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Ask HN: Do you keep a Feynmanesque problem list? What's on it?
It's probably apocryphal, but Richard Feynman was said to keep two lists, a "problem" list and a "solution" list.

The problem list contained all the questions and challenges Feynman was curious about, from profound scientific inquiries to practical problems or simply things he didn't understand but wanted to explore. The "solution" list contained some broad subset of the tools, concepts, techniques, and ideas Feynman had mastered or understood. Then he'd just occasionally cross check them against one another.

I've always been fascinated by this idea, and I'm curious to know if anyone contemporary has tried something like this and found it useful.
The interview (quotes at 2m10s; watching from 0m33s captures more emotion/context):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmYAvrJjWsY&t=33s
The problem is that an Abmahnung doesn’t really come from some state authority but just a lawyer. Maybe confirming that it’s from a real lawyer would be enough though.
> PostScript itself is expected to be run in a VM and relativepy straightforward to be isolated/sandboxed.

Expected by who? It's been associated with security bugs for decades.
This is totally inaccurate. There is nothing 20x slower about a GPU core unless you're nitpicking, in which case you can show those same GPU cores are 20x faster than CPU for other things.
This video is quite fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDtECNekJ-4
Transmission makers (ZK), turbocharger makers, who else are going to survive EV migration?
I'm trying to find a reference for this. I remember it from some ancient IBM ad.
The system in the article sounds fancier but more like a one-off demo. The later system was just a second remote display plus a voice line; more deployable.

The concept comes from NASA's Apollo Mission Control in the 1960s. These screens on the consoles were all just TV receivers. All the display data went onto a cable TV network. Any console could view any source. The network was remoted out, and displays outside the control room could look, too. Any display could be routed to the big screens, too.

The same technology was still in use in some USAF facilities well into the 1980s. (Long story. Short version: the 1970s upgrade project failed.)

That kind of switching remains a feature of military command and control centers. Some display may suddenly become important, and others need to look at it.
IBM did a roadshow around 79-82 time frame in the UK and showed off plasma displays. They were very cool. Orange glow, very fast response they were built into the walls of an IBM mobile trailer hauled around the country drumming up business in the university towns. I didn't see one again until a very early Toshiba luggable in the early 90s.

PLATO seemed to me to kind of not lead anywhere solid. The field of computer aided instruction went on of course, NATO funded summer schools across Europe looking at it for decades. Maybe if you're in the field it has strong roots and a context. I worked alongside people in the space in that time and it felt like it wasn't living up to the promise.

That said, lots of things stem from it. All across the surface of things we do today. Mice, workstations, immersive experience, scripted interactions. I'm not sure I buy "email was born in PLATO"
hats off to the CEO of your last company
How does a website determine if a copyright claim for some user-generated content is valid? I think they just look if it’s roughly plausible and then give out your data and let you fight it out.
> OnlyFans might want to look into the legal implications.

Pretty sure they have.

> I could imagine a class action law suit where the company is sued for fraud on the basis that it is selling real interactions with models.

They fairly explicitly are not, as (1) they aren’t selling the creator services, that’s explicitly (as agreed to by fans in their agreement with OF) a separate (standardized) contract between the fan and the creator, and (2) that standardized contract includes an agreement that the fan acknowledges that the creator may employ third parties to assist with interactions, and, as regards AI content specifically, (3) AI generated content is required by the terms imposed on creators to be explicitly labelled, where it is allowed.

> But you could make the case they were defrauded for services (in this case, interaction with the model).

IF a particular representation around a particular interaction evidenced a special promise with regard to that interaction beyond the standard contract, maybe, by the creator, and in violation of OF’s explicit terms for creators prohibiting false and misleading representations.
"Sitting on his hands" to double check showed great maturity!
Well why do people study anything? It doesn’t have to be defended; these people are interested in this topic and therefore decided to study it.

There is no master plan; nobody allocates people to these problems based on strategic need. It’s just interesting.
If I told you that all the world's cryptographic security is founded on the study of prime numbers, would it be impressive enough?
They organized their entire product line around premium artist products for the adobe cloud type spending professionals and it just doesn't work for them. It was a crazy strategy. They're still putting out new surfaces that have the same fundamental problem and burning their brand. They came out before Apple Pencil and made almost no improvement to it since then. Even the old windows ink laptops from the early 2000s had better stylus support (Wacom).
I can't find an exact story but this pdf [1] has a foot note about the naming being changed (search for Luke).

[1] https://libros.metabiblioteca.org/server/api/core/bitstreams... [pdf]
> That said, one could probably produce something to a pretty similar effect with an external pen display (like Xencelabs 24"), VESA arm, and an M4 Mac mini, and it’d be more powerful, upgradable, flexible, and maybe even cheaper to boot.

Sure! What's the number to get this working?
I can see that some of these faces are slightly wider than others etc, but otherwise they're pretty much the same. You would get a bigger difference than that by photographing the same face with different focal length.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandem_Computers
So Transformers caused a shortage of transformers.
Looking at this it is absolutely amazing and almost incomprehensible how far technology has advanced in the years since then.
I guess so if you goal is to have people knows about your content, might have a small SEO bump
Because announcing, "Hey, I know, let's tax unrealized capital gains!" a few weeks before the election wasn't the stroke of political genius Harris's team thought it would be.
The worst part of middle-class life in the US is its precariousness. A guaranteed lower middle-class living for life is a pearl indeed.
>silence on the line

I guess, it's a remote spam farm. The machine calls you, and when you answer, it calls a remote spammer who works from home, so it can take them a while to answer. I guess, it's a clean comfy job: they work from home even without profession or education, maybe even subscribed to several spam farms.
Only partly. Also sun, cars, and wars.
That desktop grade processor is probably basically a pup compared to a modern Apple silicon processor. M4 / similar vs some poor Intel chip throttling at 2GHz?
> You can argue their Surface and Surface pro line up is far far a better feat of engineering (stuffing a full blown desktop grade processor into a mobile tablet) than any iPad Pro.

Can you clarify this point? iPad Pro has an M4 processor, just like Mac desktops do.
yes exactly,

The main issue in scraping:

- If you scrape a lot, you will be block based on you IP; You need to use PROXY
- Scraping entire website need specific logic, retries and more
- It becomes an heavy background job

All the above takes time, so if in your business it is not your core feature, likely better to outsource it.

Good job doing it tho!
Duolingo reduced our cloud spending by 20%
I don't think that's the lesson from Putin.

Putin's propaganda features these absurd strongman displays of masculinity because it works, it's a very well known and ancient exploit in the human mind and societies as a whole.

I'm sure Putin would prefer to do the evil things he does without having to do the whole song and dance of propaganda.
GP asked about the "Results" section. The ones in "Materials and methods" are much easier to distinguish.
Roman Jakobson (probably one of the most important linguists of the 20th century) has famously said: "Languages essentially differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they can convey".

I think this sums up the weak version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis quite well. The strong version of the hypothesis claims that monolingual speakers of a certain language find it hard to think of concepts that cannot be expressed by their language. But as Roman Jakobson hints, with enough effort you can express most concepts in most languages. Quite frankly, I'm not aware of any evidence of this strong form of linguistic determinism, except for Daniel Everett's research of Pirahã[1], which is rather controversial.

The weak version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is more interesting, but most of the research I've seen was on pretty boring (in my opinion) subjects that seem to appeal to a modern European audience. In other words, it's mostly about color and grammatical gender (obviously only when that gender is Masculine, Feminine and Neuter, not something too foreign like Bantu noun classes).

The most interesting research I remember reading was on the Australian Aboriginal language Guugu Yimithirr, which uses a cardinal direction system. Instead of using the relative direction "left" or "right" to describe the location of objects in relation to you, you'd have to use their compass-direction like "The tree that is westwards of me" instead of "the tree on my west". That pretty clearly forces every Guugu Yimithirr speaker to have to be constantly aware of the compass directions so they can clearly point at things, it's quite unsurprising that they are very good in instinctively knowing where the north is without a compass.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirah%C3%A3_language#Pirah%C3%...
I’ve always found it curious that the eukaryotic nucleus also has a double membrane. Could the nucleus be part of the “symbiotic engulfing” story as well?
5) Use "asserts" liberally to check program state.
I get your point, but there are already MULTIPLE examples of people combining the mental-health component + some externality that is fundamentally a societal failing and coming to the conclusion that MAID is the optimal outcome.

"An expert committee reviewing euthanasia deaths in Canada’s most populous province has identified several cases in which patients asked [AND WERE APPROVED] to be killed in part for social reasons such as isolation and fears of homelessness, raising concerns over approvals for vulnerable people in the country’s assisted dying system."

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"Another case focused on Ms B, a woman in her 50s suffering from multiple chemical sensitivity syndrome, who had a history of mental illness including suicidality and post-traumatic stress disorder. She was socially isolated and asked to die largely because she could not get proper housing, according to the report."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/17/canada-nonterm...
> ... I don't think you can ever have "enough" time.

Unfortunately there are situations where things are a bit different from that. For example, where a parent is (very) abusive. :(
I think phrases along the lines of "Women don't wear makeup for men, but for other women" or "Guys lifting weights ends up doing it to impress the guys at the gym, not girls at the club" are thrown around and are in line with the effect you say is absent about preference and self image.
awwww. ive been hoping for a 3 to replace my current book 2
I wrote up some notes (including interesting snippets of the video transcript) here: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/12/clio/
> Couldn’t they add something in their TOS indicating that AI assistance is common and they aren’t responsible for what their content creators do?

They (1) do have a policy (and separate standardized fan/creator contract) about their limited responsibility for fan/creator interactions, and that contract includes a fan acknowledgement that creators may use third-party assistance in interactions, but also (2) a policy that requires creator to explicitly disclose any AI-created content as AI-created.
Haha, remember some time ago many people were like

> Are you crazy, don't buy an iPod, just get an iRiver and use your imagination!
> Use Gnome instead of OSX, it's *exactly* the same experience
> "Mom, can we buy an iPad?" - We have an iPad at home (iPad at home is a Toshiba Handybook running Windows 98)

How the turntables...
Scientific work is too often challenged with this kind of question. If all you care about is results you know will happen you will never discover anything you don't allready know.
What exactly are you saying this is an example of?

It's certainly not something that people believed and built stuff on the basis of; it was never regarded as anything more than a conjecture and I would be a little surprised if even one paper was published that took the conjecture as a hypothesis, even explicitly (i.e., "We show that if Euler's conjecture is true then ...").

It's also not, so far as I know, a case where anyone reacted with defensiveness, horror, insecurity, etc., when a counterexample was found. They published a paper in a reputable journal. They don't seem to have had much trouble getting it published, if they discovered the counterexample in 1966 and the paper was published in a 1966 issue of said journal.

So if you're suggesting that this is a case where "people were building on swathes of mathematics that seem proven and make intuitive sense, but needed formal buttressing", I'd like to see some evidence. Same if you're suggesting that this is a case where "so-called experts had invested far, far too many of their man-years in that unproven conjecture" and there'd be a hostile reaction to a counterexample.

On the other hand, if you're not suggesting either of those things, I'm not sure what the connection to the rest of the discussion is.
> it may seem similar to a stripper or an escort but onlyfans is not just selling nudity or porn, they are selling faux relationships.

The “but” there suggests you don’t really understand the things you are comparing to OF. The illusion of companionship has always been a major part of those in-person services.
They mention a bunch of new designs: hollow cores, high-temperature insulation, adjustable impedance.

It's sort of hard to replace a grid-frequency transformer (mammoth-sized because of the low frequency) with something like a switched power supply that uses much higher frequencies and thus much smaller coils. The semiconductors required for that barely handle a couple of kV, while the grid uses tens and hundreds of kV.

But a crisis like this is a good thing for the progress of technology. Demand by far outstrips supply, there's obviously good money to be made. Many new approaches are going to be researched and tried.
The NPD is a fringe party without any substantial numbers of voters

As is Svoboda, these days.
the scale is vastly different. As far as i see Israel hit 6 or something at the power station, and after that 4 were delivered as replacement. Ukraine related news mention things like this

https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/05/22/kharkiv-receives-us-t...

"The US provided almost 60 transformers to the energy distribution operator in Kharkiv, enabling urgent repairs to the city's power grid damaged by Russian..."

Ukraine's power infrastructure not only was powering the country it was also exporting energy to Europe. It is a multi-redundant piece of USSR energy infrastructure, a lot of equipment which Russia has been methodically destroying for all those years of war, and Ukraine with the help of West - restoring. Huge churn of equipment.
In fairness, it's a minority, but there are quite a few of us who have problems killing and eating animals and increasingly so depending on the species.
Wouldn’t roughly half of the population always be below average at getting what they want “that was available at the time”?
Any particular signal for your trade?

I hope you're right but bubbles tend to go through an exponential blow-off phase before the crash which often takes out shorts who were right but too early.
Because you say so, apparently?
Judge Sides with WP Engine Against Mullenweg in WordPress Dispute
It is the responsibility of the user. Everyone should be responsible for their own actions. We still allow knives to be sold, and most people use them for good.
You forgot the 10's of GB files the compiler generates for debug builds.
>Sealed auctions are a competitive manner [sic]

No they are not. Technically nobody knows what someone might be willing to pay. That is why public auctions are the default. The only reason an auction should be private is to protect the identity or interests of the bidders. Taking one round of bids from private parties is not an auction.
How fast he was able to achieve this is amazing, but you probably can already do this with Chinese characters ( I assume you are from a Latin based language ), and even intuit how radicals combine into a character.
Rust is like systemd, it brings the crazies out.
Irish and Russian also have "there's a phone near me (by me)" instead of "I have a phone"
You mean the price? Minimum spec Mini and a Xencelabs Pen Display 24” (which comes with a VESA mounted pivot stand) gets you reasonably close and would cost $2500, where the Surface Studio 2 (as per the article) started at $3k. Screen size is a little less (24” vs 28”), but digitizer quality is better (on par with Wacom) as is pixel density. Setting it up is just plugging the display into the Mini with USB-C.
To be an established freelance web developer that I can live completely off the money I make doing it, comfortably.

Or, to be employed as a web developer working remotely and making enough money that I can live completely off the money I make doing it, comfortably.

Then start my own Pharmacy.
I don't think it's about the desire to be productive. All of the "productive" people I know simply love doing their job - they don't consider it a job, but rather having fun (interrupted with meetings). If they didn't have this job, they would still do the same thing whole day, without pay.

Most "not-too-productive" people tend to consider their job as a way to pay the bills, and count back the seconds until 5PM. (Not saying it's a bad thing. Just that attitude has a huge role)
I'd not heard of NonStop but I've definitely heard of Tandem. I think one is the other after going through a few decades of marketing spin.
> Like Peter Thiel’s famous complaint that ‘we wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters’

Wonder how it feels to be famous for a whining.
It seems that in https://perf.rust-lang.org/dashboard.html the improvements have essentially plateaued, I wonder how they decide how much work to invest there.

(Although as the language complexity continues to grow maybe that question is missing the opposite force of compiler slowdowns from added work?)
And?

That's a serious ask, not a snarky response.

The headline is Canadians with nonterminal conditions sought assisted dying for social reasons

and my question is, so what happened? Was she killed by the state or did she get some much needed assistance with housing, etc. (or neither).

I'd argue that her coming forward is a good thing in the big picture as it adds concrete examples and data for making a case for better social policy and outcomes.
Yeah but then they not going to have a fancy blog about how they hit the AWS traffic limit to VPC resolver! Now days a tech blog like this is gonna be good tech PR for the company.
One reason to have an actual auction is because the liquidation might more than cover the debt and leave the bankrupt person with excess cash. But that only happens if real cash is generated in a competitive liquidation process. The reasons why this backroom dealing stinks are plentiful...
Super boring without a screen, and/or headphones, for me.

Need my dopamine!!! Then endorphins, go go go!
Interesting but we process documents before embedding them, and have specific requirements for the embedder.

Having developed a couple of page to markdown myself, I think the bigger challenge is to make sense of so many pages that rely on spacial organisation of information that only makes sense to human, or even presence of images. One way to do it is to render the page as an image and extract data with a vision llm. But you do need heuristic on when to do classic extraction and when to use vision, plus get rid of cookie banner and overlays. This is more complex and costly, but have real business value, for the one that can pull it off.
So, just to confirm my own (new) understanding now:

Consume is "I want to read data from a pointer, please do not reorder loads that go through the pointer"

and Acquire is "I want to read data from a pointer, please do not reorder loads that happen after this one, *whether or not they go through the same pointer"

there's no relation to the Alpha aside from it being the only processor that needs a barrier for Consume

and for whatever reason compilers don't or can't do the dependency tracking that would let them take advantage of the weaker guarantees of Consume, so in practice it just becomes Acquire?
When I was learning guitar a few years ago, I came across your website and really loved it. But after that, I forgot about it. Your website is great, very easy to undersand, and the UI is also great.
I remember how proud I felt to work at Microsoft when that video was unveiled. The company had made something so beautiful, and then done an amazing job showing it to the world.

An amazing marketing video in every way that counts, except apparently in regards to sales!
Where can I read more about this? I ask because I'm not sure that I sufficiently understand well enough to implement the dual-layer approach.[1]

I get that there's "brand" colors and "role" colors.[2]

Naively, I would make a set of `--brand-*` colors consisting of actual color literals (RGB, HSL, whatever) for `--brand-primary-...`, `--brand-secondary-...`, etc.

I would then make a set of `--role-*` colors that is defined exclusively in terms of `var(--brand-...)`.

If an implementation like this is in line with what you are saying, where would I find an example list of "brand" colors (primary, secondary, accent, etc) and "role" colors (copy-text, copy-bg, button-..., etc) to use?

[1] Not because your explanation was not sufficient, but because I am not a UI designer at all.

[2] Maybe not just colors. Border radii could be part of the branding as well. Box-shadows (or lack thereof) could, too. Maybe minimum padding between border and content, margins between elements, etc.
And then it all goes down when Elon has a hissy fit.

Amateur radio is by its nature more decentralized. Even if you're using a higher frwquency and dependent on repeaters, they tend to be ran by individuals and independent groups, so you can probably find some way to get your signal through.
Yeah it's degrading. Half in the food, half down the sink I'd say?

But what is it gonna do? The teflon isn't gonna do anything, maybe the binders/glue, but aslong as there's no new discoveries...
Ironic disdain: "I would like to express my deepest gratitude for your invaluable assistance in this matter."
I think ambiguity is used a lot for political ends. for example, two people can want "justice" but have two different and conflicting goals.

I can see how "homelessness" might be twisted when funding is involved.

Silicon valley isn't without similar ambiguity. Like "advertising" or "telemetry" or "processing"
Thanks, that's a cool idea.
Not to mention AI and coin-mining of course.
The horizon VR game on psvr2, yeah. And of course Puzzling places.

VR is fuuuuun.