skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That paper does make me irrationally angry for one reason:

"Sheet size is A4 - 11.66inch deep x 235mm wide (edge to edge including sprockets)"

(Edit: Although it does make a sort of sense, in that dot matrix line height is in inches - but still aggravating).
> They think they are being green but most that charging power still comes from gas/oil power plants.

They would still be green if that was the case, though generally it's not, see state by state worked examples here: https://evtool.ucsusa.org/
Separating quantum hype from quantum reality
> It’s like, at a vacuum tube era, at best.

How is it even remotely close?

Vacuum tubes were a thriving industry, producing many groundbreaking products and services.
A random Alibaba Cloud customer got breached. You tried to make it sound like Alibaba Cloud was breached.

In reality this has nothing to do with either Alibaba Cloud nor Tiktok.
FWIW I found it very useful when I was going to university, and broke, and needed to print articles and or books online with the minimum number of sheets, and relying on booklet printing[1] to put up to 4 a4 pages (back and front) on a a5 "book"

https://www.printingcenterusa.com/blog/how-to-arrange-pages-...
> Would you want the government to force a health or drug store to sell cigarettes?

That's a bizarre argument. You could argue similarly against speed limits, because next the government will force you to drive in reverse or something.
It has not really been a secret, they just haven’t been talking about details much. It was pretty clear to anyone who works in related areas what they were up to.
>How do you explain that it has 2 billion user records?

scraped
Poland has around 1200 km of motorways where the limit is 140 km/h.
Sadly Wikipedia has already been vandalised, claiming that she is the current PM

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prime_Minister_of...

You can't fix this without creating an account and logging in.

Makes you wonder what other glaring inaccuracies are in the encyclopedia.
> Exactly. That's the huge difference.

I’m not really sure what your point is. If we take as a starting point that the US used the metric system where it matters, then why is it an issue that it isn’t used ubiquitously? I’m not saying you need to agree with the claim “the US used the metric where it matters”, but if we just take that on face value, then why isn’t that enough? Why do you care if Americans talking amongst themselves speak in their own vernacular and system of measurements? What exactly is the problem?
Also, BLAS is part of that interface (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/accelerate/blas)

Of course it is a black box in that you can’t (realistically) try and speed it up. You still run the risk of Apple’s priorities being different from yours.
>In the end it is Microsoft's problem, since they are the ones that are losing valid SMTP traffic. If a sufficient amount of users are experiencing a loss of e-mail as a result, then they will be forced to fix it.

One might think that would be the case eventually, but at least in the case of universities insisting on using Office365, it really doesn't seem to be. In academia, where emails to and from university domains are the norm, Office365 seems to frequently treat with extreme skepticism odd domains, like those with .edu or .org TLDs, or prominent universities on ccTLDs in Europe, assuming that most legitimate mail will come from inside an organization. I've seen it send directly to spam emails about papers, peer review, talks, emails from easychair.org, emails from major journals. I know of a case where it has sent emails from Nature's submission system to spam. I've seen it send emails from frequent collaborators to spam. Classifying emails as not spam seems to do little to nothing. Meanwhile, emails from major providers' email services, like gmail and outlook, often seem to get through, despite mostly being spam, and in some cases, rather obvious spam.

It seems likely that people have lost publications and talks as a result: the emails being rejected and spam-filtered are important emails. Yet as much as everyone seems to complain—and these are complaints I have heard from many people, at many universities—Microsoft seems to have continued success in selling Office365 to university IT services, and pushing everyone to use it.
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Anybody have any ideas on how to short the quantum computing space?
XT250 IMO is not very convenient for shopping.

Something like Majesty 400 is much better, or even old 2T 100cc Neo's if you can find one. It's amazing how much stuff fits in under the saddle. And I once moved a full-size ironing board on the latter, just duct-taped it to a rear handle and the front. Can't go that crazy on a proper motorcycle.
High electricity prices where?

In Europe? No.
Could you share some links to your work / research re: interfaces with focus on art? I'd be very interested to check it out.

https://quantumdelta.nl/ is some kind of hub but landing pages offer too much hype and too little content :)

thank you.
I used to encounter this back when I would ride kick scooters on sidewalks. Startling is instinctual and the verbalization of offense at one's existence(which often follows DARVO dynamics) happens in the process of catching up. But I've had success not getting negativity with urban biking more recently.

I rarely try to overtake pedestrians directly when off marked multiuse paths. Instead I stop pedaling and walk the bike while saying nothing. The persistent tick-tick noise activates their awareness after a few seconds, but I have to wait for a sign, and sometimes none appears so I will walk the whole block and overtake at the intersection. Regardless, they like that noise much more than a voice or a bell, because it's a bike that isn't imminently bearing down on them, so it primes their expectations.

This is facilitated by defaulting to the lowest gear, setting the saddle position low, and letting yourself cruise slow most of the time. Everyone, whether car, bike, or pedestrian, wants to default to "never stop, always be moving". But sometimes you have to explicitly yield and the adjustments away from efficient road cycling help with doing so.
> The law has nothing to say about anything until whatever it is has already gotten into court.

That implies that the law doesn't make it prohibitively difficult or expensive for someone to go to court and effectively defend their actions against a company with trillions of dollars in assets.

We know for example that the law makes it possible for a very wealthy party to drag out or complicate proceedings with the goal of making it prohibitively expensive for a party with less resources to continue. I'd say that counts as the law having something to say before a courtroom (or a verdict) is reached
What a horrible experience for this poor family. I can see this happening in other countries as well, all it takes is to trust the doctors a little too much. Maybe the UK is unique in that criticism of the NHS is taboo.
I think you might underestimate the time it took.

Would you only be satisfied if a year's worth of work had been spent?

He discussed that he considered a number of different things he could have done but since the original plan was not to commercialize the result (but instead just put it out on youtube) there probably was not a lot of budget and time available.

No-one's forcing anyone to watch this version.
Strange Days is a movie I go back to every now and then. It's bleakly great.

Trivia: Angela Bassett saying "right here, right now" from this movie is the sample used by Fatboy Slim on the song of the same name.

Movie scene:
https://youtu.be/JmL5uWrvUUM

Full song: https://youtu.be/ub747pprmJ8
I haven't had it yet... I've had four shots (2x Pf 1x Mod 1x Nov) and both my kids have had covid but the wife and I seemed to have missed it completely.
I looked after the kids when they got it and my wife is super careful about testing and mask wearing etc

I suspect I'm one of those lucky few who just are not suspectable to it.
they might work at -20C, but you cannot get ANYWHERE near the output out of them as you can when its hotter.

Several of my family members have heatpumps, myself included, and I can tell you that the COP reduces significantly as soon as we hit just 0C outside. my panasonic has a supposed SCOP of 5.1(or 5.2, cant recall), when it hits 0C here, its down to COP of ~2.5 at my best estimates.

when it hits -10, the COP is at best 2. I know this because I think around 1300W into it, and it is not able to heat my house more than a 2.5kW resistive heater.

this is their 3 year old flagship "nordic heat pump" that they will market as the sole heating solution for houses twice the size of mine, yet can barely do mine when it hits -5-10C :)

edit:
im not saying heatpumps are bad, they are great, but I dont think they are a great ONLY solution for places that are below 0C for more than tiny peak times.

when its 5-10C outside, and you want 22C inside, they are really amazing
> Firms that overpay salaries (defining overpay as paying far above the market rate in any given region)

Why the market rate in any given region? Why not just the market rate?
Admitting ignorance is a luxury that becomes affordable once you have knowledge, seniority, and respect. It can be an expensive hazard for those just starting out.
Everything you said applies to IP-reputation as well. There is nothing that makes domain-reputation inherently harder than IP-reputation.

Consider this: every legit IP address once started with the problem of having zero reputation.

How you build reputation from zero is simple: you start by being allowed to send only small amount of daily emails (rest goes to spam or is outright rejected by the recipient SMTP server). Then adjust reputation based on the usual factors (observe human recipients flagging emails as spam/not spam, watch for keywords like Viagra, etc, all the exact same stuff email providers already do). You gain or loose reputation over time, which affects how much you can send: a lot, or nothing.
Having worked in CK, I can vouch for the same view about the data science team. It was shocking how bad they were.
If you’re being silently discarded you likely have terrible reputation, and requiring verification will help to fix that.
It's not possible to design a tracking device which isn't at least somewhat dual-use.

It seems relevant that the most shocking story they could put together was about someone who found the AirTag and got a protection order against their stalker.

That is, in fact, how it's supposed to work. If you have an iPhone, you can find it quite exactly by playing 'hot cold', that being one of the main intended uses, emerging your keys from couch cushions.

If you don't, you do have to install an app. I guess the alternative to that is for Google to build this in?

More than evidence that stalkers will use AirTags, this article demonstrates that it's a good way to get caught red-handed stalking someone, with tangible physical evidence that a court will respect and understand.

If I were out there offering advice to stalkers, I'd tell them to use an AirTag, because: fuck stalkers, they deserve to get caught. You'd be sickened how many times these people can jump out of the bushes at their prey before the police pay attention.
To improve surveillance and tracking outcomes I recommend removing the AirTag speaker and to hide two or more AirTags with the target. AirTags are a boon to private surveillance.
Yet before that stage, they were a new tech, no one even had ideas of how to use.

So far, quantum computing is used in labs, not for any real useful purpose.
Airtags are a tool, and like most tools they can be used in ways that they're not supposed to be used. That doesn't make the tool a bad thing. In most of these cases the stalker could have used something else - a smartphone running an app, a Raspberry Pi running on a battery, something specifically designed for tracking someone - to achieve the same result.

The fact Apple makes it hard to get advice if you find one and suspect it's being used in a nefarious way is a problem which would be trivial for Apple to resolve though. They really ought to support users far more than they do.
This is how I think about it.

It's insurance money. If you're a manager of a big company like IBM, Microsoft or Google, you have to align your current product portfolio and future portfolio in such a way that shows your investor that your company will keep growing, even if your current products are stagnant.

You can surely say Quantum computing won't do much in next 5 years. But what about 10 years? 20 years? 30 years? The farther you look into the future, the bigger the probability of having a huge tech breakthrough that could give the company who has it a massive edge on the market.

Even if you have a chance of 1% of having a sort of transistor revolution from QC, it becomes a race to the bottom. If Google starts researching it, IBM will follow suit, and so will Microsoft. If in 30 years this turns out to be a big deal, no one will be 30 years behind.
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The enduring appeal of the four-day workweek
> Charging at home is so much better than waiting in line at the gas station every week.

There are lines at gas stations in developed countries? I can't even remember when I last saw one.
If they're consistently dropping mail, the user stays unverified. But a verification page is practically mandatory anyway for all sorts of reasons, not least checking the user hasn't mistyped their email.
Makes me wonder what percent of image searches would be better served by image generation?
I can't believe I have to login to use it, I also can't believe the generated content goes through automated content moderation before I get to see it.

The state of affairs in open AI software (the concept) is shameful.
The pattern continues onwards. Compliance orders usually have an expiration date, and companies usually go back to the same behavior after the compliance order expires. It's similar to catch me if you can except it's billions of dollars of staff and equipment and transactions.
Battery longevity is rapidly approaching the life of the car. 5% drop in 100,000 miles.
It is not about confusion, it is about convenience. I like the idea that water boils at 100°C since it is maybe the most important temperature in cooking. I like the fact that I can measure 500mL of water on a scale as 500g (and other liquids with a small error). Small details that make it more convenient in metric.

But there is something else, and I am asking you the question. Since you and your wife live in countries with different unit systems, isn't problem when doing each others recipes?

I mean I live in Europe, and if the recipe calls for 4 ounces of butter, I don't have a 4 ounces stick of butter, I have a 125g stick, which is not exactly that. A quart of milk is not exactly the liter I have. And my oven doesn't do 350°F, it does 180°C which is not exactly the same. In the end, I will have to adjust the recipe to my standards, and things may be lost (or gained) in translation, but it won't be the same.
Not sure if this is still the case, but -- this film wasn't available anywhere to stream. I ended up buying a DVD player and the DVD version just to watch it.
How can you seriously think it's OK to push the native population out of their own countries' most desirable cities... The place most of them were born, that their parents fought for (politically/through work), and worked to make a good place. Then here come people with absolutely no regards for tradition, or any sort of emotional connection to said place, no interest in said country in particular besides being "insanely cheap, safe and sunny". Portugal is not the US, cities are markedly different from each other, and have a deeply rooted history, that goes back centuries. You cant dispassionately just move from one city to another like you replace your iphones.
First Impressions Using Astro
A4 is metric paper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUF5esTscZI
The physics underpinning fusion was proven in the 1950's. Since then it's been an engineering problem.

The physics underpinning qc was arguably proven in the 2020's. It's not quite done (in the way that fusion was not quite done in the 50's) but there is a fairly clear set of demonstrations that QC's with error correction are possible. However the engineering barriers are fierce and there is still a possibility that they are insurmountable. In addition there are concerns that while QC will work the class of problems that is NP and also BQP may be very small. Even if a problem is in that group then it may be that the algorithms we have are not superquadratic or quadratic - meaning that the improvement that they offer over classical algorithms may be marginal.

Worse, there are often very good heuristic approaches to some of these problems which means that although a superquadratic QC approach would be an amazing breakthrough of computer science (genuinely amazing and worthy of accolades and prizes and fundamentally important for our understanding of the universe etc) it would offer only marginal economic value (possibly). Now, this is not true of some problems where there are exponential explosions and no good heuristics... but there is an even worse catch.. Which is that the quantum algorithms offer computer scientists fresh insight into what's tripping up the classical approaches. In this scenario it can be that an amazing breakthrough happens in QC, and someone uses that to get an insight that pushes the classical approach close enough to the QC approach as to render the QC approach marginal.

The theoretical picture is moving very fast though - so we will have to see.

On the other hand the practical side is moving more slowly. We see announcements that make one think that a Moore's law type of scaling is happening but hidden in the small print there are often (always as far I can decode) catches that mean that while the results look great they are still very much mired in problems. For example, are all the bits on a QC useable at once? Can they be used to form an actual algorithm? How long does the machine run for? How long does it take to start? Some of the answers are jarring - often only a small subset of a machine can be used in an actual problem solving episode; sometimes the machines run for a few steps only; sometimes the machines take 24hrs or longer to start.

It has taken 70 years to nearly build fusion reactors, it took 70 years to create mRNA vaccines. It may well take 70 years (from now) to build practical, valuable quantum computers. And something could go wrong on that path that just renders them moot.
I am always skeptical about these type of projects. Out of the box Unreal Engine supports C++ and Blueprint.

The problem with C++ is the slow compile times, and if you make mistakes the engine crashes. In general you produce stuff slower by using C++.

Blueprint is a visual scripting tool, it compiles fast. But it stores code as a binary blob in source control. And I'm personally not a fan of visual scripting, I would prefer scripting by just writing code.

So generally I prototype in Blueprint and then rewrite in C++ later on. I would love an intermediate language that has fast compile times and saves as a source file instead of a binary blob.

The problem is most of the projects that integrate with another language get abandoned after a while. MonoUE was abandoned, USharp was abandoned, now the newest attempt to integrate UE with C# UnrealCLR looks abandoned. SkookumScript doesn't support UE5. Haxe support for UE was abandoned.

Do I really want to risk writing a ton of code in a language that might not support future engine versions? To be honest, I don't want to take that risk.
The US doesn't use Imperial units, it wasn't part of the British Empire at the time that system was standardised.

It uses US Statute Units which are similar but not always the same as Imperial Units.

There are some very important differences...

Hence the reason that no Brit is ever impressed with a "pint" served in a US bar. It looks like the barman forgot to pour all of it. :P

We should retire Imperial, US and Nautical units and switch everything to SI Metric.

Having several definitions of mile, pint, gallon, foot, etc in use, at the same time, is just feckin' silly.
my lack of respect for religion aside, this story seems utterly ridiculous to me.

I enjoy eating vegan food in vegan restaurants, but that doesn't make me a vegan.

I avoid pork, but that doesn't make me a muslim.

for crying out loud.. religion is group belief nothing more. who gives a shit about the special rules these people have about their beliefs.
it's their beliefs, not mine.
Let it sit for a day, will probably sort itself.
If you buy a mains power meter, it should have a "W" mode rather than make you do maths.

I do wish panel-level monitoring was cheaper, though; does anyone have any suggestions for this?
Mass printing isn’t done on A4 directly. It’s done on printing machines of a larger size and then cut and folded as needed.
Compressing global illumination with neural networks
Under the UK system, the PM is both pretty much all powerful AND chosen by the party. That means about 100k people will be picking who will be elected dictator for about the next 2 years. It's pretty crazy IMHO.
Let's not start throwing pejoratives around, there is nothing half-assed about having an idea how your design will work before you blindly start coding probably-wrong stuff.

I've also found having apparent time-luxury to be a rather paradoxical thing, the more of it you have, the more people start spending it by creating bureaucracy and busy-work. It never gets spent how you expect it to be spent.
Really? In the UK it's still better to run an EV, and I thought they were the hardest hit at the moment?

Here's a recently updated article that suggests it's still a good deal:
https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/electriccars/article-111...
> End-user prices for electricity have been >0.20Eur/kWh for around 10 years now

Nah most of europe had it under 20ct per kwh until before covid

https://strom-report.de/medien/electricity-prices-europe-202...
It's even more premature to predict what will happen 20 years in the future.
>Electric vehicles are not good in cold weather,

The country with highest share of EV is… Norway. And by a huge margin.

https://alternative-fuels-observatory.ec.europa.eu/transport...

I think you're wrong.
Can somebody explain how the stalking actually works? As I understand, the wireless technology is short-range? How does the stalker know where the tag is if they're not next to it?
The Mina Blockchain [0]

[0] https://docs.minaprotocol.com/static/pdf/technicalWhitepaper...
Nobel Prize winner Gregg Semenza retracts four papers
> that was one of the best decisions of my life...

Why?
Thing is fusion is known to be possible - the sun and hydrogen bombs. Quantum Computing lacks equivalent existence proofs. There's a lot of abstract theory but no real indication it is possible to scale up in the real physical world to useful problem sizes and reasons to doubt that it is possible.
The design of Seiko h-timetron
what's GBM?
>categorical variables have a 1000+ potential values that need 1-hot encoding

You typically do not need to 1-hot encode categorical variables as the common implementations like LightGBM and Catboost have native efficient ways to handle them. Googling around I can't easily find cases where people get better results with GBM+one-hot and I haven't either, though I haven't worked with 1000+ values categorical variables much.

>deep learning almost always outperforms

This doesn't the case in the article we are commenting on, nor on Kaggle but given that DL models occasionally (though rarely) outperform I'm willing to believe this is one of those cases. Any recommendation on which DL models in particular I should test this claim?
Far be it for me to tell people what setup they should use but it sure sounds like you are unhappy with the value you are getting for your money.
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