skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I gave you a lecture from last year from Scott Aaronson, one of the most respected Quantum Information theorist in the world. Are you really claiming that he is unaware of the philosophical progress since the 30s? I also happen to work in this scientific field professionally, although I am not a luminary like Aaronson. I do consider these questions not yet well answered, so this is a "yes" to your rather rude question about whether scientists are interested in this.

Also, I am truly confused, what do you mean by "decoherence" being discovered? Being able to perform a partial trace and use a density matrix (and call it "decoherence"), does not really help with answering these questions.
Years ago I left my phone 'on' when I traveled to Russia. I wasn't going to call anyone from that phone, but left it 'on' for wifi at the place I was staying at.

1:30 am I got a call... I woke up and answered it and heard a client say "oh, sorry, I forgot you're overseas... bye!" click. That 6 second call was $5.50 (noticed on the bill the next month). I told the client later that they may as well have let me say hello and use up the other 50+ seconds of the time we'd already burned...
This is no different from Miami printing dollars no? How is this legal?
I'll forgive the author for not mentioning it because it's gone completely unmentioned in the Western media: the case against Julian Assange has collapsed completely. The prosecution's star witness, a convicted child molester, has walked back all of his original accusations.

https://archive.is/qNq8u
That may be true in theory, but I find that people write radically different code in JS and in TS. TS code looks a lot more like C# compared to regular JS code, people use a lot of classes over plain functions and data structures.
Where the hell are art teachers making $20,000/month?
>> However, there is still a significant shortage of talented engineers in non-SWE roles.

Not sure I agree. Seems more there is a shortage of housing in SWE-heavy metro regions. I have so many friends from college who graduated with computer science degrees and ended up in non-engineering roles -- because of a total mis-match between SWE pay and housing costs, especially in the Bay Area where the jobs used to be.

Now, before anyone cites FAANG L6+ salaries, note you dont get into those after graduation, and not everyone gets into those roles. Also note, for the majority of non-public SWE roles with "high" total comp, you cant pay rent with total comp stock/equity, you pay rent with cash comp.

Also, before anyone cites the cost of a studio apartment in California, note not everyone is single and not everyone wants to stuff a family into a studio apartment.

All this may well change with WFH and remote-work, which will open up talent pools across the US and the world.
>Of course, this means that advertisers need to be able to trust Apple's impression reporting;

And that is why it won't work for Facebook. They have already been caught lying about impressions in a way that ended up destroying companies.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/fac...
Mafia like groups are everywhere. The names may be different.
Disclaimer: I am ignorant.

Isn't this good news?
If you had read the article, you would have learned that Devereaux contends that the "change and continuity" is promulgated primarily by historians studying the Medieval period, and not those studying Classical Antiquity.
There's a really great scene in HBO's Barry (Bill Hader) with an attempt at a more realistic fight scene. It's quite interesting actually!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_MjQRqEk5M
Spoilers possible if you haven't seen the show. Definitely recommend it btw.
How the rich got richer: Reddit trading frenzy benefited Wall Street elite
Obviously the end game isn't seen. We're nowhere close to the end game. We don't know about lasting immunity or about variants that don't even exist yet.

Maybe we can eradicate it, maybe not. Literally no one knows what the future holds here.
Here is a nice mini series of blog posts about V https://christine.website/blog/series/v
I heard from a cell service technician that most cell towers antennas are not really designed to radiate upwards. This kind of makes sense when you think about it, radiating up would be wasted energy.

This was in the context of asking why service/signal was so bad on top of a hill. I was thinking it would have been better because of clear LoS but that only makes sense if you assume an onmidirectional pattern.
I would love a building game where you can't build roads. All of those building games so far allowed that, but I think it would be more fun to just allow for constructing building, and roads/pathway would form depending on their connectivity inside the production chain. I.e. you wouldn't connect your farm to a butcher, but pathways would form and eventually turn into street based on the amount people from dependent shops walking to it (also depending on terrain and usage of i.e. horse carriages).
The Faangs and the Foundries
I disagree.

So its okay that they denied climate change and actively downplayed its risks through misinformation campaigns? What kind of example would we be setting for this kind of behavior if we just let it go because it was ‘in the retrospective’.

Comparing with the tobacco companies, didnt the courts of law penalize them for hiding cancer and health risks? How is this any different then?
You can't hedge against inflation if it is caused by a collapse in production of the thing you want to buy. E.g. farm workers start a civil war against land owners (think Zimbabwe) and now there isn't enough food for everyone.

You will do better than people who own nothing but your wealth won't last forever.
https://scottscheapflights.com/
Ask HN: Stealth mode seems like a weakness; why would anyone?
I've noticed some start ups call themselves "stealth mode" and get to >20 engineers and keep it that way. I see a lot of reasons why stealth mode is bad and good.

Building in public:

- tests your idea (+)
- allows for feedback (+)
- forces you to ship (+)
- turns revenue into a usable metric (+)
- opens you to copy-cats immediately (-)
- opens you to incumbent challenges (-)
- not doing well immediately can mean death (-)

On the other hand, building in private:

- keeps your idea secret (+)
- launch with more feature-complete offering (+)
- sort-of exclusivity for investors (+)
- no customers = no pressure and vision focused (+/-)
- no iteration/testing of vision (-)
- admits that existential threats are real (-)

I'm sure there are a lot more.. What are your thoughts?
Our genes determine when to train and when to recover
What if I told you that you can have better split times and shorter recovery times without putting in anymore effort? What if I told you that the timing of your training sessions should align with your genetic make up?
Unless you were using a secret chat, telegram isn’t e2e encrypted. So there’s no need for them to implement keyword detection on the client side.
Bank account of Africa's Internet Registry, Afrinic, frozen by courts
I never had a problem when I went to Switzerland. My German isn’t even fluent
A programming model is what the programmer has to think about in order to write a program.

Brainfuck probably has the simplest model I can think of - you have an instruction pointer referring to the next byte in the program to execute, and a flat array of memory cells that program instructions may read and write. Every command in the language is about working with those two elements.

C has a much more complex model consisting of statements that are stepped through, functions that may be called (including recursively) with parameters, local variables, global variables, static local variables, constness vs mutability, pointer types, names for symbolic access to those things... And probably a lot more that I've neglected.

Concurrency is a thing that might be part of a programming model where you are allowed to interleave execution of multiple logical workflows but still write each logical workflow as a single unit of code. The programming model model tells you what properties you are guaranteed to get.

An execution model is something that describes implementation of a programming model. A related example is how concurrency is implemented in a particular system. Is it multiple threads running simultaneously? Is it a complex state machine jumping between logical workflows as demanded by their semantics? Is it an even-more-complex m:n model involving both threads and state machines?

Execution models aren't irrelevant to programming. They can have a significant impact on performance and edge-case behavior that the programming model doesn't clearly specify. But you should be able to write programs with only the programming model in mind and get correct code in most circumstances. (I'd call it a specification failure if you can't.)

A programming model describes the tools the programmers have available, their semantics and interactions. An execution model describes how those things run on the hardware that is present.
> Medieval villagers were often living on the edge of subsistence. Agricultural surpluses were skimmed by the church and the feudal lords. Bad harvests, banditry, warfare and disease might decimate a village community at any time.

Dwarf Fortress has shown that this would in fact be quite exciting, but it would probably be a lot more niche.
Someone should tell that to companies hiring programmers.
The basic problem is the disparity in control mechanisms. As a city-builder player, you have central planning capabilities that would make Stalin jealous--and were completely unattainable in the relevant time period due to poor communications technology.

One solution is to make "social power"/"control"/"influence" an actual gameplay mechanic, rather than leaving it entirely to the players cognition/dexterity. Lack of player control is counterbalanced by powerful AI.

For example, at the start of the game you might play as a local authority that manages land rights. You merely specify who owns what land and have limited control over how they use it. Eventually, the peasants build organic settlements, and if they get big enough, you can get transferred there and act as mayor--with the ability to set more precise local policy and therefore begin to shape the town... And so on and so forth.
This just in: video game discovered that doesn't completely adhere to <history / physics / reality / etc>. More at 11.
This is probably one of the better reasons why I like 0AD [1] more than anything (besides being open sourced [2]). If you read the forums and traverse the amazing artwork it's like a history lesson and there was no 0AD so they can mix/match.

[1] - https://play0ad.com/
[2] - https://github.com/0ad/0ad
Without bootloader integration, what's the difference between adding a TPM vs an HSM like [0]? Does TPM just have a more standardized interface?

[0] https://www.zymbit.com/2020/11/10/blog-security-module-raspb...
People aren't necessarily risk tolerant they largely are utterly incapable of grasping relative magnitude of risk and largely believe that gains in freedom will accrue to them and costs will accrue to other people.
My first developer job was at some company making shit iphone apps like this, two years before this guy... but they were almost worse considering how stupid they were. People in those days would literally pay like a dollar for an app that just made a google maps search for 'ice cream' or 'liquor' because they didn't know how to use google maps. I realized pretty fast these guys were never going to make anything of actual value. One morning I woke up and decided I was sick of this enough, so instead of sending them a bunch of compiled crap apps like this, along with some data I had generated for them for some reason, (It was unreasonably large in the gigabytes) I had some fun. I wrote them some letter in the morning making it sound like I had gone crazy and born again christian at the same time, and instead of coming in to the office I sent them the stupid shit they asked me to do over skype (REALLY SLOW TRANSFER RATE like below 10kb/s) until like maybe a week later, shit still transferring, me already doing some other job... the fucking greasy guy from the marketing department showed up at my door early in the morning trying to get me to give it to him on a USB. It was pretty satisfying telling him to fuck off and to get off my property, and also never putting that on my resume.
Varnish does support SSL officially in their enterprise offering:
https://docs.varnish-software.com/varnish-cache-plus/feature...
> Eg: See the recent game Dorfromantik, its aesthetically pleasing, its rustic european scene, but why isn't it not set in Indonesia or Ecuador or Uzbekistan?

That seems a bit harsh judgement for a game with a German name, made by 4 German game design students living in Berlin, with funds from the German state [0].

[0] https://toukana.itch.io/
Developers – Don’t Fall for These Traps
Kids cannot get the vaccine. So, are they all banned?
I have built a service for storing email attachments to cloud. https://mailboxfiler.com
> If there is a glut of "low-level" engineers it's impossible for there to be a shortage of high-end mid-level engineers as those mid-level come from the low-end engineers.

I was going to point out several reasons why this statement is false, but you went ahead and falsified it later in your own comment.

> So if there is a lack of "high-end" mid level employees, they aren't doing a good job of developing their younger "low-end" employees.

Seems like by "impossible" you mean "avoidable if you allocate enough time and resources".
Interesting. We actually had an Intellivision back in the day, but not this game. I think I would have loved it.
Netflix announces Space X documentary on civilian mission into orbit
I always thought city builders are a weird mix of sort of free market / authoritarian beliefs:

In most city builder games involve some planning, incentives provided, and people just show up, do their thing, growth is endless, build a business, and there you go.

On the other hand in most city builders the player makes all the decisions and can act at will with no regard to his local citizens ;)
This is no different from Miami selling numbered prints of an artwork. How is it not legal?
You know we do.
It's simple.

If you're vaccinated you shouldn't care whether other people in the restaurant are. That's the point of vaccination after all.

And if you're not vaccinated obviously you're not going to be in favor of this new mandate.

The people who support policies like these are vaccin efficacy denialists, petty tyrants, and doomers of various sorts.

And there are good reasons to not want to live in a "papers please" society.
Social media distorts the marketplace of ideas. Things that seem dumb upon reflection may easily get shared without a thought.

It’s the same effect that dumbs down reality TV. Charters can seemly pull inspiration from nowhere, but the people actually writing a script get time to reflect on what their going to say. Real people simply can’t pull that off, at best they can prepare for a debate with canned responses.
Samsung is making the Google Tensor chip that could kill its phones
It's hard to find anyone. Desktop support techs? Can't find them. Cabling/wiring installers? Nowhere to be found. PHP CRUD programmers? Nope. CNC machinists? Haven't seen one either.
We might lose billions on the way but I don't really see why humanity wouldn't survive with 10 million people alive in 500 years assuming extinction level natural disasters.
Vaccine mandates are good in concept* and will probably spur a lot of the "I'll get it if it's required" or "I'm going to wait and see" people to go ahead and get it.

But they're kind of weak as implemented here. Considering that a photo of a vaccine card is considered valid proof (and the guy checking cards at the bar or whatever is only going to spend two seconds looking at it), some enterprising scumbag could probably whip up a site that automatically creates fake vaccine pass photos over a weekend or two.

*Even with delta, the vaccines are pretty damn effective at preventing infections. A lot of media coverage on this is misleading and is based on not understanding base rates - when a high proportion of people at risk of hospitalization are vaccinated, you're going to see vaccination rates among hospitalized people that are higher than the actual efficacy rate would suggest.
that's why they're pre-cached in theory, so they don't have to know.

if you're saying you can't trust the closed source implementation, then yeah
Is there somewhere after the POE that power could be tapped in? Even just a pair of pins for 5v sounds like it might make for significant power savings.
New York state has an "Excelsior pass" that currently serves no purpose. You can use an app or print out a card with QR code to prove vaccination.
An artwork? Well, maybe.
> This articles was "flagged" by Hacker News about 90 minutes after I posted it there, meaning they removed it. Does that surprise anyone? I would be especially interested to see what would happen if a reader were to resubmit this article to Hacker News. Would they flag it a second time?.

When you see [flagged] on a submission, it means that users flagged it. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

We can only guess why users flag things, but presumably they thought it didn't gratify intellectual curiosity and therefore went against the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. There have been incredibly many threads and variations on this general theme, and curiosity withers under repetition, so this is not surprising. Lots of past explanations about this:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
> why does spending way less than you make imply hating your job and being miserable?

It doesn't! But some people believe that's their option. That you spend so little that you're miserable. And the job might only be something you endure to make money to someday retire.

We agree. I just may not have communicated that I was being somewhat "extreme" to make the point that "early retirement" doesn't have to be that way. If you re-read my #2 you can kind of see that I'm getting to the same point as you.
It would be a stretch but git has another meaning, which some find consistent with their perception of SWEs ;)

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/git
Thank you! That makes sense. A malicious dev would be okay with implementing Google's and Facebook's SSO solution because it allows them to continue accessing the user's email.

However, Apple's policy gives malicious devs an obvious way out: just don't support any SSO solutions. So this policy doesn't really do anything to stop malicious devs at the end of the day. It stops them from taking advantage of alternative SSOs, but I wouldn't expect that to have much effect.

I guess maybe the policy is intended to mitigate the potential damage caused by negligent devs? As in devs who are not malicious, but risk allowing malicious actors to access user data through negligent design? That feels more like stretch to me, though.
Good luck on your projects! You should probably add Gitea to your comparaisons, at it seems to be the closest to your project (written in Go, lightweight).
Wouldn't that still be a privacy violation? The messages themselves would be protected, but advertising companies would receive a constant stream of keywords or categories over time.
yes. but we were far less capable of killing ourselves then. The further we go, the more easily we will find it to kill ourselves.
No, you're describing the system architect anti-pattern.

People who see their job as designing large systems will, over time, lose contact with coding. After that they will lose a critical feedback loop that informs their architectures, and you'll get architectures that work on paper but not in reality.

Back when I was at Google they made it clear that it is important that interviewers identify such people in the interview process, and not hire them if their willingness and ability to code were not up to snuff. It was OK if they had a string of architect jobs.

What is actually needed is the ability to be down in the weeds, working at a low-level, while keeping an eye on high level concerns and an awareness of how what you're working on will evolve over time. So yes, you design the large system, but have to be a major part of building the prototype. Then make sure that, as more developers are brought in, they learn the tribal knowledge needed to both maintain coding standards and the high level design.
Simplicity is a name for isolated complexity only if there is as little unnecessary complexity as possible? You can only contain intentional complexity. I think you are agreeing with me.
Have you tried to get a < 40 hrs/wk full-time job, to get the benefits but do less hours? If so, how has that been?
Oil and gas industries are data crunching monsters. While I thought it was impressive I got to work with < terabyte datasets I’ve met so many data scientists crunching petabyte seismic datasets that could give backblaze a run for their money.

I’m convinced if SV hadn’t happened in SV it would have happened in Dallas or Houston.
I normally don't like complaining about terminology but "real time" means something: deadlines. If you don't have a deadline, you don't have a real time system. The coopting of the word is making it more difficult to find and list resources if you don't already know how to prefix it with "soft" or "hard."
I was responding to what you said in your original comment:

> Whatever number you come up with, treat it as the median ...

Especially the "whatever number you come up with" bit, which seems aimed at everyone quite generally. When people usually come up with a number, it is likely to be a substantial underestimate. This isn't just a cognative bias where I've forgotten the times the task turned out to be simpler - evidence shows this to be the general trend (a la Thinking Fast and Slow, as I mentioned in another comment). So your rule that it should be treated as a median isn't correct in the majority of cases.

> these numbers ... comes from studying vast amounts of high quality ... data

Well that's a different matter. Of course, whether the result of analysing that data is a median or a mean (or something else) depends on how exactly you analysed it.
yeah -- your app is coupled to those services. I've definitely written code before that depended on a third party API only to have that API break on me.

Granted, this is not something to worry about with S3 or SQS.

> If we go with your definition then my app is a monolith with S3 and SQS

okay sure, I agree that calling your app a monolith with S3 and SQS is ridiculous.

The point is that we all may think that we're writing another S3 or SQS when we write our own micro-services. However, in practice maintaining a stable, backwards compatible, public API like that is quite costly and we usually end up re-implementing function calls as HTTP requests and then calling it "loosely coupled".
Flying Logic is like my secret weapon, I use it daily for both work and home. There are some features I wish it had which it will never have due to it being Java, but I can pretty much work around all of them. I tend to use a vertical orientation for explanation/justification, and a LR orientation for task planning. It's also better than things like draw.io and figma for quick architectural meetings with team members, since it re-orients as you draw. For home, I also use it for recipes, especially those that require multiple cooks at once.