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Particle physics is not all of physics.

Many areas of physics such as Condensed Matter Physics are in a golden age of wonderful interesting discoveries every year. In CMP, every material is like its own little universe with its own fundamental ‘particles’ and interactions. There are condensed matter systems that have Lorentz symmetry (ie special relativity) such as graphene, there are condensed matter systems with gauge symmetries and even supersymmetries.

The real advantage of CMP is that where particle physicists are stuck trying to describe the fundamental properties of our universe of which there is only one, condensed matter physicists are trying to describe the emergent properties of materials of which there is a mind-blowing variety. This means that if the condensed matter community is stuck and can’t make progress on material X, they can simply move to material Y and retain much of their expertise.

CMP is like doing particle physics with a multiverse, except that multiverse is real.
Only today, my parallel-boss was explaining to me that only Canadian Codes have started allowing monolithic bridge instead of traditional simply supported configuration.

And evening, I get this news. Though only top slabs seems like monolithic construction, and main bridge girder is still piece-wise simply supported. It's enlightening to hear from the seniors.

Moreover, absence of R/f in top slab seems to be a demo case of new age "Just do it with our admixture (chemicals)" pitching we get from some of the manufactures.

EDIT: Looking from the picture: My first guess is support settlement of one of the intermediate columns. One more thing, I found strange was that we generally tend to avoid Steel Columns going below the top level of the water in the stream, generally we keep Concrete coming few metre above the water level and than steel starting, but the far off columns stills seems to be going into the water. Even though, it's not that rare, all offshore steel platform have still going into water but they are designed with far stringent specifications and definitely not for such small scale bridges.
It works if you run both expressions from file. There's a tutorial page that explains why this doesn't work in REPL. See "Locals are per-chunk" here: https://github.com/bakpakin/Fennel/blob/master/tutorial.md#g...
The statistical definition of "minority" isn't the same as the sociological definition of "minority." It's not a numerical measurement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minority_group

>"a group of people who, because of their physical or cultural characteristics, are singled out from the others in the society in which they live for differential and unequal treatment, and who therefore regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination"
Yes. I work for QNX. I can answer any technical questions.
Sounds like the folks at https://osgeo.org might be interested...
The risk I see is over using data science in circumstances where it is just a product feature. Risk is then to over emphasize the data science part and forgetting the relevant context. Like getting lost in the data itself.

A tendency I saw is that math graduates have a tendency to put everything in probability functions. That reality is composed of people that cannot be predicted is sometimes beyond their horizon. As a result everybody believes the solution is mathatically correct and thus suitable to reality while it is quite the opposite.

EDIT: Typos, again...
The advantage of this particular app is that it works on standalone VR headsets, which otherwise don't have access to a decent web browser. Also integrates with Web VR content so you can find and play web-based VR games and videos without taking off the headset. Other than that though I agree with you; apart from a few niche use-cases, right now this isn't really much better than just using the browser on your phone.

Longer-term though, VR (and eventually AR) have the potential to offer a number of significant productivity advantages over desktop displays. Unlimited screen real-estate, the ability to organize your workspace spatially, better interaction with 3D models and data.

It's also possible that there's a whole new set of UI paradigms that we haven't discovered yet which will be enabled by VR/AR interfaces. If we were designing user interfaces from scratch with the ability to project images anywhere in 3D space, what would those interfaces ultimately look like? Are 2D interfaces really the most efficient? Or did we just arrive at that solution as the result of the limitations of current technology?
There's a lot of countries we're talking about here (and I'm honestly surprised an adult who has hired someone wouldn't be aware) but from a 5 second DuckDuckGo:

> The only thing the employer has to do is avoid criteria which touch on race, religion, gender, age or disability.

> Allen M., Esq. Attorney
Except when they're actively expounding upon and peddling bad news to ensure the stock price drops at the right time. That is what Musk is most frustrated by.

In my mind, all negative news about Tesla is now called into doubt as being news peddled by shorts. This is the challenge of declining journalism standards: all news now has someone with a vested interest behind it.
False, all genders (including male) are protected classes.

"We didn't hire you because we think women make better caregivers" is just as illegal as "We didn't hire you because we think men make better middle managers."

http://www1.eeoc.gov/eeoc/newsroom/release/5-2-18.cfm

>The Children's Home, Inc., a Tampa nonprofit child care organization also known as the Children's Home Network, will pay $18,000 and provide training for its human resources and management employees to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC's lawsuit charged that The Children's Home violated federal law when it refused to consider a male employee, Luis Vasquez, for a position in its maternity home program based on his sex. The suit further alleged that, Vasquez, after voicing his concerns about the company's refusal to consider him because he is a male, was prevented from applying to any other positions with the organization.

https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/newsroom/release/7-30-18b.cfm

>BALTIMORE - Park School of Baltimore Inc., a private school in Pikesville, Md., violated federal law when it refused to renew the employment contract of a male softball coach because it preferred female leadership, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it announced today.
Looks like its been fixed in the new Safari Preview https://i.imgur.com/A6lm25a.png
Apple “next-day” delivery horror story
Announcing the AI Fairness 360 toolkit
The next word was literally "example"... :-)

Of course you're right, real life gets complicated and messy, and things are never as simple as it seems they should be. Nevertheless, I do believe we, as the technologists designing and building the systems that the world runs on, should put more careful thought into making them fundamentally secure and easy to use.

Nothing wrong with letting notaries use PGP. I think that's great.
Why would we expect a statistician/data analyst to write an OS? I'd expect them to write reports, white papers, articles, and functional domain-specific packages for R or Python. Especially in my field of healthcare, where over 50% of the analysts use SAS, I doubt we'll see any groundbreaking innovation, at best it's incremental changes via papers or sharing code.
Swiss tax app stores all data publicly in the cloud
I'm having difficultly explaining my child has autism and need the time off all the time. Seriously people's expectations versus handling reality are very misaligned. Everyone constantly tells me I look sleepy and I've over heard from some that maybe I drink too much. They don't understand the time it takes to drive a kid to see 3 different specialists every other week, to drive to and from ABA therapy (which doesn't keep consistent hours or after care) they don't understand that she can't get into daycare (she's been kicked out by almost everywhere) and they definitely don't get why I'm like just a grain of sand away from losing it.
This suggests their main complaint is about logging into Chrome Sync with the EDU account, where expected behavior would be to store and sync history and passwords. (And if you don't keep separate Chrome profiles, obviously that would include everyone using the computer.)

And then they talk about saving voice recordings and transcriptions from their phone messages... I can only guess they did something like configured WhatsApp to store backups on Drive and forgot they had?

EDU accounts should be treated like work accounts: use them only for EDU- or work-related things. Don't visit your bank's website and save the password to Chrome when logged into syncing to your daughter's school account.

On the other hand, asking students, parents, and faculty to fully understand the Chrome login-and-sync model, and how it differs from website logins, may be asking too much. And it can be hard to tell the difference between Chrome sign-in and Apps sign-in, or to realize that signing out of one won't necessarily sign you out of the other.
Microdosing is huge now. As always, psychedelics should be used as a last resort for those with treatment resistant illness. But yeah, for me and mine, it works.
Exactly. It’s been part of the standard HIG for both Microsoft and Apple not to use “OK” and “Cancel” and instead use more descriptive turns like “Allow Syncing”/“Don’t Allow Syncing” for a decade.
Translated news from heise.de, original by Fabian A. Scherschel.

https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Schweizer-Steuer-App...
Re the FB example and action movies. Action movies are not a protected Federal class as are age, race, sex, religion, and national origin.
a lot of the article is focused on how to do deep work without getting exhausted. feels like that is a valuable skill to invest in.
SQL is still one of the best languages for readability in my opinion.
See https://talonvoice.com for an extensible open source alternative to voice code.

The creator/main developer is a friend of mine and is one of the smartest people I know. The project can be used to control IDA for reverse engineering, play video games, program, and more.
I was 9 when I fell off my bike and broke my femur. Being in traction for 4 weeks followed by a full body cast for 12 was not a very fun way to spend the 4th grade.
I would be most grateful if someone could please explain to me what "butterfly" is meant to be ... a metaphor of some sort I assume.
Thanks so much for the excellent response!
iOS 12's new Measure app is simply not accurate. Don't count on it
> I don't have a "rational" argument

I do: Times New Roman was designed for a newspaper — Brittain’s “The Times” — which means it was designed in large part to keep the cost of paper and ink down. Compared to book fonts of the time, Times New Roman has uncommonly narrow letterforms and short descenders to allow for more text on a line and more lines in a column.

If you care more about aesthetics than about ink and paper cost, you should never use Times New Roman.

I second the recommendations for Garamond and Palatino.
I think the connector is self wiping, and will eventually clear with repeated insertions.
Alternate wording: Why have you rationalized that it's OK for somebody to profit from your surplus labor while threatening you with homelessness and starvation?
Netmon Inc. Canadian and U.S.A Distributor for AKCP Environmental Monitoring
Rbspy architecture
Disparate Impact is one of the most illiberal policies in America. Companies need to be so careful that their results can't be construed as discriminatory that they need to go out of their way to make their hiring practices discriminatory. You could have a totally blind hiring process (remove names from resumes, modulate voices in phone interviews, never get any indication of race/sex/age of applicant) and still be liable for a lawsuit if you don't hit the arbitrary "80% rule" benchmark.

The Disparate Treatment and Disparate Impact doctrines are diametrically opposed, yet both can lead to lawsuits. When a company gets big enough, it's going to start running into discrimination lawsuits no matter what they do. There are things they can do to offset the damages (diversity training, diversity department, certain types of donations), but the end result can still be settlements in the tens of millions of dollars.
Zig: open-source programming language designed for robustness/optimality/clarity
> you shouldn't expect this sort of thing to happen _by default_

When I have chrome; it always asks me if I want to save passwords....

To one extent, this is a hard lesson to the parents; Check the security settings on any computer you are using; Check the "features" of every app you install.

To another end, it's a good lesson for the parents and children that school and work supplies are for school and work.

To yet another end, those passwords, if auto generated, are likely much more secure than other ways of storing passwords.
Why would you be expecting a data scientist to be writing an OS?
> A lot of arguments about science are really arguments about confidence. E.g. most climate change scientists are fairly sure about their models, but the lack of absolutely certainty makes it possible for deniers to cherry pick a tiny collection of outlier scientists who will argue in public that it's all nonsense.

I think scale/proportion is also a problem. Humans seem to place a lot of value in narratives/stories but we aren't so good with quantities (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjunction_fallacy ). Pretty much everything (economics, climate, etc.) has factors pushing it in different directions, so we can always find a counterargument to any position (e.g. we can rebuff climate change by pointing to solar cycles, CO2 causing extra plant growth, etc.); that's fine, but some factors are overwhelmingly more important than others, whilst we seem to cling on to these stories/narratives and give them more equal weighting than we should.

As a concrete example, a family member used to leave their lights on overnight, claiming that "they use more energy than normal when they're first switched on". Whilst true, the saving is cancelled out after seconds ( e.g. https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/when-turn-your-lights )
That covers the "data" aspect, for my work however, the "scientist" aspect is just as important. While I'm expected to use SQL and R to generate reports, I need the thought process of an epidemiologist to construct my analytic samples. I also require the scientific knowledge and background to interface with MDs and clinical PhDs, who need me to bridge the gap between data and science.
That’s odd. My invoice shows that I get one here in Canada and says 6-8 weeks both on the confirmation screen and the email copy.

I’ve been reading Wired articles for years for free so I don’t mind signing up for a year regardless.

I guess I’ll find out and can report back for anybody who wants to know for sure haha.
What is doing the speech-to-text processing? Is this part of the Common Voice project? Is the code available to use outside of Firefox Reality?
Operation Vegetarian
I don’t think it’s prima facie illegal to mention that, but it does open you up to a discrimination lawsuit. The chances of winning might be slim, but why take the chance?

Crossing the line would be “This job requires a lot of travel,are you sure you could handle it with a newborn?”
I'd agree with you, the fragility of MicroUSB was one of the reasons I wanted to change to an iPhone - I was less than happy when the android world moved on from MiniUSB
Not quite.

EFI will kill your program if it runs too long unless it disables a lot of the drives by exiting the boot environment.

Additionally, a lot of the EFI structures aren't intuitive or straightforward since they cover a lot of functionality, you'd still write a lot of code, probably more than the non-EFI variant.
>Google is COPPA compliant and will not let children, without parental consent, sign up for things on their own.

How does Google do that? By having a 13 year old agree to Terms and Conditions/EULA (a legal contract), that the child has no legal authority to enter, which states the child obtained legal consent from the parents?
What you’re doing is worth it. Thank you for it.
GAFA's are somewhat specials. I was very precisely answering to a very well written story about a plant producing furniture.

As a matter of fact, if you were Ikea's CEO with a rather important war-chest (however not at the level of Apple assuredly), you would never let "live" one of your plant if all it's finished goods were given for free because nobody would want to buy it.
If you're off the grid somewhere. Or just a cool bragging right.
Ask for status updates if you need them. They’re usually prompt and I figure if more people do they’ll start feeling the cost of not automating it.
Could someone (tersely) tell me what makes Ex Machina so brilliant and interesting?

I watched it and came away with "That's a decent film with a boring ending."

In an egotistical moment I might dismiss the opinions of my non-CS friends as "Oh, these are new thoughts to them," but a lot of technical people seemed to love it to.

So what's the wow?
Benefits of Liquid Vitamins
Adding php RDS access to Lambda
Great work - I tried to contact you through your email. I need to access AWS RDS. How do I load the connection libraries so that php can access the DB?
The texting app might not be iMessage
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I'm not seeing Safari 12 in the App Store (macOS 10.13.6). I wonder if they pulled the update because of this? I have Safari 11 still but my colleague got Safari 12 through the App Store.
Is github the master, or a sync from somewhere else? Are the commits GPG signed? Does anyone here know for a fact the build/test pipeline(s) validate on checkout that git has no errors and require human intervention if it does?
I've got 5 people brought in for the latest contract, folks earning a living because together we provide a much-needed skill to a company in a tight spot. Its been a great few months, and we continue to execute on a 6-month work list and bring them back in control of their process.

Work from home but I'm having a lunch meeting with the major players today which is always a great time getting updates and planning the next week!

So, my work life is great.
Griode: A Music Instrument Based on Raspberry Pi and Novation Launchpad
Interesting links.

For a moment there, I thought the ad by Motor Institute of America shown on the page of Popular Mechanics you linked to, was also present in your second link to the The Ladies Home Journal, albeit with a different ad copy.
Came across this project today. Author has put the source on GitHub: https://github.com/jpetazzo/griode

It’s the 2018 sabbatical project of the author of the project. Last commit was about a month ago. Very cool project, I look forward to see what more they are going to add to it.
No, their bug management is not friendly at all.
Downside of FIRE/Mr. Money Mustache is that it promotes a 'scarcity mentality'- many believers would NEVER take a 6 month break from work to drain their savings.

A healthier mindset is a 'plentiful mindset', which promotes positive 'risks'. Say, taking off 6 months to develop a personal project of yours for potential income.
well, in this case it isn't perfectly fine because it shouldn't be described as "Gender. Target ads to women, men or people of all genders." if there is only 50/50 chance to display ad to woman. Isn't it just ridiculous and straight lie to potential advertisement buyer?
Now that they have this fixed, I hope they are working on a solution for all of the clone accounts that pose as Elon Musk or Charlie Lee and others.
I think I've seen "their" used instead of "her" or "his" where people declined to specify any gender. This works in English but not in German for instance, where I think they write "ihren/seinen" which translates to "her/his".

I suppose that's as far as Facebook's support for gender choices goes.
In relation to your last question: in many countries (not sure about the US) jobs like au pair, house maid, babysitter, caretaker, are explicitly exempted from nondiscrimination rules.
Maintaining Scientific Integrity in a Climate of Perverse Incentives [pdf]
Map and filter together in Java reflects why you get from SELECT and FROM without aggregate, much less analytical (window) functions. Aggregate and analytical functions correspond to reduction operations, which Java supports but doesn't come with canned equivalents to common analytical methods, just aggregates, AFAIK.
The movie is based on the first book in a trilogy. Really weird, almost surreal sci-fi. Definitely enjoyed both the books and the movie.
Is there anything of particular interest to Rust? I'm know Rust is built on LLVM (for both good and ill but mostly good).
It was most likely WhatsApp, which as far as I know allows backing up to Google Drive.
Autism is not a mental illness. I am not mentally ill. I was born with a disability which causes social impairments and a host of other symptoms. Being Autistic is beyond my control, and is untreatable other than just trying my damndest to “pass” as neurotypical whereever and however I can. I find it incredibly insulting and damaging to label me as mentally ill.
YC Application Review Exchange
To be more specific about "more inconvenient": I believe part of the intended effect of ASLR is to make ROP exploit attempts typicaly crash the process instead of successfully gaining control. This (ideally) brings admin attention to the system, which attackers generally want to avoid.
Assessing Startups Using Machine Learning Part 2: The GASP Open Source Framework
Indeed. That would be written in the native layer.
Units of measurement
Indeed! Figlet is also useful in this case.
Danny Boyle directed The Beach, so maybe that’s where Garland got it?

I believe Garland has hinted he’s intending to re-adapt The Beach himself at some point.
No. They can't route out themselves (only through the proxy, which they don't know how to use and won't accept outbound connections from them anyway), and there is no UPnP enabled on that network.
I like doing both, but I especially like really understanding and improving an existing code base, finding/following/encouraging best practices, contributing back to the engine, etc. Writing something from scratch can be fun too though if I am given the time to do it in a way that I think is "right" vs just banging out a prototype with corners cut as quickly as possible and leaving it as is.
Not really. Just a shallow native layer that uses the platform as much as possible.

Except for the UI of course.
"Centuries" is a bit of a stretch, right? Or am I misunderstanding your comment?

Some of the most widely used algorithms in machine learning, for training or prediction, are much younger than that:
- backpropagation (1970s)
- Viterbi algorithm (1960s)
- Markov Chain Monte Carlo (1940s) (Though, the Buffon's needle problem is from the 18th century.)

And things like conditional random fields, LDA, and LSTMs, were introduced after 2000.

edit: removed lone parenthesis