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New comment by circus1540 in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"

circus1540 — Sun, 17 May 2026 01:03:22 +0000

“hacker” news, ladies and gentlemen

New comment by circus1540 in "Amazon cuts 16k jobs"

circus1540 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 22:44:57 +0000

The conspiracy here is that somehow US spending on primary/secondary education ranks among the top, yet we are unable to produce competitive college students. And we mask this very serious problem from directly rippling into our economy by... importing students and workers.

New comment by circus1540 in "A flawed paper in management science has been cited more than 6k times"

circus1540 — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 13:19:23 +0000

What if the root cause is that because we stopped labeling villains, they no longer fear being labeled as such. The consequences for the average lying academic have never been lower (in fact they usually don’t get caught and benefit from their lie).

New comment by circus1540 in "Fuzzing between the lines in popular barcode software"

circus1540 — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 01:36:56 +0000

libfuzzer has features to solve comparisons including a comparison table and value profile. in either case, it should be pretty easy to find that a 1024 size input unlocks new coverage without any of those fancy features. i doubt that was the problem here.

New comment by circus1540 in "Fraud, so much fraud"

circus1540 — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 20:05:37 +0000

PhDs and postdocs aren’t fungible. The ones worth working with go to the same top 20-40 programs in their field. Even finding PhDs that have the bare minimum qualification of “caring about the field” can be tough as there are all sorts of weird incentives pushing people towards PhDs. Applies for most other things in science as well. Number of papers has greatly increased. Number of papers worth reading has not increased nearly as much.

New comment by circus1540 in "The Soviet Union's Monster Mi-6 Helicopter Airliner"

circus1540 — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 14:30:34 +0000

A figure which stunned me: Mi-26, the successor to the Mi-6 was involved in the deadliest helicopter crash, after being shot down during the second chechen campaign. It was carrying 142 passengers, 127 of which died. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Khankala_Mi-26_crash

New comment by circus1540 in "How to get 7th graders to smoke"

circus1540 — Wed, 15 May 2024 15:53:07 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loosie

yeah I'm not sure how banning sale of loosies is protecting the kids. At 30, I get carded almost always when I buy a pack and almost never when I buy alcohol. If someone is selling to kids, they wouldn't care about this law anyway.