skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a theory that the worse is better approach begets an environment where the worse is better approach is better.

At least hypothetically, I think there's an approach which is not "the right thing" or "worse is better" but rather more like "the right foundations".

Most interface complexity in my experience seems to be inherited from underlying interface complexity, and it takes a lot of work to fix that underlying interface complexity. This, I think is where "worse is better" shines. If you try to apply a "the right thing" approach to a system where you're dealing with shitty underlying interfaces (i.e. every popular operating system out there including every unix, and NT system) you end up with endless complexity and performance loss. So obviously nobody will want to do "the right thing" and everyone who takes the "worse is better" approach will end up way ahead of you in terms of delivering something. People will be happy (because people are almost always happy regardless of how crap your product is).

On the other hand, designing something with "the right foundations" means that "the right thing" no longer needs to involve "sacrifice implementation simplicity in favour of interface simplicity" to anywhere near the same extent because your implementation can focus on implementing whatever interface you want rather than first paving over a crappy underlying interface.

But the difficulty of "the right foundations" is that nobody knows what the right foundations are the first 10 times they implement them. This approach requires being able to rip the foundations up a few times. And nobody wants that, so "worse is better" wins again.
Curious, would Peter Shor qualify? I struggle if his work is really just CS or enough physics to be in the discussion.
That's different local prize by the American society of civil engineers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Noble_Prize
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. The award shouldn't have been given for intentions, before he even did anything. We should not reward promises, but action. Even a long term member of the committee expressed regret in them giving it to Obama.
Natural disasters are also part of nature. It doesn't follow that I should want to be hit by a tsunami because of this.

It doesn't matter if we're part of nature. The negative affects are enough to justify not allowing it to happen when possible.
From experience anything banking adjacent will usually fuck it up as well

For some reason they have a hard-on for putting last names in capital letters and they still have systems in place that use ASCII
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That was my almost immediate reaction to the headline! Rarely credited but rarely forgotten.
Altough of course you're right, let's play devil's advocate an imagine a world without Nobel prices.

Laypeople needs a simple way to know who's who in advanced research fields, without Nobel prices (or any other commitee) we don't get to have that.

If people gets to ignore (more) such topics, it's likely politicians, and universities react accordingly, and funnel funds to other enterprises.

All these prices (I'd say writing prices are much worse) are typically super corrupt, but at least keep the field in people minds.
Like it or not, one of the reasons Obama got the award was his campaign promise of withdrawing from Iraq. Guess who actually did it?
There are plenty of examples of technological advances that in one fell swoop entirely eliminate a class of societal problems. Haber-Bosch, for example, completely eliminated famine as a barrier to world populations growth. Penicillin and vaccines eliminated entire categories of terminal disease.

We don’t NEED to reduce emissions. So long as we clean up as much or more than we pollute, what’s the problem?
> need for batteries

They are needed for transportation, whatever the way we produce electricity (even with nuclear).

> renewables can’t be used in various industrial processes

Why? There is no difference between nuclear-produced electricy and renewable-produced (or battery-stored)-electricy.

> Hopefully we get fusion soon

Does some optimistic scientist hope to enjoy an industrial prototype before 2050?
I think the prize in 2022 was a nice prize, but it could still be considering just tidying the corners. In the end it just proved that things really work as most of us has thought it worked for decades.
I strongly disagree, as long as you frame the topic more reasonably as 'Want growth (that doesn't only benefit a small group of kleptocrats)?'.
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B&Q used to (maybe still do) run lorries up the motorway with the two-line legend: "www.diy.com. Shop online NOW".

Now? I'm literally driving. I'll end up ploughing into the back of your lorry if I shop online now.
Yes. That's the joke.
Bob Dylan already won that prize to similar controversy.
Neither Hopfield networks nor Restricted Boltzmann Machines/Deep Belief Networks really panned out for any purposes outside some theoretical niches.

The prize was awarded for "AI" and the tenous links to physics of some irrelevant models are just an excuse.
Location backup for where GPS isn't reliable. If you've got the signal strength of a few networks with known coordinates, triangulating can give enough of a location guide to be significantly better than nothing.
High doses of green tea extract is not the same as isolated L-theanine. You'd have to show research on the latter here.

The writing in that first paper is so poor that it's hard to take it too seriously, but it's a narrative review, not a study. The second link is a study on a few rats.
Update: this should be fixed now
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Maybe the story here isn't so much whether Hinton is a physicist or not, but rather a lack of groundbreaking progress in physics to give the Nobel to.
It seems like a hallucination generated from a ChatGPT prompt...
Moreover many materials used in 'renewables' equipment (wind turbines...) are eternally (at human scale) recyclable. This reduces the need for mining.

Uranium has to be mined.
Well, Geoff Hinton should get the prize for physiology instead. It's called “neural” networks after all.
>Looks like an award to increase the reputation of the Nobel prize.

If anything it stains the reputation of the Nobel prize to me. How seriously can you take the Nobel committee after this?
Interesting read - I thought that the reason the aliens sent the supercomputer probe things ahead of their invasion fleet was because they understood the humans capacity for advancement would far exceed their own capabilities if left unchecked for the duration of the invasion trip, indicating "pathetic" now, but capacity to be far superior.

Devoured all three books - really interesting hard sci-fi, although as noted by others, the first one took a bit of effort to work through.
I mentioned my issues with it.

I mentioned that we can't do cross chain transactions. That for a company like visa it doesn't even make sense to expose transactions publicly, moving trust from your own business to some outside entity (why would visa even want to destroy their own business), all the scams which are happening (which makes it hard to understand what is valid and what not), the fact that smart contracts aren't just solving automagically all problems as they also have to be develloped, validated etc.

Did you adress all my points?
Much of the experimental action in recent decades has been in low energy theoretical particle physics. Down near absolute zero, where quantum effects dominate and many of the stranger predictions of quantum mechanics can be observed directly. The Nobel Prizes in physics for 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, and 2003 were all based on experimental work down near absolute zero.
https://boards.4chan.org/sci/
We want to support as many environments as possible and are doing them in order of easiest & most requested - you are the first one to ask about Dart/Flutter

React Native is released (experimental)

After that will be really good support for Next.JS (Jazz for both SSR and client)

A bit later will probably be a Rust port, which then also makes bindings to Swift/Kotlin/Go/... easy
There were some predictions that Peter Shor could win this year for quantum computation. I'd say his work is a lot closer to physics than Hinton's or Hopfield's.
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Interesting. LeCun, Bengio, Schmidhuber and Hochreiter are (amongst others) also mentioned in this article.
In 1939 Claude Shannon won the "wrong" Nobel prize -- The Alfred Noble Prize award presented by the American Society of Civil Engineers [0]. It causes a lot of confusion.
Claude Shannon never won a "real Nobel".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Noble_Prize

EDIT: typos
I'm probably not the right person to ask, but off the top of my head: superconductivity of high-pressure hydrides; various quantum stuff like quantum computing, quantum cryptography, quantum photonics, quantum thermodynamics; topological phases; rare decays (double beta, etc.); new discoveries in cosmic rays, etc.

My point was that physics is a big and active field, stagnation at the smallest and largest scales notwithstanding. Note also that the Nobel committee is not in any way limited to "newsworthy" stuff and has in many cases awarded prizes decades after the fact.
What the FreeBSD ISO size comparison overlooks is that to provide 32 bit application compatibility FreeBSD/amd64 will include a i386 copy of all libraries (unless deselected).
The biggest hurdle on that is the question "How do I move the discomfort to the side of pleasure?".
Public domain Tetris ROM to try it:

https://github.com/tbsp/Adjustris

https://github.com/tbsp/Adjustris/releases

Another one, a platform game, GPLv3 licensed:

https://github.com/mholtkamp/carazu

https://github.com/mholtkamp/carazu/releases

You need this to compile both ROMs:

https://github.com/gbdev/rgbds
I can only think of major achievements in my (narrow) field of study.

What do you think could have reasonably been awarded?
> The least amount of wars in any century since WW2

:/
I recommend uninstalling python. Great learning experience.
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Fair enough. I would argue that we're probably talking about different use cases. If you're at the stage of categorising and channelling queries to different people, your site is probably already "heavyweight" enough to justify a backend anyway.
A profound moment where physics, neuroscience and artificial intelligence intersect.
I agree, but the logging formatters don't really do much beyond trivially pasting in placeholders.

And as for data entry... Maybe in an ideal world. In the current world, marred by importing previously mangled datasets, a common solution in the few companies I've worked at is to just not do anything, which leaves ugly edges, yet is "good enough".
It is possible. I already embedded chibicc in exaequOS. I will continue with xcc and clang
It can actually be a bargain though. CPU time I can buy with money, life time is a lot more difficult to extend (not to mention the frustration a second of startup time can cause).
> […] [Obama] is the only US president in modern history to explicitly authorize the assassination of a US citizen without a trial

Just one of the many things Obama did that upsets me so much. The precedent he set with that is criminal.

Of course I’m against terrorism, but our government MUST NOT have the right to classify Americans as terrorists and just execute them without a trial—via drone strikes!

Most Americans likely don’t even know about what happened to the al-Awlaki’s, which is unfortunate.
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As evidenced by the search for room temperature low pressure superconductors.
I’m glad the neutering program worked. I usually don’t go to touristy places, but I will make an effort to come here now that I know it’s a transient opportunity.
Comments like yours have been expressed for _9 whole years_ since Rust 1.0 released in 2015. Not so Language of the "Moment" anymore, eh?
Someone changed the Wikipedia article today to call Hopfield a "physicist". Previously the article called him simply a scientist, because his main work wasn't limited to physics. I changed it back now, let's see if it holds up.
Try to run a Windows 8.0 WinRT application on Windows 11 to see how forward compatible it is.
Ask HN: Is there a way to ensure one-person-one-account at all?
Without relying on any document issues from government, without excluding disabled person, and without requiring the admin to personally know each users.

Using credit card doesn't tell if two accounts are created by distinct person. And it exluced person without credit card.

There are some (incomplete) approach to check if the user is a person or a bot, but not if the users are distinct person as of my knowledge.
I'd like to reserve the term "no scripting" for that :) I guess if we popularise the term "no backend", the two could co-exist. I want to talk about sites that are just a collection of flat files, with no server-side processing; for me, "static" does that job perfectly.
And who are the Oscar’s to give out awards to movies?

You can hand out the MJBurgess awards for non-NN-related physics today!
can't imagine working at a company with so many competent team members.

fun narrative though!
>Insert "... an hour later .." meme

The same meme is true for C++ projects, yet I don't see people screaming C++ propaganda when Unreal Engine uses it for development.

Come on now. You are the same thing you complain about.
Thanks for the info. Of course, "its all open source" is a fair answer, but its also a dangerous one, since it shifts culpability for verification to anyone who has the time/resources to audit the open source components that you're using.

But, it also has to be stated, there is no guarantee that you're using only the open source components you've declared, which is why an impartial audit by a third party would be necessary before this project can be used to build products in some industries.

Anyway, I see that you have other concerns, so no worries and thanks for the honest answer.
At least the somewhat free interpretation of field boundaries is nothing new. The physicist Rutherford ("All science is either Physics or stamp collecting")[1]
won the Chemistry Nobel Prize.

Influence and consideration of the Zeitgeist is also nothing new. Einstein got his prize for the discovery of the Photoelectric Effect and not Relativity.

[1] I know that some people have interpreted this quote in favor of the other sciences but I think that is far fetched.
TBF backpropagation was introduced only in the 1970's, although in hindsight it's a quite trivial application of the chain rule.

There were also plenty of "hacks" involved to make the networks scale such as dropout regularization, batch normalization, semi-linear activation functions (e.g. ReLU) and adaptive stochastic gradient descent methods.

The maths for basic NNs is really simple but the practice of them is really messy.
> But, in Microsoft's case, it's sort of different.

Microsoft has a long history of trying to make both work, but I think the reality of it is actually not that far away:

Windows 10/11 is a very poor tablet OS, a ton of stuff will be clunky with touch as it's currently just a very thin layer of adjustments on top of the OS, and expecting to get access to all the potential of the machine without a keyboard and trackpad will be a recipe for disappointment.

So, if the iPad had to rival the Surface Pro, it could probably do it tomorrow by just sticking macos on it with the accessibility options (virtual keyboard, mouse etc) and call it a day.

Where Microsoft is truely different is that they still shipped the Surface Pro and let users deal with it. The UI in tablet mode is almost the same, with just the taskbar a bit bigger. Sometimes you'll absolutely need a mouse, so if you don't have one you pull the virtual mouse, solve your situation and go back to what you were doing. Sometimes the entry field is from an obscure API and doesn't pop the keyboard, so you pop it manually and deal with it. Or you absolutely need a shortcut, so again you pop the keyboard in the middle of nowhere, hit the shortcut, and make the keyboard go away.

This is the clunkiness Microsoft has fully embraced, and it makes their tablets actually "just work" as you're given all the tools to straightly do what you want to do. That's where Apple is backing out, and chose to build a DisneyLand OS instead of a gritty, dirty and clunky, but fully functional city like environment.

I get why people want a more polished and elegant experience, but if the goal is to get things done, it's probably the most realistic way forward.
> All the math and CS needed for AI can fit on a napkin, and had been known for 200+ years.

This isn't really true. If you read a physics textbook from the early 1900s, they didn't really have multivariate calculus and linear algebra expressed as concisely as we do now. It would take several napkins. Plus, statistical mechanics was quite rudimentary, which is important for probability theory.
Lol, you haven’t learned your lesson with Vercel yet?
Maybe his servers were causing paranormal activities in the Hetzner office. Probably, right
To be fair, Nobel Prize has a history of expanding the traditional bounds of respective fields when awarding the prizes:

Bertrand Russel got the Nobel prize in literature

Daniel Kahneman got Nobel in economics
Indeed, officially the casks conceived during the 1980's are OK, however in 2011 the MIT discovered that "Cracking related to corrosion could occur in 30 years or less, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is studying whether the casks can be used for 100 years as some hope."

https://archive.nytimes.com/green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/...
We still have a decade or so to get back to average

Also, WW2 being so utterly destructive, back to back after an arguably even worse global war, skews the stats a little.
For the sake of replacement, we should not include the charging efficiency, because the context is that of "how kuch energy the car can store" rather than "where it comes from"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigar#Health_effects

https://academic.oup.com/jnci/article-abstract/96/11/853/252...

They're still terrible for you and disgusting to be around.
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Former high energy theorist here: things are not looking so good for high energy physics (both theoretical and experimental) which loosely speaking accounted for maybe 1/3-1/2 of Nobel Prizes in the 20th century. That’s part of the reason I got out. I’m inclined to say astrophysics and cosmology, another pillar of the fundamental understanding of the universe, isn’t doing that well either, probably in the okayish but not as exciting as it used to be territory. I’m not qualified to talk about other fields.
Of the reports linked, didn't look very inconsequential. A light touch maybe.
> Clone this popular open source game written in Rust.

What does this have to do with Rust GPU? A game is compiling slowly, I get that but what is the connection?
>Nope I'm sorry I have a machine on my desk which disagrees

I said Mixed DPI. You don't have a low DPI program running next to a high DPI program on your desktop right now, do you?

See, that's why I said you have been feigning ignorance.

And I don't blame you, ignorance is bliss! :D
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I’ll go first:

A friend of mine raised $2.1M from a US fund in the construction space. I had also tried to raise from this fund but wasn’t successful. Later, another contact in the same industry shared his experience with this fund. They spent two months "reviewing" his data room, holding meetings, asking questions, and seeing demos. In the end, they passed and funded his competitor instead. While frustrating, that's part of the game.

Now, back to my friend. The fund led his round, and he’s currently raising his next round. They initially committed to an additional $2M. He successfully secured $4-5M from other investors and returned to the fund, asking for the term sheet to finalize the round. However, the fund suddenly claimed they had lost confidence in him and his startup—even though he had grown revenue 5x in 9 months to over $150K MRR. They asked him to reach out to the new investors to help buy them out.

This is a $250M fund (Fund III), so they’re certainly not running out of money. Needless to say, he felt completely blindsided and betrayed.
It highlights the evolving nature of scientific boundaries
Let me put it this way: If I responded to you with "Why should I bother listening to you because you constantly make bad faith arguments" you wouldn't treat the question seriously because (I assume) you do not constantly make bad faith arguments.

It's not that there isn't an answer, it's that there is a problem with the framing of the question itself that should be addressed by the person asking it first.
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many proved it worked, including the Phenix and Superphenix, but were closed due to political reasons. Now russia is the leader with bn-600 and india/china are catching up
Most blades are now burnt in cement killns. Burying them is forbidden in most (maybe even all, now) Western nations. Recyclable blades have recently become available (RecyclableBlade, ZEBRA, PECAN...), and there are even new ways to cope with the old ones: https://www.offshorewind.biz/2023/02/08/newly-discovered-che...

> The same is true for solar panels

I doubt so, details will be welcome.
Spaces to be creative and to work remotely around the world
Reminds me of this quote by Bauman: https://untested.sonnet.io/notes/proteus-uncertainty-is-the-...
Real physics and its resulting breakthrough technologies have been hidden from society for a very long time. And so they simply need somebody they can give that price to.
That's absurd. The computer science needed for AI has not been known for 200 years. For example, transformers were only invented in 2017, diffusion models in 2015.

(When the required math was invented is a different question, but I doubt all of it was known 200 years ago.)
I think a fair concern is lack of SDKs for cloud based services you will need to / will be forced to use.
I grew up under an authoritarian regime, and I am heavily biased against them. It is impossible for me to give an untainted opinion on this subject.

Has China been successful since 1949? By many measures, yes it has. However, in my bones, I know that when there is no chance of losing an election, corruption will run rampant and eventually reach critical mass.

Xi anointing himself emperor and steadily getting rid of many high-ranking officials who question his final authority, is to me, the most obvious example of the wave peaking before it breaks. When Xi became leader for life it was a tacit admission that "the system" had begun to fail, therefore extraordinary measures had to be taken.
I meant net imports. France alone net exported to Germany 11TWh from those 20
What benign reason could there possibly be that isn't better based on IP addresses rather than domains.
I don’t think calculus existed at sufficient rigor 200 years ago.

Computer science wasn’t even a thing 100 years ago.
Protein powder is 90% marketing that is a distortion of reality and research for marketing purposes. None of this matters unless you are only getting your protein from one source.

If you are eating north of .5-7 grams per lb of bodyweight throughout the day you are not going to be short of amino acids when needed even if lifting really hard.

I like a protein shake because it taste good and different but there is absolutely nothing special about any of this. Protein powder has the absolute most bullshit around the product of anything I can even think of.