skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lexical homogenization is not the same as idea homogenization, and it does not surprise me that as time goes on the word choice in a given category of writing (esp an insular one like grant applications) would constrict.

It also wouldn't surprise me a huge amount if the idea space was constricting, but just looking at the cosine distance is not enough to establish that. There probably are meaningful ways to exploit and analyze the representations inside language model transformers to better capture the idea-space geometry, but that's a big research project.
>killing Lockwise.

but the functionality is already built into the browser of the respective platforms?
By that measuring stick, you must have a really bad opinion of the USA because they are what they are from conquering most of their territories and exterminating its native population, and that was done yesterday.

The biggest country in the World, Russia did that expansion in 1500, and Germany wanted to replicate the Americans in WWII.

Is the prosperity of the US independent from having a virgin country with bast resources and no population?

Certainly it is not, (North)Americans could have a big number of children to replace the exterminated native population and exploit its bast resources and automate everything because there were few workers to do the job. In other places of the world automation was more expensive(China, India) than just using workers, so it did not happen.

Population skyrocketing meant a healthy young population and economy to prosper. People got rich killing buffaloes or cutting down millennial forrest or gold(that had been extracted and depleted on other parts of the world for milenia) and not to talk about Industry being financed by(very expensive at the time) sugar and cotton cultivated by slaves in the South.
The second and third graphs aren't zero-based, which exaggerates the effect.

Also, the author may be over-interpreting the result: it's odd that very different fields are showing roughly the same change in cosine difference, and it is a measurement over individual words. I think a deeper analysis is needed to figure out in more detail what is going on.
I did not mean that Einstein had a different intuition of time. It s pretty much impossible to derive an absolute spacetime from experience where time is monotonic. I wasn't talking about that, but about the ability of the brain to entertain and adopt counterintuitive notions in general. He was one of the few for whom this ended up being successful. He did know about the MM experiment but i wonder if that was the primary motivator for his hypothesis.
> if a group of psychiatrists (professionals) and psychologists (academics) switch places, who performs better in the other context?

The psychiatrist is an MD who can prescribe drugs. The psychologist wouldn’t have that kind of authority, so they can’t do the job of the former. A psychologist can actually do therapy, which a psychiatrist isn’t trained for. These are very different professions.
Thanks. I really may set up a web site to do it. The encouragment here helps.
That's horrible and I feel for your struggle. I've gotten lucky to be able to navigate the VA very easily, or I had good guides when I was separating and filing for disability and other separation concerns. I was in the Navy as well, but I was always in non-combat zones so I was lucky my disability was not related to combat injuries. I wish I could do something about the VA, but alas I'm not a powerful person or politician, so I can only gripe and complain about people I've known who went through shitty situations.
Yea exactly. This is survivorship bias - the prospects of today look at the winners of yesterday to guide their entry on how to communicate, they’re slightly more likely to get funded, etc

It’s reinforcement learning over decades
what's the difference between a perimeter and a proxy? Sure, you can't give everyone in the org root on everything, but that was always true even on a physical or virtual private network.
FlamingoDAO’s NFT Portfolio Is Now Worth $1B
> You are missing the point.

And you should read past the first line.

> The criticism is not about the individual utility of airtags, it's about how it creates a privacy issue for everyone who is not an Apple user.

In the same manner, it’s not about utility of individual phone cases, it’s about all the plastic waste it creates for the whole planet.
> fiction that it's OK for Google to be the only major vendor doing this work.

Do any of the other major vendors have the same incentives that lead Google to create P0? I expect most of them don't.
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x^2 + 2x - 3 = 0 = (x+3)(x-1)

This is not factoring?
Well, it's pretty easy to assume that snail is very, very old. As I said above, in my opinion it doesn't sound "old-fashioned" because it's still current, and how old it might be is irrelevant.

But see also my observation about the English female names Gertrude and Etheldreda. Which one is more old-fashioned?
What a great video.

I used to agree with him but in 2022 we're still using yavascript and it's only getting better.

I have no doubt at some point we will get optional static types and even TypeScript will become obsolete like CoffeScript did.
Starlink seems like a potential solution… just curious if you had considered that and decided against it?
What do you mean, "profit" how? Regular assembly works in a very different environment, and the code is much less constrained (and more low level). Even if your goal is to just crash/overwrite some other code in the same address space, you don't really need to employ any of the core war strategies, and the code you target also won't "fight back".
Should say that the future of medicine is fishy, but it's not a real fish
You think running a half mile of cable for $7100 is unreasonable?

What I did in DTLA when they wanted $10k to cable the building, I used DSL and waited approx 2 yrs until I saw “TWC” WiFi on the sidewalk then there was no charge for connection.
According to the paper it is based on Coq. Perhaps there's a python interface to that which kind of makes sense because a lot more people have experience with Python than with Coq and giving them some kind of bridge so they could use Python as a frontend would help with adoption.
There is htmx: www.htmx.org. maybe also a good source for ideas.
There's an x86 version:

https://shooshx.github.io/corewars8086_js/war/page.html
NFT marketplace shuts, citing 'rampant' fakes, plagiarism problem
> but should not give them a pass in the present

I don't know how you can possibly read either my comments or the general tone of the other people responding to me as giving Mozilla a pass on this, or naively assuming the best about them.

Even with that criticism, it is still just plain silly to say that Mozilla even in its modern state is not meaningfully different from Google/Facebook/etc. You can be as cynical as you want to be, but if you can't tell the difference between Chrome/Chromium and Firefox today, then that's not cynicism, it's either a lack of realism or a lack of attention.

I've gone into a few of the tangible differences elsewhere, but even in recent years and even with recent missteps, it's still pretty obvious that Mozilla is better on privacy and user rights than Google is. And it's OK to want better than Mozilla. It's OK to want a company that takes more hard-line stances and that pushes harder on its core browser. Lots of people want that, myself included. Doesn't change anything about what I've said above though.
Eglot is written by a regular Emacs contributor and maintainer, and as a result is much higher quality code. lsp-mode is written by volunteers on Github without a lot of Emacs Lisp experience (it shows), the code is pretty bad at places, definitely over-engineered and I wouldn't recommend it.
I want to remove inefficiencies in the Government enterprises.
For that I need a lot of data and permission to optimize it.
Then I wish to roll it out everywhere I am From India
The relevant categories are not civilians and non-civilians but public officials and ordinary people. Public officials often have powers and duties that go beyond those of ordinary people, and police officers are simply one special case of that.

Also, in jobs where people's lives are at stake, there are often situations where you may commit a crime by refusing to do your job properly. If a lockdown has been ordered, it's plausible that the situation is like that, and any official with police-like powers can reasonably stop anyone trying to leave. Especially if the person trying to leave is also a public official.
Wordle, a dead philosopher, and mimetic theory
Talk to China about Taiwan...
I bought my house with the intent of working from home. Spectrum confirmed serviceability until they came out to hook me up - turns out they serviced the other side of the highway. Long story short, I got to pay $5k and wait a year while permits and weather did their thing so Spectrum could bore a channel under the highway. Now I have high speed internet. I consider it part of my house down payment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinaxial_cabling
I do when the neighborhood looks like this [0], and I was eight blocks away with no installation necessary --- the "to the home" part is typically an aerial installation as well, so no digging (it's frozen in MN anyway)

[0] https://www.google.com/maps/@43.0551517,-89.4350129,540m/dat...

* not my neighborhood or city, but very similar density.
ok just checking. you must be upset a lot.
There's no evidence from this article that the idea space is decreasing. Vocabulary is becoming somewhat more similar: the measurement is on individual words. Suppose an institution decides that the faculty is using overly obscure language (or a grant-making agency decides this) and asks that grant submitters reduce the amount of jargon, include more background, etc. Wouldn't this measurement then show a significant drop in the distance measure? Note that I am not saying that this is what is happening (I seriously doubt it, in fact), but I think too much is being concluded based on this measurement.
Synonyms for the word bombastic, not synonyms having a bombastic character.
Sometimes efforts at anti-racism result in stupid and counter productive behaviors and activities. Therefore anti-racism is bad.

People think this is a reasonable position? That anti-racism should be resisted? Anti-racism is synonymous with human decency.

There are countless examples of black and brown people being disadvantaged by their race in the United States, but let's ignore it because an affinity group excluded white people. Makes so much sense.
Eh, this is a bit of a sophomoric “aha” and “ram pressure” really isn’t anything you’d find in modern aerodynamics describing atmospheric reentry or hypersonics in general.

“Friction” is fine. What’s actually going on is quite complicated and several things at once, not at all reflected by a “well actually it’s this not that”.

We could teach a little course on hypersonics, but meh.
There needs to be a privacy mode for the App, and the Tiles.

I only want to enable Bluetooth on my Android when I am searching for keys - and I am happy with the admittedly large compromise that I need to be near the keys to find them. I do wish to be able to scan for keys, but only as I demand. For that purpose the App does not need any location information at all.

I don’t want to have any location information shared with your company at any point in time, and I never want to be scanning for other people’s Tile devices either (I only have Bluetooth on when I am actively using it for speakers, which is rare). The App nags for many more permission’s than I wish to share.
I never made such a statement. This is reductio ad absurdum. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum
>so was really disappointed to be excluded

You can make a Google account for free here: https://accounts.google.com/SignUp?hl=en
> a bodycam

I'm sorry, are you serious or is this a joke?
The equation is not more associated with SR or GR, more than its historical context where it was derived from. Its just a principle of physics SR, GR or any
other theory.

Who are the people? The Berlin Group, David Hilbert, Carl F. Gauss, Bernhard Riemann, Ernst Mach,Henri Poincaré, Hendrik Lorentz. The domain are the studies on the understanding the most basic fundamentals of physics derived from the analysis of electromagentism that most leading physicists of the time were busy with. Although Hilbert and Poincare are monsters of pure mathematics they were just doing physics by the side.

Looking at the biography of Hilbert, it starts to look like almost obvious what happened. In no way it diminishes the stature of Einstein to recognize it.

Hilbert was a monster:-) Hilbert did invariant theory, calculus of variations, commutative algebra, algebraic number theory, geometry, spectral theory of operators and its application to integral equations, mathematical physics.
Einstein by the contrary, always needed help with Mathematics, since
the times at University. That was how he met his first wife...

Hilbert was following the work of Einstein but this latest one was struggling to make any progress for years. In the summer 1915, Hilbert's was interested in general relativity, and he invited Einstein to Göttingen to deliver a week of lectures on the subject.

Suddenly within a few weeks, Einstein comes up with his Field equations while Hilbert follows with his foundations of physics. The fact that Hilbert fully credited Einstein as the originator of the theory, and did not engage in any public priority dispute is pretty clear was as a statement to the
previous work Einstein did for years. With the collaboration and common work that happened its pretty clear, Einstein did not have the mathematical prowess and skill, to come up with those sudden breakthroughs...
> C code uses a lot of linked lists because linked lists are easy.

Strong disagree. I don't see any reason why a competent programmer would hand-code a linked list, which is more of a hassle to make than a simple array (e.g. using buffer pointer + capacity and/or length field), unless the linked list makes actual sense for performance.
I had considered it and had (incorrectly) assumed I'd be able to get my same 1 gig speeds from Charter; now that that's more of an expensive option I may be going with Starlink; that I'm not overall upset about, rather excited tbh.
There are new methods of harvesting stem cells from adult somatic cells, such as yamanka factors (for which the Nobel Prize was awarded) & CRISPRa: https://www.cell.com/stem-cell-reports/fulltext/S2213-6711(2...
Charter did all the work for me at no cost, even came and repaired the cable I cut with a shovel two weeks later. All during the whole three months I was a customer. I felt like my fiber provider needed to step up their game, so I canceled for a bit.

Funny how they pick and choose who to charge.
Yes, the monopoly part seems to be the key here; we do have a franchise agreement so that's the thread I'm going to pull on to see if there's reasonable request for the ISP to pay cost (or city).
Yawn. This is the same hard-right "but, but I don't see color!!" stuff that they dust off and sprinkle into the discourse whenever there's a risk that the hoi-polloi could be reading too many history books. Who's the "they" I mean?

> Asra Q. Nomani is a former Wall Street Journal reporter and Vice President for Strategy and Investigations at Parents Defending Education

Three minutes in Google shows you who these people and organizations are: Cato Institute vampires; ultraconservative dark money pits; people whose resume includes working for Betsy Devos; and on and on and on. Their goal is the same as it's ever been: roll back Brown vs. Board of Education, undo the New Deal, get rid of public schools, and make sure we're all at each other's throats enough to forget to get the pitchforks out.

James Baldwin [0], in a letter to schoolteachers on race in the classroom:

> Or to put it another way, you must understand that in the attempt to correct so many generations of bad faith and cruelty, when it is operating not only in the classroom but in society, you will meet the most fantastic, the most brutal, and the most determined resistance. There is no point in pretending that this won’t happen.

This article on anti-racism is just an instance of Baldwin's "most determined resistance".

[0] https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/baldwin-talk-to-teac...
What is the currency used for the bets? Can I cash out back to USD? Why not just use actual money or even stable coins?

The idea is cool, but I’m never gonna put money into something where there’s ZERO documentation for what happens to my money once it’s in your pocket.
I'm not a Googler, but this massively understates the architecture they've built. The beyondcorp "smart reverse proxy" solves authentication, but the true innovation is entirely about contextual authorization. Beyondcorp just binds that context to a human's actions for systems to consume.

You can also see this publicly in GCP's Workload Identity and ALTS primitives, which enable very sophisticated policies.
Let'em taste their own venom.
I'm working on a local SEO tool for a very successful owner of a course/community of local SEO people. It attempts to automate an arduous process he teaches about examining local SEO markets, and turned into that and also measuring markets for local SEO by applying a scoring system to them.

It's almost done, but really kicking my ass about the styling of the app (which is not the best right now).

As a developer who's been working in the field for a while, this is the first SaaS app I've launched, and I will say I have been battling with myself non-stop over "imposter syndrome" and thinking I'm just wasting my time for building it because no one will use it.

Even if it never makes any money, it's something that i wanted to see built, and it's helping me expose my weaknesses (in this case, design/UI/UX) to hopefully become a better "product engineer".

It hasn't launched yet, but has gotten 1 $29 sale, so that's something :D

If anyone with a design background would like to work with me, or give a critique, I'd love to find a way to return the favor.

Also, still thinking of a name for it

https://due-diligence-bot.herokuapp.com/
I've been on the Starlink waiting list since the initial signups open up and still haven't heard a thing. Starlink is not exactly something anyone can plan on presently.
> Instead of making anti-theft devices semi permanent I think it makes much more sense to just discourage using them for stalking in the first place at the time of purchase. If you make a device that is semi permanent people will just find a way to hack it and repackage it into something else. And realistically people may want smaller anti theft devices for small but very valuable items.

My thought process was discouraging some kind of "sure, we'll sell you a piece of paper with a tracker stapled to it. Don't take out the staples, wink wink nudge nudge". It's a tradeoff between making sure that people can swap them out if their provider goes out of business, but also deterring people from casually trying to repurpose them. I was thinking something like rivets. They're totally removable, but not something you'd do without motivation.

> Instead of manually having to do that though it would probably be easier if at the time of sale you had to sign a terms of service and the vendor automatically registered the serial number to your name in some kind of semi-public registry that law enforcement and others have access to. Even if would be thieves find ways around this it is going to discourage a ton of stalking in the first place.

Yeah, this is exactly what I was thinking! It should absolutely be point of sale based. Both to prevent casual stalking, but also to protect normal people that just forget to register them. I'm a scatterbrain; I could totally see myself forgetting that I need to register it if they leave that up to me.

> In addition I think a setting on your phone that you could manually activate that told any airtags within a close vicinity to NOT track you could also be interesting - there may be many false positives but someone explicitly worried about someone stalking them could activate this feature for at least some piece of mind.

Currently, I believe you can tell your phone to not report the AirTag (or similar for the other similar devices). That works well, but it doesn't stop other people's devices from reporting your location. So your phone would have to be able to broadcast a message that stops everyone else's phones from reporting the location of the tracker. Even if only 10% of the population enables it, I spend a lot of time in Bluetooth range of at least 10 other people. It seems like a platform killer to allow that.

I want such a thing to exist, but I can't find a technical way for people to stop a random tracker in their vicinity without just killing trackers as a whole. I'm not an expert on the topic, and I'm a little buzzed as it is, so there might be a solution I'm not seeing here.
> Archimedes, the ancient Greek philosopher, had asserted that heavy objects fall faster than lighter ones.

Wasn't that Aristotle?
Modwiggler for modular synthesizers
My initial guess is they have nothing to do with each other. It would be like explaining why the next idea pops in your head. You can create a rational explanation but there's no way to test it.
Every “doing it for the community” project makes me think this.
I think scaling is presented as the main - or actually only - reason for automating because it's actually the only reason for automating in the game. Nothing that you can automate in the game can be done incorrectly.
Reminds me of the time I posted this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29578748
My dad, a science prof, used to joke his grants were intro'd "In order to stay ahead of the Russians we should..."

Now he terms them "In order to stay ahead of China we should..."
The poorly explained point is that your users don't have 2 trusted devices at once, so if you don't like the device the user is using, there is nothing they have that you will like better, so there is no point in having one device vouch for a other, or splitting trust/privileges among two devices for the same user.
Psychiatrists in the US overwhelmingly have to be trained in psychodynamic therapy, aka Freudianism. The only thing we know for certain works in therapy and that has worked consistently is the client and counselor having a good relationship.

> Conclusions and Recommendations of the Interdivisional (APA Divisions 12 & 29) Task Force on Evidence-Based Therapy Relationships

http://societyforpsychotherapy.org/evidence-based-therapy-re...

> The therapy relationship makes substantial and consistent contributions to psychotherapy outcome independent of the specific type of treatment.

> The therapy relationship accounts for why clients improve (or fail to improve) at least as much as the particular treatment method.
Perimeter security needs to die before it can be reborn.

The point of all of this is perimeter security becomes an optional, small contributor towards a secure context. It turns the entire legacy corporate network on its head.

Especially at large megacorps, it's borderline impossible to perform incremental migrations towards a zero trust network without first killing perimeter security as a concept. You can always introduce it later, but it's a different beast entirely.
I wonder if we could run a meta-hacking and weaponize Pegasus and the like against them? That would be funny to watch...