skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The highest-scoring response to that comment is

> I'd honestly suspect the author was COINTELPRO were it not for the fact that so many of his statements and code are literally laughable.

So there's that!
Hey Maciej, just wondering. Does having this link on the HN frontpage influence the amount of new subscribers you have today, and possibly tomorrow? Just curious
Removed the option from BIOS menu? Okay, stupid and annoying, but well, there's always EFI shell where you can edit variables by yourself...

Writing a piece of code that resets that one particular variable on each boot?

Sorry, but that's just nasty. There is no reason to do that if the goal is just to provide best experience on supported OS.

Although I agree that it's unlikely this was targetted specifically against GNU/Linux and other OSes. The most important thing would be that Windows 7, 8 and older won't boot anymore.
https://video.adm.ntnu.no/pres/54b660049af94
Correction, they only support on version of that OS - which is the point here.

To claim you're going to get better battery life with a fake RAID driver is also one of the funniest things I've ever heard.
The article reminded of me of Robert Axelrod's excellent "The Evolution of Cooperation." Axelrod uses similar computer modeling to create a tournament to help tease out how cooperative strategies emerge from primarily self-interested behavior. It is one of the best things I have ever read in my life, and I'd recommend that book to anyone.

The real issue with scientific publishing is that there is simply no penalty for publishing shoddy research. I know several academics who made quite a big name for themselves on research that was later partially or fully retracted. No one cared about that; there was no real reputational damage done. To tackle poor science, such "poor" scientific inquiry should be "punished" in some way. Similarly, it is terrible for the advancement of science that only novel or significant results get published -- there should be a way for researchers to benefit from publishing well-designed research which simply did not yield interesting results.

How to do that? I think some of Axelrod's tournament provides an answer. Like in his examples, the individual incentives align to yield a pretty poor outcome to the members of his population (he runs an iterated prisoner's dilemma game). However, correctly setting up the iteration parameter's, slowly a cooperative strategy becomes the evolutionarily stable strategy.

I can see how this could also be the case for academics. There is no law from up above that dictates that "number of papers published" is the ultimate metric of success. There is a culture, and processes, and institutions which have led that to be a leading indicator of academic success. If there were real motivation and impetus to change this, there is no reason to imagine that other metrics (and processes) could emerge that would much more highly value scientific integrity and thoroughness.
Would like to see a similar ISC breakdown with as detailed a compare/contrast of the effective differences.
Because this has been said and done already, too...
Eh, how hard can it be?

On a serious note, this is cool and I'm glad it's actively maintained. No one knows more than me how fun it is to run your own bookmarking service.
I personally use wordpress and woocommerce, got all the customization i need

Free mostly, paid plugins for setting it up faster :) -- emails, abandoned carts, ...
I LOVE that you talked about the ethics of cold outreach here. We all hate getting mindless spam, so let's encourage people to keep that at a minimum.
Some years ago FreeBSD had an intrusion via one of the commiter's machine or stolen SSH key, I don't remember which any more, but I do remember that it took months for the package building infrastructure to get fully operational again. I think they never got to the bottom of that (who did it or why). Linux had a very similar incident if I'm not mistaken.

It's such a standard and effective method in human intelligence, that it's extremely naive to think an analogue wouldn't be used extensively in signals intelligence too.
I wonder how Big Pharma feels about this.

I'd imagine a lot of a pharmaceutical company's revenue depends on the fact that a lot of diseases haven't been cured but are nonetheless treatable.
According to the video ("The Science Behind Lemonade") linked on the homepage, it seems the key difference is this company take a flat fee while other insurance company "makes profit" from declining claim , so the Lemonade has no incentive to decline a claim which makes the claim process fast;
and also they donate the extra profit to charity
Daniel from Lemonade here. Totally understand how P2P can be confusing as a term. What we mean by it is that we use each group's premiums to pay their claims, with leftover money going back to the group's common cause. To us P2P is a shorthand for: 'it's not our money'!
Honestly, I don't know. I just see a total earnings figure for the day on my admin thingy, and don't have any kind of analytics or what-have-yous.
This is lovely and all.

But he is in a much better position to work on the curious problems of ever increasing political polarization in our new Post-Factual world.

If I were to guess, over the next century that problem is going to result is a vastly more misery than a slight speed up to medical technology could compensate for.
Admittedly I don't know what that is and I don't know a lot about how applications on OSX get permissions. From reading that thread I posted I was under the impression that Dropbox stored the password because it was able to reinstate itself as an accessibility service as many times as it liked without having to ask for the admin password.

From reading, that wasn't supposed to be allowed. The only way that could work would be if Dropbox kept your password on file. In effect meaning that the dialogue you entered your admin password for wasn't a system modal - but rather a dropbox modal imitating the system one.
These acts of apparent philanthropy from ridiculously wealthy people rub me the wrong way. It feels like those rich patrons from older times who would bestow their "generosity" as they pleased, except that in modern times most countries have frameworks in place to make this sort of work happen, and these rich people choose to ignore them, or worse, disparage them.

Companies like Facebook (and people like Mark Zuckerberg) actively avoid paying taxes whenever they can, in a lot of countries that, for example, have public healthcare and other public institutions that would normally benefit from these taxes.

It's a bit like repeatedly stealing some kid's lunch, and then making fun of the kid for her weakness while appearing strong (and stronger in comparison to the weak kid) and compassionate when the kid passes out and you carry her on your back.
Well, biology is on the verge of a revolution. Given the research that is being put into reversing aging, I wouldn't be surprised if you made it.
I miss John Siracusa's reviews.

This is a fine review, but not a Siracusa Review.
I don't understand the P2P claim either, but I'll upvote anything involving Dan Ariely.
In our case, the goalposts for what the product should be kept moving every 3 months, which was probably the largest single problem, it caused most of the friction imo. It didn't help that we were a hardware startup, so changes couldn't be made as easily. A solution to that would be to agree upon (and document) what the MVP is, and not change course until you've validated that the idea doesn't meet the market's needs. We had a single client/partner, their desires ended up driving a lot of changes late in development that ended up being incompatible with earlier engineering decisions, but the founder pushed them through. We ended up not being able to do environmental testing because of the time those changes took, and the first time it rained the cases for our electronics filled with water.

I'm also now a solo-ish founder and I only have technical/team management experience, so I'm learning too :)
You aren't shortsighted, they have. Look at USB class drivers.
It looks like these are the companies that are really insuring you:

Lloyd’s of London, Berkshire Hathaway’s National Indemnity, XL Catlin etc.

Basically they are buying a policy from one of those companies adding 20% and selling it to you.

A insurance company works by spreading risk over a large area. By selling everything in NY they are increasing their correlation which raises risk. One of the reasons for the sub prime crisis was no one expected housing to fall in all markets at the same time.
I wouldn't know what to do if I got LastName.com. I'd probably make a service so other people sharing the name could have email addresses forwarded from it. heh.
quantum teleportation is not instant, since the information about the particle's quantum state is still sent over a classical channel
This is wildly un-new. Mutual insurance companies have existed for literally hundreds of years. Oldest one I can find in 5 minutes dates to 1762, and if you include merchant insurance organizations, probably <1400 (although those probably end up looking more like equity arrangements).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_insurance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Equitable_Life_Assurance_S...
Very different market but the the ACA has a Medical Loss Ratio rule that requires insurers to spend 80% of premium dollars on care and thus caps admin costs + profits at 20%. (http://kff.org/health-reform/fact-sheet/explaining-health-ca...)

I find that an interesting coincidence in this case...
That is only true for fully homomorphic encryption. There are simpler cryptosystems (e.g. ElGamal for a trivial example) that have more constrained homomorphisms that theoretically could be used here.
Just last week I read that Michelin (tires) engineers said in the 80s they knew how to make a product that would be one order of magnitude better at everything they sell, but that would be shooting themselves in the foot.

Business paradox.
Enough has been said about incorrect gamma (this and [0]), now I think it's high time to bash the software of the world for incorrect downscaling (e.g. [1]). It has much more visible effects, and has real consequences for computer vision algorithms.

In the course on computer vision in my university (which I help teaching) we teach this stuff to make students understand physics, but at the end of the lecture I'd always note that for vision it's largely irrelevant and isn't worth the cycles to convert image to the linear scale.

[0] http://www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/gamma.html

[1] http://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/53820/why-do-photos...
A very interesting article. One thing that stood out to me:

> Unfortunately, Rust does not support [a save-all-registers calling convention]. It was proposed once, but did not get accepted for various reasons. The primary reason was that such calling conventions can be simulated by writing a naked wrapper function.

Followed by:

> However, auto-vectorization causes a problem for us: Most of the multimedia registers are caller-saved. [...] We don’t use any multimedia registers explicitly, but the Rust compiler might auto-vectorize our code (including the exception handlers).

This seems like a pretty convincing argument in favor of supporting this calling convention explicitly: only Rust knows what registers it is actually using. The current approach devolves into preserving every register that Rust might possibly use.

AVX-512 has 2kb of registers alone! That's a lot of junk to save to the stack on the off-chance that Rust decides to super-auto-vectorize something.
Yeah, Nim is interesting, and pretty nice for gamedev (efficient, GCed when you want it, hand management when you don't, no stop-the-world, etc.). Personally, I haven't worked with it much yet, as there are just too many languages, and some of the semantics were immidiate turn-offs (static typing with very minimal inference, odd multi-assignment semantics, enforced use of discard (which discourages minimal APIs, and encourages functions with side-effects to have no return value, which is a Bad Thing), requiring forward declarations (if you need it for metaprogramming, than why can Scheme and Lisp avoid it?), not defaulting to bignums, dynamic dispatch chosen by the creator of the original class, really clumsy macros, no hygene AFAICT (although two namespaces and a module system make this less of an issue: However, I doubt the module system was built to protect hygene. Somebody should look into this, so we can know for sure), really, really clumsy macros (I mean really, come on guys: macros aren't new: how did you even mess that up? You can totally do better than that, even without parens. But if you add parens, it's so much easier. Clojure even made it socially acceptable!)).
... extra profit donated? Why would I choose that over lower prices?
It's not Secure Boot - yet. But this is what you're going to find - obsolescence depending on built-in hardware driver support. Not only are you not getting Linux installed on here but Windows 7, or any future version of Windows that does not have this driver built for it. You'll then have to throw the hardware away.

No, it wasn't a bullshit statement from a rep - it was a very clear statement from a rep, in black and white, that has not been retracted or clarified by Lenovo in any way. It's always funny when people choose not to believe verbatim statements and explanations put right in front of them.
In a lot of fields you can. In fact an entire field (ego depletion) seems to have been ENTIRELY produced by this type of publication selection bias.
You could store the combo shapes for 50 images in about 350 bytes. If you want to fix to axis and pick one shape, you can get it down to 300. (That's 256x256 images, for each shape you need two coordinate pairs, or 4 bytes, 1 byte for rotation, 3 values for rgb (15-bit color), and 2 bits per shape for choice between ellipse, rectangle, and triangle
That doesn't sound right -- a claim should be paid out or denied based on the veracity of the claim, not on the profit motive of the company. Sure, a for-profit company has extra incentive to vet claims, but so does Lemonade (since they dont want to be swindled).

Traditional insurance companies make their margins on the cash they have to hold on hand.
This (and your other comments in this thread) was super interesting to read. Thanks!
The government (and medical science) was wrong about what it told us to eat for the past 40 years.
> I'm not says one is better than the other - Norway looks great right now, but didn't when I visited ~10 years ago and my Subway "value" meal cost over $25 CDN - just an interesting counterpoint.

Careful with such examples. Local prices are first of all adjusted for local wages, and second of all the NOK exchange rate is just nasty.
Quantum teleportation is actually kind of the opposite. You transmit a quantum state (which if your particle is as simple as a photon, can be used to create a copy of the particle) by using an already-separated entangled pair and sending two classical bits any boring old way (fiber, wire, smoke signals).

If you don't get the classical information on the receiving end, any attempts to read the quantum state will garble the quantum transmission such that it'll be indistinguishable from random noise. Since those classical bits are limited by the speed of light, so is the overall transmission of the state.
As far as I know, quantum entanglement is like two paper bags with two identical colored balls in them. You can separate the bags by a million miles, and yet if you look in one bag, you will know which color ball the other bag contains (because they contain the same color).

Can someone correct this analogy if I'm wrong?
“Return to Sender” Returns Interesting Results
> That's a lot of junk to save to the stack on the off-chance that Rust decides to super-auto-vectorize something.

Note that LLVM loves to use the XMM registers to do memcpys. This is something that kernels definitely do. So it's definitely a tradeoff.
I used to use NFSN for everything, but I found performance to be a bit painful (and also moved away from hosting websites to hosting more complex systems). I would still say that it's a great company with a great product ethos though. I hosted all sorts of sites on there.
It doesn't matter whether you call yourself a programmer or an engineer. In the software industry there is no standard for titles. They have misused this right from the beginning.

I am more upset that technical people are always seen as resources. You might feel you are building a great product and contributing to the great good. In reality, you are just a tool for someone to make money. You are an expendable resource who can be replaced in no time.

The management does fear attrition and key people leaving, just because it is a problem for them and a risk for the business if key supporting people leave. It might give them a setback. But in reality the management in every company thinks that they can find some other guy with equivalent/better knowledge, experience and he can replace you.

I sometimes fear that when I turn 60 and look back and realize that so many X no. of nights I spent was only to realize that I was eventually replace by someone and the top management people made a hell lot of money by selling the company.
Which is why he recommends not viewing the examples on a phone. Too bright is less noticeable than too dark, so I guess you're lucky it's off in that direction.

It's also possible that the image file is a PNG with a gAMA chunk, which sometimes gets rendered incorrectly by browsers.
The difference is that we're a fully regulated insurance company (as opposed to brokers like Guevara or other p2p insurance startups). It means that we can control the experience end to end and build an insurance company with a different business model than how traditional insurance companies do business. This is why we can give unclaimed money back to charity.
There's a difference between insurance and reinsurance. It looks like they're only reinsured through those companies, but the policy itself is underwritten by Lemonade.

Reinsurance is basically insurance for the insurance co, for instance if a hurricane hits NYC and wipes out all of their policyholders at once.

(It's a bit complicated because there actually are many insurance co's that only sell insurance underwritten by a third party (although they may be able to offer lower price than buying from the third party directly because of how they target their customer base or handle claims), or sell insurance strictly on commission and outsource servicing claims, and there are varying forms of reinsurance that cover everything from huge tail risks to flat percentages of claims, or exotic circumstances like your corporate HQ burning down or massive lawsuits.)
That's what RealNames does; it own the domains for a lot of common last names. trinh.com is one that comes to mind.
The fact that @gilsadis didn't understand this this suggests to me that they are in entirely the wrong business.
people believing there is some mystical cause to their obesity is the problem. People like to blame some magical undiscovered illness when they are just eating too much, eating too many bad foods, not exercising enough or a combination of those. there is no mystery to obesity but I do believe we can do more to educate people on better / healthier lifestyle habits.
Just out of curiosity, what kind of performance issues did you have?
Third time I'm writing this in this thread, but it causes so much confusion: in order to quantum teleport one qubit, you transmit two classical bits of information, say by ethernet. So there's no way to take this to work as a sneaky means of sending a classical bit.

It's my sacred duty to keep repeating this fact until the whole internet knows. (It's even in the first sentence of the wikipedia page on quantum teleportation!)
I'd already seen most of this in a video (courtesy of Henry, aka MinutePhysics, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LKnqECcg6Gw), but it was nice to see a programmer-oriented explanation, nonetheless.
It's kind of funny that the classically Scandinavian solution was mostly the work of an Iraqi geologist http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/the-public-god-foru...
> but the community felt like an academic one

How do you know what the development environment 'felt' like? Are you Roger Dingledine or Nick Mathewson?

And I doubt that you will find any evidence that it was used before being made public. Using TOR before it was public would be like screaming, "HEY I'M HIDING SOMETHING! AND I'M US MILITARY OR INTELLIGENCE!". The whole point of releasing it was to gather a userbase. Otherwise, TOR wouldn't be very anonymous at all.
Every other chipset and motherboard in existence has had that option and it hasn't affected anyone adversely. There is no less of two evils. There isn't any evils here.
Sorry to see you got downvoted for voicing your opinion. Remember, Stockholm Syndrome is a disease.
Usually when I plan on replacing the factory OS, I'll buy a replacement drive/ssd, and install directly on that, leaving the factory drive ready to be re-inserted on resale/return.
I get a similar behaviour on my Android phone. As I mentioned in the article, that example doesn't work on most phone LCD screens. Try it on a real desktop monitor!
Well honestly that's a much easier task. Polio is a solved problem. The vaccine has existed for decades. It's just a matter of money to get it out to enough people.

Curing "all" disease is a bit more ambitious.

Not to say that in the end, Gates isn't helping more people today.
So will this P2P insurance company employ an AI with a Bot interface to help people handle their claims? Maybe they can apply some Deep Learning?
Is this why my computer screen's brightness controls always seem to have a huge jump between the lowest two settings (off and dimmest-before-off)?
It's wasted potential all the way down.
"It's not harder: It degrades the overall experience while using the laptop (battery, temperature, performance)."

Except these are baseless claims that haven't been supported by any data yet; in fact, one user that posted on the Lenovo Community forums compared the "performance" of single-drive RAID (oxymoron) vs. AHCI for NVMe SSDs, and it's more or less the same.

"I mean flashing a non-supported BIOS :)"

Right, so do I -- currently, users have been attaching DIY chip clips and flashing a user-modded hacked BIOS themselves (much like modding Playstation game consoles to break the region locking back in the 90s).

Wouldn't it be better for these users to flash a Lenovo-supported BIOS instead?

I guess that's what factors into your "bottom line" calculations -- the overhead of uploading a 30 second fix from engineering.

EDIT: I really should have realized I have been getting trolled a bit sooner LOL
Because providing that option doesn't give anyone sub-par drivers?

Also, the power saving stuff is bollocks. I never thought I would see the day when anyone would recommend using a bullshit fake RAID driver for power saving reasons.
Thanks for your messages and emails. I was only expecting a few people, but this is awesome.

Looks like y'all don't like Snapchat lol. What would be the best platform for us to connect (Slack, Twitter DM, FB DM)?
You need log transformations on both axes for this to work.
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This unintentionally but very clearly demonstrates how a few minutes of thought can save a much longer period of computation. Rather than testing all of the integers between 1 and 500,000,000 (as in the article) or between 1 and 10 * 9^9 (for the trivial upper bound), we can simply test all of the multisets of 10 digits -- of which there are a mere 92378. (Or multisets of up to 10 digits if you take 0^0 = 1, in which case you must consider 184755 possibilities.)
It's Happening: Entrepreneurship Is Less Risky Than Ever
Exactly. Galadriel, Elrond, and Faramir also have the opportunity to take the One Ring, and choose not to. Sadly Faramir's rejection of it was not portrayed in the movies.