skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate your attempt but you did not convince me the slightest bit. Let's take the 1,333,337 coin tosses all heads. This result has no bearing on the probability of the coin at all. It may make you strongly doubt that the coin is indeed a fair coin but - and that is the point I am trying to get at - there is nothing that prevents a fair coin from coming up heads 1,333,337 times in a row. Whatever your experiment shows, it could always be a statistical fluke.

And the infinite case does not changes much, at least not in a way obvious to me. Back with those super powers I toss the coin infinitely often and get heads 50 % of the time. That was fun, let me do that again tomorrow. Well, again heads 50 % of the time. This is the way it goes for a long time but then something strange happens, one day all tosses come up heads. The very next day everything is back to normal. What is now the probability of heads, we got two different answers for your way of defining he probability? And all it took was an extreme statistical outlier on single day.
I mean, I certainly can't recommend to everyone in the world in good faith to 100% ditch Windows, games/business software, whatever. The world is what it is, and other than the dark patterns and privacy issues Windows is actually pretty solid these days.

I'm slowly coming to grips with the fact that privacy is dead and there's nothing I can do about it, but dark patterns in my desktop OS is a pretty big issue for me, and using software that has my best interests in mind is a very refreshing experience. (plus I'm writing code all day that will run on Linux anyway..)
any specific reason why desktop linux seems to be converging on gtk instead of qt ?
IMHO - more like LOGO, re-done poorly.

Hey, nothing against the author's creation, but I do often wonder why we keep re-inventing something that Seymour Papert figured out a long, long time ago - and gave us the tools to do it with!

Furthermore - if you read his book (Mindstorms) - the goal isn't to "learn programming" - it's to learn to think computationally, something which can be applied to all areas of learning and life. Furthermore, it's done by manipulating a virtual artifact (the turtle) to create further artifacts - artifacts which can be interactive.

Part of me tends to wonder if this "shoehorning" of education into nice little "holes" (much like rote memorization) isn't more an effort to stifle kids natural urge to creativity, questioning, and ultimately skepticism?

How dare we foster an education that could lead to progressive liberalism and an unfettered mind...unthinkable!
Available on itch.io as well! https://chiptune.itch.io/zepton
> By the way, I hope you realize that these two viewpoints are not completely orthogonal.

You win the Fields Medal. :)

I appreciate your feedback and you seemed to have interpreted my text words as intended. I disagree with your conclusion but you do understand my position. I'm grateful for that. So much can be misunderstood through the web. I point others to your comment to hopefully elaborate.

I do think Quanta does a poor job at maintaining the rigor and no they aren't as bad as other publications. But we should hold them to a higher standard (heck all publishers). They are closer to what I think is needed in the industry but it's too much hype for me and not enough rigor.
A pain for me to control with bad hand-eye but a really neat game. You did a great job with it. Cool stuff.
I'd be curious to hear from someone who has worked at a local public broadcasting affiliate about what their budgets look like. I enjoy state-level public radio, but I don't watch a lot of state or local public television programming.

It seems like a lot of the arguments for funding PBS/CPB have been centered around their national programming, e.g. Nova and Sesame Street. But if the proposed cuts are "across the board," state and local public television programs would bear a greater share of the burden. Maybe we should be talking more about those.
As nice as it is, it's language-dependent.
> Google isn't the destination.

It is the destination, no matter how you try to reframe it. Google's just a destination that collects links to help you to get to other destinations, and pays for its service by showing ads. You can completely shut Google out of your life - block all DNS connections to Google's services, switch to Bing, turn on AdBlock, etc.

If your ISP is Verizon or peers with them, and your content exists on the other side of their network, there's absolutely nothing you can do to avoid them - they own the road. Common Carrier laws exist to prevent companies from discriminating based on the content provider. That's why Verizon has spent so much money to get around them.

Again, you can try to frame it however you like, but "Google" in this case could mean Reddit, it could mean HackerNews, YourCompanysWebsite, etc. It is literally a wildcard.
In distros yes, but in market snappy has been well received
https://partners.ubuntu.com/programmes/iot . For me the next move of which package manager will be adopted is gonna be based on companies which are gonna develop on it and get support. Only when Red Hat enters the game, you'll see a big adoption of snaps. For now, Canonical is ahead in this game.
It's an interesting device, but I think it's going to be a dead-end because of ARM.

The moment someone makes a phone that runs one of those Intel mobile chipsets, which can actually run x64 version of Windows, and all the existing apps, is the moment when I'll buy into that "it's a smartphone! it's a desktop! it's both!" line. But not before.
> Eh, Youtube is a Google destination. Lots of people make content for the express purpose of distribution on Youtube. Those people could put the content on other services, but they would likely have lower viewership. So, I'd say you're wrong on that. Google is the destination.

You could equally well look at it this way: Lots of people make content for the "express purpose of distribution" on the Internet. The Internet, which is provided to you by Verizon, is the destination.

> About search. You don't have to use it. You could go straight to the content producers website if you wanted. Chances are nobody would ever find that content. As a means to fund the search, Google presents ads.

You don't have to use the Internet. You could walk straight to your favorite brick and mortar store or the movie theater. But you don't want to do that. Verizon wants to be compensated for its service, just as Google does.

> Everything needs to go encrypted. From DNS, all email to all webpages. All the ISP deserves is a bunch of random characters.

This is a better argument, and one I mostly agree with, though I'm not a fan of the moral implications in the word "deserve". Rather, I think, from a public policy point of view, the benefits of secure communications outweigh the interest from ISPs in monetizing their traffic.

For what it's worth, I'm uncomfortable with the idea that Google deserves all the advertising revenue, when it benefits indirectly from services that ISPs provide, sometimes at a loss due to regulation (being forced to serve remote areas and so forth, regulations that companies like Google do not have). I don't know what the right solution is, but I do acknowledge that it's a complicated issue, and Rayiner's point is not so easily dismissed.

Note that, as I stated before, I'm pro-net-neutrality in that it encourages a better public policy outcome, so you don't need to convince me of the benefits of the policy—I'm well aware.
That's it! Thank you!
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The problem with Comcast and google is that in many cases they have a monopoly on broadband internet. If you need internet for work or anything else, you don't really have an alternative.
I'd consider windows 10 evidence that proves convergence is a bad idea. It does an absolutely terrible job of being a tablet and a desktop OS. At times it feels like two OS's in one and at other times it feels like you're stuck in the wrong mode (and after a reboot you are).

Half the apps (explorer and vlc are the two I used the most) work horribly in touch mode and the other half work horribly in desktop mode, like the way the pdf reader default to full screen.
> This is the same that Verizon/Comcast wants to do. Provide an arbitrary service (i.e ISP) and also do something else with the data.

> Maybe someone can help me understand the distinction between these two.

The difference lies in that it's rather easy to escape Google's purview -- if you don't like Gmail, you can pay for any one of multiple paid email services that don't monetise anything beyond your credit card. I do exactly that.

With Comcast/Verizon, it's a lot harder to access an alternative service -- both have spent decades building up nationwide networks and use their quasi-monopoly statuses in anti-competitive ways (at every level and scale, see stuff like municipal/local rules around utility poles and other rights-of-way for fibre and coax).

It's trivial for me to shell out a few dollars per month to access another email service that doesn't do ads and doesn't monetise my data. It's orders of magnitude more painful and expensive for me to access internet with something other than the duopoly of shitty DSL or shitty Comcast DOCSIS service.
Neat! I have been trying to, in Nim, but I've had so little experience working with raw terminals and the IOCTL handles, I've been struggling!

https://github.com/girvo/te

This looks like a great tutorial to work through with it :)
Out of curiosity and getting off subject, what would you use today? Signal? I honestly can't think of another protocol that would check the same boxes as OTR for me: 1) real time 2) secure 3) open and trusted 4) on a desktop platform and 5) integrated with tools that allow me to do things like clip or archive those messages if necessary. Perhaps you can do these things with Signal or something else, but most other options seems either too centralized or too ephemeral.
But those are both examples of subscriptions businesses - which the publishers already do.
My bad. Hopefully this [1] comment and this [2] one helps clear up my position. They are accurate, yes. But poor in the sense that it's all conjecture, not evidence based.

1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14046334
2 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14046131
So do I!
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Heh, good timing: I hear Uber might need to start their self-driving car project from square one soon. They might be willing to do a fast deal.
you have a link on this that will help a n00b like me figure this out
Really? I'll take the developer who actually makes things work.
Some of that is a symptom of people teaching lousy history to kids. But afaik, it's been well known among historians that the romans traded with India and had silk from china. It's not exactly a secret that Alexander invaded India.
Sounds like perfect prep for a career as a developer
so much <3
Where does one submit requests for simple features/changes?

I'd love for the file search shortcut (Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-F) to actually activate the search, rather than simply filling out the file search input box, then needing to press the enter/return key active. Or rather, I'd simply like an option to enable that (in case that's some horrific thing to other devs, which I'm sure it is.)
I'm aware of that and just wanted to point out why this american perspective can be questioned, which was -in my opinion- the intend of "08-15".
Not at all. Asking money for your work isn't lazy. It's how the entire rest of the world works. It's how you're able to afford the ability to comment on this website.
I don't understand. If the average of the last 10 seasons is 20 home runs, what would be a better predicted value? You are a bit short in explaining here?

Your site, and the Wiki link, is very math formular heavy. Is there an explanation for someone who forgot all his statistic courses and greek letter thingys?
This is a judge that I respect. He should be on the Supreme Court.
> I dislike personal qualifications-based arguments, so I'm loathe to contribute to them.

Umm. There is a difference being being treated for an infection by a MD and a PhD in Philosophy. Context is key. I'm not trying to 'puff up' and make it an ego competition.

Instead, I'm trying to provide some context with my feedback. Nor do I intend to speak for 'all' of anything, let alone mathematicians. (Specifically, I'm not just a layman providing feedback on this math/physics article)

I appreciate you taking the time to provide feedback. I'm most interested in the pdf. When I get a brief moment, I'll check it out. Ciao!
Wait, the SDK is not open source??
Can you? Where's that guarantee? Where's the service agreement between you and uBlock?
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The "there is no free lunch" argument has been used all the time, while I am okay with tracking to some moderate degree (I am okay if Google / FB shows me deals or relevant links), I don't think it's acceptable that free service automatically means service provider can take my data and my trust for granted.

You can opt out not using Google. You can probably use DNT (there are three options and it's confusing plus DNT isn't something websites and advertisers really honor these days, was a shit show), and some services also include opt-out button for certain data to be not collected.

But you can't opt-out not using your ISP since your ISP owns the pipe. That is a huge concern. With Verizon's notorious history of tracking users, modifying unencrypted HTTP requests, scares a lot of people, even if you aren't privacy conservative, you should be concerned.
> How? A competitor is obligated by capitalism to do everything they can to level the competition. An accusation doesn't make fact.

There's no principle in capitalism, nor law, that would require(!) you to level false criminal accusations against competitors. The opposite is true. If Google's case were found to be entirely without merit, and intentionally so, they'd be liable for criminal prosecution themselves.

Even the whole you-must-everyting-to-increase-shareholder-value-shtick is mostly a myth, by the way(mo).
It is like finding one cockroach in the kitchen.
By "continuous physics", it doesn't mean the "objects don't go through walls" thing (that's easy), it means that it actually finds the times that interactions happen. Box2d isn't able to use that in all cases, but it does allow it to act the same way as a tickless simulation if your game's physics is simple enough, like 2d platformers.
i added mouse control for the next update!

give it a try here -> lol.pm/zepton.html (beta version)

to enable the mouse, you have to press "p" or enter key to access the "pause menu" and select "mouse / button" option :)
AMOUR <3
You can forget the ground observer. Stealth is the reason why it can fly high all the time to avoid visual/audio detection. Non-stealth planes like F-15E are forced into High-Low-Low-High altitude flight profile. where low level ingress and egress will e.g. drastically reduce range. F-15E going around threats both ingress and egress uses about 30% of its fuel to do so. F-22 would use around 6% in comparison. So basically stealth means that you can waste less fuel on threat avoidance.
I'm one of the hackers in this article (Brian Clark) ask me any questions you'd like!
I think the term "budget hawk" has been misapplied so much that it's essentially meaningless. Libertarians seem to want a Federal government as it maybe existed 100 years ago. Right wing Republicans aren't necessarily interested in lower spending or deficits, but claim "deficit spending" as a problem when the tax levels are higher than they like, or when the spending levels for programs they don't like are too high. Everything else is okay.

There are a few people who actually care about running a government that isn't running in the red for eternity, but that's not really what they campaign on or they wouldn't get elected, in my opinion.
Contested environments do not make the A-10 useless. In a "real" war, you expect to lose lots of people. Right now we are fussy, but think back to the world wars. People were dying left and right, and we accepted it as the cost of winning. Literally millions of people died.

The A-10 also happens to fly just fine with large chunks missing.
Gnome has a global menu bar by default now, I think I had to use the tweak tool to turn it off.
i would have chosen a slightly different title, perhaps "at scale, improbable events are frequent" or something like that

"at scale" of course just means more much frequent sampling; it's not some sort of alternate reality where good become evil, rare becomes not rare, etc
This is one of those standard sanctimonious vegan arguments. With no basis in reality. This isn't a perspective, it's just nonsense.
Yes, that is exactly what I had in mind. Probabilities are weired in the way that they say what will happen but then still leave open the possibility that this will not happen at all. You toss a coin a billion times, you will get about 500 million heads. Well, or you don't and there are exactly zero heads.
I was an opiate addict for 10 years, and still use a bit. Never bought off the street; always got pharma connects, except for opium which I got some a local guy with some flowers. During the whole time I've been a software engineer, and done some cool stuff. I'm also bipolar, and opiates have been my treatment. Opiates don't make you dumb like pot. I'm totally functional, indeed, more functional (as evaluated by third parties inc medical professionals) when using opiates.

Opiates are amazing. They take away a lot of depression. I got up to 50mg of oxy a day, which is quite modest and very inexpensive. It made me happy. Melted away worries. At one of my startups, we got crossed by a partner, almost had to fire everyone. The stress was paralysing - business partner attempted suicide. Me? Start the day with oxy and feel ready to take on things.

Even now, it can change that morning lethargic everything-sucks-why-don't-I-binge-Star-Trek-or-kill-myself into "hey I'm gonna write some software".

The other comments describe it alright - a warm happy dream. It's quite pleasurable even if you're by yourself; you can spend hours just "nodding" off, in and out of consciousness. It's quite sublime. The peace is so powerful, that a few times when I was being self destructive and got to the edge of OD, I noticed but simply didn't care. I'm more careful nowadays, though oral opiates are quite safe if you don't act reckless.

IV opiates step it up a bit. Users talk of a rush. It's similar to an oncoming amazing orgasm x10, then the warmness floods your body and everything's perfect and you might even gasp for breath it's that good. I think part of that is just the IV, and having a huge shift so quickly. For instance, there's a rush when IV'ing midazolam (dangerous, do not use without medical supervision), right before you pass out.

I've gone off opiates a few times. It wasn't as an enjoyable life. The only downsides are constipation (eh, saves time) and possibly lower testosterone (as someone often manic, lower libido is great - but it's easy to get TRT anyways.) I've not seen much as far as long-term damage from use.
This is a prime example of why manufacturers (like Broadcom) should always have open source drivers.

Also a prime example of why manufacturers should always allow the user to update device the software on his/her device.

Broadcom's closed driver stack has gone from the Linux user's headache to a serious vulnerability in most phones.

When will vendors get it through their respective thick skulls that there is no legitimate reason or benefit to keeping their drivers proprietary?
Udacity's founder also helped google's self driving car project so I don't think Uber would make the same mistake.
Not to mention they bypass their own hosts file to make sure you don't override anything that might stop their data theft.
Honestly, it is just an awful mess. I use Google Chrome to add to my bookmarks. I have folders clearly named. Things like "Useful Tools", "My Company", "My Web Host", "Random", "Funny", "Relationships", "Philosophy", "Internet", etc. But I really hardly ever return back to it. The only folder that seems truly worthy is "Useful Tools". Definitely wish there was a better way... and I'm usually good at coming up with ideas to make life easier, but bookmarks remain as organized as my house. Lets not even go there.
Host-Based Routing Support for AWS Application Load Balancers
Boeing forms venture group, invests in HorizonX, Zunum Aero
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> Titanic ... simply uses the disaster as a plot element to tell a story about love.

It does a lot more than that. It has quite a lot to say about the social class system of the early 20th century.

> I think the key is to accept that our nature is to be motivated by suffering, and not try to transcend that.

Why not? Our nature is to be angry and jealous and violent some times too. Transcending those qualities is generally considered progress (it's called "growing up") so why not strive to transcend our need to be motivated by suffering?

> I suppose this is what Camus was talking about when he described Sisyphus as being happy.

Camus was an idiot.
Depends on what you mean by timing attack.

The only vulnerability of Tor, which heavily depends on cryptography, is timing analysis.

One of the most important lessons of cryptography is that it doesn't exist in a vacuum. Timing between messages and message sizes can be enough to end you.
Hey, what issues around Applebaum? Some googling didn't help me, the most prominent result is a journalist called Anne Applebaum.
I love Insomnia. Keep up the great work.
I think it's a strong argument for a kind of "diary" style of record keeping, rather than the highly literal one we use for everything now. It may also go some ways to explaining the success of something like Snap.
Framing this as "who gets this pot of advertising money?" is the honest way to frame it. Privacy is just a proxy war between companies seeking advertising revenues.

But who gets the advertising revenue isn't the relevant policy concern. The government shouldn't care whether Google gets that revenue or someone else. The relevant policy concerns are what level of privacy protections do people want, and what practical choices do people have to protect their privacy. There is so little competition in either the market for ISPs or the market for search services that it doesn't make sense to leave privacy up to market mechanisms in either case.

Google has evolved far beyond just showing you an ad in response to a search. It tracks you throughout the Internet, leveraging its massive affiliate network. It's the default search engine on both mobile platforms. It's got more than 50% browser market share. Even if you don't go to Google.com or gmail.com, it's nearly impossible to avoid emailing someone with a gmail address, texting someone with an Android phone, visiting a Google affiliate website, etc. Pointing to the possibility of using Google alternatives is as ridiculous and self serving as pointing to satellite as broadband competition.
Sorry for being Unity h8ter :/

I mean I appreciate what you all were doing, but ya, I like MATE.
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Because it is halariously misinformed and not deserving of the respect he thinks we all should have. It is quite ironic really.
They already do these studies to test opiates vs other painkillers. Opiates kick ass.

Or maybe you're right: they just take away pain. But it turns out a lot of us have existential pain so it works all the time.