skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In General Relativity events in your past light cone can be events in your future light cone. In Loop Quantum Gravity, the idea of a past and future lightcone become discrete and entirely local to a specific element of spacetime. Consequently, assigning elements of a past light cone to "reality" becomes ambiguous: _which_ past light cone?

At the level of LQG all you can describe is relations between points of spacetime and the idea of past/future becomes ambiguous.

Another modern approach to quantum gravity (energetic causal set theory) does re-impose a sort of global ordering (in the sense reality is a series of states updated with a single rule depending on the momenta of previous realizations of the state elements) but in that theory the past really is gone. This is similar to the (more classical) approach of Shape Dynamics (a general relativity-like theory of gravity) where all that relates a "current" snapshot of time to a "previous" snapshot is that it minimizes a particular mathematical quantity. I am definitely not an expert in LQG or GR or Shape Dynamics, but the story isn't quite so obvious and simple as you make it out to be and that may be why you are unsatisfied with how physicists talk about it.
That thread appears to be defending what appears to be one of the deadest ends ever in medical research. How much failure do these people need? I'm genuinely curious.
Many people do find it useful, and the people who created it have become very wealthy.

I'm in the same boat as you, but there are more kinds of people and situations in the world than just us.
They want to make as much money as possible so they can go into space, or fund their extropian fantasies, and can afford to pay lots of unimaginative people like lawyers, marketing and bean-counting people lots of money to achieve it. Advertising is the crutch.
>There is such a taboo around pay cuts

Yes. But much less so about reduced bonuses, RSU grants (and esp. stock appreciation), and not matching inflation. At a lot of tech sector companies among others, you're already seeing pretty large effective comp decreases.

It's also the case that, as people often observe, large comp increases often come from switching jobs and that's probably going to be more difficult in general for the next few years.

ADDED: And one of the escape valves for people at smaller companies especially over the last year or two has been to try to get a job at Big Tech. (This doesn't only apply to developers.) Increasingly this looks to be a much tougher option.
>I'm curious what you think of UB from a standard perspective

I think a lot about that! I'm a member of the UB study group and the lead author of a Technical Report we hope to release on UB.

In short, "Undefined behavior" is poorly named. It should have been called "Things compilers can assume the program wont do". With what we call "assumed absence of UB" compilers can and do do a lot of clever things.

Until we get the official TR out, you may find I made a video on the subject interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_e9vZj7D8
> Its trivial to set up and operate kvass across multiple devices

Still, using a distributed file system is so much better, as its API is supported by basically everything else (including Dropbox!).

I feel that a key-value store goes against the Unix philosophy and is solving an imaginary problem.
Submission title should include (2017)
Don't rudely and pedantically pick on my comment. I put effort into it and you are hung up on a very basic grammatical mistake.
Side note: My guess is that it's better to call it "consulting" instead of "offshoring".
The thing is the difference between “Science” provable hypothesis, challenges and the current research industry.

It would appear that this isn’t really “Science” if the ideal of research is being veered away from so much.

Vested interests suffocating the process.
Data breaches are horrific. But I like the way this headline reads like a sponsor link on 9to5mac.com.
Arcan is a framework for creating anything
I had someone from Google Recruiting reach out to me Friday. I wonder if he knows about the hiring freeze.
To be honest, I also like that approach better, because in my experience the budget tends to be relatively fixed, but the work amount is often fairly flexible.
That's right: wastewater is a good signal for what's happening inside the people upstream
you need to hire more people to show “growth”
This isn’t supposed to be possible. This is soo much public money wasted.
You'd have to make a meaningful connection between growth and advertising, and you can't. The reason Western countries are increasing the immigration rate is precisely to perpetuate GDP, fertility rate is otherwise stagnant. This means people aren't individually increasing their rate of purchasing stuff over time, in fact many buy less than their parents did. Look around in your room and you'll probably see the average amount of "useless stuff" purchased by household. Are you drowning in it? Neither is anyone else.

Innovation isn't just for the energy sector either. Consumables create less waste over time. Biodegradables are making a big entry in the market. All this means is that as the population levels out (as it is projected to), consumption will create less and less waste.

At any rate this falls into the same category, coercion. People want things, especially if they improve their lives. Much of what you take for granted now was advertised. Take-out food, vehicles, smartphones and computers and media, etc.

Yeah, "nothing of value". I don't think you get to decide what people value, that's what the market is for.
You stole my idea! I love it. As a dev who spends a big chunk of their day in the shell, this is the kind of tool that I was destined to create myself, but never did thanks to lack of time, laziness, life, etc.
> We now create stable identities from what is essentially a form of mental illness.

Yes. And? A stable identity is preferable for the sufferers. Can you explain the problem with that?
Let alone voltage leaks, vibrations of your window, your electronics, switching, it's all signal.
What's wrong with a little obesity, tooth decay, acid reflux, or insulin tolerance? The only people who complained to me about those symptoms were quitters. So maybe quitting soda is the REAL culprit, huh.
There's a big gap between SV and Tokyo.

SF has half the population density of Brooklyn, not even close to Manhattan.
Anybody know why their copy of 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas is "unavailable for legal reasons"? It's linked from wikipedia, but the link is dead (in America anyway) This book was written and translated into English ~150 years ago. Gutenberg has it.

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/jules-verne/twenty-thousan...
The first two paragraphs of that pablum made me leave the post. The author sounded dumb as a rock.
Not sure if desertification is the right word for "all the fertile topsoil washed off the hills in the rains, and without trees to moderate drainage, river flood more often, and those floods cover productive land downstream in infertile silt".
I sometimes have to code in Java for my work, and someone told me about a great Vim plugin for it (and also how to make plugin groups, that helps a lot). The only moment i leave the CLI nowadays are caused by Jenkins.

I think the only GUI i use is my browser, so Mac is a hard pass for me (also, while apple us keyboard is fine, the French one is utter shit)
You only need 33 bits of information to identify someone.

That's also one example I gave at a trivial case. One can imagine much more sophisticated cloaking.
Why do peopke always ignore the range, and specs, of the three separate car brand's H2 range, when making claims like this?

You're wrong.

And claims of energy loss!! Sure, no loss to heat in batteries? And batteries lose charge if they sit idle!
ZPAQ is the name of the tool but ZPAQ is also the name of the container format that gets used. ZPAQ embeds the decompression algorithm in the archive. One could store zstd-compressed blocks in ZPAQ archives as soon as a zpaql decompressor exists (e.g., for brotli there is a slow one implemented in a python subset and compiled to zpaql https://github.com/pothos/zpaqlpy).

I don't know exactly whether other formats are better for seeking and streaming, but since the baseline is tar, ZPAQ (in the 2.0 spec) is already better as it supports deduplication and files can even be updated append-only, and the compression is not an afterthought wrapped around it but well integrated.
There's a story about Grace Hopper, who learned octal for the BINAC. She later had problems balancing her checkbook before she realized she was doing so in octal.

That lead her to conclude it would be better to teach the computer to handle decimal than to force everyone to use octal.

A lot of the old systems used 6-bit character codes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-bit_character_code ), including BCD six-bit codes, making 6*n word sizes more appropriate.
would be nice if people kept this in mind before they crucify others for not "trusting the science"
Color me curious. Can you furnish any links to some health research that vindicates sugary sodas?
> we are now creating stable identities from what is essentially a form of mental illness

Defining mental illness is imprecise. We’ve gotten it horribly wrong before, from diagnosing intelligent women as hysterics to gay men and women as deviants. We also have a long, failed history of well-meant prohibition.

If we’re seeing preliminary evidence that a surgery makes miserable people happy, I say we follow the lead without prejudice. Maybe we find these peoples’ bodies are picking up on precancerous signs? (Airball.) Probably, we don’t. But my peers’ botox has visibly reduced their faces’ expressiveness; is that mental illness?

Out of all of our emotions, I trust my sense of social disgust least. The world in which it evolved is no more. If I can’t find reason beyond discomfort to question someone’s decisions about themselves, I broadly tend towards letting them be.

(Side note: appreciate the discussion.)
> What's wrong with Dropbox comment? ... IMO Dropbox is useless.

That's just repeating the original ignorant Dropbox comment. Over 15 million paying users don't think Dropbox is useless. And hundreds of millions of non-paying users don't either.
Arguably the organization was not well managed. You don’t have one person make design decisions or push code without review. The organization surely lacked proper process. However, this is probably all too common.

This also may be an argument for splitting up teams and services with micro services.
The Telefonica network isn't that bad where I am. I'm with an MVNO (Drillisch/premiumsim/discotel/sim.de/whatever shady awful brand you can think of) on that network and am pretty okay with it. They have the best prices (only ones I'd consider reasonable) and are starting to build their own network.

... maybe I should check whether they're doing this stuff too. My experience with them makes me believe "absolutely" (they're annoying to deal with, but hey, they're following the law).
Hot (or Cold) Take: Coffee preparation rituals exist because atheists are looking to replace theology-based rituals and traditions they have forsaken.
Agreed, and that had a happier ending where they moved him to a sort of R&D position. I think this article pats itself on the back too much. They didn’t manage “Rick” and let him work 7 days a week 12 hour days, and then act hurt when he explodes. As a former programmer who now manages programmers this whole situation made me angry reading it. This was avoidable.
Why would you call them freeloaders? Netflix sold a number of streams, and now those streams are being restricted not by count but by kind.

If I gave some food away, and the restaurant I purchased it from called the recipient a free loader... I would have negative feelings about the restaurant such that a network effect would begin to take place after I kept telling people - just like this hn posting.

Edit: I guess you can argue that Netflix pricing is an insurance pool, where not always watching the streams you paid for goes into reducing the subscription cost (or raising profits). Having every subscriber let others use their downtime raises the subscription cost with that idea - but that is still contrary to years of their marketing.
Major cities in the world were built before linear mass transport like trains were invented, often around a single building of importance like a castle, church, or factory.
Do you eat anything that comes in front of you?
> And having two cars is too expensive as well.

Maybe so, but the average American family has about 2 cars. Lots of sources for that, but here’s one from top of search results:

https://housegrail.com/how-many-cars-does-the-average-americ...
Well. Good thing most companies design their hiring processes in such a way that the people passing them aren't Ricks.

Right?

Right?

Hm.
They manage a process they do understand (in theory): getting groups of people to do valuable stuff without irreparably imploding.

I don’t understand any of the tools I use in my own work (how does VS Code do syntax highlighting? How does the electricity make my laptop screen show me high resolution colors?). But I’m still able to produce plenty of value for my clients.
Yes, it is amazing that there would be counterfeit Kindle books.

I own an Amazon Oasis which I like, but I try to split my eBook purchases fairly evenly between Google Play, Apple, and Amazon. It seems wise to not put all of my digital library on one vendor’s platform. I also like to sometimes buy directly from authors or publishers.

I have both editions of Chollet’s book. It irritates me that he is getting ripped off.
It’s still unclear to me how they count the two weeks on a location. If I go to my summer house every weekend, does that count? Or do they count when you use Netflix at multiple locations at the same time?
Measuring the Impact of Substance Use on Standardized Test Score Averages [pdf]
Libby is the other one that comes to mind, for non-Classics too! https://www.overdrive.com/apps/libby
Might also be worth stating, that it was a restored French Monarchy, in conjunction with other European Monarchies that extorted this money with a threat of invasion.

Since they were basically doing the same all across Europe in the same period, putting down the first tentative steps into modern European democracy, we don't really need to frame it as Haitians Vs French, but (literally) right-wing vs democracy.

https://www.history.com/.amp/news/how-did-the-political-labe...

Which also would appear to be the basis for the current split in opinion too.
Insulin tolerance is not that well known in the public sphere. But it's sure a measurable effect, and among the bigger reasons I cut way back on sugar.
You already submitted it 3 hours ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32209353

'parasite words' isn't native English either, you might consider adding an explanation it means 'filler words'.
...which Price's Law is this? The one I could find referred to the relationship between scientific literature on a subject and the number of authors publishing on it...
The 95.3% efficacy for Pfizer and 94.1% efficacy for Moderna are based on early studies. This is incredibly old news. We've since learned that the efficacy wanes over time. This was first evidenced by increasing case counts with Delta and then the huge resurgence in cases with the arrival of Omicron. In other words, you can only expect 95% efficacy for a number of weeks. That is why the narrative changed to instead focus on reduction in hospitalization.
I’m a developer who’s been doing this for a loooong time and I can’t imagine being able to accurately guess with 90% confidence the calendar day I’ll have a particular task done. And the tasks I work on are different enough that a feedback loop about how much I misguessed would be useless for error-correcting future estimates. Maybe that works for factory-like tasks like how long it tasks to add a REST endpoint for a CRUD action?
Kickstarter for science ?
"The government fails in its mission if it lets a handful of people hold the most valuable land hostage."

? This is upside down.

It's only valuable because you want it. It's not 'intrinsically valuable'.

The great thing about America as opposed to most parts of the world is that there is plenty of land.

Go 100Km out of SF Bay and land is very cheap.

'Life Liberty and Pursuit of Hapniness' means a bunch of angry people cannot arbitrarily force you out of your home, because they want to 'move in'.

If this were a perverse issue of resource hoarding - i.e. everyone in SF was living on 30 acres of land and not willing to budge, then this would be a different discussion.

The 'American Dream' is not the right to live in the most choice plot in the US, it's just to have a nice spot, safe, secure etc..

If SF/Valley is where the jobs are, and you can't afford to live there - that's very fair. Push the companies to get some kind of good transport in place. Or adapt in some other way.
http://news.hydroquebec.com/en/press-releases/1667/hydro-que...
All things you write - looks like you getting you data from conservative media. "assigned the wrong body at birth" - even in trans community considered huge simplification and wrong narrative. It's used only to explain the feeling to people who knows nothing about the issue.

Gender dysphoria - yes, people suffer form it. Transition is the way to lower this suffering. That's the 'cochlear implant' equivalent from your example.
This is a great point. I've never thought about it in these terms before, but whenever I've transitioned from organisations that feel like they're "run by engineers" into organisations that feel like they're "run by administrators" I've taken a hit in happiness.
This video is amazing. Its one of my favourites.
"Inside the burning ship": https://youtu.be/yaPTk-DqT1g
You can see some thought has gone into not just the mathematics and rendering process, but also the artistic direction (lighting, choice of flight path) and music.
My two weeks of monkeypox hell
> Secondly, the West could have acted to capitalize on Ukraine's initial success in stopping the Russian blitzkrieg by convincing Ukraine's leaders to negotiate a neutrality agreement, similarly to Switzerland.

The difference is that Russia does not respect any agreements it signs. Russia promised to not invade Ukraine or threaten its borders when it gave up its nukes, look how well that went.

> Instead, we have been supplying Ukraine with arms, intelligence and even targeting information and stoking their belief that they can actually win a war with Russia.

The west have been supplying Ukraine with weapons that appear to be making the difference. There’s a reason Russias advances have pretty much stalled entirely, there ammo depots and command centre keep exploding.

Turns out Russia is actually kinda not so great at this entire war thing.

> However, I believe that Russia will literally stop at nothing to prevent this outcome. I personally fully believe that Russia will nuke Ukraine before allowing it to win back the territory it has lost, especially Crimeea.

If Russia even blinks at a nuke the international response will make the sanctions look like child’s play.

I think Ukraine can win this fight, every week they get more and better weapons from the west whilst Russia keeps rolling out older and older equipment.
Maybe, but then they have to fake the context (camera, lighting, room) and be extremely careful not to accidentally give away clues about their operation.
Wall St punished diversification, so anything that could slow growth had to go.

We’re shifting to a new era where cash is king. That’s why Amazon built their own UPS and Apple will be a bank in a few years.
From the U.P. To Rouge it was Ford all the way. Did they own the mines as well?
My assumption was that they were using the term as it's used in the medical field. A procedure such as a sonogram is noninvasive because it does not penetrate the organism or cause large changes or damage. Surgery is an invasive procedure.

My understanding of the comment is that breeding plants together and selecting for traits is noninvasive while going in and directly modifying the genome through enzymatic means is more invasive. I don't know if this is the correct way to use these terms in this circumstance, but this is my perspective.
> low sugar

Can't go into ketosis while eating sugar/starch
Or we can reject ontological anti-realism. That is, what "exists" in the first place are linguistic conventions constrained by physics, our understanding, and practicality.
I disagreed with this point in the article. I do not need a manager that has done my job before or spends a week a quarter doing my job. I need a manager that knows how to get my team the resources it needs and knows how to to deliver a product. Most importantly, I need a manager that trusts the team.

I've had great managers that couldn't code their way out of a paper bag.
It's extremely unlikely any more AP1000s will be built in the US. All projects that were in the development pipeline have been cancelled due to the spectacular financial failures that Summer and Vogtle have been.

The only way it could happen is if the feds took on construction risk.
> And what values are exactly that?

Democratic nations which abide by international trade agreements. Nations you can do business with which are governed by the rule of law instead of the whims of a political party or dictator.

> We just had president who was white supremacist who called other countries shitholes.

America can turn itself into whatever it wants to be. If America can no longer be trusted in business then it's correct not to do business with it.

> When business with China was good nobody cared they still had communist party ruling the country.

Yes, that's a mistake.
-- from reading - the problem was there are no imaging experts - so basically all images in scientific publications are not scrutinized for photoshop - good thing this guy didn't have access to dall-e --
Bengaluru’s unlivability is entirely due to the failure of the public administration and widespread corruption.

There is no public transport. The metro that was supposed to be completed years ago is in a perpetual state of delay. The roads are always dug up for some random construction project that never gets done on time.

The airport is a source of woe for everyone since its at least an hour away from all offices and residential areas. The only reason it was made so far from the main city is because politicians owned a lot of land in that area and wanted to appreciate its value.

Bengaluru will continue to remain unlivable because India’s educated technocrat class is too tiny to have any real say in the state or even the city’s politics.

At least the weather is nice and crime isn’t all that bad. Delhi can’t even boast of that.
Do you think it’s impossible for someone to understand a process without having years of experience doing it themselves?
I don't have much to add, only that it's been my personal experience as well. Fraud and non-reproducibility used to be such ethereal concepts to me, issues that are discussed at a systemic level as an intellectual exercise.

But after becoming a scientist, coming across so many fraudulent papers, so much non-reproducible and poorly done research. And seeing how it's affected my own, the thing that's dearest to me, having to build on top of those results and work in that global environment. It's been heart breaking, I feel no love for science anymore.