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Since I actually don't know math, maybe my ELI5 understanding can be helpful (or corrected).
The conjecture says that you can always reverse (a process) to determine the original inputs.
But this proof shows multiple inputs creating the same output - which obviously cannot be reversed to determine the input - thus falsifying the conjecture.
I wish I could be angry about this, but the time has passed.
20+ years ago I refused to buy the Steam version of Civilization 5 and waited for my physical boxed copy.
Turns out it was just a CD with a Steam code and some cached content.
I was so angry. I'm over it now, but I felt the need to share.
A tedious response highlighting that YC is a US investment group and that US-centric articles should be expected.
LOI - lunar orbit insertion
TEI - trans-earth injection
For ill-informed people like me.
March 10 (Reuters) - Nvidia (NVDA.O), whose chips power artificial intelligence, has been sued by three authors who said it used their copyrighted books without permission to train its Nemo AI platform.
Brian Keene, Abdi Nazemian and Stewart O'Nan said their works were part of a dataset of about 196,640 books that helped train NeMo to simulate ordinary written language, before being taken down in October "due to reported copyright infringement."
They are seeking unspecified damages for people in the United States whose copyrighted works helped train NeMo's so-called large language models in the last three years.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-is-sued-by-authors...
Yes, in some cases, eg. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46364121
I think they meant "viable" instead of "available"
Installing cameras to control/monitor your spouse is definitely abusive behavior.
It automatically unlinks the desktop app if you don't open it for 30 days.
There is now at least a reminder on the phone app that will prompt you a few days before one of your desktop apps is about to get unlinked.
The grand jury did not indict in this case.
Sure, there might be cases beyond their control - but in general if I pay them to provide a service and they fail to deliver, I think my annoyance is justified.
If they are busy counting their profits instead of focusing on providing a safe, reliable service, then I think it's reasonable to be angry with them.
I feel like the additional unstated context is that nothing has changed.
Power outages are still a common threat, it's just that now they are caused by the power companies under the guise of wildfire prevention.
I don't care if my power goes out because of lack of supply or because you didn't maintain the transmission lines properly - the result is the same - I'm angry.
https://nmsceefax.co.uk/ for a live browser-based example.
Here's dang's explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308
Moderators and a small number of reviewers go through old submissions looking for articles that are in the spirit of the site—gratifying intellectual curiosity—and which seem like they might interest the community. These get put into a hopper from which software randomly picks one every so often and lobs it randomly onto the lower part of the front page.
I'm surprised this didn't get more traction - hopefully it makes it into the 2nd chance queue
She's not alone - here's an example (from today!) of an HN user using WiFi to mean cellular/mobile data
The problem is that the user experience is not "oops, I accidentally flagged an article, I should go unflag it."
The experience is more like "I clicked on a link to an article, but instead of loading the article, the HN page just reloaded. Now I have to scroll down to find it again... Hmm.. Where is it? Maybe it's moved to a different page...? What was I even looking for again? Oh well"
Probably related to RFK claims.
Eg https://www.npr.org/2025/06/19/nx-s1-5405595/claims-that-see...
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and others have said that seed oils are poisoning Americans. The medical community mostly rejects those claims, but they are causing problems for farmers.
*.fbi.comFairly misleading title.
You can still share with other members of your household. (one other adult and up to 4 children)
One hundred million dollars? My yacht cost more than that...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BNE_(artist)
BNE is an anonymous graffiti artist known for stickers that read "BNE" or "BNE was here". The artist has left their mark in countries throughout the world, including the United States, Canada, Asia, Romania, Australia, Europe, and South America. "His accent and knowledge of local artists suggest he is from New York."
CEOs are given money to make them feel important.
They are given stock awards to encourage them to improve the value of the business.
How hard they work is irrelevant.
You have misinterpreted GP's "better than what I would do" as "better than what I could do".
I 100% agree that today expecting average parents to manage DNS is unreasonable. My point is that sites need to provide some sort of consistent way for inappropriate content to be identified, then software will evolve to make it easy for non-technical parents to apply the restrictions.
You are definitely not alone.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chatgpt-chatbot-psychology-manic...
Irwin, a 30-year-old man on the autism spectrum who had no previous diagnoses of mental illness, had asked ChatGPT to find flaws with his amateur theory on faster-than-light travel. He became convinced he had made a stunning scientific breakthrough. When Irwin questioned the chatbot’s validation of his ideas, the bot encouraged him, telling him his theory was sound. And when Irwin showed signs of psychological distress, ChatGPT assured him he was fine.
He wasn’t.
Some sites (eg Google) offer child friendly versions where safe search is enforced, by accessing the site using a different set of IPs. Some DNS providers (eg Cloudflare 1.1.1.3) automatically resolve to those safe IPs when available.
The government should require sites with "unsafe" content to make "safe" versions available (eg force safe mode, readonly, no signup). Sites that are wholly inappropriate for children should self-report so they can be made unresolvable by child-safe DNS.
I'm not saying this specific implementation is the one true way, there's alternatives and ways to work around it. My real point is that the government should have forced sites to implement a consistent method of enforcing child safe mode, that can be easily set in a blanket fashion by the parent.
I'm sure whatever approach will be "too technical" for many parents at first, but once a consistent safe-mode method becomes clear, I'm sure UIs and parental controls will evolve to make it easy to enable.
Just seconding a vote for Utopia (2014), and also its (better!) predecessor The Hollowmen (2008).