations were at around seven in the US [2].

It's only because of vaccines, OSHA, antibiotics and medicine that human life expectancy has exploded over the last decades. House fires are among the most stubborn killers that still remain, the numbers are going down extremely slowly [3].

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/global-fertility-has-halved

[2] https://populationeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/a...

[3] https://www.usfa.fema.gov/statistics/residential-fires/
as usual with any large-scale procurement decision, it is a whole lot of politics. the anti-EV people were pushing against it, the defense contractors that run the government had more experience in gas powered vehicles, and the environmentalists were pushing for impractical targets like 100% EV, which just gave ammunition to the people who didn't want EVs.

the cool thing here seems to be that practicality is actually going to win out, and the postal trucks will end up being EVs on routes where that makes sense, and internal combustion on routes where EVs don't make sense.
>Imagine seeing a PDF proving tobacco leaders knew for decades that it caused cancer and saying what you did.

The difference is the game he's playing (youtube) is similar to the game we're playing (startups) so the success is tantamount.

The game tobacco companies play is also very different, so the tobacco companies success will teach you very little about being successful in startups.
I think the authors intention was to pull any positives from this document that they could, but it seems almost negligent to not even mention the "no doesn't mean no" section of this document. As well as the context of the current ongoing gigantic mess, where Mr Beast tortured a guy while doing a "I spent X Hours in Solitary Confinement" video, and had to scrap it after the contestant was harmed.

They refused to shut the lights off for days on end and then coerced the contestant to run a literal marathon on a treadmill... and then there's the sexual abuse allegations high up in his team, hiring a convicted child predator and someone else with a long sexual abuse criminal history, among other things. I'm not sure I would talk his business practices up without directly making some kind of distinction or acknowledgement here.
No, but if they fail to explain it yes.
Groq 2 isn't as open as groq 1 iirc. Still hoping we get at least open weights.
Hey everyone, let's take a leaf out of this guys book and only mention ethical concerns if he deems them worthy - like wars for example. Anything lower than that isn't worth mentioning because it kills the vibes. Wonder if he'll see this as he doesn't use this site anymore and talks with the intellectual founder-boys elsewhere...
> The solutions are surprisingly straightforward – make loans dischargeable, tie lending to degree value, hold institutions accountable

This really over complicates it in my opinion.

Student loans should be treated like any other debt. Yes, it should be able to be discharged as part of bankruptcy. From there we just need the government getting out of the way, save for a (hopefully) rare case of predatory lending or collusion.

Lenders will decide what value a degree is worth because lenders themselves should own the loans rather than governments. Banks and financial institutions have very skilled actuaries who would make pretty easy work of calculating the acceptable cost for a given degree from a given school, factoring in the lender's acceptable level of defaults.

Institutions can be very directly accountable when students can't get loans to go there. If a school charges too much, or the education they provide doesn't lead to careers that can pay back the loans, the schools lose.
>Well, the humanities tend not to get a lot of research dollars, period.

And it’s no coincidence that the humanities have the highest rate of self-funded PhDs.

>my point is that they’re not as closely related as you seem to believe

You may need to explain why govt research grants and endowments tend to follow the higher ranked institutions. And if you look at some of the ranking structure, they are explicitly tied to financial aid which is tied to endowments. I’m not saying it’s perfect or ideal, but ranking, money, and graduate positions are all intertwined.
> Only buying CMR surveillance-class HDDs now for my backups.

I have no way to confirm if this is true, however someone years ago told me that surveillance drives have inferior error correction and are optimized to not block recording in case of errors because they work on the assumption that you are storing videos, therefore if you miss a frame that's not a big problem if the rest of the file is fine. That of course would be a big issue in case of other data, especially if compressed. Again, no proof of that, but it's enough for me to avoid them for archival until I can be sure the above turns out as untrue.
Tux-vs-Mutant-Window (bullet hell game in Bash)
Wish their was a standard data format that all banks would use.
Wasn't Fear Factor this exact same concept already, twenty years ago?
fortunately for you, jennifer jenkins, the director of the center for the study of the public domain at duke university's law school, has written a 6000-word explanation of the precise extent to which mickey mouse is or is not out of copyright now, including 21 footnotes which add further detail, which i linked in my comment above and will link again here now for your benefit

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/mickey/
We used to be engineers, now we're just monkeys throwing poop at the wall to see what the LLM accepts and obeys.
If you're hiring junior people then sure. In Mr Beast's interview with Lex Fridman, he says he actually prefers hiring people from outside the entertainment industry because those folks really want to do what they did before, how they did it before, and not the Mr Beast way. Reading between the lines, I think he ends up hiring a lot of junior people because they're not set in their ways. Also probably they'll work long hours because they're just getting their start.
Yeah, it reads as being pretty standard to me.

To be honest I think there's just a bit of a bifurcation between people who do business, like really do business as a competition like an Olympic sport, and people who just sort of like turn up and do their thing for a bit and then go home.

To the former camp all of this is intuitively obvious and doesn't need spelling out although the insights are generally useful.
This is sooo true it hurts.
i also think they're ugly, but they're ugly in a disarming, endearing sort of way. and maybe it's just becuase i know it's a mail truck which is a useful thing, but i think the ugliness makes me like it.
Haha yeah. I just found those no-period, scattered paragraphs personally hard to read and take in.
It's interesting how the Arab experience varies so much depending on which side of the gulf you were born in. The GCC's [0] citizens live a life that's the closest realization to UBI, while elsewhere the rest of the North African Arabs live a life of poverty and turmoil.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_Cooperation_Council
Makes sense, but at some point this advice boils down to "have the perfect amount of centralized control" which doesn't say anything useful at all.
Was a lack of get-up-and-go the death of the Neanderthals?