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Yeah, I don't see what makes this software special.

The main technical selling point seems to be the ability to provide quantitative illuminance values, but that feature has been available in both commercial (e.g. 3DS Max) and open-source (e.g. LuxRender) renderers for years.
I'd say just do it! It'll help you and you'll become an expert. I've been trying to post daily for two years without success. 6 days ago I restarted again (https://service.goodcharacters.com/daily/) and so far so good. I hope you'll do it right away and don't worry about what people think. I read so many good comments here so there's nothing for me to add. Just like taking pictures helps me see/observe; writing helps me focus and think better. I hope you do it.
So one of them actually willed herself to die?!
These stories are usually pushed out to the media. Ideally AI researchers and startups would communicate more accurately about their current capabilities and how far away they are from anything resembling intelligence or sentience but it's easy to give in to excitement and speculate about possibilities and scenarios that are far away.

That could help but the media is diverse and you can stop the media misreporting, and AI is not the only affected area, as much as you can prevent hype.

The idea of AI has been the stuff of science fiction for decades so there is always some latent interest. Add to that some heavily promoted film or TV show that touches on these topics and the media frenzy and scare mongering hits peak again.
> Larger block size increases computation necessary to solve the block

No, they're merkled, so it doesn't.

> I suppose block size increases the network latency for advertising solved blocks... but going from 100k to 250k every 10 minutes does not strike me as being particularly problematic.

Doesn't matter how often it is, I find a block, I mine the child immediately. You have to wait until you've received and validated the block. It's all about latency.

> Also, I'm trying to verify your claim and I can't see any evidence of it. It appears that different clients were using different block sizes for a long time. The maximum block size on the BTC network has been over 250K since 2013, according to [0]. Also take a look of this graph of orphaned blocks [1]

Yep, this is now ancient history. Mean blocksizes tend to mask what's really happening, but I recall the orphaning problem and ghash.io spike personally.

And blockchain.info's orphan block measurements are completely unreliable :(

More background: https://rusty.ozlabs.org/?p=535 (my blog)
Make higher education a national priority, and free for everyone, and this issue would go away (though systemic racism and class-based oppression would not). There are lots of benefits to having an educated populace.
Counterpoint, I never want to run at 6:30 am so having someone or something add pressure to get out only helps keep that commitment. And 15 min in I'm always glad I got out of bed.
Perhaps a good layman type explanation would be that nueral networks are essentially curve fitting on steroids. (Hopefully at some point people have done curve fitting in school and remember drawing lines of best fit). Therefore the term AI is essentially a misnomer. I would even go as far as to emphasize that nueral networks are boring mathematical equations which do not actually mimic the inner workings of our brains.
> It's not an easy issue.

It is impossible to provide easier admission to college for one race without making it harder for other races. Treating people differently because they are of a certain race is the definition of racism. That part is simple.

Now there are all kinds of arguments about whether letting in lower scoring students of one race are actually beneficial to their race and there are lots of people arguing that if someone was descended from slaves they should be given preferences that exceed what they would get based on their own skill, but it doesn't change the fact that affirmative action is a way to create a type of racism. People can argue that this type of racism is a good thing, but it is still treating people differently based on their race.
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> dox the perpetrator to kingdom come

I can't believe it wasn't obvious, but that's the part which implies vigilante justice.

From Wikipedia[0]:

A vigilante is a civilian or organization acting in a law enforcement capacity (or in the pursuit of self-perceived justice) without legal authority.

Doxing has a very specific meaning and it directly implies taking matters into your own hands, aka vigilante.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigilante
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https://skimdb.npmjs.com/registry/_design/scratch/_view/byFi...

looks like there is an api
You're assuming their mendaciousness, corruption, and incompetence won't effect how this policy is carried out. I think the Trump Administration is too incompetent, corrupt, and ill-intentioned to trust with almost anything.
Perhaps I was being critical, but it sadden me to see Mozilla is making one missteps after another. I think they are missing the point. Instead of competing with other browser vendors for developers, they choose to go the other way.
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Oscar is a dev, Kent is the maintainer of "cross-env", a popular package. hacktask is an unknown malicious module uploader that was harvesting credentials.
Not the denigrate Bandcamp but I think the thing Soundcloud has that a Bandcamp-like-system doesn't have is the ability to create a "music scene" - sure, Bandcamp is helpful for artists, allowing them to sell stuff to people who are already familiar with them. The key of soundcloud afaik is being able to share a simple link to anything you've done.
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That's becuase of their declining marketshare (which is mostly due to strategic disadvantages in distribution channels and marketing budget) not their brand or split focus.
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Thanks, I came here to post this exact thing.

Even if NPM isn't prohibiting packages, you'd imagine they'd have internal security alerting for Levenshtein distance from the names of very popular npm packages. Such an alerting script wouldn't take terribly long to write (or to run). It'd let them catch this type of abuse much faster even if they decided (for some inane reason) that banning the names outright would break UX.
"“I would line up the angles so I was hidden from the teacher’s view,” he says, adding that he found out years later that an enlightened principal had instructed teachers to allow it. "

This is very cool, kudos to the principal.
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I have a bachelor's degree and have no idea what curve fitting is.
No, the first block in the fork needed to be > 1MB. But it also changed the format, so they dropped all pending transactions from the mempool. ViaBTC did mine the first bcash block, but it was rejected because it was too small!

Someone had to figure out the problem and stuff a block so it could make progress.
Pointers are 64-bit on 64-bit machines, and so are the largest unsigned ints, hence the problem. On the other hand, you're probably searching at least 4-byte objects, so your actual list length isn't 64 bits but at most 62 bits even if you filled the memory space.
It is fine to speculate, but I believe the "call" for direct evidence (versus unsubstantiated claims) makes sense given the headline stating the unsubstantiated claim as if it were a fact.
I just have the feeling that a fingerprint reader is less invasive compared to facial recognition.
With size_t, it would never overflow, even on 32 bits.

The input is an array of int, ints are 4 bytes, 32 bit systems can only address 2^32 bytes, so the array is no more than 2^30 elements long, so in the worst case, low+high equals 2^31-3, less than even a signed it.

It could overflow if we pass it a char* instead but if you have a >2GB array of sorted single bytes, you probably have a problem somewhere else...
I can't reply directly, but in another subtree you asked:

> Which part of the statement implied "vilgilate justice."

To put my own 2 cents in:

Doxxing someone is generally considered an attack, at least in some internet circles. It's pretty vigilante if you ask me, especially when we've seen some pretty striking examples of doxxing gone wrong in the past.
We're going to have to agree to disagree.

This is where I actually prefer Go's "vendor" approach to dependencies. It would be great if rust / cargo eventually had the same and more authors adopted it or simply copied their little dependencies instead of having external dependencies on them.

Something like this proposed command, except for crate maintenance instead of distribution:

https://users.rust-lang.org/t/cargo-cook-subcommand/10288
This list includes incredibly popular NPM Packages,

Does this mean everyone whose used those have been affected?

EDIT: I just realized these packages are misspelled or meant to mimic the legitimate packages.
>The watch? Well yeah it tells time, but it's worse at that then most watches and everyone already carries a device that tells time which the watch can't replace. Yeah, it gives you slightly faster access to notifications but not everyone needs that.

How is it worse at telling time than most watches? It works fine for me except when the battery is dead. Is that what you mean? Bad battery life?

I don't use the watch to see my notifications faster at all. I use the watch so that I can respond/react to certain notifications as needed. If my phone buzzes in my pocket without me wearing a watch, I won't know if it's just a new calendar invite I don't need to see right away or an important text from a friend. This is why I use my watch, among other reasons. It's a great filtering mechanism.
It can reach into your physical life and destroy you, physically.

Once the physical symptoms become manifest, it becomes all the more self-reinforcing. You are all the more adverse to many social contacts, because you can no longer "hide" your state for periods of time while engaging in them.

A bad home environment (neighbors from hell) was the start of my isolation.

It's probably taken 20 years off my life, based on the state of my health, now.

It was a slippery slope -- one of vulnerability. Each additional adverse event eased by the former, and more greatly exacerbating the problem.

Early in life, I was forced through an extended set of circumstances where my own experience and needs were expressly discounted and I was coerced to work with and endure others' expectations, at great stress and expense to myself. I had no control. I had no agency.

I learned to shut down and "wait things out". I never learned how to advocate for myself -- not in the face of adversity.

As an adult, "waiting out" adversity just allowed it to grow, step by step, instance by instance.

And the more your life diverges from others', and the older you get while this happens, the more alone you end up.
Opportunity is not even: a classmate prepared for classes by studying the material in the summer. Some classmates took SAT classes. On the flip side, a classmate had trouble studying because he had no quiet place to study at home.

In my college, at least differences in opportunity were somewhat recognized resulting in release of all old tests instead of it being hoarded by HKN, a quiet place to study for everyone, and financial aid so that a student wouldn’t have to take basically a full time job to pay for school.

We need to ensure opportunity all along the educational path. The current US system is blindingly obviously tilted.
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Thanks for the info, I am increasingly convinced I need to dig into guile/guix.
That's cool, but how is it relevant?
Hahaha... I wrote almost the exact same thing in Go a few months ago (didn't open source it because I am a selfish fucker).

Edit: Actually upon further inspection, mine is a little different in that I have a settings.json file that has the bottoken so it isn't in the code.

Also I have an allowed users list in the settings.json file and only users in that list are able to interact with the bot (/subscribe, /unsubscribe). Once a user is subscribed then they get all notifications. So it is more of a broadcast type usecase.
Oh God no, haha. I started out in Python and I'm pretty sure all of us have fallen out of love with batteries included.

You can see what happens when you go too far the other way though. C has effectively no basic data structures like strings, lists, hash tables, etc., so anything you interface with has its own idea on how to handle that stuff. Library X might return an array of Things that's NULL terminated. Library Y might return an array of Thangs and a size_t output param. Or like you pointed out in JS, its standard library is full of holes so you get tiny projects that attempt to plug them, or larger projects that try to make JS into a specific kind of language (Underscore), or full on programming languages that transpile to it.

I just don't think the problem is definitively solved though. Personally I think Bytes should be in Rust's stdlib. I think bit and byte manipulation is a fundamental part of a language and there should be a standard way of doing it, especially if there are things like TCP/UDP and hash tables in there. I understand the arguments against; I really like the design of Rust's stdlib, but I feel like there's room for disagreement. That's all I'm saying :)
For the same reason people eat processed meat: taste. If processing plants can make them taste better for some people, then what's the big deal? It looks like you are trying to associate processed foods with "first world vegans/vegetarians".
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Ah, a small miscommunication I guess. My guess is the decision to keep secrets was made and then someone was told to do the gymnastics.
I would be interested to know this as well
> I'm more concerned that I might go home for a visit and then get told no when I ask to come back

Getting into a foreign country is a privilege, not a right.
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>When Pebble sold out to Garmin

They were acquired by Fitbit, not Garmin
Looks pretty nice! The readme says it's not useful for repos with >2000 commits, but I wonder if we could hack together some sort of cache for it to facilitate delta updates?
This is a very real issue. Some minority admits to elite schools experience imposter syndrome. It doesn't help that some folks make rude comments reinforcing that idea.

Dirty little secret... a wide range of people experience imposter syndrome at elite schools.
I do agree that opportunity wasn’t specific to race but there was obviously correlation just as there is correlation between race and income.
I love my Apple Watch, but it's worse at telling time for me because the screen isn't always on. I can't just glance at it casually, I have to move my wrist in a very specific way to make it wake up.
> the decentralization of miners is threatened even by a 2 MB block size, as those with more hash rate get another bonus due to the latency increases of even a 1 MB block size increase

This is completely ridiculous. If someone can't send 2MB of data across the network in less than a few seconds, then of course they shouldn't be mining.
I'd accept a warning, but a C compiler shouldn't be making guesses at what the programmer intended. In another language? Sure, if it's consistent with other behaviors in that language.
You mean don't buy the series 0 (the original AW). The more recent series 1 and 2 have the same internals..
Interesting talk. If he's right, then a Photoshop clone ought to be doable. 30k LOC is doable for a single person or a small team. I'm guessing that even with generics, it wouldn't help that much. Also, I think there are probably a lot more algorithm LOC in Photoshop than he thinks...
Absolutely, but when you hear someone talking about racism on television are they usually from an organization promoting a certain race or from some place that is trying to remove race from the decision making process entirely?
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If something like this replaces animal products, the demand for grains would drastically fall. Is this the economic consequence you are worried about?
> forming relationships with banks

So can you just call up the relevant department in the bank and start talking or do you need to know someone who knows someone in the bank.
>Turns out the answer was _always_ "No."

My experience has been the opposite. I bought a Pebble so I could know whether I had to put down my tools, pull out my phone, and answer a call from my boss; or if I could just ignore yet another call from an idiot coworker.

>When Pebble sold out to Garmin

I wish. Garmin might have done something with it. They sold out to FitBit, whose major motivation was the elimination of a competitor.
True, sometimes the screen doesn't turn on without the right movement.

But how is tapping the screen lightly to turn the display on any different from using a regular analog/digital watch in darkness and needing to press a button for its light to turn on?
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> everyone has this problem.

No, they don't. Some people actually implemented the "web of trust (sigh)".

Security is hard; the answer is not to just go "too hard, kick the can down the road" and then make excuses when the time comes for damage control. NPM being an order of magnitude larger means that more focus should be given to security, not less, since it has that extra noise acting as another way to hide malicious activity.
As I understand it, when you link your binary, the linker will only include the used parts of the libraries. Linking to a 10M library but calling only one function will not increase your binary size by 10M, probably just a few bytes.
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It doesn't, by itself, fix the bug identified in the article (though it does avoid a memory safety issue). But it's still important. Indexes should never be signed, any more than pointers should.
Thanks for pointing this out!

Wow some of these are incredibly similar, if they get indexed by google (as most NPM packages do) it's really easy to mistakenly add the incorrect package while searching for the legitimate one.
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At some point there needs to be some trust, and NPM puts that boundary at installation. If you trust a package enough to install it, then it's allowed to act on your behalf with the permissions of your user.

`npx` doesn't change that dynamic. It's no different than installing an RPM or Debian package over the internet.
"The dependent version of the problem would be where we cards are discarded after being drawn. So on the first draw, the deck has 52 cards and 4 aces, and thus there’s a 1/13 chance of drawing an ace. On the second draw there are 51 cards in the deck, so the second draw has a chance of 4/47 of being an ace."

Shouldn't that be a 4/51 chance?
I actually somewhat agree when it comes to toy guns.

At the same time: if we go down this path then we should also ban action movies and descritions of war in literature (I grew up without tv and just read about it as a kid an I was as obsessed with war and fight against the Germans (i.e. nazis) as anyone where I came from.)

To borrow a phrase from you: it's the normalization of criminalization of things tuat worry me.
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> How is it fundamentally different if the type system does it?

runtime vs compile time. For example someone could write some TypeScript that would forever compile, which is intuitively unexpected when compiling.
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A related, though much closer to home, experience I have had is an airplane flying through the field of view during a reasonably long exposure on a galaxy. The plane's transit left two long, continuous streaks through the image, one from each navigation light on the wing tips. The streaks had different brightness, likely due to the transmission of the filter I was using for red and green light. So in principle you could use knowledge of the filter transmission curve to work out which direction the airplane flew through the camera's field of view.
I humbly suggest the opposite.

1. Stop making a college degree a requirement for relatively pedestrian jobs.

2. Make education at any level widely available and very cheap or free to those who want it and demonstrate the motivation to perform well in their studies.

Most current education, even that at the high school level, is completely wasted because the participants and their communities simply don't value it (or worse, negatively value it). Note that this disdain for education is largely race-blind.
You might have seen it called "regression" (also "interpolation" and "extrapolation"), but not everyone has necessarily been exposed to this.