skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I strongly disagree that the foundations of physics have not progressed for 40 years.

I think, we are getting a peak at the politics of the practice of science when you look at the article and comments, like this ones parent.

A bunch of this is about the unobserved. The theoretical rather than then experimentally observed (think scientific method).

Whose theories get the funding to be looked into? Whose ideas are published and talked about in the popular places?

A post of Sabine's talked about how she thinks the crisis in physics isn't about physics [1].
Is it instead about the politics of the money and popularity? Is it about the psychology of being wrong? I mean, different physicists contradict each other and the truth isn't what's popular it is what's observed, right? If people contradict each other they can't all be right.

What's most interesting, to me, is how this isn't about what's been observed but all those human system qualities that people bring to the table.

[1] https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-crisis-in-phys...
Hack the Tesla Model 3 and get $1M and a free car
"As it turns out, through October 2019, Audi has sold about 17,500 e-Trons globally, compared to about 21,600 for the Tesla."[1]

"With clients able to register their interest, Porsche has collected almost as many pre-orders as they plan to produce electric vehicles. The Handelsblatt quotes Porsches HR Director Andreas Haffner on the status of registrations to order the manufacturer’s first electric model. Says Haffner: 'There are 30,000 orders for the Taycan.'"[2]

Right, clearly all DOA. The model 3 has no competition because the major auto manufacturers are moving away from the sedan platform entirely to SUVs and trucks. It fills a small market niche, but one that's quickly slowing as a percentage of total vehicle sales.

> However, none of the other players have built a compelling product with widespread appeal or adoption

Neither has Tesla if we're honest.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/samabuelsamid/2019/11/29/audi-w...

[2] https://www.electrive.com/2019/07/29/porsche-reveals-number-...
But fool you ten times, and you get Dropbox.
You might not.

Your dependencies do.

And maybe you do in small amounts.

You think you are gaining something by misusing sbrk(2), but you are leaving a timebomb in your code. By your writing it seems like you are smart enough to know this.

From a performance perspective, it won't matter in large amounts if you put a stack on a high level heap or mmap its pages or use this silly sbrk(2) thing. You know this.
Theory of Constraints for managing bottleneck in the software delivery process
Yes, I have a work in progress draft. English is not my first language. While I don’t struggle to communicate, I find that mental images are harder to write in English. I guess I still ‘think’ in my native language when I write/think for myself. So..to write this, it is like I am translating myself for myself. When I showed it to someone, they didn’t quite see it as I did and so now I am changing how I write/choose themes and words. For example, the choice of a colour means a whole lot more to me than just a hue. For others, it’s just a colour and the nuances that are easily accessible to my mind is lost to them. Blue to me means meandering and I think they see it as curvy streets as I do..but they don’t.

I want to finish at least 36 by this year end. I want to have had at least one blue print per month since I started but I have been lagging behind.

It was to be a five year project ending in 2020. 60 seems unrealistic at my pace, but I would feel better if I did 3 years worth of cities. I am lagging behind because lots of research involved. But I will finish it! I only wish I could do 3D models. I never learnt that when younger or could cultivate the skills needed for model building. My dream would be to create miniature model cities with forests and oceans and farms and mountains. And keep connecting these cities. Keep building out. My vision of the future is clusters of city states. No more nations and countries.
I think this is missing the forest for the trees. The specific recommendations to his course is only one section in the broader theme of intolerance for different viewpoints on the demographics of computer science. In particular Reges seems to be getting pushed out over his belief that in a society without discrimination, women still won't be 50% of computer scientists. This does set a worrying precedence, and events like these are party of why I've long stopped sharing my honest opinion about discriminatory initiatives in diversity hiring and advancement. It's far too dangerous to be perceived as against diversity.
No, it is not a detailed critique, it is a list of little more than rumours. Hossenfelder is satisfied with describing the LIGO collaboration as suspicious and then backing off with ”of course, I don’t belive this.

If you belive that clickbait I feel bad for you, but it’s too low quality to spend time debunking.
Most implementations are actually moving in the opposite direction. Previously, there was a tendency to look to aggregate words into phrases to better capture the "context" of a word. Now, most approaches are splitting words into sub-word parts or even characters. With networks that capture temporal relationships across tokens (as opposed to older, "bag of words" models), multi-word patterns can effectively be captured by attending to the temporal order of sub-word parts.
Hey this sounds super interesting. I'm a PM at Upbound.io and would love to learn more about your experiences working with K8s. What's a good way of contacting you?
Where programming languages are headed in 2020
The comments here seem to be lacking one perspective: Global climate change is going to force governments to ban the sale of internal combustion engines for consumer use. The markets are pricing in the expected regulations, which is why Tesla is getting such a premium since they are the most mature in the coming regulatory environment.
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A bit too much inscrutable math here, but something every AI/ML researcher should know by heart.

Imagine today we make the perfect modeling machine for reality.

Now imagine that machine has to model not only reality yesterday, but today, now that we have the machine.

Additionally, it will have to model the fact that humans are going to change their behavior based on the fact that this machine is modeling reality...

[Machine Halts...]

aka, all of these problems below from seemingly different domains are actually isomorphic (aka the same problem in different shapes)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_critique
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem
The typical angel investor will never see a Dropbox. The numbers game doesn't work without some sort of unfair / assymetrical access.
Docker swarm gets you this without all the complexity of Kubernetes. Hell even a largish docker-compose setup could get you there.
Father and son team develop world's first colour 3D x-ray
> but they nevertheless suggest that changes in family structure had a powerful and adverse impact on male work rates and labor-force participation rates...

This article seems to assume that changes in family structures are a cause of men not working. I see no mention that it could actually be an effect of that. Who's gonna want to marry (let alone have kids with) a man who is unemployed and isn't even looking for work?
How many free parameters do "the foundations of physics" allow?

I was concerned a few years back when a "blip" at CERN resulted in theoretical physicists publishing 300+ different theories to explain it in a short period of time. All of these theories were presumably consistent with "the foundations of physics". And I guess that "blip" got rejected as a not something worth explaining anyway.

Sounds like post-hoc overfitting to me.
>”The fall in participation for prime-age men has largely been concentrated among those with a high school degree or less... …”

What would a high school diploma or 2 year college give them that would enable them to get higher skilled jobs?

I’d be inclined to think that rather than needing “GE” (general Ed) they need vocational type trading that focuses on making them skilled in a particular area (no, not coding). That might have to be complemented with a few other skills that allow them to integrate into the workforce (what it means to be dependable, how to add value, etc., rather than “show up” which is half of it, but not all of it).
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Particle physics != foundations of physics.
> a site without a permeable path to an aquifer

This is why salt formations are ideal. The existence of the formation is proof that water isn't leaving the area and hasn't been leaving the area even on geological time scales.
> The spectral signatures of the best companies I’ve invested in are remarkably similar

Why is it necessary for writers to over-complicate with this type of phrasing any points that they are trying to make? My thought is it distracts.

Why not just use 'qualities of the best companies'?

I point this out because if you are a startup and you are doing marketing you should avoid anything other than simple language that pretty much anyone can understand.

I could infer what the writer (Sam) meant from the context but there is no reason I should have to do that.

Also little organization or structure in the presentation.
Well, it could be worse. You could be mad/anxious all the time and not making the big bucks. The people that are mentioned here, making the big bucks with plush material lives are not the majority. Just like during the 80s and 90s, most sell-side traders were not making millions.
> Generally speaking, when you murder someone you are punished for it. I'm not entirely sure why this would confuse you.

Right... but why always prison? Why's it always 'who's going to prison for this'?

And the way it's written 'someone should be in prison', 'why isn't anyone in prison' it looks like nobody cares much who goes to prison, just has to be someone.

And it's never a case of 'this person should be tried carefully'. It's always just 'PRISON'.

Overall, seems like you want to find someone - anyone - drag them out of bed - put them in prison immediately, and you think that'll make something better somehow.
Horses are more stable a riding platform and much more visible. Point is that trying to retrofit bikes in a city is much more similar to making horses work in a city; both simply do not work particularly well in any form of mixed traffic.
I'd say that the "Alice and Bob" thing isn't as trivial as it seems. There is a long culture, especially in computer security, of using these example names. There's a connotation and context that's immediately available to those who know them. It's not unlike "foo" and "bar" in AI.

It might not be a huge effect, but not exposing students to this puts them at a subtle disadvantage to those who were. And the idea that these decisions should be dictated by some committee from elsewhere in the university is absurd.
Chinese hacking group APT40 hides behind network of front companies
I was talking about Elon’s overall portfolio, of which Tesla and SpaceX are both examples. But if you’re specifically curious about Tesla, I’d point out that Tesla’s mission was to give everybody an electric car, and they decided to start from ~“make a crazy fast electric sports car” and go from there. Along the way, some ancillary nebulous goals ~“also become experts in building our own batteries” and ~”also solar for everybody’s homes”.
> Matt knew that it would be years before the Python 3 port was either necessary or resulted in a meaningful return on investment (the value proposition of Python 3 has always been weak to Mercurial because Python 3 doesn't demonstrate a compelling advantage over Python 2 for our use case). What Matt was trying to do was minimize the externalized costs that a Python 3 port would inflict on the project. He correctly recognized that maintaining the existing product and supporting existing users was more important than a long-term bet in its infancy.

Having just done transitions on a number of much smaller projects I had the same thought. Changes to string handling tripped me up and the changes to relative imports took some thinking. But the biggest frustration was the nagging question: Why am I doing this?

edit: missing word
> In fact, almost anything that may harm the federal government (regardless of impact to the general population) can be designated as a matter of national security (perhaps by design).

The general population is something that can harm the federal government, are you fine with the CIA ruining your life to ensure that doesn't happen?
You should probably quit.
> "Since we've been shitting where we eat, it's about time where we need to start eating our own shit metaphorically."

Not just metaphorically. Well, the shit is, but not the eating. Apparently there's plastic in our salt and drinking water now, so we are officially eating our own pollution.
I believe many folks are particularly attracted to NLP because the Turing test [1] is an NLP problem.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test
You both seem to be right. According to [1], residential customers can use Spectrum-approved modem models, but business customers must use Spectrum-provided modems. (I use my own modem with Spectrum too.)

[1] https://www.spectrum.net/support/internet/compliant-modems-c...
Semi truck cabs often have a communications/GPS/electronic logging terminal called a "Qualcomm" because that's what it says on the bezel.

The ones in my company run Windows XP, and the functional software is by Omnitracs, part of Qualcomm in some way.

The only sense of urgency I've seen for leaving these behind is from the recent debacle at the end of last year, when a huge chunk of truckers were forced to use paper logs for a month or two (eight days max is legal) because of an Omnitracs update related to the GPS rollover back in April. I'm just an end user, so I'm sure I have some details wrong. I also have my paper logs, dutifully kept in case asked for them.

In other words, the software running on the OS is important to users/owners, and which version of Windows is running is probably irrelevant, especially if you're a captive customer.

My understanding is that my company is going to build its own ELDs, based on tablets. Oh. Joy.
This is how most mainframes and microcomputer work.

Check Burroughs B5000 (now Unisys ClearPath), AS/400 (now IBM I), z/OS (now IBM z), Xerox PARC workstations, Lilith, Ceres, watch OS, Garmin devices and plenty of others.
At least in Germany it costs more like 15k for the roof of a big house.
Jane Jacobs is an interesting case in that many of today's urbanists read in her what they want to read.

She was indeed against highways going through the middle of cities and in favor of walkability and mixed use.

At the same time, she also opposed rationalist urban planning like Le Corbusier's clusters of towering skyscrapers. She would likely not have favored the mass building of vertical housing that many of the same people who oppose cars want in order to reduce housing prices.
You're right that it's about more than just carbon, and looking at it purely from a carbon footprint might be the wrong perspective. I was considering climate change to be the most urgent of our environmental issues and in terms of impact to climate change paper production is insignificant.

That being said, an individual reducing their consumption of paper based products is arguably the least impactful action we can take as a society.

Instead we should be focusing on the packaging industry's use of onetime use packaging for products, particularly those that are difficult or impossible to recycle (e.g. milk cartons, juice boxes, etc). This is not only a huge contributor to paper pollution but also micro-plastics pollution and landfill waste in general.

Greater Container-deposit legislation on more products (e.g. plastic bottles) and on limited use but highly recyclable paper goods (e.g. newspapers and magazines) would greatly increase the amount of recycling we do as well.
Neha Narkhede is stepping down from Confluent
Does that mean these apps can't be updated? Or are only updated when the OEM updates android? That's a crazy design deciscion, especially for Chrome!
Is the desire for justice really a "twisted sense"? Would you be ok with this "oh well" principle whenever someone wronged you in any way? Or do you have a list of "acceptable" exceptions that conveniently supports this approach and the current situation happens to be on it?
I've never considered investing, but certainly from looking at it from the prospective founder side, it seemed rather unfair; angel investors seem to barely end up with a better valuation than subsequent investors, despite taking substantially more risk.
> In my experience, it's always difficult to see investors as peers sharing the struggle with you, but who more than them can do it?

For any given startup, wouldn't the founders have much more at stake than does the VC? I'd expect the VC to have many concurrent investments, whereas the founders' whole life is wrapped up in that company.

I would think that owners of other businesses of similar size would be much more sympathetic.
Common Lisp doesn't require tail-call support (though some implementations have it).
This is excessively kind to Muilenberg. Arguably the biggest screw-up was promising the airlines too much with regards to delivery date and training requirements. That created too much of an incentive to ship an unsafe product.

The truly fatal decision though was made in 2016 when Muilenberg was CEO. That decision was to make MCAS a single sensor system vs. a two sensor system. Originally, MCAS would activate based on a combination of a G sensor and the AoA sensor. Sometime in the middle of 2016, when they did flight testing, they found that the undesirable handling characteristics could manifest without high G, so they took the G sensor out of the mix. In order to account for the low-speed, low-g handling problem, they also had to make the MCAS corrections be much more powerful, which made it much more dangerous. The FAA apparently wasn't informed of this.

This key moment was approximately one year into Muilenberg's tenure, and so the buck has to stop with him. Muilenberg was also CEO after the Lion Air crash, and he's responsible for the decision not to ground the fleet at that time. He's also responsible for not wanting to ground the fleet after the second crash, and pressuring the FAA to quickly certify a fix.
“Maximum business jargon”? Is that autocorrect run amok? If not, what’s the rationale for it?
I see this as analogous to saying

> Numbers are inherently binary. You could call 93 "a decimal number", but I would just call it "a number". There's no point in having the term "decimal" since the tech stack is all just "(binary) numbers" beneath layers of indirection.

Surely you see the usefulness in assigning each layer of indirection a unique qualifier?
Somewhat related, if someone want to build something awesome, I haven't seen anything that merges lucene with BPE/SentencePiece.

SentencePiece has to make it so you can shrink the memory requirements of your indexes for search and typeahead stuff.
Lisp does not require tail recursion, only Scheme does.
How to Be Good: The Philosopher Derek Parfit (2011)
OK, so you've shown that sometimes billionaires donations are buying things and not really donations. But that certainly does not account for ALL billionaire donations.

My argument was about RECIPROCITY, which in the billionaire example is not possible regardless of their motives. Even if some are just buying things, there's absolutely no way that every single large donation was given to buy something like a name on a building. There are countless examples of anonymous donors.

Because the idea that all generosity has expected reciprocity is silly and completely unprovable. You would have to change the definition of reciprocity to include any feeling or personal satisfaction, which is completely unknowable. You could never actually prove what that donors intentions were or how they felt after, even if you think you know. And even if you could that would be a huge stretch of an argument for " expected reciprocity" and not what I was implying by the billionaire example.
The Status of HTTP/3
assets + liabilities = book_value_of_equity

The intrinsic value of a company's equity often differs from the book value of equity.

The book value debt can also differ from the market value.

Learning some financial accounting concepts should help you understand this better.
It's still going, I see it on newsstands
Build a Quantum Circuit in 10 Mins – Ft. Qiskit, IBM’s Quantum Programming SDK
All of the above, it's like asking what problems can you solve with math? HuggingFace's transformers are said to be a swiss army knife for NLP. I haven't worked with them yet, but the main fundamental utility seems to be generating fixed-length vector representations of words. Word2vec started this, but the vectors have gotten much better with stuff like BERT.
So by open sourced I assume this means there are absolutely no Facebook dependencies where the voice is passing through a Facebook server? Sorry, have to ask, as my trust level is low. Otherwise, awesome!
Bingo. Angels = Fool's Funding. If you're going to take money, take it from "professional" investors who are investing other people's money. If you are looking to invest your own money, invest with professionals / index funds / professionally managed funds.

Do whatever you want with your money. Maybe you'll be lucky. Maybe not. But there's many other ways to strike luck throwing money around.
I glad to hear that Fon is still around. Back when they were giving out free AP's I snagged a couple and they were my first foray into hardware hacking. Neat little devices, I always felt a bit guilty about not using them to actually deploy fon hotspots.
Eh? You can’t point a telescope at an event that happened (here) years ago! Also, if it ever came out you’ve wasted good night skies on fake events, preventing other astronomy from being carried out by interrupting it with too’s that are known to be fake?! Like non-transient observers get their time sniped enought already?!!! You wouldn’t have friends left in the funding agency at best.

Anyway most events are BHBH mergers with no EM counterparts, so non-detection of those mean nothing.
“What would a high school diploma or 2 year college give them that would enable them to get higher skilled jobs?”

When I look at programming jobs you pretty much need a college degree to even get a company to talk to you. I wouldn’t be too surprised if there were other jobs where having 2 years of college or a high school degree is required to be even considered. There may be exceptions but in general there is a trend for employers to require certain education levels if it makes sense or not.
> Perhaps my least favorite feature of Python 3 is its insistence that the world is Unicode. [..] However, the approach of assuming the world is Unicode is flat out wrong and has significant implications for systems level applications (like version control tools).

Isn't this more a problem with Python not easily differentiating between String and Byte types? Both Go and Rust ("""systems""" level languages) have decided that "utf-8 ought to be enough for anybody" and that seems to be a good decision.
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I don't know if 50percent attacks exist on Tor, but in Tor, you don't need a 50percent attack, all you need is to attack the single Entry Guard a target uses.

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/08/03/can-you-trust-to...
It's "/", not "=", right? I think "=" is just for padding at the end
Can you share some podcasts that help you keep up with LWN?