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> The observation of which slit the particle passes through is non-deterministic according to most interpretations of quantum mechanics, so my macro-level actions are now also non-deterministic

That's not true. The double slit experiment shows that as the arrow of time moves, wave patterns predictably emerge.

Again, until a better unified theory of everything emerges, we currently have no synthesis between quantum and classical physics and thus measured quantum phenomena are currently irrelevant to physics measured in the classical scale.

> Alternatively, take the example of Clinton Davisson and Lester Germer in 1923 and then attempt to predict what papers they will publish in the future using classical physics

This is simply a matter of not having enough information. The amount of information required to "predict the future" in the sense you're talking about is ginormous.

Your concept of determinism is flawed.

Further reading:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JrhoMTgMrMRJJiS48/decoherenc...
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/eWuuznxeebcjWpdnH/the-so-cal...
Thing is. I could honestly say the exact same but change Linux to Mac and otherwise around.

I had so many issues with Mac and all my Linux devices just work flawlessly for years without issues.
Easy for 'mrweasel' to say, safely working as a man without bias to hinder him? Let's just ignore systemic bias in gender pay because, well, it may not be cut-and-dried so just forget about it? I sense some bias.
Eh the actual selection process is a nightmare. I don’t understand how poorly they released it.
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You should also cap the max jackpots. The multi-hundred-million jackpots generate a bit of a mania.

Also, if you wanted to disincentivize lotteries, but not ban them outright, you could start taxing them - up front, not the behind-the-scenes cut states get now. Add a 50% tax on lotto tickets and a 50% surtax on winnings and most people will be too disgusted to play.
I could not agree more. If my first visit to a website includes this popup asking to show notifications, my opinion of said website is instantly lowered.

Give me a service that makes me want to opt in, something I need, and then you won't have to ask me to show notifications, I'll be asking you.
All those apps are between 4 and 8MB in size. Is your phone that limited in space?
Your words "the profile url" don't mean anything to me. The URL I have - as quoted above - when pasted into the search bar gives no results.
" ... or corporate display panels ..."

Exactly. A commercial display / signage display is indeed what you need to buy if you want a "dumb" TV.

Not only are they as dumb as dumb gets but they are highly reliable and usually fairly rugged.

Many of them have an expansion card slot which allows you to change the inputs - you could remove your 2x HDMI card and insert an SCART card instead, for instance.

Finally, if you get a video wall model, you'll get near-zero bezel.

They're not that expensive - how could they be if they are being purchased twelve at a time for display walls ? Yes, they are more than $399 + mail-in rebate from Frys.

It's worth it.
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Right, that search in the search box worked - thanks.

Now following!
> A heuristic in which you refuse to undertake any action without complete information of perfect reliability is always biased towards the status quo.

I agree with that phrase, and I acknowledge that it's a problem, but you're jumping into conclusions about what I was trying to say. I wasn't trying to say "we don't have complete information, so we should do nothing." Read on:

> you are rationalizing away the preponderance of evidence which shows that, yep, any way you cut it, there's a gender wage gap.

No, that's is precisely my point. It is NOT true that any way you cut it there's a gender gap. If you let me cut it how I want it I can have the gap be anything I want by carefully (as an example) picking which of the omitted variables I adjust for sampling bias and which ones I don't[0]. That is what I was trying to say.

[0] And lets not talk about confounding variables, that problem is at least an order of magnitud harder even than sampling/population bias.
This post pushed me over the edge--created an account.

https://functional.cafe/@dave
Most programmers aren't aware of this - but we actually don't really know if one-way functions can actually exist. So all hash algorithms might be built on a false and faulty premise. In fact, whether a good hash algorithm can actually exist, is related to P = NP:

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs6830/2009fa/scribes/lect...
I'll defend Signal here. This is all about your threat model:

My threat model includes:

- kids in my house

- Facebook selling my data to insurance companies

- future employers googling me

- etc

It does not include:

- NSA

- local police (in 2018)

I'll still try to give away as little as possible as while I trust local authorities now I've no reason to be sure I can trust them in 5, 10 or 20 years (see Turkey).

In my case Signal seems reasonable for some things and for now.

Personally I'm also annoying all crypto experts here by using Telegram for some communication and I might even use postcards for other communication (and there might even be communication channels I use but never talk about).
>Travelling to the most obscure places across Asia I have NEVER seen anything but hordes people looking at my hotel in Kampong Cham

Haha, this is so relatable. Not a long time ago I arrived at my "high in demand, better book RIGHT NOW" guesthouse somewhere in Mondul Kiri Province and had to wake up personnel in their hammocks. Turns out they had no bookings for some days …
I wish the page had screenshots. That's usually a good measure of how the software is maintained. Currently the page mentions that it's "experimental".

As far as I can see currently the only widely used, secure protocols are Matrix and XMPP with OMEMO.
Here’s a point-by-point takedown of many of Greger’s antiscientific claims: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/death-as-a-foodborne-illnes...

The fact is, Greger is not a scientist. Science requires honest investigation, and a willingness to update one’s beliefs. Greger is an activist — he has already decided what his beliefs are, and he is selectively choosing to emphasize studies that support his beliefs (while ignoring those that don’t).

I wouldn’t have a problem with this if his site was called veganopinions.org. You’re allowed to have beliefs based on morality, not science. But when you corrupt the science to advance your cause, you’ve lost me entirely.
> I don't want to use reddit's own app, why would I use a third-party app?

Because the third party apps are much better that the official one, in all metrics. If you have a specific grievance against the official app, there are overwhelming chances that you won't face the same issue in a 3rd party app.
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Scihub has made virtually all academic papers freely accessible.
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Yahoo and Altavista for searching.

Social was mainly USENET newsgroups and email lists...

Many websites offered links sections to link to othe similar related things.

Some websites also were part of "ring networks" which would chain the websites together with web plugins and a database of member sites so fans could tour the ring members.

My site still uses a lot of links (I need to go through those...), example:

http://portcommodore.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=larry:comp:sta...
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I can't amplify this enough, especially with creative products.
For those interested in a different experience, there is a terminal client called rtv[0]. I use it for most of my Reddit browsing and I consider it even better than the site for text subs like NoSleep for example.

[0] https://github.com/michael-lazar/rtv
Wait this works? Gnome shell? The full gnome experience?
Had the same issue with RHEL6, solved (more or less) using Gentoo Prefix. It comes with its own libc and the bootstrapping process was pretty straightforward.
I am ignorant on everything Myanmar, I don;t think I can judge the guy. Am I now at fault too?
> After you've done that, you can allow free speech

Who are you do "allow" or "disallow" free speech?

"Disallowing" free spech is actually a human rights violation. Isn't it? So what you're doing here is you're providing weasel moral grounds for human rights abuse.
The reason this problem keeps popping up is due to the mistaken belief that you can deduce intent via inferred behaviors, and worse that deduced intent is preferable (or at least comparable) to explicit intent. You can't and it isn't.

As an example of deduced intent let's envision a system where every action I commit over the course of a year can be observed and recorded for inference analysis to determine if I am evil or good. Assume that in all ways I meet the standard definition of good... I help people across the street, save puppies, etc. At the end of the year the BEST that you can conclude is that I behaved ethically (good actions), but that says nothing about MY intentions. I may in fact be evil and am only ingratiating myself within a community in order to later kill them all. There is a reason that within philosophy that morality and ethics are separate words. There is a reason that when viewing demographic data people say "I can tell you what 9 out of 10 people in the group prefer, but I can say nothing about any one individual within it."

As to the preference between inferred vs explicit intent, you're placing your own judgement of the value of inference vs explicit above that of the user which will inevitably lead to frustrations on the part of the user. In the simple case of a catalog there are two distinct intent patterns that users engage in... one is the specific intent to find a known product and the other is what I refer to as "discovery." Discovery is, as the word suggests, finding things that the user did not know existed or knew very little about.
What metadata mitigations does matrix have (the point of Tor Messenger)? We already have a federated protocol called XMPP. Sometimes you are interested in not revealing who you are talking to.
Native English speaker - that was my original expectation as well. It can mean either thing.
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2) macOS tablet.

Android apps on Chrome OS tablets are a thing now.

With macOS on ARM, the iPad Pro and MacBook lines merge, as the hardware internals converge.
Dow went from 18,000 to a peak of almost 26,000.

8,000/18,000 = 44%
That comparison doesn't map gracefully though, given that people don't "subscribe passively" to a single email account, and email users don't (outside of mailing lists) generally broadcast.
Arguably that wasn't a leak, they're intentionally putting that data into an analytics store. Whether that's okay is a different issue, but it wasn't leaked to the public.
I don't browse reddit anymore, but the thread collapsing in /r/geopolitics is great!

Perhaps I would have continued to use reddit if more sub used it.
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here's some interesting people I follow:

@crowd42@infosec.exchange
@tinker@infosec.exchange
@xeb@mastodon.social
@lain@pleroma.soykaf.com

I'm @slipstream@mastodon.social and @Rairii@cybre.space :)
I've had much to say about this before. Basically, the big institutional investors have no other way to gain more alpha than to cut out everyone else. They're so big they can get away with it. The problem is that it cuts out every small investor trying to save for their own retirement, and due to inflation, regular people have been thrust into purchasing riskier and riskier investments in order to try and stay ahead of it. It's a race we aren't going to win.
Excellent article btw.

You say there's nothing wrong with tinkering but it's a fairly derogatory word. From dictionary.com [0], it's specified as:

> an unskillful or clumsy worker; bungler.

Certainly here in HN and in computing in general, the term hacker might be more fitting.

[0]: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/tinkering
Compared to a optimized Arch, or even a non overloaded windows 10 mac never appeared to me very energy friendly.
I clicked on the link to read the article, not gape at a full screen illustration that adds literally no info! Why would the author want me to scroll 1200 pixels before I can read even the title?
I disagree, particularly if the machines are making their own decisions and exhibiting emergent behavior.

I don't think only weapons should be considered. I think there will be many unintended outcomes from AI that was never meant to hurt anyone, but has nonetheless.
The only ones more entrenched than academics/scientists are the ones with the little blue checkmark, journalists.
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With all the buzz and aura surrounding the new EU GDPR 2018 in recent times, here's what we feel you should know about it. Take a look!

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> map! jk <Esc>

Remap the sequence "jk" to escape, you don't even have to take your hand off the home row to exit a mode.
Let us not give up freedom for security.

A reasonable solution would be to make it sufficiently "technical" to unlock the device, so people can't be easily tricked into it.
There is one good keyboard: https://www.amazon.com/Apple-Bluetooth-Wireless-Keyboard-MC1...
Join one, participate in any of them. That's the beauty of Mastodon.
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"app think you are doing physical activity."

App and fitness-tracker they write.

"Why do they need to allocate 15% of the ICO to "blockchain development""

I think not only for blockchain development. Manufacture of bracelet and software is not free too.
Great, so all my internal DNS names just fail? Some of those override external names (e.g. dailymail.co.uk at home points to a holding page in case I accidentally click a link to that vile piece of trash)

And on my isolated network, which has no routed access to the internet?
> There is no statement about giving proper credit (vanity) or not being allowed to reinvent the wheel without first making damn sure that you are indeed reinventing.

Crediting someone is not about vanity, at all. It's so in the future someone else can see where to go for ideas you've used, what the general thought and progress was that lead to an idea. See "scholarship" in the linked article. Crediting people facilitates scholarship and knowing the context of an idea. In theory you should be able to trace all human thought that lead to an idea, and what else those people were thinking at the time. Amazingly in modern science that's essentially possible. Most papers have an acknowledgements section where you even acknowledge conversations or private letters that lead to an idea. It's not vanity, even in the world of tinkering its worth crediting people with the input for your ideas and the source of your material as it makes it easier for someone else to riff off of your tinkering.

It's not about avoiding reinventing the wheel either. It's about knowing all the criteria for wheelness, knowing what has been done before and what is widely accepted as a wheel rather than a roller or a track. Is there a body of related work that might apply in the abstract, if rollers are like wheels perhaps roller maths would be useful, perhaps a development in roller technology has not been applied in principal to wheels and could be a breakthrough.

Both of these together are how you actually push things forwards. Giving credit especially is highly misunderstood. If I want to know if one paper Im using is a weird off shoot of thought of the author or not, what else were they working on, where did their inspiration come from, is there more I can get from their direction, or is there somewhere I can go they never dreamed of etc. That transparency is actually amazingly powerful for the creative process.
Apple wants to use open source code, but doesn't want to make their proprietary code open or to license patents to anyone who wants to build off of their code.
>Nobody says 'recursive DNS resolver'

>Saying 'recursive DNS resolver' is like saying 'ATM machine' or similar

Yes, because I never use my PIN Number

Nobody is a very small set, and a very powerful word -- use it carefully, like Never, Always and Everyone
I'm sure you're pretty far down the rabbit hole of dealing with the 5268AC but the "DMZ Plus" mode does seem to bridge. I have a Ubiquiti Edgerouter on the other side with OpenVPN setup, public IP, etc. All I needed to do was enable DMZ Plus and turn off wifi.
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Apple is actively working on Macs that replace Intel CPUs
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Bugreport: the search list disappears after a while. Maybe to load a new result set? I didn't wait for it.
In Firefox you can disable all notifications (and thus all popups asking for notifications to be allowed) in about:config, setting `dom.webnotifications.enabled` to false.

I don't miss it at all.
Glad I pulled after it was removed. In some countries (incl. Singapore) this domain is banned & blocked. Plus off-course I ran it from work...
That is a different issue, though. The "Related Work" section is there to tell the reader about related approaches to similar problems, previous research on the same topic, etc. It's where you distinguish your work from what was previously done, and justify why this is a meaningful distinction. It's "what others have done and why we don't just use that".

Reproducibility is important but a completely different topic and I don't know why you're bringing it up here.
So much wrong with everything you said. First, the cost of speculative gambles is economic collapse. Such gambles were a root cause of the Great Depression. Second, how exactly is regulating investment going to cost anybody their job? Think it through. Maintaining the current state of regulation will have an effect now because ... ? It doesn’t make sense. Third, and this is by far the dumbest thing you said, of course the big bad gummint picks up the tab when people lose their jobs, it’s called unemployment! How fortunate you are to live with all of this evil regulation that you can be coddled into thinking that you know better than the generations that came before and put in place these institutions and norms. Libertarianism is a first world disease of entitlement that is only enabled by the stability and prosperity that effective government creates. It’d be so ironic so as to be funny if it weren’t so sad.
Is $10/m for unlimited sustainable?
Here's the thing though - generally speaking, I don't know of many people who are confused by Craigslist. It's an effective design for what it needs to do - browsing is easy and obvious, searching is easy and obvious. It's just "ugly", which is a different thing.

I will say Reddit is a bit of a different beast - there's too many hidden and confusing features, and it's probably fair to say that iterating on the design was necessary.

My biggest concern is that what I've seen from the redesign seems to be focused on making Reddit less ugly than making it more obvious and functional.

We're both posting on what might be one of the "ugliest" discussion forums on the internet - but I've rarely been confused as to how to do something on HN, which I can't say for many, many "modern", "pretty" websites.
> credit for the Arab Spring

Is it still viewed as a positive event? Any countries where it lead to improvements instead of instability?
The worst choice we've done in terms of host name was for our server at my uni's robotics lab. The lab itself has a strong Tintin theme, and the various computers continue this tradition, with the (french) names Tournesol, Milou, and... Dupont for a random lab computer, while the production server got Dupond (the english equivalents are Thomson and Thompson). While funny, this isn't extremely practical, especially the first few months, while getting accustomed to it.

Nowadays, we prefer to name them after something more meaningful, like Archibald [Captain Haddock's first name, fitting for an Arch machine], Winry, or Delphine (Windows and Debian, respectively). This makes easy to identify the machine and its operating system, which I like including in the host name.

Overall, I find that having a clear theme helps (to know we are talking about a computer's name), and clear rules for the naming scheme also help, both for picking the name, and guessing its function/characteristics from the name.

I would definitely go with some DNS-based convention like the one @zrm mentioned when having to manage bigger clusters or geographically disparate pieces of equipment, though.

I would also disagree with something in this RFC: I don't mind tying a hostname to the host function, as I usually reimage/reinstall the operating system when changing it, making it easy to rename it. This also helps with keeping everything modular enough that it can be quickly installed on a new machine, and prevents "ossification" of the various configuration files. This includes giving a replacement computer the same name as the one being replaced.

Finally, when managing a truly dynamic cluster (computers that boot a PXE image with little to no local storage, and take their jobs from a control server), I don't even bother naming them, and will choose something semi-random like the MAC address (even a link-local/DHCP address, or the md5 of one of these). As those are temporary identifiers, they are managed dynamically, and do not need to be remembered.
> Again, until a better unified theory of everything emerges, we currently have no synthesis between quantum and classical physics and thus measured quantum phenomena are currently irrelevant to physics measured in the classical scale.

That means that we don't know how quantum physics and classical physics interact. It doesn't mean that we know they don't interact. Clearly they do in some way or else it would be impossible for us to make the observations that led the development of quantum physics.

> This is simply a matter of not having enough information. The amount of information required to "predict the future" in the sense you're talking about is ginormous.

That information doesn't exist. Clearly it is not possible to predict the existence of quantum mechanics using only classical physics. If it were, quantum mechanics would be part of classical physics. Even knowing the entire state of the entire universe, you could not predict that they would publish a paper about quantum mechanics based solely on classical physics.
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Point me to the multiple variable analysis and the full report that demonstrates the clear evidence you mention. I have yet to find one and I have tried damn hard.
I think this is a great summary. C++11 is a huge leap forward if you can start fresh and/or only target C++11 compatible systems. Personally, I've also been down the road of trying to get older systems (also RHEL6) to run C++11 code via a hand-built compiler and it was an exercise in absolute frustration. And yes, Boost was the answer to some of this. Another thing you can try if you're in a well-abstracted code-base is to write wrappers around some of this functionality. Eg, if C++11 or greater is available, use the STL functionality, else use Boost and/or whatever legacy thing we hand-built. The obviously crappy part of this is that your functionality can/will diverge on multiple platforms.
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