skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hence it is terrifying that a prestigious institute such as Cal Tech offers courses not on knowledge but on speculation (see bottom of list):

http://pma.caltech.edu/research-and-academics/physics/physic...
I broke Giant’s handheld scanner system by only buying two things
That's along the route, but it was quite a few years ago, so probably not that specific one.
Aren't strong foreign ties for researchers a good thing?

(shrugs)
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I assume OP meant "last 4 reported financial quarters":

2019 Q3 139.48M
2019 Q2 (702.14M)
2019 Q1 (408.33M)
2018 Q4 143.00M

Total of (827.99M) [1]

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/tsla/financials/...
My VW CC has frameless windows that drop a centimeter when you unlock the doors. While I like the look, I think this increases road/wind noise.
> There are examples of this online.

Can you link to any of them? I wasn't able to find anything that actually works when I needed to do this a while ago. (I needed to repeatedly hit a REST API until it returned no results.)
I did for a couple years years, came back this year, but am starting tobdkubt myself again
That's what I told a friend last summer when he talked about Tesla being the perfect short opportunity.
Tesla stock is an extremely hot iron. You can tell by the huge daily swings that it is being played in some way, and as an amateur you are usually the one paying the pros in these scenarios.
To be fair, Assange has been accused of distributing emails that Russian intelligence agencies hacked/acquired during the 2016 election. Conspiring/working with foreign powers outside of the United States seems like something that would be in the ballpark of an intelligence agency.
Things like pipeline definitions and helm charts are generators.
I had a longer response written out, but to simplify, I think the risk is if remote work ever becomes hyper-competitive, falls out of fashion, or otherwise not able to fit ones needs. I speculate that's far more likely to happen in the remote than local job marketplace.
It looks so weird and cool when it's wet that I wonder if they did it on purpose. It delights strangers who see it the first time.
The link above doesn’t work for me, but the following one does: https://chrisdown.name/2020/01/13/1195725856-other-mysteriou...
Good thing we're not an enterprise.

Sounds like you just manufactured a bunch of problems for yourself with no benefit. Talk about an enterprise state of mind.
It's probably better not to address things like this. I regret to say my first reaction to the graph was a sudden urge to discriminate against women.
Artificial Personas and Public Discourse – Schneier on Security
> How is that at all in the purview of an intelligence agency?

Spying on a hostile intelligence broker sheltering from the justice system of an allied power in a foreign embassy while continuing to run hostile intel and propaganda ops against the nation the intelligence agency works for and its allies?

How is that not in the purview of an intelligence agency? Your question is like asking how frying chicken is in the purview of a KFC.
As I mentioned before that it's just convenience. SMS based authentication is flawed and is also prone to SS7 Attacks but people just do it because it's simple. Nothing in the world is hack proof
https://chrisdown.name/2020/01/13/1195725856-other-mysteriou...

That seems to be the URL now.
I hear the term predatory used with school loans but I don't get it, what is predatory about them? Almost all of these people are HS graduate adults. These adults have choices- no college, trade schools, community college, online college, state, private, etc. Most (the normal non-star athletes or geniuses) people who choose college pursue the college, the college doesn't pursue the person. Those who choose college normally apply to a few different colleges because they may not get in. The student has to fill out a lot of paper work that takes time, this isn't some ToS agreement where looking at a college means you accept any loan and debt.

If colleges cold called prospective students and lied about the cost of education that would be predatory. The borrowers are not passive victims- it is only by their overt choices and actions that they go into debt.

250k for a 40k per year job is a bad investment but simply being a bad investment isn't predatory. A TV is a bad investment, Starbucks is a bad investment- they aren't predatory.

What is it about student loans that makes them predatory?

For those who believe people 18-24 are still developing and need special protection- do you think the voting age should be raised?
Letting the attackers be 'mittle in the man' is little bit too generous especially on dns side
Apple is up 100% in the last year for no good reason.
I run my home automation and infrastructure on kubernetes, and for me that is one of the smoothest ways of doing it. I find it quite easy to deal with, and much prefer it to the “classic” way of doing it.
I agree with the sentiment, but I think the hardest part of kubernetes is dealing the complexity of the resulting cloud. You end up having to manage that complexity no matter what you're doing; the upfront cost of figuring out kubernetes is that maybe it takes a couple days longer to learn than something else, but now you have a huge ecosystem of technology and people that are solving the same problems you have.
The story varies enormously by kind of institution and by specialism.

Being an associate in mergers and acquisitions at an investment bank is famously gruelling - long hours, terrible work culture - and as far as i can tell pretty menial, low-skill stuff most of the time.

Being a quant at a hedge fund can be pretty fun.

My general impression is:

1. Smaller companies are better, on all axes, than bigger ones

2. Trader/associate/etc > developer in all of hours, stress, and pay

3. Front office > back office in all of hours, stress, and pay
"Last week was the final week for this half’s performance review at Facebook, where we write summaries of work and impact we and our peers had over the last half year. Naturally, that can only mean one thing: the entire company trends towards peak levels of procrastination, doing literally anything and everything to avoid the unspeakable horror of having to write a few paragraphs of text."

Ugh, I can relate so strongly. Right now I'm supposed to be filling out my mid-year performance sheet, including team success goals, team player actions, effective communicator actions, achieving business results actions, business goals, personal goals, individual development plan, etc. I've been working on it for 2 days and have hardly anything done. This kind of work is so incredibly difficult for me. It is supposed to be written with maximum business jargon. I'd rather put in a week of all nighters writing some code than working on this.
This is not a very original recommendation. In fact a major selling point of String Theory is that one can manage to derive both Einstein's Field equations and quantum field theory scattering amplitudes from its equations. This approach is currently the only one that can claim that for itself. Of course people like Hossenfelder never made an effort to understand String Theory in detail, so they can only make first order observations about the current state of the field.

It is also not true that no progress has been made in the understanding of String Theory in the last 40 years and it still seems like the best bet that could eventually generate a fundamental theory. What is missing is still a lot though:

- We don't seem to possess the correct mathematics to develop a non-perturbative formulation of String Theory and there are too many potential string backgrounds that we could expand around.

- It is also hard to derive the matter content of low energy effective actions from most brane configurations.

String theory provided major insight into non-perturbative quantum field theory as well. There is tons of examples, let me highlight one of them: The discovery of the Amplituhedron (Arkani-Hamed et al., 2012) was preceded by the discovery of the BCFW recursion relation (Britto et al., 2005), which in turn was motivated a relationship between perturbative Yang-Mills theory and the instanton expansion of a certain string theory in twistor space (Witten, 2003).
« Emacs ... is a great tool for animation ». Emacs lovers never cease to amaze me.
> Will alleged CIA misbehavior set Julian Assange free?

If CIA misbehavior was setting people free, US jails would be empty by now.

Also, isn't US misbehavior what got Assange in prison in the first place?
MOND is a better explanation than dark energy.
New Jersey Escorts
I agree with this and I also prefer a programming language over a GUI. My point was that there isn't a limitation of GUI ETL tools that's specific to structured data.
SV companies have made showing losses an art form.
If I need to combine a bunch of files in a 'union' or 'concat' type fashion I will usually use UNIX tools or perl. Ditto for dropping or re-arranging columns or filtering out entries. The syntax is usually very terse and for simple tasks isn't too bad in terms of readability/
Wikipedia published information it received, would you say the same about any journalistic organization?
I agree that ocean dumping is bad. I asked mainly because nobody openly dumps nuclear waste in the ocean any longer, and progress towards long term nuclear waste storage is being made (in Finland, particularly)

It seems like the amount of water in the ocean is so vast, that the quantities of nuclear waste dumped into it will not create a nuclear ocean, but I’m just speculating here.

Scary nuclear incidents to me are Cuban Missile Crisis, Able Archer 83, Stanislav Petrov incident, and the Norwegian rocket incident. Early nuclear era ocean dumping that isn’t being continued isn’t exactly an existential threat.
I don't know of other papers, sadly. I am at the company behind reflex-frp.org/ so it's code + oral tradition for us.
similarly lucky as the other person who replied

checked the spectrum website for compatible modems available on the market, ordered a DOCSIS 3.0 Motorola Surfboard and when the technician came in, he pulled cable across our (admittedly tiny) apartment to where I had all my networking gear mounted to the wall on 3M strips

great experience

the actual internet itself, not so much, but that has a lot more to do with the terrible nest of interconnects in older apartment buildings in New York than Spectrum's upstream network capacity
Yeah, if Iran-Contra, Operation Condor, 28 Mordad, MKUltra, etc have taught us anything it's that they tend to at very best get a slap on the wrist after the fact, and usually less than that.
The Great Migration
Wait a second, is the "copy" the same person, or a whole new person being created?
Apart from IBM.
The overall manufacturing process pollutes quite a bit, doesn't it?
I still think the system is very much gameable. In US atleast it'll take lot of time. We still have to swipe cards and checks are accepted
How close are they to figuring out how to handle holding a battery charge in colder temperatures? A few owners around here I've spoken with have said they are experiencing nearly half the mileage this winter season and it's been a struggle for longer daily commutes. They also need to preheat the battery and some have resorted to using another vehicle.

Been on the fence for a while and since we operate with one car that would troublesome.
VAEs for Musical Score Inpainting
I always wondered if they did that, something akin to fuzzing tests in SW.

Well Boeing certainly doesn't fuzz their software as evidenced by the major bugs in the 737 NG and 747-400's flight displays. Both had bugs that would black out all instruments under specific conditions. That got fixed fairly quickly on the 747, but apparently Boeing didn't learn their lesson with the NG.
I actually don't consider Tesla a car company. They are a software company with world-leading expertise in energy production and storage. Vehicles are currently what they're mostly focused in applying this technology to, but that will change in the future. The stock price reflects the likelihood that Elon will accomplish the goals he has set out.

If they solve self-driving, that by itself will be worth over 100 billion dollars.
Here's a better comparison (another company where owners love their cars):

Tesla built 35x as many cars as Ferrari and is valued at 3x.

Tesla trades at 4x sales, Ferrari at 8x.

Having been in business longer is not always advantage and is frequently a disadvantage.
Well I believe Bjarke Ingels (BIG) could be the right guy for the job. He already designs buildings that look like the future.

But overall this is just an announcement that BIG will design employee housing for Toyota.
I wonder as well. The self-proclaimed world's largest spa, Therme Erding [1], is the result of an oil drilling attempt hitting a hot sulphur/fluoride spring instead at ~2.3km depth. Today, it powers the entire spa and close by communities with geothermal energy.

Just need a way to efficiently extract the heat from whatever depth and convert it to electricity by usual means.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therme_Erding
But then you are stuck with iOS and Apple
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I wonder what NYU prof Scott Galloway thinks of this given his Oct 2019 prediction that Tesla will lose 80% of its value.
> he was actively trying to escape _in_justice

There, fixed that for you.

> taking refuge in a country (or rather its embassy) that provided a safe harbour.

Political sanctuary is an important tradition - even if's used by people who I or you would like to see punished for things.
I've implemented something like this at Dontport. There are few work arounds but again security isn't something that's on top of traditional carrier because it's a problem with a small set of people
Yes. The problem is that the thermal conductivity of rock isn't great, so it needs to be in a "hot" area and to have some kind of underground fracturing allowing water to spread out and heat up.

An example: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/06/drilling-to-start-at-the-uks...

Not quite there yet: https://www.uniteddownsgeothermal.co.uk/future-programme

In both construction time and cost it's a bit meh compared to wind/solar, its only advantage is dispatchability.
No they are not. Maybe one temp sensor per ECU.
Yea, the CIA is usually not considered a subsidiary of the Swedish prosecutorial authority (Åklagarmyndigheten)... :P
It's not bound to any host OS. I am using SDL to provided a simple abstraction to open a Window and obtain key and mouse input. I use very little of the SDL features, just a rectangle fill and rectangle bit blit. See the gui/ctx/class.inc for all those, everything else in the GUI, like the compositor and vector graphics library, widgets et al are done in VP on the CrysaLisp side.

I have a small abstraction to the host OS via the sys/pii/functions, these just use the jump table you can see in the main.c file. Any host OS should be able to compile the main.c with little or no changes, but eventually there will be a native filesystem available from VP/Lisp.

I will be doing direct bare metal hardware support, and there are things happening on that front but I can't talk about that here.

But during my experimentation stage it was very useful to have it running hosted, and I'll keep the hosted version running going forward as it provides a nice dev environment.

I do have a plan to get a version done that could boot under VMWare etc, but I've only got so much time on my hands and have to spread myself over the whole codebase as best I can. :)
Those walls arent to keep him in its to keep me out.
If you've never had to deal with this stuff before, you probably follow a naive model of memory, wherein all operations are "sequentially consistent": you pick a random thread, and you execute the next memory instruction, and everyone understands that the memory is updated. That model is not how any multicore hardware is actually implemented, because it is slow and often unnecessary.

Now, it is known that, if your program is correctly synchronized, then the existing hardware models are indistinguishable from sequentially consistent execution. This gives rise to the data-race-free model that defines all modern language-level programming models: data races can only exist in the absence of proper synchronization, so we call that behavior undefined [1], and our code goes back to sequential consistency.

The primary issue is that there are two entities playing games with your code to support faster execution: both the compiler and the hardware are making assumptions to speed things up. From the perspective of hardware (i.e., why using "volatile" to stop the compiler from playing games isn't good enough), different processors may have the values in their caches. While cache coherency requires that any given point in time, every processor must agree on the value of every memory location, there is great leeway to reorder loads and stores so that they may execute in different orders than the instruction sequence implies. In the extreme, it is possible that the load of *p may happen before the load of p itself (this is the Alpha memory model, and comes from the existence of uncoordinated cache banks).

[1] Okay, there's a slight untruth here: the C++11 "relaxed atomics" is effectively a data race as could be observed by hardware, but is not undefined in the C++11 sense. This is where it's important to point out that we have been struggling for over a decade to actually come up with a suitably precise definition for relaxed atomics that we're happy with--it is by no means a solved problem.
This kind of lines up w/ my Unified Privacy Theory, which is:
Our largest data problem isn't privacy but disproportionate access to data.

This is made worse - btw - by privacy laws that limit access to data by you and me but not by powerful interests, w/ a history of ruining lives.
> It's not about being squeamish about eliminating a position...

If that's the case, wouldn't it make sense to offer a 'stable' higher salary to an employee, and then sack them when it's financially beneficial to the company? I think the company does indeed have a concern with that - it becomes known that a particular company just thins the ranks every 18mos, and they'll have fewer folks lining up to take jobs.

On the other hand, even if the salary is lower, an employee can be more confident in keeping at least a modicum of income in lean times, and can also 'compete with colleagues' when bonuses are available. The perception (of the employer to the employee) is valuable to some extent.
You could use this argument for literally anything, though. I spent days poring over docs, googling, SOF, github issues, making comments, the whole works when I learned any new software/technology. The argument doesn't hold water, IMO.
“Production hosts”. “NFS traffic”. How quickly we regress.
> It's not about combinations. It's about, there's a serious bug in the library and now there are 79 different actively used versions of it that need to be patched instead of 2, which means half of them never get fixed.

Yes I agree that would be a royal pain in the ass, i.e. running something like a Debian where each package would be the equivalent of a docker image with an individual maintainer who'd need to decide when they upgrade OpenSSL.

I'm saying you could have something like a Debian where the build infrastructure and package maintenance works exactly the same, your package is always built against the latest library versions.

But users get a NixOS-like experience where they can partially update their system, now with traditional OS package management an update of a common library & a full system-update are often in practice the same thing.

> Is it really better in that short time for the other 5% of applications to "work" but be insecure and get your system compromised because the new vulnerability is being actively exploited?

On the flip side is it really better that if you're using the other 95% of applications that your security fix is delayed because upstream is finding it a pain to rebuild the patched package for 5% of its users? That's realistically the alternative.

> [...]but that should happen only rarely so that at most two or three mutually incompatible versions are in active use at once[...]

The sum of differing versions in use among a distro's userbase is vastly larger than that, some of those users are deferring security updates because their distro makes upgrading an all-or-nothing experience.
It's not general and vague if you're a practicing physicist and know what those inconsistencies are. For example, the Standard Model assumes neutrinos don't have mass, but they do.
That's a little miss-leading because Ford's EV includes a lot of debt for car loans & leases which tend to get paid back by someone else and are secured by the cars.
lol. some people will never learn.
All applications should be removable and all notifications should be disableable. Even Windows 10, which comes with all sorts of useless irritants, lets you do this.
This sounds a lot like lazy evaluation. And the cohesion/coupling graphics look a lot like a category diagram. Haskell is a language that is lazily evaluated and is one of the reasons why programs written in it compose so well. The benefit of it is that you don't have to write all of this extra code.

An interesting way to think about it.
The observations are still subject to debate. The signals are far below the noise and can only be discerned with fancy statistics, which some groups have failed to reproduce. See Hossenfelder's detailed critique at https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/09/whats-up-with-ligo...
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Do you have any credible information that Assange "hired" people to "steal" information?

And, yes, we "the people" grant far reaching powers to government, and thus have the right to put boundaries on those powers.
"Escape justice"? Is that what you'd call escaping the fake Swedish charges against him that the prosecutors eventually dropped when they no longer needed to keep the show going?

Assange ran from the injustice he then knew was being done to him, and now we do to - the whole thing was nothing but a farce to get him in the hands of the US government (regardless of whether or not the US government was in the right to do so - hint: it wasn't and isn't).
This seems like unnecessarily black and white: in the real world, most parallel solutions have a part shared state / sequential operations, and a part parallel. Just because a solution has some sequential elements, doesn’t mean it doesn’t benefit from parallelism.
It's not the existence of these phenomena that's unexplained, but specific observations that don't fit our current theories.

This article seems like a decent introduction:

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/five-reasons-we-think-...
You have to assess these risks against the risk of living in New Jersey with a basement.
Really incredible. I remember when it was trading at $18.
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This is the exact same story American students were told for so long. If/when it stops being true you end up fucking over at least an entire generation
I highly recommend On the Metal, it's Jess Frazelle, Bryan Cantrill and Steve Tuck, with great interviews. This episode in particular was amazing:

https://oxide.computer/blog/on-the-metal-6-kenneth-finnegan/
I think this is hindsight talking.

I remember thinking (and hearing):

'Way too expensive'

'I want a tactile keyboard'

'Nice, but I don't need one'

and so on.
Many people's car payment is $0.