skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Because the laser pulse is so fast, the water can switch states in a matter of picoseconds, which are trillionths of a second. This translates to potential computer speeds in the terahertz (THz) range – that’s 1,000 GHz,

This in not comparable to transistors in a computer. Transistors use charge (electrons) to switch current (electrons) in order to build boolean gates and logic circuits. Those lasers are probably not optically controlled, and even if they were and could be made into optical logic circuits, their speed will be limited by their size and the speed of light.
Republicans - and Trump specifically - have been directly threatening Twitter for years to try to get them to act in a way that benefits them and you think this "implied consequence for refusal" is some big issue?
Nostr is another protocol that is growing rapidly especially since Jack Dorsey discovered it a few days ago and is pushing it hard on twitter. He even made a 15 btc donation to its development fund.

Nostr is a more sane version of activitypub where your identity is just a public key and not dependant on any server, no signup required. Due to this it also natively support BTC payments and micropayments through the lightning network

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr
The hardware is fairly accessible. You can start for free with Colab, try a subscription for $9.99/mo, or use the gaming PC you might already have. The hardest thing is data, but again there are lots of free datasets available as well as pretrained models you can fine-tune on a custom smaller dataset that you make yourself.
> Honestly no one really cares about VR that’s the problem.

For some values of "no one". VR has been hanging on quite nicely despite repeated reports of it's demise. The problem is that some industry people keep expecting it to be iPhone huge and it's never going to be iPhone huge.

So - the truth is somewhere inbetween "no one" and "every one". Something above "niche" but below "mass market".
It depends on so many factors.
If I was just out of high school and had the wisdom I had now I would probably take any government job (even if your job is eliminated to A.I they will transfer you somewhere instead of ending your employment usually) or become some sort of nurse/teacher.
But I am already deep in tech, doing it for more than 10 years and am 38.
So super hard to know what to do now for someone like me. I plan to keep at it since I earn a lot and at the same time start thinking about plan B.
That includes -
1. keep working on people skills since that the last thing that will be automated probably.
2. embrace stoicism. It's never been more relevant but any system (be it religion or something else) will help.
3. keep a cool head. Some A.I predictions (autonomous cars) turned out to be quite inaccurate. We may have 20 more years of work ahead of us, or we may not.

Hope this helps!
I wish I had a useful, repeatable answer here, but in my case it was basically all luck. A friend/ex-colleague had been recruiting me for years, but it was never the right time to take the plunge. Finally, everything aligned - the role became remote-only and stopped requiring travel (thanks to COVID), and I completely burnt out at my job. It was a good time to test the waters, and here I am, still doing it almost two years later.
Maybe ChatGPT could also explain its own joke: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33885844
I agree with you, although maybe for different reasons. A lot of the vibe of snowcrash almost felt like a saturday morning cartoon, and it seems like it would make even more sense on the screen than in a book. I also understand it was originally intended to be a graphic novel.
And then, later, when archive.org was hosting entire shows (soundboards and audience), the drummers came along and made them take down the full downloads (you can still stream).
According to Elon, Twitter usage reached another all-time high yesterday: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603852159283445760

No idea if similar metrics exist for Mastodon.
I think the latest GPT-3 can spell and get the joke.

Explain this: "no pun in ten did"

text-davinci-003: This phrase is a play on words. It is a way of saying that no pun was intended, or that the speaker did not intend to make a joke.

Write letter by letter "no pun in ten did"

text-davinci-003: n o p u n i n t e n d i d
I don't see the benefit of the Scheme approach at all. As far as I'm concerned, the empty list being also the false object makes certain list functions more elegant to implement and it is mostly irrelevant elsewhere.
> unions which appear to only serve a special interest group at the expense of everyone else

I mean, the intended purpose of unions is to serve their members, at the expense of non members.
.news top level domain is enough to put me off this
The beginning has a recap of Bezier curves as a refresher before going into splines in more detail.

It looks similar because it's a sequel to the original video.
> AR is defintely more useful right now.

VR and AR have essentially merged at this point. Nobody is releasing VR headsets without passthrough (and non-passthrough VR still isn't viable tech yet. cost, brightness and poor FOV are holding it back).

So every VR headset is also an AR headset.
A fragment of the relevant South Park episode “Funnybot”: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dsYnYEwa-qc
SMS 2 factor is terrible anyway and is on the way out, although it may still be the only choice for some services for quite a while. A hardware security key is best, and TOTP (Google Authenticator and similar) is very good and both can be used without cell connectivity.
I find your first point to be similar (almost the opposite?) of Descartes' Ontological argument [0].

> 1. Whatever I clearly and distinctly perceive to be contained in the idea of something is true of that thing.

Our (in)ability to imagine or reason about something does not make it (un)real or (un)true. Your version would be like a dolphin claiming algebra can't be real because they can't imagine a system of equations, let alone solving one.

Further... You already know that something exists, but that's a pretty unbelievable fact if you stop to think about it. You probably wouldn't believe it if it weren't so obvious. Why? Well, can you imagine how things (or the very first thing) came to exist? Or can you imagine the concept of things always having existed? What does that even mean? They are both beyond comprehension, and yet one of them is true.

0. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes-ontological/
I'm reminded of the story I've head (I believe via a podcast, though I cannot presently find the source) on syphilis as a mental-health issue.

The upshot is that cases of syphilitic psychopathy were treated as psychiatric illnesses, that is, strictly disorders of the brain, and there was a substantial network of mental health asylums for housing and treatment of patients.

Successful treatment of the infectious disease syphilis all but eliminated this class of mental health disease, and is among the very few instances of successful management at a public-health level of a category of mental illness. The fact that the psychological disease was entirely based on physical (and specifically infectious) medicine is highly notable.

The mental health sector continues to perform poorly at looking beyond strictly psychological aspects of mental health, and in particular has placed a probably unjustified emphasis on psychotropic medication as opposed to other interventions --- not just of potential infectious-disease causes as with syphilis and posited here for schizophrenia, but of environmental and social factors.

I also suspect that psychiatric / psychological conditions are best considered, similarly to cancer, as a set of symptom clusters, which may have markedly distinct etiologies. Traditional psych focuses more on the symptoms than the etiologies.

It's as if we had an infectious medicine based on, say, runny noses or laboured breathing, without considering cause. (There are areas of physical medicine which do resemble this, and others, such as trauma treatments, in which root cause is relatively insignificant concerning treatment, in at least many cases.)
What a pointless display of security theater. As long as both end-points are google it doesn't matter. It's like a centralized company using a blockchain instead of a database. Yeah, neat, you implemented it... but it doesn't get you anything except press.
It has been demonized and propagandized against by people with the deepest pockets in the world, and it’s working in some cases.
Asking corporates and individuals to upgrade computers is simpler than fixing performance issues.

Many seem to be under the impression that there is thriving, competitive market for top rated UI frameworks. But I feel, in reality it is just Electron or bust. So even if laggards (like me) whine about crappy electron apps it is not like people who matter are going to listen and do something about it.
> So you need to be clear where your points come from

They were responding to a post specifically asking about Americans' feelings toward unions. That made it pretty clear to me where his points were coming from.

If they were responding from Finland I'd be a little confused why they were responding at all.
Designing great streaming TV apps, Pt 2: Top or left navigation
News flash. This is not a news site.
Oh the legs thing again. I don't want legs (or arms) until they are out of the uncanny valley. No legs is better than janky legs in the same way stylized graphics are better than bad "realistic" graphics.
I've been trying to learn CL by using it to do AOC. As someone coming from mostly Python, there is a lot about it that confuses and, occasionally, frustrates me.

Maybe I'm just missing something obvious but it doesn't seem like you can start with an empty list that you can repeatedly append to. The empty list is nil, and `(append nil foo)` seems to just yield `foo`, not `(list foo)`. So trying to append to that object will (probably) raise an error.
> 1. Social media must be resilient to corporate and government control.

I disagree with this. I think this falls under Musk's idea that "sunlight is the best disinfectant." [0] Is sunlight the best disinfectant if January 6 groups are finding like minded individuals to commit assassinations. [1]

> 2. Only the original author may remove content they produce.

What Twitter is doing with ghost banning is unsustainable. The only reason groups such as #NAFO haven't left the platform is because they band together to upvote their posts and comments. But the average person that is shadow banned for calling Musk a jerk or whatever won't see any engagement because their comment will be hidden behind "Show more replies." Compare this to reddit. Your comment is either accepted or rejected. There isn't a grey area.

> 3. Moderation is best implemented by algorithmic choice.

I don't have a firm opinion on this in general. Moderation by a team seems too slow for real-time Twitter. Perhaps on tweets that get 10,000 replies moderation makes a lot of sense. But on a tweet that gets 100 replies should some tweets be behind "Show more replies" or should they just be at the end of the scroll?

I don't see any discussion on how to prioritize tweets from people that don't have a massive following. Some of the tweets I see from people with 10 followers are basically the same as those with 20,000 followers. Why does the guy with 20k tweets get more engagement?

The dynamic on twitter with the average user is so different from Reddit. Getting upvotes and engagement on Reddit is 10x easier.

[0] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1521574200183566338

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/16/us/politics/jan-6-defenda...
I’m not discounting your comment, but in the grand scheme of mapping, the voice used seems like a minor challenge.
Yep; as I’ve said before GNOME is what you’d get if you tried to clone iPadOS and turn it into desktop OS.

It still feels more polished and accessible overall than alternatives though, and so it will probably continue to be “the default DE” for the foreseeable future.

KDE has the most potential to replace it, but I think its configuration is still intimidating (to the point that you regularly see people ask which KDE distros have good defaults), as well as quirks you don’t see anywhere else, like turning file copy dialogs into notification toasts. It’s technically functional but comes off as weird.

The other GTK DEs (XFCE and Cinnamon) I think are in a better place in terms of their settings panes not being scary and generally feeling well designed, but lack resources.
One thing I see far too rarely in choosing metrics is ensuring that every metric has one or more countervailing metrics to balance the choices made. In other words, if you are optimizing for a metric, you also need to measure what is being sacrificed for it. The classic trio of cheap/fast/good is a great example of this, as are most engineering-style tradeoffs, like capacity vs range.

You will often see managers create metrics for the things they want to improve, without realizing that making a metric without measuring the countervailing metric is creating an incentive to throw the countervailing metric in the shitter. A good example of this is call centers which measure the time of call resolution without measuring customer satisfaction with the call. This is how you end up with a low quality, high volume call center. You can do the opposite by measuring only satisfaction and not speed. Now, maybe what your business needs is high volume, low quality, but that should be a choice you make. The problem with not measuring the countervailing metric is that nobody (officially) cares about how bad that metric gets. So, if you have a tradeoff situation, you automatically get an extreme even though that may not be the most profitable place on the spectrum. Perhaps your call center would be better for the company if it was volume 9 quality 2 instead of volume 10 quality 1, but if you only optimize for volume you can't make that choice.

This even applies to metrics you really want to go up, things like sales and profit. A manufacturing company that optimizes only for sales while ignoring manufacturing metrics will hire salespeople in preference to manufacturing workers until the inability to deliver product starts affecting sales. That might sound like a nice problem to have, but it can be a real problem, and perhaps sales 9 manufacturing 2 instead of sales 10 manufacturing 1 would result in better sales next year. It's better to have metrics which allow you that choice.
MPS is impressive, but also rather complex; I considered it for my Oberon+ C backend runtime, but then moved towards automatic reference counting instead, and currently add weak pointers to the language, which is as simple as one can get.
One of my consulting customers came to their account team a couple of years ago and said "We want help setting up a cluster, and specifically we want metrics and logging sorted out" - the account team brought this to me, so I said "OK no problem, what are you hoping to monitor, and what decisions will you be making based on this data?"

Dear reader, you may be unsurprised to learn that they had no fucking clue what they were supposed to be monitoring, or what they would do with the data. I declined the project.
> But even if you can't leave, seeing the results of another country that does something a different way is a valuable comparison point that can drive a change of policy where you are.

True, one could argue that seeing the results in other countries that do things a different way was indeed valuable and the lesson was to adopt a global minimum 15% tax on big business.
Corbyn and McDonnell were essentially communists and therefore unelectable.

Blair took the realistic route: Socialism does not work, let's have a market economy create wealth that can then be used to finance social programs. A flavour a social democracy.

I think a reason Corbyn was so popular among the young is that enough time has passed so that this generation has no idea what socialist countries in Europe were actually like.
Do China and similar powers have pervasive unions? If the rest of the wold doesn't, unionizing in the US may be a very temporary victory as union demands encourage even more offshoring and automation. We compete globally now. Globalization may be the bigger source of inequality in the first place.
you dont think someone would, given the opportunity, throw some cash to an author who strongly supports their own biases? dont some people buy books just to that, never intending to even read them?
I'm using one from time to time to do some programming on minor projects. Works pretty well, although it's not as fast as the laptop or desktop (obviously) that I have.

But it's pretty lightweight and handles games well, so if I go on trips somewhere, sometimes I just bring the Deck + small keyboard to do emergency fixes on, and for that, it works very well.
I hate to break it to everyone, but "dominance" does not equal "profits." How do I know this?

I was in Google Patent Litigation, and there were tons of suits against Maps. In all of these, the plaintiff strains as hard as they can to find some connection to Ads, because that's where the money is. Maps doesn't bring in much money.

I'm not going to quote figures here. In some countries, they were paying someone per search for data, because they didn't have their own map data yet. Maybe that's changed.

"Oh, but imputed revenue!" you say? Well, no one has ever succeeded in defining that and proving it. You can be certain that Google won't ever do it, even internally, because that would end up in Discovery.
Ordinary Human Life
Qt being a pain to bind (and thus having few high quality bindings) is definitely a big reason why I’ve avoided it. I don’t really want to be writing UI in C++.
Nobody is preventing big business to do business outside of Europe. Eh, "Take it or leave it", right ?
Writing, especially when the intent is to transmit an idea, is a lot like writing code:
(i) Make absolutely sure that you know what your goal is (and why it's your goal).
(ii) Before you use a term or concept that the reader might not know, make sure you've defined it.
(iii) Make sure to state your assumptions.

Like programming, start with the main argument (API) and then work your way backwards: What doesn't the reader know or agree with? What fact/claim would convince them? Why should they believe it? Repeat recursively as needed.

Finally, I have a list of 'weasel words': "this", "that", "it", "these", "them". Words like 'these' are referential, and it's really easy to use 'them' without actually referencing anything (uninitialized pointers?). If you see 'this' in your writing, force yourself to replace 'it' with few words summarizing the referential target.
Yes, there are other parties, but, aside from tactical voting, most people accept you're going to get a labour or conservative government no matter what.

A recent exception may have have been the Con/Lib coalition but it was a union of unequal partners at the best of times.
Linux is, too. The thing being discussed here is supporting multiple pieces of _hardware_ in the same machine that have different instruction sets. I don't think Windows supports that either.
I think that's part of the problem. In germany for example, we have Unions and we have working councils in the companies. And while unions are "just" associations/clubs working councils are are regulated by laws and get elected by the workers of the company. Of course there is some realtionship, but it is not unheard of, that in a working council are members from more than one union (though usually only one has negotiating powers for tariffs, but that's another topic, because usually unions negotiate with associations of companies for the whole sector. And those unions without negotiating power are sometimes not even considered real unions...), and even independent members.
Not necessarily. As I understand it, in the Nordics, employment conditions and benefits are protected by unions, regardless of an individual's membership.
> According to Elon…

I mean, of course?
One thing map Google Maps seems to lack is moving street labels. When I zoom in and out, I still want to see the names of the streets. They're not physical maps, why not always show me the name of the street? It doesn't need to be a series of static images at different zoom levels, they could just move the name of the street around, but they don't. Sometimes I zoom in on Google Maps and a street name will disappear despite the entire street being visible and it showing the name before. It's beyond frustrating. Strangely enough, randomly highlighted businesses and their dollar sign prices estimates never seem to disappear...

However, there are two things that keep me on Google Maps that others don't seem to have:

1. Public transit directions - I live without a car, I want to be able to get directions that use the subway, and I've never seen anything comparable to what Google Maps does here in combining walking+subway (or occasionally the bus if there's no other choice) directions. Google Maps also highlights everything in the correct colors (Red for Red Line, green for Green Line, blue for Blue Line, orange for Orange Line, purple for commuter rail (painted purple IRL) and yellow for buses (painted yellow IRL)), which matches my mental model for how I get around in the city.

2. Web based API - One of my main uses for Google Maps is checking directions on my PC before I leave my home. Despite Google's best attempts to hide it (and all browsers' best attempts to hide their bookmark shortcut feature for some reason), you can bookmark shortcuts with URL queries to skip the increasingly sluggish Google Maps UI and get results directly. I use the following:

(regular Google Maps query, shortcut `gm`) https://www.google.com/maps/search/%s

(directions from my house, shortcut `dir`) https://www.google.com/maps/dir/my+street+address,+boston,+m...

(transit directions from my house, shortcut `tdir`) https://www.google.com/maps?saddr=my+street+address,+boston,...

(walking directions from my house, shortcut `wdir`) https://www.google.com/maps?saddr=my+street+address,+boston,...
In just these decades, our software has already surpassed the ability of dogs to drive cars. And that despite the fact that dogs are a whole lot closer to humans than machines are to humans
The joke goes that Win32 is the best and most stable cross platform api for Linux.
In RF, delay can be used to attenuate signals. So filtering of signals.
Elliot Management. They bought a huge stake in Twitter, took over the board, and forced Dorsey out.

https://www.axios.com/2021/11/30/jack-dorsey-twitter-departu...
I didn't read anything indicating they will contribute back to OSM only that they will siphon off all the work and data done by OSM contributors to date; ultimately aiding Microsoft with another EEE demolition.

Ref: https://overturemaps.org/resources/faq/

"Overture data will be available for use by the OpenStreetMap community under compatible open data licenses."

Being available isn't contributing back, Gates.

EEE Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
Apple Maps have gotten a lot better but they really need to ditch Yelp
as an American, my casual observation is that "real, political Leftists in Unions of America" were pushed out by any means (media,legal pressure,illegal intimidation and harassment), leaving the far-Right shady people to run them (literally Mafia in many locations, and with the Teamsters). This is a political trade-off paralleling other anti-Communist countries. USA Americans do not have a real impression of the horrific power struggles that can occur within a labor & tax system, and as these comments show, also do not have a real impression of a working, daily Union doing it's job without drama.
> I want to get up early, set big goals, work hard on them, and then see the fruits of that hard work.

Perhaps you could serve as an example and role model that could inspire union members like Michael Jordan and Tom Brady to work harder.