skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Originally OV allowed file-based certificates (pkcs12) and EV required an HSM. But since June 2023, now file-based certificates are no longer allowed[1], you need to certify that your CSR comes from an HSM (just paperwork, nothing technical) as part of the issuance request.

Smartscreen, AV warnings, etc use a reputation-based system. No amount of money makes you truly immune from warnings, but paying for EV does give you a higher default reputation. Since there is no longer any file-vs-HSM distinction between EV and OV, it is simply a cost for more default reputation. Any business will pay it easily.

(My prediction is that OV/EV will consolidate to a single offering, in the same way that EV for web SSL has been phased-out.)

Azure Trusted Signing is an all-in-one service that creates keys, purchases the certificate, and hosts the HSM for you. It's still OK to do all these things separately e.g. purchase the cert from Globalsign and use Azure Key Vault as the HSM (you have to pay for the 5 USD/mo service for the larger key size, instead of the cheap one).

ATS is still somewhat new and has not fed into toolchains like https://github.com/sassoftware/relic yet. Although https://github.com/ebourg/jsign does support it.

1. https://knowledge.digicert.com/alerts/code-signing-changes-i...
IOMMUs do help.
That's what I thought too, but apparently the title is pure, absolute, rage-inducing clickbait.

The actual conclusion is that they make classes of errors that traditional OCR programs either don't make, or make in different ways.
> Martin has worked hard on Asahi, but comes of as looking for drama and virtue signalling oftentimes.

Aren't these diametrically opposed? Virtue signaling is loudly claiming to have some virtue in the absence of that virtue. Hector has receipts, in the form of commits, as proof.

Virtue signaling would be me appearing on the mailing list and spouting my beliefs.
It’s in air quotes for a reason. Obama ran on promises to end it and protect whistleblowers like Snowden. Then he kept it alive under new branding and doubled down on vilifying whistleblowers like Snowden.
People want the US debt number to at the very least, stop going up. I'm not in any hurry to see the debt go to zero this decade, but some people insist it's necessary (I don't agree) and they got enough sway to own our country this political cycle.

I said we have a playbook to reduce the US debt. A more correct statement would have been "We already have a playbook to audit and reduce US government spending".

It is NOT done by giving one of the least competent ketamine junkies in front of a computer with a list of budget item names and tweeting the ones he finds most offensive.

Air that shit in congress where it can face PUBLIC scrutiny and debate, not in a forum literally controlled by the guy doing it. That's how we got rid of the unfortunate boondoggle SSC and kept the better ISS.

The fed reports a doubling of tax receipts from 1990 to 2000. There has been at least another doubling since then. Because Trump is a corrupt grifter and a shill for certain corps, he has already floated a plan to cut more taxes. Trump supporters do not want to bring taxes back up on companies apparently. They'd rather keep seeing their own taxes go up.

So they're going to cut stuff. Probably good stuff, probably important stuff. I'm saying there is a demonstrated productive way to cut stuff in the US system while limiting the pain and cutting of actually important stuff and that's what they would be doing if they actually wanted to fix any problem

Also I'm pretty sure the GAO has a standing list of things to do. That would also be better than this.
It’s also entirely self reported by parents not medical professionals.
TLDR: Another article in favor of code reviews vs leetcode challenges.

About a decade ago during an interview, I was shown a piece of code (directly from their code base) which was about 50 lines long and we had a back and forth technical conversation in which the interviewer asked me the following questions:

- What does this code appear to do (both technically and more importantly in the context of the business domain of the company)?

- Are there are any red flags, edge cases, etc. that this code might not cover?

- If I were to rewrite it in the using modern libraries/tooling/best practices, what might I have done differently?

This is the same interview process that I now use on prospective applicants. In a single 30-60 minute dialogue it helps me answer questions such as:

- Can they size up and summarize existing unfamiliar code bases? In enterprise the ability to deal with legacy code is often more common than writing new code.

- Can they re-interpret old code using a modern lens? For example if we're discussing JS/TS (requires vs imports, callback hell vs async await, XMLHttpRequest vs fetch). For python (nested lists vs dataframes, simple numpy regression vs pytorch, etc)

- Are they able to communicate and convey their thoughts in a coherent and logical manner?
Very much true. A higher switching frequency means that a smaller transformer is needed for a given power load.

In reference to consumer power supplies, only reason why GaN power bricks are any smaller than normal is because GaN can be run at a much higher frequency, needing smaller inductor/transformer and thus shrinking the overall volume.

Transformers and inductors are often the largest (and heaviest!) part of any circuit as they cannot be shrunk without significantly changing their behavior.

Ref: Page 655, The Art of Electronics 3rd edition and Page 253, The Art of Electronics the X chapters by Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill.
thank you for the thought-provoking article, and cheers for speaking out. Makes one think about how many ideas and potentials we've missed out on as a society due to this informational asymmetry. Due to the expert-apprentice power structure.

I think you nailed it near the end where you remark on the absence of any sort of organized "body" waiting to vet you. It's just individuals. Perhaps individuals with strong connections between themselves, but individuals nonetheless. And importantly, individuals who were once at the same threshold that you're now hesitant to cross.

Of course, there are plenty of things that make every one of us different and qualified in separate respects, but I think that sometimes it can be grounding to recall those moments where those differences all but vanish. Moments of commonality if you will.
You don’t really feed images to LLMs, rather to a vision model within the multi modal llm
The part where he tries to point to a handful of exceptions to refute the idea that discussions about Musk are getting flagged en mass. It’s really not a difficult bit of text to parse.

Edit: I have to reply to the comment below by editing this comment because I’ve now been banned from making new comments but I couldn’t help but notice you managed to take the original quote and literally remove half of it which would have made your argument look very silly. To be fair Dang did the exact same thing.

Second edit: oh and would you look at that… it’s flagged. Exactly as predicted.
So they're ... a religion?

No idea what the particular bit of drama discussed here is about, but that's my impression of the Rust "community".
So the people have a right to have access to other individuals personal data?
There is no "official US Gov list of ZIP codes". They come from the US Postal Service, and those aren't published for free.
I found this part questionable.

> Fixed patch sizes may split individual characters

> Position embeddings lose fine-grained spatial
relationships, losing the ability to have human-in-the-loop evaluations, confidence scores, and bounding box outputs.

The author suggests that the standard ViT architecture is poorly suited for OCR because patches do not respect character boundaries and that the positional embeddings only embed the locations of patches, which are 16x16 pixels.

My mental model is that a token is a memory slot where computation results can be stored or retrieved from. There is no reason why we should want the layout of these memory slots must mimic the layout of the document, except at the very first layer, because then we don't have to think too hard about how to encode the document.
LLMs do not struggle at all with raw text: they never lose decimal places or drop digits when transcribing a table from raw text. So the problem is not the internal representation. I do this all the time and all major LLMs work eminently well at it.

The problem comes from the vision part. Either (a) the ViT architecture needs a rework, or (b) the vision models need more training on tasks of the "copy this" nature versus the "do this" nature.
Instead of discounting some of the results, can we alternate the value of the coin each toss? So on the first flip, heads is 0 and tails is 1, then on the next flip, heads is 1 and tails is 0.
Nuclear reactors connected to the grid in 2023 had a median construction time of 11 years. That's with proven technology. I doubt I will see commercial fusion in my lifetime.
Check out mathpix.com we have a hybrid approach towards OCR that features accurate layout understanding (with accurate bounding boxes) plus accurate OCR outputs.

Disclaimer: I'm the founder and CEO.
There was a bulk re-dating of all federal government websites to game Google and make it seem like the new administration is doing more than it actually is:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/06/ice-us-immig...

Likely many mainstream news sources are using LLMs to summarize existing data sources and not actually reading them with a human, so ABC's crawlers pick up the new federal data, it's been re-datestamped to make it seem like it's dated Jan 24 2025, the AI naively reports it as being published last Monday, and then readers assume it's new reporting. Win-win for everyone involved, and completely useless as news.
You have two options:

1. Get an EV certificate from a trusted CA [1]. That will run $400-800.

2. Use managed Trusted Signing from Azure. [2] Identity validation takes ~a week. Signing can be done via web or CLI. This does require a tax history of 3+ years. [3]

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/d...

[2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/trusted-signing/quic...

[3] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/trusted-signing/quic...
Selectively Serving Your API Reference
I've built a similar app, but for the whole US, where you can input your personal preferences and find the areas in the US that best match based on the data:

https://exoroad.com
Uh? Isn't that a reference to Nanny Ogg of Terry Pratchett's Discworld fame? Just like Vorbis is a head inquisitor (Exquisitor actually, of the Quisition IIRC) in Terry Pratchett's Small Gods (Also part of Discworld) ?
No but we vote for people to do that on our behalf.

And X is not just any company, it has high influence potential on society. And Musk has already openly tried to influence elections here.
A Mini Data Center
Sounds like you're assuming that UK's goal is to stop criminals. I don't think that's their goal. I think that's their cover story.

As for Apple, their daily/hourly/whatever fines might be less than cost of a major ad campaign if they were to buy that publicity directly. Sounds like a good deal for them to refuse to honor the request.
> As in, both hold some degree of illegality (objectively)

What did Aaron Swartz do that was illegal?
It's not using GitHub Actions, but it is possible to use a YubiKey 5 FIPS model as an HSM for the purpose of getting a code-signing certificate.

https://support.sectigo.com/IS_KnowledgeDetailPage?Id=kA03l0... is an example explaining how to get both a CSR and an attestation certificate from a YubiKey 5 FIPS, on Windows.

https://support.yubico.com/hc/en-us/articles/360016614840-Co... explains how to use Windows' signtool with a Yubikey.

Using a YubiKey does require that you provide your PIN every time you want to do a signature, which limits how much you can automate things. A YubiHSM would remove that requirement, and might be able to work with a self-hosted GitHub Actions Runner, but it's more expensive, and you'd want confirmation from your CA (Sectigo, for example) that a YubiHSM is OK.
There is a redflag here. Their CapEx is growing faster than revenue. And there is no apparent direct correlation between AWS growth, percentage wise, and CapEx surge...Using CapEx makes profits look higher today...
It's data the user has agreed to share with the company at agreement with their terms. The data is not public if it is not made public. If it was, they wouldn't need to compel them to hand it over.

Who are the researchers and what thesis are they exploring?
right, scrappy is about implementing the bare minimum needed, keeping it small and simple, and mcgyver is about using what gives me the fastest results, even if that means hooking up wordpress to mongodb and using excel as the interface to input data.
Let me chime in quickly, from the perspective of someone who worked for a few years on Twitter data (see https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=rtKaL18AAAAJ&hl=en...).

The Twitter API used to be extremely open way back in the day. This proved to be a boon for all kinds of social (and not so social) science research. In my mind, this was also one of the reasons for Twitter early growth as it made it trivial to build apps that interact with it. Over the years, the API got increasingly closed, making research in this area extremely difficult.

On the plus side, a decision like this can bring back the good old days of easy access for researchers. The down side, of course, is that it's almost impossible to define "researcher" in a way that prevents Cambridge Analytica like abuses from occurring again (not that the current owner is particularly interested in preventing them)
Sure, I was just talking about a step in a feedback loop or degenerative spiral rather than whatever initiates the feedback loop in the first place.
To be clear, there are two different staffers. The one in your link resigned yesterday and (apparently) may be coming back. The linked article is about another one.

And then there's this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42976761
They weren't real researchers. More like data brokers.
It's so telling. My small city shows hundreds of genuine small businesses who got loans on the order of ten thousand dollars to one small business getting $800. It's great. All these places were struggling during the pandemic and absolutely were helped with it, and half a million dollars doesn't disrupt our local economy that much.

Until you see it.

A high end barber shop specializing in giving guys whiskey while they get haircuts employing like three people got $100k.

A company that turns used sails into handbags got $1 million.

An ancient seafood restaurant on the waterfront got $1 million.

Our city's busiest diner got $800k.

An S Corp called "capital servicing Inc" got $300k

A small office of architects got $300k

Flatbread Pizza company got $540k

The niche upperclass restaurant my girlfriend and I have reservations for valentines day for: $500k

The """acquisition""" company next door: $300k

I want to be clear here. For most of these big ticket loans, there is an equivalent sized loan to a genuine establishment that employs a lot of people. So many tiny loans to so many people who probably applied for an extremely reserved amount of money, "just to get by". All the businesses run by literal immigrants who asked for pittances, just so they could pay rent and keep operating as things evolved.

But holy fuck. This is like 50% grift. One stupidly oversized loan to a business that employs three people completely outclasses the hundred tiny loans to hardworking people.

But no, it's those on welfare who are the problem. It's those who have nowhere to legally sleep that are the problem. It's poor people buying chips with SNAP that are the problem. It's grants for science that are the problem.

I feel it's worth noting: This is how America has done everything though. There's ALWAYS been 50% grift in everything we do. We needed a railroad. Instead of building it like a public good, we gave away tons of land for free to the railroad companies as incentive to build the railroads, which allowed them to keep all the power in their hands, instead of being a public good that all companies could use. When Pons and Fleischman thought they had invented cold fusion, they publicly thought they could find a way to spend maybe $1 million to further their research and really confirm if it was the real deal. Their University turned around and asked congress for $25 million. Before anyone had even replicated meaningful results.

Nobody does pork like the US.
No, they will simply ask internet providers to stop providing access to X to their users, and local DNSes (usually associated to these ISPs) to stop providing IPs associated with Twitter. This is nothing new, there's decades of prior art on copyright grounds.

Some edgy kids may use a VPN or something to bypass the ban, but 95% of people will simply move on to the next usable thing.

Another route is to tell financial institutions that payments to X must not be processed. That will immediately shut down advertising revenue from German companies, which will mean Germans will become less profitable users for X.

So... Yeah, Twitter may flout the ban, some users too, but most users and, more importantly, German banks won't.
This essay was originally written in cuneiform script on a clay tablet by Conan the Cimmerian.

That’s why I aspire to live in the hills by the might of my thews. I shall catch the swift hare and eat it raw. I shall drink the rain water as it tumbles from Old Man Oak leaf.

I shall be strong and never depend on the vicissitudes of other men!
Obviously since I brought up the topic, I'm not referring to behavior in the thread I had just then created.

> Nobody is disagreeing with this

Perhaps, but they obtusely cling on to the idea that there's no possible way that snark couldn't be well interpreted.
> In fairness, most of these Trump lickers are not "computer geeks." They're venture capitalists and businessmen working in tech who pretend to be geeks.

I'm not so sure. For instance Marc Andreessen coded as a kid (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marc-Andreessen) and worked as a software developer employee (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Andreessen#Early_life_and...). Elon Musk also coded as a kid (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk#Early_life) and was doing development for his earliest startup (at least). They started as computer geeks and became "venture capitalists and businessmen" later.
UK industry leaders unleash hurricane-grade scale for cyberattacks
Yes, but competing with that -- imagine how much easier it would be to phish an agent into buying a product on the user's behalf.
The Battling Influencers Game: Nash Equilibria Structure
> and if that then causes you to ragequit, because you can't actually deal with the heat you've been dishing out coming back around the corner: fuck off

Certainly in context, this seems fairly reasonable: https://chaos.social/@sima/113961283260455876

Yeah this isn't about "being civil" or "friendly" and even less about "don't call out". This is about calling out in an ineffective and imprecise way, so that the people actually trying to change things are busy patching up your collateral damage instead of implementing real changes, while all you've achieved is airing your frustration for internet drama points.

When you're that harmful with your calling out, eventually I'm going to be fed up, and you get a live round shot across your bow.

And if that then causes you to ragequit, because you can't actually deal with the heat you've been dishing out coming back around the corner: fuck off.

Or as Dave Airlie put it upthread in this conversation: "Being toxic on the right side of an argument is still toxic, [...]"

So please do call out broken things, do change things, I've been doing it for well over a decade in the linux kernel. But do it in a way that you're not just becoming part of the problem and making it bigger.

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And this is not the first time something like this has happened with Marcan. He may be tired of the Linux devs, but many of them are also tired with him (including some of the people working on Rust, it seems).

And this is part of a conversation on what went wrong here, not an attempt to rally the troops. You really can't compare it to Marcan's stuff. This kind of (selective) demand for absolute perfection is really not great.
Taxpayers are burdened by that 5% in your example. Instead of enriching local rich people, just take that 5% and give to the poorest in the province as UBI.
There is the Republic of Ireland, not in UK, and Northern Ireland, in UK.
All of a sudden, 100 nerds start seeing the UK government for what it's been: tyrannical.
The Mood of the American Consumer Is Souring
How is that literally any different from C code?

There’s 2 kinds of scenarios here:

- Rust code involved: C code change breaks Rust. ~Send~ ~an~ ~email~ ~and~ move on.

- C code involved: inform other C devs, either work with them or wait for them to fix.

The way I see it, either way, the “Rust stuff adds unacceptable amounts of workload” doesn’t really check out.

Edit: turns out he doesn’t even need to inform the Rust devs.
On that note, Lawrence Lessigs talks on copyright from that period are worth a watch https://youtu.be/9xbRE_H5hoU
The top line numbers, from the article:

- Reduce revenue by $5.0 trillion to $11.2 trillion over ten years.
- Lower revenue by 1.3 to 3.0 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
- Boost debt to between 132 and 149 percent of GDP by 2035, if not offset, compared to nearly 100 percent today and 118 percent under current law.

The majority of it comes from extending his original Tax Cuts And Jobs Act, whose original cost was based on expiring starting this year.
I'm inclined towards the second explanation. But whatever the case may be, there really is an unusually high amount of drama in the Rust community. Maybe Rust just attracts really passionate nerds with a lack of social skills, IDK. But there's something going on there.
Does this mean that I will be able to use my Echo Dot for something other than asking what the weather is?
very inspiring idea, makes me wanna start projects I had in mind related to that. thanks and good luck
Are you thinking of Lockhart's Lament? https://worrydream.com/refs/Lockhart_2002_-_A_Mathematician'...