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I agree that this behavior is insane and should be fixed. Do however note that it is possible to install another keyboard on iOS, which may alleviate your suffering before you swit…

Yes, and RFK Jr. says certain vaccines have never worked. I guess what I want to convey is how sad your comment makes me. What went wrong that makes you, and anyone really, trust t…

Among theoretical physicists there is little doubt that Edward Witten is currently the greatest living theoretical physicist. Here is an interview with him from a few weeks ago: ht…

> I really miss Google Inbox I very much agree. Also really miss the ability to quickly group related emails. (And no, that was not the same as adding a label; for one, the whole g…

The article is just generally sloppy. > .. my recent trip from Abu Dhabi to LA. 24 hours door-to-door. We have the technology to reduce that to under 10. The direct flight (by Emir…

good train > plane > bad train

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> Factoring becoming a reasonable benchmark is strongly related to quantum computing becoming useful. Either this relation is not that strong, or factoring should "imminently" beco…

I am confused, since even factoring 21 is apparently so difficult that it "isn’t yet a good benchmark for tracking the progress of quantum computers." [0] So the "useful quantum co…

> what is this new style of writing Congratulation, you are now able to recognize an AI-generated text. (As of December 2025 at least, who knows what they will look like next month…

Since May 2024 he isn't actively trying anything at all.

I made a related comment about two years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38255476

Frankly I am so tired of this whole branch of research where people try to be foundational about "quantum theory" but at the same time boil it down to qubits, gates, bell tests and…

> Paris' Mordor: Châtelet. "Worst of all, the air was full of fumes; breathing was painful and difficult, and a dizziness came on them, so that they staggered and often fell. And y…

I think you misread my comment. Did the CEOs of Google or Microsoft hire former ministers from India as strategic advisors, or make unprecedented and eyebrow-raising investments in…

I agree that a relocation might not happen, but the increasing Frenchification of ASML after their CEO became French does smell a little off.

Yes, and the footnote also says that "this metric is age-standardized". I did not easily find an explanation of what that means, which made me distrustful of the data. Fortunately,…

> the collapse of publicly funded science This is preposterous. You are completely forgetting that there are actual groups of humans, people who know and respect each other, coming…

Cool. You would of course end up negatively charged yourself and therefore quite strongly attracted to the black hole. So I would recommend moving your civilization to a Dyson sphe…

I am very interested in moving my photos and data to a self-hosted solution but am a little anxious about backups. Do you simply trust hetzner to not lose the data on your 1TB stor…

One important factor is that the critics score is binary in a sense: if all critics agree that the movie was "passable but not great" then Rotten Tomatoes still gives it a 100% cri…

Good question. You are absolutely right that entropy is always fundamentally a way to describe are our lack of perfect knowledge of the system [0]. Nevertheless there is a distinct…

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> The next day the first thing I did was walk to the nearest ATM and withdraw several hundred euros, and I bought a bunch of water. That is a very good idea for everyone. Putting t…

'massive' -- by which standards? It is high time we got used to companies being fined a reasonable fraction of their revenue. And TikTok's global revenue last year alone was estima…