skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People work to put roofs over their heads. The current unemployment rate is 3.7%, near a record low. Jobs are not hard to get. If someone cannot find a job that pays enough to live in Seattle, they can relocate to a lower-cost area and/or find a roommate.
Judging a paper by the background of the authors is a sure sign that you were not able to read the paper and understand it. There is no actual astrophysics in this paper, only Lagrangian mechanics, geometrical algebra and information theory. Anyone who works with ion beams uses Lagrangian mechanics. Anyone who works with rf networks uses information theory. So, I'm not sure why their backgrounds would be a problem here. And seriously, holding someone's mainstream religious beliefs against them? That's just plain uncivil. I apologize if this is harsh, but I think that responding here is better than just downvoting you.

All that said, I agree with a part of your assessment, but for other reasons. The crux of the paper is a transformation from Lagrangian mechanics (in other words, the motion of particles with no frictional forces) into a form of 'entropic mechanics' used for calculating the entropy of a certain configuration of particles. They defined this transformation using a coordinate system which matched the spiral/helical shape that they were focusing on (see Eq 9a). In a way, this is a bit of a cheat, because had they used a fixed cartesian coordinate system I suspect the model would produce highest entropy when particles aligned with the x,y,z axes.

However, the interesting part of the paper is where they make an independent prediction of the energy to change B-DNA to p-DNA. This is the only non-tautology prediction in the paper, and it is interesting that their model gives a prediction close to the measured value. This means that their alternate 'entropic mechanics' means of calculation might be useful because it could simplify complex calculations.

The galactic stuff is basically a tautology. First, they are only calculating shape, and not doing anything with the velocity distribution (which is where the dark matter problem comes from). They say that most of the entropy is in the SBH in the galactic center, but then when they try to calculate the temperature of the remaining galaxy, they make a stability assumption that just happens to give the galaxy a thermodynamic structure which matches their spiral form (section right before eq 27a). Amazingly, this give a maximum entropy when the galaxy has a spiral structure!

So, from reading the paper only once, my assessment is a) this method could be useful for calculating entropy for particles in fixed geometries, b) the galaxy stuff is crap.
> Item: If you allocate all of the RAM on the machine, you have screwed the kernel out of buffer cache it sorely needs. Back off.

Why not just permanently allocate enough RAM for the kernel? If I have 16GB of RAM but the kernel needs 1GB to do its job, then just tell me that I have 15GB to work with.
Woah. I always thought it was more than that.
EPA puts it at only 9% https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/inventory-us-greenhouse-gas...
The problem is that these lat/lon figures are not displayed with precision information at all, so we can't even know the std dev. Sig figs are a simple and clear way to communicate the precision of a measurement, but if you want to be more statistically accurate, you can use parentheses to indicate the standard deviation. In your example (if I mess this up please correct me, but I think) it would be 45.73490534578(1000000)° Which again is silly because there is no way to know the standard deviation to that level of precision. A more reasonable number would be 45.734905(10)°

Is it difficult to include precision when reporting measurements? No

Is it sometimes valuable? Yes

Is it really too much to ask for? No
If you are using a smartphone, assume most nation states can hack you if they're particularly inclined.

If you want not to be hacked, use a dumbphone and take the battery and SIM out and bin it after use.
What I never understood is sites that put links only available in the footer -and- enable endless scrolling.

Worst thing ever.
> maintaining and updating your servers

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

> updating the free software

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

> backups

We setup a cronjob that backs up the server

> recovering from backups in situations where your servers fail?

We are able to recover in a reasonable timeframe. We take occasional server snapshots, and in the case of the machine completely going dark we could spin up one of those snapshots, dist-upgrade, and apply our git / Gitlab back and be back to normal.

Your concerns are good concerns for big companies. For small companies who don't need 99.99% SLA, running git/Gitlab on your own server is tremendously more reasonable than Github's paid plans.
A Drupal Operator for Kubernetes with the Ansible Operator SDK
It's not a good idea to try reading Haskell by "brute force", trying to figure it out as you go.

I suggest you first read through something that teaches you the basics like "Learn You a Haskell" or similar.

In a way, the experience is more like Clojure than Javascript. If you've read a Java-like language before, figuring another one tends to be easy. But if you've never read a Lisp-like, all the Java-like experience in the world won't help you to read a non-trivial Lisp program. You will just see some weird parentheses and won't be able to make head or tails of it.

Haskell is similar. Some upfront learning is needed before reading non-trivial programs.
it's a knee jerk reaction when people hear "eat less meat" they think "vegans". It's easier to downplay facts and argue against ghosts when you can associate what you don't like hearing with people who are commonly hated.
We do require B12, but "found almost exclusively in animal foods" leaves out something important. B12 is produced by bacteria, and is found in natural, untreated water sources, as well as dirt. Our bodies are adapted to preserve B12 in a very elaborate way, (because it is a water-soluble vitamin), meaning that we can survive on the trace amounts found in untreated water and the dirt that sticks to vegetables. This is not to say that I'm recommending drinking untreated water or not washing vegetables. Vegans should absolutely supplement.

DHA can be produced by our bodies transforming ALA, which is found in plant sources: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016378271...

Like the article says, there's debate over whether this is enough, as the conversion is very inefficient. As I understand it, ALA and LA compete for the same pathway, meaning that excess of LA intake (an omega 6 fatty acid, abundant in nuts and seeds, and of course oils processed from them) will reduce our body's ability to produce DHA, so a human eating prehistoric diet would likely have a better conversion ratio than on a modern diet. Also, there's apparently evidence that if we don't eat a lot of DHA, our bodies convert more of our dietary ALA to it to compensate: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20861171

But even taking all this into consideration, I'm not very sympathetic to arguments from nature. There's a big difference between saying "primal humans did X" and saying "modurn humans need to do X to be healthy". Even taking everything you said as given, there's overwhelming evidence that meat consumption is a big factor in for modern chronic health problems like heart disease and cancer. Eating whatever you can get your hands on (meat, eggs, fish, insects) makes sense when you just need enough calories to survive and reproduce, but that's not the problem now. We suffer from diseases of abundance. A plant-based diet with B12 and DHA supplementation is much healthier than an omnivorous one.
"I mean, that's the terse summary of it."
That's not really something I expect from an attacker at all.
Cosmic inflation is the inflation of space-time. The Big Bang refers to the transition period generally at and slightly after the universe's mass/energy interactions went from occurring in a singularity to occurring in a significant volume of space-time.

edit: in other words - superluminal inflation is big, but that's not a bang
I ran AFS for very long, it does have issues which perhaps other network fs'es don't even notice. It has issues with clients behind NAT for instance, the callbacks won't work. The limit of files in a dir is less than for local filesystems (or were) so Maildirs with long mail filenames could get into something that feels like "out of inodes but not space" situations. All in all, it was very nice though.
Freelancer here, 58 years old with almost 40 years experience, 10 as a freelancer/consultant.

To succeed as a freelancer or consultant you have to build a reputation for delivering results and a network of contacts. You don’t want to apply for jobs or go through interviews. You want clients to find you and not ask anyone else to bid on jobs.

I don’t think what you call yourself matters. In the software business titles don’t mean much.

Customers outsource because they need specialized skills. Many small and medium-sized companies don’t have full-time staff, or can’t attract and keep people, so what qualifies as “specialized skills” can vary. One of my most lucrative clients pays me top rate to manage Wordpress sites.

Base your price/rate on business value, not on what other people charge. Business problems have costs, risks, and time value, base your fees on those. Delivering results right away without hassling clients with lots of questions and irrelevant details has significant value to your clients. The more you understand their business and can fix things without supervision the more value you offer.

My customers pay for solutions so they expect me to solve business problems, not just write code. That means I do some project management and sometimes people management.

My age does not come up, I don’t think any client has asked. I work remotely, that helps.
I feel that if there is a millennia old book or tablet from early days of mankind regarding management, many advices would still apply.
They're gonna go bonkers when they find out that only Democrats owned slaves... mind blown.....
Using Python to Pull Data from the Meetup API
A native systray app for microservice developers to run or forward microservices
And cross that with our other values like morality or deforestation's contribution to animal species extinction.
Um, I know lots of 50 year-old (and older) senior developers.

I'm not ignoring the fact that ageism is a real thing (it most definitely is), and it is more difficult for many older programmers to "keep up", but that doesn't mean that no one is doing it.
A risk with 4. is that the fake generic's price could drop from 50% of branded price to much lower to kill off competition or at least make it hard for the competitor to justify all their initial start up costs.
I recall a reasonably similar incident when I was a kid, where we were taking fruit, with permission, from a farmer's trees and setting up a little roadside table to sell it from. We damaged his fence and he told us to screw off. I ran home and complained to my father, who said, "Yeah, that's not right at all, I'll talk to him." I thought I was golden and that mean old guy was gonna get what was coming to him. It was only the next morning when my dad sent me back off to that farm that I learned he wasn't telling the farmer off, he was telling the farmer we'd be back to work the fields for a day to pay him back for being little shits.
I stand on the side of the spam button in gmail.

If confirmed, a story like this make never upvote an official post from dev.to in the future, and make me less prone to upvote stories hosted in dev.to .

(I have 3 or 4 site in my personal list of never upvote.)

(And if there is a repeated abuse, the mods make get mad and ban the site.)
I get lots of messages from recruiters, but they're either in a neighboring state, or in a part of my state that I live nowhere near.
You can, but there are consequences for most people.

Next time you see a comment thread on LinkedIn, look who is responding. In my experience it is overwhelmingly founders and not employees. People that work for others have their speech chilled. People that work with others get benefits from having opinions, and do not have the consequence of income disruption and industry blacklisting.
One of my coworkers never put in his college graduation date. Apparently he's been in undergrad for 9 years! I'm impressed.
How to build AI systems that are visually enabled and interactive (3 demo vids)
This is a plausible route, but it still requires some engineering, specifically tweaking swapiness setting. Otherwise the swap will get used even with plenty of memory available, which in my experience can still cause havoc for GCed processes with high allocation rates on non-ssd disks.
One of the mechanics on an aircraft carrier I was on (briefly, I'm not military) said that if they find even one nut on the ground, they'll isolate and ground every single plane they think might be affected.
The Lisp 1.5 Programmer's Manual listed by Kay is available for download from the Computer Museum archives [1].

More Lisp fun [2].

[1] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%...

[2] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP
I would say, their source code should be available for anyone to see, especially security researches. And what is installed on the phone should be exactly what is available in public.
> How would you survive if everything eadible could scream?

That would certainly change the conversation. But given that there is dubious support for plants "feeling" pain in a sentient way, I don't see much reason to entertain it.

That said, my diet is mostly fruit, nuts and seeds anyway.
Climate change = 1% elites controlling your life. Co2 creates lush vegitation and thats a scientific fact. Its a death cult of chicken littles.
I know that Hongmeng here is 鸿蒙, but 红梦 is also "hongmeng"
Maybe they removed the vowels so that a randomly generated key doesn’t have any unexpected words in it?
I found myself wondering, "but why?" more than once reading this.

>I realized that Signal is located in Mountain View, Calif. So I downloaded Burner...

So, Signal is compromised because it's physically near Google? Okay.

>and went to Amazon.com

A company you can't shop at without leaving a digital trail? Okay.

>seeing the 7-Eleven location listed there along with almost everywhere else I’d been in the last seven years

You didn't turn off location services before trying a Faraday bag? You're still using your Android smartphone?

I guess I can give the author credit for looking around and trying, but most of the privacy benefits likely come from things like: using Signal (or similar end-to-end encryption), using privacy-focused email (or a private email server), not logging into social media, turning off location services, using a privacy-focused search engine like DuckDuckGo or StartPage, and blocking ads (and possibly JS if you're that bold).

If it's still not enough for the non-technically-minded, then I'd suggest doing some more research into more advanced techniques like network adblocking, Tor, VPN, or virtual machines.
Love to be groomed from birth to produce the most profit for some sick billionaire angling for his 20th yacht.
ESPN pulls Apex Legends tournament from broadcast after mass shootings
I think you underestimate the cost involved in relocation, that's not exactly a viable option for Seattle's homeless population.
Hasn't Estonia solved this with their national ID smart card?
It's usually still called a pun or homophone. Most puns in English don't precisely match phonetics (especially stress) either.
It is frustrating (to me, at least) that there is no common primitive data type the stores precision. But it isn't rocket surgery to store two floating-points (a value and precision) in a structure and format it properly for display.
I'm so lost; what is your point?
It's true. But survey-grade coordinates generally are used in a universal transverse Mercator, or in some locales a Lambert conic or some other locally useful projection. Those projections take into account such things as the deviation of the earth's shape from a perfect sphere.

Rule about lat/long precision: If somebody says the words "datum" or "projection" to you, and you say "huh?",
then you only need four digits after the decimal point in your lat/long coordinates. On the other hand, if you're designing an outdoor parking lot and you don't want puddles, please use survey-grade coordinates.
Indeed. It is not an all or nothing kind of thing. I've been eating less meat lately for a number of reasons, but I'm far from being vegan.

The Skeptical Science link doesn't seem to touch on water usage, only focusing on greenhouse gas emissions. Groundwater decline and depletion is another factor that should be kept in mind as people consider their food choices.
It isn't even 1.0 yet, far too early to be talking about bootstrapping the compiler.
Planting Rainforests and Donating Rice: Fascinating World of K-Pop Fandom (2017)
> Normally I wouldn't do that but she struck me as young, naive, not a lot of life experience.... but also genuinely interested in what other people think and I thought it was worth a shot. I was fortunate.

Depending on the industry, her connections, and career goals, that might be a very rational decision. If your professional network or aspirations involve national-security or Federal contracting then posting some patriotic ooh-rah posts is just her virtue signalling her allegiances to those she works with.

The area around me has loads of Federal work, and you see those types of posts all the time from folks in that industry. Similarly, I have contacts in private sector at companies that are really big into social-justice causes. Those folks will post all kinds of work-unrelated content of that variety.
Agreed. I hope any jury would nullify such a law. AKA "perverse verdict" in the UK?
Simple solve is to remove those keywords from your profile, and only keep keywords for jobs you want. Even changing Java Developer title to something generic as Software Engineer.

Many Recruiters/Sourcers spam everyone that come up in their keyword search and don't read the profile.
Of course. There are plenty of different ways to build such a platform (or contract it out) - I'm not advocating any in particular.

The UK has a rather interesting example in the GOV.UK Verify service, which federates the identity verification and authentication out to third parties. The user can then choose which provider (e.g. Barclays, Post Office) they want to prove their identity through. Experian is also one of the providers, which perhaps illustrates some of the flaws with this design...
Welcome to America. If there's a complicated way a billionaire can screw you more than he already has, he will patent it as a business process.
I think we have reached peak meaningless symbolic gesture. Hard to top this.
I have very specifically gone out of my way in this thread to not convey any opinion, implied or otherwise, regarding immigration or border policy. I only wanted to give a source for the fact that trust in healthcare is falling.
No one is talking about LinkedIn because nobody yet looked on the integration of LinkedIn with the Office suite and the privacy implications.

No one is talking about LinkedIn because it's boring. So boring that most people won't open it except when they need to. The conversations are also boring. The most banal as well as the nearly outrageous posts receive the same polite stream of likes and bland congrats comments. No one ever will say anything of merit.

No one is talking about LinkedIn because it isn't really a social network, it is mainly a tool for finding jobs/employees and for business marketing.
Circle of life, nature and all that. You know what else is natural? Rape. Our ancestors practiced a lot of rape.

Just because it is "natural" doesn't make it right. Nature is a cruel bitch, remember.
It doesn’t matter who has the weapon. What matter is whether it is targeting you.
I have just being viewing the video for a bit (it is over 4 hours) and the Chinese translator is a bit hard to listen to.

There seems to be quite few substantial announcements there. Amongst other a new CPU with a redesigned pipeline.
Italy's "PEC"[1] (Posta Elettronica Certificata, or Certified Electronic Mail) comes pretty close.

There's even an RFC[2] for it.

In order to get one, an individual has to prove their identity via a government-issued ID (ID card or passport), and that email address can henceforth be used to send emails for all official correspondence as if it were certified/verified mail, with the added bonus that both parties "know" the identity of the other party (i.e. the company knows it was very likely me who sent it, as they trust that the people in charge of having verified my ID did their job) and with the added bonus of the _contents_ of the email also being certified to have been sent from that recipient to that destination address, and not to have been tampered with (great thing to have for lawsuit reasons), unlike "standard" registered mail, who only certified that a letter has been sent and picked up.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certified_email#Italy
[2]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6109
Statistics is science and ML is engineering.
>>The existence of the vaccine industry demonstrates there is a market for a cure

You are confused about terminology. Vaccines don’t cure. They are preventative.
So have two of them with synchronous replication and fail over between them. You have to think about dying or suddenly slow machines even in a microservices architecture.

The advantage of such a machine is that if it starts to die, you fail over everything atomically and then repair/replace the backup. You don't need to think about what happens if one component is on a dead machine and the others aren't (does your load balancer handle that well, given machines often "die" in ways that just make them slow rather than totally failed?)

The big win though is if you get rid of the microservices and run the whole thing in one big process. No complex RPC failures, obscure HTTP/REST attacks like https://portswigger.net/blog/http-desync-attacks-request-smu... and so on.

That might sound mad but modern JVMs can run lots of languages fast, and have ultra-low-pause GCs that can use terabytes of heap. Like less than one msec low. Many, many businesses fit into these really high end machines with a giant JVM.

I've written about the possibility of a swing back to big iron design here:

https://blog.plan99.net/vertical-architecture-734495f129c4

And a look at modern Java GCs - GC being historically the bottleneck to really large single processes:

https://blog.plan99.net/modern-garbage-collection-part-2-1c8...
The NN complexity is not a question of doing the calculations. Go on a 5x5 board would be a very straightforward game, go in a 19x19 board is not. Similarly, understanding how NN fiction at a nuts and bolts level stops being enough as you build larger networks.
> I’ve run clusters of several thousands machines installed with petabytes of ram

Do you mean a cluster of many computers that are collectively seen by the OS as a single machine with petabytes of ram? I can I do that too?
That is a misunderstanding of floating point.

The relationship between trailing non-zero digits in the decimal representation and trailing non-zero bits in the significand is not one-to-one.

One third in a trinary representation would be 0.1. In decimal, 0.33333333333...

Mostly fruitless overprocessing. Only time I'd consider doing this would be for an epic ASCII dump of coordinates.