skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a story, but AFAIK I independently observed that about the MWI of the universe before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22055186

I think MWI is appealing to a lot of people as part of the quiet, but ever-present undercurrent of "how can we make any sort of God totally unnecessary to the universe?" that science has, but if you think about it deeply enough, it becomes clear that MWI, if true, is unbelievably horrible. We'd all better hope it's not the correct interpretation.

Edit: Thanks for the link to the story. I had not read it or seen it before. Same principles for sure. I don't think it's a crazy extrapolation of MWI, I think it's the only logical outcome. I can put that opinion into more firm mathematical language but it's more than I can put into an HN comment, and I haven't typed it out anywhere else either, and it really is just that opinion, in more mathematical language.
Heh, I made something just like it, https://slitdecision.com/

Disclaimer: I have no background in physics at all. I saw this universe splitter and read "Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" (Science-Fiction novella by Ted Chiang - the one mentioned in here), and thought hey that's fun.
Sadly, I don't think Qualcomm is even any worse than average. I don't think for example MediaTek, Samsung or Nvidia are doing any better.

I think even the Pinephones with their Allwinners and Rockchips aren't perfect, with both models being based on I believe older SoCs (although the Rockchip in the Pro has been modified, afaik).
I’ve thought my next vehicle would be an EV since 1998. But next time for sure.
There is nothing "neutral" about Ukraine. The CIA deposed the legitimately elected government in 2014, and the actions of today have been inevitable since then.

You'd have to be an idiot to accept a CIA puppet regime sharing hundreds of miles of border with you, particularly one that commits systematic terrorism against its Russian-speaking population.

It's pretty shocking how well FVEY IC have run their propaganda campaigns for everyone to believe Ukraine is in any way "neutral". Very impressed.
I agree with that assessment. China is doing this right now with their belt and roads initiative
I don't know the laws in Ukraine but if people had guns in the first place, they would have much higher advantage defending.
Are you arguing that creating a program that interacts with another program is "modifying it"? Because then essentially all software is a derivative work of everything else and the entire industry is one giant copyright violation.

Come on. You're grasping at straws here. That makes zero sense. It goes against everything we know about how software licensing works. It is extremely well established that interacting with software through stable, external interfaces does not constitute creating a derivative work of the software.
Just anecdotal, I knew the name "Deepwater Horizon", but was very aware that BP was the responsible party. There was a lot of discussion of not buying gas from BP stations for a while afterwards and it became a common subject again when they started rebranding and painting their stations green.

Dunno what happened behind the scenes with the naming, but I'd say most people in my area associated it strongly with BP and am pretty confident that BP was implicated on the NPR radio station I listened to.
An Introduction and Tutorial for Azure Cosmos DB
No, checkout decentralized finances (DeFi). You are leaving your money with an smart contract, which is an inmutable piece of software.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_finance
Besides "only communicate face to face" how do you propose to do secure communication over a long distance without a smart-phone?
As a visitor to your website how can I know you are respecting my privacy?
I can picture it now, coming out of retirement for one last job[0]. Not kidding, that's a movie I'd watch.

[0]: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OneLastJob
Careers Without College
Older cars can work great but I just lose confidence in taking longer trips. If it’s statistically going to die soon I feel like there’s a large risk of getting stranded somewhere.
It functioned well as a spy-sci-fi crossover. But in this universe it got canceled.
So are schools primarily an employment vehicle for teachers? I thought they should care about student outcomes more
I'm beginning to wonder if financially crippling the entire nation (and all of its innocent civilians) was the correct alternative to fighting. Possibly just as bad. Gonna have a lot of people starving, homeless, and in poor health. Putin will re-align the remaining pieces of the economy to focus on the war effort, and the Russian elites.
Not yet - I'm going to add one to the homepage this week and also support a free trial.
There's a school of throught, prevalent at the last Emacs conference
(See Karl Voit's talk), that Org is also a notation/markup. So-called
"org-down" has been put forward with foundational semantics, headings,
lists, emphasis and other basics.

https://karl-voit.at/2021/11/27/orgdown/

I'd actually love to see Gemini and HN adopt orgdown. Just sayin... :)
I hope they intend on a pipeline of sorts, otherwise the containers will likely continue to sit down-rev

They could choose to not specify tags and run latest - then a power outage might cause an update by consequence of a fresh pull
How did this patent get awarded? ZX Spectrum... C64... Atari ST... and countless other 8 bit computers were exactly this.

How does anyone at apple even dare to patent this?
Indeed. Though I think this is the measure of last resort for them. Right now they announced a very steep base rate hike and ordered exporters to sell 80% of inbound currency and these measures seem to be working - ruble rebounded from the high of 110 per USD early in the morning and is now trading at around 95-100.
Yeah, likewise - I remember getting a very sore thenar* from those hard corners after the sort of stupidly-prolonged gaming sessions teenagers are capable of. Then I got a Naksha, which was borderline-futuristic.

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* base of the thumb. I had to look it up, I'm not going to pretend I knew that.
‘Green’ Energy Has Left the West Increasingly Dependent on Russian Energy
Pretty Good Rundown of Charm (Charm.sh) CLI Tools at Changelog Podcast
A coming car glut is almost as scary as the current shortage.
The irony. ;)

But the way the courts interpret GDPR essential parts of the internet are technically illegal if you are based in Europe.
What if it's your government that is the aggressor? What then? Foreign and domestic.
Probably just to know what were you talking about if we aren't fluent in any language that looks _weird_ and we couldn't notice it.
A video is not needed to explain this. New York City and state have high income taxes, and it's very costly to be classified a full-time resident of NYC if you have homes elsewhere, as billionaires do.
https://archive.is/QNWFn
We drive about 25km a day. So it's not terrible, but with gas prices, it's now noticeable!
Yep, that's pretty bad.
Hey! So I tried to import a Postman collection, but the pre-request scripts aren't getting imported. Neither are the sample code snippets. Is this not implemented yet, or is it a problem with the collection (or something I'm doing).
With this being open source, perhaps it'd be better to submit a pull request rather than a complaint?
The most recent court rulings that that because of the US CLOUD Act, all transfers of personal data to the United States are unlawful. Personal data includes IP addresses. These rulings are under appeal, but at the end of the day it's basically true that GDPR and CLOUD are fundamentally incompatible.
>> I agree but it’s not for no reason. If Ukrainians can pursue democracy and European values, so could Russians.

Fantasy outcome: Ukraine not only pushes Russia out, but takes back the regions Putin previously took from them. Russian citizens finally overthrow Putin and decide to put the whole empire back together - including Ukraine - with Volodymyr Zelenskyy as their leader. ;-)
Because when you turn the water off it's cold. I would rather pay 1.5 cents to remain warm while I lather. If the resource was actually scarce, it wouldn't cost so little to use it.
At this point, I’m casting a wide net. Anything future-positive would be awesome.

I see Becky Chambers getting a call-out below, for instance.
I'm not relying on the contractual barrier, I'm relying on the interpretation of the clause as applying strictly to the behavior of the program as designed and embodied in the source code, and arguing that there is no moral requirement stated in the license for ensuring that that behavior is ultimately exposed to end users, and in fact, such a requirement would go against the spirit of the AGPL as a copyright license and it was explicitly written not to require that.

Some people might disagree with that interpretation, which is okay because it's the kind of fine point nobody will ever agree on until it ends up in front of a judge. Which is why I bring up the two party example, to sidestep that question.
Sometimes theres just as much reason to be an old infra then constantly upgrading to a new one. You know the old one works...
How to block Russian access to your website in 2 minutes
So Toyota still uses nimh in its hybrids? Does that make them longer lasting?
I honestly take most of my info from Reddit. There are a couple of subs where the discussion is quite nice. Twitter has a steady stream of data coming in and OSINT channels seem to make a honest effort to present genuine data (even if one-sided).

There is also the confirmation from the British Ministry of Defence: https://twitter.com/DefenceHQ?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcam...

They are Ukraine aligned but are IMO more trustwordy.

Overall, I admit the fog of war is thick. But even maintaining my skepticism, the info seems coherent enough to convince me.

Just saying "You cannot base opinion on online media" is useless because what are YOU basing your opinion on? Online media, written media, whatever.. it's all information, one way or another we're all basing our view on external sources. The trick is filtering it and I think it's possible to at least glimpse reflections of the actual status. If you don't take into account any information you know nothing and just go off on projections in your head. Much worse state of afairs.
> Practically all world leaders had engaged in similar anti-COVID measures

Most of them have been showing up in parliament many times a week, many wearing a mask. (Of course that depends a bit on the government model.) Some of them like Trump, Bolzonaro or Boris Johnson had Covid. Especially Trump grossly ignored scientific advice and had huge campaign events. Trump and Johnson had infamous garden parties. Not that I would call that smart, but that practically all leaders had similar measures is not true.

It's said that especially oligarchs lost direct contact to Putin because he stopped meeting people. Whether that is true I can obviously not prove.
Good advice, noted. Thank you!
It's not possible to distinguish between many worlds or any other interpretation, so it will never will be confirmed (nor will the Copenhagen interpretation). The only ones that can be confirmed are the "objective collapse" theories, as they produce very slightly different predictions than normal QM.
Insomnia has not been a drop in replacement for me, but its "request chains" are fantastic. At this point it helps put up with its different set of problems.
Everything has a lifetime. Individual bricks just have a pretty long one. Your building overall probably has a much, much shorter lifetime than you think, and likely has received updates and substantial maintenance over the decades, if anything at least to keep it up to code.

Maintenance is one way of extending the lifetime of things. Otherwise, your building would regularly be torn down and rebuilt. This is often the case, when maintenance is no longer enough. That's the best case scenario, too, as the worst case is it collapses of its own volition, potentially with you in it.

Everything has a lifetime: https://tildes.net/~talk/109v/thoughts_on_lifetimes_limits_a...
> That means no change.

This presupposes people cannot change, which you haven't supported sufficiently with your argument.
Do people in US really take their AKs into Starbucks' against owners' wishes?
Just for the record- it only takes about 21k miles of driving (a year or two for most people) to release as much CO2 as the production of the battery for a long range Tesla Model 3. The standard range Model 3 comes in just under 16k miles. It seems to me like most people expect more.

Also, I don't think EV prices have really changed that much.
Chip shortages haven't really affected it. High gas prices and inflation are probably the only numbers you really need to worry about.

https://www.oliver-krischer.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/En...

https://www.eia.gov/environment/emissions/co2_vol_mass.php

The math: standard/long-range Model 3 batteries are 62 and 82 kWh. First link puts GHG byproducts of production at 75 kg/kWh- 4650 and 6150 kg. Mazda 3 gets 30 mpg combined and the second link gives 8.78 kg CO2 per gallon.
That seems like a longer way off than we were expecting?
Long term support releases like those from Red Hat and Ubuntu aim to address this by not introducing breaking functionality in their releases

Version 8.x or 22.y that you get won't change in their minor releases in terms of behavior. They save the breakage for N+1, such as 9.x and 23.y

They go through a ton of effort to backport the security fixes. This keeps things generally way more predictable.

Problems do happen (eg: misaligned symbols from partial updates/restarts), but they're not as common as one would assume
Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20220228134714/https://www.deadf...
According to the MWI (which is not "prevailing quantum theory") all outcomes of QM experiments are realized, but the experimental apparatus and the rest of the macro world around it become entangled with a particular outcome, and thus unable to perceive the other outcomes.

So after every quantum experiment you get N copies of the world, one in which outcome A has happened, one in which B has happened, one in which outcome C has happened etc, and each of these evolves divergently from there on. Of course, there are trillions of trillions of trillions of "quantum experiments" happening in our immediate surrounding every second, so any one experiment in particular is not that important, but it helps to isolate.

So, instead of taking a decision, you use the app to rest easy that somewhere out there in the universal wave function, there is a copy of you that has taken the opposite decision.
Additionally, for data that's strictly needed for your business, you don't even need to ask consent, but you're responsible for keeping data safe.

It's weird how the whole "you need to keep your users' data safe and not collect more than is necessary" is such a controversial topic for some on HN.
Sure, whatever.

I don't care about this conversation anymore because I was downvoted by the latest and greatest Europeans with sticks up their asses. Why? We'll never know.

Participating in this site is not worth it sometimes.
Traffic to Signal exceeded Telegram in Ukraine for the first time
The Uncanny Valley of Xenobots
That is bank account value (typically spending money and emergency fund) and does not include retirement savings (401k, ira) or other wealth stores (house, car) so it’s not really an accurate picture of long term savings.
Ask HN: Single-person creations that have stood the test of time?
What are some single person creation that have stood the test of time. The creation, at present, may be under the umbrella of some big corp. But the entire core of it was developed and maintained by a single person. Like Minecraft.

And I am not talking about only tech project creations. Anything extraordinary that comes to your mind?
ADHD Linked to 'Significantly Higher' Risk of Hoarding, New Study Finds
> the way the courts interpret GDPR essential parts of the internet are technically illegal if you are based in Europe.

wat
> Californians overwhelmingly don't want this

From 1960 to 2010, Americans when polled if someone with pre-existing conditions should be able to get health insurance or government-funded care not only wanted that by a majority, but by an overwhelming majority. Nevertheless it was blocked for half a century in the legislature.

There is a narrative that many of these things don't happen because Americans don't want them, but that is a false narrative.

On the half century theme, the inflation-adjusted hourly wage in the US is below what it was 50 years ago. All productivity gains have gone to the rentiers, to the heirs. Why are the people doing the work and creating the wealth going to support something they see no benefit from?
If you're authoring 16:9 content, you can display 1080p video at native resolution with UI controls on a 2560x1440 monitor, which is also 16:9.

16:10 in a vacuum is a useless metric. Real world stuff like actual resolution, screen dimensions, font sizes, scaling, etc. only make 16:10 ambiguously better.
Yep. Now everybody has to decide if they actually believe the government where they live has the ability to tell them exactly when and who, if anyone they are allowed to murder for no reason at all.
Why Copyright is Doomed (2002)
Cryptocurrencies are absolutely a "non-state" and "rival state-backed" asset class, but I'd say it's mostly arguable, given the instability, illiquidity, and general inability (in most places) to exchange crypto for goods and services, whether they are "currencies".
> Possibly just as bad.

No, it's much worse. Collective Punishment is a globally-recognized war crime:

https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/customary-ihl/eng/docindex/v2...

The US and the EU are flagrantly violating the Geneva Convention and everyone I know is cheering it on. Absolutely sickening.
Has Windows gotten any better at running x86-64 Windows software on ARM hardware?

The last time I saw this tested, it was more likely to fail than succeed, but it's been a while.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhESSZIXvCA
Discussion from the first time this was posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11444941
There's been plenty of cases where an app/package/extension has publicly available source code which differs from what's actually distributed.

However, I do see they have a section in their README regarding reproducible builds for verifying APKs against their source code.
I, too, was a fan of Ecco in the 90s, but it was discontinued in 1997.

OrgMode wasn't even born until 2003, so my guess is that you made your choice about Org very, very early on.

I cautiously suggest that maybe Org does more now than you realize. Your tool seems . . . well, very dated-looking to start.
Piped: The Privacy-friendly YouTube front end that's efficient by design
Given Newton's third law, why are things capable of moving?
Yes! I thought about that but had a few issues with storing URLs in the sharable URL and don’t want to store any information to create an unique id for every url.
I'm quite certain it has. I believe Windows on ARM now ships with x86 emulation, allowing it to run any program (albeit more slowly). I'm not sure about the state of WSL on ARM, but Linux on ARM in general is a nearly indistinguishable experience from Linux on x86, with the exception of proprietary software which is for the most part relatively rare on that platform.
The Original Hybrid Workers Can Teach Us How to Do It Right
Very cool. Would love a similar project for old Depraz / Digimouse design.

https://www.oldmouse.com/mouse/logitech/digimouse.shtml
MTK has the advantage of somewhat available (leaked) design information and source code, and there's a pretty thriving Chinese developer community --- at least around their phones/tablets.
It's really, really hard for kids to avoid a handful of super-toxic students in their class,

Avoiding everyone is not the best solution to that. It's a part of growing up to be able to deal with people of all ilks. Living in a bubble is not healthy.

I have plenty of anecdotal evidence of suicides and depression in lockdown.

Numbers like x% better are meaningless without a base rate and this article is guilty of presenting numbers in that way.
It's dangerous talk, so the author should be more responsible IMHO, or it indicative of the author not caring.
Higher or lower against the base rate, this article will likely be quoted incorrectly and foster myths.
Human intuition has been completely inconsistent with observed reality since relativity and QM were conceived. We should use other means to evaluate the Many Worlds idea.
More about Dynamic and Static Polymorphism
Russia is likely to outlaw cryptocurrencies for that reason (of course the rich will be able to do it with no punishment). But the small citizen will just get visited by putin's police and beaten within an inch of dying, before being told to never touch crypto again, on the mere suspicion they are using cryptocurrencies.
I can't but a lot of other people can. There was exactly this going on in some subreddits where some APC's were presented as russian but it turned out to be Ukrainean. Camo is also different between the countries and they have the russian speciffic markings on their armor. Not to mention the kind of funny videos of abandoned Russian vehicles. That exposes deep problems in the way Russia is conducting the invasion.

Most shocking for me was the videos of the TB2's incinerating some BUK systems I think. I was... astonished, it means Ukraine can still operate in the airspace and that does not bode well for the Russians.
I expect them to enforce slow, ponderous change processes which make it impractical to remove any but the most egregious violators from the trusted CA list.
https://www.cloudflare.com/gdpr (seems broken)

https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/privacy/what-is-the-gdpr...
We All Are Ukraine – Smashing Magazine
It's easier to do the OpenID authentication dance with a tool vs curl (especially when doing PKCE requests), and I use Postman to build up some documentation for my APIs.
It's happened at least once.

https://twitter.com/SykesCharlie/status/1159110216958566401
You're conflating completely unrelated things. NATO has a single purpose, and in no way was NATO invoked around Iraq even if states that are nembers of NATO did cooperate in doing something at the time as a coalition of the willing. NATO was, and remains, a narrowly tailored defensive organization. No one need worry about NATO that isn't expansionist in nature.

>West Sanctioning?
Not NATO. Countries do what countries do, and soft power through weaponized control of financial system access is a very powerful weapon of international diplomacy which has exactly zero to do with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

>Horrendous war plans
Good lord, you haven't even scratched the surface of horrendous war plans. Have you looked at Project Pluto? MKULTRA? COINTELPRO? I don't know much of other country's dirty laundry, but I assure you, everyone runs atrocity factories and develops war stratagem in anticipation of the worst case scenario. Welcome to life. No nice things allowed. No exceptions.

Even if a member state has some atrocity cooking, guess what, still not NATO! NATO is an implementation of inter-nation coordination and signaling whereby one member state can notify other member states they are being invaded, thereby mustering a collective pushing in of the aggressor's crap. After the signaling is done, the rest of the implementation isn't on "NATO", it's on the member states doing things themselves.

Good lord, I'm shouting at clouds again, but God bless.

If you want to complain about the West; at least get your abstractions straight.
Modeling chopping onions: The importance of mise en place
I've got a better hack:

Step 1. Get a dog.

Step 2. Walk your dog.

That's it.
I just keep my files in Dropbox and haven't had a problem yet.
I spoke to a physiatrist who considered full spectrum light to be essential in the light boxes. Don’t know about the actual research on the topic.