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> some entity that irrevocably changes state because of the quantum events

Yes, "observer" is ambiguous at best.

One query with your proposed definition is: what do you mean by "irrevocable"? If you believe that the quantum state (wavefunction) is objective and independent - and does not collapse but evolves reversibly according to the Schrodinger equation - then nothing is irrevocable, it's just a technical challenge of "can we reverse the evolution of this patch of the universe". Yes, there is this decoherence process, but even that is reversible if you expand your "patch of the universe" sufficiently.

Not many famous physicists believe human consciousness is required for a physical quantum collapse process to occur. John Bell put it nicely:

> Was the wave function waiting to jump for thousands of millions of years until a single-celled living creature appeared? Or did it have to wait a little longer for some highly qualified measurer—with a PhD?

You might be interested to know that people have wondered about what happens if you replace the cat by something that is definitely an "observer": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner%27s_friend . Until the friend (F) tells Wigner (W) the outcome that he experienced when measuring a photon (P), then Wigner supposes that F is quantum entangled with P, i.e. they are in a joint superposition of states. However, the friend supposes that P is in a definite state.
Being “off” means that what the monitor emits is not exactly what it should have been. Too bright, too dark, too red, too whatever. There is no one “off”, every display is differently incorrect, so it would be impossible to use as a reference. The correct reference is a sufficiently accurate representation what every display aims to be, even if they don’t quite get there. That’s what calibration does: get closer to the target all displays are trying to achieve.
I know exactly what you mean. I saw it with a £40 amazon telescope.

You know that weird feeling when you, for whatever reason, take another route from somewhere you know well, find you've arrived at an unusual end of another place you know well. The moment of connection, realisation that these two places are linked in this way.

I felt that, but on a huge level seeing Saturn's rings for the first time. For years outerspace, without me realising, occupied a place in my encyclopedias, books, internet images from NASA. Maybe subconscious me didn't really 'believe' it was actually just above my head this whole time.
I don't understand why it seemingly doesn't bother more people, always feels like that 'there are dozens of us!' meme when something like this is posted here. Scrum is depressing, it makes miserable factory-like work (or makes miserable factory-like work unapologetically transparent, perhaps). I can't think of any other profession that it wouldn't shock me to hear they work like this.
> Icons are used for a very good reason; us humans have a remarkable visual memory.

That's why since some 10 years they change it regularly.
On the contrary, I've seen product teams assume the pain of the consumer and relay the same to engineering; and then engineers having to push back on the insane requirements.

Nevertheless, product which work in an agile model without collaborating with tech is doomed to fail
A Dinosaur Is a Story
React is the worst form of front-end development. Except for all others.
It may sound it but I promise it’s not. Order filling is surprisingly simple but the devil is in the details, as always.

https://dylanlott.com/orderbook

If you’re interested in reading more. I’m planning a part 2 update to it soon.

Edited to fix my link.
Yeah after using CloudFormation, Terraform, Pulumi, AWS CDK and k8s + YAML, I'm convinced using a real programing language idiomatically is the correct way of doing IaC.

Many languages totally support declarative idioms out of the box (like you mention), there's no need to reinvent anything here.

In particular I'm a big fan of AWS CDK, although it only works for AWS. (Yes, I know about CDKTF, but it's buggy alpha software).
Come on, don't you see the difference between a serious project backed up with preliminary study and a marketing video ?

You don't get to try something when the physic is against you. So you approve the every now and then 'genious' that found some new free energy and claims everybody is against it ?

You mentionned first the sceptics of SpaceX, so you must have better sources than me on that. I don't remember any reliable critcs of Space X at the time.
She goes to fix the fuses wet from having a shower and possibly barefoot?
Ask HN: “The H in engineer stands for Happiness”. What do you think?
I found this quote on Twitter. Unfortunately, it is true for me. How about you?
If "everyone knows" via the media that there's going to be a toilet paper run on chips and your business depends on shipping product, you'd be a fool not to stock up while there was still stock, instead of going out of business until the nonsense blows over. So I know a small time Ham Radio kit mfgr (its like a one man shop) who STILL has about three years sales volume of Arduino-alike chips in his closet.

Sucks locking up that much money in inventory AND contributing to a toilet-paper run, but for him it beats unemployment, and for me, I can buy and build his kits which is better than not being able to...

In a greater economic policy way, its an inflation-reducer. He has a huge pile of money locked up in his closet in the form of unprogrammed Arduino chips, instead of hyperinflating stuff he could have bought like a better spectrum analyzer or real estate or whatever else.
We're going from semiconductor shortage to assembly shortage.

The real shortage is energy, and that is why the US HAS the strangle the dollar liquidity.

FIAT money is only worth something if it's backed by scarcity and violence.

It's downhill from here for eternity, I suspect you wont be able to buy anything off the shelf in a couple of months/years.

Which is why you should buy last generations quality hardware now at peak architecture/lithography (14nm Atom, 14nm Xeon 4-core (larger has memory contention and is too power hungry), 28nm Raspberry 4).

This generation and the next is/will be less open/repairable and have higher max TDP which is a problem with unreliable power.
Twitter tells employees there are no plans for layoffs
A lot of algorithms that used to fall under 'AI' are now considered 'just good software'.

As soon as we really understand how it works, we no longer call it AI. (And it becomes predictable).

"AI" is to "Computer Science" what "Magic" is to "Science".
> No, not really. Excellent, without a doubt, of course.

By 2010, Apple was shipping 50 million iPhones a year and had just started shipping iPads. Under Tim Cook, Apple had been buying up the majority of flash storage for years between the iPods and the iPhone.

Also, while you “appeal to authority”. It’s not like you can’t find information on the web about how far ahead Apple was already starting to become by 2010. In 2013, they shipped a 64 bit mobile CPU years before every one else.

It’s hard to manufacture hardware at scale especially when you can’t just be a piece assembly like Dell and you have to design everything yourself and get third party hardware manufacturers to cooperate.

> I think you missed my point. This is not part of "Innovators Dilema". The erroneous prediction you correctly noted was part of different work by the same author.
I’ve heard stuff like this before. The people that say it are generally advocating for plain HTML/CSS/JS.
That's a pretty fucking good milkshake. I don't know if it's worth five dollars but it's pretty fucking good.
Another, tax-advantaged, way for a company to return money to shareholders is through share buybacks. Investors should add net buybacks to dividends to assess how much a company is "yielding".

A company should be reinvesting most profits when there are strong growth opportunities (for example Tesla), and paying out most profits when there are not (for example tobacco companies).
"Opportunity costs might favor just sending your data to and paying corps with compliance guarantees than spend time fiddling with 2022 era diffusion models."

This is exactly why I pay $30 per month for MidJourney. The output is just phenomenally better than most of the images coming out of SD, and the UI is much better as well. It's just not worth my time fiddling with SD if the results are so bad in comparison.

If/when SD catches up, I'd jump ship to using it in a heartbeat.
Someone can be both a better physicist and have a poorer understanding of physics. We have the luxury of time. We can learn about the great discoveries that the great physicist developed from scratch. Just imagine the type of discoveries he would have made if he was born in the late 20th century.
This is lampshaded a bit in the novel length version of the story, where the theory of universal gravitation was invented only recently because the complexity of motion of the bodies involved made it incredibly non-obvious.

Also, there are six suns.
Thanks for the link, it was an interesting read!

I'm not arguing that you can't calculate BB numbers, in fact we've calculated some of them. What I'm arguing is that you can't calculate all the BB numbers, since this will mean that the Halting Problem is solvable. Using the results of your link I guess we can say that BB numbers can be computed if n<748 (or <20 according to Aaronson).

> In 2016, he and his graduate student Adam Yedidia specified a 7,910-rule Turing machine that would only halt if ZF set theory is inconsistent. This means BB(7,910) is a calculation that eludes the axioms of ZF set theory. Those axioms can’t be used to prove that BB(7,910) represents one number instead of another, which is like not being able to prove that 2 + 2 = 4 instead of 5.

OMG! A number that's so much big that can be contained in the ZF set theory.
> India

> > dumbest ..worst of the worst

Modi maybe worst, but dumb he is not.

He didn't have a college degree, but from nobody to becoming a pm with a full mandate for two terms in a country of billion is not something a dumb person can achieve.
I use SwiftKey (but without swipe) on both Android and iPhone.
Now that MS is retiring it I am not sure what I will do when I switch iPhone (fortunately I have just upgraded to 14 a couple of months ago so for few years I should be fine..)
What a surprise. Apple holding up progress towards an open format.
> The customers hated it.

Sigh. You screwed up. You gave the users what you wanted to give, not what they wanted. You must always test & iterate.

> The next release had a lot more text.

Yes, I was too general - different interface needs must get different interfaces. Sometimes icons aren't appropriate, sometimes icons + text is better, sometimes you have to get creative.

> For one thing, icons tend not to translate well

I said that.

> We're best off using ISO icons[0], but designers hate them, and always insist on reinventing the wheel.

That's a flaw in the designers, not the icons then. Are you blaming the icons for that failure?

Edit: those icons don't seem to have anything to do with standard computer desktop UIs AFAICS, am I missing somethign?
I mean, first paragraphs of the article explain what this is for.
Surely there must be tons of DNA when somebody gets bitten?

Even if the mere presence is not enough for a conviction, it should be enough to disprove that "fun times" explanation.
We don’t know what Hans’s resources are. Perhaps his lawyers are working pro bono or otherwise agreed to take his case on contingency, with the rationale being that Hans is a public figure and this case may serve as advertisement for the law firm.
Being text-based. Which leads to people constructing protocol messages by printf and therefore tons of injection bugs.
It is quite slow compared to other cities with metro I visited. I think mainly due to too many stops. On some parts I got impression than metro platforms take more than 30% of the line fragment which is ridiculous.
This is a useful way to think about how markets/platforms evolve.

I have yet to use Airbnb. But it seems that the target customer has changed. I have been aware of them since they first showed up on Hacker News. They were pitched as renting an airbed where hotels are not a useful choice. That target customer is a demographic that I had aged out of before they started. If they were still marketing only to very young people willing to sleep on an airbed and not risk-averse to bedbugs, there would be a lot less disappointment. But of course the company wants to, as all do, grow to other customers and markets.

I wonder if the original investors always thought that they would try to compete with hotels for higher end customers as they do now.
I'm testing Ubidrop on Pixel 3 (latest OS update installed).

"App update is needed to send to that device".

Hmm what, so I'm not installing the latest APK?
But users can grow accustomed to what an icon means over time right? It happened with the floppy disk icon, the notification bell, open folder, etc. If you start it out as [icon][description] for the first few iterations wouldn't the user eventually learn to associate the icon for the action?
Remember when you could get an Ubuntu CD (including jewel case) from the front cover of a magazine?
It needs to be on a multi cloud redundant kubernetes cluster at least.
To be fair, that's the novelty factor and when this hits "the public" it is not unthinkable that there'll be some "productivity issues".

IMO it is like finding a computer in a world without them. It is mind-blowing and it will take over your mind if you let it. For some folks that results in lots of porn, for others it'll be fear. My guess is that it'll wear off eventually.
I feel like the term 'engineer' is pretty wide and nothing inherently unhappy about it.

Instead of going into that, how about look at why you are unhappy? What unfulfilled desires do you have?
It's fundamentally a problem of trust. Hotels and big brands work because you can trust them. Why do you trust them? Because they have skin in the game. If their products suck their brand suffers and that's what they want to avoid the most. If Apple releases crappy products they can't just create a new "BtwNotApple" brand. They can sell overpriced products because you're paying for trust/brand.

In these semi-anonymous marketplaces you fundamentally don't have trust. There is no skin in the game for sellers since their identity and brand is not sticky. If you get banned or do something against the ToS it's not a big deal. Regulation is a possibility, e.g. make people go to jail, but I doubt that could work on this scale. Or it would make innovation impossible. You need a fundamentally different incentive model.
The first one is "to indicate the entered data is saved" and it's been registered since 2004. I think it's more in the context of forms and less about saving a modified file.

Never seen it before either.
What's the missing context for this thread? This person seems upset at something, but it's entirely unclear what they're actually talking about...
Companies that are very Scrum focused aren't actually all that common in my experience. If your job is depressing because of it, it may be time to look around. Remember to ask how the new place does things, so that you're not stuck with more of the same.
Ask HN: What Happens to Older Designers?
We have seen a lot of discussions on HN regarding ageism in engineering, and the paths for an engineer are more or less visible for me.

What happens to ageing / older designers? What is their path if not for an inevitable pivot to management / product management?
Barry Duncan: I wrote a palindrome for a friend that's 800 words long.

Peter Norvig: Hold my beer [1]

[1]: https://norvig.com/palindrome.html
We Will See the Return of Capital Investment on a Massive Scale
Once again, all of this, including what you just said in this comment is already discussed in the article!
I'm in the same boat, I was expecting some punchline .. it's just moaning without anything concrete
Why does Twitter have 7500 staff seriously?
iOS text entry and manipulation has always been a disaster in my opinion. It didn’t even have basic copy and paste for many generations. And now, text selection is nonsensical, and prediction is also similarly awful.

I still prefer to use an iPhone overall but this is one area where Android has always been superior I think.
In my experience, studying a topic deeply is similar to going to the gym. It requires that you dedicate time to it very regularly, and being regular is far more important than the duration of individual sessions.

Also like going to the gym, it's extremely hard to maintain the required regularity if you aren't enjoying it. The only way I have found to consistently work out is to find a deeply technical sport (BJJ, not that it matters) that I actually care to do well. It's the same with technical subjects; the only ones I'm able to study deeply are the ones I find deeply interesting.

With this in mind, my advice is as follows: approach "deep study" in a playful way, and study topics that interest you without regard for whether or not they are "useful". The utility is never far behind, anyway.
The entire song is made up of palindromes. It contains the following variation of the post title:

Was it a car or a cat I saw?
JavaScript and CSS both provide abstractions for complexity.

So, I am not sure exactly what your point is?
A language model could help to create text that's not so artificial, I would think.
Pyinfra automates infrastructure super fast at scale
Wisdom for ansible would be to ditch ansible and any similar tool.
Oh, absolutely. But the reason given as an excuse was still ethics.
Nope, it goes up per-capita as well.
It’s similar, but it’s not the same. I’m not yet ready to accept that the sensation of “wet” is only the result of pressure and heat transfer. Which is why, though similar, you can still tell the difference.
It's a part of Mac's design philosophy, probably goes all the way back to 1984. Since we're discussing making XFCE act more like a Mac, I would find the experience incomplete without this important detail.

It might boil down to preference, but - trying to be objective - this paradigm makes more sense, especially as you watch apps on other systems struggle to achieve the same goals (e.g. via tray icons), which usually don't work consistently, or require setting additional preferences. If I close a music player window, I want the music to keep playing. If I close the activity monitor window, I want the app to continue accumulating stats to make a graph - unless I quit the app entirely. Closing the window/tab (Cmd-w) and quitting the app (Cmd-q) are distinct actions. Now why would a note-taking app work differently? This is a more coherent design, that puts less cognitive load on the user.

It works because each app tries to stick to one task - you're switching between tasks, not windows. The counterexample that illustrates how bad can this problem get, is the terminal apps: every window with mutt, vim, ncmpc, top, or irssi looks the same, has the same icon, BUT has different keyboard shortcuts! Madness.

> It would be cool if MacOS offered an option to chose.

I will argue that having a more thought-thru and consistent paradigm is more important than having more options - especially if all the options still can't get you a decent experience.

It's definitely achievable through third-party applications; you can probably DIY something using Hammerspoon.
I used mostly red this year, sometimes the green one too. Much worse than Valencia for example.
Y/ou can't comment unless you pay to subscribe.. lol - isn't that a company blog post?

Anyways.. this shit grinds me.. yet another "open source" AI proejct pretending to be fo rthe people.. finally get a massive valuation and now it's all "we must be security concious"..

Hypocrtyes and here is an interview with the founder of Stable Diffusion stating the exact opposite approach by "having faith in people"!

https://youtu.be/YQ2QtKcK2dA?t=704
For many years, my father used an NEC 8201a [0] for just this purpose - sitting comfortably writing without distraction. He’d later feed the text into his PC for layout.

It also had BASIC, which I used to play with – and at one later point, I even wrote a little program in Visual Basic to simplify the process of transferring text from the NEC to his PC, including getting rid of the many erroneous carriage returns that the process otherwise inserted.

[0] https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=334
VDCLUJ22 Keynote: Collaborating on Open Source Software
The pictures changes as your family grows, needing two or three hotel rooms or only special family rooms makes Airbnb more affordable.

Unless something has changed in the last months I always found a direct hotel order cheaper and easier than booking/hotels dot com, not to mention fake rates, irrelevant reviews or non existing rooms.
Not just murky. Surf around and you can find companies offering these types of experts as a service. These experts are often experts in a surprisingly wide variety of fields, too.
This contradiction is literally being discussed in the article!
Quite surprised by the amount of pitchforks here. I certainly don't think of AirBNB as a failure and I doubt most others would. Is there a problem with scams? Totally. But that's hardly exclusive to AirBNB, wherever there's a market, digital or physical, there will be scammers. This was the case for all of human history and it's on you to vet your stuff.

I've used AirBNB for long and short term stays, in Europe and in the US. Each time I stayed in a delightful places that was a genuine passion project for the hosts. Those places would not exist without AirBNB and similar services.

If you're on a tight budget and just need a place to stay at for a bit, it's obviously easier to go with a Marriott. But if you're willing to spend some time on searching the best place to complement your trip, AirBNB can get you the best experience.
Aahh, it's coming right at us!!
RCT2 is now 20 years old - what do we as a society gain by still not letting those assets be freely redistributed and built upon.
This is an interesting point. Taken to its extreme, Postel's law will trade some abstraction for robustness. Conversely, Hyrum's law will trade some robustness for abstraction.
It seems to work better with Lyft et al., probably because there's a larger supply of "normal people who are interested in driving", better economics around renting the asset (vehicle), and the driver (aka host) having to be physically present in the vehicle.

The scaled AirBnB model was always questionable... at some point, you've literally signed up everyone normal with a quality rental. But you still need to increase supply, which means taking what new hosts/properties you can get.

Did AirBnB ever fool with the McDonald's model? I.e. own the property/land, but provide financing to hosts who want to manage and work it? The economics on that might work out in certain areas, if they were smart about it. And it would directly target the "increase quality supply directly" problem.
almost nailed me to the T, so impressive
As a cyclist myself, one of the reasons I don't support laws about cycle helmets is that police regularly use them (as they do many other laws) to harass people on the basis of race, wealth or other biases via inconsistent enforcement.

And that's a law, that in theory, I might be convinced had some merit. Not some War on Drugs BS.

How can you exist in the year 2022, have strong opinions on law and order on the internet and feel deep sympathy with police officers forced to do a thankless task as public servants and yet be blissfully unaware of this entire concept?