skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
majority of the world never paid a single cent for windows
Composing Modeling and Simulation with Julia (2021 Modelica Conference)
Starting your day with „what’s your priority today“ is the basis of many engineering orgs these days. Most of the time it’s not a lack of planning but a desire to overplan that leads to these daily introspectives.
I make a lot more money now, but the most fun I ever had at work was busking on the subway with a friend 12 years ago.
No. Particle physics has shown a clear need for a clean next gen e/p collider. The author unfortunately got caught up in the grind of the field and not the context or big picture. And frankly this is exemplified by the US having an even stronger publish or perish attitude. Almost nobody ever in the field has used the phrase "god particle", at least in Europe. Thats yet another american contribution I'm sorry.

Fine, leave the field, thats your prerogative, and do whats best for you. But please get back down off a soapbox and stop attacking the field that trained, educated and gave you the knowledge you have.
Well, it's not too difficult to ignore 'a vast amount of media' -- in fact, given there are only 86,400 seconds in a day, and for 28,880 of them you're sleeping, I'd say you have to ignore a vast amount of media. I wouldn't say that qualifies someone as a social outcast.
If it's such a sure investment, why not do it yourself?
You can fork Mastadon[1] and get the thing deployed this afternoon!

The "network effect" isn't some little thing you can easily solve. Like saying "building rockets is easy, the designs are all there, just solve the gravity problem".

[1] https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon
Pretty sure those atrocities happened because of regimes that CENSORED the truth... Not because the Nazis and Khmer Rouge were free-speech advocates SMH.

Edit - also the Khmer Rouge started off as guerilla fighters supported by foreign powers (China, Vietnam) who won a civil war then purged their enemies/smart people. They didn't come to power because of 'free speech' or whatever point you think you're making. As for the Nazis, they literally outlawed free speech after consolidating their power SMH.
>The truth always (eventually) rises to the top.

Do you believe that websites with no moderation tend to have the best truth/lie ratio?
I prefer they stay and continue to post.

I have always in my life attempted to look up to people only for the admirable parts of their existence. It's ok to think Tiger Woods is a golf god and terrible husband.

Similarly I cannot count how many 'public figures' I've learned are deranged or critically incapable of thinking from their posting on twitter. I'd much rather those people volunteer to identify themselves two me through twitter or whatever platform, so that I can know what's going on with the whole of their thinking.
Certainly capitalism when applied to medics causes a form of conflict of interest between patients' well-being and growing the personal bank account.
As a kid growing up in the 80, the spectrum were for the dorky and unpopular and the c64 was the fancy option with the coolest games and demos (this is all of course within the microcosm of the already nerdy)
The software vendor instead payed for magazine ads, placement on shop shelves, had their own payment and distribution infrastructure.
It appears the Russians are getting their soup warmed even hotter than the cooking temperature.
It seems publishing a lot on YouTube or Twitter is often very unhealthy for people. Over time it seems they all get sucked into the conflict machine that attracts viewers but is ultimately useless.

I watched that with Sam Harris. He seemed to have interesting ideas but now he seems just to be good at debating. Same for Jordan Peterson.
She explains that here

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-multiworse-is-c...

Quote:

Before the LHC’s launch in 2008, many theorists expressed themselves confident the collider would produce new particles besides the Higgs boson. That hasn’t happened. And the public isn’t remotely as dumb as many academics wish. They’ll remember next time we come ask for money.

The big proclamations came almost exclusively from theoretical physicists; CERN didn’t promise anything they didn’t deliver. That is an important distinction, but I am afraid in the public perception the subtler differences won’t matter. It’s “physicists said.” And what physicists said was wrong. Like hair, trust is hard to split. And like hair, trust is easier to lose than to grow.

What the particle physicists got wrong was an argument based on a mathematical criterion called “naturalness”. If the laws of nature were “natural” according to this definition, then the LHC should have seen something besides the Higgs. The data analysis isn’t yet completed, but at this point it seems unlikely something more than statistical anomalies will show up.

I must have sat through hundreds of seminars in which naturalness arguments were repeated. Let me just flash you a representative slide from a 2007 talk by Michelangelo L. Mangano (full pdf here), so you get the idea. The punchline is at the very top: “new particles must appear” in an energy range of about a TeV (ie accessible at the LHC) “to avoid finetuning.”

I don’t mean to pick on Mangano in particular; his slides are just the first example that Google brought up. This was the argument why the LHC should see something new: To avoid finetuning and to preserve naturalness.

I explained many times previously why the conclusions based on naturalness were not predictions, but merely pleas for the laws of nature to be pretty. Luckily I no longer have to repeat these warnings, because the data agree that naturalness isn’t a good argument.
Agree. But I would add It’s a critical tech, and a checkpoint in current and future constructions like Grin and MW.

I wouldn’t store my wealth in it; but it is extremely useful tech that will not disappear — it’s experimentation with social and economic models on hashing as you have done with CC, for which the world has not fully appreciated yet!
Okay, do me a favor.

Go to https://jsspeccy.zxdemo.org/, and start up the spectrum emulator.

Choose '48 BASIC'.

Once the emulated speccy boots up (oh, yeah - notice you have to wait for a noticeable delay while it initializes all 48K of RAM there...), press and hold down the 'C' key. It should start typing:

CONTINUE CONTINUE CONTINUE CONTINUE CONTINUE ...

Within a couple of seconds, the input latency will have become noticeable.

After about half a screen is filled up with CONTINUEs you can take your finger off the keyboard, and it will keep slowly typing CONTINUEs for a second or so more. Now try typing some letters. Feel that delay between your input and the character appearing on the screen?

I can attest from personal experience that this is an accurate and faithful emulation of exactly how a 48K Spectrum behaved.

There was no golden age where computers were instant and always responsive. Floppy disks chugging away while little watches and hourglasses replaced your mouse pointer were the norm throughout the pre-internet era. On a terminal connected to a minicomputer, you could watch the text come in character by character on your terminal.
a) Twitter, like other mediums, offers incredible influence.

b) I don't think the powers that be really believe this is such a good thing.

c) Musk is bad for Twitter, almost assuredly. He could feasibly bring some operational rigour, 'more and better ads' meaning more profit - but I'm extremely doubtful that he will make Twitter better in the civic sense.

The best answer to Twitter is mostly just 'less Twitter'.

I've had Twitter account for more than 10 years and hardly ever used it. The war in Ukraine however, has instantly addicted me to it, what with news coming 'straight from the front lines'.

I have found this to be immensely valuable - though a bit too much to handle.

That said, stepping back, even the 'thoughtful comment's are 95% fleeting and rubbish.

Finally - only a small % of people use Twitter. Most people could give a shit. I think that distinction is important.

Imagine if you have all the journalists, NGOs, academics - people who are addicted to talking, ideas, their own voices, to 'making a name' - and now send them to one giant conference where they can yell at each other. Most people could care less and wouldn't ever want to participate.

In the end, if something on Twitter is important enough - it will make the news and you'll hear about it.
I didn't think about it this way before, but it really looks like Epic might have bought out Bandcamp just to make this strategic legal play.

Some (niche reddit subs) think Musk bought out Twitter just to shit on the short sellers of TWTR that overlap with targeting Tesla, and "just because he could".
> Note the "eventually" here can be 10-50 years. Which leaves a lot of room for short term damage.

Lol eventually in today's world is like a week... 50 years ago there was no internet at all.
Right. And the reason that zeroes out the least significant bit is because subtracting one just borrows up to it. E.g., for n = 464:

n = 464d 111010000b
n-1 = 463d 111001111b
n&(n-1) = 448d 111000000b
The US Navy literally built some ships out of wood up through 1994. Those were minesweepers where minimizing the magnetic signature was more important than strength or corrosion resistance.
I think too much activity on social media does this to people.
I share your interest in these studies, and was quite hopeful to see traffic go down in my neck of the woods. Didn't happen.

> If companies broadly reject work from home policies would they also reject peak shifting policies?

This has actually been "recommended" by the French government after the first lockdown ended. Of course, I haven't actually measured this, but my subjective impression is that basically nobody applied this, not even in public transport.

During peak hour trains were still very full, despite some employers allowing partial remote working.

The issue, at least is France, is that the workday is basically 9 AM to 6 PM. Add to that an hour of commute and stores outside big cities closing around 8 PM (ie where people have long commutes), and people can't shift the work day later. They could shift it earlier, but they usually don't like getting up early, and there also seems to be, to some, some kind of stigma attached to people leaving "early".
Something like enabling instant apps and play protect scanning for any apk on the web could mean a nicer and safer experience for users. I think people would still use the app stores for their discovery/convenience but safer web installs could be an option for both users and developers.

This model exists on desktops and laptops, where there is signing or browser scanning, just not on mobile.
I've planted many seeds to grow trees I'll never sit under. As did many many many others before me. This is the true nature of this world.

Perhaps you might reconsider your limiting beliefs before reality catches up with you. Maybe not. At least you might still yet have fun on roads and highways you didn't pay for. Schools you didn't build. Parks your money never constructed.

I cannot imagine being so limited and short-sighted. But, as they say, You be you.
ResMem: Predict the memorability of images using machine learning
After trying out all of the alternative Twitters for conservatives, my assumption is that it must take a lot more work than most of us think it will to build a polished experience that someone wants to use. Every alternative I've used has sucked in comparison.
>This is shameful, and it points to the hollowness of Disney's long-running holy war to get us all to "respect copyright." Disney respects copyright only to the extent that it serves as a charter for corporate abuse of creators, or a means by which Disney can reach beyond its corporate walls and dictate the conduct of its competitors or other industries. When it comes to copyright as a tool for securing the rightful wages of creative workers, Disney exhibits contempt far beyond the taunts of The Pirate Bay or the insouciance of bootleg DVD hawkers in a night market.
Shipping smaller artifacts is definitely the most important step to reducing serverless latency. Bundling Node.js serverless functions helps a lot.
Also - I think Android is still a superior OS for Bandcamp users, since iOS doesn't allow local loading of music through the app. Nevertheless, I downloaded all my purchases and put them on my Android FS.
Fighter WSO. Adventure, comradery, great group of colleagues with a diverse initial background, and shared recent background. My desk job responsibilities are limited, so I usually go home after debrief and do/learn whatever I want, and work on projects. Liberal leave policy. Just hoping I don't end up with a chronic neck/back injury, or die in a crash.
I’m just generally increasingly off put by the internets incessant “quibbling”. This seemingly endless juxtaposition of antithesis to follow any thesis. At some point that becomes just more noise, and that can be used by an agenda.

I still found her point valid and interesting and not at all noise. My takeaway is more that new physics might well be out of our energetic grasps until we build some much larger accelerators. Little idea how to convince society of the worth of that expense. Maybe if it can produce useful substances for industrial use. I’d love more knowledge on expansions to the periodic table, for example.
But it does matter what the law says. If they’re not a monopoly in the eyes of the law what can a judge do?
Most of Clojure is implemented in Clojure, it's not the most minimal of all Lisp, but relatively speaking compared to a lot of programming languages it is still quite minimal.
Better than those that are highly moderated.

HN has very light moderation versus Reddit which has pretty heavy-handed moderation and Subreddits quickly turn into echo chambers. And even there the best Subreddits are those that are least-moderated.

Edit - Twitter is also currently a cesspool of fake outrage and Islamic extremism somehow. Myself and almost everyone I know doesn't use it for that reason. Instagram and even TikTok are better platforms because of the lack of political censorship.
Engineering in the research world can be fun. You work with the latest cool technologies together with many experts in many various domains.
I'm always loading my bike/skis/etc into my car after a ride and forgetting to turn off Strava for the drive home.
Not sure what this has to do with anything being discussed but it definitely lets me infer the butthurt type of person you must be.
I like the anecdotes about quirky logicians and I thought I'd share one... I was taking a logic class with Leonard Adleman (the A in RSA). I was doing pretty poorly in the class (not good at proofs) but he was pretty helpful and he asked why I was taking the class. I mentioned that I took a philosophy of language class that I liked and then he asked what I thought of Wittgenstein. I said that I'm interested in all that stuff but I understand Wittgenstein the least. Prof. Adleman pretty much agreed and said that he didn't get Wittgenstein. I told him I was worried about passing the class and he asked me if I'd be ok with a C- and I said yeah... Best C- of my academic experience!
Wikipedia is just someone's server. Owner may turn it down without asking authors of its content. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/post/wikipe...
I believe this is part of the broader pattern of inequality in the US, and a sentiment that this inequality is unjustified. Some of of the anti-expert sentiment probably reflects a believe that the expertise is unjustified or false. However, I believe that much of it isn't so much a belief that expertise is not valued at all, but that too much certainty is attached to expert versus nonexpert ideas or opinions. That is, it's not that the expertise isn't valuable, but that the fallibility of expertise is underacknowledged.

Some of what's played out over the last few years in this regard is more a matter of principle or rejection of the societal and institutional structures that allow expertise to grow too much in power, or suppress individual autonomy, rather than because of disagreement with a particular expert position.

If you take away competition, and encourage inflated credentials through a society that overemphasizes them, and minimize people's ability to assert choice, you're going to end up with resistance. I sincerely believe this plays out on the left as well as right in different ways.
> the dorky and unpopular

AKA the kids whose parents didn't have a lot of money.
? Twitter is a community, not an app.

To think of it as 'tech' and not the set of relations between the people is to misunderstand it.

Making that community again would be really hard.

There would have to be a 'very strong impetus' for it.

Trump is a very popular figure, and it's feasible he could be the basis for a new kind of social network, but as we saw with Parler and 'Truth Social' - he'll likely fail for obvious reasons. (And thankfully so).

And FYI - it's not at all obvious what would make a 'better Twitter'. Just adjusting the alg a bit, allowing 'more' expression, being better at spam - none of that would be enough for a 'new entrant' to make any progress.
Love this. I never watched the show but majored in economics so this is fun.
I agree with this. Making these concepts easy to understand, with examples on how to do this concretely in the company’s custom setup goes a long way in ensuring that developers both understand these things, and like you pointed out, make them evangelists for implementing these things.
never handled cash in a business?

- employee mistakes
- dealing with the float: counting it out, counting it back in
- having to store it securely
- having to transport it securely
- paying to pay it in at the bank (cash deposits are not free)
- increases risk of getting robbed
- actually getting robbed and having it all gone

2% is a bargain
Fast analysis with DuckDB and Pyarrow
Depends how serious you consider Nest devices.
> "There has to be some form of punishment [for women having an abortion]".

trump immediately backed down from this 'intonation', and i would be very surprised to hear about any serious legislation meant to punish women, rather than doctors, for abortion.

if women are "being told they should face criminal penalties" then that is coming from fearmongering liberals and extremist protestors, not any cohesive western conservative platform.
The gamification is the reason people use the platform. Without Likes/Views/Retweets there's no emotional response.
Early on in my career I noticed that the most fun programming seems to be done by people who are not actually trained as computer scientists: mathematicians, physicists, engineers, chemists, astronomers ...etc
This sort of numerical computing and simulation stuff is incredibly fun and quite rewarding. You work much more often on core logic and much less often on boring fluff. Of course it is all very subjective and it pays shit.
So the answer is: research at a research uni, employed by an applied mechanical engineering lab, but trained as a mathematician.
To the general question “have ads changed?” Yes. The style of ads generally evolve to match the time. Some of this is because the industry learns what’s effective and some is because trends and aesthetics change. In the 80s there were a lot of jingles and characters in ads, which you see much less of now. In the late 90s/early 2000s Apple started to include pop songs and the rest of the industry followed suit.

As to whether this is an effective strategy, it’s hard to say without knowing the specifics of the ad and the business, but as a rule for an ad to be effective it needs to be noticed and you need to connect it with the brand, so if it’s not accomplishing that it probably isn’t delivering on its intention (though it’s also possible that you’re not the target and if you were it would deliver). FWIW, I pretty strongly suspect that there’s too much sameness in the aesthetics and that’s hurting effectiveness. https://whyisthisinteresting.substack.com/p/why-is-this-inte...

A few books if you want more on commercials and mass advertising:
- https://www.amazon.com/How-Brands-Grow-What-Marketers/dp/151...
- https://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Humbug-Think-Differently-Adve...
- https://www.amazon.com/Seducing-Subconscious-Psychology-Emot...
I ran it for about 6 months iirc. It never got to the size where sockpuppets were a legitimate threat or IP bans insufficient. Occasionally people would switch wifi to ban the person who banned them, but I leveraged cookies where I could to try to detect that behavior. This was before browser fingerprinting and "evercookies" were widespread, or I probably would have used those too.

In your example, the person would have to have posted recently in order for you to ban them, since bans only worked on quasi-recent posts. But yes, if you made yourself into a target, someone would ban you, and it was accepted in the culture because it was fun. It was acceptable that everyone got banned frequently, but far less frequently than the trolls. I should probably have mentioned that all users were anonymous to each other.
The truth behind Broadband funding.
> It should be about as sad as the fact that addition and subtraction still need to be explained. People are still being born.

This is the key. And privacy, the lack thereof, and what to do about it - is significantly harder to grok in 2022 than your standard education coursework.

Any material that attempts to educate and empower users on this subject should be encouraged.

Markets change when consumers demand it. Until consumers know what to demand and why they should demand it, change will not happen.

Not long ago, smart homes were reserved for tinkerers and tech savvy types. Now, almost anyone can set up some smart bulbs and such.

Staying private is in that earlier stage. Every product or movement that became accessible to the masses started out as an inaccessible or impractical hobby of a few.
I really think this paper should be more widely known, because it's eye opening: https://physicsdetective.com/something-is-rotten-in-the-stat...

It made me realize QED is the equivalent of a million lines spaghetti codebase that's been continually built upon, fudge after fudge since the 40s, while being sold as the best thing ever, the ultimate model of reality, etc. While it really started as a temporary solution like a bash script that should've been replaced by something more elegant... many decades ago. And now we are in this mess.
Love this stuff, but pre-dawn not gonna happen. :-)
> fox and the grapes fable, not sure if it's known to most cultures.

That's one of Aesop's fables. I believe it's widely known, at least in all western cultures. The fox can't reach the grapes he desires, so he concludes the grapes were sour and he didn't want them anyway.
I feel like this is a much more fair and well written blog post than the other Go blog post from a few days ago.
"ghostwriting" AI research. Last year optical flow, early this year 3D recognition, last month segmentation, and now speech recognition. Lots of interesting problems and our customers have the practical applications. I maybe worked a bit too much recently because it's so much fun.
Yes, that’s quite frankly a big part of what made kids unpopular when I was a kid. Don’t know what it’s like these days but I suspect it hasn’t changed that much
How is attacking her character contributing to the conversation?
I can do with a paper that proves P!=NP too.
Why do you figure quads over fixed/wing or VTOL? Quads, compared to every other propulsion model, are inefficient. What you buy is mechanical simplicity, and its associated durability/repair-ability.
> Okay, we'll censor the #KillAllMen hashtag and the like since imminent threats are not covered under "free speech".

Actually, under the Brandenburg v Ohio standard... they're constitutionally-protected free speech. To be illegal, you have to pretty much be speaking to a mob, pointing to someone, and saying "kill that person."