skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However on both classical and quantum computers, their security is still just "we haven't thought of any way to break them", and not "we have a proof that they cannot be broken under <insert model of computation>".

Hmm, it's slightly different. There is an algorithm to break ECDSA on quantum computers. We have the algorithm, but we don't know how to build the quantum computer yet.
Could someone explain the article to layman engineer?
Go. Need money? Ask people. Plenty us will pitch in.
Ah, I see you're an adherent of the "finders-genocide, finders'-grandkids'-keepers" sociopolitical philosophy.
I read a book long ago on blackjack card counting. It's possible to take the winning edge, the maximum bet size, and the number of bets per hour, and figure out what your hourly wage is doing this.

Also figure in this being hard work, as it requires your full attention.

The pay just wasn't that good, and besides, the casinos will ban you when they figure out you're counting.

So that wasn't for me. Instead, I invest in the stock market, where "buy and forget" is not much work, and the odds are much better.
It's based on the assumption that storage costs per GB will continue to decrease for their definition of "perpetuity." If you assume a consistent fall in costs, the total cost becomes a convergent series [1] and there is an upper limit even with an infinite number of years.

Suffice it to say, physics is probably going to have a lot to say about that assumption in the coming decades.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_series
Wikipedia lists Universal Paperclips as an "Incremental Game", and basically says that "Idle games" are another name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incremental_game

> Incremental games vary as to whether they have a victory condition: games like Cookie Clicker allow the players to play indefinitely, while games like Candy Box! or Universal Paperclips feature endings that can be reached after a certain amount of progress is made.[citation needed]

Universal Paperclips is absolutely considered by many players to be an idle game, and a rather good one.
One other thing: don't doddle, please!

Browsers are growing huge. This may be the last time someone can enter the game. At some point, the sheer size and complexity will make the effort futile.

Maybe has, but I hope not. Go!
Are you saying Offit is the nutjob, or the author of the article? Because I don't think Offit is, see [0]. As for the author, I don't know. To be clear, Offit is talking about the third dose, not the first two, he thinks you should get those. See, if the first two doses pretty much get rid of the risk of severe disease, why would you risk myocarditis from a third dose? See [1] for his reasoning, but if you don't trust Epoch, you can watch the TWiV episode above, where there's no edits or time pressure, and he can respond to all comments by the hosts.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Offit
[1]: https://archive.md/zw3il#selection-1375.0-1379.115
Folks interested in historical maps of arbitrary places should also try searching the David Rumsey collection, which is all freely available online:

https://www.davidrumsey.com
I've never been in the situation of a significantly down price over more than a year. Is it normal that the firm will give 'refreshers' to get back to the target comp in that case?
Gracemont: Revenge of the Atom Cores
Aren't dividends in general mostly a thing of the past? I thought they were unattractive due to being a forced tax event.
Earth’s magnetic field illuminates Biblical history
It’s quite strange that the abstract implies Einstein is a founder of QM. More the opposite I think. Einstein remained deeply skeptical of many fundamental aspects of QM - believing in hidden variable theory through his famous statement “God does not play dice with the universe” which was only proven false after his death through experimental measurements of the Bell inequalities.

This paper describes another set of inequalities similar to the Bell inequalities, but testing whether QM requires complex numbers or not, instead of whether there are hidden variables that can explain things like superposition.

The statement in the abstract I’m referring to is this:

> This has puzzled countless physicists, including the fathers of the theory, for whom a real version of quantum theory, in terms of real operators, seemed much more natural.[3]

The reference [3] is to a letter by Einstein. Maybe I’m nitpicking words, but scientists tend to spend a lot of time getting the abstracts to their papers right. Any ideas why they would write it this way?
I’m not sure you work for Microsoft or why you think the package system was anemic but my intent was to swap the variables to answer your questions.

One would never switch away from Sublime Text. It has always had a supportive package system since Sublime Text 2 and if you set it up with proper plugins it is a great IDE.

Where VS Code shined is with native JS support for beginner devs, as you said batteries included. But having already had that setup in Sublime Text (pre-VS Code) there would be no need to migrate editors.
Chinese regulators suspend partnership with Alibaba Cloud due to Log4j2
Yes, it should works =) (or Apple will suffer from a mass layoffs of India execs)
You clearly have not used the test in this scenario. If I could post a picture I would.

Good luck!
Israeli PM announces fourth Covid jab for over-60s to tackle Omicron
The TI89 is a ridiculous outlier in terms of capability to compute resources though. Every other piece of software I can think of is a pathetic joke in comparison.
Seems odd to claim 25x reduction in size when the algo involves looking into a database of a trillion chunks of text.
Go back far enough and pretty much all land is stolen. It's not like the same native American tribes ruled parts of America since the dawn of man, they fought for territory all the time like everyone else.
https://twitter.com/jsDelivr/status/1472870623051456522
I am not sure what is the use of this wordy screed on "Work / Life balance" when it does not contain the words "wife" or "children".
Not stopped. The next update is being worked on.
If this fantasy network took off, the prices would climb just the same.

NFTs are valuable because people want them in the same way a US dollar is valuable because people want them.
But when you remove or take these fluctuations into account, you’re still left with an error. This rational model has no chance to ever be correct computationally, unless you cheat and add more detailed ratio every time you see a loop. Also, how exactly will you define rational pi? Let’s start with 3/1, why go any further. If it doesn’t represent reality (draw a circle and measure it with a string), well, strings have vague length anyway. See where this is going?

The bigger problem is analyzis will not work, probably. Can you do analyzis with rationals? E.g. f(x)=x^2 isn’t continuous at f(x)=2/1.

I’d theorize that there is a way to do finite calc without giving up on “reals”, by using enough FT coefficients (and packing this complexity into sine waves), but it’s the same sort of cheating probably, unless pi is the “origin” number of all “physical” reals.

(I’m not a physicist nor math guy, so one can reframe my ideas as questions instead.)
I found that we have the choice and successfully migrated an enormous bloatware of thousands of binding setinterval functions (Angular 1) full of node dependencies, npm breakages, impossible to understand grunt builds into a simple, 10 files pure javascript + some jquery approximately well compatmentalised set of bespoke business services.

The only critic I ever faced with this was that it was not classical nor "the proper way", but the fact it loaded instantly and worked exactly the same way albeit infinitely faster managed to convince we may not need all that jazz.

You always have a choice but you'll face more resistance and worry not to go with everyone else towards suicide by a thousand dependencies.
Take it a step further. Who is "our"? I doubt any of the owners of the teams in question are reading these comments.
The "algo" here refers to the neural net itself. The text index is considered an easy problem as you can do lookups in logarithmic time.
We plan to get are first EV. This and other stories are giving me serious doubts about buying a Model Y. My heart wants to go for the Telsa, but my pragmatic head is saying stay away and go for the Audi E-Tron.
I mean, I don’t think this is particularly worse than any other deal. Investment bankers, institutional investors, etc., effectively take a cut of every other deal so why should a SPAC be any different?

It’s a big cut, relatively speaking, but there’s also potentially a good amount of risk. And although lately it seems like there hasn’t been much risk in SPACs and the sponsors have been doing very well, investment bankers have been doing very well too!
A neural net with access to wikipedia is faster than than a neural net that contains Wikipedia? Seems odd to call it AI with a memory though... unless I'm misunderstanding. It's more like AI with a decent memory and an understanding of how to use an encyclopedia.
Think of them as prototypes that lead you to new findings (hobbies, more interesting projects, relationships, a job). They serve their purpose and hopefully you walk out a more educated person as if you just listened to a Zappa solo.
> The very mechanical understanding of a contract means that we cannot tell the difference between a transaction that abides by the rules and one that exploits a bug in the system, respecting the letter of the law but not its spirit.

This is really the key issue, which is difficult to change. I can't think of many important systems where we wouldn't expect human intervention if something goes wrong.
It's language modelling with search engine in-the-loop.

Instead of training GPT-3 with 178B weights, you train a 25x smaller model and allow it to retrieve useful snippets from a large text index as additional information.

This solves the problem of very large models and the problem of updating an already trained model, as you can swap the text corpus with a newer one. The model learns mostly syntax, burning less trivia in its weights than a regular LM as it can simply copy the relevant information from the index.

This development was bound to happen as large LMs are expensive to use and it was an obvious idea. We've had these semantic search text indices for a few years already[1], they just weren't combined with text generation.

[1] https://github.com/spotify/annoy
I've made very good experiences with Sourcetrail
Many things you buy for a baby are more to make your own life easier. Doesn't really matter that the baby remembers nothing about it.
I think a good resource to give you an idea of what blockchain can actually do comes from the "Blockchain use cases " and "Blockchain solutions" sections of IBM's Blockchain marketing page:

https://www.ibm.com/blockchain

This gives you an idea of some real world business problems that have been solved with the technology. Still, personally, I find the question of "when do I decide to consider using a blockchain as an implementation choice?" a difficult one to answer.
The lsp typescript package is substantially slower when finding completions than vs code typescript. Even though they are running the same typescript server I imagine. Any ideas why?
Replying a little late - but I think the deposit on cans is to increase recycling of materials rather than reduce litter.
Yeah, I’m referring to the ONT - which is now additionally bundled into their router + wifi box. There’s similar exploit to bypass the router part of the equation but you still need the ONT to negotiate the connection.
Please explain why it is a straw horse.
TSA to begin rolling out support for Apple Wallet IDs in February 2022
Oh, lord no. The Culture series is grand in scope and imagination.
Prisoners in the stalag camps in germany/poland did a trick with a rusty iron surface and a razorblade making a point contact junction diode of some kind, maybe morally closer to a crystal radio coherer. The "foxhole" radio is how its described.

The camps in Asia had amazing handicrafts, they made artificial limbs out of bamboo, surgeons tools made out of kitchen implements, colostomies were done and people used mess tins in place of a colostomy sack, "the war diaries of 'weary dunlop'" are well worth reading (Edward Dunlop was a surgeon in changi pow camp)

Ronald Searle (a British cartoonist) was also in the camps and drew some truly amazing portraits and scenes.

This one in italy: https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/70/a4127...

Colditz I think they repurposed a car alternator as a static-bicycle generator. They had a lot of space inside a stone structure to hide things.
Quite OK Image Format – did you try it out yet?
Do you think that Quite OK Image Format will become wide spread standard? I didn't give it a test drive yet but from what I've read it looks promising. It looks like a great thing for devices that have limited memory capacity.
I'm not sure if it will replace PNG when it comes to web.
I just don't know how quickly can it be adopted and implemented into browsers. With todays high internet speeds and large storage spaces do people even care about the media size? I still optimize images before I upload them to the web.
This is cool. I must say that I prefer the OS9 version of Zoom with the detached windows.
I've been using Tuple for the past year and a half or so, IIRC. It's just a really well done Mac app. One of those tools that "just works", is thoughtfully designed, and mostly just stays out of the way and does its job without doing anything annoying.

We don't pair program as a regular thing, but we have junior engineers on our team, and often when they need help, or we're working through some bit of architecture, etc. I'll pair with them. Tuple is the best tool I've found for doing that (remotely). I'm not teaching full time any more, but if I were, I'd absolutely be using Tuple to do remote 1:1 sessions for that as well.

Finally, I've interacted with Ben, the CEO of Tuple, and came away with a great impression of him and what he's trying to do.
Except no ligature font I’ve ever seen does that, because that’s a terrible idea and a mark against any specific font that does that, not against ligatures in general.
Wow that is a huge difference, thank you for sharing. I am fucking against this auto pilot stuff a good deal and even I was looking at the video in the original link thinking "Fuck I dunno if a human would do any better".

In the uncompressed video it seems very obvious that there is an obstacle in the road much earlier
Live Share lets you see which files your pair is looking at and what they have selected. You can also share a terminal session if you'd like. At work we mostly do Live Share + a Slack Huddle for audio. I think it works pretty well.
Been working on Cocoa app all week... still using Objective-C too ...
The latter. The session negotiation is encrypted. You can technically shelve the unit after that’s been negotiated but it would need to be plugged back in each time your connection reset for some reason.
“Merry Christmas” – First SMS Sells as NFT for over €100k in Paris Auction
Not the greatest UI, but you can show 2 conversations at the same time by command-clicking on a person/channel (or right clicking on a second person/channel and choose "Open in split view").
True, you could describe any inflation as "value diffusion" but USD inflation seems to me more like the intra coin inflation that comes from more BTC being mined (until the cap is hit of course), whereas these people are creating new currencies.
But it certainly liked to suggest who you should be fantasizing about fucking.
You describe the one thing I don't like about complex numbers, that people often don't realize that the same things can be represented fully using other mathematical objects. Complex numbers are basically syntactic sugar for that more general type of object.
here's a weird idea: enforce and prosecute the laws that are already on the books.

there's plenty of other "progressive" cities that don't have this problem.

it doesn't take a new idea or viewpoint or effort. just stop with the dereliction of duty from the prosecutors and the problem would disappear almost like magic.
I just came across specification for one new image format. https://twitter.com/phoboslab/status/1472916981179367425

It would be great if all of the new format were at least documented as this one.
>> If there are approximations

> And approximations are not math all of the sudden?

The context was Haskell versus OCaml, so yeah — Haskell is the more academic, pure math. Ocaml (in this context) is the more approximate, but more practical option for larger projects. In practice people use things like C and Python because spherical cows are close enough.
More time for BTC price to go up.
Ethereum has only been around since 2015. Naturally smart contracts, DAos and NFTs are somewhat newer technology, still exhibiting flaws.

Block chain as a concept with the single use case of store of value has been around since 2009 in the form of Bitcoin. So let me only pick one battle here: The problem is federally-issued inflationary currency. Bitcoin solves it.
Well, first of all, the Mona Lisa is public domain so you could print it on a coffee cup if you wanted to. (Photographs of the Mona Lisa are copyrighted, however.)

But assuming you did make an NFT of a copyrighted work, then it’s simply asking if the courts consider it a derivative work, which I could see.
Useful approach, given the troves of applications that cannot be ported to the native Wayland in years to come - all GTK2 apps, e.g. GIMP, all Java apps, and so on...

Regarding HiDPI and XWayland, there is work-in-progress PR[1] that so far is being ignored by the Wayland developers.

[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests...
There are plenty of programmers that don't/can't use VS Code, for one. I'm an iOS and Mac developer, so VS Code is of little use. I'm in Xcode all day. Tuple makes it so I can pair with Xcode, but also see/use the iOS simulator over the pairing connection.
I wonder if the dinosaurs would have developed intelligence and civilization by now, had it not been for the Chicxulub asteroid?
I suggest you try JetBrains IDEs depending on your tech stack. They have got an incredible search capabilities. You can search for a word/function where it has been used across project, you can find and replace across the project, etc. It's amazing!
And this means ... What exactly? If it takes individuals willing to take risks then the crypto space has plenty of them. Are you saying that the point the authors are making is therefore not valid?
Yeah, memory implies persisted state in the model, this is static lookups separate from the transformer.

Still superb, though, there's no reason you can't use other gofai tools vs a static database, to trigger expert systems or formalized reasoning.
The manual for the DEC 340 Display (c1964) is online: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/graphics/7-13_340_Display_P...

The display is a refrigerator-sized unit with a big circular CRT in the middle. You give it vectors and characters, and it draws them with 1024x1024 resolution. It also had a light pen that you could use for interaction with the display.
The claim that discretization is not equal to quantization is a key claim and I'm not sure the paper actually proves/shows this.

If it turns out that spacetime is discrete and not continuous then we should be able to simulate it. The possible states of some chunk of spacetime (given some maximum/known energy) would be non-infinite and even though it might take us years to calculate each time-step, we could still make progress.

I've seen the theory kicked around before, but why couldn't the universe basically consist of plank length sized voxels and a similarly small update timestep? It would still look plenty continuous to us.
This claim is made often enough that child birth care in the Netherlands specifically informs all new parents that breastfeeding is not a good contraceptive. It may work for some, but it's not a guarantee at all.
Very interesting read, SPACs seems like a very bad deal in most cases. Also found this article which tells much the same story but with better graphics:
https://financescp.net/2020/12/18/spac-mania-2020-no-free-lu...
It's pretty hard to imagine HR intervening in business operations to protect a single department's work-life balance - couldn't really track it from there.
You do know that IBM essentially shut down its blockchain division? https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-blockchain-shell-former-s....
FlexOS: Towards Flexible OS Isolation
Anecdotally, I suggested Tuple to my boss (also co-founder of the very small company I work for) when I discovered it, and it took him all of 2 or 3 minutes to learn about it, decide the money was worth it, and sign up for a team account for all the engineers at our company. We've used it regularly in the year+ since. Whether or not $25/user/month is expensive is pretty situational.
As a junior engineer who started career in 2019, I pretty much owe all my knowledge to Tuple, which I've been using to pair program with senior engineers since pandemic started in early 2020!
> Which I'd consider bad news for the argument because Lord of the Rings is, despite Tolkien's opposition deeply allegorical.

Tolkien was quite right that his work was not allegorical. He created a fantasy world to explore themes that were important to him. It was not some coded message where Sauron is Hitler or something. He rightly despised such allegories, as do I.

> You, just like Tolkien appear to have a conservative attitude towards fiction which always tends to deny obvious, often political intent in fiction because from your point of view, which I wouldn't even agree with, it allegedly diminishes art.

I deny attempts to twist the plain meaning of words to fit a narrative. Tolkien created a fictional world to tell a story and convey certain universal truths he felt were important. Frank Herbert did the same. Some people, however, would like to twist that to fit a political agenda. Yes, for some strange reason I find that appalling. It doesn't simply diminish the art... it destroys it. As many are wont to say in such situations: go make your own art.
If the project you are working on has enough time to burn, and the codebase has no (or near to) unit tests, add them.

Find large utilities that are not coupled with a particular part of the application, and put them under heavy testing.
Do not fix any failing test before having completed the test suite.

If you have access to other developers that know the codebase, review the tests with them, and fix failing tests together.

Do the same for the frontend / interface code, but do not go for unit testing imho, go for visual regression testing.

And the end of the process you will have a very large knowledge of the codebase, and you will have improved it at the same time.
Except it doesn’t pay well. $120k/y normally is $60/h. With 80 hr weeks, assuming 1.5x for overtime, that’s $24/h. Frankly, any job that requires overtime better pay investment banker rates.
> Ah, I see you're an adherent of the "finders-genocide, finders'-grandkids'-keepers" sociopolitical philosophy.

Are you saying that I and every other human are owed for any and all unrecompensed wrongs committed against any and all members of our ancestries and that governments should go about facilitating this “business”?
NFTs aren’t fundamentally new. Look at any form of collecting like baseball card collecting or stamp collecting.

Sure, you could legally get into trouble for making fake copies, but what really the biggest barrier is that the people who collect these things care a lot about it.

If you don’t care about collecting a particular thing, then you were never gonna get it to begin with.