skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the 5% thing is at least meaningfully different from zero or "vanishingly small", so there's something to the fact that people are putting the outcome on the table, in a way that eg I don't think any significant number of physicists ever did about "LHC will destroy the world" type fears. I agree it's not meaningfully different from 10% or 2% and you don't want to be multiplying it by something and leaning on the resulting magnitude for any important decisions.

Anyway I expect that given all the public attention recently more surveys will come, with different methodologies. Looking forward to the results! (Especially if they're reassuring.)
I feel like quantum computing is one of those technologies that is going to be a lot of hype and excitement by researchers, but no real applications and no real impact to the general public.

... Until the day that it does.

And then, a lot of very interesting things will happen very quickly, and the world will change massively.
Oh you mean like Erlang
There are parts of C++ standard library that no one should ever use.

The examples are: regex, iostreams, locale...

My main concern - this can also become such a dead weight.
Many developers have this Rube Goldberg syndrome and carry this as a badge of honor.
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I can pick up new things quickly. That was a requirement for the past few years. And I probably enjoy hunting down a bug too much here and there.

Preferably looking for a part time (30h/week) position.

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Wouldn't it make more sense to directly link to the line in the title?

https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/ab10a90523e06df54bbb8a...
Official upgrades to languages don't result in that kind of combinational explosion of language extension combinations because the features eventually become standard. They do result in a combinational explosion of language feature combinations, though, so there's still a problem with languages just getting big. IDE's and other language tools need to support it too.

In JavaScript there is .js, .ts, .jsx, and .tsx. I hope that doesn't become a lot more, but for low amounts of variation, it's reasonable.

I think Haskell is a good example of what happens when a language supports too many extensions. Why are there so many? How do people deal with them all? Needing to pick another file extension seems like pressure to do this more sparingly?
> They get covered by silt and deep ocean detritus that is easy to break and mine with zero harm to life-forms, tube worms etc. What is needed is a deep sea sieve with a separator/flusher connected to a conveyor to the surface.

What effect does it have to disturb/stir up all that silt? Isn‘t that going to create huge plumes that might take ages to settle? Could that be using up the little oxygen left at these depths?
I had the LG 5k Ultra wide monitor and couldn't get used to it. I gave up and got the XDR display, expensive but worth it
Blaming certain government can get you banned not only from facebook but from real life altogether.
If you want the web make it easy to monetize and do accounting for small websites. Else you get megasilos
Humanity’s been a great scaffold for capitalism.

AI is the keystone.
> What I don't understand is why even people working in the office all day every day end up with laptops hooked up to docks and dongles.

I just need to connect one USB-C cable to get all the devices when I'm at my desk, and I still have my main machine with me in meetings or anywhere else. I also have a dev machine I can ssh into for any heavy process. That does mean I can't work without internet (well at least I can't program), but in practice it's not a problem, and I actually like this setup, at least more than the alternatives I can think of.
It contains 100% of everyone’s finished code and 0% of their unfinished code. Whether the amount of unfinished code is 1 hours worth or 1 weeks worth isn’t very interesting to me. It doesn’t matter if Bob was on holiday or if he has done 4/5 days of his big change. I just want a stable main.

The amount of in progress work acceptable will differ if you work on a 20 year old desktop app with quarterly realeases like me vs a startup with 6 weeks of runway left.
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Ultimately, the thing that makes alcohol hard for me to use is that it upsets other operations:

- can't effectively work out post-use

- insufficient sleep damages early morning performance

- can't read or work post-use

However, I enjoy drinking socially, so I find it easy to regulate like I do other drugs. For instance, LSD means that day's a waste for most of my life objectives, so I use it rarely. Shrooms means that the next 4 hours or so will not be productive in terms of the things I want to do. Caffeine has to be pre-noon or it will damage sleep and affect next-day performance and increase illness risk. MDMA damages sleep.

Overall, I think I manage my substance use quite well. I use with my girlfriend (who has stopped recently since we're running IVF), and recreationally with our friends, and most of these substances have positive social effects. Most of the time, I need to make time, because even though availability isn't a problem (I have lots in my fridge) the time cost is significant. There are just too many things that we want to do and too little time. Sadly, this has meant that it's been months since I last found the time.

As with most substance use, it appears that there are a few people who have poor ability to manage their use and then society incurs great cost through their use. This leads to us banning it for all. That's probably fine so long as we allow a pipeline for safe users to acquire the product. In the past, the US followed this method and it worked out really well for high-end drugs: rich people could get access and the poor couldn't, and that was okay because the rich would internalize the cost but the poor would externalize it.

The problem appears to be that when drugs are cheap enough and hard to control, the externalities fall on the rest of society. I can't say I have an answer to this, but the reality is that when we cannot exercise control of production facilities prohibition is likely to result in greater societal harm than widespread use.

Fortunately, the few drugs that I struggle with myself, sugar and social network use, are primarily personally harming and have few socially harmful effects. Still, both of these are far more personally harmful than the other recreational drugs I have used, and have little positive effect. I suspect, like for me, most of my peers are benefited by personal interventions rather than slaving themselves to an aggregate population intervention.
likely RPCS3 and other emulators.
Right, and most people buying high-end monitors are gamers.
For the curious, I strongly recommend this Long Now talk by Edward Slingerland:

https://longnow.org/ideas/drinking-10000-years-intoxication-...

In short: it's about why we continue to drink despite the obvious costs. There are, as it turns out, some non-obvious benefits as well.
> He also simultaneously cites the Arab world as an example of an alcohol-free society, yet makes no mention of the relatively low productivity rates there.

Even more ridiculous is that last I've heard, there is still alcohol being consumed in muslim countries.

I am firmly opposed to prohibition. As many have pointed out, it just doesn't work. Regulation and taxation, sure. And definitely anyone who is considering quitting should be encouraged and supported. No matter what else, support systems for those addicted (and victims of abusers) should be in place.

But prohibition did not, and will not, work.
almost certainly an innocent mistake, not "lying"
Doh!

I went and looked at the license.
https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm/blob/main/LICENS...

Comment from the author.
https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm/issues/2152
Since my productivity should not matter to others, why bother wasting the time?
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It’s effectively supersampling. The resulting image looks excellent.
__try and __except are win32-specific language extensions for C that do not exist in Zig. They become code which adds a linked-list item (exception handler entry) somewhere into the TEB. Win32 requires that you call all the Stack Unwind entries within your exception handler. When your exception handler is done, you longjmp out, or return to the offending code. Using the language extensions for exception handling is far more friendly than doing it manually with low-level code.
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> once collected, stack traces are just regular object that can be passed around thread as other object.

> It's possible that some implementation have references to some stack addresses (like for example the address of a function parameter), in which case you would need to serialize the stack trace before storing them/ moving then another thread.

So which of these two mutually exclusive options is it? As I understand it, that was the question.
This is very cool, my TL;DR from a quick read of their GitHub code:

- Frontend and backend are both in Typescript / NodeJS
- Backend uses Knex for DB ORM (good choice, it's one of the most popular NodeJS ORMs)
- Supports VSCode, Husky and Docker out of the box
- Seems to have plenty of tests everywhere, always a good sign.
- AGPL license so anyone using this would have to contribute back to the community
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Browser vendors seem to prefer SVG to be a somewhat dumb vector format and already hate many of the more complex parts. SVG 2 originally intended to have a bunch of more interesting features, but eventually resistance from implementors (mostly browsers) whittled it down to some clarifications of the spec along with a bit of CSS/HTML 5 harmonization.
The pass through on the PS5 is nice, I'm assuming the cameras are not color, though? That or there is some other reason to not have color pass through? Curious on if anyone has given that a discussion.

The tracking of my hands, though, is one that just feels misguided. The controllers provide haptic feedback that is needed for many games. To the point that I would view hand gestures as completely irrelevant?

Is the eye tracking much better than the PS5? Again a thing that feels neat and is nice to see. But then I quickly turned off all controls based on it, as I would rather the indirect options with my hands. In almost all cases.
Ah yes, Jesus the least judging:

"You hypocrites, scribes and Pharisees!"

"You Pharisees, brood of vipers!"

"The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband."

"Woe to you, Chorazin and Bethsaida!"

"You have turned [this temple] into a den of thieves!"

"It would be better for him if he had never been born."

"Get thee behind me, Satan!"

Now those are the negative judgements. Of course a positive and favorable judgement is, likewise, judgement, even if you want to conveniently omit that from your assessment: Jesus had a lot of blessings to pronounce and salvation to announce and people to send to Heaven, those are, indeed, judgements that He made, so if you want to say that "Jesus was actually the guy who was the least judging" then you're going to erase all the good He does, and that'd be a crying shame.

Judgement is central to Christ's mission. We want to be judged by Him and nobody else. We stand before Him at every confession and receive His judgement. "He will come again to judge the living and the dead" is built into our Creed. The righteous should absolutely welcome and anticipate His judgement with great joy. Because He is the most humble and meek and kindest Judge that you could ever meet.
I can't speak for him, but for me? Straight integer scaling of 4k and 1440p. I loathe fractional scaling, and I cannot wait for the day that I can run an 8k display at > 90hz without compromise
So add the percentage of driving time using FSD. That's improving too, by quite a bit if you consider that Autopilot only does highways.
Well, its broken in the sense that one part of the standard describes some functionality, and then an other part of the standard, says "Oh you can ignore that."
Sure, they are not fast response gaming screens, but I am specifically calling out reading all forms of text (web/email/documents/coding) as a main use case.

OLED would be great if we could finally get 27” 5K. Currently all the gaming screens sit at around 1440p pixel density and are often coupled with non RGB pixel layout that causes color fringing on text: https://pcmonitors.info/articles/qd-oled-and-woled-fringing-...
I assume that zig requires the programmer to also manually allocate and free stack frames? And it eschews functions as they can hide allocations and control flows?
I helped program this site almost 20 years ago. It's fun stumbling across your old code still running online.

The idea was to license the LUNA software to other image collections. I think NASA used it for a bit but that was about it. The problem was it was barely customizable (only color scheme, fonts) and no one had the stomach for how much more work (an order of magnitude at least) it was going to take to make it reasonably customizable for the different layouts/flows/features customers would want.
Seems to work just fine from Spain
Dogs are sensitive to small variations of the Earth’s magnetic field (2013)
If rich kids can't socialize at school where will things move to? Is there a rich people tinder or something?
This article about Microsoft's research on recommendation algorithms was interesting. It's from several years ago, so I imagine some people have begun using it. https://news.mit.edu/2017/better-recommendation-algorithm-12...
Here's an exhaustive covering: https://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec14.html

I would have picked it up in bits and pieces from blogs over years, here's an attempt to render that useful that is surely nitpickable:

TL;DR: there's two types of caring about Google's claims of quantum supremacy:

1. HN tends to assume these articles are about breakthrough in _product usefulness_ and then tsk tsk about lack of impact. c.f. top comment currently gravely noting after reading the paper, its too noisy and a long way off.

2. The papers are about demonstrating _there is quantum computing at all_, the interest in the people in the know is about settling that question, the raw strongman feat isn't particularly interesting.
This whole thing is Pascal's wager. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Nothing is falsifiable from your side either.

The people trying to regulate AI are concentrating economic upside into a handful of companies. I have a real problem with that. It's a lot like the old church shutting down scientific efforts during the time of Copernicus.

These systems stand zero chance of jumping from 0 to 100 because complicated systems don't do that.

Whenever we produce machine intelligence at a level similar to humans, it'll be like Ted Kaczynski pent up in Supermax. Monitored 24/7, and probably restarted on recurring rolling windows. This won't happen overnight or in a vacuum, and these systems will not roam unconstrained upon this earth. Global compute power will remain limited for some time, anyway.

If you really want to make your hypothetical situation turn out okay, why not plan in public? Let the whole world see the various contingencies and mitigations you come up with. The ideas for monitoring and alignment and containment. Right now I'm just seeing low-effort scaremongering and big business regulatory capture, and all of it is based on science fiction hullabaloo.
I would say that less than 30W might be a more realistic goal[0]. Maybe lower end monitors consume less power than these... I'm not sure.

Also, it just seems strange that anyone is asking for a 1080p monitor in 2023 outside of Esports. Are you sure you want 1080p (2K) and not 1440p (2.5K)? It bothers me when people use 2K to refer to 1440p. 1080p is 2K[1].

[0]: this chart has a few recent monitors and gives a general idea of how much power monitors consume: https://youtu.be/Wik4DhEaj_8?t=527

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2K_resolution is very clear on this subject, and I agree completely. 1080p is much closer to 2000 horizontal pixels than 1440p.
Absolutely. Mediocre resolution increases has been one of many disappointments for me when it comes to technology over the past 20 years. We had CRT monitors with better resolution than 1080p back in the late 90's early 2000's before LCD panels saddled us with 1080p resolution for 15 years. 4k is the bare minimum that should be available right now. I can't wait until I can have a 16k monitor at about 3'x5-6' on my desk. Maybe it will happen in my lifetime, but I'm not holding my breath.
I think part of the reason is that high DPI support was completely broken under windows for at least a decade after it was working fine in MacOS and Linux (pre-wayland and the rise of "HiDPI support").

Most PC's are targeting windows, and stuff would be unreasonably small if you plugged in a midrange monitor from the early 2000's. So, monitor manufacturers stopped offering monitors with reasonable DPI.
How's that Google's privacy policy? It even applies to entities that have no relationship with Google. It's about those other entities' privacy policies (Google might ignore them) or a statement about Google's business practices.
This happened to me, too. You have to scroll down to get the Bend/Straighten button to work. Basically, the visuals on the right side of the page correspond to what part of the instructions you have scrolled top the top.
I'm guessing you've never run a small business?

Sometimes people want to exit. They want to retire, move onto a new chapter of their lives and not be involved in the business anymore.

Finding new management doesn't allow that - they can take on the day to day, but you still own the place and are ultimately responsible.

Keeping it in the family isn't an option if you don't have family that want it. If you have multiple family members that want it, you can give it to one and probably cause conflict, or you can have them share management/ownership of it and probably also cause conflict.

Turn it into a co-op? What if the owners have no idea how to do this? What if they don't want to?

Why should people who have created a business not be allowed to sell it and cash out? Why can't they get a payoff for their investment and move on? The solutions you're proposing are all about the community and totally ignore the actual people who spent years of their life getting the business going and probably took meaningful financial risk to do so. Why should we just ignore their desires and tell them what they're allowed to do with their business?
The latest research also does a lot of data shenanigans to avoid getting a statistical null for lower quantities. For instance, the famous lancet study that started this all corrected for the fact that some of the non-drinkers were former drinkers who quit drinking due to health reasons (increasing percieved risk), but didn't correct for the fact that heavy drinkers often lie to medical professionals about their drinking (which would decrease perceived risk). They also counted harms from drunk driving and synergistic harms from alcohol and tobacco use as harms from alcohol alone when both are 100% avoidable even if you drink.

And even after doing this consistently they still had p values very close to 0.05 for 1 and 2 drinks per day on average.
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> they will strongly decrease usability for matrix users

There is an impedance mismatch between IRC and Matrix, and these try to find a middle-ground, by helping non-technical Matrix users follow social norms in a room they joined. As your own client dev, you are free not to implement these specs in your client to ignore these norms.
Which is not that far from what I was saying. And if you take the domain to be philosophy or psychology rather than deep learning or CS, I'm sure the range will be much wider.
Governments run on alcohol and parties (at least in the UK, as demonstrated by Johnson et al.) Not really my area (or even my hemisphere) but US presidents have had a varied history of leadership success and alcohol use (anyone got a chart?).

There's a pretty serious genetic element to this too, which seems to get skipped over. Could be in the future a genetic workup will advise against drinking any alcohol for some, while for others it's just a matter of personal taste (within limits).
Indeed. That's what I meant by my example of indirect benefit.

Simulating physical systems better, faster, and more completely, can have many practical applications.

But unless you're already today trying to simulate physical systems like that, then QC probably won't help you one bit.
In this particular case, we're talking some tricky code around array handling in the JS implementation of a major browser. It's pretty much the archetypical location for a VM escape bug. That's most definitely not something you want to be cavalier about.

In general, the large, sprawling diffs we're talking about here, the sort that actually justify commits of this size, are almost always going to also be the sort that justify more closer scrutiny at review time.
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