skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it's correct - but speaking of physics on pop forums is pointless, because of the Dunning Kruger effect.

There tend to be three groups of people:

- Those that accept things at face value, which is quite silly. What I'm saying should challenge all intuitive notions of reality making open acceptance simply bizarre.

- Those that reject things at face value. No better than the first and generally driven by an extremely superficial understanding of physics. As Feynman phrased it, people sipping martinis at a cocktail party and discussing relativity, "Ah yes.. how insightful. Though I think some things may indeed be inherently correct. Mmm..."

- And those with a strong physics background already, to whom you provide no additional value to anyhow.
It's interesting to wonder how crowds would receive Empire Strikes Back if it came out today. I wager it would get roughly the same praise about special effects in action and criticism about bizarre story as the most recent Disney episode
Actually, he is right about the Netherlands.
https://ind.nl/en/dutch-citizenship/Pages/Loss-and-the-revok...
Is this submarine advertising? Every major retailer has a listing of in stock items, per store, and will do same day pickup.
> We have ABSOLUTELY no control over these devices we're inviting into our homes

This is rather alarmist since I control both the power and internet supply to any smart devices I bring into my home.

I have much less control over my phone than my Echo.
Why Environmentalists Are Cheering the Latest Burger at Sonic Drive-In
Then don’t do a write up? If you find and exploit just push a POC. Nobody’s forcing you to explain it.
This sounds like a question Sci-fi Stack Exchange would make mince meat out of. For example: https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/182014/why-does-th...

But seriously, little inconsistencies like these make me think Star Wars was just meant to be a kids’ movie and not a sacred document to be handed down and analyzed by generations like the Tanakh or something.
And I am quite certain that is wrong.

First, if you peruse the crime statistics, you will find that the vast majority of victims of violent crime are male.

Second, if you actually look a bit more closely, you will find that our culture is vastly predisposed towards protecting women. So much so, in fact, that our perception is warped sufficiently that we think there is more violence towards women when in fact it is the other way around, by a large margin.

And of course the public narrative is almost exclusively "violence against women", and again, this is taken as gospel so much that even mentioning that there might be men who are victims is viewed as offensive.

Just as small illustrations (not "proof"), think back if you will of the story of Boko Haram kidnapping 200 girls.

https://edition.cnn.com/2014/04/15/world/africa/nigeria-girl...

It caused a huge outcry and activism from all quarters. Since there was no reporting, you might think that the boys were unharmed. Not so. The boys were actually either burned alive or forced into military service. This happened repeatedly, whereas the incident with the girls was a one-off. Media? Silence. Nobody cares. It's not a story.

There have also been numerous experiments comparing public reaction to violence man vs. woman. If a woman is being abusive towards a man, there will usually be bemusement or laughter, and comments along the lines of "I wonder what he did to deserve it". If it's the other way around, people will intervene. Quickly and fairly decisively. For example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlHVANXh-yg

This is actually even more skewed as she abuses him (no reaction) and when he starts to defend himself, people immediately intervene.

So in our culture that is supposedly so supportive of violence towards women, a man isn't even allowed to defend himself against an abusive woman.

Closer to home, the whole idea of "what happens to us does not happen to you" is actually wrong. Sure, it's not the same things, we don't get asked about our pregnancies, but horrible bosses and working environment affect men just as much as women, and quite probably more, but when it's men that are affected nobody gives a crap.

Case in point, if I told you the things that happened to me over my career and told you that they happened to a woman, you'd be appalled at the horrible treatment women receive and see it as definitive proof of the misogyny of the industry.
To be fair, it's freshly painted, and the water heater was just replaced last year.
The piece of paper also has clearly defined rules about how to go about changing the rules set down in that piece of paper. You have to go through the process, you can't just change things willy nilly. This isn't 'Nam, there are rules here.
It’s a bit of a rabbit hole, but Jonathan Blow’s “Ideas for a programming language about games” and all the subsequent videos have totally revolutionized how I code: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TH9VCN6UkyQ

The irony of it is I’m a JavaScript programmer and Blow hates JavaScript, he thinks it’s antithetical to his style of coding.

But really, I think the ideas are very generic: he proposes what I think of as “data-driven programming” which in my head means “only move the bits you have to.”

And that core idea maps to any substrate. Blow is offended by the idea of targeting something other than processor instructions, and Jai (his new language) develops along those lines.

But I have no problem applying the same ideas to V8... you can really use any substrate... I could target Minecraft blocks and code in the same way. It just requires stepping back and asking what the minimum number of writes needed to get that substrate where it needs to be. And then rather than writing some monstrous declarative programming structure like Rails or Webpack, you just write the minimal function calls needed to make those bits flip and thing more.

Blow writes a whole new language and compiler based on those concepts, but I find the ideas translate to any arbitrary API target.
I worked for an online retailer a long long time ago and this would have been nice to have at our packstations. The tech at each station consisted of a Linux desktop, a barcode scanner, a printer, and a scale. The commerce platform was web based and displayed the current weight on the scale on the pack page.

Originally the scale was connected via serial port to the desktop. A little Perl service we called "the scale daemon" exposed the current weight on some localhost port. The backend would constantly poll that service and the web browser would poll the backend to keep the value on the page up to date. It was a nifty solution albeit a bit clumsy and it meant running an extra piece of software on 50+ machines in a warehouse.

At some point our scale vendor stopped selling scales with serial connections or maybe it was that the PC vendor stopped including serial ports. It was 10+ years ago and I can't recall exactly. What I do remember is that the guy that wrote the scale daemon had moved on and I had to figure out how to make it work with USB. It was fun and probably not as hard as it seemed at the time, but wow, being able to get at that scale from inside the browser would have massively simplified things.
Modern mathematics is built around linear algebra and analysis. It's no coincidence math bootcamps like Harvard Math 55 go this route. If you are into long-term mathematical learning and you can afford the detour, I'd start by learning linear algebra from e.g. Axler and analysis from e.g. Bressoud (both are didactic masterpieces).

Alternatively, you can start by studying any of the alternative foundations to mathematics (set theory, logic, etc). Perhaps from a toned down alternative to Sørensen & Urzyczyn. A beautiful and very modern way to do this for a CS student would be to marry it with a course on automated theorem proving (using Isabelle or Coq). Any book suggestions welcome.
The price that MWI pays for this minimalism is that it loses some contact with reality, i.e. physical experiments. Basic physical observations like "some measurements are non-deterministic" are quite difficult to explain in the MWI. Reality is inconvenient.
I assumed that they really just didn't communicate with each other well. Leia showed up on her own (and failed), Luke sent the droids as part of _his_ plan (also failed), Lando was trying to get Han out from the inside (interrupted by the other plans)... they just didn't coordinate.
but why, if you have plenty of good languages to do this? Wasm is good for browsers because only choice we have is js.
So, I guess he's going to come out against labor unions, minimum wages, subsidies for specific industries, ILO rules, licensing requirements etc as well ... After all, they all have similar consequences.

One can't say international free trade is good (which it is), but domestic free trade is bad.
Sorry, yes, I know the diff. I mean, I know Francophiles and Anglophiles [and obvs. Sinophiles]. And I meant fetish not in the sexual fetish context, but fetish as in fetishizing something. Do they mean Zuck fetishizes China [as in ethnic fetishism [1]]or that he simply "likes" China, but does not fetishize it.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_fetishism
Things like weather and general natural beauty are often brought up when discussing the pros of California living. I'd also argue in favor of our food prices. Food, as a general good and not just staples like rice, is incredibly cheap in the parts of the state that I've toured.
Who are the VC's? Emperor Palapatine and the Siths?
I like the explanation, but here's where I get hung up on it: at what point did Luke — in his collective scheming with the gang — inform Leia that she'd probably be put in a bikini and licked upon by a slug gangster if anything went even slightly wrong? Or was Leia in Jabba-bondage part of Luke's plan all along, and he is, in reality, just kind of an inconsiderate dick?
but i'm asking what are some webasm languages/backends/use cases that aren't a JS interpreter?
I have taken advantage of the aisle/bay info with Home Depot. It is quite nice for things I couldn’t otherwise find. It’s not always correct but it’s helpful.

Home centers actually stock things that are hard to buy online efficiently, too. e.g. You cannot buy a large metal rolling tool chest on Amazon at a reasonable price. Husky wins that battle definitively.
That is not my experience, and therein may lie an answer.

Twitter can be what you make it. You can follow a small group of tweeters who are balanced, post infrequently and have attitudes that work for you. Or not.

Thinking that your life on twitter is defined almost entirely by Twitter and that you have little responsibility guarantees that you will be buffeted about on a stream, not of your making. Self fulfilling prophesy.

Twitter can't measure even the things that matter to you, specifically, let alone get measurements close to your own.

They can try to put together a "good default" mechanism that does better, BUT the real contribution they can make is to better help those who can know what they want. Better enable people who want to control it for themselves.

If we end up there, this RFP, could do good.
Regarding trollingeffects.org, someone needs to submit this current case to the them. I searched for all of the following: 7,177,838 (the patent number), Playsaurus, Clicker Heroes, deBruin/Rubin/Rudman/Jacobs (the trollish lawyers). Nothing showed up.

The site does look like it's being maintained. The most recent case I found was from June 2017:

https://trollingeffects.org/demand/landmark-technology-llc-2...

Also noticed in the "About" section that Trolling Effects is a project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Which is another great reason to support the EFF.
I live in Shenzhen. Hardware is cheap here. Why not spec out a cheap system and we can send them a few together from HN?

Taobao parts...

Screen @ 248RMB (USD$40) https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a230r.1.14.42.21a554932...

Raspberry Pi 3B + case + heatsink + power supply @ 250RMB (USD$40) https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a230r.1.14.16.79304af9s... (set 3)

Keyboard/mouse @ 20RMB (USD$3) https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a230r.1.14.26.7d7477a0q...

32GB USB Key @ 25RMB (USD$4) https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a230r.1.14.36.61444a0ej...

That should just about do it right. Total cost USD$90/machine. Add a few bucks for postage (supplier to trans-shipment point) and a few bucks for final international shipping, USD$100/machine delivered.
It seems that the previous, open, free social platforms are dead or agonizing -- from Usenet newsgroups to blogs, RSS readers, and even mailing lists. 90+% of my immediate family and relatives only communicate via Facebook. All of my past colleagues only communicate via LinkedIn. None of them have personal websites or blogs.

So, what are the successful, alternative models that I can use today with like-minded people, family, or friends?
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Wouldn't you consider the Born rule to be a testable prediction (though in an admittedly weak sense of simply being postulated)?

If the Born rule were found to be violated, it would invalidate Copenhagen but not MWI, which IMO means Copenhagen is more falsifiable.
in rural areas like this the literacy rate is a tiny fraction of the population. the largest stores of books are at schools and they are mostly donated textbooks.

source: lived in rural africa for two years and taught high school math.
From the photo, I wonder whether that classroom has electricity, or not?
> The many worlds interpretation is just that, and INTERPRETATION, not a predictive theory.

How does the many worlds interpretation INTERPRET the Born rule? Shouldn't that be a key feature of any QM interpretation?
So I should do my shopping online and then drive to Best Buy instead of just clicking “place order” and getting the same item at the same price in a day or two? For something I need desperately right now, okay, but for everything else my time saved is worth more than the slightly more instant gratification.
> I guess that you have never worked on big systems

I work on search and indexing systems at Google, and have done for more than a decade. I'm by no means the best, nor an authority. But I have spent some time living in this problem space, and this is my conclusion from my years of experience.

FWIW a single run of the tests for the system I work on now takes . . . I don't know. I would guess hours or maybe even a day of computer time? But, computers are cheap, and defects are expensive. So you split the test suite into bits small enough that the whole thing runs in ten minutes, and run them all in parallel. And, yes, there have been cases where I have had to debug the slow startup of a dependency so that I can make it fast enough to run in my test. But, that's what they pay me for, I enjoy that type of work, and it has ancillary benefits to the dependency when it needs to start up in production.
Relatedly, at what point did George Lucas inform Carrie Fisher of the same?
how will they power it? the biggest problem is not cheap hardware but cheap/consistent power (both of which are problems - power is very expensive and very sparse and very unreliable).
Yeah, it was one scene away from all those older heist movies where everything went wrong because everyone was trying their own play at the same time. It really seemed like everyone went their separate ways.
I didn't say the committee was numerical, though their reputation is such. OP's challenge is that Google's promotion committee isn't an executive panel, or subject to appeals except from perhaps the highest executives. It's a random panel of experts who you'll likely never have met, because the company is 100k engineers, and working on your small corner of Maps or whatever makes it unlikely you'll have ample opportunity to meet people from Security, or Search or Adwords or Adsense or Golang or Youtube or Nest or any of the myriad of other products besides yours from which the promotion panel is randomly pulled. You're essentially suggesting that to go from say Software Development Engineer 2 to Senior Software Development Engineer, you need to simply schmooze a few thousand coworkers.

> But the higher up you go the more your people skills are valued and none of that will show up in data. Guarantee you nebulous categories like 'personality' and 'fit' are bandied about frequently in these discussions.

Remember we're talking about promoting an engineer to a higher level engineer, not into management. I don't know panels discuss, but given the odds are that nobody on the panel knows anything about you other than whats in the committee packet, it seems at least possible that soft skills are not considered.

> If promotions were strictly numerical as you seem to believe then they'd be more meritocratic, but I believe the OP's point was he felt the process was unfair.

I'm not sure about that. My reading is that the OP left because the committee was saw themselves as numerical, but ended up being pathologically and myopically so. The metrics they see are the ones that can be calculated, often easily. Getting dinged for finding more bugs than you fixed in legacy software, when they mistake known bug counts for actual bug counts. Treating unquantifiable results like unreleased software as invalid. Ignoring necessary but difficult results to quantify like interviewing candidates, documenting code, and writing test suites.

Such a pathology can't be solved by knowing the right people, especially not when the system is designed to prevent this exact technique. The senior executive's ear OP needed wasn't one on the promo committee, it was the one(s) reassigning his team projects every quarter. Or barring that, one at another company.
Should've said 'the USA' & 'the internet subcultures I have sampled'. Regret the error.
> You are truly happy*

* If you like what North Dakota has to offer, which is a very narrow set of options on the spectrum of life possibilities.

> don't have to worry about urban issues which are huge stressors.

Urban living can be stressful, but I'll take urban stressors over being trapped in a small pond if it's the wrong pond. Rural life can be awesome but it can also get incredibly boring. It's also prone to souring quickly if you have difficulties with the dozen or so people you might have regular contact with. I lived in a rural area for a spell and it turned out the local handyman had been stealing from everyone for years. What do you do when that guy is the only handyman in the county and his family blames you for his problems when he goes to jail? Not a good situation.

Urban conveniences are also awesome. It'll be hard for me to move somewhere that lacks the variety and quality of food options currently available to me now. People in rural areas seem quite content with comparatively awful and unhealthy food.
Wait, so you’re saying that we’re subsidizing Sri Lankan healthcare? US’s aid to Sri Lanka is in the tens of millions of dollars; this wouldn’t even put a dent in their total medical expenses.
Luke was never meant to enter. He was supposed to be the getaway pilot.

Lando, R2D2 and C3PO are supposed to break out Chewie, fetch Leia and Han, then all escape and get picked up by Luke.

Luke is just winging it after everybody missed the rendezvous, as Leia underestimated just how long Jabba and his entourage could wait silently behind a curtain.

The lightsaber was carried in by R2D2 as a backup weapon for Leia, who also came up with the plan.
I took my Java exams on these guys:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_book_exam
(Filthy thoughts aside) Why the differentiation? What's the purpose of the nurses visiting?
Is there a guide on how to create runs for someone from a non weather modelling background?

In particular for the input files, 'namelist.input' seems like a list of parameters I could google for/tweak, but I'm not sure where I'd go about sourcing data for the initial/boundary condition files 'wrfinput_d01' and 'wrfbdy_d01.
>But seriously, little inconsistencies like these make me think Star Wars was just meant to be a kids’ movie and not a sacred document to be handed down

i'll give you a hint: almost every piece of modern fiction is like this. look to the old masters for very very thoroughly fleshed out stories (there are hundreds of characters in war and peace and they all have full lives consistent with each other - no surprise it took tolstoy a decade to write it)
Thank you. I felt a weird mix of impressed and severely grossed out.
I've thought about continuing my dog's different lines, but because of my (admittedly extremely superficial) understanding of epigenetics, I never considered it an option.

But, I did wish to harvest their genetic database.
My pup is a German Shepherd and what we believe to be Pit Bull [0] and is such a smart, sweet, sensitive and overall wonderful little boy that I have wanted to find some way to continue his great DNA soup.
But then I realized I have 3 little brothers, some of whom I have no desire in exemplifying, so any sort of genetic continuity has zero guarantee to bringing me any of the happiness I've been blessed to receive. Instead, I've just learned to enjoy this one exceptional and unique little gift.

[0] https://www.dropbox.com/s/xwh96pj7lgjwlad/Photo%20Feb%2021%2...
Having first watched the originals as an adult, I really don’t understand the mass appeal.
As an American foreigner who visited Iceland a couple of years ago, I cannot describe to you how awesome everyone was (and educated, and fluent English-speaking), how beautiful the country was, how fun the nightlife (at least in Reykjavik) was, how delicious the dining was, the geekiness of visiting the EVE Online monument (I'm a gamer), and just... we had such a damn nice time, and the english fluency of everyone really helped, and I appreciate that you all learn it. I would recommend Iceland to anyone as an unusual and extremely interesting place to visit. Skál!

Hákarl FTW
Got a buddy who works for github, he went out drinking at a local pub after work, started flirting with this woman, they had drinks at the bar and chatted for awhile flirting back and forth.

Two other women co-workers overheard the conversation between the two, and then reported HIM to github HR.

HR actually tracked the github female employee down and asked if she was sexually assaulted by him, and she said no. He got a warning from HR, even though he did nothing wrong.

Been working tech for almost 30 years, seeing co-workers drinking and banging for years, office parties getting wild, co-workers sexting over IM, even a couple who freaky in the att wireless datacenter, lots of couples getting married.

Now having a beer with someone is potentially HR violation. Crazy.
I see outrage - often inflated - far more often than I see legitimate hate. I also see a lot of naivete; the type that sucks up propaganda and echo shamelessly.
This is kinda related to the topic, but does anyone have any resources relating to how we as humans are not phycologically ready for mass communication on the scale that we have today? I know it's broad , worth a shot though.
In Twitter, I see more hatred in the replies than in the original posts. My rule of thumb is to not read the replies in Twitter (applies to most public forums except HN). I still feel original posts on Twitter are good, as it is purely based on whom you follow.