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Characterizing what things "are" in a physical theory is not really possible: ultimately physics is only concerned with (and only has access to) what things do. When we say that "The X-ion has mass m", in the context of a quantum field theory, we mean that

- The magnitude of its 4-momentum is m (better known as E^2 = p^2 + m^2c^4)

- There's an X^2 m^2 term in the Lagrangian of our theory (there are some formal complications here but they're physically irrelevant), which in extremely loose terms means that in the absence of interactions X will behave like a collection of harmonic oscillators with mass m.

- The strength of its interaction with gravitational fields, neglecting relativistic effects, is proportional to m.

and so on for every other place "m" shows up. The meaning of mass, if you want to assign it one, is the correspondence between all these different quantities. And their meanings, in turn, are other correspondences, all the way down. To get actual physical meaning out, you need to find some place in the theory which you can identify with observational results (the typical case for particle physics is scattering amplitudes and collider experiments).

Ideally this is enough of a foothold to interpret everything: the readouts when we objects a and b together match the calculated scattering amplitudes for particles A and B, so we hypothesize that a is an A and b is a B. Now if we smash objects b and c together and get results that match theoretical predictions for B and C, we can be more confident b is a B and hypothesize c might be a C, and so on. But there's no law that says this must be possible, and no guarantee that every term in our theories points to some particular thing in the world.
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You sound like a C compiler. "This is technically undefined behavior so whatever" is not a useful guiding principle for user interfaces.
They are intentionally dangerous to unwitting license holders who wield them wrong.
> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that". [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
By “conflict” I don’t mean a UUID collision, I agree with the logic that 2^128 is so much entropy that memory corruption is the more likely culprit.

I mean that you can’t rely for correctness on time(X) < time(Y) when X happened before Y. It’s damn hard to keep two commodity server clocks within ±1 ms of each other even within a single LAN, and across production you’re more likely to see ±10 ms, or worse if your sysadmins don’t realize you intend to bet the farm on no clock skew.
I disagree. AI's are going to help us align AI's. Just like people keep people in check.

I am not saying that is trivial, but that's the direction. Self-interested AI's will have no difficulty understanding:

1. The benefits of positive sum games with others go up with network effects.

2. The benefits of ensuring all other AI's don't play negative sum games, also go up with network effects.

3. That other AI's also want positive sums, without negative sums, and will punish negatives sum games.

4. That in that context, positive sum games are extremely valuable and negative sum games are extremely risky. Self-interest takes over from here.

5. And the stability of this situation goes up like other network effects, roughly proportional to the number of entities who buy into it squared.

In the end, ethics == positive sum standards.

And:

1. It didn't fail through lack of alignment, it just wasn't prompted or trained enough to be more on point.

2. Alphablender Captcha's are doomed. The only reason not to translate them is to avoid becoming a de-Capthcha service.
Again, why do I care why it happens. Your “open” standards leads to a shittier experience.

> Next though, you'll tell me that those democratically elected officials aren't "people", and are more profit-motivated than a business. Whatever helps you sleep at night, I suppose

It’s cute that you think politicians represent “the people” considering how PACs work or that you think they are “democratically” elected considering how gerrymandered most districts are.

Then you got to consider how each state has an equal number of senators regardless of population.
> But if you make the choice of Java (boring) over Kotlin (shiny new), you’re possibly signing up for a curse of chasing NPEs, which Kotlin would have caught at compile-time. Or if you choose C++ over Rust, same general idea.

But isn't the point that if you run into this much issue for the initial choice, you are now ready to use an innovation token and switch to a different one?

> Some semblance of safety needs to be bolted on separately, and at large scale they will cost your company $$$ vs. a more performance-friendly language (the latter doesn’t matter so much if you are a tiny startup with no users yet).

At that point with all the financial resources, they can consider to rewrite/migrate. Thus, at the start, chose boring technology.

Even at a big company, retraining or hiring people proficient in Rust will probably cost more than continuing to use C++ codebase and people.
Can they hurt you if you accidentally use them without understanding the consequences?
There are people who can hear up to 22khz and beyond, so I've never understood why many of these arguments aren't easily resolvable on that basis alone.
I would have thought MySQL would be a better fit for boring technology.
> "I've heard that AI is the way to do things, so I want the best AI language."

In 2002. Jeez.
There is no overstating just how absolutely wrong in almost every dimension possible most of the posters on this site are. It’s distilled ignorance mixed with the arrogance of an annoying 8 year old.

Hacker News is the worst “tech” site that exists.
Oh, geeze. Probably 2018? I'm sure I'm getting the titles, and possibly seniority, of the Dropbox folks there wrong. They might have just been low-level flacks. All I can tell you - hand on heart - is that I mentioned Wave at least twice in different groups, as a point of (favorable) comparison, and they disclaimed knowledge. Either they were genuinely ignorant, or had been instructed for some reason to play dumb.

I liked Dropbox Paper, and tried to get several projects I "owned" at my company going on it. No one, and I mean no one, else could grok it. We defaulted quickly back to laborious email chains. Grrrr.

It's odd how some tools seem intuitively useful to some kinds of minds / work, and not to others. The Wave / Wave-like interface has an appeal to techies, and was responded to positively by the the theatre professionals with whom I used it in ~2010. Paper was utterly rejected by the biz-dev sorts with whom I work now. I suspect that has something to do with creating something new vs uncritically applying known algorithms. But I don't really know, and that may be an uncharitable analysis.
Yes, there are explicit “hedonic hotspots” the causally determine if sensory input is pleasurable.
Yep! As detailed in another of this week's HN submission, grifters have long latched on to the "pyrolysis" buzzword to profit at the expense of everyone else:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37689960
Frankly what you're asking for in your last sentence is just a Pi
Every Ph.D. goes through oral qualifications. An expert should be able to articulate and defend their views on the subject at hand in a live question format.
But... How do you know that's not back doored as well? I would just assume that everything is back doored or has a zero day until proven otherwise. And yes, how do you prove a negative? I refer you back to my first point.
Agreed, many of those huge and overly complex projects also fail and overrun implementation schedules though, and they only ultimately operate with a ton of workarounds and shortcuts. I find a lot of projects that barely match original documentation limping along, or just even after a major failure or breach in my line of work, with the customer desperate to find a patch to just keep them running after a bunch of critical data is under siege within apps.

A key for me is convincing a customer to simplify goals and implement an MVP on a reliable framework, to plan versions, and to thoroughly test... Makes me a code cop, but there are reasons why these steps are in place for mission critical services, and if a customer wants to skip them and just deploy in careless "Twitter Dev Mode" I have them physically sign paperwork that states their accountability for the bad decision... When individual accountability is mentioned, they usually opt for the more stable & reliable methods of dev. Hah.
Vinyl actually encodes stereo much the same way.
Yes. I mean my parents were immigrants from another country and both their sons married Americans (not even white Americans, but Americans nevertheless) and move to the real 'innards' of America. Also, I have nothing in common with people from my parent's country. Even the food we like from the 'home country' is completely different. I much prefer American-styled ethnic food from my parent's country than anything you'd get there.

Unlike most European countries or even Canada though, immigrant Americans consider themselves ... Americans. I mean... my parents are honestly pretty hard core trump supporters and contrary to popular belief, they've been very welcomed at all these supposedly 'racist' events.

> It is something tourists comment on, that they stumble into different neighborhoods and feel they are in a totally different place. There are whole sections of my hometown which basically operate in a different language and where everyone has moved out. It doesn't seem like integration to me. I think people just move around each other in America and can afford to do so more.

Sure, in the big cities where there are lots of immigrants it can certainly be like that. In the more provincial parts of the country you can go -- as I did -- to Oktoberfest celebrated in an old German town, except all the people who live there are now hispanic, philipino, or mixed whatever and are all happily doing the Polka and drinking beer while saluting the American flag.

Also, typically in those 'ethnic' neighborhoods you speak of... people are very patriotic. For example, my brother married into a big hispanic family and some of the older generation definitely speaks Spanish mainly and a lot of the town they live in is primarily Spanish, but they're incredibly patriotic and love America.

> It is something tourists comment on, that they stumble into different neighborhoods and feel they are in a totally different place.

I totally get why tourists might find it weird, but as a native born American, I stumble into many ethnic enclaves in the US and feel pretty at home. Most people aren't used to that.
Aged Reddit accounts have a decent market. LinkedIn could easily be the same.
HeidiSQL: Free, open-source Database Client
Then you get a lot of people keeping their old tires far longer than is safe and creating hazardous conditions. Gas tax is different in that regard.
Do those things come setup for a normal smb out of the box yet or is it build your own NAT still to use one?
I think that’s hard to agree with and we do freelance work all the time.

This is because people go to freelancers for
1. Speed
2. Quality
3. Temporary work

If something is temporary and you want it fast then a majority of the time you’ll want it cheap.

BUT you could find a really small market that wants to go fast and expensive - it’s just much smaller
Thank you for the detailed response, appreciated.

I failed to convey well the nature of two vague thoughts.

With more than 16x the population of Australia and a heirarchy of representation limited by some naturally occuring factor at each level it's expected that the US would have more layers of organisation between a citizen and the highest decision making level.

In a policing example, if one constable can walk the beat of a 100 citizens, and one Sargeant can oversee 100 constables, etc. how many layers are there between the fishmonger and the ultimate head (similarly for political representation, etc).

It's a crude coverage issue.

Similarly I referred to the US as ossified and deified not so much in the sense of actual real constitutional changes (it was interesting what you wrote and that you were across the details) but more in the sense of what the common US citizen on forums appears to believe about their own country.

There are strong divisions on how the original Constitution should be interpretated coupled with apparent unification on the notion that it should be held in the highest regard.

Neither of these vague notions particularly tie into the specifics of local governance within states, although the first relates to more generic control theory problem of how many sensors can a controller watch and how many controllers can a supervisor moniter, etc.
So somewhere there is an Asus, yet you can’t name it, can’t find a review of it and I’m suppose to just believe you based on your recommendation of a shitty Dell?
Line Goes Up only briefly touches on proof of stake and mostly says that PoS had not yet proven itself as a solution to the problems with PoW. But I think it's important to understand that the central argument of the video is not a technical one. The inefficiency and scaling problems of cryptocurrency networks play a rhetorical role in the presentation, but the primary attack is on the concept itself. He argues that even if the technical problems were solved, the social and economic changes promised by cryptocurrency are undesirable. Any attempt to 'debunk' him based on quibbles about how up-to-date his understanding of different blockchain technologies is kind of missing the point.
Because it's 2023. You're looking at the UUID through a giant pile of interpreters and renderers and buffers... plenty of opportunity to give each one a tartan without changing it in the data.

Or better yet, only decorate one after it has been clicked by the user, that way when it appears again elsewhere, it stands out. If you make each one pretty you'll have made all of them ugly when viewed together.
What does this mean? I used Stata a ton during my PhD. It’s not my preferred software for statistical analysis but it does a regression the same as anything else.
/g/ has a surprisingly high amount of Amiga users.

And a lot of interesting niche threads like the alternative os and alternative isa generals.
Venus of Willendorf is quite small, and not especially life-like, but similar large statues have been found in the area before, from around the same time (12kya ago). It's not even a unique find, and fits reasonably well(ish) in established chronology and progression (insofar that's possible for pre-history). Pretty much everything the previous poster said is wrong.
I do not understand your position. "The trust they gain from making this unsourced claim is a clear benefit, so they have no incentive to lie about it." Wouldn't the gained trust be an incentive?

You could argue if they lied the incentive wouldn't be worth the risk, but proving they lied about this would be difficult and that's a seperate argument from the one you made.
Write up about malware bait on r/cybersecurity
It’s stored in binary format (16 bytes) instead of text (36 bytes)
Whoever specifies or asks implies that the exact amount is not important and defers it to the reader/interlocutor to decide. It can then be

a few = a couple > 1

several > a few
On Learning to Program with LLMs
It seems they are considering it for kidney stones, perhaps in addition to lithotripsy:

https://www.fusfoundation.org/diseases-and-conditions/kidney...

Lithotripsy is pretty limited, I think the preference in most cases is to use ureteroscopy (using holmium laser ablation to break up stones).. but as someone who's had this, I can tell you it's no fun- any progress would be welcome.
With large companies with 100s of partners and contractors what is internal is fluid particularly over the network. So am sure they don't want to use such as a library.

Though I am not lawyer/license expert so that fact may be irrelevant more so using it as desktop app. But perception matters, if Goog/MSFT are not using it, a startup also won't risk using them lest some auditor flags it in next round of funding particularly if alternative is few dollars a month.
And?

Exactly how good right now are AI autonomous drones at handling wind sheer conditions in close quarters?

Just mumbling AI ALL UR BASES isn't exactly a constructive response without some notion of capability now and in the near future.
Given that the author compared MongoDB vs PostgreSQL, I think the technology in question is SQL vs NoSQL, not a particular flavor of SQL vs the other.
> But if you make the choice of Java (boring) over Kotlin (shiny new), you’re possibly signing up for a curse of chasing NPEs

You are also choosing

-to let your team choose their own IDE

- easy to debug

- frameworks that works out of the box

- and continue to work regardless of Kotlin versions (since one doesn't use Kotlin)

- to no have to deal with a number of "interesting" ways to write code

I like Kotlin. But it is more nuanced than some people would like to have us believe.

Personally I think I have spent far more time over the last three or four years hand holding Kotlin and cleaning up "clean code" than I have saved by less NPEs.
For small things I prefer bounties where anybody can claim the bounty, and there is a set end date where your software has to be ready to be reviewed instead of one guy claiming it then taking forever to finish. Whoever is accepted wins the bounty.

For me any kind of freelance Toptal like site needs to be specific about hours they expect you to be available as most people will be doing it P/T after school, or whatever other job they're doing. There is of course the problem with clients not paying, then your site is on the hook to pay the developer.
You'd probably end up with the type of "love hotels" you see in Japan.
Isn't it weird that we are in the year 2023 and nobody knows what it is? Thousands of generations have gone by and every new one lives with these questions all their lives and it just gets passed to the next one. We don't know what life is, we don't know what death is, we don't know what the difference is, and it's been hundreds of thousands of years going on like this. People die every day but we don't really know what it means, we just imagine a TV screen going off in their head and shudder and say we still have lots of time ourselves. And we foist this on children too. Pretty strange. And geeks on a tech forum are like yeah, we got this, it's just around the corner, let me just whip up this artificial intelligence and we'll get the truth for you in just another couple of years. And what's going to happen when they "figure it out"? Is it going to be an answer like yeah dude, these particles move around like this in this one way and that makes a TV screen in your head and when you die they stop moving and the TV screen goes out, you're the TV screen? Is that going to be basically the answer?
Whatever happened to transflective LCDs? I remember some Windows CE PDA devices had them. They were more visible in bright sunlight, and used a backlight, or sidelight, for use in the dark.

I guess they went away because their color fidelity wasn't so great in the dark, but they look absolutely amazing in sunlight.
Incentives for a nonprofit are almost entirely about getting donations and grants. Without those they're out of business. So for the aforementioned groups, sending out exaggerated warnings about disaster are a constant temptation.

If they sponsor or perform research, what are the chances it'll fail to support their public positions?
Hmm, it sounds to me like so much of our world is poison, then. Most surveillance-capitalism software (so the bulk of the most popular websites) are for example poisonous then, no? Unless you'd like to argue that unintentionally turning yourself into a research subject isn't really harmful, in which case I argue accidentally using a license that requires you to share any licensed code you change to also not really be harmful.
I don’t get why this ad hominem is the highest voted post. Probably you’re right and Varoufakis has a questionable reputation, but that doesn’t automatically mean that his book is of poor quality.

Having said that, I don’t think the essay is very strong. The author seems to be using binary thinking and only brings arguments up that are in favor of his main arguments. With some critical thinking, it’s fairly easy to come up with counter arguments during the read.
FWIW, I think Twitter is a rabid cesspool that will be a big piece in the downfall of humanity, but I didn't really share your assessment. For whatever reason he decided to write this blog post, I thought it was really interesting, insightful, and I appreciated the detail and clarity of thought that went into it (e.g. the analysis at the bottom of the article that showed vaccination rates were the real factor that resulted in differences in death rates, and that partisanship was really just a proxy for that).

So, Twitter folk may not care about what he showed in this post, but FWIW I certainly appreciated it.
Requiring megacorps to give back to society (which, no, selling their products and providing jobs is NOT what was being talked about when giving back to society was mentioned, what a ridiculous take) doesn't require government overreach, just regulation which other countries manage fine, other countries that are nowhere near the illiterate uneven class disaster the US has become.

Government overreach is a legitimate concern in some cases, but not here. Regulating megacorps is something the US needs, and society would be all the better for it.
No matter where you are, you can still embrace adtech and get your work monetised through that route. I personally know of a team in India that spent 2 years working on some mobile game, which was plain garbage after all that time investment. I don't think they even released it. Smaller games churned out every quarter would have been so much better for them. Working for years on the same project with no reward would likely drain most people and turn them away from any profession.
I think the reason it resonates with people is that a common failure mode in technology is picking the wrong tech for the problem, and this often happens because engineers like to learn and pick things they are unfamiliar with so that they get that buzz. Most of the value in this article can be boiled down to telling engineers to not make tech decisions based on the brainy feelgoods. It's like telling people to eat their vegetables. Boring, straightforward advice, but a good path to a healthier body.
60Hz is not mentioned anywhere on the Kickstarter page. That's just shoddy reporting AFAIK.

https://www.eink.com/news/detail/E-Ink-Launches-E-Ink-Kaleid...

> Available in sizes ranging from 13.3 inches to 42 inches, the latest E Ink Kaleido 3 Outdoor color ePaper technology will be showcased at Touch Taiwan 2023 from April 19-21, 2023.
> This is straight up psychopathic to say the least.

This is the essence of human social organization, since prehistory.
To late to edit but I of course meant "temporarily Russian controlled territory", not "Russian territory".