skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is that it's unstable even in the Platonic ideal.

That's the surprising part.
I’m watching it right now, about an hour in. So far, I see your point.
Quite right, but the solution to this isn't physical discs, or owning the "movie file", it's legislative. We need more restrictive legislation around storing then data mining user activity, and how that information is used. This applies to everything we do on our devices, but also interaction in the real world too.
It actually reads like modern TV. Soaps, and teen drama.

Part of the problem is, we tend to ignore age. That sort of post could have been made by a 9 year old.
I used to build web apps around nginx and this would have been very useful for me then. Still a cool and tidy looking project! I am trying to think of some practical project I could use to try this.
Could also just be confounding effects. Espresso machines tend to be expensive, as are cafés where people go to drink espresso. Did the study control for income?
Reflection is half the story, these films are also designed to emit their heat energy through the atmospheric window and therefore contribute to active global cooling, not just ‘heating up less fast’.
Again, apologies for the bluntness, but the people who have linked those very links as responses to your ranting are pointing out that you are incorrect about a lot of things.
Ok... I'm just taking your arguments (that you have no expectation of privacy in public) and showing you all the ways that you, personally, have an expectation of privacy in public.

You have an expectation in a public shower. You have an expectation of privacy when your bits are in public. Why not in other situations?
Yes because that’s not how it worked in the comics at all.

And where did they ever get the idea for Captain America to be a Black guy?

Please note sarcasm
To see "no probabilities" easier: there's no probability distribution for when that ball starts rolling.
Right, fair question. I've tried many reference managers over several years but not one of them really felt like home. Their PDF viewer was lacking the features I wanted (e.g., jumping back to the original place after clicking an internal link, Sioyek-like preview windows), filtering wasn't expressive enough, etc, and above all, I just wanted to be in the command line.

So, currently, I don't use any reference management software. In my current paper writing workflow I simply do not need one, as I have a giant `ref.bib` file that I constantly append with relevant papers in my field, and I can just throw that into my LaTeX project to get all the references I can possibly want. Then, I use `reason` as a glue tool that simply tracks the PDF location and markdown location of each paper, allowing me to use my favorite text editor (nvim) and favorite PDF viewer (Sioyek) without being tied to any reference management software.

To be fair, I may be missing out on some of the great features reference managers might be providing. Please feel free to enlighten me :)
Tom Clancy's Hunt for Red October and Red Storm Rising.

I think most people usually don't consider Tom Clancy to be a science fiction writer, but these two books (his best two by far, FWIW) both feature speculative technology central to the story. Red October features a magneto-hydrodynamic drive for a submarine; MHD drives work for real in the small scale but without great superconductors it doesn't scale well to work for a full scale military submarine. In Red Storm Rising there are F-19 stealth jets based off rumors of the F-117. They get a few things wrong (smooth continuous curves instead of flat facets, poor stealth from below, armed with anti-aircraft missiles, etc) but on the whole they were reasonably grounded speculation.

If you're not convinced, here is a longer argument for Red October (the film) being hard science fiction: https://qntm.org/october
> To sum up: because LLMs are fundamentally limited to i) using our vocabulary, ii) “understanding” concepts in the ways we do, and iii) “talking” in the ways we do, then, at best, a LLM can only mirror back to us the order we have carved, the truth we have honed.

That conclusion is not correct. Generative models can combine existing concepts in novel ways which have never been considered before. This is most easily seen with text-to-image models. For example the teddy bear swimming in an Olympic pool [1] or many other surreal examples [2] were not part of the training set. So as long as an answer can be expressed as a combination of primitive concepts, LLMs can generate them.

[1] https://imagen.research.google/main_gallery_images/teddy-bea...

[2] https://imagen.research.google/
I think the paper would similarly claim something like "a chess ai trained only on human games can't play better than the humans who played those games"

I think that's false - you could imagine it playing at GM level without making mistakes that real GMs make

But it's missing an important fact: chess ais aren't limited to learning only from human games. They can learn from self play.

You can extend this to physics (if we can simulate physics precisely enough, there's no reason ai can't make fundamental discoveries in physics)
Second sentence is sarcasm.
I was asked to provide a quote for a silly fluff lifestyle piece my friend was writing for the college's newspaper. 20 years later, that piece is number 5 when searching my fairly unique name (I've done as much as possible to scrub myself from the public internet).
I converted a cargo bike to an e-bike – here’s what I learned
The problem is more that a lot of references will just disappear. It just so happened that earlier today I opened 4 or 5 references for an event that happened around 2009-2012. They all gave either a 404s or just redirected me to the homepage.

This is why I consider these types of archives important: not so much to bypass paywalls, but to ensure content is still available in a decade, or two decades.
Microsoft Agent
Looks like vim should continue!

https://groups.google.com/g/vim_dev/c/6_yWxGhB_8I/m/ibserACY...
> Good thing Punk is the ultimate palette cleanser. The smartest genre of music we’ve created yet.

Heavy metal would like a word.
I am too busy to read TFA where its author can't be bothered to fix obvious typos in his opening infographic. Clearly a winning strategy.
It's a reasonable divide.

I'm wrapping up the Expanse series and I would consider it soft science fiction, veering into sci-fi.

(mild spoiler? Maybe?)

On one hand, they have "epstein" drives which aren't FTL but constantly accelerate. Caring about gravity and physics is huge in the books, as are components of biology.

On the other hand, the protomolecule and its associated story elements are all completely made up. There is no plausible explanation for its existence in our universe.

The series is very much about humanity, the characters, and how the characters have developed in the incredible lifetime that occurs through the series. In that way, it is very much "Space Opera" and not sci-fi.

But when I'm telling my friends what I'm reading, I don't want to explain "space opera" so I just say sci-fi. I guess I'm not helping.

Likewise, Battlestar Galactica is definitely space fantasy (thanks season 4).
> So? Again, as many others have pointed out, neither do OSes unless you can somehow guarantee they're mapping memory in with an MMU or MPU with flags lacking X/W. You're still trusting the OS to do it right, the linker to do it right, and the language to place symbols in the right sections.

If you don't care/understand about the concept of read-only memory I'm not going to be able to convince you of anything. I'll just state that there's a few tens of thousands of people descending on Vegas next week and the longer the wasm community doesn't deal with these issues the louder those people are going to get.
Are you thinking of cafestol? Cafestol and kahweol are lipophilic terpenes that are normally lost in filtration. They are thought to be cardiotoxins that contribute to the premature deaths of elderly unfiltered coffee drinkers. [1]

[1] https://www.hcplive.com/view/filtered-unfiltered-coffee-cont...
Well sure. The post is about the axioms, and the paradox that follows from them.
Great Time to Start a Company, Tough Time to Be Running One
Part of doing maintenance is being able to migrate to a better language, yes.
At my first job out of university, we were deploying applications on Solaris servers. I had been using emacs as a text editor, and these servers only had vim installed. I mentioned installing emacs to my manager, and he said that learning vim would be a "feather in my cap." I took him up on that advice, which was sage wisdom.

I spent a lot of my career using various forks of vim as my primary editor, and still use it when I need to edit a file.

Thanks Bram! This world will miss you.
If I was a browser developer and that law passes, I would just block France from downloading our browser. Solve that problem right there.

Maybe they would stop Microsoft's ridiculous strategy to integrate their browser into the operating system.
The physicists where I work like to joke about how engineers can't do basic physics stuff and the engineers like to joke about how physicists struggle to convert design into reality.

Neither of them genuinely dislikes the other's field/passion, they're actually very appreciative of each other's skills. It's just a very common kind of humor.
> Hell, most liquids meant for drinking could easily come in a few sizes of these reusable bottles

Oh how I wish I could just bring a reusable bottle to some dispenser at the store and refill directly. Milk, common juices, soaps, etc. So many bottles going into trash/recycling all the time.
quad9 should be blocking certain IPs in germany as well.

such as the German branch of Sony Music.

Sony uploads pirate torrents to the web, thus must be blocked.
you've clearly answered my question in the affirmative.
> But for open-source web browsers, which might not have any commercial entities operating in the country, how could they even enforce that law?

They’ll put something like a WEI token outside of the encrypted payload and force ISPs to refuse transit for anything that’s not attested by the “good guys”.
Disney vault used to be a thing were movies were pulled and cycled later. Might be a combination of low sales and gearing up to go back to the Disney cycle wheel. My very quick search shows dvd sales down over 86% since 2008. It would appear everyone saying they are back on physical media here are outliers.
Most of such funded studies would have been better to not have been done at all. They don't just add noise, they add negative signal.

And the methodology means very little. There are tons of ways to cheat and skew the results, while the description of the methodology used remains the same.
It seems silly to even mention epistemology when current AI has no Intelligence at all yet.
Elon Musk’s X is stealing more Twitter usernames
They recently announced the first physical release for a Disney+ original: WandaVision is coming out later this summer. Looks like a beautiful steelcase with a slip and character cards and postcards and more... but no actual physical disc. But they're marketing it as if it was a physical disc release... https://thedirect.com/article/marvel-studios-disney-plus-ste...
It's good that he presents it in a way that is interesting to many; but it would be better if he was more accurate in saying that it is interesting but not something new we just found out though
In Switzerland those cameras are illegal, since there is a right to privacy for all persons. Security cameras can exist on private land or where the need is deemed to be absolutely necessary (eg, high security or high value areas where it is in the public interest to have a camera) - but filming the street from your house fails these tests. Same for dashcams.

People like to make this "oh but you're in public so why can't I film you" argument and it's so strange to me that this is something people actively want - to not be allowed privacy from other peoples pictures and recordings.
Musk's X seizes Music handle. Owner is understandably pissed
>infinite “information” is not really a thing.

That's the point. That's why a continuous universe is absurd from an informational perspective.
I don't buy the argument that merely because solutions exist, they can spontaneously be "chosen" by the system, even if such choosing doesn't break rules. We are talking about an idealized setup using disproven physics, so it's weird to talk about correctness. But I think the author is invoking a variety of Murphys law: Anything that can happen, might happen spontaneously. If that's true in idealized Newtonian physics world, maybe we should "fix" that? Or maybe the question of what to do about weird multiple solution sotuations is simply not in the scope of Newtons theory.
What is the point of the title (which was not the title of the original page)? Is 500 unexpected? I think it would be a lot weirder if only one record high were set in a week.
It surprises me that the US does not appear to engage in propaganda at all. So weird.
Rest in peace Bram, gone, but not forgotten.
I needed an extremely simple battery meter for my minimal Arch Linux X11 environment on my Thinkpad T61, so I wrote one in raw Xlib.
That is a legitimate criticism. There are adapters that enable this, but they're a bit more expensive.

I guess Apple's official answer to that is either bluetooth earbuds like AirPods or using MagSafe to charge.
I'd wager a lot of money we've not seen that last of humanity screwing around with the climate in well-intentioned but bad-outcome ways.

Is there a name for this phenomenon of harmful actions because by an "increase" of understanding of the underlying system?

I imagine there are similar outcomes in many areas, politics, economics, code bases. Kind of like requiring helmets (protect personal health) for cycling leading to less cyclists (poorer health outcomes for a population)
That would require 'new physics'. I think most of the weirdness stems from either (1) sample impurity, (2) an extreme form of that where the active bits are really tiny in a large chunk of inert stuff or stuff with its own electromagnetic properties or (3) being mistaken about it being a superconductor in the first place.
@-mentions don't do anything. Email is the only reliable way to contact dang.
This article was nearly 1000 words in before it defined green/brown, which seems important when you're co-opting common use phrase like green/brown. I'd wager 90% of people would open it expecting a discussion of how energy efficient two given languages were, rather than how old they are.
I would say that doctors who attend conferences have more up to date knowledge than those who don't, regardless of age.
If the crazy uncle is interested in socializing more, they can see how their social-media behavior influences that. If they lose followers, friends, or if it escalates to platform bans and restrictions, that can be data used to realize that that behavior is... anti-social. So if they're interested in socializing more, they change that anti-social behavior.

If they aren't interested in socializing more and just want to get their believes out there to as many people who are willing to listen, the social media platform absolutely does not have to tolerate that and should shut them right down. This will be evident by the loss of followers, friends, and eventual platform restrictions and ban. People that want to change will do so before the ban, and people that don't will get banned, and find some other community to try to be a part of; that glorious 5-person self-hosted Mastodon server nobody has heard of :p

Having a real-name attached to a public social media profile makes people think twice about associating themselves with less-than-mainstream views, publicly. Anti-social behavior isn't tolerated mainstream, and it's not hard to figure out what other kinds of communities fall under this.

I fully support employers scraping public social media platforms to determine if employees are a fit for their company. Don't like it? Don't work for em, or change your public views. Other people, platforms, and companies do not have to tolerate your views; you have that first-amendment right in the US to say your opinion, can choose to exercise it publicly, and thus choose to accept the repercussions that come with that.

Yeah it would suck if I was working at a company, said something not ideal on a social media platform, and got fired. Yeah I'd be upset. What's the problem? Most for-profit companies don't screen employees, train them, integrate them into their workforce, and then fire them for dumb reasons.

If someone has a scenario that doesn't match any of that, share it as I'd be more interested in a different view that doesn't come down to bigoted people being entitled.
I switched to 4K discs earlier this year, for the same reasons - no dropouts, no blockiness, no sudden resolution changes. Precaching would solve a lot of these problems (it's how movie theaters get their films now - via encrypted download). But I do prefer owning the physical media.

I figure that most of the streaming titles will be lost in time. Sure, the equivalent of "Casablanca" will still be available. But series that people are fond of but weren't good enough to win awards .. they'll vanish into the ether.
This is one of the few comments here I actually agree with. Totally agree our current architecture is totally broken. It sounds like ARM MTE is coming soonish so excited to see that.
Adversarial built-in AirTags.
This was announced in April, and this is the second time in two days I've seen people reposting it. What gives?
Fatal grizzly attack renews debate over how many bears are too many
no, thousands and thousands of clicks isn't what makes a list shared
And 4) how to handle problems that don't map well onto massively-parallel machine. Some problems / algorithms are inherently serial by nature.

Some applications like games decompose relatively easy into separate jobs like audio, video, user input, physics, networking, prefetch game data etc. Further decomposing those tasks... not so easy. So eg. 4..8 cores are useful. 100 or 1k+ cores otoh... hmmm.
I'm a C++ dev also, and I don't agree with you! I use clangd, gdb, dynamic analysis tools, no static analysis tools (other than compiler warnings). The help I've gotten from Rust analyzer compared to clangd is pretty large, imho. Rust restraining itself means that our tooling gets to be more free.

Also, gdb is... Not that great. Yes, it definitely does debug my app and in that sense it is great. It is however pretty unstable and gets into weird state I cannot get out of, gdb/mi is a mess, and the text interface (TUI) is not performant enough. I'm still very happy that I have it, but when I look at RemedyBG I get jealous. I'd pay for an equivalent to RemedyBG on Linux, if it was FOSS.
Do Australians tend to have region 4 DVD players or region free? For blu-ray, they're in region B with Europe, so importing will probably be simple... And a lot of Blu-Ray releases are region free anyway.
I've had ATI/AMD cards for more years than not since 2004. And in my personal experience, I have maybe once had a driver issue on an X800. I know sometimes they struggle with new cards, but is it really still a thing?
Or we lack the energy/motivation to add more to our life.
"owner" of a website subdomain?
If there was a Nobel prize for scams, both could hold...
imo the distinction has little to do with the "hardness" of the science.

Science fiction has a thesis about society, technology, and how it shapes and reflects us (see: the root at Frankenstein)

Science fantasy is about the hero's journey

These are not mutually exclusive things, but it does also explain the Star Trek/Star Wars divide some are commenting on here.
90s Batman and original Spiderman were super hero films and has lot more sexuality than what we have now.
Counterpoint: there's nothing wrong with pull with merge.
Sure, but owning a physical disc / movie file is also part of it.
I think there are some people out there ripping DVD/Blu-ray to their own personal media servers who would now torrent.

Also you can stream Plex from anywhere these days. Even just casting from your smartphone to whatever device is very viable.
The theater versions are also compressed at a much higher bitrate (although I believe using a not-as-good codec as h265). I've heard 500GGB+ for a 2HR film.
Funny, because when the Apple Vision Pro was introduced I didn't hear any worries.
Guided brute force search.
This seems like a mathematical trick -- pretending like perfectly smooth functions exist in reality -- which is then extrapolated from in bizarre and unilluminating ways.

The only reasonable reading of Newton's laws (and descriptions of e.g. physically-constructed curves like this dome) is that they are true up to some small epsilon length scale. No matter how small the epsilon, as long as it is not literally zero, this doesn't work.

(for instance if things aren't perfectly smooth then there is some small force proportional to the discrepancy ~O(e^2) or O(sin e) or whatever, which moves the ball off the dome)

If I was teaching physics from sceatch, I would state on day one: physics is the practice of building models whose low-order approximations give correct predictions about reality. There is no such thing as a perfect model to infinite decimal places.

(That one 9 decimal place calculation from QFT doesn't invalidate this: given a model, the calculations may be perfectly accurate! But the model is still fuzzy because of fuzzy inputs. In that case, it has been possible to make it very very not fuzzy.)
I just did this. Went in and got cashier's checks for all my accounts and dropped the money elsewhere. Worth it.
>I'm not holding my breath

Of course! After all you'd want to take in all the aromas!
> In theory at least, there can always be browser or search alternatives.

In theory, you can also get a non-Apple/Google mobile phone, but in practice you cannot. In some cases these corporations have more power than the government. It's also very easy for these companies to work with the government to give them access to your data, so there's not really much of a delineation anyway.
The Nautilus said to be powered by Bunsen cell batteries in which the zinc is replaced by a sodium/mercury amalgam. The sodium is consumed in the reaction and replenished with sodium extracted from sea water (using coal power.)

As far as I can tell, this sodium/mercury modification to Bunsen cells is science fiction. Bunsen cells were real but not powerful enough to plausibly drive a ship so Verne spiced them up. Great book though.
The man who sings it is an extreme left-wing who does anything to get his party media attention. He will do anything to exploit the uneducated. He lives a rich lifestyle, wearing designer clothes and Gucci shoes while wearing overalls and preaching hate. He openly supports Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

And his and others' excuse that it is a political song and should not be taken literally is an insult to what we South Africans had to overcome to have a true democracy.

He is a dangerous idiot and you just have to read a bit on him to come to this conclusion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Malema#Hate_speech_and_...
It makes piracy that much more important.
Well, yeah, but my point is that it shouldn't be surprising. If you think about it, if it is even possible to bring a particle to rest for a finite time in the Platonic ideal then that plus time reversal necessarily entails non-determinism. So non-determinism should be no more surprising than the fact that it is actually possible to bring a particle to rest for a finite time.

I think the only reason this example surprises people is that everyone just assumes that bringing a particle to rest is possible/easy without really thinking through what this would actually require in the Platonic ideal. It's actually very challenging to stop things from moving without friction.