skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIU Wolfram's searching for a unified model with the Wolfram Physics Project, too; e.g. "The Physicalization of Metamathematics and Its Implications for the Foundations of Mathematics" (2022) https://www.wolframscience.com/metamathematics/
https://www.wolframphysics.org/bulletins/

Are fundamental constants other-valued in any Many Worlds interpretations, or are e, i, and Pi always e, i, and pi with the same relations?

Countability and continuua (in a Hilbert space of degree n, where n is or is not inconstant like the many forms of [quantum discord] entropy and the energy that represents them)

TIL the separable states problem is considered NP-hard, and many models specify independence of observation as necessary.
In May SpaceX reported they have 1.5M subscribers. At $100/month, that's $1.8B/year revenue. Not bad.
It seems like things are improving. Treasury Direct recently went from "worst login system I have ever used" to "ugly but effective." OPM's SF86 form is by far the most complicated government form I have ever seen (lots of good reasons for that) but the web UI is modern, intuitive, and aesthetically pleasing. The federal student aid site always worked great.

I expect the quality of government websites to improve exponentially as the old guard takes their "series of tubes" mentality out the door with them.
A lot of people who would not have survived childhood in the past now live. Birth defects, childhood cancers, diabetes, severe asthma or allergies, poorly functioning immune systems, profoundly poor vision or hearing, etc.

Who uses birth control? Smart, pragmatic, disciplined, responsible people. This is being selected against.

I was using "evolution" in the sense of "survival of the fittest" and there aren't really selections for "fittest" (healthier, stronger, smarter) operating on humans anymore, it's more the opposite.
Budgies Are Awesome: Australia Homeland of Budgies
…and if your dishwasher door squeaks you can fix it like this:

https://youtu.be/r_9AkGSj3FQ?si=jj0iB-pTYC5GZmSZ

Here's a squeaky dishwasher door inside the most expensive ($250 million) and highest penthouse in the world (video at 8:40):

https://youtu.be/aN9DH_GxqEo?feature=shared&t=521

Now that's comedy!
Yes, on MacOS you can use whatever browser you like, engine and all, while being unmolested for favoring something not-Safari. That’s why, after a lifetime of being a Windows user, my most recent PC purchase was a MacBook Air. I would prefer to use Linux, but where I’m at in my life, I just want something that works relatively well out of the box, and I use some software that won’t run on Linux.
If you want to see how it looked like from the tick scale, take a look here: http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/3522.html

Ps. Anyone know of any other sites / places that does comparable level of research that's open to the public?
I really don't understand why people espouse this channel. If you watch it for entertainment sure, I suppose this video is better than watching some guys video essay about Man of Steel, but if I just want to learn about something asking me to watch 30 minutes of drivel makes no sense.
The big advantage trees have ove most man-made shade is that heat can convect through them. If you’ve ever sat underneath an umbrella at a café versus a beer garden under trees you’ll notice the difference. The umbrella shades, but traps reflected heat, re-radiating it below.
Who forced you to use Microsoft (at home).
Commercial dishwashers are only sterilizers. They don't do the cleaning that a residential dishwasher does. They expect as input dishes that are visually "clean", having been scraped and sprayed by hand before going in. The 60 second cycle just cuts remaining grease then kills all the germs with harsh chemicals and then rinses.

If you think residential dishwashers are bad at getting plates clean of dried-on gunk, commercial dishwashers are 100x worse, as that's not their job. The pre-washing everyone gripes about shitty residential dishwashers now requiring is an expected and designed-for staple in a commercial dishwashing process.
I don't think they like it. But their customers - advertisers - sure do.
Many commercial dishwashers run only 15 minutes and the dishes come out sparkling clean. Same with cloths washers, commercial units have small, medium and large settings with hot, warm, cold and that's all you need. They actual use more than a gallon of water but your cloths come out clean in 25 minutes. It's insane what has happened to residential household appliances. The only alternative is to spend the extra and by a low end commercial unit.
What about flipping bits in a processor? Current processors do produce waste heat, but I don't think all of the energy in a processor gets converted to heat and it's not a requirement for computation that heat be generated, e.g. if we had superconducting processors.
I think that this advice from Technology Connections is bad advice. I was having huge problems getting my dishes clean in early-mid 2020. I thought my dishwasher was broken and needed to be repaired, and then it started working again.

What made it stop washing? I had switched to powdered detergent because I couldn't find pods due to COVID shortages. When I found pods again, I bought them. I've never had problems since.
I guess they'll follow NextJS/Vercel or Deno/Deploy book or even License change shouldn't be out of question. Advertise everything as "open source", get free bug reports, contribution, marketing and adoption. Push everything into their commercial offering.
Honest question, why not just Debian and use a derivative instead? I took a 20 year sabbatical on Linux in the home. But with windows 11, I decided to go back. Stopped on debian, and chose Debian when I came back. I am super impressed with how it has matured and it seems to be built in a way that really does a fair job on looking out for you as a user, and as an administrator.
Sounds like H1B.
The rinse aid might not be the best for you either.
>Lockfree game code ain't fixing jank from the OS.

Latency is like a chain. Every link matters.

A game engine programmer can't do a thing about the OS, but can still keep latency bounded in the code under their control.
Or worse, if you consider the wasted water
I wish this wasn't such a commonly shared opinion. Too defeatist, in my view. Craigslist is spartan, sure, but there are less extreme examples such as McMaster-Carr. They've had the same design more or less since 2010 at least and it is usually considered both functional and tastefully current. I think in the early 2000s they had a different design which was fine, and they obviously skipped the whole "web 2.0" era of design.
The energy density of the battery cells in the first leaf was the same as the chevy bolt today (to close approximation). The cost just got cheaper so they could add more.
If only there were some method of extracting fresh water from the sky, somehow
It boggles my mind that the federal government of the United States pays bureaucrats to write non-safety-related standards for home appliances (or anything else).
> Management sets the direction and you either agree, disagree and commit, or disagree and quit.

In my experience, you missed the most common alternative: disagree and undermine.
Yup, it's another great example of the sort of "late stage" problems you run into with capitalism, professionalization of business management (MBA degrees), and fundamentally just about any system w/ rules and "(semi-)autonomous agents" trying to maximize (or at least perform well [enough]) the value of some metric / function. Here, profit &/ even staying in business.

Capitalism and other features of the system currently used in many of the most developed countries is great during development of markets. The performance is excellent, which makes perfect sense.* You run into problems when markets reach saturation. And, markets have never been remotely as saturated as now. Now, you're literally talking about how finely you can slice the sum total of ATTENTION, period. Think "TikTok".

Basically, you see a lot more "zero sum" behavior at such points. I.e., it's much more just Darwinian** ... some winning, some losing.

One example of this type of strategy that I find distasteful is the "retail reset". Every 6 months or so, the retail reset dairy visits the supermarket I shop at most frequently, forcing me to re-find at least some of what I want to buy. It rarely causes me to buy anything unusual or new to me, but, I understand why they do it. It's not "terrible", but there's a feel to it of a certain ... lack of morals / ethics... feeds into a pervasiveness to that feel ... I believe it to be subtly but moderately bad for societies overall...

Couldn't find a more authoritative source / less markety site quickly, but here's at least some of the description:

https://canadasbeststorefixtures.com/why-a-store-reset-boost...

Of course, this kind of thinking is taught and exchanged among the business-oriented. Makes "the disease" worse (more pervasive) ...

* "Command economy" makes very little if you actually care about overall performance. It's the problem anyone faces when trying to model [e.g., "data assimilation" techniques, very powerful but enough data is essential] - not enough data! Of course, in today's world, it might be increasingly possible to make a more "command" style work, from the data side ... and, if you want to go for that "panopticon look" ... China has headed back that way ... again, in some sense. But, it's really still not good ... you're up against all sorts of other human factors, even if you HAD the data.

** Edit: or noticeably Darwinian (in a more common usage sense). This behavior of systems regarding "niches" and competition applies at all times. It's when the "empty space(s)" or "low density space(s)" are occupied that the more directly / actively competitive behavior w/ more clear negatives for various 'participants' tends to emerge.
Enviropig: A Bioengineered Pig That Excretes Fewer Pollutants (2010)
Washing dishes by hand iirc uses 2-3x more water though.
If they keep messing it up, you can try Arch Linux.
One solution is easy, it is to reduce deforestation. These can grow faster with more CO2 and store them in their wood. But humanity's real problem is not carbon dioxide and methane. The worst are the industrial chemicals and toxic agents that are impregnated in our bodies and brains.
Full load? That would take me about a week to generate. I'm not sure I have that many dishes
Yep. Offices should basically be as cold as realistically feasible for the group working there, but no colder. Few things make me less productive than being in a hot environment: about 69F/20C is my ideal, and if it has to be either direction from there, it should be colder. Anything over about 74F interior temperature and my ability to do much critical thought is basically gone; I have no real heat tolerance but can deal with cold for ages.

This is a huge argument in favor of WFH: fewer/no arguments over office temps, a debate about as old as time itself, and particularly a place where it's going to be extremely difficult to get varied groups of folks to all be comfortable and agree (imagine someone super petite vs someone with a good bit of body mass, or someone who grew up in Norway vs someone from Singapore, or even just guys and gals who statistically tend to have different circulation, fat levels, etc. leading to different preferences in ambient temperature).
> to match the water hardness in your area which can result in a film on your clean dishes.

Or invest in a water softener. They’re a one-time expense and almost no maintenance (aside from a small expense/maintenance for salt), and are beneficial for a number of things:

- improved appliance longevity

- eliminating scale buildup on toilets and faucets

- improving the health of your skin and hair

- everything cleans more easily
In which climate zones do trees not make their surroundings more temperate? Trees live from Alaska to the equator, and from the coast to near-desert. They are not de-humidifiers, but they certainly regulate temperature.
Tree, meet forest.
I imagine all that is pretty standard here also - South Australia isn't exactly without regulation or seemingly high labour costs. I used the same company at the office building and then at home, and each was painless. Approve an easy quote and then everything is later installed on a particular day. Both were in the 5-10kW range.

At the office building, the estimated payback was all of two years.
What does hallucination have to do with alignment?
Your second sentence contradicts your first.
Only 'conservative nutjobs' appreciate dishwashers that can actually clean dishes as well as they did in the 1980s.
Can you actually switch the default browser with group policy? What if your team only has the bandwidth to support a couple browsers, and your users say they want Chrome and Firefox?
> The Federal Open Markets Committee sets the federal funds rate—also known as the federal funds target rate or the fed funds rate—to guide overnight lending among U.S. banks.

Why does the interest rate end up being close/near/the same as the overnight lending rate the Fed sets? Because why would anybody want any kind of risk when you can get XYZ interest rate risk free overnight short term?
It’s hard not to see this angle as making the capacity for cultural evolution very fortunate for us (or unfortunate for other species). What other animals can exhaust primary food sources and ‘quickly’ pivot to another?

I’ve often wondered how much rituals and social routines for affiliation and bonding drove for this capacity (which we often associate with lithic tools) as opposed to the need for food. Perhaps some of this is due to another scarcity: hair. How did hairless apes manage relationships without grooming?
Don’t exercise because other exercise is better. This is the path of inaction.
Basic physics says yes.
First, there's nothing overbearing about the Ubuntu install.

Second, Fedora uses rpm management, rpm repositories sooner or later corrupt themselves, happened to me and others I know on Red Hat, on Fedora and on SuSE.

I'd use Debian but I've found Ubuntu's driver management to be far more stable and reliable, especially for WiFi.
I don't care for edge for the most part, but there is actually one integration with edge that I have come to like. When I click on an email link inside outlook, edge opens the link, and also displays a sidebar which displays the email. Super handy IMO.

Somehow we need to find a balance that allows vendors to tightly integrate their apps but prevent abusing this.

MS is everyone's favorite whipping boy, but I fear what kind of ads Google while shove through if they ever get a dominant market share in desktop OSs. Apple seems to be the only sensible alternative.
Ironically I think non-power users will begin every browsing session by typing "www.google.com" into the address bar, avoiding this issue entirely.
This is amazing, and I had never heard of it until now. Thank you for sharing this!
They do? Samsung is a major provider of datacenter SSDs. They don't sell any storage appliances, but they still benefit from more applications and increased demand for their products. Being able to fully leverage SSD performance over SMB would probably translate in a lot of sales.
In regards to saving water, there can be huge benefits to doing so. I'm on the Utility Board overseeing the municipal utilities for my city (electricity, water, wastewater, trash). Our city is growing rapidly, and expanding a sewage system is extremely expensive. We're a city of ~60k and are spending ~$200mm to expand our wastewater treatment plants. And densification means current sewage lines can't support the buildings that need to be built.

More efficient appliances mean less water going through the sewer, and less wastewater that needs to be treated. Which means lower capital expenditures, which eventually come directly out of your pocket.
... If they could just do it to Chrome but leave Firefox alone.
Really only needs to be done once daily. Twice daily is recommended because people tend to not brush their teeth properly and miss things. Doing it twice tends to hit the areas missed in the first pass.
Different people have different tastes. I like his videos.
Yes, and its cheaper even than google's price. I've just transferred to cloudflare a weeks ago.
Commercial Units don't give a fuck about water and energy. They cost more but will last 20 years plus.
It's like saying I'm having engine trouble on my big rig, and you telling me about how you upgraded your tennis shoes.
China just took a $300B bite out of Apple. It could be a sign of things to come
FTFA:

> But something happened between 1978 and today. Now we all have HMOs

No, we don’t.

“Forty-nine percent of covered workers are enrolled in PPOs, followed by HDHP/SOs (29%), HMOs (12%), POS plans (9%), and conventional plans (1%)” [0]

And part of this is government policy actively promoting the HDHP/SO, and starting before that private market blowback of the provider choice issue in public healthcare policy debates as far back as the debates over the Clinton healthcare plan effecting marketplace decisions.

[0] https://www.kff.org/report-section/ehbs-2022-section-5-marke...
We have similar programs here in Australia. Highly problematic and exploitative, and for what benefit? Depressed wages. Really shows where our priorities lie when we'll not only tolerate, but mandate, a soft form of indentured servitude for the sake of producers not having to pay a competitive wage.
They really need to fire whoever keeps ramming non-sequitur rewards stuff into the windows product.

How do we know this wouldn’t lead to firing the CEO? Frankly, I’m inclined to believe that enshittification [1] is the primary strategy of the company right now. They’ve had decades to build Windows market share and now they realize that growth in software license sales has all but dried up. On the other hand, they’ve seen how hard the wind is blowing in the services and adtech direction.

So they’re determined to monetize their Windows install case right up to the hilt. They know they won’t be able to sell these folks expensive software licenses anymore, so they’re selling their users to advertisers instead.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/
The big problem is the prompt, and the options.

Most commonly browsers just open full screen as a captive experience nowadays. There's no need to force me to click buttons before getting it.

The android experience does it pretty well. If you want a second view on the screen, you work for it
That's amazing!

This isn't necessarily evidence of local computation though – the EMV protocol is fairly lightweight (even for 90s standards), and I could imagine a remote EMV terminal implementation, with the handful of ISO 7816 APDU exchanges required for a minimal payment being sent over the network.

That's how e.g. the Nintendo 3DS can support Suica payments, which is another amazing (and to me unexpected) application of a normally merchant/terminal-side payments technology in consumer hardware.

> Apologies to American readers who didn't get chips in their cards for another couple of decades

I still use at least one non-chip/magstripe-only card regularly… Well, one day!
Debian started shipping firmware in the main ISO this release. It mostly just works except Nvidia now, and even that's just an apt install away.

Does that make it any easier? You can download a live version and test instead of needing to find that firmware included release.
Stock Debian has been pretty decent recently. I was surprised to find it either didn't require proprietary blobs or installed them when I wasn't paying attention.

I've also been playing around with BSD and it's like hanging out with a friend from elementary school: they're a little wonky, but you remember some good times together.

PopOS isn't my favorite, but it is pretty straight-forward. If it's working for you then it's a total win. (Which is my way of saying "though I like Stock Debian and BSD, there is absolutely nothing wrong with PopOS.")
A simple full GPU implementation of AlphaZero in Julia
IDK I eat oatmeal every morning and only run a load every few days.. Dried on oatmeal is not match for the normal cycle even at half-load setting. Nothing survives the enzymes in modern detergent and the cascading coverage of my dishwasher..
IPv6 needs to die. IPv4 using NAT ensures a moderately high level of privacy. IPv6 with privacy extensions does not.
JFK was forced to go along with the bay of pigs (he was against it) on the other hand he got us too close to the brink of annihilation --one can imagine these two things would displease some people --whether that rises to assassination by an internal faction is unknown --though maybe if they released all material that was supposed to be released we'd maybe have a better idea.
When I had my bathroom redone, the contractor offered to set me up with an "illegal toilet" smuggled in from Mexico that uses more water per flush.
> It’s not hard to make up a fantasy to explain reality.

Unfortunately this isn't limited to conspiracy theories. We spent the better part of the years with leaders and scientists forcing similarly baseless explanations down or throat rather than taking the time to collect the data that actually supported the politically favorable talking points. There were countless fantasies made up to explain the risks of the specific virus, efficacy of masks, net benefit of vaccination, etc.
> I’ve been in a Kaiser plan most of my life and the “rigidity” doesn’t bother me, maybe I’m just used to it.

I should have said it can be* very annoying, the rigidity isn't an issue for everyone and it really depends on your situation/healthcare needs and what your alternatives are.

The rigidity is mostly annoying when you want to see a specialist without having to go through a PCP (although this may not be a bad thing from a health systems perspective) or need advanced care (like cancer) that may be better outside of Kaiser (although again noting that they're still very good from what I've seen) and you want to choose where you get treatment.

Or if, like in my situation, you know exactly where you want to get your care and it's not part of Kaiser.
I've heard that adding a teaspoon of TSP can be helpful because a lot of the dishwashing detergents are now phosphate free.
Chronic fatigue syndrome may have a post-viral infection origin
Read the article man. It was not an opinion, nor a generalization.

> Sitting across from the FBI agents, Borremans sensed that they weren’t interested in the investigation. The Americans interrogated Rivera, but that’s where the case ended. A senior FBI official said in an interview that the agency reviewed the case as a courtesy to the Belgian police, but he would not comment on the details.
By checking the correctness of the outputs, which you need to do anyway?
I hate these stupid headlines that are desperate for a pun. Just say the damn thing.
The main problem with Debian is outdated software. For servers the fixed release cycle is great, everything is properly tested and it should be rock solid without really needing to touch it.

But for a regular desktop/workstation system I want more frequent software updates even if it comes at the cost of a little stability.

(Of course there's Debian unstable, but I'd rather go with a distro where the rolling release is the main product, and they maybe do a little more testing before making changes)
Technically the string return type is just a shorthand, IIRC render_template returns a Response object that sets Content-Type and other things appropriately. But yeah it’s pretty trivial to create an HTML formatting library and use it with Flask. (I think there’s already libraries for the tag syntax, you just need to hook it into Flask, or literally any Python web framework really.)
Add special game perf workaround for Starfield and other DGC junkies