skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely. There are some known anomalies in particle physics (e.g. neutrino oscillations) but for the most part it is insanely robust.

What's really hard is moving from these first principles to modelling real world phenomena; there are huge problems like protein folding, low temperature superconductors and even just predicting properties of new materials and chemicals.

It's still important for some people to work on fundamental physics, but I suspect there is a lot more opportunity in mere phenomenology.
Yup we tried that ;)
Unfortunately, during the competition we were having some issues getting the Internet Archive to work–apparently there was some sort of bug when showing the list dates that the page had been cached, so the way to grab it was to guess a date and pick a day from there (which has since been fixed). Of course, we found this out a couple of days after getting the solution with a combination of brute force and the application of clever constraints.
The Walter White of Wichita (2016)
> My lived experience is that once you do mix-and-match enough markings to be seen as female, folks will eagerly accept that and ignore whatever “contradictory” signs might be there. Looking at height, for example, it’s not any weirder to see a 95th percentile woman than a 5th percentile man. If you already check the “F” box, no one will look twice.

Have you considered that other people are just being polite? I know about a dozen trans women, and none of them pass. I've never been surprised to discover someone is trans. The main issue seems to be that medical technology can't yet reliably correct all the giveaways: Large hands, narrow hips, wide shoulders, low voice, strong brow, high hairline, gait, etcetera. And those are just the physical attributes. There are also differences in cultural knowledge, mannerisms, and body language.

Why would I make an issue of someone not passing, especially a stranger? That'd be like pointing out someone's toupee. It'd make them feel worse about themselves while presenting no useful solution to the problem. (Unlike say, "You've got something in your teeth.")
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18689683
> once your child is born, you're programmed to care for it

Someone should let my parents know that.
If everyone is borrowing then who owing? The trick is to borrow against the future generations. Assume that it was legally allowed to borrow $1000 against the income that would be generated by your kids 10 years later. You can use this to accumulate infinite amount of debt by extending to grad-kids and so on. This is more or less what is happening.

Government made promises to pay pensions/medical benefits to large quantity of people but doesn't have that kind of money from tax income. So they borrow from the future generation by printing more money promising to pay itself back. The net result is inflation like phenomenon which rises cost of services but not the income for the new folks who enter the job market. So this debt indicates amount of hardship future generations will encounter, at least at the start of their careers.
If the people dont demand the resources, they wont be developed.
Even if energy production were competitive (the various Bay area counties have switched to sourcing power themselves), PG&E still owns the power lines and you can't have much of a competitive market for that. I pay my bill to peninsula clean energy every month but there's still a fixed chunk that goes to PG&E for the distribution lines.
Headspace vs. Calm: A Meditation-App Battle That’s Anything but Zen
this is an awesome look into the economics of curing diseases that cannot benefit from economies of scale. Its unfortunate the rare diseases end up having such expensive cures but on the other hand people can develop cures for disease that otherwise would be uncurable.

interesting double edged sword
What's interesting is that this is happening in aerodynamics today as students and researchers rediscover on youtube the amazing Shell Oil-sponsored "High Speed Flight" videos from the 1950's - they're like an instant Masters Degree:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bELu-if5ckU
Bacterial growth: a statistical physicist's guide
While I applaud the success of this program, this specific article is a good reminder of why it’s important to read critically.

> The programme, which cost $375m (£297m), is credited with an important role in the subsequent decline in India’s HIV status.

Why passive voice here? What authority credited the organization’s work in this way?

On a closer read, it becomes obvious that there are no primary or secondary sources quoted except the author of this book and anecdotes presented therein; essentially, this is no more than a book review. Is there a larger story here? Are there any suggestions or criticisms that suggest this may not be an optimal approach?

As submarines [0] go, this is a pretty harmless and feel-good one. But keep an eye out for articles with similar structure that seek to shape your opinions.

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Cybercriminals can execute cyberattack for $34/month with $25,000 ROI: Deloitte
Ironic that news about "quantum computers" which so often overlook other schemes will often be accompanied by an image of a D-Wave chip and sample holder...
Well, except for https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Left_of_Catalonia ;)
(One kid talking to another, with dad in the background hunched over an Apple ][.)

"Daddy's playing Pascal. That's where you try and see how many dots you can get before it beeps and you say nasty words."
Yep, seeing so many people with reading comprehension problem here at HN is surprising.
The “unsolvable problem” the parent refers to is the problem of geometrically constructing a square with the same area as a circle. It has been proven to be impossible.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squaring_the_circle
It was an irrational fear of communism in both of the cases really that made a bad situation worse. Vietnam's motivations were against the French colonialism and communism were an ally. But they had their stupid 'domino theory' crap despite the fact that even China and Russia could barely get along.

I mean don't get me wrong "communist states" end in totalitarianism but when their fear ends up pushing other countries towards communism instead of away from it there is no way to describe it but irrational.
> Ubiquiti's EdgeOS is based on a production major network os, Vyatta, (as is VyOs), and therefor has a lot more scrutiny and bug fixing than those other things

Apparently you’ve not really looked at EdgeOS. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/16/ubiquiti_networking...

Vyatta was acquired by Brocade in 2012. Ubiquiti forked after that.
What's the deal with measurement based quantum computing? It seems strikingly different to adiabatic and gate based computation.
It is unpopular in the establishment instead of demographically. Marijuana legalization and not being 'tough on crime' aren't unpopular positions but the people involved are very afraid to take them for fear it will ruin them - just like other past issues like supporting gay marriage. There seems to be a sad human tendency to be afraid of making big changes - but only if it will bring about good.
I wonder whether using computers more (whether numerical or symbolic calculations) could remove some of the burden of understanding mathematical techniques and make this process smoother. Or maybe it would just obscure the fundamental assumptions to software and increase the burden on learning computational techniques.

Does it matter whether mathematicians think it is handwavy? If any two trained practitioners can get to the same result of a calculation and it matches experiment to appropriate approximations that seems good enough to me.
You know that FreeBSD and pfsense run on espresso.bin, right?
Sounds great, can we build nuclear in your back yard?
> It does not seem impossible to imagine a function that spawns code close to data

The authors discuss this:

To achieve good performance, the infrastructure should be able and willing to physically colocate certain code and data. This is often best achieved by shipping code to data, rather than the current FaaS approach of pulling data to code. At the same time, elasticity requires that code and data be logically separated, to allow infrastructure to adapt placement: sometimes data needs to be replicated or repartitioned to match code needs. In essence, this is the traditional challenge of data independence, but at extreme and varying scale, with multi-tenanted usage and fine-grained adaptivity in time.

Not impossible to imagine, but the challenges are non-trivial.
> non-productive physicists (Hossenfelder)

Why do you think Hossenfelder is a non-productive physicist?

> How about we do this: let the people who are obviously smartest make their own decision about what is most promising to work on

We've been doing that all along in physics, and it doesn't seem to be working out.
UW grad here, I was suffering through undiagnosed depression and adult-onset ADHD. One of my biggest regrets is that I was not properly diagnosed until my thirties. GP, do follow Waterluvian's advice and seek help. Now is the time!
Thank you a lot for the read, very interesting.
In fairness; breaking real crypto on D-Wave's hardware is still a very very long way off -- IIRC factoring 16 bits is plausible but still quite optimistic
By quitting Amazon, Do I have to boycott the websites hosted on AWS?

If you are sane person who read all contracts you sign, you will never want to own a cellphone. At least, in my country(Japan), I can't find a cellphone and wireless network who honors my privacy. So naturally I don't owning a cellphone right now.

But my daily living relies heavily on people who get their job done by using their cellphone. So my boycotting of cellphone means nothing since most of my private activities such as shopping indirectly handled by these untrustworthy cellphone and its network.

If you really want to quit headline companies, You have to go living in a off-grid area, with self-contained life down to the farming or hunter-gathering, always hire a proxy person when you want modern civilized items because acquiring these items requires you to indirectly use Big 5.
It would be of tremendous benefit (and of course an opportunity for appropriate praise) to learn who coughed up a pretty chunk of money to help people who aren't very popular.

As far as I can tell it is primarily the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/Media-Center/Press-Releases/...
Do you have related writings or presentations on your hands? If so, could you please publish them online? I'd love to see some details of your critique, especially, what is the problem of Vanguardism?
If that'd be the case then Germany should have just as much of a right to meddle with US internal issues, because any integration like that would always work both ways. Fat chance of that ever happening.
The Daily Scrum Is a Planning Meeting…Not a Status Meeting
This is very complicate topic, because there are so many factors to evaluate before we can make that decision, but first of all, how are we going to survive there ? here what I mean are not how much money we earn, but food, weather, people, health assurance, some basic stuff of living.

the place where we choose to travel and where we choose to live are different, because we don't just enjoy the natural views, we care more about people, culture, and health, which is not easy decision in short time, so we'd better to live there long enough, and try to involve into local culture as much as possible.

I live in Shenzhen, it is a Chinese city, but much different with other cities in China, China is trying to build a modern city to beat Hong Kong, this city is Shenzhen, its policies, especially for political, are much transparent, so this city's growing is very fast, it is very livable and good to have business here, startups are come out every day.

but like many fast growing cities, the economic bubble issue, the house is pretty expensive here.
Oh I did. I followed WSL and MSSQL development strategies a lot. Cool stuff.
Take my arrrpvote.
> If any two trained practitioners can get to the same result of a calculation and it matches experiment to appropriate approximations that seems good enough to me.

I think that's already true today. The problem is, when theorists are out manufacturing new theories, I think it gets very confusing/handwavy (because everybody is brought up on handwavy fundamentals).

Disclaimer: I'm not a practicing physicist.
This seems like a "darned if you do, darned if you don't" mentality

Allowing managers to coast and play office politics sucks but also squeezing them doesn't seem very positive (though I'm sure it's great for results)
wow, small world, I live in Shenzhen, too. maybe we can keep in touch, and hang around sometimes. you can drop me email at weishigoname at hotmail.com
Am I the only one who's extremely pissed off by the subtitle?

> Beating Aids is India’s greatest public health achievement. A new book says it wouldn’t have happened without women

Replace this with "it wouldn't have happened without men" and you would feel how ridiculous this subtitle is.
Another Bostonian here. :)

I don't think that guerilla warfare is considered "unfair" by the US military today (can't speak for the 70s), the US still encourages it when it suits them, especially when encouraging regime change. Asymmetrical warfare requires guerilla tactics by the less conventionally powerful armies against more conventional armies.

The schools conveniently ignored the Native American assistance in fighting the British, and overstate the actual impact of the peasant rebellion. It was an organized army with discipline founded on the French that really cemented the colonists win over the British. George Washington really is one of the few Americans that was as amazing as his legend, if not more so.

Americans also really don't give enough credit to the French for their assistance. We sort of gloss over that point, however we did at least return the favor in WW1 and WW2 as well as taking over the mission in Vietnam. So I think I pretty much wrote all of this to agree that yes our narratives definitely evolve.

Have an awesome weekend.
I followed my fiancee, once I secured the ability to work remotely.

Also, Tulsa is starting a program where you get paid to work remotely from from Tulsa: https://www.seattletimes.com/explore/careers/tulsa-is-offeri...

Dunno if that helps. Also email me if you wanna talk about it at all!
To echo others, I would need to be convinced that learning a synthetic language that, for most of us, will never have any direct practical use has some unique pedagogical value. For me, learning an actual language, however imperfectly, that has a history, literature, and in many cases current speakers and culture seems far more interesting. But, then, I never had any interest in learning Klingon or elvish either.
Probably correct, they also might be far less leveraged than your average deposit taking institution.
My first child is almost 8 weeks old & I'm incredibly grateful for the work myself and my partner have done on ourselves leading up to this point.

Would you be willing to connect outside of this thread to talk about your treatment? I'm writing a book centered on a framework for self programming I'm designing and would love to inform it with the experiences of others. I'm convinced we can mathematically define the human system in a computational/programmatic way and use computer science to figure out language constructs resulting in scripts to follow for achieving what we want our minds/bodies/brains to do (or configuring them however we want). I've been "programming" myself in this way for 2 years and have experienced a lot of rapid change, as a result. I'm hoping the book will help people do the same things you & I have accomplished, but in ways they can adapt to their daily lives so they don't have to take a break from life.

The book will only be sold if there's a structure in place such that one purchase funds several free copies or freely helping others in some financial way. I don't want to profit from its sale.
The only treasuries over 3% are pretty long term. Like, decades long. How do you sweep short term deposits into 20 year bonds?

Like I get generally how a treasuries backed money market fund works, but the average maturity there is like 2 months, not 20 years.
It is more widespread than you may assume. A lot of Ubiquity gear uses MIPS. Chips on hardware which are not the processor might be ARM or MIPS.
I believe the key aspect is independence. Can you solve a problem independently from other problems.

If you can implement a new feature within your team, it is not wicked. If you need a few other teams it becomes political and thus wicked.
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I don't see how that follows necessarily - there is a severe lack of details supporting their conclusions. I am aware that the supply chain is complex but you really don't need to bring back the entire supply web. That is like saying that you can't build houses because you don't have iron mines which you need for the steel foundries you don't have which you need for the nail factories.

What you need to do is to start bringing back the parts which it makes sense to do so and expand from there. Assembly plants for cars sold in any significant amount makes sense period just because of the physical volume of cars vs their parts - the assembled cab takes up a lot of excess space - and that is before any tariff issues.
It’s Time for a Bill of Data Rights
Yeah, but you didn't quite Narcissism, since you're writing this.
I volunteer my backyard as well!
Court Cites Dr Seuss's the Lorax in Rebuke to US Forest Service
Utter rubbish.

I recently saw a Werner Herzog feature-length interview documentary called "Meeting Gorbachev". In it Gorbachev describes in his own words how and why the USSR dissolves. The USSR was always an unequal political union with Russia as its command centre. The other republics were always jostling either for a more equal union and frequently nationalist sentiment overrode pan-Slavic sentiment. If the USSR had managed its internal economy better and if they weren't cut off from the outside world it could have survived indefinitely. In the end Gorbachev made a series of moves (perestroika and glasnost: anybody who lived through this period knows these terms and what they mean in practice) that brought about the impending dissolution. Garbachev would have been the leader of an independent leader of a now independent Russia but he was politically outflanked.

It is typical US arrogance to think that they have their hands always and every time directly on the levers that make and break nations and political entities. It is a prime example of the mentality of US exceptionalism. Many many factors interweave and interplay in every geopolitical landscape: internal politics, internal economics, internal resource allocation, external pressure, military strength, alliances, the list goes on.

Yes, oil/dollar moves may have had some impact. How much of an impact, that would be difficult to say. But it was in no way as impactful as you make it out to be and in now way as directly instrumental. And besides, when you look at the history of Federal Reserve policy you can see that US economic reasons (recession, interest rates) prompted Volcker's actions.
The thing is - if the premise is true that sex workers had an active role in preventing aids, then it's pretty easy to see that sex workers are predominantly low-status women and hence that their role and status make this a more extraordinary achievement.
Portuguese here, I moved out of the country and I have worked in the UK for over a decade and more recently relocated again to the Netherlands.

Both myself and my wife have really enjoyed the opportunities we had along the way, both in terms of lifestyle, research projects and financially.

But we are now at a point where we both feel the urge to "come back home".

I would love to hear your feedback from an outsider looking into the tech scene in Portugal.

My frustration in previous searches and interviews is that everyone likes to talk 'innovation' but the majority of interesting projects are still pretty much university incubations and/or very dependent on EC research funding streams. Has this changed in these past years? Do you see companies actually securing VC funding rounds or growing into more mature businesses?

Also perhaps an inferiority complex bias but I feel that, for larger service companies, Portugal is still scene as what they would call a 'near-shore' outsourcing tech pool, where you can get a bit more quality output but still at a fairly cheap price point. Has this changed? i.e. Do you see that Software teams can command competitive salaries when compared to other European locations? Or is it that it's acceptable only if you leverage this with a very low COL (outside prime real estate areas like Porto/Lisbon centres)?
Yes it's absolutely spurious.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/judystone/2016/05/07/health-car...

It never happens.

https://abc7ny.com/health/michigan-lesbian-couple-says-pedia...

Nope. Not Ever.

https://www.self.com/story/denial-of-health-care

This literally took me less than two minutes to find. I'd imagine longer than it took to intentionally bury one's head in the sand.
This does feel like poorly researched self-aggrandizing article.
It starts of by "In 2002, a major report predicted an Aids catastrophe in India" - but offers no citation. Which report and who authored it based on what data ?

Again while the effort expended is commendable I find it hard to believe that this program which by it's own admission catered to a peak of appx. 0.02% of the population single handedly prevented an Aids epidemic
Thanks.

And there's an interesting juxtaposition with another front-page submission. From this article:

> Alexander, 64, was born into India’s elite. His father, PC Alexander, was principal secretary to Indira Gandhi. In leaving his career as senior director in the India office of McKinsey & Company to join the campaign to stop the spread of HIV, Alexander swapped a life of plush boardrooms and fine dining with CEOs for sitting on mud floors with sex workers, gay and transgender people and intravenous drug users. In short, a world of which he had little knowledge.

The other one criticizes McKinsey & Company: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18691413
Matter would have no efficient way to cool and would probably not collapse to form star analogues or other compact objects. It might be similar to some ”hot” dark matter models, except with no regular matter.
Apple: It's easy not to directly use the Apple products. But my friend, colleagues, service providers use it. So although I'm not directly using the Apple products, my private information still captured by Apple. Do I have to boycott them too?

Microsoft: I can live without directly using Microsoft product. But do I have to refuse the websites and service hosted on Azure? Avoid people who use Microsoft products? Also, Microsoft made a lot of code contribution to Linux kernel. Do I have to boycott the Linux kernel too?

Google: Like how? Most of the network traffic goes through Google even if you don't use Google products and service directly. I have to boycott the Internet itself in order to quit the Google.

Facebook: The only company in the Big 5 I can practically avoid whether directly or indirectly.

Amazon: Again, I have to boycott all the service which relies on AWS. That's pretty impossible. First of all, If you are using LVFS(Linux Vendor Firmware Service), which most GNU/Linux distributions use, you're relies on AWS.