skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that we already know an awful lot of Physics doesn't mean we're any closer to even think about it. A few broad examples not in Applied Physics next:

We don't have a working and then fully boring computationally detailed theory of quantum gravity. We have candidates for BSM physics and BSM facts such as neutrino masses but we don't have a BSM SM. We have a 120 orders of magnitude problem with the cosmological constant. We don't know what this stuff that we call dark matter which shows up pretty much everywhere is. We don't have an actual mechanism for inflation. We don't even have hope for maths department rigorous QFT any time soon.

And then there's stuff like nuclear physics which is dark and full of models even when you know it's all somehow QCD, whose confinement problem isn't solved yet.

But then apparently people preach on the Internets that philosophical interpretations of QM are the real problems and some other people preach to their choir that spending money on actual experiments by actual particle physicists asking to do them for getting data that would help is a scientific waste unless you afterwards match somebody else's theory paper published beforehand.

I would happily contemplate the end of musing about the future of fundamental Physics so we all could focus on the meat and potatoes of Physics, which is maybe a less fun and a bit more technical endeavour but also surely a more productive one.
to show placeholders for an image when the internet is too slow to load the image itself fast enough. the implementation they use is extremely inefficient though so it's not much of a win unless the images they're downloading is very large. in most cases, depending on how they load their css, it will actually increase the amount of time it takes to load the images.
> I'm talking about what we have in front of us.

What we have in front of us is a very poorly executed attempt at damage control - over an article that has not been published - and we really must remember that. If we simply accept what Coinbase has published as truth, then it frames everything differently. But we must read what they’ve written as an attempt at controlling the narrative. They’re asking the world to discredit an article that (as you’ve mentioned) hasn’t been published yet. That deserves an extreme amount of scrutiny and skepticism.

> You're defending the NYT's article without even having seen it.

I believe you misunderstand my motives. How could I possibly defend an unread article? It’s impossible and illogical.

What I have been saying (in more diplomatic language) is that “this smells like a crock of shit from Coinbase,” and I’ve been attempting to illustrate why their own attempt at damage control actually predisposes me to distrust them. It’s an incredibly amateurish PR move on their part, honestly.

But I’m also trying to poke holes at the corporate speak, and trying to understand what they’re saying and what they’re not saying.

And of course, it’s partly speculation! But what else could it be? They published a spin piece proclaiming innocence regarding the contents of an unpublished article. Of course we’re in the realm of speculation; the whole game started there the moment they published this letter.

> their hundreds of others examples of complete disregard to journalistic integrity.

Alleging hundreds of examples of a complete disregard to journalistic integrity requires proof, honestly. It’s a pretty hefty claim that I wouldn’t accept at face value (nobody should). If it’s your opinion, that’s fine - but it’s not fact unless you can point to some evidence. Extraordinary claims put the burden of proof on the party making the claims.

> But NYT lies. A lot.

Friend, this is not enlightened discourse. That’s an opinion, and not a well-substantiated one.
It’s frowned upon in the public relations community because now the NYT can make changes to their story based on CB’s prebuttal. Which will be even more damaging.
Hi Conundrumer! I was part of the Line Rider community in the early days making manual tracks under the name Holcomb227.
Your dedication is really impressive. It seemed like the community had many perfectionists and/or artists and I wonder what they're doing now.
yeah that current implementation is wildly poor. i imagine if they really wanted to, they could come up with an optimization and quality threshold that should alleviate this concern.
In the short run yeah. You have a point. I intend to uninstall & reinstall everything once Homebrew is officially supported though, which isn't a big deal for me (and I actually kind of enjoy building from source just for the experience).

But these replies are making me think that a large part of my decision to do this is motivated by me just not understanding Homebrew well enough (e.g. how easy it is to nuke everything). Oh well, we'll see how it goes.
We have it right here. Hacker News is written in the Arc programming language, which was developed by Paul Graham and Robert Morris.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language)
First of all, who does center alignment?? Looks tacky and amateurish. This isn't a flyer for your yard sale, it's a professional company's website.

Secondly, it's great that they're involved and passionate on social justice issues, however I wouldn't lead with that as the landing page gives no idea what the company actually does, offers, or makes.

Thirdly, when you click over to their team, it should identify their role instead of just letting you click to their socials.

^ just my quick first impressions!
> I sort of zeroed in on that.

You didn't.

> if you’re going to accuse an organisation of being race-baiting, it’s always good to at least provide an example or two.

This is "zeroing in on that". What you first replied is many things, but it is certainly not this.
Not sure I agree that the NYT is particularly notable in the sense that they're a news organization with a perspective, and that perspective often comes through in the articles they publish. Every news org indirectly implies things in terms of which pieces of evidence they present, what order facts are presented in, what other content they cite etc. I don't think the NYTimes is secretly trying to influence their readers in a crafty or underhanded manner.
I'm interested. I am looking for something just like this. I just downloaded Bunch which promises this same thing but with a lackluster/missing GUI.

Bunch is programmable though, as I'm sure you know from your market analysis.

Does this allow everything Bunch does?

Also, what's the price? I'm not sure what's going on with the pattern of new products hiding their pricing until after the user signs up and invests pretty heavily. If that actually works, I need to update my Saas :)
I wonder how the effects on the lungs change when you use a vaporizer or a bong? I noticed that my air purifier measures significantly lower levels of PM 2.5 pollutants when smoking from a bong compared to a pipe.
Apparently GOOG is dying and that's why it gained $1 trillion market cap the last 10 years - the vast majority of it in the last 5 years.

The article is so full of nonsense, it's unbelievable.

> Google made almost all its money from ads.

Like it always did.

> It was a booming business — until it wasn’t.

It's still a booming business. Look at their quarterly reports.

> Here’s how things looked right before the most spectacular crash the technology industry had ever seen.

What crash?

> Google was a driving force in the technology industry ever since its disruptive entry in 1998.

No. Google was an internet search pioneer. It didn't drive the technology industry.

> Innovation costs money, and Google’s main stream of revenue had started to dry up.

Has this guy ever look at financial statements? Google had $46 billion in revenue the latest quarter. It had a net profit of more than $11 billion in the latest quarter. What is this guy talking about?

Edit: It's even worse than I expected. The article is a rehash of an article from April 2017.

https://hackernoon.com/how-google-collapsed-b6ffa82198ee

To show how incredibly wrong the predictions were, google's stock price more than doubled since the article was published and Google's market cap increased by more than $700 billion.
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Fair enough. I think it's unfortunate though that discussions like this will seldom produce a good or convincing example as much as I agree it would be good to have them.

The issue as I see is that people with balanced and nuanced views and an appreciation of the complexity of the matter will just not bother participating in the discussion. Instead, we'll hear from people with the most extreme or emotionally driven views and they'll tend to pick unconvincing examples-- even if there are better examples to be had.
Can you expand on that? Reading through the comment threads on this piece, I’ve noticed this idea of the NYT being intentionally misleading in various forms (“they lie,” “they mislead,” “they make implications,” etc).

That isn’t my perception of the NYT at all - but I’d like to hear more of what you’re saying. Has any research been done on the overall veracity of the claims the NYT makes in their articles, or on the ways that they may or may not mislead people through implication?
Singapore sounds like a well-branded dictatorship from what I keep hearing, but Japan and South Korea have limited governments that aren’t even allowed to enforce a full lockdown.

This is a commonly misreported point—earlier this year I saw The Guardian claim that the reason Japan, SK and China are better at dealing with COVID is because “police visibly enforced lockdown”; two of the three never did! Sure, in Korea at times non-essential domestic travel and public events were suppressed, certain venues (e.g. dance halls) were instructed to close and some cafes had to become takeout-only, but you can still move (even if strongly recommended to stay at home) and police presence was never visibly heightened.

Contrast with mainland China, where whole apartment buildings with people in them were quite non-figuratively sealed from outside.

What I hear from Koreans is that the police is a service, like a plumber: you have a problem, you call. They can’t enter your home, can’t invade your privacy and spot-check, etc. Law enforcement is so restricted by citizens’ own choice, as they had to deal with the opposite extreme recently enough that people still remember; they hold the government responsible and treasure the freedom they have.
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With immutable objects, every step in the fluent chain of calls is an independent fork of the full object state. There's no need to use java clone(); each method calls a private constructor that passes the object state (slightly altered, of course).

java.lang.String works exactly this way. You're already used to the pattern.
Some would say this amazing diss by Captain Disillusion at BlenderCon had something to do with the major interface changes in Blender 2.8. The entire presentation is hilarious but for the interface related bit I've linked to 21m15s here: https://youtu.be/1qSTcxt2t74?t=1276
Intel needs to step up their game if they want to stay relevant. I am sure their execs know it so I can't wait to see what they will offer in the next 5 years.
I'd say "name and shame", but I'm guessing they're not around any more. Am I right?
Buggy whip makers grew revenue in 1899. They were still doomed.
This may be a case of “too little too late”. These guys are trying to become too big to fail. I think good publishers can be a good thing .. but only if they understand the new reality.. and unfortunately I don’t think they do. I think this is kind of like Sears merging with Kmart.
Nah, Slack is way slower than Jira for me.

(Two super-slow things combine to make the ultimate slow thing - looks like the aquisiton makes sense after all!)
Why would I use this over Downie (the gold standard for normal people (non-cli))?
Because this is HN, no article gets away without a retro computing reference.

Peter Shilton's Handball Maradona
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shilton's_Handball_Marad...
I don’t believe neurodiverse people make racist jokes as a matter of course. At least, that hasn’t been my experience.

I think journalists are also able to tell the difference between “some dude made a poor-taste joke once” and “dudes were always making poor-taste jokes targeted at one specific minority when the employee was present”.

I’ll also say that, at my reasonably woke US company, I’m not aware of any neurodiverse person getting in any trouble for making a bad-taste joke.
Yeah, that ties in to the second part of my comment — it’s really a question of where to draw the line.

I’m a semi-follower of the FIRE idea, so I come in with that perspective. But it would be great to be able to build enough wealth that working becomes optional, and that I can help fund a future child in kick-starting their own company at a young age. My wealth then largely has come from my hard work, but I can also use that to further my kid’s success (in a responsible way). Isn’t that what every parent wants?

The situation where that kid becomes a billionaire is an edge-case of just two generations in a row of disciplined and fairly lucky individuals. There’s nothing wrong or immoral with anyone in that scenario.

Society then has to draw that line, where if my daughter becomes a multi-billionaire, how much of that wealth gets taxed and distributed to the people who it would help.
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What I’m trying to say is that this isn’t a new strategy people have not considered before. Biological warfare is a well known term.
Why I Left Private Equity to Start a Business and Live on the Beach
The US and several other European countries banned all travelers from China during that time.

South Korea and Singapore didn’t ban Chinese travelers at all. And I think Japan and Vietnam only banned travelers from specific provinces.
Also available in Kotlin: https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/KotlinVerbalExpressions
The title should rather be "Everything MongoDB knows about databases is wrong".

They're trying to establish a narrative about their product which is an already accepted, defined terminology, and which has existed for decades in the Computer Science community.

Eventual consistency doesn't need to be redefined.

If the general public assumes a database to have relational features, maybe it's time to rebrand mongodb into mongostore or something?

If mongoDB tries to be the "eierlegende wollmilchsau" of databases, they have a too large pivot that they're trying to deliver to as a market. Mongodb isn't made for ERM based scenarios, maybe stop trying to push it into that. If people would've wanted that in the first place, they'll likely have chosen ArangoDB or an SQL based database anyways.

To be blunt, I don't understand why they seemingly are so irrational to push the narrative.

Maybe they've seen that most of their customers stop using their product after a while?

If so, then it might be time to stop promising things you conceptually cannot and should not want to deliver.

Also, dear mongodb folks: Web scale is definitely not mongodb as a product. For decades devs have used memcached with SQL based databases and it scaled beyond imaginations, and beyond what a non DDoS testing environment can reflect.

If your product isn't webscale because you do not want to be held responsible for adapters that you refer yourself in your own docs to, maybe it's time to take responsibility and introduce a q&a step regarding a minimum performance standard that every adapter has to fulfill to be recommended?

Regarding debian package version: I personally am gonna stop here, because I hate people complaining about shit, not taking responsibility, and expecting others to do work for free. If debian's policies annoy you, host your own damn ppa. Or sponsor them to help them work on that. But this... this is not okay.
Omg that was absolutely nuts. I was relatively impressed all the way through and then the polygonal visuals flew by and that just blew me away.

Amazing amazing work!
It doesn't work here. The idea is nice. Could you add a sentence rephrasing? I'd like to say "my mom is" instead of "a mom"
Anecdotally I don’t think I’ve ever seen the same image twice on recaptcha.
BSM = beyond the standard model for those people about to look it up.
I quite like DoodleChaos' work on Line Rider. It's less of a visual masterpiece and more of an audio one.

Line Rider in general just puts a smile on my face.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmLh6UvLo14
I remember Tarantella being a Citrix-like Remote Desktop type software.
All I can add here for founders is, "don't let sales corrupt your product goals" and "don't let revenue be the end-all of your company".

I have seen too many young, inexperienced founders get caught up in the hamster wheel of searching for earlier-than-ready-for revenue at any cost, on the VC's schedule, and being slave to that dimension of performance while losing sight of everything else. It may feel good momentarily, but you'll look in the mirror and wonder who's in control of your life. And why a couple months down the road you're trying to slap lipstick on a pig and sell it to anyone who knocks.

It may be harder, but make that choice earlier and be what you want your company to be, not something else.
Gotcha. I only meant the sheer fact that he didn't know who he was, was not in itself anything that makes him ignorant. But yes, it was his response/reaction to discovering the story of this "mysterious" person that indeed took a surprising turn. Thanks for clarifying.
Enjoyment Now or Health Later?
What is the fact? When does life begin? At fertilization or an arbitrary time after that with the chicken egg. It’s a one or two word answer, so when is it?
I guess (again, I'm showing my ignorance here) my question is related to some boundary (?) between science and math. I've always imagined or believed that science was founded on testability? If it "fits" the model but it isn't directly testable, that passes the sniff test?

4+x=9 -- there are a lot of options for x, some much more convoluted than others, and a lot more impractical, and I guess all mathematically "viable" (?) But when it comes to physics, shouldn't it be more connected to reality than that?
This. I don't think anybody, least of all Todd Weaver, is saying we should not have any native applications. When he writes "web", I think it's largely fair to substitute that with "http(s) APIs optionally fronted with web UIs".

The key is open standards and full freedom and control over your device, including what and how gets installed.
Modern storage is plenty fast. It is the APIs that are bad
I personally found hCaptcha harder to pass than reCaptcha, to the point where I will leave a site that demands one if that's a realistic option (e.g. not really an option if it's my bank, totally an option if it's one of many stores selling an item).

It's possible that I just got unlucky (one of my recent experiences was a site that didn't let me in even after solving it, which really soured me), but I feel like the main reason it's hated less is because people haven't seen it as much yet.

Edit: TIL how offputting a single bad experience can be. From going through my HN history, I found out that this terrible experience was 6 months ago.
- Why did you move to Postgres?
- What was perf impact/improvement after moving to Postgres?

Thank you in advance!
Thanks for the comment, we're working on it
> 2) "You don't know nuthin', dummy!" is not a great lead-in to correcting people's misconceptions.

On the other hand if you look for reasons why mongo db is bad by searching "mongodb wrong choice" or "mongodb bad" and you find this post, by the company itself, it'll likely be kinder to the product than the posts from other blogs.
> commands should be usable as library subroutines, or vice versa

I was quite surprised when I started using Unix that this was not available, as I had gotten used it on Multics. I had come from MACLISP (on ITS) and Multics and was used to a more flexible and interactive environment.

Architecturally it was much more natural to do somin those environments than in the far less flexible Unix, where every shell program and command was hermetic. But it was also fitting into the constraints of even smaller machines.
Did anyone check ebay? :)
Web Application Security: From Vulnerabilities to Monitoring
You can't monetize the video?
They seem to still exist but they recently closed down a major product. Let’s just say that if I joined them and lasted 8 years my stock options would be worthless.
I read “eye makeup” very differently at first, and thought, sure, strange eye shadow could change the color of the light that ends up in ones eyes....
OBS performance on my 2018 model MacBook Air is so horrible that I never use OBS on it.

But I think that is only a temporary problem kind of. And don’t know if Mmhmm would perform any better on it.

The new MacBook Air and Pro models with the M1 chip on the other hand I think from what I have heard make video encoding really fast. Would love to hear from anyone using OBS on one of these models, which machine you have and how OBS has been for you.
ugh, the craigslist ones are annoying
The argument against "conspiracy theories" is often that no way could they keep it secret because so many people were involved, someone would have leaked it.

But now we are in a situation where much of the Republican party does not dare to speak against Trump no matter how ludicrous it seems when he says he won the election because the election was "rigged". If Biden had NOT won the election the general official consensus might be that Muller investigation was a hoax and anybody who disagrees is a conspiracy theorist.

History is written by the winners. I think many people have a somewhat naive assumption that "truth will always come out"-- and therefore if it has not come out it can only be a conspiracy theory.
Because communication is more than just words and voice. Seeing the person that is talking is valuable.
just says "something went wrong" when I search "rice chicken beans"
“TSMC is now taking chip packaging vertically and horizontally, using a new 3-D technology that it dubs SoIC.”

They picked a name for it that is already a common term in chip packaging. Face meet palm.
What service they use have a big implication of if they get captcha'd. Try switchingservices
it's possible to believe black lives matter and be hesitant to cave to the demands of a mob.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iV8X8ubGCc -- as comically illustrated by Seinfeld
So it took them 20 years to reach this conclusion?
> I wouldn't ever use the words truth and NYT - especially when it comes to cultural topics. And also geopolitical topics. Or anything of national significance. Or war. You get the idea.

Can you expand on that? It feels like you’re saying that the NYT lies (to greatly and possibly incorrectly paraphrase). But I don’t generally believe that to be true; and I haven’t seen much evidence to indicate they’ve been engaged in that kind of behavior. Certainly not often, if at all.

> Why is the NYT writing a hit piece on coinbase?
> When it comes to propaganda, it always helps to get out in front of the "story". I'm guessing that's what coinbase is doing.

Did the NYT write a hit piece on Coinbase? I haven’t read the article yet, since it hasn’t been published. No one has.

What I believe to be absolutely true is this: Coinbase desperately wants everyone to believe that it’s a hit piece. That’s obvious from the timing, tone, and things they actually wrote in the letter.

But at least in theory, the NYT higher goals and aspirations in life - to uncover and publish truth.

Coinbase doesn’t, and they live and die entirely by customers choosing to trust them with their business. They have every rational incentive to fight for you to trust them regardless of whether the NYT piece is true or not.

And what if it is true? Whatever it turns out to be (again: it’s not published).

To me, when a company launches into this kind of PR Hail Mary, it’s not a sign of integrity.