skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lisi's work is generally considered extremely unlikely by physicists. The eye-catching title and colorfulness of its author attracts a lot of attention with the public, but it doesn't match experiment. It has basically been abandoned.

I agree that we could probably spend billions of dollars better than on another enormous collider, even within high-energy physics, but it probably wouldn't be best spent on E8 Theory. Figuring out how it would be best spent, however, would be contentious to say the least.
It really is, https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/index.html
As of now, the early voting in Texas is 71% of what was voted in Texas in 2016.
Ditto. If I click on that element I get a black box with a few icons in it, but no actual information.

Safari 14.0 on macOS 10.15.16
Power used is roughly proportional to the clock times the square of the voltage. Changing the processor governor affects the clock, undervolting affects the voltage.

If you use a more conservative governor you lower performance and power consumption both linearly; this means that e.g. the total energy used for running a long batch job is roughly constant. If you lower the voltage, you don't decrease performance at all, but still lower the power consumption. It's a free lunch, right up until your CPU starts silently generating the wrong results and possibly corrupting your entire system.

On top of this, CPUs now often will (internally, or with the help of the motherboard chipset) dynamically alter their clock based on the temperature. So undervolting reduces the power consumed at a given temperature, which will increase the speed your CPU runs at, if you are thermally limited. This means a setup with poor cooling will use the same amount of power before but run faster.
Trump's Twitter Account Hacked Again? – Between the Hacks
> it incentivizes said party to support election reform (such as ranked voting.)

How? Why would either party support ranked voting, and make 3rd parties actually viable? Both major parties enjoy the power and influence they have. Making it more possible for a 3rd party to actually get a candidate elected would be against their best interest, so they won't do it.
So what did we just vote on then? Does this invalidate/override prop 22?
Can you share some sources on these claims?
No, it doesn't. Money, perhaps more than anything else in human society, exhibits network effects that incline it toward winner-takes-all dynamics. Every money implicitly competes against every other money.

I recommend taking a look at something like https://bitcointreasuries.org/

And don't just glance at it - try asking some probing questions, like "What does this mean?" and "What might I be missing concerning the underlying dynamic at play?"

You can also try reading The Bitcoin Standard for a good analysis of the dynamics and history of competition between different forms of money - the central thesis being: History has shown that you can't protect yourself from someone else holding money that's harder (better) than yours. Bitcoin is better money than anything else we have or have ever had.
Photo viewer worked perfectly for a year and then started hanging on about every third photo. None of the "fixes" worked so I just lived with it. About a week ago, it started to work perfectly again and I have no idea why.
Yes, they screwed up the primary, then acknowledged and fixed their mistake. It's a large part of the reason they did much better than everyone else on the election.
BRB trying to work for home depot now
Detect and block spam phone calls
First Programming Language That I Learned as a Computer Science Student
Indeed. I'm actually in the middle of dealing with blowback from some Google product yanking right now.

The big difference is, Google pulls stunts like that small things that aren't critical to the company's business. Microsoft, on the other hand, was blithely jackhammering away at the foundation of their business.

They did fine, insofar as they're still profitable and well-capitalized, but one has to wonder what things could have been like for them if they hadn't spent the aughties playing Dr Strangelove's Hand with themselves.

OTOH, one could argue that spending a decade eating humble pie was a necessary step in teaching them how to play nice with others.
some profs place every student in faculty positions. In some areas, this number is almost zero.

This does not contradict the GP. In field that are stable, the average number of new professors per old professor is 1.
No, though I prefer different windows as then you can have different bookmark bars for each context.
Android was an acquisition but I believe it was completely rebuilt at Google. Pre-iPhone, it was a Blackberryish UI.
Because they need it do something? It's not like if they don't Twitter they can go use something else that has similar content.
Does the world still need windows? I very much doubt that.
> DeFi on Ethereum is replicating the existing financial system, so by criticizing this, you're essentially also criticizing the legacy financial system.

Checkmate nOcOiNeRs. If you criticize my pyramid scheme network, you're actually criticizing the complex global financial system, because r/ethereum told me they're basically one in the same.

How many mortgages are settled at any level of the "financial stack" with DeFi? None.

How many bond payments have been paid out at any level of the "financial stack" with DeFi? None.

How many registered securities have been traded with DeFi handling any level of the "financial stack"? None.

If you want to use your "financial stack" metaphor, DeFi is like using a bluetooth smart dildo bootloader as the back end for a full stack web application. Sure, the stack you speak of exists, but there is nowhere that any programmer would ever seriously think to put that thing.

Stop arguing semantics and actually point to a legitimate use-case that someone outside the crypto space would have for DeFi (even if it is at a "lower level" of the fin stack).
> I for one do not think a trump presidency was a worthwhile trade for sending a vague signal to the democrats that they should "course correct".

How diverse is the set of people you speak to? In the last 4 years, I've heard the following sentiment often: "I don't like the guy and his rhetoric, but at least Trump has caused fewer deaths in international conflicts than Obama did" (and with a belief that Hilary would have been worse on this metric). I do not know how true this claim is, and it's hard to get concrete numbers, but a concern over foreign policy is usually much greater amongst 3rd party voters than for Democrats and Republicans.

Don't assume everyone who didn't vote for Hilary shares your perspective, and rhetoric like yours continues to alienate independent voters.
We use Okta (which is in the list) for AD purposes and JAMF (which I'll ask to add to the list but is on https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/business-ops/team-member-e... ) for Mobile Device Management (MDM).
Less guns, more Notices of Apparent Liability.
That's the theory. The closed source nature means that the WhatsApp app could send the key back to WhatsApp. How would you know if it does or doesn't?
If you want to simply take a utilitarian point of view, a single vote has never decided a presidential election before, and it's unlikely it ever will. An individual who votes for a third party is throwing away their vote in the same way that an individual voting for any presidential candidate is throwing away their time.

You can counter with "But if everyone did that...", but third party voters could make the same counter argument.
Newton was the pinnacle of this kind of personality, but frankly this was the common mindset until the 19th century. Science was not a profession, people who did it were on their own dime and their work was basically an expensive hobby. Things change a lot when you have to "publish or perish".
Oh, I know it's not universally true. There are groups who are getting it done!

It's just not happening in my town, and many others.
If you don't mind my asking... what's a crab video
I don't get that. Say Disney has a Lion King DVD. Why should attempts to stop you pirating it with DRM tech mean they shouldn't have copyright protection?
As a fan of underground bangers, I strongly suggest improving the design, information, and function of your website.
Can I just say how amazingly well articulated this article was?

It was so clear, lacked fluff and explained enough of an extremely complex area of science to have basic grasp of the limitations, difficulties and gains that were made in the latest advancement.

I really wish more articles would be like this.
It'd make it harder, but not prevent it.

It's still a problem if no candidate gets plurality but not a majority.
Making it an odd number wouldn't prevent this possibility, as electors aren't limited to vote for only 2 people. In 2016, there were 7 different people who received electoral college votes for president.
When your family is extremely well off, it can lead to the real or subconscious understanding that there is no long term downside to failure. Money will come to you anyhow eventually.

I rarely hear the argument that the USA needs gov funded heath care, BECAUSE it would be good for entrepreneurs. It's a bit like being part of a wealthy family :)
When I was younger and still an everyday networking guy I had a rack with tons of kit, ran my own DNS, firewall was OpenBSD, etc. Today I have a family and a sr. role at a startup. My network is 100% Ubiquiti, storage is a FreeNAS Mini and every TV has an AppleTV with the same apps and setup. Why because I do not have time to play anymore. Why because if I get killed in a car accident my non-techy wife can understand the tools I left.
>Voting for people you don't like and whose platform you don't agree with seems to be the very definition of throwing your vote away.

Why? If the other option is a party that you hate even more, your vote isn't "wasted", it's going towards making the government less bad. That has concrete benefits, as opposed to the vague signaling effect that you get by voting for a third party.
> They gave Trump 28.6 which was beyond problematic.

I don't see where you've said anything that comes close to supporting such a strong assertion.

2016 was FiveThirtyEight's third time forecasting a presidential election. Getting one of those three "wrong" when they gave themselves slightly less than one in three chances of getting the 2016 election "wrong" doesn't seem at all surprising. It sounds like you're demanding that FiveThirtyEight make their forecasts deliberately underconfident but still expecting them to call the correct winner every time.
I doubt anyone really believes that today's DRM will be any impediment to copying software 100 years from now. The problem is that DRM by its nature doesn't distinguish between uses that should be prevented by law anyway and legal uses that are only disrupted by the technology. If those anti-circumvention provisions you mentioned were abolished, that would be much less of a problem in practice.

That still leaves all the other questions about the duration of copyright protections, what fair use or the equivalent concepts should mean in an era of technological protections, and whether it's healthy for society to encourage perpetual rental models for creative work rather than permanent rights to access any given material, but these are separate (and potentially complicated) debates to be had.
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And simply from market cap - no. 2 in the world just behind Apple. 1.62 T
Plus c# seems to be usually much further a head than java. See lamdas, async await...

One thing about Microsoft, their tooling just seems more polished and things tend to just work.

I'd be surprised if a lot of start ups don't start using c# since it's now open source and more platform agnostic.
step back and think about the math. Eliminating the possibility of a tie in a system where electoral votes are awarded based on population (kinda)... I'm not sure it's even possible.
If I'd rate my current collection of best SF I've read:

- Deepness in the Sky: super mustache twirling, one of the worst.

- Fire upon the Deep: I consider the blight to be twirling. Why treat lower civ that way? AFAIK, for mustache twirling.

- Iain M Banks: lotsa mustache twirling. Surface details and Player of Games in particular. My view of the culture AI is that they are constantly sarcastically toying with humans, and are thus secretly twirling.

- Fifth Season (Jemisin): no twirling. One of the most balanced novel on that front, every faction has believable reason to act the way they do.

- Book of the New Sun: no twirling, but OMG, stop what you're doing a good read these books! The tone and story was just perfect for me. Sure, it looks like a weird cross of SF and fantasy, but there is no fantasy at all in the novel in reality. Book of New Urth is, in comparison, just merely very good.

- Ancillary Justice (Lecki): some small twirling, but justified since it's an empire: absolute power corrupt. The twirling is commensurate with having a empress as head of state. She even becomes mostly sympathetic later.

- Left hand of Darkness: not only no twirling, but the power struggle is extremely believable. Great illustration of an interesting alien civilisation. Great for both world-building and character building. Another of those stop everything and just read it now novel.

- Roadside Picnic: no twirling. The conflicts and abuse of power are all believable.

- Collapsing Empire (Scalzi): lot of mustache twirling. Not DotS level, but not that far off. Plus, there is a plot point in the first novel that made me quit reading for a week. Incomprehensible because it was all of unbelievable (given the multiple characters behaviour before), idiotic and had zero impact on the rest of the book... so why write it. (Page 260 in my paperback version, for the record)
Why should some startups not be raising funds with VCs?
The models are wrong again. Take it to the bank and take it to Helmut Norpoth aka the Primary Model (primarymodel.com). Hasnt been updated since March but the author (@primarymodel16) recently tweeted that the decision still stands: Trump is getting re-elected.

Also, the last person ANYONE should be listening to is 538/Nate Silver. People need to remember that before he was in politics, he used to be in sports betting but because his "models" were so terrible, he got pushed out of the industry. Nothings changed and he is still as wrong as ever.

If HN wants some high quality punditry, look at People's Pundit and their shows, Barnes Law (20 year election better wbo has never failed to make a profit in a cycle), and Cotto Gotfried. Stay away from the Nate Silvers and the Nate Cohns, terrible data and terrible forecasts.
The source isn't "useless", it allows you to run your own server.
If anyone else is wondering what the Lisp "condition system" is...

Apparently it's analogous to "exception handling" in other languages, but with some extra features.

Props to the author for getting out his first book!
> We could add a senator. Give it to DC.

That's literally the one thing you cannot do, even by Constitutional Amendment (though arguably you can by two, but that's definitely hacking around the clear intent to exploit a possible loophole in the wording.)

OTOH, you could just explicitly give DC an extra electoral vote (or give either one or three or any other odd number of electoral votes to US citizens not resident in a state or D.C., or to any other particular US territory whose resident citizens are currently unrepresented in Presidential elections.)
I think WSL should also be listed among awesome new developer amenities from Microsoft. I know a lot of people view it as a capitulation considering its Microsoft, but WSL is such a great tool.

I purchased a Macbook about 2 years ago out of curiosity, as it seems a lot of developers prefer them. I'll admit the screen is beautiful, but so much of the developer niceties are simply the Mac taking advantage of POSIX interoperability. As WSL continues to grow, I could definitely see going back to a Windows machine.
Fivethirtyeight puts Binden's change at winning Texas(!) at 36%.
Thanks. Is user-flagging challenge-able?
Logically its all the same at execution time, but with callbacks the control flow is more clear to read for me.
Same. But I switched because I felt that Adobe got very abusive with customers that paid for a $2,000 and had the misfortune of having a serial number tied up in a crashed machine that wasn't deactivated. The interrogations and scoldings were ridiculous. The lack of an online deactivation instead of having to call every time was annoying as hell too. For a company like that, the subscription model was a "no deal" because then they'd have zero incentive to improve. I don't miss Adobe at all.
drcongo, try the extension instead:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/css-spider/eneakgb...
Have you tried Firejail? I'm not sure i'm clear on what your requirements are, but at a glance it seems to me that Firejail should do what you need, a Contained sandbox for GUI processes
Compatibility and Stability

Sometimes success is a matter of being at the right place at the right time. As the article mentions, many customers were afraid of AWS because they feared Amazon snooping in their retail intel. Because MS doesn't have a big e-store presence, they were not a retail threat. And Azure integrates better with existing Windows networks. Compatibility is still a key here, not raw merit. AWS is technically better.

That being said, Satya has been a steady hand and has made it fairly easy to keep running legacy software rather than pulling the carpet out, like VB-classic (desktop) did. Google, on the other hand, changes products like a teen changes fashion.

The VB-Classic fiasco under Ballmer sent panic through the industry, making customers realize they can no longer bet the farm on any MS tech, which they had been doing. Dot-Net was not backward compatible. COBOL still lives largely because co's don't or can't F with it. That's a lesson to not be ignored. (The need for a network GUI standard with similar properties is still out there.)

Businesses hate upgrading just for the sake of upgrading. Satya seems to understand this, making transitions gentler and more gradual.
Being a business person is the ultimate status symbol in the USA. Look at our current president: he was elected because of his perceived "business prowess." Had he been considered merely a reality TV host, he would not have been elected.

If you think about it, it's odd that we even know the names of business leaders. But, I bet the typical American could name F500 CEOs than they could famous painters.
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They're really not opposing google. By default, they send google every keypress in the address bar. They've also integrated google analytics to a degree that I'm quite uncomfortable with. So I kinda agree with you in principal, but in practice, they get a ton of money from Google; their CEO in particular gets a ton of money from Google, and it shows in the decisions that they've made.
In regular taxis there is no negotiation. The meter says a number, you pay that number, and if the driver doesn't like it, that's their problem
Actually they don't say they are for fans either. But good luck if you go in there to call their cars ugly.
There is no way to make it an odd number because it's always an odd number (number of reps in the House) plus an even number (number of Senators) plus an odd number (minimum number of EC votes possible for a state, which is how DCs EC votes are defined).

If you made the House an even number, they might have ties, so then they would need a way to break ties.

If you gave DC fewer EC votes, then that just gives them even less representation, and they are already underrepresented.
Humour me – if the iPad isn't innovative as it's simply a larger iPhone, how is the Watch innovative? Is it not simply a smaller iPhone with a strap?

I recognize Apple's A series and S series chips are different, but both the chips and watch in general seem like incrementalism to me.
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That, and nobody listens to my ideas or opinions. I'm always stuck building someone else's (management's) half-baked idea. It'd be nice if I were at least a part of the strategy and design discussions. I'm tired of being told to think outside the box only to be put down when I do.
I do not understand how 28.6% is "problematic," if that's roughly a 1/3 chance. That means, every third election, Trump would win with those odds - far from impossible, and it happened.
Probably closely related to Anchoring (cognitive bias)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring_(cognitive_bias)

I doubt we have neurology-based explanations. Nor do I think that's the right level of analysis for many psychological phenomena (including this one).
I wonder if there are models still treating each state as an independent event.
It's a fascinating achievement! I, and others at my org, want to do this for technical writing. Some want LaTex -- others Markdown -- so we must answer that question first.

Did you implement an example for them, demonstrate, and get acceptance?

What was the resistance? How was it overcome?
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I certainly appreciate the difficulty of choosing which subjects need to be explored: too many subjects and you become unfocused. Too few, and you run the risk of not providing a solid base to teach the subject matter.

Its overall a good blogpost in any case.

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One more "criticism" (but not really).

> Rule #2: Whenever we need to choose a variable based on control flow, we use the Phi function (φ) to introduce a new variable based on our choice.

You might actually benefit from a more complicated example here, rather than the simpler example you chose.

A do-while loop:

int x = 0;
do{
x = x + 1;
} while (x < 100);

This has always been the hardest thing for me to understand, with respect to #2 and SSA in general.

int x_0 = 0;
do{
x_1 = phi(x_0, x_2);
x_2 = x_1 + 1;
} while (x_2 < 100);

On the one hand: choosing simple-to-understand examples is helpful to the reader, because they're simpler to understand. On the other hand, smacking the reader with the most complex case may suddenly spur inspiration and the ability to understand the whole problem.

I guess its a style choice. But something to think about...
Patagonia.
I CANNOT believe this. This is EXACTLY what I was looking for. I tried making one of these last week and it's practically impossible
well aluminum wont rust.
Such color schemes usually represent the position of the amino acid in the protein sequence, from blue (start, or N-terminus) to red (end, or C-terminus). Keep in mind that the figure shows an oligomer of apoferritin, formed by several individual protein chains.
I don't disagree with you- what I am making a point of is that it glosses over hard things without explaining that this is in fact non-trivial. It's that "magic wand" approach to DIY that I find irritating.
How fast a few dozen startups grew in Q3 2020
As long as important software still runs on Windows and isn't available on other platforms, the answer will clearly be yes. In time, particularly with the shift towards online systems where the browser is now playing the standardised platform role that desktop operating systems used to play, hopefully the dependencies on Windows are becoming fewer and weaker. However, I think we're still a few years away from being able to assume that anyone can move off Windows without losing anything important to them.
THE way to build a UI that worked and looked consistently across platforms at the time as well. It was a great time! Even now it still takes some work to achieve the same!