skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The discussions I've seen point more towards Legalism, a Chinese theory of governance that's similar to fascism.

I agree, but "legalism" has its own meaning in Western philosophy, so "fascism" is the more appropriate terminology to avoid confusion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legalism_(Western_philosophy)

>Especially because China has a long, cultural history with Legalism

This is something that most people won't know without a detailed study of Chinese history. Legalism in China won the day against Confucianism a long time ago in 221 BC, when the First Emperor of China came to power, and has never quite lost its place in Chinese political thought since.
Wow, Blizzard must be winning after this awful fiasco they started.
Maybe, but when Gap splits up some assets go to one, some assets go to the other. When a coin forks, someone just hits copy-paste and lists it on an exchange. No assets are transferred, no value changes hands, because there's no intrinsic value to a crypto asset. A gap split-up yields no intrinsic change in value, just like if I take $100 and put it into 2 piles.

This is more akin to my forking the GitHub repo for MySQL and calling it MySQLCash (MCH, naturally). It doesn't change anything about the original; that only happens if the new asset wages an adoption campaign like BCH/BSV/Bwhatever, in which case the origin story is irrelevant.
Imagine you're part of a development team where the tech lead in every thread says "I am the tech lead because I'm the smartest".

It's made me contribute less to OpenBSD than I otherwise would have (luckily other people are more welcoming, and Theo isn't a bottleneck on all things), and it's not just me. Other potentially good contributors have stayed away. Now, of course, other bad contributors have stayed away too.

The other bad aspect to arrogance is that it misses out on research the rest of the world has done, because you think nobody else can think. OpenBSD got W^X years and years after Linux (though OpenBSD got it by default first), because (in their own words) they don't look at what Linux is doing. OpenBSD missed out on W^X for years, and it took one more release for x86 to get it, because they said it couldn't be done (even though it worked just fine on Linux).

Looks like it was the same with the intel branch predict bugs. They say they did huge amount of research over weeks or months, and then just ended up with the kernel memory maps containing... exactly what Linux chose. Why did they do this from scratch?

I wouldn't say I'm bitter, but resigned to just accept that OpenBSD's way of doing things misses out on exactly what they want to achieve because of this attitude.
Ahh, the salting makes sense.
I live by the sea in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and our cars last longer than 15yrs so I wondered how snow could be worse. Having salt regularly splattered all over your undercarriage would definitely be much worse than anything our cars go through.
There are many times my phone detects I'm holding it horizontally while taking a picture, but I'm actually trying to take a vertical picture, and vice versa.

For those images, the exif information is technically correct, but actually wrong.
have a look at nuclear isomers, the big direction is to create a device that may arbitrarily, [as in switchon/switch off] stimulate fusion and emit the yield in a unidirectional manner, multiple times before refueling. basically a high energy neutron flux beam weapon.
I’m amazed at just how open (and wrong) cctv’s recent reply to the nba scandal was:

“We are strongly dissatisfied and we oppose Silver’s claim to support Morey’s right of free expression. We believe that any speech that challenges national sovereignty and social stability is not within the scope of freedom of speech,” CCTV said in its statement in Chinese, which was translated by CNBC“

This is not just wrong, it’s so wrong it’s not even remotely compatible with how we define freedom. To see this in writing is just disturbing and sad that after all these decades of lip service on moderation and opening up and being a global participant, China is basically no different than it was under Mao.
"would have trouble making predictions. Physicists have made this criticism since the beginning."

You can go one step further. If you regard string theory as an attempt to answer questions about quantum gravity, then this criticism applies to the whole question, not just to any particular school of thought about answering it. This was known since approximately the time when physicists first had access to Planck's constant, Newton's constant, and a spare envelope to write on.

But, as you say, this is far from all that people who get called string theorists work on. A great pile of mathematical tools have been developed, to the point where deliberate ignorance of all of them would be a very strange position. Not for all fields of theory, obviously, but for quite a few.
https://www.vy.no/en does not load on Firefox, with Javascript disabled in uBlock Origin, or Developer Tools.
Luckily, no one involved is in the UK.

> 2. Richard Stallman has been contributing to a negative environment for women at MIT for over thirty years.

From the original article, contains a number of quotes from witnesses and people who felt uncomfortable or harassed due to Stallman's behavior over a span of ~20 years while he was at MIT.

Then there's this[1], this one where he argued about the re-inclusion of an abortion joke in code because his code is inherently political[2][3], Stallman apparently violating the policies at a conference he attended and going unpunished (which is a common occurrence)[4]. People have been complaining about his casual sexism publicly for decades[5].

And I'll remind you that the "charge" here, insofar that there is one, is that "Stallman behaves in a way unbecoming of a leader of the free software movement and other organizations". There's ample evidence here that he repeatedly and continually refuses to communicate with others in common ways, instead he invents his own language (no really, he has a personal dictionary on his website) and when his counterproductive communication methods cause confusion or pain on the part of others, he is generally unapologetic and unwilling to correct them.

[1]: https://twitter.com/bella_velo/status/1172524864193945603

[2]: https://twitter.com/alicegoldfuss/status/993677847280562178 (I remember people complaining about this one at the time), https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-05/msg00001.html for the entire thread

[3]: Remember this one the next time you say code isn't political!

[4]: https://wwahammy.com/on-safety-at-libreplanet/

[5]: https://opensourcetogo.blogspot.com/2009/07/emailing-richard...
Is there any good reason to save a photo in an orientation that does not match the orientation that the device is being held in? Shouldn’t up be up? If that results in a NxM photo, save it NxM. If it results in a MxN photo save it that way!

The only edge case is a camera pointed straight up or straight down. Or a camera in space.
I wish. Over Microsoft Teams, I would take that any day of the week.
When you are in an arms race, it is important to keep your adversary busy.
> In theory, with large-scale cooperative government support, nuclear can happen.

Not just in theory, France did exactly that and did it successfully. They're paying half the cost of electricity as Germany while emitting less than half as much carbon. South Korea has also made large gains in nuclear power. US nuclear power would have been considerably more cost effective if plants weren't closed before the end of their planned lifecycle - the "nuclear plants are expensive, let's close them" meme is self fulfilling.

> Realistically, with over-provisioning, grid upgrades, and modest lithium battery storage, renewables can and will scale.

Places like California and Germany have attempted this. They have both realized that efficient storage remains a fantasy and use gas plants to provide energy when intermittent sources do not produce power. Most renewable energy projects are, in reality, combined cycle gas plants supplemented by renewables. This is good, because combined cycle gas plants are much cleaner than the coal plants they are replacing. But they still emit carbon and in Europe's case creates dependency on Russia for energy.
Work hard? Incremental progress? Contribute to society?

How can you possibly hope to disrupt work with these types of values?
I work(ed) for McKinsey. Writing this in present tense for vague anonymity.

I don’t do anything public sector so I don’t know what policies we do. But in reading this it feels like you are implying that McKinsey would be behind various draconian policies or censorship. I would say that’s relatively unlikely given the nature of what the firm does and does not like to associate itself with. As the only anecdotal evidence I have There was that Saudi thing from a while ago where someone did a social network analysis on political ideas, and the internal discussion was adamantly that we don’t do projects like that (identifying dissidents) for governments.

Also while it is a company founded in the west, a team serving Chinese government interests is highly likely to be 100% Chinese people, living in China, landed by Chinese partners. Both because Chinese workers tend to serve Chinese clients and I would guess that the Chinese government requires this. If you were to make such a thing illegal, what would likely happen is the firm would just split into two firms, the Chinese part and the not Chinese part, and it wouldn’t make a ton of difference because most work is driven by individual contributors on an individual basis rather than a large group effort from an entity like Google.
This could be :
1. A technical issue preventing people from deleting accounts.

2. An active decision being taken. The response to this from customers motivated by the recent Hong Kong dustup is going to be sheer outrage. Regardless of reality, it's certainly being interpreted as #2. Not a good look for Blizzard.
Yeah... this article really looks like blame-shifting to me. I'm imagining a future wherein we have bipedal murderbots, but we're still training AI with "properly oriented" images... a bot trips over a rock, and starts blasting away at mid-identified objects.
csshX can do something like this with Terminal.app
By the plain* meaning of "hash", it can't, it's a symmetric cipher.

* Where "plain" excludes a technical or mathematical definition that might include e.g. troll_hash(x) { return 9; }
Try https://github.com/skaji/remote-pbcopy-iterm2
Its too late for your pessimism - I was heavily conditioned by Star Wars and video games as a child, and you're saying "will not" which means "never" (only a Sith deals in absolutes). Therefore I will not stop wondering how we could better reorganize elements and people to the end of extra-terrestrial Earth-sourced-life-propagation.

To be fair - I interpret his statement as one that calls for us to not keep our heads exclusively in the clouds (pun). Fixing our current planet certainly requires priority, focus, career choices, and lifetimes. This is required of us to develop the Type 1 Civilization that can be handed down to the predecessors that will, in fact, "migrate to other planets".

"We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down, and worry about our place in the dirt."
-Joseph Cooper, Interstellar (media propaganda meant to inspire current generations. Ad Astra is the most recent push)

Another good one, same character:

“We’ve always defined ourselves by the ability to overcome the impossible. And we count these moments. These moments when we dare to aim higher, to break barriers, to reach for the stars, to make the unknown known. We count these moments as our proudest achievements. But we lost all that.
Or perhaps we’ve just forgotten that we are still pioneers. And we’ve barely begun. And that our greatest accomplishments cannot be behind us, because our destiny lies above us.”
Why aren't TQFTs evidence for string theory?

If we know you can build quasiparticles and non-local effects out of braiding/knotting dynamics -- wouldn't the minimal assumption be that other things that can be explained by the same mechanism at a different resolution are?

Perhaps I don't understand the distinction between say, string theory and loop quantum gravity.
Isn't this a violation of the GDPR?
I don't disagree, but their (Iran/Iraq/NK) problems are roughly contained vs the global destruction caused by the US, Saudi Arabia, and China.

Iran is unique because of its proxy wars, but even then it's relatively contained to the Middle East. Although one could argue that is also a result of U.S. interference by the CIA. The U.S. also assisted Iraq in Saddam's early years and tried to conceal the fact that Iraq used chemical weapons against the Kurds (which we appear to be allowing again with Turkey currently bombing the hell out of the Kurds).
Yeah, I'd call that type of statement being the vanguard, considering the US government is very much not getting involved in the HK matter.

Silver doesn't even have the right to speak for all NBA employees on the matter, which he wisely recognized. He should definitely not be getting out ahead of the State Dept.
Keep in mind that if you swap houses that you bought as an investment, there is still the possibility of a tax liability. Barter is not excluded from taxation.
Im a physicist, and whilst Im an experimentalist, I work in the same departments as theorists and I don't know a single string theorist. I heard of one, once. A friend od a friend, but I never met them. Most high energy physicists seem to be working on supersymmetry.
Considering that a CNC mill almost certainly has a custom hardware interface, its unlikely its possible to emulate with any kind of existing emulator.
Your name here seems quite appropriate, as that was a weasel tactic, rephrasing the opponent's words to modify their intent. Not to mention you also used a quite inflammatory tone towards someone who's strongest words were "I strongly disagree".

I never saw any assertion that the user must manage apps individually, only that they should be able to. Easy way to do that - by default, the app echoes the system setting. If and only if the user manually changes the setting, does it diverge from that. Somewhat simple way around having a persistent setting get stuck - if the user switches back from the opposite mode, then you go back into "system" mode. So really, instead of needing two toggles, you would have one that has two states - "Respect system setting" and "Use the opposite mode from the system" (which probably need to be worded way better). The only snafu there that I can think of, off the top of my head, would be that if the user changes the system setting, the app state would likewise change.

It's also completely valid if someone doesn't wish to use system-wide dark mode (say, due to specific applications they use that may not function or render correctly in dark mode) but yet wishes to have specific apps in dark mode. I run Windows, which does have a dark mode nowadays, but that only works for certain apps that specifically use it (Windows Explorer does, not that I use that, along with many of the "modern" style apps that ship with Windows), and yet in apps like Discord I still prefer to use the dark mode, and I also have a dark mode extension for my browser.

For what it's worth, the site did correctly detect my dark mode setting in Windows, and display the dark style. As well, I don't necessarily disagree with any developer that does wish to exclusively use the system setting. However, I do see room for both approaches.
> I mean, a Raspberry Pi Zero probably has more computing power than an Apple II

Probably? A single raspberry pi zero can do more calculations per second than every Apple II ever manufactured put together.

Edit: sorry, had a brain fart. You would need more like 100 pi zeroes.
Correct me if I am wrong. i think string theory is searched not just because of its beauty, but also because of existing problems in general relativity. For example, the center of black hole is predicted to be `infinite` in terms of many metrics . But the center is also part of the spacetime, it should bear some measurable values. The answer might require quantum physics since it is microscopic. Therefore, the unifying of general relativity and quantum mechanics is asked for.
Exopolitics wrote the following, which I agree with:

"Given what we know about secret space programs developed by the US Navy and Air Force respectively, electromagnetic propulsion systems have been used for decades in several crafts that operate both in space and underwater. The reason why Dr. Pais chose not to mark the patent applications secret was that senior Navy officials have decided the time had come for the disclosure of advanced electromagnetic propulsion technologies that were already in operation, rather than merely innovative proposals for future development as suggested in the patent application."
> I know enough about security to know that I really don't know about security.

I'm not sure anyone ever gets past this point. There's way too much for any person to know and not enough hours in a day or days in a year or years in a lifetime to master everything. Even when it comes to computers in general at some level it just becomes magic to me. I might be able to point to a chip and say "that's the sound chip" or "that's a math co-processor", and even write software for it, but I have no idea what goes on inside and I wouldn't know where to even start trying to build one from scratch.
I worry that this amounts to a requirement from the IRS to engage with many shady cryptocurrency forks. Entering your BTC wallet details into ShadyCoin's wallet app probably isn't a good idea, even if 1 ShadyCoin is apparently worth a bajillion dollars.
I think you're on the right track but I'm betting it's not our symmetrical relationships with peers that are being hijacked, but rather our penchant for asymmetrical relationships with our superiors in a hierarchy. We and the chimps presumably both inherited this from our hypothetical common ancestor.

I'm going to talk about a study right now, but I can't even find it, so I have absolutely no rigor or data about this and it needs many grains of salt. Just pretend I'm holding a drink and talking to you at a party right now. "There was a study" where [species of monkey or ape] were basically encouraged to use money, i.e. they were trained to see a certain token as valuable. From this they began to trade it for food, and then for sex, and weirdly at some point, for the chance to gaze at photos of the alpha of the group. So they essentially ended up inventing trade, prostitution, and celebrity worship from first principles.
Given the US's employer-based health care system, HR can sentence some people to death.
It's very likely a unified theory will win a prize maybe even the Nobel Prize but it isn't going to happen anytime soon. FWIW I'm about as convinced of the truth of string theory as I am of the truth of General Relativity. Sure a better version of M-theory or something else is sure to be discovered but it will be an outgrowth of the current enterprise. The problem is even if we had the correct theory right now it probably would not do us much good at all. It would be a puzzle box we couldn't even open or get answers from it. People underestimated the difficulties involved and the theory was over hyped. Now begins the long "string theory winter". Decades from now, some diehard whose career is foundering will make a significant breakthrough, enough to compel everyone's attention. Until then, there's plenty of interesting physics problems to work on that have been unjustly neglected for too long.

Einstein's theory of GR could end up being "wrong" but it would live on as a very good approximation to a more fundamental theory.

String theory could very well turn out to be completely wrong but it would fail in a very different manner. If ST is wrong, it's no longer useful. If GR is "wrong" people will still use it.

For various reasons which are by no means proof or even evidence I think ST is basically correct but we're simply unable to make proper sense of it.

Anyway, we're here at the string theory winter. Careers are ruined, people disappointed etc. That's just how it goes. Sometimes, things work out and sometimes they just don't. We didn't exactly walk away from all of this with ZERO but we're very far from the ultimate PRIZE or GOAL. In hindsight we'll probably look back on this and realize we were hopelessly unable to succeed given the tools and ideas of the day. Expert systems were simply unable to deliver and people were crushed. Careers were ruined. Hopes dashed. Naysayers vindicated then along comes this crazy guy who just won't give up on neural networks.

I think the future looks much brighter for unified physics now that string theory as we knew it has clearly failed. I don't want to leave these guys out too so let me add that loop quantum gravity has failed too, much more gracefully I might add. I think these guys were on to something and their ideas aren't going to completely disappear.

I've thrown away about 10,000 hours of my life on this stuff. Thanks for spending 3 minutes on my meager insights.
Can you please share more about what value scrap structural steel has that you see?
Train engineers union also is a compound word. The only thing different about English is that it usually writes the compounds separated.
A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture: Agile Chip Development
Paper:

https://jeb.biologists.org/content/222/17/jeb202895
People post external links in social media all the time. You don't have to be where people start, you can just be where people end up.
Boycotting Blizzard is easy and achieves almost nothing.

Boycotting Chinese products on the other hand...