skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funnily enough, given your username, if you let de Sitter space evolve, it will -- literally -- grow to infinite volume.

Barring some source of gravitation greater than that implied by studies of the energy content of the observable universe, and in particular under the \Lambda-CDM model, our patch of the universe will ultimately evolve to something so similar to de Sitter that it should (again, literally) grow to infinite volume.

I don't think many physical cosmologists would complain about determinism; this is in part reflected in initial values surface formalisms.

Your last two points have been the subject of substantial investigation; you might enjoy some of the pointers to primary sources in this article: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Digital_physics

As noted therein, it is hard to divorce real numbers from working models that fundamentally explain (and predict) experimental and observational results at the energy scales we have access to.

("Fundamentally explain" as in "fundamental theory" as a term of art, as it were; contrasted with things like effective theory or classical theory or reduced theory.)

Although I would not word it like your last sentence, you hit the nail on the head by saying that we have good evidence that there are some _local_ properties that do not change with a displacement in space or in time. That's the principle of relativity at work. Unfortunately when you accept that one of those invariants is the local measurement of the speed of light (or indeed the speed of any object with zero rest mass), you run smack into infinitesimals that under detailed experiments to date actually look physical.
Yeah unfortunately mine was a private, non-profit university (US) and I think because of that private status, they can change curriculum to suit their needs. I wouldnt have went to them if I had known that. Whats confusing is that they are an actual University but can mess with curriculum that much. And for almost 50k in tuition..
I feel like I am educated and fairly high income (will clear $200k this year) but I honestly feel like I have no way to affect change.

Contacting representatives yields nothing but form responses, protesting has had no real effect. Volunteer work and charitable donations are about all I seem to be able to do and that's not on any appreciable scale.

I honestly feel like I have no way to cause anyone to make changes outside of voting. Which, to be honest even when I vote I feel like my voice is not heard.
If that's that case I much rather my browser eat up more RAM than needlessly write to my SSD.

A lot of the improvement in the reliability of consumer grade SSDs is due to OS improvements in how they manage their write operations to the hard drive.
Windows is considerably more conservative in how it uses it's page file and what does it write off to the SSD, linux has also made a lot of improvements in how it uses the swap partition if it uses it at all, other things like having to be able to suspend the PC in "hibernation" mode without actually having to write a "hibernation" file to disk by keeping the CPU at pretty much an off state but refreshing the ram also saves a lot of day to day write operations especially on mobile devices.

So overall I highly doubt that Firefox went with the suspend to disk route, because if it did it would be a pretty big step backwards.

Also as power conservation goes writing to SSD/HDD is more expensive than writing to RAM and keeping it refreshed, so using the SSD as a storage device instead of the RAM can also have negative effects on the battery life of mobile devices.
Community colleges (at least the one's I've seen) tend to have both traditional academic programs intended to fill the lower division of a classical four-year college program and vocational programs leading to a two-year degree or vocational certificate (or where you might just take a few ad hoc classes for career advancement without enrolling in any kind of certificate/degree program.)

The idea that the ITTs of the world are more effective for vocational education than Community Colleges is a product of the massive marketing campaigns of ITT-style for-profit institutions more than any reality, as far as I can tell,
a) your security should not rely on process isolation. the javascript engine etc. should be secure in the first place. if you can break out of the JS sandbox you can already attack addon scripts (think password managers)

b) hosting some tabs in the same, sandboxed process is still stronger than hosting all of them in the parent process.
No? That's what HPKP does: it allows sites of any size to pin certificates.
Chrome uses separate processes for sandboxing purposes, not just for the fun of it. So yes, protecting against "some unknown vulnerability" is the entire point behind it.
It's one thing for a school to recruit students that aren't prepared for the curriculum, and subsequent debt.

But it's quite another problem if the school loses their accreditation and is unable to deliver a quality education.
This. It's already best practice because fooapp.com should be on the public suffix list (which allows Let's Encrypt to be used with subdomains, among other things).
This will probably have significant implications for web worker behavior.

If memory serves, workers are unable to directly communicate with each other in Firefox when the UI thread is blocked, because message handling runs on the same process as the UI thread. Chrome doesn't have that limitation since it's already a multi-process architecture.
Well, TLS (allong with access controls) for his sing-along blog would have really helped Dr. Horrible stay ahead of the authorities.

In all seriousness, though, there are plenty of blogs where which page a user visits might, for instance, out a gay teen via gateway logs, hint about a private health issue, etc.
It's easy to "win" arguments if you cherry pick parts of them and ignore the rest.
I've always been a huge fan of community colleges. Partly because I came up through one.
There's another thing too: being productive remotely takes a different kind of discipline. If you are a seasoned contractor or freelancer, then maybe you've already developed said discipline, but it's far from universal. I agree that companies need to trust their employees, but in turn employees need to also be honest with themselves and acknowledge if they are not wired for remote work.

I've done all mixes of full-time in office, full-time in satellite office, part-time remote, full-time remote, full-time remote from up to 8 hours time zone difference for my previous company, and I have to say that even within the same company and the same employee there is a wide difference in the result of remote work. Being in the central office gave me more energy and motivation around the mission and camraderie with the team. Being remote allows more focused time and greater single-contributor output, but close collaboration is not as good (Screenhero is ultimately not the same as sitting next to someone no matter how much we wish it were).
You can't measure "properly". You can measure enough to know that you'd be blowing it if you spent 20k.

If spending 300 didn't bring in at least 3 users over a week, that advertising was never going to work. If it did, then you go up an order of magnitude and test again. Never scale more than one order of magnitude at a time.
Loren C. Larson; Mathematics Magazine Vol. 50, No. 2 (Mar., 1977), pp. 69-74
Ulterius: Easy & Open Source Remote Management Desktop Management [Windows]
> No add-ins (except for Firebug).

You might want to try Firefox's built-in Web Console. I switched a year or two ago when it was less powerful than Firebug, but notably more stable, and I haven't gone back since.

> except for an annoying OS-X multi-screen bug where it screws up the sizing

Can't argue with you there. At last exiting full-screen video no longer takes the entire browser out of full-screen.
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They tried and failed at least three times:

Intel i960
Intel i860
Itanium

https://www.quora.com/Why-didnt-Intel-move-from-CISC-archite...

Added: Intel created a huge moat and wall around their x86 architecture. It worked very well for them in keeping out the rest of the world. The problem is, they inadvertently bricked up their gate and burned their drawbridge and now they are imprisoned in their own castle.
or they do it like this because they can sell new charge cords at a premium so they engineer them to fail
> JavaScript was little more than a toy scripting language

No, back then Mozilla was trying to do the entire UI logic in JS. That was the whole point behind reusing the same JS engine for both: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XUL
Extremely poor article. Especially those findings are proven wrong when applied to quantum theory. Heard of the Zeno Effect?
https://www.fi.edu/history-resources/franklins-glass-armonic...
ant -> anti?
> Something I don't think I've ever really seen mentioned about working from home is that it can be incredibly isolating and overall mentally unhealthy.

It has mostly been the same for me. I've worked 3 years remote currently.. and i loathe to give it up for my next job (which i'm hoping to land in the next week or so), i firmly believe it will be good for me.

Really, the only reasons i want to work remote currently is the checklist of savings. Saving time, gas, etcetc. Mentally, i all but feel it's worse off for me. I have a harder time focusing (i don't have a dedicated, isolated office at home), i feel disconnected, the days blur together, etcetc.

The place i'm hoping to land next is going to be half(ish) remote, which seems like a nice middleground at least. I can avoid traffic on some days, but hopefully feel less isolated.
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Do you have any evidence to the contrary?
That's kind of my point - they could have tested me easily by giving me some problems from a previous final, or anything else, or even talking to me for five minutes, but instead they chose the path of petty legalism by assuming since the syllabus didn't agree with their's 100%, the only way to guarantee I knew the material was to make to pay to retake the entire sequence.

I failed to mention I'd also already spent three years as a physics major and had already taken classical mechanics, electrodynamics, and quantum mechanics - so being told to retake the intro physics sequence was quite silly indeed.
Demisto pays you for publishing Incident Response Playbooks
> we know for a fact, with repeated existence proofs, that governments will manipulate the DNS (like DOJ did with file sharing sites), and we know .COM isn't going anywhere.

Yeah, like I've posted before, this is actually US gov SOP.

The US government asserts super-jurisdiction over .COM/.NET/.ORG and will seize such domains at will [1] [2] [3], which should make every non-American think twice about using those TLD's for anything. Your only recourse will be the American justice system that you will have to navigate as a foreigner. Meanwhile, ccTLD's are under the jurisdiction of their respective countries. Of course, the US is still ultimately in control of the root zone, but I consider messing with that the nuclear option after which the US will surely have to hand it over to the UN as has been discussed at times.

[1] https://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/03/06/1720230/us-asserts-s...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name#Seizures

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_In_Our_Sites
The chemical imbalance theory has little scientific support.
On modern technology:

"You walk down the streets, you have to weave around people standing there in random orientations in the middle of the sidewalk looking at their cellphones. Then you see people speaking robotically so that their speech recognizer can understand them. Now they are running around in mobs in parks with their phones in front of them trying to catch imaginary animals. I don’t necessarily see all that as a positive development."
To me, open-mindedness, inclusion, and confidence in leadership are incredibly important to the culture of an organization.

Good leadership earns, deserves and requires confidence from the community that makes up the organization. I would go a step further to say great leadership earns, deserves and requires faith (to be crystal clear, non-religious faith).

The cynicism and reductive reasoning you are expressing is a good counterpoint.

Leaders have numerous tools and opportunities to shape culture positively or negatively. Thanks for showing a counterpoint to my view. Whichever perspective you choose it speaks to the relevance of culture fit.
Wonder if Graal.JS could offer any improvements to the browser
Beautiful example of Peter principle and how to promote someone into uselessness and inefficacy.
My guess is that the multithreaded-only design wasn't as good at exploiting the inherent per-tab parallelism. The original architecture probably had some synchronization points (perhaps related to the common GUI code) that did not allow processing each tab truly independently. Regarding memory allocation, yes, in theory one should be able to try to avoid sharing data across threads, which should eliminate serialization on memory allocation and deallocation. But I can easily imagine that in practice, in a codebase that was not explicitly designed to process each tab in parallel, you'll still end up sometimes sharing data across threads.

I imagine they could have instead changed the architecture to be multithreaded in such a way to avoid my imagined sequential bottlenecks, but performance is not the only goal in a multprocess architecture. Sandboxing is another design goal, and that cannot be fully achieved with a multithreaded design.

This is all speculation on my part, so if anyone who actually works on the Firefox codebase could correct me, that would be very welcomed.
1) CAA tries to address the threat of attacker getting a cert issued for your domain - to carry out such an attack inherently requires taking over your DNS record or your domain account - if they can do this then they can also reconfigure your CAA record.

2) CAA requires the CA to perform additional operation (retrieve and check that DNS record) - not all of the 300-600+ CA's will do this - all it takes is 1 CA and the attacker will get his fraudulent cert from that CA.
I wouldn't be surprised if NASA had a different definition of "error" than a typical "bug" in commercial software. My video player plays every single mpeg/avi/mkv I through at it. Yet it has dozens if not hundreds of serious bugs. I just doubt those bugs fall under the NASA's definition of "error".
I shouldn't have put that tailchaser into my post, because I knew it's what you'd seize on. Silly ol' reductive me, I guess.

So let's not let you dodge. How about the structural and institutionalized sexism and racism involved in "culture fit" as is actually practiced, not how you'd like to redefine it? "Culture fit is about open-mindedness and inclusion" except when somebody has some melanin to them or an accent or a couple of X chromosomes. We just going to pretend that's not a thing, now?
I haven't used that in a while, but I remember liking it. I've moved to umatrix
I'm not so sure that qualifies as a "crack".
Who were they accredited by and for how long?
Firefox is frustratingly slow for me. I can't use it, have to stick to Chrome. Chrome which, by the way, crashes after 5 minutes of using video Hangouts and brings my 16 gigabytes ram PC to a halt when I open too many youtube tabs.

But firefox scrolling is especially slow. irccloud.com is the main culprit (and I use irccloud a lot). It's pretty bad in gmail as well.

The react app my team is working on is also far slower in Firefox. Try scrolling this in Firefox and Chrome and see the difference (the scrubber is at the bottom of the blue area, like a video). Butter smooth in Chrome, horribly slow in Firefox: https://hsreplay.net/replay/7VAKLeMNaXvshAawnUUoni
Multi-processing is an orthogonal issue to single-threaded JS.

The same asynchronous logic used to have multiple browser engines with multiple JS runtimes talk to each other could also be used for multi-threading while making shared, thread-safe datastructures of non-JS parts much easier.
Ass heard on the track "All Neon Like" by Bjork on the album Homogenic.
According to my friends and everything I've read on the subject, the cannon effect is achieved when you smoke DMT.

Ayahuasca is DMT + MAOI inhibitors and is more like the usual experiences of orally ingesting LSD, psilocybin or mescaline.
I am not saying it wasn't a succes.

But the success was because of the hype, not because of Facebook. We could have pulled this off on other platforms as well, we were 3 times in the news.

But the success isn't as big as it should have been. We paid pennies and had something. But I wouldn't want to know how much we should pay when I'm an actual business and trying to get some traction through Facebook
Yes. Good clinicians should be trying to recognise subthreshold symptoms and providing advice.

https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/qs8

> This quality standard covers the assessment and clinical management of persistent subthreshold depressive symptoms, or mild, moderate or severe depression in adults (including people with a chronic physical health problem).
Ops, yes. I've missread it.
(author of BadVPN here; I did not submit this)

No particular reason really, I just needed a name that sounded deviant - I was still a teen back then! Over time I added other software to the repo for convenience (tun2socks, NCD). A name change might in fact be due.

Unfortunately some of the docs got "lost" by the killing of Google Code - it can still be found in [1]. Currently the project is essentially in maintenance mode, though I'm not opposed to someone contributing new features (especially to NCD, I realy love and still use NCD!).

Note that the software is packaged in a few Linux distros (I know about Gentoo, Arch and NixOS).

[1] https://github.com/ambrop72/badvpn-googlecode-export/tree/wi...
I second that. My FF on Linux acted weirdly, then I removed the whole .mozilla directory (remembered to save the greasemonkey scripts I wrote, but forgot to save the favorite links :( ) and everything worked again.
Yeah sorry, posted it too fast obviously
Chrome became really really really slow on Ubuntu in the past year, no extensions installed. Every time I use it on a high-end Core M ultrabook, the CPU/RAM is eaten, the whole system becomes laggy, Google Hangout/Slack voice chat/Skype gets interrupted all the time etc. Not sure if you gain anything by moving back, sadly :(
RMS's website: https://stallman.org/

There are a few links to his articles (Right side of the 3-column thing + bottom of the 3-column thing).
Overall it's an interesting article, but I have a quibble with this paragraph about how it actually backed by much Silicon Valley:

"Silicon Valley, once so taken by Holmes, has turned its back, too. Countless investors have been quick to point out that they did not invest in the company—that much of its money came from the relatively somnolent worlds of mutual funds, which often accrue the savings of pensioners and retirees; private equity; and smaller venture-capital operations on the East Coast. In the end, one of the only Valley V.C. shops that actually invested in Theranos was Draper Fisher Jurvetson."

Crunchbase shows that on top of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, there's ATA ventures in Redwood City, as well as Larry Ellison's firm (Tako) and his personal trust. Depending on how you read that, that's 4 of 6 or 3 of 5 major backers coming out of Silicon Valley. On what basis is Bilton making his claim?
Point, though binary normalization is easier to define in a manner everybody will consistently implement as opposed to, say, SMTP headers.

...I guess it's abominations like SMTP that I mainly think of when I hear "text-based protocol".

JSON and bencode are probably safe enough.

(Canonicalization is not useful from a security perspective, since an attacker is under no obligation to canonicalize their message.)
The demarcation problem just became the most important problem in publishing
May I ask a stupid question? Last time I heard about HPKP was as a solution to prevent an attacker from installing a fake root CA certificate in the client system (a mobile device), so that it could observe the behavior of a mobile app, by posing as its API server (for any purpose of reverse-engineering). Is such an attack possible, and HPKP a reasonable solution to it?
"Bootstrap 3 is no longer supported"... And no final bootstrap 4 release yet. So, there is NO supported stable bootstrap versions at all right now? :-/
https://github.com/shadowproject/shadow/blob/4e6affe1457116a...

Ever heard of IND-CCA3?
Addons are a big part of the firefox ecosystem and they reach deep into the internals of the browser. So just replacing the browser wholesale would break a lot of things over the course of a single release.
We just had had a thread about the new v4 Alpha 4 [1], in which several people reacted incredulously [2][3][4] at why developers would feel pressured to upgrade from v3 to v4 for existing projects.

This news, not even 24 hours later, confirms others' and my fears [5], that v4's arrival will mean the cessation of releases -- including bugfix and maintenance releases -- on the v3 line, effectively making it abandoned.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12432136
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12432546
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12433663
[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12432666
[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12432915
Since Javascript is just a language that happens to execute client-side within the browser, why can we not use an existing language syntax (or an existing language entirely) for this purpose? For example, Go, Python, Rust, or perhaps Perl? It feels like a broken shell scripting language that really should have been replaced.
Only if addon authors fix them. Afaik mozilla devs aren't planning on adding additional compatibility shims.
>Now, suppose you want to take a nurse making $40k/year and bring her up to the trader's level. Suppose I give you $500k. Do you think you can do it? Concretely speaking, and without handwaving, what would you spend the money on? A harvard education (using up $240k already) is far from sufficient.

First, I'd spend a sizable amount attracting and testing nurses to find one with sufficient mathematical aptitude and motivation. We're not really talking about any random person from a population but whether a particular type of person exists in that group.

If I could catch a person who would become a nurse earlier (assuming some aptitude and motivation in the desired direction) and train them to be a trader or a developer it could be cheaper -- not so much wasted time learning skills that would not be applicable.

You seem to assume that people end up fulfilling their full earning aptitude and, if they are at the 'level' of a nurse, they are obviously not cut out for something more rarefied.

You might be right, but I don't think it is wise to assume the end result, simply because it is the result that occurred, is proof that is the optimal result.

If we assume that $20M/year traders are the ones skewing the data on the right side of the graph, the question is what is keeping others from entering that field and competing?

I really don't think 'raw aptitude' is the ultimate answer. I don't have an answer, and that is my point -- we need to explore why such a deep moat exists and what we can do to drain it. If there are implicit costs that reduce the economic profit so that it is so divorced from accounting profit, what are they and can they be reduced? I don't think we can assume that all is as it should be and move on.
I was hoping Shel would talk about using Lisp in the early days of Amazon.

https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/tour-de-babel#TOC-...