skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with interjecting an implication that many worlds is true (regardless of how persuasive the arguments in its favor are) into a layperson's explanation of why quantum entanglement doesn't permit FTL communication are threefold:

1. It doesn't have anything to do with the topic at hand. It is, at best, a distraction.
2. It is impossible to design an experiment which is capable of distinguishing between a universe where many worlds is the correct interpretation of quantum mechanics or a universe where Copenhagen is the correct interpretation. Arguing about Copenhagen vs many worlds is literally no different than arguing about Jesus vs Mohamed. We simply do not have the tools to arrive at the truth of the matter.
3. You guarantee that everybody is going to stop discussing entanglement+FTL communication and will start arguing about interpretations of quantum mechanics. I'm not sure if anyone's started talking about De Broglie–Bohm theory yet, but it'll... oops I just did.

I say this as someone for whom many worlds feels truthier.
It is also strange, but I think the many worlds hypothesis makes the most sense to me. Then there is no spooky action at a distance, the observer is just always in a particular version of reality that all states, even distant ones, conform to. I am not a physicist!
We must have "The Talk".

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-talk-3
Should be better now. Sorry about that.
Composability. also applies to launcher apps like quicksilver and kupfer : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_WOPkT-9EI
That doesn't really mean anything. It's just another data point about how microsoft rushes out features which are not secure. Android also had face unlock years ago with the nexus 7 and it was even less secure than the current systems.

Very few companies actually care about security over flashy marketing features.
> if unmitigated it does mean that there will be fewer discoveries per taxpayer dollar sent to the NSF/NASA

Fewer discoveries _by ground based telescopes_.

I want to make this distinction because more access to space also decreases the price of space based telescopes. A swarm half the size facing outwards would also be an incredible tool.

(I do want to note to everyone that ground based telescopes will still likely be significantly cheaper for quite some time. But still decreasing the cost of space based telescopes is a huge advantage)
Being an all-remote company allows team members to choose to live and work where they want. This benefit provides folks more choices when deciding where to live and work.
It seemed to me that the author was claiming that people copy existing documents on computers only because it's the only (or easiest) way they know of to create a new document of a given type, not because it is actually the easiest way to create a new document of a given type. It seemed to me that the author was decrying the fact that so many people copy existing documents and delete all the contents, and was providing that as justification for why the New menu exists.
It's a false and misleading point. It makes no difference whether SpaceX or NASA is selling satellite internet service.

This isn't a tragedy of the commons scenario, or a "privatize the gains" scenario. It's simply a competing use. For millennia astronomers have had near-exclusive use of the sky. I don't see why they should continue to be able to hog it all to themselves.
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I'd rather push the other way on that. We should treat desktops with as much security paranoia at servers.

I'd much rather _not_ have my desktop "limp along" in a poorly understood and probably exploitable fashion while the malware gets a chance to finish encrypting all my files...

If that costs the world the "benefit" of my shared wisdom in a half written Hackernews post, I'm good with that.
Exactly. I love space and staring at the night sky. But being able to access the internet anywhere on the planet is world changing.
Can we step back here and realize we're talking about what amounts to breathing exersices here? There is no need to be gatekeeper here - you don't get magic Jedi powers by practicing breathing a bunch.
Anyone can work in a kitchen. It's physically demanding, but the tasks are not that hard and easily picked up without any real education. Sorry that's just the truth. And why we don't have as many programmers as service workers.
Some reasons: they're not addictive, one intense sitting can have fully transformative effects, people might return to them a couple of times in their life (e.g. the exact opposite of most of commercial drugs).

also, scalable profit needs repeat interactions and growth in consumption. Neither of these are healthy in regard to psychedelics. The outcome of that could just be a slightly funky prozac thats as watered down in its effects as predecessors.

Decriminalisation, e.g. freedom to self cultivate and in use in long term medical trials is the best option imo.
I hear you, and it’s your prerogative to choose how much to invest in reducing the attack surface for your communication.

On the other hand, you could choose to think about communications in an analogous way to your code, both being subject to attack by bad actors trying to subvert your good intentions.

So, the argument could be made, that removing attack surface from communication is analogous to hardening your code.

I also come from a coding background (albeit a long time ago) and with the help of some well meaning bosses over time eventually came to realize, that my messages could gain more influence, by reducing unnecessary attack surface. - Doesn’t mean I always get it right, even now - but I am aware and generally try hard to do just that.
I was thinking a coffee shop. Find a spot with 5 coffee shops all in one spot. Open a sixth and target the regulars by offering cheaper better coffee by subsidizing it with a monthly fee. Imagine during off peak hours $1 lattes.

Or do salads and compete in a similar manner - like a gym membership, prepay to incentivize healthy behavior.

The core problem is retail is a bad industry with high competition and there is a huge desire for variety.
> There's a bunch of foods that are a pain to make

This cuts both ways, some types of pain are easier to take on at home. During service, time and focus are at a premium - which is way almost every place cuts corners on e.g., risotto.
Said state level actors probably have agents in your company anyways.
It's worth noting that the term "exception" is in fact used for traps that aren't interrupts.
Oh if people care about their documents and not programs, then the sure dont care what company wrote the programs! Why is the start menu full of company names and not categories?
ah okay, thank you :)
I can't even fathom blowing the money on stunts like this before all my people's basic needs were met. Like, you know... even the janitors.
And what is your's based on? It's proprietary software. We're not supposed to know how it works or what it's doing.
Weird. win+"stub of what I want" works great.

Somewhat better than MacOS's ⌘+space+"stub that sort of works but whoops changed at the last second" functionality.

Both are poor UI, but one is a bit worse than the other.
The vuln only affects specific versions/builds of W10. Is yours one of the affected versions?
I haven't worked with their GPUs but I do work with their camera ISPs. I suspect that their reason might be that that seeing how to write software against the chip sort of gives away the secret sauce for how the chip works. I don't know if I would agree with that, but you can kind of intuit the design of chip based on its interface. How much values that provides is unclear though :/.

Also, they do charge customers for that code and it costs money to support/customize it work customer use cases. I suspect that's another part of the equation.
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The NSO target list has like 15,000 Mexican phone numbers on it. You don't think making exploits more expensive would force attackers to prioritize only the very highest value targets?

In the limit, a trillion dollar exploit that will be worthless once discovered will only be used with the utmost possible care, on a very tiny number of people. That's way better than something that you can play around with and target thousands.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/jul/19/fifty-people-cl...
Yes - all the prior arguments seem to fall flat when this simple reason exists. I am frequently already in or near the directory where I want to create the file when I decide to create it. Or at the very least, navigating the filesystem is just easier in whatever tool I'm using than in the save dialogue.
> "You" probably can. I can too. That's not the point.

I'm not even sure that's true. I do agree with you that the argument that you need to hire other people is more convincing, but I'd wager that no single human on the planet can actually write a vuln-free parser of any complexity in C on their first attempt - even if handed the best tools that the model checking community has to offer.

Macho is the best word to describe it. It is sheer ego that would cause anybody to say that they can feasibly write a safe program in C or C++.
No, every employee was offered transfers to nearby stores, which were all paying the higher rate.
If I'm hard on Mozilla/Firefox it's only because I love it, think it's valuable/important, and want it to be the best it can be.

When Google or MS does something shitty with their browsers I pretty much expect it from them and I'm partially insulated from their bad behaviors since I avoid using those browsers. When Mozilla acts badly though I'm often personally impacted.

I'm actually okay with them getting rid of FTP support (although I think leaving it there, but disabled by default was a better way to go - FTP links are pretty common out there) but I'm not at all surprised by the backlash.
Having one outside my window, I absolutely 100% agree. I just always hear the issues of "What about pedestrians being safe" (which isn't even an issue where I live; it's not a pedestrian street or anywhere near the city center area), so was trying to find a way to combat that. That's why I think some reflective shielding could do well, pointing the light where we want it to go, and also enable us to light with less energy and light needed in general.
Any idea what it was like before smart phones? Did people talk to strangers to entertain themselves or did they pretty much behave the same way...keeping to themselves by reading a newspaper/book or staring at their feet?
If my arm hurts, it doesn’t matter if I strained something or it’s bone cancer. To me, they present the same.

In economics, outcomes are all that matter.
End user here. I spend many happy hours creating Word documents. When I use a menu, I tend to use New, and then use one of my templates. I like the way it works in that it shows the last templates I have used. I would prefer if it kept track of the templates I use the most and presented them in that order.

It would be really cool if it could read my mind and knew that on Saturday mornings I normally create two specific types of document.

One of the old versions of Mac operating system (System 7 or 8?) used to have templates on the desktop. I seem to remember I just double clicked on them and it created an empty document with a the selected template. I liked that a lot.

Eventually, I have just bound a function key in Word to creating two of the types of document I use most regularly.

I have been using Emacs with deft to write text notes for some time now. I like the idea of just pressing enter and having a new empty text document. I don't have to worry about the name or where to save it.

It would be fantastic if I did not have to think about where to file documents, create the folders and move them there, and the system magically created virtual folders with content it thought should go there.
From what I can gather, in a single world view, it seems that thinking of reality in an information oriented way results in more accuracy. So you might have interactions that aren't dependent on distance, like with entangled particles. Taking on this view is a bit of a mind bender from a normal spatial view of the world though.
AMD rationalized closed-source driver development as a defense against the release of hardware trade secrets.
Cool, thanks for sharing! This one seems mostly like silly ideas? Is there anything like this that enables users to work together to vet their ideas and prototype them? In the spirit of open innovation?
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Why I do 'touch' first: I'm in vim creating the file, then I try to save and discover I don't have write permissions [1].

With a touch first, saving the file always works.

1: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/vim-vi-text-editor-save-file-w...
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Because you smart guys can tell middle class tech users (class in the technical understanding sense) how this affects privacy.
You can already make a pretty terrifying bioweapon with GoF research / CRISPR / etc. Better ability to design your own proteins doesn't move the needle much, and is still much harder than the other methods.
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I said like greens theorem. so the boundary encodes the interior. No communication necessary.
I understand the aesthetic argument against this the most.

The weakest argument seems to be the one saying that having satellites in space will help even the smallest universities. It will probably be cheaper for ones with no/old telescopes to split time on one in space than build one from ground that can't find anything new anyway.
New > Text Document was always my workflow for creating a new batch script.
that is 3 things: really cool, relying on a hack, and defeating the core purpose of markdown. bravo to all involved, especially the renderer
Better question: why in the hell doesn't Windows have a central settings menu for deciding what is and is not on the right click menu? Why do I have to search through the settings of fifty different programs if I want to clean it up?
Beat me to it. The macho effect is there for sure, but on what grounds do you claim you can write secure C? As far as I know, you can't really prove anything about C unless you severely restrict the language, and those restrictions include pointer usage. So at best, you can do a hand-wavy read through code and have some vague notion of its behaviour.
Didn't ICQ have this feature in the late 90s/early 2000s? I feel old saying that.
I'd say climate change would be the real hard problem, considering we've already been to the moon.

Jeff Bezos' company has contributed significantly to the problem, I get his plan is to manufacture things in space, but who is that really designed to benefit.

The real hard thing to do would be to invest his personal billions into the issue, today.
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I'd be surprised if Israel didn't already regulate who NSO does business with.
I'm not sure I even agree with that "impact" rhetoric. What do most of us do, deliver ads? Host funny pictures? Move electronic money around? Running shops so people on minimum wage can buy products they don't need, packed and delivered by other people on minimum wage?

Those people are only serving us the food we need to live.
I don’t see how this article isn’t cherry picked.

- How about those in cold climates where batteries don’t last nearly as long.

- upper middle-class and higher only? Most apartments don’t have hookups. Those that do don’t have enough for 10% of the residents. How many home have hookups? How many families have $10k laying around to install hookups?

Beyond the fact that it’s not reasonable at all for most Americans, no electrical grid would be able to handle it.

It takes 2 minutes to refill you car with petrol. Most people don’t have the patience to wait 4 hrs for a fillup.

Electric vehicles for near majority is not realistic at all right now.

At the moment, this is a “cool” novelty, but not an option for most.
(This is a criticism of the literature on education, not of the Show HN project)

> Three Learning Problems

> Attention, Retention, Reflection

This sort of stuff is such nonsense. Notice anything missing there? How about “Understanding”?

I believe this mistake might be a result of the desire to tell people that “you can do anything”. But for whatever reason the end result seems to be pretending that intrinsically hard topics don’t exist. An example is the QuantumCountry essay on quantum computing which covers intrinsically hard topics but has these silly and trivial multiple choice questions thrown in (“spaced repetition” I think it’s called). Retention is not the problem. The problem is understanding. Sure, you do need attention and reflection for that, but they are not sufficient.
now i can see a Yelp-style service when a company pays to check the draft for red flags and to get it edited appropriately before actually filing it with SEC :)
If the consequences of one server wedging itself is a "massive outage" and "unhappy customers", then you probably don't really care about that outage or those customers. If you don't have enough redundancy and alerting and automated disaster recovery to keep your customer facing shit up when one server panics, you're just relying on luck to keep your customers happy.

Fire an alert, remove that server from the load balancer, and fix the problem without your customers even noticing.

Or make sure if you're running a hobby-project architected platform that your customer expectations and SLAs are clear up front, and let it go down until Monday morning when you'll get around to fixing it.
If there were some specific examples then the article would be better, perhaps he is thinking about robots, it's hard to say.

A quick look around tells me that AI is nowhere near ready, but i guess his job is to keep the public interested in AI.

Two examples:

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/24/882683463/the-computer-got-it...

https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-fsd-full-self-driving-...
We have no time to waste on climate change and corona virus.
the original tale of international cyber espionage was accomplished via a satellite link

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_(book)
In the past, most people blamed bad reasoning for societal changes, right? It seems this survey implies the blame for cause and effect have been switched.

If its results are accurate, which I don't know how to gauge, it might be a way of saying that people blame bad ideas for others not agreeing with them. Not sure if there are any other satisfactory interpretations.
For some reason I smiled when I read the title, really good pitch/tagline!

I noticed that it says "try for free" but I couldn't find any pricing section. Is it completely free?

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Touch is the purest old school Unix way to say this.
Your comment is so drenched with florid contempt and disdain that it's actually really hard to understand what you're talking about.

I'm trying to be charitable in my interpretation, but even leaving aside the style, it's extremely vague. What I've taken from your comment is:

- this bad thing is like other well-known bad socio-political things (which ones?)

- people are just going along with it without openly acknowledging it

- there are a lot of those people, and there's a hierarchy of them

- it's sad and bad, but will end eventually, and as usual, some outsiders who questioned it will come back in and form the new hierarchy

Now to be less than charitable for a moment, I think "It was a dark and stormy night" now has competition with:

> It hides - and so persists - deep beneath people's therefore ever-increasing unwillingness to face the reality of the consequences of what they've consented to.
It's the other way around. It's lender who has zero responsibility since student loans cannot be discharged during bankruptcy.
I don’t think it will be so easily won: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27900683

Note that it’s legal to sell stockfish as long as you’re compliant with GPLv3. ChessBase seems to be compliant.

Stockfish argues that ChessBase isn’t compliant because they refuse to release the weights. But this makes no sense; the weights are distributed with every copy of Fat Fritz 2. (Otherwise, how would the program run? It’s not cloud-based, as far as I can tell.)

Stockfish may be trying to say “you must open source any training code used to make the weights.” But this claim falls flat; you could use this same argument to say that any GPLv3 codebase must be fully open source in order to sell it, including all DLLs used by the program.

Stockfish seems to be saying that they have grounds for lawsuit because they have terminated ChessBase’s license. But GPLv3 doesn’t give you the ability to terminate a license arbitrarily; it requires you meet some specific criteria, and it’s unclear that ChessBase meets it.

I think it’s lame that ChessBase sold stockfish for $80. But that’s different than being illegal, and we should worry about the precedents set here.
While I agree with this, I do think easy access to space also enables much larger telescopes in space. It would greatly decrease the cost of JWST. Though not enough to still compete with size/$ (GMT is planned at $1bn and JWST is $10bn, and GMT is like 7 JWSTs in size).
> since `fit` would've likely come from the same source

No.

As described in the great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-parent comment, the problem I am describing is that of trying to combine models from multiple software authors. You may not have that problem. It may not be a common problem among Julia's academic user base. I do have that problem.

Thanks for reading.
+1, I would have to see evidence that the demand curve has permanently shifted or is generally shifting left. Because it doesn't match with my experience at all, that people love restaurants and have been eagerly waiting out the pandemic so they can go to restaurants again. Restaurants in some areas of the US now are so busy that they stopped takeout service because they have so much inhouse service.
> DMCA/copyright doesn't cover other people's tools

That is probably exactly why they are doing this. They lack the legal grounds to slience, so they instead opt for the feral means.
I’d argue that seeing 1. 1. 1. Is actually better than seeing them increasing but being out of order. Less of a hack and while reading them unformatted you just think of it like a HTML OL with list items. Or of the 1 as a keyword meaning ordered list item.
Okay, but why not any of the other 190+ countries? What's so special about that one?
Some thoughts on the new Microsoft Teams 2.0 architecture (WebView2/ReactJS)
I absolutely love this approach to feature inclusion and usability. User research showed that for some number of users (presumably not the majority) this is a familiar and comfortable interaction. All too often we see companies cut features (or whole products) because the metrics/analytics indicate most users don't use them - ignoring the fact that those features may be really important to the small minority.

I understand that every feature and product carries a maintenance burden, but I believe that the barrier to cutting them should be really high (especially when users build workflows around them).
Is it all that much of a change? If it was a few decades back, they'd be watching TV where the commercial breaks had advertisements for "Girls Gone Wild", and MTV had that show Undressed that was often compared to pornography on late at night.

I suppose it's different that "influencers" are pushing it instead of companies, but the basic problems seems fairly similar.