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> Universities and grants are this firehose of tax money being sprayed everywhere without even the slightest bit of accountability in how it's used.

This is definitely not true, recipients of grants are heavily restricted on what kind of things they can spend that money on. I can't even fly a non-domestic carrier using grant money without proving no other alternatives exist.

Do research projects sometimes fail to deliver? Yeah. But that's just the reality of doing research. The problem I see is people expect research to be closer to development, with specific ROIs and known deliverables years ahead of time. Sometimes in the course of research you realize what you said you were going to do is impossible, and that's a good result we need to embrace, instead of attaching an expected profit to everything.

> Bell Labs, DeepMind, Google Research

I don't know so much about all the labs you listed, but just taking these three, they certainly don't have a good feeling for what their research is worth either. Do you think Bell Labs fully comprehended the worth of the transistor? For all the research Google does, ad money still accounts for 80% of their revenue. DeepMind is a pretty ironic choice because Google has dropped billions into them and it's still not clear where the profit is going to come from. So it's not clear anyone, even those with a profit motive, have any way to judge what any piece of research is actually worth.

But that's not to say there's anything wrong with that... that's just how research works. You don't know how things are going to turn out, and sometimes it takes a very long time to figure that out, and it. This is why massive corporations like AT&T, Intel, Google, Xerox, MS etc. are able to run such labs.

> The first thing that happens when the corporate labs get interested in an area is that universities are immediately emptied out because they refuse to pay competitive wages

I've seen this happen first hand. In my experience these researchers usually go on to spend their time figuring our how to get us to click on more ads or to engage with a platform more. In one instance, I remember one of my lab mates being hired out of his PhD to use his research to figure out which relative ordering and styling of ads on a front page optimized ad revenue for Google. They paid him quite a lot of money to do that, and I guess it made Google some profit. But is the world better off?
I can certainly add that the same Israeli company has been found planting evidence in the case that Teltumbde is being held in jail without trial for.

https://citizenlab.ca/?s=koregaon
VSCode is multiplatform. It runs on Linux and macOS as well as Windows which expands its applicability and availability greatly compared to Visual Studio proper.
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I'm not doing great with names today, thanks for correcting me.
Luckily the AIs we will be able to build now that P = NP means that this kind of error can be caught by the machines in the future.
Charity Majors provides the questions and mindset to explore when considering hiring a new manager - from within the organization or someone external. "Managers should have a chat about career plans with everyone on their team at least once or twice a year, and that includes asking whether they would like to try being a manager at some point." -- This is important as you want to understand the potential within your team. Don't wait until it's too late.
Nice project but if you are serious about buying a home, don't just look at numbers. Figure out what you and your wife want for yourself in next 2-5-7 years. If you see you guys staying in 1 place and build a family further, buying a home may not be a bad idea considering your finances are in shape (good credit, have 20% downpayment etc etc). I would say rule of thumb is 7 years in 1 place. If you are going to live in same place for 7+ years, buy with 20% down and total cost not >25-30% of monthly pay.
Noah! Thanks for commenting.

Re - ML on feedback: Customers/users haven't taken us there, yet, anyways.

Would love to jam more, if you're open to it? brennan at hypercontext.com?
I had similar experience, but different outcome. I also had forgotten many formulas, but was able to derive everything from basic algebra. Quadratic formula, sine and cosine of sum of angles, derivatives, etc.

Some of those things took much longer than necessary, but I made it a point to not look anything up on principle. How can I explain something if I can't do it myself?
For what possible reason are you asking that question of anyone?
It's possible, but it takes work. I can't remember the last time a pdf did something unreadably weird, usually my only gripe is with something that's a scan of an old document but whoever turned it into PDF didn't do OCR.
Games work with time budgets of many milliseconds per frame, relatively long timescales from a cpu pov. It is rare to prefer predictable per iteration latency in loops over higher throughput unless the deferred batch of work is quite big. But of course this can compound in some cases, eg you have thousands of these arrays being extended in lockstep and they all trigger the extra work at the same time...
Honestly, why do people buy shit like this when you can just hook a raspberry pi to your tv and stream through that? I'm asking a real question here, I simply can't understand what makes this a desirable thing for anyone.
What about open source spyware?
For anyone like me who could only find snarky responses, including in this thread:

https://www.quora.com/Why-does-proving-P-NP-break-cryptograp...
I need more pictures. I'm obvious a layperson.
box.com is also down right now
This Art should be sold as an NFT
I think this is a very important question. This is something that I struggle with.

I have read a lot of papers. I generally think science can be a force for good. I understand analytic methods developed by or used in papers from my field of interest. I generally believe that those methods are capable of answering important and interesting questions.

In my view, the problem is that you can't know if an article is good or bullshit until you sit with it for, say, at least 2 or 3 hours (some papers even more). And that is for someone with my background. I tried to do this same thing when I had an undergraduate level of education and it (a) took me a lot longer (at least 10x), and (b) I missed a lot of the mistakes/scams/lies that I would not miss now. (I'm sure I am not able to detect some bullshit even still.)

We should follow the good science. We should not follow the bullshit science. This sounds hard because science, being more technical, is harder to vet. But upon further reflection, it seems that society hasn't figured out how to deal with much simpler lies, either.
What you said aligns with the data in DownDetector [1]

[1] - https://downdetector.com/
The "time to assume" this was at least 15 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Most_Published_Research_Fi...
I wouldn't say this totally solves it:

(get m :fooo :not-found)

Is still a bug that'll be hard to debug, because your code will most likely handle :not-found and believe that it is truly not-found for some reason, but it's not, you messed up the keyword.
My favorite analogy is it is like trees were made of plastic. You know how today people say the plastic bottles will sit unchanged in landfills for thousands of years? Back then it was the same for trees. They grew, they fell, they sat there unchanged unless they burned. So if they fell in water, they stayed.

Today trees rot because microbes evolved to decompose lignin. A million years from now maybe plastic will rot too.

It helps to make clear how the giant carboniferous coal deposits were formed: plastic tree landfills.
This ... isn't really a great example--either of Rust or of embedded programming in Rust.

Someone should ask one of the Rust Embedded folks to review this and provide commentary.
It is not equally reductive because one reduction serves to perpetuate oppression, apartheid and empowers regimes that are the architects of roadblocks to progress. And the other reduction aims to remove the obstacles to dismantling all the above.

The only way the contextualisation is relevent to the original comment is if there's some value in appending this racist myth that "if those Arabs had their say then women would be on leashes and gays would be made into smoothies on-sight". Ironically, the contextualisation is the status quo. The contextualisation is a direct result of, among other things, Israel and it's complicit export of cyber oppression weapons.

And before someone claims that this is separate from the state, just consider that the export license would not be granted for a sale which would be detrimental to Israel's interests as a state. The base deduction is that it's in the interest of the state to keep its neighbours citizens in-check and for Israel to be known worldwide to be an exporter of these exact tools.
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> I've heard a rule of thumb that home maintenance costs are 1% of the home's value per year

It's a very poor rule of thumb. Contrary to the other comment, these costs don't increase linearly with value of the house. Sure, if I live in an expensive area, it may go up 30%, but not much more. Looking at how much my house has appreciated, I can assure you I pay not much more in maintenance than when I bought it.

The 1% rule came about when the median house price was under $200K.
https://www.internetweathermap.com/

looks like stuff down east/west coast, and connection east coast to EU
Do you mean teenagers? I took the SAT at around 12 and at 16, for instance, and scored considerably higher the second time, with no special test prep (just a couple of sample tests from a booklet from the library a few days before that second test). I think that did help a little, but already doing a third one would've been in the region of diminishing returns. The difference really was just the time, and high school classes.

I'd be surprised to see this pattern in someone a decade older.
For me, this is one of the most important points that mental health literature and advocacy needs to reckon with before I trust it as much as physical medical science.

There are too many candidate examples in my own life for me to ignore the possibility that their is some truth to the first sentence of your post.
I've really liked Prolog during university, but I've never used a constraint solver embedded in Prolog. Do you know of any non commercial Prolog system with this kind of integration to play with? I remember using SWIProlog at the time
Yes. Use pyinstaller.
The 'Lab Leak Theory' is not a fact it's just conjecture.

The people have difficulty with this is exactly why misinformation is so easily spread.
I love you, Pim. I never thought to change the system CA store, I always thought they'd pin to their own cert anyway.
We have a small team starter plan that's $5 total for your first 5 users.

Also, we'll only charge you for additional users if you a) invite them and b) they sign in and become active.

So definitely can stay at $5/m and use it as a personal tool for as long as you want to. It's on the product to convince you your life can be significantly easier through inviting people, not me
So now it's finally starting to sink in that Microsoft truly is embracing Linux.

Freudian Slip??

Seeing, of course, that Microsoft's published philosophy is "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" as mentioned in the Halloween Documents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents
On the other hand, on the west coast the likely cause of water contamination issues is a major earthquake. In which case gas would most likely be out longer than power.

The only reliable solution is to have a backup that’s not reliant on infrastructure. I.e everyone should have a camp stove and a couple of bottles of propane for it or an alternative self reliant solution that’s good for 3 or so days.
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I don’t have enough colors in my head to fill a whole alphabet.
Here's example of invalid XHTML file with missing `</p>`: https://vbezhenar.com/test-invalid.xhtml

And fixed: https://vbezhenar.com/test-valid.xhtml

It works in Chrome for me, parsing failed as expected on the invalid file. Also you can't use document.write from JS, so DOM has special treatment for XHTML as well.
> I also bet you've never looked at your city, county, state or federal budget.

I have. Not in great detail though. The problem is I can't really do anything about it. Even if I find something bad and by lucky chance get people to care (there are plenty of slow news nights) - there is far more bad things in the budget than I can expose before people get tired of the corruption and give up listening. I try to elect politicians who will do something about it - I have low success: people who benefit from any specific spending are more powerful than people who are just against waste in general. That is assuming I can get my person on the ballot in the first place (low odds), and they don't realize once elected that reelection (read power) comes from handing out pork to those who want some specific waste. There are more things that make it hard - I just scratched the surface.

Pork is hard to figure out. Is spending money not to repair something that isn't broken good money or bad? I've seen perfectly good buildings get needless remodels and I've seen perfectly good buildings suffer because they never got maintained. I've seen towns put in sewer systems they don't need, and other towns fail to put in a sewer system until it was an expensive emergency. Flint had 40 years to replace the lead pipes in their water system - or they could have investing in water treatment chemicals that makes lead not leach from the pipes for much less money even over 40 years (you can pick anything from 60 to 30 years ago as the date when lead is bad became known - 40 was my somewhat arbitrary pick).
> can do any improvements I want, when I want, how I want, and they become an asset

Depends on the HOA rules, if you have an HOA.

As for whether they'll be an asset, it depends on the improvement ;-) I tour open houses often, and people definitely have done some typically undesirable improvements.
If you can forget math, it means that you memorized it. I don't think one can ununderstand math.

Oftentimes math is taught as a set of rules. Do these steps in order to get the answer. Works well to pass the test with minimum effort, does not help much long term.
I don't agree - but I think you're really just trying to get a reaction by being as aggressive and contrary as possible rather than actually going on what I've written, so I'm going to leave you to it from here.
Great idea IMO.

Hopefully you know about scrimba (https://scrimba.com/) which is probably similar in goals but has a different approach, you watch a coding tutorial then you can pause the video and edit the code (the instructor will ask you to do this).

An interesting choice they made for the main exercises is every time you do one you start with a blank editor and type the same import statements etc. to build memory.

I think your methods here are interesting and generalise beyond programming.

I love to see innovation in this area so hoping you do well!
The computer I was using at work in 92 had a whopping 16mb! It was amazing. It might have been a 386 20MHz (before the cache was added to the systems so was very slow compared to a 25Mhz that came out soon afterwards).
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Also, duplexes are houses with two units in them vs. a two floor apartment.
The problem is that the girls can't afford to buy a book singularly.

Masha needs 7 kopecks to buy 1 book

"Misha lacked one", which means to me as an native English speaker that Misha needed just one more Kopeck in order to purchase 1 book.

When it's revealed that when they pool their money that they don't have enough to purchase just 1 book, I realized that the translation is faulty and stopped looking at the rest of the problems.
Too bad everyone has been convinced nuclear is way worse because of a couple of accidents. That was a legitimate alternative that didn't need to wait for the 2010s to become an economically viable 15-20% of energy production.
Ya beat me to it. There's all kinda good little search tricks like that besides just the quotes, too. Really effective search engine research skills are almost an art-form these days. ;)
Yes, completely agree and thank you for expanding.

I mentioned the absolute minimum so there's no excuse. At the same time, even a robotic, automated reply is infinitely more than nothing.
I like how John Cutler offers pieces of the puzzle and provides guidance on each one. He's one of my favorite product leaders. He's someone you'd like to follow if you see yourself as part of the leadership team who wants to impact your processes around execution.
I'm just old enough to remember when the surgeon general said masterbation was OK and drug policy should be changed and got sacked under Clinton. Let's hope it works better this time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joycelyn_Elders
You suggest how scientists can act, their motivations, their freedom to disagree with the status quo, or those higher up the ladder in their field etc. You suggest how scientists will lose grants if they produce inconvenient science, etc etc. So I ask again. Are you a scientist? Have you written a grant application? Have you been punished? I AM a scientist, and I have never seen this hypothetical world.
I thought it was, that the proof of equality would have to be a general algorithm to transform one into the other.
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Anything new from 4 years ago?
Would you stop BBQing if your neighbour complained about it?
I agree with your general point, but if you want to give math problems that inspire creative, rigorous thought, you need to make them very clear, with as little ambiguity and assumed knowledge as possible. These problems don't do that. Examples:

Kopecks being indivisible, there being only one book at a specific price in the first problem, books being on a shelf in a specific order (13).

>>A brick weighs one pound and half the brick. How many pounds does the brick weigh?

As a native speaker, that doesn't even make sense, and I don't know a natural way to express it that doesn't do most of the work of the problem. (Another comment indicates it means "a brick's weight is equal to half of a brick plus one pound".)
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This calculator needs to adjust for inflation/deflation.
The article is about all of medical research. Vaccine development is part of medical research and is therefore included. I did not attempt to "make it a statement about one very specific subset." I pointed out that the article is similar to the kind of article seized upon by people who have vaccine hesitancy ideations.

Take your straw elsewhere.
Certainly if you design a scenario where linked lists are superior to use, you should use linked lists. Fortunately, these are few and far between in real production software.
Tell HN: Dark Reader now has better support for HN
As an avid user of the Dark Reader extension, I visited HN today, and was surprised to see it wasn't a yellow-y, gold-y mess.

Might be worth a go at re-enabling it, for those who've disabled it in the past.
I think part of the point of this brochure is to think about the problems intuitively in the context they are presented. So in the first problem it's just kids trying to buy their first book, it would be silly to think Masha had a fraction of a kopeck (assuming you understand what a kopeck is, I really think it should have been translated as cent) and that the answer could be in range [7, 8). This may be what he talks about when he says that many academics fail at these problems.

Similarly, in problem #2 the cork indeed costs 0.5 kopecks but in this case we're just thinking about cost conceptually, not in terms of how much money a person actually has on hand.
This seems like a bit of the appeal to authority logical fallacy. Law does not make something valid good or proper and to follow laws for the sake of them being laws is missing the point of laws no? Do you actually value the purpose of the law or is it just a boolean true or false if something is illegal its bad and wrong because it's illegal?

How valuable to society are people who pretend not to be gay when it's illegal?

How much value was there in keeping black people out of the same restaurants as white people?

What value do you perceive society gains by locking people up for smoking a plant that makes you laugh?

On the contrary does it not remove value from society to stringently pursue punitive measures against something like being in possession of a gram of cannabis while higher crimes often face far less significant (relatively) consequences?
this is so neat, asking the user agent for data!

this document lists a very very small number of env variables, a safe area of the screen.

do system color themes next!!
Bouba... a woody sort of word.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulNWr-yBWP8
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Sort of equivalent to this (installing Linux on a dead badger): http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/articles/installing-l...
That gist is from D.J. Spiewak - one of the authors of cats effect :)
It would probably have such a bad UX that no one will bother installing it. Problem solved.
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I have never bought a new laptop (desktops are another thing) for more than 30 years now.
I just get old ones. Usually from clients or friends at bigger companies, that are replacing them at a Windows upgrade. Then I wipe the disks (even if I would hope they are already wiped) and install Linux. Works for me. And I have lost a few to theft, heavy rain, drops, bumpy bus rides, wine spilling, etc. So I was happy it was not new macbooks.

But I doubt that I could have gotten a firmware password for most of them. They would just have been thrown in the garbage.

I also got a couple of phones that could be used for testing web-apps. The last one was locked, and it would be pointless to try to get it unlocked.

Maybe the BIOS should give you full ownership if it can check that the device is not reported missing after one week. But I guess that would give robbers a motive to kill the owners.

Maybe devices should just unlock when they 5 years old.
Thank you for your response. I do know scrimba and love their product as well.
The paper on arxiv, if anyone wants to spot the error: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1004.3702.pdf
I could actually totally see that @namespace thing bein' useful if you're embedding SVG directly into your HTML (which is entirely possible, and even useful sometimes).
I know little about Matlab, but I know a lot about SAS, where it's the default analytical environment in public health practice and research. SAS is trash, and a ripoff to boot. R has made good inroads, giving SAS a tiny bit of pressure, but frankly it needs more. Bring on Julia! And python and anything else.
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"Files are a basic human freedom" - that definitely resonates with me.

There's an assortment of trade-offs though. In particular, linking between files breaks if you ever want to move or rename a file. Also, by self-encapsulating every file, you end up using space less efficiently.
Does a lion symbolize something fierce? The Book of Isaiah notwithstanding, I doubt that symbol will change.
Yeah signing an MOU with China while we are at war with them.

Even a child would know the congress can not be trusted.

I see where you might be coming from, the far left

So here is a gem of a discussion, https://youtu.be/matXpPAHao4
There is an edge case I see. When I set downpayment == to purchase price, it assumes I'll still be making payments, when there actually wouldn't be a loan. Not sure this matters.
and the only way global warming will get derailed, well, there are also super volcanoes....