skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my understanding of where the research is at, I think you're asking too much of it, and rebutting it on that basis. My understanding is that it is being posited as a category of models, of which one could be the "theory of everything". They haven't said that one of them is, and they know they haven't found the one that is yet if there is one.

I'm interested in discussions about why this type of model can't work, rather than people repeatedly pointing out that they haven't found the exact model yet, which seems to be a strawman argument.

As for your 6 acid test elements, that's exactly the sort of thing I'd like to learn more about, but in the current wording I feel like I'm missing about a Phd's worth of understanding. I think communicating this in a more accessible form would be great!

I understand that theoretical physicists have reasons why they don't like his theories, but I don't understand what those reasons are, whereas I do understand a bit about the theories. This makes it hard (as much as I want to) to be persuaded by physicists.
Honestly I've always found UI development or anything with some aspect of UI in general has the potential to devolve into a tangled mess. I've avoided web facing development for the last 10 years of my career, and have transitioned to embedded work. Every time I traipse through job postings and look at the tech stack companies are using ("wanted: full stack developer") I just shake my head. I am sure most of the choices are justified, but it all seems so brutally overwrought from the outside looking in. But beyond a fetish for novelty in our industry, I think that's just endemic to user facing development.
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> if a research paper's main contribution is a model whose results were evaluated using buggy code

There's no proof of that at all in this case. The person complaining didn't find any scientifically valid problem, only that he personally for some not cleanly stated reason doesn't like the tests provided, which is clearly stupid.

Since when should any tests be such that some random guy on github must like them? If the code was used by the experts, and they maybe even used it for years, who says that these experts are in any way obliged to publish all their logs of their use of that code (which doesn't have to even exist in publishable form)?

Even if all that they possibly iteratively did for potentially years could be condensed to some tests, who says that it wouldn't take too long (as in, months, years) for that? It's practically just a matter of good will that the code is published at all, in any form at all.
Ask HN: Possible to “hand-off” from a live chat to Messenger or WhatsApp?
I might be missing something obvious here - any pointers would help.

I was thinking that it would be useful for our leads to continue the conversation that started on a live chat (like an Intercom or Drift) onto their platform of choice, like FB Messenger or WhatsApp.

I've only seen integrations where they route messages from FB Messenger into a centralized inbox for agents - but not a user-initiated hand-off.

Is this even possible? Do any of these live chat bots support this kind of integration?
Coronavirus: Black Britons face 'twice the risk' of death, says ONS
If it's code, I make notes in the code as to where the answers came from.

If it's build/configuration, I keep a log of the changes I made. Which has proved very handy.

But just because it's in my notes, doesn't mean I remember it. I have to know where to look.

Yeah, I had a friend of mine point to some code I wrote in a StackOverflow comment. I had no memory of writing it.
Just today morning, I saw an article in NYT about how US should not be happy that it's COVID numbers are tapering.

They show the total numbers split between NY city and whole of US, and it clearly shows that apart from NY, Boston and a couple of other cities, there is a rapid growth in cases across the country.
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It's an odd statement. It's literally less versatile than a laptop or desktop because you can do much more on a laptop without being locked down
I fully share your optimism. I've been trying to find a way to do it with no hope, but maybe with the success and segregation that GeckoView brings to Android, we might have more hope in the near future to get something similar for desktop.
> Intuitively, we "know" everything originated from a "Big Bang"

I don't think we have any intuition about this at all, we are however fairly accustomed to this idea with old creation myths that still loudly resonates throughout culture, and of course now that it has been the scientific orthodoxy for 50 years or so.

But yeah I definitly agree with you on the "curve fit" thing. I would not be surprised that, if one day we do find a comprehensive theory of everything (assuming this is even possible or even have a meaning at all), it would be possible to express it in this very general framework of hyper-graph re-writing itself according to some rule. That doesn't mean it's a good idea to so.

And in any case, at the end of the day, like everything else humans do, science is a social process. The goal is to get closer to truth (whatever that means), but you won't get there by ignoring any input, and insist that everyone should drop whatever they are doing and come admire/help you on your work.
Analysis of developer productivity work cadence and collaboration during Covid
Might have been tried and not worked. Might have been a limitation in scaling (f.ex. only being able to do master-slave replication and not being able to add more master nodes). Remember: it's bad software to begin with.
Revolut plans to buy rivals hit by coronavirus
It's easier to believe that when the person saying that grew up in a system where there was no effective penury, where serious economists/experts used to say (and still do) "relax, not everything is a zero-sum game" (which it's how I imagine most of the Western economies/societies view themselves, i.e. as non-zero sum games).

But I for example grew up in a society (Eastern Europe before 1989) where my dad had to wake up early at 4.45 or 5AM in order to go the State-owned grocery store, hoping to catch one bottle of milk for child-me out of a limited supply of 100 or 200 bottles (or something like that). That was a hell of a "zero-sum game" (you wake up early and you're lucky, you get a bottle of milk for your kid out of a limited supply, you don't, your kid is out of milk). As such, it's very difficult for me (and close to impossible) not to view the other people as potential adversaries.

In other words, viewpoints like the one you suggest ("everyone else is not an adversary") most probably come from a position of privilege, i.e. of having grown up in a society which afforded itself the luxury of not having everything as a zero-sum game.
Time: Interview with Li Hongzhi (1999)
MacKeeper 4.3 Is Notarized
Normal videos are playable by free browsers without DRM. <video> with mp4/etc. target (of course you could use a free codec like theora/vp9/av1+ogg/opus instead of h264+mp3 or whatever is in that mp4, but then it'll only work on literally everything except Apple devices... Sigh).
Ah yes, this has gained some appeal in the US as well (we call them top bar hives). I had one for several years and it was really cool how the bees would freestyle their wax comb designs (shape, period, cell size, regularity) since they didn't have the usual constraints of foundation or a frame like you find in a normal hive. Worth experimenting with as a beekeeper - a little harder to do as you said, but also cheaper.
There's a picture of Auden in the OP and he wrote this poem, which I memorized as a teen after learning of it from my mom.

That night when joy began
Our narrowest veins to flush
We waited for the flash
Of morning's leveled gun.

But morning let us pass
And day by day relief
Outgrows his nervous laugh
Grown credulous of peace.

As mile by mile is seen
No trespasser's reproach
And love's best glasses reach
No fields but are his own.
I've tried that in the past but it never seems to take effect. I don't know if there's some other config overruling it

Edit: That doesn't look like the config I'm thinking of. That appears to change to zoom for the current active tab, rather than per site. The config I'm thinking of changes zoom for every site
Cloud-Induced Damage
Disagree. Perhaps not your style.
Rather than defunding epidemiology, how about giving them enough money to hire professional programmers?

It's a good investment, given how much is at stake.
FYI the author sells server hardware.

Seems somewhat disingenuous not to mention that up front.
If you manage it in a day... Even if you take a month.

Problem with these kind of things is you never know how much time you're gonna spend. I was pretty active in this scene when I was going to University and had nothing better to do. But now I don't want to risk a month of my time and potentially end up with nothing. I guess people who compete in these things already have an exploit at hand to start with.
Yes. I think I was first paid for a website I developed around 1997. As I continued along the path, it was clear that we're trying to implement a kind of remote generic programming environment on top of systems that were not originally designed as such, and that this happens on almost every level.

HTML, at heart, is still a markup language designed to separate a stream of text into semantics and display them. CSS ... I am not even going to go into my feelings about CSS except to say that it suggests that people who look at design principles like C.R.A.P. were not near the discussion and were not in the room for some time. A programming language named after Java, in which it no way resembles, that had to be pushed out in almost no time at all given the irrational deadlines, dominates the landscape ... and we must transpile to it. And we're pushing video over HTTP.

All of the first-mover advantages have locked us into this path and many very intelligent people are busy using their prowess to perform work under some very arbitrary conditions, like not being able to use the letter "e" in writing. While it is a challenge and stretches the abilities, no respite is offered, and so there's a tremendous amount of waste occurring as these initial conditions, propagated down through time, must be constantly worked around.
Not generally, no. Even if they had access to the code at the time of review, which is hardly ever the case in my experience, there's simply no time. I also don't see a point in doing so, most papers only describe minute changes to some state of the art thing that's well established so you trust in the academic integrity and experience of authors to get that part right and usually focus on parts that matter over things like the ones this issue brings up.

Even for real reproductions, that require work just like they do in any other scientific domain, the points in that issue seem pretty irrelevant. There's things like FAIR standards on reproducibility but as far as the status quo goes that repo doesn't look too bad. I could not care less if tests for some project are badly written, at least it's in written in a non-obscure language and shows a somewhat sane structure. What's next? Calling for redactions because somebody didn't follow the same tabs vs spaces paradigm?

There's nothing in that issue w.r.t. whatever scientific finding this was used for and this general phenomenon is really fascinating. Instead of a constructive discussion with the technical or scientific folk that put their work out there, or engagement with the politicians that drew conclusions based on those scientific findings, you get github issues and Twitter threads mixing a bunch of unrelated concerns.
I seem to have "an axe to grind" because I'm a fan and interested in discussing facts about the group? I've shared numerous links in this post that would be of interest to any Kraftwerk fan. It should be very clear that I am quite the super fan. And this is distasteful and bad form? Wow.

Kraftwerk in many ways was the ultimate nerd band. I believe that Florian Schneider would be tickled to know his fans were painfully dissecting the minutiae and lore of his equipment.

I was also careful to point out in my original comment that I was "not trying to detract from their genius in any way."
Turns out if you're linking in code (or even calling out to it, but that's another level of effort) you should probably have the source, or have a person on your team who can do basic RE.
And you can get it on every distribution! You can install Nix on virtually all Linux distributions (IIRC Fedora Silverblue is the exception due to read-only /) and macOS.

Of course, you will lose some benefits, such as the NixOS module system. But set up Nix and you have access to packages in nixpkgs and nix-shell (basically virtual environments with any package). Add home-manager and you can set up your user environment declaratively.
That's a poorly implemented universe. Unless information propagates, it didn't happen ;-)

You could always fast forward the current state when the first external observer arrives. But I get there are time constraints - you can't just stop the real universe until it converges to a consensual state.
Not to protect the insurance industry, which I know nothing about, but how does their hypothetical failure, misery and bailout relate to, or validate the study in question?
When you say it's unfalsifiable and contains no new explanatory power, it would be great to dig into this.

My understanding is that they are early on in the research so the lack of explanatory power feels... uninteresting at this stage? They have started to make predictions (such as the existence of lighter weight particles than electrons that still have mass), but in general it just feels like they're still too early to conclude that it's not falsifiable and has no explanatory power?
It's not naive and historically ignorant, that is how science generally progresses. Paradigm shifts are rare by definition.

Einstein was an obvious outlier, and Wolfram is no Einstein.

Your argument is used by every crackpot to justify their dismissal of the scientific process - because making progress that way is much harder than simply posting their theory on a primadonna blog and demanding the world come to them.
Getting invoices paid: useful resource for freelancers and biz owners
That would be a great strategy, in my opinion.

I think one point I failed to make is that I'm astounded that restaurants are outsourcing such an important role on the higher end. But at least it makes sense on the higher end.

On the lower end (hand-delivering a Subway sandwich) it is just a clear sign of VC cash being set on fire.
Yeah I've looked at that a number of times. I always thought it was cute that they went to so much effort to scrape the part numbers off the ICs.
In the last year, I wrote a nonfiction book (History of Cosplay, coming sometime next year, if all goes well), and spend much of last summer conducting research. When it came time to write, I kept stalling out. What I ended up doing was shifting the font to Comics Sans, and boom! I ended up writing quickly and efficiently.
Job-Security, meaning, its the Job of the Security to guide sec-experts to the exit, where they will be handed over to the police, for trying to break in, using a already known bug.

#FreeBlackHatsWithEveryFoundFlaw /s
That's actually meant to be embedded in the app - so the user gets no choice.

There's a concept of Chrome Custom Tabs - https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/android/customtabs where the app asks the devices browser to show content hosted inside. Even though the name includes "Chrome", other browsers can provide these as well - I know Firefox for Android and Samsung Browser implement the API and handle the rendering if they're set as default.
>>I'm not sure what the big deal is in calling

Because I have no desire to talk to anyone on the phone for any reason. if I could get a personal data device with out phone calling capabilities I would choose that. The POTS phone system needs to be relegated to the dust bin of history

The flip side of that as well, is often you can successfully up sell more items via an online system than you can with a phone order system. The number of times I have "add on" to my order due to the online system having options I did not even know was available is a lot higher than the normal "would you like to add" speech that the phone person gives you which is neither compelling and almost an automatic no as most people do not even pay attention to the offer

>if I'm just calling in to order a pizza or a sub.

The number of times Humans have got my order wrong when talking them over the phone is High... the number of times the computer has gotten my order wrong with submitting it electronic is almost zero

>I just have menus from the very limited number of decent takeout options around where I live--but setting up your own site doesn't help with that.

I would love to see your data on where you believe having having your own website with electronic menus do not help

Hell even outside of COVID, if a place does not have their menu online I will not even go to it physically, I like to look at the menu's and prices before even stepping foot in the place. Gives me a good idea on if I will like it or not.

It should be standard for a place to have an electronic menu with online take out ordering, anything less is subpar IMO
Proposing a chatbot-oriented software development process
" you want to run it ... in your own onsite/cloud/whatever" => I agree. If security and/or privacy is an issue, better use a non SaaS solution. There are many options available, such as UIPath or UI.Vision, or simply Selenium if it is only about web automation.
Webmention is the current standard for doing what trackbacks did, and simplified. Webmention doesn’t require any sort of RDF or special code like trackbacks. Verifying a Webmention only involves looking in the HTML for any link to the page being mentioned.
Disclosure: I am a member of the TileDB team.

TileDB is designed primarily for persistent storage, similar to HDF5, Zarr and Parquet. TileDB is a cloud-optimized, dense and sparse multi-dimensional array storage engine, which is broader than Arrow's Dataframe. In addition TileDB also handles updates, time traveling and partitioning at the library level, which are not possible with the Arrow project's current choice of persistent format, Parquet. TileDB removes the need for using extra services like Delta Lake for updates or Hive for cataloging and partitioning, as you get all this functionality in a single, embeddable library.
This is cool! Bug: I run Postgres locally that works without a username and password. Trying to connect to the database results in the error that I didn't provide a username. Can you remove the validation?
Gremium designed for minimal responshillbillity
The visual configuration menu used in xmake is ltui.

xmake f --menu

https://github.com/tboox/xmake
I get that. I enjoy same-day Amazon deliveries and other benefits of modern technology and industrial scale.

I'm still not going to have random middlemen hand-deliver terrible fast food for me.

When we have truly driverless cars and robots delivering food it will make sense to me. Until then, it's just an artifact of there being too much VC cash needing to be burned intersecting with laziness.
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HN should find a way to counter-balance that. Most successful threads are timezone friendly to the US.

Anyway, on your poke at Apple, you reminded me of the 1984 ad. Most people don't know the fine details of the story of it and its meaning. From Wikipedia [0]:

> "Let's see—an all-powerful entity blathering on about Unification of Thoughts to an army of soulless drones, only to be brought down by a plucky, Apple-esque underdog. So Big Brother, the villain from Apple's '1984' Mac ad, represented IBM, right? According to the ad's creators, that's not exactly the case. The original concept was to show the fight for the control of computer technology as a struggle of the few against the many, says TBWA/Chiat/Day's Lee Clow. Apple wanted the Mac to symbolize the idea of empowerment, with the ad showcasing the Mac as a tool for combating conformity and asserting originality. What better way to do that than have a striking blonde athlete take a sledgehammer to the face of that ultimate symbol of conformity, Big Brother?"

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_(advertisement)
It was funny when I realized that mobile-first also means safari-first for the iOS world.
Disclosure: I am a member of the TileDB team.

Yes you are correct, TileDB introduces a storage format, but is also a full-fledged storage engine that implements it. Having the complete storage engine is what allows us to make accessing the data transparent regardless of the API or application you use to access the data. We are able to integrate into different computational tools without having to reimplement or sacrifice features.
Hive.app is taken too?
Isn't that the best part?

No more tsconfig files and all that nonsense.

Typescript is a great language and it has a direct target for development now.
The Surface is horrible as a touch device because of Windows. Parts of the Windows interface is still not touch friendly not to mention Windows itself is power and resource intensive and runs horrible on low power devices.

Speaking of low power devices, depending on Intel for a device that needs to be both high performance and power efficient is a non starter.

Even though I’m almost all in on the Apple ecosystem. I still use Windows PCs mostly. This isn’t an anti-Windows screed. It’s just a horrible touch screen operating system.
In case no one has read it yet, here is a very amusing take down of Wolfram and why he is the classic crank theorist http://bactra.org/reviews/wolfram/
If this has been flagged off the front page I despair for HN. This should be an apex story for us: open source release of a computer model that has incredible relevance to loads of people globally. Quite sad.
Anyone knows if you can bypass/disable CORS restrictions like in Electron ?
I can recommend this book to understand how you can essentially design a synthesizer without actually knowing any electronics. It shows a notation for expressing how to wire together various parts of a synthesizer.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1795693416/patch-and-tw...

Another interesting source is the Deadmau5 masterclass. What is striking is that Joel Zimmer has neither vocabulary, nor technical understanding of how modulars actually work - yet he is eminently able to use a modular synthesizer and (kind of) explain how they work. Using a large modular synthesizer is essentially assembling a synthesizer out of parts - and this requires understanding the connection between the parts and the sonic results.
hopping on the train here - does anyone know an editor that can do editing of postgres enums? (i know you can't 'edit' an enum in postgres, but i would love a GUI that would 'allow' this. (i.e. in the background DROP CASCADE the enum, create a new one with the same name and new value, as well as restoring to previous dependencies that the old enum had)