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I think the "parallel universe" analogies are misleading at best. I actually think most "narrative" explanations of quantum physics are as well. For a long time I used to imagine quantum physics with the same language we talk about superheroes and time travel and consciousness and whatever.

But then I actually saw some of the math (very basic Hisenberg uncertainty equations) and good comparisons to classical wave mechanics and wave interference. Everything made more sense.

As a layman with some very rudimentary understanding of the math, I would ignore ALL talk about "farming out" and "parallel universrs" and similar concepts. I think thise ideas are charged with too many interesting but fantastical elements which you probably don't find in actual quantum mechanics.
It's inappropriate in general to diagnose people with psych disorders based on their social media and public persona
The extreme effort she has to go through to make it work proves my point.
That grid-like crystalline pattern can't be produced in a lab. It's only present in metals that cool by 1 celsius every thousand years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widmanst%C3%A4tten_pattern
I was that other commenter, and you just disagreed with me (again!) in my sibling reply.

I'm really confused, and you're not making any sense.
These are pointless concerns. It is a technically trivial problem. We are literally in a thread about self driving cars. If there is a will to enforce it then it will be enforced.
I forgot about that book. I'd seen a copy years ago. I didn't have anywhere near the money to buy it at that point.

... and looking at used copies, I'm still not going to drop that coin on the book. But thank you, I didn't know there were some online copies of the photos.
“A particle can have no mass when its energy is entirely derived from its motion, meaning it is essentially pure energy traveling at the speed of light.”

I never understood this. In this case, initially, it is assumed that mass is a property of matter of this moving body. Then we assume that mass disappears but matter or body keeps moving without mass. It looks like there is equivocation or some other kind of play on words here. Can anyone clarify without using the phrase “in Einstein’s special relativity. . .”?
That's a fair callout. I think the best borschts I've eaten had dairy, but somehow I had bright purple soups in mind when I wrote that and forgot about the others.

With any luck, a vegan sour cream ought to get you to that pink classic. No promises though, and the purple version is also great.
Man, I'm old.

> (btw for the acronym haters: "Individualized educational program". Those of older gens may know it as "Special Education")

Thank you for spelling this out. I've spoken with some educators in the charter system and was always a bit confused by what they meant with IEP.
just drove a company plane the other day, no issues
You have to understand that music theory is not a set of rules to follow, its a set of ideas that sound good to western ears and therefore are very commonly found in most music.

Not every song, but much western music, especially pop music and nursary rhymes, will stick to the same major or minor scale of notes for the whole song. Going outside of this scale is quite normal too and changing the scale/key multiple times in a song is also quite common.

The point of learning music theory is to give you a toolbox so that you can both recognise patterns in music you are listening to, as well as give you some ideas of what sounds good when you compose or improvise.

This is quite similar to mathematics where in school we dogmatically teach students how to do arithmetic in the base-10 euclidean system, because having deep fluency in one system is more useful than having a little understanding of many systems.
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This seems like an industry wide admission that this stuff doesn't actually work, tbh. I've heard similar things from Farley at Ford--advanced lane keeping cruise control systems work, robotaxis don't. Only the "tech" companies are so committed as to double down and try to wish this sci-fi into reality. The car companies are a little more grounded in reality.
As much as I love urban rail, its usefulness scales in direct proportion to population density. Europe has >2x the population density of the US. Japan has 10x the population density of the US. Rail for transit just doesn't make as much sense for the US. It works in a few of our densest cities, but nowhere else. Buses are cheaper, simpler, and easier than rail, but also are useful in proportion to density.
It is not obvious to me either.

I will point out that Physics and Chemistry are awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences while the Peace Prize is awarded by a separate Norwegian committee, so it is plausible that one would be more respectable than the other. Literature is a completely different institution as is Physiology/Medicine.

The Peace prize and Literature prizes have far more questionable winners in my view than the Physics and Chemistry ones.

Economics wasn't added until the 1970s, and has had some extremely suspect winners.
Ok so your problem with fixed infrastructure is that it is fixed, and your solution is to create a slightly different fixed infrastructe that has many of the same problems, but instead its more expensive, less tested, less safe and less efficent?

> The answer is that people want cars.

Actually in many cities in the world, only a minor % of people own a car. And even those that do own a car don't use if for that many trips.

> They want to drive.

Driving in cities is almost universally hated and is proven to cause lots of stress.

> and face unpredictable schedules and delays.

Because in cars its impossible to have unpredictable delays, roads are always completely open and there is never any concention?

In most cities in the world, public transport has less unpredictable delays compared to driving.

> Autonomous road infrastructure is a sensible, incremental improvement. And in fact city buses will tend to benefit from it the most.

A sensible incredmental improvment are regular bus lanes with regular trolley buses.
Turns out the Google AI's 15-day forecasts are for the weather in Mountain View.

Which I can forecast 15 days out, too.
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From the original https://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/how3.html

> To create each random bit, we wait until the first count occurs, then measure the time, T1, until the next. We then wait for a second pair of pulses and measure the interval T2 between them, yielding a pair of durations. If they're the same, we throw away the measurement and try again. Otherwise if T1 is less than T2 we emit a zero bit; if T1 is greater than T2, a one bit. In practice, to avoid any residual bias resulting from non-random systematic errors in the apparatus or measuring process consistently favouring one state, the sense of the comparison between T1 and T2 is reversed for consecutive bits.
I sell bike parts on the side (https://bike-parts.cc and a few others). Plugs into my cousin’s ERP system with a middleware that I wrote. Everything is hosted at home, integration, DB on a 500mbps home internet :).
I feel like we did that back in the '50s and then the auto lobby had us strip it all out (in the USA)
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> Now I gotta learn linear algebra.

Linear algebra does seem to be a hard wall I've seen many smart software engineers hit. I'd honestly love for someone to study the phenomenon and figure out why this is.
That's why encrypted messages still use code words and code phrases. Although the US did crack the Japanese encryption, the use of code words stymied them. The inference that Midway was the target of the Japanese attack was guesswork on what the code word for Midway was.

Code words and phrases can be cracked once one gets enough context.
Yeah I've been editing since 2005 and from my perspective nothing much has changed. I've never really had any conflicts editing anything.
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OP said old ideas were allowed :P
The equivalent system is no driver in car at all, and unless there's some trial I don't know about, Tesla's product that does that is announced but not existing anywhere, 0 cities, 0 cars. the definition of vaporware.
You couldn’t, there’s no such contrast in any corner of colorspace to fit gp’s comment into.
> So you are saying HFT will avoid your market order in this case, while HFT will provide better price when they are the sole counter party in separate liquidity pool?

Yes, absolutely. The best feeds (tightest spreads) are only given to specific clients who are requested to trade exclusively with them. If they detect you splitting your orders up between venues, they'll worsen your feed. The feed they'll send to public lit ECNs will generally be their worst (widest spread).
non-fathers reporting satisfaction vs dissatisfaction with not having kids. Typo.
You don't need to have a credit card on file to use this free plan apparently
I stopped following it for a bit after the initial drama after Matt had repeated meltdowns and showed his true face in all of this. It was just tiring try to fight all the non-stop gaslighting which was probably part of the strategy. Any leg he had to stand on was betrayed by his tantrums. Good to see some movement.
Eternity is a LOT of time...
> I can generate several hundred lines of code in 5-10 minutes. With the newer models, I expect this to collapse to 1-2 minutes.

Is this supposed to be a good thing?
Maybe they should then, I was blaming humans for the unsafe/illegal right turns and deranged maneuvering in the presence of lights and sirens firetrucks.
Not an expert, but two differences that most Muslims have which non Muslims don't:

- They don't drink alcohol

- They fast every year

No idea if these help or not.
The end stages are not great for the individual or the family.
Consider that in Japan, refusal care for the elders would be considered an act of irresponsibility.

You are right that there should be no crushing weight inflicted. Not all of Japanese worklife has the exploitative nature described upthread. And indeed, seems to be decreasing significantly from the 1980s. For instance, the following situation is no longer likely:

"A boss is working late, so the employees under the boss keep working without being requested to. If the boss disagrees with their decision to stay, then instead of directly telling them they may leave (because they may feel obligated politely refuse as long as the boss is still working), the boss will 'go home' by walking around the block. This gives the employees time to leave, before the boss returns to continue working late."

Consider that in Japan, doing what is best for a group of which you are part is more important than self-interest. There is some modern trend to a little more individualism, in part as reaction to some past and current excesses, and somewhat due to influences of foreign cultures. In general, it seems to be trending toward balance while still keeping a lot of importance of your in-group.
> Do you have an idea why it‘s not interesting abroad?

Is keeping kid’s baby teeth considered normal behavior in Germany? It’s considered a bit bizarre in US. I have a 6 year old and very much in this market but simply have zero interest in the entire premise of logging and keeping this info and the teeth themselves. The tooth fairy is our main tradition and I think most people are happy to dispose of the biohazard waste that’s collected
Something that lasts for 4 years isn't disposable.
> GM Super Cruise comparable to Tesla FSD

I just spit up my drink. Thank you for that.
Not quite. I've been taking Beta-hydroxybutyrate (BHB) salts in powder form, mixed with water. Here is some interesting literature discussing its benefits as a metabolic regulator of proteostasis in aged and Alzheimer-diseased brains:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37461525/ (same research article referenced in the post link)

I personally take it to manage brain fog due to long-Covid.
It might very well be internally consistent but it's not a theory of where the universe came from. It's easy to add complexity, but the goal is always to remove it.
For the purpose of preventing action by the defendant, yes. For the purpose of setting binding precedent that affects the outcomes of other lawsuits, not at all.
And how much is that $400K of equity worth today?
Probably not exactly what OP means by "side project" but in 2006 I started working towards getting FreeBSD running on EC2, and I got it working in 2011; I've been the maintainer of the FreeBSD/EC2 platform ever since.

This started because I wanted to use FreeBSD in EC2 for Tarsnap, but I'm now getting sponsorship from Amazon for my work on FreeBSD (EC2 and release engineering) as well as a much smaller amount from a Patreon I set up a few years ago.
Although Japanese does in fact have a word for green, which matches the traffic lights, but still calls them blue.

Blue includes green, so they’re not wrong.
Why is there only one review for the Chrome extension? Is the Apple app store version the most used version?
It's kind of weird to do that though, it mixes up concerns, why would an operation starts to mess up with specifc db integration.
This is really amazing as is their standalone pglite project, which is a WASM port of Postgres. One surprise for me though is that Electric is a read only replica. In particular, “Electric does read-path sync. It syncs data out-of Postgres, into local apps and services. Electric does not do write-path sync. It doesn't provide (or prescribe) a built-in solution for getting data back into Postgres from local apps and services.” https://electric-sql.com/docs/guides/writes
BTW, people found that in-conext instruction is useful for these (for example, directly using the last hidden layer to condition a diffusion model is much worse than encoder-decoder model, but you can add instruction prefix "try to imagine more details with the following text: <prompt>" would enrich the last hidden layer vector to be superior than the encoder-decoder text features. Very interesting stuff.
This is really cool. Do you have any interest in helping people auto apply to them? We can help you set it up with a really simple API call via Skyvern (https://github.com/Skyvern-AI/skyvern)
Suppose that a portable computer uses full disk encryption. On boot it requires a long passphrase, or requires a short passphrase and connects to a remote server to supply a long decryption key but the remote server rate limits attempts. Either of these are rare because the system is normally on or in suspend rather than being cold booted, and once on the operating system rate limits local unlock attempts.

What is the TEE supposed to buy you over this? Avoiding the negligible inconvenience of typing the long passphrase once a month if you don't have a remote server, which the enterprises that demand features like this would have? That seems like more of a solution in search of a problem and in any event not worth the cost in authoritarianism.

Not only that, the TEE solution is less secure. If the device is stolen and you revoke access on the remote server then there is no way for an attacker with only the device to get the key. If the key is in a TPM on the device they can stick the device in a drawer and wait until someone finds a TPM vulnerability, then unlock it.
That would do it. It's interesting that they compare 1-2 with 3-4 and not 1-2 with 2-3. I wonder if there's a reason for that.
I’m baffled by this. My wife worked at a charter school and it was nothing like this. The teachers were constantly trying to get certain kids out of their classroom who were actively threatening staff and other students, and the administration would never do anything. The assumption being that losing a kid would hurt numbers and impact funding.
That's what I'm trying to get at--why would there be any will? Why should we all decide to give up a lane to people who are rich (or stupid) enough to buy a brand new car?
I realize you likely mean your comment as a kindness and I appreciate that intent.

However, as the son of a mother who slowly died from early onset dementia, I can attest that just because the ego self has fractured and scattered into a million pieces does not mean that the afflicted person is in some peaceful state of not knowing. That they are somehow not suffering or in pain. It is just that the afflicted can no longer articulate their suffering in ways understood by the rest of us in consensus reality. If one pays close attention, the reality of their suffering is bright and clear.

One of many many examples was when my mother would compulsively pick up a pen and make rhythmic circles on and off for hours. I would watch her and wonder why. Turns out she had a severe (brutally painful) urinary tract infection and was trying to soothe her pain. She was a much beloved English teacher and writing was her refuge. She was doing her level best to alleviate her suffering.

The thought that a person dying from Alzheimer's is not having a painful existence is radically disconnected from reality.

I respectfully ask you and any caregivers for dementia patients to avoid conflating your own understanding of reality with the actual reality of your patients.
Yes, but to the normal person, they both seem wildly obsessive. My acute observation is simply that anyone who has that much time and energy to think about and experiment with "biohacking" is clearly lacking in some other areas of life. In particular the author here mentions that his number one intervention / beneficial "hack" has been increasing human connection.

But it seems painfully obvious that with such a large amount of focus poured into one area, not to mention being in medical school, they are clearly not maximizing in that area. Most people are simply much too busy with actual human stuff to go so deep into this area. The other side of that being that when you are that busy you don't feel the need to delve so deep into an area because you are meeting those targets organically.
I went through this exact same scenario. Late 30s, recently diagnosed. Couldn't hold a job more than 2 years because I'd get bored/burned out really fast.

The way I did it was similar to what you've already done except I started doing yoga and jogging as well. It helped me stay calm and think clearly when combined with meds. If you haven't tried doing yoga, don't sleep on it.

If you work in IT, look into MSP work. MSPs can be tough but they often have lower barriers to entry due to high turnover. If not, there is probably something similar in your field.
Ah, excuse my imprecision!
This is definitely not true in practice except for maybe highly liquid ETFs and underliers
As they say: If there are 9 women in a room and one is pregnant, then each woman is 1 month pregnant on average!
Very peculiar examples. Do you object to the section about the harassment of Lorenz or the absence of a section on harassment for Christopher Rufo?
To be fair, death seems pretty much the same.

That is, it's not the dead that are in pain, it's those left behind.

So, while I agree with you, it doesn't seem much worse than death, especially if the family accept/believe that the Alzheimer's patient is actually not suffering.

For example, if my dad lived long enough and ended up with it, had I been convinced that he actually wasn't suffering, it may be less heartbreaking as his son (but still heartbreaking for my personal loss of the relationship with my Dad, and him not knowing me).

It's hard for me to say, having not had someone super close end up with it -- only more extended family. So those closer/more affected may have other thoughts.
Great job on this!
I'm not sure how many people (including myself) told him to stop talking about the case on Hacker News. He never listened.
If you can't see the relation maybe you need to understand the topic a bit better before diving head into conversations about it...
High body fat is correlated with all sorts of negative health outcomes, no?
I saw you present this many years ago at MariHacks! Stuck with me as a really cool idea and project. Awesome to see it still going strong!
14 hours every day is considered great (don't eat late, skip breakfast), a solid 48 hour fast every month or so is also great. Small human studies, for example, have measured 5x to 10x increases in HGH after 48 to 120 hr fasts respectively. Free steroids, basically; the body repairing itself while not being drowned in food all day every day. Telomeres too!
That’s true for basically any element including lithium
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I doubt it's any safer. Things that UV cure tend not to be nice.
Poland has had an anomolous increase in wealth over the last generation. Perhaps it’s just that resources matter.
If I understand correctly, this adds hard cap to the free tier for the peace of mind. You exceed the bandwidth/usage limits and your app gets suspended. I have a Netlify account but have not used it for anything, so this helps to calm my anxiety with cloud usage, especially after reading some horror stories online.
Truly psychotic community response.

History of this pattern:

- There is an open source project, someone wants to work on it full time.

- They set up a SaaS version of their project.

- Other SaaS interlopers eventually come about, but typically none of them can keep up with the main project's SaaS offering as they're at cutting edge and usually most competent and familiar with the project

- Then, a player like Amazon comes in and simply competes on the infrastructure front in a way that the original SaaS offering can't compete with, nor can anybody else.

At this point, the original project isn't able to exist as a business. If your reaction to this is "that's fine, the community can take over from here." Then that is literally the exact option on the table today. From the very moment that Redis Labs was made non-viable by AWS under their original license, the fork was right there for the open source community to take over. It's exactly the same as if the company had gone under. Go nuts with it.

But then when it comes to the license they come up with: it is literally the most obvious and reasonable thing I could possibly think of. Do whatever you want with this software, just don't release the project directly as SaaS.

It is so crazy to me! Nobody's labor was stolen. Every contributor to every patch of the project's work is preserved under the license under which they contributed. Go make Rediss. Go make Reredis. Or just keep contributing to Redis, knowing we can all keep using it, we just can't go make Reredis Labs. I think I'll survive.
>having the peace of his rustic cabin disturbed by some tourist loudly operating an ATV or jetski.

It was a sawmill!

When I saw the documentary about him, I remember thinking that he went to such extremes to get away from people, living without power or water, absolutely in the middle of nowhere, only to have his peace shattered by the reopening of some stupid sawmill.

I feel a bit like Ted when my stupid neighbors decide to use their leafblower many times each week.

God forbid anyone should have any peace. Oh my god, a leaf!! I must blow it somewhere else at once!!