skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we ignore wavefunction collapse ...

The time evolution operator is unitary, so it is in particular inversible. So there is a one to one correspondence between the posible current states of the system/universe and the posible states of the universe one minute later. So all the information that is available now, must be preserved one minute later because the transformation can be (theoretically) reversed. If some information disappear, you could not reverse the changes due to time evolution.

The experimental evidence shows that the equations for the time evolution are correct (up to the current experimental precision), and these equations have a form that is unitary. I'm not sure that it is a direct proof, but it's quite strong evidence.

And about wavefunction collapse or the multiuniverse alternative ...

<personal opinion warning [1]> Nobody like neither of the options but they make predictions that agree with the experiments. If we assume that humans, dogs and measurement equipment are not magic then we could explain the apparent wavefunction collapse using a normal time evolution. IIRC the current betting favor decoherence, where the equipment somehow has an apparent effect of the wavefunction collapse, but the information that is apparently lost is spread in many small parts that evolve slightly different and after some time it's imposible to experimentally collect all the parts and reverse the transformation (in spite it is theoretically posible to collect all the parts and reverse the transformation)[2]. Nobody is sure, and it is an active research topic. </personal opinion warning>

[1] I took enough quantum mechanic courses in the university to give a good answer, but I'm not expert in (quantum) measurement theory.

[2] It's slightly similar to how a drop of ink in a glass of water spread after some time by diffusion. It's theoretical posible to reverse the system and get the original result, but in practice it's imposible. But the equations of both process are very different. I hate analogies that have very different underlaying equations because they are misleading sooner or later. So take this as a bad analogy and don't draw too many conclusions from it.
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I’d argue that the company controls Dick Cheney. Brown and Root was the patron of LBJ in the 40s, and was a big part of his rise and the huge military buildout in Texas — uniquely profitable due to the unique ownership structure of vacant land in that state.
My apologies. I thought you were labeling me based on which side gets which ideas. I'm very glad that you are not doing that.
A few examples of what you are describing would be very welcome.
Devil's Advocate here

But what were you expecting? That the people heavily sponsored by large corps like Equifax will write a nasty report against people that are basically paying their salaries?

Have you ever seen 911 report? After all the investigations, time and money spent, the report basically stated that.. there was a terrorist attack and buildings fell.

Long time ago I gave up on buying popcorn when high caliber political committees reports come out. Bottom line is, "this is America and this is business," and Equifax is in business of making billions of dollars, even if someone forgets to renew expired certificate, the caravan goes on.
It's not just the ISA that you get when you license from ARM: it's the entire HDL source. If you go even further and get an architecture license, you also get a whole bunch of fundamental technical documents and a test suite. This saves a ton of time.

There's the issue of software compatibility. Writing a port of Linux—kernel and userland—is a ton of work. And if you have other chips on board, such as a GPU, the only drivers available may be ARM-only binary blobs. There might be an entire ecosystem of ARM software you have to keep supporting (which is one reason why Apple doesn't [yet] design their own ISA).

RISC-V has a small chance of commoditizing some of this stuff someday, but not yet.
(edit: I meant human piloted aerial firefighting, not more far-fetched drone fire fighting)
Only replying to the claim of disrespect. I think the disclaimer, as included, in a post positing a thesis is not disrespectful at all. gp clearly laid out that they were not an expert but had an assumption.

I will agree though that done without a disclaimer gp would have been disrespectful.
Buterin thread on non-financial applications of crypto blockchains
EasyPost Is Hiring: Build Logistics for the Fortune 10
The author didn't seem work with devs (who were on the other side of the country) or investors, so I have trouble fully accepting their generalizations of tech startups as a whole. Sure, they experienced a lot of tech-specific phenomena like free drinks at the office, but it sounds like most of the problems were just due to interacting with a lot of obnoxious young salesmen.

The part where they act surprised at the use of normal business acronyms (they're 40 and weren't familiar with the term "ROI" ??) kind of hurts credibility too
I made everything much more confusing by making a typo in my first sentence. I meant to refer to group 1 (it's corrected now). I agree that group 2 exhibits wage discrimination.

It was group 1 one or a variant thereof that I meant to discuss: this group presumably values women equally to men [1], hence wants to exploit the wage gap as the GP suggested by hiring mostly women and hence getting ~30% more for their hiring dollars.

You proposed that this group would be knowingly paying women less, therefore acting both unethically (depending on your ethical view of the matter, anyway) and opening themselves up to legal liability.

I'm saying that this group can just offer positions close to the lower going rate for women: this would presumably result in them hiring mostly women (and some men due to variance, etc). As long as all hiring and wage decisions are gender-blind however, they would not be discriminating - they are only "passively" taking advantage of the gap via their range of salary offers.

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[1] I.e., to them the wage gap is not logical hence women are being underpaid.
There are many forms of “assimilation” ...

One form invoked killing all military age males then selling of the woman and children as slaves scattering them.

Pretty common back in the day from what I read. Very low chance of revolt.
REXPaint is a great tool, and the only reason I know it exists is from playing the game it was used heavily for, Cogmind. It's a great roguelike game, and if you enjoy them I would suggest you give it a try.

The dev is active in the Roguelike Discord server as well. Any interaction I've had with them has always been positive and kind. Cogmind was great to see grow into what it is today.
Wow.

Read a little about the previous DA. Seems like a piece of work. It's surprising to me because I didn't think DA's in other states were quite as corrupt as some of the DA's we've had in Wisconsin are, but apparently Pennsylvania has the corrupt DA problem too.
I guess retirement is a form of suicide. I run a successful one-man programming business but it too will need to shut-down as I would like to retire in 4-5 years.

It is especially hard as the company is totally viable, in a great location in the world and has great customers who are really happy to keep giving me work, this means I cannot really shut-down until they are taken care of by either selling off the company to another programmer who will support them or transitioning them (very expensively I guess) to another system

I wonder how many people in the same position are thinking this far ahead
I knew it would be Aesop Rock before I even clicked through. Definitely not the kind of thing you listen to at work to block out the noise. It’s interesting but I guess not surprising that people in the same circle, like El-P, have similarly huge vocabularies. But now El-P is practically the biggest name in hip hop. Maybe wordiness is catching on.
If anything, astroturfing in tech blogs is probably less likely to be corporate funded, and more to be the sort of breathless SEO self-promotion from savvy self-marketers. Content creators on Medium, YouTube, Quora will latch onto any new tech in order to drive views, regardless of what tech it is.
> how much work does it save?

Really a lot of work. Software compatibility and availability will make or break a processor. Unless you own the entire stack and are willing to deal with the struggles of a custom ISA, nobody wants to make a new one - the benefits probably aren't that great.
Also, the intense secrecy surrounding arbitration proceedings. If I have to give up my right to talk about how I’ve been wronged in order to even seek a remedy, then that is reason enough to ban the practice.

This makes it a first amendment issue, but it’s more than that. We as a society lose out when cases are settled behind closed doors with no public record. We cannot make informed decisions about employment if we don’t know who the bad actors are.
The greatest irony is EU regulators whining about the dominance of Google, Facebook, etc, while passing regulations like this which make it impossible for anyone to compete with their ilk. Google and Facebook will have no trouble building the automated filters that are mandated by this legislation. The impact of this will be felt entirely by smaller companies with either will shut down, or, more likely, will never be founded.
Sounds like that bizarre "brogrammer" archetype that journalists claimed represented Silicon Valley engineers.

I'd imagine high-growth startups hire many low-experience SDRs like the ones described in the article -- is it possible people are conflating this 'tech' sales culture with engineering culture?

Perhaps this is even done purposefully to provide a politically-correct narrative for the low proportion of female engineers.
Eh. The breach happened before Marriott had any control or agency to stop it. Their due diligence in buying the company wouldn't have protected any consumers, it would have just meant the breach was someone else's problem. My understanding (of course, correct me if I'm wrong) is actually that their purchase is the reason the breach was disclosed -- Marriott buying the company and doing its own internal audit on their systems is why we know about it now.

So I don't actually feel a ton of ill will to them, even though I agree that doesn't absolve them of the fact that they bought it, and it is now very much their problem to deal with. It may not be your fault that the puppy that you bought isn't house trained, but I'm still not going to clean your carpet for you.

Having said that, this kind of underscores what I was talking about above. If Marriott themselves couldn't tell in advance that the company they were buying was an insecure liability, how the heck am I supposed to be able to tell?

If it's not feasible for a company like Marriott or Verizon to know in advance of an acquisition which companies are secure and which companies aren't, consumers have no chance. There's no feasible way for a consumer to protect themselves in that world.
This may be a bit mangled from the last time I took a relevant class, but my recollection is that the "real" reason electrons can't share the same state is that they're what's called antisymmetric with respect to exchange.

In general, most particles are fundamentally indistinguishable: if you swap two of them you haven't really changed anything. This leads to most particles being either symmetric (bosons, integer spin) or antisymmetric (fermions, half-integer spin) with respect to exchange. If symmetric then the wave function doesn't change at all; if antisymmetric then exchange reverses the sign of the wavefunction. If we have two electrons in the same place, and arbitrarily swap them (which we're allowed to do since they're identical), then we've reversed the sign on one of the wavefunctions. But since they're in the same place, the wave functions cancel. This would violate conservation of energy, so isn't allowed; instead, we just never let them occupy the same state in the same place, and call it the Pauli exclusion principle.

While a single electron has half-integer spin, a He-4 nucleus has integer spin, so is symmetric to exchange, and it's wavefunction doesn't cancel if you have two in the same place.

That was probably horribly oversimplified and unrigorous, but there's a bit of relevant discussion (in bra-ket notation that I can't really read) here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_exclusion_principle#Conn...
Frameworks varied, but included Laravel, Symfony, and Cake. Some code bases were spaghetti.

I agree that xdebug is hard to set up. I only had reproducible success with it after Vagrant became mainstream. Otherwise we had to share a dev server with all the team members in their own directories, and getting xdebug running on the dev server was a trial-and-error headache.

Debugging is one of the reasons I can’t recommend PHP to anyone for any purpose anymore.
I suspect an entity like Google could offer such a service, based on its enormous reach, compute resources, and a similar system already implemented for YouTube.

Played right, this could offset some lost ad revenue.
The author really enjoys the sound of his own voice (written in this case), doesn't he? I couldn't make it past 20% of the logorrhea.
Sorry, I might've messed up the subject of the sentence?

"I used TopHat's predecessor products in University and they were Terrible"

TopHat's predecessor was terrible and TopHat's innovations are very much welcome (which also made them quite profitable).
On the other hand, there was recently and article in Forbes about a tech billionaire who saw this pattern (small tech companies with one main successful product that were then pouring money into other speculative as-yet unsuccessful products) and built a fortune doing the exact opposite: he'd buy the companies, basically stop all investment in new products (meaning lay most people off and outsource the maintenance to cheaper countries) and milk the maintenance revenue stream until it basically died. I think of it as "the world's most depressing business model", but it was definitely highly profitable.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2018/11/19/how-a-my...
The idea that brutal, evil tactics don't actually work is something we may certainly like to believe or want to be true, but that doesn't make it true.

Part of human nature is the near-universal paradoxical behavior of digging one's own grave at gunpoint. It is breathtakingly easy to subjugate people through brute force. In 1860, there were large stretches of the American South where the majority of the population were enslaved. How do you think that order was maintained? How do you think the SS--an organization that at no point had as many as a million men--was able to murder tens of millions of people in the Holocaust (of which the well-known six million Jews were, at most, slightly more than half)?

Neither of these subjugations were stopped by the valiant resistance of oppressed people inspired by the unquenchable thirst for human freedom--they were stopped by some other group applying even more brute force to the oppressors for largely unrelated reasons.
In my experience, the traditional wife has a lot of say in the family's finances. Audio enthusiasts have talked for many decades, sometimes with dread, about "The Wife Acceptance Factor."
Maybe that's how Veeger was created. The Voyager software was clearly not kept up to date with the vendor's critical updates. When the satellite was found, the alien hackers laughed out how out of date it was, and how an old 0-day could still be used. The hardest part was to decide to make it into a bot in an botnet used for intergalactic DDoS attacks.
How side-channel attacks can compromise privacy in WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal
Most autocomplete tools I’ve worked with were very solid and well implemented.

I did not find them useful because autocompletion while writing code is itself just not a useful tool conceptually, regardless of the quality of the tool.

Autocompletion for coding just doesn’t have any mainstream use cases or situations in which it can possibly be helpful. As a result, even very well made autocompletion tools cause trouble and hinder productivity.

On the other hand there can be niche, non-mainstream uses, like accessibility use cases for disabled people who have to use key entry mechanisms that make non-autocompletion key entry overly burdensome or slow.
You're right however...

"Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM."

Then

"Nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft"

Now

"Nobody ever got fired for buying AWS services"
startup = young

They want to appear "hip" and "cool" ... forever.
When it stops being an accurate representation it will stop being a stereotype.

Great job not being like that I guess? I don't know how your experience has any relation to the article nor the norms of reality.
You can also kidnap the children and raise them as your own.
Won't happen if the incentives aren't there.
I’m not sure what you’re commenting on, but my post certainly didn’t attribute it to malicious intent. Quite the opposite, actually.
I can see how I gave you that impression, sorry. My personal guess re causality is “it’s complicated” (always a good bet).
At least GDPR is intended to help actual people, instead of increasing media-holders' stranglehold over their content.
> its fairly deliberate negligence of the public interest, or for its massively distributed tort

If anything, the report says the opposite of that.

> It's to wipe out the stockholders of any company this negligent, and repossess the spare homes of the entire C-suite.

This is why we don't get any real reform...citizens have these insane ideas on how to "fix" the problem. How can the government take you seriously?
It’s just a basic part of average-case negotiations for most software jobs at a wide range of companies.

People like you, who don’t negotiate or turn down offers when they don’t include severance, unfortunately end up not getting benefits they could otherwise routinely get by negotiating and being willing to say no.
If they're serious about that, then why are they reinforcing the monopolies of the two greatest offenders, YouTube and Facebook? YouTube and Facebook already have the market dominance and engineering talent necessary to build whatever content blocking filters that are mandated by the EU's boneheaded regulations. This regulation will hurt them, sure, but the worst outcome for YouTube will be a bunch more videos that are "unavailable in your country". Same thing with Facebook -- it already shows different posts to different users based on geography; this will be merely one more criterion to filter posts on. What this will kill is all the companies that could compete with Google and Facebook. No one is going to found a media-sharing startup when even a single slip up can leave them liable for an eight or nine-figure sum.

My theory is that, despite their rhetoric, the EU is actually okay with monopolies. Monopolies are easier to extract rents from, in the forms of fines and taxes. It seems like the EU would rather have a single Facebook, a single YouTube, a single Google, etc. than many competing smaller firms.
> Bro culture is a deep-seated problem in tech

In engineering? Could you elaborate a bit more? I've worked in SV tech for a decade and every large company was about 50% nerdy white engineers and 40% quiet Asians.
> As with most interesting problems, this legislation hasn't been written with a focus on what sort of end-results are easiest to arrive at a technical solution for. This article characterises that as 'magic wand regulating' -- I'd hate to see an alternative where EU directives contain explicit technical implementation guidance!

There are multiple ways to create bad legislation. One is to require a specific solution, but another is to require a result that no known solution can produce.
Side projects directly related to the area someone is interested in getting a job in are very useful, or those that use trendy technologies.

However if it’s in unrelated technology (or no longer trendy), then I’d argue they should be removed from the profile altogether. These might raise unnecessary questions and trigger biases.
Definitely curious about some of the 90s Oakland rap like del, heiroglyphics, alt-hip-hop like binary star, and maybe some old school like young mc.
A filesystem corruption bug breaks loose
Intel chips are RISC under the hood these days (for a long while - decade or more). They're CISC at the ASM layer before the instructions are decoded and dispatched by the microcode.
Is that not just a matter of Marriott failing to do their due diligence? How does buying an incompetent company absolve you from responsibility?
I still have my Mims books and still occasionally refer to them. They're awesome.
Isn't the unspoken rule to just ignore GDPR until you're big enough and EU starts bitching at you, at which point you just pay them off and spend some resources on compliance?
How an Uber Whistleblower Tried to Stop Self-Driving Car Disaster
yes project zero is but a teeny tiny fraction of what google security does, but pointing out a flaw somewhere else does not bring down a house of cards. there’s no doubt google does have the best security team (overall) the world has ever seen.

sadly, they are a bit limited by product strategy.
Disclaimer: Armchair backseat keyboard-jockey evolutionary biologist here.

I wonder if a big part of this difference is that for men, making more money directly translates to better mating opportunities, which is a primary driver for humans. Thus climbing the male hierarchy is something many men will do at all costs, because they're programmed to associate that with much greater power and reproductive success (the, maybe unproven, theory that the top x% males get exponentially more mating opportunities than the rest). So for males, working themselves to the bone beyond a lifestyle that's "comfortable enough" still has significant evolutionary ROI (notice how many powerful and wealthy men also happen to be huge playboys, regardless of how clean and wholesome their media image often begins as), while the returns diminish noticeably for women.

Whereas for women, once a baseline of comfort is reached, let's say "I can afford live at a decent place, I can do my hobbies, travel occasionally, I can generally take care of myself" then the additional income doesn't make that much of a difference, at least not until you have a family and suddenly you have to make enough to afford the extra medical, babysitters, daycare, good schools, tutors, college etc.
I have not met anyone who deployed the new AMD stuff at scale and is happy with the outcome. The new architecture shines on small codes like SPEC and then falls apart in large, branchy, pointer-chasing codes that everyone runs in production. I would not say AMD is “in a great place” with their current product. They are putting slight pressure on Intel on the very low end and filling some very specialized niches but that’s about it.