skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of this is pretty interesting, and some of it also feels like trying to read about the Time Cube all over again.

I think something that would help Wolfram is actually engaging with some of the long running topics in philosophy and, in particular, the philosophy of science, which have been looking at the concepts of "technology", "intelligence" (alien and human, in so far as that distinction can be theorized), and "understanding" for a long time, like since Xenophon and the ancient debate over episteme and techne. Something like Heidegger's historical/philosophical essay "The Question Concerning Technology" is an obvious example from the modern era (and one of the most readable Heidegger essays).

By not interacting with the ongoing and historical discussion, posts like these come across as private rants that have no grounding in public conversation and shared concepts. Concepts are slammed together by private intuitive leaps. Still pretty neat how it kind of comes all together though. Wolfram clearly loves this angle he has taken.
As someone considering starting a casual blog, I would not use an editor and defintiely not editors. Seems like a weird gate to keep.
I don't know, what they did according to the article is a little bit more than speech. If someone did that at my workplace the silent majority would be thankful that someone removed that kind of nuisance.
Too many things in the way (building foundations, other metro tunnels, sewers, etc.). It's only possible in lower density neighborhoods.
Out of interest what pt100 probe did you use?

Would this be a 4 wire pt100?

Also did you use a specialised chip for converting to digital readings?

I vaguely recall looking at some fancy reference RTD thermometers with glass housings (just found them, they seem to be called SPRTs - https://isotech.co.uk/products/isotech-model-670/)
It’s because the animation timing and easing, methinks.

Look here for basics https://youtu.be/c7HXLl8YREM
Where is the value for shareholders in that
Porsche Wants to Cool Its Hybrids’ Batteries with Electric Turbos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOFdr03-CVM
There's no reason we cannot work on these in parallel.
That selfish people are drawn to money markets?
>> I wouldn't be surprised if half of Kickstarter's engineers pumped out fewer than 3 PRs a week.

Ah yes. That always super meaningful metric of high performance - number of PRs. Doesn't matter what it is, if you can't solve it and push some code in less than two days, it's a clear indicator you're a terrible engineer.
>“We’re going to launch lots of tiny spacecraft into interstellar space, have them discover alien intelligence, then bring back its technology to advance human technology by a million years”

Who exactly is making this pitch he's refuting? It sounds like Breakthrough Starshot but that project doesn't make a claim of "advancing human technology by a million years."

This is how BSS bills its own mission:

"Breakthrough Starshot aims to demonstrate proof of concept for ultra-fast light-driven nanocrafts, and lay the foundations for a first launch to Alpha Centauri within the next generation. Along the way, the project could generate important supplementary benefits to astronomy, including solar system exploration and detection of Earth-crossing asteroids."
Indeed. Of all energy sources, solar and wind are some of the safest in case of war, terrorism and social unrest.

Nuclear, gas, oil... not so much! Same for dams.

And even if you avoid immediate loss of life and environmental damage you still have an emergency to handle.
Instead of asking for a return to a time when many of us in the us did not enjoy the right to vote, have have access to education, proper sanitation, access to healthcare (even compared to the current situation), we could just significantly reduce the military budget, or halve the number of foreign military bases. The us military is among the planet’s greatest polluters. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190620100005.h...
They are too busy tracking what you do online...
Unionization doesn't mean removing your value proposition from the equation. There are still different title tiers with different pay, and variance in pay within a given band. I would hope a tech worker union is less tenure-oriented than a union like the UAW but I acknowledge that is tricky to implement and not guaranteed.

If you are vastly more productive than coworkers in the same title band and wish to capture more of that surplus value, you should look to change employers, found a company, or become an independent consultant. Those are the available options with or without unions.
My take is that vegas is into showy attractions, and this qualifies.

I remember walking down the strip (in the HOT burning sun) and I came across a people mover just going "somewhere". I stepped on and voila... found myself in an air conditioned casino.

Maybe that's what these tunnels will do.
I am mocking the justification that leftist used censorship and deplatforming by using their own bloated phrase.
From OP comment, “ Do you think this cycle the whole crypto space goes down the drain never to be heard of again?”

Obviously the tech is part of the “whole space” and not a fade; didn’t even bring up encryption, which is the fundamental core of crypto. Sure encryption might be ban, but if you think governments will apply that to themselves, that’s obviously not a common or reasonable position.
To be fair though, Elon is in no way a "free speech absolutist", he just plays one on Twitter because he wants to freely manipulate the market to line his pockets, but still won't tolerate people critical of him.
> this is not the characteristics of a satisfying tool

You should take it into context: it's used inside a habit app, where seeing checkmarks is center to the UX. You might not be a user but I can tell you seeing checkmarks is crucial to keep the users engaged, and so making the checkmarks the center of attention can be very helpful. I personally really liked it. Learning apps (Duolingo, Coursera) should all adopt this approach (or at least allow users to opt into it).
Going to Mars is easy compared to Fusion, just requires, say, $100 billion. It's been possible but too expensive for decades, the idea of Starship is to make it cheaper.

Then it's just a logistics problem.

Plus whoever founds the successful human civilisation on Mars gets into the history books, fusion is a massive team effort that won't have one specific person remembered.
Not sure how being unemployed is better than making a low wage in terms of being hungry or homeless. Are you just trying to advocate for communism?
Not quite.

Say you work for General Motors. You can gripe about management all you want, but there's no expectation that you are going to be able to send out a company-wide memo saying the board should boot the CEO.

Now say you work for Tesla, or one of the other companies that is desperately trying to hang on to their "startup culture" as they get bigger. For that, it's vital that you buy into the mission, believe that you personally are changing the world.

The other half of that intellectual and emotional investment is the feeling that you have control and input. If the company makes a business deal that you don't agree with, you threaten to organize a walk-out; if the CEO is behaving like an idiot (and not like your own lovable idiot), you feel like you can get everyone together to tell the board to boot him. After all, you, personally, are changing the world.

But that's not how it works in a company that won't fit entirely into a single conference room. You as an employee may have dedicated your life to the company, and you may think the company should be responsive to you. But that's not how it works (see example 1 above), you just haven't realized it yet.
The animation is highly distracting. It draws the attention to the button instead of to the menu the user now wants to use. The animation creates a “wow” effect on first use, but that’s exactly the kind of visual affordance you don’t want on a UI element for routine use.
The fact that now AWS CPU cost is a constant consideration in software development is making developers use better algorithms and languages, a trend that seems the opposite of the 2010s.
Creating a more comprehensive dependency graph with build time detection
I've never been sold a tool in that manner... I hated Turbo Pascal at first... but quickly grew to love it. GIT seemed weird, but got used to it.

Make it easy for people to try, have good use cases, etc... is the best you can do.
FTX, KuCoin, Coinbase, more.
-Manual transmissions in cars

As european I dissent.
Again, why isn't this front page???
Age restriction is a big one I don't see mentioned a lot. In the real world this is easy to enforce, you can clearly see who is a child and who is an adult. Online traffic might have a way to guess this, but ultimately the infrastructure is not built to distinguish between age groups. What then happens is that children are commenting on all kinds of matters and people take it seriously, not to mention a lot of censorship is also justified because children/younger audiences are susceptible to it.

Perhaps content or channels get some viewer ratings like movies, and also age-gated somehow. I honestly think if done effectively this solves 90% of trolling, which is probably teenagers trolling and others taking it seriously.
SpaceX firings likely violate US labor law, experts say
I've seen them keep scheduling new calls where they restart each topic they don't want (or know how?) to answer until someone was frustrated and then close out access to their support for not attending all the meetings. But it didn't seem to affect the account.
Eh, Warren Buffett has been doing just fine for decades now and I don't believe has ever done any shitposting on Twitter.
I wonder if this or similar stories is leaked by purpose to encourage more people to apply.
Can you elaborate instead of being coy? I'm not sure what you're referring to.
How about no? A camera doesn't give you the same view as a window does. You can't move around to get different angles. Not to mention the pixel resolution of in-flight entertainment is nowhere near what you get with your eyes. Looking out the window at the sights is one of the few great things about flying.
These responses are getting quixotic.

Nobodies 'native culture' prizes 'equality' to that extent, if you're from a culture we're all familiar with I'd fathom you're projecting pretty hard.

In some places in the world, there are some 'modern ideals' around those types of things, but it's more 'ideology' than 'culture'.

Students are not running around forlorn about not having their 'pressed khakis and dinner shirts needing pressing'. God forbid. The Mother who pops in with Rizotto & Scnitzel for their kid and her roommates, grabs their laundry, making sure they have their train ticket to 'Auntie Lucy and Uncle Chuck's Wedding' (because the date was changed!), gossips about their cousin who just got into Flight School in the Air Force. That's 'conscientious parenting' and extremely hard to do as a single parent at that level. 20-year-olds are barely adults, arguably, transitioning to adulthood.
The half minimum salary cost that I've said is to register IMEI, in other words to register the phone.

There is no wifi only phone or wifi network, if you really mean wifi. There are "only data" plans but for that you also need to register the IMEI.
I don't understand the logic that people without power shouldn't speak up to those with it.
Developing ClojureScript with Figwheel (2015)
> One might think that simple programs would produce only simple behavior, and that somehow the behavior would get progressively more complex with more complicated programs. But that’s not what one finds. Instead, there’s increasing evidence that almost any program that doesn’t show obviously simple behavior can in fact show behavior that is as sophisticated as anything.

That entirely depends on your definition of "complex behavior". And I'd argue the definition that makes the most sense is based on Kolmogorov complexity. Which makes the "simple program = simple behavior, complex program = complex behavior" true by definition.
I know what you're all thinking. I'm thinking it too. This is a huge relief. The polar bears won't be wiped out after all. We can now get back to our planned polar ice cap melt. Why go to Florida when you can bring Florida to you!? /s
Hearthstone is such a catastrophe on this. There are multiple fun strategies that are literally rendered unviable because the animations slow you down too much and it's not possible to execute them well within the turn timer (for e.g. infinite pirates or brann in battlegrounds).

It's infuriating.
But where are you recommending people custody their crypto, then?

And the backups?
> most of the time it's one vendor and a few far second place hopefuls

Sure. But having the appropriations committee pissed off at you can curtail the sorts of funds they give e.g. NASA, or the caveats they add to it.
Probably dealing with enough meta data to capture the stuff like the reaction only works because the supplier of one of the reagents used by that lab had ppm copper impurities
What are the big differences between a hypothetical 1950s and a current lifestyle, as far as energy consumption goes?

Up to 10x as much house volume per person (family of 4 in 1000 sqft, vs. now frequently 2 in 5000 sqft), probably averages around 2-4x when you consider the housing stock and who lives in it.

Need to air condition all that in the summer, whereas back then you would have just opened the windows, slept in the basement, whatever it takes to suffer through it.

Need to heat all that in the winter. But that's probably negative. A high efficiency furnace and modern sealing/insulation probably means less heating load per person now, than then. Example: Apartment buildings so enthusiastically heated that people had to leave windows open in the winter. Completely uninsulated detached houses etc.

Much more transportation. Less walking and public transit, more automobiles per capita, need to drive children everywhere whereas just "be home by dinnertime", much international travel for work and recreation. One assumes the actual cars, big and wasteful as they are, are no worse consumption-wise than the cars back then.

Much more energy to manufacture and power all the gadgets that people simply didn't have back then. And all the disposable clothes. On the other hand, the 20" black-and-white TV that's burbling in the background 12 hours of the day probably used more electricity back then than all the simultaneously operating big flat screens in a modern household.

More energy to run a globalized economy, with stuff that you use _and eat_ often shipped halfway around the planet.

What does it come down to? Avoid travel. Live outdoors more, preferably in athletically meaningful ways (walk, bike). Tolerate a warmer house in the summer. Eat a simpler, local diet. Use quality goods and use them longer.

Doesn't sound so terrible, but it also consumes a lot less resources, therefore less profits for bigcos, therefore a nonstarter.
That can be handled with pre-cooling your car.
When you're working as a professional journalist, a "simple google search" isn't enough: how can you be sure that the information you are seeing on those kinds of wage comparison websites is accurate, and comes from people who genuinely worked at those companies?
> I don't think people are going to willingly return to 1950s levels of air travel affordability or food availability

On the contrary, I would say it's most reasonable. Where I am writing from, I could bet that already the brighter half of the population, not just a minority, would call eating strawberries in winter an aberration - let us say, luxury, not a natural right. Similarly (about travel), there where there are secondary costs such as externalities, one expects them to be embedded in the price. If, in air travel, you see tickets sold at the price of a meal, it means that the offer of the service is very liberal, instead of competitive.

But since these drafty ideas should reveal complexities immediately thereafter - vital importance of export, dynamics of inflation, of markets etc. -, what should emerge is that a simplistic consideration of the matter is not productive. Even when "people" would gladly call for more reasonable systems: such solutions are not trivially defined.
Absolutely fewer people. Yes, I agree a subway is better than car tunnel, when costs are ignored. But LV doesn't have $30B to build a subway tunnel. But a car tunnel can be built for roughly 100x less, $300 million.
I remember reading about a bear classed as a link between brown bears and polar bears.
Post mortem, under a grinning hunters foot.
I remember wondering if he had killed the first and only hybrid that would have bridged the gap for a doomed species. Melodramatic perhaps.
Actually I see there is a wiki!
It seems there is one way gene flow.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizzly–polar_bear_hybrid
Funnily enough, I got paid 100$ to do a 20 minutes survey that was asking hiring questions (which fang would you apply for and why) and it was just a pretest to have someone from Aws trying to recruit you.
> general window positioning

This has worked as expected to me. It generally opens windows on top of the stack unless the app takes too long to start and you've interacted with the window on top. In that case I appreciate it doesn't change focus (I could be typing something for example).
I'm sure I'm somewhat imprecise with my terms (I didn't realize I was speaking to a group of immigration lawyers). I've been as clear as I can be, and I can't force anyone to understand against their will. Good day.
When unpacking the quote I read:

1) Jeff Bezos saw his warehouse workforce as necessary but replaceable

2) He feared that workers who remained at the company too long would turn complacent or, worse, disgruntled

The two statements seem relatively disconnected (which makes the "and" a little confusing). Anyway, while I understand a) (not saying I agree) and am a little confused by b), how both or either would logically lead to your conclusion is not obvious to me. Can you elaborate?
Very interesting to see you essentially replace Tuples with Cons! I'll be following that development for sure. Coming from Scala, Tuples are entirely how you represent Product and then that has tons of downstream implications on case classes and constructors. This leads to situations like Scalaz creating NonEmptyList to get Tuple-like behavior out of List. So your approach has the potential to unify these similar but different types and I find that fascinating!
> But actually I think there’s no lack of “alien intelligence”; indeed it’s all around us. But the point is that it really is alien. At an abstract computational level it’s like our intelligence. But in its details it’s not aligned with our intelligence. Abstractly it’s intelligence, but it’s not human-like intelligence. It’s alien intelligence.

We are the alien intelligence. The intelligence he describes is the usual one.
Congratulations! You are the seventh person on HN to say the words "speed run" and "finance" in the same comment :o )

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
CNBC should do better fact checking. The CEO of SpaceX is and has been Gwynne Shotwell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwynne_Shotwell
It seems like every "diversity of thought!" and "freedom of speech!" proponent keeps having a moment where it's revealed that isn't what they actually believe.
> The Loop apparently can only transport 800 people an hour, for a 0.8-mile track [3]. The one subway car could (assuming conservatively 5min at the station and 5min for travel) transport 1440 people an hour.

At that point would it just make sense to have a continuous system (like Tomorrowland [1]) or those belts at the airport?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrowland_Transit_Authority...
There's a reason that SpaceX and other companies pay far more than minimum wage. It's because otherwise the employees won't take the job.

I.e. the idea that employees is powerless is not true by inspection.

People also can always start their own companies, being an employee is hardly the only option. (People who start their own companies also quickly realize that their imagined power over other people is entirely nonexistent.)
Seems to be what Larry and Sergey called penny wise and pound foolish. A few points in favor of the "lazy cafe."

1. Free food costs the company less to provide in bulk than it does for individual employees to acquire on the open market. The benefit to the employee is higher than the cost to the employer. The employee values this perk in their comp package against what it would cost him to acquire it if it weren't provided.

2. The marginal value of an employee's time is nonlinear and asymmetric. My weekly hours 0-40 are less valuable to me than hours 120-160, and the inverse is true for the company - my weekly hours 0-40 are more valuable to them than hours 120-160. The lazy cafe is again getting more value for its money than the sweat shop.

3. Hiring two people to work 40 hours/week instead of 1 person to work 80 reduces the labor supply for your competitors.

4. Hiring people so you can extract as much value as possible for them gets your a bad reputation and a company full for rubes.
Hha haha. Ok interesting ideas. I’m Curious about the cleaning procedure for this? How often? Is it regulated? Are any health inspections done ?
I read the study. The risk is real tho uncommon, but the study was unable to determine if bacterial overgrowth was the underlying condition responsible for the symptoms, because they appear the same as those from D-lactic acidosis, caused by the same bacteria as found in common probiotics.

So whether the issue is too much bacteria or poor compatibly with a host remains unanswered by your linked study.
Surprise? Nobody thought there would be no economic consequences to lockdowns - you're painting a picture of some irrational social/political adversary, perhaps based on a cherry-picked opinion you've seen, or perhaps from whole cloth.
Anything relating to equity, diversity or inclusion.
I think this is great. I'm going to take this in the spirit of the post and assume this is all for funsies and to be silly. But I think there are a couple of things missing from making this Most Satisfying:

* The sounds is not satisfying enough! It's too..."wahhhhhh" and not enough "ker-chunk!" like the writeup described. I think I get what he's going for, but it's not quite there. I want the same feeling I get when I flip a nice heavy switch. Some heft, some weight, some judder as it slams into place. I'm thinking of the feeling in the game Fez when you turn a wheel.

* The pattern of "hold and release to activate" is hard to get right and I still haven't seen it done well. Your animation must be nonlinear, because people are going to just tap. That's so little time that it's not enough to see anything happen. That initial animation has to pop out really fast and then slow down, to indicate to the user that they needed to hold it for a little bit longer for it to activate.
Ah yes, labour unions, that invention of 2010s woke culture... You seem to be a bit confused.
Climate change will transform how we live, tech experts see reason for optimism
People don't talk about world population because population growth is mainly happening in the developing world where environmental damage is small per capita compared to the developed world, particularly the U.S. The environmental benefits of not having kids in the developed world are however commonly discussed, for example https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/12/want-to-....

There's also a long history of people using environmental concerns related to overpopulation as cover for racism or other bigotry, so bringing up world population without qualification can feel, unfairly or not, like a racist dog whistle people are reluctant to engage with.
Also, recently: https://www.salon.com/2022/04/30/influencer-culture-is-every...

(Not about Gen Z specifically)