skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Particles are ‘just’ perturbations in the underlying fields.

No, particles are particles [1], those fields in quantum field theory are just mathematical tools to deal with many particle systems in a manifest local and unitary way. There might of course actually be fields in the real world, but we have no evidence for that and those fields would not be the fields that appear in quantum field theory.

[1] Obviously not classical particles like tiny billiard balls.
The ICO has had 20 years to establish their pattern, and it seems to be pretty well set by now. They basically do fuck all about individual complaints, unless perhaps it's something incredibly serious. I recently had to take a data bureau to court for selling my details without permission (and won an out of court settlement for 500GBP) for spam, because the ICO did fuck all. I have another case pending against the very large UK company that used 2 separate data bureaus to spam me without permission.

So if the ICO won't sanction a very large company for clearly violating PECR, I really wouldn't worry. They only take action if they get thousands of complaints. I very much doubt that GDPR is going to change this behaviour, but I would love to be proven wrong.
As the "public square" becomes increasingly dominated by internet platforms, we will have to rethink what the preservation of free speech requires.

People who support internet censorship stand on the legal ground that internet companies are private companies and as such can do what they want.

But, at least in America, the sanctity of free speech in the abstract "public square" of life takes precedence over the agency of business to do what it wants.

A business cannot (barring libel and similar edge cases) obstruct people from sharing their views in the public square, and similarly they should not be allowed to restrict the speech - or - content shared by individuals - or - creators online, provided that speech or content is legal, because the internet behemoths - are - the public square.
How difficult would it be to implement massive maps with today's technology?
Is Facebook Helping Vietnam's Pro Democracy Crackdown?
timeline differs if the standards work is taken into account, not the widespread implementation by browser vendors. See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5#History
How to count to 1023 on two hands (short video)
in warcraft you could select groups of 4 as far as i remember
> The UK only labels trains as 'late' if they arrive more than 3 minutes late...

In Maryland it’s 5 minutes for commuter trains. For Amtrak it’s 15 minutes for an inter-city train, and up to hours for long haul trains.
“Change like we’ve not seen in decades”–high-end auto designers go electric
As parent said "painted metal". In this video showing how pc cases is made[0].

They mention they automate the powder coating of paint. So the external case should be well insulated.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX2i-QhPCD0
Magnetic helium makes superfluid time crystal
They don't strictly have to form a coalition. The leader of government is elected with a normal vote, so a party could propose somebody as chancellor and if members of other parties vote for them too they get the job. But for now, no party has believed that this would work better than forming an (uneasy) coalition, especially since the parties sadly are fairly strict about voting en bloc. It'd be an interesting experiment though.
Well, you're not wrong. Interfering with some frequencies can earn a rather harsh punishment in most of the western world, even if it's the first time and even if only by (gross) negligence.

Operating graphics cards by the thousands in conditions clearly unfit to operate them likely consitutes at least simple negligence w.r.t. interference that may occur.
The Danes couldn’t defend themselves so the Germans took over. The Faroe Islands couldn’t defend themselves so the. Ritual took over. The Icelanders couldn’t defend themselves so the Americans took over. If you can’t defend yourself you’re as sovereign as the powers who could conquer you allow you to be.
If rent and other serious expenses weren't so costly, then we wouldn't need to work as much.

Then we could all breathe a little bit and work a reasonable schedule with a healthy appreciation for creativity.
Well now I'm curious about what your views on free will are.

> Do you think someone has a claim to wealth that they earned entirely due to luck?

First off, this is a difficult question to answer because it seems yours and my definitions of "luck" are not the same. Or perhaps they are the same but we view the surrounding context and their individual manifestations as dissimilar.

I would say it depends on the situation. For example, If I'm walking through the parking lot and by chance (luck) find a $20 bill on the ground, am I deserving of my new found wealth? On a good day, I might turn it in to the nearest department store and hope it finds its way back to its original owner. If I'm feeling more cynical (or, arguably, realistic) I would just keep it.

Am I deserving of this wealth? I didn't really work for it, so I would argue, "no, not really." But then again I wouldn't really fault myself (or anyone else) for keeping it either.

On the other hand, let us consider two farmers who live near one another. They are twin brothers and received the same upbringing. One of the farmers tends his lands diligently while the other is concerned with other aspects of life and only does the bare minimum to survive. As you might expect, over time the first farmer prospers due to the hard work he has put in to cultivate his lands while the second farmer stagnates because he has prioritized other matters. They both understood the benefits of tending to land diligently from their shared upbringing, but they made different decisions for whatever reason.

Essentially, I'm asking you to consider these two farmers "in a vacuum" such that their wealth is due entirely to their own actions and not to any outside forces. Absolutely nothing left to chance, or "luck." By my definition of the word at least.

So, is your definition of luck different from mine such that you would argue the first farmer's success is still due to luck, or am I missing something else?

And thanks for the conversation, I find your views fascinating even if I don't share them.
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C’est désormais officiel: la PS4 a été hackée
The closest real life has come to that is to assemble siege engines (like trebuchet) on the battlefield before use.

Actual turrets on an active battlefield? Not against a modern military, but maybe something like this: https://mwi.usma.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Spencer234.j...
I'm in favor of GDPR, but this is how it can be trivially used to target non-EU companies. EU regulators can be pressured to more aggressively pursue dominant foreign companies (or lay off important domestic companies) which many people already believe they do in various industries (banking/finance especially, as well as tech, automotive, aerospace, pharma...).
That was my experience as well, both in Bay Area and in Bavaria (though it's not as dangerous here). I realized that I'm guaranteed to have a serious or deadly accident over just a decade of commuting. In a car you have 2 more layers of protection - the mass of the car and safety systems.
A very wise person (I wish I knew who) noted:

“All models are wrong. Some models are useful.”
Baidu. ;- )
If I recall correctly some residential parts of Seattle have a system like this. They don't outright disallow cars, but every other street is full of sufficient traffic calming measures that make it highly undesirable to drive down.
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> That sums up why I no longer visit Reddit, and turn off comments on most sites.

because you have no sense of humor or what? like those comments are universally just bane of human existence and whoever enjoys them is subhuman compared to your majesty. jeez
Painted bike lanes are not uniformly bad. They can be valuable, provided they're wide enough and actually connect up with each other enough that you don't just end up with "can't get there from here" syndrome. Except for the idiots who think they're double-parking lanes, they do a pretty good job of marking a "watch out, cars" zone.

Sharrows, on the other hand, are largely slaps in the face. They're put on slow residential roads where I was perfectly fine riding anyways. Or they're half-assed "look we support bikes" icons slapped right in the door zone onto a stretch of potholes that cars run at 45mph. (My personal favorite is when a perfectly nice marked lane dumps you into sharrows right before a confusing intersection.)
TL;dr: Bring dark mode to the web, please.

In the last five years or so, there has been a push in pro-level apps to include a dark mode.

While some may understand this change as an aesthetic choice, it's also an assistive technology, one that mitigates the visual fatigue that comes from staring into a screen for upwards of 10 hours per day.

It is a welcome change for professionals to have dark mode (visually assistive) interfaces and I wish that web sites would also make this shift or, at least, add the option.

By way of explanation, if one spends a lot of time reading the web or interacting with the file system (macOS, I'm looking at you) the computer display is blaring its full luminous force right into your eyes. (There are small exceptions in the tiny carveouts for text and the patches of darker colors in photos and graphical elements). Though I don't have data at hand, I suspect this is a design flaw that exacerbates eye fatigue, mental exhaustion, and scattered concentration.

Personally, bright white screens blaring in my face all the live long day exhausts me, especially when those screens are 27" times 2.

For this reason, I invert my screen using assistive technologies. The primary side effect is that photos and graphical elements in web browsers are inverted and, for the most part, I used a custom style sheet in Safari, Chrome (now a plug-in), and Firefox to invert images and background images for sites I frequent often (e.g. NYtimes and YouTube).

With Safari 11.1, macOS automatically inverts most images when the screen is inverted. The solution is not perfect as the branding palettes of web sites and their background images are inverted, but I am pleased there is vendor acknowledgement that high luminosity visual fields can be mitigated. (To be clear, lowering screen brightness does not adequately address the issue because it reduces the visibility of all elements.)

My plea to web portals (Hi HN!), business units, design agencies, independent contractors, and hobby bloggers is to offer versions of their web sites that have dark backgrounds with light text and naturally-colored graphical elements.

The increasing availability of dark mode in professional applications forces users using assistive technologies to reduce background luminosity (while preserving glyph and foreground luminosity) to frequently switch between assisted and non-assisted modes.

If web sites (and, ahem, macOS Finder) shifted from bright backgrounds to dark backgrounds, users such as myself would be able to stop inverting their screens altogether.

EDIT: add missing verb "is" in 9th paragraph.
There’s an iOS app called Unobstruct that provides an extension that will removed position: fixed elements. It helped here.
yes including Preview
Does remote friendly actually mean fully remote?
She (the author) jumped from what first sparked the understanding to the outcome of understanding how these things happen. It's not a bad thing in journalism. Sometimes, going step by step doesn't reveal the awareness to the audience that reads the literature.
Only one mention of CodePlex[0] in the comments?

Microsoft had a "github" it could not compete and github took the mindshare.

Now it seems Microsoft want to buy that mindshare.

I wonder how many FOSS and other projects will jump ship once/if Microsoft takes over.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodePlex
Agreed. Furthermore, a lot of those tasks were downright unnecessarily painful and tedious time sinks, e.g. browser agnostic control when the ecosystem was much more fragmented and HTML5 more nascent. Also, jQuery's documentation was solid, and it was very easily extensible.
Patreon seems to be in a good position to help the creators with the demonitization situation. One of my favorite Youtube creators has a good day job and seems to deliberately try to trigger the demonitization in his videos. But he has a Patreon that he uses to both fund the videos and to limit the first day or so of release of new videos to fans. I get the impression this helps kick-start the video so that it doesn't get flagged, based on what he has said about it.

Youtube is in an interesting position right now. They have a lot of great content, but there are obvious huge problems standing in the way of run-away success. Finding new content is another of the big problems, I use Youtube a lot for "edutainment", but the recommendations engine doesn't really give me much diversity. And the diversity I explore seems to just confuse their recommendations.
In terms of front-end development for business applications I'd recommend Angular (current version: 6. Since they adopted semver major releases have become much more frequent).

It gives you an easy way to structure your application in a predictably manner.

In my opinion, Angular lends itself to CRUD-type applications particularly well because of a clear separation between business logic and the presentation layer as well as due to easily reusable components.

Since Angular 2 the tooling has become quite reliable as well.

As for the back-end I'd suggest Spring Boot. It allows you to draw upon the vast amount of high-quality libraries available for the JVM without incurring the complexity cost that in the past often used to come with Java.
That's not a realistic decision for companies to make in the face of actually aggressive regulators, because regulators will simply levy the relatively smaller fines every day the company remains in violation (which EU regulators have threatened/done to US tech companies). Instead of making that decision, Google just stopped operating services (Google News) in countries that tried to aggressively control how they did business.

You're right though, that it is always a relatively pure cost/benefit calculation for the company.
Automation reshapes national political debate
I wasn't careful enough with my language. Yes, someone can work harder and see diminishing returns anyway. My dad installed carpet for the majority of his adult life. I would characterize that as more difficult work than most, but he never attained very much wealth.

Still, in a (very particular) vacuum, I would argue that statement holds water, even if it doesn't in reality.
How Netflix’s Management Structure Is Rewriting the Hollywood Script
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Early siege towers were basically what you'd consider a watch tower, but on some kind of rollers.
U.S. Chipmakers See Opening as Trade Friction Grows
‘Pay to Pitch’ Makes a Comeback
Wow. Your library is simply amazing. Especially considering it's a single-developer project.
Lisp is unambiguous, whereas:

x = a ? b : c;

Oops; that assigns x = a, and tests it. Not if that = is that of an initializer, though:

int x = a ? : b : c;

so now we have an expression that changes meaning if we have to split the initialization off into an assignment.

You're often better off if you put it behind a macro:

#define IF(X, Y, Z) ((X) ? (Y) : (Z))

In C coding, a lot of ternary action happens behind the curtain of preprocessing, where expression is almost fully parenthesized.
> There is no known physics theory that is true at every scale—there may never be

The article mentions how GR and QM have never been successfully combined together into a testable theory, how SR and QM produce infinities that need to be "renormalized" when combined together, and how there's no "direct" evidence that QED and QCD can be combined together.

The article didn't mention Thermodynamics that operates at scales between GR and QM, and how its reliance on a directed time dimension means it also doesn't combine with time-reversible GR, e.g. where has the information gone after a black hole evaporates via Hawking radiation, or what happens at the Cauchy horizon in a rotating black hole. QM is also time-reversible so I guess TD can't be combined with QM either.
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Is it really healthier to live in the countryside?
Musical Diversity of Pop Songs
The problem was never jQuery. jQuery performed a very necessary function when it was created. It was always the intention of the lib to cease to be needed over time. The problem was/is the ecosystem created around jQuery. Want to do a thing? Do it with jQuery. Want to read a cookie? Use jQuery. Want an image carousel? Build it with jQuery. Want to do anything at all? jQuery.

I do see something similar happening with our more junior devs. Their Google searches have now turned to "how do I read a cookie with React?"... and sure enough, there is a react-cookie lib - which may or may not be useful for their task... but since it says "react", it'll probably show up in a pull request. React can't be blamed for this though. All the ecosystem being built with the expectation of "well everyone's using React", _is_ a problem.

Education about separation of concerns is the only solution I can see.
I agree with you and I do most of my stuff in vanilla JS these days, but if I have a complex UI state it can be nice to have a DOM diffing library rather than tracking and editing nodes explicitly.

Mithril is, in my opinion, React done right. The entire framework is contained in four methods. It doesn't have any awkward leaky abstractions like Angular, and it is super light and responsive.
Your battle for Dune begins… now…
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No, they're downvoting him because they disagree with his opinion. That's how people use downvote buttons, don't kid yourself. If he'd made a sarcastic and dismissive remark about Intel and Meltdown he'd be crowned king of HN.
But Apache was born before jQuery, and continues to live on after jQuery (should have) died.
> The persistence of the neutrino anomaly is extremely exciting, said the physicist Scott Dodelson of Carnegie Mellon University.

> The existence of a sterile neutrino would revolutionize physics from the smallest to the largest scales. It would finally break the Standard Model of particle physics that has reigned since the 1970s.
> does any[one] have any examples to prove me wrong?

Perhaps NATO [0] in:

- Turkey (1952)

- Poland, Hungary (1999)

- Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Bulgaria, etc (2004)

- Ukraine (2017)

...might qualify as this tactic?

"The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union." [1]

[0] https://www.nato.int/nato-on-the-map/

[1] https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/nato

(EDIT: Formatting)
A field is function that assigns a value to every point in a space. The space is in general just an abstract mathematical space but in physics it is often the physical space we live in together with time.

The air temperature on earth is a field, a function that takes a position on the ground, a height above ground, and a time and returns the temperature at that point and time. And so is the wind velocity, just that the value of the function is not the temperature, a single number also called a scalar, but a vector pointing in the direction of the wind and with a length proportional to the wind speed. Temperature is therefore called a scalar field, wind velocity a vector field, and there or other kinds of fields like tensor fields, for example, which are a generalization of scalar and vector fields.
I don't contest any of what you wrote.

I was mostly arguing against the OP's very odd view that someone's position is due entirely to luck and not just partially. You and I seem to agree that it is a proportion, whether or not we agree what that proportion happens to be. But the OP seems to believe that nothing is due to free will and everything is due to luck.
wth XCode does not have dark mode? I use intelliJ, it has thus since like 5 years. Same for Visual studio.
I felt the regulation text itself was clear that the first request is free.

"1 - The controller shall provide a copy of the personal data undergoing processing.
2- For any further copies requested by the data subject, the controller may charge a reasonable fee based on administrative costs."

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-15-gdpr/
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Takeaway: In India it is not really healthier to live in the countryside.