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The idea of modifying general relativity is called as MOND and has been thoroughly investigated by physicists. There are still proponents, but I think the models are not matching the observational data. Also, the fact that Galaxies with similar (visible) masses have different levels of rotational momentum seems to hint that dark matter is a thing. I don't understand why people think having something that interacts with fewer forces than normal matter is more complicated than Jerry rigging a change to the elegant general relativity.
I was talking with some physicists from Fermilab last week about dark matter (I'm a physics enthusiast but certainly no physicist) and one thing they were discussing was how current dark matter experiments are constraining possible dark matter candidates significantly as they get more sensitive without finding any. This has lead to increased interest by physicists in alternative theories, including MOND. This galaxy discovery, though, appears to be strong evidence against MOND or other modified-gravity theories since the dark matter is missing in this case. It provides more evidence for dark matter's existence, even as the strongest candidate, Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are becoming more constrained by lack of evidence.
>He hasn't. He has pledged to donate 99% of his wealth to a private, for-profit organization that he owns.

I initially thought you were being overly critical here. It looks like you're right, the "Initiative" he created is an LLC and not a non-profit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chan_Zuckerberg_Initiative#Com...
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Yeah but Tesla is very volatile though. A 30% one-day decline on capital crisis would be a cause for concern, but that has not happened. Rather, Tesla is mirroring the market but with a higher beta.
There are some excellent ways of framing this problem already covered in the comments. I'd like to add another. As time goes on, people seem to be treating google searches less as database queries and more as a question/answer system. Google is moving this direction too (e.g. "how tall is the eiffel tower" gives an answer above the web pages).

When google was just an excellent database index and relevance ranker, then it was ok for its results to simply reflect the underlying data. If the internet is racist, then looking up things on the internet will find racist things.

As time goes on and google purports to give answers and facts and gets more information-ey, they're kinda taking an editorial stance that the results aren't simply relevant webpages, but correct answers in some loose sense. When google tells me the Eiffel tower is 984' tall, and 1063' to the tip, they are endorsing that as The Right Answer. Endorsements come with responsibility.

As Google pushes to give correct answers, and people increasingly expect it, it's an endorsement of search results that comes with responsibility to not just reflect the huge corpus that is the internet.
Police is also generally useless if a crowd is not willing to let someone get arrested, especially a public figure. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUQ_zw_vUrU
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That's because the results in the article are from 2011.
Add five "a", now remove four "a" Cuckoo claims there are no "a" in the multiset...
I suppose I deserved that.

What I should have said, is that I'm a little disheartened that this is getting the attention that I would prefer go to a site like uigradients with better UX and a less divisive tone.
It's not just the moral issue, but a legal one.

TPB said "We are not responsible for the content people upload." Except then they deleted CP, probably for many good as well as self-serving reasons: CP is bad, obviously, but also brings bad press (hard to get the public on the side of piracy when it leads to ease of CP access), as well as the holy wrath of pretty much every criminal federal agency in countries around the world, as opposed to just whatever branch of whatever agency is in charge of copyright protection. Doubt they could get hosting in any country if they didn't take the CP down.

But by taking CP down, they demonstrated that they do and can monitor content, that they can take it down, that they do take responsibility for at least some of it. Legally that's a shot in the foot, I thought, but they still find hosting so who knows.
In a vacuum, at infinity.
This feels like a leap in logic to me. It seems that it is possible that a 'dark force' could be not operating as strongly in this galaxy as easily as the possibility that dark matter is not being present. Without a mechanism to explain why either one exists, I don't see how this observation could rule one or the other out.

Not sure if this analogy works?

Imagine one group postulated a new type of matter to explain the effects of EM radiation. Another group theorized there was a new force. Then there was observed some charge particles moving at constant velocity and the conclusion was the new matter theory had to be correct since we observed regular matter without the effects of EM radiation.
Personally I don't like the current debt-based economy where almost infinite money can be printed in the first place.
Interesting tax avoidance strategy. Any idea if this is also what Bill Gates is doing?
Software that could kill. Medical, aerospace, driverless?
I get it though. The employer is thinking: Why do I pay you to train you? You should pay me to train you.

Lets bring back the apprentice system.
If your house burns down, you get to buy another house. Capitalist wins coming and going.
State initiated smear campaign is more arrogant.
Do monopolies of this scale are ever overthrown? MS in desktop OS, Intel in desktop and server chips. IBM is still a monopoly in mainframe market(not sure). It's just that new powerful industry in terms of mobile, internet services, social media have come up.

American Tobacco, Bell, Standard Oil and too some extent MSFT are all gone because of govt. actions.

FB has already successfully maneuvered industry change to mobile. It bought in its way into mobile apps and communication platforms. So FB won't be replaced by mastodon or Signal, but by an industry level shift which FB misses and can't buy in.
If I wanted to host servers, I'd host them somewhere else, not on my home internet connection.

I'm really not sure what point you're trying to make, or how you're defining "participating" in this context.
No, but neither does the EM force, it all just asymptotically approaches zero. Don’t let that fool you though, in that it really approaches zero to a high degree.
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His and his wife's is a proper foundation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundat...

The money is out of their hands, and can't be distributed back to them.
This code comment made me chuckle

sometimes not a number but not not !NaN
It's already happened implicitly with the rise & spread of the "technical interview". By rote memorization of a body of knowledge which may or may not be applicable to the job at hand. Given the interchange between employers, these are more alike than different.

Why would further formalization be any more valuable than say the Interior Decorator exam and license in Florida?
Slashdot, Reddit, Ars Technica, HN here, though I still read Ars every day.
It depends how many things you want to use concurrently. At Latacora some of us use Qubes to guarantee client separation, so lots of domains open and all of them running Slack, so, yeah, my machine has 32GB and that’s not a massive luxury.
Do we need more evidence that "Entry-Level" means "poorly paid"?
We're losing on every deal but we'll make it up in volume.
Man do I feel dumb when these things hit the front page. I managed to make it through a couple "layman's guides to the impenetrable world of theoretical physics," including all variations of "A brief history as time" as well as a noob's introduction to string theory, title of which escapes me.

Still don't fucking get it lol. Between this, AI, and even just the drumset, I wish there was more time in the world to learn all the things I wanna learn :(
Thanks!

That article offers much needed context for laypeople, such as myself.

Among other things, it points out that, in the image, only the bluish glow is the galaxy under consideration. All other points are distant galaxies.
It's good to have multiple identities. Make an effort to build a second, third or even a fourth or fifth identity if you have the time and patience to do so. It might save your life, or the life of someone you care of some day. Every group of friends/family should have at least one spare identity, just in case.

http://82.221.128.217/audio/sktfm/wear_body_armour.mp3.32.og...
I understand that this is a shameless plug but I've met teams where the first response to any performance problem is caching

If you're reading this and have performance issues look at caches as a last resort, first figure out why things are slow

I'm assuming a traditional stack here but use mysql jet profiler, or SQL equivalent first, then your languages profiler xhprof?

If your queries are slow or impossible make sure your tables are normalised and indexed, make sure opcache is on and xdebug off

Mysql out of the box is very conservative with its resources, the limits can often be raised and the web server can often be configured to be faster, make sure you're sending the correct http cache headers

There's so many things to consider with performance Please don't denormalise your data slap it in redis/ use varnish and call it a day

No cache is free, eventually you have to pay the pied piper when you do make sure you can afford to have never used the cache at all

Some of my hardest bugs have come from out of sync caches & trying to build performant data architecture around systems that had data stuffed into a redis black hole aged for years..
Since September 11th the US and UK have showed they're not even willing and able to organise the covert manufacture of nerve agents to "discover" in Iraq to avoid many leading political figures being permanently discredited when nothing was found, never mind manufacturing and using nerve agents to bump off a couple of Russians in a public place in Britain for no obvious political benefit.

If you genuinely think the UK needed a couple more dead Russian dissidents (and pretty unsympathetic ones at that) to justify stricter sanctions on Russia, you really, really don't understand the relevant politics.
Their most recent estimates are around ~1,076 a week. Those numbers are horribly behind their production targets. And that's a tiny fraction of the 500,000 cars annually that was the initial target for 2018 as of two years ago.[0]

Tesla bet the farm on revolutionizing auto manufacturing while seemingly ignoring much of what other manufacturers have learned over the years.[1] Long-term, elements of that bet could pay pay off. But right now? They're still struggling to scale up Model 3 production. And that's for a car that was literally designed to be less complex to manufacturer, with fewer, simpler parts relative to the Model S and X. It doesn't matter that their manufacturing approach might be more efficient in the future when everything is working perfectly if they can't meet their bills this year.

No other manufacturer has these kinds of prolonged production problems. They meet significantly higher production targets and with fewer quality control issues. If Tesla doesn't show significant progress this year (both on production targets and lowering their burn rate), they're going to be in serious trouble. Most likely, we'll end up seeing Tesla have to hire contract manufacturers like Magna Steyr to build complete cars.

Personally, I'd be fine with that. It'd give Tesla its best chance to entrench itself in the EV market before the traditional automakers step get involved. They, for one, won't have similar problems. I genuinely want Tesla to succeed, but it's become abundantly clear that they don't know how to find a way out of "production hell."

0. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-results/tesla-puts-...

1. https://www.forbes.com/sites/joannmuller/2016/08/04/tesla-mo...
OP is clearly talking about a general exam for all software programmers. ("What prevents a general examination to be designed and formulated for software programming work?")

Software engineering for safety-critical fields like aerospace and automotive tends to be fairly regulated already.
Microlensing excludes large unseen objects and the CMB power spectrum suggests most matter is nonbaryonic.
I don't understand this comment. That page removes the ability to scroll via pageup/down, via arrow keys, via spacebar, and via a scroll-bar on the right (even when force-enabled via operating system settings). It appears that the only way to scroll is via mouse wheel. How is that not disabling core navigation in a frustrating way?
Oh wow, and it's even kind of a neat effect! Thanks for the tip.

Unfortunately it only works with the scroll wheel, or scroll events on a trackpad. It works finger-crampingly slow with my scroll wheel, about 15 full seconds of constant action, but I just found a laptop to try it on, and I think I finally got the effect they were going for with trackpad scroll effect. Much smoother and a neat effect. Spoiled a bit by my first, finger-cramping impression, but otherwise smooth enough that if I stumbled onto that experience first I might have thought nothing of it, or even been impressed.

Still see no reason for it not to responded to normal navigation keys.
Why the cynicism?

Should giving money away be unfashionable?
There is a comment elsewhere from the creator I think that explains this. The 5th "a" never gets added, you'll see that the cells turn red. After you remove 4 "a"s then you're back at 0 and it is correctly reporting that there aren't any.
It's not my argument, it's an argument from analysts who said Google was overvalued in 2004.

Apparently they couldn't imagine the future, so they measured Google against its contemporaries.

Comparing Tesla to Ford is a similar failure of the imagination.
Moving a lot of our build infrastructure to it. The effort has essentially been moving alpha to beta grade.

The knowledge/documentation base just flat out sucks. It feels like documentation expects you to just know what you are doing and are really just reading it for the smaller feature switches to change how things work. That or expect you to be running on GKE.

That said, it's the best at doing what we need which is a scheduler and manager for running multi-container workloads.

I expect it to be more fulfilling/difficult when we move to more long-lasting pods but ultimately still use kubernetes.
Their "app store" is all the facebook app IDs that developers register to enable "login with facebook" and so on, in their own apps. Without an fb app, you cannot access the facebook api or sdk. For example, pokemon go might offer "login with facebook" and that makes your in-game account gated by a working facebook app integration.
Oh it gets better. I have implemented SIP software (written, from scratch). On the SIP implementors mailing list, one of the authors defends the insane parsing rules by saying that C and Java allow you to be flexible with syntax, so why not SIP?

They are totally detached from actually implementing elegant or high performance software. Actual engineers achieve this despite of SIP's terrible decisions. Granted, many of those are inherited from HTTP. Tell me how many HTTP stacks handle comments and line folding properly...

It opens up security holes, too. One proxy interprets \r\r\n as 1 line break, another as 2 line breaks and start of body. Oops, now you can end up sending fun headers to your target because they try to be flexible in accepting input.

IIRC there is essentially no way to implement SIP standardly because of so many broken implementations. You have to make some decisions on certain parsing that will break one but any other way will break another.

Text-based protocols invite abuse by designers and implementors alike. IETF compounds these by living in a fantasy world.
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This is buying into the idea that security and openness are at odds. Bitcoin is extremely secure, and also open to all. The way forward is people owning all their data encrypted, and revealing zero knowledge proofs about that data to services that want access.
I wonder if it's all still a net benefit for fb. I remember back in the day while doing heavy fb dev, being flabbergasted at what we were able to get. It solidified our decision to invest heavily in their platform. We were able to get millions of likes and other data by simply having a few thousand signups. At one point I thought it was a bug and had to ask around about it. We had to consider whether it is something that will be "discovered" and shutdown or not. The power of it cannot be understated, and without a doubt a major catalyst for the success of their platform. It's possible that they would be worth less today, including the $100B loss, without it.
Not exactly, I'm pretty sure Bill Gates is a nonprofit. However, there's a book called "No Such Thing as a Free Gift" about the social costs of letting our .00001% be the welfare providers for society. Pretty good if you're interested.
But that is not "closely tracking its users", that's capturing the necessary information for those transactions.

It's certainly not Apple making its customers into products. Both Google and Facebook are classed as advertising companies, for a reason.

Have you read Google's Privacy Policy?

https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

Wow. All the same stuff as Apple plus Device IDs, actual physical location, WiFi identifiers, pixel tags, and more — All because: tailored advertising. That's what a company-whose-users-are-its-product looks like, by comparison.

BTW: I looked at your scare link: my iPhone had no data there, because it has never had Frequent Locations enabled. Nor has it had Location-Based iAds enabled. YMMV of course.
>"Based on these data the team discovered that NGC 1052-DF2 larger than the Milky Way, but contains about 250 times fewer stars, leading it to be classified as an ultra diffuse galaxy."

Interesting, the mass discrepancy (ie, "dark matter") has been noted to be proportional to the predicted acceleration due to the visible mass (according to Newtonian mechanics):
https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0403610

How does this galaxy fit into that relationship? If the galaxy is ultra diffuse it sounds like very little deviation would be predicted, but I am no expert here.

Edit:

To clarify since the relationship is somewhat tortured: According to my understanding this observation sounds surprising in light of dark matter, but 100% consistent with what MOND proponents have been saying. I'd love to hear from someone who knows more.
At Latacora, some of us use Qubes in order to get a workable desktop while also getting clean separation between different client environments. I’ve been consistently impressed with it. It’s not totally flawless, but it’s easy enough to learn enough about the model and tooling that you can quickly debug most issues. Overall this is about as usable as any other XFCE4 desktop, which is pretty darn good.
Also if you're doing key scans in redis, you're doing it wrong, it's possible to work around with indexes you have to manually maintain, but it's not worth it
That's not the issue, the issue is the terminology. If you don't want to pay to train someone then don't label it an "entry-level" position. The truth is that many want "mid-level/senior-level" employees (3+ year experience requirements) at "entry-level" salaries.
> You can't remove it with a software bandage

Though some people might argue that the biases software reproduces will in turn reinforce biases held by the users at large. Conversely, you may reduce human bias if you algorithmically reduce the bias in the data (which is possible). Not saying whether Google should, that's a very delicate debate, but it's thinkable.

I wouldn't want to be in the place of the person at Google trying to make guidelines for that, but it's definitely doable. For instance, you could probably easily argue that the phrase "three black teenagers" (an example from the article) is pretty neutral in itself and definitely shouldn't be interpreted as a call to produce arrest pictures. In general the term "three [ethnicity] teenagers" could probably be normalized with regards to the setting the pictures show, for instance.
To be really good at something it is necessary (but not sufficient) to be interested in it.

Running a company of 10 people is an experientially different thing than running a company of 1000, just like collaborating is an experientially different thing from doing stuff on your own and playing video games is different from using Excel. Being interested in one is no guarantee of being interested in another.
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I'm only going off some in-person dealing with folks behind WebRTC and they know that permissions suck and would hurt adoption and hence fight to make sure they don't happen.

They dismiss all privacy concerns with "you can't have privacy in a browser" and "fingerprinting will work anyways so we can't make it worse". It's head-in-sand approach to privacy and it's bad.

Even then, Firefox is simply wrong to tell people it'll use your proxy, then throw that out.
It’s the same problem Microsoft had. If your success hinges on unfettered access then you can’t hand wring and deflect criticism when bad things come of it.

In other words: if you power and prestige comes from getting others to do the work for you, then whose fault is it when they misbehave? It’s your fault.
A classist lie? What are you talking about?

Statistics are pretty clear in the failure rate of founder-CEOs when they scale past certain sizes. Even Zuckerberg -- if it weren't for Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook wouldn't have survived as well as it did. Zuckerberg didn't know the first thing about running a large organization, I might argue that he still doesn't -- but when a company can basically print money, there's a huge margin of error afforded to Zuckerberg-type leaders. If Zuck where competing in the energy business, banking or autos, he'd have been long since buried.

Steve Jobs also wasn't particularly good (managing a large org) during his first stint at Apple -- it took a lot of maturity and learning at Next and Pixar before he was really ready to lead Apple.

Mark Benioff is another founder-CEO that did really well -- however, he was an Oracle Vice President before starting Salesforce. He was both incredibly smart but also had experience within a large organization.

> Any reasonably smart CEO can learn his way from 10 - 10000. Yes, (s)he may not be capable of 10k on day one, but they can grow along the way.

Citation needed.

The list of successful founder-CEOs who have scaled to huge orgs is a very short list.
Interesting. They all work fine for me. I wonder why?

I have tested on Firefox 59 and Chrome 65 in Linux.
Really cool! Didn't know about ossfriday, will try to give a lightning talk about it maybe at work. What if https://github.com/explore/ had a way to discover projects in need of translations?
Won't the market sort out whatever this is?

Is there a specific unfair mechanism at play that would prevent supply and demand from finding its balance?
"Strongest candidate" is a bit strong. Certainly WIMPs are convenient theoretically, but so are e.g. axions.
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"Require"? The fact that something is written in job description as a "requirement" doesn't mean that you won't get hired without it. I think that most jobs I got as a self taught engineer had a degree as a requirement – and it was almost never even mentioned in an interview.
That IBM System/360 is beautiful. I never thought I'd say that about anything IBM.