skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - Growth curve fitting; data modeling with linear and better models

Input: at least a two-column table

Output: a symbolic (or NN) model with minimal error in predicting the test half of the data after a `test_train_split()`-like routine.
Yep, I just got the same "upgrade" where I live. No guaranteed upload speeds at all now.
Enjoy: https://searchengineland.com/the-big-list-of-google-easter-e...
This wasn't a government watchlist. It's an independent nonprofit shared by social media companies.
No they are not. Around 20% of all new cars sold are "fleet cars" that is, owned by companies not people. Of them, most are bought by lease providers to be leased by individuals - so they aren't "really" company cars, or bought by rental companies again, to be rented out to individuals. Under 10% are really "company cars" in the true sense - "bought by companies to be used by their employees for jobs like delivery, business trips, etc".
I presume this is just an Android launcher with an app whitelist and no sideloading, slapped on a generic rebrand of someone else's phone hardware, in the end?

So, great, hardware to solve software problems. This should just be a custom image, like Cyanogen was or something.
And where are the music options? I constantly listen to music on my phone, so this is a total dealbreaker. It should have Tidal, YouTube Music, Spotify, etc. They're not distractions; nobody stares at their phone whilst listening to audio.
As a complete physics layperson, I can’t comment with any authority on the subject matter.

What I do have is a metric fuckton of experience with incentives and mechanism design in technical fields: and mainstream physicists have been talking like people who have bonuses linked to specific outcomes for decades.

The moving goalposts around falsifiability, the too-coincidental synergies between supersymmetric-style (and there for string world) stuff and missing mass (dark matter), the growing group of highly-qualified skeptics, the curt public dismissals everything from LQG to constructor stuff to MOND as beneath refutation, the popularizers who go on PBS and don’t even acknowledge a debate.

And the alternative explanation, that it takes so long to learn this stuff that your career is over if Dark Matter or String Theory turns out to be hokum? Yeah, that scans.
This is what has become the default that our current system works to incentivize in real terms, but with a lot of marketing to discourage following this path. I work in India, but with a corporate American client atm, and have seen this in operation,(luckily it's a fairly small/medium company so not too much). Having worked in a few startups(with ESOPs) from India before this, I really, really wonder how a global/multi-national company can work with equity based incentives at this point, and if it will help a bit to improve the incentives.
Not in this case, here, my claim is the role was very clearly grown into, and the rating reflected the fact that these decisions are mostly tenure-based, + or - 2 or 3 years, and the rating was always going to be average even if I cured cancer, as was explicitly spelled out later. That disincentives putting in effort because it doesn't matter. Creates an uncomfortable nihilist atmosphere that can be suffocatingly depressive
> There's some capital gains!

Are you really certain of this? Grinding and acquiring valuable inventory in a game is not necessarily the same kind of taxable event as buying/selling/trading.

If so, why would this not be equally true for any digital game (see: any currently active MMO) with currency or items which can be sold between players in the exact same way? See Kaze404's sibling comment.

I'm skeptic that it having blockchain/NFT components really changes anything at all wrt the legal tax situation.

I'd think that in most jurisdictions you could technically incur capital gains through any kind of online game with a secondary market for in-game items but also have minimum thresholds under which reporting is not required ($60 in a year would generally fall under such limits).
Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rag-and-bone_man
Is it a personal attack when each of his points were pretty factual? Like not even subjectively but objectively.

Billionaire troll is also objectively factual.

I understand the reasons for wanting a passionate topic to stay cool, I'm just genuinely curious about the personal attack angle, not stirring the pot.
> I would strongly doubt that they correlate tbh.. where would the "virgin math genius" cliché would come from ?

Article talks of scientific studies supporting that claim: you doubting it and sharing your anecdotal experience does not change what the stats say.

I do welcome you to challenge those studies (that's what science is all about), but that's not done with "doubting" them on HackerNews.

(Oh, and cliches are just that, cliches: they were never universally true, which is why we don't use words like "facts" for them)
If you are talking about analytic SDFs, then you need a good "decomposition" method that can divide an arbitrary SVG into simple SDF-friendly primitives. Mabye it could be done, I think it can be a good research topic.
This was also covered on Radiolab, colors, super interesting episode.
https://radiolab.org/episodes/211119-colors
True, but the parent post did not mention use of force.

We cannot deny that there is a brain drain in many third world countries that desperately need well trained workers that is accelerated by acceptance of immigrants into developed nations like the US. Who’s going to lead these countries into better governance and economic improvement if all the talent is incentivized to leave their home countries for greener pastures?
It’s worse in many cases actually. That’s not an opinion, it’s based on studies with sizable ns.
So it sounds like the solution here is to not cater to Open Web Advocacy's particular flavor of advocacy as the article prescribes, but in fact, prohibit apps from using any webview except the official one provided by the OS.
"What do I care about? Making money. It's the focus of my life. Therefore everyone else cares about that too. We should inject external economic motives into games, they're totally gonna eat this up!"
Right? Seems like this joke willed it into existence.
It's the just world fallacy writ large.
It’s really sad when people who want to be meaningful, are stymied by the floaters.

The floaters stick around by inserting themselves into an essential process that needs non-advocate reviewers infrequently, this is usually supply chain, quality assurance, and security. Then they collude by scheduling meetings for each other, which is really just socializing.

When meaningful people need to use a process, and engage the floaters. They find that they are impossible to engage because they are in meetings. And if there’s special considerations that need to happen in a process, which is a given when you’re innovating, it means that the floaters have more opportunities to schedule more meetings, and sap the productivity of the meaningful people.

Not only do the floaters succeed in slowing down the productivity of the meaningful people, they also impose an opportunity cost, which is that the meaningful people cannot engage in another activity while the former activity is going through process. They have to also spend time engaging the floaters in meetings for the process to continue.
Is indelible source code storage in the blockchain finally the first real application for the ailing technology? :)
At one job I had in 95, a few times I did connect at 300. (I'd hang up and try again if that happened, but sometimes I would vi at 1200 baud. 2400 I think was normal, and sometimes I'd get lucky and connect at 48k. It was nominally at 56k modem, but I never saw in connect at that.) I can't remember the name of the terminal emulator I used from windows in 95, or what even the browser was, must have been mosaic? I was coding up web pages for lawyers at https://www.lawinfo.com / experienced attorneys referral service before Guenter sold it to Thompson Reuters. Pre-web, the outfit would place ads in yellow pages nationally, and then transfer calls to attorneys who subscribed. I supported the computers for the folks who took the calls from the yellow page ads, and the computers for the folks who cold called attorneys all day, but most of the day I was creating HTML in vi for lawyers. I think we used something called lantastic; and we had a commercial CRM system that ran on DOS and dialed the phones for the sales team... it's on the tip of my tongue... I remember loading new phone numbers into it from some vendor feed for the sales force. We were in a weird strip mall in Encinitas, and I remember hanging out with the folks who worked next door at some sort of computer business that made our PCs but also worked on some sort of B2B software.
> But that when it comes to cases where [multiple] people suggest that the question they asked or the tone they asked it in might have been suboptimal for the situation, they are likely to rationalise it as just unverifiable opinion

I mean, that judgment is literally a matter of opinion. If they had behaved the same in an office full of autistic people like them, or with people of another culture, the outcome would have been totally different. That said, sometimes opinions matter, like say, the legal rights of fetuses when it comes to abortion, to pick a recent example.

So concluding something is a "difference of opinions" is not the end of the story, sometimes such differences need to be resolved.
I'm very confused about what file format(s) Kindle actually supports.

* They are dropping support for MOBI from their Send to Kindle website and apps.

* They are adding support for ePub in their Send to Kindle website and apps, but apparently they will be converted to Kindle format (MOBI? AZW?) under the hood.

* Several sites mention AZW3 as the official Kindle format. Is that the same as MOBI?

* It is unclear whether ePub and/or MOBI are natively supported by Kindle.

If I connect my Kindle and (1) drag an ePub to its local storage and (2) drag a MOBI to its local storage, will either of them work or not?
I didn't realize it was one of the co-authors of _2034_, that's pretty cool.

> Fourth, as the old saw goes, “all politics are local,” and Xi has a very delicate political situation before him. At the 20th Communist Party Congress late in the fall, he will almost certainly be given a third five-year term. It is a remarkable achievement, vaulting him into the company of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping. He does not want a major conflict with the US to interfere with this anointment, and even after he fully consolidates control it seems unlikely he would quickly manufacture a crisis that could crater the global economy.

Yeah I'd guess a person in that position would be doing just about anything to keep the ship steady.

I also really do not understand zero-COVID unless it's all been about party members pleasing him, as opposed to him pleasing others. Which would make sense.
I've been looking for an ML model to try hosting/terraforming out on GCP that could conceivably recoup the costs of hosting. I think this might be it.
Copyright violations stem from distributing an unauthorized copy of a protected work. Modifying an authorized copy shown to one recipient can't be a violation.

User agents are expected to be empowered to transform the data they receive to suit the rendering requirements of the end user. Having a third party perform part of the transformation by supplying supplementary code executed by the user agent doesn't change anything.
In Thailand, which Disney+Hotstar also operates, its yearly pricing is $23 (can be as low as $14 if subscribed from an eligible mobile carrier). Netflix pricing for an equivalent (2 streams) are $10/month or $118/year, a huge difference. Even Netflix's super basic plan (1 mobile-only stream) starts at $3/month or $33/year.
These are everywhere in the Netherlands, from parents taking kids to school, to custom ones with coolers for grocery delivery. They're great.
>As per gravitation laws, the farther the star is, the slower it should rotate.

That depends. The 1/R orbital speed relationship is valid only in cases of spherically symmetric mass distribution or when the radiuses of the interacting masses being much smaller than the distance between them. Neither of these is true for a star inside a galaxy disk. Correctly accounting for the disk shape gives you expected orbital speed much closer to the "outer stars in the galaxy rotate at the same speed as inner stars", though not exactly equal. The remaining difference is explained by the seond factor.

That second factor is that "rotate" i suppose means orbiting around galaxy center. The stars in the disk aren't really orbiting, ie. they are actually flying away like in a fireworks wheel as the galaxy disk becomes larger and thinner - exactly because the stars' speed is still somewhat higher than the orbital speed as calculated above. Thus no need for DM here.
No, but I can read at 300 baud iirc.
Assuming this is supposed to be about ESR, this page isn't written by him, since it's signed by someone else…
And guess what? In some jurisdictions, including some US states, possession and sale of some types of knives is banned or controlled, because they are used by criminals and thugs for larceny and assault.

You're also not permitted to upload whatever firmware you like to your car's engine if you want to run it on the street.

Note also that I didn't argue that uploading alternate firmware to phones should be banned. I'm just pointing out that there are real-world safety reasons for restricting modifications, and if you want the freedom to do so you should at least try and engage on the downsides rather than just yelling FREEEDOM very loudly.
We do know that dark matter, as constituted, in all its variations, requires observations grossly incompatible with what we, in fact, find.

Pop science cosmology presentations never, ever mention these contradictions. But it is, exactly, embracing contradictions like these that would make it science, not religion. Presentations without them actively mislead the public as to what science is and is for.

Trotting out details found (or made) consistent with DM amounts to indulging confirmation bias. An honest presentation describes the current favored theory, which summarizes a collection of observations, and then whatever is inconsistent with it. Sweeping inconsistent facts under the rug is the opposite of science.

Every substantial advance has come from embracing contradictions of current favored theories. Young people are inspired not by sweeping, broad-brush stories of how the universe is, but by mysteries that remind us how much is left to be discovered.

Biologists understand this. It is very easy to get a biologist to say "nobody knows". Every non-moribund field revels in what is still wholly unknown. Only cosmology circles the wagons against contradictory evidence.
Short of a software update, I don't imagine older Kindles would magically be able to read ePub files.

It sounds like sideloading a .mobi file will still work.
Taxes? I was a college student, so I didn't make enough to owe any taxes, but it was mostly cash. I wouldn't have done it if I had to hop through the business hoops.
The people are. These lawsuits are governments robbing corps using "lost" tax dollars as an excuse. Of course, nobody is going to go after the politicians and corporations that sold off the future for a quick buck and made society so shitty that opiod abuse is common.
I dislike that framing. It seems disingenuous to call "doing what I'm required to do by my employer" any variant on "quitting". It's explicitly not quitting, after all. If the employer expects that you do more, it should require it.

Reminds me of the Office Space "flair" scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ChQK8j6so8
I am not making this claim, the article is based on a number of studies measuring different types of intelligence.

It actually does say that they are all almost exactly the same (sure, highly intelligent individuals will score better on one set of problems than on another, but they will score highly on most of them; similar for average or lower intelligence folks — their scores on each of them correlate but are not in a strict linear relationship). That suggests that they are ultimately one and the same (as per those studies).
Obviously because previously you can read paywall news in your incognito browser. With all the machine learning talk, it amazes me how the NYTimes dev team haven't yet implemented dark mode in their apps.
25k saved (the difference in price between the cars) is more than most people have in savings. It would at least delay the fall of the guillotine long enough to find another job.
> When we started Lua, the world was different, not everything was C-like. Java and JavaScript did not exist, Python was in an infancy and had a lower than 1.0 version. So there was not this thing when all the languages are supposed to be C-like. C was just one of many syntaxes around.

> And the arrays were exactly the same. It’s very funny that most people don’t realize that. There are good things about zero-based arrays as well as one-based arrays.

> The fact is that most popular languages today are zero-based because of C. They were kind of inspired by C. And the funny thing is that C doesn’t have indexing. So you can’t say that C indexes arrays from zero, because there is no indexing operation. C has pointer arithmetic, so zero in C is not an index, it’s an offset. And as an offset, it must be a zero — not because it has better mathematical properties or because it’s more natural, whatever.

> And all those languages that copied C, they do have indexes and don’t have pointer arithmetic. Java, JavaScript, etc., etc. — none of them have pointer arithmetic. So they just copied the zero, but it’s a completely different operation. They put zero for no reason at all — it’s like a cargo cult.

https://habr.com/en/company/vk/blog/459466/
Pretend instead of “serious” they said “frobnozz”. You’re not a frobnozz cyclist unless you can do a handstand on your handlebars! How absolutely un-frobnozz can you get??

There’s a tendency to ascribe value to words like “serious” but it’s a temptation, nothing more. Who cares that some bozo thinks “serious” drivers drive manual transmission cars, or ride bikes in a particular way.
That is a good point - the PC gaming community in particular hates cryptocurrency with an absolute vengeance because of what's happened with graphics cards, among other things. Anything that goes near crypto, web3, NFTs is instantly disliked and treated with disgust.
I mean, we can agree to disagree if you think there would be quiet acceptance of a law where it is criminal to search for cryptocurrency information in google.
I wonder if those type of ads attracts certain type of engineers, which were desirable during the rapid growth period of the company, only to become liabilities later on when they failed to adapt with the business's everchanging objectives and KPIs.

Disclaimer: Not an engineer, but a people manager.
Also send-to-kindle today rejected a mobi I sent by email with:

>>>

Send to Kindle supports the following document formats:
Adobe PDF (.pdf)
Microsoft Word (.doc, .docx)
Rich Text Format (.rtf)
HTML (.htm, .html)
Text (.txt) documents
Archived documents (zip , x-zip) and compressed archived documents
MOBI (.azw, .mobi) (will not support the most up-to-date Kindle features for documents)
JPEG (.jpg), GIF (.gif), Bitmap (.bmp), and PNG (.png) images.

Additionally, Send to Kindle emails now supports EPUB (.epub). Later this year, we’ll also be adding EPUB support to the free Kindle app for iOS and Android devices and the Send to Kindle desktop app for PC and Mac.
The problem with the leech analogy is that we can't actually tell what part of society is "the leech".

Society and economics can be best described not as a human with a leech on it, but a writhing mass of leeches all sucking each others' blood. In other words, mutual parasitism. What parts of the economy can be "gotten rid of" - as in, the people who run them being socially marginalized or worse - depends solely on what you value; rather than any objective criteria.

The historical examples of zero-growth societies are rather bleak. They were closed, feudalistic societies that relied upon strict classes with disenfranchised peasants or slaves at the bottom. This is the most optimal strategy for exploiting a static resource economy[0]. Liberal democracies are tied to economies with some level of growth to them, because there needs to be new treasure to chase in order to allow a continued changing of the guard and the deposition of elites.

[0] Related note: most historical examples of witch trials in Europe were ways to punish people with newly-acquired wealth. Zero-growth was the oxygen people breathed back then; and anyone with new wealth was looked at with suspicion. Did they steal it? Did they sign a deal with the devil?
From Wave_interference#Quantum_interference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_interference#Quantum_inte... :

> Here is a list of some of the differences between classical wave interference and quantum interference:

> - In classical interference, two different waves interfere; In quantum interference, the wavefunction interferes with itself.

> Classical interference is obtained simply by adding the displacements from equilibrium (or amplitudes) of the two waves; In quantum interference, the effect occurs for the probability function associated with the wavefunction and therefore the absolute value of the wavefunction squared.

> The interference involves different types of mathematical functions: A classical wave is a real function representing the displacement from an equilibrium position; a quantum wavefunction is a complex function. A classical wave at any point can be positive or negative; the quantum probability function is non-negative.

> In classical optical interference the energy conservation principle is violated as it requires quanta to cancel. In quantum interference energy conservation is not violated, the quanta merely assume paths per the path integral. All quanta for example terminate in bright areas of the pattern.

From Conservation_of_energy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_of_energy :

> Classically, conservation of energy was distinct from conservation of mass. However, special relativity showed that mass is related to energy and vice versa by E = mc2, and science now takes the view that mass-energy as a whole is conserved. Theoretically, this implies that any object with mass [e.g. photons, and other massful particles] can itself be converted to pure energy, and vice versa. However this is believed to be possible only under the most extreme of physical conditions, such as likely existed in the universe very shortly after the Big Bang or when black holes emit Hawking radiation.

From Conservation_of_energy#Quantum_theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_of_energy#Quantum... :

> In quantum mechanics, energy of a quantum system is described by a self-adjoint (or Hermitian) operator called the Hamiltonian, which acts on the Hilbert space (or a space of wave functions) of the system. If the Hamiltonian is a time-independent operator, emergence probability of the measurement result does not change in time over the evolution of the system. Thus the expectation value of energy is also time independent. The local energy conservation in quantum field theory is ensured by the quantum Noether's theorem for energy-momentum tensor operator. Due to the lack of the (universal) time operator in quantum theory, the uncertainty relations for time and energy are not fundamental in contrast to the position-momentum uncertainty principle, and merely holds in specific cases (see Uncertainty principle). Energy at each fixed time can in principle be exactly measured without any trade-off in precision forced by the time-energy uncertainty relations. Thus the conservation of energy in time is a well defined concept even in quantum mechanics.