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Thanks everyone for all the suggestions and ideas so far.

Just added a voting system based on your feedback.

Will soon add:

- Content moderation

- Truncating large ideas on the UI

- Support for markdown
This is kind of bullshit. The Sandy Hook families were a part of The Onion’s bid. They were clearly ok with it.

The court knows it can’t sell it back to Jones or a proxy of, but this decision also allows Jones to continue as if he hadn’t sold. And I think that’s what they’re aiming for
It absolutely is though. Do you not see any value in bug fixes? Do you think software never needs to be updated? We all know security updates are crucial, and pretending you can just run the old version forever is insane. If I contributed to redis in the past I did so under the assumption that I was contributing to a product that I could actually keep using. But instead they took all those contributions and gave the contributors a huge middle finger by denying them security updates and fixes.

And sure, you can say "just do the bug fixes yourself". But if I knew that was going to be the case, I'd never have bothered to contribute.
Yep. The bank has to require reconciliation of the accounts that are active in the FBO. Oddly enough, there is zero standardization in banking regulations and recon is an afterthought and rarely done. Doubly so if you are talking B2B.

Reconciliation costs a lot of money. They typically just watch the balance and and bark at the fintech for more money when it runs out. There are people at every bank calling partners every day demanding wires for overdrawn FBO accounts. Buyer beware.
To what extent are chatbot conversations reproducible? A chatbot manufacturer could have all conversations log the seed of a pseudo random number generator to make it perfectly reproducible, but it could also make things as irreproducible as possible so that no conversation log could ever be proven to be authentic or tamper-free.
We could train AI models to simplify models in ways that require much less "intelligence" in the given domain.

For instance, we could ask AI to simplify the "essence" of the problems it solves in a similar manner to how Einstein and Feynmann simplified laws of Physics. With train/elevator metaphors or representations like Feynmann diagrams.

Of course, such explanations don't give the depth of understanding required to actually do the tensor calculus needed to USE theories like General Relativity or Quantum Electrodynamics.

But it's enough to give us a fuzzy feeling that we understand at least some of it.

The REAL understanding, ie at a level where we can in principle repeat the predictions, may require intuitions so complex that our human brain wouldn't be able to wrap itself around it.
Well pretty much everybody at some point replaces their cars. There are not many still driving around their Ford T's. So latest at that point, you will have to compare production+cost vs production+cost.
For similar reasons, if you do anything interesting in AI, you’re very much the type to be targeted with additional targeted surveillance.

It’s sad to imagine the amount of smart nerds out there whose only actual experience with women is from the fking honeypots that Langley or ft mead et al use to make sure that some prospective AI talent on discord isn’t about to release a bioweapon. Clearly a lot of AI talent overlaps with incels and adjacent communities (see civit.ai as an example of this), It’s common knowledge that field agents skew female since they’re less suspected by patriarchal idiotic targets (they tout this in recruiting for DEI reasons). It’s probably smart for AI startups to tell their male coworkers to be on the lookout for random attractive women trying to talk to you. The US military and foreign service et al specifically warns its members about this and it is a clear and present danger.

And FYI, if the glowies aren’t doing this, they’re not doing their jobs, since the risk of some crazy open source AI person deciding to lone wolf society is rather high, at least according to the less wrong folks (that community I bet is also crawling with spooks). AI is so full of industrial and business espionage that I get scared just being in the space.

I know this is happening too because the private version of it, expert networks, are extraordinarily lucrative and rely on basically laundering of material non public information with plausible deniability. The “experts” on an “expert network” are basically private business spooks, ackin to a private investigator targeting a business.
Its needed another 9 months for about 5 years now. Tell me, was it also for political reasons that Tesla stopped reporting disengagement data?
I wish it only took me 30 minutes a day.
No, people are ignoring it because they’ve been “9 months away” from robo taxis for at least five years now. 80 / 20 rule.
Also showing a wine cup overflowing is fun.
Surprisingly common for fintechs to be ledgerless. They will always end up with one if they last long enough.
Tesla aren't allowed to because of woke /s
No the explanation is much simpler.

The myth about the Ancient Greeks and Romans not distinguishing various colors has arisen in the 19th century, because those who knew well enough Ancient Greek or Latin to be able to read the ancient literature were ignorant in chemistry, mineralogy and biology, so they were not able to recognize the chemical substances, minerals, plants or animals described in the ancient literature, so they were unable to recognize which were their colors.

Ancient Greek and Latin and also most old languages had very few words that were just color names. Most colors were referred to as "the color of X", where "X" was some well known colored thing. Even for the very few words that were just color names, like "red", a phrase like "the color of X" was preferred for naming precise hues. For instance, "red" could mean either pure red or purple, so when precision was needed the former was referred as "the color of coccos", while the latter was referred as "the color of purple", where "coccos" was a red dye extracted from certain beetles and "purple" was the purple dye extracted from marine snails.

When those reading the ancient literature could not identify "X", they could not identify the color that was named there. At the end, after ignoring most colors mentioned in a text, their (wrong ) conclusion was that the text did not contain color references, except perhaps to red, white, black or gray.

So it is not a fact that the Ancients did not discuss about many colors, but the modern scholars with a not wide enough knowledge were those who could not understand the ancient phrases used to name colors like blue, blue-green, green, brown and others.
Jones had a default judgement against him because he repeatedly failed to comply with court orders and discovery. It probably didn't help that he openly declared on his show that his idiotic behavior was a clever plan to fool the courts... apparently a couple million fools can't keep a secret.
Just read this based on your recommendation, really great book. Though annoying that it doesn't go into more detail about what may happen to countries like New Zealand
Will I be attacked for thinking this is at least fishy? or are they just being ultra secretive.

They never talk about what this computer is actually doing.
Ironically for ergonomics, I need to look down. I significantly increased my daily pain by trying to follow standard ergonomic advice because I failed to take into account my unique needs.
And in those same cases, you could probably safely do the same with FSD (s), but because FSD isn't as limited and the Mercedes product is not a serious competitor, there's no compelling reason for allowing it.
It's the main reason that tactical nukes were removed from surface ships in 1991. When a carrier deploys, the airwing flies aboard. Then ordnance is loaded during underway replenishment. For the warheads, this was almost a full day of parts of the ship on lockdown with armed marines, while warhead cases were loaded. Suffice it to say that all of this activity was ripe for an accident or loss of a warhead (if the container sinks).

Having nukes on standby is one thing. Frequently moving them around is inherently problematic.

In 2007, the USAF mistakenly loaded six cruise missiles with live W-80 warheads on a B-52, flew it from North Dakota to Louisiana, and left it sitting on the runway overnight with the bombs. Additionally, they were not reported missing for 36 hours.

USAF also had a nuclear command general Michael Carey that was fired in 2013 for getting drunk with Russians in Moscow and talking crazy stuff. He was in charge of 450 missiles.

I believe the US sent 100 B-61s to Europe after Russia invaded Ukraine.
While these advancements in quantum error correction are undeniably impressive, I can't help but feel a sense of déjà vu here.... reminds me of the decades of "breakthroughs" in fusion energy—always promising to change the world, but perpetually just out of reach.

The Google benchmark with random circuit sampling is fascinating from a theoretical perspective, but it’s hard to see how this translates into solving problems that matter outside the quantum research community.

The lack of practical applications is a glaring issue. Sure, it's cool that Willow can outperform Frontier on this obscure task, but where’s the real-world impact?

Cryptography, optimization, drug discovery—these are the kinds of problems quantum computing needs to beat if it’s going to justify the investment. Until that happens, it feels like we’re stuck in a cycle of overpromising and underdelivering, with flashy press releases but no tangible results.

And let’s talk about scalability. Even if Willow hits the error-correction frontier, the number of physical qubits needed to build a truly practical quantum computer seems astronomical. Millions of qubits just to factor a number?

It’s hard to see how this scales in a way that makes economic or scientific sense. Right now, it feels like quantum computing is a field for researchers who are okay with not seeing practical outcomes in their lifetimes.

Maybe I’m too cynical, but this smells like another example of tech marketing getting ahead of the science. Maybe we can admit that we’re still decades away from quantum computing having any real-world relevance?
> drivetrains that fail because you drive them in too heavy a rainstorm

Not even that, colleague's Model 3 died because it was parked out in rather normal european heavy rain over 1 night. It just completely died.

Tesla service center just took it and replaced it without any questions - clear sign this wasn't an exception and it was well known issue at that point.
(from 14 years ago, but still an interesting read)

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/20...
They Waymo trick is entirely different to FSD. They are travelling pre-mapped streets.
> This seems like an exceedingly mean-spirited and unconstructive

It's not, it's precise.

Sorry you wasted time writing all this, because I don't care about hypermedia systems - it's not that it's bad technology, I simply don't want to write yet another awful templating language. But that's just an aside, because once again you're talking about something else. But okay, let's switch to debating HTMX. My point then still stands: you simply need JavaScript. Now instead of this useless arguing, go find/build some big e-commerce website with this hypermedia stuff (or truly with no JavaScript) and then we'll see.
I think that analysis might have the “sunk cost fallacy” assumption? Just because we already have the ICE doesn’t make it more efficient to keep using it, over immediately replacing it with something more efficient, as long as you then keep the more efficient thing operating until it becomes inefficient to keep that operational. The crossover point seems likely it would occur much sooner if you replace the ICE now than if you wait for its end of life, regardless of the age of the ICE now
Because the auction was a scam, I guess.
you might enjoy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgydTdThoeA
Why, so the outgoing government which lost the public vote can make the decision instead of the president elect ?

Disclaimer, I think Trump is a buffoon, but I also think this kind of thinking is backwards.
I would hope it's the 'persistence forecast' + x % better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_forecasting#Persistenc...

IIRC the Metoffice in the UK does/did pay bonuses to staff based on modelling exceeding that criteria in a calendar year.

Again, IIRC, in the UK the persistence forecast suggests something around 200-250 days of the year have the same weather as the previous day.
Can Trump pardon Jones? I thought pardons apply in criminal cases, not in civil cases like bankruptcy.
A big problem in science in general is reproducibility. There are thousands of papers being published every month with peer review, which prunes out the most obvious errors, but the whole system is built on trust.

Very few labs around the world are tasked with testing results instead of trying to produce new science, and in this specific case, only google has access to the device being built and the computation tested by them impossible to verify with classic computers, unlike Shor's algorithm which is trivial to test with known primes.
The author spends too much energy naming things—roles, tools, trends—when what really matters is the message. Whether it’s arguing over what to call “junior” devs or debating if Chat-Oriented Programming (CHOP) is the right term, we’re missing the point.

The message is clear: adapt or get left behind. LLMs and automation are reshaping things, and the people stuck arguing over names are the ones falling behind.

Stop obsessing over labels. Focus on learning, adapting, and staying ahead. While you’re busy naming the problem, someone else is already solving it.
This idea is similar to what some countries do around music: artist register with an government identity that collects copyright fees from venues that play music - live or otherwise (bars, clubs, theatres included).

The government identity then distributes those monies to the artists according to playlists collected from said venues.

It works for big acts, for small acts the overhead tends to consume the payouts.
President elect shouldn’t control the courts but whatever.
In WW2 there was a lot of panic about "fifth column" infiltration from German special forces. So they came up with a code word that only native speakers can pronounce: Scheveningen.
> some sort of UI thing based on WASM might be the way to go

Oh dear hypothetical deity, please no!

I can best respond by copying my own response from another place:

Do you know Greenspun’s tenth rule?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule

It was about Lisp, so it’s an ancient thing now, but it still has truth.

As far as the Unix/Linux/xBSD world goes, it can be generalised like this:

Level 1: Any sufficiently complicated [container or VM management system] contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Plan 9.

Level 2: Any sufficiently complicated [bytecode VM or runtime environment] contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Inferno.

Wasm to me still smells very much like a second-hand, poorly-conceived, half-assed version of Dis.

> There is room for programs that do not need to be installed.

Sure there is room. But is this a desirable thing? Is it worth the price in inefficiency and insecurity?

If it is, and I am not 100% convinced of that, then design it right into the OS from the outset. Any effort to bolt it on later will be fatally flawed.
"We and our 912 partners process your personal data"

A museum. Just why??
Found a nerd! Get 'em!

(just kidding of course, matching the tone of the article)
I count 8 colours on this website. The 4 mentioned, plus: white (appearing in the hue slider), light-pink (background of code box) and two types of gray (appearing in the up/down widget)

Something something glass houses?
The pde5 menagerie has a few more now but I feel like there is little difference between them.

Permanent tadalafil if you can stand the side effects, any of the others if you are suffering and want them to be over faster.
They have a couple people to manage test drives and they will ask if you have any questions and make sure your aware of the current interest rate or other sales incentives but they aren’t sales people in the sense that you would typically be used to.
Does it? All I've found is that it theoretically complies with California's decisions. I have yet to see that assumption make it through court. Meanwhile, DNT has the force of the GDPR behind it (https://gdprhub.eu/index.php?title=LG_Berlin_-_16_O_420/19).
On the other hand, understanding what part of what you are doing is due to a leak from the lower layer helps you isolate it in case you should shift what you are building on. And now we have another abstraction!

It is rare that you need to understand more than a few layers down, at any given time. As I type on this keyboard, I have no care what the neutrons, protons and electrons are doing in the keys are doing. From time to time maybe if I get a nasty static electric shock I want to stop.
I just started “Build Your Own Text Editor”[0], but using Odin instead of C. So far, I’m impressed with Odin. It’s the most ergonomic C replacement I’ve tried. I wish it had been around 25 years ago when I was professionally working with unmanaged code.

[0] https://viewsourcecode.org/snaptoken/kilo/index.html
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What's the most significant useful application of quantum computing, in other words, why should we be excited about QC, how will it improve people's lives?
99% of people claiming to be experts on how FSD can never work are doing precisely that.
Even Scott Aaronson doesn't really know what they will be good for. Something something quantum simulation something something material science, perhaps. Yet nothing concrete, no example of a problem that they would actually solve. Apart from cracking RSA, which is the opposite of useful.

It seems the whole quantum computer thing only made people like him excited because it's a different kind of computer, not because there is any strong evidence that it will be practically useful.

It reminds me of nuclear fusion: Sounds cool, but it is highly doubtful whether it could ever compete economically with nuclear fission.
Or, the error message could print the failing line along with the error.

Wouldn't that make it a stupidly typed language?
I feel like I've misunderstood something here... shouldn't memcpy(anything, anything, 0) just do nothing, because you're copying 0 bytes?
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Willow only implements one single error corrected logical Qubit, using over 100 physical qubits. So far the test they have done is only applicable to an extremely narrow problem domain, approaching the limit of how practically useless a problem domain can be. I may be exaggerating slightly.

As Google's own team report "Google will only consider itself to have created a “true” fault-tolerant qubit, once it can do fault-tolerant two-qubit gates with an error of ~10-6". That's two logical qubits.

The general consensus is that to have a practically useful quantum computer we'd need one with about a million physical Qubits. That's not just 1,000 of these 105 qubit chips because those wouldn't be entangled, but one chip with about a million entangled physical qubits and therefore 1,000 logical qubits.
You think the current president is influencing this court case?
Ask HN: Engagement vs. Success or Schlep vs. Fun?
Consider https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42367535 , which offers a cynical (if realistic!) take that many times service providers have an economic incentive to aim for engagement instead of success.

Here the topic was language apps and the comparison was dating apps, but we can probably come up with numerous other examples, of which pharmaceuticals are probably the poster child.

Less cynically, there are numerous instances in the leisure world where amateurs are grateful to engage with professionals who don't coach them up to independence, because the basic deal is that the pro does most of the schlep so the amateur has mostly fun.

For instance, I've heard with regard to boats that "owners only sail downwind" ... and leave it up to their crew to sail the boat upwind back.

Might there be a rule of thumb that would allow us to quickly triage service offerings into the more or less cynical buckets? Or does one have to approach them case by case? (if the latter, could it be there are, in the same industry segment, both kinds? or would knowing a segment suffice to determine the appropriate level of cynicism?)
The difference is that it’s not Elon saying this anymore. It’s the actual beta testers, and other people that work at Tesla saying this.

The Elon hate is so ingrained here, people are ignoring what’s happening right in front of their eyes.
I'm wondering how/why you can actively manage a fund cheaper than Vanguard.
The whole dealership system is parasitic, rentseeking, friction. Tesla might have a point here.

Instead of transparently selling a product for fixed price, the dealer system appears based on information asymmetry, haggling, upcharges, finance bullshit, warranty bullshit, subscription bullshit, and many decades of entrenched psyops culture against customers.

On top of that, salespeople are often poorly trained on the products and dealerships seem to have an adversarial relationship with corporate, especially around the corporate website differing from the local story.

And then the dealerships steer you for whatever benefits them. In 2017 I tried to test drive a Chevy Bolt: Motortrend's car of that year. One dealer hadn't even heard of it. Another said he couldn't get one. Another tried to dissuade me from looking at it by dissing the product. Finally I found a knowledgeable dealer that knew the product, had some, and revealed they were easy for all dealers to get in our area: the others were just being obstreperous. Suck.
Software is now where engineering was in the 1980s with CAD automation
You have to prove damages.
Yep. Makes a lot of sense. Your side project is super noble -- thank you for that
The elected government isn't making this decision anyways, this is in a court in front of a judge (one previously appointed by the president-elect, no less).
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You have it wrong buddy. Tesla is the one that needs competition, they’re going to have a robotaxi monopoly soon.
There is only one choice being expressed by either protocol. One against data collection, the other against the sale of collected data.

DNT has legal standing in the EU, GPC has theoretical legal standing in the USA, where laws are more geared towards protecting data brokers. Removing a protocol because it doesn't work in the USA despite it being a legal opt-out in the EU is foolish; just send both headers, let local jurisdiction pick the which one is legally binding and which one can be ignored.

GPC has been standardised to never make it extendable beyond "Sec-GPC: 1" so there is no way for it to imply a set of choices in the future, without breaking backwards compatibility. The choices are limited by design.
Is Wordpress.org GDPR Compliant?
United States Bankruptcy Judge Christopher M. López was appointed to the United States Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of Texas, effective August 14, 2019. Judge López was sworn in by United States Circuit Judge Gregg Costa on Wednesday, August 14, 2019.

Hmm.
makes a lot of sense.
Not OP but guessing that this is about metaphorical self-destruct button (that has other important functions beside killing everyone).

Have you every been in airplane cockpit?
There always is a switch that cuts enginees off and from what my pilot friend tells me using it in mid flight is more or less equal to killing everyone. And yes, as far as I remember it is big and red and have a lot of "do not touch" vibe around it.