skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’re the one making this about race, not me. It is exactly because societies reproduce memetically that immigration isn’t a sustainable solution—if the rest of the world either globalizes or immigrates enough, they too will also reproduce below replacement levels.

It’s also abundantly clear that human population decline has absolutely nothing to do with availability of resources, because human populations with more resources are paradoxically less fertile.

Speaking to global warming in particular—once a single technologically advanced country figures out how to cheaply extract CO2 from the atmosphere, either through a more efficient means of doing that or through a breakthrough in energy production, that country can unilaterally solve the problem forever, even with continued use of hydrocarbons (since they can operate a closed loop of reextracting used hydrocarbons from the atmosphere). The fact that we aren’t there yet means that population growth outstripped technological growth for a long while, but in the long term, it’s a solvable bottleneck, just as the low agricultural output of much of the world was a bottleneck solved by Norman Borlaug and the Green Revolution.
This is the primary reason I oppose government agents having routine access to citizen phones. People that send me documents and pictures presumably sent them in confidence.
> Does a Facebook breach let the attackers get into your Spotify account?

It would be a security breach that resulted in that (access tokens compromised), rather than the oft-reported privacy breaches (profile data compromised), but yes. The recent security breach involving access tokens would not apply here, for example, because they were access tokens for Facebook, not for linked apps.

> Does it leak the existence of your Spotify account?

Yes, see https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=applications and search for Spotify.

> Is there personal information from your Spotify account that can be gotten via a Facebook breach?

If Facebook issued an invalid access token that authorized an attacker to use your Spotify account, they would be able to see anything you can see in your Spotify account. If your profile data was leaked, anything Spotify published to your Facebook profile might be accessible.

"Spotify" is a stand-in for any SSO app, and "Facebook" is a stand-in for any SSO provider, of course. There's nothing special about Spotify and Facebook here, it might as easily be FarmVille and Google.
Yeah. Even some really simple nearest neighbors + blending works way better than any examples in this article

http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/projects/scene-completion/scene-c...
Your sample size is low. How many tech startups can you rattle off in total, period?. I assure you it's insignificant compared to the complete sum.
It is a mess, but I hope you’re not saying that this is a new or recent phenomenon.

Innocence in a legal sense has always been far removed from public opinion. The existence of things like the police blotter in local newspapers demonstrates that pretty well.

I’m not opining on the righteousness of it, but it seems like a whole lot of people ‘got religion’ w/r/t fairness once it started impacting rich/privileged people.
Or have a problem ;)
> Photons don’t have mass so don’t cause gravity but are affected by it.

They do have momentum though, and their momentum flux is encoded in the stress-energy tensor, which up to constant factors forms the right-hand-side (the "source" or "matter" side) of the Einstein Field Equations of General Relativity.

So photons are a source of curvature, and thus to say that they "don't cause gravity" is wrong.

This has been known since the late 1920s, and was made very clear in some correspondence between Einstein and Bohr on the topic of "Einstein's box" (box of light).

See e.g. the following subsection (and the figure it refers to) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohr–Einstein_debates#Einstein...

A more extreme case is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kugelblitz_(astrophysics)

In flat spacetime, we can alternatively start by considering the special-relativistic dispersion equation, E^2 = (mc^2)^2 + (pc)^2, m being intrinsic mass and p being momentum. Usually you see this as E = mc^2, taking square roots and considering the centre of momentum to be fixed. When you let a beam of light (or even a photon) travel across a set of coordinates, rather than keeping it fixed at some coordinate (e.g. the origin), p is nonzero, even though m is always zero. Since (pc)^2 is positive, so is E^2, so even though light is massless, it has (frame-dependent) energy. Indeed, being more formal, one says that light has momentum-energy. A further relationship E = hf, h being Planck's constant and f being the frequency of the beam of light (or just a photon), also underlines this: E = hf = pc^2, so the momentum of light relates to it's frequency, or alternatively it's wavelength (as f = c / lambda, where lambda is the wavelength). Light's frequency is observer-dependent because of relativistic doppler effects or equivalently light's wavelength is observer-dependent because of relativistic length contraction. (And this should not be surprising as even in high school physics you will have learned that kinetic energy is a frame-dependent dependent quantity. Relativistic kinetic energy is E.)

When we add gentle curvature and use suitable coordinates, E is simply promoted into the time_time component of the stress-energy tensor. (Gory details if you look up "comma-goes-to-semicolon rule", which you can find discussed here https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/March01/Carroll3/Carroll... or in most decent textbooks on General Relativity. Carroll prefers to call it the energy-momentum tensor instead of the stress-energy tensor; they're the same thing.)

Since any nonzero component of the stress-energy tensor serves as a source of curvature, then light must generate curvature.

You were half-right though: photons do indeed respond to curvature.
> Your landlord is paying what society asks. Who are to say this isn't fair?

He's a member of society.

You can't say "society asks", and then complain when someone wants to change people's minds. The current state of affairs isn't necessary and absolutely correct.
And the rent is less than half of that.
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I think if you are for freedom of speech, this is exactly the sort of speech to disagree with and yet defend. This was a list of people not to work with, not a list of people to actively go after and harass. The list was not maintained by people with government or industry power. A world where you can't speak to others unless it's either a popular idea or a media organization will vouch for your speech is one where individuals don't actually have freedom of speech.

Freedom of speech is not going to be good for everyone. It will hurt people. It will cause people to believe things without hearing all sides of the story. It will allow a lie to travel halfway around the world before the truth puts it pants on. We want freedom of speech despite all this risk, because we believe it has a power to improve society in a way that simply cannot be done by a censor that makes sure that all speech is good for society in its eyes.
Yeah, but not every implementation details will equally lead to the same vulnerabilities. Having said that, heartbleed was a length issue.
It's not a Google thing. Every single large, successful company does this.

It is a no-brainer decision from a game theoretic point of view: these companies already have a top-of-the-line, best in the world product. Working on more products requires lots of inspiration, time and luck, and even in the best case all you get is just another amazing product. (I.e., just more of the stuff you already got.)

Using your money and fame to neutralize talent that could be used against you requires no effort or thinking at all, only money. These companies don't know what to do with their profits anyways.
I didn't dispute the meaning of the words, and I agree that making internally discovered vulnerabilities public should be (legally) optional.

But that raises the question which ones should and which ones shouldn't be disclosed.

In my opinion, knowing for sure that there was a breach is not the right threshold in all cases.

A high profile public API that had a glaring vulnerability for years seems far more likely to have been breached than most other software.

Also, the more high profile the software the greater the reputational risk of being wrong.

What if the bug gets leaked eventually? What if there was in fact a breach and it only becomes known later when people have already suffered the consequences?

If that happens, people will question the decision not to publish and the damage to trust will be far greater. This has to be factored into the incentive structure of any disclosure or non-disclosure.

I think the best course of action is to routinely disclose all vulnerabilities but not necessarily alert all end-users to all vulnerabilities.
It's a real shame, because I can definitely see a way for Google to do social networking in a way that would pull me away from Facebook. Basically I could connect with people and put their feeds into channels sort of like Slack (one for family, one for work, one for recruiters so I could get rid of Linkedin). But I'd have control over each channel and (this is important) people could message me in a way that worked like Gmail, but I wouldn't have to fork over my Gmail address.

For me that was the critical omission, the idea that we can be "friends" on Google+ but you have no way to message me. It never made any sense. And I'm not even that smart.
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I don't get all the "entrepreneur" founder worship stuff. The disconnected tech set has produced a lot of money - and burned a lot more. They've ruined our ability to connect to each other so that we could connect on Facebook. They've ruined sidewalks with scooters, lost all of our data, participated in tracking us at all times, helped ICE deport children, and made a wage slaves out of people at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder by greasing the "gig" economy wheels with algorithms.

At what point do we, as technical people, wake up and go "hey, maybe all this bullshit lingo, youth fetishism, digital isolation and community destruction is bad as a whole?"

I'd rather see content about a founder who actually helped people somewhere solve some problem, and it made things better for regular people - those outside the tech bubble.

It seems like all everyone wants to do is blast off with like minded people.
That's exactly how I got into the field: spent 2.5 years at home building stuff, and then published my CV on a head hunter site. That was in the morning and in the afternoon I started getting first calls from recruiters. But that's in Russia, and I also set my desirable salary quite low. But still, I ended up with my current company stealing me from another one whose offer I had accepted but hadn't started working yet, and my current company offered better conditions and it took just a week from the first contact to me accepting their offer.
Agreed. The morphing sounds unfortunate but immaterial here. Calling a coworker a bitch should absolutely be grounds for dismissal in my opinion.
The top 10% individually was 108k in 2017. The median software engineer was making 107.6k in 2017.

So, on a technicality you are wrong - most software engineers are not in the top 10%. But even if you were right, there is a wide range of pay for software engineers, so it should not be surprising that some of those getting paid less will comment.
There's no arguing the fact that regexes are a poor fit for HTML, but maybe this is the wrong time to use that ridiculous email regex as an example, since TFA features a highly readable, fully compliant email matching regex as its main example.
> attempting to locate the Higgs Boson

Isn't this a false equivalence? The Higgs boson is predicted by the Standard Model. Antigravitation of antimatter is not. How is an experiment that might have failed to detect something predicted by the Standard Model equivalent to "experimentation for novel theories"?

> Well, possibly, but not for the conspiratorial reasons you're alluding to.

What "conspiratorial" reasons? I never suggested any conspiracy was required whatsoever. Please refer to my other recent comment on this.

> prioritization can really only be accomplished by gauging the likelihood of an outcome which produces new knowledge

I don't know if you'll be receptive but I also happened to touch on this very point in the same other comment.

> No one behind the operation of the ALPHA-g detector is going to block an experiment because they may personally not like the results

That's also not equivalent to what I suggest, which is that it can be deprioritized, not blocked... a notion which you and others are already admitting.

> if the detector has a hand in a successful discovery, the detector and the team supporting it will be able to claim having a hand in the discovery

Is that why we do science?
You could take 3 months off a year and still earn more.
We converted several old PHP-5.x apps to be 7.x-ready about a year or more ago. The apps had various authors and various levels of maintenance over the years. (By and large they were internally used apps at a large institution which is why one app could be very different from another app.)

If you have been dreading a transition, don't sweat it. From our experience, it was easier than a developer might think when they first open that old PHP codebase. Oh, and the speed increases the benchmarks promised are real. Even the bad apps saw a noticeable speed increase.
I've seen several engineers who make more work for other people to fix than they contribute in progress themselves. Sometimes it is by bikeshedding on code reviews, other times by choosing some pet architecture/technology for a project which everyone else has to waste time learning about and/or migrating to, or by putting something in that bottlenecks all development of a critical codebase through only them, leading to people getting constantly blocked. Then again, these have been great lessons for me in what not to do, and what to recognize as red flags.
>I've found that disk (os) replication to ssd is impossible.

Why should this be the case?
What's the average starting age of a successful entrepeneurs?

That would be a more relevant statistic
How to create an AR app that allows a user to get content recommendations
Well, we'd be even more skeptical of a doctor who dropped out of undergrad, never got a degree, and was promising world changing results, which is the prevailing narrative Silicon Valley seems to want to believe.
While true that PCRE is widely used, it is also true that there are several regexp libraries that do not veer very far from the formal regular language theory. Most notably Googles re2 which is based on finite automation engine.
It would definitely be helpful from a corporate strategy perspective, but I think the real solution is educating engineers in the humanities or liberal arts.
Why shouldn't they make positive impact with their choices?
Humanity and "the humanities" are often direct opposites.
Some western countries (or portions thereof) have locally-grown food as the norm, too. California, for example, certainly imports quite a bit of food, but also is a major food exporter (and for some produce is the only significant exporter worldwide, let alone in the rest of the US). Being able to grow practically any kind of fruit or vegetable or grain was something I took for granted growing up in the Central Valley, as I did the ability to grow one's own food (my family didn't grow any staples ourselves, but we did have an orchard that gave us more fruit than we could hope to eat, at least when it was in season).

I agree that locally-grown tastes better. Yeah, there are skeptics that claim it's just our imagination or whatever, but if you're shipping food thousands of miles over land and sea, by the time it reaches your plate it's inevitably going to have gone through wild climate swings and mechanical stress that are bound to affect the flavor, even if subtly. And that's assuming the food started out identically; locally grown cultivars/varieties of crops are often different from the ones grown further away (and in fact, a lot of fruits and vegetables grown for worldwide distribution are specifically bred to better survive transit; locally-grown-and-consumed crops don't need to account for that and can focus on size or flavor or texture or whatever other quality might be desirable for a local market).
I don’t know if this is has evidence in data but is the income distribution for SWEs becoming increasingly bimodal? A range for individuals outside of elite tech companies and a range for individuals within it who have reaped the rewards of appreciating tech stock?
I think that the Patreon model is pretty good for this sort of stuff, though obviously it doesn't quite work for organizations which are not likable or decent enough that people will just give them money to give away their work.
OP here, haven't tried yet but I think my point stands that this is something enough users want to make it a proper feature rather than a "workaround". Might be wrong, though.
Previously:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17900750
Earth’s First Nuclear Reactor Is 1.7B Years Old and Was Made Naturally
The biggest welfare is being in the same political Union as better functioning economies. I shudder to think how expensive it would be for Italy to raise money on the international bond market if it wasn't for the ECB.
It's vastly different. You're talking about one affiliated company vs. China's ability to control any Chinese company.
Robert B. Laughlin, Nobel Laureate in Physics, endowed chair in physics, Stanford University, had this to say:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aether_theories#Quantum_vacuum

> "the empty vacuum of space … is filled with 'stuff' ... The modern concept of the vacuum of space, confirmed every day by experiment, is a relativistic ether."

Laughlin’s ‘stuff’ is the smoothly distributed, strongly interacting, supersolid dark matter that fills ‘empty’ space and is displaced by ordinary matter.

Einstein: Ether and Relativity
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Extras/Einstein_ether.ht...

> "According to the general theory of relativity space without ether is unthinkable"

Einstein’s ether is the supersolid dark matter that fills ‘empty’ space and is displaced by ordinary matter.
>>With historical sexual allegations a powerful weapon in politics, business and for financial gain

but they aren't.
Exactly :) I'm aware that there's a long way to go yet, but ultimately its still just a beta
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Ah, I see, the endless diarrhea of anti-China propaganda is totally deserved because it's China is untrustworthy. And how can China dare demand access to IP, they're Chinese, their job is just to be dumb cheap labor right?

What is really striking about the logic at work here is that you see the exact same thing happening in the most authoritarian countries. Saudi Arabia, Russia, Venezuela, and America. The media pumps out the same endless propaganda designating some external entity. The same idiots lap it up and whip themselves into a frenzy in daily two minute hate sessions. The same paranoia, the same hatred, the same fear.

As I said before, we've reached the point where this sort of behavior is practiced openly and without shame. This is key. This story was quickly voted to the top of HN and the comments are full of similar nonsense or defenders of the nonsense. That says it all but, ironically, there's not much else to be said because you really think China is the problem here and there's no rational discussion to be had with such committed ideologues.
> It is very hard to validate a given choice of a prior in many applications. E.g., if I claim one prior, and another investigator claims a sharper one, it can be very difficult to decide who is right.

Both prior and likelihood are our model's assumptions. So, the prior validation problem is similar to the likelihood validation problem. To check a Bayesian model or any model, we need to bring the model out of the formal world, to the real world for validation.

Prior predictive simulation method, which generates random data points from the prior, is a good heuristic to check if the prior is NOT plausible.
The YC podcast recently had one of the founders on to tell that story. It was pretty interesting to hear first hand since I had only read a little bit beforehand.
No, this is not true. KVM always keeps VMX on, Xen too even when running paravirtualized guests, Hyper-V does not even have a concept of "the VM not running code". Maybe VMware Workstation and VirtualBox?
Exactly the same at Ibm, eBay and jp Morgan when I worked there. There were even programs to let you try out new projects before you commit to them.

All it took was the dev to say that he preferred working on a specific project. Some teams even have further internal hiring processes from the talent pool.

I am not even sure OP knows that team switching was possible and how internal recruiting works for large organizations
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Are you seeing any evidence of that?

If anything, I'm seeing the opposite: non-"elite" tech pay is increasing to rival "elite" tech pay (since that's the only way you can hire a decent engineer in any of the major tech hubs in the US).
Property needs to be taxed a lot more too.

Basically, we should tax wealth, not income.
The very same US nukes which have been sitting around in Belgium for decades

So are the current F16 able to drop these? Or which other planes during those decades?
Yes, but if you don’t know who’s calling you, and you’re expecting a large number of calls (as happens when you first move to a country), or if you don’t have caller id (which can lie, or just isn’t present of land lines) you have to pick up. And then you get charged for having a “conversation”.

I feel the rate of spam would decrease somewhat if telcos in the US were not permitted to charge for receiving calls or text messages. (Maybe the latter “service” messages requiring an explicit acceptance message before they’re allowed to charge?)
BTW can anybody share a link to a really simple explanation of the Bayes' Theorem? I've once seen one, it was a size of a twit and would let you understand it in a matter of seconds, all the "super-duper intuitive explanations" around are too huge and complex actually.
That sounds like a great way to waste time and create barriers of entry to the field.
> With historical sexual allegations a powerful weapon in politics, business and for financial gain, the accused are increasingly defenseless and accused is the new guilty.

If three accusations are not powerful enough to stop someone from getting a seat on the supreme court, any claim that we're giving too much power to accusers can't be taken seriously.
> Yes tax us more so it can be spent just as inefficiently.

Citation needed. Even supposedly inefficient government spending helps the economy more than having the top 1% hoard resources. Consider Apple's huge cash on hand as an example of the latter. What economic benefit is society deriving from allowing Apple to dodge taxes and keeping that money out of the hands of government?

Now consider that some government programs are wildly efficient[1] while funding basic research that private VCs won't touch. And finally that government employees are often paid orders of magnitude less than their private-sector counterparts for doing largely the same work.

Is there inefficiency in government? Yes. But probably no more than in a similarly sized private company.

[1] https://www.nrdc.org/experts/despite-trumps-threat-eliminate...
For this to work the ethecist would have to be well versed in philosophy. In our current political climate I would suspect that anyone who obtained this position would be anything but.