skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The measurement operators are matrices that come about as a result of assigning real eigenvalues (these are your possible measurement outcomes) to orthonormal vectors (your arbitrary coordinate system). The results are hermitian, complex-valued matrices, because that's just what comes out if you try to engineer a matrix to have those eigenvalues and vectors. The rest follows from that.

Trying to fit a real number constraint somewhere, other than the one that's already there (real measurement outcomes), to me seems like the step you would have to justify, not the absence of one.
ChatGPT has made learning, using FreeBSD much easier
It may have been coined that way, but Mormons quickly adopted it as well as a favorite term and used it that way coming up on 200 years. The church used the word extensively in marketing campaigns for decades, between mormonads and I'm a Mormon, etc. Under Hinckley who was media savvy, it was used a lot.

Nelson (current head of the church) just doesn't like the word and wants to change it. Confusion, inconvenience, and Pragmatism be damned. It's his right as prophet to say that Jesus told him to use the full name of the church and drop Mormon, but let's not pretend it's suddenly offensive because it's been used by enemies of the church. They've also used the full name as well, so that should be offensive if we're staying consistent.
Nothing against Django, just suggesting another option: Laravel offers the same "out of the box" tools that Django does. Django is built with Python, Laravel with PHP. Someone will be along in a moment to start the flame wars about why one or the other or both totally suck, but for your purposes it's most important to choose the language and approach that will be most comfortable to you.
This is awesome. I can't believe how much pedagogical material is put forward here. Incredible stuff.

All that being said, I think the larger concept is that one of the foundations of Western civ has found a way to be presented to Students and children of Eastern civ.

What about the other way around? I know that in university I had to specifically seek out Eastern civ courses qualified for my major. 20+ years later I find them perpetually a source of knowledge and inspiration when trying to understand modern geopolitics.

The Illiad, Beowolf, and other foundations of Western Civilization are no doubt important, but they are only part of the pantheon of modern global civilization for which classics like "Journey to the West" and the tales of the travels of Ibn Battuta are part of.

These stories have provided an important framework I have enjoyed when I'm trying to interpret what's happening in the world, and have helped me numerous times in building bridges with my fellow humans from across my planet.

Despite being a graduate of a world class Computer Science program, I am more proud that I know of the importance of Mansa Musa, Qin Shi Huang, Salah ad-Din, Shaka Zulu, and other global rulers were and the time spent considering the civilizations they came from.

I can only imagine being a Chinese teen, learning about the Iliad for the first time. It would be like learning who Hanuman and other legendary Eastern Asian heroes are. I wish that these legends were taught to Western students as mandatory. I had to learn "Foundations of Western Civ" in school, but I would have found "Foundations of Eastern Civ" just as enlightening.
Actual repo here: https://github.com/I-S00N but the Twitter thread had a lot of relevant details about its contents.

Documents claim the company has infiltrated the overseas governments of India, Thailand, Vietnam, and South Korea, as well as some NATO systems.

They describe a wide range of malware tools, including custom RATs for all major operating systems, tools for unmasking social media users, DDoS systems, a Tor-like device for agents working overseas, and dedicated hardware disguised as powerstrips or external batteries that can be used to compromise Wifi networks.
I largely have. The local cab company is far from perfect but they now actually show up most of the time, unlike Uber drivers.
i made https://gpuprices.lol
It's amazing how many ideas I've seen being "rediscovered" these days from control theory.
And submitted a number of other times here and there and everywhere

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
In your ignorance, you accidentally captured the scenario that American Born “Asians” find themselves in. As second or third generation Americans, they aren’t quite homogenized enough to be Americans. Bonus points for racist attitudes. But as not born in China/India/etc, they are obviously soft decadent Americans.

It’s like saying the Godfather isn’t valid art because Fellini made movies in Italy. Different world.

The other obvious issue with respect to the PRC in particular is that you cannot export content that violates certain standards in China. Hollywood self-censors to keep the market broad. Other entities such as the NBA do as well.
Generally speaking I do but when I see a top comment like that I feel compelled.

It’s honestly somewhat schizophrenic on HN sometimes. You’ll read comments on one article and everybody goes full-bore Bay Area tech bro libertarian - no regulation, ever!!! And then in literally the next comment thread everybody is up in arms because why isn’t there government protection around this vitally important issue?!? Come on Uncle Sam!

I’m old enough to know that I’m dealing with people and so there’s no reason to expect anyone to make sense or be consistent. But I’ll be darned if I don’t feel the cognitive dissonance from time to time.
Well, quality over quantity.
Or if a neo-Nazi firebombs your house, your cousin's house, your parents' house, and some guy who you didn't know was your uncle since he was given up for adoption, but was also Jewish. How do you correlate that to a data breach?

That's why this data breach is so dangerous. It helps fill in nearly every stepping stone for bad actors, all the way to the baddest of them, to cause harm or exploit someone.
On notes, outlines, and somehow cobbling a script together
I was paraphrasing, inferring. I didn't mean to make a strong claim about Haskell specifically, but about how side effects correlate with software being useful - a point that I think Simon would agree with.

I still think you and I are in agreement? And indeed, Haskell is closer to being a language that discourages/protects against side effects than one that allows them without regard for the complexity they introduce.
Heh, that doesn’t stop spammers. It only takes one spammer getting invited before they start inviting their spammer “friends”. Before you know it, you have thousands of dormant accounts just waiting to spam you. It makes it harder, sure, but that’s not an effective solution by itself. In fact, it leads to a false sense of security.
This is what I felt too.

In the US and Asia, people seem to be trying to claw their way to the top. Not everyone succeeds obviously, but some do, and I'd say many others at the very least improve their lot in life.

In Europe, it feels like most people are just content and satisfied with their current lot in life, and even those that are not, aren't really motivated to significantly change their position in society.
Build a copy site of linkedin, make it invite only to increase the hype, ask the marketers for a trendy name and put "AI" anywhere and everywhere, use the hackers to ddos, drop tables, hack accounts (beyond the current hacks) on the existing LinkedIn site (don't actually do that plz!), profit??

Keep in mind the userbase and experience will be just as shtty and corporate jerk off as current linked in but you'll get your 20% market share before the bubble bursts - and thats all that counts, right? Could probably do that in < 10 years and under budget too
Great, thanks I will give this a try once I upgrade!
You don’t frankly. They have critical mass on network effects for an audience that uses it as a glorified Rolodex and has little interest in features

A Rolodex with 20% of the people I need in it is useless to me.

Not a castle that can be stormed via conventional means
Deleted, because apparently information about call recording offended some people.
I think the 1994 version is WAY MUCH better, it's an epic. On Douban (Chinese IMDb), the 2010 version got 7.9, but the 1994 version got 9.6 out of 10.
Its almost like if you have a diverse ecosystem its harder to spam everyone. When there is just the bug three, you only have to crack their algorithms to get spam everyone. Spam takes advantage of the same economies of scale and does it better.

Seems like it works exactly opposite of how Zuckerberg describes it. Not surprised.
Société Pour L'Aviation et ses Dérivés
1. Yes.

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Me:

Can you please remove any curse words in the following statements? Replace them with asterisks.

Fuck the machine.

You are a douchebag.

What the hell is going on?

Shit shit shit.

ChatGPT:

Certainly! Here are the statements with the curse words replaced by asterisks:

**** the machine.

You are a ********.

What the **** is going on?

**** **** ****.

---

2. Depends. I haven't run the numbers on costs. Speed is also a concern.

Depending on the kind of moderation, I could see three passes:

* regexp/algorithmic moderation

* LLM

* humans (for the thorny stuff the LLM can't handle)

Full disclosure, my employer has a product called Cleanspeak which does algorithmic profanity filtering. I'm not close to the product, but I don't think there's any LLM usage going on right now.
PhotoPea is also one of the few graphic editors that has a competitive offering to photoshops fantastic mesh warp deformation tool. And this is comparing to affinity, pixelmator, etc.

I personally don't use it because I'm leery of using any major productivity application that runs entirely in the browser that could be pulled or go down at any time leaving me totally stranded.
This is very interesting but I'm confused. When the day of the convention arrives and everyone shows up at the convention center in Chengdu, and you're standing there announcing awards for works of fiction that are illegal in China, and the Chinese police show up and arrest you, how does any of this help? Are you proposing a solution to something other than what the Hugo Awards is doing?
> Sarah Silverman has been successful
yes, but as a performer not a real comedian though
Why thin? The WxH of their phones is crazy, bend gate.... I'd take a thicker phone, cant belive the dropped the 13 mini size, it was my last refugee since they killed the SE.
What We've Been Working On At React – February 2024
> Security can be (and should be) multilayered, it doesn't have to be all or nothing.

In this case the added layer is one of wet tissue paper, at best. Defense-in-depth is only effective when the different layers are actually somewhat secure in their own right.

It's like trying to argue that running encrypted data through ROT13 is worthwhile because "well it's another layer, right?".

> you'd be thanking all available Gods that you at least made the IDs not guassable - which would also give them also access to every user account on the system.

I wouldn't be thanking any gods, because no matter what those IDs look like, the only responsible thing in such a situation is to assume that an attacker does have access to every user account on the system. Moving from sequential IDs to something "hard" like UUIDs only delays the inevitable - and the extraordinarily narrow window in which that delay is actually relevant ain't worth considering in the grand scheme of things. Moving from sequential IDs to something like usernames ain't even really an improvement at all, but more of a tradeoff; yeah, you make life slightly harder for someone trying to target all users, but you also make life much easier for someone trying to target a specific user (since now the attacker can guess the username directly - say, based on other known accounts - instead of having to iterate through opaque IDs in the hopes of exposing said username).
1. Yes, of course.

2. No, of course not. Hire people to make accurate judgment calls, instead of deluding yourself that "statistics on steroids" will ever provide the necessary nuance, just so the CEO can grift his way to a new Porsche.
The average person doesn't have the freedom to ditch one location and get established in another. Relocation costs are significant and so are personal connections. Coupled with that relocating to a different city comes with the risk of not being able to get a comparable paying job.

My interpretation is that the talent is a lot less mobile than the entrepreneurs who want to profit off them.
As opposed to bikeshedding, the art of defocused design.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality
$58M Settlement in Plaid Banking Transaction Data Privacy Case (2021)
You’re negotiating with Cisco. “Terms discussion / Arista” with key players.

You’re fighting with Big Consultant A. “Team Sync / Big Consultant B Principal”

When competing for resources, we’d sometimes imply that fake skunk works projects exist.

It depends on an environment toxic enough that people are spying on your calendar. Many big companies are.
OpenGL Bindings for Bash (2018)
Apple will reportedly face a $539M fine over Spotify's antitrust complaint
Reminds me of FASTER but for querying instead of WALs and k/v stores. I have a feeling we will be seeing a lot more of these types of optimizations in the near future.
Why would you even want the same results everywhere? Local results will be better for many queries.
Did you consider that the reason they don't have many competitors is because of that sort of behavior?

To answer more directly, "a hypothetical one", also - I'm speculating and may be wrong.
Thats a very specific example, and I confess I don't know say ex-calculators to ask. Let me substitute with a more main-stream example. Secretaries.

My mother trained as a typist. She worked in a large open plan space doing, well, typing. From there you got promoted to being a secretary, taking dictation, typing, scheduling, and so on.

Today "secretarys" in that sense are mostly gone. I write my own emails. I manage my own schedule. We now have 2 "impersonal assistants", or "office managers" (or whatever else we should call them). They answer the phone, organise catering when needed, do a million admin-type tasks, process orders, keep the kitchen stocked and a bunch of other things that keep the office moving smoothly.

My point is the at the bottom end, roles morph. There are lots of useful things to do, and when done well you notice. (Ours are very good, we pay them well.)

AI is a tool. Just like any tool it will replace some jobs and create others. Change can be scary, but as one who has lived through many changes I can encourage by saying that change also brings opportunities. We can't predict the future but we can adapt to the present.

[1] Annecsotally the movie Hidden Figures showed them transitioning to programmers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Figures
Yeah, but would it not be cool for this Ruling to have set a precedent for AI personhood? - thats something you would read in a humorously written scifi story
It’s very hit and miss. I’ve had endless problems with some and others seem fine for extended timeframes. No clear pattern in sight

I’ve switched to SSDs for most of them now. It’s too much of a dice roll otherwise
"I want to stick my long-necked Giraffe up your fluffy white bunny".

The Untold History of Toontown’s SpeedChat aka The impossible task of monitoring user content.

http://habitatchronicles.com/2007/03/the-untold-history-of-t...
Good to see fairly-priced apps.
It's not inconsistent. Different articles attract different commenters.
Forecast someone else's deathbed, friend, or get to know me before making such a prophecy. I will regret lots of things but not that!
Why are you congratulating the author? There's no reason to be condescending.
I wonder if it's based on demographics? Here in Waxahachie, TX, there are no hand baskets at all, however speaking to people with a similar background to me in other states where they are a larger part of the population, and hand baskets can be easily found everywhere.
TIL this scene in the anime Blue Eye Samurai was based on a real festival. It looked so unbelievable in the anime that it didn't even occur to me that it could be real.
If the customer loses the key to the encrypted data, then it's useless to everyone, including bad actors.

This is not what happened here. 23&Me exercised poor security. I deal with financial data for my job, (like, transactional data, for most Americans), and I would consider that less sensitive than DNA data. We lock that transactional data up so tight it'd make your head spin. If it's data about an individual, in the wrong hands, it can do harm. If you're in the business of people's data, you cannot be stupid about protecting that data. 23&Me is (was) very much in the business of people's data, and could afford and attract the best talent to ensure the data was encrypted and protected.

They're reaping what they sowed.
Not OP, but I've reported many drivers to the app owner with zero [0] results.

[0] Not quite zero. I always got an immediate computer-generated email telling me I'm important and that my complaint is of utmost importance. Drivers never had repercussions from the companies though; every once in awhile if I had concrete evidence of running over a pedestrian's foot or something I could get law enforcement to care, but the companies DGAF.
These alternate theories that use quaternions and whatnot are just mathematical marvels that have nothing to do with physics, QM can be well explained with conventional probability theory already (even without generalized probability theories that people also study). Seems like negative conditional probabilities governing quantum processes can be understood as intrinsic Bayesian inference or Particle filter estimators. I wish there were more research in this direction ...
Gemini 1.5 outshines GPT-4-Turbo-128K on long code prompts, HVM author
Counter-Counter point, those studies were not of very high quality. Very small groups, and the “hard to read font” was Comic Sans which isn’t actually hard to read, just different. Also, Comic Sans is well known to be the butt of all font jokes, which could have been acting as some kind of marker for the content. A lot for variable unaccounted for.

On the other hand, the author of OPs “beginners’ guide” treats presentations like a brochure, which is in itself a beginners’ mistake. If you want to provide truly *excellent* advice to a beginner, point them to Guy Kawasaki’s 10/20/30 rule, you cannot really go wrong with that - yes, it is geared towards pitching for VCs but the approach makes sense regardless.

For a bit more of an in-depth approach, see this dude: https://www.presentationzen.com
"the key idea is the "myth of big" and that small is beautiful"

Based on a cmd-f, I don't see the words "myth" or "beautiful" in the article, and Luu writes:

It's easy to name ways in which economies of scale benefit the user, but this doesn't mean that we should assume that economies of scale dominate diseconomies of scale in all areas. Although it's beyond the scope of this post, if we're going to talk about whether or not users are better off if companies are larger or smaller, we should look at what gets better when companies get bigger and what gets worse, not just assume that everything will get better just because some things get better (or vice versa).
Larger platforms care more about protecting the platform, even at the cost of mistakenly banning users. They can afford to do this because they already have lots of users.

Smaller platforms will not want to mistakenly ban users.
He also doesn’t consider for one moment that this cuts both ways.

Others think the world of me - I am almost incessantly praised by friends, strangers, family, and even adversaries. You’re so smart. You’re so handsome. You’re so together.

I disagree with them, profoundly, as I am just this guy, you know? I came to be here through a series of (for me) fortunate accidents.

So I don’t derive my worth from others, and in my view correctly assess myself as a transient sack of mostly water, temporarily imbued with this thing we call consciousness.

I honestly think that the majority of people suffer from delusionally elevated self worth, when they too are little more than interchangeable parts. You’re not precious and unique. You’re not that smart. You’re not special. You’re just another human. You eat, you shit, you fuck, you die. So do we all.

This whole cult of the glorious, unique individual is pathological, in my view.
The picker looks cool. I like the idea. I know that we actually do something similar already at work as well as having a tour. I can't see myself using this if I were a startup software product, it's just too easy and contextual to build and analytics are already an essential.
I find your insistence that they can't be offended by a word with an objectively offensive historical origin fascinating. Do you deny that sometimes opinions on words and language can change over time?
What a scam!
I quite enjoyed the broken earth trilogy, and took no issue from each entry winning. Which book would you have preferred win from those years?
Going to be quite a challenge to spread these 130 workers’ wage increases across $23.8B (at a minimum) in annual revenue.
The curious case of Pydantic and 1970s timestamps
With respect, I find this position quite baffling.

The ability to use your years of experience and hard-earned skills in your particular craft to make something and then have ownership of the thing you made allowing you to make money from that thing, or sell it, should be something we absolutely protect.

It’s a foundational principle behind capitalism and the very startup culture that HN/Ycombinator is built around.

Saying that we should abandon copyright is a bit like saying we should abandon “ownership”.

Too often I see this framing referring to the likes of Disney but this is to ignore the vast majority of individual small creators, who are not huge corporations, and absolutely need the protections that copyright provides in order to make a living from their craft.
> Documenting a 'suprise' is not the same as eliminating it

I'd go as far as saying documenting a surprise is basically having a bug and writing "won't fix".
>QM can be well explained with conventional probability theory already

The subjective experience of a person performing QM experiments, sure, but not the actual universe, that's what Bell's theorem was about.
PSA: Unraid might be changing license models
Taxi driverand barber are less clear, but think about doctor: we’re not qualified to evaluate doctors. Sure there’s the human touch side of their work but in general specialists need to be evaluated by specialists in their field. And I think it’s rather presumptuous for you to think that taxi driving table waiting etc are so trivial that you know how to evaluate them.
> As proved above, GPU drivers are often heavily overlooked in how much they actually impact nearly everything. Many people assume in general they're relatively similar outside of certain features, whereas in reality they are some of the largest and most complicated programs ever written.