skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Well, there's a reason you never hear the weather forecaster talk about a -20% chance of rain tomorrow -- it really does make as little sense as it sounds.

Maybe negative probabilities do make sense?

1 = the event is certain to happen (state moves from A->B)

0 = the event is certain not to happen (state does not change)

-1 = the event is certain to unhappen (state moves from B->A)

If this is the case, to say something is "quantum" is another way of saying the thing has time symmetry and arrow of time can move in either direction.

This gels with experience. Microscopic processes are time symmetric, hence quantum. In the macroscopic domain (where there are lots of independent particles involved?), the reversal of state is less likely to happen, the arrow of time becomes apparent and so the quantum becomes less apparent (aka decoherence is occurring).

Is there any sense in this interpretation?
Why instead of expecting a language to get math, don't we use the language model to generate code, run the code and use the result?

If a language model basically is the equivalent of a dumb human, how can we expect it to be better than us at math?Most humans use calculators even for simple equations.

I've been thinking about giving access to a search engine and a command line to a GPT-3 based AI, so that it can choose to run code it wrote or to expand its knowledge, I think that's a good way to expand its capabilities, even if that's probably how we're going to get skynet in the end.
Automagically open pull requests with GitHub Actions
20 GitHub Actions later, I decided to write down all the steps to configure GitHub Actions to open pull requests in an automated way.

Hope it is helpful for you!

To be transparent, blog is hosted at Aiven, the company where I work.
My last job was far less data than yours (more like 100's of GB/day), and it wasn't surprising it handled it with ease. I love that DB so much. So performant, and far easier to admin than Cassandra.
I would love to know how it was developed - what languages, technology stack they used before Unity and other things came about to make coding a MMPORG easier.
I do agree with that, problem is all the other django-related packages that come with it, especially Django Rest Framework (framework is in the name here).
I like some parts of it, e.g. Authentication, permissions, but IMO we often have to bend our code so it fits DRF views, and above all their serializers (which I despise). Obviously we could drop this part of DRF, but it would mean to drop DRF entirely, and I'm not sure everyone is ready to do just that.
> I remember when the 'blues' had a war with the 'reds' because they were sick of PKing, so they opened portals to the red towns with ~100 people flowing in, lag following closely behind, and reds getting murdered everywhere. For a couple of hours they were just going everywhere in a giant group murdering all the red players as payback.

Interesting that art imitates life:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_Vespers

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiatic_Vespers

In both cases a group with a grudge decided to massacre the other over 1 day.

From the second link:

> The massacre was planned scrupulously to take place on the same day in several major towns and cities with large Roman populations scattered across Anatolia: Ephesus, Pergamon, Adramyttion, Caunus, Tralles, Nysa, and the island of Chios.
Once a politician - always a politician - it was "consulting" fees.
If your team at a startup of <=10 people assumes you are lying or that you have no idea how someone performs (to the point of firing a good performer for bad performance) you've got much bigger problems than that employee.
Also I don't understand why modern shells are so conservative about the defaults. I understand that if a single history file is large, it might slow down shell startup and operation, but at the very least shells could/should do periodic history file rotation. It's very very very unlikely that the history files will be eating all the disk space.
This looks really good. I saw so many pain points during code reviews in teams. I definitely check that out :)
My point is you can block JS on uBO.
It’s clear the article is about electric cars, so the GP’s point about ICE dragsters is irrelevant. (Note also that the HN title has been edited; the original title was just "Students break acceleration world record". In any case, dragsters are irrelevant here.)
Aren't you talking about DRF's Serializers ? Django itself does not have serializers. But otherwise, I completely agree with that statement.
Testing ground names found in code prompts investigation into Tesla Autopilot
I do not think SQLite compresses data by default. Can you point to any documentation suggesting otherwise?
I'm not a quantum scientist, but I don't think this is the correct view amplitude. If a configuration has amplitude -1 for electron located in some place, it doesn't mean that there's a positron there.
SQLite isn't compressed. There is a commercial offering from the creators of SQLite that adds compression but its rarely seen in the wild to be honest.
Zeronet kind of do this
He/the Lib Dems weren't pushing for a referendum though - that wasn't part of their manifesto was it?
Here[0] is the episode covering BQN. Marshall has since joined the panel for the podcast.

https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode-07-marshall-lochb...
Slightly silly sketch (bash):

sqlite-utils create-table ~/commands.db commands id integer text text --pk id
PROMPT_COMMAND="( fc -n -l -1 | perl -p -e 's/^\s+//; chomp if eof' | sqlite-utils insert --text ~/commands.db commands - & )"

It's slow, has perl & python external deps, needs a timestamp column, call subshell to avoid job control messages, ...

A nicer single "prompt command" wrapper is certainly possible though.
Not a fan of how D3.js "examples" from the web page take you to the Observable "way" of doing things. Not a fan of observable.

It's free, so I can't complain.
The first recorded aerial “battle” between the Ukrainian and the Russian copters
Do you know of any successful MMO made with Unity? I have a hard time believing that it's responsible for any ease of MMO development, but I haven't played MMOs much since WoW/FFXIV so maybe I'm behind.
On my wifes phone she didn't receive notifications for signal because the OS she had would suspend signal when it was inactive. So I had to manually change its battery saving settings.
Ah yes, that system where if I see a date like 11/12/22 on the web, then I can safely assume it is one of the following:

12th of November 2022
11th of December 2022
22nd of December 2011

Until I see a "disambiguating" date in the exact same context, I have localization to thank for making it impossible to determine what I'm seeing.

And I mean exact same context, because there are web portal where you will see date formats in multiple formats on the same page!
I don't know her but the drug is really known to make some people crazy
Because it could facilitate more code sharing between the platforms, reducing development costs, increasing the talent pool of engineers who can contribute to native mobile projects, allow for development toolchains outside of XCode and Android Studio.

It's just a case of offering a system API that could be called from whatever language - but Apple don't want iOS apps written in Kotlin or C++ and who knows why Android is so locked down.
Does AI Debias Recruitment? Race, Gender, and AI’s “Eradication of Difference”
You say that but then Line, WhatsApp and WeChat have been hugely successful depending on which part of the world you're in.
> We need some low effort, low risk, high reward ways to introduce folks young and old to the magical power of programming.

https://easylang.online/ide/ is my contribution to that.
Venture Firms Are Betting on Public Tech Stocks as Startup Market Stalls
>free forever

Like Geocities?
> Observable purports to be a platform that is trying to democratise data analysis and visualisation for the masses.

It is for profit
Why don't batteries scale to grid level? I don't see how this assertion could be justified. Do you mean a specific KIND of battery?

Renewables + storage certainly could provide 100% of the needs for the grid, in a properly designed system. At this point it's just a matter of quibbling over cost. Since the world could be spending upwards of a quadrillion current dollars on energy in the next century there's a hell of a lot of financial headroom to scale things up.
Yeah, I'm gay & bi guys in the gay community complain that they're not as accepted, which to some degree is definitely true. But the number of "bi" guys who want to bang guys on the side while looking for a "real" relationship with a woman is staggering. I try to avoid them at all costs; I'm not a fleshlight/something to discard.

I feel like the gay community needs to treat bi guys better but at the same time bi guys need to take a look at themselves and consider if they're romantically bi, or just sexually bi because they just want to fulfil their sexual needs (which is much easier with guys obviously).
ASCII art is strongly discouraged on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26662154
Among sophisticated consumers you would think people buy a laptop based on thermal envelope and longlasting performance on battery. The marketing around Intel CPU and the Nazi concentration camp style model numbers takeaway from an informed choice.
Telegram has huge amounts of video and audio data but they allow you to easily select and remove the cache for certain chats or sections of chats. It's a UX decision that Signal could "easily" copy.
I really like short and clever domains one of my favourite example is https://oh.mg
I'm not a quantum physicist either. The amplitude would have to be j or -j to get a probability of -1 (probability = amplitude squared?). Does +/-j correspond to a positron?
Aaronson wrote a great book "Quantum Computing since Democritus" discussing not just quantum mechanics and computing, but also such topics as algorithmic complexity and anthropic principle. It is located somewhere between science and pop-science: it contains quite a few proofs and technical details, while remaining quite approachable for a non-expert.
I get the feeling the Austrian TLD is still mismanaged. You can’t even have it on route53 unless they finally added support. I’m assuming that’s not an accident.
Large firms have the resources to overhaul infrastructure, and even with a project failure rate of 54% often manage to complete migrations.

Only small shops get hit hard when things go wrong.
Really interesting! How would you say it compares to Astro[0]? Astro is currently either all-SSG or all-SSR, but this quarter they're working on configuring that per -route.

[0] https://astro.build
C++ is complicated. But Bjarne Stroustrup says - it needs its complexity to work in places like space where you can't send a technician. Languages like Python and Javascript are easier- but don't give you that control.
Someone needs to do a screen recording on something light this and give it some sunlight/reveal the company. I hear about this practice frequently, but have never seen video.
Trees are a good sound absorber. Which creates a healthier soundscape : less noise, reduced stress, lower rates of heart disease.

cf https://www.treehugger.com/how-do-trees-reduce-noise-polluti...
Yes, the author thought that N should be before M since they have an ascending number of ‘humps’.
that also happens in the USA already. There are tax auctions all the time.
I agree, it's defense in depth.

However, suppose I'm a famous carmaker [1]. What are the chances that I screw up and publish my CMK in a public repo, compared to the chances of my CSP screwing up and publishing my tenant's PMK on a public repo?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33155138
The Collaborative Metaverse
> You do not in fact need to make a "claim for unjust enrichment" to recover profits earned through an intentional tort.

I would need a lot more than your assertion to be convinced of this. Here's Ward Farnsworth introducing his book, Restitution: Civil Liability for Unjust Enrichment:

> Restitution is the mirror image of tort law. You sue in tort to recover for losses that you have suffered. You bring a restitution claim to recover gains that another party has obtained. In some cases it makes no difference which claim you bring, because your losses and the other side's gains are the same. Or you might prefer a tort claim because your losses are bigger than the defendant's gains, as usually is true when you suffer damage in an accident. But sometimes going after the defendant's gains will allow a much bigger recovery, or is the plaintiff's only way to recover at all.

> Restitution is the great overlooked topic in American private law. In this country most students can't learn about it even if they want to; few schools teach the subject. Students only hear about restitution as the name of an occasional remedy in contract cases. But restitution is the name of a claim, not just a remedy. So lawyers often overlook restitution and sometimes try to use tort and contract to solve problems that restitution law would handle better. Missing or misunderstanding the right to go after a defendant's gains can be a very expensive oversight.

( https://reason.com/volokh/2014/10/27/restitution-law-interes... )

Here we see a brief mention of Jesse Ventura's novel (in 2014) legal strategy of including a claim for unjust enrichment in his defamation suit: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...

(From the piece: "The jury awarded plaintiff $500,000 for defamation, and $1,345,477.25 on the unjust enrichment theory.")

Why would he do that, if it were just part of how all torts are handled? What would be unusual about it? (And why would Ward Farnsworth introduce the subject by pointing out that "tort claims and restitution claims are opposite things"?)
It's not really clear how she euthanized her cat. That would seem pretty important.
The nightmare of customer support automations
He got his referendum, but the Tories promptly ran ads saying proportional representation would hurt babies [1] and it didn't pass.

[1] https://eu-browse.startpage.com/av/anon-image?piurl=https%3A...
This is an argument against vesting cliffs. The function should be continuous.
There's also a lot of exciting developments coming out of academia, see structured encryption and its applications for encrypted search for example https://esl.cs.brown.edu/pubs/
You don't have unlimited text messages on your mobile plans?

I've never ever heard anyone care about, discuss, or even mention chat bubble color. All of this sounds like something that only US American teens and kids would react to, like they judge people by their skin color or what kind of clothes they're wearing.
How do you get the proxies?

Are you using peoples mobile data and home internet connections without their knowledge?

I'm guessing that this mostly uses "free" apps that relay traffic for third parties?
Wowowowow thanks for your efforts behind this!

I’ve integrated vite with a rust backend[1] and so many people have asked me how I managed to achieve SSR because they equate SSR with render+hydrate but it’s really just classical SSR. I think I can finally make their dreams come true because of this.

[1] https://github.com/Wulf/create-rust-app
Ditched VSCode for PyCharm when I started learning Python.

Simply using it for a few months convinced me to upgrade to the Pro edition, the same vibes as when I used Borland Turbo C - VSCode just has that bloated feeling like Eclipse.
Scott Aaronson's introduction of Quantum Theory as "a certain generalization of probability theory" is very nice and to the point.

(Further Reading)

These notes of Greg Kuperberg are more accessible than Caves, Fuchs, and Schack (at least for me):

"An introduction to quantum probability, quantum mechanics, and quantum
computation"

https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~greg/intro.pdf
Looks good! I will try it with my 6-year-old later today.
Unless you're renting, I guess.
That's not true though. The answer isn't to use a database abstraction, but to architect your software to make changes straightforward. If you design your code properly (push database queries through a standard set of APIs that are reused everywhere, put queries in their own functions or classes, never put queries in components, etc) then moving to a different database is a relatively simple matter of updating your DB layer. A database abstraction makes people think "I can change my database just by changing the db adapter, so why think about my DB code at all!" That is the problem.

You don't need a wrapper that understands the APIs for different databases when you're only using one database. What you need is to think about how you write your code.
Chinese 'flying car' makes first public flight in Dubai
If they lose - what does that mean?
At least they have the money to fight this.
Yes, my GOTO demonstration was always:

10 PRINT "STEVE ROCKS!!!!!"
20 GOTO 10
Many people, including myself, don't find the whole "cycles"/percentage thing attractive, though. Especially for a longer term relationship, why would you want to date someone who loved you for who you were only part of the time? Especially seeing as its something you can't change about yourself.

In reality I've generally found that many "bi" guys are just waiting for a "real" relationship with a chick, while doing guys on the side. Hell, even outside of relationships, most bi guys I've met would pick a chick over a guy 9 times out of 10. Some of that is due to the fact it's a lot rarer/harder for them to hook up with a chick vs a dude (latter being more open and free with sex).

If someone is bi, has a romantic/sexual preference for both and experiences periods where they really do prefer one or the other then a traditional relationship is probably not going to work best for them; something poly or very open seems like the batter option, where their partner is aware and agrees to it.
> AND they don't act as if there wasn't a network in between

…But there is a network in between. I'm not sure why pretending there isn't can somehow make a system less complex.

Furthermore, how do you write automated tests for your modals and slide-out panels? Your test suite needs to essentially run a browser. This is absolutely more complex than having an application on the server compute the document that the client expects.
12000 years grinding corn. 20000 years herding sheep.
Is this like ground rent in the UK for leasehold property? This is a thing but usually a fairly insignificant cost as long as you keep renewing it with decades to spare.
Max C rates are indeed quite amazing on RC batteries. You can jump start the petrol engine of a car with a small 12V quadcopter battery that weighs 300g.
Put 2 or 3 in parallel and you can start a diesel engine, which usually needs a 20kg acid-lead battery.
If you don't trust your CSP (the threat model discussed in the article) then I'm not sure that confidential computing will save you as you're relying on the CSP to implement and provide that service faithfully.

The CSP installs chooses and installs and manages the hardware, you can likely only interface with that hardware through CSP provided software, if the CSP is malicious it would seem likely that they could backdoor this stack to allow them access to encryption keys...

If you don't trust the CSPs surely the right answer is on-prem hardware.
Based on the comments here, the heavy lifting is done in software. If it takes off, I fully expect Google to start licensing it out the way they do much of their hardware (Chromebooks, Android, etc).
Measure theory itself only became a formal branch of mathematics around the turn of the 20th century and complex measures developed pretty much in the fairway of quantum mechanics (which appeared at the same time). This is in stark contrast to e.g. non-euclidean geometry, which had already been well formalised into its own branch decades before the invention of GR.
True. Also whether she previously “felt sorry” for the cat for some reason, maybe
it was sick and suffering and the drug just switched her mind.
If this statistic is true, it would mean that Google's Android will have a poor future - at least in the USA.
As a junior part of a coalition, they could only get through a few policies. The media put a lot of focus on tuition fees, but they weren't high up the Lib Dem agenda (e.g. the first mention in their manifesto[0] was on page 33).

In contrast, the Lib Dems did manage to pass same-sex marriage (frustratingly, many seem to credit the Tories or Cameron for this despite a majority of Tories voting against it at both readings[1]).

The Lib Dems also managed to block the Digital Economy Bill, AKA the "Snoopers Charter" (the Tories later passed it, once they got a majority in parliament).

The Lib Dem's top priority has always been voting reform, and Clegg seemed to gamble away far too much in an attempt to get it. All they managed was a referendum on a watered-down AV system (AFAIK the Lib Dems want STV, as used by Northern Ireland); which was heavily campaigned against by both Labour and Tories, and failed spectacularly :(

[0] https://general-election-2010.co.uk/2010-general-election-ma...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_(Same_Sex_Couples)_Ac...
Looks cool, but sad to see this is US only. I wonder if this is because regulations, latency requirements, or both?
Are you in a position to offer the cash value of the impending vest? (Not back to an old 409a, but at a current or projected reasonable valuation.)

If so, that keeps your cap table clean, which has value, but still pays the employee for their time.

You know the mistake you made in waiting too long to decide to fire, so I won’t harp on that.
Professional open the bag before the auction and try to find identifyable documents or illegal materials. There should be no way to clearly identify a person over their lost luggage, otherwise they are not given into the auction. Furthermore some time has to pass, so there is no claim on the specific luggage item.
Only then the luggage is truly lost and without identifiable owner.

I really don't see a moral problem with this. Allthough you have a point and this can be done immorally, if these measures weren't in place.
Does this put your mind at ease? Or does something else needs to be done to ensure the privacy of the previous anonymous owners?
Where I live we have a "right to roam" over other peoples land as long as we behave sensibly and follow some simple restrictions - seems to work perfectly well.
Salesforce hit with layoffs and a new hiring freeze
Excuse me?

Where did I said Shopify not putting resources when the last part of my comment was exactly about Shopify putting resources into Ruby Rails.

Microsoft have contribution into Ruby? Or Do you meant Github has Core Contributor in Rails? Name me a single Microsoft employees actively helping in Ruby Core.
I had the UK equivalent (ish) - the Dragon 32. The best thing about it was that it used Microsoft Basic. This came in handy when I did my final year computing project at university in Visual Basic 1.0.
So? What is your point?
I was going to counter your claims, but I found a comment a couple days ago that perfectly sums up what I was going to say: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33148071
The answer to that is “they worked 50 out of the 52 weeks; it was a leadership mistake earlier to not hold everyone to the high bar we expect, but we still act ethically towards all of our stakeholders, even when doing so is inconvenient.”
Yes, the BEAM/OTP/{Erlang/Elixir} stack is unique in that it provides similar primitives as part of the runtime.

My impression of that approach is that it’s good for IO-bound work and stateful business logic, but less so for the CPU/memory-bound applications that we’re targeting. I’d love to know if there are counterexamples to that though. It’s admittedly been over a decade since I touched Erlang and I’m not up to date, only peripherally familiar with Elixir and Phoenix.