skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1. Anyone who has been in a tech company knows that there is internal lingo that refers to features we devs make. But it's presented as being an "Orwellian language"

Internal jargon can be Orwellian. These are not mutually exclusive.

> But it's presented as a "deep state"-like collusion where the agencies control if twitter act on them or not.

No, this chummy relationship is presented as problematic. Nowhere does he imply that the FBI controls what Twitter does. It's not a priori wrong to think that the government should not have such a close involvement with Twitter in its act of moderating/censoring. Having a lower threshold than you for risk of malfeasance is not a priori wrong. If you think your risk assessment is better, now you can make that argument using actual data, and those who disagree can make theirs. Fostering public debate is exactly what good journalism is supposed to do.

> But they are presented mostly stripped of context and the focus is on anonymized employees snarky comments to make it seem like decisions were arbitrary, partisan, and without any regard to logic or context.

Sounds like standard journalism to me. Maybe your beef is not with Taibbi and the "Twitter files" but with how journalism as a whole is conducted. I agree, but don't apply a higher bar here where it's inconvenient.
1:

The 14th amendment significantly expanded the reach of constitutional protections, primarily to require all government to comply.

2:

Did Congress pass a law authorizing the FBI to snoop on social media and use private companies to censor speach? No? Then by what authority was the FBI doing this?

The root of the FBIs authority is in law passed by Congress.
The global menu bar is a design flaw and evolutionary dead end. It doesn't respect Fitt's law when people have multiple monitors. It also implies alt-tab to switch application Vs alt-tab to switch window which is, again, broken when you have multiple monitors (alt-tab to switch window is the correct choice).

Not only that but Fitt's law is dying as mice become less and less used as a means to interact with a device. Touchpads and touchscreens have usurped them.
Engineers obsessed with craftsmanship ignoring its purpose
Why explore our Moon, and how we’re going back like never before
Stability in Sorting Algorithms
As noted in the Wiki article, it was overturned essentially on procedural grounds based on how the jury was instructed. The government could have retried the case with the higher burden of proving willful misconduct by Andersen but by that point the firm was already dead from reputational damage, so I suppose justice was served anyway.
Ah I think the way I work leads to the opposite working in my notebook and forgetting to check my phone/emails.

I think I'd struggle moving into that kind of setting.
I suspect Hinkley was just rejecting, as unhelpful, the deep skepticism of arguments based on pointing out that we cannot prove that anyone else has an inner, subjective mental life like ours.

If that's Hinkley's point, I agree; it seems tendentious to use that position in the process of arguing for or against specific claims about what the mind either is or could never be - but, by the same token, I don't take that 'skepticism of skepticism' as grounds for categorically rejecting ideas like the simulation hypothesis.
A book that is often recommended is, "The Manager's Path" by Camille Fourner (O'Reilly). It's more of a career path reference guide than a cover-to-cover read.

https://www.amazon.com/Managers-Path-Leaders-Navigating-Grow...

For a more universal perspective on leadership (and management) John Maxwell is solid. Easy to read practical advice in a "I knew that but this is a good reminder" sort of way.

Given your founder background you might also appreciate "The Advantage" by Patrick Lencioni. It's more C Level, but much of can apply to a team (e.g., the importance of trust, a feeling of purpose, etc.)

https://www.amazon.com/Advantage-Patrick-Lencioni/dp/8126537...

There are others. This topic or similar comes up from time to time on HN. I'd try the search. It's in the footer if you've never noticed.
> Heating 76.5 litres of water (8.9 minutes x 8.6 litres per minute) from 18 to 38 degrees Celsius requires 2.1 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of energy.

In late September this year 2022 my region was hit by a hurricane. My power mine was off for 10 days. Of all the things that I missed it was my daily shower.

I have a butane camp stove and used it to heat water it's actually very good much better than my electric stove. I also bought a 3kW generator and an electric kettle.

My plan was on day 8 to have a bath so I filled the tub just a bit to save on effort. And then I heated water in a pot on the stove and in the kettle. I did that over and over many times but I could only get the water from 13C to 20C in an hour and a half. I just sat in the water and had a "bird bath" but even that was incredibly cold to the point my muscles ached.

From that experience I can certainly appreciate the amount of energy it takes to heat up even a small amount of water.
I never got limits but I got quite addicted to the internet. In my case it was caused by other factors (depression), but I wouldn't discount the possibility in general.

I would set the limit at "you have to do something other than school and tv/internet/gaming in your day, on most days."
Where are you getting weekly meetings from?

This set of tweets details 150 emails total over a period of over two and a half years (jan 2020 to nov 2022).

It even specifically quotes their mention of their quarterly meeting.

My biggest problem with people who think the Twitter files are A Big Deal, is their seeming inability to accurately describe the contents.
> If you set the bar so high that it needs to be as successful as the personal computer or the mobile phone…

Seems like Meta has done that
I imagine a future (probably soon) were the standard web browser will present all internet content in pre-defined reader modes for articles, message boards and online shopping, where the browser manufacturer already has a standard design ready for the user and at most the logo and a header image changes. Modern web design has become so user hostile, that it's only a question of time before browser makers will start taking away the right from the web sites to dictate what to show and how to show it. Reader mode was the start.
> Long-term storage of the energy they generate is another matter. The solar energy system created at Chalmers back in 2017 is known as ‘MOST’: Molecular Solar Thermal Energy Storage Systems.

/? MOST Molecular Solar Thermal Energy Storage https://www.google.com/search?q=MOST%3A+Molecular+Solar+Ther... https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C44&q=MOS...

> The technology is based on a specially designed molecule of carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen that changes shape when it comes into contact with sunlight.

> It shape-shifts into an ‘energy-rich isomer’ - a molecule made up of the same atoms but arranged together in a different way. The isomer can then be stored in liquid form for later use when needed, such as at night or in the depths of winter.

> A catalyst releases the saved energy as heat while returning the molecule to its original shape, ready to be used again.

> Over the years, researchers have refined the system to the point that it is now possible to store the energy for an incredible 18 years

"Chip-scale solar thermal electrical power generation" (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrp.2022.100789

What prevents this from being scaled up?
The FBI can come after you or your company for any reason they come up with. They just have to make it look like you lied to them. They email you that a user on your site is breaking TOS. If you say they aren’t in their eyes you are lying to them and you could be charged if they don’t like you.
Run it XOR use it, part two
Political vs practical fission stagnation is a perennial HN debate.
I think it’s clear, by implication, that this is where a lot of the expunged headcount at Twitter spent their time: policing accounts, according to both internal and external machinations.
These arguments, where you only look at current deployment and not growth and projected trends, aren’t worth very much. It’s like asking whether you should invest in smartphones or dumb-phones back in 2008: looking at that year’s ownership data might have convinced you that smartphones didn’t have much of a future, and then you would have made a very stupid bet.

The question is whether going forward there will be a huge increase in deployment of solar and wind, and answer is that every expert projection says that due to surprisingly reduced and reducing costs there absolutely will be. There are questions about whether this new generation will eat all of fossil’s market share (due to storage improvements and coordinated grid improvements) or just an enormous fraction of it. But both are devastating to the industry.

Similarly, worrying about edge cases and specific geographies doesn’t matter when you’re looking at aggregates. The claim here is not that renewables are perfect or will even be able to supply 100% of our needs. It’s simply that even at 75% of all power generation that’s a terrifying kick in the teeth for fossil corporate interests. The nuclear industry has nothing plausible on the table that can do this: outside of a few countries that invested heavily while building a nuclear weapons program, nobody has the political will to launch the sort of “Interstate-Highway System” government projects that would be needed to subsidize nuclear into that level of deployment. And even if we did, building the plants would take decades.

I do think nuclear has a clear role as baseload to help with the intermittence issues, and that renewables and nuclear deployment are natural allies. But that happens in a world where renewables have been massively built out and nuclear happens at the margins. The advantage of this plan is that it involves building a lot less expensive nuclear (maybe even less than we think now, if there are new storage tech improvements) and it’s not such a disaster if nuclear takes another 15-20 years to build. However: this pathology where nuclear advocates preen about an all-nuclear world is harmful and dangerous. It’s bad that so many advocates have mistakenly identified renewables as their competition and are spreading bad arguments trying to politically dissuade/delay people from adopting them. While it may not be intended that way, this line of argument reads like pure fossil-industry FUD.
Imported from Africa, with the honeycomb. Specific flowers and straight from the owner. She even filtered it herself.
I have no dog in this fight (I thought Twitter was a cesspool then, and I know it is now), but before we go much farther in the conversation about collusion between LE and big business, we must remember how Qwest lost an enormous contract (and more, arguably) for refusing to cooperate with the NSA's plan to gobble everyone's data. The fact that this happened at all, creates a chilling effect, a shining example for all to see. In such light, American business that call themselves 'common carriers' all know the score: Cooperate or it would be a shame if something happened to you. Would anyone be shocked that Twitter kept a cordial relationship with the agency that murdered Fred Hampton? Of course not.
GPT indeed has a subtle and sophisticated sense of humour.

Me: write a tagline for an open source no-code platform

GPT-3:
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {}
Fitts's Law is still alive and kicking in the touchpad era. Until we have anything that drives a cursor, it is relevant. A global menu bar is infinitely tall on a touchpad as well because I can randomly flick my finger up and I will have reached it.

And I do not get what a global menu bar has to do with window switching and monitor switching. Tiling WM fans all know that focus-follows-mouse is saner than alt-tabbing like a maniac, and this doesn't invalidate the role of a global menu-bar.
/g/ is gonna implode
Any civilisation that can produce a 60kWh battery or three per residence for gigantic EVs can trivially produce a 30kWh battery for overnight storage. Prices are at around $150/kWh at the cell level and assembly costs are plummeting, there's no real reason to think 12 hour Sodium-ion, Iron flow or ZnBR storage won't be available for prices close to the PV required to drive it daily.

It won't be needed because renewables can provide 70-95% of hours just by adding dispatchable loads even without adding more PHES or CSP, but it's not because batteries will be exorbitant compared to non-renewable generation options.
> Orwellian does not just mean changing terms or using euphemisms. It is about terms that make the expression of undesirable thoughts actually impossible. Do any of the scare-quoted terms do this? I can't see any.

Per [1]:

"Orwellian" is an adjective describing a situation, idea, or societal condition that George Orwell identified as being destructive to the welfare of a free and open society. It denotes an attitude and a brutal policy of draconian control by propaganda, surveillance, disinformation, denial of truth (doublethink), and manipulation of the past [...]

The label in this context doesn't seem unreasonable to me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orwellian
By the time you get a Rpi 4, a decent power supply and an external SSD, it's usually around the same price as a mini PC which you can get with a 7th/8th/9th Gen i3 or even i5 with everything included.

I get that the Rpi will use less power, but I imagine many people will be like me and have it overclocked to 2.1ghz, and my heatsink was pretty warm all day long.

I've recently picked up a Optiplex 3070 with a i5 9500t for $120 and bought 32gb of ram off ebay for another $40. Considering a Rpi 4 is going for $100 on eBay, it's not a bad deal at all.
December Update: New PineTab
It would be a derivative work of Windows.
To be fair, Microsoft got the memo, it took all the useful parts of the global menu bar and put them in the start bar, which is itself glued to the bottom of the screen and thus respects Fitts' Law. Windows did put the application-specific menus into the per-window title bar, but even then the most important part of the title bar is the section with the close/minimize/maximize buttons, and on Windows a maximized window puts those buttons at the edge of the screen, again as per Fitts' Law, whereas Mac disobeys Fitts' Law here and puts those buttons below the global menu bar.
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Q. Why doesn't ChatGPT like jokes scrolled on the sides of blimps?

A. They go right over its head.

(so ChatGPT is low on humour. Does it ever reference literature? Correctly?)
Also the TI AM6442. Its an awesome chip but the sdk and tooling for the evaluation board is a little rough around the edges.
I have Lidl model of police station, roughly 1000 pieces and they fit perfectly exactly same as original Lego for like 1/5th of price in discount

so some insane tolerance at Lego sounds to me only like someone trying to justify their purchase

though I recently bought Lego classic sets for my kids and those don't seem to be that overpriced
Yes, the author misses the joke too. Maybe the author is also a ChatGBT bot used to talk up the abilities of ChatGPT.
Understanding joke is one of the most difficult things someone can ask an AI to do. Even humans are unable to explain what makes a joke “funny”. The fact that ChatGPT can basically BS it’s way through an explanation is actually impressive (and ironically kinda funny)
Imagine back to the Comintern. It's that, without the feigned aversion to capital.

More specifically though, it's globalization based on western (mostly US-centric) values.
> power is something people seem to have an odd tendency to ignore.

Indeed, just as you seem to ignore Twitter’s power. They are protected from the FBI by the Constitution and the courts, and they have the money (read: power) to actually enforce those protections had they felt threatened or coerced by the government. The FBI may have power but they are not all powerful, not even close.
> My biggest problem with people who think the Twitter files are A Big Deal, is their seeming inability to accurately describe the contents.

Or maybe you're just ignorant of the contents:

https://news.yahoo.com/twitter-executive-met-fbi-weekly-0150...
This is interesting. Looks like people don't go around and explain jokes. ChatGPT would not have the data to "understand" jokes, aka recite an explanation.
PhD in uart. Loled on that one. Thanks.
Still waiting for them to allow me to move the taskbar to the side.

(Not to mention my computer works perfectly well but since it doesn't have a TPM it can't run 11 at all)
That would also be really cool, if you could post some comments on MSSQL. I would like to know in general what these paid products really have that we cannot really build with FOSS right now and what kinds of problems/product decisions would make them considerable options when kickstarting new projects. Thanks in advance.
Oh, VR is currently successful?
Must have missed some sales reports then…
That’s not evidence. That’s just your opinion, based on your assumption that private aircraft are like private cars under the law.

Except that they have never been treated equivalently in any legal venue or government regulation.
Who/whatever wrote this article was fed with five year old information and does not even mention interface types or the component model.

Meta: Did HN change the karma requirements to flag articles?
Good observation, though Microsoft forgot it (again) when they designed Windows 11 and moved the Start button from the bottom-left corner to somewhere in the middle of the screen.
The point stands. Explorer.exe 11 is nearly two decades ahead of GTK / Gnome.

And MacOS is even worse. I just bought my daughter a MacBook and sat down with a Mac for the first time since 86. My expectations were high. I thought I was going to see a Unix GUI done right. Instead it’s nearly as clunky as CDE.

MS may deserve grief about some things, but dang, Windows is about as polished as a product can get.
Wasn’t try to slag HoW at all[*]! Just a lot of cheap broadcast PTZs are built with more price sensitive customers in mind, who often come from legislative, corporate or house of worship. You can absolutely find high-end sophisticated productions in all those fields, but the field also has much more of a low-end (both in terms of cost and in terms of production complexity) than you’ll normally find in most more traditional broadcast verticals.

* I actual have a love for HoW as a vertical because they’re much more willing to try wild or experimental things with their production since they often have a greater tolerance for things going wrong and often have entire days of downtime between shows to tinker. This is probably part of why they’re a Sony flagship - willingness to run beta software! I know of at least one other vendor who has churches as beta testing sites…
Part 1 complained about "censoring" even well known actors in favor of a political party, and 'proved' it by displaying an email asking to take down tweets and a response saying 'handled'.

Archive.org archived the tweets listed in the email screenshot that has been shared, it was tweets posting leaked nude of a politic, of course it has to be censored, actor or not, that's simply illegal.
VR shines in simulators, flighing, driving etc, there the immersion is key but thats really the only domain in private life where VR really works.

In corporate there are bunch of neat areas but AR is defintely more useful right now. E.g. support, meetings, teaching
As for many others here in the comment section gnome went downhill for me after the migration to version 3. gnome v2 was such an easy to use, clean and fast experience and after that it degraded not only from the usability perspective but also resource allocation. Suddenly my PC was stuttering when using Linux cause I only had my cpu to render the ui
> His song Les Philistins épiciers is another good example of his style.

Minor nitpick: that song may be a good example of Brassens' singing or music-writing styles, but the words are from Jean Richepin, an eccentric poet from the late 19th/early 20th century.
“The Surface State Job”: The 75th Anniversary of the Invention of the Transistor
It's rather pathetic that the article tells more about the venture than the website.

If you can't design a website, how do you design a hotel?
I got the opposite, unlimited access while being a kid and difficulty moderating it now.

All of regulations and moderation go to shit the moment one (as an adult) realizes that there is no "real consequence" for unlimited use. The "real consequence" is only what one puts one's mind to be.

(Losing job because of internet addiction? Nvm, find a different one. Getting overweight? It's a silent killer and the effects are years away, plus you get to shop for new clothes. )
I think ChatGPT does not understand anything here

This is a good way to think about it generally (or at least how I do it) - ChatGPT doesn’t understand anything, ever.

It produces coherent text which is usually a reasonable response to a prompt. It’s quite amazing at this, and it’s fascinating to see how effective that can be. But it doesn’t have an abstract model of whatever it’s discussing, and can’t reason about it. It’s a vaguely spooky uncanny valley effect.
It took them 11 years after the first Macintosh was released to “invent” the start menu in Windows 95.
Yeah, and the next few are worse, but the infinite mathematicians one was impressive even if it did take some coaxing. The fact that it spotted the pattern and the resulting limit is fascinating.

I think it is interesting that an AI that is so clearly not general, is capable of so much with regard to language. It turns out an AI to replace a very bad lawyer or very good law clerk or a very junior developer is easier than one to replace a truck or taxi driver. I would not have predicted that.
Maybe you showed early signs and wanted to remove the problem
From that thread: Some were domestic takedowns of, say, QAnon accounts

So it was not limited to foreign government operations (or to QAnon, since it is phrased as a mere example).
I'm Dutch. The notion of water shortages in that country is ridiculous. There's plenty of water. There is a shortage of ground water that is being used for a lot of things including intensive agriculture and drinking water. Ground water is nice because it is there and typically very clean so you don't need to do a lot of filtering before you can use it. However, using ground water at the current rate is not sustainable because we are depleting it at a rate that is higher than it is being topped up by nature. But there's plenty of other water: rivers, lakes, etc. We actually spend lots of energy pumping water out to sea to keep the land dry. Perfectly good fresh water that we have way too much off. Way more than we will ever need. The reason people are trying to get consumers to save water in the Netherlands is very simple: it's cheaper than making the necessary investments to scale up water production.

Cleaning up water takes a bit of energy and so does heating it up. So yes, it has a price. However, we know how get clean energy now. So, that's a solvable problem. And it's not that expensive even. High gas prices are currently causing people to think very hard about how to upgrade their houses. The real money savings are house heating. My parents switched off their gas heating system a few weeks ago after being faced with 1000 euro monthly gas bills. Only a fraction of that is showers. It's a recently renovated house that is pretty well insulated. The issue is simply that gas is really expensive now. Luckily, they have a wood pallet stove. Also not cheap to run but a lot cheaper. The real solution for them will be a heat pump and some access to renewable power. And the financial incentives for that are there now in the form of high gas prices.
So the water is the copper and the laser is the electrons?