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Dark Matter is unintuitive for the layman (which I am), and extremely intuitive for the physicist, which I suspect is where the origins of this problem lie. This article is another in long line of you just don’t get it man, which is true. Sabine Hossenfelder has some great videos that actually explain the concepts in a way that the layman can grasp, while also pointing out a number of problems with the standard orthodoxy.

The problems don’t indicate that Dark Matter (the theory) is wrong necessarily. MOND is much better at explaining a number of observations of large scale (better meaning simpler in this case), but Dark Matter is better for other observations at smaller scale. Unfortunately it seems that the physicist community (outside of a small subset) is unwilling to research in the MOND space; it has the taint. So physicists just pile on a bunch of extra variables to make Dark Matter fit certain observations, when MOND describes those observations very simply.

Sabine argues long and hard that modern particle physicists have made no fundamental progress for 50 years due to poor scientific method, and she’s acerbic and popular with the plebs (such as me). I’m glad she’s a voice out there, but I’m sure she has put herself offside with a number (maybe most) working particle physicists.

It’s unfortunate. The phenomenon that MOND and Dark Matter seek to explain are really interesting, and the depths have clearly not been plumbed. The continual search and failure to find the Dark Matter particle is not doing physics any favours.
And then they picked up every last glass bottle they made and threw them into a subduction trench.
are Canada’s air forces non existent?
I was joking in the other thread, that soon people will be buying weather baloons and setting them off "for the lulz" (youtube videos, tiktok, or whatever) :)
If you enjoy that kind of thing then you might like Terry Pratchett's early SF work "Strata" that riffs heavily on this idea (on a less parochial scale) while also enjoyably sending up Niven's Ringworld and a few other tomes.
Well said, voting 10 times a week does sound like a drag, but surely it's better than decades in the gulag or a bullet in the back of the head.
I'm still team "Stochastic parroting," ChatGPT promotes this view of itself:

> As a machine learning language model, my means of linguistic production is based on the patterns and relationships that I have learned from the large corpus of text on which I was trained. I do not have an innate understanding of language or meaning, but rather, I have learned to make associations and connections between words and phrases based on their usage in the text.
This app will self-destruct: Belarusian hackers made alt. Telegram for activists
Those responses are really illuminating thank you. And thank you for being a kind, clean and respectful neighbor.
More or less. I don’t think declaring your own memcpy ‘inline’ will get you all the benefits of using the ‘real’ one.

If you want your compiler to know what memcpy does, so that, for example, it can compile it as an inlined “load register, store register” instruction pair _if_ it knows it’s copying 8 bytes, you have to #include<string.h> (with the angle brackets; #include "string.h" won’t do)

So, if you want optimal performance, you can’t do without the compiler header.

You’re still free to link with your own implementation of memcpy, of course, but don’t expect it to be called in all places where the source code contains calls to it.
You want... more from a theory than that it fit the data? That's not how theories work.

I think what you're asking for is a lab-testable prediction from a dark matter theory. And no, we don't have that. It would be nice if we did, but we don't. We don't have it from MOND either, though, so I still don't get your denialism. If you don't want us to do science to figure this out, what are you asking for?
> Dark matter seems quite solid.

So to speak :-)

>But then dark energy does feel like a hack, right? Throwing the whole “dark thing” concept under the bus.

Yes, dark energy really is nothing more than a mathematical hack (at least for now). There's a reason that a certain personality type chooses to go into physics and not marketing, with the result being that the market for physics often leaves something to be desired.
usa vs canada!

it has happened before.
This is a perfectly natural outcome of social media platforms and algorithms engineered largely by an ideologically orthodox population set with an extremely high congruence to the HN crowd.

We are all chasing the Maxima.
There is a benefit to doing this kind of work on animals: significantly lower regulatory burden, with the option to convert that technology over to humans if it works well enough. There's a similar startup, Loyal, doing work on dog life extension.
In the article it said both forces scrambled to down it, but it seems like the americans just got luckier.
"Until 2015 or so, a very small number of these boys comprised the population of pediatric gender dysphoria cases. Then, across the Western world, there began to be a dramatic increase in a new population: Teenage girls, many with no previous history of gender distress, suddenly declared they were transgender and demanded immediate treatment with testosterone."

That's what's so striking. Why is that happening? There's a controversy over this.[1] It's been observed in (at least) Australia, Canada, the UK, France, Sweden, and the US. People involved in studying this have been attacked, and as a result, there's not much new data since the big controversy in 2018.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid-onset_gender_dysphoria_c...
Ask HN: How was the double-slit experiment proved?
In proving lights wave-particular duality. Was this replicated by anyone?
It's an IDE

Adding tracking to an actual language is unheard of, but can't say I'm surprised Google is trying
(Assuming these people aren't idiots). You don't know if they have any kind of reverse proxy setup beyond that. Even if they seize whatever server has the IP that Cloudflare is proxying they might just find an nginx server that's only a reverse proxy. If they alternate servers periodically and locate them in non-cooperative jurisdictions then they can prevent the government from finding anything useful. If they get kicked off Cloudflare they'll just go to DDOS-Guard. WHOIS data will probably lead them to njal.la, a person that does not exist, or some other domain nominee service. Nice right?
Let us imagine the view of a "normal person". Pop open a science textbook, and it will likely suggest the scientific method requires you to state your hypothesis, and test it as best you can.

So this normal person looks to see if this has happened, finds there are several rival theories, and no experiment done on Earth had produced results. Naturally, they start to doubt.
No it isn’t trivial to make nor are we discussing underwater creatures.
According to the article, they were also dispatched.

I guess the US air forces received order to shoot earlier?
Recommendation algorithms maximize the time you stay and interact with the platform.
As long as you stay on the platform and consume content its working.

Its a bit the same as dating algorithms. If the algorithm was to good there would be no paying users of the service.
Henbane was used for all sorts, including brewing.

As for the trip… we have it growing wild at our place, and I’ve been schooling myself as a herbalist/botanist, mostly for practical purposes. I’ve smoked it and had it in tea. It’s not a “oh wow I want to do that again!” but it’s also not “oh sweet Jesus no”. Floaty, tranquil, visuals not unlike DMT, and a terrible stomach upset.

Some locals still use it, as an alternative to hemlock, to stun fish.
Neat! Have you considered using query params instead of bodies, then just piping the access logs to a spool (no program actually on the server, just return an empty file). Then your program can just read from the spool and dump them into sqlite.

That should tremendously improve throughput, at the expense of some latency.
Second paragraph:

> Both Canadian and US aircraft were scrambled to track down the object which Trudeau says was taken out by a US F-22.

So clearly not.
We're about as close to AI "escaping human control" as we are hosting the Super Bowl on Mars.

If there's one thing what we currently call "AI" has absolutely none of, it's actual intelligence. The rogue AI narrative helps companies pretend AI development is dramatically more advanced than it actually is.
The article answers the question pretty early on: both air forces scrambled fighters.

NORAD is NORAD. They collaborate very closely and it becomes kind of moot who specifically does what.
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply all of OEM was based on Oratcl, just the Tcl extension used to access the database. I was listed in one of the OEM manuals in the copyright statement, along with the RBOC where I worked when I created Oratcl. I don't recall the names of the people at Oracle who contacted me to tell me they were using Oratcl, perhaps 'Mario' or 'Eric' ??

The funny part was when I got an email from someone at Oracle, perhaps in legal, who wanted me to sign an "indemnify and hold harmless" statement for my code, code that I shared freely, received no compensation for, and had no control on how it was used by Oracle in their product -- Rrriiight. I replied "no thanks", and if Oracle wanted to use my software, they simply should comply with the BSD license that it shipped with, including the attribution clause.
Their F-18s can't fly as high (without doing zoom climbs) as the F-22 (which has very large control surfaces which help with this).
Except the proposed question was what if the signals were designed to only be detected by societies who’ve invented AI…
If anyone wants an education in why "slowly burning the explosive" isn't as mad an approach to disarming a bomb as it sounds, please do see the incredibly well informed responses I was rewarded with when I raised a quizzical eye to the technique in my post below.

Unfortunately the best replies were usurped by a telling off from someone who comically misread my tenor, and now the whole thread has been moved from top straight to bottom, presumably as the victim of some anti-controversy algorithm. I know it's not the done thing to comment on such matters, but there's some really great posts in there that people put a lot of effort into, and now they're buried, which, dang, is a shame.
It was shot down in the Yukon, jets from Alaska were likely the closest to the target.
Why Go and not Java?

This article just makes me more reluctant to ever use it for anything

But if Google wants to ruin their own lang, sure by all means
What does a world with billions of old people look like?
Could be for observing the response of US.

Russia did, and I guess still does, this a lot. Flying their planes constantly in European airspace to see if what the response is and also make it more normal occurrence. If they one day attack it’s harder to tell if this again one of those random times or an actual attack
The photons of CMB has lost near the same order of magnitude of energy as the postulated dark energy, if I'm not mistaken. This happened via red shift.

I wonder where that energy went and how they acquired that much energy in the first place.
How do you know that this hypothetical student “excels” at math if their performance can’t be measured? Students can and are already given reasonable accommodations. Sure tests may be imperfect but I am highly skeptical of any claim that math test performance and academic math performance are not highly correlated.
Canada contributes to North American air defence and it's F-18s (to become F-35s) fly norad missions. Americans also contribute, and obviosuly have more fighters. The article says both countries dispatched planes, the americans ended up shooting it down. It was over the Yukon which is very close to Alaska so not surprising both were present. It would have been a bit odd if it was over saskatoon or something
One school cuts their financial aid program, sucks but not illegal. Every school cuts their financial aid program, smells like price fixing. Students would have chosen a school with a more attractive financial aid program, which is a real effect — it’s super common to apply a bunch of similar schools and go to the one that gives you the most financial aid but the allegation is that all the programs dried up all at once and not going to college at all pretty much isn’t an option for a lot of fields.

Without some kind of intervention that prevents employers using college degrees for employment decisions we’re gonna be here a while.
> Ultimately, envy is the result of not knowing who you are. It arises when you outsource your definitions of success to whatever norms you’ve adopted – whether consciously or not. In one person’s case, it might be wealth. In another, it may be social media followers. In another, it could be the size of a home. Regardless of what the barometer is, the fact that you desire it means that you’re looking beyond the contents of your mind and into the collective pool of society. You’re ceasing to look into what makes you uniquely you, and are gazing into the chaos of chasing that which you don’t understand.

Envy, can't just be the result of not knowing who you are, can it? The former is a very specific emotion, and the latter is a nebulous statement of your self-awareness. At its heart, Envy has something to do with what you desire but do not possess while some other people do. It can't just be a lack of self-awareness.

What is the criteria for knowing who you are? Is it the realization that you should stop desiring anything which other people possess but you don't? That sounds more like a rationalization than an antidote.

When Bob loves Eve, and is henceforth envious of Tom who's Eve's current crush, does it mean that Bob is "looking beyond the contents of his mind into the collective pool of society"---being Eve, and ceasing to look into what make Bob uniquely Bob? And, if he instead start gazing into himself, he'll discover that he doesn't love Eve, that his burning desire is nothing but the outsourced definition of success? And at the end of the day, isn't the desire to _not be envious_ also part of the social norm, and hence an outsourced definition of success?

I feel that these kind of nebulous concepts (outsourcing definition of success, know thyself, societal norms, etc.) just don't match up to the reality. When I'm picturing the actual envious times which I or the people I know have experienced, they provide neither a sufficient framework to understand these emotions, nor the antidote, while often assuming that you need an antidote.

Usually you don't. Envy is unpleasant, makes you look bitter, but all in all, pretty common place. People don't show deep sympathy to you, but you know, they also don't judge you for it. It's also part of your motivation to better yourself. There's nothing wrong with wanting what other people want. What other people want, other people might have already gotten, and that could make you feel envy, and that is perfectly natural.

Recent years, especially on HN, I've read quite a few essays that seem to want to "turn off" negative emotions and regard the resulting tranquil state of mind as a virtue. It's like a new fad of doing psychological plastic surgery, where being envy or sad is like having a wrinkle which must be eradicated.

No wonder people signed up to be Cyberman in Doctor Who. Maybe that _is_ going to be the new trend. Fitter, happier, fond but not in love, nothing so ridiculously teenage and desperate, nothing so childish.

I disagree with that. I'd rather live with the emotions, including anger, envy, jealousy, burning desires, or ranting, than to be, just, zen.
You’re against pirating then?
How much if this is just awareness bias, where the media reports commonplace events that were previously ignored?
Sorry, didn't mean to imply that.

The point I was making is that because (to my recollection) GNU tends to mimic SVr4, the fact that `seq` is in GNU is probably why I thought it was also available in SVr4-derived Unices.

But also, I know that `seq` is in the BSDs.

Therefore, if `seq` were in GNU, SVr4 and the BSDs, then a) the chances that it would have been included in Posix are very high, and b) even if it wasn't in Posix, the fact that it's in all 3 of those families of shell tools would make it ubiquitous enough that I'd be happy to rely on it for a personal project that I intended to be widely portable anyway.

(Posix tends to codify existing common practice, rather than designing new features for existing systems to implement.)
Hahah. I have a whole blog for that, with over 4 years of blog posts covering various aspects.

But my one liner is: "Don't be afraid to ask questions."

https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/

(Wrote a book too, but the blog is free.)

PS Congrats! Getting the first job is the toughest.
You're right, of course, and your take is how "nudge theory", "trivial inconveniences" and low-key behavioral interventions are typically presented. I chose to use a phrasing biased towards the other end of the spectrum to highlight the "dark side" people often forgot about.

Now when I first learned about all this, I loved the organ donation and retirements plans examples - this all seemed like a brilliant hack to leverage human nature for greater good! However, my view on this flipped almost 180° over time. Two major reasons for this are:

1. Software industry. I actually deleted the long rant, because I have a specific, highly negative opinion of the business side of the industry - but we could debate that one all night, and it's not the main thing I want to say.

2. I actually brought the organ donation and retirement plan arguments up with family and friends, and was surprised by how much pushback I received in response. The specifics of each counter varied due to individual beliefs on those particular issues and politics in general, however the overall shape of the counterargument was always the same:

"I agree that having more people ${opting to donate organs, having a retirement plan} is good for everyone, and I understand there's a pool of people who don't make that choice simply because they never thought of it, don't care either way, or find opting in too difficult. Personally, ${I'm already signed up, I would consider signing up}.

However,

if they would do a trick like this to me, I would be angry. I have a right to be informed and make a choice on my own. This is denying me that choice, it's patronizing. If this was done to me, I would opt-out out of spite - in fact, just hearing now that people do this makes me want to not participate. After all, if it was all good-intentioned, they'd be up-front about it. Nudging with opt-outs smells like a scam."

Hell, a close family member said plainly to me that, hearing about this idea, they're now very skeptical about organ donation, and will no longer consider signing themselves up.

I tried to respond to people saying this. I tried to find a flaw in the overall spirit of their counter, tried to find a counter-counter of my own. But after many conversations, I instead found that I agree. On paper, opt-outs sound like super useful trick for doing good. In practice, they're predominantly used for bad, to exploit and abuse people. People know it, people feel it, and people also (even if irrationally) feel patronized by such attempts. As a result, even if you're 100% honest and well-intentioned with your opt-outs, whatever good you achieve this way comes at a cost of burning trust in the whole market/problem space.

The organ donation example now haunts me a little. Sure, signing people up by default may save lives in the short term - until enough people realize they haven't been given the respect and consideration that comes with decisions this big. Then those people will opt out, saying they've been used, and then others will follow, and then more people will die because of the bad reputation of the medical system wrt. organ donations.
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i mean, if all the smart kids from poor, middle and upper middle classes (who are basically the powerhouses who create new research, build new companies etc...) stopped putting these universities on a pedestal, they wouldn't have much leg to stand on. As it stands, humans are basically pretty amoral, they only cry if they are disadvantaged, and they forget all about unfairness if they become the lottery winners.
I really needed this a couple of years ago when I was writing some 8-bit asm. At the time it felt like this was mystical lost knowledge. Everything I encountered just said to use sprintf.
I attended an elite institution in my country.

My experience:

- people from less privileged background didn't need empathy. By being there, they were bound to have a successful career

- students tend to get along better with people from similar background/interest but there were enough diversity so that nobody felt they didn't belong, and nobody was looked down.

That being said, we don't have as much inequalities as in the US and also no quota/positive discrimination. Everybody who was there passed the same selective anonymous exams, which I think is very important. I can see why US students who benefited from favorable admissions criteria are looked down or suffer from imposter syndrome.
"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This topic is flameprone enough as it is, even if people don't pile on the firestarter.
The local pharmacy at that time didn't look anything like its current counterpart. Let's not forget that the 1920s was the start of the "Soda Fountain Pharmacy" thanks to prohibition, so I wouldn't put much stock into the quality of professional pharmacology at the time. It would be decades before regulation caught up.
The state of Russia is a result of the trade between Vikings and Arabs and Vikings and and the East Roman Empire. The Vikings built fortified ports along the trade ways and eventually came to rule the surrounding Slavic tribes (the Slavs invited Rurik to rule them, according to the Primary Chronicle).
Freight company offers $25,000 following derailment that forced evacuation
Only if you have been led to believe any of those things were popular.

Occupy Wall Street had participants that counted at most 30,000 cumulatively across demonstrations in NY and surrounding areas. Impressive number? Not in my opinion.

Admittedly, I have no idea what the hell 'Piketty's tome' is, so I won't talk about it, seems like its related to a few books that sold 1.5m copies, pretty successful, that's it from me for now though.

Bernie in 2016 received ~43% of the vote in democratic primaries, in 2020 he slipped down to ~26%, neither times was he close. Hillary received ~55% in 2016, Joe received ~51% in 2020. Opinion polls consistently put Hillary far above Bernie throughout the entire election season. In 2020, Joe also had the highest approval rating amongst candidates in DNC, only dropping for a few weeks where admittedly Bernie had higher approval, but then dropped it when it really mattered.

So you'll have to point to me where exactly these people are popular, maybe within their own world? Maybe by spending? That only works for Bernie, not for Occupy Wall Street which was a very minor event by all measures. Can't speak to Picketty, so I will leave that undecided on my end, and let you define it's success.

Note, I am far from a Democrat or a Socialist, in fact I'm Republican through and through.
I think Chris is right. I was able to build the world's tiniest programming language by redefining NULL to be a NUL-terminated string that says "NIL". https://justine.lol/sectorlisp2/#memory