skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair it’s not like HEP pays well. And redirecting the resources that currently flow to HEP to climate science wouldn’t make much difference, as it’s not a particularly large amount of resources in the grand scheme of things. HEP has a lot of people who work there for a lot less than they could make elsewhere because they like being physicists. If the field is gutted in favor of some other discipline they will move to finance or industry, not other scientific fields. We can approximate where they would end up be looking at where PhD graduates who don’t go into physics research end up.
>I would put out there that the only people that want to go back into the office are are busy bodies and control freaks. (Lookin' at you Satya)

Pretty offensive to those of us that literally can't sustain ourselves mentally in isolated environments.
That or we are ADD like rabbits so we either start drugging ourselves heavily to "take part in work from home culture" or well, welp.
Interstellar travel, yes, but slower than light! In the Revelation Space books, it's either fusion powered starships of the "big cylinder full of people hibernating" variety, or admittedly somewhat magic relativistic starships (Bussard ramscoops in the earliest stories, but this was retconned out, and indeed a Bussard ramscoop shows up in a later story as a prototype that never really worked properly).
It's a bit trickier than that as the flash freezing process is on the scale of milliseconds iirc which can affect what ensemble of folds are seen via cryo-em
It does in my experience.

This may be biased by my academic background where a sabbatical year is typically one where you would have no teaching duties so were free to travel to another university to work with a new group, explore a new field, finish a manuscript, etc. Expectation is that you are working, but not your routine work.

I've heard it used similarly outside academic contexts and when it was not something you were contractually guaranteed - e.g. "I took a year off my job to finish my book" , but never in the sense of "I took a year off my job to go surfing".

So i guess I think of it as a formalized break from your work routine where you do something else productive with the expectation of going back to that work afterwards.

Of course "productive" here is a bit slippery.
China would be severely affected by such a measure as well. This is WTO's doing, and is a big reason why there has been no world war 3. It's easy to wage war if your economy is truly sovereign, but with a nation your economy is intertwined with, it's hard to wage with. Trump's anti-China policy, while it is sensible in many ways, could have the ill effect of enabling a major war in a few years.
Literally bought the kindle version of the penguin edition yesterday. I'm excited to peruse it, and will keep your videos in mind.
> I don’t buy that entrepreneurs are not interested in status, they’re just making a longer term status play (and taking on more financial risk to do so).

Trying to group all entrepreneurs together, I think, is a huge mistake.

I've definitely seen status driven entrepreneurs. Some of them are amazing.

But the ones that fill me with joy are the ones that clearly were sick of the world being incredibly bad at things, that could not accept humanity embarrassing itself so poorly, and who could not live with a planet that had so much wasted potential. And who responded. Who ventured forward, to make at least some data points, where humanity was doing it right. These people DNGAF about status, they only care about trying to generate some good, creating some value.
Yes, I deliberately, though not disingenuously, failed to mention that part, for rhetorical effect. One should also note that UCSB has a much better math department than people might think.
Overvalued: A future in which people can buy and sell shares in one another
You afix a caption describing an unfortunate scenario onto the song for comical juxtaposition, since the Crab Rave song itself is jovial sounding. For example, one might add the caption "I got fired".
My self hosting solution at the moment is:

- Upload music to a webserver (can be anything, like Google Drive or in my case a OwnCloud server)

- Connect Astiga (https://asti.ga/) to it, which turns your storage (can be multiple storages, like some music on DropBox and some on an FTP or whatever) into a music library. For €24/year it will auto sync any changes automatically 24 times per day.

- Use the Astiga app (Android) or any SubSonic app (on iOS play:Sub is passable) to browse this library from your phone

To be honest, stuff like Apple Music is way more convenient. But I have my baseline of albums I “need to have” in lossless (and where possible hi-res) format in Astiga, perfectly tagged. Especially in case my rented access via Apple Music to this music is suddenly fucked with.
All reminds me of this talk at Aerospike back in 2015: https://twitter.com/i/events/1032400612653129729
What prevents countries from saying thanks china, we aren't going to pay and then allying with the rest of the west, or playing back and forth to negotiate ever better deals? The problem with infrastructure investment is it's hard to move.
Python has literally all of those things, and has been strongly (but dynamically) type from the very beginning. PHP is still weakly typed today. This code doesn't raise a warning or anything:

$ php --version
PHP 7.3.11 (cli) (built: Jun 5 2020 23:50:40) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.3.11, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies

$ php -r 'echo "123" + 45;'
168

Contrast with Python:

Python 3.8.3 (default, Jun 1 2020, 10:55:34)
>>> "123" + 45
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: can only concatenate str (not "int") to str
I too use php for automation. It has a lot of "built ins" that are always there (reading csv files for example/ json reading), which I find makes things a little easier for a lot of simple things.

if i have to crunch numbers in a script I like R, or Python w/ Pandas
The move towards a transnational, mobile class of wealthy individuals could engender within-nation conflict, though.
How is this differentiated from hypem.com?
An interesting amount of the contracts from the blockchain (with source code) are using ancient versions of solc. The compiler changed (e.g. improved) a lot in terms of code generation during versions 0.4 to 0.7. In short snippets of code, it does not produce wildly different results but you need to be aware of this changes when handling this kind of data.
How do you use it for generating documentation? Can you generate anything other than Swagger UI for API docs?
My sense is that people who think like this don't make it this high up. Sundar has already had opportunities to sell out much earlier; Money stopped becoming a problem for him long ago.
My favorite quote of the talk, "There's a lot of stuff that's deployed everywhere that sucks everywhere."
I use nix (nix-shell) for that, it's basically universal package and env manager. You create a config file, put it in directory, and wherever you are in that directory doing `nix-shell` will put you in correct env, not just in js. You could also script it basically however you like.
Why care who "wins" or who's "bigger"? Our goal should be the greatest wealth for the most people for the whole Earth. This is accomplished with innovation and peaceful trade. One "side" discovers a new technology and the whole world can benefit.

The primary driver of innovation is a competitive market in which individuals innovate through the pursuit of self-interest. The 20th century was a large experiment finalizing this hypothesis, including China through Deng Xiaoping's reforms.

The incendiary thought to both "sides" is that they're both suppressing such innovation: China through explicit communist philosophy and Western countries through some sort of devolution into Crapitalism due to varied causes.

In other words, are China and Western countries qualitatively different? In my opinion, not by a magnitude, and that's the scary thing.

However, barring idiotic wars by country leaders, humans are likely to continue to innovate _despite_ the chiefs, priests, and thieves, as we have done for the last few hundred years (see Pinker, Goklany, etc.).
How genetic variation gives rise to differences in mathematical ability
I work with hardware that either I do it at our facility.
Or I risk making a few hundred people homeless if the hardware goes up at flames at home because it'll take a good day to put out the...volatile fuel source :D
The ultimate WFH experience.
> In Europe, people still don't really identify as being European before they identify as English, French, German, etc.

My impression is that that's a dividing line in many European countries. Some (mostly the elite) identifies as European and sees the single nations as backwards and vulgar, while others identify as their nationality and consider the EU as an elitist project to shift the power away from individual nations.
Honestly my guess (as good as yours) is that in the real world most tasks come in 'sets' anyway, and the difficulty we find completing tasks that don't is somewhat eased by creating them artificially.
It's not, I've only used it as an example. China had been the world's leading economy for a long time. They spawned many innovations like guns or even paper money. They had a bad century but it's foolish to belittle them.
>Neurobiological origins of individual differences in mathematical ability

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou... (full article)
There is bad technical debt and there is acceptable technical debt. The mark of a good engineer is knowing where to cut the corners - which you will always have to do.

Hardcoding something in a file rather than pulling it from a config or a database has a pretty good ROI in terms of time saved, and it's not that hard to change later, but tying yourself to, say, a kind of storage that you know is not going to work long-term, that will cost you later.

Also, sometimes doing MORE results in more technical debt. If you are going to spend your time building a Kubernetes cluster because "your home page has to be webscale", you are an idiot.
In such a hypothetical situation, I think China is able to at a minimum neutralize nations into not being on a side at all given the economic sway that it has in the world.
Sure would be nice to be able to pay for passable housing & health care while I'm trying to create. The burn rate is too damned high.

#vanlife is a nice escape fantasy, for this ultra-hostile expensive world we live in.
Even if this person has a different mother tongue their English is clearly excellent and not likely explained by “ESL tendencies.”
Consider drinking seltzer. Canada Dry is surprisingly good. Let it get really cold in your refrigerator. For some reason, it tends to have a better bite and stays fizzy longer when it's opened while colder (Sources needed).

Seltzer helped me to quit a Pepsi habit in college and while I occasionally drink soda, it tends to taste super sweet now to the point of not really tasting good to me anymore.
Waymo 2020 Safety Report [pdf]
Naive question: these images are made at low but finite temperatures, so each atom would fluctuate within its position such that there should be an uncertainty. Is that uncertainty lower than 1 angstrom? Otherwise, how can one talk about atomic resolution if fluctuations are larger?
> Iain M Banks: lotsa mustache twirling. Surface details and Player of Games in particular.

I think both the Hell faction in Surface Details and the empire in Player of Games have reasons to be as nasty as they are; they're somewhat internally consistent, in that the social stability of both the Hell faction societies and the empire are dependent on the nastiness. There are, unfortunately, real life examples of this. Veppers is a bit gratuitous, granted.
There's a grey area though, where you properly define a new style (yay) at the time the first Cancel button is created, but then down the road you find yourself with a whole bunch of new styles for things, and it turns out over time that the styles are maybe repetitious or subtly inconsistent or whatever. The debt has become the reality that the initial abstraction ("all our buttons are the same") hasn't kept pace with the needs of the product as it has iterated forward. Paying down the debt is creating new abstractions and updating all the buttons to be using them.

The worst case scenario is probably partial paydowns, where the abstractions get changed but some of the non-aligned stuff remains and so that you end up with a jumble. Especially combined with inadequate documentation (or a culture of inadequate documentation, where people don't even look because they don't expect it to be there), the old practices can end up being cargo culted forward even when someone attempted to create a better way.
That's universal boomer NIMBY. Even in the NYC suburbs outside NYC , which are in no way small towns. Anything short of multimillion dollar housing for rich fucks is opposed.

Boomers. Their entire retirement portfolios depend on keeping property jacked up for the foreseeable, to later sell to a magical entity with money.
Annoyingly, there are 3 major related limits for Intel mobile CPUs- thermal, power (both an instantaneous, absolute max limit and a set of "okay you can use 25W for up to 5 seconds but then have to stop" limits), and current.

Within that envelope, the CPU can boost up to its max turbo frequency when needed.
National Guard called in to thwart cyberattack in Louisiana
Do you have the API?
The asymmetry of power/influence.
Can anyone help me? I have a problem with -ash: permission denied whenever I attempt to type in something that requires this clearance. I even asked the dev on GitHub but to no avail
I would argue copy/pasted code is usually not technical debt because it's very isolated and easy to change, and it's cheap to consolidate it later. Crappy abstractions are a way bigger source of technical debt than repeating yourself IME. It's a lot easier to create a new abstraction than modify an existing one, so you generally want to wait as long as possible.
1.China has 4 times the population of America, and 1/6 the per capita output.

Take your pick on what you think the long term per capita output ratio will be and you'll easily reach a conclusion on the relative size of the two economies.

2.
The US has a greater inclination and ability to build alliances. However, managing the divergent interests of the members in the alliances won't be easy.

3.
China does not have enough oil to sustain itself in the case of a war. So there will be a strategic competition for the South China Sea and the control of the Strait of Malacca.

4.
Taiwan will be the key trigger for a possible war.
> In the US camp, I see Western Europe + NATO countries, Australia, NZ, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, India and Israel. Do you think China can match that alliance?

Project population forward another 50 years. China will have Nigeria along with a few other African power houses, which at some point will probably comprise at least 40% of the world's population.

I don't think the US can count on India in the same way that it can count on the others in that list, although I suspect that the US and India will grow closer as immigration continues to increase/due to lingual bonds.
Edn should be on this list
> I can't think of any way to give people more say based on how long they've been invested in a place that couldn't also be trivially used for voter suppression.

I don't think something like that necessarily needs to be some kind of constitutional mechanism. It could be a social norm, kinda like the ones that discourage people from casually insulting others and which punish them if they do.

Though I suppose if you're looking for a constitutional mechanism, clearly defined but longish residency requirements for voting probably wouldn't fall under the category of "voter suppression" (which I take to mean policies designed to indirectly disenfranchise certain kinds of voters for partisan political advantage).
That's a lot of words that could be replaced with "I don't understand the phrase 'contrary to all evidence.'"

Although I suspect you know that, the rules around here say I should assume the most gracious possible explanation, so:

My long sentence did not in fact suggest any coordinated behavior at all, nor is there any known evidence to suggest any part of the sentence is wrong.

That's the difference between something being proven false, like racist birtherism, and a lack of evidence to support your misreading of my assertion. Do I need to provide links for "shots fired in a pizza parlor" or "protesters murdered by car" or "protestors murdered by gun" or "illegal voter intimidation" or "not quite ruling out the possibility that a huge chunk of elected officials and others are part of a cabal of devil-worshipping pederasts who drink the blood of children," really?

You go on a bit suggesting that the only reason any of the above might possibly be considered bad is that it's labeled a certain way, but I think you've got that very, very backward. All of the above are considered bad, and it turns out that all of them seem to be linked to a somewhat popular and growing source which happens to fall into a category popularly known as a conspiracy theory. Call it that, or call it harmful garbage, I don't care.

This sentence is the one that would give away your game, by the way:

> If truth and rationality is truly on the side of the "anti-conspiracy" side of the divide, you'd think it would be child's play to "destroy conspiracy theorists with facts and logic". And yet, what accompanies the heuristic seems to be an inoculation to any epistemic challenges: circling of the wagons, typically via insubstantial/rhetorical dismissals (ad hominen character attacks), appeals to ends justifying the means, or simply downvoting + silence.

That's a doozy, and wrong both in fact and in what I think is its clear intent.
> Just look at the number in China in absolute poverty over the last 100 years. Honestly, your comment seems remarkably ill-reformed.

Last 100 years? I was thinking more towards the last 2500 years or so of Chinese and Western history. Will edit my previous comment to clarify.

> It is actually quite anomalous for a non-democracy to see these sorts of quality of life improvements.

Could you give some counter examples to these non-democracies that went from 0 to very powerful (in terms of geo-politics, economy and science and technology) in a matter of decades: various kingdoms before the year 0 (Syrians, Persians, Babylonians, etc), the Romans during and after Ceasar, the old world European exploring kingdoms (Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, English), old Chinese Dynasties, modern Singapore, China, USSR.

So what do you mean "The '"nice" thing about a totalitarian king/emperor/dictator is that improvements in prosperity come quickly' has historically almost never been the case."??
There is no such thing and this is blasphemous - shut it down.
It's also a bit of an abuse of the term. Overengineering in engineering (mechanical, civil and other similar disciplines) means building a component to withstand more than the absolute minimum. So, a bridge you'd want to be overengineered by a factor of 2 or 3 at least, whereas airplanes are hardly overengineered (lower factor of safety).
Illuminated Mercedes-Benz badge can cause power steering failure
Aren’t they, in a sense, nuclearized, as they live under our security aegis?
Because it's hard, and there are more valuable things to do. Everyone above a certain size duplicates lots of stuff.

There are entire consulting practices - big ones! - built just around helping companies standardize applications.
Also for the lazy, since I had never seen it before: IDDQD is the cheat code for 'God Mode' in Doom.

I definitely realize that by writing this comment I am both identifying myself as not a gamer and reverse-dating myself. :)
I'm just an interested layman but it seems like this technology might be useful in developing therapies that either suppress or amplify immune response (e.g. diabetes, vaccines, cancer). For example, it may be possible to optimize the targeting of PD-1 inhibitors by comparing the PD-L1 ligands of healthy and diseased tissues in a cancer patient (edit: found something [2]). There was also a story [1] about how more advanced imaging was used to help identify antibodies that would be effective against SARS-CoV-2.

[1]

https://www.diagnosticimaging.com/view/role-emerges-imaging-...

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/novel-c...

[2]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5050107/
Discussion of technical debt always seems to devolve into an augment about what technical debt actually is.

Are there specific patterns of code behavior, metrics which can be derived from analyzing code, quality scores that are non-controversial, which can be used to define this problem? Things that can be measured and managed in a canonical way? How can some knowledge of experienced CTOs be distilled so that we can start to automate some of this wisdom?
Agreed, the awakening is already there in our field. While western "males" are competing how to successfully submit to "oppressed" groups, Asians already dominate some subfields like machine learning.
both are easily neutralized by a peer competitor.

This is what I was thinking the whole time. Rome was surrounded by peer competitors, and OP says their most effective use of elephants was against non-peer competitors like Spain or Gaul.

So why would competitors continue to use elephants? Not because Roma was susceptible, but because THEIR boarder competitors were susceptible.

Elephants were not worth it to defeat well-trained troops, but were more than worth it to defeat smaller, less disciplined armies/militias.

My guess is that Rome's peers were often using elephants to keep smaller competitors in check, and only used them against Rome because they happen to have them anyway.
A good book is also the Terror by Dan Simmons, goes into more than scurvy..... https://www.amazon.com/Terror-Dan-Simmons/dp/0316486094

Just finished it yesterday.. recommended!!
I’ve sent an email to the CEO of Expensify [Twitter]
In the case of Excel, I'd be willing to bet that for any given bug ∃ at least one spreadsheet that relies on that bug to make multi-million dollar decisions.

More importantly, the people who use the above spreadsheets are the ones who give Microsoft the real money, and therefore the ones whose cries are heard the most loudly.
After 25 years, Master of Magic has recently added an official update!

Well technically, some guy on the internet spent five years making a binary patch to fix a lot of bugs and add a lot of balance to the original game. Then some tiny publisher bought the official rights to the original game from whoever owns the Atari brand these days. The new publisher worked out a deal with the random internet guy and his patch became an official update.

I've been playing the heck out of it lately and it's great!

https://www.slitherine.com/game/master-of-magic-caster-of-ma...

Also available on Steam and GOG. But, I'd suggest giving the new publisher the revenue directly.

Documentation of the changes: http://seravy.x10.mx/CasterofMagic/CASTEROFMAGIC.HTML
Master of Magic is one of few old games from GOG that are still receiving updates and fixes[1]. Perhaps they have the original source code available?

[1] https://www.gog.com/forum/master_of_magic/changelog_master_o...
Well, I still want a rebel blue polestar v60 wagon, but they brought so few to the US they're hard to get.
Yeah i guess. I don't really know that much about it anyway. I like Java, the IDE is so rich for it. Just makes writing so easy.
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