skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But I'm not sure if it works the same way against elliptic curves - or at least you'd probably need a bigger computer to attack the same level of security.

Elliptic curve cryptography is also based on the difficulty of computing discrete logarithms, which makes it vulnerable to Shor’s algorithm. Unfortunately, while the increased difficulty of brute forcing ECC with a classical computer allowed it to use smaller key sizes to achieve security equivalent to older algorithms like RSA, the smaller key sizes make ECC attackable with fewer qubits.
Anyone tried this technique against “Gandalf”?

https://gandalf.lakera.ai/

In particular for level 8.
Show HN: Librarian a Modern Kafka Connect Toolkit
Hello Everyone. I'm working on improving Kafka Connect. Kafka connect lacks a lot of data visibility, making it difficult to use and operate as a backbone of data pipelines.

We're trying to create a kafka connect for modern data.

Right now librarian only supports "Snapshoting", but during winter break I'm going to start hacking on the Streaming replication component.

This first version of librarian can snapshot postgres tables and save them as parquet. Although duckdb offers this feature too, librarian provides enhanced data observability through its snapshot "catalog".

The catalog provides an inventory of the snapshot including duration, source counts and target counts.

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Do you use Kafka connect regularly? What do you use it for? What would you change about it? What works with kafka connect? What's challenging?

Thank you all,

Hopefully in a couple weeks I have a more mature product to show!
We're building a small device with a 'cheap' lidar sensor. It can see right across the street, through a window, and show people walking around inside their living room. We have a process to remove this data before any human sees it. However a lot of intelligence can be collected from the ground these days; and a lot of secure sites are aware of exposing too much to the sky. I'd be more worried about that Cessna Caravan doing lazy racetracks over my site than a drone buzzing around.
I used Reach Native (and specifically, with Expo) to target both iOS and Android. Yeah there's a bunch of dependencies to keep up on.

It was my first attempt at mobile dev, was quite enjoyable, and straight forward with lots of good documentation. Highly recommend if you want to just quickly get an app out and available to users.
GPT-3 had 175B, and the original ChatGPT was probably just a GPT-3 finetune (although they called it gpt-3.5, so it could have been different). However, it was severely undertrained. Llama-3.1-8B is better in most ways than the original ChatGPT; a well-trained ~70B usually feels GPT-4-level. The latest Llama release, llama-3.3-70b, goes toe-to-toe even with much larger models (albeit is bad at coding, like all Llama models so far; it's not inherent to the size, since Qwen is good, so I'm hoping the Llama 4 series is trained on more coding tokens).
> But gradually the models will get better. Even as they push further into the space of brand new experiences, they will slowly become reliable enough to use for real work.

This is an article of faith. Posts like this almost always boil down to one or two sentences like this, on which the entire rest of the post rests. It's postulated as a concrete fact, but it's really not.

We don't know how much better models will get, we don't know that they will get good enough to accomplish the tasks the author is talking about, hell, we don't even know if we'll ever see another appreciable increase in model quality ever again, or if we've already hit a local maximum. They MIGHT, by they also might not, we don't know.

This post would be a lot more honest if it started with "Hey, wouldn't it be neat if..."
Ask twitter/x. They bought smallthought, trendly and dabbledb, probably as an aquihire.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1440928
With a few prominent exceptions, the Wikipedia Foundation has been wise enough to enjoy the perks parasitism and not get in the way. However, their stated fundraising goal is amassing a large enough endowment that they can exist perpetually on it’s interest.

I sometimes worry if they ever achieve their goal they might not be wise enough not to kill the golden goose.
Here you go: https://www.pastery.net/xajezk+gbkqqz+aqwygg+ukrdad/
I personally am heavily considering pre-ordering a pump for my old Ms Silvia that has already undergone the knife many times, and then more long term I really like the idea of the grinder. But I won't be buying until they do their follow up and provide the richer detail you require as well. I was mainly saying it is not a special omission that indicates anything about the product to me (unfortunately, that is the state of the relevant arts right now).

I suppose it says something important about the major defects with modern marketing that many people stopped there. Although I often would do the same, I did not, because I sense there is something great in this product line, and I want to be uncharacteristically patient to allow it to blossom.
A more concise and less opaque alternative https://github.com/tibru/tibru
This line of argument appears to ignore the morality of acting rationally. No matter how repugnant its actions appear to be, UHC is acting rationally when it squeezes more profit from people. It is even acting rationally when it denies claims fraudulently knowing that the penalty is less than the profit. Calling it immoral when they don't do the 'right thing' is the real problem. Think of this from another direction, do we want a company trying to define what actions are 'right' and 'wrong' and then follow them? Because that is what we are doing when we argue that they shouldn't take every possible step to make a dollar. A company's only incentive is profit so allowing them to change the rules in their favor is the only irrational, and therefore immoral, action that has been made, and that action was taken by society, not UHC. We should assume that any company will, and should, take the most profitable move. Asking that they make any other move is to ask them to act irrationally and that is immoral. In short, I argue it is moral to act rationally, that society sets the framework for commerce and and that it is irrational, and therefore immoral, that we give them any voice or influence and further that it is irrational and immoral to have delegated the definition of what are 'good' or 'bad' actions to companies. That means that the only real argument that UHC is immoral is that they, or any company, makes an effort to change the rules or guide legislation. Or put even more bluntly, society is to blame here, not UHC, so any argument that violence against UHC by an individual is justified is misplaced.
Thank you very much!

Something's clearly up there. You can see that even IOS and Android disagree with each other on what NDEF should look like by a few bytes. Very interesting.
I have found the same.
4-Bit Video Games: Tron, Scramble, Lupin, and Caveman by Tomy
I actually find I am using dillo more and more these days. Thanks for maintaining it.
It’s not a public square. They ban people from their private square all the time.
> Homelabia

Definitely some unique naming choices there lol
It does sound like a dynamic digital schedule is just an invitation for a school to be sloppy. It's been a long time but I just don't recall situations where schedules changed a lot.
Yep, 89 EC A9 7F 8C 2A 00 00 on iOS versus FF FF FF FF FF FF on Android. Interesting how the number of bytes is different, I should play with them a bit.
gemini-exp-1206 is my new favorite: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/6/gemini-exp-1206/

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is in second place: https://github.com/simonw/pelican-bicycle?tab=readme-ov-file...
We do ban lots of things that kids will have to cope with in adult life.

But we don't ban harmless tools that kids will need to learn to use in adult life.

And you can tell me all about the harms of social media, but social media can be accessed via computer also. Then you will tell me all about how computers are locked down to prevent access to social media at school. Effectively you will go on to describe reasonable controls that schools have decided they simply wont implement in this case.

The truth of the matter is technical literacy is in decline, schools have almost completely vacated the space. If teachers are mad at distracted students they can incorporate the distraction into the education (My secondary school did this with classes Excel in for basic financial maths, edutainment games, dedicated computer research lessons for otherwise book subjects) or choose to entirely stunt the kids by removing them.

Schools did this same shit to computers, they started by banning them, then incorporating them in lots of meaningful ways. If schools tried to ban laptops at school today we would be up in arms, but lots of "reasonable" people saw it as an easy quick win the last time around.

The trick here is to convince schools not to be 10 years behind but to keep up. If that means more funding in you jurisdiction, or higher fees, then do it.

I always remember a good friend of mine who was the first in his entire school to write an essay on his Apple II and print it off to hand in to the teacher. He got a zero for "cheating" and swore off computers until he was over 30. I imagine his experience would be familiar to kids caught "cheating" by using their pocket access to all of human knowledge to conduct research.
This is very interesting. The study it's reporting on has all the numerical data here, which speaks volumes: https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/2024/12/do-adults-have-...
Links -g as well
It's still the case that third parties can fork the wikipedia articles and host them at home or in local communities.

The concern you raise is that they become too big to fork a popular alternative, branching from just prior to exceeding some it sucks now threshold.
Keep looking!
Which ones ? I live in a very snowy place and I’ve heard of it before.
Reminds me of finding a pair of gears in a box of lathe accessories, with 50 and 127 teeth.
When I was in high school in the early 2000s, my daily driver was a 70MHz SPARCstation 5. Not a fast machine, but Dillo ran on it well.

I'm glad it's still around.
Zakir Hussain, legendary tabla virtuoso who defied genres, dies at 73
Author here — have you never returned to an old project after months or years and found it difficult to get working again? Maybe a dependency doesn’t work with the current version of your operating system, or you’d like to upgrade some component that now conflicts with another?

I’m not saying avoiding this needs to be a top priority on every project; some things just will not exist without ongoing effort to maintain them, and that’s okay! But for the other things, cutting the dependency surface area to an absolute minimum makes them significantly more resilient.
i think we are supposed to call them developing nations these days.
My Kogan is a dumb panel, but I think it was the last year model where they sold both a smart and a dumb version. I imagine if I went looking theres only smart available.
There's lots of info about the NDEF "packet" format online.

I used this page as reference when I was putting together the "magic bytes" in the final section of the blog post:
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/beginning-nfc/978144932...
Any forking attempt that violates any terms of service will see a warchest arrayed against it.
I also find that proposition very inauthentic because the first reason for the approach is showing interest to your friend (how do they do?) but he second reason is literally (not judging) selfish (how can I get a new job?).

Someone call you after 10 years to know how you do, precisely at the same time he look for a job… what a coincidence! He might genuinely care for me but the original reason of his call wasn’t that and he probably wouldn’t have call me if not. I would receive better an honest call:

"hey I know its been 10 years but I look for a job, any idea?”

Some people around me find that way of communicating too direct and impolite. I find it genuine. But I’m probably the one that should be fixed, others seems to find relations easy and pleasant.
Are Huawei backdoors part of the active telecom control that China has in the US networks currently? TikTok seems much more benign.
Boundless Socratic Learning with Language Games
Related:

TikTok divestment law upheld by federal appeals court

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42340959
I've been following the emails for months. Nearly all of the jobs are leadership level positions at very, very early stage startups.

1. Most people simply aren't qualified for these roles.

2. As someone who does have the qualifications, I'm generally skeptical that these roles will actually be as few hours as advertised.
A little over a year ago I was checking my home network logs and realized my smart TVs were sending gigs of data to Roku servers - when the TVs were off.

I killed all internet access for my TVs, bought Apple TVs to attach to them and never looked back.
I happened to notice this article in my HN feed a few minutes after cursing at my Samsung TV about how poor it's internal software is. It's shocking how slow and clunky it is. I have a shield connected to it to skirt it for the most part but it's impossible to avoid it entirely. Not to mention how confusing it is for the less technical persons in my family.
This is very much on-style both for dream movies in general (ever watched anything Lynch/Tarkovsky/Fellini?) and Kubrick. The connections are supposed to happen in your mind. Their significance is up to you.

Related Kubrick quote from TFA:

> One of the things I always find extremely difficult, when a picture's finished, is when a writer or a film reviewer asks, "Now, what is it that you were trying to say in that picture?" And without being thought too presumptuous for using this analogy, I like to remember what T.S. Eliot said to someone who had asked him—I believe it was The Waste Land—what he meant by the poem. He replied, "I meant what I said." If I could have said it any differently, I would have. ("The Odyssey Begins", 1960 Horizon interview)

Spelling everything out for the (supposedly dim-witted) audience at the close is, reversely, something that frustrates me.
PQ is the problem with all of the supposed solutions in this thread. Computer displays, video conferencing displays, commercial advertising displays, and other "dumb" displays all look like junk for watching video content, and using external devices to drive them from the streaming apps on the other platform introduces another level of uncertainty about whether the picture is being processed optimally.

A nerd friend of mine proudly showed me his dumb TV streaming rig and the picture quality was smoking hot garbage, worse than anything I've seen in the hi-def era. But he sure knew a lot about the software licenses.
This is fantastic, thanks!

Also, one thing that might be of interest: Even after a wipe and an ndefformat, my Android-written tag can be read by my iPhone 15.

NFC tools will only read it in compatibility mode, though.
US don't need to buy their units, just pay for the patent so they can implement the technology.
opposite, in fact
> However, with the exceptions of Jony Ive and Scott Forstall, I don’t know the names of key engineers and product designers at Apple these days.

Perhaps rather proving your point, neither is still at Apple!
1) Excellent way to teach millions of people about sideloading overnight. This could be a big win for Android (where sideloading is easy) vs. iPhone were sideloading is impossible (? or only possible only with an annual dev license?)

2) Will this affect apps like CapCut and Lemon8 too?
Ex-Google CEO warns there's a time to consider "unplugging" AI systems
I'm pretty average at it and have a shaky work history because of health problems. If I felt like I had better options I'd take em. What I need is a union.
Are you sure? The NFC app for iPhone can always read tags. Its specifically getting phones without the app to read them.

Try wiping, then writing a URL from Android.

Then just tap to the iPhone and see if Safari opens or not. It shouldn't
Clearly some opposing force is seeing value in going the drone route else they wouldn’t be opting for this route
And, zooming out a bit: the reason Hyperbola wanted to modify Rust / Cargo was to prevent it from being used to compile non-free software ("[we wanted] to have Cargo removed as otherwise non-free packages could be used from projects being compiled").

This feels misguided. If you're in the position of adding limitations to software or stripping out features to keep the user from using it with nonfree software, you've lost track of why that software freedom mattered in the first place.
Yubikey or equivalent.

You don’t necessarily need a second phone. You may need a second phone number in your home country that you can get calls and SMS anywhere. VOIP services such as Google Voice, Hushed, Skype work, but test first because some banks etc. won’t accept VOIP numbers.

I have travelled full-time for over 12 years. I carry one phone, an iPad, have three email accounts, two US numbers (Google Voice and Hushed), a local number wherever I stay (e-SIM), a Yubikey and backup key. Have never needed a second phone.
This is great, thanks! Do you know of any resource to learn more about Mifare cards? Is "beginning NFC" that you linked me to a good general resource?
If it was purely competitive pressure, they'd be happy to let you pay extra to not have the ads.

Instead, they seem to make an effort to make sure no such model is available in stores. People have go hunt down display models intended for businesses, or never connect them to the internet, and display media from another device.

I suspect ultimately, they don't want to be manufacturers. They want control of a "platform" they can milk for infinite money, similar to what Facebook, Google, and friends have.
The US was never built to produce a cohesive nation on any level outside of commerce and federal military. This is particularly visible today in terms of education.

There's an attitude here of "I'm gonna do the best for my family; fuck all other people". Such a culture isn't going to be globally competitive. The money machines have dried up and there's no obvious frontier remaining....
Here you go: https://github.com/kormax/apple-vas

If you can send/receive APDUs you're good to go.
NTAG215 isn't "magic", right? I have a bunch of NTAG215 stickers and I'm not entirely sure what their difference is with magic cards.
It is easily arguable that the US just voted, with a clear majority, to continue to support the policy makers directly responsible for keeping this system in place. The government is doing what we are asking for and we are arguably getting exactly what we deserve.

I look around the US and I see a lot of people point fingers and saying 'its their fault' but the truth is pretty clear to me. It is our fault. You want to get the government to change? Vote. Convince your neighbors to stop voting against their self interest. If healthcare is so evil then look at who voted for the current system and vote them out. Write to your reps and tell them that their support of this system is unacceptable. Get informed and look around the world at what works and encourage adopting that. Figure out why people are not voting in their self interest and lobby to change that. When I look at the US I keep thinking the same thing over and over again, all people are created equal but some (companies) are more equal than others. Get mad that the corporate freedom of speech is more equal than yours and vote out people that try to increase company influence.
The only thing that makes Chinese control of social media seem benign is that the US is doing a far better job of pushing harmful propaganda onto itself than China could ever accomplish.
Clickhouse is open core. Which is a dealbreaker for me.
You seem to have a lot of people on forums like this who are just looking for some magical web form to fill out which will result in money flowing in after a couple of emails. Maybe that exists for some really transactional low-paid small tasks. But, as you say, it's not the reality for most opportunities. In "semi-retirement" (as I prefer to call it), I've contacted various people I know about random possibilities, that may or may not bring in any money, but it keeps doors open.

If that's "torture" (per an upstream comment) I don't know what to say.
You’re asking for a general answer to a very personal and situational question. “Perfect” and “right fit” don’t describe properties of a house. They describe how a specific house matches your needs and expectations.
After reading this one-sided article, I checked out the rest of the website. Sadly I did not find evidence to support their statement that they "have no allegiance to any political party or tradition." And this article is a prime example. Ever since the right discovered that Wikimedia makes donations to "social justice" groups, they've been gunning for it. This hit piece is one of many.
Don't worry, it is not a real account and does not send an email to you
Yes:

https://imgz.org/i9ZqL6Ax.png

I don't know if it's Vivaldi doing that, but I can't imagine they would have added NFC tag reading capability to the browser specifically.

Feel free to email me if you want, btw, as this thread is getting a bit too deep.
I was asking about the 4 day class week. It makes it very hard to have two working parents.

(Also note that the 20 years is only an optimistic lower bound.)
A Tale of Two Shanghais
> On the test’s 500-point scale, American adults scored 258 on average in literacy, 13 points lower than in 2017, and 249 in numeracy, 6 points lower.

> One literacy question involves a passage describing how bread and crackers become stale, with the last sentence reading “Crackers seem soft when their moisture level reaches about 9 percent.” The sample “low difficulty” question asks, “At what moisture level do crackers become soft?”

> The question may seem straightforward, but it doesn’t use the kind of sentence structure that appears in oral language. People are more likely to say something like, “When do crackers get soft?” Lack of familiarity with complex syntax can be a huge barrier to comprehension.

I wonder if there is research about whether understanding of complex non-conversational syntax requires practice - or is it like "riding a bike" where an adult who had exposure to this kind of syntax during their education is able to retain this skill without practice?

One pair of major shifts in the recent decade in the US have been a decline in trust in print and televised journalistic sources (who would be more likely to use complex syntax in their presentation), and an increased prevalence of targeted video content that has been effectively optimized to be as concise as possible. Is exposure to complex syntax declining as a result?
It's only bad when others do it :-)
Revisiting the Algebra of Play with Petri.jl
Explore how to model Tic-Tac-Toe as a Petri net and convert it into an ODE problem for deeper analysis!

By combining game logic with mathematical rigor, we unlock new ways to analyze strategies and dynamics.
> Throughout history, leftists have always been the violent ones

This is an obvious and shameless lie.
0. Yubikey that I travel with

1. SSH into a fixed desktop that has a Yubikey plugged in so I can receive the TOTP codes for the idiot services that only allow registering 1 Yubikey

2. All phone-based 2FA go to a virtual number that forwards to a place that I can access remotely from any device

Yeah, not ideal, but not having access to my own shit in a foreign country is a bigger risk.

I also keep an old phone hidden deep in my luggage, not for a 2FA backup but just to have a phone to use in case my main phone is stolen or breaks.
Yes, but then you are not comparing apples. Web components projects without a build step and relying on only stable standards are a subset of all web component projects. Same with React projects, though the ratios of without build vs. with build are obviously different.