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falsandtru··on Why quantum entanglement doesn't allow faster-than-light communication (2016)
Transmission speed limit of quantum entanglement:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39865641

falsandtru··on Fiber-optic data transfer speeds hit a rapid 301 Tbps
The latest world record is updated to 378.9 Tbps by the same research group. Probably not yet published in English.

https://www.nict.go.jp/press/2024/03/29-1.html

falsandtru··on Claim: Private GitHub repos included in AI dataset
Is there any other good service for enterprise development?
falsandtru··on DARPA to launch efforts that will bolster defenses against manipulated media
That's not what I mean. Well, it probably was not translated well.
falsandtru··on DARPA to launch efforts that will bolster defenses against manipulated media
It means that it is malicious to replace the title with what would have been the subheading because it looks like a clickbait title. Subheadings do not mean that anything can be changed into a title if it is a subheading. The fact is that this thread is now occupied by a discussion of bike yards that has nothing to do with technology.
falsandtru··on DARPA to launch efforts that will bolster defenses against manipulated media
The original title is "Deepfake Defense Tech Ready for Commercialization, Transition" but has been changed to "DARPA to launch efforts that will bolster defenses against manipulated media". The changed title is unnecessarily unsettling and misleading. I don't want to see the title changed to a clickbait title like a lowbrow gossip magazine would give it.
falsandtru··on Algorithms for Modern Hardware
> Sometimes I think about how much money people would pay to make their computer run 20x faster.

Bottlenecks that can make a computer 20x faster are very rare. First, pay $1m for a specialist to find the bottlenecks. However, it is even rarer that it is a bottleneck of the entire service. Rather, it is more likely to be an accidental drop in performance. Thus, basically performance monitoring is the best use of money.

> Its weird to me that we'll pay thousands of dollars for faster CPUs then write new software in python, electron or a docker container running in a VM.

There are more labor costs and lost commercial opportunities due to delays in development.

falsandtru··on Boeing whistleblower found dead in US
The required explanation is unnecessarily unreadable, so I explain it again.

As I wrote in my other comment, I meant the article as it relates to technology. My original comment is hidden below so I explain it again here. The safety of the environment surrounding engineers is a serious concern of engineers. Note that even if it is a suicide, it is still a safety problem of the environment surrounding engineers. Since it is Boeing that pressured him until he committed suicide.

So I wrote "concerning safety culture of engineers". Your interpretation is a complete misunderstanding. At least the points voted on my above comment indicate that your interpretation is not the majority. Hence, thanks to the many supporters, my above comment received many votes and was moved to this thread and this thread was eventually returned to the top page.

We must not remain ignorant or indifferent to unsafe working environments.

falsandtru··on Boeing whistleblower found dead in US
It wasn't. The downvote told me that here is the place to be careful about saying thank you. Well, those who downvote against thank you will downvote anything.
falsandtru··on Boeing whistleblower found dead in US
I don't want to argue about what to call it. I just confirmed the fact that the text that was deleted and made unreadable is back to readable. Still, I'm surprised that comments are sometimes hidden from even being present here.
falsandtru··on Boeing whistleblower found dead in US
So what is the avoided moderation and the failures of the upvoting system? Your rebuttal has too many irrelevant new arguments.

All I am saying here is that if some statements can't be read, others can't read the argument. An argument where others can't read one side's statements is not an equal argument. You must at least be able to make every comment you have conversed with readable. Otherwise it is just your speech.

falsandtru··on Boeing whistleblower found dead in US
I don't know why you start making such belated arguments but the upvotes for that comment indicate that it was much more helpful to the viewer than flagging it to make it unreadable. And it does not avoid any moderation. What moderation was done? Here the flag serves only as censorship. It lacks objectivity and impartiality. Most people can't read what was written, they can only read your argument.
falsandtru··on Boeing whistleblower found dead in US
I don't know why you expect people will find your old comment.
falsandtru··on Boeing whistleblower found dead in US
No, the presence of the function is not evidence that something is due to that function or the absence of other functions. Many people blindly believe only the speculations that support them and it is unfortunate that much easy confirmation bias believing this misunderstanding has also been observed here due to my not explaining it right away.
falsandtru··on Boeing whistleblower found dead in US
Knowledge alone is enough to say thank you. There would be no need to be so careful in saying a simple thank you.
falsandtru··on Key Boeing Whistleblower Found Dead from Apparent Suicide
> Comments moved thither. Thanks!

You are welcome. It would have been better if you would have respected the order of the comments.

falsandtru··on Boeing whistleblower found dead in US
> Once I unkilled it, it went back from [flagged][dead] to just [flagged], and it went back to being visible to everyone whether they are logged in or not, or have 'showdead' turned on or not.

In other words, you resurrected the deleted text. I just hope this conversation will not be deleted/flagged again and become unreadable.

falsandtru··on Boeing whistleblower found dead in US
When I logged out, last time it was replaced by flagged on Chrome and I couldn't read the text, but now I can, even though it's still flagged. Now there is a strange thing. Why are the other flagged comments still replaced with flagged? Your moderation is too variable.

> I unkilled your comment when I posted my last reply.

This?

falsandtru··on Boeing whistleblower found dead in US
> Nothing was deleted. We never delete a comment, except when the author asks us to.

I have confirmed that the text of the comment has been replaced by [flagged] and is no longer readable. It's just sophistry to say that the text was only deleted and the comment was not deleted.

falsandtru··on Boeing whistleblower found dead in US
The previous comment was deleted as expected. You will surely say that you have nothing to do with it.

> This comment was, even though it has 8 points, moved from the top of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39674829 to the lowest level here below 0 points. The order of comments in the original thread has also been reversed. It has to be said that this is a m...dishonest cover-up. Probably the most importantly for HN users, it proves that the order of comments can be changed by the moderators, not by the order of points. For example, the same operation could be performed in the same thread to produce the same result. This neatly matches the strange behavior often seen on HN. Oh, this comment may be deleted for going too deep.

> Also, with this move, the shadowban to this thread has been lifted and this thread is now back on the top page. The previous ranking was page 3.

falsandtru··on Boeing whistleblower found dead in US
Users have now expressed interest totaling over 350 points in several hours.
falsandtru··on Boeing whistleblower found dead in US
Hm, this thread once again slid down the top page at an alarming rate, even though the safety of the environment surrounding engineers is a serious concern of engineers. Hacker News is surprisingly dismissive of user interests and votes.

Note that even if it is a suicide, it is still a safety problem of the environment surrounding engineers. Since it is Boeing that pressured him until he committed suicide.

falsandtru··on Key Boeing Whistleblower Found Dead from Apparent Suicide
BBC: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39673589
falsandtru··on Boeing whistleblower found dead in US
Is the political safety of the United States on the same level as that of Russia?
falsandtru··on Boeing whistleblower found dead in US
Hacker News is extremely strongly manipulated. What users see as popularity order is actually the order manipulated to the moderators' liking.

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#behavi...

I believe this is a good technical article for HN concerning safety culture of engineers, but moderators didn't think so.

falsandtru··on Show HN: Timelock.dev – Send a secret into the future using timelock encryption
Reading the cited Cloudflare blog, it seems that the main purpose of this technology is public randomness, and timelock is one of its applications. Since timelock is not the essence of this technology, it is not surprising that the usefulness of timelock is unclear.

> it’s become a reliable and production-ready core Internet service, relied upon by applications ranging from distributed file storage to online gaming to timestamped proofs to timelock encryption

Details: https://drand.love/docs/timelock-encryption/

Thread on the cited Cloudflare blog: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39641475

falsandtru··on Compression efficiency with shared dictionaries in Chrome
Doesn't the fact that resources send different data mean that SRI(Subresource Integrity) checks cannot be performed? As for fingerprinting, it would not be a problem since it is the same as with Etag.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subres...

falsandtru··on Postgres as queue
FDB, a distributed DB, would be superior if complete order is not required.

https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/queues.html

falsandtru··on True LRU: LRU is false
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falsandtru··on Go 1.22
They just keep adding new features for fear of losing their position because they can't decorate the release notes. MS doesn't give high marks for bug fixes. Thus the bugs keep growing.
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