skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A nice thing about earlier forums (email chains, vBulletin), is that there was a defined order to the replies, unlike Hacker News, Reddit, or others, where each comment thread exists as its own thing, unconnected to the comments around it (except those it directly replies to). It's like having a thousand forum threads all running simultaneously on the same page. My brain doesn't handle that well. For anyone seeking an older-style forum with similar interests to Hacker News, check out the Hardware & Software or Developers sub-forums on https://knockout.chat/ .
It's true, what intelligence I have (not particularly impressive) has already caused me enormous suffering.

Yet, there's this piece inside me that tells me that "the only way out, is through".
>> Neuralink potentially has some major long term foundational changes, but the tech is probably 10 years too early to build a successful company around. (However I think this is potentially Musk's most important future company beyond Spacex.)

No it's not 10 years too early, it's 50 years late to the party - but your conclusion could very well be right regardless.
Non-invasive BCI surpassed everything Neuralink has done so far decades ago, however it's not super relevant since the capabilities of micro electronics skyrocketed; and perhaps indeed beyond SpaceX potential.
If you can't afford BCI for your children, in the future they will be doomed to be blue collar as all those who do will have children with brains supported or adjusted for them to pass the highest levels of education & training within shorter amounts of time thus will rule the world.
The most famous example of things like this already in use today is DARPA / US Snipers doubling some of their test scores using BCI. This is just the beginning.
See the link below for more information.
https://totaltdcs.com/uploads/docs/darpa-operational-neurosc...
Man, building an ECG. What is your job description? What kind of organization are you working for?

Also your English is excellent!
In most countries you are not technically allowed to work. They don't have a tax arrangement for you. You could not pay taxes if you wanted, because there is no system for you to be working.

You are paying taxes to your home country if you're American. If you're from another country and living abroad for enough days per year (depends on the home country), then you won't be paying taxes to your home country.

The place you're working remotely from still gets the benefit of you injecting revenue into their area, and you're not taking local jobs away.
Aww thank you! I’m often on here correcting people who think intellectual property restrictions encourage innovation, heh.
I wonder if someone could check who hasn't voted and send in mail in votes for those people?
> Schrodinger's eqn being linear has nothing to do with implementing non-linear functions.

Indeed. And it's possible SH is confused by this, since she had another video about quantum chaos in asteroids where similar observation applied and she didn't address that. However...

> There's no question about how you would implement the said logic in a quantum computer - you can just do what the classical implementation does. Yeah we don't have nowhere enough qubits and it would be a gross waste of resources, but we _do_ know how to do it. Saying they don't know how to do it is a false statement at best.

Here you're being a little uncharitable. Indeed theoretically one could make the quantum computer simulate the classical computer with the non-linear weather algorithm. But the interesting point Mrs. Hossenfelder may be making here is there is no known way to make quantum computers calculate/simulate the weather evolution in a "quantum computer way", that is, not simulating discrete-state classical computer which would be wasteful and most probably not with advantage, but realizing the differential equation evolution in analog mode, using the quantum superposition capabilities. That is not known to be possible. Quantum computer may be an analog computer (continuous evolution of state), but it is not clear how to use it to integrate interesting sets of differential equations like weather models.
These reactionary posts fail to do rational calculations. Letting go half of the staff exactly enabled $1B in debt servicing. Even though it might look reckless, it is clear that much of these staff wasn’t on critical path for running day to day operations. So, Twitter will keep running smoothly on infrastructure side. There is NO viable competition that exists for Twitter in same format. People creating Mastodon accounts quickly find out that it is unworkable at scale. I would expect $8/mo subscription getting picked up by most upper class/professionals as they open up more features to get your posts noticed. Currently, Twitter is mainly a website for top 1% to disseminate their message and it will slowly transform into top 5% decimate their message. Eventually this is win-win and erase out $4M/day losses. The thing I worry about is generating returns on Saudi+VC+bank investments which seems not much as user base and ad revenue have failed to grow despite efforts by multiple CEOs. There was a joke that it might be easier to make peace in Middle East than significantly grow Twitter profits. If Musk can pull that off, he will be business legend. Most likely he won’t but he can take it back to public when market swings high in 2-3 years where he can show turnaround from loss to little bit of profits and generate respectable returns for his investors through our 401k funded public markets.
You may have forgotten that the purpose of a lock is not to be opened in many useful ways, but actually to remain closed when you want it.
Don't ruthlessly cheat on your exams! It's not worth it :)

And get a good night's sleep before Monday, 8 hours minimum.
Aww thanks! I’ve got lots of fun hobbies for sure!
The idea here reminds me of one of my favorite blogs posts ever: https://justinjackson.ca/words.html
Good luck on the journey.

You may greatly enjoy this clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ3v2oGm6Sk.
Interesting experiment. This can only work once (in a great while), so cheers on being the one who did this lately.

However, as Facebook has proven, online connections are quick and fleeting (and largely meaningless).

Good intentions and well wishes are still appreciated though.
I’m sick and tired of paying soda stream. Mostly on principle. My wife really likes her carbonated water though. So much so she’s green lit a kegerator for the sole purpose of housing a 5 gallon corny keg of carbonated water! Carbonated water on tap. Even better, I can plumb it into the fresh water line so it’s continuous! Infinite soda water on tap… till the co2 tank runs out anyway.

I’m sure this is all old school to any home brewers. But it’s all new to me. Now to build it all…
Obviously the strategy for the first few weeks or months would have been formed months ago. Whilst DD for example is not performed for strategic reasons it remains critical to validating any strategic planning and decision making as those things are largely informed by what the information you have tells you about the business and it’s trajectory right now vs where you want it to be. So transition and short-term planning in all likelihood would have been finalised shortly after DD
Hah, even better.
It’s less politics and more his management style. I do not admire bosses who force their reports to work nights and weekends because of some wild, off-the-cuff promise that now needs to be fulfilled instantly. I do not admire bosses who tell their engineers to print out their commits on paper so their performance can be measured by LLOC.

I have posted about this a lot recently because I am worried that other tech leaders will take this to heart and treat their employees the same way.
I love Haskell! I once wrote an interpreter for an OOP language with Haskell, and I've loved the elegance ever since.
That is the idea. Want to go first? I will watch carefully.
Hello from sunny Cape Town, South Africa!

I'm passionate about data and am excited about what's happening in the space with DBT, DuckDB and Apache Iceberg! I contribute to [PRQL](prq-lang.org) to make working with data even easier wherever SQL is spoken. I would love to make this my full-time gig and am keen to chat to co-founders, VCs or existing startups. snth@github
Hello! Just drove home from the beach shack in Hawks Nest (beachside town in NSW Australia) to Sydney getting ready for the week ahead.

Whilst up in Hawks Nest I had a prehistoric visitor[0] visit our family and hiked a mountain[1].

[0] https://twitter.com/schappi/status/1588984902048894976?s=46&...

[1] https://twitter.com/schappi/status/1588985786481139713?s=46&...
"My priority is hackabilty for streamlined editing and code navigation. Here neovim run circles around vscode."

I hear this line a lot from hard-core vim users, but it's always talked about in the general. I'd like to hear a specific use case and exact scenario where a common workflow is faster in neovim over a more full featured IDE like JetBrains or Visual Studio.
Should be fun, and I’m guessing you’ll have a head start in Asian language support. What brought you to Tokyo?
Lock picking as others have pointed out is not the most common method of entry. But if you see one lock that is really hard to pick due to good engineering, they probably also spent effort to make it resist other kinds of attacks like kicking the door, etc.
Always interesting to see Bryan Cantrill, who runs a wannabe-company startup, give business advice to Elon Musk.
Letting Copilot "fill-up" portions of the code "learned" from open source code IMHO is fair. Most devs worth their salt even without using Copilot would eventually write approximately the same code given the same requirement. What should be taken to court is if code for an entire feature or features taken verbatim from somebody else's project or work.
You're wrong.

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/oasam/centers-offices/civil-rig....

You cannot prevent 2 people having a personal conversation in a different language from English.

But for the purposes of the business, it is fine to require English, otherwise how do you collaborate?

Now let's imagine a watercooler chat. 2 colleagues talking in whatever language, and a 3rd one walks up, gets a drink and now is by default excluded. Legally it's all good, but in my opinion, that 3rd person will feel left out.
Hello! Getting back to work tomorrow after enjoying a month off, so that should be a shock to the system :) Looking forward to some new projects though and putting to use some new stuff learnt in the downtime
This applies if you're thinking of Twitter as a business or as a tool for mass-broadcast. If you think of something with a similar format but that fits a different space, that's the use for the Fediverse: it's more like USENET or BBSs or even 2008 Twitter than it is like 2022 Twitter.
Been going to the gym for the past six weeks and trying to get in shape and learn more about good form. Done wonders for my posture and mental health. Hoping to make it long lasing habit! Thanks for posting, stranger.
So by your definition, a fuckup is when something isn't done absolutely perfectly? Let's be realistic for a moment here; surely it would be WAY more remarkable if a company laid off 3,700 employees and exactly zero mistakes were made.

What level of error would be sufficient to warrant the haphazard descriptor? Two percent? One percent?

A company like Twitter is complex, and it's very likely that some number of people are important in a way which cannot be seen from a top-down view. Hence error correction. It's a good thing. I see it as a healthy sign that Twitter management are identifying and rectifying their mistakes so quickly.
Recent discovery documents show that user engagement is driven by a disproportionately small base of power users, a group that has been shrinking even before the Musk takeover [1].

I don't think the masses especially care who owns the platform. But the power users probably do, especially as big changes around content, editorialization, and monetization are being discussed.

If that small base of power users continue to leave, then the masses stop coming to the site.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-where-did-tweet...
I've seen people who believe they are 10x gang, sometimes go on a long vacation, and when they return to their horror they realise nobody missed them.

Happens all the time. People are less important than they think. Even without this whole layoff business, people in big corps get themselves competing offers and go like 'give me a raise more than this, or I leave'. In every scenario that I saw people leave nobody missed them after 1 - 2 weeks.

As a general rule everybody can be replaced, and everybody can always find a new job somewhere and most do. This is with or without layoffs and happens in ordinary situations too. People leave all the time, many think they are 10x, and they get replaced. Nobody misses them.
Nah, just an arbitrary point to stop. I used to get so much back from HN community, all kinds of cool ideas and great overall discussion. These days even those discussions have become strangely elementary and appealing to lowest common denominator. I am constantly downvoted here for going against the grain and it's not that much fun. That's made me more resentful and I also downvote everyone else. Nevermind the extreme progressive politics here. It is not mentally healthy. It could also be that I am changing and going offtrack mentally.
I remember watching a few videos where He's done comparisons as well.
So sorry to hear about your diagnosis. Best of luck on your battle, I hope the chemo is having the desired effect. My mom recently finished her chemo rounds. Took a real toll on her. Hang in there! You got this!
I just made a small thing that is thrilling me.

It started because I wanted to be able to share a diagram on a whiteboard drawing site (whiteboardfox.com, nice service). I thought it would be cool if I could have a bookmarklet that saved the current diagram's URL in a file on my web server and made it available at an easy URL that my friends could bookmark.

I now have just such a thing.

Click a bookmarklet and it hits my server and redirects back to the page I'm seeing. On another browser, I (or a friend) can hit my 'blah.com/mirror' and it shows the same page.

It is quick, clean and lovely. Took about ninety minutes. A perfect Saturday night.
Figured - always worth a try :-)

( FWiW I can think of several other ways to twitch a sat )
I think the point is that it’s hard to scale this. I’ve worked in the fraud space for awhile and a big problem is sophisticated actors that scale their operation and cause a lot of damage. If you can make it more expensive to scale, you can change the economics. For example, if it cost 1 cent to send an email, you would probably solve a big chunk of the spam problem.
> The only official "meaning" of the badge was that the user matched the identity of the profile

That's what they said, but what happened in actual practice is that you had to have a certain level of fame or notoriety to get a blue check. Everyone knows this, it isn't just "reading into it"
> Even though it might look reckless, it is clear that much of these staff wasn’t on critical path for running day to day operations. So, Twitter will keep running smoothly on infrastructure side

Is it clear though? There is a lot more to running Twitter than just keeping the servers online. If the site turns into a cesspool and becomes unpleasant to be on, users will flee in droves.
Do you mean disseminate? you wrote "decimate their message"
Some context - Laurie Leshin, the director of the JPL, recently joined the lab after resigning from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Some say she resigned as suicides rocked the school and complaints about mismanagement flooded in [1].

I'm curious if there's any sort of pattern here, and how much of the blame can fall on the director.

[1] https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/02/03/multiple-suic...
Keep the status quo and continue to line the pockets of a leveraged billionaire. Sounds good.
> sleep instantly when you lie down

The secret to this is lots of exercise (and maybe good sleep hygiene).

IME insomnia is mostly a result of being sedentary all day.

Never had insomnia when camping and hiking multiple hours each day.
The old school Guestbooks were so cool. I also uploaded my first website around the same time, on the topic of how to take care of Green Iguanas, and somehow a zookeeper found it and left a comment in the guest book. Felt like a rockstar that day.

Where do you upload your current vids? Are they long form? Could be lots of factors in play.
Hello from Vancouver Canada, Thank you for your nice words, I had my first run after years of not being active that much tonight, it wasn't long but it was feeling amazing. Wish you best.
Quite a well designed rougelite especially for its time. You are able to win the vast majority of games and yet the game usually FEELS challenging the majority of the time. If you minmax it there's a few too many situations where stalling for extended periods of time is the optimal strategy, but even this can be remedied in quite a few cases using cheat engine to speed things up when you achieve a "known win" scenario. Once you master hard, playing hard without pause can extend the replay value further.

The best part of the game is the soundtrack. On twitch the FTL soundtrack has to be getting more playtime on broadcasts of other games than on broadcasts of FTL itself. It's great atmospheric space themed music.
I'm assuming here that the layoffs are overall net good for the company. If the layoffs jeopardize long-term sustainability too much, then that assumption is violated.
That any of the above would be dead or shadows of their former selves within 30 years was simply unthinkable

Not all of us thought it was unthinkable at the time.

Many of these companies made strategic mistakes that resulted in them being a shadow of their former selves.

Even though Unix was born on their hardware in the 70s, DEC never embraced it, preferring their VMS operating system instead. They eventually created Ultrix, their version of BSD Unix, but by then it was too late.

Ken Olsen, DEC’s CEO basically said he didn’t see why anyone would need a computer at home [1] which obviously was incorrect. (He probably meant a minicomputer but still.)

DEC eventually came out with a line of PCs called the Rainbow but again, they missed the boat.

DEC was a chip foundry back then and an early ARM licensee; they created the StrongARM processor [2] that was used in one of Apple’s Newton MessagePads, which was quite a technological leap at the time compared to the Palm Pilot and Handspring. I owned a Palm at the time but the Newton was on another level.

Why was the StrongARM so good? Because DEC created Alpha, their own RISC processor and used what they learned to improve ARM. For the noobs, yes, their was an ARM-based mobile device made by Apple in the ‘90s that wasn’t commercially successful but it showed the way forward.

DEC sold its StrongARM IP and its chip fab to IBM to settle a lawsuit.

So DEC missed out on Unix, PCs and today’s dominant RISC processor because of some bad decisions; more likely, a lack of vision.

And let’s not forget that Intel was also an ARM licensee for a while, too. In an alternate universe, it’s Intel making ARM chips for Apple and not TSMC. It’s kinda ironic that Apple dropped Intel’s x86 processors for its own ARM-based processors, an architecture Intel once made.

HP famously passed on the Apple II, the computer that ignited the personal computer revolution, that its employee Steve Wozniak had worked on with his friend Steve Jobs.

It’s also ironic Apple, declared dead so many times during the 80’s and 90’s, ended up where it is today.

[1]: http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/868.html

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StrongARM
Hey, we're practically neighbors! I'm from Chapel Hill, NC.

Sadly, I don't do any rock climbing. It's one of those things that I've always thought looked interesting, but I somehow never found time / energy / money / whatever to pursue. My big things outdoor activity wise are cycling (MTB, road, and BMX) and fishing.
The fediverse automatically becomes a confediverse when everyone hosts for themselves
So yes, what you are saying is right although not relevant for NORPS.
Ideally, we'll see people selling instances as a service payed via a management app in the playstore or something. I'm disgusted by the playstore as it's against my values, but I make this argument because if it's not convenient & easy, people will not use it and rather sell their rights and freedoms ( And those of others without realising ) for whatever is convenient and easy.
You should use a 2-BSD/3-BSD, 0-BSD, MIT-0, or CC0 (less so) instead if you are practical and want a practical nearly-as-possible public domain license.

You can use the WTFPL if you want to thumb your nose at copyright for political reasons, but don't care if it actually is usable for people that need to care about copyright law.

I don't see what this unlicense does better except the cheeky name.
It depends, it is not yet clear what Intel meant by 3nm in 2024. Shipping hundreds of wafers? Or Real Product launches by their customers?

It is the same with Samsung which arguably ship their 7nm ahead of TSMC. But with low volume, yield and poor performance characteristic it doesn't really matter. ( And I haven't even mentioned cost yet )
Keep in mind though that a lot of the infrastructure one would be using including public transport, roads, water is subsidized with tax one is not paying.
There is an important difference. Digital nomads are working while there, will be there for a bit longer (say 3 months to a year or so), and should be expected to pay taxes.

I want to visit a number of countries and literally just wander each country over the course of 6 months to a year but I can't legally work there for my employer while doing so. I'd easily have the money to support myself and pay taxes but I can't keep my job and do this legally in almost any country.
I am currently in this phase where tech stuff does not interest me very much. I still work a tech job and do a fair bit of coding, but mostly put a stop to obsessively reading every tech article on this website, code up something new in my free time, learn a new language etc.

Sometime during the pandemic, I stopped caring, perhaps fell into a bit of anhedonia. Thankfully, reading HN kept me informed about boreout (the relatively unknown cousin of burnout). Past few months, I made a big decision to move back to my home country and generally be more social, get more involved in the arts, watch movies, listen to music, read books, just take things easy. I think I am doing fine in my new job. The roaring interest in tech is still not back, but I'm confident it will be back eventually.

Until then, I'm happy reading about the good work done by other people. Perhaps one such idea might spark an insight in me and make me go to work. Cheers.
Congrats on having the courage to make a change!

> it was the thing that took my crushing anxiety away.

Paradoxically it's also the thing that creates the crushing anxiety when abused. One day at a time, be kind to yourself, life is a journey.
> If the site turns into a cesspool and becomes unpleasant to be on,

That's already the case.
Hello friend.

Love the idea of this post! Miss the good old days of IRC or early Twitter etc.

I guess I'm passionate at the moment about the future, in a world that seems to be bogged down in the past. I'm trying to also figure out what my other passions are and trying to figure out what makes a good life.