skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I usually like Collision articles, and agree with the title, but this is a terrible measure for physics.

Horgan's book is a better resource for this sort of thing[0]. Obviously there are many problems with the sociology and incentive systems for physics departments; affirmative action, papers with 1000 "coauthors," infrastructure fees for grants involving giving a grad student a pencil, political witch hunts, difficulties in family formation, herding behavior in subjects, byzantine political games, overcrowded winner take all credit. Frankly you'd have to be kind of a combination masochist moron to want to do it these days outside of the rare person whose career is assured post PhD; masochistic morons probably don't make good scientists.

But nobody talks about the fact that an awful lot of "physics" these days is unfalsifiable piffle. Phenomenology, network theory, cosmology, noodle theory, "quantum computing," black hole physics, neural net fiddlers, nanotechnologists, cosmologists, numskulls babbling about "muh multiverse" and "muh simulation hypothesis" -the world let alone the average physics department has entirely too many of these. Nobody in the physics department can make fun of these cranks for entirely political reasons. And at this point the lunatics outnumber the actual scientists, who, you know, can make predictions that can be checked, rather than generating piffle suited for press releases and late night bong sessions.

[0] https://www.wired.com/1996/06/the-end-of-science/

https://web.archive.org/web/20201004020641/https://blogs.sci...
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I just stumbled upon news about Ticketmaster paying $10M fine over hacking charges.
https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/ticketmaster-pay-10-million-fine-hacking-charges-74976750

Every interaction with Ticketmaster left me feeling scammed. I absolutely hate them. My friends feel the same.

So the question is, why the hell is this company still operating? What is their moat? How would you approach building a competitor taking over their monopoly and business?
It's not a law of physics that public transport is unsafe. Why isn't it being made safe? It's not rocket science.
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> That said, reading a list length (in O(n) time) and then performing an operation on it is usually an anti-pattern

Of course it's unnatural for Haskell lists, but replace "list" with "Array" (or even just the height of a tree, which is merely O(log n)) and I feel that this is a very common and acceptable use.

> If you want to touch a list twice, don't mark it as linear.

But why are we counting how many times we "touch" the list? Wouldn't it be nice to have some set of operations which get data out of the list without "touching" it?

Anyway, the other commenter points out that you can return the array as you compute its length, and yes, that is a common trick with linear types (Idris' experimental linear arrays do the same). But isn't it better to express in the type system that you will use something "nondestructively"? As an added bonus, it'd probably be more ergonomic than constantly reassigning the list.
Note that linear markers on roads become incorrect when the road is diverted, re-routed or interrupted by new roads. For example, consider a new ring-road constructed to by-pass a town. However, US Interstates have special 3-digit numbering for ring-roads and other connectors.

Luckily for you, America is not building any new infrastructure, so mileposts should be stable for some time.
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> given that the software in question is no longer being supported and has a long history of security problems.

look, similarly, whilst i think the world would be better off if vaccines were legally mandatory, i would never support someone who tried to make that so. it's not (and never is) about the specifics of this _one_ thing - the world will be a better place without flash - but the general principle of who owns what & freedom. if i _truly_ own my computer, then this could never happen.

> They are no longer shipping it with Edge and IE and are preventing it from running there.

i don't think that's the case. the article mentions removal of the abode flash player component. a user must have already installed this application manually. browsers are to remain unaffected (for now at least). here's a quote from the article:

> It is worth noting that this change won’t affect your browsers where Flash will still remain a built-in component until the next big browser update.

this is more akin to microsoft shipping an update that removes VLC, and hence from the 1st of january, all your mkv videos stop playing.
I agree with you there in that Amazon needs society and government provided functions in order to operate.

But I think that the main benefit of society is that it provides an environment that allows members to contribute and make it better. So while society provides safety, etc people and companies add to it with additional value. This value gets taxed (to support society) and the remaining value builds and compounds.

So at a macro level any persisting organization contributes more to society than they gain or society would crumble. By definition the growth in society is driven by people making it better. And people work on stuff like corporations.

On the micro level, it’s hard to figure out the exact net contribution from individual persons and companies, but Amazon is obviously a huge company paying out returns and the second order effects from how they’ve driven e-commerce, cloud, and logistics make me think they’ve helped many others beyond just customers and shareholders.

That being said, maybe taxes should be changed. But they are currently paying everything required of them and monetarily generate lots of revenue for government (eg, corporate income taxes, sales tax, property tax, tariffs, capita gains paid by shareholders, and income tax paid by employees, etc)
"..only 74 of the top 1,500 paid games on the Apple store survived the purge"

The Chinese government hands out licences to allow in app purchases. Apple asked the apps to submit a license.
It is just plain text in linux. Nothing hard to copy about it
Agree to disagree on that, political biases and groupthink are still present here but more diluted, what I do value is that people are more open to different points of view from other users.
Some people only have one server for a particular use case.

And servers might not always break in predictable/alertable ways.
A lot of public transport networks these days have apps, including navigation support.
CIS policies are a regulatory and government requirement for many industries. How does one combat this wasteful hardening activities?

https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/Center-for-Internet-Se...
Look into the Leo programming editor, if this interests you. It's an elegant solution, it doesn't scale well to teams and it's a bit quirky but I think it embodies the concept very well.
I didn't downvote, but maybe because it is an insipid and disgusting question?

FWIIW in high altitude aviation where digestive gas could cause debilitating pain or even life threatening injury, the solution is to eat food that doesn't make you fart; usually steak and eggs. I'm sure the astronaut nutritionist types have this issue under control. People forget how many zillions of dollars went into the early space program to figure stuff like this out.
Slammed, I dont know why but it triggers me.
Agreed and that's not the point about mathematics. The point was about ascertaining the impact of a mathematical breakthrough .. which is harder than a scientific one, because the idea of what is a "breakthrough" is usually defined within the domain of mathematics itself. A good example is all the number theoretic work, elliptic curves etc. which underpin much of secure communication today, but started off as "pure" in the sense of "won't find applications". That was easy. Now what's the impact of the breakthrough proof of Fermat's last theorem by Wiles?
Ireland didn't even have post codes until 2015

leave the package for Paddy behind the bar at The Village Inn :)
I'm pretty certain the road signs were replaced after WW2 - it's not like there's no road signs any more.

This is the opposite of my experience as well - I've driven in many countries (currently live in NZ), and despite its quirks (not saying it's perfect), I've found using UK road numbers for directions very easy in general compared to other countries that have highways that re-use road numbers in multiple states or something, which has at times caused confusion.
So what? Everyone should just give up because it's too hard, and let Google run the show?

There is a couple of antitrust lawsuits going up in the US against Google. If we're lucky, one of them may break up the Android and Chrome arms of Google (or Alphabet, I guess) and/or require a ballot screen to choose a browser on Android, like the EU did for Windows and IE.

And there may be other opportunities in the future for Firefox to regain some equal footing with Chrome. But that can't work if we declare Firefox dead.
That's not true, because the RDRAND entropy is mixed in last. So once you're under the assumption that RDRAND is nefarious, the microcode only needs to detect the rdrand-to-xor pattern to make the entire entropy pool predictable (for example: by setting the non-rdrand input to the xor operation to zero it could disable all other entropy sources).
Missing a '0'?
Slightly off topic... UK road signs have a very clear and consistent color scheme based on the category of road. E.g., blue background for motorways, green background for A roads.

This scheme was (maybe still is) reflected in the color of roads on printed maps. Google Maps also used this scheme some years ago.

I understand their reasoning, but the day Google standardized on the current yellow & white scheme was a sad day for this UK Maps user.
Didn't society exist before Uber? I'm not sure.

Also, did Uber build the roads, bridges, parking lots? Did it research the internet? I also heard GPS was researched in a secret Uber lab...
So because heavily tested, well-established vaccines are mostly quite safe, this experimental rushed vaccine is trustworthy.

If this is their best argument, I'm alarmed rather than reassured.

If we're betting, I want to know the odds. Where's the latest adverse reaction data?

cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-2020-12/slides-12-19/05-COVID-CLARK.pdf

2.3% had significant side effects from the vaccine.

If new data isn't being released, that suggests the news is bad.
"In addition to exhaled CO2, people also emit small amounts
of other gases. [...] Activated charcoal filters are the primary method for removing these chemicals from the air."

From an article about managing air on the ISS: https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2000/a...
What's "perplexity" a measure of? First I've heard of it.
I added and AP tablebless (absolute positioning) option, but this was only simulating tables with CSS. People stopped using large and sliced images with CSS, so it wasn't worth it.
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The life and death of 2020 [Year in review]
I sincerely hope that the new year will bring much more luck and peace to you all!

Happy New 2021 everyone!
“ we should ritualize big imaginations”.

Agree. If we can’t think big we probably fall prey to all the worst humanity has to offer (plagues, crusades, world war, etc).

Also we should probably have a standing organization to revive endangered species. Maybe they could also reinforce critical species like bees.
This calculator shows when renting > buying. Rent if renting is cheaper and/or if you're planning to move. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-cal...
Hi, I'd just like to draw your attention to the community guidelines ( https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ).

I hope you'll find them as useful as I have in shaping my interaction with this community. Specifically I'd like to highlight the theme of substantiative comments and the discouragement of commenting on small issues like website formatting.
Inferno is what modern browsers and mobile OS's wish they were. I'd even venture far and say that If someone were to build a modern browser for plan 9, I'd want it built inside of inferno out of pieces connected and isolated via 9p/namespaces and ran as an application (and bare metal on a tablet). Dis is similar to WASM so you deliver web apps as actual applications. Done.

Too bad it's stuck with hard coded 32 bit dependency. It also cant build on 64 bit systems unless they have 32bit compat (windows/linux win here). There's a fork maintained by some 9front users called Purgatorio. Charles Forsyth also still pokes at it and just added Risc-V support. It's not dead, just resting. Patches welcome.
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If this were to happen one day, would these species have any chance of survival due to the fact that the microbial environment is probably very different today than it was in those days?
I heard from someone that works in the clothing industry that there are strong links between Italy and China, i.e. there are lots of chinese workers in Italy working in the textile industry. When the talk of the first lockdown was spreading, a lot of people got out and went to Italy. I think this is supported by the fact that the first outbreak in Italy occured in a lot of small towns and away from big cities, typical locations for industrial jobs.
> Know that exit 32 is at mile marker 32 provides me so much more information than knowing that exit 8 is immediately after exit 7, which could be 1/4 mile past it or 40 miles past it.

OTOH you know that exit 8 is the exit which follows exit 7[0], whereas you have no clue whatsoever whether there are other exits between 15 and 32.

[0] except for exit 7B.
Also webdesigners loved to change the layout mid-project and it was a big hassle to migrate the slicing from one PSD to another.

Not counting that some websites had dozens of PSD files, it was a pain.
> P.S. Direct links to Wikipedia should be banned from HN submissions.

Why? Surely, like every other post, they can be ignored if uninteresting, but they’re usually information many of us haven’t been exposed to and can generate useful additional content...like yours.
> Subsidizing low skill workers so that they are able to get work and acquire skills and experience is a good thing. Why must you say it with such a negative tone?

Let's say you and I are rich charitable types, and we each decide to spend $1000 helping a poor high school graduate get a good start in life. We narrow down our options for spending the money to three plans.

We could pay for them to go to school. If we want, we could insist they choose a cost-effective, good quality course and keep their grades up.

We could give them unconditional cash. That might be really efficient, as often the poor know what the poor need better than the rich do. And if they spend it all on partying or computer game lootboxes, so be it.

Or we could pay them to mow the mayor's lawn. The mayor thinks this is a great plan and that they're going to learn a lot.

Is the third option the cleverest use of our money? Or is that the the stupidest option, with the mayor taking us for fools?
Not to mention that if you're using Power Query, Excel's 1 million row limit doesn't apply in the workbook queries either.
yeah, stop using python
Can confirm. So many people asked him to write a hardening guide he just ended up doing it.
Thoroughly enjoyed "Greenlights" by Matthew Mccounaghey. It's a brilliant read (and listen - he's a great narrator). Lots of interesting little stories that made me think about my own life!
These businesses are being fooled by analytics platforms. Their collapse would be so sudden that employees would be learning to code.
I’m not a tax expert either but I think the rules were set up exactly with the intention as you describe.

My understanding is that capital gains taxes are intended to grow capital with the goal of a larger payout in the future as capital is reinvested. It’s purposely not intended to be a real-time tax on gains because future taxes will be greater.

For example, if there’s $100 in profit today and it’s paid out as a dividend then that’s $15 in tax revenue. But if that $100 is invested in the company, it compounds at some rate (say 5% although this varies by company and Amazon is much more efficient) so in 10 years that $100 becomes $162 (1.05^10*100) and if cashed out then as dividend results in $24.3 in tax revenue.

Theoretically if you think the government can invest and get a return greater than within individual companies then capital gains doesn’t make sense, but that’s an argument for economists.

But wanted to share that the goal of capital gains is to maximize tax revenue through efficient incentives.
Login wall != paywall.
App Clips are way better for end users and developers than PWAs

https://developer.apple.com/app-clips/

It also protects against advertising and tracking penetration that Google's PWAs encourage.
I sometimes wish that more blogs were like some of the best comments that can surface here on HN. I have yet to find a way to better filter out good quality blogs that can keep the same level as insightful expert comments, any ideas on how to find and evaluate blogs that hold such high standards?
I used Knime in my last company. Very interesting software. But I think the initial introduction can be tough to carry forward. You need a champion or two in your org to help everyone else. Excel is a tool enough people know to both work independently and be dangerous.
Humans are not perfectly rational agents, so this does not follow.
Francis Parkman mentions this derivation in his account of Cartier's explorations, in Pioneers of France in the New World. I mention this because Parkman's histories are quite readable, if overwritten.

I find that Samuel Eliot Morison's The European Discovery of America: The Northern Voyages, instead derives it from caignedatze, an Iroquoian word for red copper, or any metal other than gold.
It's an okay system but apathy has resulted in abnormalities, such as the A5-M1 Link Road leaving a bunch of routes in Dunstable out of zone. The A14, as conceived in the 90s, has always started out of zone because that was the easiest two-digit number to steal from another route. Many old A-roads have been chopped into pieces because of motorway replacements or to encourage heavy traffic to use more suitable routes, the end result is a bit of a mess nowadays.
> Public keys really are the better way to handle user auth, less of a minefield for regular users.

I'll go along with that, thou i consider a secret that resides in my brain vastly more secure than one residing on my disk.
Have at it ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
This is another good reason to use Apple Maps.
> Comparing Terraform to CloudFormation is more appropriate, and Terraform wins in terms of verbosity there every time.

Nope.
Sure, for most (including myself) it's impossible to review every little update. But the bug tracker of your distro is a good indicator if some of the most recent updates created a bunch of new tickets, especially those that are considered to be critical. In case of Arch Linux it is strongly recommended to read the latest update news on archlinux.org, before update.

In addition to that you get some experience over time which of your package updates caused most trouble in the past and you can take additional care. For example, I know that on my desktop the combo of displaylink and xorg does break from time to time with updates, therefore I carefully lookout for issues regarding xorg updates for displaylink users, before I do the xorg update.
Of all the organizations out there to support web technologies, I would have expected Firefox to be at the forefront of this. Sure, the Chrome team at Google push PWAs, coin terms, and lead many new feature pushes. But that’s all opportunity for Firefox to help standardize the idea of PWAs and make them something more. Web apps with native functionality can help break up monopolistic practices...but only with support from a wide range of actors.
Surprising he mentions Paris Hilton but not Trump who did exactly that.

The interesing question is why ? The answer is hypocrisy. When you have too much of "how you should behave" It doesn't connect with laypeople enough and so it blows up and laypeople like it so it becomes popular..
Most car dealers in the US, at least for “normal” (ie, non-premium) car brands are extremely reluctant to custom order cars and often outright refuse to do so. They also tend to put subtle pressure on customers to buy something of the lot right now instead. The car buying experience is very different over here compared to Germany.
I try to remember to sat nav as much as possible, for the live traffic updates. I also follow the local police force on Facebook as they post road closures due to RTC etc on there.
And I would choose a fly over today’s state of the art computer vision systems because they are still better than the latter.
I don't understand why affirmative action would be a problem for physics departments. What's the basis of that? As an outsider, I'll say that I see the jobs of a physics department as a) making physics b) making physicists c) teaching physics d) funding making physics. How is affirmative action an "obvious" issue?
Sweden is actually the first country to build such an plant. Att the moment it is mostly testing plants but the real ones will be built soon. https://www.hybritdevelopment.com/
You're right that the cost will accumulate.

I'm not a professional domainer, but "a guy with lots of ideas and no time". Every once in a while I thought of some cool idea, struck a name and bought the .com "just in case I have time to develop it".

I initially used Google Sheet to keep track, but it doesn't remind me of renewals, and some info I want to be dynamically updated.

Oh, another thing I use Every.ID for: keeping track of software purchases, esp. LTDs (Life Time Deals --- SaaS but you only pay once). It's literally a category in the app.
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Deleted words from Xi's economic policy speak volumes
I'd be interested in seeing an update to this piece. Doubling down on shamelessness got Trump the second most votes ever by a presidential candidate but lost the election. Doubling down on shamelessness might still cost the GOP the Senate.

Maybe there is, to quote Lincoln, a "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time." quality to shamelessness?
> Without getting into tiresome politics, the “shameless” strategy also defined the 2016 U.S. presidential elections.

Presumably he’s aware naming the person by name will inflame the audience and derail the conversation in a way that Paris will not.
Which of these features do you think would be the “killer” differentiation that would greatly improve the value proposition? If you can show that, then you have an entrepreneurial opportunity! Good luck and good post.