skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I came to see if this had been posted given I hadn't seen it. Surprised this didn't get more attention, it's a very impressive result – and not just because it involved arrays of entangled qubits flying around each other. I watched Mikhail Lukin present this result at a Berkeley EECS seminar earlier this week. It's very compelling work and, as someone with one foot in the QIS field, I've been thinking about it quite a bit. A few observations for any future finders of this post:

- Neutral atoms, while always compelling, are now strongly in the running for state-of-the-art qubit technologies and may well have a durable superiority to other qubits (e.g. ion traps, superconducting, spin qubits, photonics). The photonics used for quantum control appear to have very powerful advantages over physical wire-based control common to spin and superconducting qubits in particular.

- The past few years, since 2019 really, have been incredibly exciting on the experimental side of the field (not that the TCS hasn't been exciting too – quite the contrary). Still, for me, this result and its timing is among the most surprising in this 4 year period. I don't I"m unique in this and I suspect that if you'd asked most folks in the QIS field on December 5th when we'd have a FTQC that can do something a classical HPC can't – even if not practical – they likely would have said somewhere between 5-15 years. Now, the path towards truly practical FTQC is clear and, with the accelerating progress, we'll likely see meaningful scientific advances due to QC technologies by the end of this decade, likely earlier.

- QC is, in many ways, a trailing technology to AI and quite exotic. While the use cases are different, the fact of the matter is that the advances in AI methods, and LLMs in particular, threaten to eat QC's lunch in many areas of scientific computing. Further, there are properties of quantum information that challenge many potential applications (e.g. no cloning theorem). In my mind, this is the greatest risk to QC technologies not gaining wide spread adoption across many STEM over the next 20 years.

- Even though QC may be practically challenged relative to AI, it is nonetheless (and likely will be for many decades to come) an incredibly verdant technological foundation for algorithm development, condensed matter physics, cosmology, etc. The quantum information paradigm is very different than the classical information; those differences provide a powerful lens to help us understand our world and universe.

Altogether, the future looks bright.
Thin, frenzel-free VR goggles in the future then?
One reason is in QML/WPF you use data binding instead of directly setting widget state like in classic Qt.

Data binding allows the runtime to batch and consolidate changes.

Classic Qt also encourages a bad state handling programming style which is hard to optimize. Data binding fixes that and moves more of the responsibility to the framework.
Unless you're suggesting the government hire literal nannies to follow every construction worker around and forcibly make them wear the correct PPE, it seems like this action IS the government doing its duty to protect the workers - largely from themselves it seems.
> since for whatever reason Arm64/Apple hasn't taken over yet.

A server running MacOS?
The first AI model based on Yann LeCun's vision for more human-like AI
You're missing the point though. The users are already on the website, and on twitter, YouTube and tiktok. Those platforms have tools to control the conversation already.

Federated Social Media is a technical solution to a people problem.

> sometimes these responses feel like talking with the MS exec who said that internet search was not needed because people had bookmarks

And likewise, these responses feel like talking with a door to door salesperson. If your only argument is that you can have a worse experience, but be in control of it, you're not going to win the argument.
Visual and spatial feedback aren't terribly difficult, though - we already have video-game training gyms, from Atari to GTA. If multimodality and feedback are the main barriers to full AGI, I expect we'll be there soon.
The ultimate impact of using Dashworks search AI will not only be hours saved from frustrated searching but also better decision-making, stronger collaboration, and more fulfilling work days.
This sounds like TDD but with the humans writing the test and the machine writing the code.
Unless you're living on a planet orbiting that star...
I think you and the previous commenter have very different opinions on what "all" means. Connecting to parents and grandparents by knowing what art they like is one thing, but, for example, I have hundreds of photos of random bills and documents that I need to remember for later. None of my descendents would ever want to read through that unless they were investigating my life like in a movie.
Encapsulation vs decomposition is a recursive problem. It can happen at any complexity scale. The trick, I think, is to find the level between the two that works for your project. Can you decompose your project into small, independent, testable units? Can a single unit be tested in isolation from all the others? One person will tell you that's a fragmented system while another person will tell you that all your software components are nicely encapsulated. It depends on your perspective and your needs.

P.S. in any case, a robust interface specification is a prerequisite to good engineering.
> After NASA had received criticism over the nudity on the Pioneer plaque

Let's just think about this for a moment.

Some people were sufficiently prudish and/or puritanical to make a formal objection about an illustration of our species -- an illustration being sent into the Cosmos -- into the Cosmos where there are _no other humans_ -- an illustration, I say, that was destined to leave our Solar System and likely never be seen again.

And 50 years later, in 2023, I am sure that there has been little improvement in the public discourse of the society that somehow produced these great NASA missions. In fact, the social discourse is _worse_ today.

> "According to astronomer Frank Drake, there were many negative reactions to the plaque because the human beings were displayed naked.[19] When images of the final design were published in American newspapers, one newspaper published the image with the man's genitalia removed and another newspaper published the image with both the man's genitalia and the woman's nipples removed.[20] In one letter to a newspaper, a person angrily wrote that they felt that the nudity of the images made the images obscene.

> "Sagan said that the decision to not include the vertical line on the woman's genitalia (pudendal cleft) which would be caused by the intersection of the labia majora was due to two reasons. First, Greek sculptures of women do not include that line. Second, Sagan believed that a design with such an explicit depiction of a woman's genitalia would be considered too obscene to be approved by NASA.[10] According to the memoirs of Robert S. Kraemer, however, the original design that was presented to NASA headquarters included a line which indicated the woman's vulva,[11] and this line was erased as a condition for approval of the design by John Naugle, former head of NASA's Office of Space Science and the agency's former chief scientist.

If humans ever establish a colony beyond Earth, it will not be like Star Trek. It will be Puritans in Space.
> the Romans calculated with the abacus and only used the Roman numerals to record the results.

Isn't that the etymology of calculate? To reckon with pebbles on a counting-board?

This behaviour shouldn't be surprising to us: after all, we ourselves let our calculations be done in binary, and only use decimal numerals to record the results.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/calculus
Basically, you run a server on your Mac that scans your music collection and "broadcasts" it to the network (LAN or WAN) via either the venerable UPnP/DLNA[1] family of technologies or the newish Subsonic API[2]. Of course, there are others, like DAAP or AURA, etc..

From there, you need to point a compatible player to said server to play your music on any supported device.

If you want to listen to your music on the go, pairing a Subsonic-compatible server on your Mac and a Subsonic-compatible app on your iPhone is probably the way to go. On the server side, I have only used the original Subsonic[3], which was good, but Navidrome[4] seems to be OK. But be aware that the whole "scene" is super messy and fragmented, with the usual abandoned forks of open source alternatives of everything.

Note that this means opening your local network, which comes with its own complexity.

This r/selfhosted thread[5] should give you an idea.

My use case is slightly different. I only care about streaming to my Denon CEOL mini system, which only supports UPnP/DLNA, so my current setup is:

- All my music is stored on a 2011 Mac Mini,

- I use Kazoo Server[6] (not perfect but reliable) to stream it to my audio system,

- which I control via the HEOS app provided by Denon.

Whatever stack you choose, make sure your files are tagged correctly and consistently.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLNA

[2] http://www.subsonic.org/pages/api.jsp

[3] http://www.subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp

[4] https://www.navidrome.org/

[5] https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/pz9dpb/lets_mak...

[6] https://docs.linn.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Kazoo_Server_setup_Ma...
I love the concept of goaccess but last time I checked it still didn't have the ability in the web ui to present statistics from a subset of dates relative to the entire captured set.
Desperate lame-duck government trying to distract voters from 13 years of abject failure.
what might be better?

As the article points out, there is a definite need for something that can look beyond statistically parroting the rules of language.

Rain Man could speak English but he obviously had severe mental and emotional impairment as evidenced by the simple fact he thought everything cost about a hundred dollars.

We wouldn't allow Rain Man to legally drive a car. So why are we allowing AI with similar mental incapacity?
Please don't spread lies.

> They are the other end where the traffic is decrypted

Only for certain types of data, with certain settings. That does not include the keychain.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102651

> And yes they can see your stuff. We know this because law enforcement gets access to it all the time.

What law enforcement typically gets access to is iCloud Backups, which is not end-to-end encrypted by default (but can be) and is not a mandatory feature. iCloud backups do not contain your keychain.

> The keychain is just another keystore

Nobody has said anything else? But Apple does not hold the key to decrypt it.
You shouldn’t call it a hyperbole. Sometimes you have to point things out for what they are rather continue to pretend that it is normal.
But maybe we can only build this new probe that will outpace it with information with gathered from the original probe.
Too snarky to be insightful. Can you solve it better
Sounds like Battlestar Galactica without the Cylons.

Perhaps the story could have Cylons in it, but here they're allies with the humans, but after the supernova, some religious leader convinces most of them that their god wants them to destroy the humans.
haha this is absolutely hilarious, couldn't have predicted this
Compressed and abstracted knowledge is intelligence. Your intelligence is mostly formed by the quality training material, not just conditioned on it. Most of your ability to reason about the world and predict things, most of the abstractions you use, most of your emotional responses, etc. A simple concept of acceleration took the work of ancient philosophers to figure out. Even stateful counting in a positional system. Even the concept of a "concept" is not yours. Only a tiny bit of your reasoning depends on your actual biological capabilities and the work you did personally, as opposed to the humanity as a superorganism.
I'm getting somewhat noticeable (once every few weeks) phishing attempts on Telegram and Instagram, less frequent on WhatsApp. On Instagram they sit unobtrusively in "requests" and disappear after some time, in Telegram and Whatsapp they do pop up and have to be deleted.
I can understand not trusting FB, but you have to give out the ID you want people to be able to find you by. What you give to Signal is probably less than what's in the phone directory.

> I wish others services just did the same.

Signal did, then someone convinced them that the risk of accidentally sending an SMS which you thought were an encrypted message, was bad enough to break messaging integration on Android.

I wonder if whoever convinced them of that maybe didn't want it to be so convenient to use.
Launching more Voyagers is like tossing heavy metal disks into a random deep-sea part of the ocean and hoping one of them lands next to a benthic creature that can miraculously appreciate its significance. Not only is God more plausible, so is the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
But you see that indentation is always written in the source plaintext, together with the braces, right?
Ask HN: AI/ML papers to catch up with current state of AI?
I used to be into ML back in the R-CNN, GAN, ResNet era and would read papers/blogs.

Seems like ML is taking off recently and I want to get back into it! So far on my list I have attention is all you need, qlora, llama’s and q learning. Suggestions?
I recently saw a (pre-recorded) demo of M365 copilot. Here's some stuff it covered that the article doesn't attempt:

* Asking Power BI to analyze some employee data and generate a Power BI report page

* Asking Power BI to re-theme the page to match a different Power BI report

* Asking Power BI to refine some of the page content to answer a particular question about retention

* Asking Word to generate draft minutes from a Teams meeting transcript

* Asking Power Apps to create an app and iteratively build out features

* Asking Power Automate to map out an automation flow

This article seems to be focused on a very narrow understanding of Copilot's capabilities. I'm waiting to see if the above use cases are fact or fiction.
AI-equipped cars with a real sense of feeling in their tires. It’ll be like the sensation of touch for them. Everything they run over, they will feel. Make them learn that animals feel gross to touch. Make them feel remorse for running over a human. Boom! Self-driving safety solved!
No thanks on the gmail, it's not really email.
Faster, Better, Cheaper: A maligned era of NASA's history (2019)
An assessment and analysis of the widely criticised 1990s Nasa policy of "faster, better, cheaper" space missions, questioning the general perception, discussing risks and rewards (including cost-overrun, cancellation, and overloaded-missions risks), as well as different conclusions depending on where and when data are sliced.

I'd dug this article up answering a question earlier today in the Voyager 1 mission discussion.

Nasa's own OIG report from 2001 is also available for comparison: <https://oig.nasa.gov/audits/reports/FY01/ig-01-009.pdf> (PDF).
Hey @kosolam! Absolutely, we're excited about these developments too. It’s a team effort here at Ubicloud, and we're fortunate to have experienced folks from Heroku PG, Citusdata, Crunchy Bridge, and Azure CosmosDB for PostgreSQL. We all have firsthand experience with the challenges of self-hosting PG, and we're committed to making these features as user-friendly and robust as possible. Looking forward to bringing you HA and smooth upgrades soon!
Unity is more widely used for mobile games.
Hey, Ubicloud employee here. We are planning to decouple storage and compute, so that you can independently change either. Currently they are coupled because we are trying to ensure all our hardware is used in balance. But we are making some changes to handle imbalances more gracefully, which will enable us to decouple compute and storage.
This! So much!

I am developing a clojure framework for making 2d games and it is the most fun I've had coding so far!

Check it out:
https://github.com/damn/gdl

I am developing an action RPG with it (pausable):
https://github.com/damn/Cyber-Dungeon-Quest
Added a check for the cameras before prompting the canvas, it looks like that is changing things? Let me know
I have to plug one of my favorite workflow automation tools that is a namesake and was fairly recently developed: https://pipedream.com/

Would definitely give it a try if you’re looking to automate Yahoo Pipes style.

I have no affiliation to them, just a happy user
The popular shocking interpretation of the Milgram experiment is that most people will follow orders and obey authority, even in service of an ideology they don't believe in. For instance, if given an order by Nazis to kill Jews, most people would follow the order and do so. There's a Nazi in all of us, that's the shocking result that made the experiment famous.

It's BS though. The Milgram experiments actually showed that the explanations given with the orders mattered a lot. When the orders were given by people dressed like scientists and explained with "this is necessary for science", compliance rates were highest. When these factors were changed, compliance rates dropped. Compliance rates also dropped when the experiment was performed outside of college towns. What it actually demonstrated is that people do check orders against their pre-existing ideological commitments, and that people who trust scientists and believe in the necessity of science may be willing to commit atrocities in the service of science. Those same people, if given orders by Nazis, would refuse and walk away from the situation (presuming they could do so without being shot.).

In other words, the shocking result is wrong and the real result is mundane. People may commit atrocities for causes they believe in, when given those orders by people they trust.
Well there'd be a transition phase and an honoring of existing contracts to some extent but the way to do it would be to slow roll the release of customer ISA updates or stop providing ISA updates altogether, e.g. anything past ARMv9.4-A would be in-house only. After 4-5 years competition would be struggling.
At Unity, Joachim Ante always stayed very close to the underlying engine and its tech, rather than the broader market strategies and moves. Of course, every situation is unique and difficult to compare 1:1.
haha originally was just a stupid teenager that liked CV and learned about lin alg for the first time. Still stupid 20 something, but now I'm just looking for ways to put it into good use
> the first thing any Ruby library author does is to monkeypatch everyone else's objects

Serious Ruby libraries don't do that very often
I would summarize it as follows: Nvidia has taken the bottom-up approach. From (parallel processing) hardware to their development environment developed upon it. The competition (Intel) appears to be attempting to break into the market using a top-down approach. Hoping to get some share of the inference market (using their sequential processing hardware). Basically leveraging on the innovations happening at Nvidia. CUDA will always remain one step ahead.
How I can send it in elixir mailing list. Please let me know as I have no idea about this.
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They're great demos, but the tasks are not really at the scale of larger projects and codebases.
> If humans ever establish a colony beyond Earth

s/humans/USAians/

I'm pretty sure many parts of the globe are fine with full commando.

Most French, any average Australian, Brazil, etc. very likely sent in zero (0) letters of outrage.
“release it fast and patch it later” You are testing just different things eg is this product viable in the market? QA has its place but you should not cram it into every corner of software development and also the same time, not everything should be "release fast and break things".
... and probably not in HR
Just put it on a network share (eg NFS or SMB) on a home NAS; this way it will work with everything without having to mess with DLNA (which, from what I understand, is pretty much useless from a technical standpoint now; it was created to handle transcoding, which isn’t really needed anymore).
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>Apple kept conformance with SMS/MMS standards from the beginning and added a secure layer on top.

iMessage is not a "secure layer on top", it's a totally separate proprietary protocol and it requires an Apple account to work. It just happens to run in the same app as SMS/MMS messages, which has its pros and cons.
You know how it works. The same busybodies who are putting out this useless noise releases are the ones who squandered Intel's lead, and now are patting themselves on the back for figuring out that with this they'll again be on top for sure!

There was a post on HN a few months ago about how Nvidia's CEO still has meetings with engineers in the trenches. Contrast that with what we know of Intel, which is not much good, and a lot of bad. (That they are notoriously not-well-paying, because they were riding on their name recognition.)
I’ll add to existing comments that it might also be interesting to look through conversations re Smalltalk. Ruby was influenced by Smalltalk, so interesting to note in Smalltalk it is impossible to have private methods.

https://stackoverflow.com/q/7399340

http://computer-programming-forum.com/3-smalltalk/5139b6267b...

…etc
How is it better than Cookie Auto-Delete? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/cookie-autode...
Current measurements of neutrinos demonstrate them traveling nearly exactly the speed of light.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measurements_of_neutrino_speed
That is pretty cool, it almost sounds like what drives ASM programmers, but even lower level than that.

It doesn't seem to be 100% computerized yet, people still talk about doing real experiments where they expect to find something new about what they're studying, as opposed to just finding their own mistakes or reading about other people's discoveries.

I'd imagine that's probably part of the appeal for some people, in tech so many of us almost never discover anything new that would be of interest outside that one specific project, except an occasional framework bug.
Same, those are absolutely 3D renders.
Appreciate that, it would probably help tie things together better in the instructions
I'm your typical Whatsapp on iPhone user from Europe who's here just for a good drama, but blimey if this guy's rhetoric isn't sooo repetitive and cringey now.

Like, my dude, it was an impressive technical hack, and you really pulled the tiger's whiskers when you went to prod with it, but dressing it in politics and greater mission and "freedom" with bald eagles and shit? Meh.
Calculation before we went digital [pdf]
I’ve never worked at a place that had to prioritize at all. Every company I’ve worked for was growing fast enough that hiring more people was a bottleneck and we would hire anyone who was qualified, at least for developer positions.

We do have quite a few women working for us in significant positions but female applicants for developer positions specifically are still extremely rare.
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Chess Probe Finds U.S. Grandmaster Cheated–Just Not Against Magnus Carlsen
Is it possible to use Dhall to generate YAML and side-step this issue?
People will get fired due to hallucinated bad reports, won't they.
Turing Complete and non-determinstic languages are a bad fit for configuration.