skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
specifically avoid resources written by and for physicists.

the model of quantum mechanics, if you can afford to ignore any real-world physical system and just deal with abstract |0>, |1> qubits, is relatively easy. (this is really funny given how incredibly difficult actual quantum physics can be.)

you have to learn basic linear algebra with complex numbers (can safely ignore anything really gnarly).

then you learn how to express Boolean circuits in terms of different matrix multiplications, to capture classical computation in this model. This should be pretty easy if you have a software engineer's grasp of Boolean logic.

Then you can learn basic ideas about entanglement, and a few of the weird quantum tricks that make algorithms like Shor and Grover search work. Shor's algorithm may be a little mathematically tough.

realistically you probably will never need to know how to program a quantum computer even if they become practical and successful. applications are powerful but very limited.

"What You Shouldn't Know About Quantum Computers" is a good non-mathematical read.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.15838
Foreigners are typically getting screwed in Germany precisely because they don't know their rights or where to go to ask for (free) legal advice.

If your landlord puts something in the contract that is against the law you can sign it and simply ignore it.
True Artists don't feel it like work they feel it something like selfexpression creativity. :)
Simulating a quantum system is a hard challenge and it's actually how Feynman proposed the quantum computing paradigm in the first place. It's basically the original motive.
I applied to the backend position last month but could fit for other positions, should I apply to those directly as well?
Antimatter has been used in medical PET (positron emission tomography) scans since the 60s
I mistook it for the WaPo. My bad.
Yes in a nutshell they explain that you can express a picture or a video with relatively few discrete information.

First paper is the most famous and prompted a lot of research to using text generation tools in the image generation domain : 256 "words" for an image, Second paper is 24 reference image per minutes of video, Third paper is a refinement of the first saying you only need 32 "tokens". I'll let you multiply the numbers.

In kind of the same way as a who's who game, where you can identify any human on earth with ~32bits of information.

The corollary being that contrary to what parent is telling there is no theoretical obstacle to obtaining a video from a textual description.
What is "hyperhelium"? Google only turns up things related to this article.
>But reading about people having their servers deleted in the middle of the night on a Sunday (Berlin time) and all data wiped immediately, with no recurse, does sound a bit aggressive.

There are several comments under this thread from people reporting essentially that happening to them.
the assumption is told to you in that the game is expected to continue after monty opens a door. if he could open the prize door, the game would describe what happens when he does that
I think that's why humor and memes are such good targets for this type of stuff. If you look up videos like "luma memes compilation," it takes well-known memes and distorts them in uncanny, freaky, and bizarre ways. Yet the fact the original subject is a meme somehow bypasses the uncanny valley repulsion. We seem to accept that much more readily, for whatever reason.
Well, I think showing that it defies logical inference is quite relevant in the context of that thread being about translating typical English into first order logic to do logical inference.
Counterpoint: our CEO spent 25 minutes shitting out a bunch of AI ads because he was frustrated with the pace of our advertising creative team. They hated the ads that he created, for the reasons you mention, but we tested them anyways and the best performing ones beat all of our "expert" team's best ads by a healthy margin (on all the metrics we care about, from CTR to IPM and downstream stuff like retention and RoAS).

Maybe we're in a honeymoon period where your average user hasn't gotten annoyed by all the slop out there and they will soon, but at least for now, there is real value here. Yes, out of 20 ads maybe only 2 outperform the manually created ones, but if I can create those 20 with a couple hundred bucks in GenAI credits and maybe an hour or two of video editing that process wipes the floor with the competition, which is several thousand dollars per ad, most of which are terrible and end up thrown away, too. With the way the platforms function now, ad creative is quickly becoming a volume-driven "throw it at the wall and see what sticks" game, and AI is great for that.
Backup is a useless word, it's too overloaded

Are snapshots backups? snapshots on raid? snapshots on replicated disks?
"We are currently experiencing heavy loads..."
I don't think Google delayed or kept this under wraps for any noble reasons. I think they were just disorganized as evidenced by their recent scrambling to compete in this space.
With a splash of antimass in that confusion too
Actually about 20 W — if you ignore the 80 W used by the rest of the body (which seems debatable). And clearly far more than this was required to 'train' the human brain to the level of intelligence we have today.[1] But this still probably doesn't take away from your point. The human brain seems to be many orders of magnitude more efficient than our most advanced AI technology.

Though the more I think about this, the more I wonder how they really would compare if you made a strictly apples-to-apples comparison.

[1] https://psychology.stackexchange.com/questions/12385/how-muc...
This is so geeky and cool. Feels like this could be a weird method of finding some business in NYC?
it's not the document itself, it's more a project deciding that technical excellence is no longer the number one priority

inevitably the priority of keeping everyone "happy" at a facile level leads to poor technical decisions being made (see: modern python)

not to mention the also inevitable weaponisation of the document as a political tool to defeat one's enemies
Backups are irrelevent here (yes, backups are important). if hetzner really deleted production data without warning or providing a grace period for their customer to migrate their data, then they are simply not a stable foundation to build on.

I have never been a customer of google cloud for this reason and i sure as hell wont deploy new servers on hetzner until they provide a clear statement on what went wrong and what they will do to make sure they never screw up like this again.

Hetzner, the ball is in your court.
They cannot be achieved without JavaScript and still be fast (good luck having product filtering with full-page reloads, your users will flee) - that was the whole point. And I didn't say you have to use React specifically. But without framework you in the end just create a custom one (as was said multiple times by other commenters).
That's a solid writeup on the history of external DMA attacks! Very nicely done, and well worth a read.

This sort of thing is why QubesOS tends to put hardware controllers in isolated VMs and only pass access through. With a working IOMMU (any modern hardware has this), all you can get is DMA access into a VM that doesn't actually have much of interest in it, and no access into other VMs...

//EDIT: Though at a closer read, there's some that... isn't quite right, in how terms and examples are done. I'd expect better from someone doing low level security work - INB copies to a general purpose register, not a memory address, a DMA controller is a "discrete" bit of hardware, it's not very "discreet," etc. I'm not sure. This is starting to feel very AI-assisted to me. The overall concepts are fine, but a lot of the background section doesn't read reasonably, or goes off into weird weeds and... never explores them. The Intel Xeon is not a less exotic example of a DMA controller. The PC/AT platform did not have a PCI bus.

Eh. I remain convinced it's a decent enough overview of the matter, but a lot of the details just read really weird to me in the background sections. To the point that this could be an interview discussion question. "What does this get subtly wrong?"
You too but if you do want to learn the basics then here's one good reference: https://www.amazon.com/Hamiltonian-Dynamics-Gaetano-Vilasi/d.... If you already know the basics then this is a good followup: https://www.amazon.com/Integrable-Hamiltonian-Systems-Geomet.... The books are much cheaper than paying someone like me to do the implementation.
Your browser probably pulled the page from cache.

Or your internet provider.
A human artist keeps state :). They keep it between drawing sessions, and more importantly, they keep very detailed state - their imagination or interpretation of what the thing (house, grizzled detective, etc.) is.

Most models people currently use don't keep state between invocations, and whatever interpretation they make from provided context (e.g. reference image, previous frame) is surface level and doesn't translate well to output. This is akin to giving each panel in a comic to a different artist, and also telling them to sketch it out by their gut, without any deep analysis of prior work. It's a big limitation, alright, but researchers and practitioners are actively working to overcome it.

(Same applies to LLMs, too.)
Aren't quantum computers expected to be like digitally read analog computers for high dimension optimization problems, and AI is like massive high dimension optimization problems?
Yep. Obviously YMMV, but I found AWS TAM to be much better than Google Cloud's (but that's not surprising).
In addition to making sure it works, you should make sure you know how to deal with restoring. Sure running a command is easy but what about spinning up new infra? What if it’s corrupted? What if the one person that knows the setup is gone or asleep? Mainly a problem for smaller teams that don’t have the redundancy or resources - they really need to make sure there’s at least docs on how stuff was setup. Reminds me I need to do my yearly checkup too.
Deletion of Outdated Azul Zulu for Azure Container Images for Better Security
The face of the girl on the left at the start in the first second should have been a giveaway.
cop out... according to you, the idea is so obvious it wouldn't be worth anything.
Sure it's going to pop. But when is the important question.

Being too early about this and being wrong are the same.
Well, part of the coursework, and probably the hardest part, is about translating natural language problems into formal logic statements, ie:

"The liar says All my hats are green" becomes "¬∀x|x∈hat,OWNS(x) (GREEN(x))" or similar.

And then from there you can also translate the five provided answers and try to find a contradiction.
I don't follow, which parameter was unspecified in the original problem?
Where are you getting colo space that cheap? I'm moving a non-profit off OVH and onto dedicated and I'm looking at $150/month Canadian for 2u + 400w.

Also, don't forget about hardware acquisition costs, upgrades over time, replacement hardware and downtime due to outages, etc.
2nd paragraph of TFA
Shouldn't this be covered under standard tort law?
If set of his hats is the empty set then it contains no hat which is not green, which would make his statement true. As siblings have said, this is a “vacuous truth” in formal logic.

Edit to add: if you find this problematic consider that the statement “All my hats are green” in formal logic is identically equivalent to

For all hats h in my hats, h is green.

So for this statement to be false there needs to be a hat in the set “my hats” which does not have the property that it is green. If “my hats” is empty or indeed if somehow contrary to the rules of the game “my hats” only contains things which are not hats or all the hats it contains are green then the statement is true.

Since the speaker is a liar the statement cannot be true. Therefore there is at least one hat in “my hats” which does not have the property that it is green.

The maths students will be learning this in the context of negation and will have learned that the negation of a universal (“for all”) statement in predicate logic is an existential (“there exists”) statement. Since we have a liar we have to negate what the liar says so since the liar says

“For all hats h in my hats, h is green.”

We negate this and deduce

“There exists at least one hat h in my hats such that h is not green.”

In the context of old-fashioned predicate logic this is not ambiguous.
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/55354261-luigi-mangione

Gave a 4 star review to the Unabomber manifesto!

quote from his review:

"Violence never solved anything" is a statement uttered by cowards and predators.""
Has anyone seen any good eval techniques for the OpenAI structured output api?
This "strong typing" message from the Python community has always sounded like propaganda to me - designed to confuse management. Strong typing is about machine checked proofs of invariants, not whether you avoid a few daft built-in coercions.
It doesn’t matter how popular those programs are. Rich Republicans are furious that their taxes are funding public health care and will stop at nothing to get “their” money back. And now they have full control of the government.
A fun one like that, a few years back we had some code using dynamodb that used the automatic point-in-time backups. I asked if it had been tested, need you guess the reply?

Of course it turns out that the restore can only happen to a _new database name_ not the original, and the code had in multiple places hardcoded the assumption of what the db was called.

So restoring also involved patching the code and rolling that out; you can't "roll back" because to roll back the db the code must roll forward.
for me a rooted phone means I have some confidence that my firewall rules are being obeyed. only apps that I approve can access the internet.
> Worth spending a little time doing some long tail strategizing I’d say.

Yup, like Bitcoin going to zero.
That's true in probably every jurisdiction, though? At least in Germany you can often get free legal advice for many things (Verbraucherschutz, Mietrechtsberatung etc.) and there's insurance you can buy that covers your legal fees in case you lose. And legal fees in Germany are typically not exorbitant.

(Also in some cases, it's the other way around. If your landlord wants to increase the rent it's on them to sue you if they have a valid case.)
Possibly of interest, but I wrote a (hopefully approachable) report on quantum perceptrons a few years back [1]. Perhaps it's found elsewhere, but I was surprised by how, at least in this quantum algo's case, the basis of training was game theoretic not gradient descent!

[1] - https://kvathupo.github.io/cs/quantum/457_Final_Report.pdf
Ah I see what you mean. Yeah, that makes sense. If the host behavior is not clearly stated then the right answer would indeed be "it can't be determined from available information".
"Reproducible" isn't necessary for "not modified from what everyone else gets", and that still makes some attacks FAR harder (and easier to identify, as you know what the "normal" one is). And a published Merkle tree just makes it easier to verify "none of this has changed", as opposed to SHAs on a website that could change any time.
Syrian asylum seekers in limbo as countries stop applications
> inaccurate impressions of physics

Or just inaccurate impressions of the physical world.

My young kids and I happened to see a video of some very cute baby seals jumping onto a boat. It was not immediately clear it was AI-generated, but after a few runs I noticed it was a bit too good to be true. The kids would never have known otherwise.
Yes but a movie is a movie whereas these AI-generated videos will likely be used to replace stock footage in other (documentary, promotional, etc.) contexts
https://www.linkedin.com/in/luigi-mangione/

https://www.facebook.com/luigi.mangione.2
The built release packages have full set of man-pages for you to familiarize with.
What is this codemod library called?
Great. In a world awash with disinformation, we're making it easier to create even more of it.

I don't see any good coming from tools like these.
I think this hooks in quite well to the existing dialogue about movies in particular. Take an action movie. It looks real but is entirely fabricated.

It is indeed something that society has to shift to deal with.

Personally, I'm not sure that it's the photoreal aspect that poses the biggest challenge. I think that we are mentally prepared to handle that as long as it's not out of control (malicious deep-fakes used to personally target and harass people, etc.) I think the biggest challenge has already been identified, namely, passing off fake media as being real. If we know something is fake, we can put a mental filter in place, like a movie. If there is no way to know what is real and what is fake, then our perception reality itself starts to break down. That would be a major new shift, and certainly not one that I think would be positive.
Animation doesn't follow exact laws of physics, but the specific ways they don't follow physics have very deliberate intent behind them. There's a pretty clear difference between the coyote running off a cliff and taking 2 seconds to start falling, and a character awkwardly floating over the ground because an AI model got confused.
Source: It came to me in a dream.
Yet, in a movie setting it's clear something is a special effect or alike which is not the case for GenAI. Massive underestimation of the potential impact in this thread, scary.
A well-written, well-formatted email does convey some level of professionalism right? Even if it is a little wordy. Maybe this is no longer true with AI.

I went to a career fair recently and a new grad sent me an email afterwards. His three-paragraph email can basically be reduced to "I want to work for this company. I am qualified. Please hire me". But I don't know how I would feel about that if someone actually sent me an email like this.
> worked for startup

We knew that from the backpack.
Syrians will regret this.
Animation can look real though, e.g sci-fi vfx. But maybe you’re concerned about how prolific it may be? I could see that. Personally I think it’ll be fine. It’s just that disruptive tools create uncertainty. Or maybe I’m overcompensating to avoid being the “old man yelling at cloud” dude.
Search of what?
the freedom to report to as many bosses as your sanity will allow.
I paying < $0.50 a month, and that's primarily driven by S3. For the scraping itself I'm using lambda, with maybe minutes of runtime per day.
You are talking about the colloquial meaning of these words.
Here's one way to maybe make it less counter-intuitive:

We have a set of items X1, X2, X3, ... etc.

Each of X1, X2, X3 differently matches conditions A, B, C, D, etc.

Think of "All" as: A AND B AND C AND D AND...

Each term we add we further restricts the result-set.

Thus if we start with lots of conditions, as we remove conditions, we increase the matching results, until we remove all conditions, and "All([])" matches everything, i.e. is vacuously true.

Likewise, think of "Any" as: A OR B OR C OR D.

Here, as we increase the number of conditions, we increase how many things match, thus "Any" on an empty set returns nothing, i.e. is vacously false.
The simplest algorithm to understand is probably Grover's algorithm. Knowing that shows you how to get an sqrt(N) speedup on many classical algorithms. Then have a look at shor's algorithm which is the classic factoring algorithm.

I would not worry about hardware at first. But if you are interested and like physics, the simplest to understand are linear optical quantum circuits. These use components which may be familiar from high school or undergraduate physics. The catch is that the space (and component count) is exponential in the number of qubits, hence the need for more exotic designs.
I’ve always wondered whether the “missing” antimatter in the universe is simply too far away to see, past the light horizon.

And then there’s the exotic theory that at the big bang, regular matter went one direction in time and antimatter the opposite direction.
Made this in 1-2 hours with bolt: a super simple raffle tool: kimkime
last night, while playing fm, i had this idea and built kimki.me in about 1-2 hours (most of the time was spent on deployment).

the site makes it super easy to organize a holiday gift exchange or any kind of raffle you need.
i built most of it using bolt, did some final tweaks in cursor, and deployed it on vercel.

check it out and let me know what you think—i’d love to hear your feedback!
Research is product development. Successful companies treat it with respect.

> Because in product development, there can be short-sighted industry decisions based on quarterly returns. I've also seen a constant need to justify outcomes based on KPIs etc, and constantly justifying your work, etc.

I have seen this as well. It's extremely common (especially among publicly-owned companies) and frustrating. But it's not ubiquitous. Consider LM's Skunkworks or Apple's quiet development of the iPhone, and compare it to companies that finish a product and then focus on cutting costs / nickel-and-diming their customers.
There are normal-discourse statements in which vacuous truth plays a role, example: "I've never met a Frenchman I didn't like, but then again, I've never met a Frenchman". This is, of course, a joke: and it relies on the fact that we assume the set "met a Frenchman" will have contents, but we recognize that, due to the negation, the empty set is actually valid.

But it doesn't work the other way around: "Every Frenchman I've ever met has become a good friend, but then again, I've never met a Frenchman". This isn't funny, because the second clause makes the first clause into a lie, as truth is normally understood. This is not a place where we colloquially accept an empty set.

So the puzzle posed translates the English sentence into logic badly. It isn't the conclusion which is counterintuitive, it is the logical analysis which is flawed.
> partly because of legal reasons where a company can sue your or at least send you scary legal letters for libel if you damage their brand online like that in Germany. Or at lest, the company can simply demand the social media platform take down the offending posts, and by German law they have to comply which the likes of Google/Meta will comply automatically without any arbitration.

I had Google take down my (negative but factual) review of a restaurant because of apparent "libel". There was basically no recourse (except "you can file a complaint but we'll probably ignore it"). I guess that explains why there are so many bad top rated restaurants.
You can switch registrars if you want.
This is why I point out that an absurd statement still points toward meaning via a metaphor or language game, which I would put wordplay/jokes under the rubric of.

In fact, in my thesis, I cited The Naked Jape, by Jimmy Carr specifically in reference to jokes (it has a one-liner on every page). On of my main arguments against Gricean conversational implicature theory was that the theory itself was a form of begging the question or no true scotsman problems, in that all of the obvious examples where a counter-factual to the cooperation principal that exist everywhere are excused as "not conversation."

https://archive.org/details/nakedjapeuncover0000carr

Again, yes, you can have wordplay, but wordplay is wordplay, and is a language game that exists and is trying to do something in a different framework.

The reason why so many folks have no issue with the puzzle is that they view it as a puzzle (a kind of language game), and not a sensible human communication. This lets them genuinely consider absurd statements and treat them as normal.