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People conflate statistics with actual results more often than not and I think those reporting on such stories and maybe even the original authors might fall for this.

It was not wrong to say Hillary had a 95% chance of winning the presidential election, but the confidence was low and that value still allowed for the opposite result to happen.

Also football has a lot of variance concerning team capability and end results. The better team might (and does) lose often, especially when going to penalty shoots.

With basketball, the stronger team will be easily scoring more in most cases.
But you also have a significant risk to your life if your
doctor can't get to them and orders the wrong treatment.

Don't you think I'm in a better position to make that decision than a central government bureaucrat, given that I have my medical records and an incentive to protect my own privacy, and he has neither?
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I use the term DLT as, for example, DAGs are not exactly blockchains if I'm not mistaken. They have no blocks, just transactions. It had nothing to do with permission.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#examples

>In the last question, notice the subtle but important difference between demanding “Give me an answer” and “Please help me figure out what additional diagnostics I can run to achieve enlightenment.”
As a ts-loader/fork-ts user thank you for all the work you do!.
It's a little like Enigma, except that the substitution is static, not changing on each key press.
The product is for the creation of a site from a Facebook page. How would they do that without requiring a link to Facebook?
>At the end of the day, there is a spectrum of tests going from unit tests to end-to-end tests. The spectrum represents several trade-offs such code locality vs. coverage. In my experience, the most economical approach is to write a balanced mix of tests the lie along this spectrum.

IME unit tests work acceptably in one very specific scenario and fail pretty badly in all others. That scenario being:

1) You're surrounding a self contained block of code that interacts "with the outside world" via a code API.

2) That code API is a very stable and clean abstraction.

3) It has minimal interactions with modules outside of it and those interactions that it does have are tightly scoped (i.e. minimal to zero mock objects are required to write the test).

4) The logic of the code is relatively complex and most bugs that crop up are logical in nature (e.g. off by one, things getting swapped around, incorrect calculations, wrong behavior with negative numbers).

Meanwhile, integration tests (at varying levels) work well for pretty much every case apart from this and still work okay for this type of code. They make much more sense as a go-to default.

I've also worked on several projects where there was little to no code that it actually made sense to unit test. It's not uncommon that an entire codebase is predicated mainly on hooking systems together and doing some shallow calculations. IMHO, having zero unit tests in that environment is actually desirable.

The worst unit tests I've seen have been written when two or more of those preconditions have failed. They would fail constantly, require massive maintenance and, somewhat comically, almost never fail in the presence of an actual bug.
Quick question. How does your sentiment analysis treat the following two sentences?

I fucking hate this thing.

VS

I fucking love this thing.
It's a fools errand to predict high variance events like football games.
The argument is that they need to do this particular tracking in order to make their website work.

I believe this is against the GDPR, but need to make a complaint against them.

Arguments why it is against the GDPR, if you can display the text to a googlebot and you will do no change to the structure of the document that is the main purpose of coming to the site then it is not GDPR compliant to deny someone access to the resource based on the argument that they need to do tracking to make the particular resource work.

In other words they are quite clearly lying and should be fined.

There should be some general make GDPR complaint tool where people can go, say where they are from, write what site complaining about, and it shows you similar complaints for you to add yourself to, or to send a new complaint. Then it packs them off to the relevant organizations to handle the complaint. Probably someone has already made this tool but I don't know about it.
You don't seem to have said _why_ you believe people aren't signing up and then subscribing. I'm assuming you have the information, but it's worth going back to that. If you're getting 100 page views a day then there's a reason people aren't signing up, it could be product market fit, but it could also be something as simple as confusing messaging, underselling, etc. It would be really useful to understand this information before making a call on a next step.

If you're not getting people landing on the site at all, then it could be something to do with your pipelines. Are convinced you're in the places where your customers are, do you run ads, or are you just tweeting into the void? Again, these are most likely fixable and may not even require any changes to your site and product.

If you're getting a lot of page views a day, and a good conversion rate to creating an account and playing with the product, then there's some reason they're not becoming a subscriber. This again could be something todo with on-boarding, or with product market fit.

I'm assuming you have some idea as to why this is the case, but if you don't then you really need to find out. This is especially important if you want to sell it and get a good price for it, without knowing that you're selling a mystery product to someone.

Assuming you do have this information, it would be good to know, if you don't know then that should be your next step.
The "safest" comment is mostly tongue-in-cheek, but the advantages are real. I enjoyed this comment from someone contributing to the project for the first time:

< barrbrain> atomnuker: I felt good when my patch was done and I had exactly what I set out to write.

< barrbrain> I didn't enjoy the compiler forcing me to fix all my bugs upfront.

There are also advantages other than safety to using a modern systems language that has learned something from the last 30 years of programming language design but doesn't come with all of the baggage of C++.
Apparently the virus in question is very common, most kids have it. So it could be that Alzheimers indicates some immunodeficiency and that herpes medication compensates for it.

Edit: I must have gotten confused. I was thinking they talked about HHV6/7 as I saw another discussion about that recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17366591 From another source: "Nearly 100% of humans are exposed to HHV-6 by the age of three"

Edit 2: Although HSV 1 is also apparently very common in adults. 2 out of 3 have it.
You are charging ~3x competing services for something that is less powerful. Other business site builders offer a basic page for $5 a month
> ...describing sofas in terms of the translations and rotations as a function of time is by now a standard way of thinking about the moving sofa problem, and has been used in the attack on the problem by Joseph Gerver in his paper from 1992, and in my own recent paper, where among other thing I made precise your suggested notion of describing the sofa shape that results from the continuous intersection of corridors rotating and translating over time. See my paper (available here: https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~romik/data/uploads/papers/sofa...), and especially Theorem 1 in section 2.

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That is what I do for most back-end tasks (not so much for front-end stuff yet although there is some interesting work happening in the open source world for that too). And I've actually had far fewer bugs testing with TDD than testing in browser.

In the browser, testing edge cases sometimes requires custom headers, encoding of data to create authorization tokens, etc. This means you have to either have amazing browser tools (which I've yet to find) or use a combination of browser and shell to achieve what I need.

In TDD, most setup can be automated with simple function calls. In addition, well made frameworks, such as PHP's Symfony, have utilities that even avoid making real HTTP requests, so tests run faster than using a browser, but the result is the same.

I'm not saying everyone should do TDD, but from my experience, it can lead to increased productivity and fewer bugs in some cases.

By the way, if you know of browser tools that make testing easier, I'd be glad to learn more. I use TDD because I lack the browser tools. If I had the right tools, maybe I'd consider going back to in browser testing.
I've always wanted a world in which pneumatic tubes played a bigger role - as they used to with mail in London and Paris. It used to be possible to get a letter in 4 hours.

I was walking down a street the other day, early morning, and it stank with food scraps, garbage - it was one of those maintenance streets you find at the back or sometimes even the front of fast food outlets, delis and cafes. The backend of that industry looks unappealing and smells as bad even though the businesses and city are doing everything they can to keep it organized.

With pneumatic tube rubbish disposal - which already exists - it would improve the quality of a large portion of the city, not to mention those children wouldn't have had to suffer.

More generally as I see it we are in the Dark Ages of underground tunnel making but if it could be made 1000x affordable lots of problems start to go away for our infrastructure. I've seen The Boring Company's proposals of course but I suspect it's on the wrong track. What you want is a creation capable of creating a criss-cross of tunnels - a whole network (similar to dark fiber, just waiting for land development so it can be turned on) which is deep beneath any other infrastructure and is linked to the surface through vertical channels e.g. a connection to somebody's house goes up, not across as we assume pipes are supposed to. I think the cost of extra pump power would be as nothing to getting rid of every legal and utility availability headache!
I remember asking whether the HSV1/Alz link was a fringe theory based on the lack of popular discussion around it (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17446016).

As someone at hopefully an early enough age who hasn't had any (known? -- since there's never any certainty with it) outbreaks, I'm wondering whether getting such a prescription based on family history at this point would be well advised. It'd also be neat exploring the side effects and seeing if that's a worthy trade, but it sounds like it probably is.

Biohacking is fun.
I used to keep a so-called shitlist for a long term project I was involved in.

The idea was to document all the worst places in the codebase(150k LOC) that frequently caused weird behaviours.

Each record contained a short description, the reason why this piece is bad, hash of the commit that introduced it and of course the perpetrator.

Of course the main purpose it served was to relieve stress, nevertheless it helped me with my work a few times.

One could ask why didn't I just refactor these pieces right away? Two things often stopped me from doing this: first, some of those lines were over eight years old and a huge part of the system depended on their sometimes buggy behaviour. Second, the company review policy was "stability, stability, stability", so any change beyond the scope of the thing I was working on was automatically rejected.
There are other threads of research specifically pointing to HSV + ApoE4: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=hsv1+apoe4

Results aren't consistent, but I would be surprised if the latest round of texts didn't spur further examination.
I think for a cryptocoin to be useful in the real world, scaling and quick transaction times has to be a priority from the start of the design. Its not something you can fix, as an afterthought.

That's why I like xrp. Low transaction times, and it scales well. It is permissioned in the sense that every validator-node needs to keep a list of all the other validator nodes it trusts. Which means validators without a reputatable company behind them, might find it hard to become trusted by anyone else. Thats a price worth paying for scalability, in my opinion.
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To clarify, we don't use LLVM's implementation of coroutines. We have our own implementation in rustc.
The trouble is that advice isn't really actionable. In the real world of commercial software often the only way to satisfy customer requirements is to build a product more complex than the programmer can really understand. Most customers would rather have buggy software (which eventually gets fixed) rather than no software at all.
People love to beat up on these companies because of this stupid world cup prediction. Yes, Goldman is a giant vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity (Matt Taibi quote). But it turns out it's really just great marketing for their research teams.

Also, I've seen some people say (not in this forum) that banks now look stupid because they're in the business of making predictions and they can't even get the world cup right. Guess what? Banks make no money on predictions. They make money on flows and taking spreads on trades they do with clients. Any research or prediction is meant to be a catalyst for that trade.
Have you thought about using Org Mode?

Technically it's just using your editor on plain text files, with a little help to enforce some notation.

Even if you dislike Emacs, you can probably draw some inspiration from it.
Unless I’m unconscious, I can give my doctor permission to access my medical history from where it’s kept under my control, and give them a quick run-down in the meantime if necessary.

I feel that I should have a right to choose between the risk of death when both myself and my emergency contact are unable to provide medical information to a doctor, and the risk of my medical history becoming publicly available - or even just available to the Government. Forcing the latter risk on me is, imho, unethical.
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The download included a persistent notification informing me of the entire download process, including percentage and a finish message. Perhaps you disabled notifications from the app.
What if you're a small business, but haven't paid for a web presence (yet)? Seems like this is an alternative to those.
>The problem with H.265 is the IP situation is a mess.

I really wish the next gen codec, H.266 VVC could sort this royalty mess out before hand.

Why cant we keep things simple. USD $1 Per devices Royalty on Hardware encode and decode, that is roughly $3B + Royalty every year for the next 20 years.

Software Implementation should be free. So an H.266, VVC based image and video decoder could be immediately rolled out to all PC, and browser vendor could support it.

One of the problem with current MPEG codec is that they are too worry about free software implementation take over their royalty. Well we don't have huge increase in IPC anymore. We have a roadmap from TSMC that shows us the next 10 years of leading edge transistor is going to be more expensive then ever. We don't have any breakthrough / theory on hand they we could make those a lot cheaper. The days of Moore's Law are long gone.

This allow hardware maker to sell "faster" video and picture decoding. Consumers are a lot easier to spend money on physical object, then paying $x for faster software. Once they felt how slow their images and video were, it give them an incentive to upgrade, PC, Tablet, Phone etc.
Hacker News paydirt!

Short and sweet. Nice.
An interesting contrast I've noticed is just how "timeless" the UX of certain plumbing fixtures are; the average person today, going back in time to a (well-equipped) house in the early 1900s, would probably have no trouble at all using the sink, toilet[1], or shower. Compare this with the computing industry where a span of 5 years can mean radical and confusing changes.

[1] Amusingly enough, there are YouTube channels showing off nothing but very old toilets --- which look and work nearly the same as modern ones.
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> - creativity in offense (maybe measurable via "target missed from close distance" + "ball passed front of the goal")

This one would benefit possession-based teams, so it would fail to give decent odds to the current world and european champions (France and Portugal respectively) which don't play possession. Of course it's possible they're outliers but we'll never know.
Production creates emissions, not people. A more informative ratio is tons/GDP

US 5087M tons, $19.4 trillion GDP -> 262 tons/M$

EU 4152M tonnes, $17.1 trillion GDP -> 242 tons/M$

So still worse, but not as bad as that.
NTP over TLS next please.
> Unit test thus get written for part that we absolutely want to be maximum certain of that it works correctly.

I think this is a partial answer.

Yes, I write unit tests for such pieces of software. However, what I also write a lot of unit tests for a pieces of software which are hard to write good integration test for because of combinatorial explosion. If I have a part for integration method which consists of a chain of 4 methods, each of which can have 5 different results, that'd mean I'd have to write 4^5 integration tests, which is clearly not possible.
If I were to write unit + integration tests, however, I could do with 4x5 unit tests plus a couple of integration test which prove that the overall combination of those methods work well together.
This is why you need coding standards for ensuring good quality unit tests, and enforce those standards through rigorous code reviews. Developers shouldn't be able to check in crappy unit tests on the release branch.
How much of this drop is due to the US essentially "exporting" it's emissions?

The underlying data is specifically for "emissions from energy". The emissions created during the production of goods imported into the US are not captured here. Manufacturing that has been off-shored would look like a net positive in US emissions, but could actually result in higher world-wide emissions.

A better view would be “consumption-based emission inventories”

See section III.5 here:

https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emis...

"... if we switched to a consumption-based reporting system (which corrects for this trade), in 2014 the annual CO2 emissions of many European economies would increase by more than 30% (the UK by 38%; Sweden by 66%; and Belgium's emissions would nearly double); and the USA's emissions would increase by 7%. On the other hand, China's emissions would decrease by 13%; India's by 9%; Russia's by 14% and South Africa by 29%."
> This doesn't make much sense to me, I wonder if the senior management at these firms understand what the engineers are doing.

When a bunch of well respected people decide to do something which you don’t understand, maybe next time your first instinct should be to ask what you don’t know rather than assuming they’re participating in an IETG process which will be shut down?

In this case, you might start by questioning whether there’s any other explanation for not supporting domain fronting in the past other than support for censorship (hint: Google gave it at the time), and whether those sound engineering reasons might in fact have lead to something like this as an official supported alternative.
I ended up with one really close friend (we live close by, and talk almost daily). As long as that friend is genuinely a great person, that's enough for me. I don't know if I would have bandwidth for another friend.
I was about to ask how ethical it could be to give a pure placebo in cases as serious as heart failure, when simply telling the patient (or the patient's family) that they received some other more conventional procedure should produce similar results.
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> “This year, we’re getting Z% correct, whereas last year we could only get (Z-ε)%” does sound like progress. But is it meaningful?

This is one thing that bother's me a lot when I read published work. I have a feeling this is a result of everyone using the same benchmark datasets, so it inevitably becomes more of an _engineering_ exercise rather than scientific progress.

In NLP the difference between a publishable result and one that is not is often to squeeze out a few extra (Z-ε)% by throwing in an attention mechanism and ensembles to your new super duper improved SOTA architecture.

This is the problem of "replicability", which really requires more than just the same benchmark dataset used over and over again. The author seems to touch on this point later on.

Then there's the issue of "reproducibility". Very few researchers seem to publish their code with instructions how to build and re-create their results. What an awful lot of time is wasted trying to reproduce results. Here's a good example: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/word2vec-toolkit/Q49...
Agree. AU Gov is failing in same way any big corporation fails. There is that strange notion that Managers know better than Engineers and can make technical Decisions.

Good engineers, who love coding, can design a big system, are unlikely to rule over the Design. It'll be bad engineers, now Managers, with good political skills, that got promoted because its their only way to survive, being otherwise useless.

It is totally upside-down, hence the mess.
If people are signing up but not concerting, maybe try surveying the users?
With Expect-CT, sites can opt-in for browsers to report anything suspicious. Not sure how many browsers actually support that though.
You will either lose money or gain money.
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Yes, that's the whole point - combining transportation methods. Taxicabs, trains and bike sharing are all available via different apps and APIs. Whim aims to work as type of an aggregator who offers them all in the same app.
I think he's offering simplicity and convenience, not power. That said, I haven't tried those builders, could someone at the "can post on FB" level of technical competence easily make a site like this, without automatic cross-posting from FB?
Did you use vimwiki's diary functionality?
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OK
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Web developers get pissed because its a strawman. Nobody uses the layers of complexity needed to preprocess, compile, load, link and finally run C++ as a fundamental criticism. Everything anybody does when they work on modern programming platforms is stand on top of layers of complexity that would make anyone's head spin. But when you're writing code for a living what matters is the quality of your hand-tools, the quality of the open source code you rely on and the expressiveness of your language and thus your ability to ship products. Modern web-dev and JS-dev has no problems in this area, but hey what do I know I've only been doing it for 14 years. My day is spent working on products and features, not fighting the language or tooling. Just like anything it requires a little effort and experience.
Unrelated slightly, and I'm not European, but do postdocs/professors really make less than SE1s at FAANG in the UK?
Domain registration is American. I doubt they seriously care about GDPR compliance and would just ignore any EU court filings.
If you're talking about emulating browser requests by tests you are already at integration tests territory.