skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "the physics" here is a specific interpretation

No, "the physics" here is the way we are supposed to tie the math to physical observations. You can't explain all of our experiments if you don't make a distinction between interactions which preserve quantum properties and measurements which lead to classical observations. For a specific example, you can't explain the double-slit experiment with a detector at one slit if you don't make this distinction.

> You can derive the Born rule using decoherence

No, you can't. I have actively looked for such derivations and found none (at least none that are considered credible), and there is literature that explicitly says that this hasn't been convincingly done, e.g. [0]:

> My main conclusion is that there is no way to derive the Born rule without
additional assumptions. It is true both in the framework of collapse theories and,
more surprisingly, in the framework of the MWI. The main open question is not the
validity of various proofs, but what are the most natural assumptions we should add
for proving the Born rule.

[0] https://pages.jh.edu/rrynasi1/HealeySeminar/literature/Vaidm...
Creating a computer to find "the ultimate answer to life, the universe and everything", getting a cryptic answer and then creating an even bigger and more complicated computer to find the question is a pretty good satire of generative ai based chatbots of exponentially increasing model size.
The same logic holds true for micro services.
Statelessness is the key.
But most micro services implementations end up being distributed monoliths
Did you follow any of her misdoings? It was highly probable that people would have gotten incorrect medical test results due to her fraud product. Such people get a taste of things like the WeWork guy and keep scamming the system with their fake ass charisma.
Duppy: A RFC2136 dynamic DNS update server
> Your chief compliance officer is intimately familiar with the data protection benefits that microservices bring and is leaning heavily into it in their regulatory submissions as a way to compensate for some other gap in the business

Just curious, how does microservices help here?
The parent is still wrong. Customers of private rail lines can use competing services (trucking) which they often do.
What is this number of $233 billion, it sounds preposterous.

Is that the combined salaries of all union members?
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Ah yeah you’re right. Apologies for the mixup. However that link isn’t very good at explaining either, since it doesn’t describe Apple’s TrueDepth tech for the “depth sensor” which is a generic term for many technologies, whereas TrueDepth is specific.

Here’s a better one https://www.eyerys.com/articles/how-apples-lidar-sensor-diff...

Basically Lidar is time of flight and longer range. TrueDepth is a high density grid that’s pattern analyzed.
If my BST implementation isn't sorted, it also doesn't work.
> Long before he invaded Ukraine, Vladimir Putin warned that NATO wanted to encircle Russia — a narrative he frequently leans on to blame Western powers for his attack.

That rationale has more merit than Iraq's WMDs. That lie was costly.

Putin, like UBL before him, is not comfortable with The West "encroaching on his area." He, again like UBL, openly expressed his concerns along with warnings, and was ignored. Eventually as they say, the rest is history.

I'm not condoning the use of violence. Only wish the journalists would zoom out and be aware of context. At the end of the day, it takes two (or more) to tango.
Do you not understand your power and actions are so little next to these corporates to the point that it really doesn't matter? The other day I thought maybe me and my gf should merge our facebook account, you know, to save up space in facebook
API Developper
We're trying to build an API that provides cleaned and standardized data from various sources, like Plaid but for an alternative industry. We'd like to get some feedback from the community on these two specific areas. The premise is pretty vague and open to interpretation so any type of feedback is much appreciated!

If you or your company were building a product that is looking for a SaaS vendor to provide the standardized data, how important is it for the service to be easily integrated into low/no-code platforms?
• Very important - low/no-code compatibility is a must
• Important - ow/no-code compatibility is preferred
• Not important - this is not a consideration

How important is it for the vendor company to have a no-commitment freemium/free trial version versus having to talk to the sales team before getting started? In this scenario, there are lots of companies in the space providing similar type of service.

• Very important - would not consider the vendor if I can't test their product easily
• Important - would likely start with companies with free versions until I find the right product
• Not important - this is not a consideration
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Indeed, we do have a lot of state owned rail in the UK, just not UK state owned. I believe at one point even a majority of the franchises were held either by companies either wholly or partially owned by foreign state owned rail companies. Fewer now, but still.
> railroad shareholders are also the public

Lets see the shareholders:

* French government

* Chinese government

* Australian banks
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Does anyone have a recommended security checklist or config guides for secure Linux on desktop? Despite my previous assumptions I've read some recent indications that it's not as secure as windows and macos.
> when in reality the majority of Twitter users are now making fewer requests to the website due to rate limits.

DNS data wouldn't show this; in general, a client will make _one_ DNS request for a given domain, then not bother again until the TTL expires (in Twitter's case, 544 seconds). Or, er, not until whenever it feels like; some clients don't honour DNS TTLs.
Another problem I've stumbled across is that with a number of live albums by a certain well-known artist, the recording company managed to mangle the uploads by cutting out the between-tracks-transitions. (Which means that a) there are sometimes noticeable cuts between tracks and b) you're missing out on the full concert atmosphere and some stage banter).

On the CDs those bits had been mastered as part of the pre-gap (i.e. the bit between tracks where a CD player will show a negative time counting upwards), so it almost feels as if they simply ripped their own discs for digital distribution and managed to accidentally configure the ripping program to discard the pre-gap material instead of appending/prepending it to the adjacent track.

Unfortunately that means that all official music services are affected, both for streaming and downloading, and buying the CD version is the only way of getting a proper version (buying the CD is also the only way of getting the liner notes – unless you're lucky and somebody uploaded them to Discogs or so – though that is a separate problem).
1) important
2) important
https://twitter.com/realsexycyborg?lang=en

Yeah but what is really dissenting in her tweets??? I have read her tweets and non of them really seem anti-party to me. Heck she has been accused as a "communist agent" by many other twitter accounts. Also this is not really the first she has got a visit from the local authorities

https://medium.com/@therealsexycyborg/shenzhen-tech-girl-nao....

She got one even in 2019 November and she was able to continue just fine.

Also none of her tweets seem deleted and her account is still not blocked, so I am a bit skeptical if it has anything to do with her tweets.

I have a feeling it is more to do with her public appearances that the authorities probably disliked. I mean Chinese are normally pretty conservative with public dressing.
https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/gender-diversity/ar...
Naomi on the other even by Western standards was a little too revealing(https://www.dexerto.com/tech/tech-youtuber-says-adult-conten...).
Her wardrobe choice is normally not very tolerated in China. I am actually shocked that the local authorities allowed her for these many years to carry on like this.
I wish I could upvote this 10,000 times.

Documentation isn't sexy or something. I don't know why Linux documentation sucks so much, but Redhat makes it suck must less. It takes lots of effort, money and writer hours to create the kind of documentation that Redhat maintains and businesses love documentation. A HOWTO or a FAQ are not documentation.

I actually prefer man pages and I dropped Linux for my personal project years ago in favor of OpenBSD (sometimes FreeBSD) precisely because their man pages are well maintained and really well written. I still have to interact with Linux sometimes and it's almost always Debian or Redhat. And I gotta say Redhat beats Debian on documentation.
markets aren't features of the land that exist unspoiled until sullied by human hand -- what I see is that markets will always collapse into monopoly absent any countervailing force, for the simple fact that enterprise owners make more profit that way
What about losses from federally funded corporations like USPS and Amtrak that are bailed out every year? Amtrak loses over $1 billion/yr and they are still "nationalized." USPS loses multi billions per year.
Pretty sure they're only using it because, like buying an _old_ laser cutter off Ebay which will probably be running a Windows ME board or something, their patterning equipment is designed to work with that machine + punch cards. It's not worth the time & money for them to integrate a modern computer with that old equipment.

They're still using modern computers, the simulation of what the actual fabric would look like was amazing and I'm sure when that old computer was new, they would've killed for something like that.

Unlike the fetishists of HN, I doubt that they romanticise their use of the old computer; it's simply the only one that works with their older equipment. You say it's "easy to maintain" but they'd still need a specialist to diagnose & fix, you can't take it to any computer repair shop. And getting certain parts would be an absolute nightmare as well. You say "everyone using the system is familiar with it" well duh...the sky is also blue, of course people that use it are familiar with it, but for an industry that is on the decline, trying to get fresh faces in to revitalise won't be helped by a computer that those fresh faces would never have even seen before. Power usage doesn't matter when the looms probably pulls tens of kilowatts or more anyway. But yeah, it is cool. Impractical, but cool and that rings true for everything that they're doing, small & bespoke manufacturing of traditional wear.

It's unfortunate, but a lot of boutique industries like this are dying in Japan at the moment.
No, I read studies.
"borrowed £53bn in debt while distributing £72bn to shareholders"

There is the difference
One of the [many] problems with privatisation-by-tender is that the public provider doesn't compete. And they can't compete because they can't commit budgets up to y10.

If you actually let public services take their gloves off, they'd shred most tender offers on sight. With few exceptions, hiring people to do things is ALWAYS going to be cheaper if done directly, and it's stupid to pretend that Serco, G4S, etc are delivering value.

There's still room for private providers, and even room for multiple providers (some public, some private) operating in constant competition. Central government should compete on centralised services. Does every hospital in the country need patient management software? Then write some centrally! Does every council need to send out letters and notifications? Then do it centrally!

It's all so stupidly simple. It's a travesty that the people making these decisions have been profiting from doing things the wrong way.
Copyright is a system meant to ensure creators get compensated proportionally to the value they add to society

It is a bad system though. It restrains the society from benefitting from said work unless they meet certain terms (usually, payments). It's often times unrealistic to pay for all you'd like to consume. Especially that access to their work is usually badly quantised

(For example, I may want to search Sarah Silverman's book for a keyword, once. That'll cost me the same amount as someone reading the book from start to end. [please take this as an illustrative example and don't jump literally on ways to solve this exact problem])

I don't have a better solution yet, but I think we should definitely open up this discussion: can you come up with a system which compensates those who add value to society without restraining access to their products?

I'll go even further to say this is the fundamental issue in our society, way beyond copyright. That is, to find a way to compensate people for the value they add while eliminating the incentive to artificially limit access to resources needed by others

I'll be more concrete with another example. Take a limited resource: housing. In a society where you don't need to gain more because you're already justly compensated maximally for what you're worth, you don't need to own more than the house you live in. In other words, I'm advocating for a society where ownership is limited to what can be possibly consumed. Importantly, limited to no longer mean a way to extract value from artificially creating scarcity for others

I think this website has the best candidates capable of devising such a system. But we need to start by having conversations about the requirements for a better society

It will further need approval from society at large even if it's well defined, so the road is long. But we need to start somewhere, and that's requirements

Sorry I derailed a bit, but I think all this ties closely to the debate: 'is copyright a good system?' rephrased as 'if we want to achieve a goal, is limiting knowledge the best way to go?'. Which can be extrapolated to 'is artificially limiting access the best way to ensure those who produce value are equitably compensated for it?'
So true. If you get a System76 laptop you can get some really amazing hardware and make sure to never pay the Windows license fee.
We are at 500k/hour for at least one system i know of at my current client (energy). Not sure what causes these expenses. It can be missing out on trading, or fines. There may be more of these systems :)

Lots of redhat there.
What’s even crazier is the fact that the underlying numerical math solution was exposed early 1800’s by Gauss!
> Yet, if I had a million dollars and you had a thousand dollars, I could still buy a thousand times more rice than you.

I think a better frame is, if rice got so absolutely cheap to make that anybody could spin up a bag of rice on a demand, anybody whose business model was based on selling rice sacks would be in trouble, especially if their specialty was selling rice in bulk instead of, eg, mom-and-pop restaurants selling cooked rice with flavors and a focus on customer experience.

(Not sure the metaphor is a good fit for AI. Maybe OpenAI comes up with GPT-5 and makes something so powerful that by the time OSS projects get to GPT-4 level nobody cares. But if GPT-5 is only incrementally better than GPT-4, then yeah, they have no moat.)
Why not go for immich, and try adding the E2E on top? Immich will encrypt the pictures before sending them on the server, and decrypt them when trying to access them, local thumbnails, etc. That could work?
For photo and video backups, I'm using auto-upload in the Nextcloud Android app together with my own Nextcloud instance. There are various Nextcloud apps like memories where you can get additional functionality for those photos that were synced over.

What I'm still desperately looking for is proper self-hosted full-phone backups for Android phones.
> Don't forget that Apple deliberately slows down your old iPhone when it decides its no longer useful for them to have a bunch of their userbase using old phones.

Alternatively: Apple lowers battery drain to reduce the odds of your phone crashing:

* https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/20/apple-addresses-why-people...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batterygate

The main problem with Apple's actions were: not being transparent about what they were doing (and why), and not giving users a choice (toggle) on whether they preferred speed or longevity.
For context: Most developers run testing since debian-stable averages two years behind
> All interpretations need to induce a measure over observations (not "worlds") to produce meaningful results. Without that all you have is an abstract mathematical object.

Agreed, but the MWI in particular does so by applying frequentist probabilities over all versions of an observer, the so-called worlds. The argument goes that there is an apparent non-deterministic process from the point of view of every individual observer, and that we can compute its probability based on how many observers would see a particular state versus the total number of observers.

For some reason, many MWI adherents want to claim that this is not an additional postulate, that MWI only needs the Shrodinger equation, but it clearly is a postulate in addition to that equation, just as much as the collapse idea in other interpretations.

You are right about the CI though, it's not really a useful term.
what does “exact” mean?

If we are being pedantic and literal, this is exact in the sense that for identical seeds you get identical results.
I really tire of arguments based on ideology - both from left and right.

I wish we could just have a sensible grown up discussion about which services are best delivered by the private sector and which by the public sector - there are plenty of both!
> Is that not identical to "if a company runs an SMTP server, you send a spoofed email, and they don't do any validation then phishing is trivial"?

Yes. Except in this case, the company is paying Mailgun to process inbound mail and attach SPF/DKIM/DMARC headers, which they don't do. And this is counter to their own API spec.

If you are running your own SMTP server, then you wouldn't be relying on headers from Mailgun.

Essentially though you are right, using Mailgun is akin to having an SMTP server without any spam protection in place, and limited ability to put that spam protection in place. You are better off running the server yourself.

The point here is that Mailgun customers won't be aware of this, and as such, it's a vulnerability.
Borrowing is accounted differently from earnings. But yes, at the end of the day the people getting rich don't care which pile of money it comes from, and the people getting poor service are equally unhappy.
Not me though. I'll be outside the blast radius.
> For some reason the "reply" buttons past a certain level of nesting were missing for me, but that appears no longer to be the case, so I'm moving a previous comment here

If I understand correctly, HN throttles reply speed by hiding the reply button for some time after a comment was posted. The deeper the thread the longer this timeout gets.
The sender can be anyone. They don't need to be a mailgun user.

The recipient has to be a mailgun user, yes.
you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem
> Are all IFNDR issues similar to the ODR one you mentioned in that they only arise at link time and fixing them would require changing how symbols are mangled?

No, they're worse. Are you comfortable with basic CS theory? If not this is likely to whizz over your head, sorry.

A typical IFNDR issue depends upon the semantic properties of the alleged C++ program. Rice's Theorem tells us that all non-trivial semantic properties are Undecidable. No algorithm can exist to determine whether a program has these properties except if trivially all the programs in your language have the property (e.g. imagine a toy language with no jumping or iterating features, it must halt) or none do (e.g. imagine a resolutely single threaded language, it doesn't have any data races).

Because it's Undecidable, having the compiler decide if your alleged C++ program has the desired properties and if not report an error is intractable. So the C++ standard just says if it doesn't have that property it's actually not a C++ program, too bad, the compiler shouldn't worry about this case at all, just press on.

Now, the good news about Rice's Theorem is that we do have another option. When we're not sure if the semantic property we wanted is present, we reject the program, with a diagnostic informing the programmer that we couldn't prove it had this desirable property.

I'd argue this approach is much better, but it does mean you can write programs in Rust (which has this behaviour) where even though you are totally correct that the program would actually be OK the compiler rejects your program because it can't see why you're right.
Superdeterminism sidesteps interpretational questions by arguing against reductionism, which is pretty much the core of all physics. Where is this hidden information stored? What causes the specific outcomes in a destructive measurement?

To say that QM is in fact a local hidden variable theory because everything was once touching billions of years ago, without positing any mechanism for it is a cop out.

At least instrumentalism admits that there are interpretational questions, even if we don't need to answer them.
This sounds like fun! How balanced does it wind up being?
a machine shouldn't have to pay to read a book.
> Windows 95: (GMT+01:00) Lisbon, Warsaw

Is this a mistake or was Poland really in the same time zone as Portugal for a while?
It's not clear. Scaling laws still seem to hold AFAICT.

Right now the bottleneck is "how big a model can you fit on an H100 TPU". It's possible that in a few years, when bigger cards come out and/or we get better at compressing models, we'll get even better models just by increasing the scale.
> You soon get taken off lists.

With your approach how many calls do you get per month?

About a decade ago I just started ignoring unknown numbers that didn't make sense. I still get some spam calls from Idaho numbers. Especially early in the morning. I assume because that's when people are more susceptible.
I am a Software Engineer, I am certified (since in my country, they do so, just as with Mechanical Engineers). Still think it's overloaded though.
Not at all, it's not enough.
You are comparing completely different services, though, right? Private freight lines versus passenger? Amtrak runs on lines owned by the freight companies. I've been on an Amtrak train that had to sit on a siding while a freight train passed. The passenger service has to have a published, predictable schedule. The freight moves when it is needed and breaks the Amtrak schedule, leaving a crap passenger service.

I think the extent to which freight shoves aside passengers varies from region to region. My worst experience was going to West Virginia from DC. I find the Vermonter keeps its schedule pretty well.
I honestly feel like that, as a "Software Engineer". As the digital world is new, and full of similar concepts to the old analogue world, it's natural that we borrow names along with the concepts. Similar to how a lot of things in the sea are named after land things, with a marine prefix, like the sea horse, sea star, sea cucumber, and so on. And now in IT we have engineers, architects, rockstars, tribes, and science, even though, very often, they have no relation to the original profession or concept, and especially doesn't have the responsibility or impact of that.