skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The scariest thing about false memories is that police interrogation techniques are great at planting them.

Yet another reason to never talk to the police.

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/people-ca...
I doubt, that any government is inherently more trustworthy than any other.

It just coincidentally happens, that US controls 100% of root CAs and Kazakhstan (most likely) controls 0. So the later needs more audacious measures, while former can just issue a gag order to Symantec (or whoever is currently active in market).

CA system is inherently vulnerable to government intervention. There is no point in considering defense against state agents in HTTPS vulnerability model. It is busted by default.
You just spoiled the whole thing...
> rewriting those functions would be destructive

Getting rid of standard string functions would be the best thing to happen to the c language in the last 25 years.

There are two types of c programs. Those that scrupulously avoid standard string functions and brittle programs shot through with security holes.
I think that the suggestion is to focus on value first and when you deliver a lot of value, the money follows. If following this plan doesn't yield enough money, then look at how you can increase the value of what you are offering.

Personally I found Cal Newport's concept of "Career Capital" very useful.
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Yes, Wi-Fi bands only.
pizzagate comes to mind. That went beyond being harmless conspiracy.
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This seems like an example of Wikimedia cancer.[0] They should be crowing about the novel ways in which people are spreading their freely licensed knowledge without a pile of cash, obstacles, and bureaucracy thanks to the wonders of copyleft.

Instead they seem to be complaining that someone (albeit a huge multinational corporation, though I don't see why that should matter) dare use their content without ponying up cash as a "donation" to the cause.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...
If you want capitalism to work, you need some kind of "homo economicus" that is able to look for their own selfinterest.

If what you have is companies powered by complex financial systems and artificial intelligence help while consumers are not able to get a discount right, you are going to end with all money in one side of the table with the other empty handed.

This is another reason to improve our education systems. We need to function in an increasing complex society and that requires an incresing education quality with more resources, better methologies and more time dedicated to build knowledge and less to build national identity. (To memorize the list of presidents is not as an useful skill as it used to be, I guess).
No, they should be left free to do what they want. Because that's the principle by which people such as Elon Musk have the resources necessary to revolutionize transportation, internet service (they are working on geosynchronous satellites that promise to provide fast, affordable internet access), space travel, etc.

Do I really need to explain how the introduction of things such as the Hyperloop, electric cars, a global wireless internet service, backing up humanity on Mars provides a benefit to everyone, including "working people?"

How about the overview effect? By making it much cheaper to access space with BFR, more people will experience this. And that might reduce the level of support for war and other calamitous behavior:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_effect

And yes, I know people will tell you that all of the above is only affordable by wealthy people. But that's not how technology works. Early adopters (rich tech people) pay lots, offsetting R&D costs, and each successive wave of the technology is cheaper, faster, better. For example, the original iPhone was expensive. But lots of people have iPhones today, each of which is far more capable than the original model.
Well that's the pot calling the kettle black.
I used Macs from 2005 to 2016. When the 11" MacBook Air came out, I completely fell in love with it, and bought three of them over the span of ~5 years. I generally ran Linux on all of them, except for a period of about 6 months when one of my new laptops didn't have wifi or suspend-to-RAM support. The 11" MBA wasn't perfect: maxing out at 8GB of RAM was a constant annoyance, and the lack of a high-DPI display was disappointing. The low-power CPU was usable but not great.

With the demise of the 11" MBA, and the ridiculousness of the MBP's Touch Bar, I decided to try something new. I bought a Razer Blade Stealth near the end of 2016. Initially I was pretty happy; hardware specs were great, and the industrial design was similar (though certainly not as good) as Apple's. But then one of the two USB-A ports died. And then the rubber feet on the bottom of the laptop (actually a long bar across the width of the laptop) started coming unglued. The body of the laptop is warped for some reason now; when I close the lid it doesn't sit flush with the body. Last month one of the rear screws fell out (perhaps related to the warping), and I couldn't find it, so part of the rear of the laptop is now exposed to the air. A few days ago, the keyboard backlight stopped working for the 16 left-most keys on the keyboard.

I'm considering going back to Apple later this year after the MacBook gets its next round of updates, though I'm of course afraid about Linux compatibility (the MBPs for the past few years, at least, are very poorly supported). I have a friend who has a Dell XPS 13 and really likes it (he also runs Linux on it), but I'm not a huge fan of their design. Ditto for Lenovo (and I'm not sure I trust Lenovo as a company anyway). I might look into Sony, though I'm confused about what's going on with them -- quick search for "sony vaio" turns up a press release from them from 2014 saying they're selling their PC business, but https://us.vaio.com/ exists with a copyright year of 2018. I'm not particularly impressed by HP's offerings. So... we'll see.
Insider trading is normal, routine, and rampant, across corporate America. When people get caught, it's usually because another insider snitched; and it's a standard part of dirty corporate politics.

At a company I used to work for, our CIO was found out to have lied about his educational background on his resume; after working there 15 years. Another board member had been sitting on this dirt for at least 5 years. He had hired a PI to dig up things about the executive staff. It was his opening move on pushing out the old execs, and replacing them with a more acquisition-friendly line up. Then said board member cashed out.

We would frequently also see large blocks of stock traded the day before a big earnings announcement. Only the executive staff would have had that information. Us line employees all had stock options, but were never able to take optimal advantage of price swings, because someone else was beating us to it. We only had the public information. It is routine and the SEC does not give a fuck, unless the case becomes high profile enough that the press will write about it and make a stink.
I was lucky it happened last year, just before the repair extension program [0] ended for this model. Given the first logic board lasted a good 6 years of heavy use, I hope the new one doesn't die too soon.

That said, unfortunately, the TYUIO keys have recently started acting up occasionally. Apparently it's a common enough hardware failure that there are existing results if you google it.

When I do have to get a new machine, I'm planning to get the latest 15" MBP. Hopefully a new refreshed version comes out by then with either Coffee Lake or Cannon Lake CPUs. Also, not holding my breath, but I do hope they keep making the keyboard better [1] and less susceptible to complete failure due to a little inevitable dust [2] getting in there...

[0] https://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro-videoissues/

[1] http://pdfaiw.uspto.gov/.aiw?docid=20180068808

[2] https://theoutline.com/post/2402/the-new-macbook-keyboard-is...
Well there was that one guy who murdered his father last year because he thought his parents were part of the Pizzagate conspiracy: http://www.businessinsider.com/former-milo-yiannopoulos-inte...
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also,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoneman_Douglas_High_School_s...

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2013/06/portlan...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/26/las-vegas-sh...
MBA mid-2013 here, running Arch with a single problem: it doesn't go to sleep when charghing, even if the lid is closed. That's a minor annoyance for such an old and light laptop. I love it.
Depends on the article but I've seen some moderators take it way too seriously to the point of rolling back an edit simply because you didn't ask them, the person you're somehow supposed to know "owns" the page. Kind of defeats the purpose of a wiki and has turned me off contributing to it.

I think what youtube should do is just put a disclaimer on videos saying "This video is related to an unproven conspiracy" or similar. I doubt linking to a wikipedia page is going to change anyones mind.
Choosing between an 11" or 13" MacBook Air took me a while. I like the portability and light weight of the 11" - it's great for language exchange in a café (my Mandarin tutor uses one).

In the end I chose the 13" because it has longer battery life and an SD slot. I have a 512GB SDXC card, and it's helpful to have extra capacity without a hard drive hanging off/falling on the floor.
FYI, I get a tls error on that link, in case you're affiliated with the webmaster.
How does forking over cash help with the burden on said volunteer infrastructure? Is there any relationship at all between Wikimedia's monetary expenditures and editor effort expended?
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I agree with the first part of what you said.

As for the second part. Can you convince me of why I should trust Youtube's owners to police what I can see and hear, rather than rely on my own whims and judgements?

Let's say we do allow our largest corporations to police thought. In that case, would it be OK for me to question or dissent?
A language with an array type, e.g. Java, distinguishes between a 'null' array reference and an array of zero length. which could substitute in languages that don't have an option type; SOME([]) vs NONE

But a plain *char in C makes no such distinction.
And even if the concepts are not new, the post seems very misleading. Something describing itself as teaching "the hard way" should certainly avoid fuzzy statements such as the following:

> HEAD is a special reference that always points to where the git repository is.

This kind of makes sense if you think about it a certain way (it generally points to something (possibly indirectly) that the index/working tree is based off), but off-hand, "where the git repository is" sounds like it means the location of the repository within the filesystem or something.

> If you checked out a branch, it’s pointed to the last commit in that branch. If you checked out a specific commit, it’s pointed to that commit.

This is inaccurate. When you check out a branch, HEAD points to the ref for the branch, which in turn usually points to a commit.

> Every time you commit, the HEAD reference/pointer is moved from the old to the new commit.

This is wrong unless you're in a "detached HEAD" state. `git commit` updates a ref that does not point to another ref. If you're in a "detached HEAD" state, that means HEAD is updated (since HEAD is pointing directly to a commit). If you've checked out a branch, that branch's ref will usually be updated (since HEAD is pointing to a ref which points directly to a commit).

In my opinion, git is best described in terms of what is ACTUALLY happening in terms of modifications to the refs database (essentially a `Map FilePath (Either FilePath ObjectId)`), rather than trying to come up with metaphors for what it means to perform certain actions. When I say that "HEAD points to the ref for the branch", that is demonstrably exactly what happens:

> $ cat .git/HEAD
> ref: refs/heads/master
> $ git checkout -b other-branch
> $ cat .git/HEAD
> ref: refs/heads/other-branch
> $ git checkout --detach
> ffd914475c61c18c684ccb0024ca141c54255e28

Understanding this basic concept should make most of the concepts explored in sections 1) and 2) of the article self-explanatory.
When "stupid" conspiracy theories lead to real-world violence committed by their believers, they're harmful. And there's pretty clear evidence that YouTube's recommendation algorithm, in optimizing for time spent watching YouTube videos, has as a side effect optimized for sending people to the most extreme stuff on the site. YouTube has an ethical responsibility to, y'know, do something about that.
Comparatively I think we could safely say that Microsoft transition from a retiring Bill Gates to Steve Ballmer didn’t go as smoothly as what happened at Apple.
The hero’s get smaller. I remember talking to my advisor, a Macarthur fellow, and he wondered why we didn’t have any giants today.
>I've met plenty of engineers who couldn't tell you how any of those things work at a low level, but still manage to maintain high-paying jobs. I've also had plenty of interviews where these topics never got brought up. Maybe that says more about hiring practices than anything else, but I think you're vastly overestimating the worth of that knowledge to most companies and individuals.

The question is also simply what you pay for and what is in a job description. To simplify, you have to pay a lot less for someone treating software solutions as blackboxes with known behavior then someone who understands what is done.

You can of course ask in an job interview about everything from compiler optimization to network intrusion detection to image processing, but you better should make sure that is actually what you need.
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Reminds me of Jazelle[1], which allowed some ARM CPUs to run Java bytecode directly. AFAIK it never really caught on.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle
> Wikipedia is already notoriously unreliable

It's still more reliable than other encyclopedias and far more reliable than a good part of traditional news websites.
Yes, because I think it is more useful to just write about the details of the potential "life-or-death situation" instead of linking to a long video about it. Your original comment was very clickbait-like, "What you don't know about hauntings could kill you!"
If the whole thing can be spoiled with a short summary of the first couple of minutes, it's probably not worth watching anyway.

Edit: I have now added a spoiler warning to my original comment (I hadn't thought about this possibility, sorry)
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Is there any reason you'd rather get the NVMe adaptor instead of the OWC Aura 2TB SSD?
https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/S3DAPB4MB20K/

The OWC one is expensive, but I'd rather get TRIM and avoid risking data loss if an adaptor goes wrong (not sure how likely that is).
Ugh, "excellent build quality"? Hardly. I bought a Razer Blade Stealth at the end of 2016, and one of my USB-A ports is dead, the front rubber striping on the bottom has separated from the body, the body itself has warped (lid doesn't close flush anymore), one of the body screws has fallen out (exposing circuit boards to the air, because of the warping), and the backlight for the leftmost 16 keys on the keyboard no longer works.

I suppose the larger Razer Blade Model might have better quality, but I'm skeptical given my experience.

I never had any problems remotely like this with Apple laptops (which I used for ~11 years), which I still consider the gold standard for build quality. The only real positive I can attribute to the Stealth is that Linux support on it has been easier than with most Apple laptops I've owned.
I was thinking the eye roll would be Liz Lemon's category, but nope. Nothing like the most epic eye roll in history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ1m39K4Tgw
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I was watching one of Blitzscaling episode[1], where Reed Hastings talks about building Netflix.
To quote one of the question:

Q: Do you have a culture check in the hiring process?

A: It’s not a checklist. It’s easy for people to say, “I love the culture deck.” You ask, what did you disagree with and why, and if they don’t know anything, they’re not a first principle thinker. We’re looking for people who are curious and question everything around them.

My question is how do you learn or force yourself to become first principle thinker

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYhP08uuffs
Absolutely but its the easiest thing for YouTube to do.

One needs to keep in mind - they are NOT interested in building video version of Encyclopedia Britannica; they only interested in as many click on their site as possible (to display as much ads as possible). For all their care with YT business model, all their videos could be fake news, so long as enough people are sitting and watching.
Maybe youtube is unhappy with their current solutions?

Some videos* are already walled up behind warnings and disabled features.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1Qt6a-vaNM
The classification is based on an R package for Generalized Boosted Regression Models[1]. Can anyone knowledgeable opine about this choice?

[]1 https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/gbm/
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Imagine being on a tall ladder, painting, when you get the warning. Or working underneath a car on jackstands.

10 seconds would make a huge difference to some people.
Nice. The paradox of tolerance is that we must always be intolerant of the intolerant.
Yeah, any retailer that requires me to fight traffic, parking and morose customer service just to obtain an item that I can instead have delivered to my porch is at a severe disadvantage.
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Watching yourself on video is always interesting. I do not however believe in rehearsals, unless it's training, not rehearsal. Getting better at talking is good, but being good at talking is actually more about listening, you have to adapt to the person you are talking to. Nothing is more annoying then a "on track" sales pitch. Then send them a video instead. Unless it's some kind of live performance.
There's a free compiler called Gnat, but the community is still rather small. I think it's something of a catch-22. Most of the resources you'll find on the internet are old (mid-90s) blogs and educational sites.

Here's some of the better ones I've found:

https://www.adacore.com/gems/

https://blog.adacore.com/

https://two-wrongs.com/tags.html#ada

The official reference manual is freely available too, but it's quite dense.
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> Our experiences are different I suspect, Check this out https://www.sec.gov/fast-answers/answers-regfdhtm.html.

What this has to do with the parent comment? I'm asking these because I'm not sure I follow the reasoning.
Your concern is that the SEC has very strict reporting standards and regulations. These are intended to provide a fair field between all investors (accredited and non-accredited) in order for the market to function in a more efficient way. In exchange for this increased cost of regulation upfront, the transaction between investors on the company's shares have a much lower friction (and transaction costs).

Private companies have lower regulation because the assumption is that the investors willing to buy shares are open to assume higher transaction costs in terms of due diligence. Obviously, reporting the false could open the company to lawsuits, but that's also part of the potential cost for the investors.

The choice between being a public company and a private one, in the end, is a function also of this trade-off. If I understand your reasoning, you fear that the SEC forcing himself into the private market could increase the regulatory cost of all startup. Am I right?

If that is correct, my answer would be that the SEC is not imposing the full regulation but just a minimum level of accurate reporting on behalf of the investors. This is because there's an assumption that a well behaved private market is essential to make the economy more active (imagine if this level of lying was accepted, how many investors would be willing to invest?). On the other side, I see the risk of a slippery slope and having the SEC power to grow to large and kill the startup ecosystems. I don't have a clear answer for that.
Quickbooks isn't that hard, but it's got a lot of inconsistencies. For instance, when I'm viewing a list of customers, I have to drill way down to the individual customer edit screen to make the customer inactive, but when I'm viewing a list of transactions, I can delete one simply from the right-hand menu on the list item. Both are similar list widgets, but the actions you take to interact with the widgets are completely different. It's not hard once you learn it, but you have to learn how to use each screen individually instead of learning patterns that can be applied across different screens.

Intuit's pro tax offering is called Lacerte and it has many points of integration between TurboTax and Quickbooks. To Intuit, the relationships they have with CPAs and bookkeepers don't apply to a single product. Not having worked in the tax group, I tend to be careless about saying TurboTax when I'm referring to the larger tax group, but you're right that I probably should have been clearer that most of the CPAs they deal with are not connected with TurboTax.
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Surprising or not, AWS makes a lot of sense when you look at Amazons core competency. Logistics.

Look at any individual AWS service by itself, none of them are all that groundbreaking or innovative. What is groundbreaking is that Amazon has managed to take all of these services, and distribute them through a massively complex and infinitely scaling ecosystem. That’s logistics.
This sounds equivalent to saying, "Ha, it wasn't DNA that governs proteins in cells, it was RNA all along". Chemical gradients, ion gradients, morphogens, etc, may all play super important indepensible roles in embryo development, but those things in turn are still driven by genes.
YouTube can't pay Wikipedia for the service because this isn't a service Wikipedia offers in the first place. And honestly if this problem could be solved by throwing money at it, Google would already have done so. They essentially want someone to point the finger at the next time someone blames them for inaccurate content, and knew that there was no way Wikipedia would agree to it with an official partnership.
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I'm using the Dell Latitude E7470. It works great with Qubes OS, and the only reason that I haven't upgraded to the E7480 (which supports 32 GB RAM) is because I'm waiting for the next model.

Pros: Good keyboard, decent touch pad, 32 GB memory support (for the E7480), great Linux compatibility.

Cons: Somewhat costly, poor GPU (the latter doesn't matter to me since I'm using Qubes which doesn't allow you to use the GPU anyway).
Why is there a huge overhead to that? And how much is "huge"?
The timing on this:

https://viceroyresearch.org/2018/03/13/amd-the-obituary/

is not something _I'd_ want to be explaining to a judge...

Archive.org saw the Viceroy Research site/article only 2 hours after the amdflaws.com site went public.

https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://amdflaws.com
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://viceroyresearch.org/20...
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