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Well if it's derived from math, give the techniques, not the math.

I don't care if it's accessible for me or not, it seems the guy is saying ML is the new electricity, lowering the bar won't only benefit me, but many other people who know programming and don't benefit from knowing the math.

Just my opinion. Many people and hackers learn by practice, not by theory.
Slowly dying from cancer is expensive. Dying from a sudden stroke induced by a lifetime of lethargy isn't.
I pay for both BBEdit and Sublime, and typically have both of them open, so it isn't the price that persuades me to use VS Code. It's that it is better for certain specific tasks. The one that springs to mind is working with Angular projects written in TypeScript. For those projects, it handles autocomplete, and as-you-edit code linting, better than the other two (or basically any other editor).

As for Slack, I'm not really a fan, but I use their app because its easier to find with its own application layer compared to being one of a hundred browser tabs I might have open in my various web browsers.

(That's the same reason I use Epichrome to make dedicated Chrome-based browser apps for GitHub, CircleCI, JIRA, and some other tools... macOS gives you a slew of useful tools for dealing with things at the application level. You can absolutely do all the same stuff in a browser, but it's not as convenient when it is intermingled with all the other stuff going on in your web browsers.)
We're not profiling ns/ms differences due to the weird ways that the Intel CPU decides to cache certain instructions due to idiosyncrasies, they're tools that literally spit out "stop using so many large assets so you can cut the load time to under 10 seconds" and "learn how to minify every type of file".

I frequently come across websites with several thousand lines of extraneous CSS/JS code laying around because they've imported multiple libraries (WordPress templates are usually a surefire way to see this). Websites use multiple MB images all over the place.

It's fucking insane. The web leaves everything to be desired from a development target, yet we keep trying to build a palace on a foundation of feces simply because the lipstick is so alluring.

Just as Eternal September ruined discussion on the web, basing the internet on the most poorly designed stack we could come up with has greatly hampered the speed at which we're able to advance humanity using it.

The same thing already happened with operating system development, where we used to have many differing options (with new ones coming out all the time), which for the most part sort of all worked together, but each had a different take on certain technical decisions, which we then gleaned valuable information from. Plan9 was the last well-known experimental OS to be released which actually made waves to operating system development (OpenBSD deserves a lot of credit here as well, as they're constantly thinking outside the box, but mainly in a security-related fashion). RedoxOS is the next OS project I'm peering into from a distance to learn from their decisions.

But I digress, that's why it's scary. The fact that everyone is wasting their lives trying to dress up a pig who only cares about frolicking around in the mud.

Unfortunately, that won't change because popularity dictates attention, and working on little experimental things that could truly revolutionize the world is far too risky for the vast majority to undertake.

Large companies are the only ones able to toy around with experimentation full-time, but the problem you come across is that they're usually going to make whatever they figured out proprietary, so they can make some money off it.

Never going to start a reply on a mobile device ever again, I hope my rambling was coherent enough =b
Nopes, this is entirely different. CF was being MITM'd by airtel (likely still is) because airtel was/is their upstream ISP for their edge locations in India.

archive.org is blocked in India because of a court order somewhere.
It's not clear that even needs to be handled at the university level in that case, though. Community colleges already offer a range of vocational programs, with faster completion and much lower costs. This seems like purely some kind of prestige treadmill, where people really want a CC degree but employers demand a 4-year university degree, so we need to start offering 4-year university degrees that are CC degrees in disguise to bridge the gap. An alternate approach might be to convince people and employeers that a vocational CC degree is perfectly valid and respectable. But that's probably harder to do, so I don't really blame people for going this route, just seems not really ideal.
So which "objective" truth do you think has been discarded in all of this? Be rigorous.
downvoted.

You just went into a useless rant about liberals and libertarians which was not relevant to the actual discussion.
Seems to me that our technology may actually just be hitting a wall in regards to life expectancy.

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This is probably happening there has to be a limit, also after 80 things get bad really fast, who didn't have a relative doing great then suddenly getting ill and dying in less than a year at those ages
My bank already has this (a little card reader that checks my debit card pin). Seems reasonable to assume this kind of tech could be used more widely.
You mean that for every 1kg of Bitcoin I can purchase 3kg of gold?
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It works for me!
Finally, some good news! /s
> While the paper I handled is stored in the machine, I am sure that the results are transmitted to the next link in the chain through some computer system.

How can you be sure about that?

> With so many links in the chain, it's my opinion that it's unreasonable to expect them all to be processed by people. It won't scale and I'm not convinced that it's that much safer anyway.

The point is that if you are not convinced, you can go and observe the process. The point is to remove as much trust as possible. The point is not to just have some human in the loop, but to make sure that people who distrust each other can personally make sure that the correct procedure is being followed.

> It would be my preference that the pieces of the system that perform this processing are backed with open source software.

The problem is that you have no way to verify that what is actually processing your vote is the open source software that you hope it is.

See also Ken Thompson's classic "reflections on trusting trust":

https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp...

> At the very least, if there is a case where tampering is suspected, officials of the court can compare the software on the machine with the software in the repository.

No, they can't. The only way to check what software is running on the computer is to use software that is running on the computer, which is thus also suspect. That is, short of decapping each and every chip in the one computer that you are trying to check and extracting all the circuitry and all storage bits in it.

> As painful as it is, I think we all need to trust the state, to some degree, to do the jobs that are the responsibility of the state.

But ensuring trustworthiness of elections is not one of those. Elections are the anchor that all the other trust that we put into democratically elected governments is anchored at, it's the one lever that we have to remove governments that turn out to not be trustworthy. You cannot trust the government to remove itself in case you want to have it replaced.

> Once the votes have been tallied for a district, isn't it possible to tamper with them as they are transmitted up the chain to the next link in the processing?

If the election is run properly: No.

Represenatives from each party will be observing the election process at every polling station, and the general public can usually also observe if they wish to, from opening until the votes are counted. Also, election results should generally be published broken down by polling station, so each of the observers can check that what they observed at their polling station actually matched what went into the total.

There is absolutely no place for trust in elections.
> Seems to me that our technology...

Life expectancy has continued to rise in other countries. The US is lagging behind.

I'd guess the most likely cause is some combination of diet and having the comparatively expensive healthcare.
Would you have paid $18K to fly to Japan though? The "cents per mile" is high but it's better to measure your WTP (willingness to pay).

BTW, you can regularly get west coast to Japan in business class for ~$3-4k/pp. ex. https://goo.gl/flights/BDTu. If you wait for deals, there was Vancouver - Japan/Hong Kong/SE Asia for ~$2k in business class for a while. Business class prices have been consistently dropping transatlantic (TATL) and we're seeing that transpacific (TPAC) too, albeit more slowly.

I think what you did was smart, but there's really no way to continue to get that kind of value from your miles. You could get the other Amex cards (~150k MR?), and other Chase cards (~150k UR?), but hard to repeatedly get big bonuses like that :P

Totally agree though that keeping one or both of those cards is great for the right kind of spend. It's just not like a free trip to Europe every quarter like it used to be.
Those studies are based on high school students...

Yes lower-ed degree mills are a huge issue, and need regualating, but that hardly applies to CalState, which is a top tier public school: https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/cal-state-la-1140
would be interesting to see a list of all the google memo links that got flagged/removed today...
> I worked all my young life, in Iowa, on a farm. One of the most dangerous jobs in America according to the actuarials.

You are delusional.
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I'd downvote this comment if I could because it exemplifies everything it is against.
Long-term capital gains hasn't been 15% for a long time. We can thank Obama for that. Furthermore, in any state that's remotely desirable to live in, you can throw in another 10-13% on top of those 20% capital gains.

US taxes are absurdly complex and expensive. The upside is that the system can be fairly easy to game / optimize.
that's not quite the same as saying "black people didn't know they were being mistreated until the Marxists told them they were" though is it? It's pretty clear that black people were badly treated at that time though, so I'll have to re-watch the video later to see if that's what he's actually saying or your interpretation. The idea about progressives trying to divide people up into smaller and smaller groups of oppressor vs oppressed is one I agree with though.

> Are you seeing how, even in this watered down form, where he leaves out explicit mention of "the jews", how this is a conspiracy theory? Divorced from any kind of facts?

Firstly I don't think it has much to do with Jews at all, it's more of a philosophical position. Secondly, it's not like I just accept everything Bill says in the video - there are parts I agree with and parts I disagree with. I'm not even a conservative. There are parts of what he says that are clearly backed up by facts about the academic history of progressivism.

I don't tend to drop the phrase casually but I was trying to establish the link for the previous user who was questioning what the memo had to do with Marxists.
I use Google Play Books for exactly this same reason. Yeah, I can buy books from anyone, but there are plenty of things that are either out of copyright that I want to read (so, Project Gutenberg), or I own a physical copy and want digital (and don't want to pay again for simply the format change), or similar, and having everything in one place easily makes it so Google Play Books is the only place I will buy DRMed ebooks.
Check the first response on the paste that I posted. The response is an iframe:

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0"/><style>body{margin:0px;padding:0px;}iframe{width:100%;height:100%}</style><iframe src="http://www.airtel.in/dot/?dpid=1&dpruleid=3&cat=107&dplanguage=-&url=http%3a%2f%2farchive%2eorg%2f" width="100%" height="100%" frameborder=0></iframe>

which has the following content:

>Your requested URL has been blocked as per the directions received from Department of Telecommunications, Government of India. Please contact administrator for more information.
I have an honest question about cracking passwords. Does the cracker know when they are getting close? I don't understand how they could, but every field has its experts and surprises so I thought I'd ask here.

So if I have a hashed password, and I start a hashing a dictionary, will I know that I have, say, the [whatever the word is for iterations or depth of hashing] correct, before seeing exact matches with the hashed database? Is there, I don't know, some convergence of some statistical property of the output as I get closer?
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Your name is green, which means you are brand new and can't downvote
When I spoke about bandwidth it was about the server. I should have made it more clear. Those costs add up over months.

The alt tags are VERY important for SEO purposes.
We're all used to an 8-hour work day. But is it effective?
been awhile since I have played (star/war)craft/throne/wings of liberty but I recall that blizzard specifically ignored capital letters. I could enter my password in without capitals and it worked fine. any thought to why this may occur?
It varies. A lot of places have moved away from pensions towards contributions to tax advantaged retirement accounts.

In the case of pensions, they will vest over time and people would receive benefits matching their vesting level. If a company shuts down, the pensioners are creditors of the company and there is some kind of bailout system (I guess basically a federally run reinsurance program).
Don't forget Pixar.
> Some people prefer writing JavaScript without semicolons. How do they not have bugs all over the place ? :P

Some people prefer to have sex with children. How do they not get jailed?
This seems like they're focusing on the wrong metric. They look and say, "Graduates earn more money" and say "ok, for the best NPV, let's reduce the cost and increase the graduates".

The problem is they mistake causality with correlation. If you focus strictly on graduation, without improving the students, then you will find that graduates will earn less. This same problem happens in high school - lowering the standards of students does improve graduate rates, but not necessarily life outcomes.

An extreme example of this is to observe, "On days when there is a lot of ice cream sold, violent crime is higher, therefore let's make it harder to sell ice cream." The reality is hot days cause the rise in both ice cream sales and violent crime. If you only address the visible metric of ice cream sales, you miss the underlying cause.

This abuse of statistics is rampant in education.
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That's a dumb way to value it.

You can get a $500 hotel on points. You don't say "well, I live for free at home, so technically this night is worth nothing."

Just because you can "buy" something with a different currency that might make more sense, doesn't make it cost less in USD if you were to purchase it outright.
I don't get it they took I2P and just renamed it, why do people care about this? Their faq says "Kovri has become a unique, actively-developed, community-driven C++ I2P implementation with many improvements, security enhancements, and new features over its predecessor."

They claim its unique, cool whats unique about it? What are these improvements, security enhancements and new features? Would it not make more sense to list the new improvements, security enhancements and features? Their table "What does Kovri do/not do for you?" shows it can do everything I2P can do and nothing else, unless I am missing something.

Call me paranoid but renaming another project and then, marketing it as more secure and trustworthy without proof is what dodgy fuckers do.
TSA Precheck, assuming you can pass the background check, is $80 and is absolutely worth it if you have the extra cash and can fit an appointment into your schedule.
Related comment to a related thread

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14921935
US healthcare is far lower value for money than other developed nations, at least using average life expectancy as the metric:

http://2oqz471sa19h3vbwa53m33yj.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-c...
Are you sure retiring early leads to a long life expectancy? I would expect the opposite. My father still works and he is very healthy for an 88 year old. Anecdote is not data, but people in my family seem to stay healthy by working or staying very active.

I think part of the point is to find a avocation that is not stressful, you enjoy, and can do a long time. That may be worth more than money.
2 business class tickets is definitely not $18k in value. There are regularly sales with various airlines when you can get a business class to Japan for around $2k per ticket. And since availabilities for rewards vary and are sometimes hard to come buy, you cannot compare them to the price of a fully flexible airline ticket.

But that said, you can get good value from using miles.
What are you supposed to do about image alt text when the image is purely decorative, like a border?

This complains about alt="".
Never go full Groupon.
> "I think it just breaks way more stuff than it solves. The new model ends up being a worse fit for pretty much everything else but the galaxy rotation thing."

This is often mentioned as a reason not to spend time with alternative models. However, breaking stuff is sometimes necessary if we are to get out of the local maximum of theory usefulness. The Kopernik model was much worse fit for the observations of planet motion that the Ptolemy's model, but it did have other virtues, like simplicity. The broken parts got fixed later with development of mechanics and perturbation theory.
I can do more to not get hit by a truck than to try and convince my elected representatives to behave in a manner I consider upright and positive. There are a plethora of reasons I wouldn't take this option (friends, family, taxes, culture, property, etc), but if it was a fully even choice between "politics" and "cars," I'd take cars.
Yes and it's luck + skills. Because otherwise you wouldn't even be in that position in the first place.
And what does Africa have to do with this? This was related to people working at Google and/or similar companies.

So you're point is that we should give unqualified people jobs that they are clearly not meant for just because they are having a hard time? There are NGOs and state help for this. Of course if I'm having a hard time, I'd like someone to help me, but the first one to help me should be ME. I should do everything that is in my power to help myself, I shouldn't expect help from others.

Don't know if that is what you were asking, but please stay on the topic of the discussion next time.
Oculus dropped Mac support a long time ago to focus on Windows so Firefox cannot interface with their hardware anymore. Besides, the DK2 is no longer officially supported by Oculus so it won't probably work on Windows either (I have not tried myself)
me personally, I love this idea and would work on this in spare time as long as my bottle of TUMS is within arms reach. Very Cool, Very Cool.
> I wonder when Damore will be giving interviews on traditional video media?

Hopefully never.

> And I wonder how they will represent it.

By misrepresenting his views like they have so far. He does not look like he is ready to face anyone in the absurd format of what has become news on TV.
It's open source, and free, and has a superset of Sublime's abilities (for my use cases anyway).

It's been all upside, and thanks to keyboard binding import, the upgrade cost me maybe an hour total during the 1st week. IOW a ~frictionless transition.

The catalyst was annoyance w/ an ST3 plugin for Tern (tern_for_sublime). VSC ships OOB w/ things like nice autocomplete for TS and JS, and it imported all my ST3 keybindings, and I haven't found anything I want to change that's not a trivial user config option.
One other requirement too.

3) Users should not be able to prove to another person who they voted for

This is to prevent people from using threats of violence or promise of reward to coerce others into voting a certain way.

Unfortunately, this requirement is very hard to fulfil while also fulfilling requirement 1.
Yep, that's why I didn't raise the point. Now, Python can certainly not represent number of infinite sizes...

I'll add that the super cool thing about "simple" algorithms such as binary search is that their practical application is full of edge cases which are very interesting to study to properly understand what these algorithms "mean". There's an awful lot to be said about even the simplest things.
On the RX8 at least, if you hold the gas pedal to the floor while cranking, it disables the fuel injectors. No need to pull fuses.
* Foot to floor, crank for 10 sec,
* let it rest for 30 sec to cool off the starter,
* foot to floor and start to crank, pull your foot off the gas pedal.
Poverty is one factor, race and gender are others. A middle class black girl is definitely at a disadvantage compared to a middle class white guy. All impact equality of opportunity separately and it would be perverse to address one and not the other
"I think we can replace banks and credit card payments for most things with less stringent requirements."

Can you give examples?
I suspect many people flag because they are getting tired of the drama, and that many articles submitted are very similar news reports covering the same ground.

However this video interview of the memo writer is newsworthy and I think extends the discussion more - at least for those who did not read the memo, they can hear the author speak about it.
I can be read in under ten minutes.

No doubt a similar time sink as checking the discussion on 3-4 pages on HN.
Also don't forget to strip your unused classes, which I'm embarrassed to admit, I did not start doing until recently
The Great American Eclipse will make animals act strangely
I mean I don't know if Oxford and Cambridge should be considered "public" the way the UCs are, but UC Berkeley and UCLA are in that tier, and like, does changing that line from "in the world" to "in the US" really change the point?
Some people would say use a div and background image CSS property. Not sure if that's the recommended solution though.
> just look at the statistics of children deaths in the early 1900 it's clear something changed and medicine and vaccines are among it

As did the development of Public Sanitation, pasteurization, electricity, transportation networks, & information networks. Many factors into a complex system, yet attribution to a few select changes that just happen to benefit certain parties.

Perhaps it's time to revisit old assumptions based on old P.R. written by parties with conflicts of interest.

> Completelly inflamatory statement...

Not completely, particularly when speaking to those in an "ideological echo chamber". It helps to desensitize people to opinions that challenge unspoken beliefs.

Also, why do we always need to capitulate to the ideologically narrow-minded? America succeeded due to Freedom of Speech & exchange of ideas.
you mean it's lagging behind most indicators from other comparable countries, including equality index, healthcare quality and average lifespan.
Jesus, who writes this kind of crap?
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To people who are flagging this article: why don't you read it? It's important, and the author is competent.