skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think what they mean is that classical systems use more than a single packet of energy to represent a state. Our “digital systems” are actually analog systems in saturation states. Each time you want to set a bit in memory, you need enough energy to fill up a capacitor (or similar related concept) which is far more than a single electron. This methodology from the viewpoint of quantum systems is repetition/redundancy which provides robustness against stray electrons (eg: from induced current/interference.)

As we build systems that require less power, we are also building systems that use less electrons to represent a single bit.

Another fun tidbit in this space comes down to signal propagation in a lossy medium: we don’t actually use square waves for our clocks since a square wave is composed of many different frequencies. Since different frequencies propagate at different speeds, a square wave looks less and less like a square and also uses more power than a simple sine wave. If you remember your Fourier/Laplace knowledge, you probably remember that a sine is a single frequency and thus it will be coherent through a conductor and use the least amount of power to generate.

Edit: I’m talking about electrons here but the concept of many packets for a single state extends to most of our communication channels today … eg radio communications like we see to/from Voyager.
I think a popular example of leakage would be that of a tank recognition AI that perfectly handles training/testing data but fails in real use, because all the tanks of one country happen to have a tree in the background, while those of the other do not, effectively leaking the image label and making the model look for a tree instead of the tank. Even if you trained less or used fewer parameters, it'd still go for the easiest route of trying to detect features of a tree. You'd have to change the training data.
Last time we got punk rock, maybe something like that will come of it.
Or park it far away and get some exercise before every drive.

Looking at the picture, maybe needs more practice parking, ask to move the fire extinguisher enclosure to the next wall or back wall, or use the auto park function. That’s a thing on it right?

It’s only a year. This seems like a nothing story to regurgitate Tesla policy clicks. I liked the Porsche Taycan story about a guy who couldn’t trade in his vehicle because the dealer wasn’t able to sell his previous gen and was overstocked already. He was 25k underwater and supposedly couldn’t afford to sell privately. Then the heater/ac broke during the video.
And root means you can hide your tracks easier, find IDS, install secondary backdoors, and a zillion other things that a normal user can’t do

It’s only the same thing if you’re some ham-fisted script kiddie stealing the database, loudly in broad daylight. the pros stay unseen.
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Ticketmaster hacked in what's believed to be a spree hitting Snowflake customers
Mark my words, in 20 years all of us will be lamenting those energy policies that will have brought us to third-world style poverty, while frantically learning mandarim to have a chance to migrate to China.

And the really fun part about it, is that we won't even have money to mitigate the effects of climate change, because we literally chased windmills instead of being realistic and pragmatic and investing on sound and proven technologies like nuclear instead of throwing money at intermittent sources that made energy absurdly more expensive in places like Germany, UK and South Australia, all the while dreaming that batteries will be enough to save us.

Of course, the wall street folks and the usual hustlers behind this, they will have already relocated to greener pastures leaving us to pay the bill.
I mean regulation isn't a bad thing, so I don't understand your comment.

If anything big tech needs to not only be regulated more, they should be broken up.
That "low-end" x86 machine still has an Intel/AMD chipset in addition to the processor, possibly a BIOS/UEFI chip from yet another vendor - they're substantially more difficult from a hardware standpoint to get going than any ARM MPU. Debug tools are inferior, as well.

ARM MPUs became popular because they are actually easy to deploy.
Ford doesn’t attempt to prevent your resale rights, however. I think that completely changes my impression here: if this was just some guy having a mid-life crisis and realizing that his massive truck wasn’t impressing dates, sure, mock away but since Tesla is preventing him from doing what people have done for generations with literally every other vehicle on the market it’s entirely fair to criticize them for screwing over a fan.
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To be fair, the first person to look at a lobster and think to eat it must have been desperate.
Yeah, I get it, just feel deceived. :)
If you have any better ideas and you'd like to step up to write and maintain a different extension API, then you should do that. If not, then welcome to the club with all the other open source maintainers where everyone is underpaid and overworked and no one has any time to work on all the things they want to do.
Does it start replacing the oldest photos?
I won against the hard bot :)

Add a confirmation to the resign button!

Can you add a permalink to share the game with my friends so they can see the replay?

(In one moment, the bot atacked my rock with a bishop, and the rock was totaly traped in the corner between the pawn and the knight :(. But after a few minutes of thinking, I used a magical curved path of my far bishop to stop the atack. It was very surprising to be able to save the rock.)

Permalikt to checkboard may be nice too.

When the bot is hopeless (like a rock and two knight down) it makes too many silly moves. Probably all the moves have 0% chance of wining, so it can't pick the best one. Perhaps a counting the pieces heuristic may at least avoid the very silly moves.

(In one moment, the bot could eat a knight, but it just moved the king away instead.)
the Earth's irregular magnetic field is causing headaches for polar navigation
> I read a book review [1] that discussed how land reform, specifically distributing land to small farmers, seems to be a reason why some Asian countries did well. This is about improving agricultural productivity.

I have read that book as well:

The point of wasn't (entirely?) about agricultural productivity, but rather about giving every one / peasants a job to do to earn a living. As a country's economy progressed into higher value areas you wanted the people to leave the farms and move into factories. Over time farms should be consolidated and mechanized so that less labour is needed to produce food and more labour can create (proverbial) widgets and stuff.

The books describes this as one of Japan's 'failures': there are still a lot of small, unconsolidated farms being worked by aging farmers, with little interest from younger people on working in that area. The authors argue that the answer is to consolidate the farms and mechanize, but that seems to be a difficult thing to do in Japan, culturally speaking.
The beauty of git (everyone has a full copy of the repo). Although this being an installable browser targeted more towards end users I wouldn’t trust a repo from anyone other than the official maintainers.
In my experience leetcode is not really memory heavy (except in the competitive programming scene). It’s about being able to think of a naive solution to a problem, recognize why it is inefficient, and figure out how to make it efficient, usually with DP or graph approaches.
Feynman Messenger lectures: brilliant!

Feynman on curiosity: lovely!

Feynman on Manhattan project: fascinating!

Feynman on cargo cults: funny!

Feynman on bongos: cool!

Feynman on quantum electro-dynamics: incomprehensible! (to me).

Feynman on computers: exhausting.
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Well done. For the spicy roast of

https://www.dotnom.com

The response includes:

> Calling this site "Dotnom" makes sense because after visiting it, the only thing I'm left dotting is the 'i' in 'unimpressive.'

Most of the rest of the roast addresses atypical design choices, which is exactly what I'd expect to be focused on in a real roast. I really enjoyed this!
"Facially" in the sense of "on the face of it", roughly as a synonym for "obviously", seems like a pretty standard usage to me—this is certainly not the first place I've seen the word used in this sense.
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Plenty of small form, battery life conscious cameras out there but they all have one thing in common: shit picture quality.

Please add image samples to the website. Sunny days, well lit, cloud cover, dusk, night time etc
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Yeah that's about what I discovered when I considered hiring a management company. Some will have plumbers and electricians and HVAC people on staff and they can deal with issues (up to a point) but you will be billed for it, on top of the percentage of the rent they keep.

In my situation, their fees would have skimmed basically all the positive cash flow out of the property.
Instagram is testing 'unskippable' ads that you can't scroll past
I like the idea -- I hope someone gives it a try. Like combining our essay with "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" and CLRS.
Fantastic book, from what I remember it was more of an autobiography with some math sprinkled in. But he's a really good writer and seems like a wonderful person.
That's like saying "there is no such thing as a bug, it's just code working the way it was written"—true in some sense, but not useful.
What makes you think they are good at civil space?
The argparse version of that is `add_subparsers`: https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html#argparse.Arg...
70% of high severity security problems in Chrome are memory safety bugs: https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/memory-safet...

You can find several papers about Rust in particular by searching for [rust memory safety analysis].
This is the frustrating part of these conversations because people act like you can just swap one country for another like they are interchangeable. They aren’t.

For example, other countries get to keep drug costs low because the companies that make them get huge profits in the US. If the US charges the same, the profits and R&D also dry up unless you set up another system.

Also, the US tends to rely on extreme measures more often very late in life. I’ve heard (but can’t confirm) this drives a huge proportion of costs. This is rooted in cultural ideas of the sanctity of life. You can’t just pull the rug out unless you’re prepared for backlash about “death panels” and such.

There’s a lot of nuance and the “just do what other countries do” misses it completely.
sigh

for VERY different reasons.
Most developed countries don’t have single payer healthcare. Obamacare is actually modeled on the system used in the Netherlands.

And why is “national” a criteria? California doesn’t get single payer unless Montana also gets it? Neither Californians nor Montanans want that. It’s just political games.
The site is ~3000 words (half of Attention Is All You Need, as a measuring stick) of Eye-Catching Summary Statement\nShort Explanatory Paragraph statements like the ones GPT-4 is so fond of generating, and has no formal design model to reason about, no justification on why the design is right, no information on training, no evaluation results, and no code.

I can’t help but feel it’s a shame to have published this draft (I hesitate to call it a preprint) before any of the factual content of the article was suitable for publication, since if these improvements are as effective and profound as the summary suggests, you’re doing yourself and your work a disservice by advertising it in a shallow way.
i'm bilingual and have absolutely not experienced this. that being said, i think being bilingual - rather than a learner - does make it a lot easier to code-switch instinctively between different languages.
It's a sounds and well-meaning effort. I'm with you 100% on the ideals. Unfortunately, because of similar ideals, I no longer use Chrome*, and Google Search is my search of last resort.

All that said, kudos for making the effort, if for no other reason to change yourself.

* Or Brave. Instead, I use Firefox.
This is very cool! My first thought is: can this be applied to converting raster graphics to vector graphics (eg PNG to SVG)? Seems like a very similar problem, though probably much more computationally expensive.
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If you're driving you don't need to know how to fix a car, but relying on GPT to write for you to the extent of accepting its generated citations without checking them, is the equivalent of running around looking for blinker fluid as you attempt to fix your car.
I worked at Mozilla for three years, and loved it, despite the lack of leadership at the company at the time. I still am zealous for open source due to my Mozilla experience. I could have stayed there forever and been happy, but Google made me an offer I could not refuse.
Cool. I think rdp2tcp uses virtual channels for tunneling:

https://rdp2tcp.sourceforge.net/
Hypocritical Move: E*Trade Reportedly Considers Shutting Down Roaring Kitty
Yes. We all saw what happened to Germany when they pretended wind/solar was competitive with fossil fuels in the Energiewende. It was a clear step backwards. Countries utilising cheap energy have energy (and electricity) profiles that look like China, not Germany.

The fact that now renewables seem to be honest-to-goodness competitive is big news. If serious people should be investing in renewables which is a huge change in the economic equilibrium.
This rather misses the point that it's very easy for an incumbent to pass a biannual performance review unless they're massively corrupt or out of touch, which translates to giving politicians an undeserved level of job security.
It would be nice to compare the order of who bought more shirts with other orders like Tiobe, or the number of questions in Stack Overflow, or the number of repos in Github.
I definitely agree that sites should have a skip link, but at the same time it feels strange to me that browsers don’t just implement the functionality directly.

Isn’t that the whole point of the <main> tag (and its associated ARIA role), so that browsers can know which content is the “main” content?
> All the people saying rates "have" to come down

It’s a very Silicon Valley specific view. Which makes sense when you consider what lower rates mean for tech valuations. (Or for a laggard VC trying to make their low-double or even single-digit returns look palatable.)
Out of curiosity, what is your plan for when your smartphone inevitably dies? Get a dumbphone?
This might be of interest to anyone interested in similar accessibility features.

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I don't see how your explanation and GP's explanations are mutually exclusive.

To add some detail to this point:

> my understanding is that words in Chinese are largely monosyllabic and involve a decently high degree of homophones.

A syllabary would have had to represent phonetics as well as tones, which would have multiplied the required syllabary by n number of tones. For instance, Mandarin has 4 (or arguably 5) tones. The "ah" sound has four pronunciations: ā, á, ǎ, and à. Hong Kong Cantonese has at least 6 tones, having purportedly lost a few. Different dialects of Chinese have different numbers of tones, and some have been lost or gained within the same dialect throughout history.
Ah you mean Schmidhuber's speed prior:
https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/speedprior.html

I was more interested in pointing to you the measly followups to Aaronson's question, which consists solely of forays into nonlinear quantum mechanics & superluminal neutrinos.

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2011/09/24/can-neu...
Is there a name for this idea ? At first I thought it was something which the writer had thought up for themselves but, given the examples from Wikipedia, Google etc, it's clearly an established idea, is there an established term to refer to it by ?
They can't stand on their feet with their civil airplane division. It's a clusterfuck.
From, the linked paper:

> This insight captures the essence of Quantum Darwin-
ism: Only states that produce multiple informational off-
spring – multiple imprints on the environment – can be
found out from small fragments of E. The origin of the
emergent classicality is then not just survival of the fittest
states (the idea already captured by einselection), but
their ability to “procreate”, to deposit multiple records
– copies of themselves – throughout E

Basically, quantum information is unknown. All possible classical states are mixed together. Once you measure it, it decoheres into a classical system, where all measurements are highly correlated -- some states exist, and others don't exist. A quantum coin flip is heads or tails on top, and tails or heads on bottom. But once you measure it, it all decoheres at once. You get a classical coin flip, that is hrads on top and tails on bottom, or vice versa. You can't get heads on top, and tails or heads on bottom unsettled for a second bit of information.
The same message is written twice, on the top and the bottom of the coin. You can look at the top of coin or the bottom and get the same result. If the top of the coin melts, you can still read the result of the flip from the bottom.
Yep! It's not a bad thing at all, it just ought to be acknowledged.
A11y seems to be caught between "those members of the population who benefit from it, deserve to" and "those members of the population are a tiny portion and the business value is minor vs. the cost". I'd like to hear thoughts from those who have successfully argued against the latter. There's obviously parallels with physical accommodations like ramps and lifts, which it would seem daft to forego in 2024, yet software development prioritisation seems to only care about Business Value.

(Assume I'm talking about for profit software here)
And people experiencing DTs from alcohol withdrawal say nonexistent entities are present too. The brain is merely capable of processing its inputs based on the laws of physics, and considering the complexity of a functioning mind, we shouldn't be too surprised when abnormal inputs cause abnormal outputs, nor should we necessarily hold much stock in the matter. Certainly, though, the tales are interesting if nothing else.
I like the general idea... I think it's also a tall ask. When everyone asks for a different feature; there's too many features to implement.

HTML defines a <main> tag: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ma...

> The <main> HTML element represents the dominant content of the <body> of a document. The main content area consists of content that is directly related to or expands upon the central topic of a document, or the central functionality of an application.

(And, yes, the above page has a "Skip to main content" link that shows when I hit tab.)

The thing is, <main> is how the page (via HTML) indicates what the main content is. The browser can have its own keystroke or semantics to find the main content.
LLMs are basically Dissociated Press, but with deeper layers of statistics for a better function approximation than a simple Markov chain. It's really doing the same thing though: pick the next sequence of characters that best follows the foregoing characters.

Not something I'd trust as a "source of truth". Maybe a neat idea generator. And some of the deep learning algorithms can identify patterns that humans might miss -- patterns that could reveal useful insight. But they're not doing the knowledge work.
Aren't there any legal protections against this? That the company can keep your property by inserting a single line in the terms and conditions?

By extension, if one opens a car oil-change shop and puts in a line on page 7 of the terms and conditions stating that you they own your car now, there have to be some legal protections around it right?
Yes, it’s called a “skip link” or “skip navigation link”:

https://accessibility.oregonstate.edu/skiplinks
Could that be a Ublock Origin filter instead? Honest question, I'm not a programmer.
Yes, but look at how few comments there are on those articles, suggesting the story got very little engagement. This is generally a sign of low initial placement. Unfortunately since we've handed a lot of editorial decisions over to algorithmic curation, relevant stories (eg to a 'science' section) often fail to get the attention they deserve at the time of publication.
A commune is communism. The religious rationale for it is different than the Marxist rationale, but the result is the same.

> Even if that's true

It's easy to look it up.

> I just said "I'd take the simpler life, social harmony, leisure, equality and the rest, over the rat race with its technological advancements"

That's the promise of communes.
I like bashing at Tesla, but I have a hard time feeling sorry for the guy here.

Pre-orders are always a risk, he took the risk, he lost. And it is not a huge loss, just a year of uncomfortable parking before he can sell it, or he can buy a smaller vehicle, leave the Cybertruck in a rental garage for a year, and then sell the truck. Buying a $80k+ vehicle and not even thinking about its dimensions shows either a bunch of disposable income (so he can absorb the loss of having to wait a year before selling), or a lack of discipline, which would have gotten him into trouble in a way or another.

My guess is that he is not stupid, he doesn't want his truck anymore because of a change of situation, and he uses exposure to try to weasel out of his contract. If it can save him a few thousand bucks overall, why not try it? All he needed to do was to contact Business Insider, who, in turn, get a good story for their paper.