skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Peter Woit has strong opinions but they're often not representative of the physics community as a whole. In my opinion, which as a physicist myself I think matters as much as Woit's (i.e. not much), Scientific American is variable in quality, but I wouldn't dismiss the article before reading it.

This article does a pretty good job of summarizing a range of modern ideas about spacetime. I see that it introduces laymen to some of the important names in the field, including van Raamsdonk and Maldacena, and presents their important and influential work in an accessible way.

No paywall version: https://web.archive.org/web/20221124171006/https://www.scien...
Ray Dalio is watching
The poor aren't getting the meals.

When I was a grad student, my McD's trips were 'hey I found a toonie (Canada), I can treat myself to a McDouble'.
If that pay didn't go to the CEO, who would get it? The shareholders.

And who are the shareholders? The wealthiest 10% own almost 90% of stocks.
happy thanksgiving \\//,
That’s why I stopped buying things that matter from them, but Walmart Best Buy and home depot are chasing the same profits allowing “market place sellers” - we need to hold these stores liable and accountable for everything sold on the site.

I usually check things when they arrive pretty throughly no matter who I buy from and I hate how I have to waste my time doing it
What are the benefits of having and raising children?
But so do Alpine, Devuan, Guix, Slackware or Void.
> CEOs are getting ever-higher pay over time because of their power to set pay and because so much of their pay (more than 80%) is stock-relate

This is the key to their high compensations, and in some ways it has to be like that because how else are you going to incentivize a CEO to raise the value of the company? Say a CEO was paid exactly what the engineers at a company were paid, it doesn't matter to him if the stock goes up or down because his pay stays the same. By tying the CEO's salary to the stock price, you're telling them that they can make a killing if the company makes a killing.

It's unfair but it's necessary.
macOS plays second fiddle to iOS at Apple.

Ive was Chief Design Officer. Now check Apple's Leadership page (https://www.apple.com/leadership/). Design is nowhere to be found on it. It had temporarily been assigned to HR chief Deirdre O'Brien, no more, and Design co-chiefs Alan Dye and Evans Hankey report to the COO Jeff Williams, a.k.a. the Department of Everything Else. It's not a surprise both Dye and Hankey are leaving the company.

While I think Ive was mostly harmful to the company once the strong guiding hand of Steve Jobs that kept him on the straight and narrow went, it's not good to have this level of instability in the critical function of design either. Expect years of mediocre product design and stagnation ahead. On the plus side, no more butterfly keyboards, cables that fray if you look at them funny, or portless Macs either.
I’m curious, do you actually trust those certifications? I’m wary of the validity of them, but don’t know how to verify if they’re authentic. Thinking mostly of UL certification.
Not sure what you're referring to. It's absolutely standard for iOS apps to load dynamic libraries that are bundled along with them. Additionally, Emacs itself doesn't consist of more than one executable.
While I have little confidence in the average NYT reader I think people need to be able to make up their own minds, and Sam has an important and relevant perspective which we should be able to take into account, even if he might frame it in a way that makes him look good
Wow, this sounds like jingoistic, revisionist history. I don't claim to know the details but I certainly don't trust this article to be objective.

One alternate theory I've heard is that Intel bet big either keeping the feature size it was (7nm?) or on a process that was less speculative and risky than the process that ultimately got put in place to make sub 7nm chips a reality now. In other words they failed to innovate.

The demand for chips has only increased, even if the article is suggesting that "PC sales are down". Moore's law has kept pace even if CPUs have been stagnant (hint: s/C/G/).
Yeah. It's actually surprising there aren't more products with this name.
why i prefer modern languages number 800.. no autoconf. (rust, go)
That's fantastic, just about every one of these cables I have eventually ends up tabless. They're just built so flimsily that breaking them is a complete inevitability if you need to plug them in more than once, they're like a 5 time use cable.

Comparing it to other types of connectors, RJ45 is probably one of the worst ones out there (at least VGA has screws that don't break), but it's also as prevalent as USB-A so I wonder if anything will ever replace it.
Dont they kinda have to, to avoid falling into problems with the DEI crowd?
I find it ironic the Washington Post has this article.
I’m not on semaglutide, but I am on tirzepatide (aka Mounjaro), which is the newest drug in the same class.

Honestly, it’s like a miracle. I’ve been fat since I was 6 years old. I’ve occasionally lost weight (though never made it to “normal”), but only through pretty intense, focused effort to restrict calories. I’ve always gained it back (and then some) after I can’t sustain that effort. (Call it lack of willpower or whatever, but this is how it works for the vast, vast majority of people.)

Anyway, on tirzepatide, it’s simply effortless. Food is still good, and I still like to eat, but I don’t think about it all day. I eat a reasonable amount, feel full, and don’t have the urge to eat again for hours and hours. That’s honestly a new experience for me. My entire life “eat when you’re actually hungry” would have meant eating all day every day, basically. I’ve been losing weight at a consistent 2.5 lbs / week on this drug. I fully intend to be on it for the rest of my life (or other drugs in the class as they come out).

As for side effects: I’ve had precisely none. No nausea, constipation, heartburn, etc. I understand those are common but I haven’t experienced them at all.
"Stuff like that" being what, anything mains-powered, anything with a lithium-ion battery, anything that touches your skin, anything that might get very hot as part of its operation, anything whose continued functionality manages the safe temperature or pressure of anything else, anything that connects to the Internet, anything that stores data, anything that touches food, anything you might ingest or inhale, anything load-bearing, anything that is costly or difficult to remove once installed, any components that fail in a way that damage other components in the same device, anything whose failure would block an ongoing project, anything that seals containers or conduits for liquids or gases, et cetera, et cetera? It turns out that the category of products who can fail in a way that wouldn't be covered by a full refund is actually "most products".

EDIT: Also collectables and randomised products such as trading cards.
I have a PhD in a closely related field and I'm not sure what you mean--this sentence is well-formed and basically correct, if slightly simplified to appeal to laymen.
I applaud anyone who leaves a non 5 star review, gets contacted by the company with bribes to make it 5 stars, and updates their review to report the company doing that.
There's also nonsense like this: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/physicists-need-t...

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6202

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-needs-to-ren...
When they became popular in America in the late 90s and early 00s they were the absolute lowest price cars on the road and had a corresponding reputation for quality/reliability. They were what you bought if you wanted to buy new, but couldn't afford to pay for Japanese reliability. Friends that bought them new had major mechanical problems within a few years. Their gutter reputation is what led them to offer the 7 year warranty, to try to signal quality and reassure people that the problems they would inevitably experience would be fixed by the company. I'm sure they've gotten far better than then, but they're still nowhere close to Toyota/Honda in reputation. When there exist manufacturers that have been building cars that are reliable for decades, for decades, for only a few thousand dollars more, I am loath to consider buying from anyone else.
The Fediverse is the loose network of servers that exchange data with the ActivityPub protocol. Mastodon is a server that implements a chunk of AP. Mastodon also specifies a client API that is not AP, but is fairly often implemented by other packages because it's convenient.

AP is not entirely Twitter-style microblogging. It can be used to exchange (data or links) photos, video, audio, documents, invitations and meeting appointments. The default privacy assumption for all AP content is that it is basically public.

Matrix is not built on AP. Matrix is a real-time communications protocol suitable for private messages and public chats. Its mission appears to be to bridge every other protocol, so there's at least one Matrix-ActivityPub bridge module, MXToot.

OpenID is not part of these. Some Matrix servers can use OpenID for authentication. As far as I know, no ActivityPub servers currently use OpenID.
nice/renice isn’t what it used to be[0].

Bandwidth limiting is not built in[1].

[0] - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10342470/process-nicenes...

[1] - https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues/3065
Also, this Proclamation issued by Governor Wilbur Cross on Nov. 12, 1936

"Time out of mind at this turn of the seasons when the hardy oak leaves rustle in the wind and the frost gives a tang to the air and the dusk falls early and the friendly evenings lengthen under the heel of Orion, it has seemed good to our people to join together in praising the Creator and Preserver, who has brought us by a way that we did not know to the end of another year. In observance of this custom, I appoint Thursday, the twenty-sixth of November, as a day of Public Thanksgiving for the blessings that have been our common lot and have placed our beloved State with the favored regions of earth -- for all the creature comforts: the yield of the soil that has fed us and the richer yield from labor of every kind that has sustained our lives -- and for all those things, as dear as breath to the body, that quicken man's faith in his manhood, that nourish and strengthen his spirit to do the great work still before him: for the brotherly word and act; for honor held above price; for steadfast courage and zeal in the long, long search after truth; for liberty and for justice freely granted by each to his fellow and so as freely enjoyed; and for the crowning glory and mercy of peace upon our land; -- that we may humbly take heart of these blessings as we gather once again with solemn and festive rites to keep our Harvest Home.
So the 8 pin modular connector(rj-45) may not be the best connector in the world(the 8088 sas connector is a serious contender for that honor), but it does one thing better than any most connectors, it is designed to be field terminated, and as such is easy to fix. the crimping dies are ubiquitous, the process is simple. because of this single fact, I think it is better than just about any other connector in widespread use. because you can fix the infernal thing.

As such the article left me a bit confused, why not just cut off the end and putting a new plug on? with an 8 pin connector this is very easy. But I am in the industry and tend to have a crimper close to hand. perhaps some are not as fortunate.
I think the main issue here is people conflate the security boundaries defined by the website operators with the security or privacy boundaries a user might want to enforce. The web origin chosen for the service operator's XSS sandbox is not necessarily what a privacy-focused user wants. It's only useful when a trustworthy operator is designing for the benefit of the user.

There should really be a more granular way for the user's policy to adjust the origin definitions used for cross-origin logic as well as other types of content blocking and enforcement.

Why shouldn't a user be able to isolate https://example.com/app1 as much as https://app1.example.com?

Why shouldn't they be able to grant any permission to be used in a single page https://example.com/app1/usefulpage and not in other pages on the site?

The multi-container approach to browser session isolation faces the same issues. Different users may have different preferences for when navigation shares the session and when navigation should kick you into a new session that lacks authentication, tracking, or app state.
He stole billions of dollars in client funds.

That's far more damaging than a delusional rant on some obscure internet radio station.
This is also happening in Europe now on an EU scale. Often something takes a couple days because it goes from Germany to Spain or something. They don't say that's the reason but you can tell from the stickers on the products. I guess they don't do this anymore for the UK though because of all the customs hassles since Brexit.
Is that one way these drugs work? They make your stomach hurt if you eat normal portions?
>Sometimes I think that half the reason why some fields don't have a replication crisis is because literal lives are on the line if you get it wrong, so people actually do the work to make the testing gear and align the incentives that need to be aligned.

You don't think lives are on the line with psychology? The replication crisis there should be terrifying but because of the extra degree of separation between theory and result, it is, for some reason, just hand-waved over.

You are right that if people died because of a structural engineering mistake due to incorrect information people would be sued and possibly sent to prison. In mental health, however, people can die in droves and nothing! Or public policy that destroys the lives of millions can be made on bad research and just shrugged off later.
What's wrong with full screen ads? I honestly don't mind tiktok and reels ads at all despite them taking a full screen.
the time you spend pulling your hair out figuring out why your program stopped working due to some obscure problem with the caching mechanism, is alot more than the time you save by doing the caching. at least for a lot of people. for others it might make sense
I believe that's only if the GA account is connected to an Ads account (or set up to collect demographics, I think). By itself, GA will only use https://www.google-analytics.com/j/collect (or /g/collect for GA4).
It's not my view that he hasn't been charged or convicted, it is an objective fact.

What is the definition of violence?

> behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something.
HaH, exactly.

25 years ago, I lived in a city of Rijeka. You could start from Croatia; enter & drive through entire country of Slovenia; enter into Italy and go shopping into Trieste, two countries over - in 75km.

Now I'm in the Greater Toronto Area, and my best friend lives about the same distance, officially in the same city or metro.

There's just over two thousand kilometers between the capitals of two neighbouring provinces in Canada (Winnipeg & Toronto). Or you could go through dozen countries, with all of their states and provinces in Europe for same distance (e.g. Geneva to Istanbul or similar).

Distances are vastly different and people's attitude toward them as well - what is daily commute in GTA used to be a yearly vacation pilgrimage in my childhood :)
I am not rooted, but I am using GrapheneOS which is technically a fork of Android. I am using the built in Seedvault for app backup to Nextcloud. Files are synced with Nextcloud client.
Armodafinil seems to have filled a similar purpose for me that semaglutide does for you. Headaches from it are solved by taking choline, and the insomnia is minimized by taking it before 7 AM and only taking it every other day (long half-life). It's prescription-only in the US, but it's OTC in India and there are plenty of companies that will send it to you without a prescription. Even though it's a stimulant, it's chemically not an amphetamine, and I suspect that's part of why I've never had troubles with customs. Also makes me a 10x coder. I get more work done in a day on that than I do in a week off of it.

Again, I'm not a doctor, and this is not medical advice.
There are other options for that too, like paying for MDN[1].

1: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/plus#subscribe
His dry humor absolutely kills me.

Pt1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTFhnpf-IE0

Pt2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVrMpk4lGjA

Pt3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hue46YwRvSc
Alpine can do both, actually; a "sys" install does a traditional root filesystem, but Alpine also can run... I think a ro root with a single rw overlay with all added packages(?)
Crypto investor DCG reveals web of investments between units
Top right of the table?
SBF is probably paying for the best personal brand repair money can buy. He knows if you can achieve the cult like following of Elon or Trump you can become untouchable with the right bribes.
It'll be interesting to see the angle they take. The media portrayal of FTX, thus far, seems to be very biased. With suspicion of fraud from huge well respected entities being all but buried.

Ontario Teachers writes off FTX stake, citing potential fraud
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/ontario-teachers-writes-off-ftx-...

This is a US$182 billion fund.
> The main barrier seems to be a culture or mindset that prioritizes short term benefit/feelings over long term benefits even when there are other options.

Interesting because the main barriers I see are how the system creates perverse incentives for poor people re: getting to be not poor. For example, people on SSI aren't allowed to save. If my sister makes more than ~1k/mo or I save too much (as she's my dependent) she loses her healthcare which is what keeps her from going full Kanye. If I make/save much, I stop getting assistance for my MS meds. Basically, working to get out of poverty wouldn't actually get us out of poverty, we'd just end up giving our money to healthcare companies instead of buying ourselves little luxuries. Another example is that often assistance programs won't help you unless you empty your savings. So if you have 200 dollars and can't make rent, they'll take it from you before they help. So it's more 'rational' to spend that 200 on something else.

Disability, chronic health conditions, and unexpected dependents (be it children, elderly parents, or (in my case) a sibling who manifested a severe mental illness in their 20s) are huge factors in poverty.
Is this what the kids call "cancel culture"? I'm judging the quality of the OP article, not the sum total of everything that they've ever published. The politics of the editors of Scientific American may not align perfectly with my own, but it's still worth engaging with their content when it's thoughtful, and I think this article is an example of that.

Edit: actually that's not true, I just wrote that SA's overall quality is "variable". So yes, I already conceded not everything they publish is a winner. And for what it's worth, I agree that the piece they published on E. O. Wilson was in very poor taste.
Thankfully there are many other news organizations who aren’t owned by Bezos.
No, it isn’t. Why are you lying?
How to test if we're living in a computer simulation
What would make Twitter the place to be for them as opposed to subreddits, Facebook groups, old school forums, and all the other things that exist?
Founding engineer of Twitter discusses what should come next
In 2006, Blaine Cook was working at a podcasting company called Odeo when coworker Jack Dorsey pitched the idea for a new social network. Cook was included on the project and became the engineer for what would later that year initially launch as a text messaging service called twttr before adopting the name and website it’s known as today.
> Enough people say it wrong it eventually becomes right. There's nothing definitive about language except for usage...

This is a view that is common among English speakers. Among many German native speakers it is instead common to love to analyze words and tell why some word is wrong even if it is actually in common use sometimes for decades.
Actually, I think this perhaps hints at an interesting dichotomy (except the wrong way round): I think cryptocurrencies and smart contracts are genuinely interesting from an academic point of view. Leaving money laundering and Proof of Work aside for a moment, it's incredible that you can have this kind of "serverless" synchronised execution with no trust between parties.

There is of course the money laundering and incredible cost to environment. It feels like crypto's original sin is still not coming up with a valid use case (sending money and banking in unstable countries is I guess one, but fairly minimal compared to the size of the industry).

In a way crypto feels to me like what Internet would be like if it went from the niche academic thing to its current shape, but cut out the "useful" stuff of Dot Com rise and beyond, like social media, Wikipedia, e-mail, communicators etc. The Internet is full of porn, useless cat memes, malware and other criminal stuff. We don't really mind, because it is also stupidly useful and indispensable. Crypto just hasn't found that (yet?). But then, how long did it take from ARPAnet to anything remotely useful?
I have relatively good health insurance from my (USA) employer and my doctor visit still feels like a trip to the DMV. Actually worse because I have to schedule them many weeks in advance. New Patient appointments in my area are currently backlogged 4 months out. When I finally get there, it’s clear I’m on a conveyer belt where I get a 5 minute chat with an actual doctor at the very end of the assembly line. The FUD that people spread about the horrors of socialized health care are already emerging in our free market health system, and I also have to pay through the nose for them.
It's quite a process, apparently. Amusingly, their "all-in-one" tool doesn't do it all.

https://www.truecable.com/blogs/cable-academy/how-to-termina...
VR headsets can now be used without a Facebook account
Unless there’s some kind of third-party checking process, that only means that their seller forms have those extra fields.
> I’m sure will succeed just as effectively as “just make it impossible to Google for CP.”

So... very, very well? I obviously don't have numbers, but I imagine CSAM would be a lot more popular if Google did nothing to try to hide it in search results.
Ive was good as an executor of Jobs' vision. By himself, his designs were self-indulgent and putting form above function, the exact opposite of Dieter Rams' approach that he claims to draw inspiration from. That said, Apple cannot sustain its aura and profit margins with me-too design, going too far in the opposite direction.
It is async, the operation is delayed until the processor has nothing important to do.
The one and only thing a VPN does is that it switches your IP to another. It has absolutely nothing to do with privacy or security. An IP-address is just a single metric among hundreds that are used on the web to track users. IPs are also typically not equal to a user. It is common that an IP is a set of users and IPs often change when it comes to consumer ISPs. VPN makes sense in TCP-scenarios like Bittorrent but for web it is pretty much useless in itself.
But then how do you justify your 3d printer?

(Kidding, I already know you justify them by printing bottlecap openers.)
For the first question, not a perfect answer, but my family owns a log cabin in the Pacific Northwest, and the logs retain heat. Go there any time of the year when nobody's been around for a while and it's like stepping into a refrigerator, but if you light a fire and keep it burning all day, the walls heat up and it gets liveable inside. It's a bit of a downer if you just stop by for lunch, but it's great for a 4-day weekend.