skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An organisation like CERN is extremely hard to replicate and easily destroyed and dragged down by a thousand cuts. The EU is funding similar moonshots in Neuroscience , Graphene, Quantum Computing and most recently machine learning. They all provide case studies what can go wrong in such a big science project (in fighting, diverging goals, huge administrative overhead, bureaucracy, political grand-standing).

The people working at CERN directly and their collaborators truly belief in the goal of understanding the fundamental forces of nature. And they had tremendous success doing so. They are the gold standard for a well managed long running big science project. Just recently they found the Higgs boson. Hossfelder worked for years on extremely speculative ideas in quantum gravity, they weren’t super well received, most people liked string theory better. Bottom up and top down reasoning in particle physics phenomenology suggests there are more discoveries to be made at the energy frontier. I like to see a future where eventually we build a solar system sized particle accelerator not stop at a radius of ~100 km
Yes, it's on my radar! I believe it's not released yet and likely to be early next year.
It doesn't have blades like a fan so I guess it is abit safer? I mean the blades on this will not get an upwards trajectory if they fall off.
Have you defined the word "seriously" before making that comment? Ridiculous.
Are you meaning they expect that in Europe? I've not seen it asked for in the US.
Isn't this what PHP still is? Can't you just drop index.php into a directory?
Feature requests:

- ability to save played melodies,

- ranked playlist.
another one to look at is Nitro as well (just looked for an alternative based on Silhouette's comment below).
here's a link to G2 for comparisons: https://www.g2.com/products/foxit-phantompdf/competitors/alt...
$remote_country is interesting idea, you classify visitor into per-country "buckets". Although the buckets would not be of equal size. If you have a single regular visitor from a tiny country, $remote_country could uniquely identify them.

A similar idea would be to have built-in $remote_addr_hash8, $remote_addr_hash16 variables which hash IPv4 and IPv6 addresses down to 8-bit or 16-bit numbers.

There are hacky ways you can do some forms of anonymization already:

https://www.supertechcrew.com/anonymizing-logs-nginx-apache/
Yes, the first sentence was meant to follow "You think that's bad, ..."
I think the argument being made there is that when you gather smart people together, with resources to work on a hard problem, they will tend to invent things on the side which we didn't know we needed.

An academic committee to decide what software was worth funding, in the 80s, would probably have come up with a very different list to yours. And would have hired people from safer, more academic, backgrounds than Sir Tim.
> a newer politician certainly has more pressure to put points on the board and it follows that they may introduce "buggy" laws.

cf new developers who are under pressure to get commits into the codebase and will end up making mistakes as a consequence.
FWIW, CloudFlare can inject a cf_ipcountry header that does that. User-agent parsing is unfortunately more complex, with lots of false readings (not counting bots & crawlers).
The more-correct observation is that any well-understood or easy path to becoming high status will be shut down. Most people are not high status, and want to be. It follows that the path has to be either risky, or difficult to comprehend.

If hard work were enough, we'd all be in charge. Lots of hard workers out there.
While i use React at work for bigger things, I've come to use Vue for almost all my "smaller" hacks since it becomes a win to use almost as soon as you start using inputs. After this it scales pretty well up for anything that is on "one page".

Apart from work things the main example would be a that I built a small audio sequencer hacked together with Vue. That project would've been suicidal to do in JQuery but also went far quicker to make than if i would've been messing around with doing everything "properly" in React. (Iirc the entire thing is <1000 loc)

My main "issue" right now is if i should just leave it and let it be useful at the current level (perfect for creating small retro-style chip tunes with fixed audio channel tone generator controls). Or to remake it in React to enable more easily supporting stuff like view plugins (to control parameters custom instrument/filter plugins), I.e. in principle making it more "application" like rather than just a small one-page hack.
Between German and English one example that stuck with me was it confusing "farmer" and "builder" because in German, within compound words both of these map to "-bauer". Cue a number of auto-translated job adverts advertising positions as a "street farmer" and suchlike…
Corporations lobby for their own interests all the time. It's unusual that Expensify is going for a Presidential election rather than specific legislation, but these are unusual times.
And we should resist this. Do other global products cost less if purchased in cheaper locations? The value we bring to a company is the same regardless of where we're working from. We shouldn't accept lower compensation because of irrelevant "cost of living" arguments.
Tech giant? Ive never seen a reference to FAANGE
Please let me disagree. Google Music has a terrible UI (as Spotify). Their only great feature is the ability to upload your own music. I'm moving to Spotify just because my friends create playlists there and they can share with me. Also the music discovery algorithms in Spotify are way better.

My great pain is that I had terrible results with the softwares that I tried to use to move my playlists.
> you're picking the most stable currencies in the world

OP tried to compare Bitcoin to reserve currencies. Reserve currencies are more stable than average.
> you’re doomed to repeat the same mistakes every 10 years

That assumes 1) that every term expires at the same time, and 2) no-one ever documents anything...
But there is no longer an expectation that we can expand a peacetime army to direct large numbers of conscripts.

Maybe how we run higher education should be reconsidered too.
Yeah, 33 years old, haven't accomplished much, went into school to start a degree in programming, still low status and can't find a job anywhere.

I'm not sure willingness is the word for this. All I feel is bitterness. I'm not sure if this is me being reflective because it's my birthday today or what, but I'm so fucking sick of working so hard to get nowhere.
He expects that a Trump second term and GOP control of government will be an existential threat to his company and the country. Sadly this is a well substantiated prediction.

Luckily in the US we have the first amendment to ensures that expressing your opinion in public like this is never “plain wrong”. There may always be negative consequences depending the the reception, but it’s never illegal.
WebLayer: A Chromium embedding API (2019)
We generate a daily changing identifier using the visitor’s IP address and User Agent. To anonymize these datapoints, we run them through a hash function with a rotating salt.

hash(daily_salt + website_domain + ip_address + user_agent)

This generates a random string of letters and numbers that is used to calculate unique visitor numbers for the day. Old salts are deleted to avoid the possibility of linking visitor information from one day to the next.

Full details are here: https://plausible.io/data-policy
'Anything less than a vote for Biden is a vote against democracy' – Expensify
They took the solar sail idea from Project breakthrough and turned it into a sphere to make it irrelevant if it starts spinning. 200 years to get to Alpha Centauri.

I hope to be alive when a first generation interstellar probe manages to catch up with Oumuamua, the first mysterious interstellar object detected hurtling across our solar system.
This is nothing more than a month old tweet from some random person with generic advice and zero empirical evidence to back it up.

Why is this even on Hacker News?
I am curious, how are you going to unanonymise an IP to something that could have 255 combinations (and that's just if you drop that last part on an IPv4). Nevermind that an IP alone is not PII. How can you reverse something that has many possibilties?
That's the Hossenfelder take on the scientific method for you: whereby you make the experiments to confirm the theory. Which is fantastic because if science had ever worked that way you would be done with all experiments as the sensible ones would give known results, so what's the point.
There's a big difference between quantity in each completed piece of work and quantity of pieces of completed work. I think his theory favours the latter by far. Instead of increase quantity by writing bigger articles, write lots of articles.

I do agree with your latter points about bad practise. I think this works best for forms of output where bad work has relatively little downside for the individual. It's harder to get bad habits that dampen your growth in things like writing, art etc and so this system works great for those types of activity. Maybe a good way to think about it is that you need a base level of skill to then improve. In writing most folk will have the base skills from school (spelling, grammar etc), whereas in software you first need to learn the basics (syntax, high level incepts like classes and functions, debugging etc) and then this theory will work for you.
I suppose it could act as inspiration for others to tackle other companies to task to provide personal data portability and simple integration with third parties.
Show we were she actually advocates for building any accelerator and you'd have a case. She violently opposes the FCC despite one of it's explicit goals being precisions measurements of the Higgs.

In fact in the very post you link to she dismisses the idea of high precision measurements: "Yeah, except that I am the one saying we could do better things with $20 billion than measuring the next digits of some constants"
And the three tabs that are different but actually the same is intuitive at this point but I couldn’t explain how it works to anyone who doesn’t already know.

Double tab to reset a tab to its home screen is something I don’t think you discover except by accident.
Politics and business aren't separate, or else industry lobbyists wouldn't be a thing.
> Whatever theorists predict is not the only reason for them to do it, higher energies are a technical challenge, a data processing challenge, something to focus your attention and creativity on.

I don't understand this argument. We should prefer a particular experiment not because it is more likely to answer a research question but because it, itself, is more challenging?
I think it is worth noting that while this is an opinion not widely shared within physics, Sabine is not some completely far-out crank writing bizarre rants in green ink either.

In other words, we can all disagree. As it happens I do, but she's also not a lunatic whose ideas can just be dismissed as obviously uninformed.
I have the feeling that GDPR and Cookie consent laws themselves, ironically, make harder for the services to provide privacy.
The link has nothing to do with industry lobbying.
You're absolutely right, but it seemed to me the context of the suggestion was that an economic downturn was a good time to go back to school if you were without a job, and that a good PhD program would pay you while you were in it. I was pointing out that such a thing wasn't an option for many people.
Core apps can be disabled, which for all practical purposes is the same as deletion. 200MB on a 16GB-128GB SD card does not make a Federal case.
My favorite tweet about bitcoin all time:

imagine if keeping your car idling 24/7 produced solved Sudokus you could trade for heroin

https://twitter.com/theophite/status/1030225104234373121?lan...
> I'd say real world is much simpler than that. There's stuff that happened, and there are consequences - just because the consequences may not be fully computable in the amount of time and effort anyone is willing to expend on it, doesn't mean truth suddenly becomes fuzzy. The territory is sharp, it's just the map that's uncertain.

Oh but it definitely DOES mean that truth becomes fuzzy. There is NO territory we can meaningfully talk about outside our subjective maps. Likewise, there is no such thing as "absolute truth" - and I do mean this on a very practical, day-to-day level, not in an abstract philosophical way.

The sooner we accept and embrace this, the sooner we can move away from "I'm right and you're wrong" to "let's make progress on what actually matters to the parties involved".
> Why the aversion?

Students of central banking are familiar with central banking in the era of gold and why it was almost universally a disaster. (Most of Bagehot [1] concerns itself with bank runs.)

This paper’s audience is familiar with that history. Talking about Bitcoin would be like addressing why machine language wasn’t used in a CS paper.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lombard_Street:_A_Descriptio...
Thank you now it makes sense to me.
Some thought experiments tell you a useful answer.

But this thought experiment doesn't tell you what works, as either outcome is quite compelling and plausible. So it's not much use as a thought experiment, other than to show that it might be interesting to study it in the real world.

I.e. it might be "obvious" to you that focus on quantity over quality leads to better quality as assessed by another in the thought experiment. But it might be equally "obvious" to someone else the other way.

A real study would be interesting, because there might be a real world consistent pattern. It might actually be useful to know which one works best for real.
Summary of the issue...

VAT is kinda a sales tax in Europe. It means sellers must charge 20% on top of any sale, and give it to the government. Very small companies are exempt.

Uber was arguing that they were just a platform like EBay, and that every individual driver was a small enough business that they didn't have to pay the tax. Uber paid the tax, but only on Ubers fee, not the total journey amount.

This ruling is the government deciding that the tax was due on the entire journey.
One interesting thing about consent under the gdpr is that users can later withdraw consent, and if that is your only legitimate reason, then you have to get rid of all the related data. It's best if you can show that there are multiple legal bases.
>Chainalysis, a research firm that analyzes activity across different cryptocurrency markets, estimates that between 2.78 and 3.79 million, or between 17 and 23 percent of all bitcoins have been lost.

It's more
Old salts are deleted to avoid the possibility of linking visitor information from one day to the next. So yes, there's no way for us to know whether the same person returns to a website on another day. See https://plausible.io/data-policy
That’s horribly inefficient economically. Sure, some jobs benefit from PHD adjacent skills and companies can employ such people cheaply, but the time and cost to train a PHD is extreme.

The other half of this is many people put PHD’s at the bottom of the pile as a sign of poor judgement, or just anti intellectual bias. Which plays into why employing PHD’s is so affordable.
Interesting, looks like he got out by the skin of his teeth as the US was on him hard but at the same time:

In October 2013, Snowden said that before flying to Moscow, he gave all the classified documents he had obtained to journalists he met in Hong Kong, and kept no copies for himself.[126] In January 2014, he told a German TV interviewer that he gave all of his information to American journalists reporting on American issues.[77] During his first American TV interview, in May 2014, Snowden said he had protected himself from Russian leverage by destroying the material he had been holding before landing in Moscow.[35]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24868030

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24865128

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24868076
But that wouldn't achieve the ultimate goal though. How else will you get the few leftover customers that has resisted switching to a subscription based model to switch ?

Adobe is business, and it's all about revenue. "Dead" products don't make any money, so there's no business case in keeping them around.
3 times the amount may be worth it for things where synchronous work matters
Emails aren't for urgent stuff. I read those only when I'm at my computer.

Slack messages come through when I want to - usually when I'm on the clock. I can quickly check them from my watch of phone and decide if I need to react to it or if it can wait until the next day.
Powering the Blue Economy: Ocean Observing Prize
The projection viewpoint for a rotation matrix using dot products is totally valid, but I think the column viewpoint is more intuitive.

A 3x3 matrix can be viewed as something that acts on the standard unit basis vectors. The action on the standard unit basis vectors can be read out by looking at the columns. (A matrix times the ith standard basis vector is just the ith column.) Since the transform is linear, all the other points in space are carried along with the action as well. This is the "linear map" viewpoint of a rotation matrix.

I show an example here https://biro.ai/we-learned-the-wrong-way-to-matrix-multiply/ where this viewpoint lets you instantly see what a rotation matrix does by looking at the columns.
There are few other ways of probing high energy physics systematically and a lot of them are funded and done aswell. This is not a zero sum game. We can bury detectors in the antarctic, in mines and have CERN. In fact technology developed at CERN helps those other experiments aswell.
I am afraid that, no matter how well thought out a strategy or plan for the future really is, there is always a ranting blogger who will get more attention.

And in that tradition I guess I should have expected a dismissive reply using 'generic press release' to describe the Comment that introduces an entire section of Nature Physics.
I love perpetual motion machines. Absolutely fascinated by them. I am quick to dump on flat earthers and antivaxxers and understand the science against perpetual motion just as well.

That said, given a strong UBI or a grant of a billion dollars I would GLEEFULLY spend the rest of my life working on trying to build a perpetual motion machine. Sometimes we just have to remember that if we are honest with ourselves we are not as rational as we would like to believe.
I think the theory is if the data controller does not derive value from storing the data they should not do so. In spotify's case they plainly do. Without user created playlists they would be up a creek.
Widevine is DRM so there's no reason for a freedom activist to want it.
Sorry my wording could have been more explicit!

Generally, use of LINQ in the context of DB access is done hand in hand with an ORM, such as Entity Framework, NHibernate etc, and this is how I meant it.
Happy birthday! There's plenty of time. And whatever setbacks you have in 2020 aren't your fault.
Afaik impurities, small imperfections, and micro fractures increase resistance which increases power consumption and generate heat. Im not an expert on this but I assume even how well the chip was soldered to the board might make a serious difference here.
If you actually read the email there is no “or else” or any other implied threat in there. So it’s rather disingenuous to add the implication when you simply don’t agree that the current political regime of Trumpism is steadily devolving the US into theocratic totalitarianism and a possible civil war. Given a plot to kidnap a Governor and a refusal to agree to a peaceful transfer of power, one must be in deep denial to not see the justification for this warning.
This fits with my experience that low-ego people are better to work with and low-ego teams tend to thrive more often. I think it's important to separate status and authority deriving from other authorities compared with status and authority earned fairly in the eyes group/team members, though.
People doing their PhDs is one of the main ways in which actual research gets done. It’s a good in and of itself. Also, there are tons of research labs and other research positions that need PhDs.
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When the Worst Man in the World Writes a Masterpiece
Lobbying is, literally, representing the interests of your group to politicians in order to get your concerns addressed by the government. When the group is one or more businesses, we call it industry lobbying.

This is representing the interests of a business to the electorate, in order to get their concerns addressed. Since the electorate is the appropriate governmental body in charge of selecting a new President, this is precisely industry lobbying.
I assume it has to be aluminum since the weight is going to be a big factor in the efficiency, no ?
I agree with this. Since any path to becoming high status attracts heavy gate keeping quickly (essentially clearing that path for people who have high status to begin with) it seems reasonable that people try to "hide" in low status niches where there are way fewer predators.

I think success here is somewhat incidental. No doubt the vast majority of niche workers are pursuing non-viable careers, a minority can just about wring a living from it, and a vanishingly small part will actually see some measure of success - upon which that path too will close off quickly, both due to masses of people flocking to follow those footsteps and active gate keeping by value-extracting entities.

Implicit in this model, there is a dark timeline where there are always many more people than there are opportunities. Since this system of exploring possible paths and then closing them off to the lower masses is so extremely effective, eventually every single niche will be flooded with overqualified eager young upper-class people who are just perfectly networked for success, and even though they are so many there are still untold thousands more of hopeless dregs below every single one of them.
Some people, in some jobs at least, aren't productive enough to support themselves. It's not about "deserve".

Some people have a lot of potential but need a chance to prove themselves and gain experience. Maybe they would start by bussing tables and eventually own their own restaurants. They need a ladder to success with rungs that are actually climbable.

If we mandate that you must be able to support a family of four and save for retirement to work bussing tables, we won't have prosperous people bussing tables. We'll just have more self-service restaurants, sit-down dining will become more of a luxury service, and we'll have more wait staff struggling because they have to have fewer tables that they have to bus themselves.

The training you yearn for can happen by virtue of the economics of the industry. It's like apprenticeship or interning. Except it's working at entry level jobs and earning advancement. And it's egalitarian because anybody can be an excellent busser. Not everyone can talk someone into funding their education on spec.
Others like the orlyonok were able to fly way higher, at an efficiency cost.

A big issue they all share, with all other seaplanes, is that taking off in rough seas is terrible, and very stressful on both passengers and superstructures.
Yep, even fully remote companies usually have in-person days or weeks at some schedule.

Some things just are faster when you're all face to face, no amount of remote tooling or processes can change that.

I'm pretty sure our future will be a hybrid of remote/office work, depending on the state of the project and company. Plan stuff in person, then spend a few weeks remotely executing the plan with your team.
This comment is really bizarre and I’m not sure how to respond. I’ll just point out that the plot to kidnap the governor had more ties to the anarchist left than to Trump.