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The luminiferous ether theory met the basic criteria of being testable and falsifiable, hence the Michaelson-Morley experiment. Isn't that the basic objection to dark matter, that there's nothing in it that's falsifiable?

The reason we teach the Michaelson-Morley experiment in basic Physics classes is because it's a bedrock example of Science functioning correctly. The reason people believed in the ether theory is because in the wake of Maxwell's revolutionary work, there needed to be an explanation of how light propagated that could be reconciled with Newton's mechanics which had been laid out 200 years earlier. In hindsight, we credit Einstein with finding the way out, but in the late 1800's it was in no way obvious that it was going to work out that way.
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When I read the description on HEPA filters, it is alarming advice to me:

> "[A HEPA Filter] is particularly useful for very fine dust that can be harmful, like asbestos or mold spores [...]"

It is a misconception that you can purchase a vacuum with a HEPA filter and safely pick up materials like asbestos, lead dust, mold. If the seals in the vacuum are not sufficient then you risk throwing around the hazardous materials when you suck them up.

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Edit: formatting, disclaimer, typos, precision
LOL but True
so if it tries to have a unified ontology that's why it's destined to fail, but if it's designed to working with many small ontologies… that's why it will fail! lol, but you can't have it both ways.

In SW, the "semantic" part is subjective to an interpreter. You can have different data sources, partially mapped using owl to the ontology that an interpreter (your program) understands. That allows you to integrate new data sources independently from the program if they use a known ontology seamlessly or create a mapping of a set of concepts into a known ontology (which you would have do anyway in other approach). So in theory, data consumption capabilities (and reasoning) grows as your data sources evolve.

> If what you describe is the semantic web, the Semantic Web is "JSON", and solved.

It has nothing to do with JSON, JSON-LD, XML, Turtle, N3, rdfa, microdata and etc.. RDF is a data model, but those are serialisation formats. That's another interesting point, because half of the people talk only about formats and not the full stack. That's not a reasonable discussion.

> which certainly doesn't match what everyone else says it is

oh, I know it and it's upsetting.
Absolutely. Every death attributed to the opportunity cost of not switching to a system based on something other than private ownership is necessarily a product of the capitalization of healthcare. This is definitionally true.
Are you talking about the mathematical universe hypothesis where everything is just mathematics?
Looks cool!

> Sematic makes I/O between steps in your pipelines as simple as passing an output of one python function as the input of another. Airflow provides APIs which can pass data between tasks, but involves some boilerplate around explicitly pushing/pulling data around, and coupling producers and consumers via named data keys.

In robotics you sometimes need high performance data transformation e.g. convert pile of raw robot log data protos --> pile of simulation inputs --> pile of extracted data --> munged into net input format

Does semantic support this if the communication between tasks uses python functions? Like if my simulator is C++, will I have to use SWIG?

In some of the competing systems, the input/output between nodes are just produced files as side effects, which is nice because it doesn't care what language / infra you use as long as you produce the required input/output.
The reason FANG needs to retain unproductive but very smart ppl.

Is to suck up all the TALENT that would compete with their tech monopolies.

This is FANG’s competitive edge. Having the excess cash and profits to do so.
I'm not sure I understand the comparison. CS interview problems are interesting, well-constrained math riddles with endless variety. As far as I can tell, they're nearly the opposite of menial drudgery.

I don't think they're great for interviewing, on account of how they don't resemble what programmers actually do, but I do think they're a heck of a lot more fun than menial labor, especially when job offers aren't riding on it.
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It doesn't, which is exactly the problem. Ontologies inevitably have mistakes. When your reasoning is based on these "strong" graph links, even small mistakes can cascade into absolute garbage. Plus manual taxonomic classification is super time consuming (ergo expensive). Additionally, that assumes that there is very little in the way of nebulosity, which means you don't even have a solid grasp of correct/incorrect. Then you have perspectives - there is no monopoly on truth.

It's just not a good model of the world. Soft features and belief-based links are a far better way to describe observations.

Basically, every edge needs a weight, ideally a log-likelihood ratio. 0 means "I have no idea whether this relation is true or false", positive indicates truthiness and negative means the edge is more likely to be false than true.

Really, the whole graph needs to be learnable. It doesn't really matter if NMR is a chromatographic method. Why do you care what kind of instrument it is? Then apply attributes based on behaviors ("it analyses chemicals", "it generates n-dim frequency-domain data")
I wouldn't consider these people truly affected. You don't have to use a crypto anonymizer just because of your values, it's elective.
Whatever you do get a cyclone filter
Violence will always get things accomplished and done. There is nothing wrong using violence sometimes.
Are the states of the laws of physics being true and them "existing", distinct?
I think it is harder to convince smart people that their illusion of control is just an illusion. When you’re a dope you get smacked in the face by your limitations and you give up, or at least you’re easier to manage by the people around you.

I think there are also a lot of smart people that aren’t pegged as smart because they’ve let go of controlling everything, and we mistake lack of engagement for lack of capacity.

We have a friend who has a very aw shucks personality. A mutual friend and I have twice had a conversation about how she might actually be the smartest person we know, and I say that as someone who has a fondness for thinking they are the smartest person in the room. She is scary intuitive, the person people talk to about problems, she is a terrible movie companion because she guesses the ending ten minutes before I do, which is usually ten minutes before anyone else does. But she never made a career out of being clever, which feels like such a waste. I worry that it was beaten out of her at a young age. Girls aren’t supposed to be smart. You should be pleasant instead. If not that then I get some subtle ADHD vibes and it’s a common pathology to desire anonymity, a coping mechanism for passing as normal.
Bet it'd do just fine - maybe better than humans.

People just get confused by large numbers of similar syllables because we have to buffer them for more processing. I suspect a pure speech-to-text model doesn't need to worry so much about context and can just take the syllables one by one.
To be honest, I only have second-hand experience with running Internet lines in a bunch of Soviet-era apartment blocks. On a lot of building designs there's typically a drop going through all floors that exposes the electricity meters in a common area of the stairwell. The cable would go in either through the underground utility way - most likely electricity or heat lines (central heating FTW) or by air from a neighboring house. There would be a switch in the attic where the connections from apartments would terminate.
Everyone in the Bay Area knows Google is a retirement home and FB is where you go to join a team that is 20% high-performance, 40% normal, and 40% low-performance-never-fired. It's like the standard story of a group project in university (though all my group projects had hotshots I'd gladly work with).

But this seems like it's inevitable at larger companies. I recall at one such company someone told a friend of mine that one project was going to take 29 months or something to execute. That company had a realistic 6 months to justify their stock price at the time. It cratered 75% - and this was not a COVID boost situation.
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Please tell every newspaper to publish this so Apple puts a stop to this. I have no idea why they allow this. All apps should use Safari unless they’re a browser and this rated “18+”
Going by the comments quite a
few didn't actually read the article fully. Happiness isn't even a particular focus, just that "how to live happily" is an example of a poorly defined problem that is different to the well defined problems "smart" people are good at.
It doesn't rule out the possibility that one day such a question might be well-defined and solvable, which is an intriguing thought.
people should use something like json-schema to publish their structure. this doesn't solve the root denotation problem, but it would help a lot.
The switch does not care what kind of optics you use. You can use a $50 switch is you like.

The 200 km optics, however, cost about a grand each.
There is no appeal for users and there never has been.
Its supposed to measure the effects of inflation on the wealthy, which is why substitutes are important, because it impacts their grocery stocks.

You can starve.
This. I was doing Ethernet packet assembly/disassembly with one part in C, the other in Lua..
Let's just say that I'm not a Lua fan to say the least.
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Or more exactly how much work the engineers have done in past and how big moat the management or luck have build... Sometimes I really wonder how much the current employees contribute in companies like MS, Google and Meta...
Seeing how the UK arrested a guy who tweeted a meme with a swastika out of pride flags I think offend, mock or belittle is accurate.
Obviously I wasn't there and am going by your accounting of the conversation, but from the way you laid it out, the questions I brought up are the questions your manager thought they were asking you. Hence the confusion, followed by frustration.

From my interpretation of the conversation, you thought the question was: "Should we rewrite the checkout page in React, yes or no?"
And responded with "Why do you want to rewrite it in React?" (paraphrasing)

Meanwhile the manager thought they were asking: "Please discuss the reasons why we should and should not rewrite the checkout page in React, including your recommendation on a course of action"
And you responded with "Why do you want to rewrite it in React?"

Spelled out like that it's hopefully a little clearer that the "why React" was part of the question. They don't know if the page is performing "well" or whatever that means (even from an engineering standpoint it's hard to define, render time? bandwidth? server CPU?). They might know if users are complaining about checkout being slow, but even then users tend to leave rather than complain. If you were to tell them that the checkout page was performing "poorly" and React could fix it, that's the kind of information they were hoping to obtain from this conversation.

Similarly in my machine learning question, my CIO was actually asking me "how do you think machine learning can benefit this business?" And I responded with "how do you think machine learning can benefit the business?" He didn't know, he was asking me. He had just heard about the wonders of machine learning and was fishing for how it could benefit this business. Just like your manager had heard about React and was fishing for how it could benefit the business.

If your manager were here replying to comments I'd advise them to remember that engineers in general (spectrum or not), tend to be the literal sort, and if you aren't getting the answers your looking for it's often useful to examine the words you used and ask if you are actually asking the question your hoping to get answered or relying on subtext. But for the engineer's side of this conversation, it's important to ask if the question your answering is actually what they are asking, or if you failed to parse their intentions.
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They are and they aren't. Both parties have national bodies that vote on a platform which all candidates are ostensibly meant to support. It's not as rigorous as parties in a multi-party parliamentary system, but it's certainly not true that they are only labels.

It may be narrative, but it's also a major component of many people's worldview -- especially of late, as the polarization has increased. The strength of one's bond to that worldview and the number of people who feel strongly both feed back into the party's platform, as those people are the primary voters (or "base").
Reconstruction 2.0 it is then. The Compromise of 1877 was a uniquely bad idea.
How is this different from or complementary to Tecton?
All I can say is, thank god there seems to be some conserved (or marginally decreasing) quantity of output with increasing size of the company. (i.e. even as you grow bigger your efficiency and effectiveness drops in opposition to the number of people you accrete)

Otherwise we'd all be living under our corporate overlords for sure.
I don't believe in fundamentally correct theories. All theories have limitations. They work until they do not. Is general relativity fundamentally correct ? I wouldn't call it that (others may disagree), because it doesn't explain quantum effects or very early universe.
So to me theories are just tools that explain what we see and predict the future.
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sure, if you like, but let's be generous and say, warzone journalists, whistleblowers, etc. It's not a big cohort, but I guess it's a legitimate use. The trouble is that I can't think of literally anyone else.
This all-states model has a lot of impact in relevance to claims like "belief systems generally have a knob you can turn to point at (and accommodate) any desired outcome/belief".

It seems like a good idea to move away from such a reality model in that case. Ideally to replace it with either several good plugins or a new metamodel which can encompass its strengths and weaknesses.

I.e. reality can be a helpful term to describe "I found a new and helpful perspective for looking at a thing." That's a big strength and one commonly seen as people migrate between beliefs.
I’m a developer and I remember turning off in-app browsers whenever I could and I absolutely hated it

My browser would get littered with old tabs and coming back to the app for a small click became a hassle

On the off-chance I do want to save a link, I know I can just open it in my browser anyway

So I much prefer in-app browsers as a user and a developer
What does account age have to do with any of this?
> I think the OP's point is that we should understand our current models of natural phenomenon to be just that, models

this was my point with the initial epicycle comparison
Instagram isn’t doing it for the benefit of the user.
https://chrome.browserless.io/ is perhaps the best technical demo I've ever seen, and shows off Browserless's capabilities amazingly. An incredibly high-quality service and codebase.
Some levels of normalisation don't allow nulls. This is absurd. Normalisation alone is theoretical concept which should not be blindly pursued in practice, even without performance requirements.
Websites need cookie notices, but apps can track your full web usage (albeit within the in-app browser) without any such notice or opt in? Doesn't seem like this would be legal. Anyone know how this could be compliant in the EU?

It's also frustrating that on an android device you can't simply disable in-app browsers globally.
Every time I see it, I just call it e. Why deal with the cognitive overhead of trying to figure out a shit name?
They are surfacing it in a weaselly way which absolves them of personal responsibility.

In reality, they approved the strategic direction of the company and signed off on the outrageous hiring plans. They were responsible for fostering a culture of execution and measuring the results of their teams. They were responsible for ensuring their investments were paying off.

Instead of messaging that "As CEO, we did not invest in the correct strategic direction of the company with the associated supporting culture to execute on our plans and as a result need to re-calibrate our investments" - they instead say "Too many employees aren't working, it's all the fault of the low performers!" or a variation of that message.
It’s fantasy because it’s just not how the world works. Territories aren’t just up and leaving Canada because there isn’t a body like our Senate. I cannot think of any territory within any developed nation successfully leaving the country. You have to look at like colonial powers losing colonies or perhaps the dissolution of Yugoslavia. Very, very different material conditions than the idea of Maine leaving because there isn’t a Senate.

Individual states do not have the resources to oppose our military. They may be larger than European countries, but they don’t have the military power of those European countries and our country’s military is stronger than the entire EU. Even if a state like Texas were to revolt, it would be notably less successful than Ukraine is versus Russia. Also never mind that this revolting state wouldn’t be receiving foreign aid (I don’t think even hostile countries like China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea would even attempt to get involved in an internal conflict). It is pure fantasy to believe an individual state could succeed in seceding from the US.

Now could a large enough coalition of states succeed? Sure. But I was responding to the parent’s idea that Maine or Alaska or Hawaii would just randomly decide to up and go because they didn’t have the Senate.
Looks like an appeal to the divine, in that it doesn't explain anything but does push the question up a level.

"Why does something exist?" "God did it." "Uh, ok, why does God exist?" "Dunno, just does." <- sure seems like you could have simply applied that last answer to the first question and it'd be exactly as useful and valid.

"Why does something exist?" "The set of all possible wave states exists and behaves such-and-such way" "OK, but why does that exist and why does it do that?" "Dunno, just does". <- Ditto.
Looks like some cuts are coming to the FAANG workforce - perhaps it's a good time to poach people for your upcoming initiative.

Not necessarily just those who will be laid off, but the ones who don't like their coworkers getting laid off so they can do 1.5x the work for the same money.

Fire up those LinkedIn contacts!
This was a long time ago and it was a "bespoke" position created by the SRE team. I set up a continuous build and then fixed bugs until it went green.

Test engineers at Google at the time (~2008) were expected to build test infrastructure, rather than writing unit tests (SWEs were expected to write unit tests and integration tests), or to build complex system tests.
That was a great update, but still not a true browser. No tabs, no bookmarks. Why should the website be restricted to one tab? Just open Safari and be done with it.
In the US:

Carbon: $3478-$4553

Aluminum: $3100-$3800

Designers: $1386-$1909 (many priceless, presumably expensive)

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Existence is interaction.
I'm truly curious, would the downvoter please explain why this statement brought offense - was what I said just too innocuous?
Well I like when browsing reddit that when I open links they are sandboxed. The in-app browser in that case has an easy button to open to get to my normal safari if I want to.
Yea, as an engineer I would not be happy with my CEO swooping in to commit some code then bugger off.
Ah, I see now that I didn't make myself clear in my previous comment. I am not criticizing the back button functionality per se, but rather the way that many apps have things set up so that it requires more, sometimes a lot more, presses of the back button to back out than it took actions (taps, swipes, whatever) to get somewhere. While this may perhaps be useful in some cases, in my opinion it is often done in a classic 'nagware' fashion, to make it more difficult to leave the app.

When I press the home button, this often doesn't close down the foreground app entirely, so after a while of doing this I will end up with lots of apps running in the background, which I don't like because often they keep consuming power even when backgrounded and may also continue gathering data about me that way.

I am aware that apps can also install and run background services separately from the app, but in my experience, the apps that I use tend to also shut down these services, as long as I exit the app entirely, using the back button.
I'm with octopus. 7.34p/kWh is their flexible tariff, 18p/kWh is their fixed deal at the moment. My old 3p/kWh just expired and I'm not risking the price increasing even further, so I think the fixed deal is still the right way to go, even though it means increasing my price 6x right now.
I think yahoo found something like 35% of its wfh staff hadn’t logged in for weeks or months. (I can’t find a source for the number, so maybe I’m off, but vpn logs were used to justify ending wfh, which is… an imperfect approach for many reasons).

Overall, I don’t think the plan at yahoo was to fix anything, but just asset-strip it, which worked well for stockholders.
Apps in general are awful for users. I do all my mobile social media browsing on the web where I have much more control over things like copying text, saving images, zooming, adblockers, privacy tools, etc.
after being an android user for about 13 years i switched to an iphone se this year, and i’m very satisfied. you just can’t compare apples and oranges, android is sluggish even with a high end phone
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