skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What variables am I adding ?

The state of each card. If you define a macrostate in such a way as it can have only one microstate, then yes, entropy is 0. It is also completely artificial.

> EDIT : Perhaps more relevant:
> http://www.av8n.com/physics/thermo/s-relevance.html#ch-s-rel...

I am not impressed with that website in general, but in this instance I don't see anything wrong with that section. Note in particular:

> Very roughly speaking, the items higher on the list can be assigned to the “information theory” camp, while the items lower on the list can be assigned to the “thermodynamics” camp. However, there is tremendous overlap between the two camps.

There is indeed some overlap (I have personally worked for a couple of years on applying information theory to calculate entropy in glass-forming materials), but not enough that you can just apply random concepts from one field to the other. Basically, your interpretation is that "we know a lot about the system, therefore entropy is low", whilst in a physical system it's the other way around: "entropy is low, therefore we know a lot about it". Knowing something does not change the state of the system you are observing.

> EDIT2 : A specific example where both the Thermodynamic entropy and the Shannon entropy can be experimentally seen to be equivalent :
> http://www.av8n.com/physics/thermo/expt-basis.html#sec-demag

Entropy goes to zero when spins align, but it does not mean that entropy is non-zero until we check that the spins are aligned. Entropy itself is whatever it is even before we bother calculating it, and we can estimate it different ways. Sure, we can use Shannon's formula in some cases, which is really just Boltzmann's formula with different units.

Entropy is a thermodynamical property of a bit of stuff, regardless of what we know about it. The conservation of Gibbs free energy does not suddenly break down because we stop (or start) looking.
Don't feel sorry for that. I'm not a native english speaker, so this is completely unintentional. Actually, any hint of how I could better express myself is welcome.

Oh... You mean quotes as in '"', right? In that case put it between quotes to note that it my be underpowered by today standards but have respectable specs compared to SGI workstations of the day. I have no benchmark to base my argument, but I do have a gut feeling.
It is more that Elon does not associate himself with fashionable left wing causes. No kneeling photo-ops in SpaceX headquarters, no programs tailored to recruit specifically non-Asian non-whites etc.

In contemporary culture, that is enough to be considered right wing. Neutrality slowly ceased to be an option.
If your genetics predispose you for a shorter life, you can benefit financially by not having to save for retirement.
I swear by OpenWrt. It's not just for wifi routers. It's a regular Linux distro you can run on X86 too.

My favorite thing about OpenWrt is SQM CAKE, state of the art traffic shaping. A panacea for slow links
Linus, Please maintain a distribution along with everything else you are doing? I bet you could charge for it.
I think so actually, stuff they're getting a license from someone else for.
> I cannot wait for internet connections to become unusable after a currency introduces "proof of bandwidth".

As an ISP I can say that any software that caused a large percentage of our customers to max out their downstream and upstream connections 24x7 would be cracked down on hard. ISP economics, and the reason your residential last mile service might cost $65 a month and not $400, is based on oversubscription. IF you look at a traffic chart for each customer in from a random selection of 50 homes, it's very bursty and intermittent.

You can put a lot of individual 1GbE symmetric FTTH customers on a 10Gbps uplink, because the likelihood they'll be trying to run a speed test or all transfer huge things simultaneously is low. 'proof of bandwidth' would very quickly require people to start doing their thing from 1U servers in colocation on dedicated hosting 1GbE services, which will cost at least 6-8x what a residential last mile service costs.

In general as a residential ISP the number of customers who decide to leave a system seeding many 70GB 2160p h265 torrents of movies is quite low, and small enough to not need to bother the customers about. Not many people try to do the same thing as running a hosting facility out of their bedroom closet. Less than a few percent.
Thank you for this deep answer, and for confirming my impression of Myers-Briggs!

I can see how a continuous scale can already fix a few issues. However, isn’t it still too simplistic to say “personality feature X correlates with real-life success measure Y?”

Take for example “Openness”. It’s not hard to imagine how the very same person can be very open with one group of people, but act totally differently in another group.

Is Openness then really a feature of personality?
Or maybe rather a description of the social behaviour of one person in a specific context?
It's pretty straightforward. The demand for chips increased much faster than the manufacturers could increase capacity and meet demand.

The COVID shift in working, socializing and learning from in-person to digital drove a huge demand spike for computers and telecommunications gear. The chip fabs hit capacity and it takes a long time to increase capacity. The equipment companies are running flat out to ship additional equipment, but so far, the fabs haven't gotten back to equilibrium.
And in exactly the same way: boring, no mainstream mindshare, but still occasionally needed to service legacy market segments.
None that I have ever heard of. It uses HardenedBSD but they're dropping that soonish.
It's as bad as REST.
So, USSR took a break from killing it's own people to killing Germans instead?
I’d like to learn more about this symmetry. Does anyone recommend a good article (or paper) about this?

> Researchers note that electromagnetism, the weak force and the strong force each follow directly from a specific kind of symmetry — a change that doesn’t change anything overall (the way rotating a square by 90 degrees gives us back the same square).
That's true. I still think we won't see too much change by the end of the century. The next few centuries will be tumultuous though - and we would have already stopped emitting greenhouse gases for the most part - so those people will have plenty of reasons to curse us.
Substances are addictive by causing changes of actual physical biochemistry by chemical means. I have never seen any proof that phone apps are causing similar biochemical changes, people just like doing it a lot, but could stop at any time without any biologically determined issue.
If you’re going to post a comment of skepticism, please try to support your argument with actual criticism. Currently, all I have is your opinion on the article, which is in contrast to the # of people who upvoted the post.

I can easily say that I DO think the article is rigorous and scientific but then we’d disagree without any insight into what we disagree on.
It's a quite common theme actually and I'm very curious how it plays out for the companies insisting on per-core licensing in the long term. I mean, if the customers have no choice, they'll stay, but I bet they're looking into some exit strategy in order to stay competitive.
The opinion in France reversed after reconstruction. Immediately after V-E, there was a strong opinion that the Soviets did the most to win the war: https://www.france24.com/en/20190601-who-won-wwii-russias-ro...
Yeah, I agree fwiw. I think that most engineers have a very weak idea of "fast" vs "slow". I've met people who think JS is really fast, or that Go is like C++ level speed. And we wonder why software is so slow.
I suppose they asked 1000s of different questions, each representing a different personality characteristic. After factor analysis, some arbitrary number of factors were found to account for most of the variance. Why did they settle for 5 vs 8 vs 12?
Let's see if I understand:

* Companies are put into revenue tiers.

* The price for any good/service paid by a company is increased by some TBD formula.

* Roughly speaking, the formula chosen would mean that companies in higher revenue tiers pay more.

* Then survey companies/consumers that interact with a company to determine if that company is following the rules.

* Plus a rule to forbid playing shell games with companies you own.

If that's all in the ballpark of what you where trying to communicate, here are my immediate thoughts:

* Based on the "into the economy" instead of taxes angle, I'm assuming the intent is for the premium paid still goes to the company selling the good/service. I suspect this could end up incentivizing a pricing structure like the one we see in US medicine where insurance companies negotiate that they'll pay some discounted amount to the hospital, but the hospital just raises the line item cost a commensurate amount so they end up being paid what they originally wanted to. Only it'd be large companies will purchase from companies who agree to negotiate a price that after adding the legally mandated premium, ends up being what they wanted to pay anyway. Of course the selling company will be fine with this because it means business from a large company.

* Using surveys to determine compliance creates a perverse incentives to poison the surveys of your competitors. Even without such laws we already see that happen with Amazon reviews. Companies pay to have negative reviews placed on their competitors products.

* I'll suggest a possible negative conservative viewpoint: Manipulating an independent company's pricing by legal mandate in some new way is regulatory overreach.

* If disallowing self-ownership of multiple companies based on some rules were enough to stop collusion, we'd have solved it years ago. If I can't own it myself, I'll pay someone to own it, and have them follow my orders. This is well within the borders of what the SEC already deals with, only they deal with way more complicated versions of it. For example, the loophole du jour is SPACs. SEC says that both companies involved in a merger must meet certain requirements. Those requirements can be inconvenient for an existing company to meet (audits take time and money), so instead create a brand new company, which you control in practice, that's squeaky clean from the SEC's standpoint and have THAT company make the actual purchase. That's a Special Purpose Acquisition Company.

The takeaway I think is that ultimately, trying to regulate financial behavior directly is a losing game full of unintended consequences. It's all about (dis)incentives.

Subsidies incentivize. Taxes disincentivize. Everything will be gamed to the nth degree.
In Brazil, a country heavily influenced by US culture, people will carefully explain you how the US won the Vietnam war.
Another, more likely explanation, is that Steve Jobs was well aware of the Osborne Effect and talked about that early iPhone's strengths and features instead of waxing poetic about what future iPhones might have if customers only wait a few more versions ....
If AMD are being used to drive down prices, it has a good overall effect though doesn’t it?

And if AMD get the feeling they are being used this way, offering quotes with no margin will make for painful days at Intel.
The article explains that tartar has been tested - that in this instance is the same thing as calculus https://johnrcarsondds.com/plaque-tartar-calculus-difference...
CPUMark is a flawed benchmark, but.. in 2004 the average score was 385 on Desktop. In 2012, it was 4626. So-- that's 12x in 8 years, vs. 16x from doubling every 2 years. I'd say we used to come close.

For the past 5 years, it's been doubling about every 3 years.
How does AOL make money?
"would any private company be able to hold down costs?"

Most space startups died without ever reaching orbit. One of the reasons why SpaceX has such a reputation is precisely that it stands so far apart from its competition.
gnuplot is not gnu, gnu is not unix, unix is not multics. I wonder what multics was not like.
I'm an OpenWrt hawk, they have a plugin for DNS based blocking if you end up going that direction https://github.com/openwrt/packages/tree/master/net/adblock/...
So I assume you don't consider, say, the original Legend of Zelda to be an RPG? Link has no stats beyond health you can improve nor much in the way of gear to enhance.

To be clear, I'm not arguing one way or the other. But I suspect it wouldn't be tough to find games considered RPGs that don't meet the definition you pose here.
Dell is actually one of the best large PC OEMS in my opinion because they dont play those games (at least not on their business focused and higher end products). Their UEFI firmware is pretty good, and updated regularly even on old machines (they also support fwupd on Linux, which is a must for Windowsless systems IMO).
First, define in detail what you mean by "think".
That's exactly it. It's not that every article is unreliable, it's that there is no way to tell. I suppose you can take a look at the edit history and see how sparsely vetted an article is, but some metric like that prominently displayed to portray signal-to-noise would be an improvement.
What do you mean by double-dipping on the freemium strategy?

Are you saying there will be fewer ads, and games will try harder to coerce users into paying some real money for items or levels (but something short of paying for the game outright)?
The Cornell textbook is great. I worked through most of it last year and learned a ton.
Microsoft and Intel Enable AI-Backed Protection Against CPU Cryptocoin Mining
People in the US don't even say that..... thats the primary one considered a loss.
I think you’ve hit the nail on the head here. I also think you may have answered your own question.

Cloud customers may be taking volume quotes to Intel from AMD to see what they can/will do for them on price. I don’t see why they wouldn’t do that, what with their (way out of the normal range) buying power.
Agreed...going even further, I think ~collective observation, analysis, and self/meta-reflection of the internet hivemind/zeitgeist/simulation/matrix could be a huge new internet platform space...and not just popular and fun/interesting, but I truly believe that the near total absence of skilled self-reflection is just what the doctor ordered for the period of social and political polarization that we find ourselves in. I think once people "got" the idea, it would catch on like wildfire (I also think that if a nefarious actor got there first (Facebook, Google, etc), they could possibly capture and nullify the space).

I know of absolutely zero startups that are active in this space, about the closet thing I've come across are platforms like https://www.kialo.com/ that are trying to improve the quality and structure of conversation.

Do you know of anything along the lines of what I'm describing here (assuming it makes sense what I'm describing)?
I would say yes, but do you want the job at the place that is giving you snake oil?
It's one of the reasons the so-called desktop CPUs are so popular for certain applications. [0]

[0] https://jan.rychter.com/enblog/cloud-server-cpu-performance-...
Because they were on the winning side? War is a team sport.
“Outline mode” plugin for TeXmacs
TMP is older than C++11 yes, but the trend to use it so extremely is new I think. Or maybe I got that wrong, idk.
It's not dry vehicle weight that counts. GCWR must not be above 3500 kg for the basic car driver's license.

PS: Actually, the limits for the basic German driver's license (B) are: Max GVWR of 3500 kg. With trailer, if GTWR not above 750 kg, no GCWR restriction, otherwise max GCWR of 3500 kg.

There's an extended license (BE) for max GTWR of 3500 kg and no GCWR restriction. (Max GVWR still 3500 kg.)

https://www.adac.de/verkehr/rund-um-den-fuehrerschein/klasse... (German text).
The distinction matters in some aspects – e.g. other government agencies can most probably not take the money collected for SVT/SR/UR and use it for other means.

However, a compulsory fee that is forced upon every adult that has an income, even if that person doesn’t own a TV and never utilize the services of SVT/SR/UR, then add to this that the fee is collected by the Swedish Tax Agency – to me that surely meets the definition of a tax.
Tautology implies that the definition we give is redundant, but none of these things were defined in this way. This is because none of the research relies on this kind of dictionary definition.

Instead, they literally ask people hundreds of questions of the type:

"To what extent would you consider yourself to be [adjective]?" (0 - 'not at all' to 5 - 'complete')

Then they factor analyze the results to see which adjectives tend to be highly related to each other. Factor analysis builds on correlation to find shared variation among large groups of indicator variables.

So it is related to how people think of the adjectives and what they mean, but it is not the case that we are just lumping definitions together or "saying the same thing in different words" in the way of a tautology. Instead, what we're saying is that "Most of these personality adjectives mostly mean the same thing. Here's the thing they all mostly mean. If humans in all languages have tons of words that mostly mean this common thing, maybe this common thing is significant and worthy of study."

Regarding life satisfaction, the sense that one finds their life satisfactory and "would change nothing" (one of the items in the Satisfaction with Life Scale that was most likely used to measure it) doesn't show up in those other traits in any major way. In fact, to the extent that a description of the self is related to a world-view, belief or other external factor, it will never be a tautology, because a self-view and other-view or world-view will never share a common definition or tautology by virtue of the self-other distinction.
They email me a daily digest of maybe a dozen questions and answers they think I might find interesting.

Typically, at least half of them each day are interesting enough that I'll click to read the full question and the full answer that they picked to highlight. Most of the rest are usually decent questions, but I'm just not interested enough to click.

Of those I do click, maybe half of those turn out to be sufficiently interesting that after reading the featured answer I'll click to see the other answers too.

Like many sites based on user provided content, Quora tries to show you what they think you will be interested in, but "interested in" really means what you'll click on.

I see enough stupid stuff (especially stupid political stuff) elsewhere, so don't click on it on Quora. I seem to be consistent enough with this that their algorithms have figured out there is better stuff to show me to get my click.

I also do not use "sign in with Facebook" or "sign in with Google" there, and am not really active on any social media that exposes user email addresses or that exposes contact lists (or even has contact lists). I don't know if I have any friends who also read Quora, but if I do there is a decent chance that Quora does not know that I do, and so won't be using their interests to try to guess mine.

I don't know why do many others have bad Quora experiences, but for whatever reason it works great for me.
I know about regenerative agro and I find it amazing as well.

I just want to point out that the way modern agriculture came to be is not dumb at all, the thing is that its focused on maximizing yield above other things. 7 billion people eat something (almost) everyday, I find it quite impressive that the infrastructure to support that, exists.

I hope the world could be stopped (as it happened, more or less, with COVID) in order to fix some of these problems, but in the case of food, it's going to be hard to ask people to stop eating for a while.
Reading both, I see little to no difference. Is there an important change between the two revisions that I am missing? Also, my reading of the title does not, in fact, telegraph anything other than "help me with this regex puzzle."
SAT and IQ are strongly correlated, you are an outlier.
Anyone done a correlation analysis of Big-5 traits and favourite programming languages?
You are forgetting that the FED can and has printed enormous sums of dollars for example over the last 18 months. This dilutes the real-world purchasing power of the dollar leading to increased inflation in scarce assets such as real estate, equities, and some cryptocurrencies. Wages are rising at the advertised inflation rate or a little better while all the scarce assets you would need to obtain healthcare, higher education, housing or retirement are all increasing at a rate that puts wage earners further and further behind.
DCGI approves anti-Covid drug developed by DRDO for emergency use
Life was hard in those days.
Arguably, the USSR also got lots of the spoils and emerged a super power.
> he cleverly positions himself as the technology guru running whole factories with his own hands but in fact it's a massive effort to hide the names of people who created his products and avoid giving them any credit.

Musk is quick to give credit to his employees if you've actually heard him talk. Also I in no way men to imply that he did anything single handed.
Intel’s margins are almost certainly higher than AMDs.
I find this to be a bit of an oversimplification. It's certainly not the case that there's only one type of storage, at least from a hardware perspective: there will always be storage that is faster than other storage, and managing that will always be required to optimize performance. I agree with the author that you should program against the simplest abstraction you can, but that's not always clear. Just because your environment is one in which you don't have to doesn't mean you can't or shouldn't in the right circumstances.

I'd argue that it's actually more complex now. I programmed in the early 1980s, and did have to worry about where my data physically resided inside the machine, but I never had to worry about whether it was in a different room on a different machine, or sitting on a hard drive in some Amazon Data Center a continent away.

As others here note, the idea of using the same abstraction for all storage is at least as old as MMUs and Multics (mid 1960s). What is different is that programmers in the 60s and (early) 70s were usually coding pretty close to the bare metal. Nowadays, Moore's law has allowed us sufficient power to permit programming on top of a big pile of abstractions that try very hard to hide the actual hardware from us.

That's a luxury afforded by the sheer power of what we're working with, but the people writing those abstraction layers still have to pay attention to the layer beneath them, and if you go down far enough, you'll find some code that needs to pay attention to what class of memory something is stored in and how to optimally move it around. It's just that work was probably done for you by someone else who wrote your operating system.

Just because your programming language doesn't require you to use pointers doesn't meant that indirection isn't being used. You just don't have to deal with it (until it rears up and reminds you it's still there). Joel Spolsky's Law of Leaky abstractions (https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-a...) is relevant here.
The Headline misses the second half of the question, "because the USSR killed 75% of German Soldiers in WW2".

KIA/Casualties are just one metric. You would expect the long war of attrition and many Pyrrhic victories on the Eastern front to have a high cost of human life, that doesn't necessarily equate to strategic impact.

The saying is... Churchill gave the time, Roosevelt gave the money and Stalin gave the Blood.
Not really due to minimalism.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/05/how-bill-gates-mark-cuban-an...
I tracked my kid with Apple's Airtags to test its privacy features