skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone is saying he is going to "take vaccines away" yet he can say he is not and you will believe a news media funded by the pharmaceutical companies because they are afraid that some of these vaccines might not be safe?

I do not need a hundred sources, I need only one, from the person himself, right?

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/06/rfk-jr-vaccines-tru...

“We’re not going to take vaccines away from anybody,” he told NPR in an interview this morning after Trump’s overnight victory. He repeated the message a few hours later in an interview with MSNBC.

Instead, Kennedy said he wants to improve the science of vaccine safety, which he said “has huge deficits in it,” so Americans can have all the right information to choose whether to get vaccinated.

“I’m going to make sure scientific safety studies and efficacy are out there, and people can make individual assessments about whether that product is going to be good for them,” he told MSNBC.
In my opinion the "shut up and calculate" view is the most common among actual quantum computing researchers.

Unsure about those working on quantum foundations, but I think the absence of consensus is enough to claim any view as absolutely not the view.
https://archive.today/cx3YW
When Microsoft first proposed attestation features in 2002 under the name Palladium, it was almost universally seen as a nightmare scenario. I don't understand why most of the tech world is OK with Apple and Google doing the same thing to our phones now, and Microsoft bringing it back on Windows.

I do understand trying to bury full access to the device a bit deeper than it was on older PC operating systems. The average person doesn't know how to use a computer, and it doesn't appear there was ever much hope of that situation changing. Letting a third party verify the computer is in a certain state, however seems outright malicious.
Battery-like computer memory keeps working above 1000°F
Well there has to be some reason I'm not getting the "gigabit" speeds I was quoted.
The implication seems to be that they can implement other gates. As my gen z kids say: huge if true.
McDonalds is likely to be responsible for the contents in that regard I'd presume (esp since they do own the trademark). This is what I meant by corporations registered in the UK.

In a similar vein gambling content targeted at kids would have a similar approach.
Keep in mind the businesses still need to be able to sell in the UK.
It starts at home and is not used until required. When I was a child I was taught to say "I love you" on the phone or in person if I was under duress. We had similar processes in the military that were also taught in person or existed in a binder next to the phone. Say one phrase and everything is dandy. Say another phrase and they send in the cavalry.
I don't want to judge people by their cover, but I want to confess to having those feelings right now.

In this day and age, I feel an immediate sense of distrust to any technologist with the "Burning Man" aesthetic for lack of a better word. (which you can see in the author's wikipedia profile from an adjacent festival -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartmut_Neven, as well as in this blog itself with his wristbands and sunglasses -> https://youtu.be/l_KrC1mzd0g?si=HQdB3NSsLBPTSv-B&t=39)

In the 2000's, any embracement of alternative culture was a breath of fresh air for technologists - it showed they cared about the human element of society as much as the mathematics.

But nowadays, especially in a post-truthiness, post-COVID world, it comes off in a different way to me. Our world is now filled with quasi-scientific cults. From flat earthers to anti-vaxxers, to people focused on "healing crystals", to the resurgence of astrology.

I wouldn't be saying this about anyone in a more shall we say "classical" domain. As a technologist, your claims are pretty easily verifiable and testable, even on fuzzy areas like large language models.

But in the Quantum world? I immediately start to approach the author of this with distrust:

* He's writing about multiverses

* He's claiming a quantum performance for something that would take a classical computer septillions of years.

I'm a layman in this domain. If these were true, should they be front page news on CNN and the BBC? Or is this just how technology breakthroughs start (after all the Transformer paper wasn't)

But no matter what I just can't help but feel like the author's choices harm the credibility of the work. Before you downvote me, consider replying instead. I'm not defending feeling this way. I'm just explaining what I feel and why.
Please consider it an early Christmas present to yourself if you can pay a nominal amount for an API instead of spending your time scraping unless you enjoy doing the scraping.
Whatsapp for friends and family

Slack for work

Telegram for apartment community

email for very very close friends

iMessage for those using ios
You can disable the phantom process killer in developer settings in Android 14.

Termux is rock solid on my Galaxy Fold 4 without any root or adb shenanigans.
They say in-house with their own US fab in the announcement.
> a large Starlark codebase is a large Python codebase, and large Python codebases are imperative, untyped, and can get messy even without all the things mentioned above. Even though your Starlark is pure and deterministic, it still easily ends up a rats nest of sphagetti

This brings it to the point. I'm still wondering why the achievements of software engineering of the past fifty years, like modularization and static type checking had apparently so little influence on build systems. I implemented https://github.com/rochus-keller/BUSY for this reason, but it seems to require a greater cultural shift than most developers are already willing to make.
Numbers aren't "surprisingly easy to define". Indeed, JSON is a very good example of how to not define numbers for interoperability. The original spec literally doesn't place any limits on valid ranges, precision etc, with the result that the later RFC notes that "in practice" you probably want to assume 64-bit floating point because that's what most parsers use (but still doesn't actually guarantee at least that much precision!).
Add to your list to ban medical advertisement to the vice and addiction bar.

Do you feel like your knee itches sometime? You may have BSitis, ask your doctor if our product is right for you...

Replace all these with a generic, if you feel sick, go see a doctor, that's what they are for if needed.
> you need something like actual malice--specific knowledge of falsity

IANAL, but as I understand it the definition of malice also includes "reckless disregard for the truth". I'm sure a good lawyer can argue that not having human lawyers review, investigate, and confirm computer-generated abuse reports before sending them to outsiders constitutes a reckless disregard for the truth.
We've been happy with our Twinkly lights (after several years). Not really "DIY" but you can create your own light scheme/shows.

https://twinkly.com
i don’t really view “shut up and calculate” or very restrained copenhagenism as a real view at all.

i think if you were to ask people to make a real metaphysical speculation, majority might be partial to everett - especially if they felt confident the results were anonymous
Does that change the reality that a 1997 30 year TIPS would have been ineffective at helping purchase what was once a below $100 per square foot home in 1997 that is now $300+ per square foot in most US population centers?

Replace home price change (or land price change) with education price change or healthcare price change. Probably even trades’ worker price change.

If a nursing home cost $x per month in 1997, and you thought putting away an equivalent amount of cash in TIPS will ensure you can afford a nursing home in 2027 or 2037, it’s probably not going to be fun to find out how much they cost now.

It worked great if you wanted to ensure being able to buy electronics, other manufactured goods, and probably groceries. But those are beneficiaries of automation and foreign labor.
oops, I realize I completely mis-stated the second point. What it should say is:

- If delta(x) is OK, why is delta^2(x) not OK?
You're saying you would write the entire hash table four times, with everything duplicated and no reuse? Again: Why? What do you gain compared to one line to suppress a warning?
> you're saying a lot of things about commodification and mass production, which are completely unnecessary to the expression of the human condition.

Read my response here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42368209

I struggle to see how the existing status quo is better than the world that is coming.
As other people pointed out here you can also add "verbosity sinks" as text fields in structured output, recently I've also been experimenting with tool calls to support guided self-talk in a way that doesn't necessarily all accumulate in the context (e.g. if not all the tool parameters get echoed back).
not metaphysically equivalent. also, i’m not so certain it will always be untestable. i would have thought the same thing about hidden variables but i underestimated the cleverness of experimentalists
Then the liar isn't lying, as the statement is true.
Any idea how much a service like that actually costs? Say I had an old camera, how much would reversed engineering the CCD drive circuit cost?
GrapheneOS is incredible. Nearly perfect OS.
...Most prisons shouldn't be a major issue once you get rid of the operators. After all, basic tools built them. Basic tools can unbuild them. It's half the reason so much of prison operation is focused around depriving inmates access to any basic tools, or the time/privacy to fabricate their own.
Logic itself is a relatively new invention, and is symbolic itself. That is to say, logic is a map not the territory.

That said, if someone can't fathom the most widely used symbolic languages humans use (math, logic, language, etc) they probably do have a cognitive deficit of some sort when compared to those who can.
In my opinion, yes. I think it desensitizes us to new information, content, and experiences. Humans didn’t evolve side by side with the current way of life. However I don’t know how these researchers could prove it. You can’t feasibly conduct a decades long A/B test of people who use and don’t use smartphones or social media, right? At best you could rely on self reported habits maybe? But that doesn’t seem like enough.
https://tilt.dev/ also uses Starlark.
The Ten Best Science Books of 2024 [Suggested on the Smithsonian]
> Willow performed a standard benchmark computation in under five minutes that would take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 10 septillion years — a number that vastly exceeds the age of the Universe.

What computation would that be?

Also, what is the relationship, if any, between quantum computing and AI? Are these technologies complementary?
Another way of considering that statement is diminishing returns on the utility of mathematicians.

Some is good, but more isn’t necessarily better.
Yes, people use it for cheating in online games.

PCIleech was originally a framework developed for general pentesting and redteaming. Under certain circumstances pcie devices have read and write access to the entirety of the RAM without any special software running on the connected PC. The pcie device can simply send packets requesting the contents of addresses and the bus happily responds.
This enables all kinds of interesting things. Unfortunately games also store the position of enemy players in memory, so people use it to read those values from memory.

But at least we got cheap fpga devices from that situation.
UPDATE: You can now delete your account (under the 'My Account' tab within the /settings page)
Single-Payer Healthcare Isn't the Answer – Standardization Is
I guess it's because it has the highest score of all models in instruction following, 20 points higher then Opus, which compensates for shortcomings elsewhere (e.g. in language), and which wouldn't necessarily translate to human evaluation of usefulness.
If you make it for you, don't show it to me.
I use a Pi400 daily but boot it from a small USB stick. So no SD card needed, and it seems faster.
US woman caught with golden gun in luggage at Sydney airport jailed for a year
Moonlight and Sunshine is great, but I couldn't figure out how to get HDR working on the Nvidia Shield- perhaps changing the Sunshine codec settings from the default was needed- I didn't bother fiddling with it.

I switched to using my Steam Deck. Moonlight on a docked Steam Deck with Sunshine works perfectly with HDR on an Ethernet connection. The Steam Deck should also have better controller support than the Nvidia Shield- I've been using the official Xbox wireless adapter, there's a community supported driver to use it with the Steam Deck- a video on Youtube says how to get it working.
yeah, you can add most "paradoxes" to that list.

the one I hate the most is the Monty Hall Problem.
That's exactly my point. Many of those bookstores survived.

The ones that died were the ones who tried to lower prices to compete with online, had commercial books selling shelf space (rather than curated selections), and minimum-wage employees who didn't know what they were selling.

I don't mind paying for good books, and what I'll pay for is having a person who has read a lot of books and can recommend what I'll enjoy.
There was no crypto stuff during the floppy times, and that's a lot of extra code
Rust-Based, Memory-Safe PNG Decoders "Vastly Outperform" C-Based PNG Libraries
> As always with Emacs, the learning curve is a bit steep at first

For any Emacs users who are interested in using Emacs for mail but don't want to deal with the learning curve of Gnus, check out mu4e, which is easier.

https://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e/

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/mu4e
> there are only so many processes that are low-hanging fruit

You might be right, but the commissioner of the U.S. Patent office said in 1899, "The patent office ought to be closed, as everything that can be invented has been invented". There might be lots more coming
I wish languages adopted structured comments (as in, semantically applying to syntax tree nodes rather than lines) more broadly. It used to be a thing in some early PLs but has mostly died out.
Installed it just now - don't forget to enable incoming connections on the firewall (AFWall+) if you happen to use one - and did some experimenting, especially to find out whether it would open up the device to the deluge of ssh probing. Even though those probes will (in a sane universe) not succeed they're unwelcome anyway. I do notice the device listens on port 22 on both IPv4 and IPv6. Fortunately it is possible to change this by editing /data/ssh/sshd_config where I disabled IPv6 (not necessary in this context) and changed the listening port. You never know on which network your device will end up after all.
I would take the new "Plasma 2350 w" from Pimoroni https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/plasma-2350-w and connect some APA102/Dotstar or WS2812/Neopixel either from BTF Lightning, Amazon or Pimoroni
How can I, a regular software engineer, learn about quantum computing without having to learn quantum theory?

> Worth spending a little time doing some long tail strategizing I’d say

any tips for starters?
In other words, get off the cloud so nobody has your encrypted data which they will be able to crack in a few minutes five or ten years from now?
It's in the article. Random circuit sampling benchmark: https://research.google/blog/validating-random-circuit-sampl...
Medical Device Maker Artivion Scrambling Restore Systems After Ransomware Attack
Climate change solved: steal energy from adjacent universes, pipe our carbon waste into theirs.
Why would a social credit score system powered by technology help? Will there be punishments if your score drops too low?
Your initial translation into JavaScript is a representation of the statement "All my things are green hats", which is not the same as "All my hats are green."

The statement "All my hats are green" would map to

things.every(thing => thing.type != 'hat' || thing.color == 'green')

i.e., everything the person owns must either be green or, if it isn't green, it must not be a hat since all hats are green.

The negated form would then be

things.some(thing => thing.type == 'hat' && thing.color != 'green')

i.e., there are some hats that are not green.
> and the team seem to be completely oblivious to it regardless of how many times it's brought up.
Here in Brazil, many banks require the use of an invasive "security" browser plugin to access your bank account through the browser, and that plugin obviously exists only for desktop browsers. And it's also not uncommon to require a confirmation through the phone app whenever doing a transaction through the web.

The root cause is malware. Intercepting the online banking session in the desktop browser to steal your money used to be very common.
In these types of puzzles, a "liar" is meant to be someone who makes only statements which evaluate to false. They are meant to be riddles about formal logic.
I mean, 2400y at least… I guess you mean quantitative logical calculus notation?

- the local Russell hater
One of my .xyz domain was taken down because one it somehow ended up on a single spam list as Phishing (it was not hosting any phishing, and all the code is actually open source).

I never was able to get it cleared. It's crazy the power that those spam list can have and they care very little about false positives
I would hope that my own current contribution to the fiscus would pay for my eventual old age pension. And my hypothetical children's future contribution would pay for their own retirement. But alas this is probably not the case.
BlueAlpha Russian hackers caught abusing Cloudflare services
If you want to watch me, I need to be able to watch everything you do. I personally think it's fair, but I don't think the people who want to watch us want us to watch them back.
Could heinous AI companies please stop using names from the sublime Lord of the Rings?
The first project I built to learn rust - we are talking 2018 - was an ECS. I was speaking of personal experience in that particular jibe :)

Happily, I haven't yet been afflicted by a strong urge to build python packaging tools and inshallah I will escape this dreadful fate.
It has nothing to do with laziness in typing.

It's just not wanting to keep track of more rules. If you've only ever used languages where a leading decimal point is allowed, it's a pain point to suddenly have to remember that it isn't here, and for no obviously intuitive reason.

It's about wanting to avoid unnecessary conceptual friction. Not lazy keyboard usage.

(Heck, your second example uses an extra keystroke. And it's perfectly readable to me, based on the languages I use.)
Wow, yeah I think you're right - 3.3 somehow gets top position on the entire leaderboard for that category, I bet that skews the average up a lot.
> 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.

That's in line with a religious belief. One camp believes one thing, other believes something else, others refuse to participate and say "shut up and calculate". Nothing wrong with religious beliefs of course, it's just important to know that is what it is.
No one is immune to the China Cycle:

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/why-china-is-defeating-tesla
I think lethal is a bit exagerated. I think developers often underestimate the resilience of a company.

Howrver, if you read the related programming as theory building it explains these thoughts in greater detail.

It explains a lot about how code becomes legacy and the friction that comes in from inheriting a 0 handoff software project.
Yes, even in a lot of south american countries, for a upper middle class perspective, 1000 sq ft for a four bedroom house is a bit on the small side.
There's also the ex-Azure catapult cards someone RE'd: https://j-marjanovic.io/stratix-v-accelerator-card-from-ebay...

The nite/litefury boards are 100% the best starting place though.
Amazing how hard some people try to avoid the obviously correct and portable "#pragma once".
Sure does, but I don't evaluate firewalls based on the quality of their marketing materials.
I am rather amazed by the how the general public is supporting the gunman.

I don’t live in the US and in a perfect world I wish such event restart the conversation of how to build a less treacherous health care system.
I think that is fair if the expectation is such that you contribute interesting ideas, like in a forum.
However, when it is one on one communication, many times people are looking for emotional connection rather than simple exchange of ideas. I think that is when ghosting really stings.
What if we are? And by injecting entropy into it, we are actually hurrying (in small insignificant ways) the heat death of those universes? What if we keep going and scale out and in the future it causes a meaningful impact to that universe in a way that it's residents would be extremely unhappy with, and would want to take revenge?

What if it's already happening to our universe? And that is what black holes are? Or other cosmology concepts we don't understand?

Maybe a great filter is your inability to protect your universe from quantum technology from elsewhere in the multiverse ripping yours up?

Maybe the future of sentience isn't fighting for resources on a finite planet, or consuming the energy of stars, but fighting against other multiverses.

Maybe The Dark Forest Defence is a decision to isolate your universe from the multiverse - destroying it's ability to participate in quantum computation, but also extending it's lifespan.

(I don't believe ANY of this, but I'm just noting the fascinating science fiction storylines available)
How would you know whether Modified3019’s comment is factual and correct? sureglymop wrote “note: this was a different registrar than mentioned here”, and they haven’t written any other comments in the thread that might identify the registrar.
This is interesting, can definitely see the future of talk therapy going in this direction. How do you measure 'quality coaching'? Have you had any users use this for an extended period of time and report good outcomes? Is this supposed to be a replacement for traditional talk-therapy or a supplemental tool?

Nice job, looks quite polished.
Searching through an unstructured data set of size N on a classical computer takes O(N) time

but on a quantum computer, Grover's Algorithm allows such a search to be performed in O(N^0.5) time.

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.
It's really not so extraordinary, exponential reduction in logical errors when the physical error rate is below a threshold (for certain types of error correcting codes_ is well accepted an both theoretical and computational grounds.

For a rough but well-sourced overview, see Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_theorem

For a review paper on surface codes, see
A. G. Fowler, M. Mariantoni, J. M. Martinis, and A. N. Cleland, “Surface codes: Towards practical large-scale quantum computation,” Phys. Rev. A, vol. 86, no. 3, p. 032324, Sep. 2012, doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.86.032324.
Maybe there is a difference how formally trained musicians and computer scientists see it. But actually I don't see a contradition of your statement to what I've written.

And don't forget that also Miller Puckette comes from the Western musical tradition and developed important works at IRCAM.
They opened the API for it and I'm sending requests but the response always comes back 300ms before I send the request, is there a way of handling that with try{} predestined{} blocks? Or do I need to use the Bootstrap Paradox library?
On the other hand, they make it easy to see them for what they are, they are not going to name themselves after Sauron after all.