skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm on board with the scepticism of what is a gigantic engineering challenge, it's got a lot of hype which ignore the fundamental and serious issues that make it a hard problem but certain paragraphs don't pass the sniff test, eg.

> So the number of continuous parameters describing the state of such a useful quantum computer at any given moment must be at least 2^1,000, which is to say about 10^300. That's a very big number indeed. How big? It is much, much greater than the number of subatomic particles in the observable universe.

> To repeat: A useful quantum computer needs to process a set of continuous parameters that is larger than the number of subatomic particles in the observable universe.

> At this point in a description of a possible future technology, a hardheaded engineer loses interest.

Comparing bits of information to number of particles in the universe is a fancy card trick to impress students, but to pretend that 1kb of state makes "hardheaded engineers" lose interest is laughable. People will keep trying because it's the holy grail for certain types of computational power that will still be there even as Moore's law wanes. For fields like bioinformatics and other natural sciences, it's probably our only way to get reasonable sized simulations regardless of worldwide digital processing power.

It's the computing equivalent of fusion, we know it can be done and that's enough to keep trying, whether we get there this decade or next century is somewhat irrelevant while the impetus remains.
In my opinion writing that Microsoft fucked up where clearly other software puts bogus data in timestamp fields is laughable. Shit goes in - shit goes out.

I think MS should improve implementation in two ways:
- ask known trusted sources (like their own servers) for SSL timestamp
- use that timestamp only internally (as opposed to system-wide) to acquire valid NTP timestamp
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36816387
When Moore's law is dead, and you have to keep producing better chips every generation, the easiest way is to dunk the old chips. My new favourite conspiracy theory: They design those chips with such vulnerabilities in mind, and when the time is right they "discover it" and offer a fix. New chips, of course, have no such vulnerability. Those will have a new one, discovered 2 years from now.
I thought it would be fun to contribute to Wikipedia about topics I’m knowledgeable about. Every single attempt was rejected and reverted almost instantly. The rejections were happening so quickly that I have to assume admins had created bots to auto revert any change that did not come from them. There is no way there was time for a human to be involved. After about 10 attempts on 10 different articles I gave up and haven’t tried again since. There doesn’t seem to be any point.
I think it’s a fairly interesting story over all, and it feels like exactly how science should happen. We are humans and easily deluded. We fall easily for things we wish to be true. The fascinating story behind LK99 is incredibly human - including the rushing a preprint out to secure a noble prize by one of the researchers who was being excluded. The fascinating part to me was the fact engineers and scientists could on their own time try to replicate and did so in the open. People were excited and eager for it to be true and found hope in the ambiguity and excitement in the partial successes, and dreamed of what could be. Then, through careful analysis by experts who know their subjects well, we learned it was not the magic we dreamed it might be but a magic that we already knew about. A negative result of something so many people wished to be true is an ultimate victory of science, and to me more exciting than a positive result in many ways. It tells me we are on the right track on a great many things in the world, when it feels often we are on a wrong track on most things.
Someone else posted a list of Vault alternatives, multiple of which (AFAICT) check your boxes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37151218
While a shortage of admins/editors w/could cause the death of rather niche entries, Wikipedia would still have a huge propaganda outlet potential. Whether you believe its being actively used or not, wiki entries that might have political influence (history) will stay active, thus keeping Wikipedia (barely, that is) alive.
> wait too long to publish something before it is fully polished

what is your idea / project?
Thank God, this means I can stop pretending to be a twitter expert on superconductivity.
I don't usually photograph places and stuff but I do take pictures of people I care about in places and in front of stuff. That I enjoy. But the really cool buildings and things I usually grab a picture online that's way better than what I would make.
It’s on the people banning a Rosa Parks story to provide the extraordinary evidence that it was deserved.
We don't even have a generally accepted definition of AGI yet, so...no.
> The active-duty officer was told by police they could not evict Simon and that the issue is considered a “civil matter.”

I don't understand. If I person takes over your home while you're there, it's an invasion that the police will respond to. If someone breaks into your home and steals stuff from it, that's robbery that the police will respond to. But if someone simply starts living in your home when you're not there, that's suddenly a "civil matter" that the police can't do anything about?
AWS has it.
For about a year I've been going through the process of gathering all of the television listing pages from the New York Times, processing them to extract the films that played each day, matched the films to their IMDB links, and parsing the VCR codes to get the time/channel as well. Now I'm creating a little frontend to view and analyze the data as well as curate bits that didn't match properly.

At the moment I'm mostly just planning on sharing it with my brother, but who knows. I generally think I'll eventually share the data somewhere possibly on a website. I can't commercialise it if I understand the New York Times license properly since I scraped the Timesmachine for the listing pages.

Regardless, it's been super fun, and the data is very cool. Like 21 thousand unique films. At the moment I'm mostly trying to decide if I want to continue adding bits, like seeing all the listings a specific actor was in ... Mostly to test the hypothesis purported by PCU that there is always a Michael Caine or Gene Hackman film on television (I'm joking obviously there isn't although it is closer than you'd think). At the moment you can view an individual date or all of the listings for a specific film.

To me this is starting to feel almost like a Wikipedia thing or internet archive. This is, in a way, a specific ground truth of when television programs played in the New York area. I just have no idea who or what would be interested in it.
It's an ongoing debate with decades of research from NGOs, non-profits, etc. Here's an attempt at a literature review: https://sustainabilitycommunity.springernature.com/posts/are...

1. "79% of studies reviewed reported that smaller farms have higher yields, with yields increasing 5% per 1ha decrease in farm size."

2. "77% of studies finding that smaller farms have greater biodiversity at both farm and landscape scales"

3. "no statistical evidence for farm-size relationships with resource-use efficiency, greenhouse gas emissions, or profitability"

Here's another paper that specifically breaks down people fed per hectare: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/034...
Reminds me of the failing of the k-nearest neighbor algorithm. It works extremely well in low dimensionality, but given high dimensionality, its astoundingly bad. As you scale up the space and number of dimensions, the distances between individual chunks of data gets so large its hard to draw meaningful conclusions.
> “They told the police that I was a home invader and that it was their home. And so I ended up being arrested and detained,” Arko said.

The arrest itself was because police believed the squatters at first. The homeowner never actually did anything illegal in this case.
I'd agree with that. People get different things from different actions. Like you, documenting a place or an experience gives me purpose and challenge. I can be happy just experiencing a place, or trying to capture it in a particular way.
Interesting, no mention of Groq for number 6.
Making yourself look unhinged is not helping your case.
Linux Foundation is sending takedowns to Redbubble for generic Unix terms
I noticed that also. Totally insufficient for success of course. All the more so that they end up with the same high monthly cost as a "high end gym". And half the store network already closed, but that was perhaps due to Covid since they started just before that.
I've fixed it now. Thanks for watching out for a fellow user!
1) can it recognize handwriting?
2) can it identify where a child made a mistake when ‘showing their work’ aka error analysis?

A tool that guides a kid to their mistakes would probably be more useful than on that solves a problem on their behalf.
I've seen Shpong referenced in couple of articles that made it to the HN front page. There were some interesting ideas there; keen to see how it goes.
"I pull off my headset and place it in the “Clean Box,” a small black box that’s supposed to kill bacteria with ultraviolet light. But I can’t help but wonder about all the strangers’ sweat on those non-machine-washable goggles."

To me, this pretty much kills the whole thing.

I don't want someone else's sweat on my face. It's like the equivalent to sharing underwear for me...
I've got a GPS-disciplined Oven Controlled Crystal Oscillator (OCXO) hooked up to a raspberry Pi running Chrony on my home network. It provides a pretty good time source (and more importantly for me a pretty good 10MHz reference). There are rack-mount 1U NTP servers built for the purpose for about what you estimate.

Most atomic clocks will have 20+ year lifetimes. OCXOs age out a good bit faster, but they're rather cheap (<$200 for ones good enough to provide holdover for a GPS module). TCXOs don't age as quickly (they're not literally in an oven), I'm not sure how long they can be expected to last.
This is the book that got me into mathematics as a high schooler
There are many ways you could do backprop... if you want to probe the values straight from the middle of the grid, you could do that. You could poke new values right into the middle of things (by using configuration/random access mode), but everything else is going to pause while doing so. Or you could ripple in new weights along with data.

To me, this feels like starting from where Turing stood and inventing a new type of computer. The sky is the limit.
Wouldn't you just SWAT these clowns out of your property?

The cops show up investigating the anonymous call, discover the drugs, prostitute, guns, who knows what else. Arrests are made, home reclaimed.
You are making excellent points for using globally resolvable DNS + Letsencrypt. :) None of these problems exist with that solution. Unless you enable AXFR, your hostnames won't be easily visible to the outside world and wildcard certificates are a thing too.

Specifically:

1,3,4,6: You want a seamless experience for the user and are assuming that the user is capable of making the decision to trust a network operator. This is not a decision an average user can make. Say, I set up a rogue AP for your university network which uses this special TLD. You connect to my AP, log in to your uni account on the special TLD, and now I have your credentials because you went through my reverse proxy. Very easy to pull off, almost impossible to reconstruct after the fact. QR codes, etc don't offer any protection here.

5. AFAIK the problem doesn't exist as far as domain names are concerned, search domains work across multiple networks. mDNS can also work across multiple networks to resolve host names. For IP addresses this is a problem, which the abundance of possible locally admininstered addresses with IPv6 will hopefully solve (ULA address ranges).

If you want to have full control over your local network environment, that's another thing, but you can't then expect everyone else's devices to automatically trust your environment. You'll have to jump through the hoops of making that environment trusted on the endpoint devices too. Any attempts of making peer to peer trust a thing have failed miserably over the last decades and nobody really seems to put any effort into writing, implementing and proving these standards anymore. It's too easily abused and determining trust is beyond the capabilities of the layperson, heck it often trips up experts too.
Have you tried documenting it but never publishing? Or publishing but never looking at the stats? Any step towards a goal counts for something.
Conventional wisdom is that declining birth rates are correlated with industrialization, urbanization and contraception. This has been a pattern for a while, across many populations [0].

Children in a rural agricultural society are free labor, and a retirement plan. Children in a urban industrialized economy are a costly burden, particularly when it is illegal to put them to work.

I'm not sure that your comment about cannabis and a thousand cuts is significant compared to this other data. Germany's birth rate went from 5.4 in 1875 to 1.3 in 1995 [1], as they industrialized and urbanized. It went up a little bit to the 1.5 you mentioned after the end of the cold wa, and reunification. Economic boom. Nothing to do with drug laws.

> The West seems to be dying by a thousand cuts. This is yet another cut.

I don't understand. Is this some kind of moral judgement? Do you think cannabis laws somehow affect people's decision to have children more than economic issues?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_transition#Summary

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1033102/fertility-rate-g...
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Working on this while working my main role. This is the missing piece I needed for my previous startup so been working to complete the suite.

Would love to connect with any lending/finance guys about this.
Thank you. Doron Zeilberger is an original; do not miss a chance to hear him speak.

I can access though my university, but I'm limited to 100 pages per download, requiring 11 logins. Here, I just needed Acrobat to crop for an iPad, and to remove the four instances of "This page intentionally left blank".
Why Agile Is Not for Me
"The journey is the reward"
- Steve Jobs
I just don't understand it. Apparently, there were drugs and prostitutes in the home, but the police arrest a decent looking person who says it's his home? Why is that not a situation where they go okay, prove it, and he pulls up paperwork and such? Instead, they just arrest him. It's pretty confusing how you can literally be arrested for being physically threatened with a gun on your own property.
Just curious - do police officers have access to a system that proves home/property ownership?
This rings true for me as well. What I learned there was invaluable. But I paid for it in other ways.
I’ve been recording voice notes to work through problems on walks for about a year and I love it.

There are other transcription apps out there, but they are all focused on b2b, so I have been making one for individuals.

https://www.glowvoicenotes.com/

It’s still pretty early days(first version should be available in about a week) but I would love to find anyone out there interested in using voice as part of their work flow, there are a few different directions it could go in terms of features.
> given that most humanities PhDs typically come from more affluent backgrounds than STEM PhDs

Where do you get this from?
If I had a nickel for every physician who told me a fairy tale.

I'm sure most of you know most of my run-ins with so-called "medicine" but I think I haven't shared the bone stimulator incident.

I fell while roller skating in 2006, and ended up with a clean, closed tib-fib fracture. Unfortunately it was resistant to healing, and eventually an atrophic non-union called for surgery. The reason it didn't knit back together is because the leg was displaced, and the idiots in charge didn't catch that (except my amazing PCP, who had no agency in the realm of orthopedics.) And this was on Medicaid, folks.

They put me on big calcium supplements; cool I guess. Then they said they wanted me to wear an "electronic bone stimulator" which sent mysterious RF pulses through my cast to "stimulate those osteoblasts and build up the bone!"

Of course this was a transparent fairy tale that only a fully-qualified quack can tell. What kind of idiot thinks RFI pulses will cause positive healing in the body, who knows. I mean logically, either the RF waves around us are passing harmlessly through our bodies at all times, or they are having mysterious effects on those bodies, for better or worse. They can't have it both ways.

I was incredulous, but it was free. I am sure that pockets were lined by the rental of what's probably a hideously expensive device (couple thousand, AFAICT, but most pages are in the mode of "if you have to ask, you can't afford it.")

It obviously didn't help. After my final surgery, the assistant surgeon phoned me to report that they had to hammer through a lot of calcium deposits to get the rod in there. In other words, my bone was building up fine, but in the wrong place. If only someone had noticed the displacement. If only someone would own up to the malpractice they perpetrated on me.

I was miserable for nine months. I sat alone at home and found a game to play. Unfortunately, the bone stimulator completely disrupted the modem connection and so it'd disconnect every time I tried to use them together. Lovely. Bravo, quackery.
If you expect any outside civilizations might be hostile, wouldn't a slower frame of reference magnify the risk, both in terms of giving slower civ a disadvantage in adaptation/response times if any conflict did occur, and also in giving the faster frames more time to spawn hostile civilizations?
EIRP is the power as if transmitting isotropically over the whole sphere. The actual power can be a lot lower if concentrated in one direction. Arecibo EIRP was 10e13.

This means that civilization, like ours, could transmit to each star instead of all directions. But that would mean deliberately communicating.
The problem with that is it can happen to a random homeowner on vacation, not just landlords.
You don't get to tell other people what they should and should not put in what may as well be an iptables entry.

If your problem is that there aren't enough instances for people who believe what you believe, congratulations! The Fediverse empowers you to solve that problem.
You would have to be more naive to attribute omnipotence to US and zero agency to Taiwanese citizens.
These days most non-IT people I know log in to their wifi network with the credentials printed on the sticker on the bottom. They wouldn't touch the web interface if their life depended on it.
It ain't like Terraform itself was ever a huge moneymaker. Terraform Cloud (i.e. the fancy-shmancy Terraform backend), maybe, but the actual language, the providers, the modules, etc. are all pretty universally free-as-in-beer. The only way to make money with them is to use them to build something else that then makes money.

Put simply:

> we can't generate enough revenue from it to keep the company afloat and continue providing TerraForm development, and sell it as a product at the same time.

They were never selling it as a product in the first place. It's more of a loss leader if anything; Costco has its $1.50 hot dogs to attract customers to buy memberships, and HashiCorp has Terraform (and its provider/module ecosystems) to attract customers to buy Terraform Cloud (and Vault, and Nomad, and everything else they actually do sell).
These specs could catapult LFP above all other battery chemistries. "400km in 10min" for a 700km range battery would mean 60% charge in 10min, which is about 1.5x the speed of today's fastest-charging NMC batteries. Hopefully there's not too much weight or discharge rate penalty. Excited for the future of LFP!
Yes, the laws have the unintended(?) consequence of creating a moat around large corporate property ownership.
I also like unions except for their entirely foreseeable consequences.
Naive comment here but you could check out using a vector database for semantic searches. Check out chromadb.
Looks cool but it seems it requires React which makes it a lot more difficult to use than regular HTMX. Form the GitHub repo: “More importantly, the client is designed to be incorporated into an existing React Native project”
A truly advanced society might be investing significant effort into making itself detectable to other civilizations though. Any civilization experiencing a substantial post-scarcity phase would be likely to have at least some off-shoot groups which use their substantial resources to engage in this activity.

i.e. if energy was functionally free for the average man (because we had the Dyson swarm up and running or something), then what are the odds that some group wouldn't have used their time to build a transmitter to act as a beacon? Could we even stop them if they wanted to (i.e. even if we didn't want to broadcast locally, sending probes to Alpha Centauri and broadcasting from there would be a good way to conduct intelligence gathering on potential interstellar threats).
The can ask the homeowner to show physical proof of title. Not rocket science.

Not unlike car license when pulled over.
The police can't search the home without a warrant. They just showed up at the door where one person was (presumably) inside, and the other trying to get in.

> Why is that not a situation where they go okay, prove it, and he pulls up paperwork and such

I mean... I own my house and I'm not sure I could do this on the spot. Maybe I have a copy of some paperwork somewhere? But I can understand a police officer not wanting to learn to be a lawyer on the spot.
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The radiation from an active black hole would sterilize most anything.
https://www.podshorty.com/

Been working on this for 3-4 months. Summarizes YouTube videos and synthesizes podcasts that you can listen to. Also has transcripts so you can follow along. Click on the timestamp to jump ahead.

Summarization target percentage is set to about 50%. So if you want to listen to a Lex Friedman podcast, this can save you half the time.
Technically that's the way it should be. Just because one person looks homeless and the other looks like they're headed to the country club itself doesn't indicate one is more trustworthy than the other.
I'd have picked elixir... Much better concurrency and distribution support. SSH is built into the (erlang) standard lib, really fantastic support for templating via EEx (if you're using libvirt, e.g.). Easy to deploy as an on-metal or containerized platform using releases. Ruby deployment dependency management can be tricky unless you have a way to isolate from the host (containers e.g.) but that's not the best for being a hypervisor.
A bunch of people deciding not to be your friend isn't censorship.