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> The dude who invented the MAD doctrine did not get the award

No, he didn't win the award, because MAD doctrine (aside from it being immoral) doesn't actually work in the real world.

It's an idealized model based on game theory, which doesn't deal with pesky complexities such as irrationality, salami tactics, short-range CBMs, anti-missile defenses, tactical nukes and so on. (That's why many of these things used to be banned by treaties, to continue to pretend that MAD is actually required for peace. In reality many nations do not have nukes and live in peace.)
I will be curious to see what JRuby's fiber implementation is like in their upcoming version, currently I work on JRuby rails deployments with dozens of threads across hundreds of nodes. There's definitely some learning curves and tuning necessary when you have 40 threads in contention over a particular shared resource vs 3-5 on regular CRuby.
This reminded me of my Hopfield networks implementation in Go [1]. The algorithm is rather simple but fascinating nevertheless and works surprisingly well for reconstructing noisy images. I actually blogged about it as well [2]. But as many are discussing here Deep Memory networks based on Boltzmann networks are more powerful yet they don't seem to have found much use case either

[1] https://github.com/milosgajdos/gopfield
[2] https://cybernetist.com/2017/03/12/hopfield-networks-in-go/
The Nobel Committee doesn’t represent the field of physics. I talked to a few former colleagues (theoretical physicists) just now and every one of them found this bizarre.
Not only that, they had to manually edit the generated image to add the i386 and x86-64 labels on them.

When all you have is a hammer...
Does it only run on the STM32F4 or also some other STM32 CPUs?
Looking at https://www.st.com/en/microcontrollers-microprocessors/stm32...
how many coremarcs do you think are required for emulation?
Similarly, my A51 is only like 3-4 years old and it's already being slowly reduced to a useless brick because it only supports 4G which is being phased out and I keep losing connection entirely in some areas. The 85% charging limit has prevented the battery from degrading much over the years so it's still good for more than a day of use even after all this time. It literally works as good as the day I bought it and I'll have to get rid of it soon.

There should be more of a push for backwards compatibility at this sort of protocol level, if we stop supporting 2.4Ghz wifi a metric shit ton of devices will just become junk overnight even if they still work perfectly.
> nuclear is not much more expensive, it's cheaper

Production costs: renewables are way cheaper than nuclear ( https://www.lazard.com/media/xemfey0k/lazards-lcoeplus-june-... ) and this is not a new trend: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#...
I'd love it if there was a site where I could follow developments at the intersection between business and tech that don't mention whatever's being hyped up at that point in time.
> Physics as a research subject has ground to a halt

Max Planck was told by his professor to not go into Physics because "almost everything is already discovered". Planck said he didn't want to discover anything, just learn the fundamentals.
The economics of this topic have always been interesting to me, especially when compared to various other fields. What is there to incentivize people to enter STEM fields, and especially research?

As a point of comparison, there are ~540 premier league football players, with an average salary of 3.5 million pounds. (Yes, that's average, not median, but there's less than 20 of them that earn under 200k.) It's not _that_ exclusive of a club, and the remuneration is insanely disproportionate, compared to academics - I highly doubt there are hundreds of researches earning millions.

So, yes, it's pretty odd to have some random people dish out these prizes, and they are a drop in the pond. However, I personally feel it's way too little, and that the targets of the prizes are far more deserving - even if it's a popularity contest - than random entertainers (even if they are quite entertaining). But, it's up for argument, and the markets obviously don't seem to agree with me.
YOLO is quick enough that you can just run it on a CPU, assuming you don’t want to run it at full resolution (no point) and full frame rate (ditto) for multiple streams. When you run it scaled down at a 2-3 fps you’ll get several streams per CPU core no problem. Energy use can be minimized by running a quick motion detection pass before, but that would obviously make the system miss things creeping through the frame pixel by pixel (very unlikely if you ask me)
You can disable them, which is functionally uninstalling. Actually being able to uninstall them isn't technically possible because their base images live on a read-only partition so they survive factory reset (which erases all RW partitions). The OS could _pretend_ they're uninstalled, but that seems strictly worse than the existing presentation which more accurately reflects reality.
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You can apply the same cynicism to any political or protest movement. Not sure that it tells us very much.
Searle, John. R. (1980) Minds, brains, and programs [pdf]
Nobel Prize in Literature has always been controversial. It seems that the Physics Prize is headed that way (it’s not just this year)…
Calculus has been around for quite some time.

If Newton had the machinery to fit large models to data, he would have done so. No doubt.
In fairness, "using physics" is a pretty low bar. It was plain vanilla combinatorics and network theory.

What a strange announcement. Seems like a joke.
Terrible. Hopfield networks nobody cares about, and few heard of?
What are you talking about?

Kursk was stopped after small gains and prior to any major captures — with Ukraine losing their best units. That loss has led to cities along the line of battle being captured, including the fortress city of Vuhledar.

There’s now increased talk of Ukraine giving up territory — which is their defeat.

Edit due to rate limit:

You’re citing areas Russia withdrew from during the Istanbul talks as “lost” while ignoring that Russia posses 18% of Ukraine and is advancing.

Russia isn’t losing “more and more control” on any front, they’re forcing Ukraine back — including driving Ukraine from places like Vuhledar they’ve held for the entire war until now.

To use your Canadian analogy:

It would be like if the US seized the 20% of Canada closest to the continental US and then proceeded to shell Canadian army to dysfunction from there — which would be seen as a sane and effective strategy.
>For example, at the high water mark of political correctness in the early 1990s

I scoffed at that sentence, but obviously he could not have predicted the future.
Not yet, but it is no different than SELinux or seccomp not being the default on most Linux distributions, other than Android and ChromeOS.

Now with ongoing changes due to Secure Future Initiative, it will become so, Windows is already going into app sandboxing[3], Virtualization-based Security[2], Pluton requirements[1], and plenty others[0], I would expect it to eventually be enabled by default.

[0] - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/de...

[1] - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/hardware-...

[2] - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/de...

[3] - https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2023/06/14/public...
I agree this is rather bizarre.

But let's not forget that the brain is a physical system and that neural networks are part of the reason we understand the brain as well as we do.

There was a long period where people like Chomsky thought the brain couldn't learn fast enough and that knowledge had to be innate.
Tell me you never build anything without telling you never build anything
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> the transport between reverse proxy <-> backend is not always http, eg python w/ uwsgi and php w/ fastcgi.

That's just called a web server and not a reverse proxy then. Both are just evolutions of CGI.
> Legacy media really sucks.

Depends, the tabloids are really good at providing videos or photos from outside or pull them in so you can watch them on their site.

The more "high-end" the media, the less likely their are to provide you with external material, in my experience.
Right; the Nobel Committee has officially "jumped the shark".

Reminds me of the old classic Physics and Politics by Walter Bagehot.
https://archive.is/XQyqy
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I'm super happy for Jeff Hinton. Well deserved.
non-native speaker here

> "Expedient" is a common (or at least not rare) English word that means something like "practical and effective even if not directly attending to higher or deeper considerations."

I was not aware of the word "Expedient" before. From your example I conclude, that it has the same meaning as "pragmatic", i.e. if I sed i/expedient/pragmatic/g then your comment still makes perfect sense to me. A quick google search also seems to support this conclusion.

--> is there a nuance of the word "expedient", that I am missing here?
Also it’s not like you stop supporting these OEMs if you buy other made in china cameras. They’re essentially all designed and manufactured by very few of these large OEMs, all of which are implicated in CCP state surveillance.

You’d have to buy from actual Western companies like Axis or Dallmeier.
Physicists stole the chemistry prize, now computer scientists are stealing the physics prize, I guess
Wow ... big part of my childhood ... those robot ball things!
Weird how this seems largely forgotten
I don’t think anybody serious questions the outcome of the Ukraine war — as evidenced by the international realignment caused by NATOs defeat, increases talk about Ukraine relinquishing ground, etc.

What event do you believe could change the outcome at this point?

And since Ukraine was defeated, we can discuss why: their inability to match artillery exchanges for most of the war.
I was more referring to the statement:

> Also from my experience it's the counterparty that should feel honored to be working with Apple rather than the other way around

The Beats purchase was interesting in that I'm almost certain that Apple didn't need the technology for yet another set of headphones, but what they bought instead was the reputation/cultural allure of Beats, its founders and music catalogue.

I suspect Iovine and Dre are well beyond needing validation from or being "honored" to be working with Apple as both are such prolific creators in their own right(s).
Hi from Argentina!

When it's an event covered by different sources, it's better to find a version in English.

When there is an official translation, it's better to post the translation.

But sometimes there is no English equivalent :(

I remember very few post that got traction in other languages, like "Homer in CSS" in Spanish, or a very strange custom keyboard in Japanese. It has to be very unusual, extremely good and have a strong visual component.

---

From and old comment by dang:

> We have deep respect for other languages but HN is an English language site, so the articles posted here need to be in English.
Each story was very much a product of the society in which its author lived.

Tolkien grew up in a country with a state-funded news agency which had honest information as a core driver and was trusted by the population, while Yeskov's country instead had the goals of the party and was viewed with distrust and disdain and resulted in widespread cynicism.

Tolkien was a scholar with a mastery of language few have reached which has been widely translated, while Yeskov's work is only available to Russian readers and the one translation is not available for want of authorization, so arguably doesn't really get out the gate.

Obviously, I'm not impartial:

https://imgur.com/e6EHQkv

(which is everything except _Letters_ --- I have the new edition on my Kindle and am waiting on a corrected new edition --- if someone knows of an academic/publisher who would be interested in either a reprinting or a new edition of _The Book of Exodus_ please contact me, I'm most of the way through resetting it in LaTeX, but was rebuffed by Turville-Petre's son who holds the copyright on the commentary)
> possibly one of the first ever geo-location mobile games

The first geo-location mobile game I used to play (Xyber Mech) was from 2004; it was inspired by BotFighters from 2001, and Ingress was released in 2012 making a global craze, so I don't think you could be "one of the first ever" in 2014 ;) Pokemon Go, while certainly the most popular, was really late to the party.
Plenty of companies already make phones with cameras. “Cameraphones”, as young people call them.

Why do you want camera makers — who are obviously serving a market you are not interested in — to stop serving their market?
All of physics is modeling but not all modeling is physics.
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I'm sure he writes an article pointing all the errors in the official justification for the prize.
Hardy, A., Keen, N., van den Berg, D., Varese, F., Longden, E., Ward, T., & Brand, R. M. (2023). Trauma therapies for psychosis: A state‐of‐the‐art review. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice. https://doi.org/10.1111/papt.12499

Schäfer, I., & Fisher, H. L. (2022). Childhood trauma and psychosis-what is the evidence? Dialogues in clinical neuroscience. P. 360 – 365. https://doi.org/10.31887/DCNS.2011.13.2/ischaefer

Schlesselmann, A. J., Huntjens, R. J., Renard, S. B., McNally, R. J., Albers, C. J., De Vries, V. E., & Pijnenborg, G. H. (2022). A Network Approach to Trauma, Dissociative Symptoms, and Psychosis Symptoms in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders. Schizophrenia Bulletin https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbac122

etc.
> "He launched airstrikes or military raids in at least seven countries: Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan."
https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-na-pol-obama-at-war/

A bit different from "started a war".
> Until it can spoof the TLS handshake of a typical browser, you get these "Just a quick check..." or "Sorry, it looks like you're a bot" pages on about 80% of the web.

Evidently Firefox is not a typical browser anymore.
> Similarly the article is asking the question "Why did Helena succeed?" Undeniable all the factors they list are true. She was intelligent, perceptive, sociable, made friends, and calculated risks in her life. But the other very important factor is that she was lucky.

I don't think the role of luck is particularly significant. The article's question isn't interesting. It's not difficult for women to succeed in the sense of the article: she lived and had children. I would guess that she was below average for the society, and the modal Yanomamo woman experienced many fewer attempts on her life than Helena did.

> I don't think we have to look that deep into this. Fusiwe was a man with a short fuse and bad decisions. His dog died, he got frustrated and he snapped at someone. Helena was the one who he happened to hit.

I did say that "any random person" was a plausible choice. But Helena is more likely because there is a real sense in which she was responsible for the problem. The fact that she's part of his household also probably makes her a more likely target. Start breaking the arms of random people from your village and you'll see a lot of your political support start to waver.
I think saying they're not looking good might be a bit of an exaggeration. Technological developments in both high energy physics and astrophysics stuff are in-between generations of technology right now, which is why things are a bit slower than usual.

With astrophysics, we're probably going to need the more sensitive gravitational wave detectors that are in development to become operational for new big breakthroughs. With high energy physics, many particle colliders and synchrotron light sources seem to be undergoing major upgrades these days. While particle colliders tend to get the spotlight in the public eye and are in a weird spot regarding the expected research outcomes, light sources are still doing pretty well afaik.

This Nobel I think is mainly because AI has overwhelmingly dominated the public's perception of scientific/technological progress this year.
this is a painfully accurate description of how we feel we are treated(CERN physicists that is)
are you an ex colleague or something :)
even the FOSS world (:

RHEL 9+ (and as a result, its decedents) is built for x86_64-v2 and has increased RAM requirements for certain installation procedures, so now hundreds/thousands of perfectly functional small servers are no longer able to upgrade (to the next EL version, obviously there are other distributions, but then there's the resource/energy requirement to change everything to something new...) (:

the entirety of computing from top to bottom doesn't give a fuck about the environment. The only way to make this "sustainable" is to slow down and fix/maintain things... but of course that's the antithesis of this world we've built.
I agree with your first sentence, only I would replace the word "cynicism" with "skepticism".

And I think it is actually useful. People will try to manipulate other people through emotions, and mobs are easy to manipulate. One should have fairly high barriers before joining a street mob, because its potential destructive power is enormous, and it also tends to elevate unsavory characters to positions of power.

I am not saying that those barriers should be infinitely high, but fairly high.

For us humans, it is easy to succumb to "righteousness in numbers".
This is embarrassing.

But denigrating an old institution for fashion is trendy these days — just look at their Olympics behavior.
In physics...?
Why is this being downvoted? It doesn't break any guidelines, and it's obviously correct to boot.

Curation is the status quo, the only thing that would change is that people could choose to trust another entity to curate their apps.
Not really because they are different monopolies. The IOS apps and Android apps are different markets
Amazing, a Nobel Prize in Engineering!. Strange times indeed.
> Laypeople needs a simple way to know who's who in advanced research fields

What need of a layperson does knowing "who's who" in advanced research fields fill?

Here's another good question related to that: Who is qualified to simplify that so that the need is filled?
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Their work does not advance the field of physics in any way, unless you insist to extend physics to each and every discipline out there.
The goal here is to attribute a very important area in contemporary technology to physicists. This prize advances physics in terms of giving it higher importance in the minds of lay people and journalists.
Nope. Almost everybody has more than one device (laptop, phone, and maybe a tablet) with more than one IP (both home wifi and phone data). Everyone has multiple email addresses.

You could get by with requiring a unique phone number, but that still risks excluding users, and can get expensive if you intend on catering to an international audience. Even in that case, some people may have a landline and a cell phone, or they may use a friend/spouse/relative’s phone to circumvent your limits.
My understanding is that the anti-proliferation lobby* is intensely allergic to several of the technologies involved in doing that.

*EDIT - I'm referring to the US-centered anti-proliferation lobby. Though "national security establishment" might be a better term. And yes, its ability to influence French, Japanese, etc. domestic nuclear power policy is much more limited.
Eagerly waiting for Schmidhuber's comment on the prize.
You're being downvoted for the delivery, not the message essence. There are better ways to ask and respond, better words, than you used
Three off the top of my head:

The measurement of the Hubble constant using delay times between multiple images of lensed supernovae.

The first transit spectrum of an exoplanet atmosphere.

The first directly imaged exoplanet.

(They could hand out Nobel Prizes in the field of exoplanets like candy.)
The authors propose a novel approach where checklists are automatically generated to systematically assess and guide LLM outputs, ensuring more comprehensive and reliable evaluations by LLMs. E.g. it increases in the frequency of exact agreements between LLM judgements and human preferences from 46.4% to 52.2%.

From my perspective it would be neat if the benchmarks would support more model types and not only the predominat GPTs, which only showed that they can relatively easy be scaled up, though it was never stated that they can model language better with the same resources (AFAIK).
Because it's very profitable?

The issue is that even if you know it's wrong, what are you going to do to. You grow to a certain size, and it then becomes clear that you're inching closer and closer to becoming a monopoly. Do you then stop and inform your shareholders that you unfortunately reached the maximum size for your organisation?

Even if you have no moral issue continuing down your current path, you have very little to fear, because the precedence is that you'll get a relatively mild punishment.

For Amazon, if this was to have any real meaning, the US government could step and an say: Because of the actions of Amazon, the online store, we're no longer able to utilize AWS in good faith. This would force Amazon to split their businesses into two, or lose government contracts, which would both be a real punishment.
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Random one, but how do you find using Cal - Im keen to try it out?? I saw it on Onestack.cloud hosted for A$10 per 10 users per month which is pretty decent - our startup has a few founders and are pre-revenue, so means we couldn't really afford per user per month.
I found YOLOS to be faster and better, bot real time but 22k objects under half second
Bob Dylan on literature was another "hmm" one.

Not against nor in favor, it was just an unexpected awardee.
So the Great War with Pakistan turns out to be checks notes the raid on OBL compound?
> neural networks are part of the reason we understand the brain as well as we do

We don’t understand much then.
That's why I wrote that it was unexpected.I'm not taking position of if this was deserved or undeserved, but this was clearly in the realm of physics and inspired by it.

Accepting wrong arguments in support of positions you have is not good way to live your life. It leads to constipation.
Why do you keep jumping from AM to digital radio? What does that even mean, are you talking about XM? You do know FM exists and is analog, right?
> The big selling point on Rust is no memory leaks

Memory leaks are not considered memory errors in Rust and they are allowed.
DKIM signatures from mailing list providers don't mean too much
>I'm sure there are probably other ways to handle it too.

Yes, there is. The simplest solution is called XmlHttpRequest, which has a "progress" event that correctly reports the response body bytes.

You can even make a wrapper for XmlHttpRequest and call it "myFetch()" if you insist.
Everything is either mathemetics or stamp-collecting (ie social sciences).

Physics and chemistry are just applications of mathematics.
I'm puzzled. Which ways do you feel were bad?

My first comment which reached -2 said:

> That video by Perun is 2 years old, while TFA is from today. Surely there have been additional lessons learned in two years?

What was wrong about the delivery, so that I can learn and avoid it in the future?