skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Air bubbles in water can be modelled as having a negative mass.

Forgive the naive take on this, but it's a weird point to me... if air bubbles in water can be modelled as having negative mass, but clearly do not (they are made of particles with positive mass), then they are only "negative" in relation to the material surrounding them. So even if they can be modelled this way successfully, clearly the model doesn't imply for certain that they do have negative mass. So by analogy, just because a negative-mass model can explain the observations of dark matter, doesn't it still leave the question of whether anything "real" is implied by it? Perhaps it's just a reflection of a negative relative to some unknown bias (field), like the Higgs field, but in "absolute" terms is not actually negative.

(Not sure "absolute" has any meaning here..)
Or putting the key fob in a metal container.
Why is the title of the site "Brilliantly Wrong"? They post a variety of such methods. Is this an example of a sophisticated method that is incorrect somehow?
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Just found this gem recently and was wondering that there has to be more this kind of projects.

http://hannahmontana.sourceforge.net
I really like pipenv, but I understand these complaints, especially the time calculating the hashes for the locks. Why is it so much slower than npm!??! But pipenv sync, and pipenv --venv Have made my deployments much easier.
> Was she just the one they could get?

This seems likely. Any officer of the company might do in this circumstance. She might be the only one currently accessible in a country friendly to US extradition.
The potential problem I have here is abuse of power by government.

I’d be pretty upset if Congress subpoenaed user data from Facebook and then selectively published embarrassing info on their political enemies. Even if I hated those people.
It doesnt, that why they asked their friend to do it.

Some times the US later finds out that the arresting country’s courts found no authority or legality for their own country to arrest the person and wont continue with extradition. This happened in New Zealand.

So typically a bit more research is needed and they find a way to get it right in future cases.

Another thing the US does is send an FBI agent to merely observe the arrest, to ensure that it is later compatible with US courts as well. Its a lot of organizations to make happy but the US is essentially one of the only organizations with the resources and interest to bother.

It is an interesting outcome of the nation state concept.
I'm Jewish myself and I don't understand how Soros being the subject of neo-nazi memes renders his political activity immune to criticism in general. The Koch brothers are frequently vilified by angry neo-marxists, but that doesn't seem to discourage journalists from writing about how projects and funds are tied to the Kochs.
I'm confused what happens here. Sure, you are tricked into pressing Return in a file open dialog. But you can't open the “file” `C:\`… right? Does that somehow let the page access files on the disk?
> If the whole company is suspected of breaking the embargo, why is just the CFO arrested?

If the basis of extradition is fraud by a corporate officer (which seems to be one of the more likely offenses in a trade sanctions case actually covered by the extradition treaty, as sanctions violations themselves are not), then the question is how many corporate officers of Huawei are in Canada and exposed to extradition?
yep, https://www.degiro.eu/ has ~0,5$ fee on NYSE and NASDAQ
oO. I think that is very strange.
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Fascinating concept: watching your own brain have a stroke.

"Oh, there goes my control of my left arm. Oh, there goes my sense of smell. Oh, language is nextgsnghghqfnvjznv"

Also sounds terrifying
I think you're confusing rural areas and suburban areas.

It's the suburban wastelands that are saturated with families of daily-driven automobiles and commuters.

I live in a rural area, most of my neighbors only drive to a grocery store ~10 miles away once a week. The rest of the time is spent at home.

Then on the weekends a bunch of city folks blast through disrupting everything on their way to/from Las Vegas and/or to hike in the national park. It's absolutely nuts, the small town becomes a microcosm of LA via weekend tourism, every weekend.

The rural folks I know are mostly poor, they can't afford to be burning fossil fuels like it's going out of style. They live relatively frugal lives, they're not the problem.
How is it the string "corporat*" only shows up twice (in the same comment) in all these (as of writing) 103 comments.
2. They themselves had never made a mistake due to tiredness.

3. They didn't want to change their schedule. Either they liked having 4 days off every week, or they thought it wasn't a significant problem.

I think those two items and the tribal knowledge that handoffs are more dangerous to the patient helps the overwork model persist. Sounds like it's past time the medical industry prove that handoffs are more dangerous to patient outcomes. Doctors are trained to be problem owners and problem solvers, but that doesn't make them good team players. And lowering handoffs also limits oversight and prevents second guessing which is great if you're convinced you're always right, but clearly doctors are not always right and patients often pay the price.
If media outlets were reporting on Zuck's love life or just rehashing known stories with inflammatory headlines you'd have a point. But even the stories on FB's interpersonal drama has been of significance. Take for instance the stories on the departures of the heads of What's App . That easily could have been played for cheap entertainment value but instead serious journalism was done to show the public that these people who agreed to billion dollar exits selling to Facebook left money on the table because the company was no longer an organization they wanted to be apart of.

I don't disagree with you that the drama at FB plays, but that doesn't make it any less valid journalism. There is more media today than there has ever been. It's not all up to the same standard. But the reason FB can't manage to get out of the spotlight is their own fault. Maybe they close ranks and right the ship eventually but there is something going on at the highest levels of that company that is off and the media is going to keep investigating until they get to the bottom of it because that's the whole point of the profession. Yes it absolutely plays, but there is also a whole lot of substance to it.
>I never said we didn't. Why would anyone collect data without knowing the problem that it will be used for?

It bears emphasis because trying to measure stuff without new theories has been a besetting problem in fields such as psychology and medical research and I think a major reason why many studies can't be reproduced.

>I think you'd be hard pressed to argue that the Kolmogorov complexity of an otter's brain is greater than that of a human's.

Yes. But my point is that we wouldn't need to understand much about how human hardware works if we could only understand how an otter brain works. Beyond that the complexity is due to human culture/memes, which we study in their own right anyhow (in fields such as history, politics, literature).
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The sun was dimmer in the past, so similar co2 levels as then mean more warning.

https://www.skepticalscience.com/co2-higher-in-past.htm
The authority of this treaty:

https://www.oas.org/juridico/mla/en/traites/en_traites-ext-c...
> Most people expect both being logged out and going "incognito" to provide some anonymity. Unfortunately, this is a common misconception as websites use IP addresses and browser fingerprinting to identify people that are logged out or in private browsing mode.

Firefox offers integrated protection against browser fingerprinting, but you have to turn it on because it's off by default: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-protection-agai...

Fingerprinting protection is also available on Safari on Mac OS X Mojave and iOS 12: https://www.cnet.com/news/new-safari-privacy-features-on-mac...
These things are a lot more complicated than that, with a million permutations across all the zip codes of the world. You're better off focusing on tools to help people find what suits them, rather than a ten line list "best solar panel, best car, best rideshare..."

For solar, try: https://www.energysage.com/
“Now, people now have burner phones to talk shit about the company — not even to reporters, just to other employees,”

I find it unsettling that FB employees feel they need to use burner phones to criticize the company.
This wouldn't be realistic even if non-competes were perfectly enforceable at low cost. An enforceable non-compete does not raise an employee's value to the employer, and anyways they would not be able to afford exorbitant salaries. Non-competes really do cost employees (who mostly act as though they are enforceable), and they seem to put up with it, and since they put up with this then in a sense it is already the case that the cost of non-competes is priced into labor costs. Now, yes, the fact that employees are accepting such low compensation for non-competes is a cultural mistake, but it can't be fixed easily, and your suggestion that they negotiate better isn't going to fix it.
Honestly don't see the problem with that line. I can't imagine how many times a woman has referred to her husband as another one of the kids to take care of.

Its not shitty, its insanely normal (and its a joke) and youre just being dramatic.
WPF predates generics in.NET or at least ost of the WPF APIs were stable and finished before generics were there and retrofitting generics wasn't done for some reason or another.
> If gas reserves are exploited along with coal reserves, your conjecture holds. If gas reserves are exploited in lieu of coal reserves, it does not.

If we exploit all the fossil fuel resources, in currently operating mines and wells, we will blow through the 2 C 'safe' warming budget.

Unless for every new fracking well, we shut down a coal mine, the conjecture absolutely holds.
Are they becoming a full on coop ? I didn't think so and I am sure I would have heard of it.
Non mobile link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Sage's_theory_of_gravitatio...
This comment is getting a lot of downvotes for a fairly straightforward question, so I just want to remind everyone about one of the HN guidelines:

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
A lot of people seem to think that "free enterprise" means that companies can do whatever they want and that that's somehow always good for employees. Same for "Right to Work".
Why is it a rat race? I've been using pyenv+virtualenv to isolate project environments for years now and it works just fine.
SQLite has billions of global installs and is tested and certified under incredibly stringent conditions for use in applications like aircraft avionics. Unless there is serious evidence to the contrary, it's pretty much guaranteed that it's not the cause of the issue.

How many drivers have you actually tested? There are 2 comments from 2016 on that thread saying other drivers do work fine.
That really hasn't been true for a long time
Interestingly enough SSDs have already outpaced the density of HDDs in the 2.5" form factor, presumably due to exactly the effect you describe. You literally can't buy a 2.5" hard drive bigger than 2 TB last time I checked. All of the thin-and-light stuff like ultrabooks is SSD only too, HDDs can't even match the dimensions you can do with NVMe (maybe something like Microdrive could) let alone capacity.

Cost is still up there but only about 2.5x as expensive as 2.5" HDDs... a 2 TB HDD is about $80 while a 1 TB SSD is ~$100-120. And there are (kinda shitty) 2 TB SSDs that are hitting $250 these days (eg Micron 1100).
Prior to WW II, income tax was only paid by about 15% of people. It was initially sold as a tax on the wealthy. In WW II, it was expanded to include everyone, even though it really only makes sense to tax about 15% of the people.
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> also to see if they could affect your mood (definitely not ok).

Why is it ok for a bakery to spray the smell of fresh baked goods to affect your mood, but not ok for Facebook to attempt the same?
Sorry, yea I was talking only about vested stock. Obviously you can’t sell something you don’t own yet.
I would not look forward to being an American businessman abroad in China right now. I think we're all used to the fiction that we live in a world that's totally governed by fairness and laws. That's been a pretty useful fiction for a long time, and in (some) of the developed world that's basically been how it's worked.

But I really wonder how many shocks this system can take. I would bet money that an important US executive for some company is arrested in the two years while visiting China.

EDIT:

There's another comment here asking how it's possibly legal for the US to do this. Whether you believe it or not, it's useful to know that the philosophy much of our state department believes in is called Realpolitik (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realpolitik). It doesn't really matter what the law says or what treaties we've signed, the primary thing that matters for the US is what's pragmatic for it at the moment.
Are you able to sponsor a work visa?
Re "Don’t mistake productivity for engagement": The story is quite similar to my recent departure from a robotics startup. Even though the company had the suggested survey system in place, management made me feel like an engineering resource to be allocated rather than a person with career ambitions. The survey was one of several facades the CEO had in place.
Not sure what you mean. They have come up with something - violating sanctions against Iran.
>so as not to make women literally uncomfortable around you, how outrageous that you should have to do this.

One could make a similar argument for not calling out racism to avoid making people uncomfortable.
>This is called Laplace's Demon.

Pretty close!

Laplace's Demon also talks about seeing the past - which my hypothetical does not. Nor am I concerned with calculating the entire universe, only the portions that would effect human cognition - just that which will be observable. Much of the universe is beyond our light cone, and unless we are in the center of the universe, almost certainly the vast majority is, and none of that needs to be calculated. Severely restricts the requirements vs. Laplace's demon.

>It has been disproven by chaos theory.

Not quite! Chaos theory relies on imperfect information. It does nothing to disprove Laplace's Demon, which involves perfect information. For chaos theory to be applicable, there has to be minor variations between the initial conditions. Chaos theory is not a theory that we cannot predict things because they are unpredictable, it is a theory that says that minor variations at the onset can result in huge differences in the eventual outcome. These problems only exist if you do not have perfect information.

Thermodynamic irreversibility disproves Laplace's Demon's seeing into the past portion. The Copenhagan interpretation of quantum mechanics also puts a nail in the Demon.

Things get interesting if we are ever able to create a 300 qubit quantum computer - at this point, you can perform more calculations in an instant than there are atoms in the known universe. Is that granular enough to accurately determine human behavior?

The whole computer thing is more an aside than anything, though - just providing a hypothetical in which case free will not existing would actually have practical application on how humans live. Without it, I can't think of any reason why we should behave in any other way than we do, regardless of the underlying truth.
in which you discover that international law, in the end, has no natural source of authority in the same way domestic law does.
You were talking about OCEAN being not empirical based, that simply was false, because OCEAN was replicated everywhere, including the one study you cited. The study you found and cited was dealing with clinical diagnosis of psychosis, which was not OCEAN for and about. Nobody knew anything in the field would use OCEAN for diagnosis, because there are many other tools for that purpose. You simply don’t know the field enough to speak intelligently. Do not spread false beliefs about a subject you know little about.
Python please.
I might have been misunderstood. I intended to praise FAIR. Just mentioned Pytorch as their distinctive achievement.
Why are they very different? They port the language over to another platform and need to interop with it.

For example scala.js can call js libraries through facades (similar to typescript typing files) but can also be called from javascript.

Scala.native can call c libraries (I have no idea about the other way around).
>Google can and should customize search results based on location

Should there not be an opt-out option though?
Hi there, just want to remind you of the HN guidelines:

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I'm sure you forgot. We all make mistakes.
When we do it: A/B Testing

When FB does it: Psychological Experiments
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> Much (if not most?) of Earth's history has been without any ice caps, so it's not like this state will lead to a Venus-like Earth.

But much of Earth's history has been without land plants too. They appeared only after 90% of Earth history already passed: only 450 million years ago. Earth exists for 4.5 billion years.

(Also to compare, we started burning gasoline after 99.999997% of the Earth history already passed, and managed to burn during that small time period the half of all easily reachable oil in the Earth crust! For which the Earth needed... effectively all 4.5 billion years to manage to accumulate there. The size of what we did is mind-boggling on so many levels. Ah, yes, also during much of the Earth history there was effectively no oxygen in the atmosphere: it appeared in "breathable" quantities only after 77% of the current Earth's age already passed, if the Earth would be a 90-year-old lady: the oxygen exists only since she was 70, plants since she's 81, and we burned the half of easily reachable oil in only the last 1 minute 34 seconds)
Reading the paper, the author addresses this:

"Firstly, the theory of positive–negative mass particle pairs
provides clear rules that govern such interactions. The mechanics
of these interactions are governed by the usual physical laws:
the conservation of energy and momentum remain fundamental,
and hence it is unclear why we should object to this potentially
physical law of nature on grounds of aversion alone. Secondly,
and more importantly, observations provide evidence for
significant numbers of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays which are
known to be extragalactic in origin, although the mechanism of
their production remains a mystery (Pierre Auger Collaboration
2017). From this perspective, runaway motion is not a challenge
for negative mass models, but is rather a useful observational
constraint.
The idea that all negative masses in a universe should form
gravitational dipoles and accelerate to high energies is not
supported by the simulations presented here (which have a limited
number of particles), in which no runaway particles can be
identified. While runaway motion is a legitimate physical facet of
negative mass particle interactions, the simulations indicate that
this behaviour is only common for idealised particle pairs and
occurs more rarely as a bulk behaviour within a negative mass
fluid. This is likely as the particles in such a fluid are subject to
numerous counteracting forces from the surrounding medium.
One can assume that some amount of runaway particles must
still exist, although these would likely be highly scattered by
Brownian motion (e.g. Landis 1991)."
Banning them is a simple act. Improving them invites writing legalese terms into law that probably won't help the situation. Big players have the political power to make such things happen, while everyone else only has the political power to get the practice banned.
But Iran is a sovereign nation, bravely resisting US/Israeli attempts to turn the entire Middle East into a flaming hell pit. Surely Canada should have told them to go and take a flying leap?
Telcos are tech - the one I worked for reminded me of the Laundry
How sure can I be if my company is not breaking any Chinese laws? Would it by fine if I get arrested for breaking those when I'm on a trip to Asia?

I'm not saying that Huawei is innocent, I just agree with the downvoted comment that the situation seems ridiculous.
This is the title of the bug:

Security: Read all local files using minimal user interaction and gesture laundering

The title here on HN should include some combination of "bug", "security", "fixed", and "gesture laundering". The way it's written now sounds like Chrome's designers are _trying_ to trick users into giving file access permissions. That's not the case.
So what personal information is Google using in private mode? Just location? Browser fingerprint? IP?
That's what Jim Sterling keeps telling the game industry: regulate yourself (e.g. loot boxes), or you will get regulated sooner or later.
>> XML is superior to JSON for text documents. Far superior.

> Why do you think so? Is it because most structured texts are Trees?

XML allows for mixed contents. If I am reading this proposal right to change

<span>Some <b>formatted</b> content.</span>

into

<span>Some <b>forma<i>t<i/>ted</b> content.</span>

you would essentially produce the equivalent of
<span>Some <b>forma<b/><b><i>t<i/><b>ted</b> content.
</span>

as the "text" field cannot contain childrens.
As long as the overlap with regular users is small there's no reason for why that would cascade [0].

That kind of content is usually banned/censored on most mainstream services, just letting it be will get you a non-insignificant number. I've seen people claim 3% for twitter, no clue if true or not, but few would say that about Twitter here. Too many people in tech are in the core user-base to fall for this.

[0] unless shut down this will be a loooong slow death no matter what happens. I still have a semi popular account on one of the dead sites of the era. Everybody knows it's dead but these communities are a bit like families, hard to completely ghost them.
Well, sure, Facebook are a bunch of tech bros without any real interest in ethics. But I think the point is, they played that way right from the start - and most of those things are just what everybody does. It's not a story when an tech company tracks you when you're not even using their product. It's just ordinary operating procedure. Everything that's been aired about facebook is a bit like that - in real terms, obviously awful, but in the world we live in? It's hardly chopping up a journalist and putting him in a suitcase. It's milquetoast, everybody-in-SV-is-doing-it stuff.

So color me revisionist, but I smell a rat when it makes the headlines.
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IRC it is. Can Google not see the image that they project anymore?
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I am looking for some suggestions for small businesses analytics. Any services that would help a small business owner gain insight into the data they have. An important piece of a potential service I'm looking for is that the tool would help the business owner use and combine data from different spreadsheets (and possibly other data sources that small businesses generate).

Thanks!