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I believe the answer is embedded in the quote that you provided. Can you use the net to go back from weights to data? If not, then it's irreversible.

On the other hand, as parent noticed, hashing IPs is not effective as it's possible to reverse it (the IP space is small).
It is easy to mess up public places. You can spit on the floor in a bus, throw trash on a street, vandalize Wikipedia. Or you can clean the trash and help Wikipedia. The choice is yours. There's no mystical powers coming in and cleaning up after you - just you and people exactly like you. So before complaining "nobody cared" ask yourself - how did I help? What did I do to expect others to clean up after me and feel entitled offense if they did not? Maybe if you and your friends helped instead of messing it up, there would be less need for somebody else to do it.
> whereas one is apt to be looked down on if they choose to have their children go to a less resourced, private school in the Netherlands.

I'm not sure that's true. Private schools are typically well-resourced in the Netherlands. For example, international schools tend to charge about 20k per academic year whereas public schools make do with 8.5k per year. Quality isn't bad in private schools here, it's quite good actually. But so is the public system which has socialised costs. Most parents are quite content with this system.
In the past 7–8 years I’ve come around to the realisation that programming truly is a branch of mathematics, in a deep sense—and a strange one at that. It makes sense that they would share a lot of lessons.

In my experience, those who say programming isn’t mathematics are usually mistaken about what math actually is. Or at least I know I was. I used to think math was about calculation, because that’s most of what I was exposed to in school—virtually every problem, even in higher-level mathematics, was brought back around to work with concrete values, perhaps in an effort to tie the problems to something “real-world” and get kids interested in it. But it had the opposite effect on me—that’s like saying programming is about making a machine do calculations! Yes, in a literal sense, but there are much higher-level, more abstract and interesting things at work there.

To me, a computer’s value is that it’s an automated proving machine. You can make useful, entertaining, or interesting things happen in the real world—just by writing a proof that you can!
They need to make it actually work first. The well-known demo video is all staged, the suspension was specifically tuned before each demo, it wasn't universally capable at all. There was probably a lot of manual control involved as well.

Citroën's hydropneumatic system was always better, especially on the C6 and 3rd gen C5. It's a crying shame they're moving away from it.
Comparing those two numbers (removed fake account, and FB userbase) does not give you reasonable insights.

FB ususally reports DAU/MAU (daily active users, weekly active users). That means, if you remove 500 million of not active users (not using facebook last month), these numbers are not affected. I don't think this would explain the majority of 500M number.

Most of the 584 million removed fake accounts were most likely created in the same period (and most of them were removed quickly after registration -- as said in the FB report). So they didn't decimate their user base, but additional 500M accounts that were deleted (so they shouldn't affect the user growth). This assumes vast majority of active fake accounts will be blocked.
It's not that long. Did you read it?

One Wikipedia editor is trying to highlight the problem of Cross' edits and have him marked as having a conflict of interest on certain articles. The Wikipedia admin (or superiour, I'm not familiar with the Wikipedia hierarchy) shuts him down very rudely and doesn't appear to want to address the issue at all. Leaving the editor to give up: "Forgive me for concluding that Wikipedia is circling its wagons around Philip Cross...I know when the deck is stacked against me."
> . While individually they would not be a problem, it’s the combination of these different parameters that allow you to narrow the pool so much it can reasonably assumed to be PII.

There are zipcodes in USA with only 1 person. So storing just zipcode would be ID information. Its an extereme example but how can machine check whats 'reasonable' in this case, go off of some census data for zipcode?

I wonder if there are any real world ( as opposed to things like ingame points) information that can be considered not PII .
It is already happening on a daily basis regarding all articles related to a certain country. Correcting erroneous information doesn't work because most issues aren't about facts, but about judgement calls. Is this piece of information relevant in this context or not? Should we use "this definition" that all anthropologists uses or "that definition" that most Wikipedians prefer but no scholar uses? Unless you are getting paid for it, you can't justify spending hours per day bogged down in fights with people who most likely are paid for their time.

Wikipedia was a good idea but for political topics it doesn't work at all.
> Germany's railway (DB - Deutsche Bahn) has been privatized

This… isn't true.

Deutsche Bahn AG is a private company, yes, but its 100% owned by the federal government.

> they make a profit on long-distance high-speed routes

DB Fernverkehr AG (the long-distance subsidiary) do this by operating them on an entirely commercial basis: they make a profit in part because they only run services that are profitable. The same is true of the companies competing on long-distance services (which are admittedly relatively few and far between, undoubtedly in part because of the huge start-up costs).

> Local routes are purchases service from a variety of smaller local train companies that sprung up, and also from DB.

Here's where it gets complicated: this depends on the state (within Germany) and how they arrange public transport. The primary services are typically put out to tender (and how differs between the states) and these aren't necessarily run by DB (through its Regio subsidiary) as DB Regio has lost a number of bids.

At the same time, even on track, there's far more competition when it comes to profitable routes, as various local train companies as you mention have started competing.
The relevant bit is the last two comments by KalHolmann. Attempts to discuss Cross' behavior in the relevant, public boards were closed within minutes of each posting with unsatisfactory explanations. See [0] for example.

Not a wikipedian, but from my nerdish poking around and learning about how wikipedia works, it was my impression that these boards are supposed to be public forums to openly discuss issues, in line with its spirit of open collaboration. The fact that editors closed it immediately is evidence that, as KalHolmann says, there is circling of wagons going on.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest...
My experience with Root Cause Analysis is it's often an exercise for poor managers to deflect accountability by diluting it among more junior people.

However, 5-whys is very useful as a design principle instead of using it to respond to failure.

It goes something like:

0: build a thing
why 1: because customer asked
why 2: because thing is what they think they need
why 3: because it is one solution to a gap in their ability to achieve something.
why 4: because that something is an economic need.
why 5: because market opportunity to fill that gap with something, maybe this thing, maybe something better.
Could you link to these precedents? I'd like to read that in detail.
Me and my friends did exactly the same when we were 15. One of us added "Hannah screwed her dog" to the Wikipedia article for Paper. I remember being surprised that it lasted for a few weeks.
The Mercedes ABC (Active Body Control) system is good. But if you watch the video - this one is amazing.

The Mercedes system used hydraulics. If the Bose system works the same way their truck seat does (the "Bose Ride") then it's run by a combination of pneumatic & electromagnets, and I'd be curious how they get enough current to run it.

ABC:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clyUmA5lRcg

Bose suspension:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8sVDenpPOE

Bose Ride:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_G9GCpWAcM
Don't computer scientists generally work in academia?

I had trouble following the article's argument, so I can't tell whether the author is merely misusing the phrase "computer scientist" and referring instead to software engineering, or whether they are discussing a different subfield than the one I am familiar with.
I would put them both more in the middle than most - I hate the magic aspect of the ending of Interstellar, but I also find the Joker's final act uncompelling, especially the boats rigged with explosives - but the aspect of both that I appreciate is a large-scale ambition that's rare these days (but that 2001 also certainly has). Technology has made low-budget ambition still produce high quality results, which is fantastic, but there's also something about what you can do when you throw hundreds of millions at a more audacious concept. I found Dunkirk disappointing because it was (by nature) much more straightforward.
Honestly, advocating for taking steps against disseminating propaganda, then citing Vox as a legitimate news source, concerns me. I wouldn't trust you to be able to draw the line between propaganda and objective writing. How much censorship of opposing views would be done in the name of fighting "Russian propaganda"?
"Germany, home to a tough new online hate speech law", anybody have the definition of hate speech according to this law? This article has a lot of information but a cogent definition of hate speech is not given.
Or perhaps another angle can be explored - better than human intelligence directly instead of copying humans.

There are certain machines already better than humans(any other life form) in physical tasks — why do we need to have human intelligence as the base scale to measure machine intelligence?

I mean, the early man didn’t create his tools to compete with human nails.
Exactly. Medicine is taking a set of data (symptoms) about an ill patient and determining the statistically likely problem.

It's a basic data analysis which is exactly what computers are good at.

No Tea Leaves involved.

This whole pushback by physicians is about status, jobs, wealth, etc.

In a 20 years we're going to view having a physician diagnose you as primitive as having a physician perform bloodletting or trepanation on you.
It looks like an unrealistic driving game.
thanks. Didn't know about that. only made small tools for myself with tk till now.
From the scuttlebutt thread (on mixing water and glycerol in order to target a freezing point close to 5C or so):

> Glycerol sadly has the tendency to supercool,so once all of your solution melts you will lose all of your seed crystals and then you have to drop down to a really low temperature before it will get back to a solid.

Add sand to the water tanks?
I suspect Jimmy Wales and his associates are keeping mum because they realize this is because of a fundamental (perhaps intractable) weakness of the Wikipedia platform — NPOV is an impossible standard to maintain without a highly active network of trusted reviewers under a central authority. Even then, many small changes over a long period are a viable attack vector.
now that's what i call a changelog!
you replace monolithic BUS companies, with driver recruiting companies and bus servicing companies.
While it is great feature that I enjoy a lot, it isn't the only eco-system with it. :)
I don't remember the exact claims I tried to fight, but let's pick a random diagram from the page I linked: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/Linux_AP...

See if you can spot any inaccuracies. Here are a few:

1. SDL doesn't use libevdev. It uses the kernel ioctls directly: http://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/file/3a50eb90e4b2/src/core/linux/SD...

2. Sockets, netfilter, network protocols are all listed under "everything is a file", but notably, sockets are one of the few places of the UNIX API that isn't a file namespace! Sockets can be files in the case of UNIX domain sockets, but configuring Netfilter goes through NETLINK: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/netlink.7.html

3. Similarly, the I/O scheduler isn't a file. Admittedly, I don't have a source for this other than the kernel source code itself.

These are nitpicks, yes, but they add up, especially considering the near-100 diagrams this guy has made and cloned all over Wikipedia. When we saw people joining our community and asking questions, this information made them think things were different than they were, and that was frustrating. And yes, I used sources like these when trying to correct this misinformation.
I don't have much training in mathematics, but from what little I have, I can say that coming up with conjectures is not easy and having your conjectures be false can sometimes be disappointing. Thus most time spent in a problem is usually in a state of disappointment. Due to this I can relate a bit to OP.
Any proof of his technical genius?
Since nothing but the logo is printed on the case (the button membrane has all the symbols directly printed on it), unlike say the swiss micros, you could very, very easily take it apart and spray it another color.
I would speculate (without exact justification) that this is because Americans are nowadays heavily indoctrinated in neoliberalism.

Though Europeans are catching up there too.
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It seems obvious to me that by "Wikipedia" he is referring to the Wikipedia admin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:JzG) who quashed user KalHolmann's attempts to discuss the issue of Philip Cross's campaign of biased edits. Did you not read the link?
Why have it talk to people taking a hair appointment? It is vastly simpler to have autonomous agents on both sides talk to each other.
the OS vpn still have the same problems. For example, you can run an application that asks the OS to not use the vpn. That is why most vpn clients will break your ability to set proxies (try to enable cisco enterprise vpn client on OSX and then open charles proxy and see how sad you will be)

my point is: on all setups you have traffic that might go around the vpn tunnel, that is an application defect not that ssh tunels are worse.
Most of my communication is online now, so its a format much easier for machines to parse.
It looks like a wikipedia editor requested that Cross should not be allowed to edit articles where he has a conflict of interest. Rather than dealing with the request, it was immediately closed and the editor reporting the conflict of interest was accused of picking a fight.
Reading https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo... I would agree, of course if that identifier is not in some other database, that maps it to a person. If you have just ids in a backup and you remove the person-ID mapping this should be fine.
Wow, yes, this comment is much more acute than it might look. However I often had the impression that China seems to be this hot get-shit-done-without-corporate-bullshit place because they are improvising - both management and technical functions.

I came up with the following explanation: the Chinese are bad at abstract thinking, therefore they don't build theoretical constructs as solid as we do, therefore they are worse at devising complex processes - compared to westerners. I'm not talking about scientific prowess. I'm talking about problem solving and creativity.

Disclaimer: I worked in China and speak fluent Mandarin.
yeah unfortunately this is the norm these days for "beauty", even though it goes against every single guideline on the topic. and of course numworks most certainly knows this.

otherwise of course, the website is masterful.
the ability of a student to strategize is strongly correlated to the education and wealth of the parents. (as pointed out in the post).

the discrepancy in strategic aptitude is itself a result of chance. Only through this absolute form of randomness, you are actually eliminating the wealth, education and aptitude bonus of upper-class households.

Your comment is a nice signifier of the difference in American and Dutch culture. Dutch people don't buy the idea that individual strategizing is going to advantage the interests of lower-class students, because they recognise that lower class students are already disadvantaged when they enter the system.
As others have said, their disclosure left a lot to be desired.

Depending on cause, potentially also not having sufficient security procedures in place to avoid such a leak of PII occurring.
Attempts at it have https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.08568
Just want to agree with you. Treating the symptom during an event really is about the best you can do.

I'll also agree with the "you may not be able to know a why." For systems, that can be a good guide on instrumentation to add. Sucks, in that you won't prevent the next event. Good that you should be able to get more from it.
Of course, you can't exactly claim Vox isn't a legitimate news source without citing some sources either.

(Whether or not Vox is "legitimate" or not is beside the point here, the point is it's hypocritical of you to call someone's sources into question without providing any yourself.)
Terry Davis has real technical chops and has written more code for his 'temple' than most people will write in their entire lives. He is God's programmer after all.

Weev just talks a good game.
That's sort of the crux of the startup I work at - www.gamalon.com
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Well, I am sure that they do other things. The government can't stop parents from giving their kids extra tutoring, or sending them to summer programs.

Educations is way more than what goes on inside a classroom, and there are many ways to get ahead.
> Serious Datalog environments will identify strictly monotonic programs [...]

Yes. And that is extra work that must be done. Admittedly, it probably isn't the "large factor" mentioned by DannyBee.

> A Datalog solver with the property that it can run faster on certain classes of input is great; it is not "no longer a Datalog solver".

I was talking of a special, user-requested mode in which the user guarantees that the input program they are interested in will not contain certain constructs, and the solver can reject programs that do contain them. A "Datalog" solver that rejects programs containing, say, negation, does not handle the full Datalog language and is therefore no longer a Datalog solver.

As an analogy, Clang is a C++ compiler, but passing it the "-xc" flag causes it to reject valid C++ programs, so then it's no longer a C++ compiler (although it is still the same program!).
This reminded me I have two of this chip sitting in my parts bin, with nice little DIP format adapter boards even. It bugs me that I bought the chips ~18 years ago and still haven't done anything with them. My project queue needs some reshuffling. I should start making synth modules again.

Or I should find myself a Blacet Dark Star Chaos module. I should have bought one when I had the chance.
Very interesting reading, we need more article about alternative approaches.
I see an admin with no apparent connection to this subject[0]:

(1) instructing KalHolmann not to canvass (this is one of WP's older rules and comes up all the time in AfD, where people will canvass WP and Twitter to get votes to keep marginal articles)

(2) backing out KalHolmann's canvassing comments

(3) responding to KalHolmann's question about where to direct his concern by telling him to take it to ANI

(4) advising against him taking it to the "COI Noticeboard" (I'm not sure I know what that even is but I guess I can guess and I'm not surprised it exists)

(5) after KalHolmann takes it there anyways and complains about the outcome, telling him again to take it to ANI.

None of this seems bad to me; it seems like a WP admin going out of their way to be helpful (in a WP'ian sort of way) and getting slagged for it on HN.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contribut...
This is not an EHR problem. This is a poor bedside manner problem.
I think the parent means encrypt customer data with key specific to that customer. When you erase that customer key their data becomes irreversibly damaged.
It seems to me, as a news.google.com junkie who recently switched to Firefox (on mobile), that the site has some won't-always-refresh-when-loading issues. It might be Firefox's fault though.

Outside of Google-owned sites, many sites simply don't work properly in Firefox and require Chrome. Could it be the additional privacy features? It might be the web developers' fault, though.
p(sun rises|rooster crows)=1

Is the rooster causing the dawn?
they should redesign the whole lines so that they have to most coverage. so that people on average are around 500m walk from the nearest bus stop, and also making sure stop aren't too close so busses don't make too many stops.
All problems that are undefined are "complicated". That doesn't change the fact that defining them properly is a prerequisite to dealing with them productively. Calling such efforts "simplistic" is just calling for surrender.

We know that there is never going to be a straightforward genetic test for mental illness because plenty of studies have been done on identical twins, so it is clear there is no simple mutation out there to test for.

It is possible that there are metabolic abnormalities that show up in cerebrospinal fluid and not in blood tests. Assuming that because we use SSRIs we should therefore test serotonin is quite contrary to what I am suggesting.

It should be treated as axiomatic that there is a physical basis for variations in mood and cognitive function, and we need to be able to objectively quantify it. That's not simple to work out, but just because it's difficult doesn't make it less essential. Making up vague stories about causes is what's simplistic and does not help produce better treatments.
Your post is a clear example of an ad hominem and whataboutism [1], an invalid argument, where you cite the usage of a link to Vox to completely dismiss the parent as untrustworthy.

[1] http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Whataboutism
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"ditch Wikipedia" seems a bit melodramatic.

Nobody should rely on Wikipedia as the sole source of any information, but it can be a useful starting point and usually has enough references to back it up.

People need to be more careful about examining the source of claims in general. Including what is shared with them on social media, YouTube videos, news articles, etc. But that doesn't mean those mediums are no longer useful.
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You haven't linked to an article, so I don't have the context here. Where is this diagram included?

But I suspect you're running into exactly what I ran into: you're trying to correct a page using yourself as a source. I'm sure you're right (although I think you're nitpicking about the sockets-are-files thing --- not that they are, but rather than I don't think the diagram is making that claim --- it is a _really_ bad diagram though).

It can be easier on WP to strike content from a page (because it is inaccurate) than it is to replace that content.