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It's possible to simulate the time-evolution of the electron density using the time-dependent Schrodinger equation. That said, if the initial state is chosen to be an eigenfunction of the Hamiltonian (read: any of the things being plotted on this page), there will be no time dependence -- the electron density will remain static. However, if the initial state is chosen as a superposition of states (read: any configuration that is not given by the square amplitude of an eigenfunction of the Hamiltonian), you can simulate the time evolution.
I didn't interpret the OP to mean slow from an "application performance" perspective - instead, as slow from a "process" perspective.

The ticket needs to be filed in the right queue. It needs the "right" tags. It needs to traverse the "approved" workflow correctly. It didn't get assigned to the right epic. etc, etc, etc.

It's all of that - the process built up over time, in response to organic needs - that makes things "slow" and drives such a rejection of these tools by developers and their teams. We (collectively) rarely step back and say "what process can we cut?" - only when we use a new tool do we have the chance to address that.
It is not clear to me that contact details will be required, the government message last weekend was that "pubs should keep a list ...", not that "pubs must keep a list ...", and there is nothing that I have found that states that this is a legal requirement. Perhaps you have more up-to-date information?
It's really hard. In college I worked on an engineering team that competed in a robotics competition. I realize that the camaraderie and shared mission gave me tremendous energy. Working on my own stuff now, when I am frustrated their is nobody to commiserate and nobody who cares if I fail/succeed other than myself. It's a different world and I haven't figured it out yet.
The problem with the unqualified "per million hours of living" is that sky diving doesn't kill more people than passenger cars.

It must be "fatalities from X during Y", and that makes sense when X and Y are the same thing (e.g. sky diving), but it seems like X and Y diverge in some of these entries.
That just underlines the point. Second-hand American school buses can be put to great use... in a different country... but something prevents using the same solution in USA.
Every YouTube ad you’ve seen has a client who at least wants their ads to look as good as a James Cameron movie.
I moved some of the articles to my own static blog. This experience was actually the inspiration for the project I'm working on. See my profile for links.
I don't know. There was that point right after society became aware of COVID that everyone was imagining pulling together for the common good, before the political machine grabbed the crisis and performed the all-too-American response of corporate bailouts coupled with tough luck for everyone else. I can only imagine they got caught up in that feeling, and thought everyone being stuck at home would be a good time to demonstrate the regressiveness of copyright. Unfortunately copyright infringement doesn't have equitable punishments like actual property crime but rather is playing with fire. If they had thought ahead, they could have pulled a similar stunt but with definite inventories of books sitting on the shelves of closed libraries. Alas.
> Eric Migicovsky

Is this the Eric of Pebble fame? I have a lot of warm feelings here, I actually still wear one. :)

While I prefer open communication protocols and clients, the reality seems to be the world has sadly moved on from this. Hopefully Nova will be of as high quality as Pebble was.

Good luck!
I have a Samsung Smart TV and they keep adding Facebook Video and CBS All Access apps to the "Recently Used" apps menu. I've never even launched these apps. Ever. And as an "added benefit" to customers, these apps cannot be deleted nor can you prevent them from being pushed in your face. Totally infuriating. As such my future TVs will not be Samsung.
Just some feedback, but I would consider doing a free tier for open source projects which would get your the coverage and in turn the adoption you need. You need to win developers over who in turn influence tool procurements.
It started as a memcached with persistence to disk for fast startup.
> As reported by Chris Mellor of Blocks and Files, Fujifilm points to using Strontium Ferrite grains in order to enable an areal data density on tape of 224 Gbit-per-square-inch, which would enable 400 TB drives.

What keeps us from applying similar tech to HDD?
Not to defend the judge in that case in any way, but there is a question about whether/when it is OK or even desirable for judges to intervene "indirectly" with their power. For example (just an example, not suggesting this is how it was), suppose in the case you mention that the mother was suspected of being abusive or negligent, but that a prosecutable case couldn't be made for that, and that the traffic tickets were used merely as a guise for the sentencing. If that were the case, I don't think judges actions would seem quite so harsh, and might even seem appropriate (it doesn't require a massive stretch of the imagination to think of a case where this is true).

And no matter the reasoning (or lack of it), the fallout of this (where the kids are harmed/molested in foster care) is hard to attribute to the judge. If the mother had been a serious threat to the children and the judge had sentenced her based on truly unquestionable reasons, they still might have met the same fate in foster care. As part of the legal system, the judge basically has to have complete confidence in the integrity of the foster care system (and it isn't his job to ensure that integrity).
That's a slogan I hear a lot. Unfortunately, the law disagrees. Copyright infringement is defined as a stolen property offense:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/part-I/chapter-11...
Selling surveillance tech in the face of a civil rights movement
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All branches actually. You do not see politicians nor police officers often charged with the crimes that they commuted.
One question I like to ask in conversations about aphantasia: when you do relatively complex arithmetic in your head (for instance, compute 47 * 68 real quick), do you visually perform the gradeschool multiplication algorithm? Or something else?

I've surveyed a lot of people on this - probably forty or so in person, plus another 100 or so in a poll on reddit once - and there's a pretty clear trend: people who perform the visual algorithm tend to be 'not math people', and are less accurate and less confident in their answer, or not even willing to try.

I'm aphantasiac and I can do a calculation like that fairly quickly and accurately, without any special practice. I basically use my verbal memory to store and recall cached computations instead of any visualization. My theory is that the visual brain is not really designed for storing precise information so much as the gestalt of an image, so it does less well on precise numeric details.
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>On Monday, Reddit — a site that for years was considered one of the internet’s dirtiest sludge pits

How sheltered is the NYT tech columnist if he thinks Reddit is one of the internet's dirtiest sludge pits? Daily Stormer? Gab? Voat? Various Chans?
> Having a dishwasher and clothes washer and dryer can mean the difference between having time to work and not. Labor-saving devices bought on loan make perfect sense to me. From my perspective it's funny that you give yourself permission to buy a car on credit since to a car-free person that's nuts, but to a person who needs a car to access their place of work it's obviously sensible.

If buying on credit or going without were the only choices, I'd agree with you in a heart-beat. But they aren't. You can get a decent, running washer/ dryer on craigslist for about $150 each. Dishwashers are even less. Buying new and financing is going to cost someone $40-60/ month for 2+ years which is a pretty big burden for someone who is struggling.

> From my perspective it's funny that you give yourself permission to buy a car

I'd love to be car free, it's a great choice if you are urban, but we've lived semi-rural for quite a while.

Also, since I almost always keep cars for well past the end of the loan (or in some cases bought used for cash) I usually don't have a car payment.
That is what Hololens 2, Magic Leap, and some other products are. These are "cool" but have not set the world on fire in terms of product-market fix.

If you are building an AR system there is always an awkward balance between "letting the environment shine through" and "having projected items be bright enough to be visible". If you put something black in front of the holograms at least now you have just one problem instead of two problems.
This thread started in response to a hate speech rule that allowed hate speech towards the [white] “majority” population. This is explicitly racial discrimination. I read everything you wrote as a response to that initial topic. If you merely meant to discuss your preferred definition of racism, I think a different thread would have better conveyed that.
> JIRA cloud was unusably slow and as a result we didn’t want to use the tool. We hated it even though it technically “worked”.

- every JIRA customer ever
> due to moderator preference for "not talking politics".

There's no such preference. What made you think there was?

The question of political topics on HN is a hard one because some political stories are on topic, some are off topic, and even the on-topic ones tend to turn into flamewars. I've written a lot about how we approach this: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... Some good threads to start with might be https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21607844 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22902396. Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869, which shows how far back political discussion goes on HN, as well as the argument about politics on HN.

If anyone reads those explanations and still has a question that isn't answered there, I'd like to know what it is.
330 TBs cartridges from Sony (2017)

https://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/News/Press/201708/17-070E/
No. Servers will be utilizing jet-sounding fans, or air conditioned intake, or rack-level water cooling, or any number of other cooling solutions that can handle high the heat output.

250W is not an absurd figure to shove in a server CPU. If you're buying an 80-core CPU, you're not going to be skimping on the cooling solution.

Especially given the target market for Ampere is cloud providers, you can expect these to be racked in enclosures that provide sufficient cooling for their operational needs.
I think a system that supported refactoring arguments would be interesting and useful. Like, turn the tree into a DAG, sort of.
That is a nice "just so" story that simply doesn't fit the facts.

Europe had many points in its history where labor was dear. For example wages went up after the Black Death because so many workers had died. Why did the Industrial Revolution not happen then?

Where and when it did happen, the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Agricultural_Revolutio... preceded it. Meaning that lots of laborers were displaced from fields (particularly due to enclosures) and forced to move to cities. This lead to an excess of labor in the cities, not a shortage.

The evidence is rather better that the progress of science and technology simply hit an inflection point with the invention of things like the steam engine (factories could be put anywhere) and the spinning jenny (machines could make cloth far cheaper than it had been). In a society which already had a free market bent (it was not an accident that The Wealth of Nations came out of the same time and place), these things were seized upon, imitated, and further innovations proceeded apace.

The spread of the Industrial Revolution afterwards was dependent upon the spread of the necessary skills, the investment of capital, and the building of supply chains. Which meant that what started in England spread to places in closest contact with her. Namely the United Stated and Continental Europe. And then only slowly spread elsewhere.
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There's absolutely nothing wrong with him not wanting to be a software maintainer. I don't want to be either, and I'm not even a programmer.

But there is DEFINITELY something wrong with the fact that, seemingly, NOBODY wants to be a software maintainer.
it's (mostly) open source, actually: https://gitlab.com/nova
Your philosophical musings are not uninteresting, but they are irrelevant to the fact that violating copyright is defined as stealing property under US law.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/part-I/chapter-11...
This theory (known in literature as ‘risk compensation theory’) has been debunked. See some references here: https://twitter.com/whitequark/status/1264486505168482304
This separation of layers nonsense is only something that’s been proposed to cover up flaws in the core protocol. The original paper didn’t envision a store of value, but rather a means of daily transactions
Towards an API for the Real Numbers
It may not be exactly what you had in mind, but poetry and metaphor.

I was a CS major with a Creative Writing minor. I picked the minor as an escape from CS but over the course of my career as a developer it has been some of my most useful time spent. When I was trying to write about a thing in terms of another thing (or reading other people's much better attempts) I would look at the lower level similarities and mess around trying to make the metaphor as tight as possible. Along with that, both writing code and creatively are mostly about constant revision. So both interests kind of played off each other reinforcing that process.
I don't think it's so much comprehension that suffers. I comprehend, but...

I have no strong concept of the sensory world of the text. I have a very, very vague impression of what a character looks like. I'm prone to forget explicit features that the author bothered describing because there's no durable image to factor them into.

I notice some people have strong reactions to casting calls in movie adaptations of novels. This objection is foreign to me; I had no strong image for it to conflict with.

I am more likely to find a turn of phrase beautiful for the words and sounds, than to have any sense that the thing it describes is beautiful.
Yes I know, I used email apps as an example because I've seen Apple say that email apps would be exempt from Sign in with Apple previously.
I have unfinished projects that I started in 1977.

Get off my lawn!
> Judges can't just decide to have random people sterilized

They can if someone petitions for it.

> The mother petitioned the court to have her minor daughter sterilized

And I can petition to have you sterilized. If the judge accepts it you will not be able to hold him responsible. He does not need to listen to you nor do you need to know about it.

> The general rule is that judges can't be held personally liable for mistakes they make when acting in their official capacity as judges.

Meanwhile doctors, drivers, etc can be held personally liable for mistakes they make while working.
>Is this a great thing? I'm not sure for the folks getting paid very little it is ...

It's not like the employees in big stores in the US, IKEA, B&B, Ashley, Home Depot, etc, all the way to Walmart and Amazon have it any better...
I would not expect this. One of the main points of removing the old way of doing extensions was to stop allowing extensions to arbitrarily modify the browser's UI, which was difficult to maintain.
we actually build an app to help with our sprint planning on top of their API.

You can read about it here >> https://blog.getcensus.com/building-spatial-interface-for-sp...
Oh. That is a massive change over the last 6 months. Okay, they're much closer now.
This is exactly the functionality I want from a chat client, and have been unable to find.

But it’s Electron. Pass.

(Unless I find time to go figure out if it can be used with other Matrix clients…)
and github.
I do the same, glad to know there are others!

I don't read as much as I used to anymore, but I listen to podcasts. Pick a subject of even mild interest to me, add a dozen podcasts on the topic. Listen to a few episodes from each podcast and delete the ones that I don't like (for whatever reason). Over a period of time, one ends up with a few podcasts that are thoroughly enjoyable.

There are people who read/listen to extreme views on topics (raw food vs meat, left vs right wing politics, yoga vs weights etc).
I agree with you that failure to pay traffic tickets is hardly grounds for that sentence, and that it would in fact be stupid if those were the grounds. And that is exactly why it is a pretty uncharitable initial interpretation of what happened. There are always publicly cited "endorsable" reasons that must conform to the law, and then there are the underlying messy reasons that actually motivate the decision. It fits in a similar murky category as "prosecutorial discretion"
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I have a rough time understanding why I'd pick this over the issue tracker integrated with my source control. I get that it can sync with GitHub or GitLab (Does it sync the issue text/comments such that GitHub users can comment on the issues? Are the issues on both sides using the same numbering? In this case, is Linear just a GitHub issues client?) but I imagine I am losing out on any given feature that my source control adds for issue integration, at least until Linear also does it.

Basically, I feel like you need to sell me a lot more on why I should use Linear over GitHub Issues, and how the benefits outweigh the added complexity of going two places.
Yes, it seems pretty close to what I get by default, although I don't particularly pursue it (I hear it makes for lower quality sleep, and being narcoleptic I can't afford any lower quality, heh).

I do have a certain degree of autonomy while in the dreams. I usually do what I want to do and go where I want to go, even if the results aren't exactly logical at times. I particularly like to admire certain architectural elements that are slightly off or non-euclidean. Most of the weirdness comes from stuff that is slightly off, houses with too many rooms, places with too many floors or unusual layouts or lighting, or stuff like a 1:1 recreation of a real street but it leads to different or entirely new places. My brain seems to put a lot of emphasis in stuff like structure and lighting. I wonder what that says about me as a person.

Not gonna lie, I enjoy the stuff a lot. Only problem is that it's too random and can range from incredible to ridiculously mundane and normal, so I don't quite take dream exploring as a thing. If the opportunity presents itself I'll milk it for all it's worth though, both from enjoying the dream and from whatever creative material I can take for myself.
> anti-Putin hysteria

Interesting wording. Russia used to scare me in the context of nuclear war, but the fact that Putin's influence is now controlling Trump and the GOP (and elsewhere), I feel rightfully frightened.
Throwing around words like "unusable" for a design change that, although you don't like it, millions of people are using successfully doesn't do much for your credibility.

Firefox is developed pretty much "in the open"; you and others are welcome to engage in reasonable discussion about UI (and functional) issues, and make your case for or against a given change. But if you're just going to label it "unusable", I suspect you'll find it hard to be taken seriously.
Living in Sweden in 2017 was eye-opening for me. There were massive counter neo-nazi protests in Gothenburg, basically shutting down the city. But no English-language newspapers even mentioned it. Every American protest is breathlessly covered by the international media, but not this huge protest in Sweden. I came back to the United States realizing that you can't measure the degree of a problem by the degree of news media coverage.
> EFF is on the wrong side of both the law and common sense here and they will lose no matter how much they pay their legal team.

I don't understand how people have such certainty about this.

You have a situation where there are libraries who have bought millions of books from authors/publishers. The authors have been paid. Then, there is a pandemic and the libraries are closed, so the public has lost access to all the books they've paid for.

Giving them back access to the books they've paid for is obviously wrong? They're definitely going to lose?

It would be one thing if they had lent out more books than existed in all of the closed libraries, but is there any evidence that this is the case? That seems quite implausible, considering the massive number of books that have been paid for in all of those libraries.
Not the intended purpose but I've been using Linear for a personal project of mine (stocks-related iOS app to learn iOS dev) and it's been so much fun to use compare to the JIRA I use at work all day.
The problem is that drugs can hack the brain, turning intelligent people into yes & more zombies. Drugs are.. In a way capitalism short circuited. Those opposing this, are usually concerned with the dividend they expect from classic capitalism. Kids, career, a surplus in the weak parts of life..
Which seems kind of reasonable until the ceiling of the world caves in. So suddenrreverse of policy, free drugs for the poor are okay now.
I haven't noticed JIRA cloud being that slow, but maybe that's because the team is small.

Did you start to experience performance issues as team size increased? Did you have a lot of issues or data held in the issues? Or was there another issue that you think led to the slowness?

I'm interested in your insights as we went with JIRA initially, since it was pretty much the gold standard and we thought it would scale nicely as we added team members, but if it is not going to do so, then it may not be worth the JIRA premium.
Lockdown Burnout
We're a JIRA customer and we're quite happy. It's not slow, at least to any degree that matters.

We're not a huge team, nor do use much more than tickets with FishEye integration though. We also have a self-hosted instance.

But for us it has worked quite well, and I have better memories of JIRA than say MantisBT which I used before.
That's fine, and there are probably some would-be HN comedians who haven't heard the news about this yet, but meta-discussion is really boring. This is the last thing I'll post in this thread, and I won't be surprised if it gets downvoted to oblivion.
The download page says only macOS is currently supported. Electron supports Windows and Linux quite well - any ETA on when you will be adding these platforms?
All issue trackers can be placed on a spectrum: one end is occupied by very fast and very simple apps, another by complex and flexible ones.

Fast ones win in the ease of creation of an issue (just type and hit enter), and generally feel more sexy and attractive, but complex ones can be set up to the exact workflow you need.

For example, Google tasks or now-dead service do.com by Salesforce clearly belong to 'easy' end, and software like Redmine to 'complex' (though it can be made to look rather attractive by the use of skins).

For us, we're sticking to redmine, because it is good and very extendable by the use of plugins. We've found that ease of use does not cover for the reduced flexibility.