skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once subscribed to NYT. Canceling required a phone call, and the guy laughed out loud at me when I refused what amounted to a nearly free 6 month extension. Made me so mad, they'll never have me as a customer again.

I also decided I would never buy another subscription to a news site that also has advertising. In my perception, ads seem to be predictive of low quality journalism.

Most recently I've had an Economist subscription. I like them. They don't make canceling as easy as subscribing, and I do hold that against them, though they aren't as terrible as NYT.

But honestly, I let that subscription lapse and I don't buy any news right now. I actively avoid it, in fact. My sanity and happiness needed a break from the drip-drip-drip of negative stressful world events that I have exactly zero control over.
Ya looking at quantum computing (QC) from a programmer's perspective, I see issues with abstraction at multiple levels. Basically what's going on is that it's too narrow (tightly coupled to its implementation details), but also too broad (generalized over many disciplines) to easily transform it into simpler domains that are easier for humans to reason about.

So for example, in computer science we can explain basic data structures like binary trees and hash tables from whichever context a student understands. We can use pointers and references from C-style imperative languages. We can use car and cdr from Lisp-style functional languages. We can even jump up to higher levels of abstraction with associative arrays in Javascript. Or make the whole thing in key-value stores like Redis or even a SQL database or x86 assembly if that floats our boat.

But with QC, even its "assembly language" of Hilbert spaces and tensors is already so difficult to understand, much less apply, that the terminology feels like gatekeeping. There's no way to easily identify the smoking gun(s) which separate a QC simulation from qubits in the real world. It's like asking an assembly language teacher how a full adder works, but they throw up their hands and say that first we must understand Fermi levels and electron diffusion across a PN junction. Which while important, doesn't answer the student's question.

What's needed are simple transforms to go from any existing formula/algorithm to its "optimized" QC equivalent. I don't know if that can be done in a general way, like how we can switch from the time domain to the frequency domain with a Fourier transform, or take the derivative of an equation. Maybe it's more like an integral where the solution must be "found" by composing known integrals from a dictionary using heuristics.

But without those transforms, I see us being stuck in a QC winter for the foreseeable future. My words are imperfect, but I know precisely what I'm getting at here. I can't run with QC the way I would with any other programming language, and it really bothers me. To the point of, I'll probably have to actually learn it from first principles and write it up from a programmer's perspective! Someday.
I'm actually fairly happy with NYT. They still cover most topics, although generally I agree they aren't as great as they were. They are pretty much my local paper too I guess.

I like to stop by a news stand and pick up an Atlantic, or New Yorker from time to time, and whatever else seems interesting.
I know that matrix inversion was deliberately left out of the fortan built in functions
Smarking (YC W15) is hiring ML engineers to scale dynamic pricing for parking
But that’s exactly what I said: he created an environment where there people can create those awesome things but he doesn’t build rockets. He employs people who build rockets for him. All of them complement each other.
While they open the letter with statements about inclusion and diversity, their first demand / action item is as follows:

Publicly address and condemn Elon’s harmful Twitter behavior. SpaceX must swiftly and explicitly separate itself from Elon’s personal brand.

This is the spirit of their demands and they made it personal.
My experience is that the more you try to spell these things out, the more scope you give for bad actors to engage in language lawyering and make the problem worse.

Therefore as an employee I prefer these things to be vague and arbitrary, as long as I have some trust in the people making the decisions.

Of course in time they become formalized and problematic. Which is one of the disadvantages of working at a big company.
Plain text is cool and all, but I want to embed rich media, that's how my brain/the world around me works.

Yes org-mode, but I've tried multiple times to pick up org-mode but all the concepts and keyboard shortcuts that need to live in my brain just get wearying, maybe I take on too much too soon, but onboarding say Obsidian or Logseq just isn't such a cognitive drain.

People use Google/ddg for calculators/weather/etc because the search engine can work out what their intent is. Remembering a bunch of cli app names and how args are parsed etc, is again more cognitive load. There's no discoverability other than reverse searching your shell history and trying to remember the thing.

I used to envy people like the author who have this workflow that totally works for them, it's lots of Linuxes, lots of CLI, some tiling window manager, cool stuff. I'd love to be like this. However, it all involved cognitive load that GUIs, Search Engines and human focused design abstract away to reduce that load. So use whatever works for you and ignore what's cool.

I have a Thinkpad X230, the model up from the author, running Silverblue and Gnome. Works great. Things will probably change along the way, that's fine, the cost of managing those changes is still lower than learning to live in a CLI.
Base 1, no knuckles required :)
> I bet this info isnt written down explicitly except in this comment.

The comment links to the documentation, which says it explicitly...

And then, many other places in the documentation, e.g. https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/method.Window.set_modal.html

> Modal windows prevent interaction with other windows in the same application. To keep modal dialogs on top of main application windows, use gtk_window_set_transient_for() to make the dialog transient for the parent; most window managers will then disallow lowering the dialog below the parent.
You are wrong about his public persona. He seems to have always been this way. The first time I heard about Elon Musk was when he responded publicly to his ex wife's tell-all essay about their marriage. This was in 2010!
The most satisfying checkbox
For me it was around 2008, when kompiz came on Ubuntu ... those were good years.
You forgot to say why or provide any rationale.
Consumer demand is not something that just appears. Demand for oil has largely been induced by decades of urban, housing and transportation planning centered around the automobile. E.G I do not want a car; I don’t like driving and maintaining one is expensive, but I don’t have a viable alternative for many trips I need to make.

Planning according to policies set in large part by auto and oil lobbyists.
There are only 9 employers on planet earth with more employees than Amazon.
Everyone is Ludwig von Mises these days.

Time to start buying stock in Keynes.
I feel sad when I see replies like yours, because honestly I don't think you understood my point at all. If you combine all the other things you mention here, all of them together, right now, are incapable of addressing even 1% of our energy use, let alone be the backbone of a grid to manage intermittence. The cost analysis you describe is imaginary, because again, those technologies simply don't exist at scale. There is not a single country in the world that operates with any of your strategies, but most developed economies regularly use nuclear in their mix.

We could address climate change with nuclear today, or we could wait until these technologies are mature and cheap, which may come too late.
Then just say "unspeedwise". Easy. If you use ungood words, it's on you to not lead others to thinkcrime. If that's too much for you, just use the safe and well-understood A vocabulary.
Sounds like a bunch of very cool gobbledy-gook to me. My (extremely) layman's understanding is that this this is effectively better thermometers that could be useful for (among other things) bio-calorimetry.

My previous understanding of the word calorimetry was "indirect vs. direct calorimetry" - which (I think) are two techniques for measuring the energy used by some person either at rest or during. It's useful to understand how much energy someone is burning for obvious reasons related to health, nutrition, energy balance, etc. It seems like calorimetry has a much more general usage though, and it's pretty much the science of measuring heat transfers. Cool :}

There is so-much extremely-high-context science out there, and it would would be so fun and thought-provoking to keep up with some it it. It feels like my only options are a) spending a ton of time trying to parse extremely high-context articles (and probably misinterpreting them, like I do above), or relying on pop-science communication. The latter, to me, seems to miss most of the time - it usually simplifies things to just conclusions like "new X does Y," which feels like it misses most of the scientific processes while also misunderstanding the scientific spirit of this sort of knowledge...
Somewhat related is the Lispy approach of using generic data structures (e.g. cons lists); compared to the OOP approach of defining new (hierachies of) datastructures/types/interfaces (usually classes) for each use-case.

With the former, there's an ever-growing set of functions we call on our data; whilst the latter is incompatible with all existing code.
> I personally think its obnoxious and counterproductive for someone to call management out publicly. That's no way to operate an organization. Its a sign that someone is toxic.

Seems like we have come to the real root of things! We can agree to disagree.
Same, I am presuming that they will be kicking off all startups at some point so may as well move now.
To have stock (and for it to have value) you don't need to be a public company.
There's surely two orders of magnitude more people working in academia than in rocket science. Does your argument prove, then, that SpaceX is not the real world, either?

We are all in the same world; this whole "you are not real enough" argument is ridiculous, and doesn't really mean anything.
Pulling out one’s dick uninvited is fairly easy to classify as “jerk behavior”, or you know, “sexual harassment”, or you know, “criminal”.
Hacker News, $0/mo.

For following the war in Ukraine, I used "TLDR Daily":

https://www.youtube.com/c/TLDRDaily

https://open.spotify.com/show/3yoF2Uwd1JQsErhBHnGQKD?si=pk3F...
> Too many cooks in the kitchen sour the soup.

That sounds like a translation from another language? The English idiom is remarkably similar: "Too many cooks spoil the broth"
* at their wage levels
> If we're actually looking at an effective law, it would be one focused on educating industry participants,

We don't have data. Pursuing what has been effective is not a guarantee, but it's better than an experimental approach. When you pose "educating", I fail to see how this is any different than what I have stated. Education implies a standard, which is regulation.
Oregon House is actually in California: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_House,_California

It's a confusing name.
Easy is a comparative evaluation.

To someone it's easy to recompile Nautilus with one of the thumbnails support patches or implement thumbnails generation via an external script.

Literally.
> It’s worse than addictive, it’s requisite for live in many parts of the US. That didn’t happen by accident.

Yeah, because people prefer and choose to use modern, energy-intensive technology.

It's not like the oil companies forced cars or HVAC systems on people who didn't want them. What actually happened was people wanted to drive cars and live in warm homes without spending months chopping wood, and that created a lot of demand for fossil fuels.
Technically, the organization belongs to a group of shareholders, of which Musk is one. And apparently, Musk is now a minority owner.[1] And as chairman and CEO, Musk has a fiduciary duty to the other owners to act in the best interests of the company. I would argue that he failing to abide by that directive by failing to apply the "no assholes" policy to himself (along with the other points the letter makes), thereby harming recruitment and branding efforts.

Also, you're comparing complaints about the company's double standards with a cleaner complaining about shitty interior design? Do you really think those two things are equivalent?

1. https://wccftech.com/elon-musk-now-owns-less-than-half-of-sp...
This makes no sense. People who are banned from Twitter are still able to speak, just not on Twitter. (Or at least, not on Twitter using that particular account)

People who are fired from SpaceX have absolutely no access to the SpaceX communication channels they were fired for exercising the wrong kind of speech on.
Activists are usually the least productive because they have more than one dish they’re cooking.

But they’re also like a group dedicated to “saving the spotted skylark” once they save the skylark, their mission is complete. Do they disband? Of course not!!! Let’s find a new cause, the threatened fire ant!
Car centered suburbia is a nightmare of living in parts of the US for teenagers. You can't visit your friends without having someone pick/drop you. Not an immediate concern for you, but just something to consider.
> Blanketing thousands of people across the company with repeated unsolicited emails

So a normal day in any business with more than a few hundred folks.
It makes sense, kinda. When your public and private social programs are numerous and disconnected, getting a job can mean losing a lot of benefits while qualifying for others.

e.g. my employer had a session about their benefits package: If I was on welfare, this would be a change in how everything works. It would have been nice if they had a session on our national pension scheme since I was now obligated to start paying into that.
Because people died fighting for democracy in politics. Yet we accept complete authority when it comes to our private lives. Ridiculous.
I've also found it quite hard to predict things, especially about the future. So I have a hard time being mad at the fed on that account.
>The poll—which surveyed 1,503 people across the country between May 4 through 17—found 55% of Americans don’t believe transgender women and girls should be allowed to compete in high school sports.

>Almost 60% of those surveyed were opposed to transgender women and girls’ participation in college and professional sports.

>Americans were less likely to oppose transgender women and girls’ participation in youth sports, with about a third of those surveyed saying transgender women and girls should be allowed to compete, while 17% said they did not have an opinion.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/only-3-in-10-americans-sup...

>According to the poll, roughly two-thirds of Republicans now believe “parents should be allowed to sue school districts if teachers discuss sexual orientation [70%] or gender identity [66%] when teaching children in kindergarten through grade three.” Independents agree (46% and 47% percent, respectively) more often than not (34% and 36%). And a significant minority of Democrats concur as well (25%, 22%) or aren’t sure (16%, 17%).

And keep in mind that is not people who have read the bill, so they could be basing it on the name.

https://news.yahoo.com/poll-only-52-of-democrats-oppose-flor...

This is when people read the bill

>When registered voters were shown the actual language of the bill, which prohibits age or developmentally inappropriate sexual education in pre-K through third grade, they supported it by more than a two-to-one margin.

>Overall, 61 percent of voters supported the text of the bill. Just 26 percent were opposed.

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/poll-americans-support-text...
I heard a rumor that Amazon is flying people in from out of the country to work for $15hr. However, I did a search and cannot find any documentation on this. 22mins into this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1dBTcY8nvg
This whole charade feels exactly like ISO-9000 and SOX compliance. Both were a pretty simple idea: document your policies, and document your adherence to the policies. In practice however, mid-level managers at Fortune 500's sprang into action to implement every idea thrown at them by white papers, underwritten by auditing firms, who would then be hired to come in and judge whether the company was adhering to their recommendations for compliance, which ultimately had very little to do with either precision and accuracy (in the case of ISO) or separation of roles and security (in the case of SOX).
Leaked Audio from TikTok Meetings – US User Data Repeatedly Accessed from China
Consider reading the linked post, the author includes screenshots identical to yours and explains that that is not what they mean.
Yeah, the 7-layer model kinda captured the public mind. Only up to layer 4, though.
No, the difference is Meta is a publicly traded company, SpaceX is not. Meta don't want this kind of negative publicity since it directly affects their stocks price, mishandle these things can lead to lawsuit from investors. For SpaceX, they don't have to care about any of those things.
My energy usage estimate is also based on daily use. And even if we extrapolate it to a 10x increase, 55000 GwH, and it could be available now, we would not even achieve the same levels that nuclear already does just in the US, today. Every discussion we have on debating batteries as alternative to nuclear must tackle this obvious issue.
I paid for LA Times but it logged me out so frequently that it became very frustrating to use. NY Times on the other hand never logs me out.
This is a textbook strawman argument. Literally no one is saying the thing you're arguing against.
In fact, all the recommendations in the screenshot are wrong or useless. This is the example they chose to showcase the awesomeness of this software? Amazing.
For multicore CPUs or GPUs, 30% lower power means, you get 30% more performance at the same power.
Just ignore the parentheses. Setting them to the background color may enforce that.
Also, saying it's made with nanotubes kind of implies that nanotubes was used as transistors. Instead, "nanotubes" seems to be used as a substrate, and the transistors are formed using traditional oxide doping.
I'm curious if Amazon retail was equally efficient in the past, say the early 2000s. Was warehouse management the same?
I was at the building recently for an event, and I peeked into the 'office' and there were servers. Like 8 of them. There's absolutely no way they're going to be mirroring data in this location. They might establish another location within Canada for doing backup but if you're serious about DR having something in Vancouver isn't exactly the best idea. Most companies would choose to locate in the interior of BC around Kelowna / Kamloops region.
There’s some research on AI, eg at Microsoft Research.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.3489
Oh give over. Norse gods are european, and with greek, roman and egyption gods, we've had thousands of years awareness & contact with those cultures.

> who were considered inferior by the europeans who "conquered" them

Anyone who wasn't a catholic was probably considered subhuman by the truly appalling conquistadors

> indios are supposed to be stupid and ignorant

news to me.
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My point wasn’t that the failed banks were megacorps, it’s that banking commissions just say “you’re insolvent”, then the FDIC steps in and sells to the highest bidder.

The highest bidder is naturally a mega bank, which the members of the FDIC worked at previously.
> the Athletic for sports

I would be wary of supporting The Athletic at this exact moment. Just last week they issued new corporate directives to their journalists barring them from covering anything political. This might sound good in theory, people follow sports as an escape from their life including topics like politics. However, there is no way to talk about sports intelligently without the ability to discuss politics.

What is currently happening in golf is a great example. A new league has just started up that is financed by the Saudi government as a means of sportswashing[1] their international reputation. Discussing a league like this without touching on politics would be both inherently lacking and a gift to the Saudi government.

I would recommend a subscription to Defector if you are looking to a sports site to support. Here is their article[2] on the new rules at The Athletic.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportswashing

[2] - https://defector.com/the-nyt-owned-athletic-lays-down-new-no...
Well, you could say the same about all dictatorships, whether organizations or countries: if you don't like it, leave it (unless you can't, e. g. North Korea). But I think this argument is flawed, to say the least. After all, an employment contract (and labour law in general) acts both ways - it's not a subordination of an employee to an employer.
I tend to agree with this conventional Econ 101 wisdom, but your comment got me wondering if raising the minimum wage would have an effect of driving people to build skills and push harder. I.e. think of a minimum wage as the government saying to workers, ‘Hey, if you want to be part of this economy, you better be at least X productive.’
The prospect of massive food shortages and potential global famine has really activated my almonds.
Chemist here. Every few years, someone has the novel idea that we should have open data for all chemistry laboratories, so then we can do Better Science. And like every other proposal I've seen, this one will get approximately zero traction because it doesn't address any of the core issues behind why laboratory data is currently closed.

I try not to be too pessimistic about it, because it really would be great if there were more open chemical data. I just really doubt anything could accomplish that without remaking the US university research system from top to bottom.
I read somewhere that a potential cause of this is empathy fatigue caused by the global pandemic.

We've been subliminally encouraged to be empathetic towards our fellow neighbours, if only because we're all (or were) suffering under the same spectre of COVID-19... think back to banging pots and pans for first responders, etc.

Now, I suppose the empathy has run out for some. I'm hearing first-hand from doctors that their patients treat them worse than pre-COVID.

Me, personally, I'm seeing inconsiderate behaviour everywhere. Using your car to force your way into a lane more often than prior, general entitled behaviour, thinking of "me me me".

Perhaps it's a natural (if terrible) reaction to having thought of "us us us" for two years.
It is not politics to avoid talking about politics and religion. Stop imposing your personal view onto others and leave people alone. Work is work. Most of us work for the check and try to work on cool projects and keep the politics and religion for private discourse with people at home or at the pub.
I don't feel the need of "visual scripting" in mainstream software.

What I miss is RAD tools, the power and development speed of tools like Borland Delphi, Borland C++ Builder, Windows Forms. They made a breeze adding a GUI to an app.

Doing GUIs only in code is tedious and boring.
Yes, programs such as this, like in Switzerland (well, I think you gotta do it yourself there, still), have totally ended the homelessness and drug addiction problems.
I'm not an expert, but it seems like the test only received "clearance", not "approval". Many people conflate these terms even though they represent very different regulatory standards. I'm not sure it even makes sense for a purely diagnostic thing like a blood test to get "approval".