skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hinton did introduce the Boltzmann machine networks that kind of resemble thermodynamics if you squint really hard. And those didn't really pan out.

Of course the price is really for MLP backpropagation (or how it found applications) but I guess it's not physics enough.

Hopfield networks never really found use either, but they are sort of related to Ising models and NNs, so I guess it's physics then.
I said use a Unicode library if input data is actual human language. Which names and addresses are.

99% case being ASCII data generated by other software of unknown provenance. (Or sometimes by humans, but it's still data for machines, not for humans.)
Next year, the creators of Excel will get the prize, because it is an implementation of the mathematical universe.
Imagine how Schmidhuber's feeling right now.
people who know how to "self-host" can do it for free or very cheap.

Otherwise WP Engine is $30 per site.

OP says it's not only lame to exploit the knowledge asymmetry in this way but also makes web lame long term because normies don't have tools to contribute effectively.
I would maintain that your program has more string manipulation for error messages and logging than for generating localised formatted names.

Further I do say that if you're creating text for presenting to the user then the most common operation would be replacement of some field in pre-defined text.

In your case I would design it so that the correctly capitalised first name, surname, and variations of those for sorting would be generated at the data entry point (manually or automatically) and then just used when needed in user facing text generation. Therefore the only string operation needed would be replacement of placeholders like the fmt and standard library provide. This uses more memory and storage but these are cheaper now.
He did get the Turing award already in 2018.
If it needs to uppercase names it probably interfaces with something forsaken like Sabre/Amadeus that only understands ASCII anyway.

The real problem is accepting non-ASCII input from user where you later assume it's ASCII-only and safe to bitfuck around.
Has anyone else won a Turing award as well as the Nobel prize in physics?
They aren’t there to provide information, they are there to trap/collect eyeballs.
If you continue reading, the reasoning is given in the next sentence:

> Weird as it might be, it's not a great mystery why that is: it's easier to spin up a Wordpress blog than it is to figure out by yourself all the intermediate steps.
Once you’ve read the primer, you may want to give this a look in.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/p0x3dx/comp...

Then maybe follow this reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoScams/
What about guitar pedal velcro tape?

[0] "Correlation between nanosecond X-ray flashes and stick–slip friction in peeling tape" (2008) https://www.nature.com/articles/nature07378

> Triboluminescence is a phenomenon in which light is generated when a material is mechanically pulled apart, ripped, scratched, crushed, or rubbed (see tribology). [...] Triboluminescence is often a synonym for fractoluminescence (a term mainly used when referring only to light emitted from fractured crystals). Triboluminescence differs from piezoluminescence in that a piezoluminescent material emits light when deformed, as opposed to broken. These are examples of mechanoluminescence, which is luminescence resulting from any mechanical action on a solid. [...] See also:

> - Earthquake light: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_light

- re: gold from earthquake-induced piezoelectricity in quartz: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41442489

- re: sustainable alternatives to quartz countertops: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36857929 :

> [...] make recycled paper outdoor waterproof vert ramps, countertops, siding, and flooring; but not yet roofing FWIU?

> - Sonoluminesence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonoluminescence
It is indeed written as you say; I suspect - but cannot confirm - that the author meant:

> ... only a few people - professional software engineers - can "afford" ...

which would be the inverse.

However, there is a case for reading as it is written even if it subverts reading expectations, as many (most?) professional software engineers do use COTS systems to publish and only a few have their own sites generated from scratch.
I have personal experience with people who behave like this. These same behavioral patterns, this same sort of thinking / interpreting the world. The level of violence was different by degree, barely contained by law, by what is commonly accepted, and by visibility.

It so happens that in this case there was a long-time cocaine abuser and addict who I believe also might have
traumatic brain injury. Cocaine and traumatic brain injury have a severe impact on the inflammatory response in the central nervous system – increasing inflammation – which is also behavior-modifying, increasing aggression. Environmental stress also has a similar effect on the brain and behavior.

It’s easy to notice multiple examples of severe head injury in the story. Social and environmental stress is severe as well. (I don’t think cocaine is involved; I mention cocaine in the context because it’s something that’s available in our modern enviroment which causes brain inflammation, cognitive impairment, and violence. These effects are provided by other things in the story.)

In the story I also recognize the violent and “dream logic”-like elements from the onset of dementia. I’m sure that hardships such as these people live in will bring about dementia-like effects and alterations. Bodies wear out, and the brain is part of the body. It is not the fundamental nature of the brain to wear out in silence and grace.

These behaviors are all in our nature. All of them. It’s just a question of latent tendencies, of impairment, and what sort of survival mode is brought about by which sort of environment.

(There is science on the claims I make here. There are papers out on this. Google Scholar suggestions: neuroinflammation + aggression + cytokine, cocaine + tbi + cytokine, cocaine + neuronflammation. Interleukin-6 (IL-6) in particular is an interesting cytokine with profound roles.

There are also parallels with malignant narcissism and the lack of object constancy. “Lack of object constancy” is specific and almost technical. Haphazard take on that: Reasons for senseless actions are not necessarily derived from the grounded reality of memory. Rather, sometimes with humans the reasons for violence are on-the-fly ad-hoc justifications fully experienced as memories by the person, generated “live” by, say, fear and anger and the hunger for power and dominance.

My apologies for not supplying actual citations. I wish I had the oomph. I appeal to your curiosity.)
Then it should be awarded for the result.

Given the line of reasoning this has now opened up Alan Turing should be awarded one posthumously in every field.
And letting your framework do the bookkeeping for you lets you skip the whole issue. I don't know the exact specification of React Server Component Payload, but I know that it somehow changes stuff on the client-side when the client interacts with the server. (It sends something like `["$","p",null,{"children":["a child","another child"]}]`)
Yeah I was wondering the same, I get that this was fundamental work, but how was this strongly tied to physics?
Not vintage but I loved reading your reference project. Sent you an email just in case.
It's the meme:

A:"Only Global Communism can solve Climate Change."

B:"Nuclear power also solves climate change."

A:"I don't want to solve Climate Change, I want Global Communism."
For comparison, here are the results for Scaleway Object Storage (https://www.scaleway.com/en/object-storage/), competing offer from another european S3 provider:

+--------------------+-------------------+------------------+
| ITEM | VALUE | COST |
+--------------------+-------------------+------------------+
| upload objects | 16.72 MiB/s | 956.98 ms/object |
| download objects | 109.01 MiB/s | 146.78 ms/object |
| put small objects | 15.3 objects/s | 261.99 ms/object |
| get small objects | 88.8 objects/s | 45.05 ms/object |
| list objects | 6115.93 objects/s | 65.40 ms/op |
| head objects | 164.3 objects/s | 24.34 ms/object |
| delete objects | 157.9 objects/s | 25.33 ms/object |
| change permissions | not support | not support |
| change owner/group | not support | not support |
| update mtime | not support | not support |
+--------------------+-------------------+------------------+
This is not physics. Does that mean there was no Nobel Price worthy research happening in the field of physics?
Small tablet? It has a 14” screen.
Who and why still tries to lowercase/uppercase names? Please tell them to stop.
Rule 1 is wait until there are built wheels for that version of python for all the libraries that you need. In most cases that can take a month or two, depending on exactly what libraries you use and how obscure they are.
Holy shit, you wrote pixeldrain? FYI (and I’m sure you’re very much aware), every single time I’ve come across your site, it’s always been via DDL/warez sites. I feel like you’re in a tough spot with this but I wish you all the best! I would love to read any write ups if you’ve published any!
Static website serves you everything you need as a one HTML file. You can save the source code and open it offline and there will be no difference.

As such any templating is out of the question if that is done via request from the client.

How I manage my static website is with a build script. I write my content in markdown with a option for custom header and then I have a python script that churns out pure HTML with everything embedded into it which I can then host on github pages.
My initial thought is law students. They need to read and study a tremendous amount; I assume to be successful they must use some kind of system.
I wonder if this'll help physics PhDs get industry jobs (I hear Myron Scholes is up for the 2025 prize)
I totally agree — technically static, but an abomination that should be avoided at all costs!
Btw, important factor: you can only see the big picture properly if you co-created the setup. Hiring senior rockstars as a reaction to problems will satisfy some short-term goals but not solve the problems overall
That could easily be fixed by preventing people using old versions to give feedback. I guess no app store currently allows that right ?
At least they already recognized actual spin-glasses research in physics in 2021. That makes this award for this by-product more puzzling though.
> They also seem to be trying to get entrenched in Crimea, and IIRC brought up the idea of some promise that Ukraine wouldn’t ever going NATO, although don’t remember if that was a serious proposal or what.

NATO explicitly added plans to offer membership to Ukraine and Georgia at the Bucharest summit, and has been conducting joint military excercises with Ukraine ever since, the last one happening ~1 year before the Russian war of aggression started. The current huge NATO support for Ukraine also proves the military closeness - to the point that many of the major victories NATO weaponry firing NATO rockets with NATO targeting details to targets identified by NATO intelligence, only with Ukrainian soldiers pushing the trigger.

Not to justify Russia's clear war of aggression in any way, just explaining that Ukraine absolutely was, and likely still is, moving towards NATO membership.
This is the first time I've ever heard of somebody being confused about this. If the server is serving dynamically generated documents, then it isn't static. A static website can be perfectly represented as a directory of files being served by python -m http.server. No PHP templates, that should be obvious.
> It is fun since you can effectively solve wobbly tables on many patios.

I use it all the time to secure stepladders into stability before climbing them up.
The vision in "Brave New World" seems so unrealistic and far fetched that for me to treat it as any sort of warning or deep insight.
That’s really neat, thanks for explaining!
Switching to 5Ghz WiFi made the Raspberry Pi fly again
But but, I want to have a custom web component and register it under my own name, which can only be properly written in Ukrainian Cyrillic. How dare you not let me have it.
For blogging I use Hugo because it is just easier to focus on content, not on style. That is why I don't like writing pure html files. Changing style can also be a problem, if something is hardcoded into html file.

For more advanced tasks I write in django, because it so easy for me to add features.
So uh, things are not looking so good for actual physics these days, I gather?
Thanks for the reply! Really appreciate the time you have taken to write down a thoughtful reply.
If so, it probably didn't need any development burden and could be done using a no-code or low-code solution.
Guess what tools would be used the most to write content for those web pages.
>Many disparate private/semi-private groups while the "public" internet becomes overloaded with AI slop.

And eventually someone is going to come up with a search engine for Discord, and the cycle will start all over.
(I wrote a long reply to this post with technical details; then I accidentally reloaded the tab in Chrome and it lost my textarea text and it's 3am here so argh).

But to briefly summarize when I did write:

> installing PS/2 ports on modern motherboards

I haven't seen a PS/2 port on any brand-new (non-industrial) computer, even rackmount servers, since 2009. My own last mobo with PS/2 ports was bought in 2008; I haven't seen PS/2 on a laptop since 2003.

> and just contributes to e-waste

e-waste is a problem, yes; but PS/2 ports are really, really, not a meaningful cause of any problems in this area.

> I also wonder how much power those "super I/O" chips are wasting with this unused circuitry.

Zero. ICs (mostly) consume power only when their transistors undergo a state-change. If the PS/2 microcircuitry in an IC is never used, then there won't be any concordant transitor state-changes, ergo, there won't be any (measureable) power-draw. This is why microprocessor lithography is great: you really do get stuff for free.

> why is PS/2 internally used for touchpads anyway?

I wrote "ostensibly"; in reality, it usually isn't actually "PS/2" as-we-know-it, but is some other protocol over I2C or even SPI as you suggested (e.g. Synaptics calls theirs "InterTouch"[1]), but the hardware-interface that the OS uses is compatible with Intel's i8042 which was the original PS/2 ( https://wiki.osdev.org/%228042%22_PS/2_Controller ) even though the i8042 no-longer exists today.

[1] https://investor.synaptics.com/news-releases/news-release-de...

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As for why practically every laptop seems to use "PS/2" for their touchpads today, I speculate that laptop OEMs prefer this "PS/2-a-like" for 2 reasons:

1. Consumes less power (and with far less overhead overall) compared to an internal USB connection, which is important in a laptop computer.

2. Laptops likely only have a single USB root controller, which is usually for the latest USB revision when the laptop was engineered - so a new laptop today likely has only a USB4 controller, which will be backwards-compatible with older USB devices, but you'll have issues if you need to use an OS or EFI application (e.g. BIOS Setup utility, Bitlocker manual unlock screen, custom boot-manager, etc) due to spotty support for future USB controllers, so it makes sense to ensure that the laptop's fundamentally-essential input devices (i.e. mouse and keyboard) are connected via a mature, widely-supported interface like the i8042's) to avoid the laptop becoming completely unusable if something goes wrong with USB support (because it's not like you'll be able to plug-in an external USB mouse/keyboard and expect that to work...). Whereas on desktops I've noticed that whenever there's support for some cutting-edge USB revision (e.g. USB 3.x in 2012ish or USB4 today) the board will have a couple of USB 2.0 ports via a different controller, so you won't be SOL if anything goes wrong with the new stuff.
What an odd rationale. Please do not devalue the Physics Nobel Prize to the status of the Nobel Peace Prize.

This is overtly driven by expediency or business interests and ignores all societal problems.

Be happy that you get your billions for CERN and keep a low profile.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41775449 (> 40 comments).
How does it work with refunds and returns?
I don't think it helps anyone to separate what israel does from what USA does. Everything that israel does is authorized and aided by the USA. It'd all stop the very second the USA told them to stop.

Related reading. https://chomsky.info/20210512/
Reflecting on Go Reflection
> Nowadays, if I want a static site I just start with a folder of html files.

Same here. I've considered adding a .md —> .html step for content, but just haven't found it necessary — yet.

> The other cool thing...

I like being able to—easily—view my site via a local sever. The best case would be one that I can view via file:// too, but I couldn't quite crack the organisation and ended up with a 'make local' step that generates a separate copy for file-based viewing.
Static sites are great until you need to have a contact form or want to add basic comments. Yes, you can deploy javascript that uses external services to add such functionality to static sites- but with a basic WordPress site, you get everything right out of the box.
The A in CAP doesn't mean what people think it means, it has nothing to do with nodes being up, or crashes, or latency, or SLA, or any abnormal dysfunction.

Availability in CAP is purely a software decision, it's an algorithmic property. Roughly speaking, it is the decision to continue accepting requests during a partition, possibly sacrificing Consistency. If your refuse requests during a partition, you conserve Consistency, and you lose Availability. If you keep accepting requests during a partition, it's the opposite.

High latency is considered a partition in CAP. Any hardware error, any network trouble, any bug, crash, any unreachable machines is never an Availability issue.
Fair enough. But I am talking about 50 years ago or so.
Show HN: FacePoke is an innovative project designed for real-time facia editing
FacePoke utilizes a drag-and-drop interface to manipulate facial features, making it particularly popular on social media platforms like X (formerly Twitter) and in conjunction with video generation tools like Runway.
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This must piss Schmidhuber off like nothing else.
> Static site generators are used by technologists who want to tinker and check all the boxes in whatever Chrome's latest devtool benchmark tool is called

It's relatively easy to reach a PageSpeed test result of 100 with WordPress by disabling one or two features and setting up a cache extension. For logged out users, WordPress with SuperCache set up is almost like a static website (except for the occasional cache eviction) because the HTML is almost directly served from the cache.
That explains why there are two functions, one for ascii and one for unicode. That doesn't explain why the unicode functions are hard to use (per the article).
> The reality is that nuclear weapons are a deterrent against existential threats, and all else is a bluff. So it's not a risk of losing this war that will push Russia to commit such murder-suicide, but an existential threat to its own survival as a nation.

Note that there have been numerous documented cases of near nuclear launches, especially in the 60s and 70s, it is by no means a bluff or an idle risk.
It was 17 seconds for 1 shader file.

Iterative C++ compile times can be very fast if you know what are you doing, 17 seconds is very long unless you have link time optimizations on(which makes no sense for an iterative build).
It really has not, though. There is more to physics than high-energy and cosmology, and there is no shortage of deserving contributions of smaller scope. It really is bizarre that deep learning would make it to the top of the list.
Talking about the ISA needing to spend so much time addressing memory, I'm reminded of the really interesting Streaming Semantic Registers (SSRs) in Occamy, the excellent PULP group's 4096-core RISC-V research multichip design. https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.08356

Just like the instruction pointer which implicitly increments as code executes, there are some dedicated data-pointer registers. There's a dedicated ALU for advancing/incrementing, so you can have interesting access patterns for your data.

Rather than loops needing to load data, compute, store data, and loop, you can just compute and loop. The SSRs give the cores a DSP like level of performance. So so so neat. Ship it!

(Also, what was the name of the x86 architecture some linux distros were shipp8ng with 32 bit instructions & address space, but using the new x86-64 registers?)
Engineers are not fans of technologies
Strongly agree. Wordpress brags as powering whatever % of the internet... but if youve ever taken a look at some of that PHP source code... yikes

Mind boggling to me such an overly complex system has such a large market share.

I'll take my Gatsby TypeScript React components / <<insert your favorite static site generator here>> any day
But what if you need to uppercase the historical record in a vital records registry from 1950ies, but and OCRed last week? Now you need to not just be locale-aware, but you locale should be versioned.
This, but without the "one HTML file" restriction. Unless I misunderstood you—did you just mean "one HTML file per URL"?
There are literally no nations or cultures on earth that do not have this same affliction. We are all savages.

To consider otherwise is to take a step into racist, prejudiced territory.
> okay, one's actions are big buttons in a UI, the other is copy pasting commands,

The difference is that the console is scary to the average user, big buttons are not.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34281453

DonHopkins on Jan 6, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dwarf Fortress has sold half a million copies

It reminds me of Justin Hall's story about holding out and refusing to sell "bud.com" to Budweiser.

Instead he just hung onto it, and eventually used it for his own bud delivery company, once recreational cannabis was finally legalized.

He was much happier that great three-letter domain name be used for something he loves, strong kind bud, instead of something he hates, weak piss beer.

https://bud.com

https://bud.com/history-of-bud-com/

>In 1999 I was contacted by a lawyer Steven M. Weinberg, representing Anheuser-Busch, makers of Bud beer.

>We chatted by phone: “So, you’re a college student!”

>Actually I graduated the year before.

>He continued: “Well, how does $50,000 sound for bud.com?”

>I replied that $50k should be the interest generated by the money someone pays for bud.com. This is a three letter, actual word, dot com domain, and if I’m going to see it on every beer can you make forever, I should at least be well compensated. I remember reading that the marketing budget for Budweiser beer that quarter was $16.1 million. BUD was the company’s stock symbol.

>I wasn’t going to sell lightly, and they weren’t going to bid against themselves, so we didn’t get anywhere.

The story about his fight to register the four-letter domain name fuck.com is also hilarious:

https://www.links.net/webpub/fuck.com.html
Alas, poor Jurgen! I knew him, Horatio. A fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy…
Why do new cars have speed limit warnings, and do they work?
Yeah this is an important perspective for coming up with a solution, because it’s a very legitimate reason to not want to support old hardware…