skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This experiment only created one qubit, so no.

The experiment with lots of qubits... technically yes they can do things. I think the factoring record is 21. But you might be disappointed a) when you see that most algorithms using quantum computers require conventional computational to transform the problem before and after the quantum steps b) when you learn we only have a few quantum algorithms, the are not general calculation machines and c) when you look under the hood and see that the error correcting stuff makes it actually kinda hard to tell how much is really being done by the actual quantum device.
B12 Association W Functional&Structural Biomarkers of CNS Injury in Older Adults
It's not just about the risk. It signifies that you're not dealing with an experienced database administration staff. (At a startup that might just mean one guy, but that's better than zero.
The only reason we don't eat dogs or cats is because they don't taste good. Predators don't make for good eating.

That said there are places where dog is eaten usually as a stew because that makes it more tender.
I remember them selling for $4.30 when they came out
> reserved for companies that are pushing the boundary of the industry

In a world where every company beleives (or wants to beleive) that they are doing some ground-breaking, bleeding edge work (see any tech company blog and you can only find hyped technologies in there), I do not think one can expect companies to do a fair assessment of if they really are doing such work.
Yeah, unlike the amazing script quality of "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever", et. al.
No, loudly broadcasting the heavy-handed implication that you have found $100B in fraud without having found $100B in fraud is still bad, even if the 1/1000th that they did find (I'm being generous here) is real and goes into tax cuts / debt.

Also, the capital gains taxes ARE low and the income taxes ARE high, so just paying down the debt isn't nearly so "even-handed" as it seems.
To be clear, Security Clearances is just an EO thing.

The actual laws just speak about things being critical to national security and don't use the words like "Top Secret" and etc.

The whole actually labeling things "Top Secret" and etc started off with Clinton [1] but then Bush [2] and Obama [3] modified the rules around classification.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_12958

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13292

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13526
Another recent writeup that adds some nuance to this (and other claims), summarizing the quantum-skeptic positions:

https://gilkalai.wordpress.com/2025/02/17/robert-alicki-mich...
We have the ocean
Interesting, any reason to not use reasoning models? Is there anything 4o seems better at with respect to coding?

I typically use o1 or o3-mini, but I am seeing that they just released an agent mode and, honestly, I think it depends on what you use it for. I don’t think the agent mode is going to be useful for me. Typically my tasks are quite pedestrian, like I don’t know how to use a certain regex format, I need a python script to print list of directories, etc.

My main issue (which is not really covered in the paper) is that it’s not clear what models are most aligned to my work; by this I mean not lazy and willing to put in the required work, not incentivized to cheat, etc. So I’ll use them for the very small tasks (like regex) or the very big ones (like planning), but still don’t use them for the “medium” tasks that you’d give an intern. It’s not clear to me how they will operate totally unsupervised, and I think more benchmarking for that would be incredible.

Excited to see that hopefully change this year though!
Why do all of these new VPN solutions want some form of Crypto payment that has to go through KYC regulations to acquire... doesn't that somewhat defeat the purpose?

Mullvad with cash seems like a super ideal way to go. Why can't I just mail you $20 and call it a day?
Why does other peoples' sincerity or lack thereof dictate what I am allowed to be outraged by? "Whatabout whatabout whatabout"; what about you worry less whether other people meet your standards for legitimate outrage and worry more about an unelected billionaire giving the federal government the old private equity pump 'n dump?
Black flag attack next, like Hitler did, the right wing is obsessed with those. Or will crack down hard on a protest and when they try to fight back he'll declare a state of emergency.

Doubt anything short of a military coup that dismantles maga can stop this. Hopefully neither party survives and the US will have an actual democracy.
What an awful webpage. They hijack the click and right click actions. Can't triple click to select a paragraph. Can't drag selected text. Ugh
> It is in my nature to give the benefit of the doubt.

There should be little to doubt at this point, however. "Dismantling of the administrative state" was a mantra for many who are now in positions of power.

Then: "Prices will come down on day 1!"
Now: "It's hard to get prices to come down once they're up".

At some point, there's not much reason to doubt someone's goals, regardless of what they say. You can look at past say/do combinations and make reasonable predictions.

Stop giving 'benefits' to people with years of documented track records under the aegis of 'doubt'.
“Often” false. I’d bet 60-70% of the Fortune 500 doesn’t fully adhere to these “best practices” maybe only the government when handling classified information comes close.
>Interview coding questions aren't like the day-to-day job, because of the nature of an interview.

You have missed his point. If the interview questions are such that AI can solve them, they are the wrong questions being asked, by definition. Unless that company is trying to hire a robot, of course.
It’s definitely a problem that money appropriated by Congress isn’t being spent as intended, but I’m not sure how you got the idea that I support the Trump administration’s decision to do so.
Yes. But it's not. That's the issue. They have unlocked access to systems to which they can control how they desire, unmonitored.
I am lucky, that closing 50 years old, still get to code out of work.

Not everyone gets to do so.
It doesn't change the point of your comment necessarily, but as far as TFA goes, the author was teaching a University course in 2015, so is highly unlikely to be Gen Z.
And the whole thing is propped up by dubios financial engineering by the likes of Tether and Microstrategy who are complicit with the sketchy exchanges.

ETH is the stock market of the 1920's. Rugpulls and blatant pyramid schemes everywhere you turn.
Your AI Pipeline Doesn't Need Another Wrapper
I’m going to get hate for this, but here’s my perspective.

I used to be pro-choice because I thought the motivation for pro-life was religion, and I thought that had no place in determining what others can do.

Eventually I started to see abortion as something closer to murder. Obviously it’s much more complicated than that, but, to me, I view the fetus as a person, even if they aren’t born yet.

There are absolutely cases where abortion can be justified, e.g. for the health of the mother, or if the mother didn’t make the choice to have sex (for example, rape). In this case I feel like it’s still murder; it’s just a terrible situation overall.

In other cases though, I don’t see why abortion should be assisted. Yes, people will try to terminate in other ways. That sucks, but there’s no reason why we should be helping people murder other people just because they might hurt themselves otherwise.

There are a lot of other arguments (like what if the child is born into a terrible situation) that are relevant but IMO at that point you’re essentially asking who deserves to live.

Definitely open to conversation on this/feel free to link any articles that you think might change my mind.
It's shocking to me how many people think that auditing government agencies is some new thing being implemented by Trump/Musk.

These agencies all have Inspector Generals, who are outside of the agency and responsible for auditing their particular agency. And they do, there are reports on this sort of thing.

Most of the IGs, if not all, were fired by Trump first thing.

> corruption wouldn’t persist

We still haven't seen any evidence of corruption, by the way. Yeah, I'm sure there's some gov employees here and there doing fraudulent stuff, skimming off the top or getting gov contracts to their buddies. But there has been zero evidence of any widespread or systemic corruption in a single agency. Nothing.

The agency that did get axed the most -- USAID -- was because of "woke ideology" that they were supposedly pushing (though there wasn't any evidence of that being widespread either), not corruption/fraud (breaking the law).

It's like the WMD excuse to invade Iraq.
so yes.
> If you are shocked by this, I suggest not reading his other recent topics.

Given that this is Scott Aaronson, does he suggest we'll break cryptography and destroy the foundations of the modern internet?
Bochs and MAME both have superb and widely-used debuggers, while Qemu is more limited but still has some debugging capabilities in its monitor, as well as a gdb integration. (Can’t say anything about PCem/86Box.) It seems that developers of emulators targeting good coverage of old stuff simply can’t not build a debugger, because it’s an integral part of their task to figure out what the hell the devs of the latest failing thing did to make it fail. Bochs is (was?) also quite popular in the OSDev scene as a debugging tool.
The Daniel Craig era was a modern update, though, so those defenders won't really be taking history into account. Not that the Broccolis never missed, but they were capable of moving with the times, and they did not blindly follow the money.

Amazon/Disney/Netflix/HBO move with the times by following the money, and by milking the reputation of respected brands and celebrities until they're dried out husks.
the cost to build a state of the art fab is on the order of 30 to 50 billion.
Should senior developers fear automation?
I understand that these 140/150 year old recipients are actually the results of incomplete birthdate data.

To steelman the argument though, it seems reasonable to audit these recipients so that we can get their true birthdate entered. The number of recipients who lack a valid birthdate because they found a way to fraudulently claim benefits is likely non-zero, but probably low. But in any event, cleaning up the data can’t be a bad thing.
This is correct. Depending on the stakes, the right answer would be to err on the side of caution. Certainly repeated incompetence in a private setting would be grounds for suspension or termination.
How Much Frustration Can You Tolerate?
I essentially had to relearn to walk to clear mine up. Rolling your ankles makes it much worse, but the entire leg is involved in that “decision” and it starts from the gluteus minimus muscles and builds down.

Went from pain after more than 2km total per day to walking a half marathon just over three hours. And then my knees decided they didn’t like that at all and have not yet forgiven me.
yours is a stability-over-change argument: bureaucracy exists to prevent reckless, harmful disruptions.

you're assuming the alternative to bureaucracy is reckless destruction, but what about the harm bureaucracy already causes? slow government processes, redundant approvals, and outdated rules waste time, money, and even lives. how many people suffer due to delays in healthcare, housing permits, or business licenses?

you're framing efficiency as 'reckless abandon' but efficiency doesn't mean chaos, it means designing systems that work smoothly without unnecessary friction. if private companies can process global transactions in seconds, why does it take months to approve basic permits?

if bureaucracy ensures stability, why does it fail so often? government shutdowns, dmv backlogs, and welfare mismanagement don’t scream 'zero downtime'. in reality, bureaucracy is often fragile, not resilient.

other industries use automation and streamlined processes to reduce friction without 'breaking things recklessly'. why should government be any different?
Even if you believe that trust shouldn't be earned, it is inadvisable to believe anything that Elon Musk says is in good faith. How many more examples do you need after the Hyperloop debacle? Here's an expanding list: https://elonmusk.today

How many times do you need to be lied to by the exact same person before you realize that facts don't mean anything to them?

At this point, I'm surprised when I hear something from Musk that is verifiably true.
> I don’t know what they will replace everything with, ideally they have a bunch of smart people thinking about that

Kind of the key issue dontcha think? Maybe woulda been good to know that before burning down the government?

"ideally they have a bunch of smart people thinking about that" is exactly what the government is for. We had a bunch of smart people thinking about a lot of our problems. They're fired now.
It wasn't easy. It took decades to put it in place: complete control of the judiciary, dominance of the legislature, creating a vast alternate-reality echo chamber, dividing the public and getting half of them to be willing to accept a complete bypass.

It took a very long time to set up all of the dominoes. They fall very quickly.
He would make a GREAT bond villain!
Should not be hard... if it exists. Which is why I'm 99% sure it doesn't. But the lie will go twice around the world before the truth gets its pants on, as always.
I see a lot of shade thrown at Kathleen Kennedy these days. Sure, some of the Star Wars movies under Disney haven't been great, but look at this resume. It's incredible. I'll save you the click and put some things she's been the executive producer of here: Poltergeist, E.T., IJ & Temple of Doom, Goonies, Back to the Future(I,II,III), Young Sherlock Holmes, The Money Pit, Empire of the Sun, Who Framed Roger Rabbit (jumping ahead to more recent stuff), Rogue One, Andor, Mandalorian, Ashoka, Skeleton Crew....

So yes, not everything has been a winner, but to say that having her name attached to something means it won't be good means that either A)you might not be informed about her resume or B)you have another reason you don't like her involvement with a project.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005086/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1_tt_0_...
He is being criminally reckless
Record seems to be ~115, while current is ~63, or 55%.
They're siding with the Republicans because they don't want to be seen agreeing with the folks who hate what the Israeli government has been doing in Gaza; Netanyahu especially so. So the strongly pro-israel sources are too biased.
Not just that, unless you are eating them blindfolded or using food dye or in a more complex dish, a preference was shown to exist for pasture raised eggs. Visual stimuli is still part of the eating process and influences taste, it should not be ignored.
> I think the argument is that for a good chunk of business work, you don't need to use the "interesting"/"deep" concepts.

That's what the MBA people want to believe. To lower costs, or if they see writing code as an operating expense, instead of R&D.

If this is true or not, it depends on many, many factors, and it can change over the course of the business life.
The mini-memory cart has 4k of CPU RAM and a line-by-line assembler, no text editor.

It also has no disassembler. I spent many many hours dumping the ROMS using easy-bug and disassembling them by hand. Many happy hours.
The only reason we don't eat dogs or cats is because they don't taste good. Predators don't make for good eating. They have to work too hard physically for their food. It makes their meat tough.

That said there are places where dog is eaten usually as a stew because that makes it more tender.
> But isn't that apple id + privacy relay as well

For authentication? Yes.

Private Relay has Tor-like guarantees (with 2 hops) baked into the protocol, as it uses anonymous authorization tokens (which can't be tied to Apple IDs they represent) at exit node.

https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/iCloud_Private_Relay_Over...
Neither was there before.
First, I agree with you. Dealing in nearly all crypto-currencies is financially irresponsible whether it's your own money or other people's.

That said, perhaps Hanes would have been duped by an similar non-crypto scam. It seems that all he needed was some online contacts and a fake web page with numbers on it.

Ultimately, it wasn't the crypto that was the problem. The problem was that he stole other people's money. He didn't mismanage it; he stole it.
Humane founder Imran Chaudhri likely paid for highly charitable Wikipedia entry
Wikipedia discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Imran_Chaudhri

Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imran_Chaudhri

See also: https://lmnt.me/blog/humane.html

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Self-Promotion?

In the past, this article contained a suspiciously-high amount of self-promotional-style writing, and though I edited much of it out, recently much of it has returned by way of contributions from an unknown IP-address-user.

A great deal of this reads like marketing for Imran Chaudhri, listing his skills and accomplishments. The word “patent” comes up a fair bit.

This article makes an unproven claim that he was regarded as a “leader” of a team at Apple (from a recent edit) and an “inventor” of various features (especially those mentioned as patents) that are commonly considered as team efforts.

Chaudhri, like many designers at Apple, undoubtedly contributed to many technologies found in the devices Apple manufactures. I fear that because employees who currently work at Apple are not permitted to speak about their own contributions at the company publicly while they are employed, Chaudhri’s list of accomplishments here could be exaggerated in significance as an individual contributor.

Ultimately, I worry that this article services and benefits Chaudhri (and his new business Humane) more than it does the people coming here to learn about this person.

I refuse to believe that an unbiased individual wrote “enhance the human-device relationship” in earnest.

-LM — Preceding unsigned comment added by Louiemantia (talk • contribs) 17:55, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

Once again, I have found this page to contain far too much superfluous and grandiose language with an accompanying list of accomplishments, patents, and associations. Chaudhri is undoubtedly an accomplished designer, but as I mentioned a year ago on this same Talk page, this seems to have been written in order to make him appear significant, especially as he raises funds for his latest venture. I suspect that changes made to beef up his presence give people a false impression of who this person is. Even Jony Ive has only a single mention of the word “patent” on his page. I don’t think it’s relevant just how many patents Imran Chaudhri has to the average person who may come across this page. Also, I removed or simplified many claims that were not verified in the actual sources. It seems someone who knows Chaudhri has included colorful details like “leader” where that information was not found in any reputable source. Lastly, Humane (Chaudhri’s company) has not announced any product, and making any statement about what it intends to do (again, like I said a year ago) like “enhance the human-device relationship” is either coming from Chaudhri’s own keyboard, a friend, or someone he is employing. It can only be described as a marketing phrase, and has no business on this page, especially before any actual product announcement. Louie Mantia (talk) 22:26, 10 September 2021 (UTC)
It could however I specified mDNS so other developers won't be required to use tailscale (or to run a dns server)
No one dreamed of controlling a toaster with an 8 bit CPU in 1969
Did you do them by hand or use some algorithmic way to construct them?
Different contexts. Regulated in my comment meaning observed, reviewed, audited in kind. They should not be operating on any site and in any system without someone watching over their shoulder, figuratively and literally too.

Whereas the regulation in your context pertains to regulations that are codified as laws or rules to follow.
Before 2016, we all thought impeachment was reserved for transgressions that can't be fixed any other way since it is congress overriding the will of the people. It's not a real check on small overreaches. The balance of powers between the branches is a real check (when it works).
The money wasn't the issue though, it was the lack of respect for the established cannon / materials and most fans / viewers not connecting with it.
Half scam, half money laundering for favor

Crypto seems to be purpose built to enable laundering of massive amounts of money under the guise of a bad investment.
Yes.

They're using public LLMs to analyze it. Every single LLM provider collects the data you put into it.

There's also the NRO incident recently where they publicly released the classified org chart.
There weren't many North American conifers on the African savannah when humans were evolving, and our ancestors' reproductive success was not generally affected by air quality. We haven't evolved immunity to things like volcanic gasses which have been around forever. Many plants deliberately evolved to produce toxins. A few of these we find delicious specifically because we did not co-evolve with those plants. Natural = safe is a bad heuristic.
Shoes with a wider toe box. Take your uncomfortable shoes to a reuse/charity drop off and never look back.

Every time I wore shoes that were too narrow my problems multiplied. Reworking the laces helped a bit but it was not enough and I had to switch brands.
> because they make promises around goals with incomplete understanding and data and then recalibrate as more information becomes available.

Perhaps you should simply announce an investigation, then deliver findings of the investigation and recommendations.

They're starting with the end in mind - the dismantling of the administrative state - then making cuts. Then finding out what the impact might be, then continuing cuts.

There is no good faith here, and there is nothing in 'doubt' that someone should benefit from.
I've found Matrix (clients, I guess) really hard to use... but I'm in IRC channels where lots of people are using Matrix. What are people using?
With a name like 'lox' you'd think the banner image would be Pisces.

Cool project though, I will definitely be playing around with this.
It's mostly a business decision and I'm guessing they will try to push into new markets if they think they can get some traction. This may convince them that they can. I know that Akira convinced anime studios that there was a market outside Japan.
This zinger I have to remember for the next time someone tries this whiteboard BS on me!
You are making a big logical jump here. I only gave one company as example because that is enough to disprove your previous post.

Also, before you thought he knew very little about his many companies, implying no distinction, but now you adjusted up his knowledge about two companies, but inexplicably down for the others.

You also imply he should give equal attention to all of them, ignoring some of them are bigger, more important, or simply more interesting to him. Is equal attention the optimal strategy here, or you would be getting an F grade if you suggested that?

He didn't need to invest a lot of time to make a good investment in DeepMind, that was then bought by Google, for example. Investing in what you know and understand is a good investment advice, but so is to diversify your portfolio and to not spend too much time optimizing your investments in lieu of everything else.

Some of his "investments" are more like spending on a hobby (as destructive as it can be, in the case of twitter for example... or constructive like SpaceX), so not even bound by those rules...
spoiler alert - he is dead