skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the paper's claim is that if you do black holes more realistically, including better boundary conditions, then you can find solutions that have dark energy inside them, purely from GR

The theory paper they quote is here:
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab32da

Its main claim is that a convergent perturbation series representation of metric and Einstein tensor (assuming that one exists) requires "all pressures, everywhere, including the interiors of compact objects" to be averaged over.
So if there are compact objects with dark energy interiors, they contribute negative pressure to the overall average. But the construction of a realistic GEODE (GEneric Objects of Dark Energy) "is an open question that is beyond the scope of this paper."

Generally speaking, you can't get negative pressure "purely out of GR". It's a job for the non-gravitational "stuff" on the right-hand side of Einstein's equations; either exotic configurations of known fields or new, hypothetical ones with intrinsic exotic properties. In cosmology it's typically the latter.
The truth is Manifest V3 is a step in the right direction in that regard. It forces extensions to declare what they want done so the browser can do it directly without exposing user data. This is the right choice for 99% of extensions out there.

It's just that uBlock Origin is so important and trusted that it should be an exception. There should be no limits on uBlock Origin at all. It's so important that it should just be turned into an actual built-in browser feature, and the only reason it isn't is the massive conflicts of interests involved since all major browsers are backed by adtech profits.
I thought Kasparov had a perfectly reasonable argument that in a human v human contest, the players and any coaches have access to a public record of all previous contests the opponent participated in, and can use this information to prepare for a match. Deep Blue had Kasparov's record, but he didn't have Deep Blue's record, which is lopsided.

You are always exploiting the flaws of your opponent in these games. Winning is a matter of exploiting more than you have been exploited.
I recommend this to everyone will listen: Christian Tetzlaff’s most recent recording of the Bach Sonatas and Partitas for unaccompanied violin. It was from around 2017 or so. Just superb in every way. His interpretations have a real improvisatory character that fits with what we know about Bach’s own performance practice. They are recorded on a modern instrument but his articulations sound like Baroque equipment.
It's really Goodhart's law, but operating on the bases of a system. Corruption acts to benefit, not to cost, so it tends to target upward. My sense is the more out of the ordinary you get, the less likely what you're seeing is reflecting normal merit process. That's usually interpreted to mean unusual levels of merit, but I think it also means what you're seeing is not genuine merit.

What tends to be lost in these stories is what you're not hearing. For every fake study, there's probably many more things going on with many more people.

There was some paper posted the last couple of days about estimating rates of corruption in financial firms. It would be interesting to apply similar methods to academics.
That's what contracting is about. Getting hired quickly, usually getting higher hourly rate than employees with the downside of it being a temporary engagement and being the first to go when times are tough.

This would be like a newspaper being outraged about someone cancelling their subscription because they thought the subscription was safe.
One can read Kipling with one's eyes wide open (the more so for the eyebrows constantly raised) and find his views on race revolting, yet still have to admit that he was something of a genius.
I took offense to his line of reasoning that contract workers should be happy with their disposable circumstances. As opposed to being annoyed that the conditions for a disposable workforce exist in the first place.
> These books arn't consumed by people who are particularly aware of the cultural context of the ear in which they were written

Part of reading these books as a child or adolescent is being introduced to the cultural contexts of other times (and perhaps places). When a modern child reads a Victorian children's book, for example, they pick up pretty quickly that it's coming from a different cultural context. And this is a great way to learn about some of the more 'confronting' aspects of other cultural contexts in a pretty non-threatening way (they're just words on a page).
Too many humans are too easily influenced by AI. The fact that so many people legit believe it has "feelings" and they are reacting themselves with "feelings" is a bad sign of things to come. I am forseeing a world of cargo cult-like devotion to algorithms and AI because they tell them what they want to hear, and social media has primed the pump in this regard.
> I definitely eat at least half a pound a day of them

What's your response to somebody who spends $1) at Dunkin Donuts in the morning for breakfast (large iced coffee, ham + egg + cheese sandwich on an English muffin, 2 orders of hash browns), then typically something like $20 at Moe's for dinner (some kind of bowl of chicken + rice + beans + chips + guacamole + queso dip) (or Chipotle or Chick-Fil-A)

$30/day for 2 very "low quality" fast food to go meals
-Forever- is never true unless your offering is open source. 9/10 startups die and I will not pay for a service unless I have an path to migrate to my own server if the service goes under.
> their poor performance and general inability to maintain comfortable Temps in colder climates and anywhere that weather and Temps change frequently.

This doesn’t make any sense: heat pumps adjust seamlessly for changing conditions and the low temperature ranges keep pushing more and more of the country into the range where you can go all winter without auxiliary heat. A few days of electric heat per year are nothing compared to the savings the rest of the time.
Man arrested after allegedly killing co-worker at Chandler Intel plant
I actually recommend reading on Carter's domestic and foreign policy, maybe if you're a bit like me you'll be dumbfounded at the comments here about the huge amounts of historical revision being done, just because the man is on his deathbed
I didn't watch the youtube link. I have now and looked up who the speaker is. He's not aligned with my philosophy. In a past life I made proprietary tools for games studios releasing proprietary products. Most games dev is decidedly hostile to open source, and most windows development is likewise, so I'm not hugely surprised to see that position stated. There may be similar factors at play with the drivers on windows, not my sandbox.

I remember the epyc processor lock story breaking. I don't know how that played out in practice. I do know I'm going to be _really_ angry if it turns out my chip only works in asrock motherboards since that was the first one I put it in. I'd forgotten about that when buying it :(

It seems plausible that whoever is presently the underdog makes nice with open source and whoever is presently on top is not. See e.g. Microsoft over time.

I don't think ROCm will go proprietary because the commercial pressure is in the direction of supercomputers. Specifically, customers of these computers have their own engineers working directly on the open source upstream of the ROCm stack. Both writing optimisations targeting the applications they care about and fixing bugs that trouble them. I mostly get my code reviewed by people outside of AMD. That sort of dynamic doesn't work if you tell customers they need to connect through your VPN and deal with the internal bug tracking systems in order to request changes, as opposed to patching the toolchain themselves.

I am absolutely sure that the overall ROCm architecture was not designed to achieve user lock-in. To the extent I can see an overarching design, it looks like doing the simplest thing we can think of that works OK on clusters. I do see what looks like scar tissue from an initial bring up during the period where AMD was flirting with bankruptcy. OpenCL was implemented first and then apparently ignored by industry. The current compute model (HSA) was designed in collaboration with various other companies, of which I think Qualcomm are still using it but noone else is. I believe there are commercial reasons why we can't implement CUDA (and thus created HIP, which looks pretty similar and I'm told runs on amdgpu or on nvptx). Clang's OpenMP is converging on identical implementations for amdgpu and nvptx and will do the same for intel if they ever show up. That'll already compile a program that runs on either GPU arch if you ask it to.

Obviously I can't totally rule out a change in policy - some corporate mandate may come down that GPU compute is done with this open source model and customers will just have to accept what they're given. There are evidently factions within the company who would claim it is the right thing to do and there's a lag on consequences to changes like that. Hopefully maximising HPC sales will imply open source software for a long time.
Sure thing, fascinating stuff.

I teach all 12 SAFe certifications, so I'm familiar with the framework. The issue that SAFe identified, is the very issue I'm bringing up here. In the case of this framework, it gives managers the chance to keep managing people, but with an out of box framework that keeps them from the burden of understanding systems engineering fundamentals that emphasize flow. That's the problem in a nutshell with SAFe - layer 1 process and team fundamentals are sacrificed in favor of a layer 2 framework. And managers get to lead meetings and report-outs.

Otherwise, SAFe is ok. It just puts some structure around managing an increment of increments - another chance to inspect and adapt, pivot, whatever is needed for minimum viable product, plus managers feel like they (managers) are useful by guiding PI planning, whatever.

The reality? High performing teams tend to snicker at SAFe. They think things like confidence vote events are silly because they expect product owners to be bringing them nothing but work-items that already meet their confidence standards. Otherwise their time is being wasted with this event. Additionally, high performing teams will refuse to plan out multiple iterations worth of work (as done in PI planning), when they expect to have a healthy backlog to work that already meets their readiness standards for multiple iterations. All they'll say is prioritize that work and they'll knock it out. But once again, planning out multiple iterations helps managers reinforce telling people what to do in a micro fashion.
You refer to a legal process for managing this, but this category (wage theft) is the largest category of theft in the US - it's rampant, unchecked, and stacked against the victims. Something being illegal doesn't always have much connection to whether it's happening and what recourse is available.
That one doesn't... it was likely a mistranscription of another article - https://www.outlookindia.com/business/tech-layoffs-2023-appl...

That article says:

> According to a report in the New York Post, over the last few days, Apple has laid off hundreds of contract workers – workers that were actually employed by outside agencies but worked alongside Apple employees on various projects.

The NY Post article (not Times) is https://nypost.com/2023/02/16/apple-has-begun-firing-contrac... from a few days ago. It has no sources to it.
I gave ChatGPT this question: Given how integral language is to the human thinking process, to what extent is the human brain just predicting the next word, while forming thoughts?

And got this answer:

There is evidence to suggest that the human brain does use predictive mechanisms when processing language, and that these mechanisms play an important role in forming thoughts.

When we hear or read a word, our brain quickly generates a set of predictions about what word might come next, based on the context of the sentence and our past experiences with language. These predictions are constantly updated as we receive new information, and they help us to process language more efficiently and accurately.

In addition, research has shown that the brain engages in similar predictive processes when we are forming thoughts or planning actions. For example, when we plan a complex movement, such as reaching for a cup, our brain generates a set of predictions about the movements required to complete the action. These predictions are constantly updated as we receive feedback from our muscles and our environment, allowing us to make adjustments and achieve our goal.

Therefore, it is likely that the human brain uses predictive mechanisms to some extent when forming thoughts, just as it does when processing language or planning actions. However, it is important to note that thought formation is a complex process that involves many other factors beyond predictive processing, such as memory, attention, and emotion.
Until the recent fundamental change of making cars electric instead of run on gas, have there really been many other "improvements of a radical nature" since 1909? If you go back and you look at cars from that period they not only look like modern cars, they are made by the same companies. They definitely are less powerful, and yet they have similar miles-per-gallon efficiencies as many larger cars from recent years.
"ceded to China" is a strange way to phrase that Macao was returned to China after colonizing it
To be clear, The Witches is full of obviously intentional antisemitic tropes: https://www.heyalma.com/is-roald-dahls-the-witches-antisemit...
Yes, I think you could argue Target. But Nordstrom? I don't think they have that sort of power.

Remember, an oligopoly (or even monopoly) doesn't necessarily mean there aren't other players, it means that the oligopoly is the only thing that can really influence the market. It's about who is writing "the rules", so to speak.
Yeah, earlier tonight I used it to find a function for 4 points in 2d space and it only got it right after I corrected it 3-4 times. We're talking a simple linear function with 1 independent variable and integers as the only numbers.

I'm certain that the ChatGPT version at launch would have spat out the right solution on the first try.
Hmm, interesting article. I think I disagree with some arguments though. Eg I think one can make a bit of a lisp curse argument when the alternative is C, but I think that mostly doesn’t apply when comparing with JavaScript. Sure there are janky features but modern JavaScript is a pretty nice language.

Indeed, I think there are deficiencies in elisp that make Emacs Emacs. In particular there’s one big namespace, no modules, and not really any hidden state (you could let over defun with lexical scoping turned on but unlike JS where the module system is somewhat modelled on the old immediately-invoked-anonymous-function thing, no one does that). This then means that any extension can mess with any other extension. Elisp has features that make this work better, eg buffer-local variables, dynamic scoping (of globals), and advice. What in Emacs is implemented with buffer local variables is likely in a newly designed system to be some private-to-the-extension object associated to buffers / weak hash table mapping buffers to data.

I think Emacs-style extensibility also makes things hard because it is easy for two extensions to interfere unintentionally.

I somewhat agree with the idea of ‘barrierless extension’ but not for the reasons given in the OP – that eval exists.

I would say some differences are:

- many Emacs defaults are old, weird, or wrong. It seems mostly hard for them to be changed. Many packages also require much custom configuration. VS code started with more familiar defaults, no legacy of terminal interfaces, and has product people willing to change and improve defaults and generally set direction.

- Emacs is designed to be hacked on. The community around Emacs want things to be hackable, eg a popular way of installing third-party packages, straight, has features to support user-modified versions of packages. Also the language/environment exposes lots of extension points (hooks, parent modes, configuration in accessible global/buffer-local variables, advice). It seems that VSCode doesn’t have this. I suspect that bugs for VSCode are less common than for Emacs setups with a bunch of extensions (giving Emacs more VSCode-like features), but I also suspect that most Emacs bugs may be relatively easily debugged and fixed in a way that isn’t true for VSCode.
I have a similar project called Sasha.html.

https://github.com/dav1app/sasha.html

The idea is to export any file as an HTML file with the data as an encrypted string hard coded within the HTML. This way, no specific software is required to decrypt the file, just open it on the browser, type the password and download or view your file.

I built this to have a easy way to send encrypted files to any device and open it without having to install external tools.
Dividend Harvesting
Library Extention – See availability info from your public library on Amazon
> Debian's package manager doesn't support zstd compression so you can't use modern Ubuntu packages on it (I _think_ they're fixing this)

Well... okay? You can't install Fedora RPMs on it either. Installing packages from another distro might sometimes work, but only more or less by coincidence; you really shouldn't be doing that.
That's really what you think the wokeness warriors want - historical revisionism?
> Even if you think such moral parables are wrong

Perhaps it would be best to not read a book with them.
They can be useful but often the cheap ones are not that good / fall apart. You can also just build your own with heavier wire like used in home wiring and some quality crocodile clips. Attach to a heavy base.

I also recommend the blue tack on top of the crocodile clip positioners.
> Almost no one mentions housing's upwards pressure on wages

The causation direction is usually that rising wages cause housing price increases (assuming a tight housing market where houses are in high demand).

People bid against each other for a house, as much as they can just afford the mortgage repayments. If wages go up, then people can get a bigger mortgage, so they bid up to the amount the limit they can mortgage.

I presume a similar effect occurs with rentals - renters compete for limited rental properties and bid up the price to what they can only just manage.

Of course, when you have a huge mortgage (or rental bill), you presumably fight to earn more money, but that is a secondary effect.
They didn't entirely fail to deliver - I had received one (and subsequently sold it on eBay).

There were many issues with it. Poor trackpad, poor software integration, unstable connection.

It worked well enough for me to realize it's not a product that I'd ever realistically use.
Are you Canadian? I had previously looked into heat pumps for cold climates and thought that it was economically not a great investment and required a gas back-up.
Radeon N31 vs. GeForce AD102/103, chip area analysis and rough cost estimates
"Poorest in Western Europe" is like being the ugliest person in a beauty pageant. It's not a poor country
New approach to hydrogels could help repair or replace diseased tissues
> If you are saying you couldn't do that with ChatGPT (law version~~coming soon!) then I'd say in fact it is _you_ sir who is out of touch with reality, and clearly have not used ChatGPT in any serious capacity whatsoever. Good day to you sir!

The fact that either way a human lawyer is still getting involved in reviewing the output already tells me that not even you can fully trust ChatGPT or any other so-called AI to not hallucinate its answers. Also it is highly likely would output drafts that may be potentially legally unsafe and when it does, it can't explain its own output transparently which that is my point.

This hype of LLMs clearly hasn't aged well with the reality of people being unable to trust the output or use it for anything serious other than for a sophistry generator.
The world needs more comments like this. Nail meets head.
Why use vim and not vi then?
Sure I guess the same way I have a choice between having a job and unemployment. Not an ideal system I agree, but until we get universal income or my startup IPOs thems the breaks.
I've been working remote for the past seven years and I'm much more productive than ever before. I'm intermittent fasting right now, so I wake up early after a good night's sleep, do my morning routine, go for a walk and exercise. Then I hit my home office and get busy. I can get a lot done before lunchtime, always much more than I ever did when I was working in an office. Then I have lunch (for me it's really breakfast) with my family. After that, I set aside the afternoons for reading or learning something new; it might be Rust, a foreign language, writing, or a musical instrument. It's my personal investment time.

The biggest savings for me are, of course, time. No commute saves a lot of wasted time, as well as avoiding a huge number of meetings that should have been an email, interruptions from people in the open office, micro-managing, DEI performativity, &c. Software engineers need large blocks of uninterrupted time in order to focus and get significant work done.
How would you articulate what it has to do with, exactly? I agree with you but I find this topic too slippery to pin down (which is probably intentional).
Define 'man'.
Based on my experiences reading aviation accident and safety reports, air transport pilots have a _lot_ of divorces.
You can't say the entire curve is over-fitted. The space is vast and the training data is sparse so given the amount it has to cover, for sure segments of the curve must be over-fitted and other segments of the curve must be more generalized.

Additionally you can't say that just because artificial neural nets have a property of "over-fitting" doesn't mean that humans themselves can't be in a state where they are themselves over-fitted.

So right now given the emergent properties of LLMs we can't fully delineate the concept of human understanding away from what the AI is doing.
Yep. I pirated the book, and in 643 pages, there are 1131 case-insensitive matches for the string "jew".
I'm guessing that new one is being used for the free tier, too, because it seems to be pretty bad for non-coding tasks too. I tried to use it for some very simple math (see comment above) and it was atrocious.
I wont argue it is better, but you can do this with some games on steam using offline mode if the game supports other methods of multi-player outside of steam.
And selling to Experian along with the pay stubs.
Well nothing else is sacred to zealots, so it's not unimaginable.
Sass business idea. A MITM proxy service for religious sect communities that doesn’t just maintain a block list of unsavory websites, but uses a LLM to transform the text of every site to be acceptable.
Well, he said the British were not as bad as the Belgians, I guess... so he must be censored? It's all become satire piled on satire to the point I was entertaining the notion that this story was some kind of early April Fool's edition or something like that.
Where in the country is electricity actually getting cheaper? Everywhere I’ve lived along the west coast electricity prices have only gone up.
Security audit of account and payment services
That's why I fell in love with SBCL, it'll warn me about things like "hey, you told me this variable is an integer, but you're calling length on it, that doesn't make sense."
US natural gas is at lowest since 2020, and price is way below 5, 10 or 25 year average.