skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
2/10 would not recommend for technical merit.

8/10 is nice if you want a handwavy human explanation of some rudimentary expectations in crypto

- author spends a few pages thinking about randomness - we have formal definitions of a RNG/PRNG.

- author does basic statistical tests, these seem very unconcerned with actual randomness - i'm not sure what the point is

- author really shouldn't be writing about crypto randomness if they don't do crypto

+1 to higher comment saying reading TAOCP instead.
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Isn’t that the same as how the capital gains tax currently works? The rate of tax you pay on a winning stock goes down over time until you hit the long term rate at a year.
For those unfamiliar with php, or its type annotations, why is adding type annotations a risky step? Do they become enforcing?

function foo(string $bar) { ... }
foo(1234) // kaboom?
But there isn't an armed individual in the house. You've just been told that there might be. Don't you see how you've fallen into the epistemological error here of not only assuming the truth of a claim without further evidence, but also shifting all your attention tot he possibility of someone being armed.

That sounds very hand-wavey and you might say well it's a lot different in the real world, but I've been in a bunch of high-danger real-world situations. Survival is about more than having great reflexes, it's also about having a cool head and knowing when not to act.

And look, while it's legitimate to have some fears/stress, rage monsters are absolutely a problem in policing. Cops are just as likely, or more, to take steroids or be assholes as people in the general population. Let's not forget that nobody is forced to be a cop. If you want to help people and like excitement you could always be an EMT or a firefighter.

Your version of deescalating the situation is to remove the suspect as quickly as possible

See, that's not de-escalation, it's catharsis through crisis - literally the exact opposite of de-escalation. By abdicating your own decision-making power you've ended up arguing for counterfactuals. I realize that you're attempting to model the thought process of police in high pressure situations, but counterfactuals + weapons = deadly errors. The thought process is, however, something we could change.
Are you suggesting my fashion should be influenced by the chance that the police my murder me over it?
2014, but still shocking.
I don't know about 28% in four months.

But this whole controversy reminds me of a few years ago. When people were very happy with their iPhones (including some of my friends), because they manifested and maintained "battery life" that their friends' Android phones did not.

Maybe Apple shouldn't have hidden what they're doing. Maybe it's arguably a legitimate trade secret (I'd hardly be in favor of "patenting" the functionality).

Anyway, now Apple's "shit" for how they manage battery degradation. A couple of years ago, or whenever, before all this upset: They were "the shit" with respect to battery durability -- as perceived by users in their charge lifetimes. At least, among some of my friends. And some press, IIRC. And whatever.

Apple's not magic. Their batteries degrade, too. On the other hand, the vertical integration and efficiencies they are engineering into their newer chipsets? Pretty amazing.

P.S. I'm no Apple Fanboy. Just recalling how perspectives change.
No, there's just a single discontinuous tax discount at 1 year.
I do think the caller should be convicted of murder. I'm not sure exactly which charge would be most appropriate for someone who deliberately created a situation in which someone could be killed, and they were. Ah — from the Wikipedia page [0] it looks like felony murder is the right charge. It's certainly at least involuntary manslaughter.

I do agree with you, though, that a close look should be taken at the shooter and the situation with an eye toward possibly charging the shooter. I do think that in general, police in many parts of the US are too insulated from the consequences of such decisions. I'm not completely sure, though, based on this article, that I would consider the officer culpable. Police are trained to react quickly and to protect one another. The description here does leave me with the sense, however, that the one who fired may not have had a particularly good view of what the victim was doing. Arguably there is a systemic problem that when there are many officers, all with different and incomplete views of the situation, the odds of one thinking that something is going on that justifies opening fire get to be unacceptably high.

Anyway I do hope you're not suggesting that the shooter's responsibility somehow mitigates that of the caller.

ETA: Ah, I didn't know there was body cam footage we could see [1]. Okay, I have to agree with you, this looks pretty damning. There were no officers within easy target range of the victim; the shot was taken from well across the street. Even if the victim had been pulling out a gun, unless he's a Clint Eastwood character, he's going to have to take a second or two to aim it to have any chance of hitting anyone at that distance. It was not necessary to fire that quickly. I have to qualify this by saying I'm no firearms expert, but that's how it looks to me.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_(United_States_law)

[1] http://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article192089304.html
Did this blog post just try to coin the phrase "one thing" in place of the clearer and well-known "single point of failure"?
Even more so for women, especially regarding the “delivering” part. http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/r/renaissance-childbir...:

”Pregnancy and childbirth were dangerous times in a woman's life, and most women wrote their wills once they knew they were pregnant”
December numbers will be available in a couple of weeks, and then we'll know for sure. Model 3 numbers have ramped up in December. In 2018, unless Tesla has serious unfixable production problems, it won't be close. I don't know how many Model 3s Tesla can make next year, but I know they can sell them all...
The one time I was arrested (for illegal use of a roadway during a protest), during the post arrest search of my belongings, the cop searching made some comment about something in my bag and I turned my head (I was facing a wall) to reply, for which he immediately shoved my face back into the wall and said "You're not allowed to move - my safety is more important than yours". Keep in mind, this is in a police station surrounded by other cops, he already body searched me, and I was a 5'10, 120 pound nerdy teenager.

Of course, this is just an anecdotal, singular data point, but it strongly accords with the sense I get watching videos of police shootings that many if not most police officers today are in fact trained to put their safety and the safety of their fellow officers above that of civilians.
The military offers a much larger compensation package for your employment/service. As a LEO, you get a paycheck, and a pension. As a soldier, you get room & board, food, transportation (mostly), and all your necessities issued to you.

For some people, those are worth the potential of death, where as the LEO compensation isn't.

Lastly, there is a large group of people who enlist due to patriotic beliefs (i.e. "Doing your duty"/"Serving your country"). I don't see that same type of patriotism towards local LEO organizations.
If you look at the middle right image and compare it to the painting it's not all that wrong. Note: horse on right it jumping, not simply running. @ 20 seconds: https://youtu.be/oLvAxzVeyLs
But... Who am I going to transfer his millions to now?
>They have to approach the situation prepared for the worst case scenario.

I don’t agree with this. I think they are preparing for particular forms of the worst case, and its causing these incidents.

Is killing innocent civilians the worst case? This outcome isn’t being considered.
Same with the Android store, just a few categories and a search box to lookup by name. I don't even look at the categories as again it's just trash, for example based off my recent activity I'm recommended 'Bethesdas Pinball', and I dont even play games on my smartphone.

Really these stores are setup for people who know exactly what they want before they even open the play store app. It's a shame and I'd love a more advanced filtering functionality, but instead all we get is a new sets of icons every couple of years.
Yes, we did! Self-promotion in a relevant context (in a discussion of a worsening problem which affects many) is a very different undertaking than paid, off-topic advertising.
Well, I didn't say it was good evidence - but it's a start.
After 30+ years working for various for-profit companies on both coasts, I came to realize how deeply futile and demeaning our current system of employment is, for everyone concerned. I don't have a solution, but I know that if I had to do it again, I would never try to get employed for any reason.
Thanks for sharing the observation about calves! I thought I got stronger calves from weight lifting. But perhaps it was the barefoot shoes as calve changes correlated better with me switching to wearing only barefoot then with my weightlifting.
No. A feature of a good PRNG is that it should not be predictable. If the salt is weak enough to be cracked, that PRNG can be reversed and predicted.
You can keep it, I don't want any part of what you're into. And that's not for lack of life experience with dangerous situations.
When number of shootings is 1, you are not actually doing useful statistics. It can easily be an aberration.
Better that people give their money to a third party, than to the company that created the problem in the first place.
Police are paid well in this country, better than the military by a long stretch. I suggest we find out how many are willing to step up and be heroes, I think there are many.

Our civilization is so lacking in the honorable stoicism which would serve these personnel so well.
>Is killing innocent civilians the worst case?

No, they're literally taught that protecting their lives and the lives of their fellow officers is their top priority. They're taught by the 'warrior mindset' not to treat civilians like, well, civilians, but instead like potential enemy combatants.

Sure, they're mitigating the personal risks they endure on the job, but they're doing so at the cost of increasing the risk of harm and death to everyone they encounter.
These aren't developments that should be encouraged. The political influence of targeted advertising on social media has encouraged and enabled several nationalist movements. We believe that the lack of an open communication platform makes accessing and discussing complex ideas, whether ethical or political, much harder.
Sad to see this in my home town :(
Yes, and that seems like a fairly likely reason that police agencies are by and large ossified in to this sort of behavior
Would the type of case used contribute to premature wear? Thinking Otterbox rugged type cases causing the battery to retain excessive heat while charging.
Please post a link here when you do! I just scrolled through the job board to look for any healthcare or government gigs and didn't find any.

Would love to get in touch directly, as well! I'm very interested in the OpenEMR project and its promise :)
Spam drove people to Facebook even in the early days. When Facebook first came out, spam filtering was far less effective than it is today. Also, for whatever reason, people trusted Facebook and would post private things there that they wouldn't post on pseudonymous forums.
While any unnecessary loss of life is a tragedy, I would agree with your statement simply because the LEO puts on the badge knowing the risks they are accepting. The victim from this article did not. He simply answered his door, and lost his life for it.
I’m inherently biased because I studied applied mathematics, but if you advocate removing mid-level mathematics (calculus, set theory, much of college algebra) out of a computer science degree, what you have left is a few years of courses about ’scripting’ and practical use of particular specialised tools. One cannot aim to become some kind of ’engineer’ or technical person without at least a grasp of these mathematical techniques, even it they’re only learnt for the sake of understanding and then forever set aside. They enrich your thinking; without enrichment your mind remains... impoverished.

Beyond that, computer science is an offshoot of mathematics (Turing laboured on Computability, Boole on relation algebra, Von Neumann on finite difference methods). To rid computer science of mathematics makes about as much sense as stripping psychology out of counselling,

You have a much too ’practical’ view. What you have in mind is not a graduate degree in computer science but some kind of... vocational training for programmers. Which is OK, if that’s what you want, and provided you leave the faculty of computer science intact for those who wish to study the abstract field and make progress therein.
I'm assuming that he's a 67yo guy who is running out of money and doesn't want to be a homeless senior citizen, which occurs surprisingly often in the US. Desperation is a hell of a motivator, and I'm willing to predict that he uses a public defender.
> I don't understand why [large company] can't [do simple thing]...

The answer to questions like that is always money. Apple have a monopoly on selling apps on that run on Apple hardware. There is no measurable short-term benefit to them from making the user experience better. In fact they probably figure it'd hurt revenue.

As it stands the app store has about 20 slots that make serious money. Every app company wants in those slots and will do anything for it, eg give up 30% of their revenue and indulge various forms of payola.

Apple have created an artificial scarcity and it makes them something like 10 billion a year. And thanks to the monopoly enforced by crypto, there is no possibility of a competitor forcing them to change.

It's the perfect cash cow. Why screw up a good thing?
> We do not go out to the streets, gun blazing, and start killing.

I suspect if Palestinians had F-16s and Apache gunships available they, too, would avoid street battles.
>> side wind gusts

> I would expect the greater mass of the motorized bicycle to help the rider stay grounded.

That might be the case when riding a motorcycle (since it weighs quite a bit more than the rider), but even the heaviest e-bikes would still be lighter than the rider.
> people should just treat Linux as if it lacks secure process isolation entirely

Can you state what OS/software you believe has secure process isolation?

Would one of the BSDs have it or would I have to use some OS that's more exotic to run a process in isolation?
Michael Slager was sentenced to 20 years for the shooting of Walter Scott, an unarmed suspect on December 7th.

So it does happen that a cop (not sure if white cops get convicted less than black cops) goes to jail for shooting people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Walter_Scott
It's rare in nature when the optimal placement of a 'dial' is at an endpoint (0 or 100). In everyday life, when I see people making such a choice, it's usually because they focused on a single attribute at the expense of all other considerations (e.g. "cheapest" or "best battery life"). While there's value in doing less work, ignoring the other criteria means the choice is not the best.

After almost two decades of professional experience (including a few years of consulting), I'm becoming more convinced that employees often make a similar 'lazy' decision when they choose full time employment. That decision is only optimal for under performers (and only for as long as they can hold on to the gig).

Selling labor in units of time offers no possibility for economic profit. The value of any productivity gains are realized by the employer. This is not the case for a business (or a consultant), where productivity gains yield profit.

EDIT: Consultants sell time too, but are free to adjust their rates as they see fit. Employees have significant barriers to changing their 'price'; infact it often involves a job change. Another challenge for the employee is demonstrating their value created due to the extremely complex structuring of most companies (this makes it hard to objectively justify a raise).
The parent commenter did specifically write that s/he is "here in the SF bay area."
Do bear in mind the issue in question is voltage spikes (which cause unexpected shutdown), that's what Apple is trying to prevent. Most of the time there'll be no performance impact, it would just lower how far the phone can boost clock speed when it needs it, I'm guessing? So it would affect the peak (and therefore mean) performance, but not the mode or median, I think?

Correct me if I'm wrong.
Ironically, militarized police training teaches the exact opposite: the officer must protect their lives and the lives of their fellow officers above all else.
The author specifically mentions he doesn't write about cryptography.

> The idea of what constitutes a good RNG depends on how the RNG is applied. That is why, for
example, a generator may be considered high-quality for simulation while being considered
unacceptable for cryptography. This chapter looks at tests of statistical quality and does not
address tests for cryptographical security.
Which year is this for? The Finland numbers don't seem right at all.

Neither do the Norway ones.

The numbers are in fact so wrong that one has to seriously question the motivations of the author, it seems like this is a propaganda piece with made up numbers designed to make the US appear slightly less terrible.
I really can't stand this website.

We had them say ~40% of our Amazon reviews were fake/unreliable... and I'm pretty damn sure we'd know if we were faking our own reviews.

I don't know how their system works, but the false positive rate in my experience is absurd.
Let's be honest, fake reviews is a fake problem. Reviews were never supposed to work for customers' benefits. I mean how in the world shallow emotional opinions of people with unmet expectations and wasted time or with fanatic love for the brand would help anyone? It's just that when people start ignoring reviews all those corporations don't make as much profits.
A glut of qualified candidates is a problem faced by exactly zero startups.
Then stop your government from taunting, harassing and humiliating Palestinians. I understand being prey of FUD so I can imagine how difficult it is -- what if we let them, they'll take over, they'll out-number us, push us back to the sea! -- but you should collectively stop voting cynical sociopaths that lead your country just to prepare for the next round of war and further cement their grip on their constituency.
My line of work routinely puts me in the immediate vicinity of equipment which will kill me if I make a mistake. (Huge winches and their associated power systems - some in the megawatt range)

I have yet to injure myself; in large part I ascribe this to the fact that I always think and think again about what I am about to do, and how it may conceivably put me at risk, then take the required measures to eliminate that risk.

However, more importantly - I have also yet to have anybody else injured on my watch. Why? Because I am not only concerned about my own safety, but also that of anybody who are, or may possibly come, within the blast radius in case something goes pear-shaped.

I would expect police officers to do the same - though granted, most of the time they have to make their decisions much faster (which makes it even more important to think things through beforehand - and, hopefully, come up with alternatives to "Shoot at anything you are not 100% certain is harmless, then sort out the details after the gunsmoke clears."
Their long-term monetization strategy probably involves you paying them to ”verify” your reviews.
That sounds interesting, please do !
Link to paper that cedes control of Borg?
A quest to remain "more interesting" leads to constantly changing platforms, dark patterns, and intrusive notifications. A useful and effective platform enables communication in a reliable and stable way.

Thanks for your comments; we are very open to any more specific or detailed feedback on improving the platform.
This is really cool. I tried building a similar project last year using an LSTM, but never ended up deploying it.

I wonder what James Veitch would have to say.
So? The majority of Teslas aren't sold in SF. Having access to instant-on heat, rather than having to wait several minutes for the engine to warm up, is absolutely a benefit in places with cold winters.

I'm trying to redirect the conversation back to things that matter. The weather in SF last night doesn't matter, not really; it's just some ephemeral fact, and not even worth arguing about whether someone "needed" instant-on heat for it or not. What matters is electric vehicle models and sales worldwide, which is what the top-level article is about. Tesla is the most popular car manufacturer in Norway. You better believe that they appreciate instant-on heat there (as well as remote start), and that Teslas having these features gives them a competitive advantage.
I am pretty sure this is a per-country setting too. I know the US has the one you referred to but other countries might have different taxation laws.
I call bullshit. Reading the cached version, this is poorly disguised marketing lies for a third battery replacement service.

The test scenario was not described, this is only one sample which could have been selected and the source is not credible.

After 12 months of heavy daily usage on my 6s, I'm seeing 87% battery capacity left as an example after over 312 cycles. I am also seeing the same benchmark as the day I got it.
While it would be awesome if the app store would be actually good at app discovery, that is unlikely to happen. Instead you have to brand and advertise your app outside of the store. See the app store as something like "apt-get install". The user needs to know what he/she wants before going to the store.
+1 when designers are able to make contributions on their own terms, the OSS world is a better place. On most open source projects, different contributors have different skillsets. When a designer is part if the team, they can be looped in on issues and PRs to provide feedback and design solutions "in the open"
Vivo Barefoot has a kids' range: https://www.vivobarefoot.com/uk/kids

Not too cheap though.

I can't really speak to the quality of the kids shoes, but I own quite a few pairs of their adult shoes and am very happy with them.
The Blue Whale Tale
Everyone defending Apple's behavior is missing the point completely. Yes, it's a reasonable way to manage degrading battery life and related electronic issues.

What's NOT reasonable is Apple CONCEALING this behavior. This led people to believe that they needed a new $1000 phone, instead of a $79 battery replacement.
Apple invented battery physics now?
Police shouldn't be using military tactics or equipment. If those tactics/weapons are truly needed, then the National Guard should be called in.

There is a fundamental difference between military tactics/actions and law enforcement. It seems that over the past 4-5 decades, we've allowed the lines to be blurred in exchange for a false sense of security and safety.
Is this cultural or just environmental e.g. better roads, less rubbish, less crowded street?
Stimulus, JavaScript even DHH approves
Most of the value of the US equity market is held indirectly - through ETFs, mutual funds, pension funds, etc. This suggests that direct ownership is not particularly valued among the vast majority of investors. Have you calculated the size of the market for direct investors who value voting rights? And their patterns of trading?
Day Zero is coming – The day the water taps will be turned off in Cape Town