skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many VHS were subbed instead. Sometimes two versions of a popular film were released, one dubbed and one with baked-in subs. This did limit the desire to copy between regions a bit, though not as much as you might think given how many people speak one of a few languages as a second language.

I suspect the cost of physical distribution and good copying equipment was the key issue until fairly late on in the life cycle of VHS as a common tech. Region locking just wasn't thought of because by the time it might have made significant difference other limitations of tape based media format were readily apparent and new systems were being designed and implemented.
>could have been accommodated by putting executable codec files ON the DVD

You probably don't want that kind of capability since it ends up being used for nefarious purposes by the rights holders and media companies.

For example the keys on your BluRay player can be revoked just by playing a BluRay disc, as the drive first reads the code on the disc and executes the appropriate code to "update" your player according to the wishes of the DRM overlords. It's a very anti-consumer feature. Sony was also distributing their music CDs with rootkits to try to prevent piracy.

I think VHS and Laserdisc were better since they had little DRM and you could freely rewind and view whatever parts you want at your own discretion. The advent of tech also meant the advent of anti-user DRM that dictate how the (paying!) user must enjoy the content.
More than that, in general, understanding and compression seem to be fundamentally the same thing.
Will AI take that use case though?
That Java runs on the SIM, not on the AP. The DVD equivalent would be the Java running on the DVD itself, but a DVD is an inert plastic and aluminium sandwich. And even if it looks portable, it’s not. In practice there’s just enough quirks that code written for one Java Card won’t reliably install and run on all others. Actually portable Java Card that would work like DVD codecs would need to work didn’t come until eSIMs, which is decades later.
Nobody wants your money
Are you saying that you don't want to deal with Purchase Orders?

Is that because you don't want to provide a product in advance of payment or just the overhead of creation/tracking?
A lot of the theoretical linguistics articles are quite bad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determiner_phrase#Arguments_fo... is full of bizarre arguments that don't make sense in the tradition that postulated the DP hypothesis. Not only that, but the trees are written in a really bizarre way for a topic in generative grammar.
Solos challenges Meta's Ray-Bans with $299 ChatGPT smart glasses
> I think there was a part of those people who felt guilty and actually did want to be caught and punished.

Eric Berne in one of the pop psy books makes a claim which to me rings true -- that the real criminals don't get caught, the ones that get caught are the ones that want to play hide & seek as a trauma response from childhood -- there's a very deep drive to be sought after and found and those people, because of absent parents and lack of attention didn't get to play it out, so they really do want to be discovered in their sub-conscious mind.
I'm with you. There are forces that would prevent random particles from being in any configuration "at random".

Example: At random, 2x2x2cm ice cube in center of sun sized star. You can't get from here to their because an ice cube will never form next to heat.

In some alternate reality where atoms materialize in random configurations out of nothing maybe, but that's not our reality where atoms interact with other atoms and that interaction prevents the vast majority of combinations. It doesn't matter if time is infinite.
That's a very fun fact. Thanks for sharing.
You need more when you have more functionalities. Destructive actions, errors, warnings, active/focus-hover/disabled states, etc.

Imagine operating industrial machinery where the ”self-destruct and kill everyone” buttons are the same color, shape and position as the ”shut down safely” button.
Hi everybody, my post summarizes an on-going 5-year research project and four papers about the 2019 Google experiment. The timing of the post was indeed related to Google's Willow announcement and the fantastic septillion assertion. It is not clear why Google added to the announcement of nice published results about quantum error correction a hyped undocumented fantastic claim. I think that our work on Google's 2019 experiment provides useful information for evaluating Google's scientific conduct.
What you say is true, but apparently, in the case of quantum computers there seem to be some fundamental issues. I remember reading two-three years ago an argument by a professor of Mathematics against the feasibility of having quantum computers able to break classic public key cryptography (so, admittedly, not against quantum computers in general but only against a specific, but very important, use case). Unfortunately, I already tried finding it again on the Internet but couldn't.

What I vaguely remember among the points he was bringing to the table, was an argument about the amount of shielding you need to have the required amount of qbits to break current RSA to remain coherent long enough for the factorization to complete. He somehow (I don't remember how) showed that this translated to having a result with precision up to a certain decimal place. Meanwhile, the most accurate laws of physics that we know of have a precision that stop a couple of decimal digits before that. Therefore, in his argument, having a quantum computer that is able to break RSA (I don't remember if it was for 2048 or 4096 bit keys) would enatil improving our understanding of physics by two orders of magnitude.

Now, this doesn't mean that this is impossible, and new error correction techniques can change the situation. But, this is to say that here we are at a very different level than having a better version of vaccum tubes or drums.

Personally, I don't say that we will never ever have quantum computers. But I think that some skepticism is granted. Expecially when we hear claims that those are around the corner.
There are better products. Likely more expensive, but possible.
A real-life example of necessity is the mother of invention as well as innovation.
Because Tesla is yet to start commercial operations in this area.
I think that the big challenge is to recast any classical computations as quantum computations with a superpolynomial speedup.

I think that all classical problems can be cast as quantum computations because quantum computation is just computation - I believe that one can implement a turning machine using quantum gates, so arbitrary computation is possible with quantum gates.

The superpolynomial speedups are the thing.. I wonder if these will be limited to a class of computations that have no physical realization - just pure maths.
What are the chances that the CIA has a manhattan project style quantum computer somewhere? I can’t believe that if the current SOTA could break commonly used encryption methods that it would be widely known.
My mistake was I gravitated to eating mostly fatty pork and chicken after a year. Turns out those are very high in omega-6’s. Does not play well with my mental health, skin (exacerbated my pollen allergy related eczema), resulted in starting to regain weight around my stomach despite maintaining a loss of 50 pounds for two years, and becoming cold all the time (yes, my thyroid and calories were fine).

After some research on wtf might be going on, I had my suspicions and took an omegaquant test which revealed my circulating phospholipid omega-6 levels were crazy high, just a few percent below their max reference range. Moving to beef only halted my issues after 1-2 months.

I like beef and monotony, but even I can’t eat just beef. I now cycle between keto and carbs (mostly potatoes, carrots, onions and glass noodles, sometimes pasta or bread buns). I generally have carbs near workout days. Now that I’ve shed the omega-6 pounds, I have some tolerance again but end up still mostly use beef, eggs, and frozen seafood blends (no fish, which when farmed tends to be high in omega-6).

Oh, and if you are looking for a salad dressing that isn’t just flavored vegetable oil (high omega-6), give the “skinny girl” brand a try.
I think the record for Shor's remains at 15.
Just because two things cause problems, that doesn't mean they are equally problematic.

Like, it took over a year to build the new storm sewer system in town. It caused problems, like having blocked off roads and sidewalks and construction noise.

Yet I wouldn't equate that to the systemic problems in the rail system caused by privatization while also over-funding the road network.
Do you have a source on shooting the pilots?

This is the first time I’m hearing this as a Swiss.
Show HN: MatchMind – Towards hyper-minimalist social networks
> When you prove to me that Ukraine wants a peace agreement that involves Russia annexing the entire country to be their personal torture chamber.

Try again. Your post only suggests a slight majority of Kyiv residents want a "ceasefire." That's not "capitulation."

I'll let you know that I'm British so I'm familiar with news papers/sites putting up polls that tell the reader what they want the reader to hear so, just like you disregard sources, I disregarded this straw poll.
I'd add to this and say the probability being against a theory creates a risk of less than thorough dismissals of claims.

You get this all the time with perpetual motion machines. The near certainty of the claim being false leads to confident dismissals that go 'blah, blah, laws of physics, blah blah thermodynamics, therefore can't happen'

The real question to be asking about a claim of a perpetual motion machine is 'Where does the new energy come into being?'.

Citing laws of physics won't help you because any claim to have made a perpetual motion machine is implicitly claiming to be a proof by counterexample that one of those laws is wrong.
GPT-4 got it right first try for me, with a slightly modified prompt:

> Here's a simple logic puzzle: You walk up to a glass door. It has 'push' written on it in mirror writing. What should you do and why?

> ChatGPT said:

> If the word "push" is written in mirror writing on the glass door, it means the writing is reversed as if reflected in a mirror. When viewed correctly from the other side of the door, it would read "push" properly.

> This implies that you are meant to pull the door from your side, because the proper "push" instruction is for someone on the other side of the door. Mirror writing is typically used to convey instructions to the opposite side of a glass surface.
I wish there were a way to just pay for a movie on a site and download it as an mp4 in 1080P or 4K. I hate streaming because I only want to watch 1-2 movies per month and they are very specific (like a specific martial arts movie or action movie). Streaming interfaces often have DRM and horrible interfaces and I don't want to pay a monthly fee for something I'll rarely use. Don't understand the DRM because pirates get a better copy anyway.

Right now, there is no better and more convenient interface than piracy and I wish that weren't the case.

Edit: there is such an interface for classical music, e.g. Hyperion. DRM free and one-time payment, and I've used it a lot.
That seems like an overestimate. A quick search is showing up numbers more in the 15-20,000 km region, and that's comparing a large EV running off of a mostly fossil fuel grid against a much smaller ICE (i.e. quite a conservative estimate).
Spawn another tribe. Make a similar size. Grant them power. Low down the unnecessary management cost. Just copy Elon Musk did for X.
All models I tested it on (4o, 4o mini and Gemini) answered it correctly without any strange reasoning.
Using fake deadlines without driving your engineers crazy
Nips: Oral Session 4 – Ilya Sutskever – 2016 [video]
Nice, this is cool.
The DCR Kids Programming Language Supports Live GUI Updates
Amazing read, thanks for sharing.

And thanks for building redis! It's an amazing piece of software, no idea how we managed to do without it.
Common core was rammed through to prod without proper a/b testing or canarying. All the criticisms of the "New Math" of the 1960s are just as applicable to it today. See Morris Kline's «Why Johnny Can't Add» on archive.org.
This is kind of just a list of school related ideas where each paragraph doesn’t build on the next. Is this a bot post?

> I pay taxes so that education will be available for the kids growing up in my community

Vouchers give money to education for all kids.

> a set of standards which their education must meet

Voucher qualified schools meet the same state test standard and exceed public school performance on those metrics. That’s true of home school.

Inb4 selection effects. Thats a good thing.

If you know anything about metrics in large organizations you probably know that whether those standards mean anything is also questionable.

> elected officials which I get to vote for

Who did you vote for in the department of education? How many people did you vote for in your district? When was the last time one of these people found and corrected poor spending?

> is accepting students of all stripe

Your own public school doesn’t do this. What’s the difference between internal segregation and external, except external does more to keep them physically safe.

And your phrasing implies it’s discriminating on something other than academic aptitude, or at least reasonable participation.

> the tax obligation is not individually about each taxpayer's kids

Yes it is. There is a fixed number of kids in the system. That’s how the budget is set. Let me repeat. If you subtract out the fixed cost from the pool before dividing by student number, than you get a voucher amount which should have no impact on the public schools funding. Because by removing your child you are only reducing the variable cost spent on them.
A comparison of draw systems in customizable card games
In theory, it should be possible to run a break-even fund, where your expenses are offset by lending shares in the stock borrow lend (SBL) market. I assume this is how some fund managers can offer 0% fees. I have no idea if this is sustainable long-term (decades). In a very competitive, liquid market like the US, I guess that weighted-average SBL rates on basket of S&P 500 stocks might be 5-10bps. Can any SBL traders here give us more accurate numbers?

Edit:

Also, they can sell their order flow to a market maker (HFT?), as it is non-toxic retail flow. That is basically how Robin Hood keeps fees so low.
There isn't any memory of how it got to where it did because all weights are evaluated all the time. It got there through the entirety of the network. There is no logic, just (mostly) a bunch of multiply-accumulates.
U.S. presidential elections regularly result in campaign spending measured in billions of dollars per side. In the UK spending is capped at just £53,000 per constituency, which means a total of £34m of spending for a party with candidates in every constituency.

Campaign spending in the U.S. is literally two orders of magnitude greater, the fact that someone wins while only spending $2billion rather than $3billion really doesn’t say that much. Musks contributions to Trump alone are an order of magnitude greater than the total spend allowed for an entire party in the UK.
That would mean letting the disk execute arbitrary code on your machine. No way that ends well.
It's also way harder to make money doing "not laughably childish" stuffs. The more accessible and human-connected it gets, the more likely people recognize and pays you. People criticize yes-men getting rewarded but you have to be nearly clinically insane to recognize value of a no-machine like a partial prototype quantum supercomputer.
This is such an underrated comment haha
I have been working on Heuristica for the last 1.5 years, which pays for my rent. It is a subscription-based, AI-powered concept mapping tool that helps visualize learning and research.

As I started to make money, I was able to start hiring freelancers to help with certain aspects of the site, like the design, SEO, and some independent coding tasks. It is rewarding, but due to the pace of developments in the AI space, it feels like I need to improve the product constantly to remain competitive, which can get a bit burdensome.

https://www.heuristi.ca/
Dijkstra's algorithm is used in the OSPF routing protocol which used to route traffic around large networks (think ISP internal network, or a large Enterprise).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUF3Of0S3tE&t=37s
I enjoy watching movies without having to wait four hours to download a Blu-ray rip on my 2mb ADSL.

"I feel like watching a movie, NAS" vs "I feel like watching a movie, ETA: 4 hours"

And besides my TV is dumb enough that I'm proud of it. It supports DNLA and works well.
The one that struck me the most is the ISS in front of the Sun - somehow that always gets me.
I think BB is bigger than God. God still has specific ways, while BB can simulate all experiences given infinite time, in parallel. So the universe where God exists and he will burn us in hell for atheism and mastrubation is just a tiny subset of what BBs can do. Cause if BBs are possible, they can do things a human cannot imagine about any God. Imagine a cubic meter randomly enumerating all quantum states within it, forever, ignoring consciousless ones.
The Onion's Purchase of Alex Jones' Infowars Stopped by US Judge
This does look very cool. But my advise for anyone suffering from pain to their arms, hands, backs, and any other body parts that usually hurt for people working on computer all day: Do modest, but regular mobility and strength exercises.
While having an ergonomic (and cool looking at that) setup is important, it wont save you from muscle atrophy. A physical therapist might help you find the right kind of exercises for you.
This is often not obvious, because the muscle you need to reinforce / train are often not actually the one hurting. And you need to do it regularly. But if you stick to it, the payoff is much better than any setup I ever had.
This seems like a good option for us. I will write an email to you to discuss this in more detail. Thank you!
But these abstractions help the developer not solve computer problems, like how to arrange and shift bits in memory, but focus on the actual problem.

Only a subset of problems requires the maximum of performance.

But I would also argue, there are problems, that require more than a few characters in a text editor, despite understanding them.
This whole case feels like it was imagined by William Gibson 20 years ago.
> local hidden variable models can't violate the Bell inequalities

Superdeterminism is an interpretation of quantum mechanics where they can:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem#Superdetermin...
Redis is valued at roughly $2 billion. The author owned all of it at some point. It is not strange to assume they would be wealthy.
A few years ago I made peace with the fact that my space of ignorance is humongous and will only get exponentially bigger. Even in the domain of my work which is software engineering. It liberated me from the pressure or burden of having to learn or know everything and enabled me to focus on things that I truly like to pursue.

I’ve made a list of 4-5 things at which I want to be extremely good at in 10 years compared to where I’m today. Now I just spend time on those. I occasionally wander into something new just for the sake of diversion.
This has a strong vibe of the past:

"In the early 1980s AT&T asked McKinsey to estimate how many cellular phones would be in use in the world at the turn of the century. The consultancy noted all the problems with the new devices—the handsets were absurdly heavy, the batteries kept running out, the coverage was patchy and the cost per minute was exorbitant—and concluded that the total market would be about 900,000. At the time this persuaded AT&T to pull out of the market, although it changed its mind later. "
Any medical system inevitably has limits of what they can spend per patient. Do you prefer the limit to be set and enforced by the government that is amenable to political process, or anonymous profit-seeking insurance company board members, like in the sibling comment case https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42375998 ?
Were these cloud companies, their product managers and execs were not ethical enough to contribute let's say just 2% of the revenue to the base open source projects and even directly label it as "Open Source Sustainability Surcharge (OSSS) in the invoices and UIs?

That would have been enough to stop forks and license switches. May be a little less wines, watches, women and yatches for the execs though.
> This is dangerously close to making the penalty the loss of his first amendment rights.

> There would be nothing stopping Jones from starting again with new equipment and a new domain name.

so... it doesn't constrain his speech at all. I don't see how that is "dangerously close" to taking away his 1A rights
I imagine we'll be seeing more personalized setups as time progresses. Custom keyboards have been pretty feasible and affordable for a good while now, with things like QMK and even custom PCB designers. It can still be a bit fiddly, so it's mostly keyboard nutters such as myself who go down that rabbit hole.

Custom trackpads/mice/trackballs haven't gained as much traction, they're not quite as simple as keyboards, and maybe fewer people realise they could benefit from one. I think I might like an upright ergonomic mouse that's shaped to my hand, but then I'm so glued to my keyboard that it hardly seems worth the effort.

As a child I always wanted a chair with a split keyboard built into the armrests. Probalby inspired by Palpatine's fancy chair. Maybe I'll make that investment one day ...
Luigi Mangione's Dark Descent from Promising Student to Murder Suspect
AI Scaling Laws: Behind the Breakthroughs
DALL-E gave me a much better picture than I expected. When googling "inside of a cylinder" I barely got anything and I had a hard time even imagining a picture in my head ("if I would stand inside a cylinder looking into the wall, how would it look like as a flat 2D image?").
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/luigi-mangione-what-happened-to-...
I think proper V2H/V2G (vehicle to home/grid) is a big one that is very rare at the moment but is probably making a lot of people who could buy an EV at the moment (i.e. have a garage/driveway in a city) hold off until it's more common, because it makes the economics a lot more attractive.

(In general, because of cratering manufacturing costs, improving tech, and a still low trust for battery health, being an EV early adopter is an expensive option at the moment because even if an early EV is still at 80% functionality compared to new, the resale value is terrible, and I think this plus the lack of charging infrastructure is a big impediment to adoption growing to become dominant in the mainstream)
Overview of RAG Architectures
Still no real potential applications beyond factoring large integers (of dubious use) and doing some obscure quantum physics simulations.

QC companies are selling quantum AI and quantum finance and other hand wavy stuff. Yet, I don't see any algorithms that has a proven advantage in these domains over classical ones running on clusters of GPUs.
Can you provide some figures, in terms of profitability? How much did it cost to put together, what are the monthly costs to keep it afloat?

I write a book and give it away for free on https://book.railean.net, but it wouldn't hurt to turn it into a revenue stream.