skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a JS veteran, it took me a long time to come around to TypeScript. Early on, there was a lot that was missing from it and a lot of libraries weren't really terribly pleasant to use with it, especially if you're using something like angularjs or Ember with its own DSL for templates that isn't TS aware. You really got accustomed to either memorizing the types of things, or remembering how to look them up very quickly.

But, two things have happened. My once sharp-as-a-japenese-knife memory feels a bit more like safety scissors nowadays, and the type system has added such fantastic support for useful features - unions, enums and the lot keep getting better with every release. Generics, mapped types and advanced types get really close to being able to fully describe the full expressive power of JavaScript. I dove in head first a few years back, and have only a few small quibbles over what it can and cannot express, or how easy it is to do so.

With all of that said, it can be really hard to sell JS veterans on TS. Intellisense in webstorm and the like can be quite powerful, especially if they drank the JSDoc kool-aid, so it can be tough to really clearly spell out the advantages since their tooling mimics a type system already.
Do better Andy. Lying? Come on...
TL;DR: People want their employers to treat them like people.

Yeah, good luck with that.

I look forward to HR being renamed the "Department of People", but I would be amazed if there were any actual change in what HR does.
> Rates are relative, looser money absolutely translates to lower rates, even for poor people. Claiming otherwise is (social) science denial.

This hypothesis presumes that loans are priced exclusively based on cost.

However, all products and services are priced based on willingness to pay, and profit is the delta between cost of delivering it and what customers are willing to pay.

Price gouging runs rampant on credit cards because they are designed to gouge their users. The credit card adoption and payment customer experiences are extremely smooth and free from any resistance to the point where you can pretty much find yourself with a new credit card in your pocket without knowing how. However, avoiding charges and interest payments is extremely hard by design, specially when compared with debit cards. Customers cannot escape these charges, and with low income customers they syphon a relatively large portion of the little disposable income they have.
What is time series data and when should I use a time series database?
Eh I think you went into hyperbolic assertations here. Might want to walk it back. It's bad but it's not as bad as you say.
“The only think I know is that I know nothing” -philosophers
Fully agreed. Just seems less likely. There's a chicken & egg/which comes first problem. I believe a lot of cars dont even have buck converters? That they rely on the charger to ramp/control voltage? Even if they do include converters, it'd be super expensive to go from a 1kV to a 4kV or 15kV buck converter.

Having ultra high voltage capable chargers that can power most cars seems like a necessary first start.
I agree with you, but also want to add that there doesn't need to be that much caution either. Plain language helps create or deepen someones understanding of the core idea (or even an "intuition" for it, afte they become comfortable with it), which in turn then allows them to explore these edge cases.
Yes, it's definitely possible that a spinning virtual thread will effectively pin the current OS thread. The Loom folks could keep, say, a count of how many instructions the virtual thread has executed, and pre-empt it itself if it needs to. This could fight a little with the OS scheduler, so I'm not sure what the tradeoffs are, but if you absolutely cannot allow a spinning virtual thread to effectively pin an OS thread, you'd want to do this.

If you're going to do a bunch of computation without blocking, I'm not sure virtual threads are the tool you want to apply in the first place. They're meant to provide cheap blocking and cheap context switching. If you've got a job that's more CPU-bound than I/O bound, it's probably worth using OS threads instead.
Yep, my self esteem (professionally) has slowly eroded during this job.
I legitimately can't tell if this is a bit.
I was assuming it was transistor count to qubit count, didn’t count the 0’s but either way not 9 orders of magnitude off so not sure what exactly you are saying, but either way all I am saying is that it isn’t impressive to a lot of people precisely because it is useless right now. So you are off by 100% in my opinion, way more than 9 orders of magnitude ;)
Nah, I worked there for a long time and I was sad when I needed to leave. I had best boss and best project ever and I learned and grew a lot.
> finding massive success in these supply chain matters with a pure Microsoft stack

You've also become 100% dependent on a sole source.

> Microsoft has, can, and will drop the ball, but they also have a very long track record available to build [dis]trust upon.

This.
All laws of physics aren't computable. None of them are, they are all defined over the reals.

You've a bigger issue with talking about the computability of those laws.

I am assuming that somehow the reals can be ditched (which, incidentally, seems unlikely). And in that reality, we still have a problem: the role the reals play is to make reality infinitely precisely measurable. Without this chaotic systems become non-deterministic over realtively short time horizons.

Nearly all actual systems are chaotic in many of their properties. It isnt a matter of just adding an RNG to a CPU. A trivial object has 10^30 atoms, in organic stuff, much of that is behaving chaotically on environmental boundaries. The engery to simulate this, assuming 10^30 RNGs (etc.) is vastly greater than the target system and "cannot outrun" that system.

Not only this but I think simulation of such things quickly surpasses physical bounds on physically possible computers, not least as the RNGs have an energy cost.
One of the IBM scientists seems to have an old quantum computer as a piece of office decoration, so I guess there's some hope to preserve them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWJCfOvochA
Those cities are largely supplied via north south routes from USA.
That's fine as long as you have balance in your life. Probably healthy as long as most of your time is spent doing something meaningful to you.

But if most of your discretionary time is spent doing unimportant things, that can contribute to depression and anxiety.

"Dial tone mode" sounds a lot like the checking out alcoholics, drug users and other people suffering from compulsive disorders waste their lives doing.
Thanks! It's without a doubt a pretty painful process. I'm using d3.js (https://d3js.org) for projecting a vector representation of a specific area. There is a lot of great tutorials / videos out there so a good starting point is probably just to search for e.g. "d3.js maps".
D3.js might seem overwhelming at first, at least it did for me, don't let that discourage you.
There are many vector sets where existing countries are already present but in my case I have to plot the highlighted map areas on my own. For that I use QGIS (https://www.qgis.org/en/site/), then just save those areas in a vector file and project them onto the map.
I guess that's the basics.
I have spent many, many hours generating/mapping the background image, pruning the data files from redundant information, repositioning tooltips after a zoom, etc, but perhaps you don't have to, so cross that bridge when you get there.
> With cash, you are required to deanonymize transactions unless they're small (<10k USD)

Nearly all transactions are that small, and the ones that aren't (predominantly vehicles and real estate) are already not anonymous for independent reasons.

It generally doesn't cost >$10,000 to buy a sandwich or a book.
Ah yes, I totally forgot about those and it's not like I haven't seen that kind of thing being done in practice in Canada, a friend of mine built one like that, and it came out very nice.
Show HN: The first Go 1.18 generics cache library
Don’t get me wrong, Numbers isn’t great. It just better than Excel for the simple stuff I would want to do in a spreadsheet.
There's some suspiciously React Native macOS looking components in Messenger for macOS (native macOS text boxes, native macOS blurred backgrounds, etc). I'm thinking this is either fully React Native, or they have some sort of RN/Electron hybrid going on (which is a thing, apparently).
To be fair for Netflix that's not important. What's important is that a 3h movie kept you in front of them for 3h. That's why they measure success in viewing hours instead of viewing count.
Same with the extreme heat events in the northwest.
Not if you already know JS and something like Ocaml or Haskell
As Paul Krugman wrote, Canada is closer to the US than to itself. (<https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/13/eh/>)
I might have different use case than most people that I mainly use it to manage local video files and sync with my phone. The bugs are very similar to the bugs on Music.app where there's a lot of desync between app & local folder, duplicate entries, broken thumbnail, clunky UX etc. The quality difference between that and older macOS built-in softwares is pretty obvious imo (the most obvious drop is Music.app rewrite in Big Sur)
It's always interesting to hear people talk about what made a successful project successful, especially if you were part of that project.

Everybody has theories, and none of them line up.
Pro tip: When you're seeing something really unethical that could eventually rebound on you - write it down. Write down contemporaneously what happened and sign and date it. Much more reliable evidence.
My life took a dramatic turn for the better since I deleted Steam.

Factorio was just too perfectly matched to my personality. Now I build things in real life.

Slower, harder, more complex, but genuinely satisfying.
Interesting, I think all of those items have a good chance of actually happening ("longevity research" happening means some sort of meaningful progress).

I hope there will be some unexpected breakthroughs too.
Japanese toaster company makes unique Android phone
I’m so glad Rails 7 is moving away from all the js circus. Good riddance
Don't Prolog and Erlang have pattern matching built in??
Yeah my bank does this. I've been meaning to call around and find a credit union that has 2FA and doesn't require this garbage. I changed my questions to a randomly generated password and put it in my password manager.
Nothing exciting--the plants drain into a 1020 tray, and a pump sucks up the leachate. The pump feeds into a waste bucket, through a sample cup that contains pH and EC electrodes. (It would be more common for the leachate just to drain by gravity, but the pumps made best use of my limited balcony space.)
Is Vaccine Efficacy a Statistical Illusion
What are the innovations allowing for these large leaps? It seems like forever that progress was extremely slow.
Considering how big of a deal it was to get Seinfeld onto the platform, it's interesting to see it hasn't broken the top 10 lists on any week. Maybe long tail viewing habits tell a different story.
There was no package manager for JS before JS began to become popular on the backend with the release of node. NPM stands for node package manager after all.
I'd like that too, having spent decades on ipv6.

Making 0/8 "just work" took an hour and some testing. Ripping out the check for that reservation saved a nanosecond. And: 240/4 had been working for a decade, and nobody noticed.
Fair enough, I had the more populated parts of Alberta in mind but there is plenty of it that is elevated. Even so, it doesn't dominate the road network to the degree that it does in BC, where you are either in Vancouver or clinging to the side of a mountain (or a glacier).
I think you’re right.
Everyone I know hated army of the dead. My wife and I shut it off halfway through. It’s one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. How is it so popular?
> there is no jumping between two files (DOM file and CSS file)

I don't view this as any more difficult than navigating a long file. Maybe I actually view it as more simple upon making that statement. What development environment are you using? Hotkeys to switch tabs is fairly base-level stuff

> often the only way to learn/get what you want is change a little, reflect, change a little

Which surely any person who is arguing for "fast feedback" would do using the browser's dev tools so you can edit CSS and instantly view the result in the same window as your actively painted view...

I would look into getting a proper editor like VSCode, setting up hotkeys, and learning to use dev tools if I was you. It sounds like you are using VIM to make your website
Looks like Nixie tubes are basically small numeric neon signs. I don’t get why you would want this to be an IOT device, why not RF or connect though Ethernet, it can also do power over it. It’s not going anywhere.

I’m sure we’ll see better quality fiber optic and laser/led clones in the future.
Dræm Spec for your Defender 90
You’ve just given me my weekend plans, thank you very much! They have a working IBM 1401 that you can see in action too!
I went to Lisbon a couple of years ago with my kids and found it quite walkable.
Haha so green LEDs are cool again? I made a call back in 2004 that after blue LEDs became commonplace and white LEDs had their turn as the new hot thing, red would make a comeback. And it did. ;)

I imagine there have been multiple cycles through the spectrum since then…
I kind of disagree, because what I often see is people causing more difficulties for themselves than if they made the jump to Access, SQL, or even building an application.

There is arguably a kind of limit to how far one should take using Excel. Microsoft clearly knows this, so has Access waiting there for those that figure out they should go the next level up. Even then, Access might not be the best answer, as compared to creating an application that addresses specific needs.
Truly, sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
DHS launches new effort to attract cybersecurity talent
> I know French cuisine is famous, but eating anything tasty in Paris without being a local is one hell of challenge.

I only ate once in a Paris restaurant and 10 minutes after sitting down I had the chef harassing me because the waitress couldn't understand my botched Italian when I tried to order a pizza.

She couldn't understand my Italian because she only spoke French.

But the whole menu was in Italian. I do not speak a word of Italian. So I just tried to read the words aloud with my best efforts.

"Why are you doing that ? What if everyone started ordering things in Italian ?" was shouting the chef when he came back.

I kid you not.

Anyway, that was the worst, I don't remember bad culinary experiences but I tend to stick to stuff I know I will like. I am not french though :].
Secretive Chinese Committee Draws Up List to Replace U.S. Tech
What do you think the signature is for? If a store can provide a signed receipt, the bank eats a chargeback. If they can't, the business pays. No one verifies that it is your signature. It is just an anachronism of how contracts work.
Scott Aaronson had a brief comment on the news on his blog:
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6111

Seems we're still a bit light on details. I hope to see a lot more on this. The progress on quantum computing lately is exciting though!
For those who know how all this works or how it should work.

If it is true that a type of quantum computer might be able factor large number and if it is true that it would allow the users to read lots of encrypted data then quantum computing would be at the very top of the list of every intelligence agency out there in every country.
I am thinking high multi billion labs yr/labs.

It would be a direct threat / issue / opportunity to national security.

I am burying myself in assumptions I cannot begin to justify.)

If that is the case, is what we are seeing here from IBM, or Google, state of the art?

What are the chances that some (secret) government lab somewhere ( not necessarily in the US) has a much more advanced model already working?

Is there any chance that a working crypto breaker could be operational?

Of course, if there was such a thing, out there, it would be in the greatest interest of whatever fraction had it to ensure nobody knew about it. Since it would give an enormous advantage to posses and use it, it would be critical to not let anyone know.

I came across some declassified docs covering NSA a long long time ago,
from what I learned it seemed like they had access to technology that was not commercially available at the time.

(Sorry,. I like to write fictional stories on my spare time.
I may have dipped into that territory too much in this post.)
-bash: shopt: globstar: invalid shell option name
Onto a floodplain...
I find that computational complexity provides a reasonable way to define capitalism as to distinguish it from other economic models. Only under capitalism is it possible for wealth to grow exponentially (which will exceed almost any other possible growth function with respect to time) since you can make wealth by virtue of already having wealth. It also helps explain the origins of wealth inequality since when growth is determined solely by current value, it is not bound in the same way that one's labor is.

Some people assume that capitalism is simply supply/demand or the presence of markets, but I think that ignores the fact that markets have seemingly existed for far longer than capitalism.
> I disagree that you commonly need to style component internals from the outside

Can you say more? For example, if any use case for it exists - which you seem to agree - surely you can see anyone inside such a use case would prefer to have this for free.

For example, I built a nice declarative form using React. I reuse my own Input fields and such. To control their spacing, I target their classNames for some occasions, like "MyLibraryInput" etc.. To be clear, this className belongs to the top level parent of that HTML structure and no styles of the type I described interact with the private HTML of that component, which I am surprised I have to state given that you are responding to a comment stating "I certainly don't think all components can just be slapped into the flow of an arbitrary parent container and have the right positioning and styling for free" and "we can target the fact that CSS is a public API" for single elements because that's quite exactly what it is...

> exposing html class name injection points works fine

So, after all this about how this use case is invalid, you just argue that someone who needs to do this type of thing should have to make extra wiring for no reason? I mean, certainly it functions, but it's a completely unnecessary step to force consumers to go thru. I do not understand this perspective at all.
Three days is all it takes for the cat litter to deplete. Then civilization's thin veneer crumbles.
Because they were busy making money instead of worrying about the tech.
I'm not dismissing anything.

I'm not saying that this is all that there is to Stephenson. I'm saying that as I read it, this is the spine and core of the book --- the central organising premise, if you will. Other elements are hung off that.

Put another way, though there are characters in Stephenson, his books are not generally character driven. Or narrrative-driven. Plot ... maybe, though I'd argue that the central conceit drives the plot itself.

And for the record, I've enjoyed his books tremendously and seek them out, not something I can say of many authors these days.
Over 100 Activision Blizzard employees stage walkout, demand CEO step down
Scott Aaronson, when reached for comment, said
It's been a few years. Which pivot?
As long as it is work related, it is not unethical to educate yourself in something new. For example, a new tech stack, similar discipline, or business administration. Employers and employees benefit when the employee keeps learning and bring more diversity and experiences to work.
Why can't they give me a proper /56 so I have at least 256 addresses to play with on the part that's intended to be used for prefix delegation? Even Comcast Business allocates a /56 but the stupid modems they require you to lease to use that service reserve 4 more bits of that so you only really get to operation on a /60.

CONSUMER gear should be getting at least /56 to the internal network, and Business grade should probably get at least /52. Which is almost what RIPE recommends (up to /48 for business customers, and /56 for normal users). https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-690
Is it any better than reduced-round versions of some ARX ciphers like ChaCha20?
What do you think of moving medicaid funds to UBI? I ask because I doubt young people will spend their UBI money on health insurance.
Not all these seem like shameable rules.

Twilio for example is shamed for not allowing 3 x consecutive same character or the inclusion of the world ‘twilio’ in the password. That kinda just seems like reasonable password advice?
Rails 7 got rid of turbolinks and co?
> You do realize that if a nuke goes off in the atmosphere anti-missile-tracking becomes impossible? (good luck doing radar, thermal or anything else...)

In this scenario, the NATO nukes would be fired, Russia would detect them, Russia would attempt to reatliate by firing their own missiles, the shield would destroy [some of] this volley of Russian missiles, then the NATO nukes would hit their targets and wipe out Russian ability to send any other retaliatory strikes. There may be a window between the first NATO nuke hitting (when the shield becomes useless) and the complete destruction of Russian reatliatory capabilities that still allows Russian nukes to be fired, but this at least gives some chance of a successful NATO first strike compared to the current version.

> Russian anti-air are effective in downing stealth aircraft and most aircraft.

This doesn't make them impenetrable. Defenses can be overwhelmed, artillery can be deployed to take down anti-air, strike troops can do the same.

> How do you move those to Russia's border and do logistics? :), also I'm not sure about that... but will take your word for it.

The numbers I got from here [0]. Note that I used the active personnel numbers - Russia does have more overall troops if you include reserves. Logistics is a problem, which becomes much simpler if there are already established NATO military bases in Ukraine and maybe even other former Soviet countries. Logistics is also not a trivial problem for Russia to solve - it's not like all of their troops are sitting at the Russia-Ukraine border, and they could also find themselves attacked through multiple borders.

[0] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/military-...
All they want is for companies to act like they are publicly traded, i.e. file an S-1 and provide relevant information? Hold my beer...
Computer-assisted classification of contrarian claims about climate change
It's not really specialized, it's a fancy MySQL until you need more. And then, it becomes 'more' at the click of a button. IMO if I were starting a cheap MySQL-powered project today, I'd use their free tier. The branching stuff is genius, and they're really focused on offering a clean user experience.
You absolutely should lock your SIM always. SIM duplication is a thing.
AFAIK, another reason to work downward, historically at least, was to lower an assembly into an open-neck dewar.
Note: I'm a total laymen and have a single source of information, which I read just before seeing the article on hacker news:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/11/ibm-clears-the-100-q...

The Ars article goes into a little more technical detail (a little) than the press announcement.