skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you seen the blog post at question https://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2015/12/what-is-spacetime-re...? It proposes the 4th way, that is the space is a graph, that only approximately maps to the 3d continuum, so non locality is introduced only as an artifact of mapping, and everything is local on the graph.

> iii) the world obeys superdeterminism, i.e. there is no free will

Superdeterminism doesn't simply say that there is no free will. (Normal determinism says that too!). The problem with superdeterminism is that it requires the hidden variables to work in a very complicated way.

If Alice asks her friend to play mario and give her sequence of 1s and 0s for winning and losing, and Bobs friend plays golf, superdeterminism requires the outcomes of this games to be exactly correlated with the experiment with photons Alice and Bob will do next year!
From the article:

We believe that Rust supports all the ingredients necessary to implement the techniques in this paper: it has a strong static side, and its traits system supports zero-cost abstractions which can be provably eliminated by the compiler. It has a great pointer aliasing model, a suitable mid-level IR, a vibrant and engaging community, and a great open language evolution process.

A concern with using Rust is that a strong goal of this project is to appeal to the entire TensorFlow community, which is currently pervasively Python based. We love Rust, but it has a steep learning curve that may exclude data scientists and other non-expert programmers who frequently use TensorFlow. The ownership model is really great, but mostly irrelevant to the problems faced by today’s machine learning code implemented in Python.
https://outline.com/zrqgEu
Sorry but sadly, reviews are gamed, a lot.
Also, before that Github offered free pro accounts for students.
Unfortunately they also tend to break down living tissue too.

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1217/
I read an interesting technique for improving presentations:
1. Create an outline, then record yourself pitching freeform from the outline. Practice many times until you get a recording that seems perfect.
2. Then, memorize that recording WORD-FOR-WORD, until you can deliver the "spontaneous" pitch with perfect timing every time.

I can't find the source right now, but I'm pretty sure it was an interview with Donovan Brown talking about his presentation technique @ Microsoft.
> - 2GB is more than enough for Word documents and a few pictures.

But as soon as a non-free workgroup account shares its files with you you loose all your free space forever.
I don't see a thorough debunking to be honest. The first commentor points to the practical results of particle accelerators. The Vox article (and the blog author) acknowledge this fully. But all examples that are given are the result of past accelerators, where we had reasonable expectations to find new technology because we were still exploring the standard model. This is not the case for a larger accelerator, and this is Hossenfelders point.

The second commenter follows a similar logic. He doesn't seem to engage the point that we don't expect the discovery of something new, he seems to suggest that scientists should build bigger accelerators simply because we can.

But he must know that this is not how science works. Chemists don't just simply perform all imaginable chemical reactions just to completely map the space of chemistry. We allocate scarce resources like time and money to experiments that, according to our best models, may yield promising results. We have ideas for experiments like this in physics, they just happen to not involve a larger accelerator. Scientists are not blind cartographers.
Firefox is still backdoor free :)
Honestly, if someone's spending time working on a high value open source project (which PG absolutely is), I'd rather they spend less time (than I do) crafting their internet comments to sound nice and more time contributing to society. And I hope people who actually use the product feel the same way, understand why every single use case can't be carefully considered every time it comes up, and don't take it personally.
To be fair looking at the commit where it got merged, it was for a pre-release beta build for Android and release notes specifically say

> That is a very first beta version of Brave Rewards on Android. It is pointed on test network. DO NOT TRANSFER REAL MONEY!!! We use SafetyNet API for device attestation.There are grants available on first run. There are no grants on devices where attestation is failed(rooted devices, emulators). Auto-contribution time is set to 10 minutes, just for test purposes. Couple of verified pub on staging:
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Did it make it out? Here is the link

https://github.com/brave/browser-android-tabs/releases/tag/1...
> It's good to understand at some point, because it unifies the definition of group / Lie group / algebraic group, etc, but it will really not give you anything new to work with.

I think that's true at an elementary level, but on the other hand when one doesn't know what concepts they're looking for in a new area, category theory can be a machete cutting a swathe through the jungle. I think Grothendieck was right :)
> Ah, an ad person.

I don't work in advertising.

> the advertising industry has built a large surveillance apparatus in order to sell us thing we don't need. The whole selling things we don't need is already immoral -- but that's a general criticism against advertising and marketing; In this case we have something already dubious turned into a panopticon nightmare. As we grow closer to our technology, this technology is constantly spying on us to order to optimize selling us things we don't need.

That's all a bunch of cute stuff to say, but where's the nightmare? Thinks seem pretty good to me. Do you want to go back 50 years? 100? Which point in history was not a nightmare, to which you'd like to return?
Linux desktop is thriving in technical terms. I like what Wayland has brought. There is NO split effort. The direction is clear and everyone is on board except nvidia.
> ... they can literally never be on the Google Play store ever again

question: is Google really that good at detecting the relationship between an account they banned, and some other new account created under a different name with someone else's credit card?

i mean couldn't this small business get another credit card under a different name and then create a totally new developer account under a different name -- and keep that all totally isolated from the previously banned account?

is that just not practically possible? if it worked at least initially -- what would they have to lose?
I am really unstatisfied about the status of remote desktop session on GNU/Linux and other unices in general.

RDP on Windows works amazingly, it's really like having your remote machine at your fingertips (as long as network holds).

On GNU/Linux on the other hand, most solutions are hacky or cumbersome or non-standard or a linear combination of the previous adjectives.

I really wish I could have truly good remote desktop support on GNU/Linux.
>much of what they post is either highly misleading or exaggerated to the level of clickbait

Could you give some specific examples of each, name some names?
For more, you can check the artists websites.

Don Davis: http://www.donaldedavis.com/PARTS/allyours.html

Rick Guidice: http://rickguidice.com/nasaart.html

Roy Scarfo: http://www.royscarfo.com/
In my opinion, they are mixins that can be applied without subclassing a component. In the examples a new section, data.width, is added. This modifies the state schema of the component.
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I mean, those are certainly questions you could ask. I'm just pointing out that you can get people to answer any which way by the phrasing. My wife is a research psychologist who designs studies and comes up with various questions to test a certain hypothesis. It's very difficult to neutralize priming by how questions are phrased. You often need to ask the question in a variety of ways to get unbiased results.
That is wholly distinct from ad customization. Collecting customer data is sometimes used for ad customization, but there are varying degrees of ethicality in collection.
you can definitely have cryptographic schemes where individual votes are secret but the result is publicly verifiable.

i don’t necessarily think it’s a good idea because it’s better to have a low tech system that people can understand, even if it’s a little cumbersome and expensive. but it is possible!
What stood out to me in this article is that the biomass of insects is decreasing by 2.5% per year. Exponential decay adds up quickly and we can see significant losses over relatively small time frames. We're looking at the loss of around 22% of insect biomass in 10 years
I was asked a few question when I interview for my job as a dev lead: The one I remembered most was after he told me the current sad state of the department he inherited (not the people, the process) he asked me what was my 90 day plan if so sdrs hired.

He also asked me about my thoughts on hiring, mentoring, and testing strategies.
This is why I can't support Brave. They see it as a foregone conclusion that the only way to make sure the internet doesn't starve it so make sure we all watch ads, and they think that if they can make the ads nicer, we'll all watch them. They gave Brave tools to hide some or most ads hoping that this will make us willingly watch other ads.

How about no? How about we find a better way to not starve than making sure everyone is fed their daily dose of manipulative marketing materials?
Is that what's actually happening though? Is there any persuasive evidence that people are, en masse, being 'tricked' into buying things they "don't want"?

It seems to me that a much more persuasive case can be made that on the margin, some people flip between this product or that for meaningless reasons, but for the most part, advertising informs people of the existence of products that might improve their lives.
This is debatable: with the experiments, Firefox has the power to install addons behind the scenes. See the Mr. Robot fiasco: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15956325
Most of wrappers in D are actually very thin wrappers over C bindings, focusing on C interop rather than trying to push D objects through. But to be honest, no matter what you do, as soon as you begin to interface with C, you are throwing safety out of the window anyway.
Git itself is not suitable for huge files:

- Large binary files tend to be not very "deflatable"

- xdelta (used in Git to diff files) tries to load the entire content of a file into memory, at once.

This is why there are solutions like Git-LFS, where you keep your versions on a remote server / cloud storage and you use git to track only the "metadata" files.

DVC implemented its own solution, in order to be SCM agnostic and cloud flexible (supporting different remote storages).

Here's more info comparing DVC to similar/related technologies: https://dvc.org/doc/dvc-philosophy/related-technologies

EDIT: formatting
You can design for more than one thing, especially when complimentary. Why is there no room to speculate that they also designed for what people want? Why do I have to question the author's correctness to do so? Why mix all these words like this and tell other people what they can or can't speculate about?
The consistency with the underlying abelian group could be restated as "multiplication is bilinear, and has a unit", which is the correct perspective to take if you want to "upgrade" from the usual definition to the "monoid object in the category of abelian groups" definition.

But understanding bilinearity and its connection to tensor products is the key part of changing between those definitions, and also the most useful step to understand. The final description is pretty uninteresting in contrast with universal mapping properties of a tensor product.
I used brave on Android some time ago as well. Firefox really wasn't an option back then, as the rendering engine was just to slow for reading webnovels... But adblock is essentially required on mobile because of the energy drain from ads

I ultimately went back to chrome though after I installed blokada. You might want to check that out as well.

You can get it from f-droid if you have that app store already.

https://blokada.org/index.html
Google would need to make Swift a first class citzen on Windows, currently Julia is winning.
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So I hear the cons for e-voting all the time. It's absolutely true no system is sound and secure. However consider this: most politicians aren't exactly tech-savy. There are way more cost-effective methods to "rig" elections (for the Swiss scale). Dead people voting. Volunteering staffers. Depending on country method of vote transfer. Human error when counting.

Having helped with an e-election system myself, I saw first-hand how it caught "bugs" in the process. For example some district entering wrong information (lots of cross-referencing checks tripped an "alarm").

In the U.S sure, I can see why people would be concerned. No offence, but the systems in place for social and other citizen-related info ain't excellent. If there's an entire market for false identities it's saying something. Taxes not being done automatically. Social security number being the one way to identify. Online banking being a pain in the ass.

Scalability is an issue. If a system is open to billions, there is more incentive to work on "theoretical" exploits. But let's not pretend paper-voting is a better alternative. E-voting doesn't solve the corruption problem, but it makes it easier to find.

Tom Scott and some of the pen-testers that shit on on the concept have good points. However they all are based on the idea that staffers manually counting works better. Tom Scott's New Hampshire example is anecdotal – that system was an insult to the word naïve. The pen-testers taking a dump on Estonian system were picking on stuff like WiFi passwords being visible and seeing over the shoulder an admin's terminal. The systems responsible for the counting weren't connected to the WiFi and it was there for guests. Lot of good staring at a terminal did with no access to the actual machines holding the program.

I don't see e-voting becoming a thing due to all the FUD spreading. But I hope it will be reviewed as a means of double-checking. Perhaps some studious people might actually go out and study the actually proposed architecture. It's really never as simple as one program doing the counting with a flavor of auditing. At least when done right(ish).
It’s crazy the number of really smart people who are steadfast in their belief that fruit is good. It’s non-stop propangda starting at birth, direct from the mothers mouth.

I wonder where this meme started and why? I cant imagine ‘big fruit’ is that big or sinister.
Personal criticism: it's not FUD if it's correct. A lot of the things the author concedes are actually limitations, even if not inherent (did anyone ever claim that?) are reasons I can't use Wayland or at least would be massively inconvenienced.
So far I can easily use Julia on Windows, Swift on the other hand....
Except to follow this to the logical conclusion, amazon will be the only person I can buy my "sliding mitre saw" from.

In the end I didn't buy mine from Amazon - I picked up my maybe #2 option from a local wholesaler that had an offer on and gave me a discount if I picked up the saw and the compatible base. In this case I was just using amazon to confirm that the item was 'fine'
Now I didn't check in this case, but I am aware that other online merchants discount their stores based upon tracking - and who doesn't like a discount?
I like to think 'they' knew that I "goldcd wanted a decent saw for a mid-price" and were all undercutting each other to try to get me to enter by details.
Yes, and even more important: Thinkpads and "Lenovo"s (non Thinkpads) are two vastly different beasts. The former being great, the latter "meh".
Woven image from 1839 was an important step in the history of computing (2016)
>he's different and yeah he has a silly name so fuck 'em.

He wasn't being fired for his name. Because he was being fired no one cared about his name. That's the joke.
The problem aren’t personalized ads but the way the personalization happens, i.e. by collecting thousands or sometimes millions of data points on individuals, often without their knowledge or consent.
If you don't mind stranding from the 100% stable roads, you can install Mojave on your macbook using this patcher: http://dosdude1.com/mojave/

Personally I am running Mojave on a late 2009 macbook pro and it still works amazingly well. Transition from Mojave and especially the new XCode are also way faster than previous iterations. There are caveats though, as the processor in my computer is too old, I had to hack homebrew to compile everything from source.

(Also, using the patcher does not hinder my ability to push updates to the App Store or use iMessage, if that is a concern)
What's the value of the dynamic workspace support being built in to EXWM, rather than using one of the many packages which does something similar (e.g. persp-mode.el)?
I don't think it's over yet really. Tensorflow might be moving their code base to Swift, but there's other frameworks and TF isn't the be-all-and-end-all of ML frameworks. Having used it, I'd really hope it isn't, because it's incredibly painful to use.

I'm personally excited for the likes of Julia's Flux framework to get a bit more production ready, I think that's got serious legs.
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The Russians had good art too: https://io9.gizmodo.com/how-soviet-artists-imagined-communis...

Sadly reality is never that good
"In a pioneering surgery, titanium implants were placed in the two forearm bones (radius and ulnar), from which electrodes to nerves and muscle were extended to extract signals to control a robotic hand and to provide tactile sensations."

This seems pretty significant. And, I hate to sound gross but doesn't that technically mean a prosthesis could be attached as an extra instead of a replacement?
Love your reflections here!

I'm a non-technical product manager, and I've heard the same sentiment with the engineers that I work with. My engineers want business context and user context - they don't need someone to provide technical guidance.

To address your questions directly:

1) The most helpful skill in an engineer is the skill of speaking up. When I reflect on the dozens of engineers I've worked with, I consistently find that the ones who provided the most value were the ones who would question me constructively.

My specs aren't perfect, because I don't have a detailed understanding of the technical constraints. I love it when engineers tell me why my spec won't work, and then provide multiple alternatives for how to get the spirit of my spec to work.

As for how to help you look good - I really appreciate it when engineers honestly keep me informed about their bandwidth. That way, as I keep stakeholders in the loop, I can accurately set their expectations.

It's never helpful when engineers say "I can complete these 15 tasks by next week", and wind up only completing 2. On the flip side, it's equally unhelpful when engineers say "I can complete only 2 tasks by next week", then wind up knocking out the entire backlog.

2) I can't speak clearly to "technical adviser"-type roles, unfortunately, since I'm not technical to start with. That being said, the technical folks who interface with management and executives are typically managers of managers of engineers.

In other words - the engineers who drive the technical vision of the company are also the ones who are directly responsible for their teams' execution on the tactical work.
I've been programming as a career for a long time and gone up against candidates with degrees and been hired where they haven't so there are a fair few companies out there that don't care.

That said I'd like to do something academic and I'm getting older and given the ageism in tech a degree/masters might tip the balance.

Mostly though I just like learning and if I'm going to do it anyway I might as well look to see if I can get more than just gratification out of it.
Not seeing how that differs from the existing herdbooks that are kept for most breeds which are used to manage AIS programmes; they're how for example the Jersey and Guernsey remain distinct despite global distribution.

They've been digital for decades now...
> I'd argue that unsolicited advertising in general is immoral

What does 'unsolicited' mean? Would you argue that human beings are ethically incapable of consenting to being advertised to? If not, what level of consent is required? Nobody forces you to use Google, Facebook, or watch television.

> In certain cases, where spending or consuming is actually harmful to the consumer, advertising is even worse. For example, let's say I have an eating disorder and can't resist buying a certain brand and flavor of ice cream. If ads are not targeted and I'm shown ads of, say, motorcycles, I can resist those and not buy them, but if I'm shown ads of my favorite ice cream I'll be tempted to buy it, overindulge, and harm my health. Gambling ads seen by gambling addicts, alcohol ads seen by alcoholics, and so on can similarly be harmful in financial, psychological, and social ways.

Sure, some kinds of advertising may be immoral. But I don't see much of an argument here for advertising in general being immoral. Often advertising is quite useful, in that it connects me with products I didn't know about that I might want. Is that kind of advertising immoral? Is it immoral when Dollar Shave Club advertises on podcasts to tell you how much you can save on razors by buying from them instead of the big companies? If so, who's being harmed?
Welp, I am jelly. My recommendation gets so repetitive that I had to use reddit as a recommendation engine. r/mealtimevideos worked for a while but soon youtube started to recommend the same set of videos on its top page and I havn't found the alternative yet.

Another gripe I have is that for creators who run multiple channels (and don't get out of their way to cross-promote), it is often very easy to not realise this until you manually check out their upload page and realise you missed out a lot of their content, all while the recommendation engine pushes the same couple of videos I have already watched over and over again.

The only occasion things clicked for me is when I was researching the Pitcairn island. For a few days there was a drip feed of obscure but highly relevant videos that keyword search failed to pick up. One day the stream stopped suddenly and has never returned since.
I thinks the way this ends up working in real life is, know how much value you're creating for your users and find ways to profit that keep them in the black. For many folks, being able to build playlists containing almost any don't you can think of is enormously valuable. And the elegance of advertising in this situation is, those who use the service most end up "paying" more for it anyway through ads. When they're getting enough value out of it that the ads become annoying, switching to a paid tier quickly becomes a great bargain.
Forgive me for my ignorance, but does swift have any good plotting and interactive "notebook" ability? Specifically the ability to plot images such as matplotlib.

I ask this because the number 1 reason my deep learning research group chose python was because of the extensive and interactive scientific plotting ability that's built into python jupyter notebooks. While our volume of analysis isn't on the scale of say a google/fb (primarily biomedical image analysis), the ability to easily visually debug the results is much more important for developing robust models.