skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now maybe I'll get some backlash for this, but I can't square this attitude I hear again and again:

> Hyper-growth at any cost was out of the question, because it incentivizes profit over purpose and extractive practices toward users.

If you believe, in your heart of hearts, that growth and profitability come _only at the expense of your customers_, then the chance of creating a successful enterprise is zero percent. Maybe it's a lie we tell ourselves, maybe it's the core foundation of capitalism, who knows: but you _have_ to believe customers are giving you their money because they want what you're selling - not because you're tricking them. You can believe SUCCESSFUL_COMPANY practices "extractive practices toward users", but clearly SUCCESSFUL_COMPANY doesn't believe that, and most likely their paying customers don't either.

I really love so much about the entrepreneurial world, and I'm glad we've all walked back on the "hyper growth at all costs" mentality, but in both my generation and the newer one, this vein of "making money means doing bad things" runs deep. It genuinely depresses me. If there are only two worlds, the wolf-of-wallstreet world and and the "hey man, money is evil, okay?" world, I hate to say it, but I'll be putting on my blazer.
Best of luck. having my skepticism disproved by the QC folks woudl be a major win, but it's not something I'd spend my time on. I think it makes more sense to improve existing codes to run as fast as possible on the biggest supercomputers we have, although even that isn't super useful because, as far as I can tell, better chemical simulations don't lead to better applied science in the field of chemistry.
My antivirus client won't let me open that second link, claims some kind of malicious activity, didn't look into the details.
Yugoslavia deserves an honorable mention on your list.
I am aware of about:kitchensink and related config from the mozilla codebase. I've used about:config on desktop many, many times.

Blaming the user isn't the best path to ADUs. Brave's settings have many options and I wasn't sure which one would disable in-app advertisements. I think it is "Brave Rewards".
> But how would you study abstract math without those abstractions?

I'm not saying you would, I'm just saying the abstractions are directly related to why its harder.

> since you still want those explanations, but they stop existing after a point.

You're misunderstanding me.

> The next step is to remove everything concrete about it and just study abstractions. And then you start studying abstractions of those abstractions, hence "abstract nonsense". Maybe sometimes in the future someone will invent abstractions of those.

Yes, I understand all this. I have the textbooks and I've read parts of them. The reason I didn't study math more seriously (I considered it) is because I realized I didn't have the brain for it and am not that interested in studying really abstract stuff.
Reminds me of computing history with vacuum tube computers the size of a room. Even if the actual hardware isn't practical today, the lessons learned will still apply in the future.
Not really. For this particular device they are laying out the physical qubits in some geometric lattice constrained by where they can put traces for microwave inductors and capacitors, and it just happens that this is the convenient size at which to try to build the lattice.
> It highlights that the true business driver is that personal interconnectedness: author's friend had good relationships with both restaurant managers and drivers. This is what has allowed an MVP to be successful, not the kludgy "product".

Exactly! It feels like the article draws exactly the wrong conclusion. They were able to succeed _in spite_ of having a crude application because the relationships trumped. Know your customer, have an audience, all that stuff that you hear all the time.
I have built two six-digit Nixie clocks with Z5660M tubes, which I bought as "new old stock" - likely unused - for about 50€ per piece over 10 years ago. Both of these clocks have been running non-stop since then, and they are still going strong after more than 86.000 hours of operation, with negligible loss of brightness. They are still readable in anything but direct, full-brightness sunlight, and illuminate the room nicely by night.

I guess the flash memory of the Atmel microcontroller running the clock logic will lose its contents before the tubes eventually wear out.
I view NFT as a technology that might one day find its particular true-niche use-case years from now...especially NFT's whose data are encoded into the blockchain itself.
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It might be the case, like with deep learning, that something that doesn't seem useful becomes so when it can be applied at scale. If on-chain NFT's can practically start containing large sized data buckets without resorting to external links,
In the type of things that Javascript considers 'numbers', it's a value used to indicate that it's not of the type of things that math considers 'numbers'.
I hate a lot of the new paradigms with passwords. This includes things like letting you sign up for an account and placing you in an in-between state until your email is verified (with no indication this is the case until you check your email). Or moving login password entry to a separate screen from entering the username.
sure, they just have to hope the north cascades highway is open when the snow-levels are already lowering from these storms. Usually that highway is closed during the winter season
This is a "push notification" style in-app message that I am calling an "Ad". I don't know what the correct terminology is within Brave's chrome.
No it isn't. If you lose your phone you are in for a world of hurt, let alone all the various ways there are to intercept/redirect SMS messages and/or entire mobile accounts. To say nothing of the fact that internet access is not yet globally ubiquitous, or if you forget to pay your bill, or all these other possibilities.

A proper OTP app works offline, and more than one of them can exist for any given authentication, so you can have backups if your phone is stolen.
You could even say it's like a zombie, with the potential of turning more of the currently "living" satellites into more of its own, eq. to more rapidly expanding debris clouds.
Wouldn't it make sense then to marry someone with a similar socioeconomic status? Or if divorce is skewed against men, only pursue women who make more than you?

Marriage as legal entity was created as a result of women being more or less their father's property.
Usually, when you change your password, you have to enter your old password. With both plaintexts, the check is trivial.

It also means it should be possible to bypass that by changing the password twice or by "forgetting" your old password.

Another possibility is that they simply lie to you and the rule that is actually checked is much more permissive. I've often seen requirements that are not actually checked
I really struggle to see how most DAOs and cryptocurrency efforts aren't mostly just ways to skirt around existing financial security laws.

For example, could organizations give stocks/shares/tokens/choose-your-security-name to users of a platform in the current (US) legal environment? I don't have the legal background to know. Can they sell private securities to any user? I think no because it would go against accredited investor laws. Also, I think if they're selling to an open public, it might violate SEC laws by being a public security, not a private security, unless they also reported truthfully about risks, etc., to the SEC.

So what if the law got rid of the accredited investor requirement? Or got rid of the reporting requirements for public vs private securities?

So I think one part is that companies aren't legally allowed to sell private shares to just any individual and if they do sell to any individual, they aren't legally allowed to not report to the SEC.

I think another part is that I wonder how many companies actually want more cooperative/democratic style ownership. Cooperatives (one member, one vote) have struggled to get investment because of that precise equality in decision making. [edit-added] And also, a more equal profit-sharing may not be in the interest of many people wanting to become the next unicorn billionaire.

So it makes me wonder how many of the orgs using DAOs are doing so because they want to become more equal cooperative-like orgs, and how many are doing so to skirt securities laws.
this. VRML != metaverse. A bad graphics layer essentially. Nothing to say really about multi-user scalability, performance, or really interactivity.

Even Carmack was disparaging at the time :

https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/24ueo9/carmacks_tho...
No it doesn't. Vast majority of the gas is through Trans Mountain from Alberta. Also, more than half of the oil that gets refined in Washington comes from an arm of the Trans-mountain pipeline, so also Alberta. 100% of the fuel used at the Vancouver airport also comes through trans-mountain.
Nowhere have I suggested that anyone wants SF to turn into Manhattan. That seems to be something you are reading into it.

The point is that when you compare the two, it be some clear that that even if you did turn SF info Manhattan, you might get a 10% reduction in prices.

A modest increase in density would have no appreciable impact.
That's kind of like saying, i'm tired of political news - if we all actually die in a nuclear holocaust armegedon it will be hard to miss.
“Competitors” sharing networks is such a Canadian tradition.

Just like 2 of our 3 big cellular companies (Bell and Telus) sharing a single network.
> Anecdata, but I have known quite a few excellent developers from bootcamp/self-taught backgrounds. I'm a bootcamp grad myself, and have done very well.

Every time Lambda is on the front-page there seems to be a new influx of accounts on the site.

> I'm curious what skills engineers use on the job that are taught well in university but are hard to pick up from experience?

Algorithmic complexity. "Don't roll out your own data structures" and "just use a library" works until it doesn't. Operating System fundamentals is another one.

It seems a lot of bootcamps teach with rote, rather than by looking at the underlying concepts. My favorite example is git. I've seen bootcamp grads claim they can use git, but what it really meant is that they memorized a few git commands and as long as they don't stray too fart from those they can sort of work using git. But cherry-picking, rebase, proper branching forget it.
Because the protections already exist. The existing same-origin policies already offer sufficient protections for "not having the browser commandeered". The only reason this exists is because bad _local network_ implementations are _common_, not that they cannot be made secure just like those on the Internet.

The example in the W3C doc (https://wicg.github.io/private-network-access/) to justify this is an instance of a broken server implementation. It's using a GET request to set some value even when GET should not have side effects. It's a common vulnerability but its totally the server's fault here.

If you have your pants down at home and someone happens to see you naked through your window, it's on you. The solution should be to close your curtains, not "make everyone wear glasses that automatically blur any open windows".
I don't see any demo here. Just one demo to show all strengths of the platform is still the fastest way to persuade user (like me), else i have many doubts and questions like, what it can do ? Can it do this ? How to do this things,...
You are welcome to your opinion of course but Github has become a pretty essential part of the workflow for many projects, closed and open source both. That it is possible to work around that doesn't diminish that, it's just how people are currently using it. I would have preferred a much more decentralized solution, I always thought it was a mistake that the git core left room enough for the likes of Github to establish themselves as gateways to various projects.
How many of those people have a PS5 ($400+, depending on edition), PS4 ($400 at launch) or some flavor of Xbox ($400 or so, depending on edition). I have friends who own multiple game consoles and don't consider it unrestrained opulence that owning a Garmin Inreach supposedly represents.
Where is the data hosted? Is it software to run it locally?
You're right, but extensions can also break when GNOME is updated. I'm personally more comfortable when the functionality is "baked into" or natively supported by the DE.
i have to say though, i do appreciate the well thought out, reasoned and mannerly post. you are very good at arguing your position, so, even though we ultimately disagree, much respect
I agree that one should take Searle's argument literally, and I doubt there are many people on either side who suppose that the room's operator understands either the questions being posed to the room or the answers it delivers. The dispute is whether there is anything significant in this assumption - and, more specifically, whether Searle is right in supposing that if Hard AI is possible, then it would follow that the room's operator must understand the questions, their answers, and why they are appropriate answers.

You may recognize that, by distinguishing between the operator and the room, I am prefiguring the so-called "systems reply", which is that the system as a whole is demonstrating whatever level of understanding is manifest here, and there is no assumption, in so supposing, that this understanding is manifest in any single component, even if one of those components has the ability to understand some things on its own. By deliberate construction, Searle is using the room's operator to mechanistically implement an algorithm, a task that does not require knowledge of the language in which the questions are posed (in fact, he is using the language barrier to prevent the operator answering the questions himself.) Searle has not presented an argument for the operator needing to do anything more, and it is obvious that people can be trained to perform tasks they do not have any understanding of beyond the specific actions involved.

Searle's attempt to refute this reply seems to show that he cannot even conceive it fully, as that response is to modify the scenario such that the operator memorizes the rule book, as if where it is stored makes any difference.

Searle's stance here seems to me to be a version of the homunculus fallacy, supposing that our minds are implemented by (as opposed to being) a conscious entity.
My advice for anyone going through a difficult time with a partner or anyone really would be to talk to a therapist. That is what they are there for.

You can only influence and change one person and that person is you. Focus on yourself. You are not responsible for anyone else's happiness.

There are some practical skills to learn too like the five secrets of communication.

But you don't have to suffer and take the stress. Is the relationship worth your heart attack?
Exploit-as-a-service: Cybercriminals exploring potential of leasing out zero-day
For professional needs? To enhance searchability or discoverability? For archiving? They enjoy it?

But they tend to come up with their own classification schemes.

The idea of a interoperable semantic web wasn't a bad one, there just was no real presentation layer for it, and no popular demand for it without one.

However Amazon, Spotify, libraries, etc. classify their stuff internally, to their eventual end-users, the data is transformed into a HTML or app frontend of their design. Users don't see the underlying classification schema, just the product pages or book search or whatever.

Sure, you could probably use XSLT to transform a semantic document into pretty HTML, but most companies went the other way of using custom code to read data and output unstructured markup, because it was easier and faster. HTML and JS "standards" evolved way quicker than RDF could keep up with.

Beyond that, had there been a web-wide search engine that could easily let you search by classifications, microdata might've been helpful. But that never became popular. Closest thing I know of is Wolfram Alpha, and that uses its own algorithms and classifications too.

shrug

What do you think?
dash-to-dock and dash-to-panel do that, I guess, but they are extra extensions, yes.
Very cool. You could simplify the tests by using testify [0] assertions and possibly a test suite. Then it'd be easier to add additional test cases.

[0] https://github.com/stretchr/testify
You're presumably in software, you should know major software upgrades take years and always longer than expected. Doubly so when it's already being used for millions of transactions daily. Triply so when you're altering the fundamental nature of the underlying protocol.

They have already released the first of three phases. It's live now. I currently have some ETH on the new Proof of Stake chain. Second phase (where they merge it with the rest of the network) got pushed back a few months recently, but it's still expected Q1/Q2 2022[1].

I see and expect this argument from people who aren't in software, who expect everything to happen perfectly and instantly. But you should have been involved in enough projects to know you can't just Thanos snap a major software upgrade into existence.

https://ethereum.org/en/eth2/merge/
well Google Sycamore (53 qubits) arrived in 2019, and it's 2021 now - so 2 years (being generous).
It's the biggest coal port in North America, so that will likely be disrupted for a while here.
just looking for a budget friendly option for small indie devs. lots of ideas but probably not a lot of traction.
The behaviors and attitudes of U.S. adults on Twitter
The best way to achieve that is a negative income tax. If you earn below a certain income you get a payment (not just no tax). That makes it reasonably easy to avoid the "welfare cliff" as you create smaller brackets and slowly move from negative to positive tax rates, likely with a reasonably large band where you neither owe taxes or get a payment. It would need to be combined with government calculating monthly or quarterly payments to avoid feast at tax time and famine the rest of the year.

It would need to come with a strong education on tax brackets and a good online calculator for people to figure out their true income. Way too many people don't understand progressive taxation and think moving up a bracket means they pay a higher rate on all their income, not just the portion that falls into the higher bracket.
Workflow isn’t the same on iOS, which is what GP was talking about.
How do we call this 'law'?
Which kind of goes back to the earlier point:

> I don't understand what I'm supposed to do to make it behave in a way that makes sense.

There used to be an actual icon for it to the right of the clock. Why would someone think to click on the clock to access their notifications? This apparently also led to the clock becoming mandatory instead of being able to hide it if you wanted to use different options.
0.141" semi-rigid coax, diameter of champions.
> I'm interested in disabling the "Brave Rewards" in app notifications.

That's in settings, too... but aren't those opt-in? I could have sworn they were when I set up my profile for the first time. I'm going to re-install in a clean VM and see what their first-time user UX is like these days.
If you can't realistically build an elevator, the question is meaningless. As for if you could build one, I don't know. Maybe, but chances are that an electromagnetic accelerator working in reverse could recover a lot of the energy. Also, it wouldn't be constrained by having to keep the upmass and downmass ratio bounded. And third, energy is really easy to come by on the surface of the Moon, so it's not like it would be a severe limitation.
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By "nobody" I meant "nobody not deeply invested in the technical guts of how Uniswap works". In the same way nobody really cares about JWTs, people care about the stuff they enable. Solving problems inside the crypto ecosystem isn't per se useful or important unless the actual thing it's enabling (in this case Uniswap) is important. Which, okay, maybe it is. But NFTs are a technical detail.

It's when people started hyping up NFTs as their own thing that stuff got weird and stupid. Like, phone numbers are useful, but vanity phone numbers definitely aren't solving any problems other than proving you have one:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/world/wp/2018/02/13/feat...
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Close, though sorted by popularity/downloads is really what I wanted...how to find where all the downloads are coming from.
Strange, it is a personal blog with literally no javascript (just checked my network tab), might be worth investigating what your antivirus has against it. It's a very good read, so just in case your antivirus is friendly with archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20211113093602/https://tamikothi...
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I looked at the picture, and thought, what? It's in a busy harbor. There's a slight wake, so it's moving and not anchored. It's headed for a wall. All the sails are furled. It's either under power or adrift and in big trouble.

Turns out it's not quite early 18th century. It has an engine. And a lot more. Below decks, it's quite modern.[1]

"The vessel is fitted with two adjustable propellers and two 404 kW engines. The electricity supply comes from two 180 kW generators, in addition to an emergency generator. Apart from propulsion machinery and generators, the engine room is equipped with pumps, a boiler, a bilgewater separator, and an air compressor."

"The front cargo room has two tank rooms filled with technical equipment. Between the rooms, there are five waterproof steel bulkheads. Furthermore, two large floodable bilge pumps are able to pump up to 500 tonnes an hour. The fuel room is located in the aftmost tank room and can hold 36 000 litres in total. The full capacity of the machinery and generator consumes approximately 2000 litres a day. The vessel’s toilet system is connected to 12 toilets around the ship and is also located in the stern. The water room is found in the front tank room and contains water production equipment and a laundry room."

"The galley is located one deck below and is an ultra-modern compact kitchen with a convection oven, tiltable pans and cookware, a cold bench, and more. The scullery is located next to the Galley, containing a dishwasher and other equipment."

It's even air conditioned.

That's a good thing if they want to sail it around the world. As is an adequate maintenance budget. Wooden ships are high-maintenance. See HMS Bounty Replica sinking.[2]

[1] https://www.gotheborg.se/about-us/about-the-ship/#tab--techn...

[2] https://www.professionalmariner.com/tall-ship-bounty-loses-g...
In my experience, most companies I've worked at are pretty slim with the background checks (in fact, having been given out as a primary reference on many of my friends/coworker's resumes), I get almost no contacts/calls following up and checking that reference.

In theory, this is something most companies would do, but anecdotally, it feels like nobody ever has the time.
>The Treasury sells savings bonds that are at 7.12% right now.

source? yields top out at 2.05% right now. https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/i...
I'm old enough to remember the old claim that the internet was designed to cope with a nuclear attack.
That's such a stupid criticism. Quantum supremacy is an arbitrary benchmark by definition.
Yes every service considers itself critical. But users don't give a shit if some forum they signed up for 3 years ago gets hacked.

For me I just see it as a sign of pretentiousness when you expect me to come up with a 20 character password. Luckily Firefox has a built in password generator now.
What near term applications would be possible with just a 100 long-lived qubits?
Merritt seemed big as well.