skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All quantum fields have their vacuum energy fluctuations.
When we change the parameters of the space (e.g. stretch or compress it), the current state is no longer the ground state but becomes a so-called squeezed vacuum state.

This effect is used in laser physics to "split photons" in spontaneous parametric downconversion. That is, an intense laser changes the refractive index of a medium periodically. These oscillations generate a squeezed vacuum state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeezed_coherent_state
> I just gave Bard a try. It's still nowhere near as good at coding as chatGPT (and GPT4 specifically)

Because its a much smaller model IMO. Its like comparing a car with 2.0 engine, with a car with 3.0 engine. Also ChatGPT made a lot of errors in code just a few months ago. Google seems to be catching up.
> That scenario can't happen on Apple's offical App Store because their policies don't allow apps to have crippled functionality when users opt-out of ad tracking.

There is a simple solution for Apple: disable ad tracking on iOS. The DMA doesn't require gatekeepers permit ad tracking. It only requires gatekeepers provide the same functionality they provide themselves. Apple is still perfectly able to provide a safe and secure OS under the legislation.
AI Functions: Integrating Large Language Models with Databricks SQL
> NASA approach cost 20 billion $ at least and has a per launch cost of 4-5 billion $ going forward. They didn't develop new engines and is mostly based on legacy avionics. There really isn't a comparison in those terms.

You're leaning on a lot of hypotheticals and assumptions, right?

Do we even know how much a Starship launch costs? The only cost I can find is Musk saying they'd dropped $2-3B, but that was back in 2019. My point is...how can it not be a comparison when costs may (or, may not) be comparable?

I don't think the reason NASA Is risk-adverse is because of cost - it's because a similar explosion would effectively crash the entire NASA space program.
the trick is to use flexbox and flexgrid for everything
My extremely technically-challenged mom called me out of the blue to tell me about how she was using ChatGPT at work, which was my “holy shit” moment with LLMs.
Perhaps drawing a distinction between outbound and inbound email protocols would be good too. I understand the argument being made, but the sensible assumption is that your email, even with a password, isn't a sensible choice for sensitive communications.
In apple's case don't bad people unlock locked devices by spoofing the servers anyways?
Wow no kidding! The Spumco web stuff was before my time, but Foster's started airing right around the time I picked up flash, when I was like nine (it was a favorite show of mine!) There were a lot more flash shows on TV back then, and most look pretty crappy by today's standards, but at least that one holds up pretty well.
I like that archive quite better since it has many others like IBN (IBM) for example.
It's more subtle than this. Your brain can tell you to do stupid things. Not all desires are good. I can over eat, over spend, over work or procrastinate. And that's not even going into deeper brain reflex or addiction. And then you have actual neurology.

I'm not a religious person, but I believe (sic) that behind fasting periods, there's a training around the theme of balance.
Unfortunately most languages make this very difficult to avoid even when you are trying
Real patriots, in my experience:

1. Don't talk long and loud about being patriots (i.e. don't self-identify)
2. Tend to work for the government. Career govvies or military. They show their patriotism through action.

> There's a huge subset (dare I say majority) of those "patriots" you deride who don't like this stuff, don't think their goings on are any of the government's business.

I know the type well, as that describes one side of my family. Despite your protestations, we're saying the same thing.
Readers might also be interested in a MiSTer FPGA-based system to emulate many hardware devices from your childhood: https://www.retrorgb.com/mister.html
You can think of every business as harnessing some sort of "natural resource" and generating value from it by transforming to something more usable and/or selling it. At its core, almost every business is:

1. Acquire resource.

2. Transform or make it into something more usable.

3. Sell it to customers.

All businesses are directly incentivized to have as wide and efficient of a pipe for sucking up the raw materials they build products out of. Fishing boats want to use the biggest nets regardless of bycatch. Mines want to level the whole mountain regardless of what lives on it. Farmers want crop growing on every square inch of the field regardless of biodiversity. You get the idea.

This is not out of any deliberate malice, it's just an emergent property of how the system works. If you have a bunch of companies making widgets out of blobstuff, the company that can get the most blobstuff the cheapest wins.

And, as purchasers of widgets, we benefit from the system and tacitly support it by participating.

For ad-driven tech companies, the natural resource they acquire is human attention. They are structurally incentivized to acquire as much as they can, as cheaply as they can, for as long as they can.

One of the "obstacles" to harvesting human attention which can be then sold to advertisers is that those pesky humans would prefer to place their attention elsewhere. Given that, tech companies are always going to be pushing the boundaries of consent. It's not a strictly zero-sum game, because sometimes humans actually do want to consume ads. But as the amount of attention being sucked up by companies increases and as people get reasonably more and more covetous of their own attention, that game gets less non-zero over time.
In general AFAIK they'll typically pay out the customary two week notice period but take away your physical and computer access. (By no means universal but plenty of examples in this thread of where it happens.)
Maybe not. I'm in the US and this is generally my practice as well. Unless I'm dying to get out or have other circumstances encouraging a quick exit, I offer a month at least. Sometimes more.
phys.org re-publishes press materials from universities. The writers at Quanta write their own articles.
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I don’t suppose there’s a version that is not scaled to 1.2x height, for conversion and display on an Amiga CRT, avoiding the need to scale the PNG and lose quality. (Ahoy, if you’re reading this.) I’d love to have such a version.
It’s my understanding that if you are subject to unusual fasting conditions - 24hr daylight / darkness / in space you follow the rules as if you were in Mecca.
It's a fair question. Google has certainly nuked entire accounts for minor violations in the past.
Including the U.S. government.
AFAIK Ahoy has been pretty famous for his high production values using well-done research, slick graphics and nice animations for a number of years.
My instinct is to say “no, that’s ageist” because there are plenty of older people who are legitimately brilliant.

But honestly, she’s a fantastic example of why we should have term limits, at the very least.
They do, actually. The DMA is one of the most comprehensive and impressive pieces of technology focused legislation in a lifetime. It expressly forbids gatekeepers like Apple from making the process of installing applications any more difficult than it is for Apple's App Store. The purpose of the legislation is to foster fair competition. It's not fair competition if Apple is allowed to make the process prohibitively complex or cumbersome.
Sometime in the early aughts (sometime right after 9/11), I remember an interview with a group of three NSA whistle blowers who were coming forward trying to raise the alarm the US govt was using the tools they had developed to stop terror attacks on the US and had turned those tools back on the US population and were gathering unimaginable amounts of data for that purpose on private citizens.

Shortly after they came forward, I read an article stating gathering so much data on so many people essentially allowed any real terrorist (domestic or foreign) to essentially hide in plain view because of the amount of data being collected could not be sifted through fast enough to flag any person or group before they were able to carry out an attack.

Yes, I'm very much on your side in terms of the constant attacks on our privacy and rights. While at the same time, I acknowledge that there is some inherit defense to them gathering too much data which in some sense allows us to maintain some level of privacy in the meantime.
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this has been done before:

https://www.history.com/topics/colonial-america/salem-witch-...
Not only that, i ve noticed they now charge more for reprinting an old picture in a new article. Years ago, in Rightslink the reuse rights for almost all the images was $0 , now it's $70-90 and everybody has to pay, including students, nonprofits etc. The whole thing is just insane and the needle doesnt seem to move
Monitors use electromagnets to steer an electron beam. The earth has a more or less constant magnetic field in a certain orientation. Rotating the monitor changes the magnetic flux the electron beam experiences and might distort which subpixels the electron beam is hitting.
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Welcome to GIS :D

Seriously, it's a domain with huge under-the-surface complexity (no pun intended)[1], and most of the early efforts were spent in dealing with the maths and science, rather than software engineering. Things are getting better though.

[1] here is a good jumping off point (imagine the technical debt this might lead to): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_reference_system
Why do these people continue to be re-elected at all?

Surely there's some other (D) that could have replaced Feinstein a decade ago - but California keeps re-electing her? There's near unanimous agreement she "lost it" long ago - yet here she still is.

A mandatory retirement age is great and all... but maybe we need to figure out why people vote for someone nearly nobody wants in the first place. Just the "safe" vote? That can't be all of the story...
Depends on the interpreter, batch and PowerShell accepts both.
That's already available. Turns out, admin moderation is still necessary to make the website tolerable.

Besides, boards generally have just 150 threads running at once. If the majority of the live threads are just spammed crap, that makes everything worse. If there are 100 topics with lively discussion and 10 or so spam threads that haven't been culled yet, no problem. If there are 80 spam threads, then there's going to be a ton of churn as everyone competes for the other 70 threads. Each new one bumps another off the site. There'll be discussions started anew, with the same crap filling it up because people think they have to say it every time. This is what happens on fast-moving boards.

And one could ask "Why not change the number of live threads? Or never retire threads?"
To which I'd respond, "If you have to keep recommending changes to fix what your other changes cause, maybe the original change wasn't good."
Religion is a good one. With ChatGPT you can have your own personal Jesus (or personal Eliezer Yudkowsky for that matter.)

Hacker News readers never seem to vote them up but I see a stream of papers on arXiv where people taught a robot to fold towels or take plastic bags off a roll and put items in them and there was that robot funded by the National Nuclear Security Administration that looked like a tentacle from a tentacle monster anime (moves by inflating and deflating internal chambers much like a real *ick) that could go into holes looking for prohibited nuclear materials... So blue collar jobs aren't immune.
Filtering is a game of constant whack a mole. That's why mods and janitors are used to do it, because it would be overwhelming if it was on each and every user and, you'd spend the bulk of your time online seeing egregious content and updating your filters, as well as dealing with the stress of actually seeing that graphic stuff.
Hate is natural, just look at history. Practicing restraint from natural feelings like hate is a purpose of fasting. Do note, it has been an organized practice in western civilization centuries longer than even Islam has existed.
The one time I tried to do this my employer would no longer approved vacation requests and refused to pay out my 3 weeks of unused vacation.
Hoping for punishment on a group of humans based on their birthdates is intellectually dishonest and frankly quite cruel. Let’s keep this type of comment on reddit.
It's a modified IQ test filtered through the transfer function of having a CS degree. A big part of the shade that this practice gets is from people with backgrounds that are CS adjacent who are highly intelligent, can do math at a university level and perfectly capable of writing quality production ready code are dinged because they don't know some CS 201 puzzle that is never used in practice.
Yes, some of the transformation mechanisms are nice if you need to dump info into it and want it reorganized or processed into something else as well. But outside of that it's hard to justify spending $20 month so you can be bullshitted by some know-it-all toddling proto-skynet when you need factual information.
Interestingly, there's an unofficial Go procedural language for PostgreSQL:

https://gitlab.com/microo8/plgo

Haven't tried it out myself though.
I doubt that any results which rested on the assumption of Hume's Principle are worthwhile. Indeed, set theory seems to have been useless for most mathematicians except those who are interested in "foundations", since it is mostly ignored.
Yes. Your incoherent self contradiction is amusing.
Re: moral hazzard, it seems odd to me that the US college kids use this service without a second thought. I'm old (50's) and we thought having someone type (typewriter era) your essay after you hand wrote it was dishonest. :-) The only situation I can think of where I might have cheated without feeling bad was maybe using a calculator on math homework where it was forbidden?
Fun fact: The Macintosh II (68020) had two 6502 processors on its motherboard, somewhere in the I/O system. Originally intended to do some kind of I/O acceleration, they were never used by MacOS. I heard they just ran Mandlebrot-generation test code.
Demonware handle the online services for the CoD franchise.
That is unfortunate
We moved from leetcode + system design question to project-based interview + system design question to just project based.

Our project-based interviews were the main hiring criteria, and we originally planned on using system design interviews for leveling. What we found is that doing well on the project-based interview was a much better signal than the system design interview. When we used the system design interview for leveling, we under leveled certain people and over leveled others. We discovered that it would have been more accurate to only use the project interview for both making a hiring decision and leveling.

Ultimately, what we had trouble with was formalizing the evaluation criteria for the system design interview. With a project interview, we formalized the requirements of the project and everyone on the loop evaluates candidates against those criteria. With the system design interview, only one person ends up evaluating each candidate and a single person's judgement is highly variable. Unless the candidate did something egregiously wrong, it was very hard to say whether or not something was strictly "bad" or "good" and it was impossible to write down the list of "bad" and "good" qualities ahead of time.
Sure, I’m mostly addressing the folks in this thread who are musing on whether there will be more than a few gas stations total in the country by 2035…
I've been playing with GPT4 summarization of hard knowledge that has an external database with true answers that GPT knows about, and it's still hallucinating regularly.
> The entire promise of Uber and Lyft was profitability through scale.

> But now, they all want to scale down to be profitable.

I am a bit confused by these two statements. In the first, it sounds like you are using "scale" to describe the customer reach and sales volume of the company. In the second, it sounds like you are using "scale" to describe the number of employees.

I agree that Lyft and Uber should not be valued like Google or Meta. Wall Street agrees, as you have surely noticed. But both are much more valuable than a traditional cab company. It is the "automated dispatch agent" you mention which makes them that way and which also requires innovative use of silicon and development of software.

As an aside, were there ever nationwide, publicly traded cab companies in the United States of America? I cannot think of any.
My Samsung phone was waterproof long before Apple had it.
freedom in the matter of choosing your own actions is definitely a nice tool to have when planning your week or day, or or responding to stressful suprises.
Hmm audit compliance? Google gives you a log of who logged in where, doesn't it?
And with "proper RBAC" you mean that you can put somebody into the "Developer" role, hence he gets AWS, GCP, Datadog, right?
Right. I wish people would stop with the ageist crap. Feinstein has always been highly problematic. Age has nothing to do with it.
Ask HN: Comparison between two startup offers
Hi HN,

I'm in the middle of choosing between my current company, and another company. I'd like to give a description of both companies, and poll you all for thoughts and opinions. Cash is identical, and my stock options at my current company are currently underwater due to a ~35%ish drop in valuation compared to before the tech market went south.

My current company is a series C ML/AI company with about 100 people. There are many people with deep expertise in ML systems and distributed systems -- the engineers are very strong, and the founders are reknowned and well-regarded, and also experts in ML systems. But the business is struggling; there was recently a round of layoffs of 15% of the company. There's a very strong pivot into direct competition with the other company, and the current product will likely be deprecated; I'm assuming I'll be safe in terms of layoffs, since my experience aligns very closely with the new product direction and is hard to hire for. About half of the engineers are devoted to a research project closely associated with the founders, but which hasn't been able to yield business results yet. The company doesn't have a presence in open-source.

The other company, the one I received an offer from, recently raised a strong series A, and has lots of market traction. Its bench isn't nearly as deep in terms of hard-to-hire ML/AI expertise or very strong distributed systems engineers, and the founders are not nearly as widely known or connected. The people seem both very nice, fun, and (importantly) interesting. The company has a reasonably popular open source tool, and is not involved in ML/AI research.

I'm finding it difficult to weigh these options, and I'm looking for thoughts, opinions, and intuition on things I may not be considering. I know a large part of this depends on various personal preferences and values, which I will ultimately depend on to decide, but I want to hear from others on how these two options strike them.

Thank you.
Ahoy is a very high quality channel! Highly recommend watching the video about Polybius, and the one about the first video game.
This leads to issues in e.g. Norilsk where it is polar summer during important Islam dates and you can often not see the moon at all.
> Musk sponsoring a handful of VIPs with free bluechecks on what is apparently a personal fandom basis (eg. Stephen King)

You’re getting that backwards.

King, LeBron, and Shatner all prominently spoke out against paying for a check. King was the one responsible for the $8 price point after his first refusal to pay $20.

This is Musk’s petty, clumsy idea of revenge against them, though inflicting something you are ostensibly trying to sell as a punishment that they view as a mark of shame is perhaps not brilliant marketing.

Oh, and you forgot Musk’s threatening to sue Microsoft when they said they wouldn’t pay for Twitter API access.
The original image was an amalgamation of several different reconstruction techniques with varying dependence on prior information. They also had data driven techniques during the original analysis but I don't think they were used to generate the final image shown to the public
Mass-producing IC engines, even complicated state-of-the-art ones, is exceedingly simple and cheap. Assembling an EV battery is actually pretty damned hard and energy-intensive. This is all reflected in the price. If it were easy to make an EV battery, they would cost less. If it was hard to make an IC engine, there would be no $4500 motorcycles.
The US isn't the whole world.
Having interned long long ago, most "co-authorships/sponsorships" are merely tokens added to a bill to make it seem more impressive.

Rarely, if ever, does a bill sponsor have much to do with the bill. At least in my experience. It was a game to see who we could round up for the bill, and then a political game about who would look better or bring a stronger base.
You are totally overstating everything yourself, as that wasn't my takeaway from the article at all. If anything, the article makes it seem like not a big deal at all (there's a video of the town where all you see is... a cloud??). Nevertheless, contrary to what you are stating, I see tons of posts here cogently explaining why the SpaceX decisions about the launchpad were probably dumb.
> They may provide some kind of "Facebook Plus" that you need to sideload, but the app store has too many eyes on it because it comes preinstalled.

The nightmare scenario, for the "please don't change it" side, is that one of a handful of big players does this but also uses it to push an entire alternative store. Facebook and Epic are the most likely to try. Maybe Google, outside chance Microsoft tries. I doubt any would bother to just push sideloading an app, without using it to make a play to become the second of an app store duopoly on the platform. Basically the same strategy Steam used to gain market share—"here's our new game that everyone wants... oh, by the way, to use it you have to install our store".

I mean, Epic's been burning stacks of Benjamins for at least a couple years giving away tons of games (most of it not even cheap shovelware!) to buy marketshare for their desktop app store—it's not implausible they'd give away a lot of free games or other software to get iOS users to install their store, to make a play for the #2 (or #1!) app store position on the platform. And Facebook could probably get people to install theirs by just adding some visual bling to users' posts when they use the version from Facebook's store—might not even have to give them actual extra features to make it happen.

Maybe none of that happens, sure, but it might. If these changes brought by regulations end up making sideloading easier than it currently is on Android, on both platforms, I'd say it's a certainty that something like that'll go down, at least on iOS (more money to be made there; store's more restrictive) and maybe on Android, too.
I think the margin of bat vs sh is a larger margin. Batch files use gotos, the entire file is reread for each line, etc.

My main complaint about sh and Unix is that environment variables are mostly inherited from parent processes, and that can be awkward.

(And Windows at least, these days, is seeing a lot more PowerShell adoption.)
I wouldn't touch anything that Google(The eyes and ears of advertisers) offers, with a 10 foot pole. Specially if is work related.
Chat GPT software development answers get better with warm up questions. I don't shoot questions point blank but do a 3-4 related questions first.
The value is mostly in the peer review, yes, but peer reviewers aren't the ones being paid for it.