skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not sure if that's specific to math though... Certainly at a PhD-level there's going to be a specialized language.

That's a good point, and I don't think it even needs to be at the PhD level; just a 3rd yr u/g is probably sufficient. In poli sci, you can talk about phenomena like candidate emergence, for example, or voting systems like FPTP and the like. In phil, you have notions such as fallibility as a premise, phenomenology a la Heidegger, etc.

The big difference, I think, is that STEM tends to be less accessible because those fields tend to have knowledge bases that the average layman won't deal with in their lifetime, whereas with psych, soce, and most other liberal arts fields, people can always draw on personal experience to understand the jargon. There isn't really any such analogy, though, for homomorphisms in a metric space or thermo calculations.

To bring it back to the point I was trying to make: jargon is needed to discuss knowledge domains beyond what the layperson has been exposed to. So although jargon might give the impression of a higher "genius" standard, the standard isn't so much higher as it is different, because reasoning about stuff like the Riemann hypothesis is completely different from discussing the subtleties of, say, negotiation strategies.
Well, on a technicality a 'like' is a counter in a computer somewhere and the bits to count the 'fake likes' are the same bits used to count the 'real likes'. By the time the number of likes is displayed they are to all intents and purposes indistinguishable and identical in every respect.

The failure is on Instagram in not being able to separate out the fake likes from the real ones before they increment the counter.
According to my AncestryDNA test results, I don't have the centennial gene, so I doubt I'll make it past 90.
The main issue that Amazon have, is that they don't give a shit about data quality. Or more at least they didn't, they cared more about having everything available and figure that they could deal with the complexity of product data later. This is Amazons biggest mistake, they never considered how complex product data, and perhaps they don't need to care. Profit certainly seems to indicate that it's a minor detail.

Amazons search only work on titles, nothing else. At least that's what they tell you when using the reseller API. That's it why title on Amazon sucks and why you can't find anything specific, yet are able to find EVERYTHING. Amazon have perhaps 200.000 different HDMI cables, produced by far fewer manufactures, it's just the branding that's different. Amazon doesn't have to care though, it doesn't matter which cable you by, they get paid anyway.

If Amazon had chosen to deal with having good, high quality product data, it would have taken them many more years, and much more resources to get where they are. More importantly: They would have made it much harder for resellers to push their products feeds to Amazon, and they would have pick eBay as their main platform instead.

tldr; Amazon have shitty product data and it doesn't matter, because shopping on Amazons platform is a lot easier than trying to find the same product elsewhere.
> This doesn't give me confidence in the health system.

Thing is, those walk in clinics aren't meant to be a like for like replacement for hospitals/ERs and absolutely aren't equipped to handle, treat or even fully diagnose all forms of illness/injury.

They know that as well as anyone; I'd be willing to wager they told him to go to the ER and he didn't.
skype is broken, very realist
SpaceX?
Get the 2nd factor... that's NOT sms.
So if I'm understanding this correctly, you are generating a data structure describing geometry manipulations which can then be applied to a distinct geometry "instance?" If so, isn't this just a free monad?

Also, what are the advantages of this approach over simple function composition operating on immutable data structures/geometries?
You could apply for financial aid. It's pretty easy I got it right away.
Ahh, I had missed that only the U variant of Kaby might do LPDDR4. Cannonlake it is.
Out of curiosity, when was your last exposure to Sway? Many people use it as their daily driver and would agree that it's production ready (even if it's not done). Can you report any bugs you find?
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I explored this issue many years ago and, at least at the time, it was my understanding that for many motherboards it's simply not possible to introduce unsigned code through software alone.
Is that, of itself, a good thing, or not?

Is the "of itself" qualification, of itself, a reasonable one?
The biggest issue today is password reuse, and 2FA does help mitigate the liabilities of that. Is it perfect? No. Does it introduce more attack surface? Yes. But for the average user, it almost certainly increases their opsec.
This is similar to my train of thought.

Year after year people still use the same passwords that were the most popular for the year before. I think we should make it as obvious as possible that it is worth your time to make secure passwords.

I think people know that they shouldn't use "password" as a password, but it just needs to be made very clear through safe means (such as publishing wordlists that don't have any associated user data) that it leaves you very vulnerable.
Many people simply haven't stopped to wonder how secure their password is.

My goal with this project is to flip the status of the passwords on the list - and make them the LEAST likely to be used.
williamstein never told anyone about this event, despite the fact that it bothered him enough to be a clear and distinct memory 15 years later. I am presuming that he did not tell anyone because he did not have any sort of dependable support group to turn to. I want you to think hard about why that may have been the case.

>For that matter, I don't see dudes being blamed for being angry. It is normal emotion.

Do you live in the United States? It is completely unacceptable for anyone to display anger in a public, academic, or professional setting unless they are in a position of power and/or authority. And just because it's acceptable for someone with status to do it doesn't make it okay either. In the case we are discussing, getting angry at someone else is EXTREMELY inappropriate.
It doesn't stop incompetent dataroom operators either from forcing their users to give them their phone numbers for 2fa purposes.

And there is absolute gold in those datarooms if you know where to look.

Recent offender:

"iDeals proposes to protect your account with 2 factor authentication. It means that each time when you will be accessing the project/ changing your password/ accessing the protected versions of documents in the data room - an sms code will be sent to your cell phone. "

This after me pointing out that SMS for 2fa is not a good idea.
It's solved just like poverty has been solved. There is enough food, energy and shelter for the 7bn people.

It's just those pesky humans hoarding, cutting corners, cheating, fighting, using more than their fair share, etc. Because nuclear lives inside of a fallible society it requires additional safety considerations.
Not BLAKE2?
What are the other of the "very few" embedded SOCs that need no proprietary blobs to run? Mediatek?

Also, how great a name is Robert Foss for someone who writes open source code for a living...
What are fossil fuels going to do to the land mass? It has the highest elevation on earth.
Would you please not do flamewars on HN, regardless of how wrong or irritating some other comments are? We're really trying to avoid the downward spiral here.
Uber's Board to Discuss Leave of Absence for Travis Kalanick
> Big Al (fact: he wasn’t big) was the most punctual and reliable of NR workers

> Why in God’s name did he come in to the offices of National Review this day? To me it is obvious. Alone in the world except for a loving sister, who lived far away, Alex Batey knew that he had arrived at the hour that will arrive for all of us. But he didn’t want to die alone. And he didn’t.

Can't say if that's accurate or not but it feels fishy that the interpretation is that Alex was ready to die and wanted to spend it with co-workers, coming from another coworker.
md5 collision in signing Flame malware[0]

[0] https://arstechnica.com/security/2012/06/flame-wields-rare-c...
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I am Reiki Level 1 attuned. In my opinion the Reiki qualifications are mostly nonsense. What makes a difference is the other things you've mentioned: the sympathetic ear of someone who we have faith and trust in. Reiki is instutionalised caring.

Something else I believe is extraordinarily powerful is touch, and Reiki is one method formalising touch with professional intention. I think this is a good thing.

Doctors here in Australia are the same. 10 minute back to back appoints all week long. Back of the envelope calculation: my mechanic has spent more time with my car this year alone than I have spend with doctors my life to date. Fairly sure the mammalian bodies vastly more complicated than cars.

On a side note, my partner and I recently raised a dog, she's now 16 months old. I've currently got a mild respiratory tract infection which is worse for cold air and at night so I'm sleeping in the lounge room with the heat pump turned up so as not to disturb my partner with my coughing fits. The dog has been laying right up against me the whole night with her head resting on my arm or chest and has not made one complaint. When I get up, for whatever reason, she sits and watches me till I get back. She's warm, tolerant to a fault, never complains, misses us, always happy to see us. Dogs are the ultimate touch-healers. Just having some by your side whenever you need it, someone to play with whenever you want, is, in my experience, very powerful.
Thank you! This looks like a really interesting project. I'd be happy to help by contributing documentation.
> (to avoid the bank calling and asking “are you sure you want to speculate with cryptocurrency today”)

Huh? Do banks actually do that?
I don't understand: Why do you assume that password checkers keep their lists in alphabetically sorted form rather than just to load the whole thing into a db table with an index on it?
I'd be curious to know how many bits this fun memory stores :-)
Prerender support has been (somewhat quietly) removed from Chrome as of M58.

https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues/6210#issuecomme...

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/prere...

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink...
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> Part of it, I think, is because of the sheer knowledge threshold

That's common in every niche.

I don't get a third of what my weed expert friends say.

They don't get most of what I say about craft beer.
Signal for Android has reproducible builds, so you can verify that the version on the Play Store matches the code you audited.
Self-regulation does exist, and not because of perfect benevolence. It's usually for fear of actual legal regulation (which is scarier because it's less under their control).
New mechanism behind Parkinson’s disease revealed
I'm quite sure Van Gogh's IQ wasn't that high...
I think we have endless possibilities but it seems nobody has time, the necessary resources, wisdom, and/or courage to try new paths that would compete with those 5 giants.
I guess we're going to find out soon enough what Apple thinks of that demographic considering their WWDC announcements.
Only for 2-factor schemes that rely on your phone number. Those are horribly insecure, there's a reason NIST and pretty much all security experts recommend against using them.

SMS authentication was created as a cheap hack to get around needing SecurID tokens, and should have been abandoned when ToTP (Google Authenticator and the like) became possible.
> Yes this might not apply to the upper class tech of hacker news but they are not representative of the vast majority of people.

It should be clear that this doesn't encapsulate the problem if there's a reasonable segment of the population feeling the same effect without being subject to the same causes. And the stuff you're describing is on the order of 20% here, not 1%.
I can't find a reference for the following at the moment but there was something about the perceived health being a far better indicator for life expectancy/longevity than the actual health. The mindset of the patient seems to matter a lot!
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I worked for a toxic CEO roughly three years ago, and, to answer the article's rhetorical question - he/she has to behave badly enough to hurt long time investors' pockets.

I only made it a year under a micromanaged, 'everything is urgent' environment. It all stemmed from the CEO. He was in every meeting, including dev initiatives. Not only did he have no significant technical knowledge -- he also lacked in areas where I would expect most CEOs to excel: market strategy, branding, and finance management.

My exit was a large blow to the company, as a lot of co-workers saw me as the unicorn who would 'fight the good fights' for everyone else. And, I did -- until my health started to decline from the stress.

The story ends with me perusing LinkedIn one day, after five+ former co-workers had left, with him stepping down as CEO. He would have never made this decision on his own (pride, control), so I know that external investors definitely dictated this.

So, I would say pay gets clawed back when CEO's consistently make poor business decisions and over promise/ under deliver to investors in order to obtain more funding.
To be fair, Uber has already been profitable in some markets.

3x the current prices would put us at roughly what taking the cab looked at before Uber cost-wise.
> The conversation is not about difficulty. It is about where in the workflow a pseudo-standard like RFC4180 is most applicable:

Exactly, and obviously it's in writing a parser.

Outputting CSV files is essentially a call to printf in a for loop. If a string needs escaping, the string is escaped. It's as simple as it gets.

It only gets complicated when you need to write a parser and handle stuff such as how to parse language violations.
Why can't everyone make money on the stock market? It's not a zero-sum game.
When I said good enough, I meant good enough on all aspects, including non-safety related. I mean it is somewhat difficult to imagine that someones project would fail because they picked the "wrong" hash function or encryption algorithm from the "essentially safe" ones.
•These lists are for LAWFUL, ETHICAL AND EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY.

Yeah, like that is going to stop people from doing nefarious things with this info. If you feel the need to post this screechy, all caps disclaimer, maybe rethink your project entirely?

Geez.
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The whole field of NLP and computational linguistics reminds me of that joke where a drunk is looking for his keys under a street lamp instead of where he actually lost them.

This is true in particular of anything that pertains to reasoning and knowledge representation. People still are trying to "infer rules" and do logical, rather than probabilistic reasoning. I get why that is. To me though, the kind of real life reasoning that humans do seems heavily probabilistic and contextual, Bayesian almost. And there's next to no notable work going on in that direction.
TLDR: "I'm special too, give me more credit for whatever I'm doing."

Egregious logical errors throughout. Would not recommend others read this article.
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I think a big part of McMaster's model is to be able to put a very high price on things, knowing that for business customers the time saved by having such a well-organized inventory is more than worth it.

They also white-label almost everything so that it's hard to go directly to their suppliers.

I'm guessing that that level of curation comes at a high cost to add new SKUs to the catalog; they go as far as to commission artwork and provide CAD models. It would be really hard for Amazon to approach that while striving for minimal margins and letting 3rd parties add SKUs in huge quantities.
If the msg content is encrypted what metadata should I "worry about" when using WhatsApp IF I am okay with not being anonymous (eg. for everyday use with friends). What can FB tell me based on JUST WhatsApp? (let's say they haven't connected my identities with FB yet)
It's already exposed. That's the point. The adversary has this intel. It would be irresponsible not to study and publish it, thereby reducing their informational edge.
The bad thing with homeopathy is not that they're fooling people to take substances that have no effect on their own and only work via the placebo-effect. It's the "making a lot of money from sick people by selling expensive placebos"-part that's despicable.
Learning to Swim in a Sea of Uncertainty
Ruby and Objective-C both have a strong Smalltalk lineage. You typically use the C part of Objective-C to perform basic operations like arithmetic and function calling -- if you know C already, it may be a more comfortable starting point, but it doesn't show off the power you get when every value is an object (and you can do things like add new numeric types while the system is running: http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/1998-...).
Author here, feel free to ask me things.
I used to work in Amazon Seller Support. It's a complicated issue when you build a platform for selling things, and then let anyone in the world use it without any training whatsoever.

You got a lot of sellers coming over from sites like eBay, where your listing is your listing. You upload an item to sell, it gets a page all to itself, and you can do whatever you want with the listing quality. Then they migrate over to Amazon because reasons, and can't cope with the fact that items for sale are grouped together with everyone selling that item. This leads to tons of shenanigans like people making up their own UPCs to get their own listings, using the wrong UPCs to get onto more popular listings, and all manner of trickery.

Occasionally you could catch a case with one of these malfested ASINs, and work with the catalog to unwind the broken mess. Unfortunately, more often than not, that wasn't your job to do that. Further, doing that would take a long time, which would destroy your average case resolve time. Better quality of the catalog was not job number one, only metrics, always metrics, ever increasing and eventually impossible to satisfy metrics. As far as I could tell, quality control wasn't anyone's job, and thus it led to the Amazon catalog you have today. It's almost as if Amazon has decided that bad quality listings will lead to low sales, and the problem will eventually sort itself out, but as we can see that has not happened.

For myself, before and after the job, I always look for Shipped and Sold by Amazon. Otherwise, you literally never know what you're going to get, and it's on you as the buyer if you want to take the gamble or wade into the waters of the A to Z return guarantee. But that's a whole other mess for another thread.
There is also pyinfra [1], which provides the same sort of features for both local and remote devices, yet designed for consistent deployments and state diffing.

[1] https://github.com/Fizzadar/pyinfra
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But then why not just look at the t4 and t3 levels?
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Weighs Taking Leave; Key Confidant to Resign
I've also had a taste of amazon bullshit:

I went to buy K&R C from amazon and it costed 150€. That was too much for me, but there was a different version below it: a "used" K&R from a different publisher and different cover, that costed 30€.

The book arrived and it's just photocopies of the original, in the form of a book. Normal Photocopies on what seems to be a just a bit finer than the average photocopy paper.

I've read the book. I still don't know why the original is so expensive, and if the authors/rightholders received any of my 30€.
No dictionary I'm aware of carries the IQ based definition of the word, so I'm not sure how anyone can claim with such authority that this is the case.
Heh, I just saw this in Chiang's Stories of Your Life and Others.
It's funny you put it that way. O(N^3) sounds horrific to me. Only practical for small problems and for anything else I'd need to look for approximations instead. O(2^N) meanwhile translates in my mind to completely impracticable.

But I guess it all depends on what kind of Ns you are looking at.
I owned a hosted PBX company from 2007-2011 and was amazed with how antiquated the port request system truly is.

The problem is that the phone company owns your phone number and you just get access as part of a service. Unlike a domain name where you own it.

If we change the law we'd bring more accountability.
> But is there any good alternative?

They don't have a million different options like Amazon does, but Costco is an excellent option. They have an amazing customer service with a very generous return policy, high quality products, great value proposition. Plus they have B&M stores, for when you want to actually try things before purchasing, etc.
Nobody has gone to the trouble of getting this done properly in public, but the closest comparison is here:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9766/the-apple-ipad-pro-review...
The explosive mixture of middle-class shrinking and dual economy in the West
You can actually right-click on the files in the "file explorer" and download them to your desktop IRL.
Many SOCs are able to run with no blobs, but very few require no blobs while still offering graphics support.
Some SOCs with Adreno or Vivante GPUs do however offer open source GPU support.

Re being named Foss while working in Foss: It's a pure coincidence, but has a medieval feel to it. Like Baker, Coppersmith or Eisenhower.
This sounds like a pretty brilliant idea to me, why isn't it already on the market? The article specifically calls the problematic particles "airborne iron-rich strongly magnetic combustion-derived nanoparticles (CDNPs)".