skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everything that has a commercial interest, is going to push an agenda, or at the very least, take a particular set of views.

If you're aware of that, and read it in that context, I think that's fine.
ublock origin > my filters > twitter.com##article:has(svg[data-testid="icon-verified"]). Simple mass removal of tick tweets
> I don't believe that LTCM was insuring anything.

While most of their strategy was convergence arbitrage, if I recall from the book, they thought of selling short equity options as a form of selling insurance.

People buy these options to insure against some event and they expected more buyers than sellers, so LTCM figured they would profitably be the provider of it. Well-structured insurance is always a loss to the buyer (they take in more than they pay out).
If you're going to say something was wrong with it, you should go ahead and say what you think what was wrong with it, rather than leaving it to your readers' imaginations.
You don’t need to boil salmonella to kill it:

https://ourdailybrine.com/wp-content/uploads/our-daily-brine...

You’ll have to work pretty hard to make a credible cup of tea with viable salmonella in it.
Isn't SMS a more expensive transport usually? Wherever I've seen paid and limited SMS, they were ridiculously expensive for the amount of data transferred (e.g. in Indonesia).

Do you have a specific "target market" in mind, with cheap / unlimited SMS but censored internet access? E.g. China, Russia, Turkey?
Coinbase secures Bermuda licence
Unfortunately, the answer is simply incentives: until this pendulum really goes hard toward blatant insecurity, the headlines have been somewhat tenable by the public, and few people, including in the tech community(!) choose their car based on security, let alone privacy.
The good news is that next time they can celebrate a meaningful success if they achieve fully reusable stage 0.
Almost like its cons all the way down
They handle online services for pretty much any Activision-published game, with carve-outs for Blizzard and King - they still do most of their own backend stuff themselves, with some collaborations.
> Ya, what is a datum? Is that like a piece of data?

Yes. It’s like a fact. It’s a thing that’s known. The more common modern equivalent would be “data point”.
I'm not sure if Facebook is in a state of happy mediocrity. Nobody I know who uses Facebook does so because they like Facebook even because there aren't better alternatives in terms of functionality.

People use Facebook because its network effects are effectively impossible for alternatives to overcome.
I've heard some people (I think mostly in the UK?) treat corporation names as count nouns, as in "Jagex are" (or "Facebook are") rather than "Jagex is". I can see how this makes sense if you think of a corporation as fundamentally comprising a group of individual people, but it still sounds very strange to my ear.
2 weeks ago I installed newest Debian 11 and Chrome to Chromebook, install info here:

https://github.com/xet7/chromebook
This is correct. Expect 10000x more articles like this over the next couple years.
Maybe better as "momentum-energy" than as "energy and momentum". "Stress-energy" is probably better still.

I don't think we have to consider the photons as such because large-photon-number beams sent from, to, and between spacecraft have been shown to deflect around masses in our solar system, sunlight generates measurable radiation pressure (and greybody radiation contributes to the Yarkovsky effect), and because your parent comment just asked about "light".

If we take a look at <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress%E2%80%93energy_tensor#/...> and change the 0 indices to "t" (for time), T^{tt} represents quantities conserved across a purely timelike translation, and thus "energy".

However, your t and my t can differ if we are in a quasilocally-different gravitational field, or accelerated or boosted with respect to each other. In that case one of us may prefer coordinates where some of the quantity in T^{tt} is instead in T^{tj} (the latter being momentum), or even in the pressure diagonal T^{ij}, i == j, i != t.(e.g. when considering a Shapiro test setting, or a "mirrored box of light").

Although I don't think that much of that particular stack exchange discussion, the accepted answer is right to aim readers at <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_stress%E2%80%9...>, which is almost wholly classical in its outlook. If one were really keen on thinking about gravitation and sufficiently small numbers of photons, it can get a bit messy or drive one towards the canonical quantization and canonical quantum gravity. As far as I can see nothing at your link goes anywhere close to that, or even really discusses the active or passive gravitational behaviour of an individual photon.
In addition to all the other comments pointing out how stupid this is, and how stupid your claims of non-bias are:

Why pick such a stupid name? The Twitter handle is already taken by a parody account titled "Real FakeNews", that didn't tip you off as to how this name would be received?
It has some logic to it though: An application developer is going to use the toolkit to open one or more windows on startup and the DE/WM has to place those somewhere. The first window opened by the app is not guaranteed to be the main window and it's not guaranteed to always be the same window (sometimes it can immediately open the main app window but other times it might have to show a smaller login window first, or immediately open multiple windows, etc).

- It is the responsibility of the application developer to determine for each window what size it should be depending on the content in the window which can be dynamic. It's also not a fixed thing, but more a hint to the DE. The relevant GTK method is called gtk_widget_set_size_request(width, height) with the focus on "request" (defined in widget but window inherits it). Saving/restoring window state is left to the developer because of the dynamic nature of windows as explained above.

- It is the responsibility of the toolkit to make sure the window gets created and then communicate the requested size to the DE so it can be placed on the screen.

- It is the responsibility of the DE/WM to place this window where the user expects it and depending on the type of DE/WM it might have different behavior. For example a tiling window manager might be configured to always open new windows in the bottom right, or top left, or have config overrides for specific applications to always open floating or maximized.

So yes, the size is the apps problem (because it knows what content is on a specific window and might know about the previous window size from last time), and the position is the DE's responsibility because that can depend on user configuration and the specific DE/WM used. The app cannot make any assumptions about that. It can only request windows with a specific size.
Still makes sense in a way. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, as it goes. Though it certainly seems some influential people had (and have) more selfish intentions with their influence. It would be truly epic incompetence otherwise.
"No idea of which is bad, but which together are incoherent."

Right, my complaint about filename/path length being exceeded in my earlier post often occurs when a web page is saved by a browser (some web pages have outrageously long filenames).

Incidentally, many years ago I did a tour of Microsoft's operation in Seattle around the time Microsoft introduced subdirectories into MSDOS and the tour guide (can't recall his name but he was responsible for the development of MS's Flight Simulator) gave a considerable spiel about why Microsoft decided to run with the backslash instead of the forward one as per Unix. Even then, I thought 'oh no, here comes confusion', and others with me thought the same. When we challenged him about it, he said we (Microsoft), want to clearly differentiate ourselves from Unix (there was an arrogance about his answer that I well remember).
I’m suspicious of your claims in B. I can’t speak for every country you mentioned but in Australia (which constitutes most of the Oceania market), Ford/GM are not huge here at all. I also didn’t think I’ve ever heard people speak favourably of their reliability over Japanese brands. Tesla is perceived quite differently though and is gaining popularity.

Last year Ford sold about 1/4 the vehicles Toyota did (they were the 6th best selling brand in Australia), while GM/Tesla didn’t make the top 10 (https://www.racv.com.au/royalauto/transport/cars/australian-...).

Historically GM (under the Holden brand) and Ford were popular because they sold locally designed and manufactured v6 sedans and utes (like small pickup trucks). These cars were always perceived as Australian, not American.

They don’t locally manufacture anymore and have lost most of the Australian market.
The average lot size for a single-family home in California is roughly 1/5 acre, so 80 acres would be somewhere around 400 homes. Probably more like 300 after accounting for streets and stuff. Three-story apartment building are around 25 units per acre.
Please inform the rest of us, the unwashed plebs, exactly what technology exists to get us off this rock to the moom that isnt chemistry based and can be used in the next 20 years
For those who don’t know about the author, he is most well known a founder of the field of virtual reality. As a full time philosopher in the CTO’s office at MSFT, and the originator of concepts like data dignity, he’s uniquely qualified to write this kind of piece.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaron_Lanier
This whole apparatus makes me want to go completely offline. Maybe Kaczynski was right.
I have, I recommend "Imagined Communities," by Benedict Anderson.
They call it like that, but you can be fired anytime, even if you are a full professor.
Without doxxing myself or the site it's video so they prioritise by format. So it would go something like.

UHDBD > UHDRemux UHDWebRip > HDBD > HDRemux > HDWebRip > DVD9 > DVD5

With multiple sources within each tier treated equally.

The general thought process is more about the site disappearing so the focus on sources makes more sense and transcodes can be created trivially if needed for a theoretical new site as needed.

With the IA this is unlikely to be an issue as they'd just want to make sure each torrent has seeds so no real need for prioritization around sources.
Bruce Schneier put it quite succinctly in his article The Eternal Value of Privacy (from 2006):

Some clever answers: “If I'm not doing anything wrong, then you have no cause to watch me.” “Because the government gets to define what's wrong, and they keep changing the definition.” “Because you might do something wrong with my information.” My problem with quips like these – as right as they are – is that they accept the premise that privacy is about hiding a wrong. It's not. Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect.

— https://www.wired.com/2006/05/the-eternal-value-of-privacy/
Carbon "sequestration" and space travel all in one!
How Alexandr Wang Turned an Army of Clickworkers into a $7.3B AI Unicorn
I say hiss-storic but have always used "an" as the sound still fits the aural pattern rule in my head. It never even occurred to me that people would ever think it was wrong or pretentious to use "an". Though, I was always conscious that "a historic" wasn't wrong, either; yet it still looks and sounds off to me, like someone is deliberately exaggerating a hard h sound.
I mean yes, it's biased compared to the mythical unattainable standard of being completely unbiased. But that's not the bar. The bar is mainstream news outlets, which are drastically easier to outperform even with a half-assed attempt.
A person I know had to get tested for toxins at work regularly and at some point showed really high arsenic levels. At which point they had to figure out what poisoned him. He worked in material science but no materials he handled would have given off arsenic to his body. After some investigating, they found out that the Pu'Erh tea he consumed was the culprit. They tested the tea in a lab and after he stopped drinking it, his levels became normal.
So that might not kill.you but I guess having these toxins in you body cannot be good either.

Since then I try to only buy teas which are lab-tested. When I lived in Germany I bought my teas at sunday. Tbey tell you harvest, growing conditions and many more things and they also claim to lab test the tea badges.

I haven't found anything comparable in the US yet.

https://www.sunday.de/long-jing-shi-feng-tee/
https://archive.is/FavAf
Way back when that kind of thing was possible, people used two batteries for their phones. I honestly don't see any problems with the interview, I'm nowhere near as wealthy but have two phones and Uber to work when public transport isn't an option.
It is possible that AI can perfectly replicate human intelligence. But because it is purely digital, I cannot kill it - I can delete it, copy it, recreate it, and so on but never kill it. Only biological organisms can die.

Therefore no matter what happens, there is a distinction between human intelligence and AI. I can destroy an AI creature and the only penalty should be property damage (if relevant).
> in the aggregate the Chinese people approve of their government at a level westerners literally cannot comprehend

It's easy to comprehend that the Chinese people have such a warped understanding of the situation. It's a combination of both ignorance and a lack of self respect.

Let's have a look at the results of one of your surveys:

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/07/long-term-sur...

It says, "In 2016, the last year the survey was conducted, 95.5 percent of respondents were either 'relatively satisfied' or 'highly satisfied' with Beijing."

But when we get to the level of local government, the level of government people have direct contact with day to day and can see up close, what are the results? The survey says, "At the township level, the lowest level of government surveyed, only 11.3 percent of respondents reported that they were 'very satisfied.'"

And why the disparity? Because Chinese convince themselves that the efforts of the "good" central government is being thwarted by the evils of "bad" local government.

In reality it's all bad, top to bottom. All authoritarian regimes are. The fish does rot from the head.

Xi Jinping is so weak that he couldn't do two terms and quit. He's such a poor leader that he's convinced himself that he's the one special boy to lead China and he must stay in power.

That's the corrupting influence of authoritarianism.
Perhaps the better news, then, is that there was much more to test than thrust vectoring. The structural integrity of a new rocket design under load, the challenges of a new engine design in flight, the ability to light a large number of engines in the correct sequence, etc.

In fact, it is possible the least of what they need to sort out is thrust vectoring: SpaceX has a lot of experience using thrust vectoring in their current production rockets, they have repeatedly demonstrated solid vectoring control throughout the program in Boca Chica, incuding the flight of "Hoppy", the test articles SN5 &SN6, and Starship high altitude tests SN8, SN9, SN10, SN11, and SN15. While there were failures in those programs, the thrust vectoring really wasn't the issue.

In reality, huge amounts of test data that doesn't depend on the thrust vectoring methodology was collected and remains valid from the test flight. And while there might be reasons we might consider SpaceX engineers sub-standard or that other factors compromise their judgement.... I'm sure they've considered what they can and can't learn from the test flight given that the some parts of B7 are obsolete... and still thought the exercise is worthwhile.

I for one will trust their judgement on this point.
These days probably quite rare, except for gaming. Virtualization is far more convenient.
The web is still reducable to javascript, html and css, as much cruft as we like to put inbetween nowadays before outputting those
I have to be careful what I say here, given I work for ATVI, I'm former Demonware myself.

I do feel safe in saying though that the login queues are _definitely_ not hype.

They're designed to constrain a quite-complex distributed system to a login rate that has been load-tested thoroughly, e.g. they know it'll work at that rate.
Learn everything yourself is such an insanely reductionist strategy. Through a limited dalliance with spaced repetition learning techniques, I came to believe research that suggests there a limit to how many discrete facts you can retain in your memory.

Unfortunately the number of facts you’d need to retain to be an expert in hold to maturity securities, vaccines, the military capabilities of Ukraine, the intricacies of section 230, and Delaware corporate law and how it relates to broken acquisitions (just to name five examples of things that most people on this site think they know a lot about) would exhaust the most capable mind’s capacity.
Over the past 30 years I have worked many jobs in which writing was a central element, from tutoring at a community college writing center, to technical editing, translation, ghostwriting, science communications, and policy research. I haven't even used GPT4 yet, but just from playing with GPT3 it was very clear that the writing (sorry!) is on the wall. Yes, the prose can be stilted nd sometimes it just makes stuff up. But human writers, even good ones, are fallible, while also being slow and expensive to boot.

Even before AI, the internet experience had begun to undermine the traditional value assigned to good writing; it turned out that there are plenty of good writers who would publish their work for free. LLMs are already producing better content than most undergrads in their own fields, and can apparently do the same in every field, in multiple languages, as well as write passable code, make recipes, dungeonmaster RPG campaigns, spew out marketing bumpf, write surprisingly good creative mashups ("John Donne smoking salvia and rhapsodizing while clipping his toenails," or whatever), etc., etc.

Even if the technology doesn't improve significantly, I think this is going to have a radical impact on how writing ability is perceived - from a useful, even admirable, marketable skill to a novelty hobby, like chess. No doubt some very good writing will continue to be produced, and I'm sure LLMs will enable new forms of creativity in the hands of capable users. But the market for writing has always involved lots of jobs that only demand content that is just good enough, and if we're being honest, just crap really. Now anyone can have that for a $20/month subscription, plus maybe some light editorial touchup. The most talented and most specialized writers will still find work, but I guess their market value will be undermined by the combined effects of 1) the re-valuation of average-or-worse writing to zero, and 2) increased competition for paying jobs by a growing pool of under-employed/precarious, lean and hungry scribes.
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I say "historic" with more of an "H" than "hour" (which I pronounce the same as "our").
Here's the top line argument. Our environment is a complex dynamic system, massive change over a short time period can have devastating effects. We only have one planet to live on, so we shouldn't gamble with it in this way.

Put another way, you shouldn't walk around eating random substances you find because no one has proven to you that it won't cause harm.
As expected, it has trouble with time and sequence. See
"SpaceX Starship rocket system explodes during test flight".[1]

"On Tuesday, SpaceX conducted an uncrewed sub-orbital test of its Starship rocket system in Texas. The spacecraft, which is designed to carry up to 100 astronauts to Mars, exploded within minutes of takeoff."

"100 astronauts to Mars?"

The launch was originally scheduled for Tuesday, April 18, but was delayed until Thursday, April 20. The story appears on NewsNotFound on Friday, April 21, as a current event.

There needs to be a step in this process which constructs timelines.

[1] https://newsnotfound.com/spacex-starship-rocket-system-explo...
I feel like this would be a perfect use case for Chat GPT (with something like the now removed web browsing plugin).

Instead of sending the whole HTML page, the user could request just the information they want. You could even instruct Chat GPT to use abbreviations and shorter words as much as possible.

This could even go through one of these extremely long-range but low-bitrate radio standards to provide web access to literally the whole world.
I just set it to store forever
>Low electricity costs are a problem for all electricity plans, not only nuclear.

No, it's worst for the more expensive, capital intense sources.

Gas is expensive but not capital intense. An idled plant doesnt lose too much because fuel costs dominate. Solar/wind is capital intense but not expensive - idling is cheap if the whole thing is cheap.

Nuclear power is capital intense and expensive. Idling burns through a lot of cash.
Coming from an operations perspective, you want to look at the downstream consequences of automation which depend on the details of the installed system. E.g. from this thread: automation might drain water from the 5x oversized well tank before firefighters arrive, seems to me that whether or not that is preferable depends on the details.
In practice your bank password is indeed a secret, and that's a bad thing, because that above definition is wrong, which is why I prefer to think about the U2 lyric (from "The Fly"):

"They say a Secret is something you tell one other person, so I'm telling you, child".

The bank knows your password. Which means they (or more precisely their agents, employees, etc.) can lose it yet they'll probably try to blame you.

It is possible to not have this happen via what's called an Augmented PAKE - the bank wouldn't know your password, but they'd be able to check you still remembered it - however almost certainly none of the systems you use today do this.
The fact that major LLMs will happily criticize certain politicians but claim they’re unable to comment on others given equally available training data is a fairly good window into what kind of biases exist within them.
I find jumping at new codebases highly rewarding, somewhat getting to peel the onion by yourself is the best way to get familiar with it.

You could use AI tools to emulate a co-worker putting you up to speed probably nowadays.
A lot of it is junk I don’t want to spend time reading but nonetheless have to look at in order to get to the content I want. For instance, try finding recipes on the internet. While some recipes are accompanied by real human stories and interesting metadata about the recipe, most are surrounded by junk text best stripped away. Similarly, consider the average news article: core factual content surrounded by junk text (often needlessly inflammatory to one group or another). For me personally, these and many other categories of information are best left to a program/AI that will omit the junk text when delivering me the information.
A reminder that "technical debt" doesn't just apply to software, I guess.
Pretty much. There is an interesting protocol for sending IQ data over Ethernet (VITA 49.2) which can be decoded in an FPGA and dumped into a data stream. LVDS pairs work too of course. I've got a 4MSPS ADC which is being driven by an ICE40 FPGA to generate a 1MSPS fully analytic stream. 1MHz of bandwidth isn't really good for WiFi or Bluetooth but you can easily do all of the common modulations in use by amateurs.
For (2) - obvious answer here is crypto but again, the crypto market might implode because if (1) actually happens, the US gov is extremely incentivized to make crypto ownership and trading illegal.
> shouldn't get a say in what happens in Hong Kong

I guess it's just too bad that Hong Kongers don't get a say in what happens in Hong Kong.
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