skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A sfar as we know, the problem of solving the Schrodinger equation would be exponentially faster on a quantum computer than the fastest possible non-quantum computer. Given that "neuromorphic" computers are classical computers, we don't know of any way to achieve a similar speedup for this problem, so we can at least say that there are applications for which we need a QC if we want to solve them. Of course, it's possible that those are far fewer than "neuromorphic" computers, so it may make more sense to invest more in the latter.

Note that I'm putting neuromorphic in quotes because it's mostly a marketing term, the resemblance between memirstors and neurons is at best symbolic.
Bay Area tech giants announce massive layoffs on same day
https://postgrest.org/en/stable/index.html for the backend? You'd still need to write the front end of course.
> It turns out that debugging failed integration tests is easy,the bug is in the last thing you changed. Sure the test covers hundreds of lines, but you only changed one.

That’s not true.

A correct change might expose an existing bug which hadn’t been tested or expose flaky behavior which existed but hadn’t been exercised. In both cases the solution is not to revert the correct change, but to fix the buggy behavior.
Yeah, some people are brainwashed to the level they don’t even recognize that they’re spreading propaganda themselves.
This is a byproduct of 10-15 years of low rates - in the 1-2% area. Corporations could borrow in the money market for that 1-2%. They then purchase residences of all kinds - even build. This is houses, apartments, condo-style or not. In this tight rental market they then rented them out in several ways - short AirBNB type, weekly/monthly/annually - there are steady demands at all levels. The shorter times at higher rents ---annually = lower. They hire rental managers - often existing ones that do this. All of these models earn in the 10-20% area (some even more). Cities have long sucked $$ from hotels that do this with hotel taxes. Cities hate them, hotels hate them, people who need to find a place to live hate them. They can operate in a stealth mode - who knows who rents this flat/suite or that. Rental agents screen out the bad tenants who would draw too many flies = city inspectors who have tried to outlaw/tax these.
Cities could make these subject to commercial real estate taxes, like a small variety store. (in Toronto if a flat pays residential real estate taxes - a store of the same size pays about $4000 business taxes).
This would require a large and intrusive city regulatory structure because there are 20 times as many assorted flats compared to businesses, so that ratio of inspectors would be needed as a lot of door knocking would be needed. There would also be a huge degree of evasion as well as missed tenants at home = even more inspectors? This can be corrected with huge fines to coerce people as well as finance inspectors. There could also be leaker rewards?
This is the root cause of the housing cost increases. There are many vacant places, since these units earn well at 50% vacancy rates, even as Joe +wife +kids are forced out of cities by this mechanism.
Building more houses will help, higher rates also curb the profits made and people exit the business. The best way is to make it illegal in some way - yet we need rental apartment houses? Getting rid of the sub renter market will help with units run as AirBNB places at assorted tenures...
Sure, if you want to discard the first amendment.
Spanish has its own obstacles. Like all the conjugations and the subjunctive. Or how verbose it is.

Meanwhile compare it to English tense grammar like I did run, I do run, I will run.

I don’t think technical language comparisons are all that enlightening about which one is “best”.
Asking "Are you talking about cheeseburgers" is my favorite advice in this thread. Trying to learn it from Google Translate now, thanks!
Hossenfelder has been in Physics for more than 25 years and is a seasoned researcher and communicator. Her “academic rank” shouldn’t and in fact doesn’t have any bearing on her impact.
more like, cutting off heating to the building, telling everyone to wear sweaters, and just wait and see if anyone has a serious medical emergency.
> I find it a little sad that in order to disagree with me you have to be mean about it.

I didn't find what was written to be mean. Eleanor Roosevelt said,

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

If you feel sad, that's fine, I just want to point out that this is a choice we all make. Sometimes there is wide agreement on what constitutes offense, and we use this to justify the secret removal of other people's content. But offense is inherently subjective, and such secretive removals rob us of chances to sharpen our counter speech. Rather than trying to make perceived hateful conversations secretly disappear, I think we are better off allowing each other to prepare counter arguments to offensive speech.
Speaking as a former manager, it is your manager's responsibility to enforce English only.

Speaking as a non-native English speaker, working in a FAANG office where nearly everyone speaks a certain language that's not English, when visitors or others who don't speak the language are present, we use English exclusively. Anything else is (correctly) considered rude - there are few things less welcoming than someone speaking above your head in a language they know you don't understand.

Just as an example, a colleague from a Ukrainian office is temporary working from ours, while his office and home are unavailable. In a 90-person all-hands meeting, he was the only person who doesn't speak the local language. The meeting was held in English.
Because rust is a tool and not a soapbox. I mean I can't stop them from supporting whatever cause, but I don't care to hear it and I'm 100% for the Iranian people "removing" the current regime and starting an egalitarian democracy.
> Implication doesn't have anything to do with causality and in fact the concept of implication in mathematical logic is broken

I disagree, it's seems very obvious that if-then connectives are a crude causal description. Yes, the crude form is problematic because it's crude.
> If the world did not exist outside your echo chamber, then it wouldn't be a problem.

I don't think the Meta Quest Pro is there yet, but maybe one day the tech will get good enough.
This isn’t inherently fast fashion, and on-demand shirt printing isn’t a new thing. I had a cafepress t-shirt I used for ~10 years and only got rid of it because I lost weight.
I'm sick and tired of this pop science. Write research papers don't clot my YT feed.
Not this forum, but rather the US government:

“NSA intends that all NSS will be quantum-resistant by 2035, in accordance with the goal espoused in NSM-10.”

Source: https://media.defense.gov/2022/Sep/07/2003071836/-1/-1/0/CSI...
The original computers were big because they were mechanical, and they shrunk by being reduced to electric and due to more precise engineering.

QC are big because the energy levels are so high that they require complex equipment to focus energy and remove heat, akin to the tyranny of the rocket equation.
Because people are starting to recognize recycling for what it is: A largely performative societal ritual that gives us the illusion we are doing something and nothing else. And on top of that we have TWO garbage collection systems that take it to the same place! How much extra resources do we use - fuel, manpower, etc. - to support this duplicity?
This is where I would argue other sites like Glassdoor and others come into play.

I prefer not to blur the lines, but I guess in today's digital world that isn't possible. Just to be clear, I agree that we need to hold one another accountable in our actions...just not sure what makes the most sense.
The problem is that it frequently detours from interesting discussions points to do things like dump on Greenpeace. Not interesting. Being elsewhere on the political spectrum doesn’t discount the interesting points, it just injects too many wacky ideas to make it possible to engage with. Ratio of density between interesting points and fever swamp ranting too low. Trash rag.
China's latest rocket debris crash blasted by NASA, ESA space chiefs
The original Greenpeace article (the submitted article links to it), is much better than the submitted article.

https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/news/new-greenpeace-report-pl...
But (as stated) they disagree on most things. Because they are both usually in the opposition to the governing parties, they do opposition work and present dissenting opinions on vaccine efficacy, war support etc.

Often these few common topics overlap with the libertarian viewpoint.
The heat gun, on the other hand ...
How many qubits vs larger keys?
> Since when were they?

>> particularly struck me was that he laid off the entire accessibility team. For me this feels like a microcosm of the whole situation. Twitter’s priorities are no longer even remotely aligned with my own.

Since you have ignored those sentences - you had to make "crazy" assumptions.
The list of things that have to be encrypted 30 years from now is very, very small. I doubt any (many?) people here have contact with any of it. I don't understand your analogy at all, sorry.
Yeah I think you might be missing the point - the aim with these protests is to toe the line between getting news attention without getting it for the wrong reasons. The actual protest and the cause do not have to be perfectly matched
A grocer near me (California) still operates this way for certain items. My wife and I go there for cream and milk from a nearby dairy and there's a $1 (I don't remember the exact value, it may be $2 or even $3) deposit on the bottle. Bring the (clean) bottle back and you can swap it for a new bottle or get your deposit back.
That's right. I'm a defective human who isn't as good as you evidently are at somehow participating in a phone conversation on a cellphone speaker over freeway noise, or walking around with my head pressed against a tiny little device pressed against my shoulder for hours. And the millions of people who also find these tasks physically uncomfortable or difficult are just not as fine physical specimens as a robust and fit as yourself. Condescending much?
I don't think we disagree because both of what we say is true at the same time. It's not either/or.
Dick-RNN: A recurrent neural network trained to draw dicks. (2020)
It would be very interesting to see the funding sources of this journal and whether plastic manufacturers are contributors. The plastics industry has created the myth of plastic recycling and perhaps it now wants to undo that as it realizes that the public still wants to get rid of single use plastics.
>Obviously false statement, given the genre of fiction.

Obviously we are aware of the genre of fiction. Or science fiction for that matter. Or superhero comics, or supernatural stories, and so on. So my point wasn't that e.g. vampire fiction doesn't exist or isn't interesting to writers and reader.

But nothing in the genre of fiction is really about the impossible. That is just metaphor and plot device for what was, is, or can be.

If there's a superhero with laser eyes and super-strength, it's not about the superhero, but about the idea of heroism, the responsibility of power, the connections with people, the repercusions of actions, and so on. It's the connection with the existing and the possible that makes it interesting.

The non-realistic part is just background.
> Shipping is currently limited to outside Europe

So you ship to North Korea but not Germany? Got it.
> Who would make those decisions?
Some anarchists have everyone vote on such matters. Some have a legal system that is elected.

> Do you have agreed upon shifts?
Yes. These are established by vote of the workers.

> If someone shows up late or doesn't show up, is there some consequence meted out by someone?
Yes.

Rather than using prices to set which work is desirable people vote on it. Some anarchist societies today distribute undesirable work across the entire community. Everyone takes one cleaning shift a week for example.

If you're curious, you should read The Dispossessed. I especially recommend that book because it does not paint a utopian picture of an anarchist society. And most anarchists will be honest that you will loose benefits moving from a capitalist-statist political economy to an anarchist one. The goal in moving to an anarchist society is not to create a society where individual access to material wealth is the same as in a capitalist society. The goal is to create a society in which the unstated forms of domination that exist in "free" societies today are weakend.
> Stephen Wolfram would die before he gave up control, the entire thing is his precious child.

I understand that Wolfram made unrealistic agreements with the original programmers, incompatible with growing a large organization to support his evolving vision for Mathematica. Rather than renegotiating, he attempted a maneuver that did not survive a court challenge. The original programmers are now rich.

I cannot find any account of this on the web. There's an unrelated "Fields medalist car accident" that I again know from first-hand accounts, that also has no trace on the web. Huh.
True in theory, not true in practice. It might work if all the random people on the internet used cURL to visit my websites but they tend to use browsers that are Chrome based. And Chrome's QUIC (or the underlying quiche library) differs how Chrome's H1 and H2 implement TLS. It will not accept a self-signed cert during a HTTP3 QUIC connection. Even going localhost (defeats the point, but to check) and trying --disable_certificate_verification --allow-insecure-localhost will not work.

Like I said, the megacorps that designed QUIC designed it for their use cases and that does not include allowing human people to host websites by themselves. Not if it potentially impacts e-commerce security. Their implementations reflect this.
> director of research at Bank of America said that quantum computing will be “bigger than fire”. The only way in I can see this coming true is that it’ll produce more carbon emissions.

I laugh so hard on this. But it's true.
I'm 40 myself. I also came here from Slahdot. What attracted me to HN was that /. culture at the time (during 2000s) was VERY pro open source. In my youth I was a fierce OS advocate, including founding a LUG and whatnot.

Reading HN comments and stories at that time felt fresh: There were startups making money with software, there was people that valued different things and could have a good discussion. I think it was me naturally maturing from my 'communist' youth to 'capitalist' adulthood.

Funnily as time passes it seems theres more pro-open source feeling in here. Even some of the Destop Linux discussions that happen here remind me of old /. discussions. And it's hilarious that I'm often on the opposite side of the argument from when I blindly defended Linux 20 years ago.
When the fractal tasks are actually blockers, I call them “yak shaving.” Not strictly correct, but I’ve never had a better term for it.
New view on the brain: It’s all in the connections
This is the guy that made a video card from scratch, neat.
For civilian applications, sure. But Shor’s seems like a good enough reason for defense and defense have deep enough pockets to get this somewhat rolling.
I don't know what was the intention of the one who posted this poll, but for us in computing, it's relevant to know what we have experienced. For instance, if you were born last century, there's a good chance that you've personally experienced MS-DOS, Windows 95, and floppy disks; someone born this century might have started their computing life without having to worry about CONFIG.SYS, AUTOEXEC.BAT, high memory, and other 16-bit arcana. Someone born last century could have experienced the world before the Internet (and the dial-up world of BBS), while someone born this century most likely already had good Internet access as a child (in the developed world at least). And so on.
Some previous discussions:

"I Spent Hundreds of Hours Working in VR"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29978036

and

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28678041

The latter discussing this classic "Working from Orbit" article (below) has been linked before, but it's from a clear fan, which is not necessarily representative. But it demonstrates it works for some - and that's with the Quest 2.

https://medium.com/immersedteam/working-from-orbit-39bf95a6d...

I haven't tried it myself extensively, but personally I think the tech and software is not quite there yet for full comfort and practicality (eg text legibility) - at least on a plug-and-play level - for the average interested user.
The definition, applicability, scope, etc., of tech industry standard NDAs is very clear cut. Presumably Twitter didn't insert some uniquely odd clauses.

Trying to create vagueness where there is none seems like motivated reasoning
Or simply have multiple people sign off on which software version gets installed.
The special purpose is figuring out what the special purpose is :)
> Having said that, the fact that the 16-20 and 21-25 is so under-represented doesn't bode well for the future of the website.

I don't think it necessarily says all that much; at that age many are probably busy doing a lot of other things: going out, dating, studying, getting your career off the ground, whatnot. Things like children that you may have later in life also take up a lot of time, but the patterns of that are different (e.g. more "quiet evenings" at home).
> It took a long time for you to get around to it, but was the reason your comments keep getting moderated because you show up in every gender / transgender thread dropping links and "just asking questions"?

No, this is only the second time I've discussed the gender/trans issue. My comments generally get moderated for containing links to Reveddit.

> More important than the content of speech in social media moderation is the behavior. You demonstrate bad behavior here.

What is the bad behavior to which you are referring?
No worries. Thanks a mil for taking the time to answer.

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That seems like the default position for both those things? How could you not unless you’re an alt-right shitposter?
The porn industry adopted VHS and managed to make it the standard, basically
When Trump was elected there were some protests for a few days near a local college. I went to check them out and noticed the students struggling to find political music to play over loudspeakers. They had nothing in their playlists for it. RATM got played over and over because that's all they could find. Songs from 28 years earlier.

A similar experience happened near the same area after George Floyd. They couldn't find any hip hop or trap that had current political themes. So, they played NWA F** da Police over and over. A song from 32 years earlier.

I sincerely believed both of those events would spawn a new generation of protest/political music. Didn't happen. Or, if it did I can't find it. I look sometimes in Reddit forums.
Culling Containers with a Leaky Bucket
Embedded development is not like web development
No, just me. Seriously though, every time I try to make a joke, I get downvoted, is it generally unacceptable or my sense of humour sucks?
Most every European country has bins for collecting plastic. People shouldn't be burning it themselves, just collect it in the appropriate bin and send it to the incinerator.
Right. Yeah the people claiming law breaking seems to come from a few (5) employees who started a lawsuit on the day of (may even be a coincidence). NYT and others blindly parroted the info that a suit as been filed (of course, in NYT's language, it's like: "laid off employees sue Twitter for breaking employment law!")

The only claim someone might have is if they individually fully terminated in the past ~30 days. Then there is question about whether they were "part of" the layoff or not and therefor required more days of payroll / benefits.

This is why in a medium+ company, if you are fired even individually, they often pay the 60 days salary + benefits, with any severance on top. It leaves them the option of being able to fire other people in the same time period without exposing them to a BS lawsuit where the plaintiff/s may claim they were part of a layoff and weren't given 60 days.
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Unfortunately, it’s not localised nor for mine, nor for most countries.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31196328 from 6 months ago links to "30k New Users Signed Up for Mastodon After Elon Musk Bought Twitter" at Vice - https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7npd7/30000-new-users-signe... .

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31175527 also 6 months ago links to "Twitter buyout puts Mastodon into spotlight" at https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2022/04/twitter-buyout-puts-ma...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31154911 also 6 months ago links to "More Users Flock to Mastodon After Musk's Twitter Acquisition Bid" at https://www.pcmag.com/news/more-users-flock-to-mastodon-afte...
Obviously there is a limit in the physics of the thing. And now that someone is peeing in the pool, we can no longer have nice things.
>Is anyone else using non-silicon materials yet?

Gallium
Jesus that packaging and name is bland. If you swapped the nationalities of the respective companies, people would be screaming "cheap knockoff".
We both know that this will be applied against will be applied universally to more nuanced scenarios than that. It shouldn’t be.

More often the “fact-check” is synonymous with “what we know based on publicly-available information” than what is objectively true (or, as more often is the issue, what is untrue). This basically rules out anyone from being able to credibly whistleblow/call attention to something known only by a few that would be incendiary if it became widely known. Knowing and proving are often in different arenas, and I don’t think constraining conversation to only facts that can be checked is helpful for genuine discourse.
My brain isn’t into the future because of climate change, the threat of WWIII/nuclear war, The Economy, possible future pandemics like the one of 2020, and not being able to retire until I’m 70. But please do Gee Wiz me all you want about logical fallacies, nautil dot us.
A test should have as many assertions as needed to test an interface. If you find you’re needing a lot of assertions to do that then I suspect either the interface under test is too large or you’re testing multiple stack frames. In my experience, it’s usually the latter; I call it accidental testing. Those delegate calls should have their own tests.
> this is a forum for entrepreneurs and software engineers

While the demographics certainly skew in that direction, one of the nice things about HN is that it's not just software people. While I certainly comment more on software-related matters because that's where my expertise is, the largest value I get out of HN is from non-software/IT stories and the comments on those.

So I would strongly disagree with "this is a forum for entrepreneurs and software engineers". I'd probably stop coming here if that was the case.
They probably meant adding
It does vary greatly on location. I'm in Grass Valley, CA which is a rural area but fairly densely populated, verging on suburban. The service was good until they added too many customers. It sounds like you're in an area that isn't overloaded; that's great!

(I'll still quibble with "excellent"; even when not congested I find latency is higher than advertised and highly variable. Also the service is not as reliable as I'd like, many 1-2 second outages.)
I think it is gone again, but after reading the article you linked it makes sense why it is coming and going.

"Users are able to vote on whether the fact-checks are helpful or not. They can appear or disappear based on how many people found them to be helpful, Twitter's Vice President of Product Keith Coleman said Friday."