skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question was how to make logic gates.

There is no impediment for making a complex logic gate by an arbitrary series-parallel connection of the output light beams.

The output of such a logic gate cannot be connected to the input of an identical logic gate, because the input and the output light beams have different frequencies.

This is a problem common for many kinds of optical switches. It is likely that any conversion circuit that could be inserted between two such logic gates would be much slower than them, negating any speed advantage.

This does not really matter, because such optical switches are not intended for making logic circuits.
Yes, I totally can.

Bitcoin and other crypto is definitely not fiat currency, because virtually nobody will sell me a pack of cigarettes or a croissant for crypto currency.
All the things you dislike about unionized working environments are things that can go wrong in any working environment. If we had more unions, you'd have more of a choice, instead of the situation now where only the most corrupt survive.
I disagree, they are fundamentally different cultures. You can have a blend of them I suppose. But you are either top down or bottoms up, and one of the top down trade offs is that people begin optimizing for what they think will pass approval by the decision maker.

This can obviously work, see apple under Jobs. But companies kind of have to pick a lane because the culture is either “drive to what I think is impactful” or “drive to what I think boss thinks is impactful”.
I'm so encouraged watching this. I am very curious to see how their energy capture does vs their claims. Helion's website claims 95% capture (I'm assuming in isolated tests with electrically induced EM fields).
In general I feel the books app got so much worse with the iOS 16 update that it is partly responsible for me selling my iPad to get a dedicated e-reader
Why do you need loud complaints and writing feedback when this doesn't even pass common sense? See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34030839
The great crypto crisis is upon us
Protecting stuff vs predicting something that you cannot predict are two completely different things.
> With phones, it's always been easier to reach the bottom.

The _original_ iPhone is tiny by today's standards. It's 15% shorter than a current iPhone SE, with a relatively huge chin. At that point the top corner is where the thumb is when it's straight up.

https://www.phonearena.com/phones/size/Apple-iPhone-SE-2022,...
> Dads basically spend the first 2 years loving their child but primarily supporting Mom, because the kid is so dependent on mom (literally physically for a period of time too)

FWIW although this might be common, it's not always true.

My wife went back to work about four months after our eldest was born (her choice, no pressure from employer), I was working from home - and flexibly - and so I got a lot of quality time with him until he was 18 months and started at daycare. That including us attending the local "mother and baby" group (yes, it was called that) together.

After we had two further kids, both of which I also took to "mother and baby" group, they finally renamed the group ;)
https://archive.vn/UT3Ua
The biggest problem with Apple Books (from a producer point of view) is that they removed the ability to connect dev tools to it. Up until the Catalyst rebuild you could open Safari dev tools, connect it to the Books instance, and use it to inspect CSS, highlight particular elements, and basically do anything you can in a browser.

This might not sound like much, but Books is unfortunately laden with weird bugs that don’t exist in normal Safari. They managed to fix the one I reported about srcset not working for images (it just didn’t display anything) but flex / grid display with 100vh is completely broken, and there’s a bunch more minor things like broken page-break functionality. And the debugging cycle currently is to make changes, repackage the book, reload the book in Books, and hope for the best.
Thanks - we merged the threads, and I included your URL in a pinned comment.

Normally I would have pinned your comment instead (sorry), but I needed to include the previously submitted URL and obviously I'm not going to edit your post to put that in.
You are 100% right, but I'm guessing it's a fair guess that if you ONLY can implement one (time/dev resources etc) you probably can't go too much wrong starting with HTTP.
My guess is it's mostly because the physical book's cover's always visible in your environment, even when you're not reading, so you see the title and author's name a lot more. Some e-readers put the cover on when in sleep mode, but that's small, black-n-white, only on one side (no spine) so it's easily covered up, et c.

Books also often put some or all of that info at the top of every page or every other page, while many reader apps hide it most of the time, I suppose to save space for body text.
Do you like our owl?

Edit: TLDR/direct answer:

> If we created something that mimicked all observable properties of a bird, why would that not be a bird?

"Observable" is doing the heavy lifting. A sufficiently near-sighted bird-watcher does not a bird make.

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Thanks for thoughtful steel-man. Here's a few stabs at why I disagree with this prima facie logical view.

Much powerful classification/identifying is certainly categorizing-based-on-observable-properties. But (I argue) that's importantly not all there is to classification/identifying.

Something that quacks like a duck can be considered "a duck for all intents and purposes", but the presumed limited subset of "intents and purposes" does the heavy lifting.

The Duck-approach: "to be one is to mimic all observable properties of one". This is a shortcut/heuristic that saves time and makes many cool answers possible. It is nonetheless only a heuristic, and many questions are outside the domain where this heuristic is useful.

- "Oh my god is this a real diamond?"

- "Oh my god is that a real fur?"

- "Is the Mona Lisa on public display in the Louvre the actual original?"

- "Is it still the ship of Theseus?"

- "Was this iron from a meteor?"

- "Did a man walk on the moon in 1969?"

- "Was this crack in your phone screen covered by the accidental damage insurance?"

i.e. there are problem domains where our notion of identity/classification must be more than the Duck-approach.

Getting philosophical. The problem with "to be one is to mimic all observable properties of one" is a hidden middle assumption: it's a shortcut constrained to cases where the set of "all observable properties" are (a priori known to be) close to "all properties that matter to the question".

But we can ask and reason about many questions where relevant properties are not easily observed, and distinguish

As a special case, "Is the machine thinking" can (to my mind obviously) not (yet) be usefully answered by categorizing-based-on-observable-properties. The word "thinking" refers to something that happens inside the mind, whether or not it's conscious. Until we know much more about the insides of minds, the "all observable properties" is a fuzzy indirect set of second-order human behaviors.
Poll: Should algorithms be regulated like drugs or gambling?
Would you support legally regulating content recommendation algorithms in a similar way to gambling and narcotics, two other categories of behavior-hijacking products?
I use android but most of my experiences with LG phones was very buggy and just messy (the G2 was pretty good though). I only ever buy samsung or google phones now, but it makes sense that someone wouldn't want to touch android if they had a subpar experience with another manufacturer.
In comparison to the Big 4, this organization is clearly insignificant.

That's why I should have gone with "one of the top 25" firms.
Nonetheless, "a top firm" is still applicable here, not "the top firm".

Their own website touts their spot in the top 25, and Accounting Today's 2021 revenue ranking further confirms this by placing them at number 21. While Mazars are 26th on the same list.
(https://www.accountingtoday.com/the-2021-top-100-firms-data)

Evidently, this firm have audited billions and supposedly assured investors!
But also I am more concerned about the lost savings of innocent people!
Like Ontario Teachers', Canadian pension funds!
Hardening eviction rules is economic suicide.

The problem with unsuitable housing is a side-effect of lack of supply. If you make it harder to evict, you make it harder to foreclose, make it harder to buy houses (because landlords can only sell to other landlords)...it is very bad news.

This happened almost immediately after Scotland brought in their rules...because politicians there have been blocking new builds for decades (and favouring social housing so people are more dependent on the state).

What is amazing is that this stuff happens, you see the complete failure of a set of economic ideas, and then the next day you have people suggesting the exact same thing...and people wonder why Britain is in the state it is in? The country's elite have vigorous support for ideas that are economically damaging, the voters love it, the journos love it, the lobbyists love it...not surprising.
Some evidence towards "all": The 600-user Halifax, NS instance, halifaxsocial.ca, is affected.
That's been my experience as well. It's pure reactance psychology. From the first paragraph of the wiki page

> Reactance is an unpleasant motivational reaction to offers, persons, rules, or regulations that threaten or eliminate specific behavioral freedoms. Reactance occurs when an individual feels that an agent is attempting to limit one's choice of response and/or range of alternatives.

When I think about the people who I know who are anti-union, they all have high reactance as a trait. If I were to try to change their mind, it would be to frame their non-union environment as more freedom-limiting than the unions alternative re: workplace democracy etc.
Yes, especially with big groups. In smaller groups, decision making is usually faster and done by people with more local context in bottoms up organizations. See Team of Teams as a decent reference.
> You don't get rewarded for preventing bad things.

This is the source of so many problems at large companies. The employees part of the day to the day understand how much of a positive impact this has but the people in charge of the cash don't see that.

The squeaky wheel gets the grease, or the new product launch gets the promotion.
My two takeaways that make this interesting:

1 - ENERGY RECAPTURE: Helion's existing Trenta (Gen 6) machine, and its future Polaris (Gen 7) machine are one-of-a-kind systems when it comes to converting the energy released from fusion into usable electric current. Where all other fusion and fission systems attempt to convert the fusion energy from escaping neutrons with heat exchangers (Beryllium and steam turbines), Helion is taking the magnetic pressure from the fusion reaction that is exerted on their magnetic confinement field, that runs their electromagnets backwards, to flow current to the grid. This is much more efficient compared to a heat system, and does not create radioactive byproducts.

2 - FUEL: These systems are also one-of-a-kind since they are using Helium-3 fuel. They are acknowledging that they need to synthesize this fuel using a separate Deuterium fusion system since He3 is so rare, and since the system for recapturing He3 from the main reaction has a half-life of 12 years.
They’re spending a lot on R&D and staff

They were making money with the current amount of spending but then crypto flipped

They probably will have to lay off more people and give up on their current pace of development. Tickets will take 5 months to complete instead of 2
Word-count is what authors are concerned with.

Spine-width is what (physical bookstore) sales are based on, amongst other non-content factors.

Publishers who focused on quality and salient content (say, back in the day, O'Reilly, Wiley (technical), and No Start Press, over, say, SAMS and whoever put out the "in 24 hours" series of books (notoriously overpadded) got a significant reputation boost in my eyes. (ORA lost quite a few points rushing some shoddy junk to market, but their classic work was and remains excellent.)
Feature Request – Delete Comments
I contacted HN support recently to delete comments and remove an account and received a reply with the following:

"Happy to help. HN doesn't remove entire account histories, because that would gut the threads the account had participated in, which would be unfair to the other users in the threads. But we can randomize the username and disable the account if you'd like."

I indicated that I could flag each comment and that feature which is readily available, would satisfy the requests.

I also stated that they should put a message on the login screen to notify users that they make it difficult to delete comments/accounts in 2022, going into 2023. Every other site makes that feature available for accounts on a platform.

I also never received a response from HN support since that initial reply. It looked like a canned response.

Having a feature that allows deleting comments older than 30 days is reasonable in this day and age. For a year-end task, I was able locate instructions on Twitter, Youtube and Facebook to delete comments, so it is not a novel feature.

Please add the fuctionality to delete comments , knowing the conversations already took place and are completed. It is a reasonable request to remove archived comments without needing to contact HN support.
> You cannot sell a ARM processor that implements custom instructions.

That was the case if you are an ARM architecture licensee. And of late, that's not even the case anymore.

https://www.arm.com/technologies/custom-instructions
I feel like this post would have more credibility if the Quest and Horizons wasn't such a technical and privacy disaster.
It is it just isn't an exact comparison which is also what I said.
Similarly, there is the "Karl Marx Hof"; a social housing complex in Vienna that was completed in 1930 and spans 1.1km, with a huge park in its midst.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-Marx-Hof

https://goo.gl/maps/E1PvcZahSPVjk4RY9
Here’s a similar story from 1998 in Auckland, New Zealand where everything failed for 5 weeks: https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/misc/mercury.txt
Binance offering 30 USDT for $10 deposit
What's your point?

Nothing that you wrote makes those simulations correct.

>>.. interlink with other factors to predict a pattern of coextinctions..

How do they know these links are correct? They do not, and can not.

>> By running many simulations ...

So they themselves admit that they don't know which simulation is correct, or in other words, they silently admit they have no idea. So if they compute 1000 different scenarios then:

a) How do they know any of those is correct?

b) If you have 1k scenarios to choose from how do you know which one is correct?

You cannot.

>> ... over three main scenarios ...

How do they know there will be only 3? Cannot know that. Nothing guarantuess that these 3 will happen, uncompultable.

>> we show that there will be up to 34% more co-extinctions..

Imagine being so naive you actualy state it to a 1% accuracy lmao.
"Can" is the key word here. What is the likely outcome: design by committee or merit worthy lead.

Also there is stability in organizational structure. This has obvious +/- points, with feature of e.g. 'Ives is leading the design' gives high probability that product line will remain consistent per a known standard, with the (equally high probability) bug of e.g. 'Ives is leading the design' gives high probability it will be more about the object than the user.

Both of the above are really manifestations of an increased degree of non-determinism in team operation. I think flat and/or dynamic order (per project) are still well worth considering, but imo this approach raises the bar on hiring. Before, you would need to trust the judgment of a few key employees, and now you must hope for the good judgment of nearly all of them.
I can see that, but it's a complex situation and I have counterpoints.

- Young male angst has no shortage of outlets. Sports, both extreme and normal, tons of existing media, pirated media, blowing stuff up, etc. Taking away Steam accounts likely isn't going to turn them into revolutionaries.

- In response the existing comments from Russians, that could be selection bias. Many of them could be commenting normally or not at all. After all, most of what you read on the internet is written by insane people.

- Part of the problem in Russia is extreme media bias/propaganda. Further isolating them from foreign contact and influences can only make that worse and reinforce the narrative that everyone else is out to get them.
> fell out of QA testing

That’s not really a change you miss if you do any QA of that app at all. And if it was missed that’s even worse for Apple than if it was a conscious choice.
It means you told the auditor how you want to be audited, and they did it.

Generally speaking, if you look hard enough, you could find an auditor that will happily audit your number of nosehairs, or talking parrots, or not ask too many questions about whether or not your shitcoins reserves are actually worth XY billion.

You may need to scrape the bottom of the barrel for that, though.
It is a SoC with MMU. It just looks like a MCU.

64MByte RAM, (45MByte of it free after logging in.)
You say "loves freedom" like it's a bad thing.
Oh, that’s… that’s a little concerning.
I’ll add to this advice: work out every day. It’s way easier to do it this way. If you go for few large workouts, it’s easy to skip and easy to slip. With small workout every day you know you have to do it and it can’t be pushed out from the schedule.

Corollary to this, remove friction for starting a workout. I.e. get equipment to your abode/office so you can start working out in 2 minutes.

And also: there are a lot of great work out sessions on YouTube. Dumbbells, yoga, stretching, etc.

And also also: if you don’t know where to start, just pay for personal trainer.
> any of the auditing companies willing to audit any of the crypto exchanges?

Deloitte audits Coinbase.
You can stay on iOS 15. Nobody shoves iOS 16 down your throat. Apple even backports fixes for most dangerous vulnerabilities for quite some time.

What you can't do is downgrade once you've found that you're not happy with upgrade. That's the most bizarre Apple thing. Unless you can jailbreak. Not sure if it works nowadays, back in days I was very happy to downgrade to iOS 6 with jailbreak on my iPhone 4S.
Didn't Oracle stop paying for the certifications a few years ago? Solaris certainly was certified at some point.
With high leverage, too.
Yes, but those are microcontrollers. This is a computer on a chip with mmu, and three cores, 64MB ram.
A better solution is just committing to simple HTML which is already supported in browsers. You get all of the free functionality of modern HTML with zero extra work.

Markdown lacks the ability to support arbitrary names anchors so it's difficult to provide links to a portion of a document that isn't a heading. It also has no ability to build HTML forms so you don't have any interactivity. It's also extremely limited for embedding media.

An application (remote, localhost, or whatever) can spit out HTML5 and get a lot of free functionality with an unmodified browser. HTML5 forms support input types so you get some free input validation. It supports displaying multiple types of media. Browsers also have a lot of accessibility features just built in and available with the appropriate markup. No JavaScript required.

Basic HTML is very functional all by itself. Any application wanting to use functionality beyond reading just plain text will run into Markdown's limitations. If most of what people actually want to do is blocked by Markdown's limitations no one will use it which makes the effort a bit pointless.
Re 2: this is not true if you're doing margin or futures trading, which was FTX's main business (and may be Binance's). This type of business is what characterizes an "exchange" (as opposed to a non-margin brokerage or a custodial bank).
“I can fix them,” famous last words …
> there's no reason ...

You might want consider Roger Penrose's very thorough examination of this idea in almost any of his books from The Emperor's New Mind onwards.
How long do you think people will be able to stay on old versions of software like iOS 15? 5 years? 10 years? 30 years? Their lifetime?
The OP is about FBI policing of federal election misinformation, which is both part of the federal government’s purview:

https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?art...

And as shady or problematic as their relationship with Twitter is, is borne out of legal precedence:

https://reason.com/volokh/2021/07/19/when-government-urges-p...

Not to mention, in the last decade, by the process of jawboning:

https://www.lawfareblog.com/informal-government-coercion-and...

So really, your complaints go up further than you think. This is something that has been happening for decades based on judicial decisions, you just weren’t aware of it.
Due to Covid I was around much more during my daughter's early years than my son's. It's been fantastic to get closer to her than I could to my son due to working.
Financial Fraud Throughout History: A Forensic Approach [pdf]
Why would it shield them from something they already did?
OP here...it got a little better with a patched picoprobe.

I wrote up part 2 here: http://thelittleengineerthatcould.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-8...

But yeah, not plug-n-play. I still have to find out how to get network or SD-Card.
No, they forced iOS16 by only backporting security fixes for devices that can't run iOS16

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/12/apple-releases-ios-1...
Even though it was founded in Denmark, Unity is a US HQ company now, and Vodafone is basally a body shop now mostly (what's their latest successful product?).

Plus, naming 6 random European tech companies doesn't prove anything. Every country has tech companies. How many exactly doesn't really matter in this comparison, what matters is revenues and market cap.

Consider that the US tech sector is worth significantly more than the tech sectors of EU + UK + Switzerland + Norway combined. It blows the entire EEA out of the water. To put it simply, the US hosts most of the largest tech companies by market cap and revenues.

If you take the top 50 tech companies in the world by market cap[1], the only European companies on the list are ASML, Booking, SAP, Schneider Electric and Dassault Systemes. 6 out of 50 for Europe, while the US has about 40 out of 50, while also claiming the highest six spots at the top.

Ouch! That's not even a competition. It's why American tech workers get paid so much. Not because they don't get government mandated PTO and sick leave, or can get fired more easily, or don't pay more taxes for unemployment and socialized healthcare, as is the common myth, but because the companies they work for are so obscenely rich compared to European ones and a lot more numerous.

/QED

[1] https://companiesmarketcap.com/tech/largest-tech-companies-b...
IC? RL?
How much should I be stealing from various self-service SaaS products?
5) Like tether they are solvent despite all the people screaming for an audit
I think the link title would be more helpful to mention "University of Waterloo"
Intent: not lumping in all of Turing's work, not the universal computation argument.

The hand wave spelled out: "Is there thinking going on inside a given machine? Let's propose a simple test. Look at what problems the machine can solve, and compare to what problems a thinking thing is known to be able to solve. If there is sufficient overlap, the machine must be thinking. Because we know of no non-thinking ways to solve these problems, so there must not be any".