skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "In the introduction, we stated that, since a CTC is a compact set, there is an event x0 where the entropy of the spaceship is minimal. In the proximity of such event, our macroscopic notion of causation breaks down. This is evident in figures 2 and 3, where the existence of the low-entropy state at proper time
T does not have any macroscopic cause in its near past or future. It just 'fluctuates into existence'. Indeed, any form of order that the event x0 carries (including objects and people) has no logical cause that can be expressed in purely macroscopic terms. For example, if there is a book, nobody wrote it. If a person has a memory, this memory is illusory, and its content is meaningless (by human standards). This is because our notions of 'writing' and 'forming a memory' implicitly rely on increasing entropy [1], and there is no event with lower entropy than x0."

I don't believe that "our notions of 'writing' and 'forming a memory' implicitly rely on increasing entropy." Entropy's relation to the arrow of time is complex but it's enough for entropy to be non-static, and for things to durably exist in the world, for there to be a notion of movement in time. If something was written at time T, entropy fluctuated into a minimum at T+100, and entropy increased again at T+200, at all points the original writing event would be traceable back to T.

Time appears to stop and things become causally disconnected from each other when entropy reaches minima or maxima and stays there. Even so, local fluctuations can lead to the emergence of an arrow of time -- e.g. if a glucose molecule coalesces out of the void, you can measure time by it, as it's not perfectly stable.
Show HN: OrgaFile Is Live Organize Your Files Effortlessly
I'm excited to share OrgaFile, a tool I built to automatically organize messy document and image files. OrgaFile renames and categorizes files into clear, general categories like Games, Entertainment, and more—without relying on an "Uncategorized" folder.
Why I Built It:

Managing countless files across devices was becoming frustrating. Manual sorting takes time, and most tools either overcomplicate the process or don’t organize files in a meaningful way. I wanted a simple, automated solution that actually makes sense of scattered files.
How It Works:

Upload Files: Drag and drop or bulk upload any document or image.
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Tech Stack:

Frontend: Next.js (hosted on Vercel)
Backend: Nest.js (also on Vercel)
Storage: Amazon S3

I’d love to hear your feedback—whether it’s about the functionality, UX, or any features you'd like to see. Thanks for checking it out!
I think it should work in acrobat also, since that implements more of pdf's embedded javascript. I don't know of any other pdf readers which implement javascript. I assume Mozilla’s PDF.js reader doesn't support it for technical reasons, rather than ideological ones.
As the article shows however the discrimination is always also against less tech-savvy (or less educated) people, who often are also not rich, for example older people. My parents would almost always pay more for online shopping products than me because they don't know the best way to search for prices, or can't tell which shops are trustworthy.
>because most of that uptake is is dumped into the atmosphere again when the plant dies and rots.

If that's true, there would seem to be no benefit to the climate in preserving or regenerating forests.
Just duckduckwent it, and turned out I had seen it already. My doubt about it is how do you press Shift+F12?
I have a mechanical engineer friend who's deeply interested in bikes, he recently designed and welded his own DIY cargo bike, he gave me an hour long lecture on the evolution of frame geometry and alloys when I asked him to help me pick a second hand bike, etc—and he's very, very impressed by Woom bikes. I got one for my kid and the engineer will just look at it, admire the parts and go "oohh yeah now that's a bike."
Honestly the cddl being incompatible with the gpl is one of the weirder statements to come out of the fsf. It comes up every time the cddl is mentioned but no one really knows why they are incompatible, it is basically "the fsf says they are incompatible" and when really pressed, they dithered until 2016 then came up with some hand waving that the incompatibility is some minutia as to what scope each license applies to.

The whole thing smells of some FSF agenda to me. if you ship a cddl file in your gpl project it is still a gpl licensed project and the cddl file is still a cddl licensed file.
> At some point, civil forfeiture laws will lay the foundation for having any amount of cash being a sort of assumption of criminality.

Although we don't have civil forfeiture, this is already true in The Netherlands.
It's also largely impossible to provide the benefits of honey with out that direct participation. Honey was a scam, that's why it would sometimes give out good discounts.

There's no free lunch on the internet. You either pay with ads, user data or money (scams).

I appreciate the free and open source work you've done but the use case here is that you just don't want to sign up for whatever companies news letter where they distribute coupon codes.
The GPU Glossary mentions that a warp scheduler can context switch https://modal.com/gpu-glossary/device-hardware/warp-schedule... but you said there is no such thing as an SM "context switch between threads". Is there some ambiguity in context switch
>Also I didn't want all the theme-ing overhead that comes with those - just something I could inject into my existing site.

I didn't like how complex that stuff is with Nikola - I didn't have an obvious entry point for making the kinds of customizations I really wanted, and yet there was still so much to look at in order to understand the system. But at the same time I really didn't want to spend hours re-learning CSS more or less from scratch, when I could actually use the examples already in the existing themes.

I did something really awful: instead of trying to make yet another layer of theme "extension", I copied everything locally and have been condensing it as I go.

This had the benefit that I didn't have to decide on a bunch of CSS classes up front in order to have anything look passable. There may be tons of unused stuff, but I'm cleaning that up as I implement my own things - and bit by bit, I get something smaller and more comprehensible that fits my mental models. This conversion process might not be any faster, but I'm certainly enjoying myself more.

At some point in the future I'm considering doing a simple templating engine and converting these templates (originally Mako) to it. It just irritates me that I still have to deal with close tags - both in HTML and in template directives - when I'm doing everything in Python. I have a vague memory of a 2010-era JavaScript templating system - I think it was called Express or something like that? - which used indent-based syntax without closing tags. So I'm inspired by my recollection of that.
I don't read that as assuming someone is not innocent until proven otherwise at all.

I read that as "Holding back information that may be pertinent in an investigation will be looked upon poorly".

It's not like the US is any better here - If a charge is trumped up or has bolt-ons to get you to take a plea deal, it's exactly the same thing, if not worse.
Some people are essentialy monosylibic, or less
what with pictographs becomeing a prime mode of
personal expression.
Others can speak in sentences, or compose there thoughts in paragraphs,and there are those
who hold forth at book length.
It is the fundamental concept of composition, that is oft, forgotten, or dismissed. As the only
true value in the written word, is as a place holder?, the perfect muse?, for that which must be
spoken aloud, or its just a technical manual, lists,....mind porn, and has no lasting import from lack of issue
> Horrible dev experience, no decent clients/libs, complex pricing, weird scaling in/out mechanism, slow, it only works well for well defined use-cases.

Most of these arguments probably don't outweigh the benefits. If you're in need of a managed, highly-consistent, highly-scalable, distributed database, and you're already an AWS customer, what would you use instead?
On the one hand, this is very convenient. Probably cool for some non-fiction.

On the other, some of my favorite audio books all stood out because the narrator was interpreting the text really well, for example by changing the pacing during chaotic moments. Or those audiobooks with multiple narrators and different voices for each character. Not to mention that sometimes the only cue you get for who's speaking during dialogue is how the voice actor changes their tone. I have mixed feelings about using this and losing some of that quality.

I would totally use this over amateur ebooks or public domain audiobooks like the ones on project guttenberg. As cool as it is/was for someone to contribute to free books... as a listener it was always jarring to switch to a new chapter and hear a completely different voice and microphone quality for no reason.
Selling the secret sauce to US definitely make Taiwan disposable. But I also bet TSMC doesn't have a choice as whoever in power in US can also impose sanction/tariff or whatever they can to make TSMC to compile.
Power and money got to his head, hard, but he used to be a really good manager, probably the best Michelin ever had, before he took the job at Renault (then Nissan). Not surprised to hear he was very successful there, as he had a really good reputation before his divorce (and this is baseless gossip, but I will still say I doubt any of his wrongdoings were before 2012. Too much power and no one to keep his ego checked down).
"Social awkwardness and anxiety
Difficulty in forming IRL friendships
Impatience with the idea of connecting on a meaningful level with other people: who needs ‘em?
An abiding sense of detachment from reality"

I can tell you from personal experience, going to school doesn't prevent this.
Small steps, hopefully they move up from there.
A simple masonry-like composable layout
People have been writing Unicode supporting VB6 apps for decades now. There's a very popular project called VBCCR that provides reimplementations of all the VB6 UI controls with full Unicode support and additional features. It's not "a mess", it's standard for any VB6 code written by a decent programmer in the past 15+ years and works fine because under the hood it's UCS-2. So everyone now just uses xxxW APIs passing strings by direct pointer. And supporting extended characters is a standard 5 line rewrite of ChrW.

Now the backwards compatible successor being talked about for the new XYPlorer versions support Unicode everything from the ground up.

And since this is discussing twinBASIC now, the new version of the language, you've got all your additions. tB has native Unicode everywhere (hell, you can even make your function names and variables emojis), generics, type inference, attributes, declaring module-level stuff anywhere, not to mention all the things you listed that were supported to begin with like enums and for loops and dozens of others like delegates for calling by pointer, defining interfaces/coclasses in the project, multithreading support, 64bit support, etc. The language is now no longer frozen in time with a backwards compatible successor with tons of new language features and cross platform support one of the major future plans.

People's knowledge of VB6 seems to be also "frozen in time", unaware of what modern use of it is really like.
> Using Wigner's theorem, we prove that the energy levels internal to the spaceship must undergo spontaneous discretization.

I am in no way qualified to understand this paper. But I have a question.

Is it normal for physicists to talk about a mathematical result being a "proof" of the predicted behaviour of a physical system? To what extent would claims of a proof in physics require experimental validation?

I appreciate that Wigner's theorem is well established, and that mathematics is the framework for describing physics. I also appreciate that experimental validation of the situation described in the paper is very likely beyond our abilities, even in the future. My question is about how physicists view the idea of proof
She only won in that OpenAI decided it wasn’t worth the trouble.
IMO there's quite a surprising amount of stuff you can do on GitHub that's highly undiscoverable. You only think of it when you see someone else on the site doing it, and then you don't necessarily know what it's called so you don't know how to research it.
Implying it wasn’t always that way?
I'm using PHP includes and don't think I have any JS besides Matomo tracking. I just read that I can use <object> for those includes now, so I can drop another layer of complexity.

The only thing I have is a blog post navigator, that shows you all blog posts besides the current one.
spending precious studying time on fighting and searching for transient "friendship"... yeah, that'll teach you about life. Nobody needs eggheads, boxers are in trend!
I think you could build off of threading. I do think here it's good to acknowledge that Python async is fundamentally single-threaded (or rather, "single thread per event loop"), so if you do go a multi-thread version you might have to do some bookkeeping to make it all work well.

I'm not sure how well async Python libs are tested against working in a world with multiple event loops, but I bet there are a _lot_ of latent bugs in that space.
How is it "tied"? You still have a local repo that you could deploy somewhere else.
In general it's worth it if a) you can't afford to replace the item in question (and the Kelly criterion gives you a precise definition of 'afford' if you really want to model it out), or b) you think the risk of losing the item is higher than the insurance company does (which is rare outside of cases of outright fraud, but might happen)
There were a ton of media scare articles on this when it came out. It turns out it didn't pan out and staffing sounds solid.

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/whos-afraid-of-east-asian-mana...

Point #1 on:
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/at-least-five-interesting-thin...
Yes I know about it but I try to limit the extensions I use to:

- the ones that are built by Mozilla

- the ones that are endorsed by Mozilla

- the ones I take time to read the code (and usually disable auto-updates)

I haven't had time to do the later for aws-sso-containers. Thanksfully I don't have that many account to work on at the same time these days so I didn't push it high in the priority list.
I love ffmpeg, but yeah, some bits are a little ... obscure.

Right now, I am looking to normalize some audio without using ffmpeg-normalize, a popular Python package. Nothing against it on a personal level, I just ... want to know what is going on, and it's a lot of files and lines of code to do what is basically a two-pass process.

I have a growing interest in metadata and that's also a case which I do not find is often well-addressed.
I'm a pedestrian, and a car driver, and a cyclist and I think this is a reasonable way to control an intersection. Anti-car urbanism is sliding into being a bit of a pseudo-religion for cranks IMO.
Still opened in HTML view for me
Because no one’s ever heard of a

“Home-school Shooting”
Yes, you can do everything with postgres. Supabase even has an extension that allows you to send http requests from Sql.

But for me writing stored functions is not that fun, instead it would be better to use a different language, and write code that generates all the pl/pgslq and manages stored functions for me.

Kind of like code in lisp, then deploy generated code to postgres.

I dont know about you guys but writing "create or replace function ..." boilerplate again and again manually gives me wrist pain.
I accidentally opened a pdf with less a few weeks ago and learned about pdftotext and all the other software that pagers can use to display arbitrary documents if set up correctly.

Reminded me of how modern linux distros decide how to execute a file. When I learned about that years ago, I spent far too long getting .exe files to run in either wine or mono when run on my machine. Fun exercise, not worth it.
Ditto for Germany as well. Most kids get a Puky fahrrad and they are ready to ride a cycle when the time comes.

https://mytoys.scene7.com/is/image/myToys/ext/13468895-01.jp...
Kokoro really mentions that they used only permissive licensed voice
That's a straw man.

I expect climate models contain a lot of parameters that aren't related to plant uptake of CO2, and some that are. I expect that, until now, the latter have been based on the 1980 study, because otherwise this latest result would not be news.

I also expect that the contribution of plant CO2 uptake is a large factor in these models, so a significant change like this will potentially have a significant effect on predictions.

Are any of these expectations wrong? If so, which ones?
Wow that sample sounds really good
I would love to have an e-reader that allows me to switch between text and audio at the press of a button. Imagine reading your book on the couch and then switching into audio mode while doing the dishes seamlessly, by connecting bluetooth headphones.
Yeah, same.

I originally had a very positive nix experience. I had to fix some docker build issue at work. This particular dockefile needed the buildx command. Except for whatever reason I just couldn't install the needed component for buildx to work. Somewhere during a messy Ubuntu 18.04 to 22.04 upgrade something broke and now I was getting a conflict (with nothing btw, it's just empty).

I used nix to install docker and the required component with no hassle and was able to get on with my work.

Inspired by this experience I wanted to evaluate nix for a more long-term usage. I setup my personal PC to dualboot windows and nixos. The trouble started basically immediately.

I couldn't get KDE plasma 6 to work with Wayland. It turns out that you need to also enable Wayland support in sddm. Why the official installer did not do this or why this was only documented on some random unrelated page in one of the two wikis I couldn't tell.

Ok, video working I immediately spotted another problem. I set up my disk encryption, login and kde wallet passwords to match in the hopes that on boot I will only have to enter it once (this is an option you can enable). Login screen worked, but kwallet just wouldn't log in automatically. I spent literal hours on this over the past year each time walking away frustrated. Is this a nix issue, Linux issue or kwallet issue? Who knows. Eventually I just set an empty password for kwallet. This still didn't solve my git ssh keys not loading automatically. I just gave up.

Most importantly, dev environments just do not want to work with VSCode. The recommended extension stopped working years ago, the other extension still works but there's no way to force a specific load order so randomly other extensions will just not see your nix env. I had to resort to installing rust globally just so I could get rust analyzer working. So much for dev environments. I don't even want to go over how much working with package managers when using nix for building sucks (particularly npm/pnpm/yarn).

If I had installed nix on a work laptop they would have fired me for wasting time. Next time I'm trying one of the immutable config driven distros. Hopefully that is going to work better.
Show HN: Track your Elsevier article review status
I built a simple tool to track the review status of Elsevier articles. The official Elsevier tracking system is limited—it only shows vague statuses (e.g., "2+ reviewer completed") and the last update date, making it difficult to know where exactly your article is in the review process.
For example a call to the registered owner or contact person of the organizaton (not the user).

Any out-of-band communication should work which checks for the legal entity, not just something that eventually relies on DNS.

Alternatively, you can always just not let them access the old user, and create a new one instead.
No, the US is far better.

Silence can’t be used against you.

That is better than silence being used against use.

Conflating that with trumped up charges is irrelevant to that point.
Don't we need models to make predictions about the future?
Thanks for that, I hadn’t seen it for a couple decades, gave me a good chuckle.
> Having more "worthwhile" projects than engineering resources gives engineers a choice of work.

This is pure fantasy, except maybe if you work on a startup environment where engineers have a lot of autonomy.

In any sufficiently large organization, you will be assigned to a team, and the scope of work will be sort of defined in some level of hierarchy above you as an individual engineer.

You may have some autonomy to pick up some initiative here and there, but that will be somewhat limited. You may also try to switch to different teams where work may be more attractive to you.
Thank you. That makes sense. It does feel like an external force helping me to balance, but expectation is such a big part of perception.
That's not presuming guilt. And I'm pretty sure the other commenter wasn't referring to the UK as some countries.
> Transformer² represents a significant milestone in the evolution of AI systems.

Coming from a math background, it always amazes me to see how people in AI/ML brag about their papers. If someone wrote:

> My paper represents a significant milestone in the evolution of algebraic geometry/ergodic theory/combinatorics

it would be a laughing stock for the math community.
Meta to fire staff as Zuckerberg warns of 'intense year'
The preprint of the research paper:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.01623
Approximately no one I’ve ever know in Australia uses WhatsApp, so I generally don’t remember to remember it in these conversations.

I think I once used it to advise someone it’s owned my Facebook and sent them my public key.
I guess this is still very useful if you are blind.
This here dog is an officer of the law and he smells money in your car, and uh, ya see, that money's wanted. please step out so i may confiscate it. Disagree with his infallible assessment? that's disorderly conduct sir, place your hands behind your back.
>When people are facing jail time
Actually, it's when _men_ are facing jail time, that people make rape jokes. I've never really heard people do it for women at all.

Not only is that sort of thing much less prevalent in prisons than media would have you believe, media still perpetuates this stereotype, just as it perpetuates the "all gay men are fruity heyyyyyy" stereotype that I also loathe. But the extract media and popular opinion is; rape jokes about men are funny, men being assaulted or kicked in the balls is funny, men dying on screen is just a bad guy or a henchman but a woman dying on screen is either not done, camera cut away or a huge plot point with emphasis on how _evil_ the victim is for doing such a thing.

Men are the victims are of the majority of crime, however because of sexism many people (including women) are happy to lump men in all together with each other. People don't care if the victim is a man, because the criminal is a man, too. And that's like...the same! :O
Yeah, for accessibility purposes on things that aren't already narrated, this is kind of thing is huge.
It's not necessarily just the idea of evolution itself, but rather that it's indicative of someone's willingness to continuously and actively reject all evidence in order to maintain the beliefs they've decided are true.
"Chapter 1: Letters from Prison"

https://laniakeabooks.org/books/letters-from-prison/part-1/#...