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> Quantum nonlocality is perfectly compatible with special relativity...

...if you accept the ontology of certain interpretations of QM. Bohmian mechanics is based on a different ontology, which is why Bohmian mechanics currently has to posit a preferred foliation of spacetime in order to square with relativity. This is a little ugly, to put it mildly.

Edit: and the point I was making re:non-locality being the real problem, is because there are still plenty of unresolved issues between QM and general relativity, and I think these will come down to ontological incompatibilities, and so a different ontology may provide the insight needed to make a breakthrough.
The text-only / ad-free nature probably explains a fair bit of my own ... enthusiastic ... readership of HN (recent comment on which: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34490839>).

As for CSS tweaks, I've applied some modest changes to the basic style which are linked in my profile:

Dred's HN CSS Madhackery: <https://pastebin.com/gLXiqKyd>

Dred's HN CSS Madhackery -- Dark Mode: <https://pastebin.com/6PF3dCXH>

Both can be applied using a CSS style management extension such as Stylus:

<https://add0n.com/stylus.html>

(For Firefox, Chrome, & Opera.)
This is cool, but the elephant in the room for all these cryptography in the local browser is still there. Namely, you have to trust the server not to send you malicious html and if you already trust the server you might as well do things server side. As the saying goes, security is always about the weakest link.
1) Enough for what I'm proposing to do

2) My personal data. Who knows. Might end up needing a TB or more by the time I'm done snapshotting and whatnot, this is gonna be a process.

3) Enough lol

Sorry to be flip, but at this point I have more abstract targets:

-hoover up all photos taken by all my devices and place them in a central backup place with both cloud and local storage. Ideally some nice UI for browsing and organizing and such.

-replace Google Docs/Sheets functionality, including public internet accessibility (though I may do the VPN, or an SSH tunnel maybe, these are not bad ideas at all) with a server I control.

And yes, handling it with my own scripts and such has occurred to me as well, but you know how that ends up going.

Nextcloud seems to be a popular tool that does these things. That's what I know. There's been a number of interesting suggestions in the comments that I'm now gonna look into before I act, though.
Also they could probably send these devices to Apple, who can unlock & refurbish them.
I'm aware that Elisa Konofagou at Columbia has done quite a bit of work on this in the past decade if your interested in more:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4038976/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030156290...
> No product moved, no labor performed, no service provided.

That's a bit of a myopic view. Apple has invested billions in building a platform and user base, and that is what Google is buying.
Shouldn't the shareholders be held responsible for initiating the overhearing in the first place, chasing short-term gains without any regard for the unusually irrational exuberance fueled by the unprecedented pandemic situation? If you're going to excuse them calling for firings now, then you should at least chastise them for hiring earlier.
Look back at crypto and apply the same logic. It "changed everything" if you are part of the money makers, for the average joe nothing changed
It actively makes shit up in my experience. Like outright lies about basic facts.
Apple would have taken all 3000 of those laptops for recycling for absolutely free, except that for expensive items Apple requires you to fill out a form and show ID.
It's like the old reddit UI, but... broken (at least on Safari on Mac OS)
Bring back text only services! Everything should be accessible in some simple text UI that's simple and clean. I don't think that's possible by stripping back websites, maybe layers on RSS feeds, APIs with a new UX, etc, etc.
It feels very much like the way the Trisolarans convinced Eathlings they were helping them to advance technologically, while they were really keeping them from developing any knowledge on Quantum Mechanics before their arrival.
Chile is currently in the process of rewriting its constitution to ensure civil liberties, indigenous rights, and so on. They recently legalized same-sex marriage etc.
If your (binary, derived 128 bit) encryption key is the key your treasure chest - then the "derivation" is a map from your password ("hunter2") to the where the key (011101...) is buried.

With plain derivation, the map takes you directly from the password to the key. With an extra iteration, the map just points to a place on the map where a trail starts.

If you want to guess the key, by guessing the password - now you have to first walk to were the password points on the map, then follow the path (the iterations) - then dig and see if the key is there. Then you can try the key in the chest (the encrypted data).

The iterations (length of path) adds a certain, predictable, amount of work in order to find the key. It does not make it harder to guess the password, just harder to get the key from the password - and so it makes it harder to check if you've guessed the right password (try the key in the lock) - because there's extra work to be done.

Now you could compare memory-hard paths and compute-hard paths by adding elevation and distance to the analogy (different types of hard work).
Both speak to the ignorance and "closed-mindedness" Americans are known for, however I see your point. That said, it's worth noting that those who fight for gun rights "because it's in the constitution" are themselves engaging in logical fallacy (appeal to tradition, I believe), and ignoring relevant facts such as the ever-decreasing relevance of firearms in everyday life, and the reduced ability of mere firearms to overthrow a tyrannical government.
There's no need to cut off one's nose to spite one's face. There are literally millions of minimally-wrapped web apps in the App Store, which is where people search for apps.
Learn how to use the cost control tools on aws. I don't know what you're doing, but I don't see how a single user storing documents and media can end up with a massive bill.
This says again that the right behaviour for int overflow should be to trap, rather than wrap around or go into the weeds with UB.
Same issue I faced with Tabnine. I'm coding in many languages simultaneously, and I noticed that Tabnine produced often invalid code, suggested functions which are non-existing at all.
How ChatGPT Is Changing Search
I guess we'd have to argue what "aggressive" means here, but what you describe as "all they did" can and has been found to be monopoly behavior and against the law in the US. This is known as bundling and there are a bunch of prior cases which confirm it can be considered a violation of antitrust law. The bundling concept was the basis of the antitrust lawsuits against Microsoft in the late 90s.

That said, Apple is doing something worse with Safari, in that not only are they bundling the browser, they are using their tight control over the operating system to prevent other browsers from being installed in the first place. It's slighly murkier than the MS antitrust case because the counter-argument is "but they do allow other browsers! You can see Chrome/Firefox/Brave/etc in the App Store!" and then you have to get into a technical discussion of the difference between a browser application and a browser engine.

Sigh.
The point about emotional response is good.

I'm not sure how to best describe it, but every time I interact with AI, there is very little emotional response from it. Rather it's a "good enough" response rather than a sense of awe or horror.

I've been experimenting with writing recently and wanting to provide some AI imagery to match the emotions I'm expressing. A painting like "Wanderer above the Sea of Fog" evokes many emotions. But when I use the same description such as:

"a man standing upon a rocky precipice with his back to the viewer; he is gazing out on a landscape covered in a thick sea of fog through which other ridges, trees, and mountains pierce, which stretches out into the distance indefinitely."

I get the store-brand version that doesn't invoke any emotion. It is "good enough" to get the point across, but lacking the response. Similar to the countless recreations of the Mona Lisa, there is just something about organic perfection. I'm sure AI will get there one day, but who knows if we will react to it in this sense of wonderment.
> Often the previous owners are corporations or schools who buy and sell the machines in bulk and aren't interested in helping recyclers or refurbishers unlock them.

What kind of corporations or schools hand over old computers in bill without wiping them first?
> What are we if not statistical machines, synthesizing from the data we've sucked in over our lifetime?

Reasoning machines who are actually pretty bad at statistics.
It's not designed to give correct answers either. It's just designed to produce text output that's similar to the text in the training set.
Yep, absolutely horrible. Thank god they still allow old.reddit.com

The iphone app is even worse. The swiping UX is seemingly random, video player is terrible etc etc
https://www.userchrome.org/how-create-userchrome-css.html

https://userstyles.org/styles/113994/hacker-news-dark

While you're at it, also add this one: https://github.com/community/community/discussions/8098#disc...
As others will be quick to point out, HN does have ads in the form of job postings for YCombinator startups that are delivered inline with the links on the front page. That said, it's relatively unobtrusive. And of course, the existence of HN is a large part of the marketing for YCombinator itself. Personally, I'll commend dang for doing a high-effort job at moderation, and tolerating all the dunking on Paul Graham that we do.
Why didn’t you ask your friend to remove the activation lock when you discovered this?
Rather than choosing the alternative: let's take this opportunity to snub the customer and show that we know better than he does.
which are very clearly wrong

but not always; And that's what makes it scary. You know people will use it and trusting it.
If you're not a fan of Google drive: https://github.com/kristopher-wayton/chat-gpt-cheatsheet-nue...
LayoutLM [1] is the closest that I have seen you what you are asking. It is applied to documents but essentially takes positional and visual information into account for text extraction. For example, extracting a total from the line that reads TOTAL - I think this would be the best place to start.

1. https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.08387
Ad free? This is all part of one big ad. Ads are not evil though.. tracking might be.
Apple has an easy path to reset an Apple Silicon device by the original owner so it can be sold and used by another. I know because I've done it. But if it is stolen, game over.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201065

(to some of the commenters, note Step 2 carefully -- the rest of this guide is for older macs)
GPT 4 is Coming: Future of AI
Well, actually, it's not "ad-free". There are fairly regular job ads for YCombinator companies on the home page.
Yes, and there are often YC company job postings on the front page, which are technically ads.
Appropriately motivated and principled patronage ... is a fairly good media model.

Far superior to naked advertising. On par with public or membership sponsorship.
I may well be missing something, but here goes.

Based on most of the comments I'm seeing, it's like people didn't fully read the article. In particular, this quote:

> Responsible recyclers and refurbishers wipe the data from used devices before selling them on. In these cases, the data is wiped, but cannot be assigned to a new user, making them effectively worthless. Instead of finding these machines a second home, Bumstead and others are dismantling them and selling the parts. These computers often end up at recycling centers after corporations go out of business or buy all new machines.

It's saying that the machines are being wiped for prior owner security, but that this removes the ability for a new user to activate the laptop.
The optimistic way to look at it though is that it wrote the boring 29 lines that you didn't want to write and got you straight to the actual problem that needs solving.
Goodhart's Law in action.
It's the responsibility of the user who sells the device to factory reset it.
Sure enough! It's a $100 fine, however police cannot stop a vehicle just for this, it seems[0], so it carries less weight. Better than nothing, though.

[0] https://www.cga.ct.gov/2009/rpt/2009-R-0220.htm#:~:text=The%....
> It’s standard now but not the law

In fact, surcharges are now prohibited by EU law (as long as the card is covered by the interchange cap): https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/finance-funding/making...
I’ve been a google maps user for ten years and I tried Apple Maps recently and it’s way, way better. Google maps has always had a million little problems that annoy the shit out of me. It will take you down a road that is totally inappropriate, one lane and hasn’t been maintained for decades.
I visit HN a few dozen times a day. For it, it's like the stumbledupon with ability to comment. Best of both worlds.
Well, seems like this is another one of those "here's a shocking anti-consumer practice that certain users will defend" thread.

I'm not going to dig into the irony of grossly overcompensated tech workers defending anti-theft side effects. However, I will say that this also creates a lot of waste that basically forces Apple to be the main channel for resale. Go on Ebay and look at how many MDM-locked Macbooks exist that would be perfectly usable if their previous company was solvent enough to unlock them. In a world where reuse is preferable to reducing or recycling, it's hard to cheer for this from the sidelines.

The only thing that really matters is your data. If that's encrypted, there's not a small-time pickpocket on the planet that can get anything useful from it. If your data isn't backed up and your hardware isn't disposable relative to the frequency of being robbed, then you've arguably got a pretty bad disaster-recovery plan. Consider being less worrysome and more proactive.
Your twit-xamples compare two different things. ChatGPT can pass exams [0] and IQ tests [1], but that doesn't mean it's a "strong AI", just that it's good at talking -- or, rather, creating text output that humans can ascribe thoughtfulness to, because, hey, it's getting the questions right! As right as someone with an IQ of 83 can, anyway. Whether it's "actually" thinking is another question entirely -- but does that matter?! If it -- or its soon-to-be-created, ever-more-complex descendants -- is good enough at aping a human, it'll probably replace a bunch of human jobs. There probably aren't enough "prompt engineer" positions for all the displaced humans to fill.

There's your "change everything" -- it might not be a "strong AI", but if people can argue that Searle's Chinese Room [2] is "actually" talking, and it says useful, monetizable things, then it's close enough to be disruptive.

[0] https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/24/chatgpt_exam_study/

[1] https://nitter.1d4.us/sergeyi49013776/status/159843047987885...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
Try this https://jgthms.com/hacker-news-dark-mode/
The scrap part is the worst of this. Nice single use laptops on 3 year turnover cycles? No thanks. Unless Apple is responsible for turning the left overs into usable objects and not diverted to e-waste.

In the article they outline a pretty decent way to overcome this through apple themselves which I'd be much happier with.
Wow, thank you for the amazing links.

> The bottleneck here is to have the domain knowledge and experience to judge which generated ideas are good.

This comment reminds me of my grandpa.

I occasionally call him when I have a "brilliant" idea, and he dismembers the idea with simple questions.

It's like magic. Even if my idea sits outside his domain knowledge, he has an incredible gift for finding fatal flaws in things.

This gift has proven to be lucrative over his lifetime, and I suspect it makes him deeply unhappy.

I'd like to acquire this power too, one day.
I use chatgpt to write code. If it gets a bit better and can connected to an editor to create files, update existing files developer productivity will go through the roof
On Markdown in Java documentation comments
Yes, which makes some sense given that the EU has also capped interchange to 0.3% for credit cards.
You may be interested by Gemini…
That was nice of you!
I was not aware of tailscale (I dunno why I miss things, I just do), but it seems like it's what I've been wanting. Cheers.
The sorts of people being "documented" on KiwiFarms are not celebrities. They're usually vulnerable people with some sort of mental illness who are struggling. And I don't buy for a moment the "no touch" policy. Just because you can't use a specific website to harass someone, does not mean you can't use the information on the website to harass them off-platform. This is a bad take. There's a major difference between journalism, tabloid journalism (which I also consider worthless and wrong), and stalking vulnerable people on the internet. Or as you call the latter, "documenting".
I've been on TornadoVPS (formerly prgmr.com) for ~a decade and it's been fine. They lack the ability to do lots of storage like you may need for this project. If you can configure Nextcloud to use s3 or a competitor's clone for storage I think that would be a reasonable, measured exposure to Amazon/Google/Microsoft and you'll get to take advantage of their high reliability where you really need it.

https://tornadovps.com/
So when will these self-driving cars be ready for mass consumption? Because they're starting to sound like flying cars at this point. Yes, technically doable and there are always some working prototypes, but no real market, and not seen as practical.
Linode. I've been a customer for almost 15 years. Has never served me wrong.
For me, the worst thing is how few comments show up by default in the comments sections. As a moderator of a large subreddit, the new UI is unusable because I can't quickly glance over a massive thread, I'd have to click through to a hundred sub-pages. If they ever remove old.reddit.com, I don't know what I'd do. It's a shame, because the redesign has some actually useful tools that I'd like to be using, but the basic experience is so poor. Every other aspect of the redesign could be fixed in the client with CSS rules, and the slowness and bloat could at least be tolerated.
I have to wonder, were any of the the hypothesis' in those papers plausibly viable areas of inquiry?

Perhaps it could be useful if they train the bot to identify cases like this and state that no such references exist but also provide a thesis or suggest a line of study that would produce such a reference.
> You can't chose any search engine like on other platforms

With Safari, yes, but Firefox for iOS (for example) allows you to add arbitrary search engines.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/change-your-default-sea...
Authentication & data-encrulyption have different needs. That it took so so many years for WebAuthn to recognize the need to do more than authenticate, to add "pr", is because it was non obvious what we would do, because so many security folk never want to let the keys out.

In a fantasy world, security keys might be high speed decrypting devices, that we could pass data into & quickly get data out of. They, alas, are not so high-featured at present. And, this would come with a host of assumptions. If I want to use group cryptography so a set group of people/keys can decode the data, will the hardware implement that?

What do you suggest then? I understand the concern. Do you propose we not allow encrypting data? Do you have some other idea for what we might do today?

I hope we can both recognize a tension between hardened security & soft software. Possibility is scary. But imo the progressive approach here, embracing the good, is the only way we get nice things. For folks like offline webapps to be able to use keys to protect themselves & their data is a huge huge win.
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When it gets it entirely wrong that will be trivially detected by an I/O example, no? So I don't see that as dangerous, just inconvenient (it sometimes doesn't work, but you know when it doesn't work). You can also use an existing semantics-preserving deobfuscator and then use that as the input to an LLM deobfuscator instead of the original.

If you're saying that obfuscators can eventually adapt, then sure. So can deobfuscators. This particular problem is kind of inherently an arms race.
> One strategy I really like is to think of technologies you couldn't build 5 years ago but are just barely possible today.

Streaming gaming is something I am still laser-focused on. Our networks are only getting faster. I feel there is a gigantic opportunity here that is being passed up by efforts like Stadia.

To do this thing correctly, the game engine itself needs to be developed with these concerns in mind. Expectations of things like having GPUs available on the same machine that is servicing player input events should be eliminated. The simulation itself may benefit from being distributed across multiple nodes connected via a low-latency network.

The future of shard-less, million player MMO worlds will not be feasible if every player's computer will be required to replicate and render all of that game state.
I write my CV and resume in LaTeX using moderncv and a customized version of deedy-resume. The CV repo is public if you're curious: https://github.com/evansosenko/curriculum-vitae

If you are hacking on this today, you can use this starter repo to get a LaTeX project setup that builds and publishes your document with GitHub Actions: https://github.com/makenew/latex-project
I think Replika (https://replika.com/) is one of the bigger ones. I know of it from a few youtube videos making fun of it, but I really don't know how anyone can form an attachment to a chatbot.
Yeah, I agree with that.
A pair often produces better code than an individual. But now, they have common blind spots. :-)
I have been saying lately "if your job can be replaced by AI, it should". I know that sounds crass, but I'm a person who is always trying to replace my tasks with small shell scripts leaving only the real thinking to be the stuff that I do.

I remember a long time ago Joel from Joel on Software made a post/comment (I can't find it, so it must have been a comment) about how the hard part of programming is interpreting the spec into code, and that programmers often get mad because the "spec isn't complete". Of course the spec isn't complete, if it were complete, it would cover every edge case and be as complex as the code. If you could have AI turn a spec into code, then the real intelligence goes into writing the spec to cover the complexity.

It's ok if AI can generate boiler plate for functions or even regurgitate leet code solutions (heck, I gave it the typical "coding challenge" we use here as our first filter and it did a good job). The real intelligence in development is to know what algorithm you want to use for your current problem.

So to me ChatGPT isn't that big of a deal. It does some neat things, and it may make some jobs redundant, but I don't see how it could replace the real value that humans bring to a problem. It may keep replacing the bottom tier workers, but that just frees people up to bring value higher up the value chain.
very true, i fully commit to that statement
"one can send two classical bits to teleport one qubit"

How do you do this?

(it goes against my intuition of a qubit as state in a hilbert space)
If anyone is interested in getting into zig, we made a library that has similar goals (and can run on WASM in the browser): https://github.com/ibebrett/zigzag