skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s also the part about “you’re dead”, which is a crime. The one time someone assumes this is a joke and then something bad happens…
As former amateur physicist, who read a couple books over the years :)

To me it's quite simple. We haven't detected what is causing the waves that the particle of light is riding on. The particle of light is like a surf board, riding a wave and will always hit the shore in the interference pattern. Einstein and Bohr were both right.

What has been the wrong assumption over the years is that the light is generating the waves. It seems obvious to me that something else outside of the light (that we haven't detected yet) is generating the waves.

My amateur physicist guess is the waves are generated by the clock cycles of the computer simulation we are in. All computers require a clock to function. Why would our universe be any different?
A little joke that ends in a death threat.
As a (also gravel) cyclist I would say thank you for sharing!
Self custody of Bitcoin, you need no broker to store long term.

Cold, offline keys. Set and forget for 20y (if you can, resist the urge to cash out).
There is merit to closing loopholes. It seems difficult to implement considering how codes and laws are actually crafted. Huge business of leeches creating tax code and then helping people to utilize the tax codes to maximum effect.

Straight consumption tax (excluding uncooked food) and it becomes very simple to implement. And nobody would file a personal income tax again. Employers would not do payroll tax withholding so wage slaves would get an immediate increase of take-home pay.
>that other 90% of the world won't.

Or will they?
Way bigger problem of super obese food-addict children who don't even have a chance to play normally and develop self-efficacy. High predictor of depression later on.
Did nobody read the entire copypasta? What comedian jokes using death threats?
For a TLDR, skip to the conclusion section.

Generally for a paper if you don't actually care to see the author back up their arguments (which is not a great way of fully ingesting a paper, but lots of things don't need to be fully ingested) you can just read the intro and the conclusion.

> §8: CONCLUSION

> No one should try to reform or rehabilitate the ranking. It is irredeemable. In Colin Diver’s memorable formulation, “Trying to rank institutions of higher education is a little like trying to rank religions or philosophies. The entire enterprise is flawed, not only in detail but also in conception.”

Got to appreciate an essayist who'll enter the conclusion section guns a'blazing.
To echo one of the earlier posts: I’m in group 1, but only just. I have spent multiple months of my adult life barely leaving the house, unemployed, curled up in bed, in a seemingly endless cycle of anxiety and struggling to cope. I could literally feel my mind and body atrophying.

Today I’m sort-of functional in that I show up to work every day, get most of my tasks done, and pay the bills. But I have very poor executive function and I’m really scared of dropping off the deep end again. Stories like yours scare me and inspire some disgust because I see the same tendency in myself and I don’t want to go there.

I also know that practically speaking prolonged engagement/discussion with someone having such issues is unlikely to help. Nor is providing suggestions or blame. There’s not much anyone can do. The best I can offer is, if there was ever a period of your life where you were happier or more functional, can you see how to switch to that mode again? And if there’s one big thing blocking you (the fatigue, in your case), maybe there’s a one-time action you can perform, like going to a doctor, that could help.

I’m not offering this advice to you specifically but just to anyone who might feel similarly stuck.
Hi Y'all, if have any Q's - lets keep them simple and thoughtful, so we can share the knowledge and comments on other platforms. thks :P
I have 1 on 1s too and we talk about anything at all, including status updates if the employee wants too. Because it all builds a connection. It's like a coffee chat.

I think it works the best when it's completely open to anything at all.
Yes, I understand that, at least at a high level. I’m making a narrow point that the article didn’t teach us this and it actually was essential to understanding the claim. Quoting the article again:

> I won’t go into the M/M/1 part, as it doesn’t really end up affecting the Important Thing I’m telling you about. What does matter, however, is that ‘∞’.

This turned out to be wrong. It does end up affecting the Important Thing and the discussion was severely incomplete without it.
I can't speak for the math department, but I've noticed that there are general contentions between Columbia's faculty and administration that seem somewhat unique to the school. Professor Martin Chalfie has noted how cramped and run-down his lab is in an interview, which seems like soft-spoken criticism at the way Columbia has failed to use its enormous endowment towards acquiring more research and teaching spaces.

Perhaps someone at Harvard or MIT can chime in with whether such contentions exist outside of Columbia, but I'm not too surprised to see a professor criticize the school for somewhat blatant wrongdoing.
Yeah, they can fuck right off with those prices. Ethereum’s proof of stake switch can’t come too soon.
Games on Apple will always be treated as 2nd class citizens. I don’t feel it will be any different on their new XR platform which is both good and bad because it’ll mean that we’ll have an XR device that the masses will finally accept if the price is right.
Is it just me or do all the main computer vendors have plateaued with regards with to single core performance?
Pretty sure. Ideally there are a few always-on seeders for every db.
Depends on how you cook. I like to cool big complicated meals that take hours. At any given time I will have 3-4 timers going concurrently. I need to know which timer is going off. Also my hands are often covered in food as I am cooking and washing them to set a timers slows me down.

When walking into a dark room carrying a heavy box it is often easier to use a voice assistant to turn on lights. It’s also frankly more fun.

What you are looking for is not a home assistant. You want an accountant + QuickBooks. For $1000/year or so you can get both and be happy. Intelligence is often cheaper than artificial intelligence.
I mean they have an international market--I imagine a boycott in Europe or America would hurt more than Russia.

Also: it helps that it's the right thing to do.
I find it kinda hilarious that you all seen to be discussing some sort of cutting edge or controversial idea called "quantum theory" or "quantum physics", when I have to assume you're taking about century old theories of quantum mechanical systems like ones that continue to help design the electronics that you read this piece of shit article on.
> They are perfectly able to add features to the site, and would absolutely add a feature if they thought it was as important as you think this one is.

I mean we're talking about the forum software that can't handle more than a few hundred comments without resorting to pagination, so I feel justified in my thesis that engineering hours going into HN are pretty limited.
Twenty Questions for Donald Knuth
Won't this soon be Russia now that Apple has cut all sales with the country?
For the very basics, Julia Evans has https://jvns.ca/blog/2020/02/03/new-zine--become-a-select-st...

(I think most/all of the comics are entries on her blog if you desperately don't want to pay).
I think you might be crossing a few streams here.

1) Xi is a dictator.

2) ", but there are lots of backroom dealings between various power brokers that have to be considered. " Yes, that's always the case.

I think maybe what you meant to say is that the RMB is managed by the Bank of China in a fairly independent way, but that might not be fully true.

And that's the point: just like Ali Baba is just a regular multifaceted cora. - it will 'have to do whatever Xi wants' when he wants to intervene.

USSR was centrally planned, China is not - but - Xi can put is finger in any pot, at any time , for whatever reason.

In this case, the RMB is a rational, independently managed currency with some political orientation - but most importantly, Xi has ultimate control.

3) It does not matter what happens when Xi leaves.

4) The RMB is a 'creation' of Xi/CCP because they can make it whatever they want.

5) That the RMB is freely convertible is a) false - there are heavy capital controls in China and b) it wouldn't matter. It's still a fiction of the CCP.

6) The RMB likes 'stability' but they mostly like to have the currency set to the value they want, i.e. political orientation. It's 'much more stable' than the RUB because China is much bigger and more sophisticated than Russia and can keep it that way.

Either party at this point can do magic accounting whenever they want with their currencies in ways that Fed/ECB generally cannot.

There's no trust between Russia and China, so they will have a hard time sharing their currencies.
So uhh, when are you gunna use a dataframe and when will you stick to SQL?
My understanding is that SQL can sorta do a very powerful (and standardized/fast) subset of what a dataframe can
> It didn't take off because of economies of scale and Intel not really wanting to introduce a big x86/x64 competitor.

Intel invested heavily into Itanium, and the 90s started seeing the deaths of competing processor architectures in part because of how hyped up the Intel Itanium was getting. It was intended to be the 64-bit version of x86, hence the abbreviation IA-64. AMD was the one who created what we now know as x86-64, and my understanding is that Microsoft more or less forced Intel to implement AMD's x86-64 specification.

In its later years (let's say by 2010, since that's the midpoint of Itanium's life as a shipping product, but I don't have any clear dates as to when the shift happens), it does seem to be that Intel was reluctant to continue supporting Itanium. But that was definitely not the case beforehand.
It's 2022 and people who have never used a magic mouse still think this is an issue.

I have to charge my mouse quarterly.

I flip it over, plug it in and take the dog for a walk. By the time I'm back it's good to go for another couple months.
Assuming that it is true, what is the clock/cpu speed?
I feel that the M chips are awesome at saving power while providing performance which makes them perfect for laptops and portables. I’m not seeing their value proposition for desktops though. I don’t care about something that saves space. The only time I care about that is for portables.
> I believed that until I realized I couldn't individually upgrade my CPU or RAM because I have a mobo with LGA1150 socket and only supports DDR3 (and it's only 6 years old).

DDR4 was released in 2014, which would suggest you purchased your mobo two full years after DDR3 was already deemed legacy technology and being phased out.

Also LGA1150 was succeeded by LGA1151 in 2015, which means you bought your mobo one full year after it was already legacy hardware.
I'm assuming it's not "spend 5 minutes ACKing a page, get a day off". I have seen it as "If you get paged and have to work 11pm to 2am, cancel your morning meetings and come in at noon". It isn't really much incentive to break things.
<Ukraine joining NATO is just not ever going to be allowed to happen.>

I believe a lot will depend on the outcome of this war as well as its ramifications for Putin's grip on power. Ukraine has so far defied all the odds and I wouldn't bet against them at this point. If given a bloody enough nose Russia may not be in a position to never allow NATO membership to happen.
Wolfram seems (to me) to say that he can show that math is some strange combination of invented (or rather, sensed) and discovered.

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2022/03/the-physicalizat...
> one of the outcomes of chasing rankings are that transfer students end up as second class students, at least at Columbia.

Interesting — when I was in law school, transfer students benefitted from the fact that they avoided our harsh first-year grading curves (20% A's, 60% B's, and 20% C's). The curve for second- and third-year classes was much more lenient, and it was relatively easy to get a 3.5 average during those years.

As a result, the transfer students disproportionately ended up with the highest GPAs, which seemed unfair to those of us who were there all 3 years.
As I recall, one aspect of the tension originated from Linus' express hostility to pure security mitigations. IOW--and I don't know if this is the case today, especially after Spectre--Linus and a large part of the community were resistant to mitigations and code refactors that didn't actually add functional behavior, and especially if they were visible to userspace, harming backward compatibility.

But those types of patches were precisely what grsecurity was pushing. So you basically had a fundamental clash of philosophies (independent of the clash of personalities) about whether the work grsecurity was doing was even valid from a software engineering standpoint. Arguably because of the relentless onslaught of exploits and growing enterprise influence, the Linux community slowly relented, but never with a mea culpa, AFAIK.

A similar dynamic played out with /dev/urandom, where the Linux community and subsystem maintainers were adamant that the existing blocking and entropy accounting behaviors were crucial to security and non-negotiable. But now look where things stand--both are gone after 10-15+ years of debate. Again, without any mea culpas.

Ditto for sandbox-friendly interfaces. Once upon a time any grievance that an interface which relied on /proc, /dev, or similar was suboptimal from a sandboxing standpoint (kernel surface area, headaches with chroots, etc) was met with derision. Eventually we got getrandom(2), and other recent application interfaces, like process descriptors, were revised so they were usable without /proc or similar.

You could see alot of this play out on Slashdot, HN, etc as commenters frequently parroted Linux developers' talking points and assertions.

There's plenty of blame to go around.
It's also a problem experts have, when assuming what is "common knowledge" to their readers.

Relevant xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2501:_Average_Fam...
Ack is a grep-like source code search tool
While working on a BigCo product that produced invoices to advertisers in different countries I learned that there are different local laws around invoicing and how a final price is shown to a customer. In the US all prices in our application were exclusive of taxes, which were added after a total cost for customer was computed. For Brazil, a multi month and multi team effort ensued to assure variable tax rates could be applied to different customers and so a only a final price/cost inclusive of “taxes” would be shown to advertisers.

… this makes me wonder if taxes/“cost of doing business” is the true cause (something the author waves away without data, and which I don’t have either :) …
how do wattages compare? (i'm overlooking that and don't see where to find it)
> Gambling, trading, scamming, and laundering are the only

You just described any transactional medium, including cash. Prove me wrong.
How little difference it makes… to GeekBench’s CPU speed test. They’re not testing memory speed. Not that interesting, no.
An eGPU enclosure is exactly what you're describing - PCIe x16 over TB4. They're quite commonplace now
> linux developer

This goes to show you that the software and digital logic design space is very different, and you should not assume any amount of experience and knowledge in one will prepare you for the realities of the other.

Sure it seems astounding that a CPU would speculate not-taken over a static, direct, unconditional branch. Surely no sane logic designer would ever do such a thing!

When you realize doing that might require more logic in a downstream stage after fetch and after the branch was decoded, and from there you need more control logic and wires going to other stages and logic to re-steer the pipeline in possibly a different manner or stage than would otherwise be required, and all that requires validation and verification (which can easily become a multiplicative effort), and if doing all of that did not bring you performance gains that outweighed the cost, and if you didn't understand the possible security implication or considered it to also not be worth the cost, then actually it's quite understandable for a reasonable implementation to behave this way.

Even the second quote smells a bit like dunning kruger. Everything has bugs or misfeatures, especially with hindsight. Everyone (including Linus and many other kernel developers) thought that the massive speculation capability and correspondingly astounding performance results on privilege domain crossing for Intel CPUs was the duck's nuts back before spectre/meltdown. And they certainly didn't foresee or discover the security issues with doing that.

(EDIT Disclaimer: Am linux developer and armchair microarchitect)
As far as I can tell all "social media" is a raging dumpster fire, which self-selects for most engagement with people who actually enjoy spending their time in a dumpster fire.

But this all seems like a fantastic feature, just ignore it all! There are so many better things to do with your time. The people you most want nothing to do with are being most consumed by it, leaving the beaches, parks, campgrounds, trails, etc. more available for your enjoyment.

Let the twits have at it, good riddance.
How did this many deaths become normal?
Good point. I guess all the great minds of this time see occupied with how to maximise ad clicks.
No one knows what they're doing
There are judicial means for controlling this. At least in EU (TBH i don't know about US). You cant publish any kind of crap, the editor will have to answer for it.

But this is a judicial process.

My understanding of this ban was that it was a political move.
I totally agree that some of the published pay numbers are a little optimistic and include stock and discretionary bonus that are dependent on market performance. However, the companies in that top sphere are still a strata above most of the alternatives.

Plenty of people want to earn that extra renumeration even if it means doing grunt work or giving up on their work-life balance.
Russia will be the new Cuba with phone tech 50 years old instead of cars.

Or, they'll just keep supplying from China and not really notice
Do you have a source? I’m interested in reading more about this.
Upwork suspends operations in Russia and Belarus
I'm just going to echo the other comments here: All of this is good sense when the publishing site is well-behaved, but that's rare enough that I'm completely sympathetic to readers doing weird stuff to get around extremely common ways people break their feeds. Actually putting the full content of your pages in the RSS feed is, in my experience, outright rare; I generally want my reader to ignore the barely-one-paragraph snippet in the feed and just go fetch the real page from the site. Caching/Last-Modified is great until the site lies and your reader proceeds to never show updated articles. Pretending to be GoogleBot was, for a while, a great way to bypass paywalls and other shenanigans.

Granted, updating every 10s is really stupid. The only way I could imagine that being sane(ish) is using RSS as a generic protocol for plumbing automated data movement rather than for fetching actual blog posts. Daily is easily fine for 99% of feeds that are not themselves aggregators.
This is indeed one of the best in the thread! It's rare to see both 'oncall only once every two months" and "Paid very well for both on call time and active time". Lieu time is also usually unofficial.

What does a typical callout look like?
>Corporations are supposed to be automata that optimize an objective function

I want a Venn diagram of people who endorse this kind of economic system and five minutes later tweet about how AI alignment risk is the biggest problem humanity faces
It just so happens that Google's land includes all of the main streets where people shop. But, you are free to set up your store on a backstreet alleyway a few miles from the town centre. That way you won't have to pay the protection fee. That's some real freedom right there.
Remember to interpret someone's arguments in the strongest possible sense. Chastising others is great for moral superiority but it is a poor tool for discussion.
I got a little tripped up trying to do the long jump section of the hazard course, since holding control for crouching while moving forward (W) triggered the close tab shortcut. Luckily the arrow keys work for forward-backward motion.
Thunderbolt 3 is USB4
You just very clearly articulated something I’ve not been able to put words to.
Even before I clicked the link, I was sure the answer was Brazil. It's not so much the taxes that raise the prices as the tariffs (which are kind of invisible taxes in that they are paid through higher prices rather than directly—which is part of what made a former president's boasting about raising tariffs somewhat absurd. It seemed he believed that the exporting country paid the price of the tariffs and not domestic consumers in the form of higher prices). I remember that there were plans to build a Foxconn factory in Brazil specifically to manufacture iPhones for the Brazilian market because of the tariffs (I don't know if this ever happened, I think maybe it did?).
Don't even need to go Intel. If one only needs single core performance, the M1 Mini should be enough.
I agree with you that if the worker wants to turn it into a status update, they should be allowed to.

However... why do they feel like turning it into a status update? Is it because the manager isn't sufficiently looped in to what's happening on a daily basis?
This is very hard, cool concept though!

Sadly these days I hardly know any of the artists/albums I listen to. Everything is shuffled and new and usually in the background while I work.
Indeed. I was particularly grouchy when I wrote that. I don't hate them, but I do find Spotify's leadership deeply frustrating.
This project looks quite well done. Gists are pften useful for various tasks, such as sharing small scripts, and self-hosting it for privacy/ security reasons sounds like a good idea.

Fyi, Gitlab CE/EE have "Snippets" alias gists with access control. They are quite handy and can be bound to project/ group and individual level as well as only being shared with specific users.
the casting lol
3x Language learning effeciency with extension akin to Apple News meets Duolingo
I was thinking that a $3000+ anything from Apple just doesn't sound mind blowing. Then again, I'm always one to play the game of max everything out on Apple's new thing, and then think about how many other things that could buy. Regional differences apply, but you could easily buy a really decent car for some Apple gear maxed out (think MacPro) or just a daily beater for the price of a maxed out MBP laptop. The fact the new M1Ultra maxed is <$10k was a bit shocking.
So 1 day off per week of oncall, and oncall once every 8 weeks.

Do you live in a crossword puzzle? That's the only spot I see "half fortnight" instead of week.
Yep. That doesn't sound likely to fly again.

https://theintercept.com/2022/02/27/ukraine-nuclear-weapons-...
Well, it wouldn't be single core performance if there are 16 of them, right?
sounds like the prediction is that Russia will choose not to pay not that it can’t pay. since the West is confiscating all assets it doesn’t make sense to keep paying debt to the West indeed
Take John Bogle’s advice. Buy a low cost S&P 500 fund from Vanguard, Schwab or Fidelity. You get diversification, low expenses, and low short term capital gains (relevant for taxable accounts).
I often use mine for weather when I'm getting ready, or "is it going to rain".

A friend of mine does a shopping list on his "add eggs to shopping list".