skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That and California City's weather is a bit better than most places in that area (including the central valley), because it's built on a high plain.

I know someone who owns a house out there and someone who owned a Subway out there. California City is similar to the ghost cities in China in that most of the people who own houses out there buy one for retirement and haven't moved in yet. This creates a slow growth where I wouldn't be surprised if there was more houses out there than people. Of the city so far, it's very suburban middle class looking. Lots of grass and terraforming. In the areas without terraforming sand can fly into the house when the front door is open, so imho the area needs it badly.

There are a handful of retirement cities in Southern California around the Riverside area, and a handful in AZ and NV, but California City is imho one of the more interesting secrets. Not because it's better, but because it's unusual.
But then, what exactly was won? Seems to me, the request to api.creditmerchant.net is still a mostly ordinary cross-site requests, except the packets are routed through example.com - but example.com can't do anything with the packets, because they are encrypted.

So api.creditmerchant.net could still inject all kinds of malicious or buggy scripts and example.com can't do anything about it.

The one difference I see is that api.creditmerchant.net could restrict it's endpoints to only accept packets from example.com addresses - as they should never be called directly from a browser. This sounds like some ad-hoc CSRF protection. Was that the intention?
C++ Hall of Fame
That's really nice, I enjoyed reading the code.
> or perhaps they disagree strongly with the concept of an intellectually liberated population. Libraries are, after all, a pillar of liberalism.

Thoughtful comment. I would agree with you if the attack is somehow organized at 4chan /b/, Kiwi Farms, or some underground IRC for mysterious or unexplained reasons. If it happens, its philosophical implications would be deep. And I won't surprise if it occurs one day.

But so far there's no evidence to suggest the attack has any ideological motivation beyond making the attacker famous.
Actually the English Wikipedia went down as well, at least here in Italy.
Complex System Failure: The Whole Is More Than the Sum of Its Parts
I wonder why we are required to work 8 hours instead of just 2 every day.
There was a hackernews post yesterday where the top voted comment asserted that computer science and maths is (in practice) only useful for data structures and algorithms; everything else needed either physics or social science. This is why Haskell is important. Haskell will help teach people the mathematics behind program construction: how to write composable code, how to reason about effects, how to write consistent, general, less ad-hoc APIs.
To illustrate the point: https://youtu.be/e21ZjwZGjiQ
I think even pop culture have been more interested in the fall of the republic and the rise and assassination of Caesar.
Alchian-Allen Effect: Economic Inequality and Nice Golf Courses in Vegas
There are ready to install Stellarium-android APKs.[0]

[0] https://github.com/chengxinlun/Stellarium-android/releases
I agree that deciding between MWI and other interpretations seems impossible, so it's not a problem that's considered important in physics, more of a good topic for a dinner conversation among physicists.

Our understanding of quantum measurements is much better now than it was at the advent of quantum mechanics, and it's understood that there's no such thing as an "abrupt" collapse of a wave function during measurement, it's instead a continous process involving entanglement and decoherence between two quantum systems (the system being measured and the measurement system). This understanding allows us to explain any measurement process using only "plain" quantum mechanics, i.e. unitary evolution of two coupled systems described by a Hamiltonian. If we just look at the Hamiltonian of the measured system it will seem that it shows wave function collapse because its evolution is non-unitary, but the evolution of the entire system is still unitary. From this angle I personally find any further invokation of a wave-function collapse mechanism unnecessary, and I think it overcomplicates quantum mechanics without giving us any benefits, so we might as well do away with it. Unfortunately, most courses on quantum mechanics still introduce the students to wave-function collapse when explaining measurement outcomes, which might be the reason that so many physicists have a bad understanding of the measurement process. Of course wave-function collapse is still a good shortctut for describing strong quantum measurements, I think it should be introduced as an approximation of a continuous measurement though.
The test suite for the grody old IRC bot a few jobs ago was written in Expect. One intern season we set a project to, when announcing a new PR was published, to format the primary reviewer’s handle slightly. It ended up taking 3 days to update the tests, understanding expect, then writing a filter to strip out IRC color codes.
I’m not worried about the privileged. They have every benefit and fortune at their backs. You should use the limited resources of your worry toward those more deserving and needful.
All string functions: not surprising since recent processors have the crazy PCMPxSTRy instructions that are basically a hardware implementation of strcmp, strchr, memchr, strspn etc.

memcpy and memset use SSE on some generations, but these days are best inlined by the compiler as "rep movsb/stosb".
Man, you made me want to immediately get into the car and drive there to enjoy Italian reform architecture (and cuisine, of course). Does anybody have a guide or other link to share for classical-modern architecture in nothern Italy (rather than rinascimento which is everywhere)?
The Hyundai-Kia Proving Grounds are there.

https://www.hyundainews.com/en-us/releases/380

https://goo.gl/maps/xL6rr9tuEZYyTPuE8
Nowhere in the OP is his country even mentioned.
Technically speaking they are not using Safari, but a WebView.
My spouse's family was one of the only Chinese American families in their small Wyoming town. Her father moved to there poor and is now a VP at the local employer and heads multiple local organizations. The first time she experienced actual harmful racism was after moving to Seattle.

All it takes is a willingness to put yourself out there, attend a local church, etc. The people I’ve ran into there are far friendlier and more genuine than nearly everyone I’ve met in my years of city living.
Interesting though how if you suppose abundant, low cost renewable energy available at scale exists, the above problems suddenly become tractable and solved.
Thanks. What an unbelievable situation!
> which will raise TypeError

At runtime. In production. A compiler would catch the problem at build time, never causing an error in production.
shouldn't be a factor for a company *at that scale*

Exactly.
Zebrafish != Humans
There are quite a few festivals out in that neck of the woods. Eg, https://www.wastelandweekend.com/
Seems that is exactly the difference between "lax" and "strict" settings: "strict" will strip cookies from all cross-site requests, "lax" will keep them for GETs. The default setting will be "lax", so following links would be fine.

I think the "strict" setting is for the proposed "two sessions cookies" design pattern: You have a basic "I'm logged in" cookie with SameSite=lax and a second "I can do things" cookie with SameSite=strict. The first cookie gives you read access to your account and tracks your session - however, to perform any actions on your account, you need both cookies.
Nope. You use the brake to help balance the car. Maybe not in F1 or something with limited suspension travel, but in Rally and/or production based cars like this you will left foot brake for balance. At least, close to the limit you will.
It's not correct is the issue.
That's essentially what https://www.senscritique.com/ does in the french speaking world. You rate movies, books, comics, series, music, then it will suggest "éclaireurs" (scouts/recon) to follow, finally you will be advised to see/read/listen what they love and you do not know.
Ignoring equipment cost, in many climates PV + a heat pump would outperform a plain solar water heater. :)

[Silly to ignore equipment costs, sure, but if you have other uses for PV power ... using PV for heating water isn't necessarily nuts.]
The article strikes me as crackpottery, but this statement

> A lot of physicists also don't see any value in MW's interpretation since it offers no predictive value

is not entirely correct either.

This is the probably best "explain like I am an undergraduate not in Physics" article on Everett's proposal.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-everett/

To further summarize the value of Everett's proposal:

In the standard von Neumann-Dirac collapse formulation of QM, a collapse happens when we measure it. But what a measurement event looks like and conditions when it occurs are not described by the theory at all. This is one reason why QM cannot completely describe the universe, or approximate it. Note that even if we can describe what a collapse is, this+QM still fails to model parts of the world, only approximating it.

But one can try to propose a formulation of QM that agrees with the collapse formulation, that does not have that collapse, so that it is closed in the sense that for each system of observers observing a quantum system collapsing, that system can be modeled as quantum system itself. That is Everett's proposal. From the linked article,

> Everett’s solution to the problem was to drop the collapse postulate from the standard formulation of quantum mechanics then deduce the empirical predictions of the standard collapse theory as the subjective experiences of observers who were themselves modeled as physical systems in the theory. The result was his relative-state interpretation of pure wave mechanics.
Too late to edit at this point, but... damn. With all the recent news coming out, looks like Epstein was banned from any kind of donation to MIT due to his sex offender status, and Ito knew about everything at the time and did an end run around the ban in order to take his money. So yeah, nevermind, this is really bad.
It is not, and the article hints at that:

> If a civilization could descend from Cicero and Cato to Caligula and Nero in scarcely a century, how long could the brave experiment launched by Madison, Jefferson, and company hope to endure?

This describes the fall of the republic, not the fall of Rome half a millennium later. Nero and Caligula are among the first emperors, not the last.
Both of the countries that bet on the EU folding, Greece and the UK, found that it was much more resilient than their own internal politics. Brexit is limping towards its own slow death.
Entangled particles share a state, they do not interact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem
Whenever I need to "screen scrape" an interactive console application, I usually end up running the process under tmux and interacting with it via Python after wrapping send-keys and capture-pane.
Entertainment Is Eating Politics
nf8nnfufuu asks questions -- in order to better understand what did actually happen.

Epstein had sex with girls younger than 18.
But was is against their will?

Epstein is dead, so he does not care if anybody defends him. But if we want to understand how Epstein operated, we should question the accusations.
Compilers do autovectorization (with varying degrees of success) so potentially in lots of places?
Some network related info from the pubg devs

https://steamcommunity.com/games/578080/announcements/detail...
> This is a peculiarity outside the realm of physics.

So the “realm of physics” is now disconnected from empirical reality? Great.
Every claim you are making requires justification why it explains reality better than the model you are arguing against. Without that this reply paints you as a crank.
In our startup due to earlier experience working with pandoc, we tried to give Haskell a try.

It was very difficult for team to pick up and then they took longer to accomplish very little. It did drain out confidence and make us think, we are not so clever.

So later moved to Python, and suddenly things changed. In the meantime on personal level at present learning lisp. Once finish will try to work on Haskell again.

I think Haskell along with lisp will be good on learning functional programming for my team. It will help them solve logical problems using functional paradigm as well. So in future they can pick up procedural or functional paradigm to solve logical problems better suited to problem at hand.
That's not what he said? You live up to your name though.
He has put words on paper that confirm.
He garners attention and speaking fees. He has no incentive to speak the truth or actually help people gain expertise. He is almost a fraud.
I can't believe I paid for his crappy book. I feel like an idiot. His "story" about the Korean airlines and the general conclusions he draws borders on the racist and superfluous.
There's a slidedeck and presentation that's been posted to HN a number of times about Call of Duty's servers using Erlang.

https://www.erlang-factory.com/upload/presentations/395/Erla...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14120506

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2671755

https://vimeo.com/26307654
This makes me think of this article I saw about what modern animals would look like if they were drawn like dinosaurs [1]

[1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/natashaumer/dinosaur-an...
I've flagged your comment as a completely unprovoked personal attack on Gojomo. It's not okay to call people names because they point out your misconduct.
What I'm saying is you don't have to see eigen values as something of different nature than the wave function. They represent very condensed wave function. Instead of getting rid of all probability by calculating eigenstates you could get rid of just a part of probability (sort of like by using fuzzy numbers in your calculation instead of real numbers) and get something that is close to eigenstates but still is a wave function. If you track such object in time and space you'll see it still obeys Schrodinger equation.

Nobody does that because that won't help you with predicting results of your experiments and it's way more work. But it gives you insight some people crave while others feel it's completely unnecessary.
https://www.anime-planet.com/ does recommendations like that on a per-show basis (if you liked [this] then you may like [this], [this], [this]...), the relationship recommended, voted, and commented on by other viewers.
A lot of people are saying that you don’t have to grow workers coops and they can (with the implication that they should) remain small. A counter example is the Mondragon Corporation, which is a worker coop/federation of worker coops which employs 75,000 people.
Apache Maven 3.6.2 Released
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/maven-dev/201909.mb... Regression when working partial
exclusions (either the groupId contains a wildcard or the artifact contains a wildcard)
I think the world is going to be a terrible place if we have poor people to lead the country. I do not hate poor people, but being poor will put you in a very bad position, can lead you with no vision, just short-term thinking of basic needs. It is very sad.
Great minds think alike. Let's work on it together. Give me some feedback on what you'd like to see. Thanks mate.
I tend to think the brain hones in on item #1 of a list.
Yup. We're on to it. God speed to you too!
That's why opposition to gas flaring is ridiculous. It's far better for the environment to burn it and turn leaking methane into CO2 + water vapor than let it escape (even if the burning can't be locally used to power anything).
Strongmen are power lifters. Swoleshaming is not ok.
> via shady Epstein MIT could get clean Gates money. OK or not OK?

Not okay. Why? To answer, we have to admit that "clean" is a word which carries an unhelpful metaphor here: bacterial contamination.

The problem isn't that the money is in some way contaminated. The problem is that the flow of money establishes a relationship with two effects:

1) Someone who owes or regularly gives you money can influence your decisions.

2) Having someone associate with you gives them social status, especially as a donor to a beneficial institution.

The metaphor for which people should reach for should be drawn from something like the song Molasses to Rum from the musical 1776: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeuaTpH6Ck0

So getting money from Gates via Epstein would still be bad because Epstein has the power to stop that flow of money. Gettin money from Epstein via a federal court order would not be bad because Epstein doesn't have the power to stop that.

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> I would be interested in what made the Media Lab guy do it.

I too would be interested in what made led him to do so. Because in order to receive donations, an organization like the media lab generally needs to be able to lean on its brand and its ability to invite companies to sponsor them. So we'll likely see that taking that money was long-term harmful financially to the Media Lab.
Swoleshaming is not ok
Because people are interested to know why this is happening. Technical people voted for this article to be on the front page. Please respect that.

The insinuation that Jalopnik is Audi’s sock puppet is simply unfounded.
Time to grab your tinfoil hat.
Of course physicists don't understand Quantum Mechanics, it has been classified in 1964.
Before that time we didn't really have the computational resources to use the alternate model efficiently.

You've got to remember we are talking about the technology which make nukes.

What if the physics world was as simple as the one we teach in high school, a simple classical world with a twist.
In the 1950s there were even science kits for kids with Uranium. We were on the track towards a world with clean infinite energy.
Clean, yes, because the first fusion bomb had just been tested, and fusion technology was just around the corner.

Then the cold war paranoia made everything change. The Vietnam War brought what ifs ?

What if the know how was so simple that any Vietcong could build a nuke ? What if one of those damn pacifists decided to make one at home ?

They gathered a few people from Los Alamos to seek council. The tale has it that it was Von Neumann that put the final nail in the coffin of the green world utopia.
With machines using its architecture, it would, before a few decades, be simple for everyone to simulate everything from chemistry to atom bombs.
It was simply not acceptable. They devised a plan to make sure that was not going to happen.

The beauty of science is that once you accept a false result, you can easily disprove the true theories.
Then it's just a question of smoke and mirrors (should I say vapor chambers, and single particle detectors ?).
Control the experiment results by making sure the experimenters know the theory it needs to prove.

That's how in 1964, a crackpot physicist made the world non-local.
It was such a success to attract young new people to the field, that those who knew better played along.

Of course since then smart people saw through the veil and are thankful for the elders' wisdom to not free the dragon.
No, I mean it will be evenly spread out in all directions and not have any location where it is dense.
HTTPS for your local endpoints with inlets and Caddy
Because people in this thread are (as usually) unable to read the article before commenting, here the relevant excerpt:

> But according to a new study published in Royal Society: Open Science that attempted to replicate the findings of the original, practice alone doesn't account for mastery. In the study, deliberate practice only accounted for a quarter percentage of the skills difference, which doesn't account for what makes someone an expert.

> Brooke Macnamara, a psychologist at Case Western Reserve University, and researcher Megha Maitra interviewed three groups of 13 violinists, each rated as less accomplished, good, and best. The violinists were told to keep a diary to log practice hours, and those hours were then tallied. While the less accomplished violinists had logged an estimated 6,000 hours by age 20, the good and best had both logged around 11,000 hours.

> That is to say: The good and best violinists saw no huge difference, as opposed to the not so good violinists, who didn't practice as much. The implication: practice didn't account for all the differences in performance.

And the abstract:

> We sought to replicate Ericsson, Krampe & Tesch-Römer's (Ericsson, Krampe & Tesch-Römer 1993 Psychol. Rev.100, 363–406) seminal study on deliberate practice. Ericsson et al. found that differences in retrospective estimates of accumulated amounts of deliberate practice corresponded to each skill level of student violinists. They concluded, ‘individual differences in ultimate performance can largely be accounted for by differential amounts of past and current levels of practice’ (p. 392). We reproduced the methodology with notable exceptions, namely (i) employing a double-blind procedure, (ii) conducting analyses better suited to the study design, and (iii) testing previously unanswered questions about teacher-designed practice—that is, we examined the way Ericsson et al. operationalized deliberate practice (practice alone), and their theoretical but previously unmeasured definition of deliberate practice (teacher-designed practice), and compared them. We did not replicate the core finding that accumulated amounts of deliberate practice corresponded to each skill level. Overall, the size of the effect was substantial, but considerably smaller than the original study's effect size. Teacher-designed practice was perceived as less relevant to improving performance on the violin than practice alone. Further, amount of teacher-designed practice did not account for more variance in performance than amount of practice alone. Implications for the deliberate practice theory are discussed.
Bill de Blasio: Why American Workers Need to Be Protected from Automation
If your point is that knowing the past is, in general, interesting to understand the future, then I broadly agree.

However, at some point, records of the past become full of anectodes and little details that don't translate to anything valuable. And I was wondering if this was the case here.

I should have pointed out that I actually read part of the black book back in 2003 (how times flies...) , and, back then, I was already wondering if the book was relevant because of the focus of assembly and pre-pentium chips.

So, seeing the book mentioned 16 years later made me wonder what I might have missed, besides the eternal truth of "measure before you optimize".
Answer: Its okay to store the encrypted passwords there. Since they are encrypted.
What persuasive techniques did Epstein use to convince kids into abuse?
As someone not very knowledgable about DNSSEC, can you expand on this point? To the uninformed that sounds very counterintuitive.