skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some background for the unfamiliar. This is a new type of quantum computing platform that Microsoft has been pursuing almost independently. Most major research groups focus on superconducting qubits (IBM, Google) or trapped atoms/ions, (or photonics, or a lot of other things) while Microsoft has been developing topological qubits. These qubits are particularly interesting because they exhibit a natural resilience to noise that all other qubit systems lack. However, creating them has been a major challenge.In the summer of 2022, Microsoft claimed for the first time to have created a such qubit, though their results were met with some skepticism.

Now, it seems there is no longer any debate. Microsoft has successfully created and controlled topological qubits. Is this a big deal? Yes but its a far cry from a million qubits. Fair warning, this is not my area of research, so I'm unsure what developments occurred between their 2022 results and now. The relevant papers from Microsoft can be found here:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08445-2
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.12252

edit:

I read the nature paper more carefully, it looks like it is still up for debate whether they have made a topological qubit, but the evidence today is considerably stronger than previous results. Anyways don't start worrying about microsoft hacking your bank account just yet.
For a single sentence on an entire article about South Korea and a pundit comment by a company whose job it is to look at this sort of thing? If you pick the US as your thing to comment on in an article like this, maybe you're just a bot, or even hired hand, for making comments about the US without bothering to understand that you're obviously commenting out of place.
Maybe we can use the excess photons in another way? We could bio-engineer sunlight collection devices that would take in sunlight and use it to break apart CO2 and produce other useful materials. We could then spread them around the planet to use the excess photons in a productive way. We gain valuable complex molecules and break down CO2 so a win win!
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So in other words his supporters are a bunch of sadistic idiots who would rather see kindergartners tortured than a cartel member deported into custody because it means a hard tough man is in charge!
He spends his days on Musk's Nazi platform preaching the "VR any minute" gospel to the 50K people still using their Apple Vision Pros. It makes for the funniest circle jerk in tech circles. Robert is 1/6th the man he was as a paid Microsoft shill. He never recovered his credibility after his Google Glass shower scene made the social media rounds, and now has no one to sit at his feet listening to his deep tech wisdom except the VR die hards and the engagement farmers.
You need to stick around for 10 years or more. I've been on my current project for 15 years, and only now am I realizing how some of the things I did back then were bad. Now I'm stuck with those decisions, or I'm stuck trying to figure out how to fix them.
Or more precisely: "be polite, but verify"
>motivated by hate.

motivated by the love of money, the root of all evil.
They ported it to 64Bit proper last year, and that helped performance on modern systems a bunch! Of course, it's still a far cry of being able to run on the hardware of the time it came out in 2000.
The President of the United States, of course. Or one of his subordinates, who, according to this missive, has the full authority same as the U.S. president, of course.

"An assault on the king's men is the same as an assault on the king" and all that...
Totally. 5 years of

- build and ship

- then move around

- repeat

Is sorely lacking in vital important experience towards becoming a rounded senior.
I did not expect to spend two hours reading a novella submarined into blog post as I was going to bed, but by God, it was totally worth it. This beautifully captured what some of my jobs felt like. Well, well done.
Tado tests charging current and past users 1£ per month to access the app
Tado is currently testing (and apparently fumbling the rollout, as some users are already locked out) of a new subscription of 1£ a month per household. Without paying for the subscription you will apparently lose all access to the app and its most basic features, such as room temperature control and scheduling.
> The most interesting part is of course the Modem.

In addition, they are said to have replaced the WiFi/Bluetooth chip with one developed in-house.

> Apple Inc.’s ambitious plan to create in-house components for its devices will include switching to a homegrown chip for Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connections starting next year, a move that will replace some parts currently provided by Broadcom Inc.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-12/apple-nea...

The rumors called out improved battery life as an upside.
Nothing gimped about the 13 mini
This article is about building open data lakehouse with the new open table format namely Iceberg.

For building single engine AWS based data lake house you can refer to this article [1], or just use Amazon Sagemaker that also support Iceberg.

Fun Amazon AWS data storage dictionary:

S3: Data Lake

Glacier: Archival Storage

DocumentDB: NoSQL Document Database ala MongoDB

DynamoDB: NoSQL KV and WC Database

RDS: SQL Database

Timestream: Time-Series Database

Neptune: Graph Database

Redshift: Data Warehouse

SageMaker: Data Lakehouse

Islander: Data Mesh (okay kidding, just made this up)

[1] Build a Lake House Architecture on AWS:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/build-a-lake-house-arc...
I had an iPhone 13 Pro before downgrading to the 13 Mini. One of the reasons I bought the Pro was for the higher refresh screen, and while it's obviously noticeable when using it, it's not something I've ever missed even once.
> I know more people with major injuries from being hit by cars

_hit by drivers_, you meant?
The gold standard for not-leather on automotive interiors is, as far as I can tell, Mercedes MBtex. The current version is good, but the stuff they used pre 1995 or so was so convincing that dentists and accountants would swear to you that the 100% vinyl interior of their S-class was infact all cowhide.

Leather needs to be taken care of; which conflicts with American expectations of how much maintenance one should have to do to a car (preferably, not even oil changes). This is why full-leather, full-grain interiors that cost four figures on the option list gave way to full-(top-grain)leather, then bonded-leather "seating surfaces", where the thin hide in question would be least likely to crease or split.

Rolls, Bentley, Mercedes-Maybach...still do the full-leather thing, mostly from cows they source from Scandinavia, where barbed-wire && tabanid horseflies are less common so the hides have fewer scars when they get to the tannery. It is assumed that yr. servants have a bottle of Zymol to keep the inside of your Phantom VII or Mulsanne in good shape.
> someone whose first foray into improving the FAA was to arbitrarily fire hundreds of FAA staff

400 non-ATC, non-safety related probationary new hires, out of 45,000.
I think because of that very error - it’s not advocating that, but it’s so easy to think you must always be like that, when reading articles like this.
Seems pretty true with 1 and -1. Map R with f(x) = -x and f(x) = |x - 1| for x in your new mapping is indistinguishable from f(x) = |x + 1| in R.

In any case I’d say this is arbitrary like using + for addition and - for subtraction. It seems like you’re just talking about the symbols themselves. I’m not sure how you get to half plane from there.
More: The Prophet of Parking: A eulogy for the great Donald Shoup

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43026920
Looks cool. I was looking into a similar solution recently and had a conversation with someone on this. Will check it out.
Lambda AI cloud raises $480M at $2.5B valuation
There is also this older one (when they launched?):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11683508

To give HN credit, the overwhelming sentiment at the time is that this was a very suspicious and scammy endeavor already right at launch.
Yes and no.

Ask Hyundai / KIA owners about the oil consumption in their brand-new engines. Or even 2012-2015 Prius owners about the new head gaskets they will eventually all need.

Even brand-new ICE cars are not without their risks.
Yes, but can I also name my own pancake syrup.
I'm a parent to 11/7 year olds, and just yesterday we were talking about how dangerous and addictive gambling is. If you ask them about gambling they will say "it's for stupid people". I doubt it's super common but I'm sure others are doing it if I am.
> I’m also interested to see if it enables cellular in laptops

Are WWAN cards not a thing already? I've never looked much into them at all, but they do seem to exist, at least (and seem to be around $20-$50 and plug into M.2 slots)
> to explain to someone who's really fired up about racial justice or climate change that they're not representative of the public

To some extent yes. But also those issues have big implications for working people. It's possible to talk about them in a way that inspires and builds a movement, or in a way that makes people feel stupid and excluded from the conversation. Often they choose the latter.

> It's also not obvious to me that a bona fide labor movement would take a particularly strong stance on an executive order curtailing independent agencies

It should be absolutely obvious why the labor movement might be opposed to what is literally the largest layoff in American history.
Partly due to being able to fit a bigger battery with the smaller modem size https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFuyX1XgJFg
One question: as a person who is far and nearsighted at the same time, I basically see only sharp at a distance of around 20 cm, could I even use such glasses?
People also bought Fisker cars again, even knowing that the company produced defective cars before going bankrupt last time (which they did again this time).
Deciding between the vanilla iPhone 16 and the 16e here.

I don't see much in favor of the vanilla iPhone 16. Is the extra camera lens useful for anything beyond portrait mode?
Discussion (413 points, 21 hours ago, 406 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43093939
> That's the bread and butter of philosophy! I'd absolutely expect an analysis.

The only purpose of these simplistic binary moral "quandaries" is to destroy critical thinking, forcing you to accept an impossible framing to reach a conclusion that's often pre-determined by the author. Especially in this example, I know of no person who would consider misgendering a crime on the scale of a million people being murdered, trans people are misgendered literally every day (and an intelligent person would immediately recognize this as a manipulative question). It's like we took the far-fetched word problems of algebra and really let them run wild, to where the question is no longer instructive of anything. I'm more inclined to believe the Trolley Problem is some kind of mass-scale Stanford Prison Experiment psychological test than anything moral philosophers should consider.

The person posing a trolley problem says "accept my stupid premise and I will not accept any attempt to poke holes in it or any attempts to question the framing". That is antithetical to how philosophers engage with thought experiments, where the validity of the framing is crucial to accepting it's arguments and applicability.

> I love asking stupid philosophy questions. "How many people experiencing a minor inconvenience, say lifelong dry eyes, would equal one hour of the most intense torture imaginable?" I'm not the only one!

> https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3wYTFWY3LKQCnAptN/torture-vs...

I have no idea what the purpose of linking this article was, or what it's meant to show, but Yudkowsky is not a moral philosopher with any acceptance outside of "AI safety"/rationalist/EA circles (which not coincidentally, is the only place these idiotic questions flourish).
It's possible the battery chemistry has also changed. In the last 12-18 months, a bunch of Android phones have gotten large battery capacity upgrades, apparently thanks to silicon-carbon anodes being mature enough for mass production. Presumably Apple is now doing the sam thing.
Not a whole factory but whole other tooling, so yes? The chassis is different, the screen is different, the mainboard is different, the layout is different, the battery is different, I think the camera was also different. Only thing shared between the other models was the buttons and the lightning port.

It's a huge cost for something that sold (relatively) poorly.
Speculative Decoding in LM Studio 0.3.10
He has a degree in Physics, that is like half of any engineering curriculum. Before funding SpaceX he hired several industry consultants to educate him, indicate aerospace engineering textbooks to study, etc. And then he had about 6 years of experience as almost full time CTO and CEO of SpaceX, until he had to divide his attention with Tesla. And somehow, after he and the SpaceX team achieved what dozens of other teams with more funding failed, he "understands nothing"? No need to be "the faster learner in the history of mankind".

Someone being capable in one field doesn't means he isn't a insufferable jerk or a moron in other fields. I don't understand this impulse to paint someone as completely black or completely white.
> I don’t need an ai to connect across ideas or come up with new hypothesis.

This feels like hubris to me. The idea here isn't to assist you with menial tasks, the idea is to give you an AI generalist that might ne able to alert you to things outside of your field that may be related to your work. It's not going to reduce your workload, in fact, it'll probably increase it but the result should be better science.

I have a lot more faith in this use of LLMs than I do for it to do actual work. This would just guide you to speak with another expert in a different field and then you take it from there.

> In many fields, this presents a breadth and depth conundrum, since it is challenging to navigate the rapid growth in the rate of scientific publications while integrating insights from unfamiliar domains.
That "essentially" is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

Please point me to a specific Executive Order issued during Biden's administration that resulted in "forced speech."

On the other hand, the current administration has issued Executive Orders, memoranda, and other official communications that very explicitly direct government agencies to engage in censorship, with the National Science Foundation going as far as to compile a list of sensitive words, flagging any materials including words such as "woman", "female", "disability", and "LGBT."

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/endi...

[2] https://www.justice.gov/ag/media/1388501/dl?inline

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025/02/04/national-s...
A great reason why I don't like the 1 year repeated thing
Don't forget about the alternatives. Is mountain biking worse than watching movies - biking will of course have more injuries, but it also builds physical fitness and so long term is probably better for you. (or maybe just my anti-movie bias is showing?)
> what is presumably a single core

I would guess that it's not a single core benchmark and that's the speed of the overall multi-threaded system.

> Is that considered fast?

You can squeeze out around 5GB/s/core with current fastest standard tls1.3 algorithm (AES128GCM). 10+GB/s is possible with aegis variants that are somewhat popular as an extension to TLS libs.
I'll edit out the part of my comment where I suggested they don't.
Not having read his takedown, IMO Game of Thrones has more "realism" in the behaviors of people vis-à-vis each other, and at least some semblance of feudal castes, at least in Westeros. But the more core systems of society and war aren't deeply thought through. When people say it's "realistic" it's more so in the sense of "yup, nobles and soldiers really would rape peasants," not in any tremendously larger sense. And they consider LOTR unrealistic not because the battles are unrealistic, but because the infrastructure of society is mostly invisible, especially outside of the Shire.
Same pattern for me. About a year ago migraines escalated to a few times a week. Debilitating. I started searching for a solution and discovered this book [1]. It basically recommends a low carb or even a keto diet. After three weeks migrants reduced to once every three to four months, and mostly because I'm cheating on the diet. Life changing.
This is exactly the conclusion of the article, which I think was put very well:

> As a new generation of people adopts the Spartans as historical role models, we should understand that they’re probably telling us more about themselves than the actual people who lived in Sparta more than two millennia ago.
Interesting; the reason I wanted one was specifically because I wanted to have an Android e-ink reader so that I could use the O'Reilly Learning app with an e-ink screen. The Kindle Fire screen is "fine", but the e-paper stuff always was nicer for me to read off of.

I can't read my own handwriting anymore, so "real" paper is out of the question for me.
This is aimed at the lower end of the market: the pre/postpaid MVNOs and deal hunters. And for kids.

The new modem is interesting. How much power around the world is being wasted because Qualcomm's code sucks? Apparently gigawatts per day.
Imagine someone can do the things you can’t do and needs help doing the things you can.
It's rather the opposite, it helps avoid bugs when something is terminated, e.g. by ensuring that if an exception is thrown it rolls back a database transaction.

Generally you want to do several classes of things with exceptions in web apps:

1. Return a 500, possibly rendering a nice error page.

2. Log why it occurred.

3. Roll back changes you were making at the time in the database.

And you might also want to do other things, like propagate the error via tracing, increment monitored metrics and many other things. All these are easily done with exceptions, and will often be done by frameworks for you. In desktop apps you may also want to trigger a crash reporter, display a sorry message to the user, and if the exception was inside something like a button click handler you may even be able to proceed safely too.

Given the level of bugginess in untested error handling codepaths that crop up in languages without them, exceptions are definitely the way to go.
The article mentions MF DOOM's sampling, but for fans of RJD2, the bonus track on the original Deadringer CD (Here's What's Left) is built on a sample from David Matthews' Silent Running on that album.
Controversial take: On a population level, the negatives of smoking are at least partially mitigated by the "smoking suppresses obesity" side effect. Obesity is such a huge (pun not intended) public health issue in modern American society that any intervention reducing it is actually quite valuable.

It's at least arguable and perhaps even true that we as a society would be better off if everybody used tobacco at 1950's rates and therefore got skinnier, especially if we all just dipped Zyns or similar smokeless "low harm" nicotine formats instead of smoking.

That said, I personally use 0 tobacco/nicotine etc.
The problem is that there are numerous people on HN that spew these insane takes fully sincerely

A Modest Proposal is a lot less funny when you have people who really do believe we should eat babies to solve the Irish problem.
XScreenSaver for Android • Privacy Policy (2024)
> They are just visiting the ATCSCC for a tour nothing more. Musk said they are available to help.

"Boeing takes a tour of Air Force base, nothing more. Ortberg said they are available to help."

Doesn't sound good, does it? Sounds like a contractor walking around looking for a way to get taxpayer funds, instead of meeting an actual, stated need.

And since Congress has decided it doesn't need to do its job, that contractor very well might get taxpayer funds. Lots of them.
Stocks at this stage are priced as options and bonds are priced as stocks; given that, nothing to phone home about.
> It could take up to four days to load just 5 MB of data, an operation that would now be completed in milliseconds using modern storage devices like flash drives or cloud computing.

I don't think that's really an apples to apples comparison. I'd bet the "business value" represented by that pile of punch cards was probably much higher than a typical 5 MB chunk of data today. There was undoubtedly a lot of thought put into packing as much meaning onto a card as possible and only collecting what was needed.

Even accounting for that, things are much faster today, but it's worth considering.
If it's a fundamental probability thing with randomized partition selection, put the actual probability of what you're describing in the article.

.25^20 is not a "somewhat unlucky sequence of events"
This looks cool. But it seems to keep files separate from folders. Is it possible to sort by data modified with files and folders together?
I do something similar as well for my primary storage pool appliance of 28TB available. It has 32GB of system ram so I push push as much in to ARC Cache as possible without the whole thing toppling over; roughly 85%. I only need it for an NFS end point.
It's pretty zippy for frequently accessed files.
synthfuels will catch up eventually, the economics keep getting better and there’s really no alternative
Archive.org because jwz doesn't like HN.

He updated it later on:

"Update: On June 8th, 2024, I submitted this privacy policy to Google, and on June 10th, they accepted it. I take this to mean that they found it to be 100% factual and endorse it entirely. XScreenSaver was restored to the "Play" [sic] store, and people were able to again downloaded and enjoy it freely.

But then!

Barely 6 weeks later, on July 24th, 2024, Google instituted yet another new policy: basically they told me that if I didn't give them a sample of my blood a copy of my driver's license, they would remove XScreenSaver from the "Play" [sic] store, again.

Obviously that's never going to happen. Do I, the person who wrote the above list cataloging Google's various predations, seem like the sort of person who would willingly give Google my private details? On purpose? I do not think so.

Having distributed XScreenSaver for over a decade to I-don't-even-know-how-many users (I actually don't know, I never looked) Google suddenly decided that it was a huge problem that they don't have a lock of my hair.

Since I enjoy wasting the time and money of multinational superpredators, I spent a few weeks going back and forth with what passes for developer "support" over there. You can read about it over on my blog. Eventually they just started ignoring my emails, and in November 2024, XScreenSaver was again de-listed from the Google "Play" [sic] store, presumably this time for good.

However, we can take solace in the fact that Google endorsed the above privacy policy, and found no fault with it whatsoever."
Some good videos on Starting Strength of what they have done for older people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekJOT0kn5vs (Such as the 86 year old lady in the video).
The venodor provided OpenGL and Vulkan drivers on Windows are not shims over DirectX and are instead full-featured implementations of those APIs for the vendor hardware without weird limitations that a shim brings. So yes, the situation on Windows is better, by miles.
You can use it like this, it's just that it's integrated with Meta's companion app which also has AI capabilities.
Personally, I found the AI capabilities kind of lackluster now but I'm sure more features will be added in the future.
The most useful features I found were taking quick photos and video calls with friends and family while away on work trips. Music playback was also decent but it eats up the limited battery.