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I've never found that Peter Woit's critiques of string theory match up very well to the reality of what string theorists are doing.

Woit's critiques are of string theory as an extension of the Standard Model. But most string theorists are not working on string theory trying to get predictions about current energy frontiers. Rather, they are working on understanding the mathematical structure of string theory and seeing what it can teach us about analogous mathematical structures in quantum field theory. (A now classic example: The first calculable models of 4-dimensional confinement came out of string theory.)
Look not the movie business. Even more investment.
Here is the Saudi abasher web-app hosted on the interior ministry. https://www.moi.gov.sa/wps/portal/Home/Home/!ut/p/z1/04_iUlD...

Feel free to hack this website. Because this kind of behavior is not acceptable, this is a literal totalitarian nightmare.
Maybe if it actually worked for me. I often end up receiving the 'use the mobile app' prompt on Firefox for Android, or the Reddit logo splash screen.

For a mobile friendly UI I prefer the open source app RedReader (which has a nice dual column view for wider screens). Otherwise for casual link clicking I'll just use old.reddit.com, it's snappier to load as well in my experience.
I've actually conditioned myself to do basically anything in a private window. With Brave mobile I can keep YouTube playing ad-free with the screen locked (or on other screens), so it doesn't affect much there. Plus, it means I don't see other stuff filtering in that I'm not in the mood for (except their promoted crap that quite often has literally no relation to what I'm doing). I'll often even do it on browser too, simply because ad-free without thr tracking and being associated with my Gmail (which I really need to convince myself to get rid of)
The day old.reddit goes away is the day I stop using reddit, period.

And I'll be sad about it. Smaller subreddits are just about the last bastion of the communities I so enjoyed in the BBS/early internet era. But the new UI is, frankly, a dark-pattern shitshow. And I don't use that term lightly.
Until IT departments get infinite resources (that is, never) there will always be a need for these JFDI solutions. Some group will always go starved for attention and have to cobble together their own solutions. IT backlogs are always longer than the resources to do the work.
It means you have some path you can take to make progress on the problem. For example, suppose I want to compute the sum for n = 1 to infinity of 1/n^2.

I can't think of any way to solve it. But one day you discover that you can calculate 1-1/2+1/3-1/4+..., by sticking x^n terms on it: sum(x^n * -(-1)^n/n), differentiating, giving you sum((-x)^(n-1)), recognizing that's a geometric series for 1/(1+x), which clues you in to see if the initial series was a Maclaurin series for log(1+x), and so it is, the sum is log(2).

This gives you a new attack on the problem: Try parameterizing the series on a variable, like the sum{x^n/n^2}, or sum{1/(nx)^2}, or what-have-you, perform some manipulations, and see what happens.

If that doesn't work out, another attack is to compute an approximation of the sum on a computer, by adding up the first hundred million terms, and seeing if it approaches a value you recognize. Knowing the actual value might give you clues about the solution technique (if you want to prove the answer).

Before the age of computers, you might approximate it with the integral 1/x^2 from k+0.5 to infinity, with the first k terms added. Or you might develop general techniques to approximate the sum f(n) more exactly, using the derivatives of f(x) to adjust for the errors that basic integral approximation gave.

If you find out that it's approximately X, then maybe the series is related to some other formula that is known to give you X. Then by performing some manipulations, you might show the two are equivalent. That's another attack on the problem.

And then any time you see a formula with 1/n^2's in it... maybe you could somehow connect that to the series.
Last I heard many of the GUFs are small integral membrane proteins, so the running theory is that they need to be there (and in quantities) to maintain isotonic homeostasis for the cell. The hard to test but interesting question is whether, though they need to be there, that they are there is more important than what they are.
$90M in funding according to crunchbase, https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/eero/funding_rounds/..., and it's been almost 3 years since the last one.
I've been meaning to count the number of "news" articles on television that are stories about personalities versus non-personalities but I am positive the number is far too high.
So if they're not happy they'll sell their parts? Win-win.
Oh dear. I'm late to my own party.

I'll look into settings all that up. I wasn't aware you could even take over that part of windows. Do you mean modify the iso before installing?

Most of the not-a-kid-poking-things part of my life has been linux oriented, so I'm not really sure what things are open to modification in windows.
Forbes Crypto Billionaire Claims “Kelsey Coin Is the Only Currency in the World”
Forbes Crypto Billionaire is claiming "Kelsey Coin is the Only Currency in the World" and that no other currency matters.
Chris Kelsey dropped out of high school at the end of 2014 to start an app development company called Appsitude. He then went on to start Cazza, a 3D printing construction startup that raised 950k USD at a 25m valuation.
After his ex-business partner stole most of the company funding, he began Kelsey Coin. He is part of the Forbes 30 under 30 Asia 2017 list.
Since 2016, Chris has traveled to almost 25 countries and has spoken at universities including Stanford and UCLA.

Video link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0Z-7v2SXFg
All these items would need to be in stock somewhere locally for delivery to be that fast, and if they are I'll either go and get them myself or pay 3-4 euros to have them delivered to a parcel locker 5 minutes away tomorrow. I'm fairly impatient, and there's nothing I actually need 'today'.

Where I live the streets are covered with snow and ice, and many paths and routes are difficult to navigate even on foot. No delivery vehicle is going to cope with this.
I actually want to take a bus, or walk. Taking the bus for groceries is insane, only someone living in suburbs could come up with that ;) You should be walking for groceries. Buses save a lot of time since you don't have to drive so you can read or even work; even in my location where buses are far away and there's no express bus nearby (so I make a transfer), for my commute in realistic, not over-the-top traffic the bus is only about 1.5-2.25x slower counting parking time in the free garage, so the net wasted time is actually higher by car; buses are way cheaper (same commute, $2.75 by bus, $5-6 by car before even counting tolls and with free parking); less bad for your health, esp combined with walking; much less stressful; you don't have to bother with parking that is often scarce in the areas you'd actually want to go; you can drink 3 beers and not worry about who will drive; if the weather is terrible like now in Seattle, buses mostly keep running even though most people cannot drive and Ubers are non-existent.

Mind you, that's all in the city where buses actually kinda suck. Where I'm from, subway runs 19 hours a day, and peak hour train interval are 50 seconds, up to 7 minutes at night. Many people still drive (it actually takes much longer at rush hour), well as I say, why stop the self-inflicted suffering, there are all kinds of kinky people :)

The way I see it, driving yourself is a menial job that makes about as much sense to do as pumping your own overflowed sewer with your own advanced plumbing gear. If you cannot pay someone else to do it (no plumbers or buses/ubers accessible), either you live really far in the mountains, or the place you live in is run by idiots.

Crime rates, except for the most benign property crime like car prowls and package theft, seem to be way higher in the LCOLs I looked at, ~4 years ago when we were deciding where to move to. I was actually surprised how much higher, although I don't remember the details. Anecdotally, someone I know lives in a LCOL in Texas and they got burglarized no problem in a gated burb that is way far out, you cannot get there in any way other than by car.
“Activism” without sacrificing convenience. Perfect. I suppose the really important part is that you get to tell your friends why they’re not as woke as you whenever they get an Uber.

It’s interesting seeing people admit to their fake outrage nowadays.
Even such a domain specific definition is borderline useless because there is no way to constrain the "utility" which rational agents are supposed to maximize -- which makes the concept of a rational agent tautological, and not at all predictive. ("People behave that way because they behave that way". I might encode my observations in a utility function but that doesn't suddenly help me generalize to other situations)

The other thing is that the limited situations which psychologists/economists measure people in are very artificial, and there's no reason for people to ace the experimenter's metric.

Responding to grandparent: It's not just that project are efficient and not quite correct -- they're probably more correct and scientists have no way to tell.

"If you judge a fish by it's ability to climb trees, it will live it's whole life thinking it is stupid."
Same (also worked for him). However the internet troll in my heart loves that he basically bilked Wall Street into funding basic science (the human genome project)
Sure it's low level in that you're poking at physical memory registers, but to me, low level in this context (thinking microcontrollers) means replacing the Linux kernel binary with your own application that does its own direct memory poking.
Your primary concern is a problem that doesn't exist. A smart TV with an obsolete app store is just a TV. It will still be a TV in 20 years like the one you're using now. If there's a new streaming service it doesn't support, you plug a Chromecast or a Roku or whatever device does support it into the HDMI port. I have a smart TV, but I have never connected it to the internet or used the built-in apps, and will never need to. It's just an ordinary TV that has some extra "inputs" I don't use. I'm never going to have to throw it out because I don't have a root shell... why would I need that?
Can you at least make it public for lurkers?
I was reading Indie Hackers the other day and came across https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/turning-a-small-app-f...
China does not seem to be at its peak yet. It can't be compared to Japan at its peak.
I think this is just cynicism. there's an absolute fuckton of extremely intelligent, insightful, and interesting comments all over reddit.

I think sometimes seeing what you want to see takes the form of seeing what you don't want to see.
Skynet has actually been online, and killing people, for quite a while already [0].

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/the-n...
My question is that the README implies that pledge() and unveil() are required for functionality, to the point that porting to an OS without support for that is an inherently questionable idea. That certainly isn't true of Chrome (I run it on non-OpenBSD and there are no functionality / security issues in doing so). That isn't true of OpenSSH, which also supports pledge() on OpenBSD and still is pretty secure on other OSes.

I do expect this is structured as you describe - that it has a validator, and that it uses these kernel features as additional hardening if the validator has a bug. But I would not describe that as requiring pledge() / unveil() and certainly not requiring it for functionality. So I don't know what the author means.

And I am worried, in particular, that the author means that the validator is not very strong, and the bulk of the validation is that it unveils the filesystem to the files it's supposed to write to and then blindly trusts the input, on the grounds that the worst the remote side could do is corrupt files but it could have just have sent different contents for the files in the first place. This seems unlikely to me, but I'm having trouble figuring out an alternate interpretation.
Similarly long-time HN user checking in. I think there's still a great amount of quality here, particularly posted material, but I have seen an uptick in the number of junk comments. I'm including comments that say something but are really saying nothing substantive, are blatantly reflexive, or lack depth of thought. Ad hominem and such are indeed still rare here, thankfully.
Qemu has some support, but it's not much. There used to be this thing called PiEmu, but it's not on GitHub anymore as far as I can tell.

IMO, just getting a PI and going to town is the best option currently.
I don't have internet time. I only go to the internet when looking for something specific or to kill time waiting for something else. Otherwise it's more important to spend it getting things done or with real people. Sitting on the internet, otherwise, is no different than clicking channels on the TV.
Not tens of thousands of years ago it didn't. It just had resources.
But to be honest, it sounds much more exciting to die in space than to die in a hospital.
What we need to see is if people like /u/gallowboob get any of this funding
They have almost made their mobile website un-usable. You have to click 3-4 buttons just to close out all of the popups. If you browse in Incognito mode, you have to close everything every time.
Unfortunately, my ex won most of our net worth in the divorce. (No kids.)

I remarried, though, and yes, I'm still the breadwinner, although at least my latest wife works.

That's kind of side details, though. If you have kids, you should try pretty hard to do right by them, in my opinion. Your wife, on the other hand, is perfectly able to get a job, too.

It's all balance. Your kids aren't going to be that happy if you're miserable.
Yes: create a "list" on Twitter, add the people you want to that list, and visit just that list (not the main Twitter stream/feed/timeline/whatever). The list does not show likes. (But I haven't tried combining it with disabling retweets...)
You might like this format:

https://xenforo.com/xf2-docs/dev/add-on-structure/#recommend...
It’s interesting that we’re all terrified of big tech’s growing base of power over our lives, yet more and more we expect big tech to take care of problems that governments are typically responsible for.
So if technology was not there, what exactly have they been doing all this time? What did their daily work day look like? Did they just sit around for a few years then decide suddenly, yeah we should file bankruptcy now?
But isn’t the removing of the genitals of transexual males a thing to be praised?
SpaceX Launch Certification to Face Review by Pentagon Watchdog
Heh, the people who can dabble in Assembly for a living won't be able to (typically) setup a major Web PHP + Database and all that. Assembly optimization is a different skill than web development, or other stuff in the stack.

We all gotta pick our specialties. For me, low level high-performance stuff is more of hobby project level. I got a few cool things I've learned by myself but it isn't really what I do for a living.
I love how elm enforces semver versioning.

When you write a library, it will detect API changes and upgrade the version accordingly.
How to build a custom Slack integration in 10 minutes without writing any code
Where are the youth of this generation and why are they not creating the next killer platform?
There used to be one in Rust but it seems that this year it reverted back to C.

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/7pymd9/stanford_cs140...
The trouble is that strings is more of a framework for physics to fit in to (like quantum mechanics) than it is a physical theory. There isn't a specific list of string particles, just like there isn't a list of Schrodinger equation particles. You have to add in whatever particles you discover, and then the theory tells you how they move.

On the bright side, if there was a single particle that didn't move like a string, string theory would be falsified. On the dim side, it's difficult for anything to not move like a string, because string theory is so powerful as a framework that you can get it to make just about anything consistent. What you really want in physics is a brittle framework that only allows you to slot in a few different behaviors.

It's kind of funny because programmers want the opposite thing that physicists do. When your client asks for a behavior that you have painted yourself into a corner against ever implementing your software has been "falsified," an expensive disaster that you work very hard in advance to prevent! If you made universes for a living, strings would be an ideal framework.
> We technically have some programming "simulators" for Assembly programming puzzlers.

I'm guessing you've seen / are referring to TIS-100?
http://www.zachtronics.com/tis-100/
The app is not the technology that makes this possible. It's just a webview around their website, and the SMS messages (not push notification) are sent directly to the phone via the cellular network.

Will anyone be able to silently leave the country if this app was pulled from the store? No, the SMS messages would still be sent, because they have nothing to do with the app.
Great podcast about this, although I'm halfway spoiling it by telling you it's about Mars One.

http://loveandradio.org/2014/05/hostile-planet/
It might be my ignorance of the topic but it seems to me that behavioral economics seems to have a major blindspot with respect to the computational & informational complexity costs of decision making processes (which are as real as any other kind of cost).

This could also be because it's more "interesting" to come to conclusions like "here's a pernicious irrational bias that most people have" instead of "people are essentially rational within their informational and computational limits".
If orgs apply before the deadline but are not accepted for NYC interviews, are they still considered for SF interviews?
just Yesterday I commented on another article here about space colonialization being alchemy of our times and I got downvoted. And Today this...
Thanks for the first sentence. Parent’s question infuriates me. The ignorance is just so real.
I'm working on a project that will be using PPP or SLIP to sync CouchDB over a serial-based RF link. It's really weird to see code in the slip.c file that's older than I am: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blame/master/drivers/net/s....
Burning Man Comes Out Against Instagram Influencers and Coachella-Ification
A single company going bankrupt is not an indication of space colonization being "alchemy".

Colonization is inevitable.
Ah the dial-up ISP days. As an young enterprising middle schooler 20+ years ago I started one with the help of my father. I remember stringing together a bunch of modems to a Postmaster and getting a rollover PRI line from the local telco. If my memory serves me it had 24 lines and would roll over if one was busy. We even made some of our own installation floppy disks and placed them at the local video rental store so people could self install. Fun times!
Java :-(
I worked for Ericsson for three years as a contractor (two tours), I looked at it as a leg up - but eventually you either fail out, or you build up enough confidence in yourself, that you know even if this job goes away - you'll find another, and if you don't, you don't.

This sounds like poor oversight (and policy) on the apple side however - and apple should be making sure that all employees are treated well - and contractors are employees, just indirect ones.
> I wish to keep HN away from the masses as much as I'd like a broader perspective in the light of how things go with typical social networks

Agreed. I downvote ferociously on HN when I see people attempt to be funny or meme on hacker news. It'll be a sad day once people try to use HN as some sort of hacker joke thread.
The "domestic internet" is part of a collection of infrastructure systems that need to properly work to keep order in place.

For a more blatant example take a look at the dependency of US emergency services on private communication companies like Calif. wildfire fighters having their communications disrupted because Verizon throttled their bandwidth.

At first sight a mildly interesting anecdote, but in reality, it's a massive flaw in the US's approach to infrastructure. If anybody really wanted to "cyber" the US they would only need to attack the private communication providers, like Verizon, and will not only take down the public spread of information/communication, but also completely disrupt the civilian emergency response forces attempting to react to whatever else the adversary might be attacking with, for an attacker it's a win-win.

Sure, the US military has its own hardened communication, but all the rest of the US American society? They will be left out in complete information and communication blackout.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/verizon-throttle...
I'll happily give you my life savings for 10 tons of semtex.
Propping up a bad business that would otherwise fail has two harmful effects:

1. The failure is greater and more impactful if it can't be held off forever. It's a lot better for society for fifty people to be laid off than a thousand. (It's probably better for those fifty people, too: their friends are less likely to be laid off and can provide immediate support, there are probably more open jobs, there's only fifty people competing for them and not a thousand, there's less loss of confidence in the industry, etc.) So failing fast is important. Ideally, you'd fail fast enough that the incompetent founding team loses their jobs and nobody else does.

2. There's usually a limited market / mind share for businesses, and it is hard for new businesses to get traction. The demand for, say, fast food within a given town is fairly fixed - advertising can make more or fewer people interested in it, but certainly there won't ever be more demand than three meals per day per person, and probably it will never get even close to that. So there's a limited labor market for fast food makers in that town. If there's an incompetent company employing a hundred people, and we prop up those jobs, we're likely preventing a more competent company from starting which could hire those same people and provide them with stabler and possibly higher-paying jobs. Worse, if the incompetent company is insolvent because they made bad pricing decisions, that company is probably out-competing other companies with more stable financial situations and preventing them from gaining traction.

So, if you don't want thousands of people to be laid off, it's good for incompetent businesses to fail as quickly as possible.

(The TSA and the military are government organizations, not companies, so the analysis is pretty different. Providing jobs to people for the sake of providing jobs is not a bad thing for government to do; providing that money without making them work is an even better thing for government to do.)
I'm sorry, but I don't think I really should take your bait.

I'm generally willing to hold a technical discussion among peers. But it has to be on even terms with a decent amount of respect given both ways. Your tone in the post above, as well as your posting history, does not give me any hope towards having a good discussion with you.