skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Minecraft, the whole world is made of cubes. Things are either cubes, or in the empty space where a cube could be. This line of theories (there have been many over the years) argue a few things.

First, our reality might also be made of similar Minecraft 'blocks' and block shaped empty space (that 'space is discrete, not continuous').

Second, that what a block does in one block shaped empty space is not necessarily going to tell us what it will do when it is in a different block shaped empty space. (This another way of saying the universal constants may change at different points in a discrete spacetime, which is ANOTHER way of saying different 'universes' exist within these points.)

Third, that the blocks and block-shaped empty space inform each others border/shape/volume and relate to one another in some way. (All of this together creates a larger structure, which they call a foam).

I think that's the basic gist. A quantum particle is like a block moving positions in this 'Minecraft grid', and as it does this it becomes subject to different universal constants.
I couldn’t agree with this more. My org is full of people who love meetings. On average it’s 30 hours of meetings per week, absolutely insane. I’ve been training people to not invite me so it’s down to 10, but still higher than I would like.
At what point do you stop blaming the user and start blaming the designer? Who's fault is it if a user doesn't know how to use a mouse and keyboard? Should we expect all apps to be built with text to speech and touch input as the primary interface? That just seems like a UX nightmare to me.

To apply that extreme to this case, I think it's not too much to ask that users know what the start menu is and how to use it to find and start apps.
Free on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/MathematicsItsContentsMethodsAnd...
Micron Finally Announces a 3D XPoint Product: Micron X100 NVMe SSD
Realtek 2.5 GbE PCIe Cards Now for Sale
IANAL, but odds are no - lawyers do not give legal advice unless they are actually your lawyer. So call some. See if anyone will at least give you an initial free consultation, and they can tell you what it will cost to proceed from there.
> There's nothing wrong with using web technologies to build the app, but the mental model of how browsers send/receive data from a server somewhere seems fundamentally incompatible with how such an app should work.

So the solution would be to exclusively some "web technologies" (HTTPS, WS) to deliver content and messages to the application? I guess by creating a bunch of clients, managing request states and working around the intricacies involved there (or in the libraries you used).

So after that's done then lets add some kind of auto-updating mechanism. After a while you get it working, awesome. Lets hope users constantly keep it updated! Spoiler: they will not.

And then, when you think you're all finished, someone from product comes in and says "hey we want to A/B test this feature on these specific clients, when it's a Tuesday and they are connecting from India. Oh and these requirements will change every 24 hours". Great.

"If only there was some set of technologies that made all of these problems convenient and effective", you think to yourself as you check Slack.
I have literally never seen a disposable red cup in person until I came to the US. They’re surprisingly sturdy and well made.
It doesn't seem that weird. That just means your code is choosing to not count half of the scenarios where you would have won in the original simulation.
Something subtle that's easy to miss is the fact that the original text did not contain quotation marks, and neither does the KJV. There are places where by introducing quotation marks, the translator necessarily must make decisions which the original text does not support.

Take for example one of my favorite sayings, Matthew 24:15-16.

ESV: "So when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains."

KJV: When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:

The quotation marks in the ESV suggest that the parenthetical phrase "Let the reader understand" was spoken by Jesus. But in actuality, it is ambiguous whether that was spoken by Jesus, or whether it is a note by Matthew. Was it Jesus telling us to understand Daniel, or Matthew telling us to understand Jesus? And if it was the former, did Jesus say it knowing that someday it would be read (even though no stenographers were present) and would thereby gain a double meaning?
Tell me about it. The whole thing makes me cringe. Frequently I wonder if the goal is just to have enough insurance, such that when people and their money are separated, life is fine.
My personal preference (for accuracy, anyway) is Thomas Nelson's "The Expanded Bible", which provides alternate and literal translations, as well as important commentary (such as "wind" and "spirit" being the same word in Greek). No deuterocanon, unfortunately!
I have a ring doorbell.. it shows only they front driveway area of the house.

This latest round of govt skirting around the 4th has me looking to replace it with a closed circuit system I control.
Came here to say this. The professors I've learned the most from were the ones who weren't awesome at explaining things. I didn't understand them and had to struggle through the material. That struggle made the material stick more. I think ideally you want a professor who's 80% good at explaining things, but leaves enough gaps and says things just confusingly enough that you have to engage your brain. Feynman was too clear, which allowed my brain to coast.

At a meta level, I think this means we'll never (as a society) be great at teaching, because teachers who make us work make us feel like we're learning less. We prefer (and rate more highly) the professors, like Feynman, who make us feel smart.
Unless Signal's usability matches what the average user expects, nobody will use it, and it will therefore fail at being able to be secure and private.

It takes two parties to install it for it to be beneficial, and so far those I've asked to use it have uninstalled it because of usability.
pretty sure you can get at least several antibiotics with no prescription from a fish store.
Throw a uniform random dart at the interior of the unit circle. What's its mean distance from the origin?

Instead of integrating, approximate the circle with a regular n-gon and use the centroids of the n isosceles triangles connecting the polygon's vertices to the origin.
You just re-invented the PWA, basically. Only modern browsers support them (though you can't guarantee eveyrone has one), so you just package and ship a web site. Of course, browser tabs themselves can take a lot of memory; a fair number take 50 megs apiece, and some take 100, so don't bet on your site necessarily only taking a few kb.
Could tap Watson for the job. I bet it's fair
Can we run ML over these and create synthetic letters written during wartime?
That's how I prove it with playing cards. Except I use a handful of cards, and not a million of them.

The trick is in the wording. With 3 you are literally saying "let me remove all the cards except for a random one, the one you chose, and the one I chose, of which, one is the correct card to choose. Do you want to change your choice?" So it plays out as expected with 3, and the obviousness of the solution when done with 52 cards.
Proposal to Encode Tengwar in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646-2 (Unicode)
The whole point of transparency is to facilitate accountability, so it does not help to shy away from accountability in service of encouraging transparency. Of course, transparency is definitely something to laud, but it's only half of the ideal.
> third-party service with client side tracking

That's like me inviting you to my house and you show up with a pet pig. Your pig might be clean and well behaved, but I'm not letting it my house because it's a pig.

I trust GitLab and I'm ok with the spirit of what you're trying to do, but if you want me to opt-in to client side tracking from a 3rd party (in an untrustworthy industry), you'll need to convince me the company you're working with deserves to be trusted.
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Exactly. If Monty doesn't know what's behind the doors, then sometimes he'll reveal the winning door, and of course you'll choose to switch to that door.

The bizarre scenario some people try to propose is that Monty doesn't know what's behind the doors, but if he happens to reveal the winning door, then we...ignore that entire Universe, or...rewind the simulation and try again, until he "by chance" reveals a non-winning door.
I really love Protonmail. If only their Android app would be available on F-Droid.

A happy "visionary" subscriber.
Maybe they are not maximizing only on rent
I suggest this "Map of mathematics" as a starting point that gives you a reasonable birds-eye view of the field.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmJ-4B-mS-Y
Sure, but if the CIA, NSA, FBI, UK, China, and Russia are all trying to control nodes, they keep each other from getting a useful share of the nodes. There are many parties that would want to deanonymize the traffic.
It seems that FIRRTL is designed to be the LLVM of hardware programming. If Scala is not your cup of tea, the co-designer of FIRRTL, Patrick Li has designed a new optionally type programming language Stanza that is more expressive for this kind of work. FYI, the designers of FIRRTL then went to start Jitx, a circuit design automation company using Stanza to perform circuit design automation. Alternatively, if you prefer a more established language than Stanza, dlang can be a great substitute for Scala: https://dconf.org/2017/talks/marques.html
You should tell the Unicode Consortium you would like to see Tengwar (Tolkien's Elvish script) added using this form:

https://www.unicode.org/reporting.html
Data Modeling with GridDB
Yes, the question is best phrased as “should the contestant change their choice of doors”.
It also has a lot of timeless wisdom
The article isn't specific on what the floppy disks have been replaced with other than "a highly secure solid-state digital storage solution". Would this meet milspecs for reliability and redundancy in an event where either the reader or storage medium are damaged, possibly to radioactive decay?

I'd been under the impression that magnetic storage was less sensitive to bit-flips or data degradation more than modern storage technologies like flash drives.
You think a civil war in the US wouldnt have factions getting resources from every other country on the planet ?
It's too fragmented for that to really be a first class concern. "Christian" is a broad class that encompasses LDS, Jehovah's Witnesses, Presbyterian, Baptist, Catholic, etc. We have no shortage of controversy and conflict to debate about.

On this particular topic, I'd be more interested in the Italian opinion.
Can we block nytimes? they force you to sign in.
Author of “The Ruling Elite” on the rise of the surveillance state
An "Americana" pizza in Finland is ham, pineapple and blue cheese: https://www.kotipizza.fi/dist/pdf/KP_menu_A4_laaja_EN.pdf
Alex frequently bends the rules.
I never find that taking the piss out of someone who I disagree with enough that I have to write it up on the internets and resort to coming across as a bigot is a good idea.
I wouldn't say that's the core of the paradox. The thing is that people don't have a good understanding what probability is. We think that when we choose a gate at the beginning, with a chance of winning being 1/3 it means that the universe "rolls" a dice and decides whether we win or not. It is then very confusing to realize that someone else, just by revealing the content of one of the other gates - after our decision has been made - can somehow make the universe roll a different dice with 2/3 odds.

The paradox disappears when you think about probability as a tool for reasoning from incomplete information, not as anything to do with "physical" property of the system under investigation. It then makes perfect sense that after receiving new information from the host we should reassign our probabilities.
He's referring to Grover's algorithm.
A related thing happened to me in grad school: I had always done well in academics, and I even had a strong work ethic in addition to “natural” talent. But I had never really needed to exercise creativity in an academic domain, and I more or less fell flat on my face when I had to define my own novel problems.

Even after grad school, in industry, I’ve been much more of a strong executor than an idea generator.
I think it's kind of ironic that people argue over which version of Bible is the most accurate because all of them contain so many contradictions.

Can a text be 'accurate" if it is full of contradictions?

https://www.atheists.org/activism/resources/biblical-contrad...

There are many other examples: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Biblical_contradictions

"Although explanations can resolve the contradiction, they present problems for literalists who speak of the "clarity of Scripture." "
I am really having trouble understanding this project... how would this be a good way to feed people? It has so much technology to produce so little food, and requires consistent power and internet... can anyone explain why this would be a good idea?
The dude said 'unintentionally' overdose on opium. This article covering Laudanum (opium + alcohol tincture) deaths in the 1800s sounds like the overdoses were largely intentional or one where an adult dose was given to a child. https://www.apnews.com/910654effffe42f985ebe01f299407f5
As long as the strength is known most addicts will measure the dose or titrate up safely.
It's a pity so few people realize that beside all the usual stuff (love or hate it) that society associates with the Bible, the Gospels contain discourses of Jesus which are genuinely brilliant purely in their own right as philosophical works.

"And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward." (Matthew 6:5)
Not as encompassing as Feynman's lectures on physics, but Euclid's Elements is an excellent mathematical text.
I've been suffering from the same frustration, and have been thinking about switching to a smaller bank. There are apparently more than 7,000 FDIC insured institutions out there.
This argument has worked for every democide in the 20th century

Govts should fear the citizens, not the other way around.

Tyranny is a thing you want to avoid
> I think it's not too much to ask that users know what the start menu is and how to use it to find and start apps.

It is when you provide icons for most applications, but only provide text search for others (which has a confusing interface that sometimes displays webpages and local documents). There are limits to blaming the designer, but inconsistent, half implemented, with few affordances, that uses mixed metaphores is neither good programming or good design. It's not always the fault of the design, but this design is the fault in this case.
It can do this only because Apple exercises such tight control over all platforms. When everything is developed under the same roof, it is significantly easier to make it, "Just work." On the other hand, making three, independently-developed platforms look the same is nearly impossible. On a windows or linux box, you cannot guarantee things like screen resolution, ppi, dimensions, specs, compatibility, and the innumerable other things that cause trouble.
I wonder whether the Media Lab is going to be shut down after the recent revelations, or the MIT administration is going to pretend that nothing happened.
I agree. JavaScript obviously has problems but it’s also the most used development platform of all time.

Part of that is because the runtime API really doesn’t change much. And for many years the only changes allowed were very tightly scoped: a single new function call, that takes two strings. Stuff like that. The attitude was “what is the smallest thing we can do to make it technically possible for to get the job done” and leave developer ergonomics to the web frameworks.

It forces people to build real platform layers on top of the browser. That causes fragmentation but it is also a hot crucible for competition. It has led to arguably the most competitive developer tool landscape of all time.

It’s easy to say “browsers should just standardize on X” and be right.

However it’s exactly the very slow acceptance of standards that had led to such a strong ecosystem of ideas. So in the aggregate, as you indicate, it’s not good to land on standards too fast.
I dig Electron, and had always assumed by now we would have a multi-OS CSS toolkit for "native looking" styles.
I remember http://photonkit.com from back in the day, but I think there is room for something more comprehensive.
Iowa was one of the unethical states using them well into the 1960s. Shameful.
> Why? My whole point is that Electron is encouraging developers to not support other platforms.

Because you expressed a need for vscode. If you need it, figure out how to use it. If you don't need it, it's not a problem, right?

> This too seems like a fools errand as the Electron devs have decided that anything beyond Windows, MacOS, and Linux will not ever have official support.

"official support" are the key words there. If you care about it that much, whip up some patches and maintain them. Or even better, find other OpenBSD users to help you build and maintain them. Just because the electron devs don't want to support it doesn't mean it can't happen.

> Then don't. I'm currently working on a project that's using a rust backend and a Qt/QML front end. If you're more comfortable with JS then QML is an easy leap. The caveat being that you've got to drop down to C++ for some things.

JS but C++ for some things is just as bad as C++ for everything. Qt isn't an option for me any more than Electron is an option for you.

> Right, and now we're back to "this sounds good to the devs" while the users suffer.

Users don't actually suffer that much. You appear to be looking at this through the lens of your own environment -- you might suffer because of Electron, but people don't give two shits what slack is built with as long as it works reliably.

> Low effort cross platform toolkits have never yielded particularly good results.

If your web app is good to begin with, bundling it in Electron doesn't make it worse. You seem to be okay with browser based apps, so I'm not understanding where that disconnect is.

> Vi (typically vim) I use for some things (even with rust dev), but I'm not about to replace a full blown IDE with it.

Whatever works. vim was my daily driver for a long time. Works just fine as an IDE. Neovim is better. YMMV.
lol this is around 1% of the projects going on at any given time in the Media Lab.
Americano [1], sometimes called American, is a style of coffee all over the world, though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffè_Americano
> What we know now is that click-through rates on news sites are really not substantially better than click-through rates on Joe Schmo's random blog -- but they _are_ substantially worse than in certain other business segments, like search.

AFAICT, search is a really amazing ad product. Users are declaring their interest in a subject, _right now_.

> They just didn't have the metrics to prove it.

You're not wrong, but I wouldn't discount the power of inertia. There's a story Steven Levitt tells on his Freakonomics podcast about a retailer who wanted to measure the impact of print ads. He suggested not running print ads for a duration in order to measure impact, and was met with incredulity: "Are you crazy? We can't just do that. We'll get fired like Jordan was. Dude was so unorganized that he forgot to order ads for the northeastern market for his entire summer internship."

After analyzing the data from that mishap, there was no measurable impact, and yet they refused to run the trial for longer. 'We can't not just buy ads' was the argument, even though the data suggested you totally could. I guess if your department buys ads, until you have an alternative, arguing for a budget cut is arguing your department should all be laid off.
This is more than a Netflix subscription. And people still share their subscriptions with friends and family to reduce costs.

$0.50 a day is real money, even today.
I wasn't forced to login. Not sure if there is an article limit or not.
Why do we care about the bible at all.

We expect textt books to be updated regularly.

We expect software to be updated regularly.

Why is a bible exempt? Fuck jesus. Fuck Mohamed. I dont care about either of these guys if they can even update or be truthful in their respective works.

Heck, i trust stephen king and joe rogan more than either of them.
I think for some the issue is that if you consider the Bible to be absolute and without error, then the logical conclusion is that the first available translation is the right one and you can't have others that conflict. If, say, NIV conflicts with KJV in some way, then if said that the NIV was right it means the KJV is wrong, and for some people that's yanking out a key pillar of their epistemology.

Another aspect of it is that the modern translations are all copyrighted, whereas KJV is public domain. One criticism I've come across of modern translations is that sometimes they use convoluted ways of saying something just because they don't want to be accused of plagiarizing some other modern translations, and there are only so many ways to write the same sentence. I'm not sure if that's a real issue that Bible translators actually worry about, but it's at least plausible.
A sheriff or police chief approving CCW permits does not necessarily mean that person personally approves of private firearm ownership. It may be the case that the sheriff is putting aside their personal beliefs when on the job. Their willingness to do so might reflect the nature of small town politics (particularly in the cases of sheriffs, who are elected, but also in the case of police chiefs who are nominated by somebody who is in turn elected.)

The phrase "I don't approve of what you're doing but I'll defend your right to do it" comes to mind.
That's largely analogous to what people attempt to do with virtualisation, but the ability of things to have unpredictable resizing and reflow behaviours throws a few spanners into the works. My understanding that (at least until recently, things might be different now) is that most game engine optimisations depend on being able to make a lot of assumptions that usually hold true, or being able to calculate most of your scene graph optimisations during a build step.
Heart Rate Variability – Biomarker for Mental Health
This brings back memories. I remember first reading phrack on a BBS, dialing over and over again against the busy signal, trying to be the next lucky one to connect. Years later people would hand them out in cd-rom format at 2600 meetings.
Modeling Sequences with Quantum States
More general purpose problem solving but written by a mathematician and one of the best books I've ever read! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Solve_It
The same implication could be made about climate scientists, who are not trained in geopolitics or economics. I don't think it's fair to box people in based on their education, and also, there isn't any degree which really qualifies you fully to discuss the geopolitical and economic impacts of climate science.