skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. Your post is much more informative and clearer than the article. And it's only three sentences.
There are lots of such videos. But the strength of that data is not that strong. Haha! :)

If you have something like, right-angle change of direction, or high-res details it gets better.
Nobody seems to have commented on the surveillance aspect?

I would assume contactless payments are easier to surveil compared to paper tickets, similar to cash vs credit card payments.
> a trend known as Newtro – and seen in the revival of vinyl records, cassettes, fanzines, 8-bit video games and old-fashioned mobile phones.

That's funny; so I'm finally a "Newtro" with alsmost sixty ;-)

I never had any use for smartphones. I need a decent screen with a decent keyboard to make decent work. My old laptop runs longer on battery than most smartphones, and my old Nokia offers internet access via USB if needed.
> The solution is not to ship complicated and bug infested build systems, it is to fix the dependency problem in the same way any other language has done so far

With maybe one (or two) exceptions, those other languages' build systems are incredibly susceptible to supply-chain attacks.

And, to be honest, unless you have a burning need for autoconf's main value proposition (cross-compiling for a different target system), plain gnu-make and storing your dependencies in your repo is probably a lot safer than many other build systems.

I've built software with dependencies on libpng, libcurl, libsodium and more and was confident in the security of the resulting binary. I've also done one or two node.js projects, and had much less confidence that it won't be supply-chain attacked on the next build.
Unfortunately make's behaviour around dynamically setting variables/environment variables is insane and quickly leads you towards hairy eval commands with extremely tricky quoting & escaping.
Exactly.

And how can we preserve democracy in the age of unbridled capitalism and AI, causing deepfakes and company propaganda to undermine public discourse
They pioneered robot camel jockeys to replace the original jockeys. Not surprising that they would be into this. Having money, an interest in speed, and a blank desert canvas helps.

At least no small children had to be broken on the road to this endeavor. (You may or may not want to look into the camel race jockey history)
and results are expected in 2029, absent any meaningful interim analyses.
https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/merck-moderna-post-pha...
Ideally this should lead to an uptick in recycling and switch the rest to incineration (and electricity generation).
The approximations don't just introduce small errors. To simulate quantum systems classically, you need to make drastic assumptions that fundamentally change the nature of the system.

This is very different from, say, an approximation that adds in a small amount of noise that you can estimate. The approximations in simulating quantum systems classically can radically change the behavior of the system, in ways that you might not understand or be able to easily estimate.
That's true to an extent for online UPSes, which converts from AC to DC and then from DC to AC, completely isolating the input current from the output, but these are the most expensive types of UPSes.

Your run-of-the-mill UPS is likely to either be offline, which forwards the input to the output, or line-interactive, which can compensate to an extent under or over voltage conditions with a regulator. If the input current characteristics are outside allowable tolerances, they can't compensate and must switch the load to battery to continue powering it.
>Other advanced tactics: Thermal manipulation, covert surface vibrations, LEDs, ultrasonic transmissions, radio signals,

There's a pretty good video of a guy who drove a GPIO pin off of a microcontroller and successfully sent data via LoRA without a dedicated radio chipset or antenna.

https://github.com/cnlohr/lolra
Good point, but that is OK. The end user still gets the advantage (so does the TfL, but that doesn't concern the user).

I feel that so many tech companies consider their end-users to be little more than cattle herds (the real product is the company), and they simply don't think about stuff like this.

This kind of usability is a basic, fundamental mindset, that, in my opinion, seems to be severely lacking, in today's tech industry.
Ultimately Google will use this tech to push more ads. That's what they reduced themselves to. Just an ad business.
Security costs money to constantly keep up, requires teams to be allocated 24/7 to test for vulnerabilities, keep track of malware out in the open, etc.

It costs money to make things secure, moreover its one of the major features which enterprise is actually willing to pay good money for, or else they’ll go for lower tier.

I get how it sucks that not everyone gets great quality security for no or low cost.

But this is a world where most people do not respect software developers work, where most b2c consumers are happy to pay $10+ per DAY on a cup of coffee but not willing to spend $10 on a software PER MONTH, that they use everyday that improves their life and work.

Idk, it takes effort for people to keep apps uptodate with OS upgrades, maintain libraries, fix bugs, fix security issues, keep battery usage low, improve performance, support a 110 different screen sizes with different android and ios version, desktop apps, web browser, whatnot.

Yes you need to pay for work, if it was cheap to have great security, some other software would have already started winning all enterprise deals.

It takes money to keep software running, microsoft would have been happy to get the PR boost from offering great security for free for everyone, they must have figured people wont upgrade to higher offerings if they do that. They already give a lot of great tools away for free.

Someone needs to pay for the work, its not like the software is that expensive, its nominal in most cases, especially if you look for good deals.

Im saying it as someone who hates microsoft uses linux and stays away from any major microsoft product except github.
> However, even after 10+ years of professional dev work during which I've regularly crossed paths with Makefiles, they still scare me, and I've still never written one from scratch myself.

Make has its warts (look at when and what it was designed for, after all!), but I've found it much easier to write Makefiles than YAML-for-github-runners.

If you're used to YAML, you get pleasantly surprised when using Make, which does execution of dependency trees in a more readable manner than most CI/CD YAML files do.
Makefile or Vagrantfile. Ruby's syntax is perfect for custom DSLs.
Hilarious. Even the connection between AI and Quantum computing is deeply opaque.

When computers first began development during WW2, they were a response to immediate demands for particular functionality from many technical areas. Quantum computing seems to go the exact opposite route, first of building up an (admittedly very interesting) technology and then later figuring out if there actually is anything useful to do with it. The connection to AI is particularly interesting, because it seems to be built entirely out of a combination of two buzzwords.
I see many people speculating in the comments about whether or not this may be true. Amy Chua wrote a book (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_Empire) which makes exactly that point and presents compelling evidence going back as far as the Mongol empire.
The part about needing to be fluent in programming language research in order to understand the SAIL specification is a great point. I think it speaks to the origins of RISC-V being by and for computer science or computer engineering academics and not for practicing digital designers for commercial systems.
What does it mean to “simulate” a quantum system and why is that useful
Anecdotal evidence of course but I’ve had coworkers who get masters degrees because that somehow helps their chances of getting permanent status or something similar.

Is it possible that it’s more and more competitive as there are more people who are trying to immigrate?
In case you're thinking of using this in production (please don't)

Keep in mind that there's a general limitation in most sleep implementation across languages.

sleep(x) typically waits for _at least x amount of time/second/millisecond

Therefore, there's a possibility that sleep(2) finishes after sleep(1) because the scheduler is lazy. The risk gets higher the closer the wait interval is to the scheduling rate (timer resolution).

So if you try running this with small amount of time, maybe in microseconds or nanoseconds, and you got items in the wrong order, this would be one explanation.
> individuals are much better at avoiding problems before they occur

I think this is only really true for themselves, but even then short-term vs long-term biases affect decision making. Even when people know what the overall best choice is, they often just make the choice that makes them happy in the now. They will also tend to discount ill effects to others if those people are unseen and unheard.

> usually dependent on people being informed enough to know what they opting into

This is not a small qualifier.
problem is that contactless payments are not anonymous...
> When you see someone advertise a tool to put in your containers to do something...

The title claims "0 dependencies", not "0 runtime dependencies" nor "0 compile-time dependencies". In other words, the word dependencies - by itself - is encompassing both runtime and compile-time dependencies.

Think of reading the title at face-value - but as if someone else had written it, with no exposure to your project, its use-case, behaviour, etc. - before it was read.
> 1. Google isn't working well any more.

This is so true. It’s pain to search for anything undeterministic with nowadays. I usually find myself putting double quotes on every single word I’m interested in and Google still brings unrelated results.
> Another important point is that an UPS can produce huge surge currents, for example when switching from battery to utility.

It has not happened yet. If downstream UPS likes the source, it is not going to switch to battery, and battery charging will Not be happening because downstream UPS had it charged already long time ago.
Crazy cold.
What if the list is so large it takes more seconds to process than the highest value in the list?
Why did you quote

>not worsening

If you haven't got anything to say about it? Anyway, to reply to the rest of your critique, the scenario you describe (that happens often) only feels wrong because it implies that one party has an inability to retaliate (which isn't true).
That’s not what arbitrary means. The age is set as low as possible while still being reasonable as to not send kids to war. Maybe the distinction between the ages 16-17 and 17-18 seems “arbitrary” but there is a reason the age is 17 and not 71. Hence, not arbitrary.
> for example, only people with gmail accounts that are over 5 years old and who use them at least 3 times per week to eliminate fakers—-but keep this a secret

tbh this is just a bandage, its just going to get botted once people discover the pattern (a lot of premium bot farms do offer mature or hacked gmail accounts anyway) and its going to be worse for legitimate discovery
If you have a requirement for multiple, specific Python versions, why not just use pyenv?

https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv
> But this can literally just be done in a simple shell script as well.

Only if there's no dependencies. It's unusual that GP's type of usage has no dependencies.
The basic idea is that for a certain class of problems, you can have the quantum computer skip certain incorrect paths on the calculation by having their probability amplitudes cancel each other out.
You can get contactless PAYG prices without any identification in London by using an Oyster card. You can buy them from corner shops without ID, and top them up at the same places with cash.

I doubt this really affords you any extra anonymity though. Tube and rail stations are so heavily covered by CCTV, and the police have many times tracked peoples entire commutes and movement through CCTV only.
I think it's because it's the most obvious assumption you could make in this regard so it goes without saying :S
Are all those extremely useful applications in the room with us right now?
Then web of trust. Means SSO (as a way to link the review to the trust).

In order to prevent hacking trust the SSO again must ensure:

- unique human, or

- resource spend
What kind of projects do people have that need both i2c _and_ a powerful compute? What percentage of your projects are like that?

You can hook up bunch of sensors to a $5 esp32 and that thing uses much less power. If you need to do any heavy computing, you can offload it over WiFi to your homelab or the cloud.
That’s not the AGI’s state. That’s just some past information.
Anyone else find the "buy ticket" and "cancel" button text confusing? I had to take a second to work out which one was which. I'd try clear text like "buy ticket anyway" and "use contactless".
Mainly this, agreed. A place is a place because of how it is. Changing how it is makes it not that place anymore. Drastically opening access to the place will drastically change it and the people that live in the place often don’t want to change the place. They like the place how it is. That’s why they bought property in the place.

And then there’s construction. It takes a long time to build a thing in the place and not only will it change the place it will make the place much worse while long term construction happens. Nobody wants that.
>and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you'd better make it quantum mechanical

That is an absurd claim, if taken by itself. Most of nature relevant to us behaves classically. If you want to do simulations of a building or a car or an earthquake or the climate, modeling it as a quantum system would be absurd.
I think the problem with airlines is that a lot of internal information transfer is via fixed sized fields and often birth date is represented as 2 digits
Especially security holes that are intended.
Juniper included the back-doored EC-DRBG algorithm into their VPN products on the orders of the NSA, so this kind of behaviour is not without precedent.

Unless you're a very senior staff member, at the director level, you would not be privy to these kinds of orders. It would implemented without the knowledge of the vast majority of the staff.

Your ignorance of a backdoor is not evidence of its absence.
EPO: We and Microsoft Will Spy on Everything (No Physical Copies)
Why not list what some of those things are? Links are fine if you’re pressed for time.

I’m not being snarky; I haven’t read much about quantum computing and I am genuinely interested in practical applications.

As it is, your comment just reads as “you people are a bunch of idiots, you’re all wrong and crazy, and I’ll insult you repeatedly but not offer one single corrective argument”. It would be insane for anyone to change their mind based on your comment, you’ll only get people to double down.
> If the input current characteristics are outside allowable tolerances

This is the key to this whole discussion. I guess it boils down to existing line-interactive designs, why they can't work with simulated sine as a source.
> Practically any language will do for running a set of tasks to compile a program.

Like? None of the mainstream languages have any sort of builtin for dependency resolution.
"... Carter himself later said that, while he had considered the object to be a UFO—on the grounds it was unexplained—his knowledge of physics had meant he had not believed himself to be witnessing an alien spacecraft."

Can you imagine that someone this clear-headed was ever the President of the United States?
School is not better prompting, it's actually the opposite! It's learning how to deal with poorly formed prompts!
That makes a lot of sense for application servers when one controls the stack and can implement something like exponential backoff, and services are expected to already be running.

However it is not realistic to make sure all library dependencies used behave properly for more lambda-like jobs where a library/app like "wait for" is very useful since it reduces the backoff parameters that ops needs to know about, and reduces unnecessary errors in logs.

Take GCP Cloud SQL Auth Proxy [1] for example which simplifies the details of securely connecting to a database without exposing long-term credentials to app code. Typically for the audience that uses the proxy, it is run as a sidecar container in Kubernetes Pod and has a non-deterministic startup time in the range of a few seconds. There is no "depends_on" facility like in Docker (at least when I had to use it). Your batch job could potentially always fail if the proxy cannot establish a connection to the database before your minimal database migration container starts up. Building the backoff inside the migration app makes it more opaque for ops teams. Having this "wait for" run in a startup script before the main app allow ops to tune its parameters, such as through environment variables, so that the job behaves appropriately under health probes [2] for higher level backoffs. All of which can be configured without recompiling the main app code, or embedding the functionality in the first place.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/connect-auth-prox...

[2] https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/con...
If you have baggage this often does not work, as there is not enough space in overhead bins.
Let's add some more people and do it in half the time.
And pushing the envelope, while paying close attention to identifying the pain points.
I'd say that we're duty-bound, not to knowingly release insecure software, or at least, put big red "cigarette warning" labels on the packages.

If the only way we can make cheap software, is to make insecure software, then maybe we shouldn't be selling cheap software.

It's a conundrum. If we don't sell cheap stuff, someone else will, and eat our lunch.

That's one reason that a regulated industry is sometimes the only solution (an unpopular stance -as evidenced by the almost instantaneous reaction to this comment).
Someone else did write it, and I didn't have any exposure to the project, use case, behaviour, etc, before I read it.
You can also setup “Express mode” in Apple Pay that works with TFL. You don’t have to unlock your phone/watch or press anything you just scan it and it works (like a physical card)

https://www.apple.com/uk/apple-pay/transport/
Oh I see maybe just “the ultra rich” without “of any race” - saying “white people” then “of any race” as the counter example implies non-white, still too much race emphasis (plus most of the ultra rich are white, which further confused it for me)
No, it's saying that I have general intelligence in part because I am able to reason about vague prompts
Pretty much this. If you don't want to pay Microsoft a subscription for extra security, your are free to build you infra from scratch using a 100% FOSS stack and do your own security over it including hiring dedicated security experts to keep on it 24/7. See how much that will cost you.
"I now just always tell people to just tap in with their phone."

This is all very well but what happens if you have no phone, or it's just been lost, or you left it at home? What happens if there's no credit and you thought there was?

And what happens if you've only cash and or you're a visitor who doesn't know the system and only wants a once-off one-way ticket? And why should one have to top up a card for a once-off journey (how does one recover the residual funds and or how much does the System rake off because residual amounts are too difficult to redeam)?

These systems work for the cognoscenti who know both the system and the workings of their phone but little thought is given to those who don't or when the system breaks down.

Let me give you an instance, I often use a feature/dumb phone and I deliberately do not have a Google account (or any accounts other than the phone number itself) on my smartphone.

Why should I be forced to comply and be spyed on by Google et all just to get a rail ticket which people have done without difficulty for over 150 years?
At the same time, the supposedly rational opponents to this does everyone a disservice by judging all of it based on the loudest fraction of people. And then we can’t have scientific inquiry into anything, because baby/bathwater.
The linked game is a dungeon crawler, not a blobber. A blobber implies that you control a party that acts as a single "blob" in game space - games like Might & Magic, Wizardry, Wizards & Warriors (the 2000 game) etc. are blobbers since you control an entire party but not the individual party members (so a game like Dragon Age isn't a blobber despite controlling a party because each party member is its own individual entity in the game world).

A dungeon crawler can be a blobber but not all dungeon crawlers are blobbers: if you control a single character - like in the linked game - the game is not a blobber. Note that also not all first person games where you control a party are blobbers: for example games like the classic Gold Box games (e.g. Pool of Radiance) are not blobbers since while you have first person exploration and a party to manage, combat switches to a 3rd person isometric-ish perspective where each party member is an individual entity that is controlled separately. Though some people may say that games like Gold Box have blobber exploration and non-blobber combat.

Also FWIW (and this is something the authors of the linked site above acknowledge too), not all dungeon crawlers and blobbers use a grid-based system for movement and combat: classic examples would be Might & Magic 6 and Wizards & Warriors, both of which are blobbers (the entire party acts as a single "blob" in the game world) but use free movement.
The result of many years of outsourcing?
> You cannot buy trust with simple money.

yet rich ppl are granted more upfront trust. maybe because we assume less incentive to rob.
Then for at least eight hours a day you don’t qualify as a generally intelligent system.
That's exactly it, the people are different now. They don't have the same time or energy as before.
>They are extremely useful and do things that digital computers cannot do.

But that is false. A classical computer can simulate a quantum computer. Performance is the difference, not inherent ability.

>The cynicism in this thread is crazy

The cynicism stems from people telling others that practical quantum computers will change the world for at least a decade. Even the URL invokes deep cynicism in me, as it randomly combines Quantum computing with the current hot thing. When will openAI switch to quantum computing for their LLMs? Next year?
Huh?

How did we subsidized east European erotic call centers?
> Google is an AI first company

Google is an ad first company

FTFY
Interesting, I guess it depends on where you are, because that's not how it seems to 'work' over here (Netherlands/Germany). Plenty of people buy vegan and vegetarian substitutes just to eat less meat. Both for health and environmental reasons.

Over the past few years there has been a big increase in plant-based products I can buy from the supermarkets. A decade back they had two types of soy-milk, now there is 30-40 types/brands/flavours of plant-based 'milks'. Even the big dairy companies are now actively marketing plant-based dairy.
it's not really a community if it relies on an influx of random strangers