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marius_kon US Government threatens Harvard with foreign student ban

These days I go to https://news.ycombinator.com/active And search for [flagged] items first.

marius_kon Passwords of Waltz and Hegseth found in well known data leaks (Der Spiegel)

Does this explain Atlantic reporter invitation?

marius_kon A new RISC-V Mainboard from DeepComputing

I did not expect RISC-V to be ahead of ARM for framework. Is this is because of freedoms RISC-V brings for manufacturers?

marius_kon A Response to "Have Single-Page Apps Ruined the Web?" (2021)

Wait, isn't it the old way of thinking? That browser is a medium rather than a compute node. (I like both old and new ways)

marius_kon Kolmogorov Complexity and Compression Distance (2023)

Sometimes I wonder what would be the smallest program to generate humans DNA. How many operations would it take and how would it compare to real world iterations of total evolution.

marius_kon Advent of Code 2023 is nigh

I failed at first try but I found a hint by looking at the example character by character.

marius_kon Stop using JSON Web Tokens for user sessions

Using xss one might target login form and steal username/password instead of a token. So I do not see argument here against jwt. Sure the xss will have to be more sofisticated(?)

marius_kon U.S. federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $8T

I don't find these figures regarding casualties in the article.

marius_kon The Data Science Manifesto (2020)

From now on you are not doing the real data science. But you can hire me to tell how the real data science is done.

marius_kon Math proof draws new boundaries around black hole formation

Could it find some equilibrium environment to be able to suck as much matter as it radiates. So it could last longer (?)

marius_kon ECC RAM should be a human right

If there would be such right, it should be expresed in terms of error probabilities rather than a specific features like ECC.

marius_kon IBM Quantum System Two

https://quantum.country/

it has built-in spaced repetition cards

marius_kon Classifying Python virtual environment workflows

My flow/boilerplate for apps:

  ./scripts/create-venv.sh          # create venv using specific python version, update pip, wheel, setuptools, install requirements.txt
  ./scripts/freeze-requirements.sh  # create tmp venv with requirements-base.txt and pip freeze > requirements.txt
  ./requirements-base.txt           # dependencies with loose versions
  ./requirements.txt                # frozen/locked dependencies

marius_kon The return of lazy imports for Python

Is there an elegant way to import type hints without circular imports?

marius_kon A friendly introduction to the Friendship Paradox (2021)

That is why I choose to have zero friends.

marius_kon There’s No Algorithms

We should not call it verification IMHO. The malicious user can create random website and add the rel=me. The "green" link makes impression that the user is "verified".

(I would prefer to have some chain of trust like pgp but with a better UX.)

marius_kon Ukraine military placing forces in hospitals and schools

AI should have elaborated more on what could be done better on Ukraine side. A few points for the context: - Ruzzians block evacuation routes of civilians when they have a chance. - Ruzzians rape and kill civilians when they enter a city. - Ruzzians use civilians as human shield (usual practice even before Ukraine war). - Ruzzians use nuclear plant as shield to place their artillery. - Ruzzians attack civilian objects no matter if Ukraine military is present or not.

So withdrawing from the city just means that the ruzzians can come and rape all the people.

Also this sentence does not make sense: > Most residential areas where soldiers located themselves were miles away from front lines and viable alternatives were available that would not have endangered civilians - such as military bases, densely-wooded areas or other structures further from residential areas.

Miles away from front lines - means the frontline is here already.

However, I agree that there should have been effort to evacuate civilians as many as possible.

And finally the title is just pure victim blaming.

marius_kon Polio Detected in US

By "not a big problem" I mean it would be worse to still have pandemic of original polio and maybe with additional mutations.

I am a layman in this field so I could be wrong.

marius_kon Polio Detected in US

Are you saying the problem is that we can't stop vaccinating for polio even if this normal type polio is gone? Because if we do stop vaccinating there is a risk of subtype 2 spreading. This looks like not a big problem. And it can be solved by making a beter vaccine(?)

marius_kon Show HN: Machine-learning-assisted side-channel attacks

I guess these traces should depend on users network (location/latency/throughput/tor-enabled) and CPU. Did you use these as additional features for your model? Or was it a single configuration being tested?

marius_kon Show HN: Machine-learning-assisted side-channel attacks

Could this be mitigated by disabling/suspending js in background tabs?

marius_kon Building a Budget Homelab NAS Server

what would you recommend for power efficient hdds (when idle)?

I have recently built a truenas box with 2x4TB ssd's. But I think I will want to expand it. Currently it runs at 14W idle. If I add 2hdd I expect it to increase to 40W(?). How can I optimize this?

marius_kon Nvidia releases open-source GPU kernel modules

nvidia, fuck you no more!

marius_kon Ask HN: How would you explain API to a non-technical person?

Non visual UI used by other computers or programs.

marius_kon Modern Python Performance Considerations

> and lack of a lock file

Is it possible to solve your problem using pip freeze?

marius_kon Framework Laptop Mainboard

When does it come available to the rest of EU?

marius_kon Putin says Russia will resume lunar program

I would prefer they get down to Earth.

marius_kon Bubble Sort Algorithm in TypeScript

where is the M thing coming from?

marius_kon Video appears to show Ukrainian troops killing captured Russian soldiers

is the url correct? I cant find the info.

[unconfirmed] i heard in Mariupol there is just no place where to put captured ones as they are surrounded. The place is expected to be like 100xBuchas.

marius_kon Switching from pyenv, rbenv, goenv and nvm to asdf

js code example still looks schemish to me.