skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One interesting thing is that Mistral partnered with Cerebras to use their specialized chips, and claims to have the fastest responses as a result, at 1000 words a second:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/a...
It seems what would be best is something topical that did not "go systemic," which blocked androgen receptors from receiving DHT.

I have been tiptoeing around this topic because, while I desperately need testosterone supplementation (my levels have never been high and they're now in the toilet), my situation is made more complex by having a metabolic disorder wherein I must avoid the estrogens (and since testosterone is partially metabolized to estradiol, I would need an aromatase inhibitor) and one of the few attractive features I have is a head full of thick wavy/curly hair, nice enough that it had been requested I grow it out and donate it for wigs. I am hesitant to gamble with one of my scarce obvious assets.

So, yes, I definitely want to find a counterbalance that would not kill the libido (I have almost always lacked) I would like to, uh, relaunch more successfully.
Global Optimization of Black-Box Functions with Unknown Lipschitz Constants
In a class we had to reverse-engineer an application that had encrypted some text file — we had to decrypt it without the key. Turned out the application just used the current unix timestamp as the key. A brute-force search of the past few months didn't take very long.

If you include nanoseconds in your key then you have more entropy, of course, but timestamps are guessable, so it's risky.
In my defense, I'd read about it on his blog, but years ago. I'd completely forgotten about it. Oh well.
We're working on it. Our next hardware should have USB HID, FIDO2, and persistent storage. The persistent storage will be per device app. Well, that's the idea anyway. I'm not sure when we'll be done but check our website in a few months, or join our mailing list.
When I was 16 I had full afro. When I was 20 I had like one tenth of an afro, and since then, I just shave my head. Looks good actually, the only problem is that shaving can be annoying.
I really hope that both sides comes out of this and re-focuses on the people. I strongly doubt it, but we could do with some healthy debate on what the purpose of government is and focusing on providing those services and improving the day to day existence of all of us.

I worry if it goes back to business as usual, it's just ripe for the next generation of con artists to show up and we'll go through this all over again.
Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand

1984, by Orwell

Walden, by Thoreau

Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse

But really, the one that had most direct impact in my life was Born to Run, by Christopher McDougall. Not in my vision of the world but in my lifestyle.
Now the billion dollar question, how to make that work for the entire linux kernel.
One attack might be exploiting One Time Passwords. Lets say you send yourself enough tokens to calculate the state, you will then be able to calculate the next token and login as another user. However that should be easily fixed by adding some salt relating to the user, meaning you would only be able to figure out _your_ next token.
Tools for Machine Learning Model Visualization
In RL literature this is generally called "curriculum learning".

The curriculum is usually modeled as some form of reward function to steer learning, or sometimes by environment configuration (e.g. learn to walk on a normal surface before a slippery surface).
In one of my previous jobs I've used such an Occam transputer, which got replaced by Pascal, and later by C. It got worse and worse. Eventually we couldn't get the hardware anymore and replaced everything in C.

The Occam code was easy to understand and maintain - very complicated controller logic used in power train test sites. The Pascal code not so much anymore and finally floodgates opened with C. Go wasn't around then yet. I've learned Go and wrote the cygwin port after I've left that job. But the fast hardware made up for that mess.
We've banned this account for using HN primarily for political and ideological battle and ignoring our requests to stop.

I hate to ban an account that has been here for over 10 years, but you've veered so far into egregious territory that I don't think there's much choice—especially since we've asked you many times over the years not to do this.

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Hey, I didn’t know about this! Thank you for sharing.
Maybe it is really hard to produce such weak illumination with accuracy?
Confessing to fucking goats isn't quite the power move you make it out to be, but if you want to take one for the team, and claim that what you're doing is merely performance art intended to troll, while "things aren't as bad as they're being made out to be" and "concerns about replacement" are actually well founded, then be my guest. The fact that a racist doesn't mind being called a racist doesn't make them not a racist.
US tech needs to obey the laws of the country in which it operates. I am sure the demands of UK government are more than reasonable - and, as it is a democracy - as full endorsement of the people / users
Sonos Cuts 12% of Workers in Bid to Improve Product Organization
Take it the other way. What is the point of a human q/a site when you can get good enough answers from an AI? It's their business model that is threatened, and they need to pivot in order to survive.
I'm not a user of Stack Overflow, but I am contributor to (and avid readerof ) the network in general.

What's amazing is that you can ask a question at any level of difficulty (high school through research) and get an answer from one of the top researchers in the world in their field.

That's going to go away if this goes through.
You can go back into a time before computers and use the most famous examples of how bad RNGs endanger crypto: One Time Pads (OTP). This is basically just a XOR of your message with your random numbers. If your random numbers are bad they leave patterns in the XOR-ed message that can be statistically analyzed and potentially decrypted.

Bad PRNGs repeat early and have predictable patterns, as such they form a special attack vector.

Whether that is really an issue for any given application, depends on the application (e.g. how shortlived the crypto is and how bad decryption acter the fact is). But if you are asking that question it likely means you don't know enough knowledge to roll your own crypto unless you wanna be in a world of pain.

Just because PRNGs appear unpredictable to you does not mean they aren't.

If you really wanna go the route, at least add a salt, so something like

Hash(application_secret_long_and_random + timestamp_nanosecond_precision)
Thank you for mentioning that. Yes.

There's also Glasklar Teknik AB and Karlstad Internet Privacy Lab AB.

Glasklar does:

- Sigsum, a transparency log design

- System Transparency, a security architecture for transparent systems

- Hosts and maintains the Debian Snapshot service, an archive of the past decade of released Debian packages

KIPL does traffic analysis defense against AI-based classifiers, which Mullvad recently integrated into the VPN app.

https://www.glasklarteknik.se

https://www.sigsum.org

https://www.system-transparency.org
While considering that sounds sensible, it seems the on-call was able to escalate to the team with very little delay.

As far as I can tell from the timeline, it only took 11 minutes from the moment the on-call first attempted the action until the ops team began responding.

Given that this issue was caused by someone unintentionally using a level of access that they had to do something they did not intend, and the minimal impact reduction, deciding not to grant higher levels of access to the on-call seems to me to be the right decision.
That has nothing to do with newer folks, more with interest in certain topics.
I really hope they just get bought out by a more competent company. Apple would be a nice fit.
If LLMs can't reason, then this cannot either - whatever this is supposed to be. Not a good argument. Also, since you're apparently working on that product: 'It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.'
Not sure where you got the "unable to focus at work" part from. It's not about anything affecting work, just normal conversation.
The more likely explanation is something like, higher temperatures impair cognitive function and older men were more likely to be in the village conducting business around the fire or in the presence of indoor heating than freezing their butts off in the wilderness as the younger men did, so they evolved to start having less insulation on their heads after they leave adolescence.
> I learned in college that most random number generators use the current timestamp to generate a pseudo-random number.

> How does this differ cryptographically from algorithms like MWC1616 and xorshift128+ in backend applications?

That question doesn’t make any sense. The current timestamp would be a seed to initialise the PRNG, which can be MWC or xorshift.

> Does it really matter which random number generator you use on a webpage?

That is application dependent. If you’re coding a roulette wheel no, if you’re coding an E2E chat yes.

> It's already considered an insecure environment anyway (that's why we have server-side validation).

That is also application dependent. The client is considered insecure from the server pov because it is entirely under user control, so the user can mess with anything. But if it is acting entirely on behalf of the user then that can be the point and by design.

In the example above, you don’t care that a user fucks up their own crypto, but you do care that the crypto holds for the average user.

Even the qualitative difference between two non-CS PRNG can make or break a project due to too small a state space or short a cycle.
In 2021, a medicaid fraud outfit set up shop next to may friend's biz and copied my friend's biz details onto their own company docs, records, SM, etc. For most of 2 years, they billed medicaid for ~$100M dollars, for braces and other med gear.

Throughout that time, the recipients of the equipment (and related statements) called my friend's biz to angrily complain. Because Medicaid is administered by the state and my friend called state LEO, DA and other relevant agencies but none could be convinced to take an interest.

My friend next (reluctantly) reached out to the FBI and they were also uninterested. They next tried the HHS Office of Insp Gen and tried their elected representatives; each promised to look into the issue but never seemed to. Months of followup calls didn't yield any better outcome.

After this had gone on for a year my friend reached out to local TV news and they sent a reporter right away. The station reached out to the FBI who acted interested but wouldn't commit so sending someone. The station next called HHS OIG who was much more interested than when my friend called. OIG contacted the FBI who finally stepped up.

It still took another 4+ months for the FBI engage this outfit directly and roil up their operation. The owner was arrested for many millions of fraudulent billing.

Throughout that 4+ months: The FBI was often intrusive, pressuring my friend for details about their biz that were in no way related to the crime they were investigating. They constantly had to be pushed back into their lane.

Hence my friend's initial reluctance to call the feds. The FBI has a very long & very known history of finding crime wherever they want. They're generally a thing to be avoided.
I recently interviewed a startup founder I know who built an AI Robotics startup which currently has $800K in pre-orders and LOIs worth $100M. Check out the link for his personal story, his startup advice and a brief overview of the tech behind his startup's flagship product.
This is a misconception. Coding is very difficult to verify, it's just that everyone takes a good enough approach. They check the output and if it looks good they move on. But you can't just test and check your way through problems. If this was true we wouldn't have bugs lol. I hear you, your test set didn't have enough coverage. Great! Allow me to introduce you to black swans.
Interview with Gary Carlston, co-founder of Brøderbund
I can't quite remember, but don't you get mod points for actions like that. Someone looking to increase their mod level, or boost their points (is it useful on a CV [Resumé]?), might go chasing older questions.

Also, they have a really annoying "community bot" that revives v.old questions into the new question queue... it tricked me a few times, then I started to check it wasn't a community bot question before looking further (pretty moronic and anti-answerer behaviour imo).
Over the course of 5-6 years, I managed to move everyone that is important enough to me to Telegram. I don't care about privacy at all, I just couldn't stand the wrong abrasive spit-in-your-face whatsapp UX. It's funny how facebook was enshitified long before it was cool.

Now I don't have notifications enabled for Whatsapp and I rarely answer messages there. It makes me a freak by many standards but I'm free from enshitification in this regard!
They (Trump and Maga folks) are authentically clueless. The other politicians have to act dumb and it just doesn't connect with the MAGA folks.
Those goalposts moved fast from "Society almost never..." to "There's no law requiring...".
This kind of assumes old and naive C++. There was a lot of that 20 years ago but a lot of that was replaced by languages with garbage collectors. New C++ applications today tend to be geared toward extreme performance/scale. The idioms are far beyond thinking much about anything you mention.

People seriously underestimate how capable and expressive modern C++ metaprogramming facilities are. Most don’t bother to learn it but it is one of the most powerful features of the language when it comes to both performance and safety. The absence of it is very noticeable when I use other systems languages. I’m not a huge fan of C++ but that is a killer feature.
Knuth is as amazing as ever.

Very surprising and disappointing that nobody at Stanford could get it together on the sound recording end to give this the clarity is deserves. It sounds like it was recorded on a dictaphone in someone's pocket. I'm not talking about Knuth's old-guy voice; listen to how bad it is when he stops to take an audience question.
C++ often perform significantly worse than assembly for many kinds of code where you care a lot about performance. You can bring that performance closer together with bits of ASM in your C++ but at that point you might as well use ASM.
That's right! This is secretly about doing calculus on posets. You can actually generalise some notions from incidence algebras to other settings, like groupoids and categories, where you can play the same games. This is something I mostly haven't looked at yet, but I think it might be fun, and some people seem to have found it useful (for example: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.00941 and https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.06662)
Show HN: Combining 2 Eleventy Template
I learn to use Eleventy recently and i successfully
combining 2 template. I don't know if someone already figure this out but it's kind of fun to do it. The attached link is the result of combined 2 template.

I use template from sprucecss-eleventy-documentation-template for documentation and vredeburg for blog or article.

What i do to combine it is simply make on of the template as home and the other as sub pages so its not use subdomain.
Why do you assume most men are worried by hair loss mainly because of women pressure? I and most men I've discussed this with just prefer how we look with hair and wish our hair was thicker. Otherwise I'd just shave.
> "Al Vezza, Infocom’s CEO (and someone with no sense of humor whatsoever), was showing him around."

Albert Vezza cofounded the World Wide Web Consortium with Tim Berners-Lee, so that is big plus in my book:

"So Vezza talked Berners-Lee into coming to MIT, where the two of them cofounded the World Wide Web Consortium, or W3C, with Berners-Lee as director and Vezza as chair. Under their leadership, what started as a tentative collaboration between MIT and CERN has evolved into a group that spans hundreds of technology companies, laboratories, and research groups around the world. Over the years, W3C members have worked together to flesh out the standards of HTTP and develop others that are now as ubiquitous as they are essential."
https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/10/23/139540/farewell-...
Maria del Rio-Chanona, Nadzeya Laurentsyeva and Johannes Wachs reported an interesting trend last year and found a noticeable impact on user contributions after the introduction of some now widely-known systems[0]. I wonder what the continuing trend will be if the response to a decrease in user participation is introducing additional measures that will likely take away incentives to contribute. A 'redusage' trend, compared to the early years of these knowledge production communities, whose collaborative works now provide much of the training data.

[0]: https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/3/9/pgae400/77548...
ROFL thank you for that
Haha sorry to disappoint you. Now I want to do the mereology of meteorology though...
Knuth is also still reviewing TAOCP-related email and issuing reward checks. A teammate received a reward check for 1 hex dollar last month after finding an error in Seminumerical Algorithms. Along with the check, there was a printout of the original email with hand-written annotations.
I think this string of questions from the middle of the post really gets to the heart of it:

⁃ Does the “user” feel respected by the software?

⁃ How does this software affect the mental health of the “user”?

⁃ How does the software fit into the rest of the “users” lifestyle?

⁃ Does this software help the “user” perform a task/entertain them without coercion?

A lot of modern software looks really bad if evaluated through the lens of these four questions.
The thing is, you currently can't. Sure an AI can answer relatively complex technical questions, but sometimes doesn't do it properly. And when it fails, you don't know. I had cases where AI was clearly inventing calls to APIs that didn't actually exist although they were legitimately looking; such content would just be downvoted enough on SE that you'd be very careful before even considering it. If I ask an AI, I might either get a good answer or a bad one, but without a vote count nearby telling me how good it might actually be.
The crime in question occurred in a non-state, so that isn’t much help here.
What Are Durable Objects?
Associates. You know like people who literally belong (aka associate) to the same organization?

Only hiring people who belong to the same fraternity is also cronyism, and is the same problem.

In this case, a criteria for joining this ‘fraternity’ is the color of their skin.

Hence double applicable with DEI.

Why do you keep insisting on ignoring half of what you are pasting?
Telescopes spy monster radio jet streaming from early object in the universe
The government did get more than third of the votes. So this is the choice of democratically elected government and the voters and as such should be followed.
An actual helper would be good imo: it could

* Add markup
* Suggest other answers/questions to consider
* Suggest web sources that seem most relevant
* Say if the answer appears to cover the whole question

But, it should not answer the question. It should be an adjunct.
We eventually updated it. Thanks for pointing this out!
What if you're not in the "good enough" business?

I've tried many times to get an answer from these AI engines. They have always been just "good enough", to help me find a direction for more research to get a good answer, or flat out wrong.
This is really quite interesting, especially RAG from your notes (I'm building a large RAG system in Japan currently.) I wonder how you have kept up with this routine, what is your retention like, and how far your Japanese skills (reading, writing, listening, speaking) have improved from your methods and tools.
Yeah… it’s awful.

The user is often not the end customer of any software, so it’s not optimized for their benefit.
This tanks the evaluation of any individuals you interacted with while dealing with the company, which can impact their pay or even push them towards getting laid off for low performance. So I'd advise caution when applying this particular idea, since many employers use these surveys to decide who to fire.
> there's no way to make them generate something semantically valid 100% of the time.

You don't need to generate semantically valid reasoning 100% of time for such an approach to be useful. You just need to use semantic data to bias them to follow semantically valid paths more often than not (and sometimes consider using constraint solving on the spot, like offloading into a SMT solver or even incorporating it in the model somehow; it would be nice to have AI models that can combine the strengths of both GPUs and CPUs). And, what's more useful, verify that the reasoning is valid at the end of the train of thought, and if it is not, bail out and attempt something else.

If you see AI as solving an optimization problem (given a question, give a good answer) it's kind of evident that you need to probe the space of ideas in an exploratory fashion, sometimes making unfounded leaps (of the "it was revealed to me in a dream" sort), and in this sense it could even be useful that AI can sometimes hallucinate bullshit. But they need afterwards to come with a good justification for the end result, and if they can't find one they are forced to discard their result (even if it's true). Just like humans often come up with ideas in an irrational, subconscious way, and then proceed to rationalize them. One way to implement this kind of thing is to have the LLM generate code for a theorem prover like Coq or Lean, and then at the end run the code - if the prover rejects the code, the reasoning can't possibly be right, and the AI needs to get back to the drawing board

(Now, if the prover accepts the code, the answer may still be wrong, if the premises were encoded incorrectly - but it would still be a net improvement, specially if people can review the Coq code to spot mistakes)
Thanks (bookmarking)!

However: We were able to build in a larger, handier interface, with additional keys and functionality, and build in the ability to tweet from the game.

I wonder who at the BBC in 2024 thought a tight and (by the sound of it) exclusive integration of the-right-wing-cesspit-formerly-known-as-Twitter would be a good idea?
This discussion is off-topic is the point.

Take it up with the mods in email if you have further concerns.
The pairwise description you list correspond to a different link, namely, one where each pair is actually connected. For the shown rings, the 'correct' description would be:

A is not connected to B
B is not connected to C
C is not connected to A
A, B, and C are connected

This seems paradoxical, but the paradox is resolved by the 'higher-order' linkage.
I have to thank you. I did as you suggested, for concerns similar to those you described, and the difference has been night and day.

I went into it skeptical, and your recommendation has been super helpful already. I’m very grateful.
So close…

They are political opponents though, correct?
Hashtables have collisions because they don't use all bits of hash, they calculate index=hash%capacity. It doesn't matter, how you calculate the hash, if you have only a few places to insert an item, they will collide.