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Microsoft Teams UI is so bad in so many different ways. And in worst way possible - where it works enough for management to not ditch it, but doing something ridiculous on every occasion.
> How do we make it better?

You could, for example, offer these workers better jobs. Can you?
The question "Is pi the same in all universes?" is poorly defined.

You're talking about pi as "the circle constant for whatever universe I'm in", whereas the GP is talking about pi as "the circle constant for a very specific geometry (that we once accepted as representative of the universe we're in)"
>I therefore awaited eagerly the appearance of a textbook, a fundamental guide to programming from his pen. But he had lost his interest in this endeavor, and instead concentrated exclusively on mathematical treatments and theories.

So Wirth himself decided to write it viz. Systematic Programming: An Introduction.
`gcc` is basically a function/package derivation. What it evaluates to depends on the given channel/nixpkgs source you use - in the derivation (something like development/../gcc/default.nix) you will find the exact commit/version that will be used. For packages that routinely use multiple versions something like python2 and python3 are both available but the whole point of nix is to let go of this notion of versioning — you can reference out of tree packages as well, hell you can even use Y compiled with gcc and clang and reference them both.

So your remark that nix is lacking in dependency management is quite far from the truth - it is the only proper solution to the dependency hell problem I’ve seen (of course as well as guix which employs the same model)
I’m not really familiar with US tax laws tbh. But even if you can’t you would only ever need to liquidate equity to pay the interest. Only those payouts would count as income.

Maybe an accountant can chime in.
The issue is nobody really read terms & conditions expecting that Meet will go the way all Google communication apps went.

Now that it proved useful for some people, people are expecting that it will stay the way it made it useful.

But it will not, limited free calls means less usage, and Google will eventually shut it down.

It's funny that a company with unlimited resources can't be successful in creating something that is basically a commodity and a solved problem.
It always annoys me when I see that quoted. The original idea applied to people like athletes - you do it when you can, but when you're too old to compete, you can still teach. Nothing to do with ability, and in fact, it assumes more ability on the part of the teacher.
Paints do appear to be really slow on my 8 year old kobo glo, but it still works. Is there a terminal mode that just wraps the last line back to the top of the screen instead of scrolling the whole screen when it reaches the bottom?
Note also that Substack itself has founders that donate content to alt-right outlets, and to paraphrase a figure from that universe (on another topic), it seems that they're not exactly allergic to the stuff. There's a lot of alt-right/IDW shilling on the site, which presumably reflects the places in which its been promoted. (There's also a bunch of not-partisan-warrior content, too, to be fair.)

I think a more important question than whether or not Eric Weinstein is a crackpot is: should we be spending time discussing Eric Weinstein at all?

Everything I've read so far suggests no. If his grand unified theory turns out to not be bullshit, we'll hear about it in due time.
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Which are those? I'm not really noticing here.
Weinstein has an idea of Unified theory.

His paper is just an outline of his idea. He has not worked on in any detail despite having the idea for 10-20 years.

Ideas are ten a penny. It's a seller's market. Making them work in detail and as a whole is "doing the physics". As Sean Carroll has pointed out, it's better to cut the big grand idea into small solid pieces, work on them, then publish them one by one. It's this work that is missing.

Weinstein is the physics equivalent of "I have this great tech platform idea, I just need someone who knows how to program to make it happen for me". He doesn't need to convince mainstream physicists to volunteer. He has money, so he could award research grants to make others take a look.

EDIT errors found in his theory:

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[Guest Post] Problems with Eric Weinstein's “Geometric Unity”
https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2021/03/guest-post-problem...

>Our findings are that even aside from its status as Theory of Everything, GU contains serious technical gaps both mathematical and physical. In summary:

>* GU introduces a “shiab” operator that overlooks a required complexification step. Omitting this step creates a mathematical error but including it precludes having a physically sensible quantum theory.

>* The choice of gauge group for GU naively leads to a quantum gauge anomaly, thereby rendering the quantum theory inconsistent. Any straightforward attempt to eliminate this anomaly would make the shiab operator impossible to define, compounding the previous objection.

>* The setup of GU asserts that it will have supersymmetry. In 14 dimensions, adopting supersymmetry is highly restrictive. It implies that the proposed gauge group of GU cannot be correct and that the theory as stated is incomplete.

>* Essential technical details of GU are omitted, leaving many of the central claims unverifiable.
LISP.
> do you really think Google could get rid of third party cookies tomorrow and not get sued out existence?

Considering that ad blocking extensions still exist, yes. The browser (user agent) is supposed to act on the behalf of the user, not the remote server. It's not required to use cookies, display ads or run malicious code.

On what grounds would an ad company sue Google for a change in Chromium that enhances the user's privacy, while they can still display ads (just not track the users as much)?
How many meetings go on more than an hour?

Does the time limit really save Google much bandwidth/cpu/money?

Is this just to prevent people who use it as a baby monitor? Or perhaps the limit is just to persuade people to start paying for Google Apps for your Worksuite?
I guess this must be true, but from the sidelines it seems that “the set of points 1 metre from this particular point” and “the solution to this particular second-order differential equation” are quite different things. Any competent student of mathematics can connect them for sure, but it’s still quite remarkable they’re related isn’t it?
This is interesting to me personally because last month while flying back to the US after 2 years, I was detained for an hour because the computer said that my face didn't match my passport. The customs agent, clearly seeing that I am the person on my passport, wasn't sure what to do, so she called over her senior. He said it happens sometimes and just to wave me through, but she wasn't willing to disagree with the computer, so she sent me to the detention room. I waited for an hour in a room full of people who had flagrant visa violations (and who were being treated very rudely, fwiw), and overheard two officers discussing what to do with my case, being a US citizen my whole life with nothing on my record. The senior insisted that I be questioned, "Always ask a few questions, you never know what you might find". Eventually they called me, interrogated me in a way intended to get me to incriminate myself (questions I wouldn't answer to police on the street, but wasn't in a position to deny them), and let me go. I almost missed my connecting flight, and hope that just the fact that I was detained won't cause friction in the future.

This is not really a personal complaint. My situation is still quite privileged. But I think it's an example of just how much of a techno dystopia we're living in.
He wasn't arrested by facial recognition, he was arrested after facial recognition provided that he might look similar and then multiple humans looked at him and all the photos and and (falsely) verified that yep, that's the one, there's a match.

The tech provided a candidate, but all the decisions were made by humans, who came to the same conclusions.
Maybe Google should get a huge fine or be split for being a monopoly that uses it's market position to under-price the actual cost of providing services such as e-mail, video calls, etc.

If Google wasn't dumping prices this way there would already be great alternative services that provide this, but it's hard for someone else to have a selling point when there's a huge conglomerate basically providing this service for free.

I would say generally I am happy where this is going. The more Google makes decisions like these the more opportunities there are for customers to learn what they are actually "paying" for and they would be more willing to give away money for a better service.
Who should? And why should they (what incentives they'd have to do it)?
It's not actually an I/O problem. An M1 macbook can drive a massive 6K monitor with no issues from either thunderbolt port.

But try to drive two 1080p or 720p monitors. Impossible.

The issue is the M1 only has two CRTCs to drive the video timings.
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> He says he would have become famous in math and physics circles decades ago had his ideas not been squelched by what he calls the “Distributed Idea Suppression Complex” (DISC).

Yes, he's a crackpot. Next.
Ask HN: Timestamping a DIY corona test result
Some venues accept a photo of a negative DIY corona test result as an alternative to asking to self-test at the front door in the presence of someone of the venue and waiting for ~15 minutes?

I wonder how to prevent abuse and how to make sure the test was actually recent instead. One option is to ask for a newspaper date with both the pre-test picture and the post-test picture.
Is there a better method without making it a server side webcam or phonecam snap and timestamp service? The latter can also be be tampered with by feeding older/other pictures to he webcam.
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> Seriously, what should we do about it?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_cooperative

Perhaps one can replace the legal contracts involved in this with algorithms to achieve the necessary scale.
If you're that size why not split the workload between a couple or all 3 of the big providers. Get them to work against each other.

All the concerns about vendor lock-in are ridiculous right now. Prices have consistently lowered for all cloud providers.
I have thought about this: We know that pressure produces counterpressure, the more you knock down a populous the more likely they are to rise up and burn everything down regardless the consequeces (see the various slave revolts in history)... it might not IMPROVE the situation directly, but with every burning down of a society there is a new chance that what rises out of the ruins may be better.
The solution is to go beyond a competition based society. No matter how good the people running these companies are or want to be, competition will force their hand to create things like this. If it's not them, it'll be someone else. I'm sure we could find a way to encourage innovation without this competitive system.
I’m sure there are corporate users who would like to use this tool but won’t be able to install i. However, I do not think there is any call for posting dismissive comments solely based on that. It does not detract from the value of the tool, for those who can get it.
Likely it got flagged too much too quickly.

I have no clue how it went down, I'm just a rando HN commenter, but don't ascribe to careless human moderation that which can be adequately explained by automated moderation.

There's definitely a sizable crowd that prefers HN to be more about hacking and less about politics, let alone divisive discussions about intelligence services, the person of Glenn Greenwald and so on. Also I wouldn't be surprised if HN has a lower flag->dead threshold for video links.
Net neutrality never was about you though, it's about the companies sending content to you.

Electricity has absolutely no comparison to network traffic. That's a fundamental misunderstanding of how networks work. A packet coming from the other side of the world costs, fundamentally, a very different amount from a packet coming from nearby.

You're the one who seems to not understand.
Realism? One of the core jobs of science is understanding the world as it is, not as we wish it to be. That does not mean bitterness but mistrust is absolutely essential. The very fact that people use terms like 'trust' and 'believe' when it comes to science questions shows how deep this problem goes.

Btw, when it comes to how much science is influenced by social pressures and politics I can say from personal experience it's hard to know how serious the problem is until you see it yourself from the inside.
They've been given emergency approval, sure.

> You have to realize that they did not have their own "bunch" of trials.

Yes, they did. Sorry but this is where you veer into outright misinformation. There have been trials ongoing for a while. The specific two mrna vaccines you are concerned about have had trials, with phase 1/2 reporting last summer and phase 3 interim reporting starting late last year. Your own link above puts these at the end of the process, and your other link says development can take years, not that it must or always does.

Are all trials complete? No, they aren't. But to state they haven't had trials is incorrect.

So in summary -

The tech has been studied for 30 years.

Human vaccine trials using it started 10 years ago.

Trials have taken place and have reported, though phase 3 is ongoing and will continue to report (this is not the same as it not happening, there has already been useful clinical data).

We now also have several months of data from worldwide rollout, with multi-hundred-million doses administered, all of which is continuing to make these things look incredibly safe.

That's not enough for you? Do you need some sort of an absolute guarantee of safety handed down by god himself, amidst a raging pandemic?

There's no reason to think that there should be long term health consequences to these. We have lots of data saying short/mid term consequences are rare and mostly very mild, we have a fair body of data going back ten years which leads us to expect that mRNA vaccines are not long term dangerous as a category (or they would not be given their emergency authorisation)... at this point I think the judgement needs to be that any long term consequences that might appear are far less likely to be a problem than covid itself, yes, even for those age groups affected by pericarditis/myocarditis.
So, make it a law that if you hire a person they'd have a stake in a company automatically?

No one is stopping anyone to create worker cooperatives.
Thank you for posting the original paper. Figure 2 has a great depiction of the effect. That 4.7 cm variation, because it cycles every 18 years, can increase or decrease the effects of inherent sea level rise: at a minimum of the cycle, an expected sea level increase of 8.9 cm instead ends up only being 4.1 cm; but by the next decade, an expected increase of 9.4 cm surges to a peak high tide of 14.1 cm higher than before.

One main takeaway is this effect occurs at different times around the world–within the US, different states will experience flooding in different decades. Federal mitigation efforts can be focused on regions that would be impacted first. However, by the 2030s, most seacoasts will be flooding at least on occasion due to extreme high tides.

The other effect predicted is, per year, the extreme high tide days will cluster together within a month or so in each region. They mention this because policy or planning for these types of extreme events usually think about it in terms of single isolated events, but this model predicts short “seasons” of extreme tides. Future mitigations should take that into account.
Well, ye, it's not news. But it'll keep happening and be reported on over and over as no politician wants to be the next JFK.
"Ideas are ten a penny. It's a seller's market. "

Ideas being ten a penny would make them a buyers market - as the sellers aren't offering anything worth value nor scarce.

Edit - I agree with you though. Eric at least seems to admit his idea requires further development to get to testable a hypothesis(es?).
Is there some reason all subdomains couldn't be shown? Maybe with the exclusion for www.
Cleverness over predictability. Instead of removing or even hiding complexity they obfuscate it. It seems like a consistent theme with Apple's designs.
> he’s developed a unified field theory—a “theory of everything”—that, if correct, could not only put him next to Einstein in the physics pantheon

It's hard to state how monumental marrying GR and Quantum mechanics would be. Along with it, you'd get quantization of gravity, one of the holy grails.

Yeah he'd be up there with Einstein.
Homebrew has been getting worse and worse as they continue to add more dark patterns and remove features from the software. The new maintainers aren't even well liked by the original creator.

Homebrew was always about compiling and installing your own software the way you want to. Now it's been turned into a glorified binary package manager with centralized control.
BoE wants all to use the big cloud providers, no on premise things or boutique clouds, because they want to monitor EVERYTHING.
Yeah, this is what i have thought... in german there is the saying "Mach kaputt was euch kaputt macht" (more or less "destroy what destroys you").
The author disagrees:

So, all told, I think I’ll refrain from applying the ‘crackpot’ label here. I don’t think we should marginalize Weinstein’s ideas by stigmatizing him—even if he’s trying to do that to someone else.
I have the exact same feeling about coffee scent, my experience is that you have tough luck
Yeah it's pretty limited what you can describe in words. You have to sort of "get it" with the diagrams what is being said.
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The word "climate crisis" in the article is a hyperlink to their dedicated climate change section with a constant stream[1] of articles about climate change.

1. https://www.cnn.com/specials/world/cnn-climate
I know that WSL2 is a good development environment for Windows but I am interested to see if a Nix VM might be better.
How unfortunate would it really be for customers? The worst I can think of is Amazon Basics cables being six eurocents pricier per foot.
I think before addressing any of the specifics... the question to start with is "what if he is?" Are nutty crackpots something we need to worry about?

Newton was a crackpot, when he wasn't revolutionizing physics and maths. I'm not suggesting that Weinstein or other potential crackpots are Newton, just that they can coexist. At the least, a crackpot mindset can lead down paths less trodden.

That said... Weinstein. The most notable feature of Weinstein's headline appearances is his strident belligerence. No doubt he's conflicted with others in and around academia, been the thorn in a side, had "plots" against him. This is the office politics of academia. Like all office politics, it looms large. Weinstein, being who he is, tells the story from a "House of Cards" perspective, rather than a Dilbert perspective.

That said, Weinstein's beyond the reach of the dreaded DISC now. No one can suppress your ideas now, but you also can't claim that they are. Be free Eric.

Idea suppression is real, crackpottery is real and the grey area between them is real.

"Weinstein does appear to have a higher degree of crackpottery than most people, but look at some parts of his psychology that drive it: he thinks his ideas are very important; he thinks he doesn’t get as much credit as he deserves (especially for those important ideas); he interprets in unflattering, even dark, terms the motivations of people who seem to keep him (or his relatives) from getting credit; he strains to see pattern where it may not exist. I could go on, but the point is this: Don’t pretty much all of us have these tendencies? Aren’t they just parts of human nature."
If you consider America to be a corporatocracy, it’s hard not to consider it to be an authoritarian state at this point.

The company I work at recently had everyone install some advanced monitoring software on every company’s laptop. Being fully remote, this effectively gives root access to someone in my home 8 hours a day. Sure, it’s a “company laptop” and all of that, but something feels extremely invasive about it and I don’t like it one bit.
if they spy on each other then they might enter infinite recursion, until they run out of stack space.
My evaluation is that he is enormously intelligent. And like many people of enormous intelligence he suffers from something like an over-connected brain. He is too good at spotting connections between things, connections that potentially do not exist. The result is everything is a conspiracy - or some grand paradigm waiting to be unlocked. Definitely an interesting character and those sorts can push boundaries, but you should be careful about their conclusions.
> Does the book use any commercial software like xlwings PRO? No, the book uses exclusively software that is open source and free (except for Excel, of course).

This is no longer technically true of Anaconda. They’ve adopted a new licensing approach that prevents employees of companies from using the free edition. Please consider adding alternative install instructions, based on PyPI and pipenv or poetry, to future versions of your book. This would help a ton of data scientists out!

I’m looking forward to reading your book via O’Reilly!

References:

Discussion on r/Python with comments from the Anaconda CEO and team, https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/iqsk3y/anaconda_is_...

Anaconda license change press release, https://www.anaconda.com/blog/anaconda-commercial-edition-fa...

Anaconda Terms of Service, https://www.anaconda.com/terms-of-service

Edit: Here’s an interesting comment on the Reddit discussion from the Anaconda CEO suggesting that Miniconda can still be used with conda forge: “You can download Miniconda, and change your conda config to use conda forge, and the Terms of Service do not apply to that. The ToS only applies to commercial usage of the package repository of packages we build, at repo.anaconda.com; it does not apply to community-built and uploaded packages at anaconda.org.”, https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/iqsk3y/anaconda_is_...
> The same datasets given to human operators would not produce biased results.

Actually they would. That's where the "all Asians look the same" comes from. Skewed training set.
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