skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you're trying to say that the uniform distribution represents an average of the uncountably infinite set of possible distributions on an interval, I don't see how you can justify that.

So, is this X actually an arbitrary real number? Because real numbers are not known to exist in the physical world. In the physical world, we will take some measurement to a finite number of digits, and also produce an estimate of the error in that measurement. The measurement and the error bounds are all described by rational numbers, of which there are countably many. We don't know whether the set of possible "real values" (as opposed to measurements – if that concept is even meaningful) is actually uncountable – for all we know, all the "real values" could be rational, or could be drawn from some countable subset of the reals. So, if we are dealing with some kind of measured physical quantity, we actually know that the interval [0,100] is countable. We also know that the value could only possibly be measured to some finite degree of accuracy, so we actually know that the interval [0,100] is a finite set.

> In any case, the process you've described is just begging the question (i.e. it is circular reasoning).

Maybe it is just an axiom? At some point we just have to accept some things as axiomatic, so why not accept that? It can't be used to derive a contradiction, and it feels self-evident to me (even if not to you), so I feel justified in accepting it as such.
My question was NOT "Does Facebook use the phone's microphone to inform ads or change what we see in the News Feed?". It seems you have misunderstood my question. Let me repeat my question again :

"What does Facebook use data gathered from user microphones across any devices for?"
Apple gave Uber 'disturbing' access to users' iPhone data
Slide 3 refers to "ISH" and "IE" among "X86 CPU(s) you don’t know about". What are they referring to?
I am in SF and the only provider or gigabit fiber in my building is comcast.

A true competitive market does not exist (not unless you consider 15mbps DSL as an alternative to 1000mbps fiber) and therefore the reality of “competition” in the ISP market is abusive monopolies or oligopolies, just like how the reality of communist regimes are abusive authoritarianism.
Why? FB has agency to actually do something, probably horrible with it. Equifax would just get hacked.
There has been enough manufactured outrage to make people or decision makers stop caring about it.
> https://imgur.com/a/ifaiT

I can see "Messenger" and "Instagram" with access to microphone.
What I meant was very rare and exceptional cases where the side effects aren't that important. Cancer patients was one such example.
And you're sure none of the coworkers you were with Googled it?
I would agree with plenty of those, but they are mostly not needed for the work Kotlin targets (ie Android and Web dev).
Moore says:

> I would also observe that it is, potentially, culturally catastrophic to have the ephemera of a previous century squatting possessively on the cultural stage and refusing to allow this surely unprecedented era to develop a culture of its own, relevant and sufficient to its times.

And Tolkien said:

> There was Greek, and Celtic, and Romance, Germanic, Scandinavian, and Finnish [mythology] (which greatly affected me); but nothing English, save impoverished chap-book stuff. Of course there was and is all the Arthurian world, but powerful as it is, it is imperfectly naturalized, associated with the soil of Britain but not with English; and does not replace what I felt to be missing.

I see "comic book" universes as evolving into a modern mythology, complete with monsters, heroes, and gods. So I would disagree with Moore about the merits of comic book stories. They may be "squatting" on the cultural stage, but maybe the same way that King Arthur and Ulysses do.

I expect, in a thousand years, when Superman and Wolverine are aged and in the public domain, the parallels between them and Beowulf and (non-Marvel) Odin will be even more clear.
"Not everyone can afford steak. Therefore, rice and beans is steak."
> export { _ as $2665$ };

Why significance does that have in javascript?

http://fable.io/repl/
> Actually, what I actually said is more accurate than my off-the-cuff paraphrase in the above comment. There is no flaw in the reasoning. The reasoning is correct, and I say that in the presentation too. It is the premises that are false.

In that case, I think your presentation was accurate to what you wanted to convey, but I disagree that the Copenhagen interpretation has a major problem.

It is perhaps harder to get a good grasp of than another interpretation, but the really hard parts of QM is in the math.

>> My understanding is that all the different accepted interpretations are mathematically equivalent

> Yes, that's true. The part of the Copenhagen interpretation that is scientifically untenable is the non-mathematical part, the part that says that there is this physical phenomenon called the collapse of the wave function which is non-unitary and outside the scope of the theory, but which causes real measurable effects (i.e. the destruction of interference).

I was not quite clear. I meant that all of the predictions are identical (thus leading to the math calculating them being the same). If that is not true, either I have been terribly mislead or you have a groundbreaking result in QM.

> That's all bullshit. QM is not hard to understand.

The really hard part about understanding quantum mechanics is dealing with the underlying math. It is not intuitive. Complex numbers tend to make an intuitive understanding hard. Properly understanding the Quantum Fourier Transform is not easy, and that doesn't even use measurement. I never touched the Copenhagen interpretation in my study of the QFT and it was still hard.
Restricting tiered site access will deliver higher rates and cause poorer service?
I don't see how it is different from having noisy drunk people as your permanent neighbors. Ultimately, your non-airbnb permanent neighbors are just as much of a stranger to you, with certain specific exceptions.
The camera angle seems like it could be... problematic, though.

Also it doesn't look like it has the capability to follow me in even most sedate urban environments. I mean, I'm not asking for stairs, but that thing looks like it'd have a hard time with a sidewalk crack.

Both those problems could probably be solved by making it bigger.
I took the question to be about the choice between the two products.
It is one of many band-aids attempted to solve the root problem, which is that education is unaffordable in America for most people. The true solution in my opinion would be to allow people to discard their student loans with bankruptcy. Suddenly the government wouldn’t be offering $200k loans for humanities degrees, and universities would be forced to reduce prices or accept lower enrollments.
Facebook tests removing organic Page posts from News Feed
> if you're giving a container 1 CPU of a 48 CPU server and it thinks all 48 are available

Are java processes usually deployed in (1 server to 1 java process ) configuration ?

Seems a bit strange for runtime to assume certain deployment configurations.
Urban centers can grow vertically. 80% of SF is single story construction.
And we also have to consider how much we as a society lose by not having a taxi system with x amount of danger.

1000 people gaining a little bit quickly outweighs 1 person losing a lot (at least from a purely utilitarian perspective)
The main point of these systems is to store energy for months without much loss. Considering the cooling costs of the mechanism you mentioned, it only seems viable for more rapid usage situations ie. the middle ground between fast discharging batteries and slow discharging hydro gravity storage.

The beautiful thing about gravitational storage is that it is reversable. So the same pump that used energy to pump the water into a tank 20 stories up can also spin down as water pours through the turbines, acting as a hydroelectric generator as the water is released. Having a single reversable mechanism makes these systems pretty easy to maintain and the only places energy is lost is through friction during conversion and through leaks. They are pretty hard to beat.

The idea of deep ocean pods is similar in execution but instead of working solely against and with gravitys energy potential, the water pressure is used as well...its just more compact..but the orbs will need to be well built to withstand insane pressures.
Coal ash is even worse in its treatment: thanks to some intense lobbying in the US it's not treated as hazardous waste.
Sounds like you have a healthy amount of competition in SF. I bet you could write down at least six providers if you include cellular internet. That sounds like a very healthy market to me, what's the claim? That you only have one gigabit option? I remember feeling the same way when I only had 33.6k with AOL 20 years ago. The advancement has been really incredible.

Regarding the abusiveness of authoritarian regimes, I'd suggest the book(s), "The Gulag Archipelago."
I think people are really underestimating how much they can use your friends search data (especially ones you have been in close proximity to) for your ads. Or how big their interest "niche" is. There are only so many categories of web users, even on the very fringe there are probably 10k who think and search just like you. And when they are searching/clicking on products, Facebook will show you similar things.
To be fair, coke can't get many new customers buying their product. Yet they spend quite a bit of money advertising their product so that their existing users keep purchasing.
obviously the need to fill their profit margin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/—We_Also_Walk_Dogs
I think some of it is just a change in the terms we use.

Take Guardians of the Galaxy for example. A fun superhero movie! Except it’s really just a science fiction movie that avoids the “SF” term. It’s pretty similar to something like Star Wars in terms of the characters and technologies shown... but for some reason, Luke Skywalker isn’t a “superhero.”

Or consider the Greek myths. Instead of superheroes, they had “gods” and “demigods” and such. What’s the difference? None, really.

Humans have always enjoyed morally unambiguous tales of heroes beyond the ordinary. There’s a place for complex entertainment too, but it’s unreasonable to expect it to dominate.
> But there is a big chunk of users who learned to use the internet SOLELY for facebook, they remain there solely for that and would stop using it if it wasn't for facebook.

I'd argue that it would be better in most cases not to use the Internet if Facebook were the only option. Accepting Facebook as your "Internet" means that the next generations probably will not have a Free, open Internet.

I grew up before the Internet was widely used. Many aspects of life were better without the Internet. If you aren't doing something critical to your life with the Internet (and Facebook is not one of those critical things in most cases), then the Internet is not a necessity.

(The Internet is a necessity for many people these days, but Facebook is not a genuine necessity.)
it's a person giving a service under hippocratic oath. The fact that the person is an MD at all is because he took training that is carefully outlined by government. He prescribes only medication that is legal to prescribe under rules set by government. He's probably paid by some insurance scheme that is either directly government (where there is public healthcare) or at least mandated and controlled by government (e.g. ACA).

So I think it's fair to say that the doctors office is one of the offices where government is very present.
It seems a little counterintuitive to hand out anti-halloween material to trick-or-treaters. I mean, it's still observing Halloween even if it's not candy you're giving out.
Actually, only one of those things happened, the one in the middle. I'll let you dig into Forbes's "sources" to figure out how they managed to twist a hypothetical into something that already happened.
In Seattle we have a train that goes from the airport to downtown Seattle. It's perfect and ideal to get to and from the airport. BUT! It stops at about half a mile away from the the actually airport lobby as to not disrupt the taxi business. I simply can't believe it.
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Yeah, given the binning that's in play I'm not particularly worried about TR. Out of an abundance of paranoia I would recommend a 24h run of kill-ryzen.sh on literally any Ryzen/TR processor (including RMA replacements) but TR is not likely to be a problem. For that matter, the chips that are taking 24h+ to segfault are not likely to be a problem either. It's the ones that are segfaulting in a matter of seconds or minutes that are going to be problematic for normal users.

However, that's my thoughts as to why we're not seeing it on Threadripper despite it being on the same stepping. If it were a simple microcode fix (even if you needed to disable some codepath and cut a few percent off) then there is no reason not to pass that down to consumer Ryzen. So far, however, a microcode fix has not been forthcoming. So it's either TR is better binned and thus less subject to the fault, or that something about TR's NUMA layout is breaking one of the necessary conditions for the cache fault to occur.

I do think AMD stepped up their QA after the fault was discovered. I've actually heard of post-week-30 retail samples passing kill-ryzen runs, whereas essentially 100% of the pre-week-25 chips display the fault. However, there are definitely post-week-30 chips that do still display the fault.

I assume what's going on there is AMD is doing a quick run of kill-ryzen to weed out the shittiest chips, the ones that die in seconds/minutes. But since there isn't a way to deterministically reproduce this fault, and AMD can't realistically spend 24h testing every single chip for one fault, some of the only-somewhat-shitty chips are still leaking through their QA testing.

I would take a random week 33 chip over a random week 08 chip for sure, the quality is definitely up, but week 30+ is no guarantee that your chip won't segfault either.
Today the internet is bundled-ish (net neutrality w/o regulation). My claim is that unbundling will allow rates to come down thus broadening access.
also FunScript "F# to JavaScript with type providers"

http://funscript.info/
When did Zuckerberg say that?
It did something very similar to me and really made me second guess myself, but there is no other explanation other than it used my microphone to listen to my conversation at work. I felt so paranoid about it and was very weirded out.

My backpack zipper broke when I was walking to work. When I arrived at work I told my coworker I needed to buy a new backpack. She and I talked in her office about what type of backpacks her son liked, did they have enough pockets, are the zippers strong. I never used my phone to google anything about backpacks, never looked anything or searched for a new backpack online. That same afternoon- boom backpack ads in my facebook feed. Totally creepy.
(First of all, satellite in no-way can compete with copper. That's lunacy, and not even remotely comparable.)

But to answer your question, the regulatory environment helps ensure the desired outcome.

I mean, why have building codes? If enough buildings go up in flames or crumble down killing everyone inside, then maybe we could look into regulating the building industry.

Why have food safety standards? Nobody really dies that much these days from food-related illness, so shouldn't we get rid of all that pesky regulation?

But more to the point, just because they seem to be going where you want today, what has that got to do with where they will go tomorrow?
Only 57 trillion 3x3 meter
squares to resolve...
I remember being a kid (8 or 9) and sitting down with my friend at his house with his parents and going through all our candy together to check for danger signs. Sure enough, there was a single-wrapped Reese's peanut-butter cup with a hole in the wrapper, and we opened it up and found a sewing needle stuck inside the peanut-butter cup. (I don't think I'm making this up, but memories being what they are, this might have been a story that was told to me. I do remember vividly the breaking of the peanut-butter cup into two pieces and the needle falling on the table, though, so I'm inclined to believe the memory.)

This would have been in the late 1980s. So, in my case, the fear did not come from the media, but from a personal experience.

So rather than saying, "this never happens, it's just a myth", we should be saying, "this can happen, and let's take steps to protect ourselves".

Anyone remember the Tylenol Poisonings[0]? That was real, inspired copycats, and led to tamper-resistant and tamper-evident packaging. Tragic, but at least we learned from the tragedy.

While it's true that not everyone is out to get you, at the same time it's foolish to think that no-one is out to get you.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tylenol_murders
> Now grown ups with no children of their own or signs of learning disabilities can go and watch this comic-superhero rewrites on the big screen and talk about how great the acting, story and everything else was, as if it was serious art that they had seen.

As opposed to any given non-comic-derived action, comedy, romance, or horror movie? I didn't know that something has to be "serious art" to comment about the acting or the story. Moreover, given box office results, it's rare that any movie considered to be art is all that popular.
This is called the "Frequency Illusion" (also often called / a similar thing is called the "Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon").
And what does 55.1 % 102 produce? 1e-12 % 3i+12?

And if your answer is "I only need it to work on integers" then don't blame Haskell when I choose to specialise it to Int!
> I think that comics are a retreat from that...

Except most comic book stories are about heroes that are morally compromised in various ways: their pasts, their methods, the unintended consequences of their actions, etc. What's more, outside of issue films, I have a hard time thinking of much popular film these days that is black and white.
Basically, instead of having a "User" response built like this:

User {

name: "Bob"

id: 1

}

You would have something like this:

User {

name: "Bob"

href: "http://www.example.com/api/users/1"

}
Rust's borrow checker makes writing to captured variables okay and safe, e.g. this is a bit unconventional, but it works:

let mut sum = 0;
(0..10).for_each(|i| sum += i);
println!("{}", sum); // 45

Having cyclic values and/or mutation of shared values requires things like reference counting and cells, but this is what designed-for-UI languages like Swift are doing, just with more syntactic sugar (and, of course, the lack of it in Rust is still annoying for this sort of thing, but it isn't a fundamental blocker, and is less problematic than lack of inheritance, as steveklabnik says).
That's correct. Apps must request access to the microphone, and iOS shows an indicator while the app is recording.

This is pure confirmation bias. If someone tests this and doesn't get a relevant ad from Facebook, they won't upload a video or tell their friends. Note that even in this confirming case, it took two days before the guy saw a cat food ad. We don't know how many other ads he scrolled by before that one.
On the plus side, the vast majority of comic book fans understand that the stuff is fiction. And it seems to me that there’s plenty of community and self improvement to be had in that group too.
I really like this idea: http://www.heindl-energy.com/media-and-newsletter/videos.htm...

A gravity storage in form of a piston carved from rock. It's lifted with water that's pumped underneath. The seal is a rolling "sleeve": http://www.heindl-energy.com/gravity-storage/idea-function/s...
Facebook obviously doesn't do this, but I wonder how this will end. Lots of people wanting to regulate Facebook right now, maybe some ineffective laws will get passed.
> A shortage is supply vs. demand by definition.

Capital dollars (from VC's) are easier to come by in SV than wage dollars. You prefer to think of the shortage as one of houses. I ask you to consider the idea that it is a shortage of wage dollars.
> We are not free to provide services to other devices on our own devices.

Of course you are. I'm speaking from an American perspective, but this is the very foundation of liberty.

> The network does not provide the required environment to make this possible. Why? It's not the hardware.

I do not own the network that my phone operates on, and the people that do have decided to control what they allow on it. I can start my own network and attempt to compete.
From my view wealth is the primary mechanism these really great changes are delivered.

I used to work in electricity regulation on the side of consumers. I watched the utilities use the regulatory process to bilk customers. The regulatory process sets the stage for rent seeking. The companies out match the state over and over.
Reference: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
If I recall correctly, Madison’s original position was that the content of the Bill of Rights (and more besides) was already implied by the Constitution, and that the document was superfluous and possibly harmful if it led to people considering rights not explicitly mentioned to not also be part of the Constitution. He changed his mind, however, as a pragmatic gesture toward unity and compromise with the Anti-Federalists.
How Sand Hill Road Became the Main Street of Venture Capital
you where faster than me :)

The seal is great: http://www.heindl-energy.com/gravity-storage/idea-function/s...
> The media of today is often created by the very people who were dissatisfied with what was available to us back in the 80's. It'll be interesting to see what people dissatisfied with the media of today come up with in another 30 years.

This is a good observation, and seems to be true to me throughout literary/artistic history. You can look back through time, and many eras are obviously predominated by a particular creative movement, and each movement can be seen as a reaction of the previous dominant movement: postmodernism as a reaction of creators who were dissatisfied with modernism, modernism as a reaction of those who were dissatisfied with realism, itself a reaction to romanticism, etc. Hegelian dialectics come to mind.

Of course, the avant-garde of any era didn't necessarily dislike the former movement (or otherwise be entirely unappreciative of it) to be dissatisfied with it; the only needed to recognize the shortcomings therein. The ebb-and-flow of these movements makes me wonder if the arts are inherently unable to characterize and embody the human experience. I don't see any reason why that must be true, but the notion that people have been identifying and responding to the shortcomings of their broader artistic environments since the dawn of art itself makes me contemplative. Perhaps it's simply that the human experience itself is in a constant state of flux.
> but there is no other explanation other than it used my microphone to listen to my conversation at work

You'd have not noticed if you saw a backpack advert at some other time. Just how many adverts do you see that aren't standing out? Huge amounts, probably.

This could be quite easily explained by the frequency illusion.
Why Ikea Causes So Much Relationship Tension (2015)
Why not show a code sample on the homepage? None of Home, Docs, or Samples have a single code snippet on the entire page, you have to click through.

Crystal and Rust are good examples of language homepages that give you an idea of what you're getting into up front. Or for a transpiled language, PureScript.
Do you see this as being competitive with Siamese networks for one-shot learning?
Kotlin also has operator overloading.