skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This, of course, is a physically verified phenomenon

No it's not. There are interpretations in which collapse does not exist, so these experiments are not measuring what you think they're measuring unless you already assume the conclusion.

Also, your view on other interpretations of QM are outdated. Arguably one of the more famous results on quantum mechanics, Bell's theorem, would have never existed if not for Bohmian mechanics.

Don't discount the value of explanatory power. The fact that other interpretations provide far more explanatory power than Copenhagen makes them far more valuable. Many important results in quantum foundations would have never happened if everyone were a Copenhagenist.
Whether a "giant waste of resources" or not, the torrent ecosystem nowadays is nowhere close to what it was a few years ago.
>> And if you submit a proposal that says "I'm going to go off and work on this crazy idea, and maybe there's a one in a thousand chance that I'll discover some of the secrets of the universe, and a 99.9% chance that I'll come up with bubkes," you get turned down.

That's just people being chicken. You know someone got to research why wombat poop comes out in cubes:

https://gizmodo.com/we-finally-know-how-wombats-produce-thei...

I could spend a couple hours giving physicists off-the-wall ideas that have some degree of plausibility. All worth exploring rigorously IMHO.
Understanding the Git Workflow
The life of Kurt Vonnegut, played out over 1000 tweets
The salient hardware difference is probably cache coherence in the SGI interconnect.
This MIT professor looks like a very intelligent guy, and I agree with what he says, but the article shows that the reporter did not understand some things.

Plasticity theory is presented as an alternative to the finite element method, but in fact they are usually used together. While plasticity theory explains how materials deform, the FE method makes possible to apply this theory to complex structures.

In any case, the problem cannot be FEM, but how it is applied and how the results are interpreted. It is very likely (even expected) that applying the requirements used for steel or concrete structures to the Pantheon will give you wrong results, but that does not mean FEM is the problem. Blindly doing simulations without having a good model and being very careful of how boundary conditions are applied and how to interpret the results, on the other hand, is becoming a greater problem as the necessary hardware becomes more affordable.
Towards AI-Based Smart Hospitals
Fastly labs engineer here - happy to answer any questions about this!
> Hey ho. You go your way and I'll go mine.

That is the attitude that I can get behind, however neither side of this argument is really prepared to do that. In my experience, FLOSS advocates do appear to have a more fundamentalist all or nothing approach when espousing their opinion online, often aggressively. Ideology is great, but it does lead to book burning on occasion.
This “merchant advance” business, in a (hopefully) less predatory form, is driving revenue at Square and Stripe. I would like to see some comment from someone like Patrick on how they are going to help reform this mess. They’ve got the resources to do it, and if they don’t they will get lumped in as part of the problem when regulation finally arrives.
That's really interesting. It sounds like long-term indebtedness isn't part of it? Or am I naive to think that? What happens if there's no land available?
You do lose some candidates this way. If I'm already leaping from one stable job, I'm not going to roll the dice on a contract position. Sure it will probably work out, but everyone should already know not to trust promises made during the recruiting process.
How well would you, with zero experience managing and deploying a stack, do the same in an orthodox LAMP setting?
Disclaimer: I posted this project of my friend's. But it is quite cool. He's also done Wittgenstein and Phillip K dick and Oppenheimer
Hilarious, on the bubble chart "Why did the government let this happen", we are now at this point "pls g-men step in and dont let this disaster happen" and "put those responsible behind bars" etc.
Skara Brae – Discovery and Excavation of Orkney's finest Neolithic Settlement
This is a better article (From bad astronomy) about the same thing: https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/is-this-cosmic-sprinkler-surro...

In particular, the sciencealert article mentions "very old" Wolf-Rayet stars, which is a little strange given that they only last a few million years, and certainly are not old on any scale used for stellar lifetimes.
Class action lawsuit needed.
Better for everyone to be using a small handful of battle-tested implementations written by experts than for everyone to roll their own implementation. The latter may mean that people have a better understanding of the component, but it's also pretty much guaranteed to mean the various implementations are buggy. Even very simple protocols are easy to introduce bugs into.

For example, it's pretty easy to write an HTTP/1.0 implementation, but it's also easy to open yourself up to DoS attacks if you do so. If you're writing a server, did you remember to put a limit on how large a request body can be before you shut down the request? Great! Did you remember to do that for the headers too? Limiting request bodies is an obvious thing to do. Limiting the size of headers, not so much. But maybe you thought of that anyway. What about dealing with clients that open lots of connections and veeery sloowly feed chunks of a request? The sockets are still active, but the connections are so slow you can easily exhaust all your resources just tracking sockets (or even run out of file descriptors). And this is just plain HTTP, without even considering interacting with TLS.
Also, all the non-MW interpretations say "and then choose a random outcome" without any clue as to how randomness might occur. MWI can propose an actual mechanism for randomness: sampling a space of alternatives, aka the Sleeping Beauty approach. To me this is pretty close to a knockdown argument in favour of MWI.
Show HN: Notification bot for Product Hunt projects building in #24hrstartup
FWIW, the mainframe teardown videos on YouTube are fun to watch: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vuXrsCqfCU4
Hello there
I built this project in the #24hrstartup challenge.
I spent 10 hours on development and have a working product, I did not think that I am capable of such.=

So about the project:
When I launched my first project, I refresh the page every 3-4 minutes for seeing new upvotes, it was a little strained. Put if it's true

I created Trackly for solving this problem, now if you launch the project on PH and moved away from the computer you don't need to worry about how my project is there. Just subscribe on the project in Trackly and receive notifications about new updates.
The key question in many antitrust cases is: what is the “relevant market”? Their worldwide share of sales is probably not the touchstone in a US antitrust case. Certainly plaintiffs would argue this, and point to their larger market share domestically.
Seems like there's either a speed of light and things can happen before we see them, or light's transmitted instantaneously. Doesn't make sense to talk about light's speed if the thing producing the light doesn't "happen" until the light reaches the observer.
The terrorists in Syria were funded by US Governement, both by CIA and Armed forces.

They didnt need bitcoin to do it.
‘Enough Is Enough’: Science, Too, Has a Problem with Harassment
Microsoft allow commented-out code in their kernel?
Neverrrr! I will not succumb to the dark side. You can take away my V-Twin or supercharged V8 once I'm dead! I can't do it. I refuse to even own an automatic gearbox. I need my 3rd pedal, man

True, gasoline is an incredible pollutant. But, electricity has its environmental costs, too. Depending on our where your power comes from, e.g. coal, it could be very dirty indeed. As a whole, though, EVs are much greener.

As for racing, drag cars + EV = extremely fast. No doubt. The Telsa P100D in ludicrous mode can even beat a dodge demon. But, I'd say there'll be at least 15 years before a pure EV can match the consistent performance of, say, the Porsche 911 GT2 RS on the Nurburgring. Add another decade for any endurance style race e.g. Le Mans.

Right now, EVs struggle to come close to the top end speed of ICE supercars, despite their awesome torque figures.
I wrote pong by encoding the ball position as a continuous complex variable and used a star chart (I-Q) with minimal persistence as the output. The paddle inputs were just variable sliders bound to a limit threshold equation. Ball motion was implemented as a normal physical system of momentum and boundaries.

Simulink models are Turing complete. You can set a discrete clock simulation (very common with the DSP toolbox) and implement Flip-Flops/Boolean logic. They are also for lack of a better term, Shannon complete, that is they have all the analog components to satisfy general function computability. They also have flow control outside of those conditions and full memory storage. If you were infinitely bored and long lived, you could write Windows in Simulink flow logic and run the modeler to make a VM.

I agree with you here. Simulink absolutely isn't meant to be a general purpose programming language. It's an extremely domain specific programming language but one that in it's specific domain offers considerable advantages over textual programming. I don't want to advocate writing software in Simulink because it's a bad idea, and I only do it myself in very limited cases because I have a hobby of analog computing and Simulink is very good for that at a certain level of abstraction.

Mostly, I just take umbrage with the Article and the author's reasoning. Simulink is a counterpoint to some of his arguments but those counterpoints were made well elsewhere in the thread so I was just providing an example.

Sorry if I am starting to drone on or come across hostile.
You really want to look into the delayed choice eraser... it's mind blowing.
Yes! Thank you for asking :)

Starter Pack:
Positive Psychology
- Know your virtues - https://www.viacharacter.org/www/
- Know your strengths - https://www.gallupstrengthscenter.com/

Relationships
- https://www.amazon.com/Relationship-Skills-Workbook-Do-Yours...

I recommend starting with these before diving into analytical psychology (they're more actionable than theoretical)
The problem is generally not that we are producing plastic. The problem is that some people just throw it away when it's broken / old / what ever, essentially dumping it to the flowing water to get rid of it. This behaviour and attitude towards nature is something that I as a westerner just can't understand and I won't accept any blame-shifting games here.

Poverty is also a very bad excuse to dump plastic in nature. I have been poor as f*ck and the thought of dumping garbage around hasn't even once crossed my mind. Urgent action (like severe fines and even jail-time and such for dumping plastic, but also positive reinforcement) is something the developing countries need.
One of the things I like about Zig Ziglar is that he doesn't take himself seriously. He talks about exactly that: that this stuff is nonsense and only said to make a point. The point being that you have to figure out what works for you and what motivates you. And that you can't escape understanding your motivations if you want to be successful.
A story more interesting than the title might first suggest.

"On the far curving shore of the bay lies Skara Brae, hazy
through the sea-haar."
George Mackay Brown - Rockpools and Daffodils
Hackers is, in my opinion, something that was written by someone who was very knowledgable about the subject matter and directed by someone who very clearly was not. Every spoken line of dialogue in that movie is pretty accurate and realistic - it's only when you get to the direction and the visuals that things get wacky.
Obviously FOSS supports proprietary software, but I'm curious how you think proprietary supports FOSS. Seems like a pretty one-sided relationship to me.
> ticks me off that people lose their collective shit when things like Google Glass [record ubiquitously but] people are totally fine with the ubiquitous billions of eye-in-the-sky surveillance cameras

The overlap between the “people” who don’t like Google to record their lives and the “people” who don’t care if the police do it is quite small...

But in any case the police in a democracy are at least nominally accountable to the populace, and can be checked via elections and other mechanisms. The mission of police is ostensibly for public benefit and includes criminal investigation, which surveillance could arguably help with. Google is a multinational corporation accountable primarily to itself which wants the data to help with its advertising business.
In Germany and UK they are used for train and bus tickets.
“Close” to Manhattan? Close as in I can see it across the river is not the same as I need to commute daily. Jersey City to midtown is minimum 45 minutes rush hour. You still have to add the time for the “last” mile part of commute to your office.
This is without question an absolutely miserable practice, and I predict NYS will take quick action to curtail it - this is the sort of bad PR that very often moves the NYS government into actual positive action. This whole industry seems to have hidden in the shadows, and I hope NYS fixes it.

That being said - one thing stands out, as it often does with this sort of story. There's often a turning point that should make any one of us scratch our heads and learn for the future. This was it for me:

"The Duncans’ ordeal began in November 2017 with an unsolicited fax from a broker promising term loans of as much as $1 million at a cheap rate...The spam fax felt like a gift from God."

That's the moment right there that should scream RED FLAG RED FLAG RED FLAG to everyone. Spam never delivers a gift from the heavens. Never. Never. Never. This is the same sort of thing that 409 scammers bank on -- desperate folks that think they're just the luckiest darn people on earth for happening to get this great deal right at their feet. This is not how the world works.

It goes on...

"Without talking to a lawyer, they did. Why not? Doug thought. They intended to pay the money back on time."

Red Flag #2.

"This would continue for about three months, until they’d repaid $59,960, amounting to an annualized interest rate of more than 350 percent. A small price to pay, Doug figured—soon he’d have all the money he needed in cheaper, longer-term debt."

And again...

I'm not blaming the Duncans here entirely, but this situation was avoidable. I hope everyone here on HN reads this tale and learns from it for your own businesses / life experiences.
NO! now the automation has to be maintained and set up. The first choice strategy is to simplify the tools and application!

Always with software people there is this tendency to add more abstraction and machinery when encountering complex abstractions and machinery. You only exacerbate the problem by doing this!
Why and how are Bloomberg articles constantly getting to the top of Hacker News? Was there every any resolution to their murky article about their claim that Supermicro mainboards were apparently getting compromised on the production line?
Small PC.
The thing is... if you forbid unethical lending, then organized crime fills in the gap. And when you can't pay the mob, they don't take you to court, they take your knee caps.

Just like making drugs illegal doesn't make them go away, making unethical lending illegal doesn't make it go away either. To me, this is "harm reduction" of financial services. Yes, it's bad, but not as bad as leaving it on the black market.
Well, public messages are...public. So anyone can follow you and view your posts. Once the data is out there, it can't be taken back. Private messages are encrypted, and only the sender's metadata can be viewed.

If you know of other insecurities, I'd be interested in hearing them.
Might be because it's all written in somewhat hacky and not well-documented JS, making it harder to trust? There's an effort going right now to properly the (grown) protocol and provide reference implementations of the core components in Rust. Obviously, that doesn't make it secure per se, but it should make it much easier to reason about and audit.

Edit: apart from that, nanomonkey is right, if you post something publicly, it will be public. That's to be expected though. And assuming the use of libsodium is done correctly, there shouldn't be much of a problem with the primitives.

Now, the logic implemented on top of the protocol is a whole different story, sort of like most ethereum cautionary tales are not about ethereum being buggy, but people running buggy code on ethereum.
> "How to Win Friends and Influence People" is a must-read

I'm sorry - this advice, and most of your comment, is bad advice.

I struggled with social anxiety for 10 or 15 years before I "cured" myself, and advice like this is what buried me. Reading books and going to a therapist can supplement your efforts, but if that's your main approach you're going to waste years - and when you talk, you're going to sound like a robot attempting to be human.

Which, believe me, is much worse than your (OP) presumably current state of looking like an awkward mute.

HTWFAIP is like the "cold showers" of social anxiety advice. I'm confident most people who recommend this book (which is literally everyone) haven't actually read it. It's popular advice because it's popular advice, not because it's actually useful.

Dale Carnegie's books were meant for everyday corporate workers to advance their workplace and sales communication skills - not for socially awkward developers who lack base social cues. Not only that, it was in a time with completely different social nuances - unless you really want to be an idiot carrying around a notebook of everyone's birthdays and asking questions 80% of the time your mouth opens.

Social anxiety isn't cured by reading books on emotional intelligence and deep diving into the way you say things. Most self-professed "introverts", particularly developers, spent most of their lives playing video games and sitting indoors. They're not well-rounded people in the least.

When you start slowly morphing your life to be more well rounded - taking part in group activities, getting hobbies, physical activity, etc. the social stuff takes care of itself. Your goal shouldn't be to excel at small talk - your goal should be to get to the point where your life is so cool you don't give a crap how you interact socially.

Burying your head in books and overanalyzing your social interactions isn't going to solve your social anxiety. Go play soccer.
Been there, done that.

This is not something you can solve and/or fix with a book.

Find a good job coach, whom you trust (VERY IMPORTANT), to talk to and practice with and then practice, practice, practice in, well, practice.

Also don't expect to "magically" get a lot better at this stuff. It will take a while. And with "a while" I mean months, not days.

But you really should start with finding a good job coach who you can trust.

Good luck!
Only on HN can you find a thread discussing the merits of eugenics. These are not new ideas, in fact they were popular among 19th century intellectuals until those ideas culminated into some of the worst atrocities in recent human history in Nazi Germany.

There is no such thing as a "non morally horrendous solution," giving the power to decide who should procreate and who shouldn't to a single group or "algorithm" violates one of the most basic freedoms that we as humans have.
This Inventor May Have Cured Motion Sickness Without Drugs
There have been reports of Supernova's (SN 1006) @ a visual magnitude of -7.5 during the day which might be visible by human eyes, however this was a very long time ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN_1006
This is hilarious. Thanks for sharing! :)
Barbados 4–2 Grenada (1994 Caribbean Cup qualification)
> just assume that people mean nothing more or less than the literal words they said to you. Don't read more into it than they actually say.

One of the most brilliant professors I have met fiercely preached this belief, and I can see how it can help some interpersonal relationships. But he took it to an extreme. When somebody asked him whether he thought Trump was racist, he responded "well, has Trump said that he is a racist?". The idea is that whether a person lies or not is immaterial; you should take the persons words as the ultimate truth. He is the most well published professor in the entire university, and an internationally respected mathematician.

I tend to read everything "between the lines," and I think about my professor's words often, because I wonder whether this habit is affecting my relationships.
Shame, too. The 2019 Mustang GT with the PPL2 looks awesome. Oh well. There are other nice cars out there.
CheXNeXt: Deep learning for chest radiograph diagnosis
Reminds me of lose/lose

http://www.stfj.net/art/2009/loselose/
A gradle plugin to reject non-release versions of dependencies
Well, it is murky if you start generalising that way. The equivalent of Kubernetes in the Mainframe world would be Parallel Sysplex - where there is a cluster of Mainframe servers that co-ordinate with each other and take over upon failure or over load of other participants of the cluster.

A single system Z is vertically integrated and scaled. Now, I was talking about a single operating system that can handle a hotplug out/in of several of its CPUs without any kind of service degradation.

Sure, I can throw in a few x86 servers, and achieve the similar convenience using say load balancer, floating IP, shared storage, and whatever else is needed for a full switch over. You see where I'm getting at. Complexity that is on YOUR plate.

I'm not denying that Kubernetes gives a taste of such resilience for the common folks, just saying that the IBM system Z's engineered solution is on a different level that is just not what Kubernetes is aimed at.

As a side rant, Kubernetes is a magic layer for most of the users, that it is glorious until they hit the first serious problem that makes them scratch their head and look at their complex black box differently. With Mainframes, the banks just call IBM :-)
Are you saying there already is, or that there should be, a non-predatory market for short term business loans? Like OnDeck?
Every time a word disappears, we lose a little of our spirit and wit
The problem seems fixable, but as others have said, people will have to take some lumps.

A certain political figure with strong (both bad and good) ties to NYC has harped for a couple of years about a federal infrastructure bill. I think the phrase "third world" was used to describe the problem.

No reason why America's Greatest City (tm) could not wring a couple of bil out of the feds to start upgrading their subways. Move back to the first world, you might say.

In turn, because we're talking about a transaction, the MTA might also need to move out of a "third world" mentality. We can safely assume some of their payroll is spent on political favors. Maybe this "death spiral" talk will motivate the agency to make a least a token gesture towards good use of their riders dollars.

Maybe.
Yep, passed the test.
There is then checks made on contents send. A little warning on how the send data is handled would have been appreciated. Thank you.
Unfixed spoofing vulnerability in Google Inbox mobile apps
> It's incredibly easy to spot people who utilize concepts in that book and are not being genuine in their interaction. 'Masks' are a great way to prevent authentic connection.

Then they're not taking to heart the book's principles. An common theme behind a lot of his advice is based in being honest, sincere, and genuine. If they're not being any of those things then they're not doing it right.
On November 26th, a mole will land on Mars