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arxiv.org 2mo ago

Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage? A Data Distribution Lens (2025)

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bounties.fulu.org 3mo ago

Fulu bounty for Ring Camera jailbreak reaches $23k

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cooperbench.com 5mo ago

CooperBench: Benchmarking AI Agents' Cooperation

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kesselrunsucks.com 8mo ago

Kessel Run (US AF Program) Sucks

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arxiv.org 10mo ago

Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage?

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float.exposed 10mo ago

Float Exposed

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sfstandard.com 1y ago

She left Salesforce for defense-tech firm, faced a culture of drugs and abuse

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www.whoismcafee.com 1y ago

The McAfee Central America Travel Guide (2023)

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github.com 2y ago

Gojq: Pure Go Implementation of Jq

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www.popularmechanics.com 2y ago

Why 10B crabs vanished from the Bering Sea

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archinect.com 2y ago

paraSITE: the bandage over the nomadic wound (2016)

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www.uclahealth.org 3y ago

Eating microwave popcorn increases the level of PFAS in body (2022)

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twitter.com 3y ago

A walkthrough of the probability problem “Gambler’s Ruin”

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www.businessinsider.com 4y ago

Leaked document on Amazon compensation ranges with the highest being $715k

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play.battlesnake.com 4y ago

Battlesnake: Competitive Programming Snake Game

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papers.ssrn.com 5y ago

Quant Bust 2020: A non-technical explanation of why quant firms underperformed

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www.cutoutfoldup.com 5y ago

Interesting things to make out of paper–from mathematical models to toys

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docs.google.com 5y ago

Only 15% of AI papers publish their code

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www.bloomberg.com 5y ago

JPMorgan to pay nearly $1B for metals market manipulation

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github.com 5y ago

Hardcaml: An OCaml library for designing hardware

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www.schneier.com 6y ago

Minimal Key Lengths for Symmetric Ciphers (1996) [pdf]

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www.youtube.com 6y ago

A blind gamer plays the Last of Us Part 2 [video]

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port8080.sh 6y ago

What I learned working with a cheap Kubernetes cluster

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github.com 6y ago

Generative Music from Wikipedia Edits

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github.com 6y ago

Open Source Ventilator from UFL producible with $150 of hardware parts

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thecounter.org 6y ago

Arugula Shortage in 2020

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langui.sh 6y ago

Pbpaste and pbcopy in Mac OS X (2010)

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github.com 6y ago

K3c – Classic Docker for a Kubernetes World

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jkcfg.github.io 6y ago

Jk – Configuration as Code

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about.gitlab.com 6y ago

OpenCores Moves to Gitlab

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You are probably going to pay about the same.

While you might find a lawyer who bills fewer hours, think about what would happen if you got a second legal opinion from another human lawyer. The second lawyer would still need to do essentially the same work. In fact, their ethics would likely require them to independently review the facts, documents, and legal issues before giving you advice.

So even if AI gives you a draft, the lawyer is not simply checking grammar or spotting obvious mistakes. They still have to verify the analysis, look for missing issues, and decide whether the work is legally sound. Could even be more expensive

No doubt these companies are woefully overvalued. But this won’t stop me from putting in orders for several thousand dollars of shares with at market open. There will undoubtedly be plenty of buyers and I expect them to gain rapid entry into the indexes which will unlock a flood of additional capital from 401ks and pensions

Not to speak on the anguish that this would undoubtedly cause but economically? This is like shooting yourself in the kneecap. America doesn’t nearly have the social security net of European countries and ours is already overburdened. Without younger, immigrant workers paying into our social security net the US govt will either need to print money (double digit inflation) or start raiding the evil tech bros RSUs for Medicare money.

Being a natvist is an expensive proposition. Expect your retirement to decrease in real value and struggle to find acceptable healthcare as you age (healthcare in the US is increasingly staffed by immigrants, especially nursing).

https://www.ft.com/content/b15407bd-7b86-45c3-9780-0c92117cc...

They are buying from Chinese dealers. And sadly, as with most GLP-1s they likely will need to take them for the rest of their life or suffer some incredible rebound weight loss/ negative health effects.

These medications are incredible if you are overweight and need them. But they are not a panacea. Also arguably buying these drugs from Chinese dealers means there is no recourse if you get a bad batch.

There is a pseudo testing setup around Finnrick but talk to anyone with a PhD in biochemistry and there are numerous ways these molecules can be improperly manufactured.

Surprised to see so many on HN being relatively careless with their heath

I agree with you but Ozempic is a bad example here. Part of the reason it is so valuable is that patients usually must take it for the rest of their lives. Its actually the perfect example of “evil” pharma since patients slmost akways regain the weight if they stop taking it. This leads to dependence or people searching for grey market sources.

An example of “good” pharma would be Hepatitis C. We can now cure that. Although, pharma is charging the lifetime equivalent in order to do that (a treatment can run over $100k and insurance balks at covering it)

So pharma will absolutely develop a cure if they can. They however will still charge you as if you had to take a dose for the rest of your life.

Every American here has allowed the quickest decline of a superpower in history. The damage to our country is irreparable and going to result in a worse life for generations to come

This is well known in the op-sec communities. iOS and Android notifications route through their servers and can be stored indefinitely (ie especially under a court order) You need to disable the content previews if you want to be secure. But even the notification metadata can be quite valuable to law enforcement (who is messaging you, what time of day, etc.)

Also standard requirement on govt mobile devices to disable notifications. Mattermost provides this option at the server level to block notifications entirely for ios/android devices.

Not to be too conspiratorial here but since the founder of OpenClaw was snatched up, there seems to be a rush of “open source” AI projects desperately bidding to be alternatives. Which can generate huge returns if one of the major players decides that “they also need a cowork-style product”

So its uniquely viable to be a sellout here and attempt to clone a major lab’s attempt on the off-chance you get acquired later

My exact thoughts. Too often we lash out at the person who is working within a Kafkaesque system as a lowly bureaucrat. Attack the system. Find the fax number for the chief of your social security administration. Get a letter sending group together. The democratic system is slow and terrible but atleast the author seems to live in one.

There should be a political call to action here. Call xyz or work to change this law. Bureaucrats run on laws. Laws can be changed. I was able to get my local HOA to accept pdf uploads just be talking with them. Small example but change is possible. Not as fun as ruining someones day though

How quaint. I hope Claude/Codex reads this since from what I've heard here I'm not likely to need this rules anymore /s I am curious if anyone has attempted to use codex/claude with something like this in the prompt

Honestly you should check every product you that comes in contact with your body against the OKEO Tex standard 100

While it would probably be preferable to reduce the plastic in your life in general (I’m converting as much as I can to platinum silicone from reputable sources) that might not be possible for everyone.

In the meantime, if you buy nylon or polyester clothing you should see what their policies are https://corporate.lululemon.com/~/media/Files/L/Lululemon/ou...

Hilarious to see Cadence and Synopsys in this article. They are arguably the cause. The complete lack of open source tooling and their agressive tooling price is the exact reason this ecosystem continues to be an absolute dumpster fire.

I used Vivado (from Xilinx) a bit during my undergrad in computer engineering and was constantly surprised at how much of a complete disaster the tooling chain was. Crashes that would erase all your work. Strange errors.

I briefed worked at a few hardware companies and I was always taken aback by the poor state of the tooling which was highly correlated with the license terms dicated by EDA tools. Software dev seemed much more interesting and portable. Working in hardware meant you would almost always be searching between Intel, Arm, AMD and maybe Nvidia if you were a rockstar.

Software by comparison offered plentiful opportunities and a skill set that could be used at an insurance firm or any of the fortune 100s. I've always loved hardware but the opaque datasheets and IP rules kills my interest everytime.

Also, I would argue software devs make better hardware engineers. Look at Oxide computer. They have fixed bugs in AMD's hardware datasets because of their insane attention to detail. Software has eaten the world and EEs should not be writing the software that brings up UEFI. We would have much more powerful hardware systems if we were able to shine a light on the inner workings of most hardware.

This makes sense for HPC and ML workloads. Big batch jobs where you are pushing the hardware and having everything local is a clear advantage. Also this company sells hardware so it makes sense for them to have hardware experience. Still think that for the majority on here, needing to make a physical phone call to their data center team (!!) to rack a server is a nutty proposition. You think the AWS api is slow? Trying calling Steve. If you have fixed compute costs after a year, sure, look at pulling some stuff on prem.