skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To some extent, that is in fact how entanglement works. In fact, if you perform a Bell-style experiment exactly like this (with the two measurements in the two galaxies along the same axis), you'll get this same un-interesting result. The problem is that it works like more than this too.

Say you have two billiard balls on a very very large table with almost no friction. One ball is stationery, the other is moving towards it and spinning along some axis. When they collide, they'll be sent along some random directions and each with some spin, and their spins are going to add up to the original spin of the moving ball (angular momentum is conserved in frictionless interactions in classical mechanics too). Now, when the ball arrive at a long distance away from each other, two experimenters which can't see the balls measure their spin. They each choose some direction and measure how much their ball spins along that direction. They repeat the experiment lots of times, keeping good track of each individual result.

When they later compare notes, they'll measure how much their respective results for each individual experiment were correlated. Since they were measuring along different axis, they didn't both see the exact same result: maybe for the ball that reached one was spinning at one revolution along the 45° axis every two seconds, and the other was spinning at half a revolution along the 1° axis every second. Ultimately, they'll find that the correlation between their experiments was about 75% (each time they measure along unrelated axis, they get no correlation, when they happen to measure along the exact same axis, they get perfect correlation, and when it's in between, it's some subset of that).

However, if we repeat the same thing with quantum particles, we actually find a higher correlation, about 85%. This can only happen if (a) measuring one particle changes the other - and we've quickly ruled out that this can happen at slower than light speeds, or (b) the particle pair don't share a definite state to begin with, but assume an appropriate state only when they are measured [or (c) the axis chosen by the experimenters in each measurement somehow depends on the spin of the particle pair].
it can store everything in single column. from where you can filter it out or separate it on runtime.
JSON is also supported, but clickhouse is not very good with it. so, need to wait till they release some stable version.
I think the only thing I really dislike about Fastmail's UI is they've hidden the "Report phishing" and "Report spam" links and they're in two completely different places.
Yes, but you can make free apps for a wider audience. Or even just useful apps for yourself.

Can do what pleases you though. I sometimes work on intentionally useless apps just to try things out, but the idea is always to carry those ideas over to some app that has some purpose.
The hypothesis is that mental rotation as one way to induce high cognitive load hinders my brain from plaguing me with intrusions.
As my sibling commenter already stated, this mechanism's evidence level is "unproven hypothesis" but on top of that, the hypothesis does not explicitly assume mental rotation to be the only effective task for this use case because there are a lot of other very brain-consuming tasks.
> This may be so, but there is no competition that's even 10% better than Google.

It's been more than a decade since google results were distinguishable from bing results. Both spam you with commercial crap.

> This may be so, but there is no competition that's even 10% better than Google.

Kagi is much better than google. I have no clue what their baseline search quality is like, but I don't care because I can customize it enough to far outstrip quality that google can provide as google refuses to provide (or has actively disabled) the tools necessary to make search useful, like allowing the user to blacklist domains against all their searches or prioritize certain domains. Which is dumb, because how could they know what sort of results i value if they refuse to ask?

What we really need is an engine that excludes all commercial results, and an option to exclude sites with ads. That'd be a goldmine.
Their end-users are advertisizers spending millions. For them Google is probably very responsive. The rest of us are users of pet projects at best and product at worst
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It's not the English language but the latin alphabet that helped there. It had already been optimised in ancient times to a limited set of easily readable characters, and then was further standardised by the introduction of the printing press. Going from a collection of metal pieces to a collection of bitmaps is way easier than adapting a handwritten languaje (which already had problems adapting to the printing press).
I'm also completely sick of fielding API migration emails from Google on mobile Android/Firebase. Feel like I get some "action required" every couple of weeks. This stuff saps our resources, both to fix it, and to diagnose if the issue even applies to us in the first place. If you are lucky Google includes details of the app using the API, but often this part is even left out.
This is a great example of where unit testing does not apply.

I see many developers get caught up in rituals, and polishing (and monkey testing for that matter) seem to go against a reproducible approach, and are therefore frowned upon and even ignored. Still, it is a much more powerful technique to get something both working and user friendly.

Investing in developers to spot that something is 3 pixels off, or the basic idea that different users have different tastes, can be very productive.
That’s about as much theft as me baking cookies, putting them on the street with a sign „free to take“ and people eating them is theft. Who would expect other people to add cookies and call everyone else thieves? You open source license doesn’t say „you can use it if you contribute“, it says „everyone can use it (as long as they attribute or fulfill some other requirement). How is that theft? You can’t be a thieve if you take something someone else is handing out for free voluntarily.
Sicily: Fear of foreign actors prompts security request for wreck of yacht
That's even worse imo. There's a reason nearly every major world belief system includes a proscription against necromancy and this is exactly what they mean. The living should not speak with the mouths of the dead.
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And we're getting back to that old problem. Why isn't the link-local IPv6 address automatically fe80::10 if the IPv4 is 192.168.1.10? :)
I'd understand jailbreak as escaping the jail via some vulnerability of sorts, which might not even be persisting.

In fact If I saw jailbroken in a listing I'd assume it's because the device cannot have its bootloader unlocked.
Might as well make forging signatures and identity thief legal. Who is the government to say which squiggles I may and may not write?

Society is about compromises and balancing different needs against each other. Sometimes we go one way, other times we go the other way, there is no one principle that always solve any situation.
Dennis Quaid is Reagan, in theaters now. https://www.reagan.movie/
Shouldn’t have been much of a loss. Tons and tons and tons of domain registrars exist, so it’s not an inherently expensive business.
>Yeah, this is a very astute observation.

isn't it just repeating the definition/use of debt which is why "technical debt" was called that in the first place?
> I would imagine things begin to improve around 2000 due to the broad adoption of unicode?

Yes. I don't remember the exact timing, but it was the switchover to Unicode by Windows and Mac that finally resolved the character encoding conflicts (mostly).

I don't know how much attention this got outside Japan, but there was significant opposition here to Unicode for a while from some Japanese intellectuals. Handwritten and, sometimes, typeset Japanese has traditionally allowed for a lot of minor variations in the forms of kanji. A person might write their name with an extra stroke in one character, for example. Some of those variants are ignored in Unicode as well as in the Japanese encodings on which it is based, and some people kicked up a fuss about it in the Japanese press. I remember reading rants accusing Bill Gates of trying to suppress Japanese culture by imposing a homogenized character encoding through Windows.

The controversy has long since died down, though there have been efforts to develop more comprehensive character sets of Japanese and other Asian languages, such as TRON Code and Mojikyō:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_(encoding)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojiky%C5%8D
Yes, says ChatGPT:

The Māori word "Māori" can be transcribed into the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) as:

/ˈmaːɔɾi/

Here’s a breakdown:

/ˈ/ – indicates primary stress on the first syllable
/m/ – a voiced bilabial nasal, like the "m" in "man"
/aː/ – a long open front unrounded vowel, similar to the "a" in "father," but held longer (the macron indicates length)
/ɔ/ – a mid-open back rounded vowel, like the "o" in "thought"
/ɾ/ – a tapped or flapped "r," similar to the quick "r" sound in Spanish "pero"
/i/ – a close front unrounded vowel, like the "ee" in "see"
This transcription represents the most common pronunciation of the word "Māori."
Even grosser is that they explicitly limited the iOS version of Google Photos to refuse to work with scoped access. So on iOS the app will refuse to work without being granted whole library access, a permission that Google no longer allows to any third party photo app on Android. Blatantly anticompetitive.
But the Spanish Timecrimes is much better
I would agree if revisions were enabled by default just for posts and pages.

Here’s a common example: you have a blog with 20 pages and 20 custom plugins (quite a standard these days). In a year of hosting that one, you’ll end up with millions of revisions in the database, which is really resource and speed issue for MySQL servers as the developers of WordPress never considered sharding; everything is stuffed into one table, with no indexes by default.

So, usually, the size of the DB and resources to run it go over what you would expect, so naturally, you limit it to a more sane value.

TLDR; In pristine WP env with no plugins unlimited revisions make sense. In a WP with many plugins they don't as other plugins declare them but not use them and thus we end with a system that uses huge amount of resources for nothing.

Oh and revision in WP is not like GIT revision as is full copy of the content.
> The electron mass and charge send out signals.

This affects them.
Fine. But I'm still not finding the private planes, yachts, mansions, or even houses with wife and children of people with careers in "applied" optimization. Computing, startups, venture capital, lots of careers. "Applied" optimization? In the years after my Ph.D., I didn't hear of them. As I was teaching optimization in a business school, the phone didn't ring. The phone did ring for some statistics, one from a company with sales districts and one from a law firm.
And it always gets prematurely optimized to fit a specific problem instead of being made general purpose compute engine.

FPGAs are essentially horrible systolic arrays. They're lumpy, and have weird routing hardware that isn't easy to abstract out. Those lead to multiple day compile times in some cases.

They don't pipeline things by default. The programming languages used are nowhere near a good fit to the hardware.

It's just a mess. It happens every time.
> 2 vs 3

Is this really still relevant? I've been using only python3 for well over a decade now and I can't remember the last time anyone even suggested I use python2. the rest of your critiques ring true though.
If you try to understand things about it, yes.
QLDB as well.
Looks like it’s explicitly prohibited in the new developer policy [1]:

> Do not make a substitute for Google Photos. For example, do not use the APIs to create a general purpose photo gallery app.

[1] https://developers.google.com/photos/support/api-policy
I've made the food argument before to people and I've gotten them really mad at me.

Could also say the same for sleep.
So instead of battle tested, actually feature-complete, ready-made solutions, they output some hack that barely works even in their limited use case, and took several times more time than doing it properly in an “enterprise” code base.
Googles pixel phones have an unlocked bootloader I believe.
Also on CNN https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/21/politics/video/smerconish...
It is also very easy to develop systematic automated ways to do this with tools like Playwright and Nut.js.
Do we currently have more promising experimental approaches to unveil new physics that are being ignored due to particle accelerators? My understanding is that we keep "building bigger and bigger synchrotrons" because it's really the only approach we have to probe new physics on earth. Other avenues are being explored (e.g. with the JWST or dark matter detectors), but there's only so much funding you can put into these experiments before hitting diminishing returns (a slightly improved JWST will cost a ton and not have a high RoI).

I'd be happy to hear about other promising experiments we're ignoring, but unless there are very promising and expensive alternative experiments we're ignoring, there's no good reason not to keep pushing particle accelerators. Why stop following the best approach we have so far?
what theft even means any more

They dragged the term through different phases, but that’s just projection of will. Theft is undefined for objects with .copy() interface. It’s still there when you look at it.

People have to adjust expectations, not laws. Computers replaced computers, now voice acting replaces voice actors. Your popularity doesn’t mean anything really and wouldn’t it be unfair if only popular could spare their jobs.
A metaphor with another physical object will always fall short. Why not just state the number of bits a particle represents? It's much easier to describe going through each dimension (colloqiual, I hate string theory for the same reason of unnecessarily using a physical analogy) and describing how it interacts with other particles. Sure you'll lose a lot of your audience but those that remain will have a much clearer picture than via a comparison to a billiard ball. This also makes the more advanced topics like singularities, entanglement, teleportation, the lack of true vacuum, etc much easier to manage.

(I'm aware we don't have an understanding of how quantum physics interacts with singularities, but the whole billiard ball metaphor certainly is incoherent with it)
Doesn't this have an obvious edge case for every singer from now on though? If your voice is cloned before you become a singer of renown you have no protection.
Continuing a lawsuit is not the same as agreeing with the initial claim.

Sometimes, new leadership of a company continues lawsuits because stopping them will incur a huge penalty (in fines, restrictions, control, ...). But that does not mean they will have it started to begin with.
Yeah the amount of disrespect of developer time they show here is crazy. You could have made the billing api backwards compatible for 10 years, its a super small api, but instead they force breaking changes every couple of years

Maybe it is a strategy for cleaning up old apps or something, but I doubt it
Very nice guy too! Met him at a workshop recently and got a hardcopy of the book
waiting for the dip, lol
It’s probably worth mentioning that WP Engine author the _Local_ app https://localwp.com/ which is far and away the best tool to build WP sites errr on your local machine. Then just upload to WP Engine and your are live. This valuable innovation is fueling the growth of WP Engine and makes this a bit of a honey trap.

Personally I’m not convinced that keeping a 100% audit trail for reconstruction of old states is useful in production. It may well be a better trade off to run WordPress code in a leaner way for speed and storage requirements. Since that architecture results in many ways to get the current state from the db there is also a purity argument that the default schema is too denormalised. Discuss…
https://yclist.com/ also doesn’t seem updated.
I think it's pretty reasonable to expect GNU make to be available, and rely on its features. IRIX is dead for 18 years now.
Soft hyphen (SHY) – a hard problem? (1997–2024)
Quite the opposite - a design (in general, not just software) isn't done until you can't take anything else away from it.

I've coined the term Bonsai Software here before, but I do like the sanding analogy. In the last week I've spent way more leisure time than could be considered sensible writing some user-interface code for the Amiga, in order to make defining the UI in future projects as simple and elegant as possible!
That's convenient, right? AI will be more than perfect and also be able to be imperfect if you want it, it'll just do anything you want. Here's a better prediction: Almost no one wants to listen to whatever low effort trash gets pumped into an advanced TTS.
Simpler than that: For "applied" optimization, much of a career, many applications, f'get about it.

I was naive, manipulated, and fooled. Now on the OP, there is a book title with "Applied Optimization", and I'm outraged.

So: "Always look for the hidden agenda."
If finding any new physics that would not be possible at LHC requires, say, a collider along the whole length of the equator, then building a collider twice the size of LHC is entirely useless. The only ways to justify a collider twice the size of the LHC are either (a) to say that it will be able to find phenomena that the LHC can't find, or (b) that it is a Pic stepping stone towards the equator collider.

CERN is not claiming that FCC is merely an engineering PoC stepping stone towards some larger collider, though. They are explicitly claiming that the FCC will either find or rule out some existing theories. This is basically false: all of our theories either make the same predictions for LHC energy levels as for the FCC ones (e.g. the standard model), or they have unbounded parameters and thus can't be ruled out in this way (e.g. super symmetry appears at higher energy levels, but there is no bound on how much higher energy level is required; if the FCC doesn't find supersymmetric particles, then we only find out that they require more energy, we don't get to say "sypersymmetry is now ruled out".

So what exactly are we supposed to build this thing for? The LHC had a very clear mandate: find or rule out the Higgs boson. What is the FCC going to either find or rule out?
My god the future sucks far more than we could have ever imagined. Imagine being sold a chatbot and being told it's an android!
Opened a website.
Already got `Welcome to our website!` modal that block the content.
Through the modal's overlay can see the banner `Your product could be here`.

Well, that is annoying. Thank you so much, I would rather use anything that is less intrusive.
> there has been little upside in doing these migrations.

Maybe the upside is that Google is in exchange able to offer:

> Google Cloud - great engineering, good product.
I'd add: Upnote (getupnote.com). It's a notes app with just enough features to be powerful (markdown level formatting, tags, spaces) but not too much. And a very quick/responsive app with background sync. It's comfortably replaced google docs for anything that doesn't need much styling, and works well offline.

(Not affiliated, just a happy user)
This might be the first positive thing I've ever heard someone say about at&t. Mad props for distributing phones though! If you wrote up even a brief guide as to how to do this and common pitfalls I'd do the same in my area.
I’m not sure if this is exactly what you are referring to, but Anthropic has done a lot of interpretability work on Claude, which they’ve published along with the famous "Golden Gate Claude".^1

"We also find more abstract features—responding to things like bugs in computer code, discussions of gender bias in professions, and conversations about keeping secrets."

1: https://www.anthropic.com/research/mapping-mind-language-mod...
Wow I guess "informal overview" is very different from "layperson overview", that used lots of concepts from quantum information theory.

Anyway, my layperson explanation is as follows. Let Alice and Bob share an entangled system, but are unable to communicate normally (e.g. are lightyears apart). A ice can measure her part of the system to instantaneously affect what Bob has. However, Bob doesn't know what result Alice obtained. So, in trying to figure out what Alice did to affect his system, he has to average out Alice's possible effects on his system i.e. the possible measurements that Alice could have obtained. This averaging procedure makes it so that Bob doesn't gain any information on what system he now has. In fact, he has exactly the same information about what possible measurements he would make after Alice measured her system than information he had before Alice measured her system.

Of course, if Alice was able to tell Bob the result of her measurement, then Bob wouldn't have to do any averaging and would gain information about his system. But that happening means that Alice is communicating her result to Bob classically, at slower-than-light speeds.
especially now with you tubers vainly trying to placate the fickle algorithm gods by stretching out videos to meet time minimum lengths
Not sure why you got downvoted to dead. In big companies, M365 is a way more common and complete solution compared to anything else out there. This is just a fact - I actually really like e.g. Google Sheets, but the reality is that M365 can integrate with your Microsoft stack top-to-bottom and has low-code app, automation and database services that allow you to build out a good chunk of common LOB apps with minimal complexity (not that Dataverse doesn't have some ridiculous issues).
Thing is, I don’t believe in owning software forever anymore. Things loose their value too quickly: what would an Office suite from 2005 yield me now, other than the need to run an ancient VM to produce files nobody else could work with? Am I ever going to play the copy of Dungeon Siege again that I bought in ca. 2002? No. It looks unbearable today.

So using forever is off the table; which brings me back to regularly purchasing the new version. And if I agree to do that, I begrudgingly agree to the premise that I’d rather always have the current version than having to research whether the new creative suite actually contains Photoshop features I need.
Could you speak more to the US “opening the Japanese market when they really want to”? I’m not familiar with this.
The computer always exactly does what you told it to do. You almost never know what exactly you told it.
All current theories that make definite predictions have been confirmed or refuted by the LHC. We don't have any new theory that will be refuted if the FCC can't confirm it. And in fact that remains true for any collider smaller than, say, the circumference Earth, or maybe even of the solar system. And since nothing we know suggests that building a particle collider along the entiee equator, let alone along the outer solar system, is possible even given all the funding on Earth, building something slightly larger than the LHC doesn't really achieve anything.

So, even if there is no alternative, there's no reason to spend the money. There is no rule of science or economics that if we spend 17bn euro on a new collider we'll get some new science. It's very much possible we'll get ~nothing, and thus the money is better spent on other research. If the astronomy community doesn't have a better use for it as you claim (I highly doubt that), then I'm sure some other important science does - maybe materials science, maybe in bio sciences etc. If particle physics has run its course with current technology levels, then we can put it on pause and invest in other more promising areas of physics.