skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess this kind of, maybe, explains it, though in an oblique way, and even that only because I was already on the lookout for something about information-theoretical security vs. computational security.

It mostly brings up misconceptions I never had, and attacks those. For example, why would it matter that /dev/random gets its output from the same CSPRNG as /dev/urandom (or any other CSPRNG)? Shouldn't the output of the CSPRNG, assuming its state is large enough, contain as much entropy as its input?

The focus on giving me orders about what I should do, rather than telling me why, also gets old somewhere around the first time.
When I lived in SF (for a decade) I took the metro system. Since the metro in SF (MUNI) is very slow, I spent a lot of time hanging out at bus stops. I got to talking to a fair number of homeless people.

Many, perhaps most of the homeless people I met in SF are homeless by choice. They don't call it homeless BTW. Most of them were happy and proud of their tents in Golden Gate Park. The one message I heard over and over again was that these people self-selected out of the housing pool- the reasons I heard most often was, they just got in fights when they lived with people, and found it was easier to live alone, outside, in SF, than it was to try to get housing.
Also useful for pretending chat-bots are broken.
Wouldn't those copyrights effectively end up in the public domain anyhow? The defacto nominal fee is an attorneys retainer.
When I saw the term tracing my mind went to network tracing and then ray tracing before whatever this is. Is the front page of this more obvious to other people?
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Depending on income students can get free or reduced price lunches. No there is no universal free lunch program in the US. Not sure how they do it now but it used to work just like food stamps, kids in the program had membership cards that got punched when they got lunch while everyone else paid money.
There's also https://www.eternal-september.org/ which offers free access to non-binary groups.
It sounds like it creates a mapping from lines to "bugginess." How much value do you think there would be in some sort of semantic analysis, e.g. "new function foo is suspect bc it calls bar, which has shown up in a lot of stack traces lately"?
it's worse than any random experiment because it is incredibly prone to a widely known set of biases, which is precisely what experiments try to correct. basically, self-experimentation is incredibly prone to false positives and negatives.
> Banning a whole class of people

Which class of people was banned?

class = citizenship of a country ?
> Ever walked into a room and forgotten why you did? It’s because you artificially create a new cognitive context when you walk through a door.

Wow I did not know that there was an explanation for this. Makes sense. :)
Posted 11 Dec, 2017, not 2011.
Without being drawn into a long protracted argument about this (this is my last post on this topic), the simple act of scanning the formatted page pre-OCR infringes the copyright of the publisher, if the publishers rights have not yet expired.

You can't OCR from nothing, at some point you need a direct copy, be it in memory or on disk, of thing being copied.
This is network tracing. It's been around a few years, started as zipkin
Replication crisis. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9148292
AGPL might help. You need secrecy to do a lot of nasty things. You can do nasty things without secrecy, but at least psychologically, people are a lot less inclined to be antisocial if they think they could be watched, even if they're not:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-illusion-...

Mastodon is a free social network. It's open source and it's copyleft. It's AGPLed. So far, I find it very enjoyable. It remains to be seen how it could be twisted into something unpleasant. I don't foresee that happening.
I couldn't find any real results from searching. They reference a few papers in one article, about pre-existing studies (most studies fail to replicate the sugar high effect) but none of this work is convincing to quantitative scientists.
Disclaimer - didn't go through most of the content (plan to later). But possible feedback for growth would be to take the dataset from the N64 low resolution images, normalize them into coordinate pixel ratio percicions so network input dimensions can interact with more recent versions of mario Kart. You can then work with the DS mario emulator for the newer versions of mario cart (faster, more agressive bots, road detail). The point to doing this would help provide insight of how Tesla/etc can generate more training data for their auto poilets. Think about it, if the transition or generalization of data likes this is possible, you could switch game plaform and provide actual data their auto poilet systems need.
How do you know that the interviews went well? Oftentimes people's subjective evaluation of their own performance is inversely correlated with reality; see e.g. the Dunning-Kruger effect.

I've also seen people who otherwise did well technically not be hired because they acted like a jerk.

Not saying that any of these necessarily apply to your situation of course, but no one can really know just from an Internet comment.
What model do you use for power forecasting? Do you use different models for different forecast horizons e.g 1h, 1day, etc. or did you find that (recursive) multi step forecasting with the same model produces better results?
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I didn't realise there was such a significant Irish community on HN
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> due to technology as a force multiplyer.

You get $40 toy drones the size of a hand with HD video today. I keep telling people that interesting things will happen when these shrink enough and get enough flight time for people to decide it's low enough risk to start flying drones into restricted areas and buildings.

It'll be increasingly hard to defend against, not least because it's getting cheap enough you're not going to be defending against a handful of enemy states, but against anyone curious enough or with a sufficient grudge and a willingness to take the risk.
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Another similar vantage point is that that the math can have no relation to what's actually happening. For example, the author might indicate in one step they invert a matrix, but instead use some heavily regularized solver. It might be that only a few eigenmodes are invertible which changes the physics of the problem.
For languages other than English (or even for English with some accented characters), you'll need to do a bit better than just spotting non-ASCII characters. Finding zero-width/not fully normalized characters would be a bit more robust, but still not perfect. IIRC, the zero-width joiner/non-joiner are important for rendering various Indian languages correctly. But I guess it depends on your use case, and how many false positives you can tolerate.
I haven't said any of that stresses me. I tend to be on time anyway, actually. It is true that when friend is angry with me or yell at me, I don't like that. Also, I prefer friendship of people who don't expect me to be perfect and don't act like primadonnas when things are not their way or are not super perfect.
This is why I've never understood the Mickey Mouse Protection Act. They don't need it.

I mean, let's say the Steamboat Willie short was public domain. Disney doesn't make any significant money selling it, so no real direct loss. The character name is still trademarked, so that's not available for use.
What exactly is the possible harm to Disney?
Congratulations on launching! This looks like an interesting project.

Your website copy could use some spellchecking – here are some typos I noticed on https://gigadiff.com/features :

* probility -> probability
* chnage -> change
* developes -> developers
* liklihood -> likelihood

Good luck!
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Why can’t we just put the mummies through a CT or MRI scanner? If the ink used in the writing found here or other components deeper inside the artifact have different densities, a CT scan could detect that and pose no harm to the specimen. Assuming no metal is used in the mummies, MRI or MR spectroscopy could potentially give more insight into chemical composition and differentiate isodense parts.
Memory is typically the scaling bottleneck for Python workers for web servers. One way to cut back drastically on this is to load as much as possible in startup and then fork for request serving processes. The problem is that python refcounting causes a lot of copy-on-writes for data that's really just used as read-only data.

This change allows you to run more workers with less memory.

Instagram has had a few good posts about how they've approached this problem, here's another:
https://engineering.instagram.com/dismissing-python-garbage-...
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This reminds me of a time not too long ago when I was teaching programming courses; at least one of the students would somehow manage to get one of these or other weird characters into source code, resulting in much confusion. On the bright side, I take advantage of the opportunity and an impromptu lesson in data representation and character encoding soon follows.

It's also one of the things where a hex editor is extremely useful --- even if you're not working on low-level, seeing the bits directly can be a great confirmation of correctness.
No, that's not right at all. Regular brown sugar is produced as a by-product during sugar refining. What you're describing is a commercial, made to look like brown sugar, by adding molasses and caramel coloring to refined sugar. It's an abomination.

True brown sugar is derived from the sugar mother liquor, which is a far more interesting substance than most people can appreciate.
It depends. Some work is more amenable to automation, and there are a number of large hi-tech factories (e.g. pharma) that are powered with a dozen of people. Same applies to huge ships with tiny crews, etc.

Some work is less amenable to automation, mundane care for the elderly, fixing plumbing, or even sweeping streets. This work either becomes very expensive, or is done by semi-legals who are willing to accept a much lower standard of living.
"‘mode lines’ — program status summaries carried on a highlighted screen line, often near the bottom or at the mouth of the LORD"

This is hilarious
It is not that new, and it's been widely covered.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170425124909.h...

https://academic.oup.com/ajh/article/28/3/362/2743418
> Good day, I've received word from the VAC team that this is intentional and not open for discussion on Github.

> In general VAC issues are not handled on Github in any capacity and further issue reports on this may result in being banned from the Valve Software issue trackers.

This is just incomprehensible from a PR standpoint, even for a company like Valve, especially since people on the thread have brought up legitimate concerns for users that might be caught in the flak.
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The article specifies they hope they will last 2 weeks to a month. I actually consider that to be a feature, not a bug. When I was homeless, I replaced my tent every 1 to 3 months for cleanliness reasons. Most homeless people are not as fastidious as I was in terms of overall cleanliness. My opinion: the lack of cleanliness worsens health issues and makes their problems more intractable.
("Have you tried not having a broken leg?" sounds pretty stupid too, not gonna lie. Even if we leave out the growing proportion of people whose habits found their origin in a prescription.)
I'm going to guess that the image is supposed to be printed on a standard-sized piece of printer paper (before laminating). Going to guess "US Letter" 8.5x10" (215.9x279.4mm), but to be certain check the aspect ratio, if it's close to 1.414 then it's probably supposed to be A4 (210x297mm). And make sure that the square prints as a square :)

Then you follow the assembly instructions, which are indeed a bit minimal; The six "bumps" (called "tabs" in the instruction) sticking out the "Windsurfer" part are probably supposed to stick into the six cut-lines of the rounded rectangle piece you cut out from the bottom of the sheet.

This will make the "Windsurfer" part a particular curved shape. I suppose this is the "reflector", so you probably should glue the aluminium foil only to this part.

Then there's the two crosses on the "Windsurfer" part, which you also cut out with a sharp knife, and seem to me to be just the right kind of holes to pierce the whole thing on a wifi-antenna. Get the picture?

Some kind of photo of the finished end-result would have been nice indeed :)

Disclaimer: I know almost nothing about radio signals or antennas etc, the above is just my interpretation of the instructions on the site.
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All of those except the last one are pretty obvious, especially if you're mixing them to "communicate a single bit".

Speaking of quotation marks, the non-ASCII quotes in your second item and apostrophe in the last sentence stand out too.
Yeah, Ivar is a bad copy of the Lundia system.
Have you asked them why? Maybe they're taking the video so they can share it with family members that couldn't be there: dad had to work tonight, grandparents love the grandkids but live on the other side of the world, etc.
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I had one which was "this is trivial, and shouldn't take you more than an hour." Which after looking at their very unclean data set they wanted to perform analytics on (lots of missing/incorrect/... data), and the effectively random set of formats that I had to deal with (some mysql dumps, some CSV, some weird IBM mainframe DB txt dumps, etc.).

I had started on this on the Friday afternoon they gave it to me, hoping that I could work on it Saturday. That was blown, along with much of Sunday, for family obligations. Sunday night I continued, and made great/rapid progress.

Went to sleep with the idea that I'd get up early and finish it.

Though at 10pm, my mother-in-law had to go to the hospital for a severe flu, so I took her, and waited with her, with my laptop, and worked until 5am when they released her. Drove back home after dropping her off, and caught a few hours of sleep.

Company sent an email asking for my solution Monday afternoon, and I said "almost done." Had some formatting/testing I wanted to do.

They said, "no, we're done."

I was more than a little pissed. But, upon reflection, this gave me a great signal as to the nature and quality of the company and its environment. I sent a nice letter to the CTO thanking him for the opportunity, noting what I had left to do. He said "hold on, lets talk."

I said, "no, we are done."

I had several real offers by then, and didn't need any more.
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Thanks for the extensive response. There are a couple points I'll break it down (I'm also loquacious on occasion):

> One of the central aspects of HN is that humans control it, and they have good taste. I don't think you can take either of those qualities away without sacrificing what makes HN good.

What if the user could "control it", i.e. could pick and choose algorithms of how to present views of the same data? Since everything is in the light, you could also share these algorithms - just like you share a collection of browser extensions or editor color schemes, etc. So you could have the "HN algorithm" which has the characteristics you mentioned with the slow-ban, and upvote/downvotes.

Heavily weight certain user's tags (think of voting up/down in terms of raw tags, and the repercussions of voting as an interpretation of those tags). These users would be who "HN" is - in this case the two that you're mentioning. You could also incorporate AI/ML opinions: Sentiment Analyzer A/B/../N, Some Other ML Analyzer, Bob's Analyzer. The main thing is that you have a way of associating identities with opinions, and then creating a projection algorithm that projects stories based on those identities and opinions.

So interestingly, it would be humans running the platform, but enabling each individual user to create his/her own projection algorithms.

> I think I'm not alone in missing that connection. So my theory is that if another site springs up with similar characteristics to HN, but with actual humans running it – people you can actually strike up a conversation with – then those who are interested in good conversation will flock to it.

At some point, won't the volume of interaction with any individual human exceed the ability of that person to respond? Won't the mentions, responses, etc. eventually be too much to handle? Also, isn't the up/down voting what determines in this site what the definition of what the "good" in "good conversation" is?

> That requires being capable of executing that plan, which is the tricky part.

Darn skippy. The characteristics I mentioned above I've already got well grounded with ibGib and it's taken quite awhile. It's a merkle DAG-based open-data design that I've created. Only I didn't create it to be a blockchain, as I didn't know how blockchains worked and was only vaguely aware of Bitcoin's existence. I created it to be a distributed microservice architecture (again, I didn't know the term microservice...I came up with "autonomous service" 15 years ago - still have the whiteboard). I wanted a SuperMemo-like learning algorithm, but the ability to have all of the aspects of the algorithm measurable (not an easy thing), to maximize the learning process. I've been shaving the yak ever since and it turns out to be like some understand blockchain graph data stores to act.
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Check out Hubski you guys! It's very small right now, but I believe it has a better system to encourage good content. You can filter out anything you don't want to see and follow tags or people you want to see, to create your own feed. When you vote on a post, what you really do is share it with all your followers. The system works very well, even for spam, and it encourages friendly discussion and tolerance, because if you don't behave that way, people will just filter you out and move on.
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>You don’t want them in America anyway because their religion is largely incompatible with western ideals and culture. Their treatment of women, lgbt groups, free speech, for example are conflict with a harmonious western society.

You're talking about Christians, right?
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AWS no longer recommends warming up the newer ALBs for the vast majority of customers and scenarios. Of course lambda isn't magic and has an initial start penalty. There are ways to mitigate it and as long as you are actively handling requests your functions will be reused. It's not magic, but it's capable of keeping up with normal traffic surges. If you have a special circumstance where you expect a large surge on a scheduled basis (say thousands of clients checking in at the stroke of midnight, you would have to arrange to be ready for that and there are a lot of ways to do it).

API gateway isn't alb or elb and there isn't any recommendation or expectation that customers warm anything up.

I never said "massive surge" but I stand by the idea that 2000 cores and 6 terabytes of memory is massive for most workloads. Of course, that's not the limit and you can request more if you need it.

Lambda isn't for all workloads but AWS (and everyone else) is always changing and improving. You have to check in occasionally to see if old assumptions (e.g. elb) still hold.
> What crime are they charging him with? I don't think we have the right crime on the books for this at present.

As I read somewhere, the worst case scenario for him is murder under the rule of transferred intent, since making a false representation of this sort to the police (or other relevant authority) in Kansas is a felony.
Doesn't matter, you don't want to risk potentially burning bridges. The expectation of confidentiality is reasonable in interviewing, and I won't violate it.

I'm currently working at a company that I interviewed unsuccessfully at seven years prior to getting the job. If I'd written up some big tell-all about the experience and waited a year and a day to publish it, it might've come up in a Google search from this round and revealed me as untrustworthy.
Hi, I'm the author.

I was kinda on the fence, but I was considering my target: Journalists. A journalist may not notice simple differences like an extra space here or there when reading, but probably wouldn't retype a double space. I agree that this should be automated in some way, but it's a bit of an arms race.
> If Firefox had an option to open newsgroups, with proper filtering (not just on the overhead headers, but on the HEAD of each message), I would use it all the time, and I believe many thousands of other people would too.

Newsgroups were always bundled with email clients, so Thunderbird has support for NNTP.
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I forgot about karma. I'd argue karma doesn't matter in the smaller subreddits. Thanks for the note about Usenet, I'll check it out.
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