skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm guessing a report stuck the word quantum in there, just because it seemed like a nice modifier. The CalTech video referenced indeed describes just classical wave interference controlled by a phased array transmitter, as you suggest.

As for how much power - the team only claims to have "detected" the beam, not to have captured and utilized it, when transmitting from orbit to earth. Given that even with less than a meter between the transmitter and receiver, they only lit up a couple of LEDs, I think discussions of power are a bit premature.
Not to rain on your fun, but this already exists. I watched Hikaru Nakamura play it online once. It just gives a random position and you have to guess the centipawn loss of the position. Kinda like Geoguessr for chess.
I feel like the person writing this is perhaps too arrogant.

> In our society, this common currency of expected utilons is called "money". It is the measure of how much society cares about something.

>

> This is a brutal yet obvious point, which many are motivated to deny.

This is not a definition, and I don’t think it is obvious. What “society” are you talking about? Your national borders? Also, as a counterexample, society whatever it may be cares about motherhood, that doesn’t mean it pays money to mothers…
Back in the day it may have been UltraEdit, but these days I'm sure there's something else. I've been using Notepad++ because it's FOSS, but it is probably too quirky to be an analogue
I don't think being up a full piece counts as material imbalance.
Apart of the .NET/Microsoft/ugly command-lets situation, how do you pitch yourself against PowerShell? The typed pipelines and advanced programming are also there.

Not that I am a personal Powershell fan (in-memory commands and ugly commands is the ugly part for me), but "next-gen" shells with typed streams are not exactly the novelty.
Stockfish eval is often misleading because some positions are very sharp - if you see mate in 15 you’re ahead, but otherwise you’re far behind at the most pathological case.
does ascii have one of the bits reserved for parity check? This part confuses me:

"Each ASCII character is 8 bits wide, or one byte. The result of this means that if each bit is either a 1 or a 0 that there are only 128 possible combinations of ASCII characters."

If all 8 bits are used for data there should be 255 possible combinations.
The Mystery of Australia’s Paralyzed Parrots
Github employees also send a lot of commits to Ruby and Rails. But probably not as many as Shoppify.

There might be one or two additional big companies that are similarly funding employees to contribute to core infrastructure in significant ways.

But not too many more than a handful, I agree. And they are carrying a lot of weight in ruby ecosystem for sure.

I feel like this era of open source in general is one of very shifting patterns of contribution for sustainability. One or a few big companies paying people to keep the thing alive is definitely one that seems to be increasing.

Perhaps since the company(ies) in question didn't originate the product(s) in this case, it doesn't feel like they "own" them exactly (not like "open source" products originated and developed by only one company where the product is their business itself -- not sure which category O'Caml fits in), but the risk in depending on only one or two companies (where the product is _not_ their actual business itself) is that if the company decides it no longer wants to make the investment, it can definitely be disastrous for the product. Shoppify just did a bunch of layoffs -- I don't think they hit the people contributing to ruby too hard, but they easily could have, except perhaps Shopify too realizes that if they stopped keeping Ruby alive it would be disastrous for their own business.
Just wanted to plug my favorite browser extension lately. It will auto redirect many corporate services to alternative, privacy preserving frontends.

https://libredirect.github.io/
I got lost in my own 'neighborhood' (farmland area) because the burned out husk of a barn I used as a landmark for my turn was removed while I was away at school. County road numbers/addresses are not very memorable or easy to read at speed and everyone I knew for my whole life used landmarks until I moved into town.

I'm very reliant on a bunch of personally named gmaps pins now.
Github is doing some as well. Although with resources from Microsoft I do wish they do more.
Horses Stand Up to Sleep but Lie Down Perchance to Dream
NYC's streets are mostly numbered. If something is given a name, it's usually a bigger avenue. The narrower blocks are numbered and it's easy to tell if you've gone in the wrong direction because the numbers are going in the wrong direction. Since the block is short, you don't have to walk far before realizing this. Paths in one direction are avenues, the other direction are streets, so it's easy to get your bearings.

Philadelphia's streets are mostly named, and it's almost impossible to tell if you're walking in the right direction without walking a decent distance. East/West paths are sometimes avenues, but not always.
I can agree with many of your points. For me, probably many, the price needs to be in line to a laptop replacement to be considered an option.
There are books on it. Just quick search found sources.
Believe to narrow down what is meant by violence , it is all violent deaths, by war or murder.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/history-and-the-d...

https://stevenpinker.com/publications/better-angels-our-natu...

https://fivebooks.com/best-books/decline-violence-steven-pin...
It's more likely a negotiating tactic. It happens all the time. Also, I wouldn't take any article that begins "Last week, when Elon Musk hosted conspiracy theory nonsense peddler RFK Jr. on a Twitter Spaces..." seriously. Immediately stopped reading because obviously the "journalist" has an axe to grind and an agenda to push. Could almost guarantee there's nothing of value in the article. So much garbage everywhere.
Strawberries in California are fucking delicious, even the half-rotten ones they sell at Target
Getting it to the orbit is hard, and destroying / disorienting it there is easier (requires a smaller rocket). The whole thing is not very maneuverable, and cannot effectively defend itself either.

Unlike a comm or spy satellite, it has no use except during an active "hot" conflict, so its useful life against any modern military would be pretty limited.

Could be used against forces that lack an ability to reach orbit: against guerilla groups maybe, or to burn opium and coca plantations.
Indeed, see for example https://www.heap.io/blog/how-to-lie-with-data-visualization
I love how pragmatic the approach is here. We still don't have parser generators which generate human understandable/readable recursive descent parser with good error recovery baked in. But i am guessing the ruby syntax is too complicated/irregular anyway.

On a macro side, i am always surprised with the length and effort company will go to keep working with solution design and selected at their young age, and try to scale them well beyond the braking point. And i feel like most of this effort to keep ruby alive could have been used to slowly transition part of the infra to something JVM/.Net/Rust based for much more bang for engineering buck.
What the ‘Amazon effect’ means for Seattle traffic, bus ridership
Intel Linux Graphics Driver Continues Work Toward Per-Client Memory Reporting
Actually, some northern European countries have over a year of parenting leave to be distributed among 2 parents, one could argue that that is paying parents to be parents because society cares.
Mr beast is not able to upend society and convince enough voters to provide a better support system. You’re advocating for doing nothing, that’s what would happen if he focused on politics instead of fun videos.
Microsoft Office security signatures are 'practically worthless'
Well, yes. It’s encouraging bad practices. Same reason I don’t read clickbait “journalism” articles, or click on ads, or respond to spam emails.
> Any crypto sceptic who does not see a problem with this is tainted by their priors.

Who is this addressed at? I think most (any?) crypto skeptic would see the problems here and suggest that these exchanges should have been shut down much earlier. The fact that they were allowed to operate so long gave them the veneer of respectability which just brought in more suckers. Coinbase et al knew (or should have known) exactly what they were doing, they were making hey before the regulators caught up to them.

Nobody's claiming that the US legal system is perfect, but here we are. The wheels of justice grind away slowly. At least they're finally regulating these things.
> What I find mindbogglingly ridiculous is how emotionally charged all of the "the system must include LIDAR" proponents are.

> None of the arguments I come up against are anything but a surface level "well duh, intuitively more sensors equals more better" along with a litany of "you must like murdering babies".

A bit pot blaming the kettle there.

The thing is, the 'vision is enough' crowd often manages to pick a single use case, like seeing the difference between cardboard and plywood, that has nothing to do with Lidar and then asking, rhetorically, how Lidar would help with that. By opening a discussion in such a disingenuous way, you provoke the emotional response you seem to dislike.

If you want to have an actual discussion, maybe start by asking a genuine question.

> in order to have a machine that can make human-like decisions

Honestly, I don't think many people want it to make human-like decisions. We want it to make much, much better decisions. By your standard, we should just put two camera's on top that rotate on a platform that can only move about 180 degrees both ways. Also, remove radar and ultrasonics, because humans don't have those either.

I can't give you decent arguments for using Lidar. I'm not in that field, so I can only return my own gut feeling in response to yours and I honestly don't think that has any value.
Some thoughts:

1- Physical games don't go away with GameStop, and their decline coincides with a larger contraction around physical retail stores generally as people shift to buying things online (even, ironically, physical copies of games they could have downloaded). And, you can always load up a hard drive with the digital copies and them load them back into the machine when you want to play (depending on your console).

2- I feel like the decline of GS has more to do with your final point, which is that trading in games got to a point where it wasn't fun/useful for the consumer (hey, that AAA title you bought 6 months ago for 70 bucks? 15 dollar trade in, buy used for 40!) combined with the overall decline in physical retail.

(edited for typo)
the book The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron kinda does this for some things.
It did help me a lot, I guess you could say it taught me the art of "self parenting".
How econometric prediction ignores the alarming tipping points and pervasive uncertainty that characterize our warming world.
OK, I've seen your posts before and getting triggered by a bad word is not something I'd expect from you.

> Until we get a good old fashioned FDR style socialist government

Until then, we can excise our field from that cesspit. That's something could be done without a revolution.
> I'm still hoping they will have a true desktop chip at some time where RAM could be externalized even if it causes a slight performance hit.

I believe it was John Ternus on the WWDC23 episode of The Talk Show that said this isn’t going to happen.

They were uncharacteristically firm about this. Same with supporting external GPUs. The indication was this is not going to happen.
Select 1952 from the menu and see the Meola Glacier in the Himalayas.

Then look at this 2009 photo looking directly up the same valley rather than from the side.
https://www.indiamike.com/india-images/pictures/meola-glacie...

The change is happening at a pace that we don't see, without the overview of historical photos.

A very bad omen for India's water supply I think.
"Sorry, but unless you're a physicist, why would you expect to be able to know the significance of the paper?"

Because I expect a news article on the topic to clearly contextualize that answer. That is a core component of their job.

Quanta magazine is pretty good in most things I read, but I feel like they drop this particular ball pretty often. I suppose that concession to clickbaitery is the bare minimum anyone can survive with nowadays. But they are still several cuts above most things I read.
You're suggesting that GameStop had that because they thought DLC codes were an equally acceptable alternative?

I think maybe the distribution channels messed things up for the smaller big box company. Could also be bad for independent ones.

Or could someone have just come in and bought them before you got there and it happened to be relatively more quick selling than at Target?
I'm currently on keto and am curious what sweet food will taste like if I ever try it. I hear that if you don't eat such foods for a long time, they tend to come across as really really sweet.
Two things I'd like to know:

How detectable is "detectable"; what power level did the experiment yield? Microwave satellite transmissions have been "detectable" and very useful for decades. I don't hold it against them if they are 6 orders of magnitude lower than would be useful (yet), but I'd like to know they are getting in the are of transmitting power vs information.

When this is scaled up, what is the energy density in the sky along the beam? Is it enough to have a detrimental effect on insects, birds, airplanes, etc., or can it be kept truly de minimus and still be useful? This is a key question related to considering whether we should just because we can.
Even if you believe it is Amazon's place to punish people for hateful comments, keep in mind that what's hateful is subject to rapid change. It wasn't that long ago that making the OK sign with your fingers was suddenly racist and there was no out for "I didn't know that was racist". Even after the origin of the OK sign being racist was discovered to be trolls on 4chan trying to bait society into looking stupid, it was still considered real racism because "real racists are really using the ok sign to show real racism". Then a few weeks later, the whole thing was completely forgotten. If you weren't actively keeping up with what's the latest in what's considered racist, you were at risk of being cancelled and having your life turned upside down for making a sign you'd made thousands of times before without any incident. What degree of obligation does one have to keep up with the latest fashions in racism?
In Stable Diffusion land, onnx performance was not that great compared to ML compilers and some other implementations (at least when I tried it).

Also, llama.cpp is excellent at splitting the workload between CPU and accelerators since its so CPU focused. You can run 13B or 33B in a 6GB GPU and still get some acceleration.

Also, as said above, quantization. That is make or break. There is no reason to run a 7B model at fp16 when you can run 13B or 30B in the same memory pool at 2-5 bits.
Rust lang adding privacy and reproducibility to compiler by default
I think that for this audience, the assumption of status quo bias is questionable. I am relatively sane, I think, and I could use more "stay the course, play the long game" advice than "blow up your life" advice. To paraphrase a review for a book I've forgotten the name of, "quitting is boring" (because it's too easy).
This kinda just seems like an argument in favour of bigotry. I find it odd that you are so casual in your justification of it. This reminds me to always be mindful of the social norms of my current environment, because we could very easily be the oppressors/bigots/racists etc., and not even realize it until decades later...
To host a Wordpress (as an example) site, you need to set up Wordpress and add content. To do anything with Cloudflare, you have to set up an account and configure things. If you don't use Cloudflare, you don't have to set it up. How could that be anything but extra work? Also, it's not standard - it's their own thing. And what happens if you use a VPN, or a provider that they don't like, or if you live in an area that Cloudflare simply doesn't like?

I have no idea how people putting up Wordpress honeypots is related to this discussion, but for everything else, you're advocating treating symptoms and ignoring the problem.

If you, or anyone else, want to run a Wordpress site and you expect a firewall or DDoS service to protect you from stupidity, it might work for a time, but it's not the best idea. If you don't rename your wp-login.php, that's on you. If you install 27 plugins that you don't really need then ignore the fact that they'll need constant updates, that's on you. But those are common sense things - again, the root issue should be addressed, so the symptoms never happen.

Also, if bots banging on your wp-login.php and/or "ton of bad traffic" are what you consider a DDoS, perhaps you really should consider basic site security. We call "a ton of bad traffic" normal.

I'd much rather a site that has fundamentally fewer problems than a poorly configured one that's "protected" by Cloudflare.

Oh - and what does "most also didn't care about users outside their own country" have to do with it? You're advocating FOR the idea of stratifying the Internet? Then I guess you really are a fan of what Cloudflare is doing!
You're going to incur the wrath for saying the silent part, but you're not wrong. People have the same 5 rails example corps every time someone says one of these two things:

- without rails nobody would use ruby

- without X corp, ruby's dead

Fact is, we're seeing less and less usage, and more and more distillation of the current userbase along the golden paths laid out by DHH.

Is it wrong for rails and thus ruby adoption to slow down? Not at all, people should use what they like, however I think Rails and Ruby are in this negative spiral where:

- rails is mostly needed for prototyping and crud apps

- this work is typically done by juniors

- rails devs are at this point largely seniors, not juniors

- rails devs pay the bills with other tech or by maintaining legacy rails apps.

There are startlingly few deviations from this, and either everyone majors in rails with a minor in javascript and C++ or they just get happy with their current gig and settle. I wish it weren't the case, but Ruby just hasn't done enough to differentiate itself from Rails, and when compared to neo-PHP or JS there's just not a lot of attractive parts of the golden path Rails provides. It's off-tune for this generation of choice and ubiquity.

We don't need that level of scaffolding anymore and in many cases there are other tools that handle that with more versatility.
Ginsler would definitely ban Etherium.
IMO it wasn’t nearly as egregious as the other examples. I only defend them because they didn’t do this when you replaced the screen etc.

You don’t want phones to work if someone swaps out that specific piece of hardware without your knowledge. Bricking the phone forever makes it harder for people to find back doors around that security feature as they would risk large numbers of expensive phones. Presumably people developing replacement fingerprint readers would notice the issue before most customers where harmed. Further, anyone actually harmed would have gotten hardware from an very untrustworthy source.

They reversed course after a backlash, but I can see an argument for them standing their ground on this one.
If the casino donated half its earnings many people would call it charitable. In fact charity poker is pretty common.
I disagree - I believe many groups have a dynamic much more complicated than that, where the 'rank' question can basically remain in constant flux, forever.
This is just authoritarian BS. You could have a federal agent posted in every single neighborhood in the country who does nothing but spy on all the neighbors and still not be sure you've identified every "terror cell" or whatever other boogeyman you want to use to justify the surveillance state.
I first heard of TensTorrent from Dr. Ian Cutress's YT channel TechTechPotato. https://youtu.be/AFVDZeg4RVY

It's a good source for trends in hardware.
Have you used AppRunner? I'm not talking about using AWS RDS, EC2 setting up IAM profiles or anything. AppRunner is fairly new and it's, IMO, simpler than Fly.io for webapps. Likewise, I don't think renting a VM or dedicated server is an option if you just want to deploy your app - if you don't want to think about deployment, networking, SSL provisioning, or failover and just your business logic, the appeal of Fly.io, netlify and Apprunner is just having an endpoint where you can 'git push' and having those platforms take care of everything.
Do note that the article talks about a point in time way before the agricultural revolution.

I winced a little on that part too, but he does give the caveat later that women and children weren't equal to men at all, which means that "egalitarian societies" means "something like 30% of the tribe was somewhat egalitarian" which really isn't saying much.

I also winced when later in the article there is what I consider to be an enormous leap of logic, when stating that a child staring at two puppets being rewarded differently means the child yearns for equality.

I've got to say that the older I get, the more effort it takes me not to dismiss social science commentary unless backed up with strong evidence. There is just so much bullshit.
This doesn't match my experience at all. Can you give any concrete examples of packages that are difficult to install because they are written in Python?
From The Starry Night to a wheatfield: Van Gogh's darkest symbol
The point is, as you pointed out, that you code against the appropriate level of abstraction. You write a ML workflow appropriate language like Python in something like C++/rust, and ML flows in Python. That should really not be that hard to understand.
> p.s. Gaming is a different aesthetic, a different audience, etc. It's not what should be the user-centric internet.

I don't think that games are an entirely different world from web apps. There is some amount of gradation between pure document-like pages at one extreme and games at the other, and a whole spectrum in between (say, an app like Google Earth probably doesn't need regular scroll bars to implement most of its scrolling behavior, while not being a game).

Also, I think users are quite observant of color clashes, and will notice if you have system-styled scroll bars in the middle of a web page that is styled in a specific way. I don't even understand how this is a controversial opinion - especially when we have things like dark mode that was available in numerous apps long before any OS or browser supported it natively - thus requiring the app to re-style all controls.
Did you guys know EB Games still exists as a brand in Australia? Their stores are in pretty much every mall in Sydney. No idea how they’re surviving or making money.
Funny you mention that. A few years back I tried one of the Far Cry games (no idea which one) on recommendation from an in-law. Almost immediately I was sent on a side quest to gather some items to craft some other item and it was hugely off-putting. Nothing like finishing a days work, sitting in front of a video game to unwind, then being given a honey-do list.

Isolated incident and completely anecdotal, needless to say...