skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just decommissioned about a dozen Li-po batteries from old drone projects. This involves making them truly inert. There was a LOT (>50%) of energy in those batteries after 4 years.

There's an art collective around here that had a massive fire that started from a cell phone that had been held in a lost and found bucket for some years. Apparently it just caught fire one day.
Perfect forward secrecy requires the exchange of ephemeral keys. If you use either ECC or RSA for this and the traffic is captured a quantum computer will break it.

All perfect forward secrecy means is that you delete your own ephemeral private keys, the public keys stay in the record. And a quantum computer will recover the deleted private keys.

Also, none of the currently accepted post-quantum cryptographic algorithms offer a Diffie-Hellman construction. They use KEM (Key Encapsulation Mechanism).
Looking at his tweets he looks like a perfect example of a smug “TPOT” postrationalist that identifies themselves as “gray tribe” and then mainlines figures like Bret and Eric Weinstein and has retrograde views.

Thinking he’s smarter than the rest of us is most likely a big part of his identity.
It's democratisating metatheory! What's not to understand?
Presumably the 'nonsense' is the supposed link between the chip and MW theory.

Let me add a recommendation for David Wallace's book The Emergent Multiverse - a highly persuasive account of 'quantum theory according to the Everett Interpretation'. Aside from the technical chapters, much of it is comprehensible to non-physicists. It seems that adherents to MW do 'not know how to refute an incredulous stare'. (From a quotation)
I'm too dumb for this
maybe read again: the other posts mention accounts being denied before anything is created, or customers being informed up front and given lead time to move.

OP claims everything got immediately wiped without warning.
That would be against Hetzner's own TOS.

OP also doesn't elaborate further, and is posting this in a position where he has to explain his own downtime of multiple days.
Make your own judgmenent what is realistic here
Or maybe they spent more time thinking before writing so they didn't have to rewrite it so much.

Either way, very painful
> Worth reading thru all the stupid comments just to read ones like this ...

I'm not sure that's true, given that it's Zero Hedge and therefore like wading through a toxic stew of stupidity and sub-4chan conspiracy theorising.
Ivy Leaguers are trained, often from birth, that they are better than the rest of us plebs because of their “merit” and represent a superhuman caste. This guy was most likely the same way.

If you’re told that you’re a superhuman, then why not think you can get away with it?
It seems far more likely to be a case of incompetence. Law enforcement actually has an extremely low rate of "solving" cases, especially if you exclude all the "solved" cases where the suspect is caught on scene or that end in a plea bargain (i.e. did not have to establish sufficient evidence in the first place).

Ever since he got "caught" (if you can call someone literally telling the police where he is "the police catching him"), all I've been hearing about is how the police wants to use DNA evidence and bullet "fingerpints" (i.e. attempting to demonstrate that a bullet was not only fired from a given type of gun but a specific singular gun of that type) and other CSI woo to now tie the actual crime to him. They might actually be lucky and produce matches in this case as they have the actual suspect and murder weapon (assuming this wasn't an extremely unlikely 5D chess move of using a body double fall guy and/or different gun) but both of these types of evidence are extremely unreliable and rarely help actually finding the suspect even if they make for good television when they work. As I understand it the police even walked back on the mayor's initial claim about "having a name" to "having a list of names" - not to mention that you don't call in the FBI when you already have good leads yourself (if only for optics/political reasons).

He seems to have been mentally unstable for a while before engaging in this killing and the fact he wrote a manifesto strongly suggests he had an intention of being caught or at least considered it highly likely. The monopoly money bag wasn't necessarily a "red herring" as everyone I heard talk about it interpreted it as intending to send a message, which seems to agree with the apparent contents of his manifesto (based on what news reports have cited from it). The water bottle the police now wants to use for DNA evidence may have been deliberately left there for this purpose, too.

Based on what I've heard of his manifesto, he may have intended to kill other people too but have realized the difficulty involved given that his very public first killing likely spooked the other people on his list. I think it's more likely he didn't fully plan out an entire sequence of killings or didn't account for these complications and essentially gave up, settling on being caught sooner rather than later. People generally don't write manifestos when they don't also want to take credit for their actions.
I would guess termux and a bluetooth keyboard perhaps?
Probably because people on the internet like to hear opinions on things like psychological and sociological factors from people who have simply stated an expertise in semiconductors...
> People would not respect the mandate, and we would consider that illegal, and use the monopoly on force to take money out of their bank account.

Imagine a culture that would harness their frustration at being left out in the direction of innovating on their own.

Defining the status quo on things like watermarks by leading the field and then demonstrating how to act from the front.

Seems like they'd be more effective than one that settles for derision and calling for taxes and rules from the back of the pack, so they can presumably profit off the terrible evil things being built.
https://codemadness.org/git/webdump
On the other hand, can you afford not to? Those platform-specific features might look tempting at first, but in reality you are often mostly acquiring a bunch of very expensive technical debt.

If Amazon decides to throw the banhammer your way, how long will it take you to retool your stack onto another cloud platform? Will your company survive if all your services are offline for a few weeks?

And if you grow beyond the startup size, can you afford being locked to proprietary technology? What are you going to do if Amazon decides to increase your prices by 100%? How are you supposed to negotiate when Amazon knows you are unable to switch to another cloud provider?
I remember reading an article by jerry pournelle, and I swear I read that the publisher would (could?) assign the copyright back to the writer for the second 28 years.

all I could find is this though:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160728061257/https://www.jerry...
> I think high fructose corn syrup may be a North American thing

It is. It's not a common ingredient here in Europe or most places in the world. Corn syrup is a weird side effect of subsidized corn farming in the US. This causes all sorts of health issues in the population.

Anyway, you'd struggle to find it in supermarkets or in food outside the US. Even coca cola doesn't use corn syrup in it's beverages outside the US. As far as I know, there is no major taste difference and I've never heard any US people complain about their coke tasting a bit off outside the US. But I don't drink cola that often myself.
Agreed, as someone who spent far too long writing out tree-like expressions similar to this, it's very easy to get them wrong. Of course an editor with bracket-matching will _help_ but not to get the subtrees correct.

('signatures', in case you were wondering)
Take the announcement with a grain of salt. From German physicist Sabine Hoffenfelder:

> The particular calculation in question is to produce a random distribution. The result of this calculation has no practical use.
>
> They use this particular problem because it has been formally proven (with some technical caveats) that the calculation is difficult to do on a conventional computer (because it uses a lot of entanglement). That also allows them to say things like "this would have taken a septillion years on a conventional computer" etc.
>
> It's exactly the same calculation that they did in 2019 on a ca 50 qubit chip. In case you didn't follow that, Google's 2019 quantum supremacy claim was questioned by IBM pretty much as soon as the claim was made and a few years later a group said they did it on a conventional computer in a similar time.

https://x.com/skdh/status/1866352680899104960
Historically 'propagande par le fait' has had a massive effect on policy.

What examples are you thinking of, exactly? When, precisely, did a person/group assassinate someone and have that act push forward their cause?

Which is why mainstream media and authorities are so worried about controlling the narrative of the events (depicting Brian as a loving father etc.)

Or, maybe the idea that killing a random healthcare CEO and acting like that will solve the healthcare disaster is a childish idea that belongs in a movie like The Purge or a Marvel film?

The world isn't that simple. It's incredible that people have such a one-dimensional moral worldview.
sounds like a super healthy relationship.
> Amateur filmmakers can be more powerful?

YouTube turned everyone into broadcasters. Sora could help bring countless untold stories to life, straight from the imagination.

> Humans are not built for this power to be in the hands of everyone with low friction.

Why is having power concentrated in few hands better?
I get your point, but would disagree that being able to apply a function is the same as understanding functions. As with most other things in CS&math, I would argue that you only start to "really understand" functions when you get proficient with higher-order functions, which is what this is about.
My understanding is that crypto is expensive to banks because crypto is expensive to any legal entity in general.

And crypto kings not being able to hold their coins in their bank account doesn't sound like "debanking" to me, because it never was banked in the first place (some banks sure did handle it, but not the ones they're crying about).

I also can't get my bank to hold my beany babies either, and nobody calls that being debanked.
Cell quality is one thing, but it is also possible and necessary to ensure that cell failures do not cause a thermal cascade that causes adjacent cells to fail. The whole "pack caught fire because of one cell" thing is optional. Ideally a catastrophic cell failure results in some venting of gas and a bunch of blown fuses at the cell interconnect level.
OVH is comparable, as is digitalocean.

OVH had a datacenter burn down a few years ago, so think about that what you will :)

Imo it makes sense to spread out, and have backups with a different provider than the one your main servers run on. They should all over S3, which is a standardized format for easy syncing of backups
It never made sense to me why he was wandering around the city in the same exact clothes he used during the murder. If he had simply worn another jacket, he may never have been identified. How could he not have realized he'd be on camera or described by witnesses?

Now he gets caught with all the incriminating evidence you could ask for? I'd say Occam's Razor points to your second theory: He's not playing some sort of 4D chess. He just decided to go kill this guy for some reason and went and did it. Dumb luck and a dense population easily explains how he was able to escape the city.
> people wouldn't do that, if it didn't work.

You can't assume that with scams. Quite often, scams are themselves sold as a get-rich-quick scheme, which like all GRQ schemes, they wouldn't be if they worked well.
I would be very grateful if somebody can point to an actually good blogpost/video that would summarize the current state of the domain. I mean, I remember some "quantum annealing" providers as far as some 10 years ago (I mean, as a service, as such D-Wave exists for 25 years now), but I never actually learned if they are truly useful for anything (like, real numbers, what amount of computation these thing can perform and if it's truly cheaper/faster than throwing a bunch of GPUs on it). From time to time there are some news feturing dope photos, about some new chip from IBM, that is useful for nothing, but a big breakthrough for reasons I don't understand.

But I don't really have a feel of what's going on, really. How many quantum computers there are, is there anything that is actually capable of performing anything more than just being an ongoing research prototype? Some educated guesses about how far can be some non-public projects by now? Like, is it possible that some secret CIA project is further ahead than what we know, or if it's even more unlikely and farther away than fusion power? Or maybe it's even more comparable to cold fusion?

I know, that this kinda exists as an idea, and apparently somebody's working on it, but that's pretty much it.
Show HN: Advent of Habit
Some research suggests it takes around 21 days to build a habit. How about instead of doing another tired New Year's resolution you start now and enter New Year with a habit in place? :)
I made this app for myself and then noticed it is 21 days until the new year.
It is recommended to pick habits with a relatively easy criteria of "done", and don't beat yourself up if you skip some, even if you manage to get one habit halfway there isn't it great?
P.S. I know that 21 days is kind of bs number, it can take shorter or a lot longer.
Feedback is welcome.
Now we just need a physical VR environment where we can upload these and play with, similar to Genie 2 but mesh based(?).
Honestly I think it was luck.
It's not about storing crypto - it's about storing fiat currency for crypto companies.
But you can make any arbitrary compiler within the language itself to reduce certain patterns to fast native instructions. It’s interesting as a universal Intermediate Representation.
Hunyuan was more realistic but lower quality than Sora, shorter videos with lower resolution or bitrate. The downside to Sora's sharpness is that it makes mistakes more apparent. Also funny that Sora didn't understand the rolling dunes metaphor.
The biggest concern I have with chiplets is the impact on concepts like async/await. If the runtime isn't NUMA-aware, it will wind up with cross-die continuations of logical work, increasing latency and burning up interconnect bandwidth. Even if it is aware of the architecture, you still have a messy, non-obvious situation to resolve regarding whether or not to take the latency impact.

Managing your own threads and always assuming the worst case scenario (I.e., they're all a microsecond away from each other) will give you the most defensive solution as architecture changes over time.

I really don't know the best answer. Another NUMA node implies some necessary additional complexity. It would seem the wonder of 192 cores in a socket has some tradeoffs the software people need to compensate for now. You can't get all that magic for free.
Whoosh

Too late to edit, but it seems the implied /s here should have been explicit.
I always had this problem back in the day when they were in newspapers etc. I didn't really get what people were seeing, because to me it was all in reverse. I looked at these on smaller screens last night (phone and tablet) and I could see them! But just now I tried on my 27" workstation monitors and I got them reversed!

People have pointed out that these are "straight eye" rather than "cross eye" ones. So my theory is on a big screen these are too wide for my eyes or something. I can always go cross eyed (by looking at my nose), but I probably can't go "wide eyed".
Met with the Humiris MoAI team in sf, they are onto something cool
Source URL: https://github.com/OXY2DEV/markview.nvim/issues/216#issuecom...
He's definitely fitting the cliché of "STEM graduate who thinks they have all the answers to social problems without reading any previous works on the subject". E.g. he thinks Japan's cultural problems are a bigger issue than its birth rate itself (correct) but thinks part of the solution involves banning conveyer belt sushi bars because they enforce social isolation by having machines instead of workers (incorrect). He clearly takes inspiration from the Unabomber Manifesto but seems to focus on the primitivism instead of trying to understand the underlying social dynamics and power structures (which you might expect if he were a "leftist" as many initially assumed).

You can take a person out of his ivy league STEM background but you can't take the ivy league STEM background out of a person, or something.
Would you use an car if you have streets that are like bike lanes now?
lets make a thought experiment:

You are an car driver. There are car lanes and tank lanes. the car lanes are less than a percent of the tank lanes. Regulary people die, because a tank driver overlooked a car, car lanes are often obstructed by parking tanks. Nobody but an minority of car drivers care. In newspapers often the car drivers get the blame when an accident happens if they are reported, often even deadly accidents are unreported or just an small note.
yes.... all of those are google chrome with lipstick. Doesn't change the fact that it is not a web standard.
In the article he says "Now, let's say you split the function in two parts and you find their minimums independently", so I am trying to think of what that means. I was thinking something like splitting "func() { ins1; ins2; }" into "ins1func() { ins1; } ins2func() { ins2; } func() { ins1func(); ins2func() }", but I agree this is an unwieldy/unrealistic example, all the register context would need to be passed in, stack memory addressing etc., and this changes instruction counts non-trivially.

So I guess I don't need to think too much of the functionness of splitting up a code-block, I suppose this example contradiction would also apply and more cleanly if just thinking of the compiler considering blocks of code individually e.g. in a greedy algorithm.

(Actually reading the intro again I think I overcomplicated this and he actually does mean just splitting into code blocks. My mistake)
You (usually) have to work to earn the money in the first place.
A fair amount of the shittiness comes from people actively enabling that shittiness, such as by throwing large sums of money at fly-by-night companies selling products dependent on cloud services and then getting mad when the fly-by-night company goes under and their product stops working, and then voting for politicians who oppose any regulation that would curtail such behavior.
The Painted Man is a novel that was mostly written on the author's Blackberry while riding the train to work.

https://www.geeknative.com/6955/the-painted-man-written-on-a...
> I mean, I am happy for them but this concept of growing a business to an exit is not going well for society as a whole

Oh yeah, I fully agree with the enshittification sentiment.

Admittedly, a DNS registrar for me personally is something I'd just swap without much thought but I can think of a few services I use where I wouldn't be so loosely coupled from the product if those founders were to exit.

It's a bit paradoxical on my part I think and I do wish we had more lifestyle businesses that don't have to become massive.

Mind you, I would have put iwantmyname in that basket now that I think about it.
we're talking about the engine, not the skin put on it. They're only different in the ui
The concept of a "chief" is deeply rooted in human psychology and thus also in the circuitry behind moral intuition.

We spawned an emergent disembodied super-human organism called "society" that lives through the action of individual humans like an ant colony lives through the actions of individual ants.

But yet we have the strong need to put a human face on it. We need to attribute agency to something that has behaviour.

In order to explain phenomena like thunder, earthquakes etc, humans throughout history have often felt it much easier to imagine some "person in the sky" being the cause of it.

The same mechanism powers many conspiracy theories. "Global financial system that's hard to understand? Nah, it's just the Rothschilds".

Now, in some cases like CEOs of companies that do harm, it's harder to dismiss the individual responsibility, because there is a freedom of choice that the individual could do.

It's easier thus to pin the blame on that single cog rather than blaming the whole society for not voting the right people who would fix the problem at the root.

But ultimately, if that one cog would refuse to do harm then another person would take their place until the rules of the game would be patched to prevent that.

Punishing culpable people is effective only inasmuch it deters from the unwanted behaviour.

Letting people administer "justice" via violence is not conducive to a just and peaceful society. The side effects of letting that happen will backfire and will undo any "justice" improvements you may seek to achieve.

I think we all can personally loathe big bad CEOs and still think that murdering them is the wrong thing you do no matter what your moral theory is.
Oh, it's not just Ivy League although of course that usually comes with a background of privilege and prestige that further compounds on this tendency. STEM people in general heavily demonstrate this tendency. MBA types too, although they tend to think the solution always comes down to treating everything as a business or privatization.
A good read, too!
Apple's iPhone Hit by FBI Warning and Lawsuit Before iOS 18.2 Release
Music fandom is diverse. Some listeners are casual, but others are collectors who love digging into the nuances of an artist’s work
With its fixed supply and coins getting lost all the time, Bitcoin is deflationary, whereas Gold has a more or less constant supply (slightly growing every year). So emission wise, Bitcoin is not as similar to gold as a cryptocurrency with fixed yearly rewards.
exactly how long are you planning on running these tests for - sounds like minimum 20 years?
He posted a recording in which you can see how he works https://github.com/OXY2DEV/markview.nvim/issues/216#issuecom...
"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

So the result might not necessarily be bad, it's just that the machine _can_ detect that you entered the wrong figures! By the way, the answer is 7.
The bigger problem is that people think something this ridiculous could happen.
I think they first reverse engineered the code in imessages.
I use Neovim on Termux as well occasionally. With the right macros it's not too bad to write on phone. Fun for little stuff and languages that do not require tons of brackets.
That sounds OK, thank you!
Servo when?
They don't actually verify any of this and you can just lie. One of the chauvin jurors lied about being an activist.
The Intel Linux drivers are well maintained. Ubuntu did support the integrated graphics of my old 2008 Dell laptop until it finally died this year.
It's a really good prototyping tool for those who cannot do 3D assets. Like visual scripting opened up the game development/modding for those not really familiar with the prigramming (Unreal Blueprints for example). So yeah, I'm okay with models I can throw into my prototypes without learning Blender/Maya/whatever. Sure, it may look uneven and strange but at least it's content.
I agree that the system needs to change.

I agree it's fair to criticize executives who are responsible for suffering.

But I also think we have to be very careful with the messaging about that.

Because I don't want to live in a society where we think that violence is an acceptable solution to injustice.

It doesn't lead to a good place.

Yes, sometimes it's necessary. But very very very rarely.