skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something that most people don't understand is that most physicists won't talk to the public. What you hear as a layman is usually the few people who have a public axe to grind and bears no resemblance to the majority of the field.

When I was in physics in the early 2000's, the general feeling was that it's a probably nonsense, but having someone out at the far end of the mathematical spectrum like that in your theory group was a good investment. And even if they were doing string theory, there's a good chance they were using it as a vehicle, a kind of generalized, more flexible version of field theory, to poke at some mathematical rabbit hole.

The majority of physicists are not in HEP. The majority of HEP physicists are experimentalists. The majority of HEP theorists are phenomenologists. But phenomenologists aren't generally good fodder for science journalists because statements like, "I'm calculating scattering cross sections in the kaon sector for CP violation measurements" isn't going to get clicks. And the experimentalists are even worse: "I've been working eight hour night shifts for the past two years. I'll probably go back to my home university and spend another couple years processing data to get an estimate for this parameter in this scattering calculation. It might be a fraction of a percent off what we expected!" Faced with that, "I'm playing with a high dimensional extension of quantum field theory to see if I can generate a spin 2 field in an expanding spacetime" sounds really sexy.
Win32 is the one left in the 90's.

COM gets regularly new APIs.
I'm not a huge fan of the format of the article, but I am a huge fan of a solar plant that has sufficient storage (and mindset) to provide power when the sun isn't shining. The more like this, the better, imo.
Very few solar panel arrays provide power at night. Those that do have energy storage systems attached that were very expensive to add. When the purpose of the array is to save on expense of peak-usage power, storage is not essential and is often omitted.

Even in the daytime, without grid access you need storage because the power produced does not rise and fall with your load. Turn on the microwave and the clothes dryer, and instantaneous load may exceed what the panels are producing right now. A cloud going by reduces generation, possibly below current load.
That's really neat! If you only need a little power, you might even be able to harness the 100 W of heat our bodies continually give off. You could press the warm end against you to bring it up to human body temperature rather than just ambient, which should increase the thermodynamic efficiency by quite a bit. I'm imagining, perhaps, a handheld flashlight that powers itself using the heat from your hand alone.
He might be referring to the old radio game, Mornington Crescent that aired on BBC Radio 4. Where all the rules are made up, but tensely debated none the less. One of my first website's was an attempt at an online game of Mornington Crescent.

> The game consists of each panellist in turn announcing a landmark or street, most often a tube station on the London Underground system. The aim is to be the first to announce "Mornington Crescent", a station on the Northern line. Interspersed with the turns is humorous discussion amongst the panellists and host regarding the rules and legality of each move, as well as the strategy the panellists are using.
But you don't care about finding the original password. You only care about finding a string that after applying the hash function, gives the same out.

That's why you can have a hash function like h(x) = 0, whose value gives you no information about x, and still not being able to use it.
Specifically, the rules of Mornington Crescent are made up as you go along.
Cheap? PG&E?
It's really not that wierd. This is the first time I've seen anyone mention the lack of non-javascript support, or mention that the site doesn't work because of it.
Note that the cost per MWh is less than most fossil generation, and far less than the cheapest nuclear (per Lazard’s most recent LCOE analysis).

It’s clear that solar and battery storage can now provide affordable base load power, and can be deployed rapidly (this project is set to turn up in 2022).

https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-...
Correct, they need a common sense / world model.
They got away in the sense the US imported $11B worth or goods from China in 1989 (the year of the massacre) and $539B in 2018.

source: https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html
I think these two resources are excellent:

1. Simon Peyton Jones, How to Write a Great Research Paper
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/academic-program/wr...

2. Larry McEnerney’s writing workshop
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIzMaLkCaM

These focus on writing papers, and get as close to talking about “scientific” writing as any resources I have seen.

But I think good general writing advice will help with scientific writing, too.

The book “Style: Towards Clarity and Grace” may be useful for that.

I would also suggest that it is important to remember, even in technical writing, that you are telling a story. The more you practice your storytelling, the better your papers will be.

Besides jargon, I see two common problems in the papers I read. (I am an art history student, but I expect this is not unique to my field.)

1. I read too many articles that fail to get me excited about where they are going. They tell me what they will say, but not why I should care.

2. I read too many essays that fail to conclude with applications, take-aways, or next steps.

Please don’t just give A Novel Approach To Dragon Slaying. Show me the villagers suffering from the dragon’s violence. Then show me how to slay the dragon. And don’t end with the dead dragon—end with the fireworks the villagers light in celebration.
> "It would culminate the ancient human quest for knowledge, which began when the first of our ancestors asked, "Why?""

This is historical nonsense. There's an interesting book called Curiosity by Philip Ball that looks at the history of curiosity going from being a vice to being an epistemic virtue.
anyone with medical needs.

my dad's dialysis clinic found out about the power shutoff the same way we did. the news.

the plan is to go to the local hospitals/ERs for dialysis because the clinic isn't equipped to handle anything beyond a short outage right now. except, well, that's everyone's plan. during the start of cold and flu season. excellent to send a bunch of medically fragile people to the same place. and the hospital is not equipped to deal with regular repeat dialysis needs either...?

and this is only dialysis - can't even begin to express the fury on behalf of people who won't even be able to leave their homes - think power chairs and hospital beds and elevators that run out of power in the multi-day-outage scenario...
And which country would you rather live in, China or America?
Most open-source software is written by people being paid to do it, and at SiFive we are expanding the software team as well as the hardware side. Ex-ARM people are certainly welcome and may recognize a few people when they get to the office(s) :-)
The problem with 1 and 3 that isn't accounted for is that then you have go on dealing with your other utilities acting like you didn't just eat their neighbor's heart on national television.

When utilities bring their rate cases to the CPUC, they're factoring in the liabilities they face. If now you're one fire away from the State of California ruining you, their going to argue they need higher return on investment, higher rates, higher revenues to accommodate infrastructure, and they're going to be right. Policy people aren't going to swallow that sitting down because it's political poison, they burn the state down so you grant them rate increases.

No matter whose hands their in, most of the risk is going to be borne by the ratepayers. Public or private, short of redesigning the entire grid, that risk doesn't go away.
The old blizzard is dead and gone.
It's the new and improved activision blizzard.
Almost all of the area cut did not have high winds.

It was a stunt.
That I was hinting at in the last sentence. Apple Watch 5 and iPhone 11 came out on the same day and needed watchOS 6 and iOS 13 respectively, so basically, those hardware releases forced the buggy *OS to be released across all platforms and devices.
> It's scary how effective the US and China are at propaganda warfare.

Consider discussion on HN.

TPP is said to have been about "free trade". I've seen little mention of hegemony, or of corporate capture of US policy. None of TPP's ISDS enabling companies to sue governments for profits lost to health regulations, even as the public health disaster of junk food is extended throughout the Americas. Nor of requiring China to change its industrial policy, to optimize for industries shaped like US pharma.

This on a site focused on an industry with a different shape, that has long recognized itself as ill served by patent policies optimized for pharma.

When the current round of trade negotiations was breaking down, there was some discussion in business press, that pharma was perhaps pushing too hard, and would be wiser to get a less aggressive deal signed now, and push further later, rather than risking all. But on HN, you'd not even hear they were a player.

You'll see no mention here of the Unequal Treaties, nor analogies to the Opium Wars.

China must change it's laws to be more like ours, as is only proper. Even those laws, like copyright term extension, which we feel were against the public interest, and pushed through by corruption. It's the principle of the thing...?

Sure, HN's competence is largely localized to tech. It's been observed that its discussion of other fields, like medicine, can get quite bad. International trade policy is not a core competency.

But I feel like I'm watching a page out of history. Yet another war frenzy, and the choice to set aside institutional and societal intellectual integrity and competence. Perhaps someday, the NYTimes will yet again apologize, and FOX won't... and neither will undo harm and lost opportunities, raise dead and wreckage.

But HN does have a core competency of tech.

So what would it take, to create a discussion medium which might do better?

In which topics like this could fruitfully be worked through? Regardless of ignorance and emotion. And of well-funded expert disruption. Where pro-life and pro-choice communities could coexist, incentivized to remain, and productively engage? /r/The_Donald and Sanders. #TSLA and bulls.

What would it take to create a sane public dialog in the United States?
...

it is?
>Sure, but I consider that relationship with our environment to be an aspect of our humanness.

It all gets very circular.

The important "meaning" stuff could survive in the next successor apex life form, let's call it "whatever." Which btw will have an environment, which you may consider an aspect of its whateverness, if not its humanness. And its whateverness will give its life meaning, etc. etc. So there is nothing all that special about humans, in other words, other than we have achieved a lot (not only technologically, but also intellectually) to date relative to other organisms we know about.

>Given our track record, if we designed our own new form it wouldn't be some higher natural form but a dispassionately "optimal" one.

This reminds me of the artist Pablo Picasso who said of computers "...they are useless. They can only give you answers." implying that they can't ask questions or come up with new things.

Why did he think that? I'm at a loss to come up with any reason other than ignorance. Computers are perfectly capable of surprising everyone with new capabilities each year.

We don't have a track record to speak of with artificial life creation, but the danger of creating a boring monolithic life form is not unknown. Usually when we identify problems like this, we find solutions for them. Imagining that we can't is like imagining that computers can only give answers. It's closing yourself off to possibilities emerging from something that is very much open ended and continuing to evolve. It's a kind of religious thinking in that it comes down to faith that humans are, for some slippery reason, uniquely special in ways that nothing else ever can be.
It's beautiful. Here are examples of compiling c4 and using it, following the README:

$ gcc -o c4 c4.c 2>/dev/null
$ ./c4 hello.c
hello, world
exit(0) cycle = 9
$ ./c4 -s hello.c
1: #include <stdio.h>
2:
3: int main()
4: {
5: printf("hello, world\n");
ENT 0
IMM -274739184
PSH
PRTF
ADJ 1
6: return 0;
IMM 0
LEV
7: }
LEV
$ ./c4 c4.c hello.c
hello, world
exit(0) cycle = 9
exit(0) cycle = 26015
$ ./c4 c4.c c4.c hello.c
hello, world
exit(0) cycle = 9
exit(0) cycle = 26015
exit(0) cycle = 10060183

It works on Windows too, if you have gcc installed.

Also, see "Adding support for 64 bit targets" commit:

https://github.com/rswier/c4/commit/2feb8c0a142b2e513be69442...

And yes, swieros has much more.
Site seems up for me https://winniethepooh.disney.com
Waiting to see that message at BUILD 2020 or the upcoming Ignite.

Until then, sorry to say but I follow up on what is available to us.
Apple also recently pulled the app of the American news organization Quartz from the App Store in China. Quartz has been covering the Hong Kong protests.

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1182153976873148416
No nullification. See next-in-time-order comment from me on this post.
That also irked me. I like memes probably more than the next guy, but the way it's been used here seems distasteful.
Oh please, you want me to believe my own eyes or your sanitized nostalgia? HK'ers have been calling mainlanders "locusts" online for at least ten years. Nowadays it's out-and-out "chinks" that they use (even legislative candidates). Political dissatisfaction is only a symptom of an underlying mental illness around identity that has never been grappled with.
Up for me too from Germany.
US dependency on Saudi Arabia is not just about our access to their oil. Due to quite prescient agreements dating back all the way to 1974 is the reason that Saudi Arabia, to this day, only sells oil in the dollar. [1] We made them a deal that seemed too good to be true. They simply sell their oil in the dollar (and only the dollar) while investing any surplus resources in US treasuries, and we'll provide them with military aid and equipment. Essentially getting a free military alliance with the strongest military power in the world in exchange for nothing.

Of course it's not nothing. Imagine we do things some might consider a bit dubious. Perhaps accepting the running of a deficit in the trillions of dollars, or injecting trillions of dollars into the economy and calling the resultant price inflation growth. The natural consequences of these sort of actions are things such as inflation and a weakened dollar on the international scene.

But now here's the interesting thing. Imagine we do create inflation or weaken the dollar and so there is a surplus of USD in circulation and things start to increase in price. And now imagine a country wants to go buy oil from Saudi Arabia ( though now a days, it's not just Saudi Arabia but the majority of oil producing nations ). The first thing they need to do is accumulate the USD. And since they're getting less oil for the same USD (due to said inflation and/or a weakened USD) they need to take even more USD out of circulation than usual. They then go buy their oil. Saudi Arabia then ends up using that USD to secretly buy US treasuries. That money is now back in the hands of the government and out of circulation and, like magic, the inflation and/or weakening of the dollar starts to revert.

---

This was an extremely clever strategy. This is why things like China and/or Russia increasingly becoming buddy buddy with Saudi Arabia is such a big deal. It's also why Saudi Arabia can get away with practically, if not literally, anything (so long as they keep on the petrodollar agreement). But the petrodollar also ended up creating a bit of a funny relationship. We thought we were using Saudi Arabia, but ultimately we ended up dependent on them as our economic behavior took them for a given. So we now have the nation with the largest military force in world and the largest economy in the world behaving in an oddly deferent way to one little nation in the Mideast.

So I do fully agree with you - the next 20-30 years are going to be incredibly interesting. But not just for Saudi Arabia. The interplay between oil, economic power, and all of these other major issues (let alone huge wildcards like space) mean we're in for one terrifically unpredictable and interesting future.

[1] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-05-30/the-untol...

[2] - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/27/saudi-arabia...
I find this whole discussion (including the above comment) surreal, given that we are talking about the country that used to be called "the land of the free" and that claims superiority over countries that restrict freedoms.
Where are you that it's 404ing? Works fine for me in Japan.
Swedish 404 for me.
This exact thing happened to me, except I accessed a network drive linking to some juicy information. The school expelled me and the state went after me. I ended up getting a misdemeanor expunged!
The state allowing freedom of choice and certain members of society abusing that choice is not nearly as bad as a state which executes its own citizens for various baseless reasons.
>Should everybody start building additional backdoors in their software that shuts it down if it detects some sort of "bad" thing is being created, or possibly hook it up to a Twitter feed and shut down if people are saying bad things about the software operator?

Why does there have to be a hard-and-fast trigger? Take it on a case by case basis, motivated by the values of the people who care.

This technocratic reflex where everything in society must be dehumanized and automated (how come CFOs haven't been yet?) or otherwise algorithmatized is very "what a lazy person thinks a smart person is like."

The pizza guy is not going to get...cancelled (are you trying to make the term meaningless?), but any pizza place that advertises that they don't serve racist jackboots will get my phone call and dollars.

Do you think the government shouldn't have to think about and account for the optics and politics of their needs? Declining to supply concentration camps is an honorable reduction in one's own financial situation as a private citizen, which may not be an intelligible ethic for you and thus appear "incoherent," but at the end of the day it's perfectly reasonable to tell ICE to suck it and deal with the problems they themselves created for themselves. It's not the nation's job nor responsibility to help them steal and kill children, among other things.

And they can write their own software, too. That's what taxes are for, when they are allowed to exist.
I am not sure why we are allowing China to censor the internet. The internet was designed to route around damage, which in this case is the prohibition of free speech. Despite what a despotic regime would prohibit.
Except when they might put you in nip by crossing their laterals. Then it's very serious business.
Seems up for me but redirects to Disney Korea's site because I'm in Korea.
The article states that "We’ve grown used to Americans getting fired for social media posts that offend other Americans. Now it’s clear they can also be punished for posts that offend China.".

Seems like companies were forced to make and have made that choice long before the China issue.
I think Apple's action here provides a good case for breaking up platforms. If the App Store were decoupled from the main hardware-making and hardware-selling part of Apple, then there wouldn't be a conflict of interest between providing a neutral app-selling platform and retaining access to foreign markets.
Ah, the famous ropitchaw vector!
What is your job search engine?
As someone who has appreciated the privacy stance Apple has had and the privacy assisting steps it has taken for a long time (long before iPhone), I believe Apple is coming out to be completely hypocritical and anti-privacy/anti-freedom on this app. I cannot believe that Tim Cook and other senior executives haven't examined this deeper and taken a bold stance to let the app stay! Shame on you, Apple!

Even John Gruber agrees: [1]

> I still haven’t seen which local laws it violates, other than the unwritten law of pissing off Beijing.

> This is a bad look for Apple, if you think capitulation is a bad look.

[1]: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2019/10/10/apple-pulls-hkm...
This is neat, when will you be opening it up to other geographies?

I really think an alternative to GLG is needed.
What's your evidence that train journeys have gotten more expensive in Norway due to this?

FWIW i am Danish and almost all of our public IT projects are done in .NET, almost always the reasoning is "more developers, more mainstream, less lock-in". Our IT projects are always hilariously belated and more expensive than budgeted. More often than not the same contractor (one of 5ish big corporations) keeps getting the same contracts from the same departments because they have pre-existing knowledge of the system they previously built (hint: this is lock-in). Now, the last part is changing somewhat due to EU tender rules, which I think Norway also abides by (they are not in EU, but are committed to complying with most EU laws)
The Arena for Accountable Predictions
I enjoy European bilateral travel and trade agreements especially amongst microstates but this one is such an irrelevant distinction for practical matters that I think it isn’t worth mentioning.

Thanks for the reminder, and the article and history was very interesting.
PG&E paid $798 million in dividends in 2017 and $925 million in 2016.
Nauru isn't anywhere close to that. According to a close friend who visited, it's not really that bad of a place. I think that there has been a lot of political play around it to drum it up as worse than it is.
What are you torn about?

Governments are banning Juuls overnight and not cigarettes. Even with Altria - an incumbent - as an investor it isnt preventing this curbstomping.

The relative morality is my main point.

You are talking about the entire nicotine/tabacco industry and that plays into this as well but its not really the point here. Yes theyve slithered into our society and nothing is going to be done about that. But the observation with e-cigs just highlights how fast anything could be done, which is sad.
If it's an order of magnitude larger than one, then it's probably a pointless exercise anyway. What mortal can honestly say they're attentively watching 10 streams at once? A car accident can happen in the blink of an eye, if you're dividing your attention between several streams it would be very easy to have a slow reaction time to a child jumping out into the street, for instance.
I don't think I have ever seen any vehicle whose ABS wasn't essentially rapid cadence braking, and in bad road conditions, the car will turn a bit during the intervals while the wheels are locked (so I generally found threshold braking more useful). If the road is bad enough, even leaving the wheels free won't necessarily keep the car pointed forward. That said, I haven't really had issues recovering from these situations.
Does Datafire meet some of your requirements?

https://github.com/DataFire/DataFire

I've used it before and it's not too bad.
So does this retroactively apply to existing assets? BCH?
I should have been more clear: I expect execs to choose what’s right even if it means they do get fired at the first difficult choice. I mean “I need my job” or “what we are doing is legal” isn’t an excuse.
An alternative: make a full backup of your phone, then restore your phone with a different backup with less personal information, and then once you cross the border you restore your phone using the first backup.