skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am using firefox (windows 10), I don't see the "..." in the browser address bar.

Edit: When I click the address bar, I see an small "A" icon in the bottom row. When I hower over it, it shows "install Andi search".
Agreed - out of the blunt comments, maybe 5% are truly abrasive. I don't think it is nearly as big of a problem as the author is making it to be.
Some of the modern clones of the C64 use JIffyDOS built into the Kernel for faster loading from 1541 drives. The 1541 drive has a 6502 CPU and built in DOS (Commodore DOS not MS-DOS) firmware. It is like getting a whole different computer in the floppy drive which is why it was so expensive.
What kind of talent are we speaking of here? I would not consider either of them talented in SWE.
"Presumably if they thought it was a significant risk they'd be diverting what resources they have to asteroid defense"

You are assuming that everyone in the government works to protect our interests in long-term. Spoiler alert: they don't.
That's simply not true. Even as a technical user who knows what you're doing, you get a hard-coded choice of exactly five - Google, Bing, Yahoo, DDG or Ecosia. You can't add new ones at all. If you wanted to add a new search engine (like the one I'm working on, or any other), there is no way to do it.

But let's try it. Go to Safari > Preferences > Search and choose the "Search engine" dropdown, and you'll see you have a dropdown with only five options.

Google reportedly pays $15B per year for that top spot.
Well the more complicated the road to salvation, the more likely to be disqualified on a technicality.

Sorry, your sacrament is being recalled. If you think you have been notified in error contact the repentance office at your earliest convenience. You will be given a case number and be allowed to remain in limbo until a decision is made whether your benefits can be reinstated.
If you look down the page, some preview elements are also reversed. I think this may be accidental.
HN perhaps isn't the right forum for this kind of commentary, but here it is anyway...

This is a schematic for a new physical implementation of a particular mathematical operation, on a specific modality of qubit. The same mathematical operation can be computed on any other quantum computer in production today; very easily so if you use a compiler like QUILC [0]. Some architectures even have ways of doing native Toffolis.

Unfortunately, I don't personally believe the headline summary and following text are written in good faith.

> Researchers discover a new method to perform the N-qubit Toffoli gate, a more efficient quantum operation helpful in scaling quantum algorithms.

They did discover a new way to perform this mathematical operation (the N-qubit Toffoli), but it's highly dubious that it will "scale" any existing quantum algorithm up in any useful manner. Toffoli is like a quantum computing "NAND"-gate of sorts, it's useful in building up larger computations (like adders and multipliers). The problem is, it's not error corrected. So imagine building a full-adder, but every logic gate is inaccurate by about 1%. In series, those 1%'s rack up quickly.

> New family of N-qubit gates can only be run on IonQ quantum computer architecture.

This is hugely misleading. You can do an N-qubit Toffoli on any computer. That's what a compiler is for.

That's like saying "You can only do AES encryption on Intel processors because they have the instruction for it." It's not true. You can do AES on any computing architecture, especially if you have an implementation in a portable programming language.

> Once implemented, gate is expected to speed up several fundamental algorithms for quantum computing.

Like what? Again, it's unlikely. A non-error-corrected Toffoli has limited utility, unless there's deep research in NISQ algorithms using slightly unfaithful Toffoli operations profitably that I'm unaware of.

Later in the article they mention:

> IonQ and Duke’s discovery may lead to significant efficiency gains in solving fundamental quantum algorithms, such as Grover’s search algorithm, variational quantum eigensolvers (VQEs), and arithmetic operations like addition and multiplication.

Grover requires a fault-tolerant oracle for non-trivial problems, so that's out. Arithmetic the same (see above). Nobody to my knowledge has developed any reasonable Ansätze for VQE that use Toffoli gates that outperform existing ones—and VQE doesn't exactly have a lustrous record anyway for doing anything useful at scale.

I think IonQ has made an interesting scientific achievement, and might even make for a few cool proof-of-concept demos, but it's hard to believe it'll lead to much of anything useful. Their speculation in the article, in my opinion, is squarely out-of-bounds.

[0] https://github.com/quil-lang/quilc
approximately <8 significant digit value>, <9 significant digit value>.

Y'all use a lot of bits for an approximation. In how many digits is the uncertainty?
Yes, but I change the master password often, so the printed list is a backup.
So you're saying Newegg didn't inspect it well enough... but with more words.

"Giant gigabyte RMA sticker" wouldn't mean anything off to the someone reviewing an open-box RMA without a deeper inspection... in fact it likely gave them the false impression it had been repaired (which again explains why there was so much push back)

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Everyone's using this as a springboard to harp on Newegg RMAs in general, but this is an issue with their open box program, not their RMA department.

RMA department could have dug deeper, but clearly they didn't expect a manufacturer RMA sticker to mean it was not already fixed...

But alas, apparently precious few people read the article all the way so now "Newegg RMAs are fraudulent" will be the new tune. I guess it doesn't really matter at the end of the day, but you'd expect better from this crowd.
ASCII is enough to write English, or, at least, it used to be back when ASCII was a multi-byte encoding for Latin! I know, it sounds crazy, but it used to be a thing to use over-strike using back-space. E.g., ë was e BS ", ø was o BS /, etc. It was a thing back in the days of typewriters. I believe this is the reason that upper-case letters in Spanish are allowed to be written without accents even when they are needed otherwise, that accented upper-case letters were hard to produce with typewriters and ASCII fonts.
I use those every week of every year.
> I've mostly only noticed Akamai when they were screwing something up for one of their customers

Normally their service is pretty invisible to the end user so it would be weird if you noticed them when things were working fine.
I really don't understand the interest for psychedelic analogs.

We already know about lsd, psylocibin, mdma, ketamine, most of their (side)effects and how to use them without dying or going mad.
And they're already pretty damn effective for a lot of issues if used well.

Why take the risks of trying to make analogs that we know nothing about?

to invent another nbome? or a psychedelic equivalent of fentanyl?

I really don't get it. It's playing with fire.

(and no I don't think it can be compared to other meds research, meds don't usually have the potential ability to completely change the fabric of your after one use)
It’s not like humans haven’t been using ibogaine, and for this very purpose too. If you’re addicted to heroin, the side effects of ibogaine can be worth it.
Nice — RP2040 is cheap, capable (2 cores running at 120Mhz+, PIO, etc) and most importantly available. It can't be overstated just how the global chip shortage affects even hobbyists or those making small runs of some breakout board.

My own product [1] has been out of stock for a long time now, because its main chip (AND the aux. one) has been unavailable for year and still has many weeks lead time.

Seeing this, I learnt that if it can be done in software, it should be. RP2040 is perfect for this and I've started writing a minimal USB-PD stack in Micropython to run on one of the cores and so far so good!

[1]: https://fpx.oxplot.com
I often see people complaining how bloated or large the language is, but I never see specifics. As someone who started learning and using Rust at the beginning of this year I was surprised to find out how simple the language is given its reputation on forums. What makes you feel the language is becoming too large, where is the feature creep, and where is the complexity you're talking about? Are you talking about the stdlib or language features?
I cut back on purchasing from Amazon for the same reason. One four separate occasions, items I purchased "New" appeared to be repackaged. It did not appear that the items had been used, but they had been removed from their original packaged state, and then repackaged.
It is almost certainly an accident, but it might have been left in on purpose!
I’ve accidentally downvoted stuff before. It would be nice if I could easily avoid the accidental downvotes, while retaining the downvote capability itself.

But I’m not too wrapped up in the need for attaining that goal.
It is not trivial to store hydrogen. It takes a very large and expensive tank to store it at any practical level.

And it has a tendency to leak through most materials.

https://planetforlife.com/h2/h2swiss.html#:~:text=Hydrogen%2....

"B&E estimates that a liquid hydrogen tank designed for automobile use will loose about 5% of its capacity every day, which is to say that all of it will be gone in 20 days. Losses of this magnitude are acceptable for, say, a taxicab fleet, but unacceptable to most people."

Also new to me that it's a greenhouse gas:
"Hydrogen cannot be vented to the atmosphere because it is an explosion hazard and because it is a greenhouse gas. The vented hydrogen must be burned. A continuously running gas stove with one burner set to "medium" would do it."
Once energy from the sun penetrates the atmosphere most of that energy is here to stay, so nothing that you do with it after it gets here will help the overall problem.
I lived in a developing country (China) for 9 years and could never bother with a maid if even a cleaning service. The logistics were just too huge for me, as a non native, and it didn’t seem to be worth it. I had friends who had babysitters, but more the part time kind and labor costs rose rapidly in the last decade. But the biggest thing is: the expats were often seen as poorer than many of the natives. The rich Chinese in Beijing had drivers, maids, etc… it wasn’t so common for the foreigners. I’ve felt the same way in Manila, Bangkok, the only place that seem to be where foreigners come out as the rich people are tourist towns (like Phuket, Bali, Boracay) designed completely around extracting their money. But admittedly, none of those places are truly third world.
"You can use these 24 proprietary paid tools instead of Airflow"

Thanks.
Depending on the platform, you might need to right-click on the Firefox browser address bar and choose the "Add search engine" option from the dropdown (where a website has it). Do you see an option to add a new search engine when you right-click the browser address bar at all?

[Edit: just saw the edit that you found it - thanks again for looking around for it too!]
It should be noted that the problems of U+202E and such are not inherent to all Bidi_Control characters: Right-to-Left Marker, Left-to-Right Marker and Arabic Language Marker are all safe (and useful)—though UTR #36 suggests going far enough (e.g. “use only LTR or RTL, and if RTL, first and last characters must be strong”) that they wouldn’t be useful. It’s specific to the characters that override the default stuff, which means Embedding, Isolate and Override characters.

The Trojan Source paper has a decent treatment of the area too, seen in a different application: https://trojansource.codes/trojan-source.pdf.
Why move to AWS if you’re happy with Linode? Genuine question
> there are far better tools out there for scheduling

Really? Which ones? The only thing vaguely fitting this case is Jenkins, but using Jenkins to run ETL/ELT is a serious impedance mismatch.
So we call it "locally" then.
The focus shouldn't be Firefox per se, it should be Gecko.

In this market, we've got an army of secondary secondary browser players-- the Vivaldis, the Braves, Yandex's browser team, the smouldering wreckage of Opera, and yes even Microsoft's Edge and (to a lesser extent) Apple's Safari teams.

I'm sure every single one of those developers knows they're living with a belligerent landlord: they're going to spend too much of their careers having to unwind anti-competitive or just "we wouldn't want to include this in OUR browser" features in Blink.

Make sure you're a serious option for them. Make Gecko as embeddable as Webkit.

In this plan, the endgame actually has a fairly low Firefox market share, because it gradually evolves to be the "packed-in reference implementation" of the Gecko engine. Instead, we focused on building a healthier web ecosystem. More people end up using Gecko!Edge or Gecko!Vivaldi or whatever, and this breaks up market share enough that Google can't barge their way through the standards process by unilaterally cramming features into Blink. The individual vendors can more completely focus on their custom improvements while expecting that the core browser engine isn't going to be polluted to serve a specific (and not their own) commercial interest, and have a vested commercial interest in supporting Mozilla to do the heavy lifting for them.

In the short term, I think maybe they could start appealing to this market as a "too important to fail" concept. Think of AMD 10 years ago: the products are mediocre right now, but everyone knew if they went bankrupt, the industry would stagnate majorly for a long time. That might be a justification for soliciting foundation memberships or hackathons to encourage development work on their engine.
Do you have examples of companies “evolving from an enterprise product”?

As far as I know companies usually evolve into an enterprise product, moving up the ladder, rather than going down.

Yes, the sales cycles are longer, but there’s more money and less headache with customer support and customer success.

E.g. 1 customer paying $10,000 per month vs 100 paying $99 p/m.
I’m thinking about retiring to Guam for that reason: Medicare is still valid there, not as cheap as SEA, but cheaper than most of the USA. Who knows, it’s a long way for me.
The Famicom's Family Basic (wiki linked in another thread) had sprites and stuff, though I think you were limited to the ones built in.
I'm reminded of Naomi Novik's novel 'Spinning Silver' where a couple sleep on the stove, which seemed strange. It makes more sense after reading this article.
Their dev tools and docs need some love. Cloudflare has a smooth DX that Fastly nor Akamai emulate at the moment
Prolexic (security), Blaze.io ("front-end" web app performance), SOASTA (web performance monitoring) - all integrated into Akamai flagship products & continuously improved.

Disclaimer: Worked @ Akamai
Nice!
By coincidence I'm ging to present my bachelor's thesis today - partially in effects and handlers.
Not just customer service but also their media liaisons.

It's a long video[1] but another Youtuber called Brett from UFD Tech has been talking about Newegg recently too. Newegg agreed to sponsor a fan giveaway by providing an Intel CPU to a winner, but after receiving photos and marketing from Brett did not respond to inquiries about the CPU for five months. They also didn't pay for two product review videos that Brett had made for them. Like with GamersNexus, they didn't respond to inquiries about fixing the situation until Brett posted about it on Twitter.

Another small but interesting detail about this is that Brett never revealed the identity of his liaison with Newegg, but after making the video he received a photo from someone he's keeping anonymous that knows the liaison. In the photo, the anonymous person asks the liaison what is going on with the UFD Tech issue, and the liaison explains what happened but blames the lack of communication on him losing emails and not having Brett's contact information to make it right. A lie considering Brett was emailing the liaison during all of this.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c_rKnK-uAM
Perhaps one of the worst parts, which I haven't seen mentioned here yet:

GamersNexus eventually managed to get the motherboard back, and took a look at it. Not only was it in terrible condition, there was an RMA sticker from Newegg to Gigabyte (the manufacturer). Gigabyte told Newegg it was broken and offered to repair it (for a price); Newegg refused, and then still sold it anyway.

(Actually, looking again, this is mentioned in the article, but it bears emphasis.)
Looks like there will be a Taipei Hacker News meetup in 2 weeks :

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/taipei-hacker-news-meetup-1-tic...
I use site:medium.com when searching for technical intro tutorials.
This is to exclude official verbose and robotic docs like the ones from AWS.

AWS docs have a LOT of content and words but they feel numb and almost meaningless, they say so much yet you read for hours and have no clue of how to solve the problem. It feels like reading a dictionary on *hammer* when you want to learn to use a hammer.
Lectures on the Immersed Boundary Method
Good. And why are folks giving money to anti-vaccine/trade blocking truckers? Get doxxed I say.
The Immersed Boundary Method
Those are only people who want the end of it? Only people? Please stop with twitter-tier takes on this website. Following that with an appeal to popularity does what exactly here - disprove their anecdata?
Unironically Wikipedia is a good start.
You mean threading? That is just one common example for what is possible with arbitrary effect handlers.
In that case you would probably add a payload which you would then have to check, you're correct. It just turns out you can implement most board games without that.

I do still like this system for some games with actions that aren't convenient to enumerate; it's safe and simple by default and you add validation only in exactly the places where you need a payload.
It's also a potential way to raise a family and have time for your kids.
What are decacorns, the clumsily named kings of the startup world?
Note some of the PDFs don't render in Firefox and other browser PDF viewers without some Adobe plugin, but they should render fine in most other standalone readers
That’s good to know, thanks.
Wait both adding and removing features are anti-patterns? Is waterfall the solution, then? Where finally we know exactly which features work well together before we write the first line of code?
Very often the narrative is that X does not work because there was no meaningful difference between multiple places. But it is forgotten that there are so many confounding factors in play. When it works then it is not because of X, it is because of X, Y, Z, W, ... applied at the right moment of time.
Still use bc
Because usually you can use a simpler scheme.
I was really apprehensive about this kind of "cultiness" when I moved out to SF in 2014 for my first engineering job. Luckily it really dropped off after company onboarding and I hardly ever heard this kind of talk from my normal colleagues.
1/87 Smart DIY micro RC car
> That said, the irony of US going back to Vietnam is still something.

There would be more irony if it were the French.
I guess I didn't think this through. Looks like I need to upgrade my situation.
I remember an overheard conversation between one cop and another from a different jurisdiction in Utah once in which the first one gave the second a pro tip - when people came in to report a crime, showed up for a court case, showed up to pay fines or basically had any interaction with the police they were checked for any outstanding warrants, parking tickets etc. and taken care of on the spot. It really helped their workflow in the first cop's city.
There comes a point where a difference in scale becomes a difference in kind.

With AirTags, I think we have reached that tipping point.
In India Google nad Apple is the most trusted platform.
Linode IRC folks taught me a bunch of linux many years ago on their channel. I was astounded by their patience towards my complete stupidity. Thank you Linode team & users, owe you a fair bit!
Maybe the simply lack the manpower to do basic customer service and device repair?
Undoubtedly there remain issues with Eric Schmidt style 'let a thousand flowers bloom' approach to product development, though, there is some upside to it, too (gmail, for ex). That said, I doubt the list on killedbygoogle.com parroted around as a badge of honour of having tried even if failed, is one of them... cognitive dissonance be damned.
Tones are hard to do with text, so I'll preface with I'm-not-kidding:

The other 22,099,585 results were identical copies of the 415 pages you did see. SEO farms are huge.
"The eqn program was created in 1974 by Brian Kernighan and Lorinda Cherry. It was implemented using yacc compiler-compiler.[1]" eqn Wikipedia.

Interesting to know that eqn pre-dates TeX, TeX was released in 1978
Could be. But any particular interest is def not true (windows programming), so more like some niche interest. But this is the definition of niche interest, isnt it.
The glass where the image is displayed is quite thick, and leaded for just this reason. There is also a protection circuit that will shut down the whole set if the voltage were to increase enough to risk xrays that can't be contained.
P.J. O'Rourke, influential satirist and commentator, dies at 74
Like I said, I'm not sure how to describe it. You kind of have to... identify, and then strip out, the emotional content of a message. (Note: don't do this all the time, but if the emotions are FUD, most of the time is a good rubric). A big part of that is identifying how someone is saying something, as opposed to what they're saying. This can be word choice, italics/bold/caps; grammatical structures, narrative structures.

That last one is large and subtle - I once called someone an "active psychological hazard" for the manipulation within their "narrative" structure; think about how good comedians build a kind of meandering story, and then apply that to an affect aside from humor, and you've got the right idea.

It's... I don't know. People tell me things, or I read them, and it forms a sort of multidimensional "shape" inside my mind. Then I lop off / rotate the shape so the emotional affects aren't present, or aren't significant, or aren't "in view". But also like I said, I don't actually know if it's working; but I think it is. I know that before I do whatever it is, I feel things; afterwards, I feel them, but at a remove, so they're more like things I could feel, if I chose to.

Does that all make any kind of sense, even a little bit?
I found my copy. It's about 3x as thick as any other WIRED, and more than 25% of it is just that one article! It's timely, too... I just reread Cryptonomicon last year. I don't want to break the spine to scan it ;)

$4.95 / Canada $5.95. Amazing.

Second headline on the cover is "AOL: A-OK or DOA?"

Third headline: "FedEx: Airline of the Internet", which probably deserves its own HN post...
I started experimenting with Go-WASM recently and learnt that writing non-blocking code is very crucial, Timer even inside a Goroutine blocks & crashes WASM. Leading me to use unreliable JS timers(albeit mitigating it with a worker) and performing only non-blocking compute on WASM.

Is this just a consequence of using Go for WASM(i.e. lack of WASM threads), What are people who built LibreOffice in WASM or Doom3 using? Can Go-level concurrency be achieved with WASM threads when programmed with other languages?
Yes, I found it a few weeks ago. It changes how safari works and improves it quite a lot.

I can block elements, and cookies in a site, define custom JavaScript or css, change the default search engine with one in a list o define a new one, and a whole lot of other things. All inside default safari.

Its name is Hyperweb. You can get it here: https://apps.apple.com/app/hyperweb/id1581824571