skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe they can start working with a car manufacturer that doesn't have such an image to protect, like one of the Chinese ones that are expanding in the West.

If it's actually good, customers will then push manufacturers into it.
It's way worse if you're the person on the receiving side of that.
I've only ever gotten this on my Macbook
> Dread to think how an argument for supporting 3+ web engines for a “native” app would go.

Well, on mobile, it's slightly different. If you use Capacitor, it uses the OS' native WebView, which is either Chrome (Android) or Safari (iOS). You gotta test for two web engines, but fortunately, they're relatively close.

I think a solution like this for desktop would make sense. Modern browser engines don't have that many differences and it would make the runtime a lot smaller (thin wrapper around the already installed browser engine).

Sure, it has its downsides, but mobile apps have been written like that forever (via PhoneGap before and now Capacitor) and have come a long way since.
It is funny that people still equate smart with nice and well balanced humans.
I know it's not an excuse but Sabine definitely "starts it". Just look at her wording in the blog post? She is always combative at the outset. She does not seem to have the kind of people skills required to harshly (and you can't deny it's harsh) and publicly criticise an entire field without upsetting everyone in that field. It takes skill to do that in a good way.

Unfortunately for her, the only people who are really strongly swayed by her arguments are her following of lay people, because the physicists are either 1) enough into theoretical particle physics that they immediately reject her undiplomatic comments (even if they may be right) or 2) like me a physicist who knows they know so little about theoretical particle physics that they should not have an opinion on it.

Physics twitter is very cordial and positive if you simply ignore Sabine.
Intelligence that excels in rationalizing natural cause and effect often fails when confronted with the irrational human mind, even its own.
> even though we know what to fix, ordering our immune system to do what we think is right would probably break other things due to the huge complexity our our bodies

When it comes to the decision making of biological systems, I always think about the game Elevator Saga[0], and how "fixing" one level can break all the others. Now think that game with million times the signals/variables/events and so many levels that it feels infinite, and you begin to understand the challenge that our immune system faces. The current solution passes many "levels" (diseases) but not all, and when we make changes, there's no single test-suite that guarantees that we didn't break anything significant.

[0]: https://play.elevatorsaga.com/
Worth noting that it is hotly disputed if this actually happened, or if it was just a handful of cases. I don't really have an opinion - my understanding is that it's plausible but there is currently no evidence for it. (Except for the government acting quite suspiciously every time it's asked to investigate.)
Correlation is not causation.

The truth is probably the opposite of what you are claiming.

Increased literacy resulted in incentives to create copyright legislation.
Nord Stream is 51% Russian (Gazprom). Not sure if it is NATO territory or international waters. It still becomes a little bit more "muddy" on who could have made it and who benefits from it.

Attacking Norway-Poland line at this point would be a very obvious and very direct attack on NATO.
I had your exact same reaction, except with the US at the top of the suspects list (or non-governmental agents whose interests align with the US, of which there are plenty).

The #1 reason I'm still leaning Russia nevertheless is because of an outside factor: Russia isn't screaming bloody murder about it.

If 3/4th of their pipelines had gone up and nobody in the Russian government was involved, Lavrov would already be on a plane to NYC and calling for an emergency UNSC meeting about a terrorist UK/USA attack against Russia's assets.

So far, the most they have produced seems to be a mealy-mouthed question on Zakharova's Telegram channel [0]. Given the Russian Foreign Ministry's modus operandi of blaming the West for anything and everything at the slightest excuse, this sudden quiet is extremely significant.

[0] https://tass.com/politics/1514405
Well, high energy physics does seem to be kind of stuck. The cosmology and big collider crowd don't seem to get much in the way of new results for the amount of effort expended. How are the string theorists doing?

The interesting experimental results in recent years mostly seem to come from very low energy physics. Down around absolute zero, many interesting effects have been demonstrated.
The three explosion sites are at depths of 70 - 80 meters. That would require a trained diver with professional equipment, or an underwater drone. Not that professional divers don't go deeper. But a recreational scuba diver, with readily available gear would dive to max half that depth.
In Europe? Why?
How can a precise garbage collector work when it does not know if a value is or is not a pointer?
You think that Sweden and Denmark surveil every single dinghy and fishing boat and yacht and ferry? That if a tugboat stops for 3 or 4 or 8 hours along the 2400km stretches of the Nord Stream pipelines, the coast guards will swoop in with helicopters and snipers. Yeah, no. No, that would not have happened.
The TS100 was just the only one of these I could buy for an acceptable price in an acceptable time period. Mine was 35 bucks.

I ordered mine as used device here in Germany. Aliexpress would have taken weeks and Amazon was just to expensive (cheapest about 80 bucks).
Wow, I can understand why that feels wasteful.

But ... it boggles my mind how someone can change their wallpaper in my mind) 435 times in roughly 3 years. That's a new image every (365 * 3) / 435 = ~2.5 days, all year around. Maybe less if not all files were old images, I didn't read the screenshots too closely.

I'm generally not even aware of the desktop background image (and thus never spend time to change it), it's always covered by actual application windows. Interesting.
I interviewed at a defense contractor once and the project sounded interesting. They were under a serious schedule crunch and the interviewer told me I could expect to work 60 hours a week for the next 18 months without any overtime.

I told him I didn't want to waste any more of his time and did I need an escort out or could I find my own way.
Are we still proliferating the myth that you have to be exceedingly smart to be a physicist? The only thing that makes a physicist a physicist is that they didn't give up. Sure there are amazing geniuses out there, but a majority of physicists (including myself) are just average people who did not drop out when it got tough.

And, the only reason I didn't drop out is because I was scared to. I did not know what I would do otherwise.
NS1 and NS2 each have two pipes. Both pipes of NS1 are leaking, but only one of NS2.
there are overland pipes through ukraine, poland, belarus, czech republic and austria too, so any likely putin usurpers could easily use those. wheres the rational for russia to blow them up really?

those countries didnt want ns2 because it cut out their middle man charges. most likely culprit is any of those countries (cough poland cough)
Its allwayas a problem in the beginning but yes email is the defacto -auth- mechanism out there.

I have been and will always be using exchange from a reputable source (in my case OVH). I pay money for my email because its now their problem to keep it running.
After that I add dns protection to my domain so it can not be changed on a whim.
For it i have like 100 aliases setup which I give out to the vendors I use.

But yes, after initially signing up with a freemail, I changed my main email to the one provided by OVH. Why? because I can verify myself with my invoices even if two FA and everything else has been taken over.

There really is no ideal setup, because email was not designed for it. Its a messaging protocol and not an auth mecahnism, that it can be used that way is coincedence.

USE 2FA. Use a dedicated device for auth, because those are designed to be with you at all times. Like actual keys.

The probability that someone will actually hack your icloud backup with your 2fa app backed up into it, are way less likely then one of your passwords leaking.
Most of these people never actually dug into anything, but just accept the popular idea that the Inquisition tortured millions.

La leyenda negra, is a concept that doesn't reach many people in the anglo-saxon world

It's a lost cause.
How is their spam detection?
I use python extensively, and whitespace very much is an actual issue. Not a big one, but it is annoying every once in a while e.g. when copying code. Especially as autoindenting is very much hampered in that case, because the editor can't tell what the indent is supposed to be if multiple options are valid python. Dealing with braces instead is much easier. Not a deal-breaker or major issue, but an annoyance nonetheless.
It looks like they've reinvented the Gateway 2000 Handbook.
My whole family uses essentially a TV with GNOME running on an attached micropc. We use something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Android-Gimibox-Wireless-Keyboard-Pro... Works like a Wiimote. We don't have to limit functionality, we just launch a web browser and have the streaming services on the bookmark toolbar. None of our visitors have ever had problems operating this system, even ones who have never heard of linux or GNOME or Wiimotes. You just flip the remote over to type text into the search box. When the keyboard side is "up," the motion pointer and the "bottom side" is disabled. Flip the remote and the keyboard is disabled and the motion control resumes. Intuitive as hell, works great.

My point is that minor adaptations can lead to surprisingly pleasant functionality. Past failures are not reasons to stop trying new things; they're reasons to try other new things.
Biological systems have developed for hundreds of millions of years, their complexity is much bigger than anything in the IT realm, which is relatively young.

I don't wonder at all that it is nature that can fight nature better than we can. Nature is by far the biggest and the oldest lab of them all, with an untold count of experiments ran.
> Add to that that clandestine adventurism like this is very much Putin's MO and not the USA's

Clandestine adventurism is not the USA's, really???

> we

Oh, that explains it. Cuz "we" are always the good guys!
Or Ireland. And just to leapfrog, Germany under multiple governments throughout history.

It seems to be common practice to take children away from their families, if said families are not part of the group in power.
Agree! I didn’t get to pick the fridge, but I did get to pick the cooker, and it’s got dual convection ovens, ftw. The cracklings, the bread crust, the baking soda roasted potatoes, all winners.

I’m looking for a US-style toaster oven. Hard to find here. The cooker has a grill too (heat from the top, close to the food) but it takes too long to heat up and then suddenly gets too hot, plus you can’t see in easily. OK for sausages, not so good for a tuna melt.
I also used it, a relative had one for their startup. There were dozens of us at least!
How are you a 100% sure?
But.. people won't miss one or two payments.

They'll miss one payment, then never make another payment on those mortgages ever again.

If your fuel bill was £800 per year, and you're keeping your family alive on £20,000 (as many are), then it's now almost £2k. That was before any of this happened.

Your mortgage was maybe £250 a month on a variable rate because that's all you could get - and were terrified houses would go up even more if you didn't take it. Now your mortgage is almost £700 per month, and rising.

At the same time, the value of the £20k you earn is collapsing, so the food bills you were already struggling with are skyrocketing too.

Ask any of the folks on here that are based in middle America how much sympathy the system had for them in 2008.

Having forgiving policy only works if the government has enough money to protect you - the money is crashing already and after Truss & Kwarteng's nonsense last week any further support packages will make it.. Venezuelan.
That code has nothing to do with conciseness, he could've extracted the arguments in separate variables
It appears that both pipelines have two independent pipes for some unknown reason only a single pipe on the uncertified NS2 remains intact.
That's kinda the feeling I got from reading the post.

Eugenics is a part of science deemed immoral and forever shunned because associated with the nazis, but maybe it would be good if we had made enough progress to avoid babies that come near death 4 times a day every day and require their two parents to be dedicated to their care 24/7.
By the way, one easy way to find what’s taking up space in your Mac, using finder, is enable “Show View Options" in the "View" menu and choosing "Calculate all sizes", you can set to default to that if you want as well.

Then using list view you can sort all folders by size. It takes a while to calculate of course, faster with an SSD.
No, this was at a less famous institute in Leiden, The Netherlands
Used to be able to specifically set the size of the title bar in Windows 9X and NT 4-XP or so.
>So: don't trust what politicians say, but also take what journalists (all journalists, not just the likes of Tucker Carlson) say/write with a big grain of salt...

You shouldn't trust what any public figure has to say. The fact is that Germany is about to go into a deep freeze, and all of their hollow rhetoric is going to rapidly go away when reality sets in. You don't need a politician or journalist to explain it. It is unfortunate that objective reality causes cognitive dissonance in so many, and prevents serious conversations about how to deal with reality-based problems.
What percentage is “many”? What’s the absolute number?
> Things that are maintained usually have more character.

This is how I think and feel as well. Custom repairs signal to me some kind of toughness. The item has been battle tested and survived.
> Strings are just arrays of characters, so any algorithms you learn for arrays also applies to strings.

I.e. don't believe the anti-American propaganda on Unicode.org.
I have lot of books here that say otherwise.
Motif/CDE, +/- 1990.

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19683-01/806-4743/6jdq6q20i/inde...
Also, as coroborated by Verdi, creative output is negatively impacted by copyright.

Why write (compose) new stuff if money is flowing in because of old stuff.
The Catholic Church worked parallel to some of those regimes, and in cooperation with others. Or completely independent in other cases.
MNT's production runs are not big enough to drive novel display formats. They use off-the-shelf displays. Their other laptop, the Reform, has a list of about four models of LCD that will work.
AWS EKS vs. ECS vs. Fargate vs. Kops: Where to Manage Your Kubernetes in 2022?
I've come to embrace this as the business lifecycle. It's quite well-studied. Eventually, all businesses rest on their laurels; over-price, under-compete, and allow space for newer entrants. If we consider the positives here, this creates fantastic market and product dynamism, and (in theory) prevents companies becoming country-sized monopolies. I'm actually more concerned about companies which remain competitive and loved over generations. The kind of global power they could wield is scary.
The fundamental problem presented to us by Facebook is that they forbid more than one account. So a human person's Facebook profile needs to be a "kitchen sink" style presence that's acceptable to all our friends and acquaintances no matter how we know them.

This is unprecedented and unnatural for eusocial human beings. We all have different personas and circles that we operate in, and so for me to put something on a Facebook profile where it can be discovered by anyone who knows me, that's disconcerting and it makes me feel naked. It is also not cool for people who don't really care about those aspects of me. I know a lot of Linux/IT nerds and I also know church people - the IT people don't care about the saints I'm praying to or the pro-life cause I'm celebrating. And vice versa.

But Facebook insists that it's one profile for everyone, and then they create features like we can add friends to "lists" to restrict post access, and "The Algorithm" determines what goes on someone's feed rather than just having us organically share like with like. That's a huge inefficiency and it's a recipe for disaster in most cases. Pragmatically, people like me keep our FB footprint really small and we post nothing but totally uncontroversial, universal-appeal stories, such as what we ate for dinner and how we prepared it.
You can't effectively defend hundreds of kilometers of an underwater pipeline, you can only increase monitoring but that doesn't stop the pipe from being blown up. In fact the charges could have already been placed, before any extra monitoring was deployed, and are just waiting for a signal.

The point being - Russia has sent a very clear message that if we don't stop pushing back on Ukraine, that pipeline is next to blow up. There is almost nothing we can do to prevent it if they want to make it happen.
The footnote for point 4.3 in the linked document above explicitly calls out optimization modes and possible non compliance. Yeah, its the x87 80 bit registers all over again.
If this act of sabotage was not conducted by nation state actors with submarines, but someone using fishing boats and scuba divers instead like you suggest, the perpetrators will be caught in a manner of days.

The straits between the coasts of the southern Baltic sea are one of the most closely guarded waters in the world. There are at least 5 different nations (dk, se, de, pl, ru) coast guard assets with eyes on the region.

There is primary radar, secondary radar, seabed hydrophone arrays, surface vessels, submarines and airborne surveillance and satellites with eyes and ears on this region. And the surveillance has been increased a lot during this year.

Unless someone gets caught within a week, it's safe to assume that this sabotage was conducted by nation state level actors.
I was already halfway through the article when I realized I'd misunderstood the title: It's not about about using games to interview people (Factorio style), which still might have made sense to test self-taught engineers, but about how to game the interview process.
Habeck (Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action) went on live TV a week or two ago and called German nuclear power plants a "high risk technology" that "needs to be shut down as planned". There has never been a nuclear accident in a German NPP and they've consistently achieved a 90 % capacity factor.

Now, NPPs are of course pretty expensive, and purely from a $/kWh perspective it's pretty difficult for the large-scale-engineering kind of power plant (this extends to any kind of thermal plant) to compete with the cheaper renewables. But $/kWh is not everything - NPPs are plannable and commandable capacity (unless you're the French), renewables aren't, so their kilowatt-hours are not actually directly comparable.

Naturally natural gas especially in Germany is not primarily used for electricity generation, but largely for process heat, residential heating and as a chemical. A lot of that could be replaced by using electricity, but that'd be quite expensive, too. However, even though natgas isn't used primarily for electricity, due to merit order / economic dispatch the gas price has a hugely outsized impact on electricity prices. This, among with very high taxes and dues on electricity, is what causes world-record prices in Germany.
I've had this argument before: If you argue eugenics then you should really look into your family history and be 100% sure no-one has any "defects" anywhere. Most people who argue it have either needed some form of intervention somewhere in their lives to fix a "defect" and in other cases one of their predecessors and would they be unwanted in the eugenics-fanatics eyes. (Reflection usually works quite well with when someone is reasoning for eugenics)
If you're using an interview that bares 'little relevance to an employee’s day-to-day work' and that requires dedicated prep to pass, then what you're doing is optimising a process for finding people who will tick boxes and jump through meaningless hoops.

That's fine - some jobs do require that - but it does mean that any 'best and brightest' rhetoric should be shelved. Everyone knows that tech hiring is broken, but still the trumpets sound about how it really means something to get through one of these processes. It is almost a counter-signal.
I don't know what other people's motivation is but for me after experiencing life at Google and elsewhere I really understood that to build anything at scale takes a multi-year effort building on the foundations already set. Google and Amazon don't get to be where they are by rewriting the entire stack every 2 years, yet as developers that's what we effectively have to do every time we leave a company. Only the large incumbents truly benefit from this compounding value and services development model. The rest of us just have to keep rewriting stuff from scratch and hope for opportunities to work at places with great technology.

Personally I feel like if we can open source building blocks that become the foundations for our development then we can build more interesting things on top e.g you're not going to build redis, postgres, etc again, but what are the things we build on top of them? We have a lot of open source infrastructure but not much in higher level categories. One day we'll get there, but it takes multiple people trying time and time again before we get there.
Same code on premise as on edge.

Could be some things aren't allowed to run in the cloud for gdpr, privacy reasons or whatever
I will be interested in reading that, but my understanding in general is that the previous (physical) theories were a mishmash of hypotheses that were patching up the luminiferous aether model as new experiments were invalidating the older assumptions. In contrast, Einstein's paper explained all of the experiments in a single simple theory with a minimal set of extra assumptions.

Additionally, we already know that the luminiferous aether model would have soon hit other major problems with quantum mechanics, which was already starting to be intuited by Einstein and others. So even if SR would have been seen as just a mathematical curiosity at the time of publishing (solving a non-problem), it would have soon become even more important.

Very importantly, SR also had much fewer assumptions (free parameters) than any of the other successful models it replaced. Contrast this with String Theory, which has numerous free parameters, doesn't fully explain currently-known phenomena, and has accumulated more than thirty years of study from a vast amount of physicists. SR was one physicist's individual work for a handful of years, and the moment it was presented, it was a short and complete theory that could immediately replace more complex ones.

If any individual physicist wants to similarly individually investigate some of the non-problems listed in the article, and were to come up with a new formulation of QM/QFT that explains them with a similar theory - then by all means, I am certain Dr Hossenfelder has no problem with that. It is when the search for such a theory becomes a decades-long approach sucking up most of the funding in the field with no results at all that it becomes a problem.