skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you wanted to defend a system from this, a big chunk of defence would be to choose a system with ECC, and then to halt() the whole system when an ECC error occurs.

Since the attacker is very unlikely to flip the exact right bits to make ECC match, their exploit is very likely to be detected before it succeeds. halt() is necessary so the attacker cannot have more tries at it.

Obviously you have the downside that real memory errors cause the system to crash.
The reason SSGs are primarily interesting to software developers is that the software architecture of the site is primarily interesting to software developers. Other people (both authors and readers) don't care how the pages are produced, they only care that the pages are there.
The trouble is defining what "the content" means. Are you saying "no JS" — if so, just say so! Otherwise, how are you distinguishing between "content" and ... "other stuff"?
You mean like the ones working on Wall Street?
To the point of nuclear fusion even.
I think he means to be saying that, in the context of TCP/IP, nobody knows what a “session” in the OSI sense would correspond to—not that nobody has ever implemented X.225. Presumably Graham knows that people have written X.225 implementations and isn't trying to convince his readers otherwise?

I don't know enough to judge his assertion that the session layer exists to solve problems created by half-duplex terminals. (He doesn't seem to specifically call out Ceefax.)
Are the Russians not using sophisticated electronic warfare?
Neither of these models were never really influential though beyond some theoretical niches.
I agree with you; not even SSI.
No country in the world is free to develop nukes, for any reason. Some still do, of course, but it is expressly forbidden by international laws and agreements.
I have spread no disinformation. Seems to me you fail to come up with arguments against what I actually said so instead you create a strawman.

Nuclear costs are way higher than anyone has ever accounted for and they are kicked to future generations. This is a fact and we can do better.

The right thing to do is surely to spend now on tech that continues to pay dividends in the future. Maybe we ourselves won't see the benefits directly in our wallets but the future will.
And because it always has been we should keep doing it no matter what. Also fish do it so it's a good excuse to do the same.
Machine Learning Got a Nobel Prize in Physics
Nobody reads that apparently. I posted right after you said this...no responses.
310 employees is not very small. Anyway, the sweet spot for company size depends on what the company does, as productivity gains in certain tasks can be bought through capital expenditure. Heavy industry is an obvious outlier on the bigger-is-better side. Software, on the other hand, arguably has very low returns on increased company size.
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Waiting for Sabine's comment: "Told you so, physics is dead"
Maybe I misunderstand, but this feels misdirected. As someone who's employed by "greedy clowns" (web development agencies I guess?), I continuously observe that people pay for what saves them time. Our entire profession is built on this premise. If you have a person doing interesting things, does it really matter if they write their own HTML or pay someone else to write it?

The web is turning increasingly monolithic entirely thanks to the modern social network conglomerate. That has nothing to do with the choice of technology.
Cost of living adjusted? Japan, while generally rich, is surprisingly less expensive than I expected before visiting.
Yes. That is confusingly phrased. Took me a sec too.
On lightning and safety and electrostatics: "Answer to Is there a device that attracts lightning when storms are near? How can I make a lightning rod to do experiments with lightning?" (202_ yrs ago) https://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-device-that-attracts-lightn... :

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

The Photoelectric effect that supports the Particle-Wave duality > History:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoelectric_effect :

> Einstein theorized that the energy in each quantum of light was equal to the frequency of light multiplied by a constant, later called the Planck constant. A photon above a threshold frequency has the required energy to eject a single electron, creating the observed effect. This was a step in the development of quantum mechanics. In 1914, Robert A. Millikan's highly accurate measurements of the Planck constant from the photoelectric effect supported Einstein's model, even though a corpuscular theory of light was for Millikan, at the time, "quite unthinkable". [47] Einstein was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for "his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect", [48] and Millikan was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923 for "his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect".[49]
I think this is (very) inaccurate. It feels more like them trying to jump on a "hot topic" bandwagon (machine learning/AI hype is huge).

Physics as a discipline hasn't really stalled at all. Fundamental physics arguably has, because no one really has any idea how to get close to making experimental tests that would distinguish the competing ideas. But even in fundamental physics there are cool developments like the stuff from Jonathan Oppenheim and collaborators in the last couple of years.

That said "physics" != "fundamental physics" and physics of composite systems ranging from correlated electron systems, and condensed matter through to galaxies and cosmology is very far from dead.
This is truly baffling to me. Google is far from doing anti-competitive bs than Apple does. You can't install anything on an apple device without the whims of Apple. This calls into question whether you actually own your Apple device or not when you can't even tinker with it. Simply put, you don't own an Apple device.

Google's Android is pretty much as open as things can be, yes, from hardware manufacturers' perspective it is a shit deal that you have to install their entire suite of apps if you want to use Play Store. Yes, this thing is anti-competitive but Epic wasn't fighting along these lines.

It is not fair to call Google anti-competitive for wanting to maintain their supremacy on their own app. It's like you have a shop selling your brand's merchandise and you are very successful but are told by a judge to allow other brand's merchandise on your acquired customers. Truly wild.

With Android, you can always install competing app stores on your phone by going to the website of the developer. It makes zero sense to want to make things "more" open. Yes, Google warns you that you are installing an app from other location, but that is on the user man and is good opsec on google's part to not let any random user install apps from anywhere. There should be a little barrier to prevent apps from being installed and google's os does that.

There are plenty of apps in India which operate outside the purview of Google's Play Store and doing business of billions of $. Google and Apple both don't allow gambling apps on their platform but there are so many companies here that are distributing their apps through their website and succeeding and they are a big business at that. I doubt there are any other examples in the world of apps succeeding doing billions of $ in revenue outside Apple/Google stores.

The actual action needs to be taken on Apple's App Store who are the biggest offenders of walled garden and not letting users make a choice. I am pretty sure, if the users got to know that they are paying more for apps on their apple devices than their web counterparts, they would be up in arms. Devs cannot even convey to their users that they are paying more when they buy through app store.

This is ridiculous.
Nice to see that you can make a glib, worthless, condescending comment that added nothing to the conversation.

At least start your sentences with a capital letter, they might at least have the veneer of being worthwhile to read.
I do. Please share.
May be I should know better, but is there no Nobel category for computer science or mathematics? This isn't physics, this is absolutely embarrassing. May be all those bitter elder physicists who didn't get a prize can feel a little justified in their derision of the institution.
This is embarrassing. I would say Hopfield networks aren't even very revolutionary in neuroscience, but they're so old I can't tell. In terms of AI... they've been irrelevant for thirty years. I guess you could argue a transformer is a generalized Hopfield network, but of course that's a post-hoc understanding. None of this has anything to do with physics.

So what if an energy function lets you approximate the number of macro-states it can capture? Should every mathematics paper with Lagrange multipliers be put up for nomination? Every poll that uses the law of large numbers, and thus, entropy? Surely the computer scientists building the internet need to be included as well, since their work is based in information theory.

Or maybe, hear me out, we reserve the Nobel Prize in physics for advances in the physical sciences, understanding physical reality or how to bend it to our will.
An important thing to be aware of. However, storing nitrate film in your shed would still be illegal and inadvisable. There is a decade buffer ensuring Thunderbirds was not filmed on nitrate. tbh I don't think the is any nitrate film stored in a shed which would still be recoverable.
On Firefox it apparently disappeared in 2011

https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix/wiki/%5BArticle%...
String theory and the foundations are not the only area of physics. It would be nice for theorists to remember that.
Does anyone have insights on how to license ARM chips after a hobby project reaches maturity?
Could you elaborate, which wars did he start? (honest question)
I'm using hugo. It's great.
Interesting thought. I hear some voices saying theoretical physics is stuck with string theory, but am not really qualified to make a judgement.
Is it? My experience is that most of the time in practice uneven legs of four legged objects are within a small enough tolerance margin that they can be considered mostly equal, but floors are surprisingly less even than we initially suspect, their vertical variability being perceptually dwarfed by their overall surface.
Scientific Integrity and the History of Deep Learning (2022)
There is no guarantee whatsoever that if Russia were to launch a nuke on Ukraine, the USA or any other country would launch one against Russia. If they launched one on the USA or a EU country, that would be a different matter.
Can we please get iOS on Linux so we don't have to buy the phone to develop for it?
Obtaining the amount of victims of an evacuation is difficult, and official figures are conservative for many reasons, the main one being that each victim's family obtained financial reparation (see also the "Limitations" section of a pertinent study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266676572... ).

During the Fukushima nuclear accident information was scarce and volatile, specialists said that evacuating up to Tokyo may prove necessary (this was revealed by Kan Naoto, then Japan's Prime Minister: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nuclear-power-ody... ).

This is biz as usual: after a war many armchair experts, especially those acting upon one of the parties, are quite sure that "tackling this was easy". During the event, they are nowhere to be found.
I would challenge this view:
a) every price point - definitely not the low end
b) in very large numbers - definitely not 6 digit numbers we see in Ukraine
c) Ukraine IS the most hostile EW environment, and various US weapon systems do not fare that great there

Yes, US were the first movers and invested a lot - but into expensive high-end systems (and not really tested in challenging EW environment), not ubiquitous low-end. Presumably they are catching-up. Maybe. They are not catching-up in building warships.
I assume with 80% profit?
A lot of capital investments only makes sense at scale, though. The machines are more productive when manned 24/7, and the machines are often more efficient the larger they become.
reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Schmidhuber#Credit...
Android is not an open platform because in practice everything works on Google Play Services.
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Could you give me some examples of areas of fundamental physics that are vital and have done some significant discoveries lately? I genuinely would like to know, because I really can't think of any.
"A history of western philosophy" by Bertrand Russell.
The world's most prominent philosopher at the time, took a few years out of his working at the front line to write a summary on 2000 years of thought for layman's and won a nobel prize. It's not the easiest read, you can take issue with some interpretations but theres nothing like it. I think it required reading for being a thoughtful human.

“A precious book … a work that is in the highest degree pedagogical which stands above the conflicts of parties and opinions.” – Albert Einstein
Dupe based on a news derivative of the original source:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41775463
Physics is not stuck in string theory as physics is not just high energy theoretical particle physics. There's also more going on in high energy theoretical particle physics than just "string theory".
Honestly, I am stunned by today's Nobel committee announcement. Hinton's Boltzmann machine is a clever construct that nobody, repeat nobody, in the AI and ML is using anymore in actual practice.

EDIT: add minor clarification.
recently,somewhere,was detailed the history of exactly how we ended up with "standard" rail guages
and that boiled down to ancient choices,that then
got litteraly,stuck in a rut
ie: the grooves worn into paved surfaces
so any real challenge to water born cargo,will need a re-think
He unironically should
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 don't think it was likely to be the result of some complicated calculation.

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. Perhaps the most important factor. There are thousands and thousand of other alternate histories where we don't hear about her because the jaguar got her, or the poison arrow kills her, or an infection kills her, or Fusiwe hits her on the head instead on the arm and kills her instantly.
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Curious, does QEMU use some kind of ahead-of-time translating scheme? Or do they rewrite instructions as they see them?
> Don't get me wrong, their work is probably prize worthy

I would strongly disagree with you there. It's the exact same idea as the least squares approximation or conjugate gradient method: create an energy function from a quadratic and minimize it.
> Other people (both authors and readers) don't care how the pages are produced, they only care that the pages are there.

Readers, sure. Authors? Absolutely not true. Some authors might not be tech savvy enough to know better, but they are immensely influenced by the process of getting the content online. That's the whole reason why there's a huge industry around publishing content on the internet.
I had a simillar take until I found keyd:

https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd
Picfee
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Dunno about your printer but with my Brother Laser the CUPS driver can do double-sided printing on Linux just fine.

But you should in theory also be able to do this without any Brother-specific driver since pretty much all modern printers speak IPP for mobile device compatibility.
This project is also very much worth checking out.

https://cranelift.dev/

From the page:

Cranelift is a fast, secure, relatively simple and innovative compiler backend. It takes an intermediate representation of a program generated by some frontend and compiles it to executable machine code. Cranelift is meant to be used as a library within an "embedder".

It is in successful use by the Wasmtime WebAssembly virtual machine, for just-in-time (JIT) and ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation, and also as an experimental backend for the Rust compiler.

Cranelift is an optimizing compiler, but it aims to take a fresh look at which optimizations are necessary. We have explicitly avoided features -- such as advanced alias analysis or use of undefined behavior -- that have historically led to subtle miscompilations in other compilers. Cranelift consists of about 200 thousand lines of code; in contrast, e.g. LLVM consists of over 20 million lines of code, a hundred times larger. This difference also allows Cranelift to be relatively approachable to developers, researchers, auditors and others who wish to understand how it works.
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Hm, they have to fit them into Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, or Peace. I guess physics is the closest they can get without a gross missplacement? (Although you might be able to absue literature for LLMs?)
Would things like AMD's "Secure encrypted virtualization" protect against this? Is the data XORed with a key (therefore letting bitflips propogate) or is the data actually encrypted (meaning a bitflip in the input leads to a totally different address)
"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/
> Static website can be served by `cat index.html`

For sure, but that's not a sufficient definition. You need to add some constraints to the contents of the html. Otherwise, you can put a huge javascript program in there that hallucinates a new page each time you render it. This shouldn't count as "static".
This is because GTK is C, not C++. It's much easier to write bindings from C
Next: Authors of "Attention is all you need" paper get Nobel Prize in Literature for writing one of the most read papers in past decade.
The major ease of use advantage Windows has is that it is preinstalled on hardware people buy. If you gave a "normie" a computer with desktop Linux distro preinstalled they would find it much easier to use it than to install Windows.

My experience is that most people like Linux provided someone else installs it for them.
> As someone who's employed by "greedy clowns" (web development agencies I guess?)

Maybe click the link so you don't have to guess (wrong)?
There no Nobel category for computer science or mathematics.

Related reading

https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/24/why-isnt-there-a-...
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Every search feature everywhere has to be case-insensitive or it's unusable. Search seems like a pretty ubiquitous feature in a lot of software, and has to work regardless of locale/encoding.
I see two good reasons:

(1) DX: typing "int" feels more natural and less clunky than choosing some arbitrary size.

(2) Perf: if you don't care about the size, you might as well use the native size, which is supposed to be faster.

In Java, people do use the hardware-independent 4 byte ints and 8 byte longs. I guess (1) matters more, or that people think that the JVM will figure out the perf issue and that it'll be possible to micro-optimize if a profile pointed out an issue.
I'm not saying that the newer APIs are backwards compatible with the older ones. I'm saying that they're not which is why they are different APIs. WinRT is a bit different since you target a Windows SDK. But, likewise newer SDKs have APIs that are not backwards compatible.

What I am saying is that the older APIs are forwards compatible with newer versions of Windows. On Windows 11, you can still run applications using those old APIs.

On Android and iOS, your old app may break when running on a newer OS version.

Microsoft doesn't have the luxury of changing the behavior of older APIs on newer versions of Windows, so they end up having to make completely new ones.
"Vital" is completely subjective but I'd throw stuff around quantum information into the ring. Maybe you'd consider the loop-hole free Bell tests performed in 2015 and awarded the 2022 Nobel prize to count?
Tangential to your question but not the premise of this subthread/post - he became president in Feb 2009 and got the award in October.

I don't think he started any new wars, but he inherited some and continued. Anyway, the point here should be the absurdity of a lot of Nobel awards and that stands - especially in his case.

I mean Trump was nominated for the award for fuck's sake! More than 2 or 3 times iirc. So anyway.
If you google who Myron Scholes is you'll see the person you replied to made the same assertion already.
Technically not the same thing but ironic/hypocritical nonetheless.
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I came here to write this exact comment. The article is wrong in assuming that WP is wasteful. It gives huge optionality to the users: engineers probably can afford going with a static page and then changing the entire architecture of their webpage once they need some interactivity, but non-engineers want to go with a scalable solution: where they start with a contact info and slowly end up with a personal shop or whatnot without reinventing the setup at each phase transition.

Speaking of optionality and opportunity costs: many engineers are trained to see the unseen opportunity costs in technology ("YAGNI" and "tech debt" are often used terms), but often fail to see the economic opportunity costs: those that would waste time and cognitive effort of human beings, not the machines. Example: many engineers like to fantasize about micropayments architectures "because efficiency", but people cannot calculate those. They are better off with a nice round monthly subscription just to minimize number of microdecisions they have to go through daily.
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Maybe just scrap the categories and have set or prizes for whatever sort of advanced humanity the most?