skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my understanding, they're claiming that the linear resistance-temperature curve with a slope of h-bar is evidence that the electrons are in something akin to a maximally entangled state.

Via the AdS-CFT correspondence, such a maximally entangled state is mapped to a black hole in AdS space in +1 dimensions.

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With regards to cherrypicking, I don't think they're suggesting all HTSC demonstrate this behavior, but rather that the same principle is responsible for this phenomena in all materials in which it occurs.

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I have certainly missed some details as I've never actually learned quantum field theory, so I'd appreciate someone more qualified correcting me.
Thanks for your assessment.

> I've never seen a fire that moved this quickly.

I've been hearing a lot of this of late.
Major omission: Does the business model make sense to you?

More specifically: Is there a demand for the product? Are there competitors? If not, why not -- are you sure the product is actually something that somebody wants? If there are competitors -- how will your startup compete with them? Do you trust the people running the company to guide it to success, either directly, or because they have plans to hire people who can? Is the technology feasible, or are the founders embarking on an R&D project?

There are no guarantees of course, and you can learn a lot and have fun at a startup that fails, but do your best to join with your eyes wide open.
It’s interesting to see this accusation about Zuck trying to cover up his “failing” to recognize the transition to smartphones.

I was working at perhaps the biggest iOS shop in the country at this time in Seattle. And I was regularly invited and attended the developer poker / presentation night events at FB’s Seattle office.

At the time facebook had an open position for a mobile czar that continued to go unfilled for a long time. I know because I applied and watched it.

This was when Facebook was refusing to build a native app—insisting the mobile web was a good enough experience.

I was boots on the ground as so many big companies were embracing iOS, so there was no doubt Facebook was willfully ignoring mobile.

Whether that failure required a coverup is a big leap though, so it would be very interesting if these documents included discussions suggesting this was the case.
This made my day. Great work. Keep it up!

A small suggestion: include the lyrics either in the video itself or as subtitles. (I know they are in the description, but this way it would be easier to follow them).
If you have preferred shares, you often have a "2X liquidation preference"[1] or other multiple. This means that you are guaranteed to get at least two times your initial investment in a liquidation event, even if the value of your shares at the time is less than that amount.

This can (and often does) eat into the common stockholders' (e.g. employees) liquidation amounts.

1. https://www.businessinsider.com/how-liquidation-preferences-...
I think your overall point is fair -- you own less, but of a more valuable asset now, so you should come out ahead. However, in my experience the ones that say dilution doesn't matter are often the ones that are likely to be "made whole" at dilution events or have anti-dilution protections. If you're not experiencing dilution the same way that rank-and-file employees are, I think it's a bit disingenuous to tell them that it doesn't matter.

As for its overall importance, most companies simply aren't going to be homeruns. I was at one company that passed on an acquisition offer of $X and opted to take an additional round of funding. A year later, the company sold for the same $X that it passed on. For sure, it was hoping to go much bigger than it ultimately did. But in addition to having to wait for all liquidation preferences to be settled, the employees all got to experience additional dilution for no additional gain.

It's great to shoot for the stars and everyone joining a startup hope that's the outcome. But I don't think it's out of place to also think about the median case. An early stage employee takes a lot of risk with few protections.
FP is a style of programming and not a language. You can write imperative code in Haskell.
Automated deploys aren't a magic bullet and can still break production, even at a big megacorp with tons of infra and tests to keep prod safe.
Any idea of the average (for the personal part of it) ? For a EU to US move ? With like 5 years of experience ?
I suspect that at this point, they're so dominant among graphics professionals that most broke freelancers are going to feel that they have little choice but to suck it up and pay for the subscription. I'm not convinced the subscription was a direct response to closing a widely used activation loophole but I'm sure piracy more broadly played into Adobe's thinking. Given that they maintained almost uniquely high pricing among software widely used by consumers/prosumers/freelancers/etc., there were always extremely high incentives to bypass Adobe protections.

At the same time, as you suggest, those large numbers of non-corporate users almost certainly helped Adobe emerge as the de facto standard that it became.
Will do and thanks for the thoughtful reply.
Copying my reply to a different post:

From my understanding, they're claiming that the linear resistance-temperature curve with a slope of h-bar is evidence that the electrons are in something akin to a maximally entangled state.

Via the AdS-CFT correspondence, such a maximally entangled state is mapped to a black hole in AdS space in +1 dimensions.
From my classes some years ago IIRC the main benefit of the Stellarator was the lack of a plasma current which is no longer needed for plasma heating due to advances in neutral beam injection technologies.

The plasma current seems to create some instabilities so we may be able to achieve better confinement with a device that doesn't have one.

I would also agree with the other comments that we can't afford to put all our eggs into one basket - we spend a pitifully small amount on fusion research.
Yes, Cytoscape.js can be used to visualize hierarchical data; the DAGRE layout comes handy for DAGs and trees:
http://js.cytoscape.org/demos/dagre-layout/
> I have no idea why dilution attracts so much verbiage that's out of proportion to its mathematical importance.

Emotions.

It's the same reason why many SMB owners get caught up in the 50/50 vs 49/51 split (when there are other, better ways of resolving the voting right aspect) or squabbling over a couple of percent in an investment deal.

Logically, the differences are trivial, are likely to be diluted out anyways, and ultimately matter little compared to other factors.

Emotionally, it feels huge. It "feels" like you're giving something up. On a pizza, "50%" is better than "10%" because it's clearly more of the pizza. Same with many tangible things in life.
ReasonML is going to bring Ocaml to the masses. Massively popular React apps can be created from ReasonML. Ocaml + syntactic sugar = ReasonML.
Hmmmm... the $1,129.99 for the "Lite" motherboard seems like a better value, especially because the "Lite" motherboard supports 22-core (88-thread) CPUs... or more importantly... the 18-core (72-thread) CPU, which seems like a good value.

However, at $799 + 4-cores or 8-cores, the main purpose of this board is for "toy" uses. There's no way that the 4-core IBM is going to be anywhere as fast as a 16c/32t Threadripper 1950x (going for ~$450 these days btw), but it would be the cheapest machine to build for the Power9 system.

So that alone is important. The "Basic" box would be for developer machines, while the "production" machine would be 22-core, or maybe 12-core SMT8 (the "thicker" IBM design where 8-SMT is possible).

Consider this: what if you were developing for Summit? Do you want to rent supercomputer time when you're writing your code? Or do you test it out on a cheaper 4-core, $799 motherboard machine? https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/summit/
Err no, money is not "the only thing" keeping us from having fusion power. I can think of one other thing which is that it's damn hard to create stellar-core conditions inside of a small containment vessel on Earth. It's not obvious that throwing more money at the problem is going to change this. After all, fusion research has been funded in some form or another since the 1950s. I'll bet if you added up all the research dollars that have been expended on fusion, it would come to quite a tidy sum indeed. Despite this, we still have little to show for it.
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Current events show that it actually is fading away ...

And considering the shift in tone of comments about crypto on HN some of the "shitty economic theories" were successfully exposed ...

But hey, keep claiming things about cryptocurrencies, it's fun to watch!
You are already one xss attack away from having your session stolen or having your credentials stolen or any number of other bad things. Passwords on the client are fine.
VR is already here and better than you might expect
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The error handling story in Go had started to bother me more and more over the years. Not that it was that bad, it just felt cumbersome.

And then I started learning Rust for embedded development. I basically love the entire language, and there are very, very few design decisions I disagree with.

The error handling story is much better there, and if they're making breaking changes in Go 2.0, I'd suggest they look there for a better path forward.

> Panic-Driven Error Handling

I'd insert a gif of Vader at this point, from the end of Episode 3.

I strongly disagree with this, using 'panic' should be a last resort in most situations, when the program has no reasonable way to recover from an error condition. File not found, user error, etc. are all common occurrences which should be handled by the normal mechanisms. And this goes double for library code.
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The place I work blocks all Internet access.

If you want to visit a webpage, you need to use the http (clear) proxy. Most web pages are blocked, and if you need one unblocked you open a ticket and wait a week (or escalate).
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Don't forget that the sales narrative can also be _true_. In other words, giving context, perspective, and a vision is a necessary part of understanding the solution you're providing. How many companies have been bought and sold to others' dismay? ("How can surveys be worth $8 billion?!?") Context.
> The POWER9 OpenPOWER chips are all 4 threads per core (SMT4)

Some are SMT8. The ones that are supported by this motherboard are "only" SMT4 however.

I think its "OpenPOWER" chips are at least 4-threads per core.
That's kind of a weird point to make since the NSA spies on Americans and Europeans too.
It is usually more than one program.

* https://superuser.com/a/329479/38062
In the UK, Parliament is sovereign. FB had repeatedly refused to appear before a parliamentary committee to give evidence in the Cambridge Analytica case.

Now, I'm not totally certain of the precise legal position, but because of its sovereignty, Parliament can act in a quasi-judicial way, so in effect, FB's actions can be seen as roughly equivalent to refusing a subpoena.

FB's refusal authorised Parliament to seize the evidence they needed while the exec was on UK soil. FB have only themselves to blame.
I always thought it was some kind of hydraulic fluid but I prefer your explanation. ;)
If you control the IP address (or close enough), or DNS (or close enough) you simply ask letsencrypt to give you a new certificate.
+1 regarding your additions to my list! With respect to compiling an SML-like language to Go (I've thought about this a lot), it would probably get you a long way, but the performance would suffer because FP langs allocate like crazy and Go's GC is not optimized for lots of fine-grained allocations. And there would still be a long tail of things that didn't work quite right: stack traces would need to be modified to map to lines in your source program (instead of the emitted Go code), documentation generation and linking would need to be patched, dependency fetching would need to understand and distinguish between packages in $MYLANG and Go packages (so it invokes the $MYLANG->Go compiler appropriately), and so on. That said, it would certainly be a great proof of concept!
HTTPS is not required to mitigate this.

Spoofing the sender IP is only useful to conduct DNS reflection attacks, where a small question is sent, and a much larger response is sent back to the (possibly spoofed source IP).

If you require the question to be at least as large as the response, amplification is not a concern any more, so UDP is perfectly fine. This is what the DNSCrypt protocol is doing.
With fusion devices having trouble to confine the plasma for long times, I wonder if a massively-parallel fusion plant woud be feasible.

Let's assume that plasma destabilisation does not damage the device, and is a mundane event.

Build 10 or even 20 fusion devices (economy of scale!) feeding the common heat buffer, e.g. a large reservoir of a molten salt or metal. Feed conventional turbines off the heat of the heat tank. The tank evens out the input power jumps.

Now we can restart the fusion in every fusion device every so often, provided that restarting it is made a mundane operation, too. It, of course, takes a lot of electricity to pump into the magnets. Conveniently, we have a mighty power plant right here. Dumping the magnetic/electric energy from the magnets requires a huge sink. Luckily, we already have such a sink co-located.

Building the plant takes a massive investment. Luckily, the architecture allows to build it piecemeal, feeding the next added unit with the power of the already built units.

BTW the waste heat could be directly reused in some kind of chemical processing, like smelting, or maybe even synthesis of carbohydrate fuels from ambient carbon dioxide and water.
You conveniently left out the second clause of the sentence: it’s not good; it’s neutral.

There are three moral valences: good, neutral & evil. ‘Money laundering’ is neither good nor evil, but simply neutral. The things it attempts to hide may be evil, but it itself has no moral value.

That is my whole point: criminalising it makes a crime out of something which is neither good nor evil.
30 hour weeks? Don't most people work 40 hour weeks? My first job I worked 60 hour weeks for basically 2 years straight (average, we'd work a ton of hours for a month, then work normal for a week or two, then back up to a ton of hours) and I should have started looking sooner. Instead I waited until I was burnt out and got fired. Only took me two weeks to find a newer, better job where I didn't work more than 40 per week and with a significant pay increase.
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These 30,000 acres are are not continuous. You don't have one farmer that owns 30,000 acres in one big block. There are a bunch of other farms owned by different people within an area, there might be some small towns in there, etc. Really big farms are more like distributed operations over large areas, with crews of guys, contract harvesting, etc.
All that machine learning and they still send me reviews for products I haven’t received.
The price of $40 has nothing to do with copyright.
So you know some people who know something about the VA.

That's what I thought.
This is chilling:

“Right-wing extremists have capitalized on the election of the first African-American president, and are focusing their efforts to recruit new members, ... singling out “disgruntled military veterans” ... in order to exploit their skills and knowledge derived from military training and combat.”

... Faced with mounting criticism, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano disavowed the document and apologized to veterans. The agency’s unit investigating right-wing extremism was largely dismantled and the report’s lead investigator was pushed out. “They stopped doing intel on that, and that was that,” Heidi Beirich, who leads the Southern Poverty Law Center’s tracking of extremist groups
The Facebook ecosystem is a no-go for a lot of people.

Reason seems interesting and I'm glad they shed some of the OCaml syntactic baggage to make it more programmer ergonomic, but it's very unlikely that it'll ever take off. Typescript already has the statically-typed JS market share, and that won't change.

Once Web assembly becomes a mainstream, viable thing, I think we'll see a couple new languages come out that don't have the baggage of legacy like OCaml or Javascript, and could possibly flourish.
The title (currently "1st anthropologist to visit says Sentinelese aren't hostile") isn't going to sound right to anyone who is familiar with the most recent news. What he's saying, however, is that they're not friendly, but in the contact attempts he was involved with the Sentinelese repeatedly warned the contact teams away, but never resorted to violence.
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What is the "lesser evil" though? It highly depends on how you perceive things and issues.
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If you've ever had your credit card number stolen and used by a criminal for fraudulent purchases which you later disputed, you've used chargebacks.
I do not think that the PLA will treat you as well as the NSA. If you are compromised by the PLA in America, you are a threat to national security. If you are compromised by NSA in America, you're likely of little interest.

I, for one, would rather be a CIA, NSA, or CSIS puppet than a PLA one; because at least in the U.S. and Canada I and my countrymen have some concept of human rights.
I think we should have a four day work week, with one day of free training as the fifth day. Still keeping Saturday and Sunday. With automation it's the only fair thing to do.
You’re entirely (technically) correct. The issue is that side-effect often comes into play because employees like to calculate potential future outcomes, and that’s done based only on overall company value (since that’s one of the only data points that’s available from past acquisitions).

I’m sure you get this and I know the psychology of what an employee might hope for shouldn’t be relevant, but unfortunately it is.

(For those who don’t fully get this - what I mean is that folks often look at a potential outcome and say “other companies like this have been acquired for $1-2B vs $100B, so if I’m being given 1% at $10M my stake could be worth $10M!” When in reality after dilution, that stake might only be worth $2M, which is a very different outcome after 5-10 years of hard work at below market salaries.)
Or the labview runtime is absymal and broken and you simply haven't tripped over any of its thousands of broken cases in the minimal use of it you've done.
I think this is where custom error types become useful. They can provide you more context about what went wrong so that you can handle that issue properly
All that machine learning and they still think I would like to re-buy every product I've ever purchased.
> I didn't believe my cousin. I think it's a load of hogwash.

What's in a bin at one moment in time is not necessarily the same crop at another moment in time. While physically labelling bins, rather than keeping record in the office, is not a practice that I see as being very common, conceivably a bin could have been labelled for organic crop at some point in the past and repurposed for non-organic crop (or vice versa) during the harvest your cousin witnessed without putting effort into removing the previous label.

So, the story could be completely true, but doesn't really tell much even if it is.
Your valid program is still a system that operates your hardware directly. So, still an OS?
See also this recent blog post + paper by OpenAI, they designed curiosity in an agent by having it test how well it can predict the output of a randomly initialized neural network from the game's current frame + input. The better the prediction, the more its mental model of the world is correct, and the less it gets rewarded (encouraging it to go and find unexplored situations). https://blog.openai.com/reinforcement-learning-with-predicti...
Is F# still being used/developed, or has MS started to leave it out to dry?
About a factor of 10x increase in packets per second:

https://twitter.com/PowerDNS_Bert/status/1064290946731384832
>I don’t think many people read that much.

Anyone on Hacker News read much more than 250-300 pages a day. Just casually browsing on Hacker News would give a few dozens (multiple pages, looking at comments, going to the actual page). Any software engineer will look at reference on the web. I regularly reach 1000 pages a day myself at works (verified using a Chrome extension) and it doesn't take into account my usage over my phone.

> On eg YouTube if you say 1 ad per 10 minutes it would take 9 hours of video watching per day to rack up 54 ads.

Video ads pay much more, as I said, they can go up to 10$ for 1000 views and that's not included the ad provider part.
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Right, this is why its totally unworkable as a solution to the problem of transnational corporations wielding too much power, and a totally crypto-ized global economy would probably just make that worse. It solves other problems fairly well (paying ransoms to anonymous cybercriminals, as an example), but also doesn't even try to solve the problem that ordinary people can't afford (or figure out how) to have small commercial disputes adjudicated by actual courts anymore, which is (IMO) the one of the reasons these corporations hold so much power.

In the neoliberal world order, government exists to ease the flow of international capital ("These regulations make it hard for us to scale our sales beyond the {US,China,Germany}. Please Mr. President, we need common-sense solutions!"). It has jettisoned its role of solving real problems for ordinary people ("Lord Fontleroy, Biff's dog killed two of my pigs.") as it once did.
> When will these players realize that they've got more "state-iness" than most actual states, and how will they use it?

In the brave new decentralized "free market" crypto world you are even more fucked if you have a problem. Who do you appeal to? Who decides if your edge case is worthy of rolling back the all mighty blockchain. The DAO folk got the "hack" stuff rolled back so the "thief" no longer had their money. But what about you and your Atari that never arrived? You think the top of the crypto pyramid is gonna roll back the blockchain for you? It can literally become mob rule!

And sure, you can say "build a better smart contract", but I would say that is impossible because then you have to encode every edge case you can imagine and all the ones you can't imagine. And worse, you still need that smart contract to interface with things outside the "trusted" sandbox the smart contract lives in (i.e. meatspace)--which means you need to trust not only whatever is providing that interface but everything beyond it.

Governments exist for a reason. One of those reasons is to be where the buck stops. A society that scales to billions of people needs somebody to say "this is right / this is wrong". It needs a final authority on conflict resolution.

Smart contracts are seriously one of the stupidest things to come out of the crypto space. It really highlights how some engineers think "I am good with computer stuff, so therefore I am also good at economics, government, politics, finance, monetary policy, contract law, etc". The whole idea is really arrogant.
Gives a whole new meaning to the term "wiretap".
I openly wonder and worry if China will ever reach a point where it has the influence to extend its social credit system beyond its borders? Imagine you can't do business with China unless you agree to be spied on and data collected? Perhaps if you've ever criticized China you suffer further consequences?
The Register predates the dot-com boom and the consequent near-total capture of the computer industry by stuffy financial types. Its name is a pun.