skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cord is a deterministic serialization format built in Rust, designed for security-sensitive applications where consistent and unambiguous binary representations are essential.

Many serialization formats allow multiple binary representations of the same data (e.g., dictionaries with different key orders, or different integer encodings). This non-determinism creates problems when combining serialization with cryptographic operations like signing and hashing. Cord guarantees that every unique semantic representation has exactly one unique binary representation.

This deterministic approach is crucial for cryptographic use cases. When data needs to be signed or hashed, any variation in serialization — even between semantically equivalent representations — can produce different cryptographic results. This undermines the reliability of verification processes and introduces additional considerations during system design at best, or security vulnerabilities at worst.

Without deterministic serialization, systems face a burdensome choice: either store both the original serialized bytes alongside the deserialized data structures (doubling storage requirements and creating synchronization challenges), or risk the inability to verify previously signed data. This challenge becomes particularly acute in distributed systems where multiple parties need to independently verify signatures without access to the original serialized form.

Canonicalization solves this problem by ensuring that all participants, regardless of their implementation details, produce identical byte representations for identical data. This property allows cryptographic operations to be reliably repeatable across different implementations and environments.

The ability to have a single, deterministic binary representation for each unique data structure eliminates an entire class of potential inconsistencies and security issues. It means that verifiers can independently reconstruct the exact byte sequence that was signed, without needing to preserve the original serialization alongside the semantic content.

Cord's approach creates a foundation where cryptographic operations and data serialization work together seamlessly, rather than requiring complex workarounds to reconcile their different requirements.
I even contribute, by paying taxes. Weird leech
We're all gonna die but come on, who wants to stop that!
Yeah I was being a bit sarcastic.

Those are cool bikes for sure - I used to work right next door - but I can't afford that.
Tories in power for 15 years. "The Communists have taken over!" I don't even...
Hypothetically, if the Trump regime comes to an end, this could be pretty bad for Apple, couldn't it?
Obligitary Mitchell and Webb sketch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E
As a counterpoint, if I were to be teleported naked onto an abandoned island 10000 years ago and could bring one "tool" with me, a solar powered terminal with an LLM would be my #1 pick. An able-bodied and resourceful individual equipped with an LLM could accomplish far far more than with any other tool I can think of.
Fastify now supports the Vite Environment API
I'm not succeeding in that realization. I'm not sure what the equivalent would be, and I don't think there are any attributes that could possibly make me admire anyone the way these dumb jerks admire Donard Trump. Maybe I'm just not aware, but I have no idea how I'd correct that.

I'm very much not convinced "that you are equally susceptible from the mistakes/misunderstandings that you blame others for." People are not the same. I'm smarter than some people, dumber than others. I'm stronger than some and weaker than others. Surely the same is true here. Understand that I am also susceptible to mistakes/understandings? I'm 100% on board with that. But equally susceptible to the same ones? I really don't think so.
These are generally state races with less money involved in them. I agree about systemic reform, but until that happens, you deal with the system as it is.
> It's a slow car crash, nobody is paying attention to.

Because IR35 is not the major issue facing the UK that you seem to think it is...
No, I think that's unfair. I, as a user, could very reasonably want a parody or knock-off of Indiana Jones. I could want the spelunky protagonist. It's hard to argue that certain prompts the author put into this could be read any other way. But why does Nintendo get a monopoly on plumbers with red hats?

The way AI is coded and trained pushes it constantly towards a bland-predictable mean, but it doesn't HAVE to be that way.
Ireland (including the illegally occupied parts you talk about) is economically far more prosperous than the rest of the UK.
https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/grib/hpcgrib.shtml

> The WPC makes available its Day 1-3 6-hourly QPF files in GRIB 1 format at 32km resolution. The GRIB files are available for download via the NCEP anonymous FTP server (ftp.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov)

Et c., there's more. I think that's forecast data.

Also:

https://psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/

And so on.

Throw "grib" (a data format they use a ton) on a search and you'll start finding pages like this. Took about a minute to find this stuff.
Don't think it's correct to blame the fact that AI acceleration is the only viable self-protecting policy on "greedy morons".
I should add that I'm not referring to beepbooptheory, but in response to "are we really still doing this now?".
Hey I'm the author of the lib, I'm thinking about making a course on how to re-create the landing page, would that be something you're interested in?
It can. Qualitatively - having spent the first half of my working life in the arts, and now the second nearly-half in tech - all I can say is that serious artists are every bit as smart and driven and interesting as are the serious people in tech. They just don't make as much money, so they don't get much respect.
DeepMind has detailed all the ways AGI could wreck the world
A compile-time sandbox architecture inspired by biology (C++)
Hi HN,
I'm an independent researcher from a biotechnology background. I designed a compile-time sandbox model in C++ inspired by gene expression and behavioral regulation in biology.

This is a purely theoretical model for now. I'm sharing it to invite critique, validation, or attempts to falsify the logic — I can’t test it fully alone.

Full repo (with 3 write-ups, diagrams, and README):

https://github.com/Nomatter2021/biomorphic-instruction-architechture

I'd appreciate any insights from experienced developers. Thanks in advance!
Not sure what party of the excerpt gave you the impression that they are keeping any of NOAA around
Due process only means “This is the minimum required process for the government to act”. It doesn’t mean that every non-citizen is entitled to a jury trial that can escalate to the USSC.

In some cases, “due process” is “Your name made it into a spreadsheet, the President can drone strike you”
How many millions joined those street protest? Not saying it is a bad cause but there has not been any significant protests about it with any significant % of the popultion.
Notably all of these you mentioned aren't finished. C3 is 0.7, Jai is an "internal beta", Odin is working through a series of "dev" builds, Zig is 0.14, and Hare 0.24.2

This is maybe more striking when comparing against C which was already very old and battle tested in 1989 when it was standardized. If you pick any of these languages you're accepting an unknowable amount of churn. It better be worth it.
The story is entertaining, but it has a big fallacy - progress is not a function of compute or model size alone. This kind of mistake is almost magical thinking. What matters most is the training set.

During the GPT-3 era there was plenty of organic text to scale into, and compute seemed to be the bottleneck. But we quickly exhausted it, and now we try other ideas - synthetic reasoning chains, or just plain synthetic text for example. But you can't do that fully in silico.

What is necessary in order to create new and valuable text is exploration and validation. LLMs can ideate very well, so we are covered on that side. But we can only automate validation in math and code, but not in other fields.

Real world validation thus becomes the bottleneck for progress. The world is jealously guarding its secrets and we need to spend exponentially more effort to pry them away, because the low hanging fruit has been picked long ago.

If I am right, it has implications on the speed of progress. Exponential friction of validation is opposing exponential scaling of compute. The story also says an AI could be created in secret, which is against the validation principle - we validate faster together, nobody can secretly outvalidate humanity. It's like blockchain, we depend on everyone else.
Why would countries invest enormous amounts of wealth in something that the USA print out of thin air at an alarming rate (total number of dollars double every decade, halving the dollar's value) when a digital money exists with global final clearance within an hour and a capped supply which is only around 1% higher than the current supply level?

Network effect of the dollar can't defend against this kind of inequity.
>We needed a targeted policy -

>But the conversation has been frustratingly reduced to 'reshore low skill work' vs 'save my infinite trough of cheap plastic slop'

The conversation has been reduced to that because this administration's tariffs are and have always been indiscriminate.

You bring up an interesting issue, but people aren't discussing it because it's orthogonal to what is currently happening.
The Guide to Building Apps with AI Prompts in Lovable
Ask HN: Where Were the Technologists When Crypto Art Happened?
Thoughts:

- A crypto artist asks: where were the actual technologists, innovators, and those who should “get it” when digital art was happening?

- Where are the tech gigabrains and visionaries (devs, VCs, etc.), the ones who usually spot and bet on the future?

- Where are the modern patrons of digital art?

- The next master might not be painting ceilings and should their patron be a Silicon Valley VC firm in Palo Alto?

- Why do we still struggle to accept digital art? Is it attachment to the past? Traditional, conservative ideas of art-making and appreciation? Mainstream notions of what “art” is?

- Has art lost its role in modern society? Or do "artists" live in a bubble, foolish to think the mainstream would care, when art barely touches most people’s daily lives?

- Debunk the “right-click and save” argument: they are right the media is fungible, but what matters is the provable artist signature. Even in the traditional art world, that’s what gives value.

- It’s easy to generalize and call everything a scam but by doing so, are we ignoring actual avant-garde, medium-native art? Art built for a worldwide computer (Ethereum) running on a shared global state.

- Finally, what in the reader’s opinion needs to happen for this kind of contemporary art to become more accessible and approachable outside of the crypto bubble?
Congrats on the launch!

The landing page doesn't say anything about what the product does? Not a single feature is mentioned. What does the app actually do? How does it solve the problem?
After 'coding error' triggers firings, top NIH scientists called back to work
I read it as: best in terms of problem-solving power. On the ethical and empathic side, whether they're good/best or worst depends on whether you put more blame on systemic pressures (here mostly economic) vs. on individual agency.
Nobody cares about personal use. That's why we have concepts like fair use. It's when you turn around and try to make a business out of it.

You want to generate photos of copyrighted characters? Go for it. But OpenAI is making money off of that and that's the issue.

It seems like they made an effort to stop it, but their product is designed in such a way that doing so effectively is a sisyphean task.
"Dad, why did government services suddenly collapse to 1920s levels, in the 2020s?"

"Well, son, the agencies chased the shiny glimmer of modern web dev."
I think two years is entirely reasonable timeline.
I thought about doing this years ago, but without AI, the only way was to have people do the analysis. I thought this was bad karma, as I would end up paying people in Bangladesh to look at the stuff that Americans eat.
They aren't being cancelled in China.

What an absurd own-goal. BYD will eat the world.
"pit of success" from the previous comment might refer to this video, which is long but good especially to adjust to a different mindset

https://youtu.be/US8QG9I1XW0?si=N07ZsYSYfA12mGVc
Its Selfishness... Selfishness that is encouraged, rewarded and enforced by capitalism finally takes its toll and destroys society. Everything is for the maximization of self-gain. Everything is for the individual. Despite the individual being part of the society outside.
The readme assumes users with darkmode outweigh users without (the logo is white, invisible without darkmode). Would be interesting to see stats from Github for this!
Hey I'm the author of the lib, exactly, I don't really "highjack" the body scroll, I'm only controlling the background animations with it, while keeping most of the body content scroll naturally with the page.
You're still trivializing. The cancel culture would often follow the people it wanted to cancel to make it hard for them to get another job again.

Also, I'll add that the "there is the door" comment is entirely wrong. There are countless stories of open source maintainers being harassed to make language changes to their code base, master/slave, whitelist/blacklist. The harassers never offered to do the work themselves just demanded it be done for them or they'll keep harassing.
These were people matching into someone else's "safe space" to police their private language.

The government disappearing people and dismantling the country is very bad, and nothing good can be said about it. What I'm talking about are the individuals on both sides not formally in power, and their equal efforts to stifle what they see as "bad speech". It's that mentality, on both sides, that led us to where we are.
Well if Microsoft was as serious about security as they could be, they would have made sure the NT6 boot routine would boot Linux without needing Grub a long time ago.

With the resources they have, and these unique findings AI has helped them discover, they should now be in the ideal position to rapidly correct this deficiency in their own bootloader, so that nobody will ever need to use Grub again.

With this level of expertise, now enhanced by AI, and so much effort already behind them so far, it shouldn't take much to push this over the finish line, provided they have an effective enough organization when it comes to enhancing the security of PC users overall. After all, they don't even have to worry about addressing Macs.

I know the engineers are brilliant enough by far, and with nothing holding them back, we should be able to expect a minor revision of of the NT bootloader like this to be arriving any day now.

According to what I see in the article, this would be one of the most timely & useful security patches to show up on Windows Update, I hope they don't drop the ball on this one.

Patch Tuesday is next week but they seem so close they could probably push this critical correction out before that, so watch for it :)
I don’t see how that refutes my claim?

Yes a bunch of individuals got rich, but my position is that their tax payments (and wider economic contributions) never justified the cost of maintaining the colonies.

It would have probably been better if the government just gave the upper class money directly, rather than indirectly by paying for navies to acquire land for them.
The 16e is still a lot bigger than the 13 Mini. Even the Mini series is much bigger than the 5 or 1st SE.

I have a bit of hope that if they ever make a foldable phone, it’ll be small when folded.
Trademark isn't copyright, those are two different things. Trademarks can be renewed roughly every 10 years [1] until the end of time and are about protecting a brand. Now copyright law lasts for "author plus 70 years. For anonymous works, pseudonymous works, or works made for hire, the copyright term is 95 years from the year of first publication or 120 years from creation, whichever comes first." [2]

Is copyright too long? Yes. Is it only that long to protect large media companies? Yes. But I would argue that AI companies are pushing the limits of fair use if not violating fair use, which is used as a affirmative defense by the way meaning that AI companies have to go to court to argue what they are doing is okay. They don't just get to wave their hands and say everything is okay because what we're doing is fair use and we get to scrape the world's entire creative output for our own profit.

[1] https://www.uspto.gov/learning-and-resources/trademark-faqs#...

[2] https://www.copyright.gov/history/copyright-exhibit/lifecycl...
> mental model of an unempathetic society

You mean, like, a pack of wild dogs?
I'm interested to see what Labour have in store for local government reform overall. Where I live will be affected since I'm just into Derbyshire and they're consolidating all boroughs into unitary authorities, which I'm in favour of since I have four tiers of local government where I live.

I hope this will just be the first step.
Which companies are doing this? Why aren't they just downloading the Wikipedia databases as per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download ?
“China is at 50 percent EV penetration already,” Ricardo C. Rodriguez, the chief financial officer and treasurer of Aspen Aerogels, said on the call, saying the shift to China was a “no-brainer.” “In North America and Europe, we continue to dabble in this 10 percent to 15 percent level. So, you do start wondering, right, is that progress?”

All this "trade war" stuff to "combat" china would be like some kind of battle where your soldiers all do seppuku and call it victory.

Like the 49% tariff in south east asia to "combat" china influence. Really? You jack up the price by almost 50% and they'll like you more and not look elsewhere? How does this work?
I find many things admirable because they're silly. :-)
More informative than the article: https://xcancel.com/blelbach/status/1902113767066103949
cuTile seems to be the NVIDIA answer to OpenAI Triton.
Unlike the US, UK is closer to EU in that IT contractors, engineers, tech work is paid and perceived closer to skilled labour than professional-managerial class.

Upper-middle class is mostly bankers, barristers, surgeons, some politicans and so forth.
The purpose of tax is to free resources from the private sector so it can be purchased at non-inflationary prices (as well as driving the currency). The actual financial operations of the UK make it clear that taxes at the national government level are not used for paying for anything, as you rightly point out:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4890683
One of the first things he did upon taking office in 2017 was to block a bunch of legal residents from entering the country. One of the last things he did was try to illegally hang on to power after being voted out. He did plenty of bad stuff. He tried plenty more, and got blocked or talked out of it by some of his cabinet who were vaguely reasonable. It was clear that he was not going to appoint any vaguely reasonable people to his cabinet this time around, and so he'd be basically unchecked. How was this not obvious to you?
Feels like peak HN to just say all Americans can weather extra thousands per year...
The intepretation would be done by a court. Not sure they would agree that the intention was to allow unlimited revenue in other currencies.
Spending massive amounts of money on sports is something state schools are very much into.

They will shutter academic departments but continue to pay a football coach more than the University president.

Not all schools do this but it is part of the conversation, sports spending has grown out of control along with everything else.
In any large organization, there are basically two classes of rules: 1) stupid red tape rules that slow everyone down and 2) really important rules that you can never break ever. Effective people learn which rules fall into which group so they can break the red tape rules and get more stuff done.
Can't a bot just collect a few real tokens and then send those instead of trying to run the shader?
Who said anything was wrong? I’m a fan. I was just anticipating him getting a lot of mentions in the comments.
It's really shocking to me how quickly and transparently we've hit banana republic levels of corruption, and anyone with any smidgen of power to do anything about it has just rolled over - Profiles in Cowardice describes all of the remaining Republicans in Congress to me (all the courageous ones were either primaried or retired).

The examples are all just so disgustingly blatant now, like Eric Adams in NYC, or the founder of Nikola paying millions in bribes (err, sorry, "campaign donations") to get a pardon.

Our republic may survive the current administration (not sure, probably give it less than a 50% chance these days), but the facade of our righteousness is gone forever. Trump won the election fair and square, and both the electoral college and the popular vote. People knew exactly what they were getting, and they wanted this.
That singularity happened in the fifth century BCE when people figured out that they could charge silver to teach the art of rhetoric and not just teach their sons and nephews
Some people don’t have strong bonds with groups and some people don’t have experiences where identifiable groups were a source of security.

This is the experience of outsiders. People without tribe. There choice is not between bread and cake, but between bread and an empty belly.
Yeah. AI will write Rust and then you only have to review .. oh.

But AI will review it and then you only have to .. oh

But AI will review AI and then you .. oh ..
> Can you point to the data that suggests these evil corporations are ruining the planet?

Can you point to data that this is 'because' of corporations rather than despite them.
I responded specifically in your steam comment, not the original one, because i did not thing you original comment was wrong.
The problem is, phages are recognized by your immune system too. They're effectively single-shot, last ditch efforts.
Many kingdoms have fallen because the offspring of the King couldn't rule.

I'm not sure about the internal governance structures at Valve but that's really what should be important when it comes to maintaining the corporate culture alive.

I think they've done a good job so far, and I'd be surprised if they didn't have plans in place to try keeping the company going in much the same way once Gabe is gone.
Do anyone ever invest in startup like JuicySearch – OnlyFans Search Engine?
I see many of similar projects, always wonder do all this onlyfans search engines are bootstrapped or they have investors? Seems like lot of work for it, and def. money is decent to be made, but would any serious investor put his money in projects like this?
I didn't assume anything? I pointed out a specific issue with the opening passage, and how it failed to properly explain the premise of the article, and was quite misleading. It utterly failed its purpose, and it was entirely reasonable to not read any further.

You continue to grossly mischaracterize my comments, and you also are exhibiting an unnecessary attitude that is not conducive to healthy discussion. I thanked you for pointing out what you did. Please re-evaluate how you engage with people.
Boycotting votes is a legitimate political choice, especially when done in an organised manner.
Same. It’s five seconds of “Yankee Doodle Dandy” looping over and over and makes me want to crawl inside a blaring tuba to drown it out.

When people mention “intrusive thoughts” this is what comes to my mind.
Dated Apr/4th on https://cock.li/log.txt in case anybody else wonders if it's a Apr/1st joke.