skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> All my hats....", you are simultaneously making an existence statement that you have at least one hat

It does not. All my unicorns fly. There is no assumption that I have a unicorn. There is an assumption, based on the claim but it is not a fact.

The puzzle also assumes that "my" implies there is some ownership (we'll take for granted "my" means "has" for simplicity), which is another quibble that unravels the whole thing.

E is correct. I don't see how A comes to be the accepted answer.
Or perhaps the dude liked westerns. Wearing a mask to commit a crime and having a getaway vehicle is not exactly a new idea.
The majority is somewhere between overweight and vastly obese, which is a choice (even in HN's latest boondoggle of "you lose weight if and only if you are injected the right drugs", obesity remains a choice). Similarly, the vast majority of people don't even meet the basic WHO guidelines on physical activity, which is even more obviously a choice. It is well-known that making these choices precipitates virtually every common, serious disease. Therefore, most people are unhealthy by choice.
Might be worth checking out: https://quantum.country/
Aghast! Oh, the humanity! Heathen, be gone from these parts!
I don't understand the jump from: classical algorithm takes time A -> quantum algorithm takes time B -> (A - B) must be borrowed from a parallel universe.

Maybe A wasn't the most efficient algorithm for this universe to begin with?
AFAIK a fundamental step in any quantum computing algorithm is bringing the qubits back to a state with a nonrandom outcome (specifically, the answer to the problem being solved). Thus a "good" quantum computer does not bifurcate the wavefunction at a macro level, ie there is no splitting of the "multiverse" after the calculation.
OpenAI's video generator Sora is launching today
Surely this is illegal. In any country with labor protection laws the company would be looking at a hundred employment lawsuits.
Structured outputs can hurt the performance of LLMs
I keep thinking of the people that get murdered by the police when they show up to perform a 'wellness' check.
Assuming this copyright strike has a legal leg to stand on, could it simply be that he goes through the manufacturer's web site blurb word by word, making fun of it? This could be construed as profiting from unauthorized reproduction of copyrighted content, could it not?
This has now reached the masses with the sale of over 9000... I mean 800 PiDP-10 units. Oscar is kind of pushing ITS as the premier PDP-10 operating system.
It was fun trying out the demo, with the "coffee kettle pouring" video it did really well segmenting the man's hand and arm and tracking it (segmenting them in every frame correctly), but with the "Find the ball cup game" video it lost track of the tracked cup in a strange way, it kept track of it correctly while it went behind other cups, but after it wasn't occluded anymore, it switched to an other cup.

It's still impressive to me how it twice kept track between occlusions, but strange how it lost track when it wasn't occluded.

https://i.imgur.com/hOSQBtw.mp4
Thank you. Arbitrary expression is what I was missing.
The headline is misleading. The decoder is fast because it uses SIMD operations, not because it's written in Rust. You'd get the same speedup vectorizing in any other language. But "Rust" is sexy, and "memory-safe" is sexy, so that's what the headline says.

The tech press needs to do less sexy-optimizing and focus on the actual technical specifics.
being a quiet source of inspiration does not pay as well, apparently
Margaret Hughes
The question becomes why all_of returns true for an empty list. A better example would use std::accumulate and an 'and' function argument. The original STL documentation [1] described the function argument as having to model the Monoid[2] concept and have an identity value. The identity value for the 'and' Monoid is 'true'.

[1] https://www.boost.org/sgi/stl/MonoidOperation.html

[2] note: Monoid, not Monad, and yes, category theory left its mark in C++ as well.
But if they wanted to do the homage to $1 recognizer, shouldn't they call it €0.95 filter?

Edit: nvm, just realized they included the VAT
Returning my black Friday set. The app is a split-brained and buggy.
Me too. Unfortunately, their definitely of "malware" and mine differ when it comes to my computer.
But author did nearest neighbor on both axis instead of just vertical as proposed in tweet. Isn't this different?
My shop teacher seemed to think the band saw was more dangerous than the table saw. Was he wrong, or is it just that table saws are used so much more than band saws that they dominate the injuries?
You might also check out /e/OS - https://e.foundation/

It's less hardened than Graphene, but more user-friendly (IMHO) and similarly avoids Google spyware.
I recommend this book I studied it in Undergrad and I never took a quantum theory course. https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Computing-Computer-Scientists...
I worry about Palantir’s role in unchecked mass surveillance but anduril seems necessary given how wasteful and ineffective the incumbent defense contractors are. Adversaries are going there and mutual escalation seems inevitable.
This is interesting as I was evaluating starlark few days ago. The fact that has a customizable implementation in golang, and a python similar syntax makes it an interesting choice for agents generated code.
Great suggestions, and ya I was aware of NEXUS but just haven't got around to it
I, too, am disappointed with the unabashed bad takes on this incident, but you aren't quite responding to the comment that you posted your reply to.
Ask HN: International SIM Card Recommendations?
I spend much of my time outside the U.S. and would like people in the
U.S. to be able to reach me without having to place an international
call. What sim card deal would you recommend for light occasional use
with a permanent number and a U.S. area code?
You keep your skills sharp and learn new things, so you're ready when a better opportunity presents itself.
Remind me of The Expanse, where the ring space is syphoning energy from some other universe to keep the gates open.
In order to evolve, forbiding evolution is the wrong path. Just use and study and learn from new things and accumulate experience is the way to go.
Depends on what you consider "major issue". If you have living people underground and a massive steel door that is the only entrance, the situation is tricky. You cannot use too many explosives, because the building could collapse on you and them. Neither you want to create some massive shockwave inside.

But at the same time, you don't want to spend days slowly disassembling the system. They are hungry and possibly thirsty down there.
E cannot be correct.

"All my hats are green" is still false even when I own a red hat and a green hat.
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> And when your phone dies???

You use the same procedure you used to register that phone, to register a new one.

> This rules out access from a desktop doesn't it?

Using the phone for 2FA means you are accessing from a desktop, and using the phone only as an extra confirmation for the transaction.
Does this not assume uncorrelated errors?
Languages were made up by mankind at some point. They are not backed by the rest of physical reality. They can only be learned by induction, and there is no guarantee that people will get the same "version" of it.

To speak in your analogy, people walk around with different maps of the same territory and realizing this is the self-awareness mjburgess is talking about.
Is it any faster with no GPU offload, given how little would fit in VRAM? Can you try giving a few prompts and getting a precise average token speed? Curious if it would be worth upgrading my RAM to at least run it on CPU.

I have a 9800x3d/48gb ddr5/3090 and this model still being ~40GB when quantized is a challenge. Sure would be nice to have a 30B version that can quantize down to ~16GB. Or I guess I could upgrade my PSU and get another 3090 and use NVlink...
This comment reminded me of the TV show I've been recently watching on Netflix, Pantheon. It's about a different technical breakthrough (I don't want to put any spoilers), but it's also something that completely alters society, no security is able to deal with that new technology, first thing that happens is that the technology is weaponized... etc.

Idk enough about quantum computing to even understand this... but a technology that turns, say, AES or Blowfish, suddenly trivial to crack would very likely change the world
> it's a water level issue, which translates infra commitment issue

The point is with the Jones Act there isn't much value in barges. So other uses of the water are prioritised. Adding water doesn't have an ROI commensurate with alternative uses.
I don't think it's a dumb question, though I guess some might question its relevance. Side-comments can be interesting, though.

I don't know why they did it, but it follows the same pattern as the pi400 - develop a whole new board, rather than a daughterboard for the pi4 compute module. If I had to guess, it's probably about reducing e-waste: if someone wants a compute module and it's out of stock but there are pi500s available, why wouldn't they buy a pi500, strip the compute module out and dump the rest of the machine in the bin?

And to be fair to them, they're dogfooding a fair amount - the RP1 and the RP2 are in the design, rather than a generic southbridge and keyboard controller.
I've always thought Stationfall was very video game like. Each action is easy to explain but there are lots of actions. If you've played video games before it's quite easy to pick up, otherwise a little overwhelming.
It also quite literally isolated decisionmakers above you from the fact of reality that not everyone is you.

This has taken me a long time to internalize, but it's finally managed to work it's way through a thick skull. When you're spending your time constantly bailing poor planners who reap the fruits of your heroics out while burning your own candle at both ends, you harm yourself, and anyone working for you, and anyone who works for the higher ups in question.

And the only ones who can recalibrate, are you, and the higher ups. Who won't, unless you force it.
What do the State of CSS and HTML surveys tell us?
The error rates given are still horrendous and nowhere near low enough for the Quantum Fourier Transform used by Shor's algorithm. Taking qubit connectivity into account, a single CX between 2 qubits that are 10 edges aways gives an error rate of 1.5%.

Also, the more qubits you have/the more instructions are in your program, the faster the quantum state collapses. Exponentially so. Qubit connectivity is still ridiculously low (~3) and does not seem to be improving at all.

About AI, what algorithm(s) do you think might have an edge over classical supercomputers in the next 30 years? I'm really curious, because to me it's all (quantum) snake oil.
Another way to see this is NVIDIA invested heavily, heavily in making a language and its compiler useable (for some level of useable.......) on enthusiast-affordable and poor-scrappy-researcher-affordable hardware on a complex weird-to-program-from-asm architecture and provided good-enough performance (and showcasing lots of very good optimizations) on standard HPC libraries and a bit of HW/SW co-design and kept at it for a long long time... with some level of backwards compatibility too. The recipe is here.
Just checked the v2 and it is interesting. Thanks for suggesting dotdi & gcheong.
"Also, what is the relationship, if any, between quantum computing and AI? Are these technologies complementary?"

AI is limited in part by the computation available at training and runtime. If your computer is 10^X times faster, then your model is also "better". Thats why we have giant warehouses full of H100 chips pulling down a few megawatts from the grid right now. Quantum computing could theoretically allow your phone to do that.
> Also, what is the relationship, if any, between quantum computing and AI? Are these technologies complementary?

Ongoing research.

The main idea of quantum machine learning is that qubits make an exponentially high-dimensional space with linear resources, so can store and compute a lot of data easily.

However, getting the data in and results out of the quantum computer is tricky, and if you need many iterations in your optimization, that may destroy any advantage you have from using quantum computers.
> I think it's reasonable to say "we have done enough" at some point though. We can debate where the point is, but safety is not an unalloyed good. It has a cost, and reasonable people can disagree over whether a particular safety invention has enough ROI to justify its existence.

That has to be a point in time decision though. Closed circuit TV backup cameras in cars have been possible since I dunno, probably the 70s, certainly 80s technology could have done it; but they weren't a reasonable intervention (outside of say armored cars for currency transports) until more recently as cameras and displays have gotten less expensive and quality has improved. Also helpful as modern vehicle design has resulted in significantly reduced visibility compared to the past, but that's a rant for a car article :P
I don't know if this is a tongue-in-cheek joke but there is an AI security system startup named Sauron.

https://www.morningstar.com/news/pr-newswire/20241209ny74705...
> So Quantum Computing, could bring us a future where, when you perform a Google search for a word, the web pages returned actually contain the word you searched for.

Lol! I'm not gonna put a kagi plug here...
Isn't that partially the point? The canonical C libraries could be just as fast if they used the same approach, but they don't, in large part because their codebases are so difficult to work with and any significant changes or rewrites could easily introduce catastrophic security bugs. The nature of the language encourages the fossilisation of battle tested code even if it's well past its prime.
>Willow’s performance on this benchmark is astonishing: It performed a computation in under five minutes that would take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 1025 or 10 septillion years. If you want to write it out, it’s 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years. This mind-boggling number exceeds known timescales in physics and vastly exceeds the age of the universe. It lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes, in line with the idea that we live in a multiverse, a prediction first made by David Deutsch.

A much simpler explanation is that your benchmark is severely flawed.
The tyranny of the one-small-change use case having outsized importance. Usually the build system is no one's job, which means that all hurdles grow.
I wonder if there isn't a case to be made for some really bad faith projects as demonstrators for just how creepy this shit is.

Privacy advocacy orgs should have contests for tracking people using publicaly available video feeds, or something of the sort.

Let people search their license plate to see how easy it is to track all of your movements. Maybe put up a few high res webcams in the vicinity of a legislature building for maximum effect.
They're not. What's there to think about?
Samsung phones are pretty nice these days. It's also very easy to migrate to a new phone. Their software migrates almost everything including side loaded apps.
It works as a supplementary resource.

I think this article[1] explains how to use Duolingo effectively. Anyone who believes they can learn a language only spending 5min a day on the app will get frustrated and fail.

1: https://runwes.com/2020/02/11/howilearnedfrench.html
I certainly wouldn't answer any sort of medical survey, including mental health, that an employer asks for. That's incredibly sensitive information and is none of their business.
The required number of qubits to execute Shor’s algorithm is way larger than 2500 qubits as the error ceiling for logical qubits must decrease exponentially with every logical qubit added to produce meaningful results. Hence, repeated applications of error correction or an increase in the surface code would be required. That would significantly blow up the number of physical qubits needed.
What are the open source alternatives to these companies? You know, so we can protect ourselves from them.
IF (and that's a big if) that's true then it means they can factorize number into primes with this quantum computer and break encryption.
> At my store and every single store I was aware of, if they had not pivoted to cellphones they would have gone out of business in 2000.

Let's shorten this: "if they had not pivoted, they would have gone out of business in 2000." A pivot was needed, and a long time earlier. They key question is which pivot.

Identifying a big market, with a lot of competition and no competitive advantage, was better than nothing, but worse than identifying a market with some competitive advantage.

> You literally lost Radio Shack money and hastened the transformation every time you walked past the CD players and plasma spheres towards the back of the store where the components lived.

True.

To make money, they would have needed to monetize me for a lot more than the price of a component. Have a quick look to see what Russian School of Math charges for afterschool math classes, what summer STEM camps cost, or tuition at a university. More critically, look at the derivative -- which prices are going up and which are going down.

If you earn 50 cents selling me a resistor, I'm losing them money.

If you earn $1000 teaching my kid something about electronics. All of a sudden you need far fewer of me, and you broaden the appeal to anyone educated with money and a child.

They had everything in place to do that, right down to wonderful educators like Forrest Mims.

And if they had done that well, there would have been many more of me around now too.
This answer is the only intuitive one for me, thanks.
I would agree that's obvious, if not for the original error.

The liar doesn't necessarily "have" any hats. Again, the assumption that the liar has hats is incorrect because it's relying on an conversational implication, rather than a specific assertion.
I suspect the real issue is that Big Tech investors and executives (including Sundar Pichai) are utterly hopped up on sci-fi, and this sort of stuff convinces them to dedicate resources to quantum computing.
>Nobody is happy with corporate profits returning to shareholders at the expense of workers and customers, at least not as transparently as it is done now.

How can you return anything to shareholders that's not "at the expense of workers and customers"? Each dollar paid to shareholders is going to be one less dollar that can be paid to workers/customers, so almost by definition paying anything to shareholders is going to be at the expense of workers/customers. Is this supposed to be a thinly veiled attempt at stating marxist ideology?

>There is no economic system, or business model within said system, in which there is unlimited value to be transferred. Humans will assert their rights at some point or another.

The current share paid to shareholders is nowhere near "unlimited". In the US labor's share of GDP stands at just below 60%.

https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/b2774f97-en/1/2/6/2/inde...
One of the things I find myself needing to push both junior _and_ senior developers to do is "if you are thinking about code being anywhere adjacent to 'subtle' or 'weird,' or think that something might become a design pattern for future code, or something that was copied from other code but differs subtly, or you consulted StackOverflow... write the comment that's in your head/leave a breadcrumb as an actual comment in the codebase." And, frankly, this sometimes means commenting-out rather than deleting code, if the historical code was necessary to understand the context for why the improvement is warranted.

I wholeheartedly agree with the OP that "churn" can result not only from staff members leaving, but also from them shifting focus to other projects or even just growing in skillsets over time. Which is why it's vital to document the mindset you had as you were coding.

One of my favorite books, Vernor Vinge's Hugo-winning _A Deepness in the Sky_, uses the term "programmer-archaeologist" - https://akkartik.name/post/deepness is a great (spoiler-free) quote on the notion. Writing for your future archaeologists - who may very well happen to be your future self! - is a great mental model to have.

(And read Deepness - despite its branding as book 2 in a series, it's arguably best to read it standalone first! It's simultaneously an action-packed popcorn novel and a mind-bending set of discussions on linguistics and cultural relativism as they pertain to mechanisms for societal control, in a way that makes the reader part of that very conversation. Highly, highly recommend.)
Ask HN: Job contingent on access to personal email & browser history for mining?
TL;DR: I applied for a low-paying casual remote gig job with Telus International and they require complete and ongoing access to your "primary" personal email account and browsing history to mine data for their customers. Is this normal? Am I that out-of-touch? I'd expect this from some sketchy fly-by-night marketing company, but a major international telco? Has anyone experienced this in other jobs?

Full Text: I'm switching specialties into a dumpster fire of a field after graduating from school, this past spring, and need a few extra bucks without commitment to help make ends meet. The low-commitment low-pay remote jobs offered by Telus International seemed hopeful. I thought the bullet point on the job posting, "Gmail must be your primary email account," was odd, but assumed they just needed me to have a Google account to authenticate, or something similar. I verified my Gmail address with a confirmation number, uploaded my resume, and started the questionnaire. A few questions in, they asked if I agreed to give them complete and ongoing access to my primary personal email-- a nearly 20 year old Gmail account I got when Gmail was invite-only-- and browsing history so they could mine it for data for their customers. Of course, I said no. Since they asked for the account before they gave the reason for it, I didn't even think to use an alt account, they've already got my resume and contact info tied to my regular Gmail account, and of course, that would have violated their requirements anyway-- they specifically asked for your primary personal email account.

I don't see how anyone could think a $14/hr job rating ads or the like entitles an employer to knowing nearly every love and breakup, birth and death, success and failure, purchase, friendship, job, health and family struggle, and many other things that I experienced for a large chunk of my life. After working in the white collar world for quite some time, it's eye-opening to be re-acquainted with the kind of abuse lower-income workers have to put up with. Is this normal? Am I that out-of-touch? I'd expect this from some sketchy fly-by-night marketing company, but a major international telco? Has anyone experienced this in other jobs?
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