skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I prefer the term “biological” rather than “cisgender” in this particular case because we are discussing the presence or absence of particular organs, not one’s gender identity.

“Biological” is also somewhat imprecise as biological sex traits don't always align with each other and include a number of things besides anatomy; “anatomically stereotypical” would be more precise than either “biological” or “cisgender”.
First Blood Transfusion: A History (2015)
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No most of the optimization were Python specific. But of course development time was a bit faster due to it being the 2nd time solving the same problem.
The typical embedded WebView is even less secure. The app containing the webview can see everything that you do within it -- including capturing login information for other sites.

At least with iOS, Apple introduced an out of process Safari View Controller that can share cookies, logins, etc with Safari inside an app, but doesn't allow the app to intercept what you are doing
pretty interesting.

does anyone know if these types of attacks could affect other components or systems? Crystal resonators, accelerometers, etc?
Even that is insufficiently precise.

Death is not the only thing that separates children from parents. Neglect, disinterest, self-involvement, inability to provide, etc.

And beyond a certain minimum viability, no adult is strictly required. Street "urchins" take care of themselves and each other.
FWIW I think Azure's Functions are 10 minutes and I hear they're talking about upping it again.
I've read half the article and still don't know what a Tezos is.
What do you mean by "extensions are there that can be installed locally"? Depends on what mail client you are using. Thunderbird can do this. I use mu with emacs mu4e and it just works. You need gpg installed, that's all.
One of the things I've noticed about the high cost of housing in this round of expansion of the Bay Area has been more campers on the curb acting as houses. I now see a number of places where people are clearly living out of an RV in lieu of permanent housing.

I attribute some of that to the cost of housing and some to the relative ease of connectivity with a cell phone. There isn't any hard and fast not to live in such a space if you don't mind it and have a PO box and a cell phone.
I had a teacher in high school who frequently cracked a joke that his “ugly” lawn was only ugly because he was prioritizing biodiversity over beauty.
I wonder how much lang=en can actually be trusted—enough things put it in by default that I can easily imagine its presence on non-English pages.

Update: from elsewhere on this thread, Google ignores <html lang>:

> But the language attribute within the HTML markup is something we don't use at all. We've found that this language markup is something that is almost always wrong. So we tend to ignore that.

https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ignores-the-html-lang-at...
Aren't we better served by question consumption broadly and our modes of consumption specifically, rather than questioning recycling?

You have both done well to articulate that it doesn't feel right, but do you have any actual proof against the value of recycling? And I don't mean trade-offs, I acknowledge recycling isn't perfect, but there are plenty of statistics that prove it is worthwhile.
You mean how successful we are earlier in life affects how much money we'll have later in life? This is an outrage. We shouldn't allow people to be rewarded for their success.
Your point about rising tuition driving out less well off families is also a result of reduced government funding.

Research should never be funded by tuition anyway. That research is a public good, the burden for funding it should not be placed on the backs of the nations youth, who have to in turn finance that tuition with debt.

It's a shame that one political party in this country has taken to believing that all of the world's problems can be solved with lower taxes (not low taxes, lowER taxes). Externalities and public goods do not exist.
Self-amending blockchain.
I've heard o people doing this in their Prius. You can run the AC all night and the engine supposedly only turns on every half hour for a minute or so. Not enough fumes to worry about killing yourself in the car and there's virtually no way you'd run out of gas overnight.
C is not simple, C is language with a limited syntax and constructs which is not quite the same. Being proeficient in C means learning correct manual memory management, macros, an obtuse std lib, a compilation tool chain and management tools like Make, autotools and co. This is absolutely not simple. And don't get me started on string management with C.
The problem with this argument is that the 400 companies are not all that are created.
> If you've got 10 days of PTO, you can do a maximum of 10 interviews a year

Well, at no cost. Whether you can do more without adverse employment consequences depends on your company's unpaid leave policy.

Of course, if you only have 10 annual PTO days, that's a problem in itself.
The best explanation of blockchain has to be (unsurprisingly) 3Blue1Brown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBC-nXj3Ng4

Would highly recommend watching this video for anyone who hasn't already.
The one part I disagree with is the section on Cloudflare. I agree that it's better than nothing, but you do have to trust them. I'm not sure that's wise. Not because I expect them to deliberately misuse the access, but because it's an increase in attack surface.
>Only the most short-sighted of the wealthy do not realize that there are many ways in which their wealth could dry up. This provides an impetus to use the money constructively while you have it, because it might not be around forever.

Money doesn't dry up, it increases thanks to investment and hedge funds. You just need to ensure you never dip it below net-positive+base inflation rate.

Suppose you have a billion dollars invested, and you're only receiving 0.1%/year on top of the base inflation rate. 0.1% of $1 billion is $1million, so you have a perfectly sustainable stable $1 million per year. That's more than enough to spend forever dicking around.

Actually, drop that down to $100 million. At 0.1% above, you get sustainable $100k/year.

Now, perhaps that doesn't seem too lavish, but consider that you could afford to take way more than 0.1% off your interest every year, and you'll find that that money isn't going anywhere.
If you leave something really long enough, you will stop needing it. Of course you may have relapse, but, never stop trying.

I did something similar with gaming. It works.
The allure of being less confined in the variety of social events and encounters that become possible by using FB/social media. Whether or not that ends up being the case, or whether it is rewarding enough for the associated negative aspects (remotely-induced stress, obsessive behaviors, anxiety, etc.) in the long term ends up being a factor as to whether or not someone keeps using it.
Reproducibility is a major problem and certainly has levels to it such as starting materials [1], details within protocols and methods section of papers, unaccounted variables such as room temp., technique and data interpretation as often raw data is inaccessible.

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/scientific-reproducibility-re...
But if you give it a slick new name then it's a new thing and people will think it's cool again!
One thing that pre-trained word2vec and GloVe have going for them (and which is incorporated in ConceptNet Numberbatch) is that they're trained on broader corpora, Google News and the Common Crawl respectively. Of course that's what limits them to English, if you're not willing to use a knowledge graph to align things across languages.

Training on just Wikipedia is not a representative model of any language, because not all text is written like an encyclopedia.
1. Yeah, that's why I mentioned "a document-based app that a) supports real-time collaboration, b) supports sync to a central server, c) works offline for arbitrary periods of time, d) supports real-time sync between offline and/or local devices". It's those points c) and d) that benefit most from the CRDT model. Point a) has of course been proven to work well with a central server, but not usually together with c) and d). It's very hard to handle all four cases if you're relying on a single source of truth.

2. Sure. Actually, if your design happens to be commutative for every operation after causal delivery, then you've invented what the paper calls a "pure op-based CRDT"! That means it'll work with a server or even through P2P (again, w/causal delivery) just by sending the operations around — no extra information required. I believe your vertex/edge example qualifies as long as each new object is created with a unique ID. However, if there's even a remote chance that two objects could be created with the same ID, then things fall apart, since you could have three concurrent operations of DEL-A, INS-A (the new one), and DEL-A, assuming a starting set that includes A. Depending on the order, you could end up with the set including or excluding A. This is why there are multiple kinds of CRDT sets and why they're not "pure op-based", e.g. Add-Wins and Remove-Wins as mentioned in the paper. I think you'll find that most data structures that are remotely interesting can't really be simplified down to the "pure op-based CRDT".

PS, I made a mistake in the last comment, at least in terms of intent: the server won't be able to tiebreak that concurrency case since the ops have already been applied locally to all the clients and they don't commute. Instead, the server will be forced to either transform the operations (as in Operational Transformation) and then send them off (thus making them de facto commute), or alternatively panic, rebase (replaying part of its history), and force all clients to resync. That is, assuming the clients don't keep around the operation history themselves; if they do, they could perform the rebase/replay locally and the operations would (technically) commute. And this would even work for arbitrary operation-based data structures, including sequences or anything else. But then you have to make sure that replaying history has reasonable complexity, e.g. not O(N^2), or you'll be waiting hours if a concurrent commit resolves at the beginning of your operation stack. Ugh, this stuff is confusing...
A bit of a tangent, but I'll try to make it relevant to the topic.

My third-year Cosmology course was the single most confusing and hand-wavey course I've ever taken during my Physics degree. It seemed to be mostly a grab-bag of "clever insights" (the cosmological constant being "wrong", but then later turning out to be "right" being the most flagrant). Maybe I just had a bad lecturer, but at the time I was working in an astrophysics research group, and I asked a few of the post-docs about cosmology and they didn't have any convincing answers either (to be fair, our research topic was asteroseismology not cosmology). It just felt as though there was a lot less rigor in cosmology than in other sciences that I was more familiar with. They definitely had some evidence for the theories presented, but most of the actual derivations felt deliberately vague and confusing.

All of that being said, it feels like the author has some axe to grind and is herself engaging in unscientific dogma. Even I can tell that some of her comments on cosmology (the point about the curvature density parameter specifically) are not quite right, and I'm a little confused about her tirade on "parameters close to 1" -- not to mention that she just shrugs it off with "I have no idea" rather than following up.

The points she made about choosing parameters are very odd, bordering on incorrect, as she appears to be trying to claim that unless you have a theory to derive initial parameters then the initial parameters are useless. But that's ridiculous, it's like saying (using her analogy) you need to have a theory for the position and speed of a particular arrow in order for Newton's laws to be correct. Fitting a model to data, by searching for an optimum parameter, is an incredibly common practice and is one of the most common ways of doing data science. However, saying that you need to know the probability distribution of some parameter is definitely true.

It also appears that the author's views were challenged by another astrophysicist in her previous blog post, and she doesn't address this at all (in fact, she doubles down).
A bit of ambiguity about certain things is an important lubricant for almost all non-romantic relationships. My family has a good idea of my salary (as pointed out elsewhere: they can see my house and my car) but I keep the specific number to myself. They're left with just a vague notion rather than anything they could do math with. It's much the same as how they only have a vague notion about what I do in the bathroom. They can use their imagination if they'd like and infer it from various things. But I shut the door so the obvious isn't rendered so plain to see as to become a topic of awkward (and sometimes destructive) conversation.
I would think donating to pro environmental lobbying groups. You be surprised how little large corporations spend on lobbying to influence politicians.
Even 70 would get miserable rapidly with the windows up due to all the humid, warm air the occupants would be breathing out.
> I don't see this as Intel biased,

The article was written to sell the idea that Intel's offering beats AMD's in all relevant features considering all aspects deemed relevant by the writer, and then he proceeds to bend himself backwards to try to come up with any excuse to ignore the 700$ price difference between Intel's i9 rig and AMD's Ryzen Threadripper and how that price difference buys only marginal performance gains.

I would also add that it's also questionable how the author decides for no reason at all to setup Intel's rig with two SSDs in RAID0 while leaving AMD's rig with two separate drives.

All in all, it looks like a far-fetched and somewhat desperate attempt at finding a particular offering by Intel that can show some performance gains over the AMD Ryzen Threadripper, and in the process commit so many methodological errors to get to those marginal gains that a good portion of the text is dedicated to come up with excuses to try to sell the idea that none of that matters.
Computer science is (and must be) about programming.

It need not be about C, or present-day digital computers, or even anything to do with the von Neumann model.

But there must always be a formal notation for describing computations, and students of Computer Science must always learn to treat that notation with rigor and come to grips with its nuances.

Probably too they must always deal with the concept of indirection, and think about references to (objects that contain) other references.

I'll grant you, though, a language with a saner notation for describing pointers (and types in general) would be easier to learn than C, and could still be equally useful - if not moreso.
People here argue things like that if whole industries, laws, etc don't change then an individual's actions don't matter.

I see it the opposite. Only if I change can I expect or hope anyone else will.

My list includes:

- Flying less

- Driving less

- Eating low on the food chain

- Avoiding packaged food

- Owning and acquiring less stuff

... things like that.

My life has never been better. I wish I had started this change decades earlier.
Maybe my wording was imprecise. Not being in poverty is better than being in poverty. Still, that's not the entire story.
There’s been an explosion in the engine, and the plane is going to crash in 15 minutes. There’s no chance of survival. There is a potential way out—the plane happens to be transferring a shipment of parachutes....

Those who choose not to take that option, please remain in your seat—this will be over soon, and you will feel no pain.

Why does this argument strike me as analogous to Pascal's Wager? You can pray for an afterlife, or not. Your choice. Which do you choose?
Writing flat and declarative code
Do You Have a Winning Strategy?
The Uber Fights: Washington DC 2012 [pdf]
Always wanted one -- unfortunately you couldn't get a supercharged m/t. or a supercharged AWD m/t or something. First time I sat in the back seat in one, I was blown away. Could slide the seat back and not even touch the front seats with my legs extended, but still tons of cargo room.
Yeah, fire is right off my list of good ways to die. I'm pretty sure that has to suck. Conversely, if I'm burned badly and still alive, I probably won't want to live. I already have a living will and DNR.

I'm 59. If I get another 11 years, I'll be pretty stoked. I've done everything I've wanted to do, for the most part. I don't have any great yearning to accomplish more, I've done plenty. I have enough and worked my ass off to get here. This is just time to enjoy the moment, something I feel privileged to have.

It is also very comforting to know my affairs are all in order. If I get diagnosed with cancer tomorrow, I'll probably order up a large satchel of illegal narcotics, invite some friends over, and go on a wild adventure until I die. I may not even seek treatment other than pain remediation.

And, yeah, my close friends and family all know my views. They are largely in agreement.

Meh... I figured I'd share an alternative view. I'm pretty sure many won't agree they'd do it this way, but it's not their death.
Two very expensive countries
Don't different species normally wax and wane in prevalence? And enter/leave areas? A particularly cold winter can kill off a certain type of insect and the loss lasts for year.

How can we determine how much of the change we even have control over?
I tend to find there's uses for both physical and digital textbooks;

- Physicals you can spread out, highlight stuff, visually search much fast when you DON'T know exactly what you're looking for, and you can also re-sell them when you're done.

- Digital weighs nothing, is cheaper, you can ctrl-f if you DO know what you're looking for, and often come with tools to bookmark/highlight etc.

Ideally if I'm dropping $100+ on a textbook I'd like to get access to both. If I'm going to a class I'll take the digital one, if I'm sat at home doing research/writing/reading then I'll use the physical one. Also I'm incredibly vain when it comes to my bookshelves, I aim to have enough books for an in-home library by the time I retire.
Here are recommendations by experts for regular people (meaning people who can't run Qubes OS): https://techsolidarity.org/resources/basic_security.htm
The difference as I see it (as a non-believer) is if I could just choose to believe in God, I would as that would be much easier and probably make me feel better.

I can't force myself to believe something, but I can just choose to sign up for Alcor
I skimmed their white paper[1] and saw this beauty:

> In order to reduce uncertainty regarding the monetary mass, addresses showing no activity for over a year (as determined by timestamps) are destroyed along with the coins they contain

It is, however, followed by this footnote:

> (inactive addresses will no longer lose their funds after one year as initially proposed in the white paper, they will only lose their staking rights until they become active again. What it means is that if an address is inactive, it will not be selected to create blocks (which would slow down the consensus algorithm), and it will not be allowed to vote until it is reactivated (to avoid uncertainty about participation rate).

1. https://www.tezos.com/static/papers/white_paper.pdf

Edit: Added footnote
Besides the sugar my main concern with chocolate is that a lot of it is contaminated with toxic levels of cadmium & lead.
OWASP guidelines are a good start.
It's been an IGA as long as it's been there, I think. I think I remember it being built, or maybe expanded, but that was way back when I was a kid and my Dad was cutting wood for DC Mortons - their garage was where Boss Power Equipment is now.
Yes she immediately came back with a number 10k lower. Which in reality was 30k lower than current for a very similar job
Oddly enough, even Reuters picked this up: https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-bitcoin-funding-tezos-spec...
This has to be one of the worst websites I've seen in the past decade. I've seen these vehicles on the road but never "gotten" the pop up part. I tried to view a photo gallery (it doesn't work) and the only photos they have on the main page don't show what it looks like inside with the tent up. Amazing. I'm curious how usable the space is, and they don't help me figure it out.
It is also very comforting to know my affairs are all in order. If I get diagnosed with cancer tomorrow, I'll probably order up a large satchel of illegal narcotics, invite some friends over, and go on a wild adventure until I die. I may not even seek treatment other than pain remediation.

I know a cancer survivor who basically said (at the time that they had cancer and were undergoing treatment) that if they didn't have a child to raise, that would be the path they would choose. They said having cancer was not torture, but the treatments were, basically.
Bought 2x single mattresses from Aldi (AUD500 = US$390 total), to replace our old king mattress, and put a king overlay on top. So good having total isolation from any of your partner's tossing-and-turning.

Only problem is the combination is 15cm shorter than a real king mattress, so it's odd on the base. But meh.
As both a victim of rape (that was prosecuted in court) and someone who was falsely accused of sexual harassment (I never have done anything that could be construed as such), this is terrifying.

The whisper network is already weaponized. It makes victims of the innocent and undermines the innocence of those who already victims.

The only just way to proceed is to assume innocence until proven guilty.

The discussion around this is becoming deeply disturbing.
I'm not sure how they licence it though or what data sources

Ever filled out a credit card application? Most of them ask for your current salary. This is before the credit check is done.

My guess is the credit card companies are passing that information back.

Of course, any time I put my salary in one of those applications it's correct in a range of $50K+. If they have those numbers, they are really inaccurate.
Programming is a critical tool, but computer science isn't about programming any more than physics is about advanced mathematics.
An afterlife would require fundamental revisions to the laws of physics, while cryonics does not (as the article goes on to explain). Pascal's Wager is about how an infinite payoff leads to infinite expected value, regardless of the odds. There are no infinities anywhere in cryonics, it's just a question of weighing the odds against the expected payoff, like taking a risky new drug or any other experimental medical procedure.
Being faculty doesn't necessarily mean teaching undergraduates. There are "course buyout" programs in a lot of places.
The discussion isn't about boosting GDP, but about where manufacturing labor takes place. The millions of people in the rust belt who are suffering don't care if them being out of work means a wealthy person in Silicon Valley can sell a few more ads overseas because exports eventually matches imports.
I'm surprised by what you're saying about the small amount destined to lobbying. Do you have numbers about this?
When 75% of _all_ flying insect biomass is lost, that's not just wax / wane. Considering the only difference in the past 2 years vs. the other thousands of years that insects have survived is human intereference, doesn't this suggest that we have complete control over this change?