skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excuse me? String Theory didn't lie to us - it's the science popularizes who lied, and continue to lie.

Don't believe me?

Okay, Einstein said gravity is caused by the curvature of space, right? Wrong! Einstein never said any such thing, he merely said you can think of gravity as curved spacetime - in fact he later pointed out to others that was a crutch, not the reality. Gravity is a force. Yet the science popularizers continue to lie and display their stupid rubber sheet model to explain why things orbit the earth. Which is not only wrong, but very misleading - earth orbit are easily explained by time dilation, you don't even need to model earth gravity with all this spacetime-as-a-rubber sheet nonsense!

Still don't believe me? Look how science popularizers explain voodoo mechanics, erm, I mean quantum mechanics. They still pretend that Copenhagen and the science of 100 years ago still reign supreme and completely ignore quantum field theory, which is the foundation of the standard model.

When it comes to string theory they never point out that string theory, brane theory, and the standard model all yield the same results and that physicists now use the model that makes their calculations easier.

No, science popularizers prefer to spout nonsense in an attempt to make science seem cool. You know what's cool? Actual, factual science!
yea!

there was another video i put on my twitter account but it's already 24 hours old; the UI has changed a bit.

here's the tweet: https://twitter.com/asciidiego/status/1723804366434627611

also, how's infisical doing?
> One metric that is seldom mentioned for crypto algos is code complexity. ... TEA (an unfortunately somewhat weak symmetric cipher) was a very nice push in that direction.

Spec is also a push in that direction [0]. It's code looks to be as complex as TEA's (1/2 a page of C), blindingly fast, yet as far I know has no known attacks despite being subject to a fair bit of scrutiny. About the only reason I can see for it not being largely ignored is it was designed by NSA.

SHA3 is also a simple algorithm. Downright pretty, in fact. It's a pity it's so slow.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speck_(cipher)
For a second, I thought my internet provider was broken: ring.com is down (and other websites I shop on).

https://www.eden-park.com/ down
https://allbirds.eu/ down
https://www.jbhifi.com.au/ down

https://www.shopify.com/plus/customers
You don't really need a deep background in the physics side of things to utilize or help build quantum systems. Most of quantum is serious, but still "traditional", engineering of various disciplines (RF, EE, OMECH, CS, etc.). The physics part is a comparatively small portion of it IME.
As somebody else mentioned, you can hire it out.

There's a lot of files running around with existing models for common projects, so you probably don't need to design your own enclosures a lot of the time unless you want to.

And printers have gotten cheap, like $99 gets you a jumping off point into the hobby.
> We are aware that some merchant storefronts are not loading at this time. Our developers are working to resolve this ASAP, and we will be sharing updates at http://shopifystatus.com. Apologies for any inconvenience.

https://twitter.com/ShopifySupport/status/172416611008424349...
We have the technology to make energy both cheap and clean.
History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes: I foresee LLMs needing to separate executable instructions from data, and marking the data as non-executable.

How models themselves are trained will need to be changed so that the instructions channel is never confused with the data channel, and the data channel can be sanitized to avoid confusion. Having a single channel for code (instructions) and data is a security blunder.
WordPress plugins are a little sad?
> Every brand has their own resale laws.

Nike / Gucci / every high-end brand has resale laws?
Collusion is NOT a prerequisite to raising prices. No conspiracy is required. It also helps a lot that these large corporations have driven out their competition.
The 6.123 version they're using is a pre-release version, either a beta or an alpha. It's not surprising that it isn't stable.
They can hire or fire however they want. That's just business. But if a company posts a 10 billion dollar net income on an earnings call and also wants to pretend that they can no longer afford to pay 200 workers (which, even if they all averaged 200k comes own to 40m dollars, or less than half a percent of said net income), I'm not going to buy it.

I don't see a way to spin that, so I'd rather they be straight with me. Product X isn't make enough money to justify costs of labor, we are cutting expenses to it. Goodbye.

Amazon tends to have good severance so I'm not actually terrified of the engineers going homeless on the streets, but it's more of the way everything is done. You tend to get zero notice for it, you're cut off immediately from all your chats and emails, and you go through the normal charade with recruiters ready to talk about how sorry they feel just as their own studio laid off the last month. You're basically treated as a criminal that needs to be cut off ASAP despite providing value for months/years and you go back to more false platitudes and the usual annoying interview rituals where you pretend you totally care about the company and need to be humble about salary despite that being a big reason (or maybe only reason) you even looked at them.

I'm just tired of all the fakeness.
I'm assuming that both SHA256 and Blake3 are using integer SIMD.
Correct - this has nothing to do with it.

Droughts happen. This is a story not because of the drought but because of how busy the canal is and the cargo of the ship that paid to skip the line. It was time sensitive cargo.
> Let's be specific about what it does and doesn't do

It doesn't tell a gunshot from a dumpster lid slamming shut.

It does produce almost entirely false positives.

It doesn't identify the location of a gunshot to any useful level of precision.

I suppose if you want to start a police state, and make every fourth resident a cop, you might be able to mitigate the 90% false-positive rate, and the horrible location-identification rate, but at that point, do you even need shot-spotter?
Similar to the "Persistent Surveillance Systems" deployed to Baltimore in 2016 [0]. The hypothesis was to deploy something similar to the military "Gorgon Stare" [1] program domestically.

Wide-area motion imagery (WAMI) is an approach to surveillance, reconnaissance, and intelligence-gathering that employs specialized software and a powerful camera system—usually airborne, and for extended periods of time—to detect and track hundreds of people and vehicles moving out in the open, over a city-sized area, kilometers in diameter. For this reason, WAMI is sometimes referred to as wide-area persistent surveillance (WAPS) or wide-area airborne surveillance (WAAS). [2]

0. https://www.wired.com/story/cities-curb-surveillance-baltimo...

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_Stare

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide-area_motion_imagery
> But it just seems very possible that if you throw 10-100x the compute at "raw statistical correlation" it generates much better, specific sequences.

This isn't just very possible, it's _what's happening_. They're fantastically complicated statistical machines. We know this - that part, at least, we _did_ write. The actual statistical model, we don't fully know, but we know what the machinery is.

There's an impression here of understanding sufficient that it warrants both further investigation and a lot of introspection with regards to the nature of intelligence, but these are not systems with any real autonomy or agency, and in particular the _way_ they're currently used and deployed almost precludes talking about things like understanding or knowledge in any real sense - they're run as one-shot, feed tokens in get token out forward-pass algorithms.

This is why I'm beating this drum - it's possible the algorithm that's being used underpins intelligence and understanding in a broad sense, it's possible (and some evidence suggests) the resulting models contain structures or patterns that encode information beyond the strict content of the input data, but when you interact with these systems today - like, in ChatGPT, Copilot, or anything else I'm aware of - you're inserting a string of tokens at the beginning of the model, receiving a predicted next token at the end of the model, and then repeating for however many tokens seem appropriate. This model is not talking to you, it does not understand what you asked, there is no growing mutual understanding, and assuming such will lead you to make assumptions about the behavior of the model that are incorrect.
That is nothing compared to the cringe I experience whenever I see people type "lead" when it really called for "led"; "He lead them into battle" instead of "He led them into battle." - I see that a lot these days.

Oh and speaking of "a lot", it makes me sad every time I see people using "alot". And that non-word gets used increasingly often. It's not like it's a typo or autocorrection. A lot of people unironically type "alot". Ugh!

EDIT: Lol, I received a downvote. I found the "alot" user. Or the "lead instead of led" user! Or perhaps I scored a double strike ;)
"Developer's Aren't Allergic to Marketing" – Multithreaded Income Episode 14
In this episode, Kevin interviews Michael Buckbee, a tech entrepreneur with an exciting journey from starting as a self-taught developer to creating successful SaaS businesses. Buckbee shares his approach to 'content engineering' and discusses how he strategically stacked 'bricks' through various side projects, improving his skills and creating revenue. He advises tech professionals interested in becoming entrepreneurs and details the unique marketing tactics that netted him great success at RailsWorld.
Glitter and coded aperture.
The freshwater is because the lakes in the centre of the canal are freshwater, and you don’t want to kill the ecosystem in and around them.
how will this change with ai though?
I took all these courses as a non physics aligned computer science major in a top engineering program. I even had the theoretical probability and statistics requirements you need too. The fact was though that are base requirements meant if you came in without placing out of basic requirements like calculus 1, intro physics, etc, you were going to be there for six years or five years plus summers. This wasn’t technically allowed by they waved hands somehow and it was tolerated by the university system. I feel I had enough background to study a year of progressive quantum computing courses successfully (but didn’t as they weren’t available).

Of course in the last decade or so they relaxed a lot of non computer science requirements and offered more elective slots, dumbing down the requirements and offering greater specialization for industry. But my point is, you certainly can offer a quantum computing degree with sufficient depth in an American university. It’ll just be a hard degree.
400,000 bananas, Michael.
I have lived in both places. People in both places like to cheerlead for their chosen way of life, convinced that they are right and everyone else is wrong.

The truth is that rural and urban living have different pros and cons and different wants and needs. There's no one ideal way of living.
> A hallucination like FableGL sounds like 3.5, which is not something you should base your expectations of the tech on.

So in order to properly evaluate a service, we need to already be subscribed to it in the first place?
Hogwash. Egoism isn't what's in short supply. EMPATHY is what's in short supply.
Thank you, I will check out the book. Yes I forgot that it is essentially economics at the core of it. All of the same economic arguments also apply to biological weapons too. Here's to hoping neither is ever used.
If Redhat/CentOS/Fedora was making this move people would be rioting in the streets.
If a ship is carrying 20,000 containers $4m is only $200 a container.
Yes. There are a lot of factors that cause price increases but it's convenient to blame it on the workers.
At home? I sure am.

No other OS gives me the ability to set up a machine and forget about it other than updates like Debian does.
Maybe every response can be reviewed by a much simpler and specialised baby-sitter LLM? Some kind of LLM that is very good at detecting a sensitive information and nothing else.

When suspects something fishy, It will just go back to the smart LLM and ask for a review. LLMs seem to be surprisingly good at picking mistakes when you request to elaborate.
I feel like there is an easy solution here. Don’t even try.

The LLM should only be trained on and have access to data and actions which the user is already approved to have. Guaranteeing LLMs won’t ever be able to be prompted to do any certain thing is monstrously difficult and possibly impossible with current architectures. LLMs have tremendous potential but this limitation has to be negated architecturally for any deployment in the context of secure systems to be successful.
Nice one, when I read it, I assumed a typo and that task was meant.
It's only really worth more to a small select group of people. Those people had no way to jump to the front of the line when ordering.
Which things on that list are unhealthy/incompatible with a well-adjusted human?
Ancient Greece had a paved road used to haul ships across the Isthmus of Corinth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diolkos
I fail to see why carrying something next to your laptop means you don’t clean it.
1. Not _every_ human is capable of creating a false dataset.
2. No human is capable of creating 1000 false datasets in a day or whatever.

The same reason it's cool that AI can make a recipe for a cake or draw a picture of a boat is the same reason it's bad when it can do bad things. It's not as if people were not capable of making recipes for cakes or drawing pictures of boats. It's just now _anyone_ can rapidly do those thing on demand +/- some efficacy determined by the sophistication of the AI.
Bill Gates emails Microsoft exec (1997)
A custom MCU+pcb is at least 3 months work: downloading an design for an FPGA, testing it, using openlane to make an custom chip, taping it out, writting boot code and the main loop ( I would do that in assembly, much simpler than using C and some vendors library). The big issue is taping it out to a chip FAB, around $25K, see my comment below.

I would get started with an off the shelf MCU with good documentation, writing the software on a good development platform with the same assembly as the final microcontroller. For the $0,04 ARM microcontroller I mentioned above as final target with analog to digital controller (ADC) I would first write the program (the main loop) on a Mac on a high level language like Squeak or Python and use the $4 raspberry pi pico as ADC. I would then rewrite the working software in ARM assembly and test it directly on the pi pico. Then I would flash it on the $0.04 arm microcontroller wired on a breadboard to the moisture sensor.
Then I would debug it again, with simple flashing leds to see where your software goes wrong.
morphle at ziggo dot nl for more questions like how to find a 4 cent arm chip. I would start at lcsc.com , use their sister company and eda tool to design the pcb only with lcsc.com parts and order it fully assembled. Then I would open source it so others can directly order assembled boards

I would avoid Arduino like the plaque, in essence its just a precanned overpriced bloated C library on an overpriced microcontroller. You always get better results writing from scratch. See 'is it complex or did we make it complicated', a lecture by Alan Kay at Quallcom on Vimeo or Youtube, on designing systems from scratch or buy vendor stuff: https://vimeo.com/82301919
> Irrational numbers can be defined but not 'realized' (or 'constructed') in the same way that the rationals can.

Once again, I'm not 100% sure what you're saying. If you have something that's of length 1, then you can easily construct the line with a ratio sqrt(2):1. Draw another line of length 1 (use compass and straightedge) at a 90 degree angle. Repeat 4 times until you have a square. Now draw the diagonal. You have successfully constructed the square root of 2 in your own setup.

There are numbers that cannot be constructed geometrically using only a compass and straightedge (e for example). However, again these are no less 'real'. Drawing lines is not the only measure of real. There are other methods. In computing, we often say a number is computable if you can define a function that, given any rational number can tell you if the number it represents is greater than or equal to the rational number. The square root of two and e and pi, etc are easily representable this way. There are some numbers that are not, and perhaps these can truly be said to not exist.

However, the field of computables is closed anyway, so it really doesn't matter if you don't want to believe the reals exist.
That's quite the sparse list of packages: https://github.com/lodosgroup/package-builds/tree/linux-amd6... They also don't seem to think this is going to catch on and thus haven't sharded the directory list as homebrew-core recently had to do: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/tree/master/Formul...

There are already SO MANY build-from-source specifications it is insaneo to start a new project without the ability to at least import from any one of them, especially since it seems this toy goes with the "shell script and good luck" approach https://github.com/lodosgroup/package-builds/blob/linux-amd6... (not even having the forethought to provide a download helper and/or turn on `curl -f` because the network is always reliable and servers never 503 amirite?)
People will stop deploying WAFs when the compliance standards are rewritten to not require them. They are prominent in lots of installations because the box ticking exercise of compliance frameworks, namely PCI or HIPAA, require a WAF-like component to reach compliance. It took long enough for them to be written in that now everyone knows they need one. It will be even longer for them to be phased out, and no one with risk assessors wants to be the first to remove them. Too much risk they say, regardless of how strenuously the tech component say they're unneeded.
The good news for you then is that English will get you pretty far in most countries. Most of Europe isn't so culturally different that it's impossible. Places like Australia (good weather) and NZ (medium weather, great activities), where I was born and grew up, are good options if you can get the visa (you probably can if you're a technologist).

So many European countries have high numbers of English speakers, some are better retirement targets than others. Certainly a lots of British people Retire to Spain, Portugal and Greece.
LLMs are few shots learners, that's why many people put examples into prompt, this is the next step.
A lot of the time they don’t need education, they need reminding to think. The request to write it down achieves that.
Just hope that it's more bulletproof than the windows are rockproof.
> Personally I don't care that it's about physical things. But I care that it's about doing things: understanding concepts intuitively, solving problems, being adept at thinking mathematically. The thing that is not useful is tedious definitions and tedious proofs.

That's great. Not everyone does. Thinking simply via formal systems is not inherently inferior to 'doing' something with it. Both have their uses. In particular, as I said, quantum mechanics would not be where it's at today if it weren't for many pre-quantum mathematicians pushing around symbols on a page.
Quantum Computing Explained: Defying All Logic and Speed Limits
Citizen future: Why we need a new story of self and society
> expecting them to support all variations of software in this landscape is unreasonable.

They don't support variations of software at all. They support the hardware. If the drivers work then the software just works. Software is built on APIs. Asahi does not need to support applications.

> always be at the mercy of Apple, who may break the support at any time

Same deal for any other hardware manufacturer. The x86 PC manufacturers are still using proprietary undocumented hardware components to this day, even the ones who you believe are "officially" supporting Linux. It only works because devs are reverse engineering devices without support from the manufacturers.

> but also running it on ARM, _and_ an alien hardware environment, presents even more challenges

ARM is a stable well supported platform for Linux, so the CPU is less of an issue for Asahi devs. Graphics hardware is somewhat "Alien" but is also stable now on Asahi.
Cirq and other QIS libraries can implement _repr_svg_ e.g. for nice quantum circuit diagrams from code:
https://github.com/quantumlib/Cirq/issues/2313

A Manim walkthrough that flies from top-down to low flyover with the wave states at each point in the circuit would be neat. Do classical circuit simulators simulate backwards, nonlinear flow of current?
I've only been in a Costco once, but I recall them using one queue multiple registers.
I mean, anybody is free to write how they like on their blog. I just don't find arguments like these convincing without realistic non-trivial examples.
Edit: There is a proposal to extend JavaScript with type annotations, which would allow ("a reasonably large subset") of TypeScript to run directly in the browser. Yay!

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-type-annotations
As a reward for installing ESM/Ubuntu Pro, that version of ffmpeg will break vlc:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ffmpeg/+bug/204274...

Manually upgrading the source .deb to the (ABI compatible) ffmpeg 4.4.4 and compiling gets all the security fixes and seems to work. It looks like backporting just the security fixes was done incorrectly in Ubuntu's ESM release.

My main concern with ESM/Ubuntu Pro is that patches don't get as much community scrutiny and help as other updates. In this case it's broken a fairly major piece of software on what's supposed to be a super-stable LTS release.
During the depths of COVID boredom, i beat my wife in the card game War in one round. (!)

the thrill of the last couple card flips were definitely fun, but after it wore off, the sadness of having beat lottery-like odds with no lottery-like payout to greet me set in.
We are still waiting on compliance standards to update their password change policies to reflect what most people have been saying for over a decade, that frequently changing passwords are a security risk..
Screw extension key to load-bearing plastic structures from the 3D printer
i think quantum computing will look like web development and ML, there will be Djangos and TensorFlow and LangChains and VC influencer shills and loads of junior data science roles filled by English graduates and there will not be an iota of computer science in sight
Those are exactly some of the things that augmenting the data with video would help to address, which was the point of the above suggestion.

Right now, police have data about where loud sounds generally come from, and video from fixed poles where crime happened in previous years. Both of these aren't great data points on their own.

The intersection of that data: [Video around locations where loud noises just happened] is probably much better than disjointed data points of [video of where crime happened in previous years] and [general locations of where loud sounds are happening].