skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You actually can't sign up on mastodon.social at the moment. I thought the same, all the instances are for weirdly specific groups I'm not in. You don't have this problem with email, there's no requirement to choose an email address that matches your political tendencies, sexual kinks etc.

I eventually chose fosstodon.org which seems like about the most vanilla thing that's open to new users and where I have a decent claim to being the right kind of person. I suspect a lot of people will look at the long list of furry-centric instances and conclude Mastodon is not for them. IDK, maybe that's considered a feature.
I find debuggers more valuable with dynamically typed languages, especially Python. It's handy to be able to drop a `breakpoint()` in the middle of a script when you have no idea what a function is actually returning. The happens more often than you might think.
Why does nearly everyone return shopping carts?
There is no "paradox". C++ is dangerous because of memory management and awful semantics (undefined behavior/etc), both of which are orthogonal to static typing.

It's a bit like saying that there's a paradox: everyone says that flying is safer than driving, but experimental test pilots die at a much higher rate than school bus drivers!
Yeah, borrowers can refinance in the US. We have a few times as rates dropped. Now that they’re going up, we’re locked in at a great rate and don’t have to worry.
That’s ironic considering one of Elons main principle is to remove parts and requirements. The best part is no part and all that.

I’d be more interested in how many lines of code someone prevented.

But I guess if these groups had the impossible goal of choosing how to rate engineers they don’t know then you need to find something objective to point to.

(Maybe in future jobs we should commit tons of code and write a bot to delete it a few minutes later.)
The ability to rotate 45 degrees is equivalent to the construction of a magic state, as you have correctly identified, as it is not a clifford operator, and adding it to your generators gives universal quantum computation on its own. You have pushed the problem sideways.

This is the paper, https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0403025, and it is well understood by the paper that the independence of the noisy magic states is necessary for the distillation process to proceed. Note that the probability of having some entanglement between your partial states goes up rather dramatically with the number of them that you have, and not obviously in a way that you can do anything about.
Good for you if you're not affected, I guess. For many people, Internet trolls can cause psychological harm. This is not some obscure thing. Teens have been committing suicide due to bullying on the Internet for decades.
> Then you have 30 plants to take care of and find space for.

Pothos are pretty much vines, so seems pretty easy to put the pot on a high surface and let them fall down or creep along, unless they're too structurally solid to do that?
A way to create negative energy / mass. Until then, an Alcubierre drive remains just a theory
> and the director of that movie will be able to control what other movies you get to see

That’s not true though, is it?

Aren’t you able to consume content from anywhere else in the fediverse?
Just don’t care about what the first thing people will see that’s specifically about me says about me? I don’t think I can bring myself to do that.
You're overthinking it. Find an instance that seems friendly and sign up. If it turns out you don't like it there, you can migrate to another one; barring defederation issues, everyone who is following you on the old instance will follow you on the new one automatically. Unfortunately the list of people that you follow isn't automatically migrated, but some front ends reduce the pain of this by letting you export a list of follow-ees on the old instance and then import it on the new one.

Just do it!
...This still ignores examples where sexual characteristics don't actually fit a binary, though. These are edge cases, yes, but they are edge cases that occur in nature. This is why cases like the bee example are important--bees have sexual trimorphism. Drones, workers, and queens all have different sexual characteristics that affect how they reproduce. Based on the reproductive function of bee anatomy, sex is not a binary for bees.

Also, I'd like to point out--for the record--that the ability to change one's sexual characteristics, and the presence or absence of sexual characteristics, has almost nothing to do with one's gender (beyond avoiding body dysphoria). This is an important distinction to make, because while we don't have full ability to change a person's sex (i.e., we don't have artificial wombs yet), a person's gender can be independent of their sexual characteristics (as evidenced not only by trans people, but also by intersex people who identify as cisgender).
With my team leader, or architect and also higher mangar like CEO I am free to say "I don't think we should do it this way, issue is ...". Or just "sorry not task for me".

They may disagree and push back, but I am sure I won't be punished. Side effect is that they are used to argue for what they won't and completely ridiculous decisions (like judging by loc) are avoided.
What happens if somebody manipulates the software after the install?
FTL at 10 years old – The making of an enduring spaceship simulator
Isn't the issue here that you're putting such a weight or strong conviction on Elon as any promises he makes are gospel, the problem is you're putting him on a pedestal and under unreasonable expectations?

And I'm familiar with the Hyperloop: an almost vacuum tube system [vehicle on a skate that accelerates] that can travel up to 1,223 kmph. You're aware of Tesla and his success with SpaceX, that he's an engineer, and that they put out a 30+ page white paper on the Hyperloop outlining their math - and I'd trust math by a team who's running SpaceX, no?

So what specific claim and logic can you put forward that outweighs the proven expertise/competency of Elon, SpaceX et al? Anything? Or you just simplify things down to "grifter" and/or "conman" and that's satisfying enough for you?
Imagine being the guy that keeps his job because one time you checked in a third party library.
what's the tradeoff here? what are the downsides of these superplants?
One theory here: Moderation is hard work, people want something in return for hard work, reddit isn't willing to pay mods.

Inevitable result: Over time, the mod pool consists more and more of people who get something in return for the act of moderating itself. Either they get to push an agenda, they get to be petty tyrants, or both.

This could explain the pattern where for any given topic, you'll often see discussion of that topic splinter into several diametrically opposed subreddits which are constantly trying to dunk on each other. No one wants to moderate a sub which attempts to synthesize all the perspectives, but there is a supply of mods available for a sub that dunks on "the bad guys".
Better than nothing, but the level that plants "clean the air" is entirely negligible. Every time you open the door, enough air enters your house where you would need to dedicate an entire room of plants for multiple days to clean that air.

Just get a filter that can filter VOCs if you have that kind of concern. And then add plants as you wish to make you happy.
Take it to the bin downstairs almost daily. Or keep an airtight bin in the house and dread the day you have to clean it.
You wrote code, fired.
You've got lots of other alternatives: 1) You don't have to explain moderation decisions if you don't want to. This will of course amplify the volume of complaints.
2) You can step down. This "I'm a noble volunteer and should therefore be immune to criticism" attitude doesn't tend to be popular amongst those being moderated. Nobody is forcing you to do this. You may not be getting paid, but are presumably getting some sort of emotional benefit out of doing this job.
3) You can make references to anti-censorship tools a bannable offence, like some of the shittier subreddits do.

Fundamentally, you are getting mad at users making and comparing notes.
I will watch this one later, but I can totally understand the excitement.

Just for some background: in college I took an introductory digital logic class and loved it, but then I moved over to a humanities degree and lost a lot of that information. Then I started programming again, but mostly as a "self-taught" web developer-- not to undercut my high school and college work (I was on a HS programming team that was competitive), but most of what I use in my day to do day life are things I picked up from having to do increasingly difficult projects/tasks as a programmer interspersed with ocasional seasons of motivations where I'd pick up new techniques (functional programming, server management, front end web rendering frameworks, etc).

Ben Eater's long series on building a computer out of 65c02 and then his longer series on building a microprocessor from TTL logic chips hit an incredibly sweet spot for me.

I'd spent some time trying to teach my kids how to do basic electronics (building things like 555 timers or little robots with pi's for controllers, so I have some familiarity with the topic.

I suppose if I had the time and were motivated, I could have gotten some textbooks and learned the same material. However, his material was setup in a way that made it very easy to grasp as a passive consumer of the video. It feels like it covered the topic as deeply as I was interested and answered a lot of questions as it went along.

So, as a person who has enough familiarity with the concepts to find it interesting but no pressing need to master the material deeply, I highly recommend his work.
It looks like small piece of tin is where the magic begins [1]:

> An EUV system uses a high-energy laser that fires on a microscopic droplet of molten tin and turns it into plasma, emitting EUV light, which then is focused into a beam.

is the spectrum naturally pure, or is there some filtering/selection going on?

> The tricky thing with EUV light is that it’s absorbed by everything, even air. That’s why an EUV system has a large high-vacuum chamber in which the light can travel far enough to land on the wafer. The light is guided by a series of ultra-reflective mirrors

The system uses 1MW of power!

1. https://medium.com/@ASMLcompany/a-backgrounder-on-extreme-ul...
I’ve heard pathos described as “thriving on neglect”. When WFH hit I imagined empty offices choked and overgrown by pathos allowed to run amock. (Having said that I’m aware they need watered.)

Edit: Spelling.
No. I DO believe lines of code was used as metric. It's a fast way to protect the top code contributors. I just don't think it's the only thing taken into consideration like people are implying...

There are countless teams and examples for it being a horrible metric to solely fire on.

I just think it's not right to jump to conclusions like Dictator Elon fires engineers with low LOC.

All we have to go off of is they had review meetings where they had to show off the code they contributed and Elon "suggested to query for lines committed."
If you fire people based on LOC just because it's convenient for you (the employer), the good employees won't come back. They'll take a better-paying job at a place that doesn't treat them as disposable or try to screw with their lives.
The patents should be nearly expired by now.
Punching was an exaggeration, but the force can vary from a touch to smacking my knuckles against the back depending on how much of a hurry I'm in.

Hand eye coordination doesn't improve the amount of room between the water stream and the sink, but as your comment appears to be in bad faith I'm sure you already know that.

Perhaps your hands are 4cm long so they fit just fine?
We have recently added a system to support these use cases. I will see if we can add support for snap packages in the next weeks. Now tracking this internally at CC#2632.
Then signing up for a general instance (mastodon.social, mas.to, etc.) makes sense. It's like (as in exactly like) signing up for gmail vs. having a custom domain.
The force of law generally refers to criminal acts.

If a private property owner asks you to leave, and you do, you’ve done nothing wrong. They can of course ask you to leave for any reason, camera or no, so this is a red herring.

Civil law and criminal law are not the same thing, also. Being sued is not the same as being arrested and charged with a crime.

You are allowed to take photos anywhere you are allowed to be.
Yes but some of these companies cannot survive in a high interest rate world with a recession.
The fact that so much of this conversation has turned into “well he has the legal right to do this, even if it’s bad” shows how far standards have fallen.
CAaaS+P is the business model of the future.
Use Pleroma. It's much easier to setup and better architectured technically. Also all(?) ActivityPub servers support the old Twitter API, so some third party Twitter apps have support for it - Twidere on Android definitely does, at least.
I'm happy to admit I'm wrong on that. My understanding is the bit that makes (kg.m)/s^2 type equivalent to a N, equivalent to J/m is not implementable in the same generic way.
> western militaries can afford to hand out LAWS and MANPADS to their troops like sweets

They can't. These are expensive in the West due to the privatized defense industry racking up prices. Russia and China can. And countries like India, who buy from them cheap, can.
Agreed. I've been pasting this anywhere I see the frustration

Think of it like your phone number, it's a service and you need a provider. Choose one by location https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/mastodon-near-me_828094 makes no difference, they all talk to each other and you can move servers at any time

And it's curated for servers that are open for registration so hopefully no dead ends
Just out of curiosity, did you read this?

https://i.redd.it/a41q5e8ka0y91.jpg
Based on the OP post and the notion of a wait list for something that should be trivial to propagate as you mentioned, I'm guessing this whole thing is a $$/Month subscription to a proprietary variant of a common plant.

"Just one Neo P1, as the company dubbed its initial product, can remove as much pollution from a home’s air as 30 regular plants, the company says. Neo P1 was in development for four years, and is a bioengineered version of a common houseplant called Pothos."

What does this even mean? What is 'pollution' in this claim? Just grow and happily propagate regular pothos which are wonderful plants, and if you need to filter your air... get certified filters?
Yeah that bit feels weird. It's designed to require less water than normal, I assume because many forget to water their plant. It makes sense, given the cost. You can't very well have people accidentally killing an expensive plant. But they somehow expect people who can't remember to water to provide the same plant with a sprinkle of bacteria once a month?

I am also worried about proprietary plants, I don't know, maybe you can make cuttings? But yeah, still really cool.
Well, I missed the previous discussion. The brief is a hilarious read, so I’m grateful someone reposted it.
I don't think it was downvoted because people think it's an illegitimate question, but because it's generally seen as an imposition on people's time to ask a question that could be readily answered by clicking through to the site in question and having a look. That is, after all, what anyone else would do in order to answer the question. (I didn't vote on this comment.)
The Quantum Computing fiasco is fascinating and underline quite few human nature flaws.

- We're collectively less smart/rational than we think

- People with money/power are not much better than average

- We tend to be very gullible when we don't understand the underlying principles

The same human flaws can be seen in UFO/Conspiracy theories and to some extent in the crypto/NFT scene.

A lot of this is amplified to several orders of magnitude by incompetent journalism.
Tax it.
Juniors produce more code then seniors. Easy tasks produce more code then hard tasks. And the distribution of tasks is not random either, some people do more of easy ones others hard ones.
As much as I can just happily ignore JSON because I don't do webdev, I think there is a strong case to make that lists should be implemented using a native list, array, or vector class. But I won't argue because it's not necessary. The possibility for argument already proves my point.

My point is to show that "the type system" provides endless rabbit holes, and often is just a waste of time. There are a lot of situations where you want to represent a JSON document as a string. (Trivial example, as an embedding in an HTTP response object).
It is 'hostile' today also to a whole bunch of other freedoms. It isn't realistic to expect that India will automatically have the same values as the West, and while it is at that to also anticipate & go ahead of the West on that same yardstick, because only the West can define the values of the West.

What India does need to do is to define its own response to the question of how society views LGBTQ. In some cases, in some sections of traditional society, it has developed an answer that is inclusive and friendly. In some other cases it is simply copying from the West, which is what the mainstream discourse is also heading towards. The latter imo is not authentic and will fail India in the long run.
> That they let him launch the Cybertruck already

Huh? It's still vaporware. AFAIK they haven't even pretended to start production yet.
Code completion, search, cross referencing, and all sorts of other features in vim, emacs, and all kinds of other editors (including Visual Studio) predate LSP by decades.

LSP is cool though, an advancement certainly, but it is not a completely new thing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ctags
For better or worse hopefully they think the two examples the same.

Using the example above, "multiplying $100 with £20" can be achieved just by making the better engineer a remote employee paid in pounds. It adds the exchange rate into the mix, so the math will change over time, but conceptually the math is the same as the "dollar * dollar" example.
With the number of qubits required to break RSA, there's no reason why general purpose computing wouldn't be possible.
I've seen plenty of Lambda code developed in a "copy-and-paste" style, with little to no code sharing, similar to early CGI scripts from 25+ years ago. It makes maintainability incredibly difficult. The more shared code the better, in my opinion.
Class as a concept is somewhat orthogonal to type, at least to people into programming language research, who consider "type" to implicitly mean compile-time type. Classes are taken to refer to support for virtual method dispatch, while types refer to compile-time expression type-checking. In languages like Java, C++ or C#, the type of an expression corresponds to the class of the value it will have at runtime. However, in Python for example, compile-time expressions always have the type "any", but can have various classes at runtime.

This difference between class and type can even be seen in some of those languages. For example, the type *X has no corresponding class in C++ for any X. In Java, the type int doesn't have a class, and the types ArrayList<Integer> and ArrayList<Object> have the same class.
https://mastodon.social/ isn't allowing new signups, https://mas.to/ is returning a cloudflare error page for me.
It is installed on the endpoint.

It integrates with nfqueue on Linux and a kernel extension on Windows. It does not use a virtual interface.

The SPN (Safing Privacy Network; VPN alternative) is optional.

More details on the docs: https://docs.safing.io/
The inflection point sometime in the past two years when the Bee became funnier than the Onion was a pretty sad one for us long-time fans of the latter. The McSweeneysization of formerly good humor sites is one of the great tragedies of our ongoing culture war.
VOCs shouldn't be found in significant amounts in any home. If you do have VOCs you need to do something about it, not get an overpriced plant.
Its amazing how people do not make the same fuss for Murdoch owning a significant part of the media or Bezos buying WaPo and starting to shill for the defense industry etc. Not that CNN et al are different - its just that their majority shareholders are hidden behind more layers of investment.
It would be best if you had users and followers to broadcast messages. Right now, mastodon feels like a ghost town. But who knows? There was a time when MySpace was king. Only time will tell ..

Also, Twitter works because of eyeballs. However, with so many Mastodon instances, people need to learn and find out who the real @nixcraft is. Sorry to say this, but I don't think so; we have an actual Twitter replacement right now. In another six months, someone might build it, or Elon will make it better or send it to /dev/null.
> Birdwatch works differently than the rest of Twitter. It is not a popularity contest. It aims to find notes that many people from different points of view will find helpful. It takes into account not only how many ratings a note has received, but also whether people who rated it helpful seem to come from different perspectives.

I had to read this twice. Is it just me or is this Twitter officially acknowledging the issues with their platform (and by proxy all engagement optimized platforms), the main root cause and a solution in the same paragraph? And then proceeds to launch it only for a minor sub-feature of the platform as a whole?
20-somethings got us to the moon in the 1960s and are making reusable rockets right now, so I guess they must have SOME talents.
> If you're an engineer and made very few code contributions without a solid justification of why, I'd expect you to be on the chopping block...

At a company of Twitter's size you generally expect the junior and mid-level engineers to be writing most of the code and the more senior engineers to be implementing the trickiest bits, managing stakeholders, and writing design docs.

At the extreme end, engineers working to optimize performance might spend months painstakingly optimizing a single hot loop to save the company a few million a year (I've seen this happen).

Given this reality LOC, is so wrong for more senior engineers as to be a waste of time to even consider.
You can unless an admin specifically blocks another instance. It doesn't seem to be that common in practice (other than blocking the content that you'd expect to be blocked or, IIRC, a handful of servers that effectively de-federate).
And even if he was doing (mostly) programming, he would probably be assigned harder jobs than most, and may have spent the last months researching some gnarly bug, experimenting with all kinds of code variants, but committing not much yet.
Yes, businesses that cannot treat employees (and customers for that matter) shouldn't exist, so if that were the case, good riddance.
I work in chip design on single digit "nm" processes.

Interally we might say 5nm to refer generally and N5 or N5P to refer to a specific process. When you need more specific numbers you look it up. Exact design parameters are carefully protected trade secrets.

Commenters on Hacker News care a lot more about this distinction than the engineers working with it. Nobody cares that it is not gate length or half pitch.
Can slow neutrinos, in principle, be used to build qubits?
The Reading of Others
Is it easier to discover people on Pleroma ?
Does it fix the issues I mentioned?
I wonder how that compares just to some baggies with activated carbon.
Uhh I don't live in a country with a great firewall. The intel agencies get criticized very heavily in my information bubble. The shady stuff the NSA does is pretty well known. It's in movies all the time too, so I'm sure the mainstream even understands that.

And yet despite all the messed up stuff they do every day they still get held to a higher standard.