skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine you have a lamp that sends a single photon, a double slit, and a screen with silver or something to catch the photon. All of that is inside a black box. You press the button to send the photon, open the box and see the screen.

There are 5 possible scenarios:

1) The wave function collapsed when the photon colides with the screen. You can calculate the time using distance/c. All the other steps are classic. You just open the box and see where the spot was.

2) When the photon colides with the screen there is no colapse. You get a superposition of two screens. A few milliseconds later when the gas inside the box hits the screen there is a collapse and ow you have a classic spot in a classic screen. Later you just open the box.

3) When the photon colides with the screen there is no colapse. You get a superposition of two screens. A few milliseconds later when the gas inside the box hit the screen, the gas gets entangled and later the walls of the box get entangled. There is no collapse until you open the box. Anyway, when you open the box everything get's classic and you see the usual result.

4) When the photon colides with the screen there is no colapse. You get a superposition of two screens. A few milliseconds later when the gas inside the box hit the screen, the gas gets entangled and later the walls of the box get entangled. There is no collapse. When you open the box your eyes and brain get entangled. There is no collapse! Anyway, each of the versions of you see the expected result because each one is entangled with a screen that has a spot as expected.

5) Shut up and calculate!

I'm a strong proponent of 5 because people pay me to calculate the distribution of the probability of the spot and not to tell weird stories.

The easy way to get the result of 5 is to use the scenario in 1, and that is what is teach, and that is essentially the Copenhagen interpretation and anyone that is not insane will use that scenario to make the calculations because it's "obvious" that all the other add negligidle corrections and are infinitely more difficult.

Here the problem is to define what is a measurement. It's "obvious" that the screen is good enough, but there is no good technical definition of what "obvious" means.

The problem is that the only non magical scenario is 4, where there is no collapse and you get entangled too. There are still many technical details to solve, but if it's real you would see the same experimental results than in 1, 2, 3 and 4, but the advantage is that there is no magic rule of collapse. In this scenario, measurement does not collapse wave functions, it just an illusion when some of the parts is big enough to get decoherence and make all the versions so different that you get (almost) no interference effect.

Anyway we are still not sure, so you can believe any of them until someone solves the problem, probably in 50 or 100 years.
Everything is related. Search results are usually generated based on recommendations, and direct links usually influence recommendations, or include recommendations as related content.

It's rarely if ever going to be the case that there is some distinct unit of code called "the algorithm" that can be separated and considered legally distinct from the rest of the codebase.
I don’t know. Reading this made me tear up a bit. I learned software engineering when I was in junior high school. I learned it because I sucked at math, and I want to write programs that solve my homework. Then I continue writing LAN chat, HTTP server, Anti Virus, and a lot more things just because it was fun to do.

It was fun, it was challenging, it was rewarding, it was amazing.

Now that I’m working, with the endless stream of new technologies, the debates of X considered harmful, J is better than K, and a barrage of never ending new things. It started to numb my mind.

Somehow, those joyful feeling of engineering no longer feels like the blue sky. I think its still blue, but for an eye washed in silvers, everything looks gray.

Reading this story somehow light up that childhood feeling of me learning software engineering. It can still be fun. I can still write things for the sake of me and not for the sake of exit nor a new shiny SaaS.

Thank your for writing this. It gave me a ray of hope that it can still be fun.
I'm finishing a mathematical art project I started in 2007 and then left sitting for about seventeen years. It's technically not open-source yet, since only I have the code, but the code will be fully published under an open license with the results.
Pretty much. There will be a bottom limit on the price of the panels, simply due to the logistics of moving materials, I mean there is a price of salt per ton that is almost entirely this.

But everything else around solar such as inverters, cables, framing, labor, battery storage is where a large part of the cost now. Innovations in those areas will probably yield better cost reductions than the panels will nowadays. That is just wild to see!
Amazon does have 3.0.0.0/8. Granted, it is noted as two separate /9 blocks, but it's all Amazon.

Perhaps a better use of your time (because de-balkanization of the internet would be more of an academic exercise than a mass market reality; consumers have already self-selected into social media and crappy LLM outputs which is a far bigger matter and driver than ephemeral resources or reverse DNS) would be making your TLS work in a way that doesn't allow for easy abuse. So automatic redirects, HSTS, and a certificate that is standards-compliant.
Gruber said it best (to paraphrase): Apple does things that are derided at launch, and then eventually becomes so commonplace that people think it was obvious.

The iPhone is that. I used to deride it at launch when I had my Sony P1, but it was truly a revolution. Anyone denying its success looking back,even as a v1, is living in a bubble.
Anti-neoliberalism is not enough
Millions told to evacuate as typhoon Shanshan batters Japan
That strikes me an example of how extremely unreasonable organization would behave, regardless of what it was in response to.
Not the poster, but one practical reason - bugs can really cut into the outdoor enjoyment, and in colder climates ‘bug season’ is generally relatively short (but intense). Usually spring and early summer.

Warmer humid climates, it’s common to only get (at most) a few months of ‘no bugs’.

Chiggers, ticks, noseeums, mosquitos, black flies, etc.

Also, warmer humid environment mosquitos are usually tiny, sneaky, and disease carrying.

Cold area mosquitos tend to be huge, obnoxious, and less disease carrying. Easier to kill, but will bite through thick sweatshirts, type thing. (Yes really!)

Or go southwest US and only have the occasional horsefly to worry about.
>has consciousness and free will

>argues there’s no evidence
Maybe a ridiculous writing style for a blog post about software licensing?
Nice! I'm glad you found that connection. Yeah I wonder how much these so-called "insiders" are just ripping off sci-fi. Ugh...I wanted to believe so hard for so long, but the more I listened to their narratives, the more holes appeared.
SOC2 covers a set of vectors (mostly social/separation of controls from what I’ve seen), and you were attacked on another vector.

Maybe the org prioritized poorly and sucks overall, but that doesn’t mean SOC2 or compliance generally is worthless.
A team from the Planetary Habitability Laboratory at the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo thinks they have found the answer, and unfortunately, it's not aliens.

maybe that is not so unfortunate. paging Robin Hanson,...
FYI: mA, not mAh.

milliAmps (mA): This is a measure of current flow. Think of it like the flow rate of water through a hose. It's the same kind of unit as something like liters-per-minute is: Where mA is a measure of electrical current flow through a wire (or a device or whatever), liters-per-minute is similarly a measure of the flow of water through a pipe (or consumed, or whatever).

milliAmp-hours (mAh): This measures how much current a something like a battery can supply over time. Imagine it as the total volume of water a hose can deliver if left on for an hour. If a battery is rated at 1000 mAh, it means it can provide a current of 1000 milliamps for one hour, or 500 milliamps for two hours, and so on. To use another water analogy, mAh is like describing the volume of water that is inside of a bucket.

The terms are not interchangeable.
I'm also not really sure why one would pick 24V for most applications. 12V makes sense for RVs, boats, etc. because a lot of devices are designed to operate directly off 12V. 48V makes sense for houses and solar installations, if for no other reason than smaller-gauge wires (and is a big reason I'm considering it; 00 gauge wires are enormous and unwieldy). But 24V? You're likely not running much natively off 24V, so you're already going to be doing DC-DC conversion down to 12V. And there's not much cost difference between 24V and 48V inverter systems (and in fact many of them can already handle both voltages).

My first phase DC system, currently in my RV, is a single 12V lead-acid battery, single 100W solar panel, 12VDC->120VAC inverter, a few buck converters for 5V electronics and USB ports, and a bunch of stuff running off 12V (my cell modem/router and my Beelink mini-PC are 12V direct). 12V adapter for Starlink PoE. I'm waffling on getting one or two 280Ah 12V batteries to wire in parallel, or just sticking with my crappy 12V lead-acid battery for the rest of this year and getting multiple 48V LiFePO4 when I do the full solar build-out next year.

You're not supposed to mix-and-match battery brands, manufacturing dates, time in use, etc. because if there's too much of a mismatch, they'll all degrade faster (so I've read). This is what's preventing me from incrementally building up a 12V battery bank by adding another 280Ah every few months. Instead I'm planning to milk what I have as long as possible, pick a voltage, and buy a whole bank of batteries and solar panels all at once.
Yeah. Did they test the bottle they found? Were there others? Seems crazy to not even charge and have a trial.
Closure Library was originally designed based on the lessons learned from building Gmail in 2004/2005-ish. When it was archived, one of its founders wrote a great thread about how much the JavaScript ecosystem has changed in the last 20 years. It's been a wild ride!

https://www.threads.net/@dpup/post/C2QsW5QsSPW/?xmt=AQGzV4jb...
Feeling Sticky This Summer? 'Corn Sweat' Could Be Raising the Humidity
Also, maybe the availability of drugs. If there are no safe substances available in the area and limited trade options, then people won't trip balls, or they will trip balls and die, which is not very encouraging.
Of questionable value, but probably the best resume builder and conversation starter:

https://codewithrockstar.com/
> Elastic wouldn't be able to integrate Amazon's patches back into their codebase without losing the ability to change the license in the future.

(I anal, even if I were a lawyer, I am definitely not YOUR lawyer, yada yada)

If I were Elastic, I would require Amazon dot com or anyone else who wants to contribute code to Elastic to sign a CLA. Depending on how the CLA is structured, this could allow Elastic to continue multi licensing?
Gems: Google's custom AI chatbots have arrived
I see it more as a lament that they have been "forced" to take actions that may cause balkanization as a side effect. However the overall tone is that of weaving a grand historical narrative out of a mosquito bite.
Very coincidental with this post as I just started looking into creating a home server for the first time and decided that mini PCs were sufficient for my use case (originally was going with Small Form Factor).

Just bought a Dell Optiplex 7060 Micro from this website for <300AUD. I heard they were pretty decent for used PCs. The price difference isn't too far off from the USD equivalent here.
SpaceX has other shareholders as well. How would you feel if the Florida government got mad at blackrock for ESG, fined them for it, and took that money out of your 401k?
I'd love to try this against my spaghetti, but I can't send my company's IP to you or anthropic or anyone else. I'll have to try against open source projects we rely heavily on first.
Not sure where you're coming up with that. I'm aware of the "Fedipact" but I'd guess it comprises a fairly small percentage of users, and some users have taken steps to leave instances which block Threads.
Google has already been proven to be an illegal monopoly. It’s not illegal to be a monopoly, it is illegal to abuse your position as a monopoly. But you are correct, controlling the search engine and the browser and the ad network put them in a precarious position from the start.

Given that they were not likely to split up their companies, they still could have avoided this lawsuit by using technical means to avoid grouping the regular profile with the incognito one. Mozilla and Apple also make browsers with incognito-like capabilities and they’re not being sued.

> The suit revealed that Google saved the standard and incognito browsing history of users in the same profile. That data was then used to inform personalized ads that the company served up.

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/01/1242019127/google-incognito-m...
I think it's a lot more interesting to read the source code of Bank Python as well as its proprietorial editor.
Who else emailed this to Frank Abagnale?
You say that like that choice doesn't exist.
Do not hand your phone to a cop. Ever.
I understand where you are coming from and that it should be assumed a vendor box can do anything even without SSH. Other teams don't think this way however. "Oh its just outbound HTTPS, no inbound connections, totally fine" is the school of thought I was up against. Adding to this the box was expected to send hundreds of GB of logs to do "big-data" against daily to monitor it's health, thus training firewalls, IDS and humans to expect this outbound data volume, which could with the flip of a bit start exfiltrating customer data. If I told you what this box was for you would know how insane it would be to send more than 500KB per day for that purpose. It seems I share something in common with Boeing "line stoppers". There are details I wish I could share as they would drive home how insane this entire debacle was. I expect to read about it in the news some day.
By turning them all into expensive tarpits of time and money - through the power of strategic spite. Making it so expensive that all plantiffs cannot win even if they prevail in a lawsuit. It is a far harder standard to get legal costs covered and if it costs tens of millions to possibly get a few million in a decade interest dries up fast.
There's lots of Fediverse interaction on Threads. It's a little tricky still because you can follow Threads users from other instances but you can't follow accounts on other instances from Threads. That being said, I see lots of people (myself included) boosting, liking, and even commenting on Threads content from elsewhere in the Fediverse. And now that Threads has just started to publicly show fedi comments on Threads (not just to the OP), we'll get a better sense of engagement on any given post.
> It's a real thorn in my side

How so?
> This evidence can only come from financial accounting.

That's not true—we're talking about brand value, not financial value of the product. If AWS switched over to offering ElasticSearch again (not that they will) and ditched OpenSearch, I have no reason to believe that their financial numbers would go down a bit.

Brand value is nearly impossible to measure, but to the extent that you can it'd be by measuring perception among those outside the company, not through an accounting of the company's actual revenue.

Think of it this way: the brand LENRUE [0] is worth approximately zero. The company that makes these products could rebrand tomorrow and their revenue stream wouldn't take a hit in the slightest. But the company presumably actually makes some amount of money.

For Elastic vs OpenSearch, the brand value of the two products should be loosely comparable by looking at some measures of public perceptions, and I can't find any measurement that would suggest OpenSearch is in the lead.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/stores/LENRUE/page/24E9713E-AC7E-4269...
true color support is a big deal. I've been waiting for that for years.
But not for manipulation. That isn’t a crime.
I saw a talk recently from one of their prompt engineers where he encouraged XML-style tag use as well. Supported by the training datasets they use.
If you only want to support Windows/Linux/Android, then sure, you can definitely argue that the SDL GPU API is bloat.

But if you want to support Apple's operating systems then you're stuck with OpenGL 4.1 (officially deprecated by Apple 5 years ago) - so no modern GPU features like compute shaders.

You can go the Vulkan route and use MoltenVK for Apple systems, but Vulkan is quite a step up in complexity from OpenGL ("1000 lines of code for a triangle" as people like to say). The goal for SDL3's GPU API is to give you a more approachable (but still plenty flexible) alternative to that.

And similar story for consoles, presumably.

Apparently lots of people asked for "SDL_render but can you add shader support that works for all platforms", so that's the origin story.

SDL3 does also add a higher level audio API - I don't know much about its merits.
AFAIK it's because they override the input box behavior depending on the os detected. If you use web slack but override your user agent to windows/linux, you might be able to get the original behavior back.
Not true. Bears live about 25 years. 35-40 years in captivity. I don’t think they’re normalizing obesity upthread, they’re merely pointing out that in nature accumulation of significant quantities of subcutaneous and visceral fat is normal, as are periods of starvation that we no longer experience.
Can you describe what you envision this “AI clone” doing on my behalf?

> As you consistently use MinutesLink to manage your meetings, our advanced technology gradually learns your communication style, decision-making processes, and thought patterns. Over time, as we gather enough data, we’ll be able to create your personal digital avatar - a powerful AI clone that mirrors your behavior and can take over routine tasks for you.
Yeah, holy balls. My neighbor got theirs installed for $11k all-inclusive $9k after the Biden subsidy. And that included a complete replacement and expansion of their electrical panel to
to accommodate it. $40k sounds unreal they better be gold plated.
We're not talking about "all algorithms" any more than the alcohol example is talking about "all liquids". Social media algorithms have one purpose: to manipulate people into more engagement, to manoeuvre them into forgoing other activities in favour of more screen time, in the service of showing them more ads.
My picks were devils elbow MO, or climax springs MO or tightwad MO
You only need to solve this once though?
This is basically a ridiculous arms race between the people making rules and people that feel they are an exception to the rule. Can really suck when the reasoning on both ends is valid
On one hand the only motivation this can serve is to protect your privacy, since now you can disclosure a minimal amount of information, on the other hand government routinely buys foreign services to break into phones and so you're basically handing someone your whole life.
Are you not logged in? I see plenty of videos from the accounts I follow.

Youtube is obviously a social graph. Who you follow, and who they follow, how often you interact, whether you comment, etc. directly influences the content that gets recommended to you.
SQL injection, a real blast from the past, like a child with mumps
You frame ‘not showing up in search engines’ as a drawback, a downside. What underlies that assumption for you? Could you help me understand it? I don’t share the viewpoint, but I’m still working to understand it.
Colorado: Man on office retreat 'got left behind on mountain'
Like elastic did to Apache Lucene, the core of their product?

Or when they infected their previously open source components like logstash?
Ah, I managed to dig up the original announcement post[0]; relevant snippet:

> But this is terrible advice in 2021, because OpenGL, for all intents and purposes, is a deprecated API. It still works, it's still got some reasonably modern features, but even if you add up the 22 years Microsoft spent trying to kill it with Apple's seven-or-maybe-twenty, it doesn't change the fact that the brains behind OpenGL would rather you migrate to Vulkan, which is also terrible advice.

> It seems bonkers to tell people "write these three lines of code to make a window, and then 2000 more to clear it," but that's the migration funnel--and meat grinder--that SDL users are eventually going to get shoved into, and that's unacceptable to me.

[0]: https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-project-top-58563886
Is this available publicly?
It might be caused by tech illiteracy, but at some point we have to think: A big enough chunk of the population just reads the name of things, not the description, that this becomes a problem.

Ok, maybe users are idiots. But we can either fix all of society, or… just don’t pick names like “incognito mode” or “autopilot” that require a paragraph to correct users expectations.
Musk doesn't refrain from using his companies, mainly Twitter, as weapons in petty personal disputes and showdowns. It's a situation that allows piercing the corporate veil, even under US law. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piercing_the_corporate_veil#...
Yep.

With Claude - “Figure out what is going on here/do you see why I’m trying to do…”

With OpenAI - Sometimes being crazy detailed is the only way I can get it to compete
https://i.imgur.com/jfPM2hz.jpeg

I mean, I get what they're conveying - but the wording is clumsy when seen through [OBEY] lenses...
Counterpoint: I just got introduced to the ElasticSearch/OpenSearch products and have gone with Elastic
You sort of have to marinate yourself in the ideas of the book. But the big one is that you should have a very limited API. And each API function should do a lot of things. So a very narrow set of deep APIs make for the best programs. The other thing was indirection. Try avoiding it as much as possible. Languages which allow easy access to functions or lambdas or blocks being pass around, usually end up with 4 - 5 levels of function calls to get anything done. That makes things really complected together and makes it hard to reason about later.
If you're interested in the history of how the Poles and then British not only cracked the German Enigma Cipher machine used in world war 2, but then operationalized the interception, decryption and dissemination process - this is the place. There's quite a bit written about how the Enigma cipher system worked, but it isn't until you get to Bletchley Park do you understand the size, scope and scale of how they turned decryption of intercepted messages into an industrial process that gave the Allies a strategic edge in WW2. A must visit next time you're in London (35 minute train from Euston station, 5 minute walk to the museum.)
They've got active/closed-loop control of the mirrors.

Right now, it looks like it's just using the camera feed to aim the reflected bright spot into the centre of the fiducial markers to align it with the oven window. If you wanted consistency temps, you could over provision enough mirror, then use a temp sensor in the oven to intentionally aim some of the bright spot outside the oven window - "wasting" that solar energy, but it was free anyway. (Maybe put a solar hot water system collector right next to the oven window, so any heat not needed for cooking could be used to make hot water for cleaning up after cooking?)