skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Moore's law has an economic component, i.e. "double transistors for the same price", which is falling apart faster than the density promises. New nodes are expensive and have massive fixed per-chip design costs.
The problem is caused by other peoples reactions to computers and bots. Bots are the servers problem, not mine, my machine should not be involved in solving it. Same reason I block ad/tracking scripts, it's no my responsibility to ensure other peoples advertising contracts are upheld, that's their problem, if they can't solve it without involving me, too bad.
Also some now incredibly main-stream new gaming concepts that are very recent:

- Minecraft was released in 2011 and revolutionized building in most games, as well as basically inspiring a whole "survival" genre (Ark, Rust, DayZ, etc.)

- H1Z1 was released in 2015 and that Battle Royale format has taken over most casual shooters

- Garry's mod (2006) inspired a whole new genre too

- An entire genre of simulators like Farming Simulator or whatever that would have been unthinkable 15/20 years ago (I have no idea what the provenance of that genre was)

It's very easy to miss revolutionary ideas in your own lifetime because you sometimes don't realize how revolutionary they are.

EDIT: A few other things have popped into my head:

- Dark Souls-esque has become a genre in itself, and it took a while to become main-stream

- rogue-like became a big idea for indie devs to cheaply produce a game in the 2000s

- A lot of the revolutionary stuff today is happening around being able to move what were single player games into multiplayer and you can see that in recent games like No Man's Sky, Sea of Thieves, FO76, etc. (some more successfully than others ;)

- It's also easy to forget that there's been a whole lot of phone game innovation going on, Angry Birds was only 2009
At least they are finding nothing and confirming they are finding nothing. Less scrupulous operators might be always finding something even if its not there. So that's a sign of good science.

Maybe there's something they haven't found because there's so much data?
Mix things up and look again? Change assumptions?

Or as someone I know likes to say to various smaller humans: have you looked around the couch? Really? Are you sure? Have you had a good look? this is how the tv remote usually subsequently reappears as there is a difference between just looking and having a good look.

The best science also happens when you've looked, not found it but now know where not to look. Even better science happens when you know exactly why it shouldn't have been there at all. Surprising science happens when you find the errors in your assumptions and discover it can sometimes be where it previously was not expected to be.
Has anyone considered how unbelievably easy it is to copy or forge a QR code for things like vaccination status?

Accepting a QR code as proof of anything looks like a misapplication to me.
Thanks for providing the original RFC, though reading it I find it to be much worse than I thought because of its ability to detect actions per client.

Now there’s a bunch of crypto to prevent the identification of an individual device, but websites would still be able to track your actions even if you disabled cookies, localStorage etc. (apart from the current ways such as like Etag tracking or browser fingerprinting) except that you can’t really mitigate it in any way. Whichever way you put this, PATs are not something that would preserve users’ security or privacy.

I also disagree with you that this isn’t a form of DRM - you’d still need some kind of TPM or another embedded electronic device that helps with these attestations. However, once attackers try to buy thousands of such devices to attack/scrape websites, websites would naturally use the originating vendor as the basis for allowing/denying actions. Which ultimately comes down to DRM - you’d see Windows, Android and Apple devices being allowed - and Linux/BSD/rooted Android/custom ROMs being left out to dry.
Oh jesus christ, the constant whining!

This is science. This is how it works. Maybe there's nothing else to discover, maybe it will take us 100 years, we don't know, that's why it's called research.
True but you’d hate to be the physicist that spent their career going down the wrong path only to see tomorrows physicists discover the big breakthroughs and the realization that your contribution will be sent to the dustbin of history.
if there was such a thing as fair regulation, of course ...
> Maybe there's nothing else to discover, maybe it will take us 100 years, we don't know, that's why it's called research.

At what price?
CAPTCHAs are really getting out of control. While some uses are understandable (want to edit this wiki? prove you're not a robot!), they seem to be popping up on even the most mundane of websites (want to see the results of this google search? prove you're not a robot!)

They're bad enough for able-bodied users, and I can only imagine how annoying and discriminatory they are for users of assistive technologies. There really ought to be some sort of law to get rid of them, or at least significantly restrict their use.
It already fell below $21k and they weren't margin called, apparently. I guess they have the funds to cover.
China Says Telescope Maybe Picked Up Signals from Alien Civilization
If you don't know exactly what you are doing, yes don't run this. Stay away from this. Don't tell other to not use it though.

When you do know how computers work and how your threat models looks like, absolutely do run this. 10-15% more performance is no joke.
A sufficiently detailed design document is essentially indistinguishable from code. How do you avoid the problems you encounter when writing code while writing the design document?
I imagine it varies by jurisdiction. Here in the UK you can create something called a "living will" but it's mostly about how you want to be treated in terms of your health (think DNR type stuff) and living arrangements and isn't legally enforceable on its own like a regular will – certainly not for something like selling jointly owned property: https://www.ageuk.org.uk/information-advice/money-legal/lega...

I imagine if we ever get around to accepting euthanasia as a society the idea around a living will need to become formalised. For decades my dad was very clear he would prefer to be dead than exist in the state he is now but sadly the law insists he, or whatever is left of him, must suffer.
Why would you get paid for owning stuff? Are you talking about dividents?

I think that’s more being paid for having given someone a whole bunch of money up front, that they can now use to more quickly earn enough money to pay you (loan in a different name).
The bible as it's written is only a couple thousand years old, but the stories therein are quite possibly tens (maybe hundreds) of thousands of years old, as these they were conveyed orally long before they were ever written.
1 guess: Transaction fees spiked and they didn’t pay enough for their transaction.
Neil Stephenson’s REAMDE touches on this idea, and reaches the somewhat inevitable conclusion that if you can automate enough about a real world task that you can translate it into gaming terms, and determine automatically whether or not the player has succeeded at the task (in order to reward them ‘in game’ for completing the task), then you have probably done all the essential work needed to have a computer do the task in the first place.
All you need to do is look at their financial accounts[0]

Bellingcat is indeed pure propaganda. A lot of their Russia claims during the recent conflict have been pure propaganda. They were also baselessly perpetuating the lie that the Ukrainian negotiators and Abramovich were poisoned ahead of their talks in Turkey, which turned out to be complete BS, but they didn't back down after it was proving BS either[1].

He also made ridiculously outrageous claims about Russian resources for the war which he at least walked back a little bit from[2]. Which have been echoed in such a way that people in the west seriously believed that Russia is a third world army that can't handle basic logistics, so that we could funnel more weapons to Ukraine in the hopes of crippling Russia for the future. Everyone that questioned this completely absurd narrative was insulted, attacked and called a Putin shill.

People would like to believe that Bellingcat is not propaganda, because they have been the primary source for certain bigger events that gave a lot of legitimacy to the 'Putin is Hitler' narrative and if it was propaganda, we would have to reevaluate those narratives.

Another one of these propaganda shills is Anders Östlund who was calling for the dismantling of Germany and France along the way. “The Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)’s mission is to ensure a strong and enduring transatlantic alliance rooted in democratic values and principles with strategic vision, foresight, and policy impact”[3]

It's not really surprising that these groups are funded by the national endowment for democracy, BAE, lockhead martin, etc.. But surprising to me is a bit that there are Microsoft and Google in some of these groups donor lists.

[0] https://www.bellingcat.com/app/uploads/2021/05/Bellingcat-An...

[1] https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1509156285190651909

[2] https://twitter.com/michaeldweiss/status/1499849754897010694

[3] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FS2k2giaAAEXRxC?format=jpg&name=...
Yahoo Appoints Actress Jessica Alba to Board of Directors
IBM Cloud is pretty good to be honest, you're going too far with your dismissive analysis. Many IBM Cloud offerings are fast and reliable and come with great support in most cases...
> James Clerk Maxwell united electricity and magnetism with a pen and paper. Einstein discovered special and general relativity in the same way.

This is hilarious, because these days the criticism of physics is that it's all "theories and ideas".

> But what if? Should we just ... give up on particle physics?

Should we just give up on learning?
I don't think that's what the book says, just that solving problems with the new framework is what makes it popular enough with the next generation.

More specificity or higher resolution is not implied, though it can happen after the paradigm has shifted as a new set of niches are waiting to be explored and filled.
You may find the Universal Paperclips game amusing.

https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html
You could also use a simple one-time-pad here to split the password. Generate two alphabetic passwords, one for your attorney and one for a trusted friend. Actual password is these mixed with alphabetic rotation character-by-character (anyone ought to be able to figure out how to do this given a short guide).

Simple, and provably useless to an adversary unless they have both passwords (aside from knowing password length/format with one).
I see no moral dilemma in eating meat, even if one considers animals to be sentient and intelligent. I see plenty of moral dilemmas in the infrastructure we have developed to provide meat to the masses. I (like everyone else) am not a 100% morally good being, and I still eat meat even knowing the horrors that happen in meat processing facilities. We are part of nature, no matter how much we try to elevate ourselves above it. I don't feel sad when a powerful predator consumes a small prey, as it is the way of nature.

Also, consider the possibility that plant life also has sensation and subjective experience, that is wildly different from anything we could actually understand as such. Wouldn't it be equally as immoral to take that life, if we presume that it is morally repugnant to merely eat meat in and of itself, due to taking the life of a conscious, potentially sentient being? Life is life, right?

Also, consider that not everyone can actually eat vegetables. I find the majority of vegetables to be instantly and extremely repugnant. As in, the only time that elapses is the time for the signals to make their way from my tongue and nose to my brain. This is not by choice, as when I was smaller I would happily eat most vegetables. This was something that changed in me at some point for which I have no explanation as to why. Perhaps the Ritalin I took for a few years affected me in an unexpected way? I have no idea.
Is Matter a protocol? Can it be used with WiFi and Z-Wave and Zigbee? Or is it just a certification?
literally my sentiments exactly. Next thing you know, someone will be clamoring to make the LHC a profit center and complain about its solvency!

edit: I have no dog in the fight, but I do appreciate the concept of "Art for Art's sake." To me, the LHC embodies the physics equiv of that statement.
My impression (from the inside of the university) is that academia is simply not a great employment option these days. There's an attitude on the inside that those who have academic jobs have won the lottery. No doubt, in a few fields that's still the case, but academic jobs are mostly bad working conditions and low pay combined with limited job security.

It was trending in that direction for many years, but the pandemic was a major structural change. You should consider any kind of academic job as a backup rather than a destination.
> In the US where free speech is protected, those who made various claims and conspiracy theories about the September 11 attacks (Bush did it! Israel did it! The CIA did it! etc.) didn’t get locked up or murdered

Only, for some reason the free speech protection did not help Assange from being prosecuted and his life being destroyed for broadcasting US war crimes evidence in Iraq [1]. The same could be said about your prior mentioning of the Battle of Grozny. There were real terrorist groups in Grozny that had to be eliminated, and in a 2007 Baghdad there was nothing but a false pretence.

[1] the infamous US taxpayer-funded "keep shooting" "collateral damage" done in Iraq: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYTxuW2vmzk
More than zero.
So one camp says "just jump in and code", the other one advises to go full waterfall and write books of documentation. Yet again, the new generation is making the same mistakes us fossils learned from years ago.

You will be shocked to find out that the truth is in the middle.

"Jumping in an hacking" is a recipe for a waste of life (but seems fine when you are young and the time seems eternal). Yes, you will eventually get it done, but after going down rabbit holes and "just getting it to work", you will end up with code that, let's just say, down the road you will not be proud of.

Trying to think everything through in advance is a fool's errand. Your "documentation" will be useless after you write the first few lines of code, unless you are clairvoyant and can predict every little problem.

Think before you write, that's all. Think more, write less. I spend more time thinking about what I am about to write, but at some point I have to start coding, before I enter the analysis paralysis stage.
Less than it cost to research, develop and manufacture all of the components in the device you typed this on.
I’d suggest looking at some plant based diet athletes like Kylie Irving and see what he’s doing. I’m not going to lie or pretend that egg whites have a 1:1 equivalent in vegan nutrition but I would suggest taking a cold hard look at your performance requirements if you are competing on a professional level and if it really is all that necessary to squeeze that extra 3% performance edge or whatever it may be by eating meat or dairy. Maybe check out some vegan fitness youtubers or watch The Game Changers to get started. I’m weightlifting and running and I feel better and stronger as a vegan.
Group chats made up of coworkers, so that's different in the sense that the DoL cares what you say too.
It's more that abundance in formative years spoils you for life.
Job openings vs labor supply tells you most of what you need to know.

Job openings exceed job seekers by a record amount. Unemployment is close to a record low.
Taxpayers
There is still huge amounts of work to do in the less fundamental aspects of physics.
Reminds me of an old joke about our uni:

Physicists keep coming to the head of the university with new requests for buying expensive machines. At some point it's one too many and he exclaims:

"Can't you be more like the mathematicians? They need just pens, paper and a paper bin! Or the philosophers?! They need just pens and paper."
Current UK CompSci PostDoc here - and yeah, pretty much what everyone says here is correct. My contract is 'contingent on funding' (so casual/short-term by any other name, but 'perminant' so HR can fudge their short-term employment numbers down) and my pay is well below what I could get in the wider industry.

I stay because I'd like to think I can improve things (I'm very active in management talks, where I can be) but as we're now at 6 (? Maybe 7) years of below-inflation pay adjustments, and with no progression possible at my grade unless I make the leap to lecturer or equivalent I'm just stuck here and its getting tiresome, and every year I look at my bank and go 'why am I doing this?'.

One day I'll stop asking why and leave, but I like what I do - its just not economical.

... and for the curious, I've made the case for promotion and applied for it a number of times, but as no-one ever retires in the industry (profs forever?) the next grade up is stupidly over-subscribed, so my chances are extremely low.
Autoscale provisions by ordering phones or creating returns on the Amazon website and creating jobs on fiverr to plug/unplug stuff.
I frequently encounter people and family with obvious issues arising from childhood, and 95% of the time their parents were poor as kids and thats where it all comes from.

On one hand these people are a pain to deal with, but in most cases its not their fault either.
I think accounting for scenarios where someone might want to cut your finger off to gain access to your device is covered under the thread modeling reply above closer to the parent comment. Which makes sense. If I'm a cartel boss, I'm definitely not using biometrics. But if I'm a college sophomore who doesn't have any nation state enemies, then biometrics is fine.
Will you forego acquiring an Apple if you don't want it, or acquiring a smartphone at all if they all have it? If not, well, your voice doesn't matter. Sorry. Not trying to be depressing or annoying, just that your/our levers aren't big enough to shift things.
I see what you’re saying. And I agree it would be nice to remove friction where possible but I think it would happen in very specific, local contexts instead of some revolution around work itself. In some ways work is in and of itself a process of trying to remove friction and what can and should be removed is mostly dependent on the person or org and their goals. I also think it will just be whack-a-mole and removing some friction will just uncover another form of friction. So to me the question of what can stay and what can go just sounds like rearranging deck chairs on the titanic.
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If they weren't margin called then they wouldn't need funds to cover. So it's still a question whether they do or not. Oh course that leads to a second question on why they weren't margin called if the price dropped below the price they publicly said would trigger a margin call.
If you want to buy something like a tissue sample for an experiment in a lab then you pay the market price

Academic researchers often pay either zero or get a massive discount on all kinds of stuff (hardware, software, data, samples etc.) for their research that people in private sector pay a huge premium for.
The ability to format MNesia tables in such a way that exporting them over SNMP is trivial was an absolute joy to work with for me about 12 years ago!

I was able to stand up a quick management solution for a rather complex system as a one-person team using a combination of Erlang, MNesia, and port drivers to various back-ends written in Python, C, C++ and Haskell. It was the most productive I think I've ever been on any project in my entire career so far.

And I'd love to get back to that feeling of just kicking ass every day.
> There is no gaggle of desperate women running after a succesful hot man in a suit who keeps denying their advances. This is simply not happening

There are gaggles of desperate women running after celebrities. It is happening.
How incredibly condescending.
But they pay that - or even way higher rate - indirectly, as part of franchise deal.
You can forge any text. For a vaccination status it should lead to a government website, which is much harder to fake
I think there are certain "fundings" that could be higher or lower depending on the project commensurate with hiring with high pay. Post-docs should be paid well in my opinion. They are our future leaders, educators, innovators, and to me, the ones who teach "how" to fish. The same goes for salary in certain fields in teaching.

Something seems backwards.
I'm super happy at IBM Cloud, the whole public cloud area is modern, fun and innovative
> There is a strong aversion to breaking working code

Am I the only person who doesn't view this as a good thing? If you want to compile code your wrote 20 years ago, use a compiler version from 20 years ago. Forcing backwards compatability hinders a languages growth and forces it to stick by decisions that, in hindsight, may not have been the best.
Hum, Android has a 71.45% market share for mobile devices, versus only 27.83% for iOS...
Typically there’s a pipeline between academia and industry. A pharmaceutical company doesn’t want to train chemists.

Whatever the current problems are, they are likely the predictable outcome of policy changes made 5-10 years ago. The 20 years of war is largely over, immigration policies discourage some folks, and the educational sector as a whole is very sick.

Society is different too. I was giving talks at high schools as part of an outreach/mentorship program, and science was rarely mentioned by anyone as what they wanted to be when they grew up. A shocking number of kids wanted to be investment bankers.
The article is worth reading, it introduces some criticisms of AAA game/product design that are interesting. I agree with many of them but never quite formulated them in such a way.

However, WoW example is exactly backwards:

> WoW nostalgia, monetarily leveraged through Activition Blizzard’s release of WoW Classic, feels (and is) a regressive moment for games (...)

WoW Classic didn't happen because of nostalgia. It happened because there has been a _huge_ community of people hosting the vanilla version (and the first expansion) of the game for quite a while now. It was simply acknowledging the fact that many players didn't like where the game went after its initial release plus one maybe two expansions.

WoW is a perfect example of a franchise that got butchered over the years. It lost what made it magical and didn't expand on the aspects that made it unique. It was a social game where you would find your grandma and your school buddy in the same virtual world, each playing in their own way.

People thought they wanted more shiny things, instant gratification, less dependence on other players and the social aspects of the game. So it turned into something generic and quite frankly ugly.

If you look at the history of the game, it already had all the things in place to make it the dull, money grabbing game that it is now. But at the same time it had elements, some accidental, some pushed by certain designers that barely made it, which were encouraging social interactions, small and large scale organizations and player driven stories.

I feel like AAA games _should_ look back and re-learn why their franchise even had success in the first place. Re-discover what made them _good_ and why players built a culture around them that wasn't just oriented around consumption.
The money doesn't play into it for me. I'm not going to sacrifice my integrity or burn a bridge (depending on the context) over a few bucks.