skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MM failed because there is no moving aether. Even if you want to call the EM field an aether, it is not a moving aether, and the explanation for the constancy of the speed of light has nothing to do with this aether. Other massless particles/waves also move at this constant speed, and they are not tied to the EM field(or luminiferous aether).

Also, LIGO is detecting something fundamentally different from what MM was looking for.

MM was trying to prove that light speed measured from the frame of reference of the Earth varies between times when the Earth is moving in the same direction as the Aether vs times the Earth is moving perpendicular to the Aether (since the Earth is orbiting the sun, and the Aether moves in a single direction, at some point in the year a beam of light sent in the same direction must pass between moving along a 0° angle and a 90° angle versus the Aether's direction).

This really has nothing to do with what LIGO observed. LIGO observed waves in space-time. The equivalent waves in the EM field/luminiferous aether are called "light" and we didn't need the MM experiment to discover that they exist.

So again, I agree that we can call fields "aethers", and that the EM field is in some ways similar specifically to the luminiferous aether. But it still doesn't have the property that MM were looking for: the EM field doesn't move globally, even if it fluctuates locally.
Cheese Robots
> While Rosenthal was visiting the International Space Station headquarters in Montgomery, Ala., in 2013, a top scientist said, “‘The data stored on the station gets erased every 24 hours by cosmic rays,’” Rosenthal recalls. “‘And we have to keep rewriting the data over and over and over again.’”

This doesn't seem right to me, considering the amount and age of COTS hardware with a variety of flash-storage in them (Thinkpads, Nikon DSLRs etc.)
It still leverages social and internet points which for some is attention-hijacking enough.
Never said it was difficult but that their driving fleet relies on a lidar map of the region it serves. Its a definite trade-off so I would list it as a con but it does not mean one is better than the other.
Here's the math in the cited paper... I feel like they're making an error of 35960 as 36kilobits instead of, yeah, 15bits ?

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9438269

If, in our previous example, the 4 wavelengths were to be selected from a palette of 32 different wavelengths, a single worfel location could store ~36 Kilobits of data. Thus, a 1 cm2 media with 10μ2 data locations (8μ2 worfels with 2μ spacing on all sides) = 1,000,000 worfels/cm2. For example, (32!/((32-4)! • 4!)) = 35,960 distinct states. (An analogous use of formula (1) is drawing a hand of 5 playing cards from a 52-card deck yields 2,598,960 distinct hands.)

Applying the 35,960-state permutation table for k=4 (i.e., superimposing 4 wavelengths per worfel), and drawing from a palette, N, of 32 different wavelengths, yields 35,960,000,000 bits (≈35.9 gigabits) per cm2; or 35.9 x (6.42 cm2 per square inch) ≈ 230.4 gigabits/in2. And so for an example of a 4″x5″ media (20 in2), 20 x 230.4 ≈ 4.6 terabits per 4x5 inch media.
> If you paid for Parmesan cheese and got something else, I’d say that’s already a problem.

Kind of an ironic claim in a discussion of Cheddar cheese.
> Why must it collapse?

One, because the consequences of an AML failure are immediately catastrophic: a dollar stablecoin can't reasonably survive without access to the dollar financial system. Tether's unregulated status means enforcement options are zero or ban. (Banks can be fined and put under compliance regimes.) Running a perfect AML programme indefinitely is impossible. There is no indication Tether runs much of an AML programme at all.

Two, because bank-like structures are inherently unstable. Asset values fluctuate. The banks they hold cash or assets at will fail, sometimes beyond deposit insurance limits. Unlike banks, Tether has the benefit of being able to block redemptions. But they can only do that so many times before a regulator takes notice.

In summary, Tether exists at the pleasure of American regulators and the consequences of losing favour are collapse. They're compliance-wise and financially unstable. The consequences of a single failure won't be catastrophic. But eventually they will fail for the same reason every bank without deposit insurance will, eventually, fail.
> We’re building Gitlip - the collaborative devtool for the AI era. An all-in-one combination of Git-powered version control, collaborative coding and 1-click deployments.

Did they get a waiver from the git team to name it as such?

Per the trademark policy, new “git${SUFFIX}” names aren’t allowed: https://git-scm.com/about/trademark

>> In addition, you may not use any of the Marks as a syllable in a new word or as part of a portmanteau (e.g., "Gitalicious", "Gitpedia") used as a mark for a third-party product or service without Conservancy's written permission. For the avoidance of doubt, this provision applies even to third-party marks that use the Marks as a syllable or as part of a portmanteau to refer to a product or service's use of Git code.
I was able to successfully use Psilocybin mushrooms as a shortcut to quit vaping, all I did was say out loud to myself that I was done using and when I woke up the next day I just didn’t have that deep need to use it anymore. I still had the thought from time to time, but instead of the next thought being “maybe just a little bit” driven by an immobile subconscious need, I was able to refuse myself with relatively little effort. So if you get too fed up, don’t discount the more “magic” solutions (neuroplasticity seems pretty darn powerful). That being said those types of solutions do produce more or less irreversible change, and that change can and does go in either direction.
They had an expensive, fractured, hard to maintain on-prem layout. Then they moved to the cloud. And it turned out the cloud was expensive, fractured, and hard to maintain. So they're moving to on-prem.

Any bets on what's going to happen next?
LLMs do not model "certainty". This is illogical. It models the language corpus you feed the model.
Loans cause a depression when there is plenty.
A farmer takes a loan when the price of wheat is $2 a bushel. But the economy improves, there is plenty of wheat for everybody, so the price of wheat halves. The farmer can't react to it by growing less wheat, he has a loan to pay, he may even need to increase his production to be able to pay even with the reduced prices. This is happening to everybody. Any time money is made, part gets used to pay off debts, and isn't spent on goods that others produced, which further drives the prices down. You will soon reach a point when nobody will buy any more wheat for any price. You go bankrupt, and the bank gets your farm, but the farm is worthless, nobody's going to buy a farm in such an economy from the bank. The bank now has no money to fulfill its obligations. The money it lent you, and which was lost, is still on other people's accounts, so the bank can't give them their money when people demand to withdraw it. Nothing about it can be fixed by giving further loans - loans for consumption only create more debt in the process, and there is no opportunity for bussiness lians, as there is already too much of everything.
With CloudFlare at least when you overstay your welcome on the free plan they just start nagging you to start paying, and possibly kick you out if you don't, rather than sending you a surprise bill for $10,000 like AWS or Azure or GCP might do.
Governments don’t like stable coins so even if it is perfectly 1:1 they will still try to find a way to go after them.

Other commenters have hinted the path is “sanctions” for not enforcing some controls..

Personally I can’t wait for governments to go after stable coins, then Bitcoin will really “moon”!
It took the FDA four years to pull Thalidomide from the market. Hell, it was OTC in the early days and often prescribed for morning sickness.

They're more cautious now when it comes to pregnancy related drugs. As someone who was not born with flippers instead of hands, I'm pretty happy about that.
Remove the comments and votes and I agree. But you just left a comment
Just because the sentiment is a minority doesn't mean it's not an honest sentiment.

I also would love a smaller flagship spec'd phone.

I know it wont be popular, but I still want it.
How to Update Software (We Can Secure Our World) [video]
Coding Interviews: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why It Matters
I dont do well on coding interviews. If I get rejected from a company but I think I would have been a great fit, I often sent them a note with some comments as to why these types of interviews are bad. I recently decided to formalize my thoughts into this open letter that I can share as a link instead.

Hacker Newsies - you are a smart bunch. I know we have discussed these issues at length over the years, but I would love your feedback on this letter as I send it to employers and recruiters.

Or any other general thoughts you may have. Heck, maybe you want to fork or write your own version that fits your situation. This is certainly a trend I could get behind!

Note: I wanted to do this in notion since thats where my public site is, but getting footnotes to work there is too hacky. Pure markdown worked much better so for now it will live as a gist.
Are you talking about the United States of America or the United Nations? Because from what I see there's the United Nations Security Council Resolution 660 and 661. Isn't Russia a member of this council?

Anyway while I'm not a fan of sanctions, why should the US be forced to deal/trade with Iraq?
Oh here’s an interesting idea.

What if these bug reporting platforms could create a branch and tag it for each issue.

This would be particularly useful for point and time things where you have an immutable deployment branch. So it could create a branch off that immutable deployment branch and tag it, so you always have a point in time code reference for bugs.

Would that be useful? I feel like what you’re doing here isn’t that different if I get what’s going on (basically creating one repository per bug?)
> every tether investigation seems to end up showing they are even over capitalize and hold more than 1:1

The one adversarial investigation I know of found the opposite [1].

> presumably due to pressure from someone to not get involved

Not how audit works.

[1] https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2021.02.17_-_settlemen...
> Periodically merge upstream libgit2 in your custom fork, maintain your custom git server code and audit it for vulnerabilities, make sure everything still compiles with emscripten, deploy it.

There's only a difference here because there exist off-the-shelf git packages for traditional VPS environments but there do not yet exist off-the-shelf git packages for serverless stacks. The OP is a pioneer here. The work they are doing is what will eventually make this an off-the-shelf thing for everyone else.

> Rotate API keys to make sure your database service can talk to your storage service and your worker service.

Huh? With Durable Objects the storage is local to each object. There is no API key involved in accessing it.

> Then I don't even know how you'd backup all this

Durable Object storage (under the new beta storage engine) automatically gives you point-in-time recovery to any point in time in the last 30 days.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/durable-objects/api/storag...

> And all that only to end up with worse latency than a VPS

Why would it be worse? It should be better, because Cloudflare can locate each DO (git repo) close to whoever is accessing it, whereas your VPS is going to sit in one single central location that's probably further away.

> and more size constraints on the repo and objects.

While each individual repo may be more constrained, this solution can scale to far more total repos than a single-server VPS could.

(I'm the tech lead for Cloudflare Workers.)
It would be one thing if they were paying for the transactions directly. Companies with this arrangement make you get a "corporate card" under your own name which shows up on your personal credit report. I've had to pay off the card myself (and get reimbursed later) because the company was nearing 30 days late processing expense reports due to turnover/incompetence.
Also, don't worry, there's not actually 7 grams. The study that suggested that was ridiculously bad.

When you extrapolate 100,000-fold from uncalibrated micro-scale experiments, you get insane results, but the typical internet reader doesn't get past the abstract of the paper and instantly activates panic mode, instead of questioning the insanity.
> Governments don’t like stable coins so even if it is perfectly 1:1 they will still try to find a way to go after them

There are plenty of regulated stablecoins [1]. Hell, my state is launching one [2].

Governments usually have to subpoeana banks to get transaction records. With a stablecoin, those records are centralised.

[1] https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/StableCoinReport_...

[2] https://www.ledgerinsights.com/state-of-wyoming-plans-stable...
Can you link one of these investigations that show that tether is backed more than 1:1 with the USD?
The whole story is about how you cant do this without lifetime annotations.

In other words: you can try limiting all cars to 10mph, closing the road, automatically switching out all car tyres with skid-proof versions while in motion, or anything else.

But… just turn the god damn lights on and put up a barrier between lanes. It works on every other road.
Maybe the fixed costs of a shoe factory production line, in 2024, with centuries of production experience, are lower than those of a top of the line smartphone.
Yo dog, we put a JavaScript VM inside your JavaScript VM
It's like looking in the mirror
Unwanted jobs should simply pay better. I one time met a guy who digs out exploded sewage systems by hand. They pay him 1500 euro for 3 hour shifts that mostly involve wrapping duct tape around a raincoat and lengthy showers. On a busy week he makes 6000-7500 euro. They always need people if you are interested.
Just to be clear: when you name niche desktop applications you are literally saying that they are not "most of them"

BTW all of those applications you mentioned use many of the same techniques video games use (for the same reason: custom layouts), existed long before the web and are doing just fine without CSS
Thanks. I believe choosing from 35,960 possible states only takes 15 bits, not 35,960 bits. But it's late on a Friday.
Recent, related, and cited:

Is Tor still safe to use? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41583847 - Sept 2024 (562 comments)
> What are sort’s preconditions?
1. The first and last iterators must point at elements from the same container.
2. first must not indicate an element that appears after last.
3. first and last may not be dangling iterators.

This is a fundamental problem in C++ where a range is specified by the starting point and the ending point. This is because iterators in C++ are abstractions of a pointer.

D took a different approach. A range in D is an abstraction of an array. An array is specified by its starting point and its length. This inherently solves points one and two (not sure about three).

Sort then has a prototype of:

Range sort(Range);
> Using a Vec means we allocate memory every time we queue a waker. And that allocation is taken and released every time we have to wake.

Is that so? On every push back? I’d expect it’d only do an allocation when the current array segment is almost full… as a vector you might write by hand or like the ones in the C++ standard libraries do.
I feel like even in Geico's case, once they've paid salaries for everyone who's going to need to maintain this infra they're bringing in-house they're probably not saving that much. Then again, maybe they were already paying those salaries redundantly to all the services they were spending on, e.g. managed databases.
Really?

I think maybe this is because you don't understand how someone can be gender non-conforming and also happy. Maybe you are having a hard time with the asymmetrical and temporal aspects (child is happy, child chooses their puberty path, child is happy during and after puberty). Isn't that a good path for care?
Agreed. Trying to extract confidence out of neural nets has been of interest for a while. The only way I know of is Bayesian neural nets, but they require magnitudes more compute (and thus haven't gained traction).
It's not really about cloud vs. on-prem, it's the fact that people cut corners and lack knowledge on-prem, and don't have the budgets to do anything about it.

What you're referring to is mostly about elasticity, and it's true that if you don't need it, it doesn't make sense to pay for it.

But that doesn't mean that on-prem (which almost always turns into a virtual machine shitshow with crappy network design -- which will continue as long as nobody implements things like strong IAM and Security Groups in their on-prem setups) is 'the same' as cloud but just in a physical location you control.

The inverse is also true. If you just run some VMs 'in the cloud', you're doing it wrong. Playing datacenter is just as bad as not moving away from classic virtual machines, cloud or no cloud.
> Can anyone recommend what best practices banks can follow to ensure safety for both customers and banks in such cases?

You should never entertain any telephone interaction with your bank or any other organization, unless it was you who called them first. Just hang up. You can call them on their officially listed phone number when it suits you, or visit in person.
Thanks so much for creating and sharing this! Could you point me to any other independent research in this area? Also, as I read related journal articles, I'm trying to understand if the 40Hz sound is binaural (with a 40Hz difference between frequencies in each ear) or a straight 40Hz pulse (same in both ears). It's surprisingly hard for me to get a clear answer. Do you happen to have any experience with this or suggestions for related resources that might contain the answer? Thanks!
Github werent terribly happy with the number of branches we created for this type of use case at one point.
But once you've got it out of the country, where then? Would French cheese buyers take it? Or do you have to go to Russia?
I don't understand your logic. Zip and rm are different commands or functions.

However, I understand this could be an easy way of doing Qubes OS without Qubes OS.
Guess who did not refuse the invite..

"Billionaire FBI informant Peter Thiel dished about two Kremlin invites to private Putin meetings" - https://www.businessinsider.nl/billionaire-fbi-informant-pet...
Thanks that's helpful I'll take a look at model checking.
Since const can be cast away, it's useless for checking.
> HORATIO A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.

> HAMLET Pale or red?

> HORATIO Nay, very pale.

~1600
It is sold as a tool, not a fix. If you've found it to be otherwise you should report it to the FDA.

Did you actually see it being sold in the way you're describing, or are you just extrapolating from social media rot?
I guess you don't count misconfigurations. But deciding between the cloud vs local is a choice between config or admin.
Is there some more info on what exactly this system is jamming? Radar satellites? It probably can’t prevent optical images and downlinking of collected data to enemy ground stations.

Edit: according to this ( https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14001079/amp... ), it jams enemy communication which is relayed over satellites. I imagine this only works if the receiving antenna on the satellite isn’t highly directional enough to only pick up signals where enemy troops are known to be. If the satellite has a phased array, the origin of the signal could be filtered very fine grained as far as I know and this kind of jamming could be removed (unless it is so strong that it completely saturates the amplifiers of the receiver?).
I've never heard the opinion that safe Zig is harder than safe Rust. Pretty much always the opposite, that Zig is easier than Rust all around.
I guess real Parmesan cheese complies with the food safety regulations of Parma, while most knock off (for example) American brands will comply with the local food safety regulations.

I mean… I dunno, it isn’t as if I actually believe my country has sane regulations. But I’ve presumably already eaten lots of American sawdust in my powdered cheese products, how bad could it be for me? What kind of sawdust do they have in Parma?
> Companies like Qualcomm would have zero incentives to share their designs with anyone.

And yet, that's what linux did in 1991- they shared the code, lowering the cost of buying an operating system. I wouldn't say there is zero incentive, but it certainly lowers the incentive without a profitable complementary hardware implementation that can be sold for less than the proprietary isa when there is a royalty free license allows the manufacturer/fab designer "mask rights" to get a small margin within the difference of the foundry/ISA proprietary core competitor.
As someone with a website that is a historic archive of conspiratorial and proto-scientific unbelievables I'd say we need a believability rating for each author, org and website.

I'm getting a little tired of people thinking I believe everything I read and publish. If you claim to have invented a time machine, a teleportation device, a phone to call the dead or if you take pictures back in time of course someone should document every tiny technical detail you've shared with the world. (preferably without repeatedly stating the obvious)

The idea a reader would believe everything strikes me as rather hilarious. Even if just a robot. LLMs should aid those skilled in the art who desire to make the same with the materials but it would be silly if it uncritically reproduced the description of your warp drive, your parallel universe detector, mr fusion, sentient black goo, channelings and remote viewings, alien encounters, bigfoot sightings, shape shifting lizard experiences, quantum computer or memristors.
Oracle Rdb
Thanks for the suggestion.

I did just check, and "dog at beach" generates sub 20% recall for me. I go to the beach weekly with my dog, take lots of photos because I'm a dork, and that first query skips many weeks.

Also, I did add my dog as a known / named pet under the explore tab, which is why I thought the name should work.

I can make it work by picking out the beach via geo, but I think the whole thing illustrates how much better this could be. I'd like to be able to get responses to queries like

* [pet name] at [beach X]

* [pet name] with sand on face

* dead seal, or even just dead animal (pics on beach)

* seaglass (recall is poor there too until I manually added to a photo album)

* dent in car

* [spice name] (I take pics of spices to know which stores offer what)

etc etc. The only way I manage the thousands of photos I have now is by carefully sorting into hundreds of albums, which google also doesn't support well.

Amongst the many many deficiencies of the app (which, tbf, does work extremely well as a read-through cache and seems to back things up very well), it likes to surface spotlights of dead people and pets. Which is not at all what I want proactively surfaced.
My unsubstantiated conspiracy theory on this is that not only is Tether not backed 1:1 USD > USDT but that they are so disproportionately not backed that they basically printed money during the peak of the pandemic, causing real measurable inflation in the crypto markets
"Nichtsnutz" in german.
Because people struggle with reading comprehension and are willing to twist anything and everything to take autonomy and liberty from gender diverse people.
Please email Boeing!

Seriously they should have posted here for some help!
I bet it would jam synthetic aperture radars
BART workers fired for refusing COVID shots on religious grounds awarded $1.3M