skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Astrophysicist here.
This is the same shtick from from a known anti-DM guy.
A few points.

* DM particle haven't yet been found.

* The current best theory of the structure formation and galaxy evolution involves dark matter and critically depend on it to reproduce observations.

* There is a broad variety of Dark matter models that are consistent with simulations.

* It is possible there is some theory that somehow explains everything without the need of dark matter, but it doesn't exist (now), and very likely it would work effectively like dark matter. Without such theory, claiming DM doesn't exist is simply stupid IMO.

* There are a few cases where you can find tensions with the existing DM based paradigm. I.e. the is test pointed in the article involving galactic bar in the paper "Fast galaxy bars continue to challenge standard cosmology". Note the toned down title. In this paper they just compared one specific feature of galactic disks in the simulations to the data and show that it doesn't match. I'd argue there are many reasons that could be the case that doesnt' involve killing DM. The same applies to other tensions.

* A final point. Even Modified Newtonian Dynamics theories require DM, because without it you cannot form enough structure early in the universe (as dark matter start to collapse earlier) and is essential to reproduce the amount of structure we see in the cosmic microwave background.
good point vivegi! yes display is spill proof.
Was looking for this comment.

Super easy to tie (on a bight). Can be loaded in any direction. And then easy to untie.
Yep I think it’s possible that someone on the outpost of their society might still want some semblance of their civilization while they are there.
> I figured I’m pretty handy with a soldering iron, so maybe I could give a go at building a system like his

A bit of an understatement, considering he's the one who first hacked the xbox[1], partly by soldering a sort of daughterboard directly onto the fine pitch traces of the high speed bus.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Hacking-Xbox-Introduction-Reverse-Eng...
I'm too lazy to mail the mods. Also, this thread is a reply to the mod's message, so I hope he is reading this.

Meanwhile, I will assume that I'm doing a good thing. I don't see how your link provides an explanation "in exhaustive detail". What are "canned response" even are? When someone says "I have nothing to hide", any response might be considered as canned - so is it better to let people be unaware?
The MakerDAO/DAI community fucked up. People have criticized that community's collateral choices for a long time, as the article mentions, it is pejoratively called "wrapped USDC".

Their primary issue was being early and there weren't really collateral choices.

There was no trustless bridge for Bitcoin when they needed it. So they wound up using BitGo's WBTC. People got afraid of the volatility of the assets so started approving stablecoins as collateral, and Tether wasn't an option, other stables didn't exist, so they went with USDC.

For more modern iteration of this concept with different collateral choices and community ethos, look at Magic Internet Money $MIM (yes, naming is intentional re-appropriation). So far all the collateral are yield generating assets, they generate yield from liquidity pools and volume. The automated liquidation functions the same and its worked. It has ancillary issues from its founder's reputation on other projects, so there is still room for yet another stablecoin that inspires more confidence without really needing the baggage of a leader.
Write up the same simple example in Python and in a different language that is better suited to the task. If the other language is that much easier, it should be easy to convince people with the example.

Often times you think "since my team is using Python that'll be easiest" but if you have to rely on libraries (even parts of the standard lib) that your teammates don't often use then you might not be getting as much benefit as you'd think. A practical example might show everyone that switching languages to get access to a better interface for your problem might be easier for everyone. It might also show you that Python is actually the right choice, so it's a good exercise.
How would this be used for surveillance? You do realize that this isn't reading people's minds/internal dialog right? It requires making specific physical motions, as if you are actually speaking. If they are already talking, then why bother with this when you could use directional microphones or even acoustic phased array?

Furthermore, as someone who has worked with radar/remote imaging, it is very difficult to spy on people with a technique like this without some device right in their face, especially if the subject is moving around. And it's likely that lots of calibration and characterization are required to produce good results that will vary drastically from person to person depending on their physiology.

As to the possibility of some state "top secret" technology that can do radar imaging with range and fidelity that are miles and miles ahead of research or less-classified military technology: why would they use such amazing tech on something like this? There are also established equations that define what is physically possible. Many radar systems today are basically very close to the optimal performance given constraints of real world semiconductor materials, as in, they fly close to the Shannon channel capacity limit. It's just not possible to make magical radar devices.

Do you have more details about this?
The thing is, at least in the first example, the way I read it isn't "autistic people can't admit when they are wrong". From your own telling of the story it seems like a manager asked you "Should we rewrite the checkout page in React?", and you responded with "Should we rewrite the checkout page in React?". You failed to realize that all of the questions you asked them are the question they were asking YOU. They've been reading articles about technical teams gaining things they don't really understand from switching to React. Maybe increased velocity (they know what velocity is but don't know how React increases it), reduced bundle sizes (what's a bundle? why do I care?), faster rendering times (faster is a good thing, right?), etc. But they don't have the knowledge to judge if React will do this for them.

Answers to this question might be "No, we already use Angular which provides similar benefits to React", "Yes, switching to React from MooTools (I'm old) would simplify the design, increasing our velocity and probably resolve some annoying rendering bugs", or even "I'm not sure. Perhaps we should meet and discuss the weaknesses of that page and figure out if React is the right tool to resolve them".

Instead they got back the questions they were hoping you'd answer for them.

Many long years ago the CIO at a company I worked for asked if we could use machine learning to improve our data analytics. I responded with "I don't know, what kinds of questions are you hoping to answer?". We went back and forth on this several times, with me insisting you couldn't just throw machine learning at data without some idea of what your hoping to get back. This wasn't resolved until they brought in a vendor claiming to provide turnkey machine learning solutions, they ran it against our data and came up with the stunning insight that the biggest predictor of dollars sold was.... units sold. To be fair they did provide other data points, but it was all things we either already knew, or didn't care about and if we ever did could find out quickly.

I failed to recognize that the question I was asking was a big part of what I was being asked. If I had realized this and provided some insight into the kinds of questions machine learning could answer, and why we didn't need sophisticated machine learning algorithms for the ones the business cared about I could have saved everyone some time. Instead I kept rephrasing the question back at him, with neither of us having the insight to realize we were actually asking the same question.
I wonder if Zuckerberg realizes how undesirable of a place to work he’s creating, or there’s some big picture I’m not getting.

Either way, a lot of silicon valley roles outside of SWE are absolute fluff. It wouldn’t surprise me if it’s now becoming increasingly obvious as he can no longer afford it.
I've been diving deep in on this space over the past few months. The democratization of research, code, and applications has been so profound.

Big kudos to GitHub, Papers-with-code, Huggingface, Google Colab, Replicate, Discord, probably many other tools, and then everyone playing a part (especially the disco diffusion crowd).

https://paperswithcode.com/
https://huggingface.co/spaces
https://replicate.com/
GitHub repository https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui-emoji
Lumina is working on a smart standing desk that has a built-in display
> What I do care is what the laws actually are

I note that you're not quoting the relevant legal definitions though.
This question generally presupposes a misunderstanding of the physiological purpose and phenomenological experience of happiness. Happiness by its nature is not sustainable. Contentment and well being with a high happiness surface area and a low suffering surface area is sustainable. This does not look very dramatic from the outside, and is poorly captured by many metrics. Neuroticism might be one of the best psychometrics, with most people experiencing only a small decrease over a life time, with some experiencing a very large one.
Protein quality matters as much as quantity. I like beans and rice, but the protein in red meat is more digestible and has the optimal ratio of amino acids that humans need.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Protein-quality-assessme...
No wonder. I recently opened a link on Instagram and the website's responsive elements were completely broken. Then I opened the link in Safari and it worked fine.

Does this script injection break Apple's ToS?

I thought Apple required Safari/Webkit for all in-app browsers?

Zuckerberg has no shame.

PS. I hate in-app browsers. They don't sync with my main browser states such as authenticated sessions.
It already recalibrated, didn't it? Much of that compensation is stock - of which its value dropped 50% for Meta.
Maybe I should consider doing the same for the Mews houses in Westminster :)
Insight Maker
I recommend the excellent articles by the SQLite authors themselves like

How To Corrupt An SQLite Database File: https://www.sqlite.org/howtocorrupt.html

Atomic Commit In SQLite: https://www.sqlite.org/atomiccommit.html

and more under the "Technical and Design Documentation" section of their docs at https://www.sqlite.org/docs.html

They go into the details of challenges SQLite faces due to how hardware and OSs work or not work and how they solve them.
Yes, I live 2 miles from a DC, and they couldn't deliver anything same week even though I have had Prime for a decade
Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process [pdf]
The difference is how long it takes for the minority of people pissed about it to dissipate and for it to become a non issue. As an example, gay marriage was passed at a state level from 2004 to 2015 and the people still butt hurt about it 7 years later are a quickly shrinking, tiny, and largely irrelevant group of orthodox religious types. Politicians who had opposing views are trying really hard to memory hole those opinions and support gay marriage for the most part. Abortion, on the other hand, has grown an increasingly organized, vocal, and politically active instead of dissipating away to a non issue we all largely agree on, which would make it an example of a tyranny of the majority issue.
Did the NN do a pretty good job with signal cleanup and consistency?
I see what you mean. Yes, I agree, it’s in some sense suboptimal for a community to outsource moderation to a larger entity.

However I think moderation is difficult (and this fact is under-appreciated) and so the limit of “perfect moderation per community” is probably not practical. (Indeed I’m not even sure that’s a possible thing, since each community member might disagree, even though there are emergent norms at any given time within a community.)
> Anytime this guy didn't understand something he just got extremely belligerent

I think he might have backed himself into a corner by coming in as an 'advisor'. How can I be an advisor if I look like i don't even understand what is going. That must have been his mindset. So the only escape is being arrogant and belligerent.
There's a lot of friction to finding and landing side jobs.

Ones that let you hop in just whenever you feel like it and do one hour of work, with no commitment to minimum hours per week? And that you can put in a single productive hour every so often, without ramp-up time eating that entire hour with nothing to show for it? And that pays enough to make it worth it (i.e. not Mechanical Turk or whatever)?

I don't even know what such an ultra-flexible, low-context (= near-zero ramp-up time even if you only do it an hour or two a week, and some weeks not at all) but still high-paid gig would look like, or how to go about finding it.

Meanwhile, you can value-shop if you feel like it, or not if you don't. Entirely optional and no commitment or outside expectations. You can do it very seriously one week, then not do it at all the next.
Start the application transaction. If it fails you'll just roll back to current state in your career log (resumé). Nothing ventured nothing gained.
I thought 5G was in the range of 1-10ms.
I don't know. I didn't do it. I just know how much money came out of my wallet and how long the trench was. :-)

So that means I paid for labor. But presumably some part of that $30K will be going to labor as well.

Another possibility is that when you get to the scale of 0.5 miles, you start using different tactics or machines than the small little backhoe loader that the guy used in our yard. So, more capital required but overall more efficient.

Anyway, I don't mean to try and offer an accurate accounting of all of this. I mostly just meant to provide a counter-expectation.
Think of it as being more like an anti-crime editorial than a scientific argument. The argument is about budgetary priorities and complaining about other physicists.
But aren't we trying to break the causal link by banning incitement to violence? Surely the discussion is about whether to move one step back on the causality chain.
I believe a DC (distribution center) only distributes to FCs (fulfillment centers)
Sisyphus and the CVE Feed: Vulnerability Management at Scale
Well, the Crackpot Index is obviously tongue in cheek, but also born out of frustration, I think. It must get tiresome for scientists to listen to cranks trying to "disprove" established science with bizarre theories and a complete disregard for the literature. You can address one, two, three of these people, but it soon becomes a bother and you're tempted to write the Index instead.

I agree it's probably very difficult to tell really novel and paradigm-shifting theories from the ramblings of cranks.

I suppose the Dark Matter model scores highly in some items of the Crackpot Index but very low in "the government is trying to suppress this", "everything they told you is a lie", and also the scientists who proposed it understood the established science and didn't randomly disregard it. I think the "conspiracy" aspect is what sets a crackpot apart.

Again, it's possible that a person is a crackpot AND he/she is also right about a particular theory!
Agreed. The main reason IBM does that isn't for bandwidth. It's so that if some RAM died, the system would keep going. IBM has hardware that promises to keep who knows how many 9s of uptime.
Lots of good points raised, necessary discussion.

My take is that we know a lot of this already but refuse to accept the solutions. The way to exchange data and the way to relate and query data is both known to a large extent; canonical S-expressions and datalog-ish expressivity. I just can't understand why no one thinks datalisp.is a persuasive foundation.
True. Many of the places that are low-hanging fruit for rural Internet access do not, but it's a mix. Many of these places that the comments are dismissing as irredeemably remote are along secondary highways less than five miles from a city limit. Lots of those places have water mains, but certainly there are places with private wells.
At this point I am convinced that every know-it-all on HackerNews is just a corporate drone who never understood the spirit of independency and freedom from overtly authoritarian societies.

My fear is not that crypto project A or B stumbles or fails while trying to do something different. My fear is that the place that I once considered crucial for the development of a counterculture becomes dominated by reactionary "intellectuals" who got so rich by tech and now have become the status quo.
Keep an eye on https://rpilocator.com/
I especially want to call out Google Colab. Simply having a gmail account awards you the ability to run most of the state-of-the-art and other uses very rapidly, as well as an integrated environment to things like Github and drive/storage.
Literally the next paragraph says:

“The scale and proportions of these food lists strongly suggests that they were provisions for occasional grand feasts, and not general food supplies sustaining royal households on a daily basis,” says Lambert. “These were not blueprints for everyday elite diets as historians have assumed.”

“I’ve been to plenty of barbecues where friends have cooked ludicrous amounts of meat so we shouldn’t be too surprised. The guests probably ate the best bits and then leftovers might have been stewed up for later.”

Leggett adds,: “I’ve found no evidence of people eating anything like this much animal protein on a regular basis. If they were, we would find isotopic evidence of excess protein and signs of diseases like gout from the bones. But we’re just not finding that. The isotopic evidence suggests that diets in this period were much more similar across social groups than we’ve been led to believe. We should imagine a wide range of people livening up bread with small quantities of meat and cheese, or eating pottages of leeks and whole grains with a little meat thrown in.”

The researchers believe that even royals would have eaten a cereal-based diet and that these occasional feasts would have been a treat for them too.
YouTube could do it. They have a monopoly pretty much.
Yeah I think it's awfully unfair to say "you can't post the name of a relevant tool unless you want to go on record as LOVING TEXT TEMPLATING". I thought your reply was useful.
High intelligence is highly correlated with personality disorders: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016028961....
I wouldn't be surprised to see his business pop up on HN's "Who wants to hire" thread.
It's a wee bit more than 10%

With a $38,635 starting price, the entry-level Odyssey now costs $4300 more than last year
> Does this break Apple's ToS? I thought Apple required Safari/Webkit for all in-app browsers?

Doesn't apply to special companies.
"evading regimes" means "committing crimes, as judged by some government I don't think is as legitimate as other governments," right?
I think it's plausible that the superfluous hirings are caused by hirings of key individuals.
It's quite common for these big tech companies to poach each others department heads and other key personnel. This can cause significant damage to a company so can be an attractive tactic. The downside is that in order to retain these people you don't just have to pay them a lot of money you also have to give them big projects and resources to implement them, i.e. lot's of people get hired. This can a problem when these projects aren't supported by the wider company but are just someones pet project.
Indeed, but "works to the highest (quality) standards" is only one of the many aspects of being a good engineer. For example: government engineers are often not as good at completing projects within budget.
Yes, but being employed raises your BATNA, so theoretically, all else being equal, it's better to be employed when looking for a new job.
The way it can start with a crude sketch [0] is pretty cool.

[0] https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion#image-modificati...
About the falsibility - we have a paper with a method to disprove dark matter right here. There are many different cosmological observations which demonstrate deviations between expected and measured gravity, and they are only getting more numerous. If one theory can explain them all, that would already be a big accomplishment. Dark matter seems to explain more than any competitor, but as I understand it no theory seems to fit perfectly.
What goes into efficiently powering the M1? Some pretty fancy technology
Is your university among these? https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/...
Rust Foundation Trademark Policy: Review and Survey
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Reddit's database has only two tables - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4468265 - Sept 2012 (79 comments)
It's exactly like the theory of the ether. It was the fleshing-out of that theory that made physicists doubt its veracity - a substance must permeate all space, be more rigid than steel yet not impede planets orbiting the sun? Really? The Michelson-Morley experiment put the final nail in ether's coffin - but there were already a number of nails. On the upside, it led to great physics! Let's hope we'll be able to say the same for Dark Matter.
There are problems that are due to others. And they wreck your life. Being known as a pedophile when you’re not, it’s a problem worth solving. Because you can’t really live your life.

Those who dwell, think that people can change.

Those who don’t dwell on it, just accept the various other accusations, he stole this and that you know because he’s a pedo etc.

I wager that those who believe they don’t dwell on things, have never had real problems.
> The article covers this as well: the author claims that studies show that all of those different intelligences correlate, so it is not very useful to categorise them individually.

I would strongly doubt that they correlate tbh.. where would the "virgin math genius" cliché would come from ?

I have been versed into various socio evonomic and hobby environement over my life, and have met natural geniuses in several unrelated fields (sport, math, chess, boxing, military, art, entrepreneurs /investors, emotional connections and / or sex). I can assure you i didnt not observe such correlation.

At best what ive noticed is how some of them would be clueless about their gift, and pretty average on the rest.
> The laws of physics have not changed and yet every new mobile iteration cycle someone wants to insist they have.

What is the actual physical limit for the network bandwidth for the available frequency bands? Have we reached it in congested cities?
Only half joking, but the best ROI might just be hiring a few Gen Z auditors and having them watch TikTok.

The amount of bragging that goes on there about tax evasion, or charitably tax ignorance, is hilarious.
At some point when the incentives keep driving these "institutions" to make choices like this maybe you need to start questioning how the existing structures drive those incentives forward.
Denormalized means it has multiple copies of the same pieces of data. The application is responsible for keeping those copies in sync with each other. This is a messy process that is easy to get wrong now and then. Then your app starts saying things that are absurd. No one cares much if Reddit does that every now and then.