skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was super confused about this as well.

Also, the way OP picked the length of the truncated salt was troubling to me: "Too small, and we improve the economics of precomputation. Too large, and we risk creating a reliably crib for distinct plaintext values" -- then went on to do a tricky computation to find the balance. The inputs of this computation seem to be some assumptions about the number of users on the network and the computing power available to adversaries -- both of which could be wrong, and/or conceivably change by orders of magnitude over a few years.

Past tense, because OP has changed the post (perhaps in response to your comment) and now says "In my earlier design, we needed to truncate the salt and rely on understanding the birthday bound to reason about its security. This is no longer the case, since each salt is randomized by the same random value used in key derivation."

I haven't read the changes in enough detail to say anything about the new design.
Perhaps we should start giving investigations like this performing arts awards. The theater deserves recognition.
Well, it's indirectly given by women. You don't hurt get "the body" with purely diet. Gyms I've been to are closer in gender ratio than you'd expect for such societal expectations. Even if women tend to focus more on cardio than men and men focus more on resistance/strength training.

And yeah, it's given because it appeals to men. A chance to move about, physically push themselves, perform specific tasks for a specific amount of time, etc. Men and women are drawn to different things (for a variety of reasons), so men just resonate more with that than women.

>just because you don't see boners in films doesn't mean that society thinks that boners are bad. That's like saying that not seeing vaginas in films means society thinks vaginas are bad

In a vacuum yes. In the history of the MPAA, the reasons and reactions make you wonder...

But it's ultimately a non-sequitir. Its just some tangential food for thought.
If they are over capacity, does that mean they have significant revenue?
Perhaps, but you got to ask yourself how valuable will your data be 20-30 years in the future. For some people that is a big deal maybe. For most people that is a very low risk threat. Most private data has a shelf life where it is no longer valuable.
Well... there are some things one can get better at by watching — chess, for example. However, of course, you're right: in mathematics (and probably chess?) 90% of the learning has to be done yourself.
Never liked Pokemon Go, but I wonder if they are using my old Ingress account.
Math comes from brains.
Time Until Next Friday
66% here. I was pretty much scrolling through and clicking on first instinct instead of looking in any detail.

Interestingly I did a lot better in the second half than the first half - without going through and counting them up again I think somewhere around 40% in the first half and 90% in the second half. Not sure if it's because of the selection/order of images or if I started unconsciously seeing commonalities.
St Louis Fed: Why Do WFH Workers Move?
Discovered via https://www.marketplace.org/2024/11/22/work-from-home-migrat...

"Nearly half of people working from home — who moved to a different state — moved because of housing."
I've run over 1 squirrel in 26 years of driving and hundreds of thousands of miles driven and tens of thousands of squirrel encounters. And it was in a tiny 90's Mazda Miata with the ideal front visibility. That car was too small to even meet today's safety regulations ironically (newer Miatas are much larger vehicles).

I'm not sure what we're trying to debate here. I agreed front visibility matters but sensors and cameras are also important (the post I was replying to seemed to indicate that we should go back to a time prior to relying on sensors and cameras).
I work in an org where, despite the hell they put themselves through with GA4 I can't convince them to switch to Plausible or Matomo. Part of the reason is interoperability with their partners, but most of it is the mentality that they aren't paying for GA, and since its free they'll keep it. As you already guess this ignores the tens of thousands of dollars spent in stakeholders trying to figure out WTF they're looking at in GA.

And that's the final irony. If I show this to our GA users they'll say, "wow this is nice but we can't afford the $20/month."
Amazing to see these examples still around and working.
Nope, you have to apply signature spoofing and microg every time you update lineagos. I installed CalyxOS once and now OTA updates include microg.

Trust me, I've done both. Having it in the ROM is far easier for users.
For a simple solution, you can just right click->Save Page As.. and upload the resulting `.html` file into Claude/ChatGPT as an attachment. They're both more than capable of parsing the article content from the HTML without needing any pre-processing.
> They rarely have any good original ideas. Other than IaaS and online retail.

Lol. Is that all?? If you have to have only two good original ideas, you could do a lot worse.
It is a sad goal, not only because of the loss of enjoyment, but also because the "trip" is a significant part of what brings the benefits.

The introspective experience of viewing oneself, and one's relation to the rest of the world, from a unique perspective, is a key part of what brings the benefits.

The other, unmentioned, benefit of making a custom version of a common pharmaceutical chemical, is the ability to then patent the result. Thus granting the "inventor" a near permanent exclusive right to the drug.
I've been playing with Alibaba's Qwen 2.5 model and I've had it claim to be Claude. (Though it usually claims to be Llama, and it seems to think it's a literal llama, i.e. it identifies as an animal, "among other things".)
Samurai: Adapting Segment Anything Model for Zero-Shot Visual Tracking
I started reading Hacker News a year ago, and it was amazing. Sometimes, very smart people get involved in discussions.

But what I see here now is disappointing—people who most likely don’t even have an understanding of the CG industry, real post-production, 3D programming, and so on, trying to push immature arguments. Discussions about whether Blender can have an "abstract Linux moment," or if it can be adopted by big players, lack depth and seriousness. It's just sad to see discussions at this level.

On the other hand, in the world of post-production, we face big problems with very expensive per-seat software from large vendors. We need solutions because even the best industry-standard software—not Blender—has bugs and lacks necessary features. Sometimes, small software projects build communities, push boundaries, and save you at the peak of a deadline, but they’re still not perfect.

You need to understand that Blender is young and has only recently started its own path. It's a very good tool, first and foremost, and it can offer much more if you’re a strong artist or programmer.

But it’s a tool that anyone with knowledge of coding or 3D programming can improve. You don’t need to pay for a license or deal with closed SDKs.

Sure, businesses build around stability, and Blender isn’t a first choice for many. Investors don’t want to make risky decisions. But very soon, we’ll see Blender integrated into pipelines alongside other tools. In the end, it will become the first-choice software for many tasks in the CG industry.

Over the last decade, I’ve seen different companies acquire solutions, integrate them into their own tools, and claim they "innovated"—but they often killed the original ideas and didn’t push anything forward. Most of the major advancements in the CG industry have come from open source or studios that made their tools available for everyone.

Just look at how many new technologies Autodesk has developed in the last decade: none. They just bought solutions or received them from open source.

Stop being narrow-minded and look at the bigger picture
Vendors have been getting worse about this. One day we'll probably end up with a situation where everything is like enterprise hardware, and you'll need an account with an active support subscription to download the newest drivers / firmware.
Not the OP, but my beef with toString is that for some classes it is an essential part of the interface contract that requires a stable and documented string mapping (e.g. for value types like BigInteger or URI, and for String itself), whereas for other classes it just serves as a way to provide a debugging/logging representation that may change from one version to the next, and whose exact representation should not be relied on. These are really two separate purposes with a different interface contract.

It would have been better for Object to have a toDebugString method, and to restrict implicit string conversion (concatenation) to classes implementing a StringConvertible interface with a corresponding separate toString method.
What does it encode? Images? Scent? Touch? Some higher dimensional qualia?
Minor -- the date on the Riot Games video "stop point" is likely wrong. It says 2024, but based on the timeline it should be 2023.
I had exactly the same feeling as you after reading the article. And interestingly, all production parsers for all major languages are hand-written recursive descent parsers.
On the other hand, if you inspect the actual code for these production parsers (even for newer languages like Swift, Scala, Kotlin, or Rust), the complexity and amount of code is still quite staggering.
The term "AI Slop" may have jumped the shark.
You'd think that Surface devices in particular would just get it pushed through Windows Update...
Ask HN: Will more people leave cities due to satellite internet in rural areas?
Would you consider doing that?
Key points from the Bluesky architecture paper [video]
Do you not understand that the volume and frivolity of these lawsuits are the point being made, or are you pretending not to?
And you think MSFT isn't 95% copycat? Teams is Slack clone. Azure is AWS clone. SurfaceBook (remember those?) Macbook clone. Edge is Chrome clone. Bing is Google clone. Even VSCode was an Atom/Electron fork and Windows Subsystem for Linux...
I think the title doesn't really match the article, and is very click-baity.

It's fine to not like Niantic using your data (although they've been doing this even pre-AI, of course).

But nothing in the article implies they're building a Google Maps competitor, but rather that they're licensing a data set of the images and other geospatial data they've collected.
Yep! If you go to settings in the app you can pick your personal plan.
I did earlier today, an update came in :)
https://archive.ph/cKrq8
Housing, taxes, quality of life - those are the reasons I know for people moving: and they're pretty compelling.
Hydropower is the only true renewable green energy that we have. It's ironic that dam removal is so popular with people who claim to care about green energy and the environment.
How do you intend to show your task is novel?
> offline and fully customizable, but HN/Reddit went mad over it.

...until it isn't.

A self-hosted open-source project you can download and run (or compile yourself and then run) is very different from a closed-source OS-level component that's developed by a for-profit company that makes at least some portion of its revenue on ads.

Twitter was "the public square of the web", until it wasn't. Google Reader was a best-in-class easy RSS reader, until it wasn't.

If you don't have the source code, you don't own or control the software. And when you don't own or control the software, it's reasonable to have more-guarded views on what data you're willing to give to that software.

If that software suddenly appears installed on your machine, constantly recording your screen and running entirely-opaque "AI processing" on it, unless you go through a series of steps to opt out...it's reasonable to be upset, because the opportunity to choose what you're willing to share has been denied to you.

And since it's a closed-source OS component, it's only something you can opt out from....until it isn't.
Exactly my experience as well. Like Sonnet can help me in 90% of the cases but there are some specific edge cases where it struggles that o1 can solve in an instant. I kinda hate it because of having to pay for both of them.
It’s also way harder for Chinese too. Different regions have different dialects despite using the same writing system. Different dialects usually mean different culture which means they use different words in different ways like slangs.
If all you're doing is pairing headphones, sure. Developing anything at all against the windows Bluetooth stack is abject misery. It's fundamentally broken. Many API calls are not implemented or just don't work. Several just return wrong data. Core features of Bluetooth like custom advertising data are simply not exposed in any way.

My favorite: if your program is listening for devices in the background, the windows Bluetooth pairing menu breaks. Specifically the devices you're listening for will never show up about 50% of the time. If they do, it's likely that pairing will fail with no indication or reason.

Additionally, windows 10 does not support simultaneous audio sink and source. You absolutely cannot ever have your phone stream audio to your computer and then the computer pipe it back out to your BT headphones. I'm not sure if windows actually supports audio sink at all apart from HFP (phone call audio). Windows 7 supported this. All linuxes also have had this for over a decade.

At work, Microsoft forcibly updated one of our testing machines to W11, and there was nothing at all I could do to make it see our BT device. They are completely bog standard SPP serial devices using BT classic/EDR. Both of which have been a standard part of the BT spec since before W10 was even considered.

Windows' Bluetooth stack is an atrocity and an embarrassment. It's outrageously broken and incomplete. It is hands down, no contest the single worst Bluetooth implementation of any OS since windows 7. When linux has better Bluetooth than you, you've really fucked up.
>The kidnapping of random civilians

Can you provide a citation for the claim that these were literally random civilians (as opposed to people suspected of committing a crime or plotting to commit a crime)?

>very few people were convicted of it

The obvious possibility is that few were convicted because it wasn't widespread.

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As an American, I think you are correct that these incidents may constitute evidence of institutional rot in our armed forces. I'm thinking maybe I should vote for politicians who will withdraw the US from NATO, so that the US will be involved in fewer wars in the future, and there will be fewer opportunities for American soldiers to commit war crimes. Do you support this?
I disagree somewhat regarding markets, segmentation, and offering.
Both have a Web search function as a headline offering. Both have ad enabled platforms. Both are integrating their AI into office and productivity platforms. Both are running integration APIs for their LLMs. Both are actively engaged in research. Both are large market players.

Breaking one will absolutely give the other an unfair advantage and entrench a market leader, which is against the principles of antitrust.
I fine-tuned a GPT on 2 years of my Obsidian notes
Erm. No? The Amalekites are “just” the enemies of Israel.
> (perhaps in response to your comment)

Yes.

> I was super confused about this as well.

> I haven't read the changes in enough detail to say anything about the new design.

Sorry about that, but the entire reason I decided to write these blog posts was to get feedback about different aspects of my proposal before I tag a release. In one bite, it's too easy to get distracted and miss details.
Well sure, who wouldn't want android everywhere?

Personally, I'm holding out for the android brain implant...
It's a google form with no apparent time limit. It wouldn't surprise me if some people could do this (think of it like how older special effects in TV/movies look dated), but most likely they did an image search on each one and got one wrong.
I remember my two favorite skins: working iPod 4G and iPod Nano 1st gen. With functional scrollwheel and menus.

Was it really since Winamp 5? IIRC, I installed them on Winamp 3.

Edit: I just fell into a nostalgia spiral reading Winamp forums. It still has posts from 2000.
The "logic" is "shall not be infringed". The Founders wrote it into the Constitution; the Supreme Court decided that their (extremely dubious) wording means what the NRA wants it to mean.

A large percentage of Americans believe that the slightest crack in "shall not be infringed" will open up the door to a complete ban. So you can't be registered; you can't be made to take a test; you can't be inspected.

And they believe that if there is any restriction at all, all of the bad guys will have guns, and they will be at the mercy of a vast crime wave.

I consider this reasoning absurd. And so do a majority of Americans, according to numerous polls. But the way the law is written, it's practically impossible to change.
Eh, I don’t think it is categorically wrong… ECCs are based on the idea of sacrificing some capacity by adding redundant bits that can be used to correct for some number of errors. The simplest ECC would be just duplicating the data, and it isn’t categorically different than real ECCs used.
1) You don't really need drivable tunnels, just tunnels big enough to get to the stuff without digging it up.

2) Don't retrofit. Rather, if you dig up a street you put in the tunnel while you're doing it. Eventually all the important roads end up with tunnels.
Maybe click the link and see for yourself. The point is invalid... as you will see.
You don't have to try hard. Just use it as a photodiode and it magically works. However, if it's inside a plastic case that blocks light, it doesn't.

Due to some law about entropy, efficient processes are necessarily reversible. That's why electric motors - some of the most efficient machines ever invented - are also generators.
> E.g. I want to learn the idioms of the time and place, not have them changed by the whim of the translator to something similar but perhaps changing the intent

But how can you learn the meaning of an idiom if it's translated literally? For example, even in context, "and now we have the salad" can be pretty baffling.
I stress the word "free" here. Most of them were gifts.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42214319
That should be allowed.
This is a really neat concept! Thanks for sharing.
Many types measure the derivative of air pressure. One that measures absolute air pressure can be used for calibration.
There are degrees; complete sociopathy is unlikely because it defeats self-preservation. Most people are mostly selfish towards out-groups. But, yeah, some mothers are really selfish.
I get where you’re coming from, but I think it oversimplifies the challenges front-end developers face, and it feels a bit dismissive of their expertise. Front-end development isn’t just about chasing frameworks—it’s about crafting intuitive, performant, and accessible user experiences in a landscape that’s constantly evolving to meet user needs.

Backend stability has its advantages, but the rapid evolution on the front end reflects a response to real-world challenges—like improving developer ergonomics, addressing accessibility, or enhancing performance. Front-end devs often have to bridge the gap between design, user needs, and tech constraints in ways backend systems rarely have

In the end, the fragmentation you see in front-end frameworks is a strength. It’s not “easier” or “harder”—just different kinds of challenges. Both disciplines are vital, and dismissing one does a disservice to the teams and individuals who keep these systems working in harmony.
MLKJ wasn't forcing companies to not buy ad space on the buses, as I understand it.

Boycotts by people are fine. Market manipulation by criminal conspiracy is not.
>something else fishy is going on.

Maybe the study is flawed by incorrect statistical analysis when combining two disparate data sources (FARS and iSeeCars mileage estimation). I'd really love to see where the non-hybrid Honda CR-V ranks compared to the hybrid CR-V. Same for the Hybrid vs. non-Hybrid Corolla. Also a rough sanity check would be the fatalities for each vehicle model divided by the total number sold of that model.
Baidu's supercheap robotaxis should scare the hell out of the US
> But it’s worth recognizing that you like a translation of D

Probably he just lucked out, and all his translators are geniuses. Tho this would be a more remarkable skill, than just being a literary genius..

BTW I usually like derivative works, in every arts.

If a translator makes changes, and she is only right 60% of the time, that's still a net positive. I encourage every translator to make changes, if they think they can make the text better.
GeForce Experience on my PC requires an account. Sure I can find and install the driver manually, but the convenience of using the software outweighs the privacy concerns (for me).
Exactly how I remember it - I had only Winamp 3 and installed all those funky modern skins.
Thanks for your thoughtful comment and refs to chase down.

> You just made up a definition of "understand". According to that definition, you are of course right. I just don't think it's a reasonable definition. ... Here are things people say:

Fine. As others have pointed out and I hinted at.. debating terminology is kind of a dead end. I personally don't expect that "understanding chess" is the same as "understanding Picasso", or that those phrases would mean the same thing if they were applied to people vs for AI. Also.. I'm also not personally that interested in how performance stacks up compared to humans. Even if it were interesting, the topic of human-equivalent performance would not have static expectations either. For example human-equivalent error rates in AI are much easier for me to expect and forgive in robotics than they are in axiomatic game-play.

> I am interested in what their chess abilities teaches us about how LLMs build world models

Focusing on the single datapoint that TFA is establishing: some LLMs can play some chess with some amount of expertise, with some amount of errors. With no other information at all, this tells us that it failed to model the rules, or it failed in the application of those rules, or both.

Based on that, some questions worth asking: Which one of these failure modes is really acceptable and in which circumstances? Does this failure mode apply to domains other than chess? Does it help if we give it the model directly, say by explaining the rules directly in the prompt and also explicitly stating to not make illegal moves? If it's failing to apply rules, but excels as a model-maker.. then perhaps it can spit out a model directly from examples, and then I can feed the model into a separate engine that makes correct, deterministic steps that actually honor the model?

Saying that LLMs do or don't understand chess is lazy I guess. My basic point is that the questions above and their implications are so huge and sobering that I'm very uncomfortable with premature congratulations and optimism that seems to be in vogue. Chess performance is ultimately irrelevant of course, as you say, but what sits under the concrete question is more abstract but very serious. Obviously it is dangerous to create tools/processes that work "most of the time", especially when we're inevitably going to be giving them tasks where we can't check or confirm "legal moves".