skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is vacuously true that a Turing machine can simulate a human mind - this is the quantum Church-Turing thesis. Since a Turing machine can solve any arbitrary system of Schrodinger equations, it can solve the system describing every atom in the human body. The problem is that this might take more energy than the Sun for any physical computer.

Feynman on "Simulating Physics with Classical Computers" [0] goes beyond that to posit that any classical simulation of quantum-mechanical properties would need exponential space in the number of particles to track the full state space; this very quickly exceeds the entire observable universe when dealing with mere hundreds of particles.

So while yes, the Turing machine model presupposes infinite tape, that is not realizable in practice.

He actually goes further:

Can a quantum system be probabilistically simulated by
a classical (probabilistic, I'd assume) universal computer? In other words, a
computer which will give the same probabilities as the quantum system
does. If you take the computer to be the classical kind I've described so far,
(not the quantum kind described in the last section) and there're no changes
in any laws, and there's no hocus-pocus, the answer is certainly, No! This is
called the hidden-variable problem: it is impossible to represent the results
of quantum mechanics with a classical universal device.

In particular, he takes issue with our ability to classically simulate negative probabilities which give rise to quantum mechanical interference.

[0] There are a number of PDFs shared as handouts for various grad classes; https://s2.smu.edu/~mitch/class/5395/papers/feynman-quantum-... was the first that I came across.
Did you look at the full video? Yes there are a lot of aid organizations that do things via USAID. Corbett mentions that at the end. But the trouble is the CIA hides people within NGOs in order to preform clandestine operations and destabilize governments. There is a link to the sources under the video. I've looked through them. Many of them are "mainstream" including LA Times, NY Times, etc. They verify what he's saying.

Also, ANY foreign aid in general is usually absorbed by the highest levels of government. The book "The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics" goes into several examples where democratic companies use foreign aid to reinforce autocratic governments for resource extraction.

I'm not spreading "misinformation," I'm just spreading information. Stop using Doublespeak.
It’s not employer it’s HR. They love this sort of human metrics collection stuff and how giving people access to „insights“ about how they used their time will somehow make things better. Employee wellbeing and all that corporate lingo
It's actually the reducing of the alumina (aluminum oxide) to metallic aluminum that takes huge amounts of electricity. And as mentioned, that is done with carbon electrodes which are consumed in the process, leading to relatively high CO2 emissions. Though yes, if that electricity would be produced by burning fossil fuels the emissions would be even higher. So it's not like there aren't big benefits to doing aluminum refining in Iceland, or other places with low-emission electricity.

There is some R&D work going on though to do this reduction step without CO2 emissions using other electrode materials, see e.g ELYSIS.
Return to the basics like Pierre Henry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZPDrNAFo1U
HttpOnly is mostly a vestigial artifact of the 2000s.

As soon as web apps began relying on JS in the browser making calls to APIs, that same JS started needing access to the session token, or credentials equivalent to the session token.

If you maintain an app that can get away with an HttpOnly session token cookie, it's a good idea, but unless it's legacy code, it will probably break something, or the JS is getting creds another way and the cookie having the flag set is giving you a false sense of security.
They are indeed, but the soundtrack could be better.
>One group of plaintiffs’ lawyers struck a settlement with CPK. The monetary value of the class’s claims were (at most) around $950,000, yet the attorneys sought $800,000 in fees. The district court approved the settlement.

From the case summary. The award of attorneys' fees is the part that got sent back down for the trial court to look at again.
Show HN: Handling Errors in AI Agents
D'oh, yeah.

What right-thinking, well-to-do American would want anything that's labeled "chemical" to be located anywhere near where they live and work?

Or, what right-thinking young college student would want to take on the grueling (and at-times dangerous) task of getting an advanced degree in chemistry? The status, pay, and working conditions are all far below what AI, consulting, finance, law, and software promise. And they'd be personally tied to an industry with a seriously checkered reputation.

Plus, as Team NIMBY and Team Wall Street work together, to ship all of America's basic industries and supply chains off to distant (and often not-so-friendly) countries - how long could any American kid expect a career in chemistry to last, anyway?
That is possibly the most original README I've seen in a long time.

I will admit it's a bit.. obfuscated, though?
Congratulations to both teams :)

Getting to the moon at all is a huge accomplishment.

The article actually mentioned IM-1 (though not by name) and got me looking.
1. If an outside-the-system observer cannot detect any flaws in what a RNG outputs, does the outsider have any basis for claiming a lack of randomness? Practically speaking, randomness is a matter of prediction based on what you know.

2. AI just means “non human” intelligence. An AI system (of course) can incorporate various sources of entropy, including sensors. This is already commonly done.
Looks like connected services need to be reachable from the client, would be great if there was a server component and I could point recommendarr to plex/sonarr/radarr via docker networking
The overall package -- plot, characters, visual style. There are so many movies that nail all three, but Flow is weak in every category, IMO.
This highlights just how useless and unusable existing scroll bars are.

The ability to easily see where you were on the page was great. And it's got some humour. I love it.
I was sure I had seen an example of someone revealing this several years ago, but I can't find the article again, so it's probably misinformation. I'm sorry for repeating it.

There are definitely "spy" TVs modified by state security groups that do this, but that's not what I was claiming.
> I admit I've only skimmed the RFC, but it seems to explicitly allow receivers to refuse to deal with lots of features.

That's true but like, at what point are people disappointed your library doesn't support functionality that they think is pretty core? I'm not saying libraries can or should support everything, just that specs that ask a lot of implementations are inviting this kind of thing, and that while MP considers this, CBOR pretty clearly does not.

> In that you may preallocate a (large enough) buffer in the latter case, and bail out when the incoming message grows out of it but still be able to skip to the rest of the message as opposed to not being able to re-synchronize because the minimally needed parsing context grows without bound?

Neither of these are recoverable because you don't know how much to skip to resync (assuming skipping a bunch of data isn't by itself fatal):

- Stack: Maps and arrays only tell you their elements/pair counts, not how many bytes to skip in a stream, so to skip them you have to parse them fully, because they may be nested.

- Stream: By definition you don't know how much to skip.

Again these are the kinds of issues you'd address in a protocol definition. Though it kind of tries to pose as one, CBOR is not a protocol definition. A more reasonable thing to do would be to stream MP over HTTP, because you get so many things for free (connection management, caching and TLS to name a few).
https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/blo...
There is kind of a schism happening where Journos are often very left-leaning but the press owners are a conservative (or flipflopping) elite. You can see this exact effect in Germany: https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/33595.jpeg
But a lot of press supervisory boards are staffed with members of a political party.
For sake of Musks teen-army we need to go full on for python supervised by Github CoPilot :D

Or for Musks own good dreams we should all buy Grok and let it write python for us.
The article should have said “a glass”, not “glass”. The former is a term from physics that is different from the lay-mans’s “glass”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_transition:

“The glass–liquid transition, or glass transition, is the gradual and reversible transition in amorphous materials (or in amorphous regions within semicrystalline materials) from a hard and relatively brittle "glassy" state into a viscous or rubbery state as the temperature is increased. An amorphous solid that exhibits a glass transition is called a glass.”

The Nature article is clearer. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-88894-5: “Glass forms when a liquid is fast cooled preventing crystallization, across a reversible process known as the glass transition.

[…]

Here we demonstrate that material with glassy appearance found within the skull of a seemingly male human body entombed within the hot pyroclastic flow deposits of the 79 CE Vesuvius eruption formed by a unique process of vitrification of his brain at very high temperature”

The layman’s term includes such things as safety glass, which may have polymer layers.

So, confusingly, not all glass is “a glass”, and not all glasses are glass.
So repressed :D Is your boss a minor? I doubt it.
This weekend, I tried out Gemini Code Assist and compared it to my usual AI assistant, Cursor IDE. Shared my findings here [0]

[0]: https://sachinjain.substack.com/p/ai-coding-assistant-gemini...
US Threats and Mexico's Crackdown Hit Mexican Cartel
Wait, I previously replied too passively.

Yes, that is corruption. However, it is being punished!

If a for-profit insurance/hospital group does this in the USA, taking money from patient care to profit... there is no punishment. Instead, it is encouraged. Correct?
Yes, I meant in Brazil.

Off-topic: I really need to add more context to my replies without considering the parent comment, it's not the first time that caused confusion.
Swedish police probe water sabotage attempt on Gotland
It's almost like different people have different tastes or something.. ;-)
Some fields are inherently harder to replicate though -- economics, psychology, etc.

The fact that we (somewhat) do it with biology is amazing.

That doesn't mean we should avoid spending money in hard to replicate fields, or that we should require impossible to satisfy bars for funding.

Some of the most interesting results in these fields come with further questions attached.
> My question is: Does the author actually use Windows XP?

Significant overlap between the types of people who use WinXP and write 3D file format importers in C, I think! Though I prefer 7 myself.
Microsoft acquisition, neglect and now termination of Skype has got to go down as one of the most egregious wasted opportunities of all time.

Skype had a dominant position in video calling (Zoom), a nascent social network (you could find, follow, friend other users) with with IM / share files (WhatsApp) and some embryonic collaboration potential (Slack).

Somehow Microsoft wasted all these moments. I still pay a subscription to a Skype account out of respect for what the product was and could have been. Sad to see it finally go, but what a waste
You are severely underestimating the speed of drones and their formation capabilities, as well as overestimating your aim under immense danger.
I wasn't super clear, but I was thinking of their subscription based products such as Pocket and I believe the VPN.

EFF does a number of things such as advocate for web standards that don't benefit Google at the expense of other browsers. They get involved in legal action and legislating and they publish privacy badger, an extension that blocks tracking. My understanding is they also worked with Mozilla to stand up Le's Encrypt as a broadly accessible way to access HTTPS.
Why does C automatically make Ladybird a toy/hobby project? Don't you think there can be room for specialized sofware? Let your Netflixes and whatever run in separate Chromium containers (they already do on your TV anway) and make the web browser efficient for browsing the web and just that.
Link avoiding cloudflare: https://archive.ph/oU8F1

The article is a rather poor one though. There have been several T-HEAD (Alibaba's chip subsidiary) designs before this one. The key issue for supply-chain security is where they are manufactured, which is still TSMC unless something radical has changed in China.

Of course China might invade Taiwan or might develop their chip manufacturing capabilities (only a matter of time IMHO). That would be real news.

None of this has much to do with the RISC-V ISA which is just a common standard. The article would be equally fact-free FUD if this was using China's own LoongArch.
Seems like some of the techniques described here could be part of a larger "accuracy-based commission" form of compensation (as opposed to what is apparently presented).
That was in fact it, lack of a subdomain wildcard. I got really confused because I opened one project I thought had this issue, saw the ACAO header was set to *, and thought I hallucinated the whole thing out of some different issue. But it was a different project where I needed to allow internal access, which would have been easy with a hardwired response with a wildcard, but instead I needed to write a whole lambda endpoint just to pull out the requesting host and put it in the ACAO header. Also easy, but what a waste.

Either way, kind of a digression into details of CORS that wasn't necessary for the introductory treatment, so I edited it out.
How will trading cards help the game? As a Steam user, they seem useless and badges, which they create, are also completely useless.
Unless to target sales to those who buy up all the cards to get really high profile levels.
If anyone is looking for a very fast OBJ loader, this is great: https://github.com/guybrush77/rapidobj

Also: https://aras-p.info/blog/2022/05/14/comparing-obj-parse-libr...
> how they'll repurpose the people involved.

Does not feel like they would care at all.
> The reasoning is representable with and by a finite number of elementary physical particles

Do we even know this much?
"Other" doesn't mean the same thing before and after Cola has been added.
"Unknown" would be more accurate.

My personal opinion would be to make the enum nullable and not add a fake value.
Does this really work for anyone?

I still find myself building more building block style. „Make me a python function that does X“ and then stringing those together by hand
I developed a theory a few years ago (probably during the pandemic when I would go on a lot long walks alone) that there are many human information artifacts that are preserved that we haven't yet discovered.

Take sound waves. When they come into contact with matter, most of the waves energy turns into heat, yes? But might a mechanical imprint be made onto a surface? For example tree sap that hadn't yet completely solidified. Could we resurrect the roar of a dinosaur?
A certain amount of websites are mandatory today, like local utilities, employer chosen health insurance, etc. I have to keep Chromium around for some that don't work right with Firefox.
Formatting is like a dot on the i; there is 200 other small details that are just completely off putting to me :
- naming conventions (ias are lazy and tent to use generic names with no meaning) such as "Glass" instead of "GlassProduct" ;
- error management convention

But the most troublesome to me is that it is just "pissing" out code and has no after-tough about the problem it is solving or the person it is talking to.

The number of times I have to repeat myself just to get a stubborn answer with no discussion is alarming. It does not benefit my well-being and is annoying to work with except for a bunch of exploratory cases.

I believe LLM are actually the biggest data heist organized. We believe that those models will get better at solving their jobs but the reality is that we are just giving away code, knowledge, ideas at scale, correcting the model for free, and paying to be allowed to do so. And when we watch the 37% minimum hallucination rate, we can more easily understand that the actual tough comes from the human using it.

I'm not comfortable having to argue with a machine and have to explain to it what I'm doing, how, and why - just to get it to spam me with things I have to correct afterwards anyway.

The worst is, all that data is the best insight on everything. How many people ask for X ? How much time did they spend trying to do X ? What were they trying to achieve ? Who are their customers ? etc...
Proxy_pass: Nginx's Dangerous URL Normalization of Paths
Zig doesn't promise language or stdlib stability yet, but in reality the changes are quite manageable. And it's already good enough for some high-profile real-world projects like Bun (https://bun.sh/), Tigerbeetle (https://tigerbeetle.com/) or Ghostty (https://ghostty.org/).

In the end, language stability isn't as important as it used to be, people are quite used to fixing their code when upgrading dependencies to a new major version for instance.
> Still, this function is called only once, and in that call, its i argument is always <= length, so it's perfectly fine (it's only UB if you actually pass it a bad argument).

This very mindset is a source of bugs and vulnerabilities. The author has high marks from me on safety and "make it hard to use wrong" and it's quite surprising to see such code.
A nonce, kept in an extra query parameter named "state". https://stackoverflow.com/a/77029859 has some of the gory details (myself, I just hash the session's CSRF token to generate a state token)
Though to play devil's advocate you would have ten conflicting ideas of how things should work.
It not that easy with their glued in batteries on some Macbook Pros. You have to essentially use alcohol to remove the glue to replace the battery. Absolute PITA. They could have used 4 screws and it would be easy to replace.

Apple has a high profit margin on their products so I expect better. This isn’t a cheap laptop from a supermarket.
Is this a good evaluation criterion anymore? Also, did you allow the candidate to use the internet?

Most of us do not remember the exact syntax for everything despite having coded in that language/framework for years.
> Very well done.

And very much welcome !
The best math professor I ever had was a fantastic instructor because he had in head a catalog of wrong mental models and could nearly immediately grasp where a student might have taken a wrong turn and try to get them on the right path.

(It was a graduate level real analysis course, and people who had been calculus whizzes were struggling with point set topology proofs.)
The Art of Puzzles
A large part of high performance programming using any language is about memory management.

For stuff that you run only for yourself and _always_ executes in a blink of an eye I do agree.
I was genuinely curious. Wish you took this seriously and didn't just troll this forum
Congratulations MSN...You have achieved peak GenAI News idiotism...
It doesn’t in current state of affairs.

There was a time - however brief - that it wasn’t line it is now. Where shareholders and investors didn’t have primacy
(i remember) the moon has some stabilization effect on orientation of rotation axis of earth
Yeah I fear their choice of Swift will stifle cross-platform contribution.
As I understand it, the trial was about whether or not providing the database schema is a security risk.

> Your request seeks a copy of tables or columns within each table of CANVAS. The dissemination of these pieces of network information could jeopardize the security of the systems of the City of Chicago.

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43175628
Engineering is a matter of trade-offs.

So, how do you screw a thin piece of glass onto a phone that doesn’t have bevels to speak of in such a way that you can put it into your pocket for years, and push a finger on the center of the screen tens of thousands of times without breaking?

Also, if there’s room below the screen, the screen will bend more than when there isn’t, and that will affect longevity.

I’m not claiming using glue wasn’t done out of malice, just that we can’t say it is.
Or, “Lawyers will lawyer.” That said, there is room for both.
It's actually totally managable and reasonable for an end-user to stay on top of their patches and run a personally built subfork. I think it's better to think of it a a starting-point and template for your own builds rather than a Product.

They're reasonably tidy, not too big, and much of the size comes from a typical userprefs a la arkenfox.

I don't see why you would dissuade before even looking? This is one of those scenarios where verifying the work is a small fraction of the time and expertise to produce it.
I worked at a company that expired credits after 365 days. My layman understanding is the credits sit as a liability until consumed, and the alternative is having potentially millions accounts with a combined hundreds of millions of dollars in 'liabilities' on their books.

More info from ChatGPT here: https://chatgpt.com/share/67c5ad36-2f84-8001-a61f-11d4e17135...
I've been doing 20 hours/week with occasional "overtime" periods i.e. 30-40 hours during crunch for the last 15 years and can't imagine ever doing full-time again. The QoL improvements are truly unbeatable, granted I take a huge pay-cut but life is more important than money.
Don't they mean a shift from western IP which they have to pay for, since i believe risc-v is also mostly 'western tech', or a tech standard at least.
True. Although it is self-sustaining and doesn't require outside production. I also distinguished between electric usage and thermal collection to satisfy overall energy needs.

I guess I'm trying to point out that on an individual level power usage may have a maximum. This might not hold true for commercial ambitions.
Is the Button Focusable?
Is TSMC reason enough to invade an entire country ? (I mean, sure the west don't really an excuse do to the same, but I wonder)

Can't they just "exfiltrate" or "compromise" or "steal" company secrets and establish their own base in mainland China ?

Genuinely curious as I know nothing of industrial espionage.
> I won't buy anything made in US and sold here anymore.

Not to counter the argument, but just if I would consider doing the same.
What to do with laptops - Apple (silicon), Intel, AMD and Qualcomm are all US companies.
>No, the argument is that if Mozilla didn't spend so much money on side projects, they wouldn't now be in such a precarious financial situation that they're making a drastic, controversial change with the stated purpose of ensuring their financial future

A couple of problems here. First, despite your protestations to the contrary, the argument for many is about market share. Secondly they're sitting on $1.2 billion in assets, so it's not that they're underwater, but that they're trying to diversify their income away from just Google.

I also have to note that you said no, but then proceeded to make an argument that bears the very form that I was criticizing.

You are saying that side bets (like the VPN) are what compromise their financial position. That's at least a coherent statement, but now comes the substantiating it and tracing out the cause and effect, articulating the actual scale of those investments, where it has the effect that you're claiming it does.

It takes more than just going ahead and saying it and it's weird that I have to keep pointing this out.
I love when projects use vis as a shorthand, which is fish in dutch.

Ninja fish!