skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s what the actual crypto classes are for. If people are intrigued, those are fantastic elective courses.
I don't believe there is really any interest in balancing the Federal budget or saving money. It's a flimsy pretext for purging every person and program not ideologically aligned with the incoming administration.

Would anyone like to bet whether the national debt will be lower in 2029?
Thankfully, we all live outside of the environment.
more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42893885
> but actual productive output like science fundings etc are important in nation building.

But it seems to me that DEI has so pervasively infiltrated the academy and scientific community, that excising them is extremely hard without drastic measures.

There was an open letter in 2020 summer from a lot of "prominent scientists" that claimed that suddenly social distancing didn't matter because BLM. I think that any such people that are viewing the world trough this lenses shouldn't touch federal money on account of being idiotically political or egregiously stupid.
Surely it's a lot easier to train the censorship out of the model than it is to build the model from scratch.
What would a multi variable model look like where, say, both herpes and plaques contributed to Alzheimer, but you couldn't find proper correlation with either taken individually?

There are plenty of diseases where we have identified multiple risk factors successfully. We have examples of diseases where either risk factor alone is often causative (e.g. pulmonary cancer can be caused by smoking, or by long term asbestos exposure, and if exposed to both, fixing just one won't make the risk very low; and there are of course many other substances that can cause this). And we have also identified diseases where you need two (or sometimes more) separate factors to trigger it (e.g. shingles is a diseases that is triggered in individuals that previously had chickenpox, but generally only if their immune system is weakened by something else, typically old age).
> First it has no link with the EU, and then you said it wasn't about tech but “physics”. And surely Apple would hire lawyers familiar enough with physics to be able to explain it…

So now are you back to saying that rechargeable battery degradation is not a thing? It is literally physics

https://gizmodo.com/scientists-solved-the-mystery-of-why-rec...
If you're having to constantly remind your security engineers about "degrees of security," they may be trying to tell you that your threat model is unsustainably/nonsensically/dangerously lax.
Logic and reality take issue with your use of "cannot"

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65429936

Musk may very well have had Grimey sex, it still remains possible to father > 500 children without having had sex with their mothers.

https://time.com/6176310/our-father-true-story-netflix/
Shades of Blunders
Paul is that you? Still mad that that bar of soap in the bathroom was pink not blue? 30 years later?
> LLMs are stochastic, which means that every time you call it, there's a chance that it will accidentally not censor itself.

A die is stochastic, but that doesn't mean there's a chance it'll roll a 7.
,> and frequently a waste of time in domains where you're an expert.

I'm a domain expert and I disagree.

There's many scenarios where using LLMs pays off.

E.g. a long file or very long function are just that, and an LLM is faster at understanding it whole not being limited in how many things you can track in your mind at once (between 4 and 6). It's still gonna be faster at refactoring it and testing it than you will.
> I mean, i understand the need to remove unnecessary costs like DEI etc, but actual productive output like science fundings etc are important in nation building.

So you don’t believe there should be an attempt to reckon with the structural forces in play since the beginning of the country that have systematically lowered the wealth for Black Americans, trans and queer Americans, disabled Americans, neurodiverse Americans, and immigrant Americans?
FacebookInstagram is blocking and hiding many posts and vowing many things since forever. You are free to get an account there to enjoy advertising while getting likes for posting agreeable posts. And on top of that you can subscribe to the nytimes which is hiding and blocking news fit to print since forever to learn about your values and the way you see things.
It wasn't 'an algorithms class' but grad level cryptography. We did implement boxes as a project and were graded on them. Where do you think people learn this stuff? Super secret cryptography school? I even used it. I previously built a secondary layer protocol using diffie hellman that runs on top of TLS such that in the event TLS is broken there's still some level of secrecy, and I'm very confident that it's better than nothing. Defense in depth, you know?
I'd assume that the value intended for public exponent is used as private key exponent. Typically, public key exponent is very small compared to private key exponent. This means that the private key exponent is very small in their scheme, so attacks such as Wiener's attack[0] can be used to break the encryption.

Also, I'd like to add that public exponent is usually fixed to some well-known constant such as 65537, so the attacker might just try brute-forcing when she knows the details of the scheme.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiener%27s_attack
I think what the author implies is that people should use trusted and vetted crypto libraries, and rollout their own encryption primitives based on some documentation they read from who knows where.

Look at OpenSSL for example, even though the people who work on the project know a lot about crypto, they still make big mistakes. Now imagine the average developer trying to build crypto from scratch.
...another one bites the dust...
Well you said it yourself. the beginning and short term is easy.

maintaing is very, very, hard. As a website, you fight for attention against decades of algorithms, SEOS, trillions of dollars of ad revenue, and you still gotta be picky to not pick up trolls. IRL, you're fighting for time in a person's schedule to travel and incentivizing them to keep coming in person while people are more overworked and less compensated than ever. Even the most benevolent, well mattered communities that attract high quality participants will decay naturally. So maintaning is a never ending, thankless job.
I kind of hate articles like this. I use Linux, I think it's great, I think everyone should use it.

I don't think you need user skills to use it. Gnome is super friendly to use (although maybe it needs to make the dock visible by default). KDE isn't bad and is Windows-like.

I don't think Linux is more complex than Windows. Folders are laid out in a common sense way. Ever tried uninstalling a Windows program that was installed in a weird way by some proprietary installer?

I don't think normal users particularly need to care about OSS either, Linux is more than functional enough nowadays that it's a great choice merely for utility, ideology isn't needed.

What's up with everyone thinking they need Photoshop/GIMP? Those are photo editing tools. For design/content creation Krita is the best tool for raster images by far...

And NetBeans? Really? Is this article from 2005? IntelliJ Community is open-source. VSCode is kinda, VSCodium more so. Gnome Builder is really good now. So is QtCreator and KDevelop. Plus Vim/Neovim and Emacs, especially nowadays that distros make it easy to get started.

Linux nerds still don't quite get normies...

Here's my pitch: it's easier and less annoying than Windows. It's free. For normal everyday use, it has everything you need.
> o1 in agent mode

How? It specifically tells me this is unsupported: "Agent composer is currently only supported using Anthropic models or GPT-4o, please reselect the model and try again."
How much do you think the deficit will be reduced by the digital information-scrubbing described in the post?
They really aren’t owned by anyone. That language is advance capitulation.
Writing the name of the card you want it to be in sharpie on the front of a real (but cheap) card trivially solves this problem for cases where card sleeves are not in use.
> The hyperbole is a bit much for me. It shouldn't amaze me, but here we are. Partisans are able to construe spending cuts and shrinking the purview of the state, with authoritarianism.

It is easy to construe blatantly illegal and facially unconstitutional acts as authoritarian, actually.
The issue is it’s not just Fox News. It’s all right wing media from almost 24/7 AM radio (which is what radicalized my dad) to basically all organized social media pipelines to local broadcast television and even YouTube. Spotify drives you to Joe Rogan who drives people to right wing radicals. It’s pervasive. You have to literally insulate yourself from it or it creeps in from every direction.

It’s no surprise that our county is where it is. There is far more profit in driving right wing propaganda (including liberals) than there is left wing propaganda because left wing propaganda is anti-capital by definition. And capital owns everything.
How are you supposed to implement the concept of interface in non OOP languages?
Unless this was not a Honeywell 1750 but a variant from another vendor (pretty common), the 1750 had only 2 hardware timers with just dedicated interrupts and no true watchdog functionality like a kicking key or handshake. The CPU has a "trigger-go" counter that cannot be disabled that was meant as a monitor for software resets, but not a real watchdog implementation.
Have you used multi-agent chat sessions with each fielding their own specialities and seeing if that improves your use cases aka MoE?
There are two sexes, based on whether or not a Y chromosome is present. However, there are an arbitrary number of genders, which are themselves quantities with an arbitrary number of dimensions.

Point being, sexes are something Nature made up for purposes of propagation, while genders are something we made up for purposes of classification.
No, the parties aren’t going to change until the voting system changes.
Yes, most of us have likely taken a grad level cryptography course. Still, that's not enough to securely roll your own crypto.

You want many years of experience and a community of experts working with you. If you don't have that - 99.9999% of devs do not - just use libsodium.
> Why not just cut and run on social security?

There's no appetite for this for the exact same reason social security was created in the first place. Without it you have a bunch of senior citizens out on the street unable to work and unable to afford basic necessities.

For all the gnashing of teeth on "entitlement spending" the reality without it is pretty unpalatable to most.
Really I think we may be a good ways towards that last paragraph just from algorithms designed to drown users in whatever content they have recently consumed.

(I hate the term "content" because it's so associated with this sort of view, but it's exactly right here.)
Trump orders USDA to take down websites referencing climate crisis
But that's where my job is!
Ask HN: You have 50k USD and want build an inference rig without GPUs. How?
This is more like a thought experiment and I am hoping to learn the other developments in the LLM inference space that are not strictly GPUs.

Conditions:

1. You want a solution for LLM inference and LLM inference only. You don't care about any other general or special purpose computing

2. The solution can use any kind of hardware you want

3. Your only goal is to maximize the (inference speed) X (model size) for 70b+ models

4. You're allowed to build this with tech mostly likely available by end of 2025.

How do you do it?
It’s the story itself. The Ziz trainwreck has been years in the making since 2019 when they went nuts on the retreat protest in Sonoma. Since then it’s been obvious to people in the rationalist sphere Ziz was great at manipulating people and themselves into delusions, and so erratic as to be highly dangerous when people in that sphere were committing suicide.
Prediction: The US deficit will be higher in 2028 than in 2024.
It's going to be wild to see how much the geopolitical landscape changes over the next few years. With the US squandering so much soft power, will it be able to hold onto it via inertia or hard power? Or will the world route around the US and the US becomes more like Russia?

I strongly wish we didn't go down this path, but it will be fascinating to see how it all plays out.
Do you buy the sockets or do you have a custom solution for that?
Yes and no – I do believe that the MIC, explicitly stated, doesn't exist now as it has before: he illustrates it by noting the fact that the top five legacy arms and defense manufacturers don't earn as much, or have the same market cap, as the top five in other companies (say, tech.)

But arguably a lot more companies that aren't on the face of it defense and arms manufacturers are getting a larger and larger piece of the pie. Tech companies rely on defense – and "national security" – spending as key revenue streams, and they've built the connections with the government to match. (I think both SpaceX and Oracle are very much obvious examples now.)

So, perhaps the definiton of the MIC has to be updated for the 21st century to include "national security" spending and other significant technical suppliers.
List of 200 UK companies that moved to 4-day working week
The fact that you're referring to useful algorithms here is kind of a "tell", for what it's worth. "Known plaintext attacks" are not a broad class of vulnerability in cryptosystems; they're a setting for attacks. It's like saying "I've studied the browser security model including weaknesses such as the same origin policy".
In 2024, federal budget spent:

- 1350B on social security

- 870B on Medicaid

- 850B on Medicare

- 830B on the military

- 660B on interest payments

Out of total of $6200B. Essentially 3/4 of all spending is in these 5 major categories. There is little left to save in other ones.
Fennel is fucking dope, I love it. It feels Clojuresque, yet, it still is more like "Lispy Lua" than Clojure. I don't know enough about compilers and building a language, but to me it feels like the design of Fennel was more accidental and the main goal was to sustain "virtually zero overhead" to run on Lua, not to bring the best ideas from Clojure.

Jeaye, in contrast, seems to be taking a more deliberate approach in designing the language, not only taking the best ideas from Clojure but also trying to improve upon them.
You mean easily exploited illegal alien labor? These arguments sound similar to a previous debate that happened around the 1850s.

“Defenders of slavery argued that the sudden end to the slave economy would have had a profound and killing economic impact in the South where reliance on slave labor was the foundation of their economy. The cotton economy would collapse. The tobacco crop would dry in the fields. Rice would cease being profitable.” [1]

[1] https://www.ushistory.org/us/27f.asp?srsltid=AfmBOopur7dsLKE...
Aristotle explained (in Politics) why running government like a business is a bad idea. Sometimes it feels that we are forgetting what we have learned and have to re-learn it the hard way again and again.
If we don’t assume bad intentions, this could simply be the evolution of single-product companies growing into multi-product companies.

If a company was going to release products called Facebook, Quest, Instagram, WhatsApp, etc, why would they name their company after just one of those products?
No they aren’t reasonable, because most of those things won’t change because you close the border. We know this because we have plenty of rigorous studies to show us that.
https://archive.ph/x1WvJ
There's a meme that goes as such:

Step 1: It's not really happening

Step 2: Yeah, it's happening, but it's not a big deal

Step 3: It's a good thing, actually

I feel like this thread has fast tracked the steps.

I don't mean this to be insulting. I think you actually bring up interesting points. But perhaps could have not led off with step 1 and started with this.
Obama's first one was basically the same - 1° F warmer. https://www.weather.gov/lwx/events_Inauguration

1985 was a full 20°F colder.

I think it is gullible to take this explanation at face value.
FWIW I see a lot more of the "lol I rolled my own block cipher" crowd in articles here, but a lot more of the "only experts should verify a signature" crowd in the professional world (mostly startup-biased recently).

I sort of assume that the latter is a random sampling of software engineers but the former is sampled specifically for idiots who YOLO their crypto.
Personally, I do just really want a "HN but for gamedev". The frequency of games content here is my personal weakness.

But the invite only structure is limiting. I like the mentality behind it, but for so, so, so many of the communities I browse, the issue arises from size before any of the problem invite only solves.

And I don't need crazy frequent posts. Just something where I check after 2-3 days and it's not just 1 post with zero comments.
> m³ is already a pretty hard to visualize unit (unless you are used to visualize volume) but acre feet is just about impossible.

Idk about the US but in Europe 1m³ water tanks[0] are extremely popular as rainwater collectors.
Also they are approximately the size of a pallet, another popular item.

Whereas acre feet, since I don't know what both units are...
But "are meter" wouldn't help either, to be fair.

[0]: https://www.multicuves.com/2049-thickbox_default/kit-eco-de-...
Personally I consider it as a useful thing.
Only experts should verify signatures! That's actually hard.

If you're using minisign or Sigstore or whatever to do something like verify upstream dependencies, sure. But if you're building a system that is about some novel problem domain involving signatures: you should get an expert to verify your system. The trail of dead bodies here is long and bloody.
Even the most charitable view is that this approach is dangerous and easy to mess up

Even if you like the fiscal goals - I do, for example - the gitmo housing plan is messed up

I hope their spending dragnet now result in a balanced budget, its not hyperbole to acknowledge how disjointed and disruptive it is

I wish we had a comprehensive immigration policy that wasnt undermined for decades, its not hyperbole to acknowledge that this dragnet to address this is staffed by people interested in punitive disruptions to people's lives, that this particular process has plenty of mistakes in it and it doesnt afford people access to a lawyer if improperly arrested by immigration personnel despite an authorization or citizenship. and that its punitive to go after some statuses (or anyone in this way really) even if identification isnt a mistake

yeah there are a lot of problems, a lot of parallels to how worse things started, and lacks the accountability to prevent those outcomes

its fine to acknowledge that while being a beneficiary of other policies. there are court cases on appeal that I want new prosecutors to drop, stuff thatll fly under the radar, there are plenty of other things going on to happen for some industries and new industries

I agree with you that its not as black and white as partisans are saying, and its pretty clear that lamenting or protesting the outcome is an unproductive use of energy in a system that doesnt support that, while its clearly an oligarch land grab that you can spend time getting a piece of too
You know that they don’t actually poll all citizens, right?
I never said any part of the federal government is. Why am I being asked to a defend a position I never took?
I like this. Can you add yubikey as another factor?

Where I work we never need this though, we have a jwt server that can serve a time limited token for work account that various systems can accept.
The part I've been struggling with is getting them to put any threat model in writing that's not quote, "everything".
Hmmm. Is there a word I can use to stop seeing the word 'Subscribe' on every site?
It isn't if you observe the official app it's API will sometimes even begin to answer before a separate system censors the output.
So say Google accounts for this eventually, do people move on to using slurs? Does it become an arms race of a bunch of nerds trying to force Google to turn off its AI?
Could it be fixed by splitting the text into smaller parts? Looks easy to implement.
> Everyone in this chain of command should be fired and Trump should get the 25th amendment.
(I know that won't happen

I think that ship sailed when Merrick Garland failed to aggressively prosecute Trump after he incited an attack on the Capitol. He seems to have been under the impression that given time opinions would settle and become wholly aligned against Trump. Instead, the Republicans' initial condemnation gave way to denial and approval. Garland misjudged the right-wing's domination of media and assumed that sanity would prevail, sparing him from having to do something potentially controversial. Now just over half the voting population believes that the 2020 elections were rigged by Democrats, and that they tried to unjustly charge Trump. It was liberal incompetence at its peak, and it may well be the historical all-time peak-liberal point ideologically-speaking, as we're forced to confront the fact that propaganda works, and voters are not rational. My greatest fear is that Trump tanks the economy, makes life intolerable, and when 2028 rolls around the American public overwhelmingly vote in a Democrat who has learned nothing of value and runs on a platform of "return to sanity" ushering in a return to neo-liberalism, but dropping the progressive social policies in favor of strict media and communication controls to "prevent misinformation from destroying our country again."
Hmm, I didn’t hear about this! What about that lifetime Bruno thing that was $9? I’m pretty sure I bought that. Is that just nothing now or what does that get me?
Strong dislike. The way a site looks is very important for me in identifying what it is.
The power of the purse is explicitly under the pervue of the Legislative per the constitution. The executive does not have the discretion to not spend or redirect funds assigned by Congress (there's some interesting history with Nixon on that if one is interested), yet this administration doesn't seem to see that as a barrier.
It’s a great unit for dealing with lots of water though. Talk x billion gallons vs xxx million gallons and people glaze over. A m3 is too small, but the entire Colorado compact is only like 17 km3. The analogous km2-meter might work, but it’s still huge.

The acre-foot is a nice manageable size. Plus if you know you’ve got 160 acres planted, and you need 6 in of water over everything, it’s pretty easy figure the volume to request
Well that was more or less my initial point. Yes from 1950, spending has increased but it did so by introducing beneficial things like Medicare or Medicaid, and vastly more people under Social Security because of demographic transition. So it wasn't a bad thing. And after 1975, spending didn't increase much or at all. While it could and probably should have, to bring in more equality and improve quality of life for everyone.
WE ARE A HUGE COUNTRY.

There is a disconnect with how big we are and what infrastructure is needed to support it. Let's say we cut everything but Senate, House, President, VERY basic defense. Our military is larger than probably anything else. I think the naivety is hilarious. Our employees and government bloat is big because our nation is big. There is no way around this. It's time to impeach, Trump. Good night.