skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I pointed out, each time, that they were the ones who called me so I should be verifying them. "But, sir, WE are the bank and you could be anyone who just answered your phone."

There has got to be a word for this and similar behavior. Banks, credit card agencies, mobile phone companies are getting really aggressive with how they handle these sort of transaction based interactions and I'm leaning towards wanting to see them get slapped with regulation for it.

I bring it up because a few years back I fell into some hard times, resulting in missing some payments. In a good faith attempt to get caught back up once I found a new job and could right the ship, I called my creditors immediately and tried to make payments and setup payment plans the first paycheck I got.

None of them failed to ask what I thought was a very annoying and horrifically invasive question: "Why were you late on your payments?"

Each time I rebutted asking if disclosing my living situation was required to make a payment or if I should request an escalation to someone who will just take the money. One creditor kept trying to say "We're asking because we want to do you a favor/we understand things are hard sometimes" and I kept asking them if failure to disclose my life situation would prevent payment until they gave up and took the payment.

It strikes me as an offensive, invasive and utterly worthless question and whenever asked I just hang up and call back. Same thing when some entity calls and immediately starts asking for sensitive info. "Send me a letter in the mail with a phone number and I'll call you back when I'm good and ready, otherwise no I'm not just giving you my SSN because you called me at 7:30 on a Monday evening and asked for it".

Fiduciaries are getting bold, I tell you.
oh wow. another google + lol
I think another thing that influences annoying habits of "effective" people is that no executive/manager is going to hold a CEO accountable for being late/strolling into work, whereas if a CEO didn't like it that person would be be immediately told to stop and change their behavior.
Ask HN: Please help me understand why the SEC settled with Elon Musk and Tesla
I don't want to talk about Elon Musk or Tesla here (it's valid conversation topic, but there's been a lot said already). I strictly want to understand why a government body charged with enforcing rules on behalf of the US people declined to go all the way.

From my scant understanding of the events and the laws, the SEC had an open and shut case to win. Why didn't the SEC try to get a guilty plea, or move forward with the necessary legal proceedings to do so? If the argument is that the court finding Elon Musk and Tesla to be guilty would effectively be a death knell for the company, then I have to ask why the punishment in crimes involving individuals seem so much harsher to me.

To be fair, the SEC isn't the only government body that seems to settle against corporations or sufficiently powerful/wealthy/connected individuals, but the arguments in the SEC's favor seem overwhelmingly clear cut to me (i.e. a "slam dunk") and the topic is easy to follow (a small number of events within a short time frame, a small number of clear and concise legal precedents of the law in question).
That’s similar to asking: which species is the most successful one? By which measure? Bio-mass? Space occupied?
I'm not convinced that SE activity measures difficulty. But it certainly is affected by much more than just popularity. I could imagine it measuring the total API surface, as you can ask more questions about larger subjects.

It's certainly a deeply flawed measure, but then pure search engine hits like TIOBE are likely much worse.
DreamHost just stopped supporting catch-all emails, so I'll be switching to this to forward my catch-all to my gmail account.
The company may be liquidating but the service looks identical.
Because MSVC does not support those, and VLA became optional in C11.

That's why we decided to not use them in dav1d.
That extra genetic code isn't ancient alien viruses. It's part of a message from our forebearers, which has to be combined with genetic code from other alien races in this quadrant.

There was a ST:TNG episode about this.
Common cause, adhd leads to both.
Nash's 300 word paper had two references. He was awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for it.
Yes, this is how Android and the Web in general handle permissions. I haven't yet seen what Google is planning for Manifest v3, but I suspect it will use a permissions system built around a similar model, with users getting explicit opt-in prompts for each permission the extension requires. (Though I'm not 100% sure of that yet, it's possible that sort of permissions system might not be practical for browser extensions for reasons I haven't anticipated.)
Game engine code and data types creep into all your code. I once heard an indie game developer describe this as "smushing playdough against a mold" (where your game-specific not engine-specific code is the playdough and the mold is the engine API).
Come on... most MBA programs are 2 years of full time study. You really going to compare "just Google it" or "digesting some key books like The Mom Test" to a MBA program? To push the logic further, what if it was a Harvard or Stanford MBA?
Hey. I have a lot to say :), and I provided a lot of thoughts to this FastCompany article about the industry - https://www.fastcompany.com/90225352/microsoft-is-the-right-.... Generally, as we have seen media wants to be streamed. And in this case, streaming is a great solution for distributing content and unlocking games from the hardware they've been walled off in. That being said, streaming video games is a very different proposition technically and financially. People have been asking for the Netflix of gaming for a long time, and companies really want to build it because it puts them at the center of an entertainment industry that is growing extremely fast and grabbing more attention every year. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics now says that the average American's day includes 60% more time playing video games than it did in 2011, and people who do play games play for 2.4 hours each day. Most of the technical challenges with this have been worked out.

Streaming video at 60 FPS or greater and at 4K is possible. We do it all day at Parsec, but the economic challenges are real due to the requirement that you need to render video in real-time. Rendering in real-time requires each user to have access to a GPU or 1/2 of a cloud GPU until newer technologies allowing for true virtualization appear on the market. Cloud GPUs are generally very expensive to operate, and as many of us know, the cloud providers charge a lot to use them for gaming and/or ML. Companies with scale can lease them at lower rates and have lower energy costs lowering the overall cost to serve, but they are still very expensive to operate. Even if you get the rates down to $0.15 per hour, you're still looking at overall hardware costs at $10 per month. Your subscription price will have to cover the hardware and the content license. The content itself is very expensive to license as well because we consume games very differently from the way we consume TV and media. When people binge on Netflix, they're binging on many shows or many movies. When people binge on games, they're playing 1 game for 100s of hours. You can see this in the Steam Spy data. The median Steam customer only buys 1-2 games each year - https://galyonk.in/steam-in-2017-129c0e6be260. Many cloud gaming companies and game companies are aiming to increase the market for AAA games via streaming from the cloud. They're trying to reach the latent gamers who don't play games any more. In our opinion, that's a lot less exciting than delivering something valuable to current consumers of games. Consumers don't switch to a new distribution technology because it's a cool technology. They switch when it gives them something unique that they couldn't get before the technology existed.

This is why, at Parsec (https://parsecgaming.com), we're focused on delivering unique experiences around games via streaming technology. We make it so you can find other people around you and invite friends to play local co-op games with you online. We're recreating the couch gaming experience we love and making it available online. This experience brings a new element to gaming that gamers today benefit from and enjoy.
It is also skewed towards what slightly-beyond-beginners use; many true beginners haven't discovered it, many experienced people more easily find the same answers without posting.
The study was about Israeli parole boards, not US court cases. The study was flawed from the beginning because they incorrectly categorized favorable/unfavorable decisions. However, ignoring that:

The daily court schedules were arranged to minimize the amount of time lawyers and prisoners spent waiting in court. Each lawyer would usually represent several prisoners, and would go through all of their clients consecutively. The court would schedule the lawyers and clients starting after meal breaks. After all lawyers and their clients that were scheduled for a block of time had gone through, then they would fill the remaining time until the next meal with cases by prisoners without lawyers.

Cases with lawyers had a 35% favorable outcome rate, while cases without lawyers would have a 15% favorable outcome rate. In addition, each lawyer would present their best case first and worst cases last.

So yes, the daily calendars were arranged such that the first prisoner after a meal break was extremely likely to get a favorable outcome, and the prisoner right before a meal break had only a 15% chance of a favorable outcome.
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Isn’t that their pro-services offering where they monkeyed together a bunch of enterprise scripts for bugs/shortfalls Apple will never fix/implement? Last I checked, I think the only MDM “service” they offer is evaluating your situation as part of the enterprise package and no matter what telling you to use JAMF.
If there are people in the VideoLAN community who don't work on VLC, then they are different communities. One might be a superset of the other, but they aren't equivalent.

To me, it's not bad wording to mention communities that have a lot of overlap. There's no rule that says you should only list things that are disjoint.
Having spent a bit of time working on projects that touch the phone network, I think it is a 'major nightmare' in the Lovecraftian sense--I for one am forever changed by what I saw.

As for billing, it is usually based on the destination number, and your originating telco, unless I am misunderstanding your question.
A future-tense corollary: “What if it turns out not to be open source?”

As someone who works in crypto-currency, the enduring mystery over who invented bitcoin bothers me a lot.

The going belief is in a still-anonymous fairy godfather, Satoshi Nakamoto, who gave unto the world his/her/their foundational idea, or intellectual property, and said go forth and multiply.

Just one problem: What if Nakamoto invented his/her/their technology at a company or academic institution? That institution c/would claw back the intellectual property. Where there is intellectual property, there are patent lawyers; and where there are patent lawyers, there are licensing fees! See Oracle v. Google over Sun Microsystems' Java.

What if the reason he/she/it maintains anonymity is because to reveal himself is to reveal where he worked when he invented bitcoin? That employer would be the true owner of the IP, and open-source bitcoin would go private. The foundational idea that's launched a thousand startups, supposedly open-source, turns out to be anything but open-source. That would suck.

I wager that, at some point in the future, bitcoin will be private property owned by a corporation or academic institution.
That actually doesn't quite solve the problem as we disallow dynamic code evaluation. This is for a couple reasons:

* Security: In case of an attack we need to be able to call up the code to do forensics, which is hard if it was downloaded dynamically at runtime.

* Optimizations: We want to keep the ability to pre-compile code e.g. into V8 code cache format before distributing it to the edge.
Factorio works because the gameplay is completely original. It scratches a building + automating + researching loop that no other game has. Many people compare it to programming or electrical engineering design - the satisfaction of automating something that used to take manual effort is great, and very addictive.

The graphics are bland and the early parts of the game feel like a pre-release / beta build, but the addictive gameplay and infinite end-game potential got it a lot of great coverage.
On Debian, you can just go to "Online Accounts" and add a Google Account, then your Google Mail will appear in Evolution Mail. Not sure what protocol is behind it, but it works when IMAP doesn't. Bonus: Evolution Mail comes with PGP support built in.
Really feel sad about recent prevailing sentiment across HN. Some comments seem to suggest Google needs to provide the following for this kind of "tech test":

* Available for all browsers and comply all web standards.

* Available for all languages across all regions, with accessibility features.

* Promise not to "launch and shutdown in a few years".

* Imply a real future product.

But I'm guessing what Google wants to do is to just prove if "game streaming" is technically / financially viable for mass crowds based on their technology in hand. If not, maybe shelf and wait for a couple of years without dumping a lot of resources and drawing bad sentiment.

What requirements are you thinking which should be applied to such a "tech test"?
>What does random mean? It just means you didn't include every possible influence in your mathematical model of whats going on.

In physics, it is fundamentally impossible to predict the outcome of wave function collapses/pick your favorite interpretation's verb. CERN doesn't do statistics on their histograms because they don't have good models...

That aside, does the difference between a lack of knowledge and a lack of predictability really matter? Either way all you can do is calculate the odds.

>Most science has nothing to do with "effect sizes",

True, that language is not used everywhere. However if your department deals with signals that are hard to distinguish from background then you have some way of expressing that idea in your vernacular, whatever it is.
Reseting a PIN is different from having access to the old PIN number. Obviously some system in the bank has to verify that the PIN you enter at an ATM matches the one you selected but resetting is a separate operation that does not require the original number.
I definitely think there's value in hosted datomic. But I was under the impression the license forbade it - did they change that?
The most obvious reason is portability. Even though it's been nearly twenty years since the C99 standard, some compilers still haven't implemented VLAs. To make things worse, the next revision of the C standard (C11) made VLAs optional, so these compilers now have an excuse to never implement it.

But even discounting that, there are still some issues with VLAs. For instance, the Linux kernel decided to remove all uses of VLAs they had, because they generate worse code than a partially-used fixed-size buffer, and also make it easier to overflow the kernel stack. VLAs, like their ancestor alloca(), seem convenient but often are more trouble than they're worth.
Very easy to blow up your stack with unsanitized input
Can confirm from Colorado. They send everyone a vote by mail application whether you ask for it or not.
If anyone has the resources and technical expertise to make it work, it'd be Google.
Also education and childcare
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The insecurity comes from the fact that once a call is in the network, it is mostly passed off without validation or verification. You only need to find someone willing to carry your call in to the network, and the rest takes care of itself.

To change the routing of a call other than yours would require you to access a carrier's systems and change where the call is routed to--which is substantially more difficult.
The New Turing Omnibus has a good chapter on the Incompleteness Theorem; it covers the basics in 5 or 6 pages, if memory serves.
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Ralph Nader spoke recently at the Politics and Prose bookstore in DC about how few people it takes leading through action to get change done if public opinion backs them.

https://youtu.be/OWxc_kYmPTE
It's very hard to believe Godel didn't face problems you faced. He probably did mistakes too, and went back periodically to make sure his proofs are sane. He was probably stuck too, many times even, and solved those problems as other mathematicians solve their problems. After all, it took him many years to complete his proof. And even more years until theorems stabilized to today's form (i.e. Rosser's trick etc). People have been practicing formal mathematics long before Godel, and this cycle of being stuck and solving problems is pretty common in mathematics. His coworkers would have had the same sort of issue. This seems to indicate me that GP comment is right that the inciting incident was understanding the correspondence between mathematics and its encoding. Which brings us to:

> E.g. Hilbert understood mathematics as a symbolic game

Hilbert had a radically different understanding of the nature of mathematics compared to Godel. Moreover, Hilbert was radical enough that he tried to use his fame to silence people with differing views than him (e.g. Brouwer). Hilbert hardly believed Godel when he published his results, because it was easy to see that it would shake the foundations of "Hilbert's Program" something Hilbert spent half his life on (and logicians still publish papers about the relationship between Godel's Incompleteness theorems and Hilbert's Program). This makes Hilbert orders of magnitude less motivated to think about this issue, probably. On the other hand, Godel had various non-mathematical reasons to prove incompleteness, one being his desire to block materialism; check for Godel's Gibbs Lectures.
super cool for those of us that prefer to never leave the terminal!
Also a good example of quality python3 code.
It's completely insecure because someone could call you, spoof your bank's number, and claim to be your bank.
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> Every small business/individual contractor has the means to illegitimately write off tens of thousands of dollars.

But I'll add that every small business/contractor has the right to write off a lot of things, or portions of things that they use for business.
If your looking for some human connections, I would recommend Folk Stories: http://folkstories.org. It's a podcast focused on dialogue with interesting people - like an audio version of "Humans of New York" (disclaimer: I'm the host)

This is inspired by other podcasts that I follow, mainly "Tim Ferris Show", "Waking Up with Sam Harris" and "Fresh Air"
And for what? To protect their money. It's their responsibility to stop fraud and cover losses. Not mine. I'm paying them my monthly service fee to safely store my money. People don't seem to understand this. If I want to saddle all the risk myself I'll use cash in my mattress.
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It may be true that Javascript is the most used language for "websites", but the percentage of programmers who work on websites is tiny.

Take any big company, go to their jobs site and browse through tech jobs to get a rough sense of what portion involve building websites with Javascript.

As one random example, I just glanced at Bank of America (http://careers.bankofamerica.com/search-jobs.aspx), a $300bn company that employees 200k people, and if I look at "Technology", I see pages of Java/ .Net/ Hadoop roles before I get to the first UI/ website/ frontend one.
I've gotten that request via email before and nearly fell for it once. I also ended up buying a Carfax just in case people started referring me to other sites just to push them a bit ("I have a carfax, is that okay?").
I believe that's a misinterpretation of Goedel; it's an incompleteness theorem, not an unsoundness theorem.

Incompleteness: there exist true statements that lack proofs

Unsoundness: there exist false statements with proofs

If I understand all this correctly, what Goedel demonstrated was that a sufficiently complex logical system could self-reference, and from self-reference unprovable (not contradictory) true statements fall out.

By reductio ad absurdum any self-contradictory logical system is useless as a logic because everything is provable in it, so one wonders if such systems should even be considered "logical systems".
Oh man, all the questions you just asked only highlight exactly why an MBA is so beneficial for mid-career people haha! I'm an adult student doing concurrent CS and business degrees after a long time dabbling in both, and in both cases the value of college was in the things I wouldn't have thought to learn or wouldn't have thought were valuable, especially in places where the signal-to-noise ratio is really low and snake oil is everywhere, like the marketing example you just gave.

Just as a small example, why do you need to read financial report at all? Because that is the language of investors and managers. Why read financial reports for some random company? Benchmarking, so you can tell investors and stakeholders "this is how well we are doing vs comparable companies." A template generator won't help you with this kind of analysis, and those services you mention won't help you if you can't really understand them.

I'm not saying you need an MBA to be a good business person, and I felt like my BBA (which I'm told is mostly the same material as an MBA, at least at my school) only confirmed that my instincts and self-learning after 8 years in the workforce was pretty good...but man, those little bits I didn't know and hadn't thought to learn (especially around finance and proper marketing) were the ones that have ended up mattering the most.
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I would say that's a pretty inaccurate analogy. The incompleteness theorem can be considered a consequence of the halting problem, but not the other way around. The incompleteness theorem depends heavily on the properties of Peano arithmetic, as defined by the presence of both addition and multiplication. If you construct a set of numbers with one defined arithmetic operation (Presburger arithmetic), the incompleteness theorem does not hold and all statements can be confirmed or disconfirmed by an algorithm (albeit not efficiently). The halting problem, by contrast, is much more general, and recurs in many settings where self-reference is possible.
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