skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If one can extract practical comparisons between a pair of mathematical formalisms, and map those to differences in observables, I think that qualifies both as physical theories. Between ASG and string theory (with some assumptions about how to get the latter out of the AdS box and ignoring the landscape problem) there are noteworthy differences that are likely to manifest in the detailed accounting of accretion disks around astrophysical black holes. QG phenomenologists (who are sadly rare) are professionally interested in extracting such comparisons among various theories with a view to distinguishing them observationally or experimentally.

Annoyingly, experimental evidence can be hard to come by because any viable mathematical formalism has to reproduce the successes of GR, and it is shockingly easy to depart from GR in a serious way even in very weak gravity.

ASG's main anti-features are that it's not in itself a fundamental ToE; what it would accomplish (if it holds up) is getting the gravity part right to Planck scales and avoiding the incompatibility with QFT. Who knows what beyond-the-Standard-Model physics outside the gravitational sector will look like at those scales?

ASG is not alone in this, though.

String theory, on the other hand, would let gravity and matter emerge from something like a field of strings resembling dark energy, where cooling increases the apparent volume of the cosmological frame at a given scale factor. Slow thermalization in turn produces everything else, like dark matter, baryons, light, and so on.

There are other less popular theories from which matter
and spacetime geometry emerge, too.

And of course it goes the other way around too, where matter theories can arise from geometry (Cartan torsion is still viable, and Poplawski still tries to get people to pick up Riemann-Cartan geometry; and quantum geometrodynamics remains viable too).

> We live in amazing times

The amazing thing is that collaboration, simulation, and publication is hugely improved upon even a couple of decades ago. If in the early 1900s people had WWW and message boards, email and message boards, LaTeX, ArXiv, and so forth, who knows what might have been different given the big brains around at the time !

In richer countries we have relative peace, antibiotics and sanitation. Feynman's wife died of TB while he was working on the Manhattan project; that's the trifecta there, just once removed from a theoretical physicist. Henry Moseley was shot through the head on the battlefield at Gallipoli. Many other scientists had their work seriously disrupted during both world wars and during cold war repressions (Sakharov on the one hand, Condon on the other; the former got it much worse of course).
FWIW, I recently wrote up my Vermont hit list: https://seancoates.com/blogs/vermont/

Need to make a trip down there as soon as possible. I'm getting thirsty.
The only time I've had it was flown in for a party. It was really lovely, though.
So who are we at war with today? Oceania?
> The fact that people seem more upset about stopping some people at the border than they are about dropping cluster bombs on them in their home country is really puzzling to me.

1000x this. Many people don't even know (or don't want to know) what we do with our drones.
It is legal to ask you anything. It doesn't mean you are obliged to answer.
We talked to 1,259 users of live chat software. Here's what we found.
Yes they do - if not enough people volunteer, they will force the ones seeming most fit for the tasks at hand.

Also, if I know the Swedish military, they'll chose the most fit for the task, but make absolutely sure to fill the gender quotas.
"Responsibility" may be too strong a word but I guess it is fair to say that technically they've played a role in many cases. And because of that it rubs me the wrong way when they say they are in a unique position to "help" people. It's rather an attempt at saving face.
These reasons would apply to the cotton gin as well.
Saw this video on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0t1wAkjFBo

<quote>

NASA's Use of HoloLens Puts St. Louis Scientist on Mars with Curiosity Rover

If anyone sees Raymond E. Arvidson, PhD, walking the halls of Washington University wearing Microsoft HoloLens, then he's not entirely walking on Earth. HoloLens combined with OnSight, a software tool developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in collaboration with Microsoft, allows Arvidson to be absorbed in the Martian landscape conducting 'field' research. Arvidson may actually be walking on university flooring, but the software is allowing him to virtually walk on Mars with NASA's Mars rover Curiosity. In his role as Curiosity Surface Properties Scientist, Arvidson is planning Curiosity's next move.

</quote>
Phoenix v1.3.0-rc.0 released
File Upload with AJAX
How do I turn off the auto bot. I am receiving too many repsonses for positions I did not apply. Not sure how this works.
If this was a new rule change your point would be valid. It's fair to consider that but you'd need to adjust all the previous data points to reflect those swaps as well.Why not just compare a larger market pool?
Truth be told, the press release is somewhat misleading. European Parliament is calling on European Commission to take a closer look at own Directive from 2001 (3 years before the countries in question joined the club).

The European Parliament has run this file through a non-legislative procedure, which explains why the press release says "urge the Commission" and places the time limit for action in quotes.

While it is a clear indication of what Members of the European Parliament stand for, there is no immediate legal implications of it - political yes... The European Parliament is a curious legal construct.

There is a plenty of wiggle room to avoid any direct action by the European Commission.
We take backwards compatibility seriously. If you encounter problems updating from one version of Docker to the next (whether from 1.13.1 to 17.03 or from 17.03 to the upcoming 17.04), please open an issue on docker/docker so that can fix the incompatibility and improve our change process.

Quoting from the blog post:

The Docker API version continues to be independent of the
Docker platform version and the API version does not
change from Docker 1.13.1 to Docker 17.03. Even with the
faster release pace, Docker will continue to maintain
careful API backwards compatibility and deprecate APIs and
features only slowly and conservatively. And in Docker
1.13 introduced improved interoperability between clients
and servers using different API versions, including
dynamic feature negotiation.

- https://blog.docker.com/2017/03/docker-enterprise-edition/
Opened at 24, and it's been bouncing around in the 24.50-25 range right now, nothing too exciting.
Speaking of which, Zen/Ryzen was supposed to come with Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV), but I don't know if any of these reviews have covered it yet:

https://www.techpowerup.com/226719/amds-zen-to-implement-adv...

It's possible only Naples will support it.
Citrix XenServer 7.1
Actually Wisconsin isn't by any fault lines and occasionally gets an earth quake (very small). From the glacier recession of the last ice age. Turns out glaciers are heavy and bedrock is still uncompressing.

So we do have proof of weather changes causing earthquakes.

Though I doubt anyone has data or models that would be useful for this tangent. At least for oceanic fault lines, which could be affected by ocean rise.
How has Cloud computing affected user experience on the web?
What would that have to do with the constitution. The government is prevented from establishing a state religion, they're not prevented from taking religion into consideration.
As a consumer, the only power I have to deal with this situation is to tip my drivers who give good service. I actually hate tipping, and think it should be included, but I don't have any control over Ubers business model. So I tip. Unless the driver annoyed me for whatever reason, then I don't.
Presumably fine. Why would you let infidels into a holy place?

While persecuting people for circumstances of their birth is IMHO a moral wrong, adults are free to choose their religion (in "secular" countries like the US at least). The entails a set of beliefs, privileges and responsibilities. Whether or not it's fair, border security in a lot of places is anti-Muslim. It's part of the belief system of border agents and (some) voters. Islam and not-Islam are at odds here, just as they are in Mecca.

I especially feel sorry for non-religious "Arab-looking" people who get caught up in this.
Impressive, but I wish this was applicable to actual teeth.
No. But I have a friend who writes in C# and he showed me quite some tips on VS Code. I know it's very smart and IDE understands code in semantics, that can be a lot better than Stack Editor that only recognize the structure. I will keep an eye on that.
correct me if I am wrong but is 1 year LTS for an EE viable? Will EE clients like that time frame?
Federal Judge Says NYC's Regulation of the Press Will Go on Trial
The quarterly ("stable channel") CE releases (17.03, 17.06 and so on) are supported for 4 months, and will not get new features during that period. EE quarterly releases have a 1 year support period, and also won't get new features.

During the support period, bug fixes will get back ported to those versions and released as "patch" releases (e.g. 17.03.1).

When installing, you can choose to install either the "stable" (quarterly) channel, or the "edge" (monthly) channel.
Rafia is a she. Not that it changes anything.

This fear is much worse now. Watching what you say, the language you speak, books you read, what may be on your computers/phone, your demeanor, etc. Because of that fear she tried to remove anything that may signal she is a Muslim to the CBP. That makes the title not sensational. [But it didn't work as they still asked her if she was a Muslim.]
> Giant left[y] stronghold

Solid MadBum reference
It feels weird to me that their marketing pitch is "for you big enterprise customers we've made a simple to use version". That's home or small biz use, not enterprise. The idea of a dumbed-down/less features/no shape edges as being "enterprise" software is befuddling to - isn't it the exact opposite?
> How is AI any different from other technology improvement such as electricity, automation, personal computers, steam engines, or the cotton gin?

The same way Anti-biotics are different than Leeches.

Just because there is any connection between two things does not mean they are equal.
This is quite nice, would be great on iPad. Any chance of some bounce curves?
The art of curation
If young adults are getting by without knowing how to iron, I suggest that says more about ironing than it does about the adults.
Whats wrong with RT in general (besides funding) and this article in particular?

> It would be nice for Russia to have a swath from Crimea to Dontesk up through Latvia, just look at a map.

Why take this land? It does nothing strategically, has population that you need to subsidise, etc. Crimea allows Black Sea control. Kaliningrad effectively makes Baltic inner sea for Russia and if there ever would be any baltic action you would see that, not many (if any) ships would be able to enter.
Problem is, there are no "tells," particular of a religious orientation.
Getting a 404 error on that link. Mind resubmitting to Imgur?
Lightspeed’s Snap Story
> save for nukes which will likely never be used.

save for nukes which will likely never be used, again.
haha thanks for sharing that, one of the most absurd things I've ever seen. Every once in a while I think about picking up Java or .NET and going for the enterprise-y jobs...no thanks.
They're denying them entry, or making them sit in the hit box? I haven't heard of people being denied entry.
What is the benefit of this? It seems like oftentimes editing ASTs is much more verbose than code that would generate an AST.

For example, in python's builtin ast library, writing the variable

> x

in AST is..

> Expr(value=Name(id='x', ctx=Load()))

while assigning the variable

> x = 1

in AST is..

> Assign(targets=[Name(id='x', ctx=Store()),], value=Num(n=1))

There is a lot packed in there! I looked at the site, and a few videos, but the goal and motivation for this project has gone way over my head (probably my fault!).
Well, my practical experience is that writing in Scala is so much more enjoyable, it eventually becomes 100% Scala.
> I never said it would be easy. All I'm saying is to shout them down and ridicule them is going to make the problem worse. Socializing is a good first time. Keep talking to them. Try not to lose your cool. It's hard.. it's really hard. I know people who are Trump fans and are caught up in one aspect that they like about him. Be it ant-immigration or whatever. I do my best to make them think I'm actively accepting their views.. then I do my best to talk about some stuff here and there..if I get them to acknowledge one flaw in their thinking then I see that as a positive. Its going to take years..decades and luck.

Socializing and normalizing people who claim people never shot BLM protesters, Mosques don't get burned down, and Sandy Hook never happened is the opposite of what you should do.

I'm sorry, but normalizing that behavior is not a viable solution.
The more I read about the gnarly details of floating point specs and implementations, the more they look like a messy hack. I think it'd be nice to just use rational numbers in my programs.
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You can avoid wasting disk space by using symlinks/hardlinks. And I must agree, a filesystem interface is always neat.
When I was returning to the United States from Croatia, but in Heathrow Airport, my wife and I got picked for a secondary interview at the gate with a British Gentleman who asked me and my wife very detailed questions.

My wife had just changed jobs, so her inability to give the corporate address of her employer made her interview take twice as long as mine. He had a hard time understanding that while a hospital was based out of Alabama somewhere she worked in Missouri and she didn't know a lot about their Alabama operations.

All those questions made us very nervous but once through we saw no more problems.
I'll detail my fears. I'm afraid investment and corporate structure, specifically of infrastructure companies, directly affects the security, reliability and trust of the infrastructure on which all of this stuff runs. I am aware maintaining shareholder value for such a company may be difficult given infrastructure (or fractional infrastructure) may be asked to remain open, transparent and trustworthy for the user's benefit.

To use a bit of a biased argument, I've been told by several infrastructure VCs that the infrastructure market is currently difficult to invest in because of the uncertainty the technology behind it has brought us. I don't trust that continued traditional investments behind producing those infrastructure offerings are a rational choice for users. However, at the end of the day, only the users can speak to that claim. I can only speak my mind on the matter.

Unfortunately, it's difficult to trust a service or software built on closed technologies because seeing inside the service or software becomes difficult, expensive or impossible. The combination of desired outcomes (easy infrastructure) and risk bias (implied trust) presents itself as a dangerous one because leads to cognitive dissonance where the market must literally believe two things at once: We have to TRUST this service or software because We NEED this service or software.

I'd prefer we all work together to solve these conflicted views with "enterprise" software offerings, especially those involved in building infrastructure, but my observations say that we are more likely to not work together because of existing investment structures. Perhaps this will change over time as new models emerge. For now, I remain sceptical at best about the way we're investing and growing the infrastructure market.
Yeah, they had such nice colors for so long. All of a sudden they subtly tweaked all the colors to be awful :(
Can someone explain what is "out of box" experience about it?
Removing 'maybe' might be useful for writing or speech that is intended to persuade someone else or with an online argument (or perhaps even intended to spark one). When I'm trying to communicate my thinking, my thinking is often, but not always, probabilistic (but always fallible). Words like 'maybe' convey the state of my mind rather than depicting a world which I can imagine to be the case...or one I might wish to imagine to be the case for really good reasons or for the sake of presenting a winnable argument.

All that with the caveat that Socrates is a personal hero. He didn't just talk the talk, he walked the walk all against the rhetoricians. Standard writing advice is to write dishonestly in five paragraphs as if for a grade. The standard is PR wire press releases rather than Cervantes.
There are lots of reasons, principally among them that Kaggle comps problems represent only one tiny fraction of ML problems.

On general purpose ML, with out much time rigging a optimal solution, RF/Xgboost will preform better. But in many problems, ie vision, DL is vastly superior.

The other important point is that there many new opportunities for researchers regarding DL, where statistical ML approach on supervised problems is a much more well established field.
His argument isn't that you need air and naval. Its that air and naval are, generally, more cost effective.
It's because you're consenting to the search.

CBP can't force you to answer anything. You are free to withdraw your request to enter the US at any time and return to your country of origin.
Sure, I see that part too.

But would I have been as motivated?
> Afghanistan would beg to differ.

You're not looking at this from the Afghan perspective. From the American and Russian perspective, yes, occupying Afghanistan is a painful deathtrap. But for the Afghans their occupation is...also a painful deathtrap. Eventually winning (or even sort of winning) a war of low-tech attrition involves sacrificing a lot of lives, losing political control, and having foreign soldiers soldiers patrol your territory imposing their own laws. Afghanistan has to go through all this because they don't have a credible way to deter an invasion. That's why they keep getting invaded!
>Give me a real in [0,1] that you say doesn't have a representation, and I will give you a floating point representation that will include it.

pi
> Except, you know. Less drunk driving, less traffic, less pollution, fewer road fatalities, and less tax money spent on road maintenance. Those little things.

How do people who are not served by public transit feel any of these effects?

> And what "many millions of people?" Public transit is mostly paid for by municipal taxes, not federal.

My point exactly, this is how it should be but municipalities are rather cash strapped at the moment so you likely won't see increased spending on anything. Thus "more public transit" isn't really possible without federal intervention.

> Federal taxes paid for a bloated highway system that negatively impacts many people even though we have long since hit the point of diminishing returns on more highway infrastructure.

This ignores the positive impacts. If only local roads existed very little trade would be able to take place vastly lowering GDP. Can the system be run in a more cost effective manner, certainly but that would require pushing out the public sector unions that demand unrealistic wages. Pick your poison.
We have a long history of conscription. I think it's a good thing. I think it's the moral choice when it comes to defence (but obviously not enough). That is because a conscript is not a professional soldier - and a conscript will never invade another country without good reason. Conscripts will defend their land, but not unjustly attack others.
Anti-firearms people love to imply that weapons of mass destruction and other exotic shit would be used to quell uprisings in an American Revolution-style event.

"You can't stop planes and tanks with a rifle, therefore the Second Amendment is useless!"

Small arms seemed to work just fine in Vietnam and Afghanistan.
I don't really understand what parts of the game are really departures from the Zelda formula. Swapping out the small mechanics like climbing and cooking this could be an Ocarina of Time review.
New Bill Would Force the NYPD to Disclose Its Surveillance Playbook
> I'm just so shocked by how... normal it's gotten.

I mean, i think in concept it's perfectly fine. If we started banning a small sect of insanely violent Christians i don't think it would be wrong, nor do i think people would cry racism / xenophobia.

My issue is that in the above example we're not banning all Christians, we're banning that small sect. Likewise, we're not focusing on banning a small sect of Muslims (which /may/ be perfectly reasonable), we're banning them all. .. And there's just so damn many of them, it's banning vastly more innocents than guiltys.. the net has been cast far too wide.

Ignoring Muslims for a moment, why can't we ban a crazy sect of christians who have shown massively violent/hateful trends? Are we not just banning an obvious pattern of human behavior? Does their skin color or religion really matter that much?
An Interview with Michael Natterer, GIMP Maintainer
Dog Leasing and Bank Fines
You would be interested in the Winter War between Finland and Soviet Russia in 1939. Finland absolutely outperformed the Red Army to such an extreme that it convinced Hitler invading Soviet Russia was not going to be a problem at all.

Nothing more entertaining in my mind than Finns chucking logs into tank treads to disable an entire armored division.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War
That is awesome. Thank you for doing this.
That's where fuse really shines. For example (note I never used it) https://github.com/rtokarev/m3ufs2
I'm a Muslim American (and Arab!) myself, and I'd like to chime in.

Firstly, let me state that I did not travel back to the US during the Muslim ban. Nonetheless, I couldn't help but feel that the author was a bit too paranoid. According to a quick Google search, she likely wasn't wearing a hijab, which drastically decreases the amount of "attention" she'd receive during security checks. More importantly, she's American! The way I understand it, there is simply no way for her to be denied entry to the US. I understand her being worried about the content of her laptop, but again this would even worry a "true American". Remember the guy who was kicked off a plane for working on a math problem? It's important to note that the brunt of the Muslim ban was aimed at foreigners and US visa holders.

My experience has been nothing but positive to be frank. Granted, I'm a male, so it's slightly more difficult to do "religious profiling". On my trip on Delta to Paris in late Dec 2016, I was comfortable speaking Arabic on the plane: I was seated next to a older Libyan lady who was traveling to visit family, and we had a nice chat as the plane landed. She was wearing hijab, and also had nothing bad to say about travelling to/from the US.

Of course, this does not at all mean that I'm fine with the ban! On the contrary, I think it was an extremely stupid and short sighted decision, and I'm honestly quite disgusted that POTUS is still pushing for it.