skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The issue here being that if a photon is a minimal quanta of energy, but is just a classical wave, what prevents it from spreading out and having sub-photon energy? Or if indeed it does, how does that sub-photon quantity get measured? -- if these experiments claim to be emitting a time-series of single photons, classical wave interference won't occur (again, being separated in time).

Right, so that part is new and "spooky" - quantum phenomena are quantised (hence the name). The photon does spread out as a wave, there is in a sense half a photon heading towards the top half of the screen and half a photon heading towards the bottom half of the screen - but then when it hits the screen what we see is a single whole photon that hits either the top half or the bottom half (or, perhaps, half of an us sees a photon hit the top half and half of an us sees a photon hit the bottom half). This is the "wave-particle duality" and while it does fall out of the equations, it's definitely unfamiliar compared to classical physics.

If you want to fully understand, all I can suggest is "work your way through a QM textbook" - every popular explanation I've seen has messed it up one way or another. But it sounds like you're understanding correctly, and thinking for yourself as well - you've hit upon the actual essence of it, the kernel that really is hard.
This is a lot of fairly interesting build up and background leading to a very short and shallow takedown of voice control that's all about audio as IO for a couple practical reasons.

No discussion of whether natural language will be a powerful addition to or replacement of current UI, which of course can just be text you type and read.
Yeah, same. Pointing at some loonie on Twitter who would be flagged out of existence here on HN is not an honest argument in the direction of "look, Rust fans are zealots!".

I mean, by that logic, people of my nationality would have to be fenced off and never allowed in other countries... because we do indeed have thousands of nasty scammers out there in the world.

99.99999% of us are chill, work, pay taxes, have fun etc.

So generalizations like the one that moved me to start pursuing the guy and not leave him alone until he ultimately said "it's just my anecdotal experience" (and stopped claiming it's universally true), because you know, we can pick ANY group, find several lunatics and claim the group is bad in this or that way.

As said to another guy a few minutes ago -- I can get such "opinions" in every bar. I come to HN for better discussions than this.
gimp is a bit complicated for casual use for common and simple needs, wish there is a much simplified version.

would be even nicer if there is one click passport mode, picture improvement mode, etc, something like what mobile phone photo apps provide.
Ah, walking across glued trees [1]! Not sure of its practical merits however, aha...

[1] - https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0209131
The workflows are still very rough, see my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43394200
My main tip would be: give it a try! It’s free! And it’s all new and shiny! The biggest cost you incur is your time to try it, which isn’t that much more than the time it takes to type out an internet comment.

Second tip: if you get stuck, there is SO much content on youtube these days, you’re bound to find a guide or some help just by searching.

Good luck and enjoy free software!
> I am also a bit perplexed on why they'd need to ingest 1,000 micro-SD cards at once. If they are such a large org, why not investigate alternative solutions?

Action cameras use microSD cards as their main storage medium. You could connect them via WiFi on some models, but that would be painfully slow compared to dumping the SD cards directly.
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What makes your experience representative and theirs unique? How are you measuring this?
> Local file systems with strong integrity checks and seamless replication onto attached storage should be so basic that people can just assume it’ll work without them having to spend time on it.

What you're asking for is basically a bug-free btrfs plus a bit of automation on top (unless you also want a smart caching layer, which we already know is a Hard Problem). That automation is simple enough that it would definitely exist by now if there was a bug-free btrfs for it to manage. But that turns out to be a hard problem, so anyone who wants to run their system with automatic add and remove and rebalance is looking for trouble. (ZFS has a better reputation on the reliability front, but is too inflexible for a consumer-grade pooling of arbitrary storage devices.)
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In a previous blog post, we restructured a project to create separate modules for ECS. We created an input handling system as well as player and enemy movement behaviours. Seems quite simple but it took a bit of thought and iterations to get it right. We now will move the rendering logic into Systems, which will require us to create custom phases.
Rich people can always sell assets and then buy similar ones elsewhere. And them being rich, they don't have to do any of the paperwork themselves.
I see. It turns out I had a misunderstanding about some of the details, including that libjxl is responsible for a lot of stuff that I thought was inherent to the format.

It does seem a bit weird to me that we're going to end up with image files being more like video container formats where you need the appropriate codec available in order to decode them. But I suppose when the use cases are so widely varied it was probably inevitable.

Maybe we should just cut to the chase and standardize codecs that fit inside of mp4 or mkv for all media, including still images, audio, everything. I'm only half joking - it feels like where this is headed.
Symmetrical encryption requires key distribution, which presents new areas of attack.

Though there is also quantum key distribution, which will probably be solved as soon as quantum algorithms can break classical encryption.
Yes - I spend about half my time with rust embedded, where unsafe code is just everywhere, whether needed or not.

There is still plenty in my non-embedded stuff, but a fair amount hardware-adjacent (IE i have to drive things like relay cards, just from a desktop machine). to be fair.

But i've found plenty of broken unafe in things like, uh, constraint solvers.

I would agree that useful and successful rust projects aggressively encapsulate (and attempt to avoid) unsafe usage.

I will still maintain my belief that this will not be enough over time and scale.
The Chimera folks seem to be confused and/or out of date.

The optimum way [1] to build thousands of RISC-V packages has been on real hardware, not in emulation, ever since the VisionFive 2 came out just over two years ago, at approximately 1/7th the price of the HiFive Unmatched they mention (which came out almost 4 years ago in May 2021).

Emulation is convenient if you already have a honking x86, and it's not already busy doing other things. e.g. typically your own desktop computer. But that doesn't scale.

It takes three to four $100 VisionFive 2s to get the same overall build performance as a $1500 i9-13900 or 14900 or Ryzen 9 7950x running RISC-V code in docker/qemu.

You can use resources more efficiently with a single machine with a lot of cores and a lot of RAM, and it's convenient. The Milk-V Pioneer with 64 2.0 GHz OoO RISC-V cores and 128 GB RAM, available since January 2024, fits that bill, but they also dismiss it because it costs $2500 as a preassembled machine (or $1500 just for motherboard with CPU, BYO RAM and storage and case/ps). But you'd spend $5000 or $6000 on x86 to get the same total throughput in emulation of RISC-V.

The same update says they just bought an Ampere Altra to support arm64. They don't say what that cost, but I believe it's going to be minimum $4000.

[1] if you don't mind a little more setup (which the Chimera people do) then the optimum optimum way is to run the build scripts and random tools themselves in RISC-V code on either real hardware or in emulation, but distcc the actual C/C++ compiles out to a cross-compiler running native on x86 or Apple (or Ampere). That gives a very significant speedup (up to 10x) over emulation or current RISC-V hardware, while retaining the ability to build even the most complex packages without problems.
Ahead of the game, soon we'll only be able to spend Bezos Bucks. Company Towns walked so the Company Country could innovate

edit: I've enjoyed two managers since I started working ~2008. The rest were either harmful or generally ineffective, unfortunately. We can get along well... but I know the job's not for me. It's like HR, for the business.

Contrary to GP, career development has yet to meaningfully happen within the same business. I have to move to advance, so I do.
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So excited to try this. I had the exact same experience.
This is a pretty nice guide, though it misses some steps I'd consider important. If you're making a CA for internal use today, I would highly encourage you to use Name Constraints. Name Constraints allow you to specify that your CA will only be used to sign domains you pre commit to. This means you can add your internal CA to your system trust stores on all of your corporate systems and not worry about it being abused to MITM your employees connections to the wider internet. (If that is a feature you'd like to have, I would be happy to expound further on why that's a bad idea)

I'm giving a workshop in a few weeks at Bsides Seattle[1] about this - Pick up a Yubikey and come play with PKI with me.

[1]https://www.bsidesseattle.com/2025-schedule.html
How do they feel about unix daemons or the FreeBSD mascot?
I tried Krita, but as difficult to use as Gimp can be, Gimp is still easier to use for me and has all the image tools I need.
At least with firefox based browsers I believe the actual user profile folder is pretty compatible across browsers, copying that should copy every aspect of what makes your browser yours, though it might contain extras that won't be utilized by vanilla firefox.
Tap to pay felt like it took off in the US as a reaction to the germ hysteria of the pandemic. Swiping a card was arguably more convenient than getting out and unlocking your phone. There wasn't much demand for it here when it was popular in e.g. Singapore.

The amount of time people spend holding (rather than pocketing) their phones is also probably higher than it was in the 2010s, so the cost of digging it out of your purse/pocket is less relevant.

[meta] Having a conversation about credit card and video standards in a thread about managerial layoffs feels apropos to how my brain works about other curious topics. We're basically cosplaying a Wikipedia hole.
Genuinely curious - in which specific ways is GIMP better than Krita at photo editing?
And the more they sell, the more they have to sell after, driving the prices even lower. It's definitely a good recipe to crash the markets.
> The ability to understand the physics behind how objects work is abstract, but it's a low enough level of abstraction that even simple animals are capable of it.

No, it's a physical coordination of our body's neural net that connects our senses, brain, nerves, and musculature to perform coordinated feats. It's the direct opposite of abstract: it's concretely physical. And we share this neural net wetware wiring with our cousins, the animals.

There is nothing abstract about pulling your hand off the stove, but describing anything requires abstract concept-nets.

> Language is pretty good for communication, obviously.

It's essential for communicating abstract concepts, as well as contemplating them.

> My driving test also used language to convey the lesson. But I don't talk to myself before I decide which direction to turn the wheel...

That's because you have taught your wetware how to physicalize the concept net's decision tree by learning how to recognize the inputs and coordinate the proper responses. Lather, rinse, repeat.

> Overlap, certainly. Anything else is conjecture.

Anything that can be named exists as an abstract mental concept; that's what a concept is. The map is not the territory, because it is abstract, because the map exists only in our brain, even if we learned its contours from a paper document. That's what makes it abstract, because we have abstracted it to a mental concept, where its name refers to a network of other names in a describable way.

That is how langauge is built up from literally nothing but our elders' repetitive descriptions of objects and their interactions, kinda like typed values and functions where the typing describes their relationships to other typed values and functions. And the relationships are abstract concepts, too.

Thanks for this interesting philosophical discussion. Peace be with you.
$200,000 family income and below, with typical assets
Is that what happened? I am only aware of an injunction against additional deportation flights. There is some uncertainty about the administration's justifications for not complying - they may be entirely correct that the terrorist designation changes the calculus.

And injunctions are far, far from the point at which things are "declared unlawful".
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COVID-19 pandemic led to a shortage of developers, which in turn drove up salaries, and companies are now trying to reverse this trend.
M-Disk blurays are supposed to last a long time
Yeah I should have bought a house when I was 12 years old in middle school. Still kicking myself for that
Elsewhere in the thread it suggests ~$30k for one link. Which is exactly in line with buying 10 of the ubiquiti devices.

But I think you would need 20 of them, 10 on each end? Plus extra install, networking equipment, etc. Which would make Taara significantly better.
Certainly not. Doubleclick is much of the backbone of google advertising to this day.
is boring. More like a ritual of personal hygiene like brushing teeth, at best. But utterly unfulfilling. And not how things were meant to be.
There are far more poor people than rich people, and in a world where even the homeless have smartphones the poor will also have drones.

The question then becomes "A rich man may be able to dodge taxes, but can he dodge drones?"
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I was actually a regular user of GIMP for years before I learned that the word had any other definition. While working at a summer camp as a teenager, I happened to install it on an office computer. One day I'm doing some work in the office, when all of a sudden I hear one of the camp directors in the other room laugh and ask why some perverted program called "gimp" was in the list of applications.
Yes I am, and planning for it.
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There's a big difference between a wealth fun and managing nationalized businesses. As a business owner, you're directly invested into your business doing well. And you have lots of knowledge about your business details. Some government clerk who ends up controlling your business doesn't have either.

This happens every time. Socialist government nationalizes businesses, drives most of them into the ground.
A lot of words without engaging at all at the tactical/thought experiment level in any of the societal problems cognitive machines may introduce.
I think the main difference is that programmers have (or should have) more transparent processes that they go through (code reviews, design doc reviews / signoffs, CI/CD to catch mistakes) compared to managers. Granted, I'm an IC so I know more about those - maybe managerial roles have similar ways to ensure you catch the "bad" early enough.
The TI-83 Plus had an equation solver that didn't actually do any solving, it would test lots of inputs and converge towards the correct answer. If it was a rational number it worked, but it couldn't do fractions so anything else and you'd only get an approximation when it hit its limit.
I'll soon have a remote copy as well..
Would be a straightforward job for a pick and place style robot, if you had cycle time to budget for it.
That might be the stated reason. It attempts to increase the overall tax take by increasing personal taxes on the rich, which will allow a new generation of bureaucrats and economists to re-learn the lessons that are already in the textbooks.
Yeah Drug Wars was probably it.
Maybe anti-trust concerns plus a massively more amenable administration and DOJ? Biden + big tech was always an uneasy marriage at best.
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> What recession?

There are increasing signals of an upcoming recession, but with Trump's unpredictability there is a lot of uncertainty...

https://www.nbcnews.com/data-graphics/recession-warning-sign...
> People are going out of their way to extol Harvard's supposed largesse, and how hardly anyone pays sticker. First, 45% do pay sticker according to the article.

No. Do not make assumptions like that.

The source material is easy to find. It's https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/why-harvard/affordabi...

From the source material:

> Financial aid will be available to many students from families with incomes above $200,000, depending on individual circumstances.

The cost of an American higher education is something worth discussing, but I think starting the discussion with inaccurate information is problematic.
Yes, it is the "real world" for research, of which industry does nearly zero. Research pushes humanity forward. The sort of anti-intellectualism in your comment is part of what is causing the decline we are seeing in society today.
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Anywhere you have people, you have politics.
All of them? Really?

Besides, waging proxy wars is very far removed from self-defense.

Building outposts in, e.g., Cameroon to ward against Russian aggression over there is perhaps justifiable in some abstract respect, but it's rather the opposite of self-defense. (Without getting into complicated game-theoretical "we have to stop them over there so we don't fight them over here" justifications, which have long been discredited and have even become something of a joke.)
> I was interested in trying to harmonize on something that could radically cut connector diversity and drive up fungibility and flexibility.

Have you run the numbers on cost for USB-C plugs, ports, and cabling vs. what you're wanting to replace? My strong expectation is that you're proposing something that's substantially more expensive than what it's replacing.

It's also a plan that places one or more cables with electrically-conductive ends into a chassis with components that react... poorly to unplanned contact with electrically-conductive materials. Do remember that PC internals have been designed to work with cables that have been carefully designed to have electrically non-conductive ends when not plugged in to their intended socket.

I asked you a bunch of other questions that I'd legit like the answers to. I wouldn't have bothered asking the questions if I wasn't interested in the answers.
So it appears, or rather doesn't.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz03gjnxe25o
The issue is that you can't put 10 of your 2 Gbps wireless links next to each other. You quite possibly end up with < 2 Gbps as interference kills your signals (unless you put the transceivers so far apart from one another that you sort of defeat the purpose). That said there are other wireless solutions that can get you > 10 Gbps over > 20 km already (not sure about 20 Gbps, but I wouldn't be surprised). The issue is available spectrum, i.e. you can't just setup the link, because the spectrum doesn't belong to you. Not a problem for optics.
Shouldn't it expand to GIMP IMP? Or GIMP IMP IMP? Or GIMP IMP IMP IMP IMP? Maybe the fixed point is G...IMP?
Ah okay - I thought maybe it was Windows 7 (I never used Vista) and 7 doesn't feel like four versions ago.
I don't know if this is an artifact of what I grew up on (paint shop pro), but personally I found Krita vastly more intuitive than GIMP, to the extent that I no longer use GIMP, and instead use Krita even for tasks that are objectively more appropriate for GIMP.
Their current pipeline of preventive and therapeutic vaccine trials is pretty impressive. Very unfortunate if they get delayed because of this.

https://www.modernatx.com/en-US/research/product-pipeline
Isn't that just stacking your own allocator on top of the libc allocator, the same way the libc allocator is stacked on top of the OS's page mappings? It's often a sensible idea, of course, but I wouldn't describe it as "never freeing things", just substituting libc's malloc()/free() for your own. It's not like the libc allocator is doing something radically different from keeping lists of available and allocated memory.
Value wise, China for mechatronic R&D is awesome. There's nowhere better on earth. It's the other stuff - legals, regulatory, HR, schools, etc. that's a PITA.

Re. McD's (actually ~15 years ago I used to work with the husband of the head of Europe but never discussed the business) - don't think their risk model has 'operational efficiency' high on the agenda. Mostly risk is outsourced to franchisees. They are so big they can just move really slowly and nobody gets fired. When competitors do something, they copy it and see if it works, recent eg. CosMc's https://www.qsrmagazine.com/story/mcdonalds-unveils-cosmcs-i...

Fundamentally - are we all going to be eating from robots real soon now? Absolutely, yes. But they won't look like 'Flippy' or Creator. They'll just be infrastructure - familiar features of the public environment as common as an electrical socket, garden tap, or street sign. You'll press a button on your own device, and either the results will come to you or you'll take a short walk. Yes, that means they have to be small, highly reliable, and self-managing. Nobody (else) has this yet. We're there.

But the stock tip of this post is - current era last mile players are dead men walking. They have no means to transition to a significant position given pending commercial drone deregulation. The players set to clean up must be vertically integrated and provide both production and delivery (that's us) or have exceptional cycle time confidence and perfect autonomous drone integration with agreed standards to unknown airframes (sketchy proposition).
Kind of misleading - Rust stdlib doesn't include HTTP 1 or 2 either
>Just look up what Obama administration did with raising Putin regime.

Have have no doubt your sources are going to be vastly different than mine.

>Also the legendary withdrawal of defense installations from Poland.

The issue was more complex than you seem to think it is, that much is clear.

> Mister fucking Nobel peace prize winner.

You act like Obama asked for the Nobel Prize - he did not. He had nothing to do with who decided or why they decided to give out the award.

I never said Obama was perfect, but he's far better than the current cruel right-wing fascist asshole.

>I’m pretty sure a lot of BS I don’t like about US is specifically coming from the left wing.

Then you're on the side of the right-wing fascists, it's just that simple.

>But if you don’t want to hear outside perspective, feel free to live in your bubble.

I get to hear plenty of other perspectives, most of them are just "both sides are the same" bogus uninformed and pointless arguments.