skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it correct that Firefox makes your extension live in a short time after you upload it as long as you pass some automated checks? But it can get taken down if it fails the review performed by a human later?
Paul funds some interesting brain research:

https://alleninstitute.org/
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There is an excellent book on such things that I highly recommend: How to lie with statistics

Problems like this are part of why we have sayings like:

Measure twice, cut once.

GIGO (Garbage in, garbage out)

Some saying about measuring to extreme precision, then "cutting with an axe."
Previous generation X1 had OLED screen option which seems to have been discontinued.

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be bright enough for solid outdoor use.

p.s. one trick to use outdoors is to change your editor theme from dark to bright.
'A Vector Space Approach to Geometry'
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0486404528/?coliid=I1QSA8WHK9SQJN

'Geometry: An Introduction'
https://www.amazon.com/dp/4871877183/?coliid=I56AS7R6YZMW

The first one if you want a bridge to modern geometry from common university math. The second if you want to start from abstract foundations at the early-undergraduate level.
I don't have much hope. Hangouts is still rarely a flawless experience whether due to software or connection issues.
This is a very simple version of learning you’re discribing :) the Internet and conferences... the world outside of the Valley doesn't work this way.

Here are some answers from a broad perspective, couldn't find the Elon Musk answer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_NhYV63K5E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkawh2kiAYQ
"That's a whole different ballpark from voting machines which don't use a hardware TPM [0] to attest votes, but instead store them in csvs while running windows CE such that an attacker with a jumpdrive can plug it in and alter records."

you're not getting any of these access with out modifying hardware at the poling station. If poll monitoring is being performed, they're going to notice someone taking apart a voting machine.

I was at the Voter Village, Two years in a row I spent time disassembling the machines. They're not as easy as you're making it out.

Being a part of monitoring of these systems is not something stopped by big business. That's a cop out.

TPM should be a part of medical devices, but it's not. I would argue that's even more important than a voting machine. Unless you work for a manufacturer or are building a voting machine with these systems, sitting around and saying you could do X or Y doesn't solve a damn thing.
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(For the uninformed like me, VLA stands for Variabe-Length Array)
Updating a Django queryset with annotation and subquery
> This exact approach seems applicable in this situation. People should take boats to it, just on the principle of asserting access.

People are already asserting access by demanding use of the beach access easement.
Steam Link is definitely a good value on sale, but I feel it's still pretty buggy. Often time the desktop will flicker and the controller support is still not great. Definitely doesn't feel as polished as running a console.
Best case result of this is you sitting there for several hours, and then them deciding to seize the device anyways.
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If the claim is "the federal government is too big and expensive", then I agree with you. I think many people do. Even more would agree with you if the taxes were actually high enough to pay for all this government, instead of running a deficit every year.
Sales engagement startup Apollo says its massive contacts database was stolen
Hey, Cadran. Thank you for creating Leap - it's important work.

On the other hand, initially, I thought this was about https://leap.ai.
Even if it doesn't work, at least it would do a lot of good to take money away from such a jerk, and give it to the people.
Yes, I’m there too, feels like we are participating in history.
Haha yeah Beard Man should have left his laptop at home. Still, they must have been pretty confident in the evidence they already had when they issued that arrest warrant.
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There is reasonable security. From your link:

> an attacker that obtains such a serial number ... will be able to enroll a device of their own as if it were owned by the organization, as long as it's not currently enrolled in the MDM server.

So, the rule is at-most-once enrollment.

And further down:

> some organizations elect not to require user authentication as part of MDM enrollment.

IOW, if you are not enabling authentication, you have only yourself to blame.
Fine, make it a percentage of the assessed value of his property.
Two megapreachers defend their private jets
The Datawire folks are great! We're a happy user of Ambassador. I definitely recommend checking them out.
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> From my perspective, democrats are working to improve election security while republicans are not.

Does voter ID improve election security?

Which party opposes voter ID laws?
I do this too.. And then they started hitting my work number, which forwards to my phone, and only displays as my company's number so I have to check, just in case.
What about an out of band verification by the carriers?

Basically a large registry. When I call someone I tell t-mobile who I'm calling, and they register it. Then on the receiving end Verizon checks with T-mobile or a central registry, and says yep James's number is calling this number. Then it marks it as a verified call.
Sounds like an awful school administration handling their poorly built systems issues with the least grace possible.
Here's a simple test for you to apply: what if Verizon decided it wants out of the 911 'business'? Certain resources (like spectrum, or the beach) belong to the people, in exchange of using those public resources, individuals often make some concessions on how they run their business.
This was my profs book: http://linear.ups.edu

I still ended up buying the hardcopy, but it was nice having it online for free.

Sophomore year of college I released that I could buy a nice iPad, torrent my course books, and come out ahead.

The online homework code is such a racket.
Reify was very pleasant to interview with.
https://xkcd.com/1987/

Don't get me wrong, I like Python. If you're a non-programmer and you want to start programming, and you want to be useful and to be able to automate stuff quickly, you should learn Python.

Especially where math and statistics stuff is concerned -- I have a friend who recently started programming, and Python was his entry point. Unfortunately, the environment problems that everyone says are solved are still a pain. I had to troubleshoot his setup a lot; in particular it was a pain to make sure that if he called `python` from the command line it would be the same version as his IDE.

And Python as a language is just kind of big. It's the same problem that Javascript suffers from -- sure, you can learn just the basic stuff, but will that help you when you're looking at other people's code online? Will that help you if you're checking out an OS project? That kind of ecosystem matters for accessibility.

Both Python and Javascript have this philosophy of "there should be a library for everything". But what that means is that there's a ton of extra stuff just floating around, and no matter how much you tell people to ignore it, they don't. It's not a bad thing, in a lot of ways it's a very good thing. But it has consequences.

Python adds onto that with the idea that everything should be readable. So there are multiple ways to iterate over an array, and the syntax sometimes subtly changes so the code looks cleaner. These are, again, not bad things. But they have consequences. They increase the number of concepts you're wrapping your head around.
Compare Python with TI-83 Basic. A much, much smaller standard library that you can teach even a brand new programmer in like, a month. A few interesting restrictions (limited variables) that subtly push towards more advanced concepts (I learned how pointers worked on the TI-83 before I know what the word meant).

I think this is why people gravitate towards platforms like the Pico-8. There's something refreshing about being in a bounded environment where all of the concepts are kept small. Learning to program for the first time is about experimenting and learning to go in depth with a couple of concepts, not learning a wide variety of concepts.

That friend I was talking about eventually went back to doing a lot of programming in Excel instead of Python. Python was more powerful, and he played with it a bit, but he has an entire grasp around how cells in Excel interact with each other, so he's able to do creative stuff by just thinking about the stuff he already knows. He can write a program on paper without being at a computer. In contrast, when he wanted to do something creative in Python, he had to go Google "how do I do X"?
functional programming saves the world. learn that.
I haven't even had a debit card issued for my core bank account, and there is very little chance I ever would at this point. There just isn't a good reason to put my money at risk when I can use a variety of credit cards instead, and just pay them off every month. On the rare occasion I need cash, I can do a cash advance (with an associated charge....really useful motivation to avoid needing cash more than once or twice a year).

Unrelated, but I'm pretty sure I know what credit union they're talking about. Super nice place that is focused on the tech workers in the Portland area, and I've always had good experiences with them.
I love it, but that's sort of because it's not a real tech scene. I was in SF for five years before moving back to STL and while I love the city, the tech culture kind of wore on me. Things are a bit less like an echo chamber here I think.

St. Louis has a tech community, but it's pretty small, and there aren't very many people who have already experienced success. As a result, while there are a lot of the normal startup things like co-working spaces, networking events, etc., it isn't a particularly big part of life unless you really want it to be. It's easy to meet people who work in other industries, and I think people generally don't link their personal identity to their employer as much. I also think more people find satisfaction in non-tech work (like customer service, teaching, etc.). I consider this to be a more healthy and hopefully sustainable environment.

Having said that, it's a bit funny because many people in the tech scene here haven't experienced the Bay Area and they think STL is sort of "the next silicon valley" which is just so hilariously not true. I view that as a good thing because I left SF for a reason, but I do wish people would stop pretending that it's a first-class tech hub. It's just a great mid-sized city with roughly the same number of tech jobs as any other mid-sized city.
I took a quick look because I'm aware of the work that has gone in to producing the best estimates of \Lambda CDM parameters from CMB data. This has been done by large-scale MCMC - not DL at all. But, the CMB signal really is Gaussian, so MCMC is well-suited.

By going to the trouble of making a principled forward model including error statistics, you get error bars on all reported parameters, such as the age of the universe - these error bars are critical to later analysis. ("This model requires a Hubble constant in the range ... which is not supported by current observational evidence.")

Parameter estimation from large scale structure is not as "easy". OTOH, I wonder about the accuracy of their map from (cosmological parameters) -> (Large scale structure), because that's what their system is inverting. That is, I wonder about their training data.

From sec. 4C of the current paper, and comparing to their reference to Ravanbakhsh et al 2017 (ICML, [1]), they seem to be using numerical simulations (N-body sims representing gravitational coalescence). These models might have large systematic errors, and their inverse may have its own problems.

Long way to say: I wonder how these estimates of Lambda CDM parameters are viewed by the astrophysics community? The present paper is more of a systems/methods paper than an astrophysics paper. The estimates will come with no error bars, and will be critically based on the simulations used, and the NN limitations.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.02033.pdf
Relevant:

https://republicprotocol.com/
The lack of an agreement wouldn’t help you anyway. It would be theft of services, no different than taking a cab and running off after refusing to pay.
And, for those who don't know, you can help host the Internet Archive now by running a P2P/decentralized backup of it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17685682
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From https://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3141310154691952@naggum... "if you aren't using today's fad language in the very latest version of
the IDE, you'll be left behind. aaaugh! but it's good that some people
run like they are scared out of their wits. if they suddenly disappear
over the edge of a cliff, a good number of people will notice in time and
_not_ follow them. those are the ones that matter."
Thanks, I had no idea about that. I found their Game Books Collection today, thought that was pretty neat.

https://archive.org/details/gamebooks
Elections are not national defense.

State and local governments have been handling their own elections since before the country was founded. This is a good thing, because it keeps elections close to the people, accountable to the people.

The last thing we need is nationalized elections. That would make all of our elections vulnerable together. And that includes federal funding for state and local elections, because federal funding always comes with extensive rules and regulations, which would effectively put elections under federal control.

We need to move more government and accountability closer to the people, not to Washington, D.C.
Google has always bootstrapped services, especially stuff from their 20%-time program. Orkut, Google Lively, Google Video, Wave, Google Offers, Google Health, and on and on.
i.e. CLRS = Introduction to Algorithms by Thomas Cormen, Charles Leiserson, Ronald Rivest and Clifford Stein.
> I once heard that root causes are almost never fixable

I think we are playing with the definition of root cause here.
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Engineers think they could do the business part of they "really wanted to", but don't believe MBAs could do their job.

They think they are smarter. Also there's a shocking amount of nerds vs jocks BS that still goes on well into adulthood.

Some people never get over high school.
Net Neutrality: All Court Filings in United States V. State of California
GhostDNS: New DNS Changer Botnet Hijacked Over 100,000 Routers
Criticizing human nature is a good way to improve our behavioral defaults. For example using science instead of burning witches.

You seem surprised someone would criticize a bad manifestation of human nature. That puzzles me, given that it’s so historically effective.
Why do publishers leave Steam? A make-your-own-platform trend?
I learned not travel with just one credit card after my CU botched a software update while I was in a middle of the trip in Prague - already checked out from the hotel but not yet taken the rental car to drive to the next hotel in a different city. The looming possibility of sleeping in the street was rather instructive.

Since then I always carry three credit cards when traveling, from three different banks, and each from a different payment system in case if a systemic issue.
Quoting "I very quickly realized that very smart people often have very little knowledge of finance and business."

Can you defend this statement? I don't think I am misunderstanding what he is trying to say. This statement makes no sense to me.