skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When CMB anisotropies are studied, one question is to see the the universe is isotropic or anisotropic -- these are two different uses of the word isotropic, on completely different scales.

The current prevailing science is saying that the CMB anisotropies are telling us the universe is isotropic...

The linked paper does however talk about an apparent deviation from this standard picture...but that is not what the word "anisotropy" is about in that quote.

Gurzadyan is not the most representative researcher to cite. While doing a PhD in astrophysics I remember a paper coming out where Gurzadyan co-published with Penrose but the paper had obvious flaws due to basic lack of understanding of statistical simulation, and there were many other groups jumping on showing it wrong within a few days..

IIRC the problem was that it was assumed that independent random variables in one space would still be independent after a linear transform (Fourier transform/spherical harmonic transform). I.e. failure in basic statistical algebra stuff underpinning the statistical simulations. This was not nitpicking, the whole result vanished once other groups redid the experiment with corrected algebra.

The talk was all about how Penrose could possibly have been fooled into putting his name on the paper -- and why he would not retract it even after many pointed out the blatant entry level mistakes.
My multiple experiences with ChatGPT hallucination, even at minimum temperature, leaves me preferring a web search answer. Just last week, jq hallucinated three different jq syntaxes that failed to parse.

That being said, I had been using web search for several years looking for the Get Smart episode I had seen as a kid in the 1980s where the enemy agent explains that he can't give up his suicide ring because "That's how it works, if I take it off, my wife will kill me." Google Bard found the episode on the first try.

So, I tend to fall back to LLMs only when search engines fail me.
yes, in english, broiling, grilling, boiling, and baking are kinds of cooking. but 'bake bread' is such a common phrase that 'cook bread' sounds wrong
I was speaking about my experience 8 months ago, so... yeah.
It's worse than that, just ~26% of the population made the decision for the rest.

Which interestingly, is roughly the percentage of populist Conservatives in the US as well.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populati...

> The Leave side led with 17.4 million votes, or 52 percent, versus the Remain side’s 16.1 million, or 48 percent, with a turnout of around 72 percent.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/06/24/world/europe/...

> The population of the UK at 30 June 2016 is estimated to be 65,648,000 people.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populati...
Loading raw bytecode is known to be unsafe, and iirc that is mentioned in lua_load/luaL_load* documentation.

A preprocessor could spit out Lua code with the same effect and less complexity. Really interesting why and how these decision were made.
This problem extends beyond character encoding. The average joe (and not so average alike) seems to have a hard time to distinguish official channels from non-official scammy ones, even more so when the official channel doesn't exist on a given platform ("we don't offer support via Telegram" kind of situations). Cue in some greed as well and you got a perfect recipe for disaster.

The root issue is the lack of skepticism and verification. At the same time humans have limited energy and verifying everything causes significant fatigue over time, so the problem might as well be intractable.
Copilot doesn't link to the sources. It doesn't really know what their sources are. It links to article that may be related to what it just said. Many times the sources even contradict what was said. So definitely not a source in that case
it's an interesting point; you do of course have to add those electrons to the metal atoms in the first place when you're smelting it from ore, unless you're working from a rare native metal deposit, and plausibly you could leach metal ions out of ore and feed them into your 3-d printer. i suspect that the tests they've done so far, however, are using reagent-grade metal salts from sigma-aldrich or similar with much more embodied energy than metallurgical-grade copper or whatever
> And what exactly happens in the meantime? That thing is now decided to be unregulated by the courts.

If something cant be written into an actual law, maybe the law shouldnt exist? Why must we err on the side of regulation? Congress is supposed to be doing its job representing voters and writing clear bills, not writing fill in the blank laws. Make those you vote into office accountable for their responsibilities.
I agree that "gatekeeping" gets a bad rap. Sure, it can be taken too far. But at the end of the day, one needs to actually be qualified. And if they aren't, well sorry but you aren't good enough for the job. It doesn't make you a bad person, it just means you need to work on your skills before you're a fit.
its just mean that new home buyers pay taxes for rest of the people. If the goal is to solve housing by building more homes, this is very wrong direction.
Renewables take the lead in power generation in 2023
Summary: About 44% of electricity in the EU was generated by renewables in 2023. 33% was fossil fuels and about 23% nuclear.
The comment is harsh, but it is not fair. Nor is (most of it) relevant and it even contradicts itself in places. It is a list of hot takes designed to anger and provoke instead of elucidate anything as I have said something they do not like.

Energy security is something every country should aim for, regardless of the size or perceived importance of the country.
This is a perfect example of why half the country does not trust the media, including myself. To be clear, I am not a Trump fan. But when newspapers endorse the same party for decades and write editorials like this, TV networks broadcast morning talk and late night shows making it clear who they do & don't favor, etc, I have a hard time believing they are feeding me objective data. They are partially responsible for the massive public distrust that they decry.
“Oh yea, anything FUTO is not open source. It’s merely source available”

I disagree and so does FUTO but in the interest of making nice with the community, they now call their software license “source first.”

Personally, I think of their license as open-source for humans, but not the for-profit legal fictions we call corporations. I am ok with that.

Why does the OSI get to dictate the one true definition of open source?

OSI didn’t invent the term. It was invented by Christine Peterson in 1998 and notably she is not even a member of OSI. They just co-opted the term from her.

OSI was founded by still secret charter members and large corporate sponsors such as Google, Apple and Microsoft who make Billions off the back of free open source software while giving back almost nothing.

FUTO was founded as an alternative to the tech oligopolies and their software is licensed as open-source except that they require separate licensing for commercial use, specifically to protect against exploitation by tech giants.
Apple’s AirPrint being more or less a combination of Bonjour/Avahi and driverless IPP is probably the best thing to happen to printing on Linux in recent times.

Can’t hurt that they use CUPS too.
> Maybe the fix for Craigslist would be to split into verticals

Feels like the time is ripe for something like that, too. I think you're right, that would really up Craigslist's game.
Not quite that, we've known about galaxies outside our own (like the Magellanic clouds or the Andromeda galaxy) for a few millenia, and the main reason black holes haven't been discovered for a while because they're black and we needed a theory to know where to look. The current theory of cosmology has overall been pretty stable for a while.

What's interesting there isn't that much the object themselves which are bog-standard as far as celestial objects go, but how red-shifted (and therefore how far away/long ago) they are, which is something the model doesn't quite exclude but does warrant some tweakings of the "initial parameters" of the universe to make it work this way compared to what we expect.
How to survive your layoff meeting [video]
Regardless of this analysis, the claim you’re respond to is true. Depends on context.
Yep, its place is in luaconf.h really.
I hate PHP, but this is not a good comment.
I received some letters in Japanese 10 years ago saying I was part of it, but I haven't really heard anything since
You'd think serious business people would know that a "relationship" is not "causation".

> The research was used by investors, lobbyists and regulators to push for more women and minority groups on boards, and to justify investing in companies that appointed them.

https://archive.ph/woefd

Where they imply that some people thought there was causation.

> While correlation does not equal causation (greater gender and ethnic diversity in corporate leadership doesn’t automatically translate into more profit) ...

From the actual report.

https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/people-and-organizatio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werwolf

probably not a good idea to pick a username sounding closely to that stuff.
> When I read a statute I have a level of certainty as to what it means

Tell me you're not a lawyer without telling me you're not a lawyer.
Mental inertia is the phrase I use for preferring the one you learned first
I’m very sorry. I quit a job once because they couldn’t follow their own rubric for promos.

“We’ve written down objective guidelines for what constitutes your relative performance.”

“Great, looks like I’m a shoe-in.”

“Well… there are intangibles.”

“Then why have the rubric?”
Penrose has published many papers on ghosts of black holes from another universe (see https://www.livescience.com/63392-black-holes-from-past-univ... for commentary), but 0811.2723 does not have Penrose as an author or state a reference to him by name.
Thanks. I'm glad your kid is OK, and sorry that you need to deal with the added stress.

Still it leaves me wondering where is the data on the kids who have this happen to them whose parents don't happen to have an epi-pen on hand. You'd think there would be some deaths, and you'd think someone would be keeping track of them, but I can't find the numbers on this anywhere. Seems weird.
It can go both ways. The most common one I've seen is definitely taking too long to ask about something. The other is asking too many trivial questions about things you can look up in minutes or ought to know given your job.

I think the problem is knowing when to ask is like many things a skill that gets better with experience. It isn't obvious especially to newer people. I also think if you're a senior you should be much more forgiving of juniors when it comes to this stuff. We were all there once.

I think asking too slowly tends to be caught more easily in things like standup before it snowballs. Asking too quickly tends to be habitual and seems to do more damage since it's harder to notice when managing projects, and often under the vague auspices of "pairing."
How 'Rural Studies' Is Thinking About the Heartland
It took me three paragraphs to realize that they were talking about warp-age and not a war-page.

What is a war-page? I don't know, that's why I clicked on the article! I assumed it had something to do with Debian package security.
Yes!

Unless you plan to go fast, you'll just keep getting slower and slower. And slow feedback is bad feedback.

I see lots of people adding slow tests to already-slow test suites and thinking they're helping. They are not helping. They're only making the problem worse. Those are often the same shops that measure "test coverage" in number of test cases.
The CAESAR competition [1] ended in 2019 and resulted in multiple different AEADs, most with plenty of nonce space.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAESAR_Competition
Carbon-neutral combustion is a win over carbon-positive combustion of extracted coal/oil/gas.
Only after they pay the 40% estate tax on it (which is higher than the 20% capital gains tax + 3.8% net investment tax that they would be saving).
I struggle to see how scale would fit into the equation
"Don’t underestimate the value of digging into history to investigate some bugs." Valuable advice, and it particularly highlights the risk of global state and the benefit of understanding your runtime. Browsers have popularized flamegraphs, stack traces show you the frames down to the moment of error, but global state survives multiple stack traces and the one you're looking at may not be (probably isn't) the cause of the problem. There is global state, the heap, external systems, etc that change over time and with successive calls. This is true even in single-threaded environments, and is far more complex in general multi-threaded environments. I often feel this isn't clear to beginners nor is it clear to them how you go about investigating bugs within this context.
Noise always has different sources, and when you eliminate noise you should always be conscious of the source. There should be a gravitational wave background analogous to the CMVB. Detecting it would be a sensation.
Where is the paper / code for this?
All the sample clips have camera motion. Does it perform worse with a static camera or is there enough variation from frame to frame to still recover details?
Wonder how much work it would be to download it all
If it was not a scam, you are ok to steal someone's savings.
Maybe those type of scams are instant karma?
Interesting, I hadn't considered game asset stores.

I'm guessing that the vast majority of sales for the plugins you linked are for native apps that want video chat or to communicate with existing WebSocket endpoints. A WebRTC DataChannel plugin would really only be useful for web builds, which are unpopular for Unity and unsupported for Unreal.
I think you are refering to weight loss. I am refering to the ability to sustain IF (i.e. the stomach to get used to it without raging for food).
Russian death camp: Three stories of Ukrainian prisoners
Although sometimes, rarely, the victim confesses their embarrassing actions as a warning to others in a well-written firsthand perspective in a national newsmagazine [0]

[0] https://www.thecut.com/article/amazon-scam-call-ftc-arrest-w...
As an example:

We have a build for a giant xyz customer system. Every part of the codebase is modern; it has thousands of JUnit5 test cases, 26+ modules. We've set the build up "correctly": following Maven best practices and it turns out, when you follow them, things are really quick with builds just under a few minutes.

Eclipse does an amazing just handling a project this size. It also is able to do things VsCode simply cannot do. We had a enum we needed to move from a submodule to a a global one. Eclipse found all of the references, including ones in our documentation, strings, test cases, and even prop files for runtime config, and refactored the whole thing in a few clicks. We've had the same experience with IntelliJ actually too, where the tools are even more refined.

Eclipse/IntelliJ are on a different plane. VsCode does have it's merits, but it's not really a full blown IDE.
I would agree, which is why I specified :)
We would greatly appreciate your feedback on this idea and any suggestions on how we can enhance Upsend :)
First link in "further information"

https://cacm.acm.org/research/almost-linear-time-algorithms-...
Is this really how anyone under 60 learns technical information in 2024? I realize SWE job posts are down but... this is a terrible idea lol
You can read the paper here which is a decent introduction

https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.05468

The (much older) paper Kindergarten Quantum Mechanics is probably the classic in this field

https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0510032
You're wrong, actually, based on my conversations with my friends who are sober through Narcotics Anonymous.

Intuition may tell you that "softer" addictions like sugar/food, video games/tech, pornography/sex, etc. are easier to stop than narcotics, but reality doesn't bear this out from those I've spoken with, at least if you have a true DSM-5 criteria addiction to these "softer" substances (which if you have a true addiction, can readily destroy your life and even kill you).

The trivial availability, legality, lack of social stigma/shame and other factors cause such addictions to actually be much more challenging to become sober from than narcotics or alcohol, on average. That said, my sample size is quite small and skewed, since those I've talked to have achieved long-term NA/AA sobriety for the most part.
You're at a party. You politely say goodbye to everyone and start heading for the exit.

You are restrained and drugged. You are coerced into signing euthanasia papers and are swiftly killed.
The texas rocket docket sure gets plenty of attention, but that hasnt done anything to slow it down. It sounds nice to say "well if things dont work out we'll just fix them" but the reality is that its much more likely that we will just fall into a new status quo of things being worse.
Nintendo's Wii launch goes smoothly
That was more of a subtle joke than anything substantive. I think JIRA is probably fine as long as it’s not like a religion
I love the tape idea! And including some paper towels seems like a no-brainer. One of the uses I suggest for the sanitary pads is as sponges. That is, after all, what they are. Just super-absorbant sterile ones.

I used to include a comb, but stopped because they're easy to get from other places, they sometimes damaged other things in the bag, and they were often discarded. I also used to include nail clippers, but couldn't find inexpensive ones that weren't really crappy, so I didn't think they carried their weight in terms of cost/benefit.

I've been trying to find a way to include decent gloves (meaning ones that would be better than wearing one of the pairs of socks on your hands) in the winter kits for years, but I can't find any that fit into the budget. However, last year I teamed up with a sewing hobbyist who makes very warm and cozy hats. I couldn't put one in the packages, but carried a few with me and would give them separately on a more selective basis. Maybe we can expand that to gloves as well.
How can congress do this if the Supreme Court is going to repeatedly make retroactive changes to what the laws that congress passes mean?

For 40 years, legislation was drafted under the assumption Chevron deference was going to be used to interpret the text of the bills. Now, all of those laws mean something other than what the authors intended.

If this was software, it'd be the equivalent of changing post-K&R C language semantics in a backwards incompatible way, and just saying "Well, if programmers care that industrial control systems are literally burning factories to the ground, they can just fix all the software that was written since 1984. Also, moving forward, we reserve the right to keep making intentionally-breaking changes to the compiler, so during the rewrite, they should take future planned-but-currently-secret semantic changes into account."
Since Rule 30 is dense in the space of configurations, at some point it produces a binary sequence that spells out "BRAZZERS" in ASCII - does that count as Rule 30 Rule 34? :P
Does someone know where to find the photos of his art on the archive? (https://cep.museepicassoparis.fr/)
I can't find it there...
Since kids unless I am reading to them, I only get to read books when I donate plasma twice a week. an hour of peace and quiet is worth the pint of plasma.
The multiplication in CMAC is there to distinguish between full and partial final input blocks. It can't be simply a xor with a constant because that would be easily cancelable in the input, and wouldn't satisfy the required xor-universal-like properties required by the security proof.

The input here is highly restricted so there's no point to it.
Creative use of early Epson printers was something I wasted a lot of time with, never with a word processor, because they did not really exist unless you paid hundreds of pounds to get one.

I was coding forms for tabular data, doing silly things because the printed manual made that too tempting, so any excuse to use a character or escape code sequence was fair game.

This was in an era when handwriting was commonly used so the convention for 'ditto' could be freestyled by me to be middle dots, umlauts or anything CHR(). The convenience of the keyboard, in an era before the PC was not really there.
not nesc.

like I would rather use code to find apriltags than a vit or other model
Six distinct types of depression identified in Stanford Medicine-led study
I am, I tried lshw but I'll try dmesg too, thank you.
You’re not going to be any happier with the circumstances of people living in enormous urban housing projects.

You should want a society where we are all rewarded for looking after each other, in the ways we are each best at. Nothing else can work.
Not OP but I would say, generally non-engineering things that keep the business people happy. Project planning, delegating tasks, dashboards and metrics (customer feedback, if you can acquire it, is a big plus), setting and meeting deadlines, and knowing how to sell yourself.

There's that old (and very true) wisdom that if you solve a complex problem in two days, the business people won't think "wow, this guy is so smart and hard-working for solving that in 2 days." They will think "oh, this problem must not have been very hard to solve. Let's assign him extra work." Being a good engineer only gets you so far, career-wise.
>Serena and Venus were clearly phenomenal pure athletes

I don't think it's helpful to assert true the point that's trying to proven. The point is Richard Williams made a decision before it could possible be known that both daughters just happened to be pure phenomenal athletes at that young an age for that specific sport. There is no evidence that this is not s case of nuture overcoming nature since the absence of similar successes could just as easily be chalked up to shitty coaching of what were incredibly talented youths who were more pure athletes than either of the Willams sisters instead of an indictment of the lack of god given talent those other failed youths originally possessed.

>But look at Nick Krygios. I don't follow the guy's training, but it's pretty clear that he is as apathetic a top player as there is.

The point of contention is not whether naturally talented athletes can become pro with minimal effort, which I think hardly anyone would disagree with in theory. The contested point is whether the parent is condemning their children to failure if they do not rack up successes at a very young age.

There was a piece a while back ago attributing the success of notable famous people like Einstein to the presence of all consuming private tutors, where the tutor in question was either a very close family friend, a family member, or a relative. These people just didn't quit when other tutors with less skin in the game would. How do we know 50% natural talent is not enough and the rest cannot be overcome by nuture, and that it has to be 90% natural talent from the get go?

I agree that regardless of success such a life might be subpar. But whether a parent should subject their kid to such a life is a related but a separate issue to the question of their potential success.
There’s an interesting case right now in Vancouver against the largest hospital downtown which is affiliated with Catholics (I think, St Paul’s is the facility in any case).

Several in-patients that opted for medical assistance in dying were refused that treatment by administrators of the hospital on religious grounds, and their families are sueing based on the additional suffering inflicted by having to transfer to other facilities.