skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a super interesting post, and I've no reason to think that iterative deepening would be better, just that it is designed to deal with exactly this problem. The lack of growth in novel states may invalidate its main hypothesis though (tree-like growth).

The Python version seems to do DFS using function calls, and I could imagine this isn't the most performant way to do it. Also, the description implies that their DFS implementation retains state; not sure what to make of it, and not a Python reader:

> Depth-First should be a bit kinder to system memory, though it'll still chew up quite a bit remembering which game states we've seen before.
Really? I was thinking about it, but considered -25°C too cold for my likings. I mean, what do you do in the cities? Walking around at -25°C? :(
I agree with the north's advantage being in numbers and resources, but I think it's more complicated than him trying to batter down Lee with it. This image of Grant throwing lives away needlessly comes from the Overland campaign in the war, and it was a complex situation with both of them probing for advantage and Grant eventually pushing him into a siege. Lee lost initiative and wasn't able to recover from that. Sherman, another Union General was able to go into the deep south after that and destroy the south's ability to fight leading to a surrender. I think strategically, he was able to out-perform Lee which no other Union general was able to do in the civil war, which was pretty different from how wars were fought up until that point.

Comments on this post lays it out in much more detail.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1uabom/grant...
The article is not peer reviewed, nor are most of the citations. And none of them go into the details of the cost and skills required for maintenance.

If you want data, go to your local gas supplier and talk to the technicians who maintain the high-pressure compressors. It's not rocket surgery but still way beyond the abilities of most homeowners.
He was banned and notified of it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13606809
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Not the same thing- I dropped out of because lack of money, because the work environment providing the funding let me go, because I called them out for doing things that broke the law and were morally very wrong.

I didn't even bother to claim the alternative diploma I had the credits for.

Now I work with finance and blockchain people, and it's a saner and more honest world. Crazy, I know!
I guess one limitation of this approach is that one can't login to anything from a VM that is running on a server that one has no physical access to - i.e. no way to plug the USB key in.
I find it amusing that we're worried about the potential of fake video/audio. Like everything would be just be fine if it weren't for that possibility.

Deep fakes haven't really shown up in the wild as a significant threat and we already have large swaths of society that can't agree on the truth. Certainly fake media isn't going to help any, but folks, we're ALREADY fucked.
Because most modern PhD factories are sweat shops that offer a rather dismal career prospect. (If you've been through the process --- I suspect there are a lot on HN --- you know what I mean.)
You just take your car and run them right over. That's what you do.
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Unfortunately, "state" can't be used unambiguously to mean a sovereign political entity, because there are so many states that aren't sovereign (e.g. New York). I would guess "nation-state" has acquired it's current popular meaning because it is one of the few terms that unambiguously implies sovereignty, which is what the speaker is usually trying to emphasize.
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I'm not really sure I see how storing TOTP secrets in 1Password is materially any more secure than not using TOTP secrets and just letting 1Password generate a random password for that site.
React Storybook gets full time maintenance
Electron Microscopy Volume of the Entire Brain of Adult Drosophila Melanogaster
This is true of every generation that has grown up with computers and video games.

It's also true of any generation that grew up with manufactured items.

Really, our ability to create has declined with our need to create. Who needs to make their own clothes these days?
Note, it's only a paid feature for private projects on GitLab.com. Public projects get all features of Gold for free: https://about.gitlab.com/open-source/
Obligatory link to phd comics http://phdcomics.com

For those who don't know, he started this comic to warn people off from PhDs. The irony, is he gets a lot of emails thanking him because the comic encouraged them to get theirs...
If you know of improvements, you may be able to submit them via the github repo: https://github.com/rstacruz/cheatsheets
I believe that's only Java 8. Which makes sense.. by the end of 2019, why keep using Java 8? I think this also only applies to the "OpenJDK from Oracle" builds. I expect other vendors can (and will) still provide OpenJDK builds.
A few of my colleagues with bio PhD's have started microbreweries with various levels of success. They seem to be much happier than my colleagues and myself who have chosen the post-doc route.

This is a bit of a tangent but it seems to be a common trend now among labs to arrest trainees (particularly phd students and post-docs) in their positions as long as possible. For example, the institute I am at has recently extended the maximum assignment length for post-doctoral fellows to from 4 to 6 years. I can see the PI's reasoning for this but it is incredibly demoralizing and one of the contributing factors for a lot of people I know who have abandoned their careers for unconventional jobs.
Indeed, the NY Times Sunday Magazine had a piece not long ago about some fellow in Texas who was convicted chiefly on what sounded like really sorry blood splatter evidence: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/23/magazine/joe-...
Can someone briefly explain how does one go about using this (for self learning)?
Keys like this usually have a secondary function to generate a one-time-key, which can be autotyped over the connection.
Yep it appears there is a fee. I hadn't looked into the details, but assumed they must charge at least for material.

Seems as if there's no time limit, but you are charged for filament. (Plus sales tax)

> A printing fee of $0.10 per 1 gram of filament (printing material) will be charged for each print job. An average print job is about 10 grams and costs $1 (10 grams x $0.10 = $1). There is a minimum charge of $0.10 per print job. A 13% tax is also applied to each print job.

> A maximum of two hours is allowed for most print jobs with a dedicated printer available for longer prints at all locations (except Toronto Reference Library). Call your nearest Digital Innovation Hub to inquire about rules and availability of booking a longer print.

https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/using-the-library/comput...

TPL Digital Innovation Hub: https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/using-the-library/comput...
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> If you define a whole house fan as the part of the whole-house swamp cooler

No - that's not what this is. A whole-house fan is a high volume extraction fan, that removes warm air from your house and expels it, usually into your attic (thus displacing hot air which also helps). Cool air is drawn in to the house through open windows, so you can control what rooms get breezes or get cooled first.

While it's interesting to know that people use swamp coolers where you live, you appear to have completely missed the point of the article.
the example BFE Arkansas headline you provided is just an impassionate reporting of the facts. I'd think a more right-wing biased headline would be something a bit more rah-rah and lauding 2A/castle doctrine.
And don't forget regular cardboard. One can do surprisingly much with that.
I use LastPass but have had the same experience - autofill is very, very reliable
Apple makes it hard to service so that only Apple can service.
Also target apple customer is not a DIY kind. Target customer wants "luxury" experience - let apple do everything and they pay for it.

Somewhat similar to any modern luxury car brand BMW, Mercedes, Jaguar - bulk of the revenue is made on post purchase services but in most cases average luxury car buyer will trade in the car before it gets old and needs a service.

Similar case with average apple user - they'll upgrade to a newer phone in 2-3 years any way so no need to service anyway.
I don't think I am the one hanging around with the wrong crowd, specially when looking for job advertisements, even on embedded space.

You can keep your Assembler, my crowd rather uses C++ with intrisics when we need performance.

Being part of the Demoscene was cool, like when Amiga 500 actually mattered.
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The Best Notes Atlas Obscura Readers Found in Used Books
And then when Let's Encrypt's certificate renewal server was down for a few hours, Caddy wasn't able to start because it required to establish a connection with LE to check the certificate and it wasn't able to determine that there was an old, still valid cert available on disk. The bug tracker on Github went wild because people were unable to bring their websites back up but the author was unwilling to acknowledge it as a bug and kept closing the issues. [1]

That was when Caddy lost all its reputation for me.

1: https://github.com/mholt/caddy/issues/1680
Current trends and challenges in post-quantum cryptography [pdf]
The Art of Picking Dependencies
> TOTP is very useful! Just use a TOTP authenticator app on your phone, and don't put them in 1Password.

I was fully in that camp before I started talking with friends on red teams that were allowed to actually start using realistic phishing campaigns. Now I'm fully in the "U2F, client certs, or don't bother" camp.

Maybe I'm jaded, but it feels like the exploit landscape has improved enough that TOTP is as hopeless as enabling WEP on a present-day wireless network. Not only does setting it up waste your time, you're presumably doing so because you have the false belief it will actually offer protection from something. It may have been useful at one point, but those days are disappearing in the rearview mirror.

The only place I see TOTP still offering value is for people who re-use passwords, but only because it becomes the single site-unique factor for authentication.
I took GPs comment to mean exactly that: The average user wouldn't bother even if they did have the vids available. Apple probably doesn't because if they tried, people would think that they should be able to repair the phones themselves, and then get torqued off at Apple when they failed.
Most of academia is toxic. Those who don't see that haven't spent enough time in it.

I believe things can't go well in general in any area where money comes from organized begging ("proposals", "apply for funding"), driven by reputation ("publications", "impact factor") and where the bad eggs can't even be fired ("tenure")
In my opinion, that’s what needs to happen. Thin out the ranks of professors as they move to greener pastures in the workforce and eventually you’ll see schools get in a position where they have to work harder to recruit. Better pay, benefits, support, etc.
A lot of sites are even bad on a 3 or 4 megabit connection, if it's prime time and the Internet is being clogged by Netflix.

That's not a particularly uncommon speed, either. If you pay too much attention to statistics about "average" home internet speed, you're likely to be optimizing for only the top quartile, because the distribution of home Internet speeds is highly skewed.
example, bottom of my anki app

https://i.imgur.com/zv2lEY7.gif

my email btw is in my username if you click it
No better way of describing it, as someone who recently moved from LA to San Jose, I miss those daily random interactions with people who are completely different from you, I believe it keeps you forever open-minded. And the ability to take an UBER and go to a K-town, Little Tokyo or a little Armenia in less than 20 mins..nothing ever beats that.
please use dd/mm/yyyy format, or provide calendar picker
As a follow up, there are ways to detect high level patterns (such as matmul). Polly, LLVM's polyhedral loop optimiser does this [for matmul](https://polly.llvm.org/docs/Performance.html). We plan on generalising this to support more operations.
You can't disprove a negative.

If it's technically indistinguishable, I can't see a valid line of attack against it.
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I bailed out three years into a chemistry PhD and my only regret is that I started it at all.

I'm not saying that going to graduate school is necessarily a mistake but I think a lot of people go because they've done well in school up to that point and aren't sure what else to do with themselves.
We’re also underestimating the mind-warping potential of detecting fake video via carefully trained algorithms.
Millions of educated, experienced workers are tossed aside by a strong economy
Devdocs desktop app
https://github.com/egoist/devdocs-desktop

`brew cask install devdocs`
IsEvenlyDivisibleStrategyFactory.java ... now I remember why I hate java.
CRISPR, one of the biggest science stories of the decade, explained
Questioning the authenticity of records (be they second hand accounts of events, paper documents or 1s and 0s) has been the norm since it became common for people other than royals and clergy to be able to read and write. Jefferson and Adams would not find the concept of "fake news" foreign at all. The sophistication of the authentication mechanism for a document usually has to do with the use case. Official letterhead was good enough for most important routine correspondence. Birth certificates get stamped. Money has fairly sophisticated anti-counterfeiting features.

We'll remember the late 20th and early 21st century as the exception to the rule because during that time period if there was an audio/video recording of something you could be reasonably assured that it was legit. That won't be the case going forward. Audio and video will become a free for all like every other medium.
Not quite. A 6 digit code can be phished out from users pretty easily. They'll enter it anywhere its asked, similar to a password.

However the U2F and Fido spec requires a Cryptographic assertion (with all that replay attack mitigation stuff like Nonces) that makes it so that an attacker can reuse a Token touch. I'd probably encourage a glance over this https://fidoalliance.org/specs/fido-u2f-v1.0-ps-20141009/fid...

Sadly the Wikipedia article doesn't have a good layman's explanation yet, but I'm sure it'll will soon.

Yes at a high level, its still 2FA but like most options in any factor of Auth. It can be improved upon. (For a simple case, take Fingerprint readers and look at the advances of liveliness checks and how many unique points it requires.)
Maybe that should be step one in household energy efficiency: close the damper when there's no fire in the fireplace! b^)
I am skeptical that will ever happen. At least in North America there are a plethora of international students willing to train here for next to nothing and in some cases I've heard rumours of post-docs not taking a salary at all.
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Pebbles are quite cheap and offer 7 days of battery. The company went bankrupt, but you can still use the devices with rebble. The Pebble 1 is about 40€ and the rare Pebble 2 about 120€.
Most incoming grad students enter PhD programs with incorrect assumptions about how grad school works. A decent number of those incorrect assumptions involve the grad student role itself. For instance, I knew of a research assistant headed to grad school who was thrilled because he/she liked to learn in classroom environments, which is only a very small part of what grad school is at best (although coming out of undergrad, you might assume that it's a bigger part of a PhD than it is).

All prospective grad students should read over the following to understand what they're truly getting into / developing realistic expectations before committing a substantial amount of their life to the Ivory Tower. The first link covers toxicity in academia (YMMV), which is more or less what drove me out of lab work and into IT. I personally chose to remain working in academia because I find it meaningful, but in a role that was more insulated from academic politics (vs generic work politics).

[0] http://academiaiskillingmyfriends.tumblr.com/

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Getting-What-You-Came-Students/dp/037...

[2] http://100rsns.blogspot.com/
yeh this is probably miles better than what I do to my Nanos.
The commas that cost companies millions
Practical homomorphic encryption over integers (2017)
> The most iron-clad part of showing direct gene->trait causation is the 4

I would not say it's iron-clad gene->trait causation. Even wth 4 sibling-comparisons and the same environmental factors, it can be gene-environment interaction -> trait

Their study finds that genes associated with attainment are active in neurons. These genes might just protect brain from environmental damage. For example: from malnutrition by using nutrients more effectively, infections, heavy metals, or mother smoking or using alcohol, ...
Some do, but it's inefficient on a couple of levels. First, the damper to divert air to the attic will never seal perfectly (or at least it won't a short while after it's lived in your attic) so you'll always be losing some cooling to your attic when your AC runs. Secondly, the volume of air an AC system is set up to move does not come close to comparing with the amount of air a properly sized while-house fan will move. The blowers are just designed for 2 different roles...
`@implicitNotFound` still only gives you a top-level failure message. Also, my comment was aimed more at developers of libraries with complex implicit derivations not the consumers of such libraries.
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Relevant, from the article FAQ:
"A recent study of Icelandic families showed that the parental allele that is not passed on to the parent’s offspring is still associated with the child’s educational attainment, suggesting that GWAS results for educational attainment partly represent these intergenerational pathways (Kong et al. 2018). Our sibling analyses yield results that are consistent with this conclusion (see FAQ 2.4)."

So, it might just be both environment and the genetic influence both correlating to the same thing, and they admit as much.
Losing work product is a far more common occurence, and while it can be turned into a moral argument that people really should just backup their stuff - The truth is they don't and the stress of a looming deadline is exactly the scenario where accidents are most likely.
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those that supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the last from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts, and recycling it for more than its worth.
I actually got voted down for that! Some laugh in here.
The 207 page Supplementary Material is here:
https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs415...
(probably pay walled).

Interesting discussion of genes and pathways involved around page 84.
"Results: Causal Genes and Enriched Gene Sets"

I'll just type in the pathways. ( Supplementary Figure 22.) "Brain Specific Expression of Significantly Enriched Gene Sets across Development. (page 196)":
Chromatic modification, protein binding transcription factor activity, npBAF complex, Central nervous system neuron differentiation, forebrain development, partial posttnatal lethality, abnormal cerebral cortext morphology, endometrial cancer , GAB1 signalosome, regulation of nervous system development, telencephaol cell migration, protein tyrosine kinase activity , neuron recognition, axon guidance, small cerebellum protein phosphatase regulator activity, signaling by eGFR, dendrite morphogenesis, signaling by NGF, regulation of neuron projection development, behavioral fear response, DAG and IP signaling, associative learning , voltage-gate calcium channel activity , ataxia, extracellular-glutamte-gate ion channel activity, post NMDA receptor activation events, regulation of neurotransmitter levels, regulation of synaptic transmission, synapse part ,gate channel activity.

Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (snps) discussed in supplement are:rs10189857 rs1167898 rs11678980 rs18235539 rs182355396 rs186456786 rs186456786 rs186456786 rs5951458 rs61734410

Links to dbsnp for snps discussed in supplement:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/SNP/snp_ref.cgi?rs=101...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/SNP/snp_ref.cgi?rs=116...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/SNP/snp_ref.cgi?rs=116...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/SNP/snp_ref.cgi?rs=182...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/SNP/snp_ref.cgi?rs=182...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/SNP/snp_ref.cgi?rs=186...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/SNP/snp_ref.cgi?rs=595...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/SNP/snp_ref.cgi?rs=617...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/SNP/snp_ref.cgi?rs=624...
The Coolerado looks like a self-contained evaporative cooler with a heat-exchanger.

What are the costs and specs on such equipment?
Younger people (school grads and older) typically have better English than the older ones. Also, it doesn’t hurt to have a translator app on your mobile.
Immense oligopoly on its way
poor, because 1. fork exists, and 2. the application incurring OOM is statistically unlikely to be the one that should be killed on multi-application servers, and 3. 99.9% of applications do not correctly handle malloc returning NULL in 100% of cases. some make an effort, but except for stuff like SQLite, almost nobody tests it, so it's usually broken at least 1% of the time.
Check out the "You Are No So Smart" podcast. The author goes through all of the ways that our brain can be tricked/is tricked in daily life.
https://youarenotsosmart.com/

For example, in one episode [https://youarenotsosmart.com/2016/10/09/yanss-085-memory-ill...]:
"Julia Shaw’s research demonstrates the fact that there is no reason to believe a memory is more accurate just because it is vivid or detailed. Actually, that’s a potentially dangerous belief.

Shaw used techniques similar to police interrogations, and over the course of three conversations she and her team were able to convince a group of college students that those students had committed a felony crime.

In this episode, you’ll hear her explain how easy it is to implant the kind of false memories that cause people just like you to believe they deserve to go to jail for crimes that never happened and what she suggests police departments should do to avoid such distortions of the truth."

TL/DR: What is reality? How can I even trust my senses?
Without revealing too much (and possibly this qualifies as spoilers anyway), in Seveneves (Stephenson, not Asimov), it is a comet that, in a sense, 'becomes' the ship.
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I'm sorry, but your example falls a little flat when you look at how Fox News became the lynchpin of the shit-show the US is sinking in to right now.

People adapted to it, sure- but that's the problem.
I pay for elementary OS and Godot Engine on Patreon.
The U2F-Zero is about $9, and the cheapest U2F device I know of. They work well, but aren’t as durable as other options.

https://www.amazon.com/U2F-Zero/dp/B01L9DUPK6
I added a separate comment to add some information about my situation. It addresses your question and advice too.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17594084
> driver by reputation ("publications", "impact factor") and where the bad eggs can't even be fired ("tenure")

From personal experience, I've always felt as though the existence of "rock star" academics always gave academia a Hollywood-like feel in terms of systemic abuse and candidly bizarre and maladaptive behaviors on the part of researchers.