skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is it simplistic to conclude that it's this?
> Dark energy, the model presumes, takes the form of a cosmological constant Λ ...

Yup quite possibly, and there are people investigating it! The extended model is "Time dependent dark energy" See [1] or many papers [2]

> But what other discrepancies would that create?

This is kinda the crux - modifying something to fix the current problems causes other problems. An example of this is the proposal that DE is just a result of us having the wrong model for gravity (GR) and that gravity is different at cosmological distances (note that this is not MOND which was proposed to not require dark matter and pretty universally unfavoured). However, gravity is really really well measured at solar system distances so you somehow need a theory of gravity that looks a lot like GR at small ranges and quite different at long ones, and that it hard.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/05/30/is-t...
[2] https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=title%3A%22time%20dep...
Unions can negotiate things other than salary, like health benefits, paid leave, policy issues, etc.

(Though in practice you're correct: unions rarely exist for jobs with more individualized pay.)
>...housing is a durable good (people don’t buy it week to week nor does rent change with such frequency),

Rent (and "owner occupied rents") are a part of the bundle used in calculating the CPI.

The owner occupied rent is a calculation of what the rent would be if the owner had paid rent on the house they own. For some background on this:

https://www.philadelphiafed.org/-/media/research-and-data/pu...
Number one lesson: Don't bury stuff and expect to find it later.

Seriously, folks. I grew up around a bunch of preppers and general outside-the-law folks. Burying things in ammo cans was kind of a pastime of a lot of people I knew.

It's _really_ hard to find something like that a year or two later, even if you think you know exactly where it is.

I've been the person wielding the shovel to dig up a box of important stuff before. (Thankfully, not mine, I was just the teenage labor.) We dug a lot and never found it. Also, tree roots grow over/through things and people _love_ to bury things at the base of a tree. Kinda hard to dig through roots.

Don't bury things you want to find later.
My 450s from 2015 has one soldered, one free slot. So the trend actually is to keep them that way.
No tech crunch... You can't have my cookies..
New chip brings ultra-low power Wi-Fi connectivity to IoT devices
https://cloud.ibm.com/catalog/services/api-connect seems to do a lot of this for free. Probably could also use the community version of Mulesoft: https://developer.mulesoft.com/mulesoft-products-and-licensi...
Strange Color LCD's
Yep, very easy. It'll take you maybe 4 hours, most of which will be downloading the prebuilt image of Catalina and watching install bar progress.

https://github.com/mighildotcom/X230-Hackintosh is the guide i followed, it is very x230 specific, but should give you a good idea of the overall process.

Very occasionally I'll have a slight issue with resume from sleep, but otherwise pretty much everything just works. You will need to buy a new wifi card, and depending which you want to use may need to reflash a modified bios to get rid of the whitelist.
Dependencies destroy modularity
Definitely check out prettier for Ruby then! https://github.com/prettier/plugin-ruby. Actively working toward 1.0.
> You can't just take money out at a bank by giving a bank account number, surely?

That's exactly what a check is. It's a legal document that says "I give you X dollars from account Y." You can use a napkin instead of a the pre-filled sheets of paper your bank sends you, and it's still the same legal document.

Typically your signature is checked against one on file, but only for large transactions, and of course handwriting signatures can be forged. And, if you are writing checks against other people's bank account, you'll probably go to prison. That is the check on the system.

(It's no different than signing a contract. I'll do this work and you'll pay me when it's done. What happens if they don't pay you? You sue them. The root of trust is the judicial system.)
Because now other employees have no motivation to put in anything more than mediocre work. The reality is people are motivated primarily by self interest. If advancement and retention is based on seniority rather than merit, people have no incentive to put in more than the minimum work.
We can do that for you. We can give you the API endpoints to hit from Twilio. Want to shoot me an email at parthi@founderphone.com or text at 510 756 2522?
I stand corrected, the current Planck analysis seems to take in account that we are moving through the CMB rest frame although I need to read a bit more. It's a long paper [1]

It was the earlier Planck measurements that did not account for this.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.12875.pdf
No, you would have to do some authentication at a physical bank itself.

You can use the numbers to request a wire transfer from the account. In fact, when you're setting up an ACH transaction for bills and such, they tell you to get the numbers from a check.
I doubt the word "unionizing" was ever something management wanted to hear
Pretty strong selection bias here, if people were turned away by the lacking build quality they wouldn't be an owner. Also a pretty huge post-hoc rationalization gap here
Currently ~60% of the adult population is employed. How do you knock that down to 5%, while taxing that 5% enough to support the other 95%, without taxing so much that working isn't worth the effort?
It sounds like you're advocating for a planned economy with 5% participation, which seems odd given that planned economies haven't worked in the past with 10X the workforce.
We've Just Seen the First Use of Deepfakes in an Indian Election Campaign
I think this is a great idea. It seems like it’s getting a lot of resistance due to the dishonesty.

On the website it looks like the message is purposefully withholding the information that A) the text went to everyone, and B) the person who replied wasn’t ‘Richard”

But the value is the customer received a personal-feeling experience even though it wasn’t actually what they probably thought. And you showed that by having the customer say, “Yo Richard!” as to imply that they had their guard down and were being informal.

I could argue that even though it is dishonest (in that withholding information can be regarded as a form of dishonesty), it is still ensuring greater success by creating a perceived personal relationship. And that’s also psychologically beneficial to the customer and their success with whatever product is being supported.

It seems like you will have to be very careful in how this experience is portrayed, marketed, and worded to get around the subterfuge aspect.

A technology approach could be to have it automatically say, “I forwarded your text to John and he replied “I restarted the server for you. Everything should be working.”

You’re in a delicate position where the value in your startup is due to a psychological perception that’s based in withholding information. You’ll need to trot down that path very carefully so that you still can maximize the psychological benefits to the customer while minimizing the appearance of deceit.

But I think it definitely provides for a great customer experience.
A very similar product - browser for "responsive designers": https://sizzy.co/
> As AMD's current chips are composed from several smaller ones (I believe two or three)

For EPYC, AMD is using nine chips: https://images.anandtech.com/doci/13561/amd_rome-678_678x452...

That's 1x I/O chip (kind of like a router), and 8x chips, each of which has 8x cores on it. Total for 64-cores / 128-threads across 8-compute chips, talking together through a central 1x I/O and Memory chip.

The I/O chip is the biggest for reasons: 1. Its made on a cheaper process. 2. It has worse performance than the compute chips. 3. Its required to be big because driving external I/O requires more power.

So the I/O chip can be made on a cheap / inefficient 14nm process, while the CPUs can be made on a more expensive 7nm process (maximizing clock rates, power-efficiency). The big I/O ports are going to eat up a lot of power regardless of 7nm or 14nm process, so might as well save money here.
Soundcloud is based in Berlin and hasn't ever produced a profit, much less had a 1b evaluation.

And I love Soundcloud, but what are you talking about?
> Forgot to mention the #1 benefit - replaceable HDD/SSD and upgradable RAM.

Also this. I just bought a new 16" Macbook Pro because I just maxed out the SSD in my 2015 Macbook Pro due to all the Docker images and generally all the data that I have. It was running perfectly and I wouldn't even think about upgrading if the storage was upgradable.

The next best thing to buy an upgrade kit from iFixit and spend some precious time just to upgrade the SSD.
It’s not just wage-fixing, tech companies wield an absurd amount of power in other aspects of people’s lives.

I was once let go due for “performance” reasons that involved major company politics behind the scenes. I’d just gotten my annual review from my boss emailed to my work email about a week before my termination, which showed stellar performance across the board.

When I looked into filing for unemployment, I discovered that I needed to dispute the reason for my dismissal since I was let go for cause, which required me to submit evidence. Who doesn’t have access to work emails? Fired people don’t.

My employment agreement stipulated that the employer maintained all rights to my emails, so I was completely SOL.
If everyone disagreed with them, they wouldn't get any new recruits and it would die out. Technically, if everybody disagreed with them then they would disagree with themselves and quit. But more realistically, if people disagree with them they will stew forever in political impotence.
Do unions have to represent everyone? Seems like its collective bargaining either way?
I’ll rain on your parade a bit; the only thing that’s going to matter is whether people will pay for it.

The “charade” and the “reinvention” is irrelevant.

If it’s a good product and people use it, then they’re in the clear.
This isn't responsive to earlier comments in this thread and doesn't support (or retract) your earlier wrong statement.

You previously stated, "Bezos can avoid that limit," with "that" referring to either OP's or my statement about AGI deductibility limits, which is incorrect.

I think you might now be trying to make a statement about being able to claim capital gains as an AGI deduction without paying taxes on those capital gains? Which is true enough, but not responsive; it's just a fact that was never in dispute.
A bit off-topic but I like out the page is responsive to browser width. It auto-magically creates columns as space available
I don't know, I err towards validation in or close to the model. You shouldn't be able to construct an invalid model and that usually involve the model validating the data you're passing to it. Rails certainly doesn't go about it in a great way though and tends to leak view based concerns into the model.

How you achieve this depends upon the language. One thing I like to do in statically typed object oriented languages is to use classes for basic data rather than spread primitives everywhere. This makes it obvious where to put validation - e.g. the PhoneNumber class in the model will necessarily ensure the data its passed isn't bad. Repeating that logic in a controller or view tends to be a poor decision.
P&G Ventures and the adoption of the lean-startup gospel by corporate America
The league monopoly power is probably the primary reason that it happened - before free agency (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_agent#Major_League_Baseba...
) became a thing, a team would own you for life (or until you were traded), so you had no recourse - you couldn't even leave for another team in the same league after your contract was up! White collar employees generally don't work on a contract like that - as at will employees, we can generally leave our work environment with only a couple days notice and have employment elsewhere. The impact of someone like Charles Comiskey (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Comiskey ) is limited in the white collar world.

Besides that though there are a few other things that don't come up in white collar environments. One is career tenure. I think NFL is the shortest average career length for North American sports at something like 2-3 years. In MLB non-elite players who are 30+ are now becoming less likely to get picked up by teams after hitting free agency, meaning the median career for a successful career is something more like 6-7. Athletes in such a situation don't have any leverage to sit out a whole year, which can represent 14%-50% of their lifetime earnings in the primary thing they spent their youth training on. Athletes also have to worry about physical injury that don't exist in white collar environments, which has led, for example, to changing touchback rules in football and adding a 26th man to the roster in baseball this season.
To take it even a step further, there could have been advanced industrial civilizations on earth before us:
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610886/if-we-werent-the-f...

I don't think it likely, but like the article says, we wouldn't have any clue if there were.

Likewise, if our civilization collapsed, and in the far future another advanced civilization arose on earth, they wouldn't have a clue about us if enough time had passed.
The union isn't benefiting from your labor, this makes no sense.
>This gets conveyed as "here is how you make a strong joint". The knowledge of "strong enough", or "this thickness and a miter joint" is stronger than a "thinner joint but with a tenon" implies a rigor in the way knowledge would have been passed on and organized that we know largely didn't exist.

The knowledge of "strong enough" is something that anyone building without a desk reference on safety margins and the material wealth to build to those margins will learn to understand very well. You don't need a system to pass down that kind of knowledge because everyone will live their lives around it.

>In short, I wouldn't expect that a builder sat down and said "here are my four joints, which should I use" when constructing this, but instead said "I know a mortise and tenon is the strongest joint so we will use that" because the analysis of "is it strong enough" both wasn't practical and wasn't understood.

It wasn't consciously understood but whoever built it likely took stock of the situation (task that needed to be accomplished vs available materials and labor) and concluded that how they did it was the best way which is basically a less formal version of what you're describing.
I'm curious as to what exactly "some time" means for the 12 people that you know. Is it greater than 4 weeks?
Probably colonialism is partly to blame; to justify colonialist policies, Europeans engaged in motivated reasoning exaggerating the technological advantages they did in fact possess over other cultures (many of them Neolithic, despite existing up to the present day), and using them to justify claims of superiority not merely material but also intellectual and genetic. (A modern form of this is making fun of flat-earthers, anti-vaxxers, creationists, Apollo conspiracy theorists, Juggalos, and 9/11 truthers, and occasionally engaging in more violent rhetoric toward them.) It's to be expected that such politically-motivated claims wouldn't hold up as our knowledge deepens.

There's also the issue that, as long as our research isn't too shoddy, it's sort of unidirectional. Once you have found an example of Neolithic groove joints or whatever, you've established that at least some people at the time could make groove joints, even if you didn't think they could before. Going in the other direction would require showing that the original research was Piltdown-Man-style fakery or something.
Yeah, workstations for work, playstations for play :)
Do you mean 4 cores or 4 threads? 4 threads is closer to 1 thread than 16.
There's Gridcoin [1] which states "which securely rewards volunteer computing performed on the BOINC platform".
Though I personally am not aware of how successful it has been so far.

With regards to video rendering, cbhl correctly brings up the trust and latency issue. I feel the latency issue is particularly important, as even AWS recently announced their Local Zones data centers [2] for "highly-demanding applications that are particularly sensitive to latency" with an example clearly stated for the large video production studios in LA: "3D modeling & rendering, video processing (including real-time color correction), video streaming, and media production pipelines".

Personally, I feel there are latency insensitive applications such as protein folding which could benefit from proof-of-work, and there does seem an attempt at a crypto coin [3] for this. However I'm not too sure as to whether it's the lack of good execution for these projects not taking off, or if there's a more intricate sociological or other explanation for it.

[1] https://gridcoin.us/

[2] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-now-available-from-a-lo...

[3] https://foldingcoin.net/
Doesn't optical media degrade to the point of no longer being readable after a few years?
Data Infrastructure Automation for Private SaaS at Snowplow – Episode 120
Sports does have a collective bargaining process and NFL players are part of the AFL-CIO. There have been two NFL strikes in recent memory.

I'm flagging the above comment as it is misinformation.
My biggest issue with MVC is that in my experience it always ends up having the C being glue between fat Ms and fat Vs, with multiple views ocasionally growing tendrils between one another.

As in, not the pattern, but the real-world usage of it. Development constraints always end up corrupting the pretty pattern in ways that make the current problem at hand easier to solve, and this de facto architecture IMO never ends up looking like proper MVC for me.

I want to say I like Action-Domain-Responder better, but I haven't seen any real-world implementations of a ROA with it yet.
> Paseto is dead in the water and will never gain any traction.

We'll see about that. :)

> Every single company has no choice but to support JWT in some capacity.

This will change soon.

> Whenever one has to use social auth (Google/Facebook/twitter), or Microsoft products (ADFS/Office365), or third party authentication solutions (Okta/auth0), they're de facto dealing with OpenID Connect + JWT (or SAML but that's a different topic).

The plan for PASETO has always been to make it a JWT alternative for OIDC.

First comes the XChaCha RFC.

Second comes the PASETO RFC.

Finally, the OIDC-PASETO RFC.

1. https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-irtf-cfrg-xchacha-03

2. https://github.com/paragonie/paseto/blob/master/docs/RFC/pas...

3. https://github.com/paragonie/paseto/issues/5
> I have a theory without data.

Me too :D

I've noticed signs of fanaticism within the Rust community. In response to many, if not most, articles about: new languages, new operating systems, or even old languages, or old software projects... I see folks commenting about Rust. Often times, it's pretty rude -- e.g. asking "Why isn't this done in Rust" in response to an operating system written in 2014. It smacks of zealotry.

And then we see people quitting due to burnout, and from abuse within the community. This makes a lot of sense if the community is, in fact, being driven by zealotry -- such communities tend to consume themselves.
> That professional sports are monopolies and monopsonies isn't particularly relevant to this point.

What are you talking about. That’s entirely relevant. What’s not relevant is that the workers are rich. Market dynamics are the entirety of what determines your compensation and working conditions. Being able to leave for a competitor is pretty all the leverage you’re ever going to have.
I wonder why I never see this behavior despite every other person mentioning it
Symmetric signatures completely kill ability to verify token without secret.

For python I had to glue and stick python_jwt with cryptography primitives to do ed25519.

And the most funny thing: very few clients will understand these "standard" JWT tokens.
Many programming languages, certainly not all, offer single and double-quoted strings already. Which is, granted, a perennial source of annoyance for those of us trying to have a consistent formatting style.

I want «guillemet strings» because they use a matched pair, so you can «quote a string «within a string» without escaping» and I think that's a nice property.

I'm not really interested in supporting all the forms in which they're used in European languages, though, that would be a real hassle. Just the one that looks like the other matched pairs we use in programming.

“smart quotes” have ‟at least two styles” and really „three styles”, and the first two are really easy to confuse with "normal double-quotes". I don't want my users to have to deal with "why doesn't this compile”?, and if I allowed it to compile, now you have to escape all the quote characters inside any string, which is messy.

Raku, as a sibling points out, has bitten down on this bullet, and I respect that. I keep meaning to give it a spin, I'm fond of Parsing Expression Grammars and have good feelings about Perl from the early days.
We at Moesif (https://www.moesif.com/solutions/track-third-party-api) released a similar tool in 2017 and found that many of our customers including Deloitte, UPS, Snap Kitchen, iFit, and Trung's previous company, Snap Kitchen were looking for a way to track APIs without the complexity of a full service mesh like Envoy. Especially if you're hosted in something that cannot run an on-prem service mesh or gateway.

We're a little different in that we also support agent-based rather than just proxy. Meaning we have an SDK that sits out-of-band.
Not a FAANG, but a couple of "world-class" employers that pay similarly.

Probably most surprising was that there were a substantial number of people that (though very sharp) had pretty severe personality problems. The challenges and politics of dealing with these people seemed to dominate the merely technical challenges.

As a corollary, though their hiring filters were quite tight, these shops seemed to be only somewhat more productive than what you might see in a random US corporation. I would have thought it would be a day and night difference, but it wasn't.

A third minor surprise: Sometimes these companies spend huge on salaries but don't provide very good working conditions (office, desk size, quiet, decent bathrooms, etc.).
We buy refurb MacBook pros. Our specs are 256g ssd, 16g memory, hexcore + Applecare. We buy 15in machines because the vast majority of the company wanted 15in machines and I'm barely going to put the brain juice in to support one line of machines let alone two.

You're paying around $2.2/2.5k a piece. We buy 1 or 2 every month depending on hiring or whenever I find someone who has a machine like the one you describe (128g/8g ew).

Similar x1 carbon off amazon is maybe $1.2k with taxs, no apple care.

Say we buy 15 in a year, math:

Apple/applecare = $2.5k * 15 = $37.5k

Lenovo = $1.2k * 15 = $18k + say $50kish for a decent help desk employee because there's no way in hell I'm working 60 hour weeks on product AND dealing with laptops beyond, 'run diagnostics and take it to the apple store.'

The value proposition isn't hard. We're going with the MacBook Pros. For the grand total of 5 people who have to have windows for reasons we just run bootcamp.
I have near 0 trust in the major tech companies (Facebook/Google/Apple/etc.) but amazingly I trust the US government even less. I have absolutely no faith that the US government discovered and solved the salary issues in those companies in any meaningful way