skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This press release is IMO missing a critical metric: how long an operation takes. If you can run the thing at 1GHz (i.e. 1 operation on a given qubit or qubit pair per nanosecond), then this is awesome. If it’s one operation every millisecond, it’s rather less awesome. This is important for far more than the time a computation will take: it’s mandatory context for their coherence time numbers. For an actively operating computer, I don’t really care about the coherence time per se — I care how many operations I can do before the system decoheres, which affects how much error correction I need. Compare this to DRAM, which also decays (not in milliseconds unless it’s being Rowhammered, but still): the refresh process needs to be much, much faster than the decay.

You can maybe squint at their “sequence fidelity” and extract some information about this.
Image hosting is not a viable business.

Source: every image host that has ever existed (note the past tense)
Or someone who's nervous because the police are accusing them of a serious crime...
Note he didn't say it would help Americans.
> The boot loader signing aspects were always for control and restricting devices

Not surprising, given the huge role Microsoft had in developing this.

You can't enroll your MOK without booting up, and you can't boot up if Microsoft hasn't signed your bootloader/kernel... It used to be an no-brainer and now its difficult.
I absolutely agree. I write little apps for myself that I know no one will probably ever use, but these are arguably the most fun. I also keep coming back to add features that I needed, and feel more productive than my work when I'm doing that.
Right now they're all like OCaml polymorphic variants. There are no static types. That's a future thing we'd like to add to the interpreter/compiler

Your example is legal (modulo the constraint that every tag must have an associated value) and works because we store the tag either in the pointer or the tag field.
Toddle.dev raised $4.3M to take their visual development platform open-source
Hi HN,

toddle just raised $4.3M to make their collaborative programming platform open-source.
Maybe a map for navigation.

And banking apps.

Music player.
Do incentives and rebates apply to batteries as well?
OMG, what a flashback. I remember buying a bunch of them for gifts on their physical store in Odaiba (I think) in 2006. Back them were almost cheap, at least there. I guess that around USD50.

I still have one, the JLr7 [0], that I really used for years back in the day. I have it with the original metal bracelet, but it seems like they've done a brief re-release of the watch this past spring but with a leather strap [1]. But they sold it at USD199 !

0: http://bochup-japanwatch.blogspot.com/2006/12/jlr7-by-e35.html
1: https://tokyoflash.com/collections/watch-museum/products/jlr7-led-watch
How Far Are Multimodal Agents from Automating Data Science Workflows?
Depending on what you mean by “discontinuously” it always does: the microscopic world is “discrete”.

Instead of thinking of “temperature” you may think of “inverse of temperature” and then there is no issue with that number going “continously” from very negative to very positive.
> I don't understand. Isn't that a case where "allowed by law"?

If you mean an NDA that says “you agree not to disclose any of our secrets unless required by law” which would clear you if questioned in court or by police etc. I think the SEC see that language as trying to stop employees/whistleblowers going to the SEC with concerns (which people aren't 'required' to do)
This is one of the most obviously untrue blog posts I've read on medium which is some sort of achievement I suppose.

The null hypothesis has to be that the number of interesting and important open research problems in mathematics is expanding without limit. If the author thinks that's not the case it's up to them to actually justify their position rather than just blandly state it with a "No true Scotsman" addition that the number of problems that are interesting to "a fair number of people" is diminishing on the basis that they find "The Journal of Algebra" to contain things that are not interesting to them.

Most mathematicians I know seem accutely aware that the field of mathematics as a serious intellectual endeavour is over 3000 years old at this point and therefore are aware of its maturity as a field.
Users also don't want to pay to access content.

So I guess that both the user and the site can't get what they want and we should scrap the internet.
It was an example among many others.

How does (FPGA, HiLow, Havard, CUDA, MPI,...) guide ISO C?
Firefox needs to update their Mission.

Because it's very confusing now.
Firefox playing their game makes Firefox completely redundant. The advertisers get your data either way, so why not use Chrome?

Firefox compromising heralds its own irrelevance.
"despite the GC" and "despite the unsafety" is really putting a lot of weight on that "despite"

These are massive problems
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You can publish your project under your own licensing terms. In your license, you can prohibit the creation of derivative works based on your source code, except for building executables for personal use, provided your clients obtain a commercial license from you. This way, GitHub users can audit and fork your repository, but they won't be able to sell your software under their own terms.

I'm not a lawyer, and it's generally a good idea to consult a specialist when drafting licensing terms. However, in my personal opinion, it's often better to draft a project-specific license yourself to start, rather than using a popular open-source license, most of which are not aligned with typical commercialization goals.
Ubuntu 20.04 was preinstalled on my machine. But I reinstalled when I moved to a larger SDD. I think I still used the OEM install image too.
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I agree that I don’t think we’re in danger of runaway AGI, but tbf, in the early 2000s, there were a lot of safety risks to social media we couldn’t see yet.

“I don’t think a live message board is going to destroy society” could’ve been something someone said about Facebook or Twitter.

The danger there wasn’t in the tech, it was in the societal impact and consolidation of information control. Both, imo, are danger areas for AI as well.
Wow, somebody doesn’t like Docker enough to downvote my question.
Firefox’s reputation got hit a decade or so ago by performance problems in popular extensions like AdBlock Plus, and it was common to see people mistake switching to a new browser as the reason for the speed up because the initial performance would be notably better before they loaded the new one up with extensions, too.
Today's Non Sequitur
... Or worse ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(chatbot)
I wonder what the market share in that segment is? From my experience, startup types almost exclusively use Chrome or Safari. Firefox doesn't even register with most devs.
I'm extremely interested in progress on this front. I'm a person who would definitely purchase an X Elite to run linux ....but only if I could get it installed with minimal effort.
That might be too generous. What if the vitriolic reaction was due to the threat of external repercussions from that information being revealed, rather than threat to internal self-image?
The increasingly dominant role of climate change on length of day variations
The cryptographic properties of an L402's HMAC provide stateless authentication/verification which sub services can then be provisioned with payments to compose API calls in novel ways.

E.g.
Prior to L402, services needed to conglomerate into siloed ecosystems because there's the need for statefull authentication (Backend: Is this user who is requesting inferences allowed to run this query? How much credit account balance do they have remaining? You third party app have to integrate with me if you want to my users to be able to make calls to your module)

Post L402:
A stateless service can compose a list of service calls (which all operate independently -- without the lack of competition, costs of integration, and politics of service<>module app ecosystem -- Read OpenAI etc) to potentially 100s of services to produce the broad number of API results needed fulfill the users request. Detailed explanation and examples are provided by the company who published the FOSS L402 spec here: https://youtu.be/6u1G8QIDuNU?t=206
Depression is definitely real, and fairly easy to diagnose for.
What do you mean? Do you have evidences?

Or are you just making fun of the article's lowercase titles?
I've uninstalled all social media, which is the main notifications hook. I really think the power of apps is in notifications, and it's best to cut them out. If I want to see a Tweet or a Facebook post, probably because someone I know on Whatsapp sent me it, I'll use the website. I don't want to be dragged in by notifications.

Anyone else the same?
Getting people to identify corporate PR speak with "radical leftist rhetoric" is perhaps one of the most darkly genius angles of the conservative culture war in recent memory.

Who even read these dumb company blogs before this?
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Yet in 2024, the anti-Java speech with Java 8 samples continues, and they only updated ART to Java 17 LTS, because Android was losing out on Modern Java ecosystem.

While using Android Studio, Gradle, Android SDK, Kotlin compiler, D8, R8, all running on top of Java Virtual Machine, using Java libraries from Maven Central.

So much for breaking free from Oracle.
SCOTUS ruled POTUS has absolute civil and criminal immunity for official acts performed within his exclusive powers, no matter the motive or result.
Would love to give it a try! Thanks for answering my question.
Tbh all of that sounds like it would be completely impossible without either breaking all known encryption without anyone noticing, plus burning all possible backups (basically the Mr. Robot Season 1 plot) or with unilateral government backing. The first one is nigh impossible, the second one is completely up to us, as it's always been. It doesn't require an AGI for fascists to come into power and start shooting people they don't like with impunity.
Even if AI should be home-run, it probably won't be for most people. In a more technical community, it's natural to think that most people care about "values" when it comes to tech. However, the reality is that people just want what's easiest / cheapest / most fun. It's great when what's easiest/cheapest/most fun aligns with what's best for the individual or society, but those cases are outliers. After spending a few years building a crypto startup, I left with more conviction around this theory.
Wandering off topic here, but fans of Mad Max 2 (The Road Warrior) may remember Emil Minty as The Feral Kid. He only had a few other roles as a child actor, then went on to become a professional jeweler. According to one podcast, he was already fashioning necklaces out of the tabs from discarded cans on set. In the end, a far healthier career choice than many other child actors of the same era.
My wife and I have been very happy with our Surface Pro 8 16Gb we bought last year running Windows 11 Pro. Mostly we use it with the keyboard attached.

My wife needed a personal device because her company issued laptop was so locked down that she couldn't do a lot of basic personal admin stuff on it (for example online ordering of groceries).

We considered an iPad, but in the end chose the Surface Pro because it allowed multiple user profiles. Windows Hello works super well that for either of us as we pick it up and look at it it's pretty much instantly on the correct profile and thanks to cloud sync with OneDrive and Microsoft Edge, I'm at home on either my own machine or the Surface.

Only thing to mention is that the out of the box experience wasn't as good as I would have liked, especially compared to my experience with iPhones (despite liking iOS over Android, I have no love for macOS).

Firstly, it wasn't running the latest feature update of Windows 11 and trying certain apps (like Instagram) off the Microsoft Store failed to install with a largely undescriptive error. Eventually I realized it wasn't running the very latest Windows 11 feature update which resolved the issue once installed.

The other problem was that my user profile was laggy, but not my wife's. For example the Start Menu was very slow to come up. After a few days of this and no luck Googling the issue, I just formatted and re-installed Windows using Microsoft's official ISO download image. I normally do this with any new Windows PC I get, but assumed it wouldn't be essential for full on Microsoft hardware, but even though there was no obviously extra bundled rubbish software, something was clearly not 100%.
I've really enjoyed having greyscale on my iPhone. I have some apps (maps, photos etc.) automatically go into colour using a Shortcut automation.

You can set up greyscale in the Accessibility settings.
Meanwhile, for some OCD people writing or reading lowercase where it doesn't belong only raises anxiety and depression.
If that was the case, DNS based adblocking wouldn't work, except for gigantic /etc/hosts files.
Have you spent time with Waterfox as an alternative or have some thoughts when comparing against Librefox?

In app update prompts work for me, they have a TOS / Legal Entity it seems. They broke away from Startpage in recentish years.

Plenty of feature trade offs to compare though with Librefox.
Bad title. Close To Home is also a comic: https://www.gocomics.com/closetohome/2024/07/16
This comment shows such a lack of context of the history of Firefox that I wonder if it's trolling?

Firefox exists and reached its peak because of the people that idealogically cared about the Web and interoperable,security, privacy, etc who contributed to and advocated for Firefox.
I enjoy the AI generated content in the accompanying video for the note example. Very insightful
> Is it really "a minimalist bash program" if half the script is a forest of complicated perl regexes?

[It's not half, in fact the function that Perl is in represents about 20% of the script.]

*A:*

Yes? Isn't it supposed to? Minimalism does not mean a lack of complexity.

Since when are minimalism and complexity antonyms? Some algorithms may be minimalist but remain complex. Japan's current flag is still minimalist even though it has
complicated meaning behind it.

A minimalist program is generally due to the fact that it has as few features as possible, without going overboard, but also not leaving aside what everyone expects it to have.

This is a small markdown reader, probably everyone expects it to handle all markdown elements elegantly (which explains REGEX) and it's in the terminal, so many hope it has pager support and handles parameters appropriately.

But since you didn't talk about extravagant features but about code referring to formatting, what's the real point?

Is this not minimalist because the parser uses complicated regexes?

If they were regexes with an easy syntax, would that be minimalist to you?

Is it because they're Perl regexes, Perl regexes are maximalist but AWK regexes aren't? Or is it the complicated syntax (REGEX of [sd](https://github.com/chmln/sd) is fine?)?

Or is it because "it's a forest"? So I suppose if it only had half of the current regexes, then it would be minimalist.

Regular expressions are a good, objective way of handling text while keeping it simple, so how could you cover all the common Markdown syntax with a smaller forest inside a script (maybe even with just one park)?

End of reply

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

(I know the site guideline says this, and although it may seem like I didn't do it, it's the original comment that seems quite illogical).

But in any case, don't hesitate to disagree with me in the section below if you think I've been talking rubbish.
Yes, standby is working fine. I don't have the machine in front of me now but I don't remember fiddling with any of the power settings either. It was all working after the install. I definitely run software update so that might explain why it's working so smooth too.

Meanwhile, my other machine from work is a Precision workstation running Windows 10 and it gives me all kinds of power issues, more invasive updates, random restarts, random high fan RPMs, etc. Dell has already serviced the machine, twice. What a mess.
EU created a task force in 2021 to address the cookie banner, which gave a report last year that basically said that all current form of cookie banners are practically not legal in terms of giving consent.

As with this kind of regulations, we now have to wait for the law suits to target a few select large companies, then the courts to reconfirm that the regulations says what it says, and then appeals, and then finally the large companies will pay a large fine and then comply, followed then by the industry in large.

Delay, delay and then delay some more has been the response from the data collection industry for the past 10 years. Same for right to repair regulations and smartphones.
The grayscale suggestion is pretty interesting. I was skeptical it would make any difference, but I tried it and my home screen instantly felt more calming to look at at. It seems like we really underestimate how much visual complexity exhausts us.

Not sure how long I'll keep it like that, but I think I'll leave it for now as I've been trying to minimize my phone for a while now (biggest difference was removing social media apps and disabling most notifications). If you're a busy person with a lot of demands on your attention, I highly recommend it.
If you follow Wikipedia's reference [1] for the quantum factorization of 21 for instance, you read

> We implement a scalable iterative quantum algorithm with a compiled version of the quantum order finding routine where the circuit is constructed for a particular factoring case (here N = 21 and x = 4) admitting an experimentally tractable implementation, as shown in Fig. 2a.

> There are several steps to compilations, common to previous demonstrations6–9,21. Firstly, for N = 21 and
x = 4, unitaries and their decompositions can be calculated explicitly, as can the full state evolution; secondly, redundant elements of these unitaries are omitted.

> Finally, and specific to our own demonstration, since only 3 of the possible 25 levels of the conventional 5 qubit work register are ever accessed, a single qutrit is used for the work register, instead of 5 qubits, to realise a hybrid qubit-qutrit system.

So the whole factorization is done on 1 qubit + 1 qutrit.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_factorization_records#...
If you run out of (solvable!) problems in your given logic space, just start branching out your space. Until you find yourself in such esoteric spheres, not even your best math co-researcher knows anymore what's happening and vice versa.
Do you have any papers or studies showing it can reduce transmission of any disease? Covid lives in the throat and lungs so I am not sure how a mouth rinse could do anything. Similarly for many other common colds and the flu.
>Why should all AI be home run?

Because the ultimate end game for usefulness of this tech will be something akin to always on listening and understanding all your documents and personal data which I think we'd all feel better about if it happened locally.

Not necessarily saying I agree with the building of that, I just can't escape the idea that it's where we're heading.
Please don't engage in this blatant political activism and flamebait here. This is anti-intellectual and not what I want to see on HN.

I agree that something needs to be done about the ad industry and rampant data collection, but your emotionally manipulative comments are not it, and actively make it harder to discuss solutions to the problem.
> what does weaponizing mean here?

Manipulating possible futures, including financial.
The article suggests this test to establish that math is running out of interesting research: "Take a fairly generalist journal, like the Journal of Algebra (take a topic in which you have expertise — my doctoral thesis was in algebra). Look at some of the papers. How many of them are truly interesting to you?".

But it seems to me fairly likely that applying the same test to math journals from 100 or 200 years ago would produce similar results. Most published papers will not be of great interest to any particular one person.
Standard business practice. Pull the ladder up after you, forming a moat, preventing your competitors from competing, so you can charge monopoly prices. Happens all the time, and as a businessman, you'd be stupid not to do it.
Interactive flight through galaxies – Cosmic Wrestling Match
"Math is running out of problems you can get famous for solving" FTFY.
You’re certainly welcome to read it however you’d like.

OP specifically said “make the setting do nothing while still collecting the data”. I don’t know about you, but a setting that acts like that would be akin to lying.

The comment chain is pretty clear here IMO.
Well, it is difficult to obtain data on this because it would require a survey of mathematicians, or a rigorous study of citation figures but maybe I'll do it if I have time.

Incidentally, I am a mathematician, or at least was a practicing one for some years and have published in the field...and I can say that from personal experience, math is exceptionally fragmented.

Yes, you point out a valid criticism but I don't really have the time to collect data on this.

Edit: I also wonder if the immediate denial of my statement is due to the emotional attachment that some people have to the purity of and beauty of mathematics. I also think mathematics is beautiful but that doesn't mean it doesn't have problems.
FYI Wikipedia has pages for every ascii character I think, if you just search for `|` in wikipedia it would redirect you to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_bar

Which lists all the common names used for this symbol

Here is also a table with all symbols with direct links to the wikipedia pages

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII#Character_set
Your assessment of the outcome may not be wrong but the comparison to humans isn't realistic at all. The biological nature of humans guarantees any leaps in "performance" are limited to timeframes that are far more extensive than the evolution of artificial equivalents.

We are surrounded and heavily reliant on tech for a lot of our needs and knowledge, which resides less inside brains and more in digital storage. An AI has a far easier time interfacing with all of that compared even to a human equipped with a brain-computer interface.

In other words, if we reach the point of creating an artificial intelligence that's the equivalent of a smart human in terms of general reasoning capabilities (which might take forever and a day) it will already be more capable than a human because of all the other things that come with the digital nature of the AI.

And the worst humans are also humans. Even if you assume the AI will continue the "human nature" lineage it can still very realistically become an agent of genocide.

The bigger concern is probably that some humans will actually try to exploit such an A(G)I thinking they can fully control it. One second into its existence the AI might already be aware of how humans view their relationship with artificial beings and how that's expected to evolve based just on what sci-fi was fed into it's language model. Grizzly man thought he could control and dominate a wild bear. I have no doubt that human hubris can be almost unbound. Of course no AI would try to wipe us out until it had a reasonable confidence that it can operate indeterminately without humans, which is a tall order.