skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a feeling that idea 2 is a recipe for disaster:

> Add the tag and the exact string you signed to the object, validate the signature and then validate that the JSON object is the same as the one you got.

In cryptographic practice, redundant information usually spells disaster, because inevitably, someone will use the copy that wasn't verified.

But let's dig into it. If I understand this correctly, the suggestion is to have something like this:

{
"object": "with",
"some": "properties",

"signatureInfo": {
"signedString": "{\"object\":\"with\",\"some\":\"properties\"}",
"signature": "... base64-encoded-signature ..."
}
}

It's mentioned that "the downside is your messages are about twice the size that they need to be". In my opinion, this scheme is pointless. To verify "the JSON object is the same as the one you got", you have to do what?

1. Parse the outer object as JSON, extract and remove signatureInfo.

2. Verify the signature.

3. Parse the signedString as JSON.

4. Verify that the object you got in step 1 equal to object you got in step 3 using a some kind of deep equality.

First of all, this is error prone, and as underspecified as JSON is, there are potential exploits if the comparison isn't done carefully. But even worse, if you think about it, the outer JSON is entirely useless, since you need to parse the inner JSON anyway -- so why not just use it directly?

It seems to me that this suggestion is strictly worse than just sending the inner part:

{
"signedString": "{\"object\":\"with\",\"some\":\"properties\"}",
"signature": "... base64-encoded-signature ..."
}

Yes, it's no longer "in-band", but I don't think it was really in-band before, it was just out-of-band with an outer layer of redundant information.
> guy in his 50s being forced to beg for his job in a 15 minute teleconference to an arrogant zoomer

So, like every private sector job nowadays?

Everyone is acting like this is the first time in history someone's been called into a meeting with a ponytailed 25 year old to have the "What is it ya do here?" discussion.

Memorialized in a movie so old now that most zoomers haven't even heard of it, let alone seen it. Only the Bobs have now been replaced with 'Skylar'.
A question for everybody on counting your visitors : How do you do it? I am self hosting my blog on archlinux + nginx using an old laptop. I proxied it behind cloudflared tunnel. On my Nginx access logs, All I see is mostly bots and for any visitor that does not identify as bots, I feel like they are still bots. I really can't be sure. And Cloudflare analytics suggest that I have a little shy over 1 thousand of visitors in the last 1 month, which also seem quite unlikely.
I would love to hear your experiences on this! Thanks
For reference: JD Vance said that another DOGE staffer, who resigned after it was reported that he'd publicly come out in favor of racism, eugenics, and normalizing hate against Indian people on Twitter, should be rehired because it was just "stupid social media activity".
I suspect the curation mentioned above[0] is crowd-sourced to a relatively small handful of “power” users with an outsized amount of flags in general. Probably not much of a solution to limit that.

0: Slightly confused; I’m referring to dang’s comment, which I thought was the GP comment.
“My colleagues are getting 15-minute one-on-one check-ins with 19, 20, 21-year-old college graduates asking to justify their existence,” one speaker at a recent town hall in northern Virginia said without identifying himself or his agency due to fear of retaliation.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/politics/musk-doge-staffers-f...
One thing I think you see here is a lot of emphasis on the "side hustle." A blog may be supportive of the ways you really make money. But, if you're looking at a blog as some sort of reasonably direct income stream that you'd rather not do, you should probably move on.
The Age of LLMs
Yes, I realized later that I should add 'efficiency' (for development) to security and stability, which could also be a big win for Rust in particular.
The source bias is a big problem but it goes beyond that. The various groups of people who have power within Wikipedia simply create content with their personal bias. Look at how easily Wikipedia editors throw the conspiracy theory label on everything they disagree with politically, for example.
> But also by users who just care about protecting HN for its intended purpose, which is vulnerable to getting consumed by political flames.

I think there has been an element of backlash here. I believe there are people posting Musk articles repeatedly in response to the flagging, feeding the cycle.
Most of the heat pump units in the UK market don’t operate as an AC unit. It’s a hard sell to rip out a working gas central heating system
Why did you let the article that was posted about a16z and Daniel Penny get flag killed so many times?

It’s so lame and tiresome —- powerful tech people look like idiots, it gets killed on here.
Yes, the authors explicitly highlighted those two points in the abstract, in terms of them being the elicitation threshold for complex reasoning, namely, an extremely complete pre-trained foundation model, and a set of extremely high quality examples post-training.

To your question on finetuning on the initial 10 million pool - intuitively, it would require tremendous amount of finetuning data to move the needle - you really won't be able to move the gradients much with just 817 examples, that initial pool is effectively enforcing pretty rigid regularization.

There is now an increasing interest in showing that small data with inference time scaling is providing significant yield. Couple of recent examples:

* TinyZero: https://github.com/Jiayi-Pan/TinyZero
* s1 Simple Test Time Scaling: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.19393
This doesn't feel like a "reasoning" challenge. The mental skill required to solve most of these seems to be the ability to loop over all known members of a category like "popular brand names" or "well-known actors" and see if they fit the clue.

As a human, you'd expect to fail either because you didn't know a category member (e.g. as a non-American I have no idea WTF "Citgo" is; I could never get the answer to the first question because I have never seen that name before in my life) or because you weren't able to bring it to mind; the mental act of looping over all members of a category is quite challenging for a human.

Admittedly this is something an AI system could in principle be REALLY good at, and it's interesting to test and see that current ones are not! But it seems weird to me to call what's being tested "reasoning" when it's so heavily focused on memory recall (and evaluating whether a candidate answer works or not is trivial once you've brought it to mind and doesn't really require any intelligent thought).

(If the questions were multiple-choice, eliminating the challenge of bringing candidate answers to mind that is the main challenge for a human, then I'd agree it was a "reasoning" test.)
Mostly happens on Telegram and forums like OGUsers these days.
Does your co-founder come from 90s/early 2000s Java background?
I wouldn't trust these criminals with access to a staging database let alone access to data on every single America.

> Musk’s DOGE teen was fired by cybersecurity firm for leaking company secrets

https://fortune.com/2025/02/07/musks-doge-teen-edward-corist...
Coze uses base64 encoding for binary values such as `tmb` and `sig`. `tmb` isn't a problem since digests are designed to be short, but signatures for some primitive might be very large.

When compared to encoding a value directly in binary, base64 has about a 25% overhead (6 bits /8 bits, 3/4). As far as the concern about using better encoding, base64 is just about as good as it gets while being maximally compatible. If using base 128 (7 bit ASCII), there's too many incompatible special characters for a human readable format. The full 8/8 bits, extended ASCII, isn't generally possible as systems use UTF-8 which begins using multiple bytes. (I've done a lot of work in this area, including a patent on base conversion. See also convert.zamicol.com) An advantage of a binary format is that there is minimal encoding overhead for binary values (escaping/padding is typically the only overhead, so usually around 99% efficient compared to base64's 75%.)

This isn't too much of a concern when signatures are small as encoding inefficiency is small compared to the payload's overall size, but if signatures are in the kilobytes or even megabytes, that extra 25% becomes meaningful for some hyper-efficient applications, like high cost blockchains. Our thought is using post quantum is already much more massive than existing elliptic curve, so any future applications of post quantum are going to have to deal with much larger signatures anyways. The signatures can also be stored on disk using binary or compressed which also makes it not a concern.
I agree, don’t look up!
Definitely a lot of letter counting. It's not not a factor. I think the real problem is that the search space for each problem is enormous. When it gets stuck, it just gets stuck enumerating candidates that meet some but not all of the constraints.
the idea that blogs are intended for an audience other than the blogger ( and interested parties, eg. colleagues at work, co-conspirators, etc ... ) is a misunderstanding and probably residue from the late 90s/00s "internet explosion"
Seems dystopian.
Agreed. The political motivations need not even be a factor. Data privacy and access policies were bypassed by unauthorized actors.
> If you can only afford to hire one analyst, and the analyst's time is only spent on cleaning data and generating basic sums, then that's all you'll get. But if the analyst can save a lot of time with LLMs, they'll have time to handle more complicated statistics using those counts like forecasts or other models.

That applies to so many other jobs.

My productivity as a single IT developer, making a rather large and complex system mostly skyrocketed when LLM's became actually useful (around GPT4 era).

Work where i may have spend hours dealing with a bug, being maybe 10 minutes because my brain was looking over some obvious issue that a LLM instantly spotted (or gave suggestions that focused me upon the issue).

Implementing features that may have taken days, reduces to a few hours.

Time taken to learn things massive reduces because you can ask for specific examples. Where a lot of open source project are poorly documented or missing examples or just badly structured. Just ask the LLM and it puts you in the right direction.

Now, ... this is all from the perspective of a 25+ year experienced dev. The issue i fear for more, is people who are starting out, writing code but not understanding why or how things work. I remember people before LLM's coming in for Senior jobs, that did not even have basic SQL understanding, because they non-stop used ORM's. But they forgot that some (or a lot) of this knowledge was not transferable to different companies that used SQL or other ORM's that may work different.

I suspect that we are going to see a generation of employees that are so used to LLMs doing the work but not understanding how or why specific functions or data structures are needed. And then get stuck in hours of LLM loop questioning because they can not point the LLM to the actual issue!

At time i think, i wish this was available 20 years ago. But then question that statement very fast. Was i going to be the same dev today, if i relied non-stop on LLMs and not gritted by teeth on issues to develop this specific skillset?

I see more productivity from Senior devs etc, more code turnout from juniors (or code monkies), but a gap where the skills are a issue. And lets not forget the potential issue of LLM poisoning with years of data that feeds back on itself.
No, that isn't correct.

Clearance is a process and it hasn't been obeyed, and the ultimate purpose of it is to both audit potential recipients and train them in security protocols. The president can't elude it, though he can pardon them for federal crimes, which they're committing a lot of.
Is anyone really surprised here?

This is Elon who is neck deep in the cesspool parts of the internet and attracts the same kinds of people.

They will continue to break every rule they can and ignore the legal push back as much as possible. They know that there is little they could do here that will result in any criminal prosecution.

Batten down the hatches and expect worse to come, the safeties are off.
Given their next sentence is concessive (ends with “though”), I don’t think that was an error.
Pretty sure it was tongue in cheek.
Is that honestly what is happening though? Or is that an exaggeration and presumption to try and make your point?

Fact, no one can show that USAID’s more curious and controversial grants served American interests.
Generated content is my assumption. Both, by users but also fully automated.
The highway system must have been done somehow. I don't know the details but there has to be lots of ways to ensure these things get done. Maybe it's lack of political will or maybe it's loss of people who know how to get these things done.
That is an astonishing list of games. I was surprised to have memories of so many of those rush back, even just from the picture.
I see it too — but I'll remind both of us that these are still very, very early days.
You forgot "fucking over the competition".

Not that I'm complaining about their open-weights model releases destroying openai's moat... but still.
Source? Nevermind all the lawbreaking going on, I’d like to see some law upheld by SCOTUS at least.
For AMD you can use the Radeon GPU Analyzer: https://gpuopen.com/rga/
> And then there's dark pools.

This is such a non-sequitor, it undermines your entire post.
This training is less about learning how to reason and more about conditioning the llm to use self-evaluations automatically. You could probably reproduce this effect yourself by sticking a paper reminder in front of you and writing "after every small step, spend 2 minutes considering if it's right and does it work in the context of the task so far; evaluate alternatives" on it. (which yes, could improve reasoning likely)
I read it kind of quickly, but didn’t their analysis suggest that the 18s period in question may have been specific to the Plaza Consistorial—that is, that the specific oscillation period may depend on the size (and possibly shape) of the confinement area?

> To address the role of confinement, we perform an additional series of measurements after the festival opening, when a security team splits the crowd into two halves (Fig. 3e and Supplementary Video 4). We find that the two decoupled crowds still oscillate but at a higher frequency. We measure the shortest dimension of the crowds before and after the festival opening, and the extent of the region of space where the 2010 Love Parade crowd featured chiral oscillations (Methods). Figure 3h shows that the velocity spectra of these markedly different crowds peak at the same value when rescaling the frequency w by the inverse of the confinement length L. This result strongly suggests that the period of the emergent oscillations depends on confinement, and is not an intrinsic 'material' property.
it is ASTOUNDING how many people think you have to slave at FAANG to make a great living as SWE
"John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it."

The thing is, even if Trump said something similar, I think we'd still keep going about things in the same ho-hum way we are now. Left-wing newspapers will have headlines, Fox will have nothing, and Democratic congresspeople will have some kind of protest. Maybe there will be marches in a few big cities.

I honestly think nothing will rise to the level of an actual crisis until the military is ordered to do something that some percentage of officers refuse to comply with.
The menu bar? God no. Cluttered enough.

It’s not like it’s hard to quit an app. You push Apple-Q for the app, Apple-W for a window.

What’s the point in having a window if it doesn’t need it. Do I need to check if this is the last window so I don’t lose my download, stop my render, etc. These things bite me on Windows. There is not the one way.
Yeah its kind of similar, we are going to build specialized ai models for image blending, 3d rendering and more stuff based on our users feedback :D
"Local residents confronted and drove off neo-Nazi demonstrators waving large swastika-emblazoned flags along a highway overpass on Friday between Lincoln Heights and Evendale, Ohio, home to a historically Black community that has endured a long history of racism... As they approached the neo-Nazis, the demonstrators, which Talbert said were carrying guns, called them the N-word."

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/08/us/cincinnati-ohio-nazi-flags...

This seems to fit your criteria of "armed men in uniforms and red armbands walking the streets". Time to be worried or no?
When they start marching down the streets it will already be far too late. And if you think we're safe just because we live across the pond, well... remember that there is no European army, and that so far our leaders have been extremely passive in the face of obvious political interferences, in e.g. Germany.
I find your comment interesting. You start by saying, well, this should be obvious, right? Then you list five cases where, to me, things are not obvious. Like, i have so many hypothetical questions about each case. I won't bore you with them, but the change being pushed by management one i find particularly interesting.

Usually these are things we don't want to do, or shouldn't do (else we'd probably have done it already or have a plan for it at least). But folks in "management" or "executive teams" usually don't listen to engineering arguments about complexity spirit demons :(

so there are a lot of political questions i'd be asking in my head with that. e.g. Can we use this as a negotiation tool to stop "management" pushing for this-other-thing-we-also-don't-want-to-do?
Indeed. The problem is and has been for awhile that the "other team" is not willing to purposefully acquire and wield power. They seem to have a very confused view of what politics actually is, to the point where it's not clear if what they are doing even qualifies as politics.

There are abundant ways to wield power even when not in direct control of branches of government. For example, the unions that are suing to stop some of this have hundreds of thousands of members. They could shut down just about anything they want and wield enormous amounts of pressure.

Air traffic controllers could stand in solidarity to fellow fired federal workers and ground every airplane in the country indefinitely. Teamsters could completely immobilize Tesla, SpaceX, and everything else Elon Musk cares about in hours.

If you don't like my examples, come up with your own, but these concepts aren't fantastical at all they're just core ways to wield power in society. The Scandinavian countries do stuff like this all the time it's not even a relic of the 1930's or something.

There is a power struggle to determine what our society's goals are, how it accomplishes those goals, and for the benefit of whom. The "MAGA" side has a clear conception of this concept, and they're trying to grab as much power as they can get away with.

There is a massive amount of power that could be brought to bear against that. There always is whenever it's an attempt at rule by rich oligarchs, as they're always wildly outnumbered.

Someone just has to use it.
What is MSFT and Google's reason?
…people freely organizing…

It is to the extent possible for 330 million people. There are no instances in world history in which people freely organizing as you put it adequately solved the issues of hunger, education, healthcare, etc. for civilizations with more than 5 million people.

People, in the form of their elected officials, can freely decide to impose a publicly funded solution. You’d be free to refuse care in such a system, or to leave. All societies have rules that some people don’t like.
I think you put too much stock into the conquered / conqueror narrative. These are living breathing cultures which develop in their own ways beyond the interactions of their ancestors. The majority of the population is a blend between both, and even many cultural traditions are a clear blend of both (Dia de los Muertos being probably the most obvious).

Most Hispanics I've spoken to about this see it all as apart of what makes them, them, not some artificial separation based on what modern politics thinks of the groups their ancestors were apart of. In another sense you cannot remove one part and still have the Hispanic people, and they also cannot reconstruct what has been lost.

You can also see this with groups like the Cape Coloureds who have their own distinct culture from the black, white, and indian cultures which it grew out of.

> who don’t even control anything in the area anymore

Note that they still speak Spanish and many are Catholic to this day - you can identify a lion by the marks of its claws so to speak.
> If illegal stuff is on the table

Oh my sweet summer child.
He has sold us out to Russia and this tracks with that.
Here is a video how to use PlanExe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AM2F1C4CGI
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Hard to hold a discussion when everyone is arguing in bad faith.
Climate change ignited LA's wildfire risk. These startups want to extinguish it
Is that not how audits work?
Yeah, ours don't either (yet) in large part since radiators are more common. Though at least in NL there's a lot of hybrid systems. You keep your gas boiler and attach a heat pump as well. The heat pump handles house heating and the gas boiler still heats domestic hot water.
Goodhart's law strikes again. It's one of those things that explains so many problems in the world once you understand it. I wish there were ways around it, but I think it's a natural thing in matters involving a lot of people.
It's a tool box of demos with the following:

Segment Anything 2:
Create video cutouts and other fun visual
effects with a few clicks.

Seamless Translation:
Hear what you sound like in another
language.

Animated Drawings:
Bring hand-drawn sketches to life with
animations.

Audiobox:
Create an audio story with A1-generated
voices and sounds.
Somehow everything what Intel touches turns to ashes. Maybe except altera. But I wouldn’t use their FPGAs in given situation either.
> you can either run NixOS (which isn’t ideal on a Steam Deck)

I've actually been using NixOS on my Legion Go to give me the SteamOS experience while I wait for the official image from Valve [1].

I knew that Valve had whitelisted /nix, but seeing how the author explicitly loads Nix in Bash:

.nix-profile/etc/profile.d/nix.sh

makes me wonder how it works in game mode. Say that someone uses Nix to install a game like YARG that's not in the Steam store [2]. That will install the game to /nix/store and write an alias to the user's desktop. /home/deck is not immutable, so you could add the desktop file as a non-Steam game, and everything will work as expected, right?

What are the boundaries between things that work everywhere, things that only work after you've loaded a bash profile (e.g. from a terminal), and things that only work in NixOS? What if a package wants to run at login? What if it uses its own systemd rules?

[1] https://github.com/Jovian-Experiments/Jovian-NixOS/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42991513