skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being forced to make a choice under threat is kind of the definition of coercion, but I think we are getting hung up on semantics (e.g., the word blackmail) and you certainly raise a mature perspective and valid points. I think your interpretation of blackmail is much more akin to extortion, but we can at least agree they felt threatened.

The choice I was referring to was one of resignation and giving into the threat, or fighting the base of OP’s claim(s). Both lead to the loss of their job, except with one option they at least have a chance of keeping their job (fighting it).

Just to clarify, I said it was bordering on blackmail, which I think we can probably agree with each other that this was skirting pretty close to that line.

However, my contention was that it was an ultimatum, while he stated it was not. You don’t seem to be arguing that it was not an ultimatum, just that it was not in your opinion blackmail, which is fair and I won’t beat a dead horse.

Thank you for also sharing your perspective on what you would do in the same situation. I wish I could so confidently say the same, especially when you involve kids, personal attachment, biased storytelling (e.g., him hearing a different story from her than what is/isn’t the truth, which no one knows here), among other factors.

It’s a complicated situation to say the least and based on what OP said, I think there were some serious mistakes made that had a negative impact on him. However, I still do not think his actions are justified, for much other purpose than to be vindictive/take out his anger, and is super risky for everyone involved.

We know nothing about these personalities and outside OP’s own experiences, neither does he. It’s also impossible to predict the future and whether his actions are going to somehow help society writ large, or do more damage than good.

That is my issue with the ultimatum, no matter what you want to call it.
Do have a link anywhere to a tutorial or documentation as to how this sort of arithmetic compression works? I’d love to learn more.
For me (regular drinker feeling it was getting a little too regular) it took a couple of months dry to stop wanting a drink most days, then about another 7 months until I didn't miss it at all.

I'm only 14 months in though, and I don't assume I'm finished. YMMV obv.
Yawn. I made it about 1/2 through 2049 and just got bored. Where has all the creativity gone in film. It's just one remake / sequel after another.
https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/The_Lancet_Emai...
I would say that ATL is a domain-specific language (DSL). To be more accurate, I would refer to it as a horizontal DSL (as opposed to typical DSLs, which are usually focused on some vertical subject domain or industry). Another thought is that, if I were writing HPC-focused software today (and, especially, tomorrow), I would definitely much prefer Julia to ATL or similar niche solutions. Thanks to (likely) not much of, if any, loss of performance, but an incomparably wider spectrum of potential applications and covered domains. Plus, an additional benefit of lack of the two-language problem.
We can mass-produce mobile homes for $70k, but as personal property they depreciate and are harder to finance, and some people have been screwed on renting the land.
> No experiment can distinguish free fall in a gravitational field from motion with uniform acceleration (as in the elevator).

This has been tested so many times and still holds. Amazing he thought of it.
Cool, so lit critics can start publishing interpretations of clear expressions of the gay and trans experience and claiming the gay/trans characters are closeted or secretly wish to detransition? (I hope not)
Indeed https://memeslayerx.github.io/nonfree-pizza/
Thanks, archive.org seems to have a gold mine of PDFs about the system including magazines, books, user manuals, and system documentation. Pretty terrific stuff, and perhaps inspiring to anyone trying to make a homebrew Z-80 (or other 8-bit) system! (Not to mention information on CP/M and other Z-80 platforms. I still want to try the original Turbo Pascal sometime.)

I wasn't immediately able to find an emulator on archive.org with software for it, though there were some software archives with a few games and other programs.
Homie lays off one-third of its staff
That's a very good article and puts the other contributors in context.

The fact that there was so much discussion between the main players is underappreciated.

I strongly suspect that today GR would be a multi-author paper.
I found that clicking the "play" link at the top made a difference? Pretty weird.
That equation is associated with SR, not GR. I’m not aware of anyone, aside from Einstein and the small group at Göttingen who were working with him, and a couple of his friends, such as Grossmann, who were helping him with the math, even being aware of this work on gravity. But I’m willing to learn. Please provide some names. Who were the “experts of the domain at the time”? For that matter, what is this domain?
Comparison to what? We don't need an analogy. This is a novel environment and it can be evaluated on its own.
> bombastic

Esoteric synonyms, perhaps? :-)
They could have sent the link to friends, some of which did not have an account yet but wanted to comment?
We are both wrong. I was thinking "Island south of Japan" and I said Taiwan, but I should have said Okinawa, which was conquered by Japan and part of the Japanese empire in the 1890s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryukyu_Kingdom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karate

Taiwan was also conquered by Japan and was part of the empire in the 1890s, which I think is why I confused it with Okinawa.
Got it. Your previous statement didn't really seem like you were speaking in broad generalities and instead seemed more absolute, like math is something that could always be learned by any human brain. Clearly that's not the case, which was the point of gpp, I think.
120Hz+ screens are becoming common place. For the first time in decades, this guidance is no longer true -- it's reasonable to design for a frame or so of fixed latency, but to avoid jitter the latency should really be bounded within 8 ms these days.
Than Hilbert? No. Riemann, perhaps. Making it work was all about the proper non-Euclidean geometry. Einstein needed to learn the right mathematics.
That's some excellent context, thank you.

I recall when Dolly was in the news, but only understood the broad strokes of the process. I did scan through that page for 'stem', and found a reference to future research, and noted the replication from an 'adult cell' (which I'd assume analogous to differentiated cell).

I'd guess the transfer process is why she arrived with shorter telomeres at birth?
Sounds like something Adam would say
There are other cheap-to-deploy-on EVM-compatible (I feel like I'm talking about the IBM PC days) blockchains out there that aren't wholly owned by an exchange. Avalanche, Polygon etc.
Yes.

Basically there are two approaches to sequence prediction.

The traditional style, linear regression, ARIMA, RNNs etc. where you directly predict the next element in a sequence. The output is on the same level of abstraction as the internal values used in the model.

There is also the new-ish style where you predict symbols instead of predicting the values directly. You can predict symbols representing numbers or you can also predict a symbolic formula that can be used to extrapolate the values perfectly. This is the way humans do it.

And my point is that when you look at the symbols embedding they do have interpretable structure that model can use to generalize. And experiments seems to suggest that DNNs models are indeed generalizing.
I think hedge is the right word. NYT continuously invests in their crossword thinking there'll be a return on their investment (maybe in increased subscriptions). Investing in a line of business is basically an informed bet. NYT wants the crossword to remain dominant. They just bought Wordle on the off-chance it unseats the crossword, hence the term "hedge".

This is just speculation btw, I don't work for NYT or know the true reasons.
The course is computer science, not computer engineering.
Comp Sci is mostly about algorithms, data structures, big O, graphs and proofs.

Programming is secondary.

Source: Comp Sci major
Facebook exposes 'god mode' token that could siphon data
I think some version of Typescript type hints or similar will eventually get adopted as a standard for JS. TS and similar are kind of like a testing ground and will eventually be obsolete if it remains that prevalent and useful.
Nice, I didn't know you existed, it's great what you have done, but still not at the same level than confluence.

I'm myself too have been working for more than 2 years on an alternative to confluence and haven't reached the same level either, but closer and closer every day
You're right. That said there are other ways to get around cheeper imported food. Why not raise the tariffs?

I just generally find it surprising that the US subsidizes an industry. It feels against the countries ideals, and I think the subsidies decrease the industry's incentives for innovation.
Einstein and all the great scientists from that era didn't miss black holes, they thought the idea of black holes were stupid and looked down on people doing that kind of research. Freeman Dyson talks about this in a few interviews - though he doesn't seem to understand why they thought that as he personally loved black hole research.

A singularity is, afterall, a mathematical effect that occurs everywhere in science when the mathematics used to describe the system in one region is no longer valid in another. Only in modern, government funded 'science' do we start to find people taking mathematical errors seriously. Also, to preempt any responses I might get, no, massive dark objects at the center of our galaxy are not even close to being evidence that space-time singularities are real.
Even prior to advanced theories, we know of plague doctors who made efforts to protect themselves.

People knew there was something going on between infections that spread them even before the more advanced germ theories of Pasteur.
Well, for what it’s worth and I sincerely mean this, if there is anything I can do to help you out (medically, not legally) please let me know.
What’s the Deal with DAOs?
Meanwhile, loads of compute hours get wasted because of accidentally overwriting output data in structures like /data/final/new_conf9/last_try2/JOBID.txt or due to wrong dependency setup.

IMHO the main issue of HPC today is not performance per se, but rather not embracing software best practices...
I just got started on Go and I am quite satisfied with eglot for now.
Would it do better if you asked it to "show its work"? I.e. work it out in long form, one step at a time, like you'd ask a school kid to do. Maybe an example prompt would look like this:

Work out 2241 + 19873.
02241 + 19873 ~ ____4
02241 + 19873 ~ ___14 carry 1
02241 + 19873 ~ __114 carry 1
02241 + 19873 ~ _2114 carry 1
02241 + 19873 = 22114.

I'm not sure what is the best way to represent each step including details like carry digits. And you'd have to design a separate scheme for each operation.

If these models are symbol manipulators maybe the key is to break down the task into steps that are closer to being solvable with symbol manipulation.
Interesting article. But it's not obvious how you go from principle of equivalence to the equations that describe general relativity, specifically curved space-time. That is a huge leap. Obviously, the author cannot cover all of the inbetween steps. But you don't need special relativity to get to general relativity, nor do you even need equivalence principle. GR is more geometry than anything else.
> ...ask for your credit card number as part of verifying your age.

and verifying that your financial/documentation circumstances permit you to qualify for a credit card in the first place, too. Nice way to gatekeep out the "undesirable underprivileged" user base not worth marketing to...
Everything you are describing is still OOP. Again, inheritance in not necessarily the best tool to model all relationships.
you've never de-entrophized the sweated muons of a photon-sphere before?
Huh, there's one every month.
I've been working on a Go implementation if you fancy trying it out

https://github.com/jfyne/live
that's like saying high level languages cannot be unequivocally better then writing assembly, not doing your own memory management is bad, etc...

Functional programming is a higher level abstraction. If the underlying implementation is not well implemented/optimized then you could have bad performance while the opposite is also true.
Ah yeah, that would most likely be one of the RG coaxial cables then.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coaxial_cable#Standards

I'm not sure if (a)symmetry is due to the physical properties/limitations of the cable itself, or if it's just a business decision by the ISP.
https://build.mmm.page

Been working on a website builder for almost a year now. Started as a series of fun interaction prototypes, then became “What if everybody could make expressive, stylistic websites?” and now I have so many ideas for it — big features, small polish, soft UI ideas, Easter eggs — that I can’t imagine running out of steam anytime soon. Having something always there, something that I care deeply about, however silly it is, has been a real source of constancy and satisfaction.
A rule of thumb, whatever you expect to make as an income, charge your customers at least double that per hour. Then you can spend up to half your time finding new business and still break even.
Windows 11 Settings app is using React Native
You have mathematical physics, which is math. It is about treating physics as math, meaning you have axioms for the different laws of physics and then explore the topic that way. It doesn't care about experiments at all, it is just pure math. They still haven't properly formalized all of current physics that way, so it is ongoing work.
Sounds like someone's doing something with the Referer header.
If you're into electronic music, WATMM is and always has been a pretty great forum. Only catch is there's a minimum $3/year membership fee to support the site, but it's way more than worth it IMO.

https://watmm.com/
Coffee Reserves Plunge to Lowest in More Than Two Decades
The Python lsp backend (using pyright) is really nice. I used it when I was tracking every error I made when coding the Advent of Code recently. It was interesting to create "modern" Python using types and see what errors it would catch.
Americans lose $304M annually to scams on dating apps
They already have Harvey of Harvey and Sheila on the case
As someone who just learned about predicition markets through ACX, I'm pretty pumped about them! Personally, I do not have a Google account, so was really disappointed to be excluded. Really hope you guys figure something out! Will be keeping an eye on this.
Archaeology of 0 to 1: Netflix breakdown
I'm a mostly-JS engineer for 12+ years. JS sucks and could learn a lot from ecosystems like Elixir (and Rust). We should fix the suck first.
It's too late to edit, but the link to xenology should be http and not https:

[2]: http://xenology.info
Sounds really like long way.
Yes it'd be great to be able to have some "home brew" manufacturing process that could be useful.
Then making CPU could switch to distributed model.

But I just read today of silicon wafer shortages, so story goes deeper...
The trick is to learn by yourself and then babble your way in by speaking the shibboleths
I got really into it for a while and had to stop for the same reason. Plus the whole aesthetic and theme of the game felt gross to me.
I'm helping to organize a workshop about alternatives to MPI in HPC. You can see a sample of past programs at [1].

But you're right: today, MPI is dominant. I suspect this will change, if only because HPC and data center computing is converging, and the (much larger) data center side of things is very much not based on MPI (e.g., see TensorFlow). Personally, I find it reassuring that many of the dominant solutions from the data center side have more in common with the upstart HPC solutions, than they do with the HPC status quo. I'd like to think that at some point we'll be able to bring around the rest of the HPC community too.

[1]: https://sourceryinstitute.github.io/PAW/
Mis-labeling a product is literally fraud.

Looked at from first principles, the market cannot work efficiently if people are allowed to lie. Lies create an enormous amount of waste through direct and indirect effects.

Government as the monopoly on power (and locking people up) has an important role to play in policing this.
1) DRM doesnt improve appsec, it’s only about content security

2) Netflix runs a single application, whereas organizations maintain and provide hundreds

3) Netflix doesn’t need to do any device assurance or inventory

4) Netflix has essentially one level of access to enforce, vs hundreds of roles across hundreds of applications.
Accepted practice for listing authors on scientific papers is always changing. In older papers you often have people listed in an acknowledgement who, today, would absolutely be on the author list.
> I kind of hate that they include Google among the vendors they report to, provide a deadline and grace period for, and track responses from.

Why? This is just dog food. They should be testing that bugs can be submitted through normal channels. Then they can know how their own system compares to others from a user standpoint.

> if Microsoft and Apple are unhappy that P0 is targeting them, they should respond by standing up their own P0 teams and hammering Google, rather than having everyone operate under the fiction that it's OK for Google to be the only major vendor doing this work.

I mean shouldn't they? If you have a trillion dollar tech business that depends on software built out-of-house then I would imagine your security highly depends on such a team. I don't understand why all big tech doesn't have their own project zero.
If you will need more delta-V than you have on-board tankage for, sending another ship at the same time and acceleration, and refueling from it on the way, is overwhelmingly better than launching literally dozens of ships to get even more fuel parked at Mars, and then spending extra fuel stopping there to pick it up, and more again to get moving again.

If your true goal is to have crap on and in orbit around Mars, do that without pretending it has any other value. You don't fool anybody, but you make people wonder about you.
I have the exact same thing happen to me. I'll talk to someone from a diff area code that I never get robo calls from, and then bam, robo calls from that area code.

I'm on Verizon
I’ve worked for a few companies who all love using Splunk but also have struggles with spiraling costs so try and reduce usage, unsuccessfully. They are non trivial spends at not so small companies.

Similarly with Datadog.

They seem like a service when people start using them they prove to be very valuable so more people in the company use them and so the cost goes up significantly with the usage.

At that point the options are rely less on Splunk which people try to do but almost never happens in practice as Splunk is so useful/tiered logging more hassle than the company wants. Find an alternative which again is hard to do as the options are limited and has associated migration costs, also as long as they keep developing the service they keep giving a reason to stay.

It seems like the perfect business model. For all intent and purposes they give enough functionality/ usefulness to create vendor lock in, in everything but name. Customers usage continue to increase significantly meaning customers are always guaranteed to be increasingly spend more and more.

Unless they are deliberately trying not to make a profit and concentrate on growth it’s hard to see how they are not making money when people are spending 500k-1million+ a month just on log storage.
Thanks for the link to Scott Aaronson's paper, that I hadn't read. I think your
comment helped clarify something that bothered me with the CNN paper: I would
feel more convinced if the claimed algorithm had been implemented _without_ a
neural net. What the authors did was manually set the weights of another neural
net. If an algorithm is discerned in the neural net's weights, then why can't it
be programmed in the usual manner, in some computer language? If it can't, then
that's very difficult for me to accept it as an algorithm, because I can't see
what it is, exactly. The authors claim that the algorithm can be described in a
few English sentences, but in truth these few English sentences are a high-level
description of the behaviour of the CNN rather than a sequence of instructions
(which is what I have in mind, perhaps erroneously, as an "algorithm").

I'm not necessarily asking for simplicity. I'm used to algorithms being
relatively simple things that can be implemented in a few lines of code and I'd
think of something more extensive as a "program" rather than an algorithm, but I
appreciate that an algorithm encoded in the weights of a deep neural net could
be something really big. I just want to see this algorithm written down in
pseudocode at least, in a form that can be executed by a device other than a
neural network (like me, following the pseudocode). I think that is the opposite
of Aaronson's point actually.

I think I might be a realist:

https://youtu.be/STFcvzoxVw4?t=97
Depends on the source of energy production - if we're drawing all our energy from solar and wind, then we're not introducing new energy into the earth. That's the problem with fossil fuels - we're reintroducing sequestered carbon into the atmosphere; if we were to burn wood instead and keep the carbon cycle in balance then it wouldn't be an issue. Nuclear energy does introduce new energy though, so that could cause issues.
I'm sorry but this is pure racism. You can't ban something because it contains a person of a given nationality, regardless of the politics. This is not a stand against the nation of Israel it's a racist attack on someone's nationality.
Don't want to be without it anymore.
They probably didn't suffer much. The investigation after the disaster found that none of the astronauts had sealed their helmets on re-entry and some weren't wearing their gloves. They would have passed out in seconds when the shuttle lost pressure.

The launch and re-entry suits for the space shuttle crews were derived from the pressure suits the SR-71 and U-2 pilots wore. One pilot actually managed to survive the breakup of an SR-71 traveling at Mach 3 at 85,000 ft, although the suit was shredded when the pilot regained consciousness. The shuttle was traveling at Mach 18 at 200,000 ft when it broke up, so surviving the breakup would have been next to impossible anyhow.

I think being on Challenger would have probably been worse. When the crew cabin was found, some of the emergency air tanks that have to be activated manually were found activated. It's possible the shock of the explosion activated them, but it's also equally possible that at least some of the astronauts remained conscious through the breakup and didn't die until the cabin hit the water...
Fairly average for mid-30s male in Man Jose
I used to! Two things that have made a big difference:

1) Pay for a real spam filter from your telecom (usually free in highest tier plan). It’s remarkable hope much it catches, and I have never received a complaint in 5+ years

2) Buy a long term burner— your telecom usually sells a reasonable plan, or free if you pay for high tier coverage.

Me: same cell # for 25 years-22 too many with sprint (good spam shield when it didn’t crash) and more recently t-mobile (great spam guard and burner (named Digits)—both free upon request if you have a sufficiently expensive plan)
This is an oversimplification of what the law requires. It hadn't obligated code to provide the back-door it obligates certain classes of public access services. Your SSH and gpg code is safe on Australian mirror sites.
Oh yes sorry - kathryn@anjahealth.com