skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A LOT of these have massive errors. I strongly recommend comparing all that to this paper:

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/5ca1/fa0ffca55e9003053de2f5... - Harald Hammarström - Rarities in Numeral Systems (2009)

And this page:

https://mpi-lingweb.shh.mpg.de/numeral/ "Numeral Systems of the World's Languages"

By the way:
If anyone can find a digital copy of this paper from 1840 by Augustin-Louis Cauchy (yes, THAT Cauchy!):

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=6877129426190119313...

I'd very much appreciate it.

Donald E. Knuth cites it in TAOCP while discussing Balanced Ternary:

"Cauchy pointed out that negative digits make it unneccesary for a person to memorize the multiplication table past 5x5." [Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. 11 (Paris, 1840), 789-798]

But he doesn't elaborate on it further, and neither does anyone else from what I can tell, and I have yet to figure out the trick. (I currently try to teach myself to EFFICIENTLY do all my mental arithmetic in balanced ternary - not an easy task!)
Thanks for your feedback.

> transfer multiple files in a reasonable manner

you mean, for example, choosing the destination directory and things like that?
Why would it be immediately clear that a knife is dangerous?

Why is it NOT clear that the contents of a steaming cup of freshly-made coffee that somebody is handling you may be hot, then?

It's NOT clear that if you marry the wrong person you can end up in lot of pain, fighting in court for 10 years, losing all you have, etc., so should the priest or government official read a warning before declaring you married?

When you signed up for Facebook, you agreed to their TOS. Compared to the knife, cup, and wife someone has told you _explicitly_ what's going to happen and how, and _you have agreed to that_. What makes it unclear, then?
Krita is not targeted as a photoshop replacement. It was at one time, but 15+ years ago they realized that many people are willing to pay for photoshop and thus Adobe has a large amount of money to throw at developers (at least some of them good) and so they are unlikely to catch up. They then shifted focus to be the best programing for drawing instead, a niche that Photoshop can cover but it isn't what their customers want and so it isn't well served. Photoshop is mostly used by photographers who need to touch up a photo, this is art but a very different style of art from someone who starts with a blank page and draws a picture.
We've (IPFS community) have weekly open calls for the entire community and had great success with Zoom. I'm personally on Ubuntu, Arch and macOS, and everything is working fine and they continuously improve the software. Seems to have a free plan as well: https://zoom.us/pricing

Edit: adding that the few times I had to resort to using my phone, Zoom on Android has been working fine, even thought the UX is a bit confusing on mobile devices (Android version at least)
Yes, I remember a friend showing me some rifles he had recently inherited, followed by the statement that as far as he knew they had never been registered and no matter how the law changed, they wouldn’t be registered while he owned them.

Still, bad numbers are all we’ve got. I’m sure most Americans have seen guns, or know gun owners, but I’m also sure most Americans — especially most urban Americans — don’t actually own guns themselves. If they did, people wouldn’t routinely confuse “semiautomatic” and “machine gun” or “submachine gun.”
It's absolutely not the only way to do so, and it's a false dichotomy to say quit facebook == don't get in touch with your friends.
> The ideal is that better ideas, not power, are the best response to ideas someone doesn't like.

Better ideas do not win -- ideas that are proclaimed the most or the loudest win. This is the problem we currently have.
Not sure it's so different. Here's from an Obama's campaign digital head:

> Facebook was surprised we were able to suck out the whole social graph, but they didn’t stop us once they realized that was what we were doing.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2018/03/19/why-are...

Whereas team Obama didn't just get friends of friends, they got everyone regardless of their privacy settings or apps in use?

edit: adding original source for the quote instead of forbes:

https://twitter.com/cld276/status/975568130117459975
In places where you can't waive this, people still get remuneration from the court. Of course these places have more reasonable lawyering costs too (and/or are bankrolled by the union).
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Are you talking about software engineering, or engineering engineering? Because I don't think building engineers create technical debt.
I agree with this (and other comments to the same effect). There was only a short time where yahoo was better than Altavista.
IBM is an embarrassing company. They are not culling based on age, they are culling based on severe lack of skills and dated values. IBM is saturated with tech people who threw in their technical chops 20 years ago to become a salesperson.

Everything they do, from their blockchain efforts to Watson, is so embarrassingly driven by oldschool sales/marketing people that they can't be taken seriously by technical decision makers at their customer companies. They no longer have the ability to lead their customers in technical decisions.
Supreme Court ruled that illegal and if you do that, it is punishable by law as hacking!
Agreed. In addition:

"As discussed in the introduction, public information may be profitable if sophisticated investors like hedge funds are skilled information processors. Alternatively, private information may be more valuable when used in conjunction with public information." (pg. 19)

The paper goes on to show evidence suggesting that the predominant channel is the latter complementary private information mechanism.

It does seem counterintuitive that publicly-available information does indeed generate alpha, but the real valuable insight here is that hedge funds are able to generate alpha from using public data synergistically with private data.
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IBM is an embarrassing company. They are not culling based on age, they are culling based on severe lack of skills and dated values. IBM is saturated with tech people who threw in their technical chops 20 years ago to become a salesperson.

Everything they do, from their blockchain efforts to Watson, is so embarrassingly driven by oldschool sales/marketing people that they can't be taken seriously by technical decision makers at their customer companies.
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What did you expect them to say?

“Don’t be so hard on CA. We had more people and much better data.”
In french it's base ten only. AFAIK it's just the names, particularly in France, that are a bit confusing. I don't think francophones think of quatre-vingts as 20 20 20 20, but as 80. Just like english is not base-12 because its eleven and twelve, and not oneteen and twoteen.
You are making the same statement again without a single proof or example to show why lying is ethical, moral, and correct. Repetition doesn't add correctness.
why not voat?
> Then perhaps dial back the anti-Apple rhetoric, or at least post something more substantial and thoughtful when you do.

I don't have to be a mechanic to know when a car is broken, just like I don't have to know how all of Apple's software works to know that they don't actually value privacy. Please, prove me wrong. I'd love it if Apple actually put their money where their mouth is. Until then, I know enough about their stack to know that they don't build it in a way that ensures privacy.

> You’ve seen enough responses from people to anticipate objections.

And? I can anticipate objections as to any argument. That doesn't change the validity of either side. I don't think I get what you mean by this.

> It’s tedious and boring to see the same arguments again and again.

Once those arguments become invalid, I'll stop. If I'm saying something that isn't true, please point it out. Until then, I'll will proudly correct the lie that "Apple cares about privacy". I'm sorry that the truth is tedious to you, but there's not much that I can do about that.

> Mail is a mail client: if you use an Apple domain, you’ll use their servers. If not, then not. And you don’t need to use the built-in mail client. If you use Apple Maps, yeah, you’re using their service. You can use Google Maps or Waze or other alternatives if you choose. GPS is a radio: it doesn’t involve any service provider other than the satellites it receives information from, same as any other GPS radio.

But they could build their systems so that I don't have to go through Apple to use their app, just in the same way that email works. They choose not to. My point is that, until they design their systems so that I can use all of the standard functionality without going through their servers, they aren't taking privacy seriously.
Yes, but that is not specific to machine learning. Humans have also learned to drive under the assumption that future observations will somewhat be alike what they have seen in the past. And yes, that is putting peoples' lives in danger.

But that has nothing to do with machine learning. It has to do with all control systems, human or machine.
One thing I respect about Twitter, is that they spell this out fairly clearly in their privacy policy:

Twitter is primarily designed to help you share information with the world. Most of the information you provide us through Twitter is information you are asking us to make public. ... Twitter broadly and instantly disseminates your public information to a wide range of users, customers, and services, including search engines, developers, and publishers that integrate Twitter content into their services, and organizations such as universities, public health agencies, and market research firms that analyze the information for trends and insights. When you share information or content like photos, videos, and links via the Services, you should think carefully about what you are making public.

I could swear an earlier version even pointed out that tweets you delete are not gone, because, by the time you delete it, it's already been permanently archived by a zillion third parties. I can't find anything about that in the current version, though.

I suppose Twitter's in an easier spot here, though. Like they say, Twitter's for talking to the whole world. Whereas, when people use Facebook, they typically use it to communicate with a more intimate circle.
Sort of. You could have used better techniques/frameworks/whatever and gotten it right from the get-go. It does help to have the experience to intuit/know what you'll have to make scale and to what degree so that you can spend cycles on avoiding likely pitfalls without wasting too much effort.
I can't see why they couldn't sync with linux/windows/android as well as storing the entries in OSX keychain.

"run of the mill" is me taking a lazy jab at their description of advantages of Lockbox - they need to make a whole new product just to use the standard cipher/auth you'd expect them to be using anyway? I assume there might be more to it, but their product page doesn't really explain much.
I wonder if Amazon, Facebook and Google are using similar performance management tactics to drive the attrition of older workers?

“A slide from a similar presentation prepared last spring for the same leaders called for “re-profiling current talent” to “create room for new talent.” Presentations for 2015 and 2016 for the 50,000-employee software group also included plans for “aggressive performance management” and emphasized the need to “maintain steady attrition to offset hiring.””
Can I compile my own iOS or MacOS? Until then, it's all smoke and mirrors to me.
Mark Zuckerberg takes the whole blame for Facebook errors
>Makes one wonder where this new definition is coming from?

I suppose we shouldn't be surprised to see the euphemization of technology in a forum full of and run by technologists.
Software is significantly different from buildings in that it can be substantially upgraded or redesigned after going into production. That flexibility means that the first release need not be the last release. The obvious charitable interpretation is that the parent was talking about software.
Wow 4 weeks? I didn't know there was companies like that out there, especially now.

Our company reduced it to 1 week per year (claimed it was the 'standard', and it would save them money so they could spend it on being so innovative elsewhere), then reduced 401k matching from them paying once per quarter to you have to be employed on December 31 of that year or they don't have to match for the entire year (crazy, I know), and then after they got those two things in place started axing tens of thousands of people's jobs, and saved tons of money in the process, I'm sure. These policy changes also lead to people voluntarily resigning and thus giving them lower layoff numbers too.

I'm probably not sticking around much longer myself, but I had a few too many life changes (like buying a house) that kept me from leaving earlier.
Or the company might just die. If you want to "punish" them, use or create a different site.
> It does seem counterintuitive that publicly-available information does indeed generate alpha, but the real valuable insight here is that hedge funds are able to generate alpha from using public data synergistically with private data.

Even more than that: the best funds can generate alpha by simply combining different sources of public data without necessarily using any nonpublic data.
Thanks a lot. It looks like a really fair estimate, much more reasonable than what I would be able to provide.

It seems absolutely unbelievable for me that my project costs so much, but it makes me proud of my work.
> Boston Dynamics has made little progress in robot autonomy, whatever we might think of abandoning the old folks to nonhuman machines. It is simply not its forte.

Eh? They are absolutely in the lead of autonomous, dynamic robotic motion.

There is just a long, long road to "full" autonomy.
I'm not American, so have no patriotic love of US food, and was fully prepared for 'authentic' Yucatan to completely eclipse Austin (where I'd eaten a bunch of Tex Mex food before).

I was actually disappointed - the quality of the produce, and the sharpness of flavour in even the cheapest food in Austin eclipsed anywhere on the mid/low range in Yucatan. Queso aside (I do not like American cheese) I'd prefer Austin any day.
Congrats to the Figma team!

Open API, React-generating integrations, examples of CI-usage — this feels like a great leap-forward in bridging the divide between dev / design disciplines and providing the infrastructure for a tech-enabled design ecosystem. Astounding.
It isn't just the mains breaker. It is all the other breakers on your system. Your generators/inverter probably has a breaker someplace as well.

I don't know how common the one hot leg thing is. I know that can buy a lockout device which is just a metal device allowing either my main breaker or one other breaker to be on: thus turning my entire panel into a lockout. That implies the one hot leg thing isn't common but I honestly don't know.
The video mentions that the controller uses ultrasonic signals to communicate. I wonder if those signals would disturb the other fish, negating the “neutral observer” aspect of the project.
Certainly one of my biggest pet peeves. If I had a nickel for everybody that got in my ear about "authentic" Mexican food and of course was talking about one particular regional cuisine: Tex-Mex, Southwest American, Californian Mexican, Mexico City, . . .

The search for authenticity in food is a weird obsession anyway since cuisine changes on contact with new ingredients.
Meh, RHEL customers can look after themselves and maintain a python2 fork. Unless they’re paying you it makes sense to target the most recent version of the language.
Better than prop 13. Also, Illinois has lower state sales and income tax than California (not as low as other places though).
But as I said even in those cases the employee needs to be present when the employer accesses private messages, in addition to a union member. So as an employer you cannot just sneak in and check what has been said, it has to be public. Which I think greatly mitigates the risk. It is not a secret conversation like you would have between lawyer and client but it is rather private.
Is this news for hackers
Really though. This is what gets people to leave? Doubtful until I see proof. It's not like this "scandal" is out of character of other criticisms that have been very publicly declared against Facebook for years.
I work in applied mathematics and specifically in CFD. This may make me not a "true mathematician" to some of the mathematical community. In fluid dynamics nearly everything is an approximate solution to an imperfect model. In fact, there are whole branches of mathematics dealing with trying to figure out exactly how imperfect models are. "Perfect math" has limited applicability, and only perfectly reflects reality in contrived situations. For example, linear algebra works amazingly well in the contrived environment of a computer, but if you want to perfectly model the electron flow that is involved in that computation one must necessarily use an imperfect approximation.
I expect the fact that the OFA app was pulling friend data would be surprising to at least the friends. Which Facebook turned that feature off years ago.

Of course, they turned that feature off so that people looking to obtain microtargetting services will need to buy them from Facebook.

Which is funny. I've see some people talking about how the Clinton campaign relied on an in house data team for their Facebook work, and that the Trump campaign worked more closely with Facebook employees (the Facebook employees were on site at the campaign, working for free because the campaign was such a big customer).
this is even cooler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve
And if Apple wanted to prove that they actually care about privacy, they would design their apps in a way that I wouldn't have to connect to their servers in any way. This is true even when talking about their apps and services.
To add to what patio11 said:

Even if as an employee you don't get paid a lot directly for fixing it, there is still some benefits:

1. You can use this as argument for getting a raise or promotion.

2. When you look for next job, you can say "and I identified a problem, on my own, which saved my last employer $2 million". Which should allow you to negotiate much higher pay.

So overall it might still raise your lifetime earnings by a noticeable amount, if you take advantage of it.
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Hoops? Enabling an SCL isn't hard.
https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2014/02/18/migrate-to-pyt...
> "The fact that public information acquisition relates to performance is surprising. SEC filings are the very definition of 'public' information, and therefore, usage of such information should not be profitable,"

Honest question: isn't that a contradiction in terms? Public information stands for "stuff that everyone is presumed to know", right? Like, economists using an assumption of "perfect knowledge of the market regarding public information" (or something like that, I'm obviously not an economist) as an approximation in their knowledge. But the fact that some managers do look this up, and some don't, means that this approximation does not hold. The premise of what is implied with "public knowledge" is undermined by the very thing being measured.

Assuming I understand this correctly, it looks to me like they essentially correct for the error caused by this assumption of perfect knowledge, which is the opposite of unexpected (but still a very neat finding!)
The paper on this provides a lot of interesting insight: https://groups.csail.mit.edu/drl/wiki/images/a/a5/Hydraulic_...
You know that vinyls get a mixdown from a tape (open-reel) or DAT master also, right?

Vinyl, like CD, has format limitations that need to be overcome. Most notably with vinyl, bass has to be converted to mono and high frequency content needs to be heavily EQ'd.

Vinyl isn't the "original" sound, and you should never mixdown a CD from a vinyl source (since in most cases you have the original master or a tape copy of it) unless you have absolutely no other choice.
It's because Mexico ships all the good quality produce to the USA, leaving poor quality produce behind for the domestic market.
I love how this article describes a novel technique for hacking computer software or hardware
Did they scrape indiscriminately, or did they pay for access? I'm hoping it was the latter so you were able to keep the site self-sustaining for a while longer.
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I'm not disagreeing with you, but at the same time, I don't think that likely the first place to release a major government leak is on YouTube or Reddit. There will always be some platform that's "freer" than some others, and there will always be some that are more moderated.

This may smack of censorship in some ways, and if it was a government agency, it certainly would be. Unfortunately, the core of the problem that a lot of people are dancing around is that we've come to expect private businesses on the Internet to care about anything other than their profits - but that's asking them to violate their corporate morality of "profit at all costs". They're not going to do that; we are either the customer or the product. This is those private companies forcing their moderation policies, so as to continue increasing their userbase and advertising income. Reddit and YouTube/Google are essentially moderated private platforms and if they decided that tomorrow all that could be posted on their sites are cat pictures, they would be well within their rights to do that.
If they're smart they'll stick to hosting stuff that is non-controversial: porn. There's no reason to get involved in deep political fights.
I would love to be optimistic about this, but I don't think the solution to this is going to be "creating a consistent set of standards and rules across multiple multinational companies".

In my opinion, some of these games are bound to create toxic situations when playing with randoms. Take a game like League, where a single player that's underperforming can cause the entire team to lose. This dynamic is core to the game, and it's the root cause of toxicity.

Compare that to a game like Counter Strike, where an underperformer might not drag their team down that much, and there is an option to kick the person from the team. The game is still winnable -- it will be harder, but it would not be impossible like in League.

Also, surprised not to see Valve in this list. Dota 2 and Counter Strike are still pretty big titles, even if they haven't made a game in a while.