skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a massive amount of evidence that Quantum Mechanics is the way the Universe works, and the MWI is simply vanilla Quantum Mechanics, with zero further assumptions.

The problem is that the name "Many Worlds Interpretation" sounds grandiose. "Many worlds" is simply an imaginative way of describing the existence of different states of the wavefunction - a concept that is extremely well established and universally accepted. MWI just says that we should assume that Quantum Mechanics holds in all situations, including when we make measurements (i.e., there's nothing special about the measurement process).
There used to be a website where you could post that you were driving from A to B and other people could opt in to go with you and hitch a seat. That would be great for stuff like this.

There’s also greyhound and Amtrak.
It gets REALLY hot though which sketches me out. Also the USB ports put out hardly any power if you’re hoping to charge from them, it can even keep up with light phone usage.
In addition to lost of focus, and loss of respect, he also sold lots of shares after acquiring twitter (presumably to prepare for recession). That is also a contributing factor.
> Simpler, for an electron, where in the wave function is the spin of the electron?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_equation

“There are four components in ψ because the evaluation of it at any given point in configuration space is a bispinor. It is interpreted as a superposition of a spin-up electron, a spin-down electron, a spin-up positron, and a spin-down positron.”
Can I get a word in for Screen Time / Parental Controls being completely broken for years?

(One bug of many: “Internet Filtering” randomly fails open after a few hours, allowing private browsing and no filtering on child accounts.)
I use this dock along with a 5120x1440 monitor as my main docked environment. Had absolutely zero issues: https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/owc-thunderbolt-dock

Bought it four times now (two cities, one setup for each myself and my partner). Neither of us have had an issue with any.
I’ve been using BorgBackup since it was Attic. Been thrilled with it.
From Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 1, Episode 7 “Justice”. :)
> Do you think Saudi Arabia is the Taliban or what?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Saudi_Ar...

"In September 2011, a Sudanese migrant worker was beheaded for sorcery"

Was this a rhetorical question?
Ever since the spotlight shone on the opioid crisis hedge funds and private equity firms have been searching for the next cow to milk.

The pain clinic networks they bankrolled turned out to be extremely profitable but now the heat is too great.

That cow has turned out to be mental health, sexual health, and telemedicine startups.

In addition to endless social media advertising I am willing to bet that in 2024-2025, about a decade after the outrage over pill mills became mainstream and about the amount of time it takes to develop a new drug, we are going to see a flood of new mental health prescription medications of dubious value because massive investments started in 2015 as pill mill startup funding decreased as part of a mission to find the new gold-egg-laying goose.
Well, sure, you could equally find it to be anti-comforting. I just think (1) there is a truth to reality, beyond even what we might be able to physically access and (2) it's interesting to ponder what that might be. Maybe even comforting, depending on your mindset.
I would pay $100 per year for macOS if it meant they would
go slower and make it rock solid.
If you are going to accuse someone of certain acts, it is only proper to have evidence to support your claims. Otherwise, it is simply slander.

The Mormons could indeed be or have engaged in disagreeable acts (I wouldn't know myself, nor do I care), but claiming so while skirting your own duty to be truthful is not okay. "Apparently" and "second hand" don't fly with accusations.
This info plus $20 will get you an Experian report all the time. It's their business model.
pypy is great if you are not already using numpy heavily. Pure python libraries like networkx and myhdl showed 20x speedup when I used it a couple of years ago. For pure python code, pypy provides free lunch.
There were 91 days in Apple's fourth quarter with quarterly revenue of $90.1B. At 7862400 seconds, that means $11,446 of revenue every second. 98000000/11446/60 = 142 minutes of revenue.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/10/apple-reports-fourth-...
> Intelligent commentators mocked the famous George W. Bush line when he uttered it. But a decade and a half later and it’s the prevailing sentiment among many of the same people who ridiculed it.

The degree to which this has occurred, across a wide range of issues, is still stunning to me.
The US also has significant protections around the Native American rock art at California’s Lava Beds National Monument.

https://www.nps.gov/labe/learn/historyculture/rockart.htm
I thoroughly believe we have overestimated human intelligence to the point we are perpetually moving the goalpost for GAI.

Read this:

https://3cents.substack.com/p/culture-is-smarter-than-you-ar...

We have memories, processes, and learned responses and aversions, that's all stuff existing AI can handle, if we fill just a bit more that doesn't exist in training data yet.
If you can't afford a house but you can afford an EV, but you also live in a high crime area where extension cords are severed for their copper, then I am very confused about your finances and living situation.

In most states with high housing costs (such as California), landlords are required to let tenants install EV charging stations.[1] Also there are companies such as ChargePoint that go around to apartment complexes and sell them charging stations. The stations bring the apartment complex revenue and attract higher-end tenants.

I think the concerns about charging are overrated. Yes, some landlords will drag their feet, but that's true for all tech adoption. I'm sure the same thing happened with cable TV, telephone lines, and dishwashers. The fancy places adopt the new thing first, then the average places, and finally the low-end places.

1. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
Building a SAST program at Razorpay’s scale
Yep, sorry. Too late to edit it now though.
I would push further because the difference is essential and massive. Human legal systems do not have 'wiggle room'. They are living, breathing bodies open to interpretation and change. In fact, radical change and radical interpretation.

There are times where laws have been strict (think of the US three strikes rule, or a US 90s favorite, the singaporean caning rule for littering) however the more rigid the set of rules the more authoritarian a system is assumed to be and generally authoritarianism is assumed to not be favorable.

Alternately, the rule of law means equality in the eyes of the law. Each and every person should be subject to the same rules, despite the variation in interpretation making for a variety of outcomes.

Algorithms lack this and we're seeing the consequences in everything from mundane customer service interactions to the chinese social credit system
Did the Tesla Story Ever Make Sense?
Does Restic do encryption well now? When I tried it years ago you had to type the password on the command line, and there was no interest in adding GnuPG support.
Would that be, like, one beam per connected user, or, like, city?
Hasn’t he vast majority of that been found to come from fishing nets, and not consumer sources?
I love sublime. I daily Vscode for the remote ssh integration but I always have subl open for scratch padding, notes, opening huge files etc. It’s so fast.
Of course - which is what I implied with my last sentence (that it is correct in places outside of the US)
Can you share references to some of these reads please?
Musk, of course, is a typical Californian ideology tech libertarian industrialist who has now hitched his course to anti-woke culture war baiting and social media free speech pearl-clutching.

But there is something to be said about a Trumpian style to public behavior. Maybe it’s just social media demagoguery. Tactical trolling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkvvAQxxo_0

Musk, like other celebrity public figures on social media who make a lot of vapid grandiose statements and then flame out when challenged, are simply operating in the same style.

It’s funny you mentioned Bush, because growing up during his presidency, when terms like “reality-based community” and “truthiness” were coined, I never felt that Trump was a radically new phenomenon. He was Bush except louder - with less subtext.
Ergonomics are dismal on a laptop. Once you’ve lived with a good desktop setup for a while, using a laptop standalone is just painful.
Implying what’s existed in Australia for thousands of years doesn’t constitute ‘civilization’ :)
I've just started mixing shaders with Pygame
Yes, Apple had the Mac II with support for the 68851, but they weren’t the only ones to use it. Though Sun and HP and Apollo all skipped it and continued using extensions of the paging MMUs they’d developed for the 68010. And plenty of those 68020 systems, whether with custom or Motorola MMUs, were quite fast for their time. Any performance issue with A/UX wss on it and the Mac II hardware design itself.

In 1981-4, the era when the original Mac OS was developed, very few systems had threads. And if “has a filesystem and is single-tasking” is your criteria for being “DOS-like” I’m pretty sure every operating system between the inventions of the filesystem and timesharing is also “DOS-like” by your definition.

I’d call an operating system “DOS-like” if it used a filesystem with drive letters and short file names with extensions, a command line where argument interpretation is handled by the executed program, text files to script startup and configure device drivers, and the operating system API existed primarily to mediate filesystem and maybe printer and modem access.

The original Macintosh operating system had no scripting system, used long volume names and filenames, made file type information inaccessible to the user, didn’t include any sort of command line at all, and made providing ways to interact with documents the main point of its API set—to the point where it had no provisions for anything but graphical applications.
And on top of that there's inflation too. A billion dollars doesn't go as far as it used to. There will have to be a little belt-tightening on some households.
I still can’t get over that I can remove Apple Music, Podcasts, Stocks, and so on on iOS, but I can’t do it on my Mac without tearing the OS apart.
At the risk of appearing somewhat callous, it has the intellectual substance of your typical tabloid pablum and there's nothing of any real concrete actionable value here. This post failed at farming even a marginal number of HN points so I'm really not sure what the point was.
The benefits of ‘Dry January’ last longer than a month, studies show
Still there are plenty of medicine you don’t want to miss for a few days. For me and my family anything that we absolutely need travels in hand luggage always. In my experience getting a lost bag can be a huge pain specially if it was lost during a layover
Collected and taken elsewhere. This is very reasonable.

On another note, I disagree with the 'want to' wording of species evolving. This implies that evolution is in control of species and they intelligently 'design' their next offspring to be more adaptive. This confused me for a very long time about evolution.

While in reality they evolved when only mutations of the specie with adaptive traits survived. Rest died out. That's what survival of the fittest really means.
But, if customers really valued this predictability, wouldn't a US airline offer it and take all the business?

It's not important enough to consumers, which is why the EU has to regulate it. And I'd be very interested to see how much more predictable they really are for the extra cost...
Nobody is claiming he does. The article is merely pointing out the irony of the situation.
The world is turning into a conspiraloon nightmare.
Bad capacitors -- particularly electrolytic ones -- are the biggest enemy of electronics. The early 2000s was the worst period for that. There's even a site dedicated to fixing them at badcaps.net. Other components tend to fail far less often.
You’ll need some tolerance for the increased latency. Some people don’t notice it, some do.
Musk has engaged in a ton of tribal signaling recently.

Does it suck that we have such clearly delineated tribes? Yes. But Musk is also smart enough to realize that that's the case, and he's knowingly chosen to repeat and engage with the shibboleths of the extreme right.
As others have mentioned, most charging is done at home. EVs can plug into many types of outlets. You can even charge off a standard 120V 15A plug (albeit slowly).

For fast charging on road trips, Teslas can get CCS adapters and charge at competing stations. (Although considering the current state of Electrify America, I don't know why anyone would do that.) Also Tesla is starting to open their chargers to non-Teslas. Charging is becoming a commodity. The main advantages of the Supercharger network are reliability and integration with the car's built-in trip planning. In the long term, Tesla's Superchargers will be like Apple's AirPods: compatible with pretty much everything, but nicer for those who use the company's other products.
Just wanted to point out that ChatGPT is more than just a language model - from OpenAI's (very brief) description, it was also trained with reinforcement learning to select/rank the "best" answer [0].

I think the distinction is important because I suspect it explains why ChatGPT succeeds at certain tasks when previous LM-only models failed miserably.

[0] https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/
Every year I get progressively angrier as I have to scroll through a GODDAMN SPINBOX on my phone to select my birth year.

Spinbox is great if you need to increment like 5 items up or down. Not 30+ and CERTAINLY not starting at goddamn 1900 and making me scroll down nearly 100 entries.

People who do this need to go to jail. Forever.
My impression is that the "default" approach is not to pollyfill but proxy the calls to the main thread. They have a post about how they are (ab)using synchronous XMLHttpRequest calls to block the worker while proxying the request to the main process with postMessage https://dev.to/adamdbradley/how-partytown-s-sync-communicati....

I suspect that you may want to pollyfill APIs for performance but I think for many use cases just that shim to the true API should work well enough.
https://atproto.com/guides/faq#why-not-use-activitypub
Out of curiosity, what would you do, put an electric fence and surveillance cameras around it?
Im slowly making my 500 MHz 4 Gb SGI fuel my main workstation. I added a sata card to replace the spinning rust, and a gigabit ethernet. Swapping out the fans and the PSU to silence it and Im throwing my Ryzen workstation into my closet.

Why use a 20 year old 500 Mhz dinosaur? Time. This machine can do everything I need (terminal, emacs, ssh, old modeling software that has a better GUI than any modern counter parts, etc) and cant do anything I should not do (browsing the internet)
I don’t know that pharmacies are allowed to do that. What you usually have to do is call your primary care or other doctor and explain the situation and have them send a prescription to the new city
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31326933

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29780629

https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Mega-backdoor_Roth

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/04/20/retirement...

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3997927

https://www.epi.org/publication/retirement-in-america/

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2022/08/who-has-retir...
I Ate 100 Tablespoons of Butter [video][23 mins]
Deer Musk
you failed to mention the real culprit.
Thunderbolt = $$$$, though.

It’s prohibitively expensive for the average user’s use case.
That's true if you only have one location to worry about. But a laptop is simpler if you need to, for example, travel between home and work while keeping the OS / apps / files the same.
> How much further do you think it really can fall?

Well that's a great question. If you think Tesla is close to bankruptcy than the answer is: all the way down.

But even so, downward pressure can create more downward pressure if Tesla has been over leveraged to obtain loans or to buy Twitter.

Let's say Tesla stock was used as collateral for loans, with a promise that the stock won't go below $100, e.g. If it does go below $100 then someone is on the hook to provide cash collateral to offset the loss of the value of the stock. The primary way to do that is to sell Tesla stock to raise cash. That creates further downward pressure on the stock price.

Or Tesla might be lying about something materially related to the stock price, which you've discovered and are pointing out to the WSJ, because you know, you have a reporter over there on speed dial (not everyone does, of course, but if your trades are $100M at a time then you should).

Or maybe you're betting that Elon is going to self implode and jump out of the window, or murdered because of shady dealings with Russia. Sure that's long odds maybe, but not entirely unheard of.

Derogatory information about a company or it's CEO might be a gamble that's worth taking. I'm sure there's a lot of dirt in Fortune 500 companies that is waiting to be found with the right team of private investigators.
I could see it go to ABCDE... just to help people hunt and peck better.
What do the numbers mean?(slightly confused because your description of 316 makes it sound generally more badass than 304, but I can’t fit that in sequence with 430 being the worst).
It's a hypothetical, but a couple cameras and a sign letting people know the area is under surveillance will probably do.
"What are the reasons preventing flight booking software modernization?"

Let's ask the opposite question:

Why do you feel that software necessarily needs to be modernized ?

I'm not sure how well SABRE works but I do know how fast and efficient keystroking through a non-GUI interface can be and I don't know why expert mode interfaces should ever be replaced by unsophisticated mousey-mouse-mouse ones.
Yes. Would be interesting to learn about all these tradeoffs. The point though is that all those interesting traffic engineering concerns were invalidated because a politician wanted citizens to look at his backer's advertising.
Also the forum announcement seems to have been deleted to.
I wouldn't say the Japanese calendar is used for "most" activity. As far as I can tell, the Japanese calendar is certainly used for things like government forms, but for non-government stuff, not so much. If I buy tickets for something online, for instance, the web form asks for my birthdate using the normal Gregorian calendar year. Even the government stuff is a mix; my residence card shows my birthdate and card expiration date with the Gregorian year.
GitHub: Block Pull Request If Code Scanning Alerts Are Found
Just put it on the credit card
Arthur Samuel's Checkers Playing Program
For those who wouldn't click otherwise, a quick description:

This is a video about `law.resource.org` and why they do the work they do. The most salient part of the video, for me, is the opening, where we hear from various citizens -- water inspectors, fire department chiefs, building inspectors -- who had to pay thousands or (at times) tens of thousands of dollars in order to get access to law codes that are directly relevant to their jobs.
To be honest, it was very easy to miss what parent was saying. Your comment helps clarify though, thanks!
Not really. The Bush administration accelerated the polarization of post-Cold War American public culture, which the Obama presidency failed to truly heal. It’s hard to be stunned when everything is progressing (or rather regressing) into tribalism and atomization as it has been for decades, just louder and more obnoxiously.
> ICE car are going to have a lot less demand in 10 years

I think hybrid will be in peak demand in 10 years. Electric doesn’t work well for anyone that doesn’t have a house/residential charging.
Maybe it's time to let Netflix burn
https://github.com/lapce/lapce is not stable but already looks impressive.
Easy. Just validate the Federal id, probably at a higher trust level than they do today.

Because state dmv compacts govern data exchange and DMVs are all about selling stickers, state programs don’t have access to the ID data they own, except for law enforcement purposes. Companies like id.me, experian, etc buy that data from states and the. sell it back. (usually do a shitty job at it to boot)
Yes.
(it depends on the situation)
Wait isn't that the common assumption? That the universe is just an algorithm and we're trying to figure which is it?
Alameda Lent Sam Bankman-Fried $546M for Robinhood Stake
Cirtrix hasn't ever been the parent company to LastPass. LogMeIn bought Citrix's GoTo product division, and also bought LastPass, so that's the extent of their relationship.

LogMeIn and subsequently LastPass is has been owned by the private equity firm Francisco Partners since 2020. Ire can be focused on Francisco Partners as they completely gutted LastPass and other LogMeIn products shortly after acquisition.
Ford is trading at 108% book value, GM at 75% of book, Mercedes is 80% of book, and Volkswagen is trading at 1/3rd of book value (!?), assuming Yahoo Finance's numbers are correct. In contrast, Tesla is at 976% of book value. I think it has the potential to fall quite a bit more.
There's an interesting CCC talk about security in the GDS system, if anyone would like to be suitably horrified.

6 years old so hopefully something has improved...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8WVo-YLyAg
Was literally thinking today about this - would love for a politics filter. Apple tax issues ? Not interested.
Per cell, size of a small city.
Neat! And right on time. Bookmarking this.
Okay, do I need to read through all that and find out how your definition of "the wealthy" aligns with the contribution limits?

Roths aren't even vaguely related to the origin of 401ks, so I guess no need to look at those.
The new system settings app is painful. It freezes for up to 30 seconds at a time after I take an action.

It often goes completely blank, it flickers a lot and in general it's so hard to find stuff in it - the search is bad and they have just jammed settings in places that don't make sense.

I am on a 2020 MacBook Air with m1 chip, 16GB ram - wouldn't expect performance problems in the settings app, yet here we are.

I also get that issue with Safari where it freezes the entire system, that happens on my work laptop which is an M1 Max with 32GB RAM
They should just dump the tax-free shopping stuff, or go to the way other countries do it where you send some forms in and get sent a refund, rather than having individual stores process the paperwork, usually with special counters for tax-free shoppers.
The cool thing is that now you'll be able to cheaply monetize this information in order to better serve users with great perfectly-tailored advertising

It'll be like a cool guy is just following you around 24/7 making sure you know what to buy and do and think
The alternative I’ve seen is to have a pool of laptops people can borrow when they need one, and only employees that travel a lot have a permanent laptop instead of a desktop.
I mean that interpretations have practical implications because they're the only way to find the true laws of physics, which in turn has obviously applications. For example, if you believe in superdeterminism, and you obviously should, then that will save a lot of work researching dead ends (like multiverse stuff), which will make us find the correct algorithms faster.