skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most comments say it's simulated. I think it's not even that. IIUC there's a theoretical setup to create a wormhole in AdS/CFT. It requires ~infinite qubits. They found a way of making a similarly-shaped output function with 14 qubits and ran it. I think that's all this is.

It's not really a simulation because if they used all ~infinite qubits then IIUC it would have created the actual wormhole. This is more like a wireframe diagram. The fact that they ran it on a real device is irrelevant.

Though, I'd love to be wrong.
In NZ, landlines are also on their way out.

It's not quite unsupported, but you can't sign up for a new copper landline plan unless there is no mobile coverage and no fibre coverage at your property. Otherwise, for anyone who really wants a "landline" you are getting VOIP over fibre or VOIP over mobile broadband.

87% of population have access to the new fibre network, and the old copper network is just redundant and unmantained in most built-up areas. Chorus recent started actively forcing remaining customers off it in some areas.

Personally, I've been without a landline for 10 years, and even my parents got rid of their landline a few years back. It's just cheaper to use a mobile phones instead (and in NZ, mobile phones come with the additional benefit of never receiving spam calls)
Do you want to be fast, or do you just want to have fun?

Who cares what others do with the game? Have fun while doing it
That's really exciting to hear, can you tell me more about being a first person participant?
Exactly. I want my phone to be closer to a gaming console, not a full personal computer.

I want all my problems on it to be solved by rebooting and I want it to just work and all the apps be safe by default.
and if you want to dial 911 with a land line, you literally only need a speaker and resistor connected to the phone line. you can yell into it as a mic, and just tapping the line on and off dials a number.
I’ll be sure to tell all American history books that Alexander Hamilton and Lafayette (two off the top of my head because I listened to Hamilton recently, there absolutely were many many more) were actually from England and not the Caribbean and France respectively.
It is damage control mode. Heap scorn on FTX to look righteous. Ignore other suspects and continue pushing them as if they were totally different.

Work hard to keep trust in crypto high basically and act as if those caught were outliers
Off topic, but analogous:

About a year ago, the last time I checked the Wikipedia page on energy use, I counted IIRC 10-20 different units being referenced. It is almost as if people were working to prevent uniform understanding and intuition.
I think the “too many eggs in one basket” is really the only thing that persuades me.

I don’t care that random developers have to workaround annoying restrictions and pay 30% to apple because it means it does just work and I don’t have to think — no one is trying to persuade me to do anything non Standard because there is no wiggle room. That’s a good thing.

But it is a risk — I don’t like what apple is doing in China, and we are not that far away from that in the us and uk. If apple does start behaving poorly here I will be SOOL.
Future generations will wonder why do we call the mobile phones “mobile”
Having to jump through so many hoops is why I never bothered to root my phones. It sounds like 90% chance to brick it.
It's anecdotal, but I don't see this happening in the Android ecosystem.
Ask HN: How did you become good enough at understanding and doing mathematics?
Hoping to hear about your personalised journey of learning mathematics. Doesn't matter if you were a math major or not.

Which topics did you learn and in what order? Any specific books or topics that helped you tremendously?

How did you become comfortable in reading mathy things (proofs) and understanding them or apply math to model real world problems?
There isn't. Fast code is pretty important though to a lot of people while security isn't (games, renderers, various solvers, simulations etc.).

It's great C is available for that. If you're ok with slow use Java or whatever.
> Don't you think that it would be better if certificate authorities were limited to certain TLDs? For example, a company from country A limited to A's national TLD? This way even if they are ordered to produce a fake certificate, they can only decrypt traffic for country A's sites.

I think it would harm users relying on certain sites. This already happened with CNNIC and .cn, so I don't think that mandatory restrictions would make it better (and besides, the only CAs which voluntarily ask to restrict issuance to certain TLDs are government CAs).
As someone that loves DeFi I think that take is reasonable. If you don't understand it don't put your money in it, and only invest an amount that is equal to the risk of that protocol failing.

Because code is immutable you can simply wait until a protocol is a few months / years old and if it hasn't been hacked you know it's going to be safe.

This is why regulation isn't as needed, because the code can't secretly change like humans at opaque financial institutions can. Immutability + Transparency + Time is the regulation.
It seems to me that VOIP over fiber is functionally similar to a landline - you pick up a clunky phone and return it to a cradle. I miss that analog feeling! I guess the main difference is that you lose the ability to place a call if the power goes out.
Isn’t there an active research for the “island of stability” at the top end of the table? Aka a set of elements that theoretically remain stable.
It would also be great if it could add suggestions to what you ask.

So if you say "AI, add eggs, bread, and apples to my shoppinhg list." it could come back and say "done but apples are out of season and may not be that nice. Can I suggest bananas, which are in season?" and so on.
extremely sorry for the equivocation thank you for clearing that up
This study is a surprise in the Child Development area, because it's against every evidence we see today.

It also tests for the wrong "symptoms" like depression, since the actual major factor here is the how their brain developed in terms of moral, sociality, POV's and a lot more.

They're checking grades but grades don't say anything about how they studied for the test. Did they have to sacrifice because of bad behavior to the test (not studying in time, losing friends activities, etc)? Did they cheat? Or were they lucky? Grades don't say any meaningful thing about the brain, it's a wrong "symptom" to check for grades.

Edit: typo
Apologies from me. Ok, this should be fixed now. Our mistake. The PDF file was missing, ans not sure why this error was shown about the certificate.
> When you're on prem you only have to worry about your own employees opening sketchy PDFs

This is just plain wrong. When you’re on prem you have to worry about configuring all of you hardware and software correctly yourself. Your firewalls, your SSH server(s), off site backup systems, hardware failures, software patching, access points to your network – the list goes on. Some of these are true for cloud services as well.

They are just different trade offs. Sometimes on prem makes sense, and sometimes cloud services makes sense. You can’t say that security is less of a concern in one of them.

> Nevermind the fact that the next time a major world conflict occurs, the big 4 cloud providers will probably be destroyed, taking about 90% of the western economy with it.

And it somehow does _not_ take your on prem system with it? Even though cloud providers are spread across the whole world, and your on prem system is most likely in one, single location?
> or is not guaranteed to stick after an arbitrary time

I have never experienced this. What settings?
What amazes me is that large established organizations are just as susceptible to fad and hype as an uninformed layman.

Then again, many a CIO I’ve worked with could be at least labeled as uninformed, or largely informed by those selling their silver-bullet products and services.
From the post I originally responded to:

> when you have nothing nice to say, the polite people say nothing, and the impolite people say the impolite thing.

I’m genuinely confused by this sentiment. Does this poster think they’re saying something nice? Or are they intentionally outing themselves as impolite by opting not to say nothing?

It seems genuinely funny to assume the role of the judge of who is or isn’t “polite” while violating their own rules about who is “polite”

To further rephrase that: That appears to be (without clarification) a very amusing moralizing statement that provides no value whatsoever other than to directly contradict its own premise.

Usually I classify comments as polite or rude, not people. I guess GP is the arbiter of personality though?
I think like other publications (e.g. businessinsider) you have the blog side (note the /sites in the url) a bit like Medium. And you have the news editorial, which is the main site.
Unfortunely I only see Modern C++ on C++ conference talks and on my hobby projects.

Most of the stuff I see at work, is quite far from this ideal reality, starting with Android's codebase, or the various ways C++ gets used in Microsoft frameworks.
Damn, I think I might have similar issues. Also diagnosed with Leiden. Should I be worried?
Amplification is a problem like we see in the US twitter - we also have our own collection of unhinged racist morons but generally it is not as bad as the US where the algorithm amplifies it.

Freedom of speech but not reach is something I can agree on but I suspect the bots and state actors will always be one step ahead.
Or "phone"
Analog telephony doesn’t get used anymore. As soon as the call hits a telco box it’s going digital
Precisely. I'm saying 'good riddance' to TradeLens, and I'm saying what a shame that effort by Maersk and other big carriers hasn't been put into one of the problem spaces where this might make sense.
The original assertion I disputed was that we should accept that the social dynamics in a school match those of a prison.

Certainly I don’t pretend there aren’t environments where adults are violent and unreasonable. Such as prisons, or other places with “people who regularly commit violence, rape, and beat their wives.”

If your argument is that school environments must be similarly unpleasant because they take students from all strata of society, I counter: we do not take teachers and administrators from all strata of society, and society should hold schools to a higher standard than environments where violence and mental abuse unavoidably happen constantly, because we can take lessons from environments where such things are not normal.
> I don’t care that random developers have to workaround annoying restrictions and pay 30% to apple because it means it does just work and I don’t have to think — no one is trying to persuade me to do anything non Standard because there is no wiggle room. That’s a good thing.

Remember this in 10 years or so when Apple will do things you won't like and you'll have no way out.

I've bookmarked your comment to have it handy in a few years when people are gonna start complaining once Apple acts against their interests.

Remember, you (plural) voluntarily asked for this. "Lock me down Apple, I love it."
> if they're not checking against the option of not eating breakfast at all, then they can't know that it is key to waking up more effectively.

They did, kind of. The factor "waketime to breakfast" [Fig 3] has a beta of .14, which is by far the strongest modifiable factor. This may suggest that not eating breakfast at all may be even better than eating a bowl of sugar.

I really do not understand how the authors fail to even mention this result in the paper.
Does anyone else hate this sort of tech? The "we make video from your text" sort, not the AI Avatar part, that seems... interesting enough, but its in furtherance of a terrible tech company (at least in my own opinion) product vision.

I would have written this up as a blog article, but no one reads anymore, so I used $X to make a video and put it on youtube...

FFS just... WRITE. SHIT. DOWN.

I want a searchable, readable, efficiently transformable pile of information.

And before anyone says video is searchable, look under the hood, video search tools involve transformation into alternative representations (usually TEXT based ones) in order to facilitate using more compact search vectors...

Video is none of these things. Reliance on video as the only communication medium is slowly eroding the quality of the web.
Avoid such trouble is why I want to avoid using symbols for password. Just use more alphanum characters for strength.
Yeah, but it only works in practice if you are only one coding the application, or there are strict rules in place to not do C style arrays.
Yes! Here is a nice PBS Spacetime video on the subject that was recently published.

"Are there Undiscovered Elements Beyond The Periodic Table?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prvXCuEA1lw
> It is intensely weird to me that people hold the opinion that their company is building something that is bad for the world, and yet they stay there and continue to help build it.

From Oppenheimer onwards this hasn't been too unusual - but what is unusual I think in Meta's case is the fact it's so widespread by smart folks.
I'll just point out that a wimpy low power processor that costs less than a buck has as much processing power as a 486. And the amount of processing tends to be on small amounts of data in short bursts.

Big problem as I see it is compiler writers using C++ with it's completely broken language and compilation model. Of course they think speed is the only important metric because C++ compilers compiling C++ compilers is very very slow. And they're dealing with trusted data 100% of the time and not the guys desperately trying to patch a zero day vulnerability at 2am.
In Safari there is no transition. The viewport height snaps between svh and lvh at the end of the browser's chrome collapse/expand animation. I don't have an android phone to check the Chrome's implementation, but I imagine it working in the same way, since animating the heights of potentially all the elements in the page can not be done in an efficient way by the browsers, and having a stuttery scroll as soon as you start scrolling a web page would not be a great user experience.
There is some strange disconnect between citizen and worker - a citizen has tenure unless they violate fairly high bars, but a worker has no tenure - yet we expect better results? maybe tenure is something we should consider at business?
I’d recommend using F# maybe. Easier cross-platform story and well documented in the F# guide and reference.

Guide: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/language-ref...

Reference: https://fsharp.github.io/fsharp-core-docs/

Also you can use F# notebooks with .NET Interactive and the Polyglot Notebooks Visual Studio Code extension, which is great for something like Advent of Code.
The UK is getting rid of the copper network as well (I think originally it was supposed to be 2025? But I think it’s been pushed back)

There is already a push to not sell phone lines that support voice, so you just get a line that supports broadband only, getting more people used to voip - but there are so many independent ISPs popping up (now that the by ducting is available to use) that they are chucking full fibre left right and centre.

Will be interesting to see how it plays out regarding emergency calls when it’s fully switched off.
Australia is all voip too now. Although my new apartment has the connections inside the wardrobe which would make it pretty awkward to use for phone calls.

Very convenient for stashing away the router though.
Has anyone tried plugging all of their internet-related equipment into a UPS, including the wall box? Will that allow you to keep VoIP working in the event of a power outage, or is it a pointless exercise since the ISP's equipment on the pole will also be down?
The point is that nobody will find that showcase from the gimp website.

(It’s OK, personally since using gimp 20 years ago I now accept that gimp doesn’t want users)
yeh but it's not the saas/big 4 that has developer login locally as admin that gets owned and then is not segmented sufficiently to stop the spread, it's the scrappy startup.
And I say this while working at a scrappy startup where there is no segmentation, every browses in a browser with sudo etc. see piriform and others.
Your hate is not wrong of cloud but onprem is not necessarily more secure. Not at all. (IMO layers of abstraction and cost once you actually scale are the real negatives)
Yes. DC used to be a square with the Potomac River running straight through it; the land on the Virginia side of the river was returned in the "retrocession" in the 1800s. Everything left is on the Maryland side now.
> a framework

We do find such horrors lurking in the bowels of Rails, unsurprisingly. ActiveSupport clamps on to several fundamental modules, but Rails only inflicts the worst of its metaprogramming gymnastics either upon itself, or client objects/classes that expect a ton of magic (viz. models, controllers, views). When peeking at some of the machinery I'm sometimes unsure whether to be appalled or astounded.
He should unban Trump as an A/B test, like ones who answered Yes in that poll should be in B group, ones answered No in A group got him banned. It would be great even to separate these people completely into the A/B Twitter (2.0) so they don't see each other's tweets. The main metric should be better poll distribution. Like instead of stupid 51/49 polls better miniority-suppressing 85/15 polls, and these 15 go into C group then eventually getting us to fair 100/0 polls and poll-communism, preventing any pesky problems with different opinions, we all know they are easily solved by polls.

I wonder why they don't have 7/12 polls in court, surely 9/12 is enough to decide a sentence already, and all americans think it's fair, why twitter doesn't freakin comply with 75% poll rule?
This used to be the case, but these days if you’re in a fibre area or area with BT’s widely available FTTC offering, BT will happily sell you a “no landline” deal on their website.

Incidentally their landlines on fibre are basically VoIP phones with a battery backup.

Same with most other fibre providers, like Vodafone.
Mineral != element.
I can’t remember the last time I heard someone say “mobile” tbh. It’s always just a phone.
> I still have a landline at home that I basically never use, "just in case".

I have a landline that I only use to call my mobile phone, when I lose it within the house.
People talk about the Linux kernel vs linux (the complete system).

I’m not sure why nerds are still litigating this sort of thing years after the who gnu linux thing.
I generally find time to solution uninteresting and that how closely the solution models/mimics the problem statement the far more interesting thing.

I imagine that there’s a wide breadth of languages showing up in the top results but would guess that it skews towards imperative languages. Yet, the functional languages will almost read like the problem statement, which is what I find wonderful.
Well, given how much their mobile web experience sucks, even disregarding the pop-ups, I can't say that makes me want to download the app
I also remember quite many numbers of my friends from the elementary school. We lived in the same area so we had pretty similar numbers which made it easier to learn them - and to remember them after 25 years.
To be fair, China did democratize, compared with Mao's era.
It's not three people keeping a secret though. Lastpass uses encrypted blobs so unless someone also crack 256-bit AES it's really not that big of a deal. Perhaps locally stored secrets dbs are better, but generally using LastPass-esque services is much better than trying to memorize a bunch of passwords.
https://youtu.be/MdHtAzFNwjE

The walls are closing in
"None of the viewport units take the size of scrollbars into account. On systems that have classic scrollbars enabled, an element sized to 100vw will therefore be a little bit too wide. This is as per specification."

Kind of amazing that this is literally the unit meant to solve such problems, and yet it doesn't. And the GitHub discussion seems to imply that it's mostly down to what the existing browsers did?

https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1766
Musk’s Neuralink Hopes to Implant Computer in Human Brain in Six Months
LG TVs have WebOS, it's pretty good at staying away. But the trick is to never use the actual TV software for anything, get an Apple TV / Fire Stick / Google TV / Nvidia Shield and use that for everything.

We should have the option of buying 50"++ TVs with no software or speakers, just a power button and a bunch of HDMI connections.
>it is not uncommon for many to inflate marginal results or engage in dubious practices, leading to a noise that greatly burdens the reviewers of these journals/conferences ... It is no surprise then, that many low-quality (or downright incorrect) works escape the sieve.

Eh, I blame the reviewers for this in large part. Every reviewer craves novelty like a drug addict. They'll reject papers because "it's not novel, just a bunch of engineering/implementation", or reject them because a mere 1.5x improvement does not meet the bar (Is it even science if it's not an order of magnitude ?). Then people will cry about dubious papers. The academic community deserves this.
> This could be mostly rectified by having a free press in China

This should be mostly rectified by asking a ramdon Huawei phone user in China.
Well, Nvidia just went ahead and gave everyone permission to do just that :^)
I don't know if this is the case with HTML5 but one small feature of flash that I really loved is the seamless music loop even when the audio had trailing or padding silence.

The loop just worked and flash trimmed out silence automatically when playing the music. Very useful for games.
emscripten gets pretty close via webassembly, you can embed all your assets... but it takes awhile to load before anything's happening when done that way.
It's very easy - you just write to them and ask to increase the limit to whatever you need. You need to do so in writing, not on the phone.
I moved to 1password a few years ago and haven't regretted it for a second. I still have Lastpass installed, but it's probably getting to the point I can delete it.
Imagine seeing your startup grow into a company where bureaucracy rewards department heads who waste money now to protect their budget so they can keep wasting it next year...
She casually drops half way through that's she's actually the largest shareholder. Talk about an own goal.
A lot of people don't care about security but they do care about performance. Some examples: game engines, various solvers, simulations. This stuff runs 24h/day to produce results. A few percent here and there is a huge cost and time penalty, especially that in this kind of code bounds checks and similar have bigger consequences than in your typical CRUD app. Another example is programming for small devices which are not upgraded for years. It just kills user experience if you accumulate tens of milliseconds of performance (and again on those devices the penalty is usually bigger because CPUs are not that smart about prediction).

If you care about security of processing outside input the are many other options (or you can use sanitizers or safe practices in C). For significant part of the C programming world it's just not important though.
A comment further down this thread reveals it:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33813169
AS2 support is good, but not the more modern and powerful AS3
Both machine learning and AI are sort of nebulous marketing concepts more than anything else. Expert systems have also been marketed as AI.
I can only recommend you to read the book. It's amazing.

It is so relevant for today, you'd be forgiven for not knowing it was actually published in 1992.

But really, it's probably the best book I've ever read.