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Ironically, when going to less stressful place, many westerners dislike the slow pace of life, which probably increase their blood pressure for a little while. I'm in the caribean right now, and things are weird, slow, transient.. but there's a very very gentle side to it. People are way calmer, they smile, they let you pass in front of them. Not everybody, but it's easy to see the difference to most European city. We're running nowhere there.

[unsurprisingly] I saw many 90yo persons there with good health. Walking with family to rituals. Good memory, good spirit. These people often lived in tiny houses with not much. Something to think about.
I know this is going into conspiracy realm but do you think this could have caused mass wipe out of both humans and wildlife and that it could have possibly killed earlier advanced (agricultural and can build rather than hunter gatherer) civilisations.
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> there's maybe 100 years of fuel there

At least you have not made the mistake of inclusion "waste" as a problem in the same post.

Breeder reactors solve this. Yes, fuel will be significantly more expensive because of them. But all these "issues" with nuclear (except capital intensivity, that will likely stay) will go away.
I use a similar setup. Spam is simply discarded, whereas mails from all whitelisted users will force autolearn. Any mails thrown into the spam folder will be passed on to sa-learn as spam (and submitted to SpamCop and Razor2).

So far, no users have complained about false positives being discarded, and moving mails to the spam folder usually results in similar mails being blocked in the future.

The Bayes filter is very, very effective on it's own, but as you mentioned it's not perfect. I've found that using Razor2 as a compliment is very effective.
The obvious thing to do is to get some other sucker to do the training and then you hire them away. You can always beat the other guy's wages because you don't spend on training.
Sure, there are a bunch of tools for pretty much every language, but I don't want to deal with that, nor switch between browser and editor for it. I know people complain all the time about headers, I was just saying I love the separation, even if it's an historical accident.
I'm a happy SpamAssassin user too, just wanted to add that I've found using sa-learn to teach it about ham/spam makes the spam detection a lot better. When spam gets through, I move it to a junk folder, and from time to time, use that folder to train SA on. The level of false positives is tiny, perhaps 1-2 emails a year.
That is wonderful ... I’ve been looking for something like this for years. Don’t suppose you know off the top of your head are there any Erlang compilers for java and if they’re any good?
I think its similar to esports. Its more about being historically very male-dominated, so having leagues focused on women helps encourage more women to take it up instead of feeling alien due to being surrounded by males. At least that seems to be the hope.
For entertainment I recommend Ben Finegold

For education I recommend John Bartholomew
I have the same postfix dovecot setup and would love to setup Spamassassin correctly. Do you know of any tutorials which outlines how?
That's the text making me want a follow-up article.
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What software do you use to actually generate the transcript from the audio?
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Yep, they do. I’ve registered 6 without a problem.
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> The main point is the brain, as far as we know, is reducible to the known laws of physics, which, as far as we know, are entirely computable. Therefore, if human beings exhibit non computable phenomena, such as functioning as halting oracles, then that is a good reason to believe the mind does not reduce to the brain.

This is where I disagree. It would, to me, seem to be a good reason to believe we've missed something about the way the body (not specifically the brain) works.

> And we could call this 'mind' a new form of matter or something, so that people don't get alarmed by non-physical phenomena.

This just sounds like you are eager to label any new phenomena "non-physical". There is no reason to pull the extraphysical gun just because you are stumbling upon new physics.
(Presumably your [1] reference is this: https://www.wired.com/story/google-advanced-protection-locks... )

Good point, although I think the parent comment was about Google's existing 2FA rather than the new advanced protection setting.
I just woke up (still in bed). I've not seen this question before. For about 2 seconds I thought of iterating through and creating a map and... Wait a second, if one number is missing, I can just find the sum and subtract! Admittedly, I would have had much more trouble in a high pressure situation.

I think questions like this are fun and novel and also have absolutely no place in an interview for software developers.

Edit: the slightest of arguments for a question like this is can they find novel runtime optimizations. A work sample test is better. Grab some crap code from the codebase like a double forloop that should have been a map look up and have them make it more performant.
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Thanks for the write-up and the effort to fix mistakes. Great stuff.
There are more documents in this archive: http://nosuchlabs.com/pub/lenat-leaks.tar.gz
Something that doesn’t really exist anymore but easily could is offering fixed contracts (so not at-will employment). This way you can pay to train and keep the employee longer while the employee gets the added security of having a job that they can’t lose. I’ve never heard of contracts like this outside sports and movies and I wonder if any more traditional companies have considered exploring it.
The author doesn't do a particularly good job of hiding the fact that this article is little more than a complaint that "his side" (white, Christian, conservative majorities) no longer enjoy unearned first-class citizen status in much of the West, at the expense of minority demographics.

Merit is one of the fairest ways to determine justice and access to capital, it's the central point of post-Enlightenment thinking. When you're suggesting (with little justification) that privilege and aristocracy are superior to merit, how are you not essentially arguing for a return to a first-class status determined by a combination of power, circumstance, and one's adherence to mythology?
Look at the guarranteed price of electricity from those wind farms.
Wikipedia [0] doesn't mention Buffett in its description of the event.

All I can find is a description of Buffett betting that AmEx would recover after this crisis. [1] That sounds in line with Buffett's reputation: bet on a good company that for whatever reason has a low price.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salad_Oil_scandal
[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/warren-buffett-and-the-great...
I would assume that to be due to a smaller selection pool. That is, fewer females play chess, and so fewer climb into the elite ranks. The same reason why American football players disproportionately come from the south, where the sport is more culturally prevalent, and hockey players disproportionately come from the north.
The section describing how a function call is made appears to be slightly incorrect.

The return value of the `add` function, in most ABI definitions, would be stored in a register. After that, the `main` function may then copy that value to its own space it has reserved on the stack.

This is at odds with the description in the article, which seems to describe `add` passing its return value to `main` via the stack.

(This is assuming no optimizations - all this would most likely be inlined anyway, with no function call.)
https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3274359 is a more stable way of finding the paper.
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Why not? Everything so far had been reduced to physics; sometimes to at-the-time undiscovered physics.
I think something similar happens in golf. “Men’s” tournaments (at least some of them) are also open to women.
How about we just get rid of the root of the problem and get rid of corporate and income tax. Go to a national sales tax on all products and services.

Then everyone is paying taxes fairly, and corporations and people are free to complete on equal terms regardless in our capitalist society.
Very cool! We ran a competition like this once for undergrads: https://vaderlab.wordpress.com/roscar-robot-stock-car-autono...

It had to be a little more complex than line following, because at one point in the track there are a bunch of line crossings. So you had to do some mapping and tracking too in order to stay in the right lane.

It's really fun seeing how fast you can make them go. One team maxed out the speed on the platform.
>I let Google filter my spam these days,

I do this but I have to check my spam filter every day and scan titles because it regularly grabs things I'm subscribed to, and have marked 'not spam' (in some cases dozens of times), and filters them as spam. I've also found some friends randomly ending up in spam, in one instance a thread that we'd already had a dozen or so exchanges on.

It mostly seems to throw stuff entities send via mailchimp in there but it will throw other stuff in there from time to time too. No matter what I do, it ALWAYS puts valid email from vanguard in there.
Extremely glad to see a large project written in Perl pick up steam again.
Long before those have gone into terminal decline, they will have purchased some other trending technology.

I don't think so. Any other significant acquisition by Facebook will be scrutinized by a very fine comb by the responsible authorities.

While this will matter less in the US I don't believe that European competition authorities would allow those deals to go through today.

In addition the really dirty slime oozing out of that carbuncle [and what else did they try to pull off, which we don't know yet?] also won't really help new acquisitions.
What a flippant reply. The same could said for questions on in roughly one-quarter of HN threads on any given day.

(current front-page selections include T.S. Eliot, exoplanet astronomy, insect biomass, Tokyo street life, Louis Wain's paintings of cats...)
That's a really interesting question (and one for which I don't know enough probability theory to give a good answer).

At the very least, if you have N testers you can apply the technique pairwise to generate N(N - 1)/2 estimates for the number of bugs. Taking the average or median of these estimates would probably give you a more robust value for the total number of bugs.

You could also build a correlation matrix between testers (i.e. are bugs really independently found or do some testers tend to find the same bugs) and you could test the assumption that bugs are equally hard to find (which realistically isn't the case).

With that new insight into your original data, you could compute an a posteriori estimate for the total number of bugs, Bayes style.

(In other words, you start with the prior assumption that testers are independent and bugs are equally hard to find to build a first answer. Based on this estimate, you revise your assumption with a more realistic probability distribution for bugs and testers, and use that distribution to compute a new answer)

Or, maybe just stop messing with R and get on with fixing all the bugs found by your N testers.
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I went through the Google Advanced Protection setup a few weeks ago. My only advice is that if you use Android, download the Smart Lock app before enabling Advanced Protection. If you don’t, you’ll get signed out of your Google account on your phone without a way to log back in (the Play Store won’t work without a linked Google account).

If you make this mistake, you need to then disable Advanced Protection, re-login to your phone, then download the Smart Lock app, and THEN re-enable Advanced Protection to get things working. Otherwise you’ll be locked out of your phone.
More often we think there's a grand unified "catch-all" task one can do to have a clear mind, but in reality it's the reverse.

Try to form small habits throughout the day. Check out Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Try to get your daily physiological needs met. Meditation helps too.
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The article states that there is roughly $15 billion in damages from this fire. PG&E’s assets and wildfire insurance are worth ~$5B.

That said, if it were proven that PG&E were directly liable for this fire, how would that play out?
at least you'll be notified about the compromise, as surely everyone that resets the u2f will get notifications through all available channels, right?
Yes, you could simply multiply the number of bugs each tester found and divide by the number of bugs all of them found. The expected value for E_i remains np_i and for S it's np_1p_2...p_N. Then E_1E_2...E_N/S should be roughly n^(N-1), so take the (N-1)th root and you have your estimate for n.

But that's probably not the best approach, since S becomes a smaller fraction of the total (as you increase the number of testers, it becomes more likely for each bug to be missed by at least one tester, and then S = 0) and there's no reason to simply assume that testers behave independently when you can actually compare between them to see whether that's true.
And why Uruguay is punching way above its population weight in the soccer World Cup.
I'd agree with this. (Agadmator I find hard to understand what he's saying, plus a lot of the "analysis" is him saying "A4...b6...b6...")

Other worthwhile YouTubers are Eric Rosen, and the GingerGM.
And all I've seen are quite inferior to the header file. They are a nice addition and can be used for quick navigation. But it does not diminish the usefulness of the header file.
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Which could be ok depending on memory constraints
Honestly, I'd rather have the Ethernet port than the Wi-Fi.
Any recommendations for good chess apps on Android?
Great question, thanks. We approached the collaboration problem from a different angle than Slack. We believe email will never go away - and there can't be an app that will completely kill it. But there could be an app that can change it.

What email is missing now is what people love in collaboration apps like Slack or Trello. Real-time chat. The option of having team discussions. Being able to control who you want to be disturbed by and who needs to be muted...all this stuff is missing on email currently and we've built an app that allows you to do all that within your inbox.

Rather than building a new app for the collaboration problem, we've changed the experience where the problem started initially - on email. Loop is an attempt to help employees work efficiently on email with their colleagues.
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But still the amount of points a woman needs to get to have a specific category is lower than for men.
"...housing bubble, education loans..."

Um. Wasn't it the gov that committed to policy of more home ownership? It was the leader here. It helped to craft and define the direction once it opened up the dereg gates.

<sidebar>

It's important to note: "Dereg" !== free market. Dereg is a nice word politicians like to toss around, but ultimately, that typically translates into some other set of rules, typically favoring some entity over another.

The gov is VERY fond of taking sides, gaming markets, etc. It might be presented otherwise, but it's still trying to exert unnatural influence.

</sidebar>

And didn't it do the same for making cheap student loans available to more students? Students who weren't really "college material"? Wasn't BHO still championing higher edu __for all__ - because it plays well in the polls - all the while knowing the monster that had been created and still wasn't properly fixed? Yes, such antics are great for buying votes but it ultimately drives up the price.

If the gov (read: votes) is involved - as it was with this Amazon deal - then the market __is__ being manipulated. Anything beyond that is lip stick on the proverbial pig.
Southern California Edison stock was down ~10% too
I really have to get my food budget under control. I’m spending about 1200 on groceries and 500 eating out every month. Everything else is fine but the food kills me.

I think I buy too much fruit.
The usual response to "If you can't pay more, train them!" is that, once trained, they will leave to some competitor who can pay more.

I wonder, couldn't the training be offered as a perk, quantified in some way such that if the worker leaves before X months (or years) some % of that quantity must be given back?

For sure, some European companies offer a relocation package (e.g. they cover the costs of moving all your belongings, furniture, etc. to your destination) but if you leave before 1 or 2 years, you have to give back at least 50% of that cost.
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The video of the article mentions that PG&G might also be responsible of the napa fires in 2016. This is crazy. Are there any liabilities for their executives in the case of such damage done because of negligibility?

If PG&E did not make efforts to maintain their equipment better after napa, and this is the cause of Malibu, that becomes almost 3rd degree murder, right?
> faq is pronounced "fah queue".

So... "fuck you"?
99PI's coverage of forest fire policy and design was really provocative:

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/built-to-burn/

1. Our entire approach to fighting forest fires may just be making them worse.

2. Smart and simple design decisions can save houses.

A house can be thirty feet from an entire forest on fire and never burn down.

We learned this through hardcore experiments in Canada where they built homes to test and lit forests on fire nearby.

One of the immediate takeaways was to change roofing materials to resist embers, but there are other options for materials and landscaping that could make homes basically impervious.

The problem is probabilities. Fires are common, constant. They are exceedingly rare in any one location though. So fire resistant design is no one's urgent problem, fires are always something that seems like it will happen to somebody else.
That's super interesting! How do you generate those canvases showing the algorithm behaviour? I think such animations could be very useful for teaching PID tuning.

If you don't mind I would love to add this article in my next WeeklyRobotics (https://weeklyrobotics.com/) issue.
That doesn't sound like a complete definition of the term "AGI", unless you mean that anything reducible to a Turing machine is an AGI.

In any case, I'm not sure why the term "artificial general intelligence" should be constrained to Turing machines. Nothing about it implies a Turing machine; just that it possesses intelligence and is artificially manufactured.
The terms you're looking for are "single compilation unit" or "unity build".

It's used sometimes, I think mostly to help the compiler optimise better.

Build times for a full rebuild may be faster, but may not, since traditional builds can use many CPU cores. However, it stops incremental builds from working - if you modify one source file, you have to recompile everything.
Not really. There are some titles, like Women's Grandmaster (WGM), that are available only to women, and some like Grandmaster (GM) that are open to both. WGM sounds a bit like GM, and confers some of the same meagre benefits, but it's not the same title.
I didn't see what equipment actually might have started the fire? That would be more interesting.

Ultimately you've got awful forestry management practices that are really to blame for this annual mess.
For those unaware of the context...

I was around and actually following AI at the time. After some early success with expert systems, the field had fallen into a trough of disillusionment. Even chess was still "unsolved" in the sense that computers had barely reached master level and were still several years before they'd become truly world class (let alone dominant). The very possibility of accurate speech or image recognition was being called into question. At that time, in sharp contrast to today, AI was a specialty most ambitious people in CS were running away from.

Thus, it was a bit of a shock when Eurisko won the Traveller "Trillion Credit Squadron" tournament. Traveller was a space-themed RPG, and TCS was a very detailed space-combat outgrowth of that. That a new kind of AI (what we now know as genetic programming was far from the AI mainstream) would excel at such an open-ended task was surprising. That it would do so at such an obviously military-relevant task in what was still the Cold War was a little scary. I for one was a bit relieved when Lenat turned his and his creations' attention to more benign tasks instead of disappearing into the military-industrial complex.

Lenat, whose ideas were initially viewed with skepticism and worse, did quite possibly more than anyone else at the time to keep AI interesting and relevant. If you're working on AI/ML and don't know the story, I highly recommend digging into it.
I'm tired of these exoplanet articles that take far too much license with the "artist's rendering." They found an exoplanet they don't know shit about it, but some artist gets paid (ostensibly) to create some cool looking video game planet picture to draw in the eyeballs.

I want as much as anyone to know there is life someplace besides this awful mess we have here as it might convince humans to get their act together. But I want the truth of it, not bullshit.
Came here to post the same. This can be used in very interesting ways, either for quick ad-hoc queries or for import/export functionality (ETL), where the core of your data is in InnoDB but you keep a CSV version for one of the phases of your processing, to interface with other tools.

This may looks like a dirty hack compared to a clean API, but if you have performance considerations or need to interface with some legacy thing that happens to understand CSV, this can be a good choice.
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You're not seeing the issue with extrapolating a survey that lasted barely a week, from Pew Research, to an authoritative statement about the zeitgeist of the entire country?

Okay. I specifically called out the date range issue in my original comment. But it seems like people can't move past the impulse to (in)correct me about pop statistics. I never said the issue was small sample size.
You mean YubiKey? I know, but it's hard for me to view YubiKey as anything other than a proprietary solution. It's great they built a business out of it, but at the same time I want open-source options to exist.
Not true. If it was the Eskimos, Inuit and other people who lived in the Arctic circle before modernity encroached there would have been unable to survive. If you’re eating all lean meat you’ll have some kind of deficiency disease inside a month. If you eat fatty meat as well you’ll almost certainly get everything you need and if you eat organ meat as well as muscle and fat we know you can eat that for a year with no ill effects whatsoever.

http://www.mendosa.com/stefansson1.htm

http://inhumanexperiment.blogspot.com/2009/09/two-brave-men-...
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the tend to blame insurers for high medical costs (and hey it's easy not to like them), but the relative size of providers when negotiating prices with insurers is more likely
I’m glad I’m not the only one. I was pretty excited to see some amazing photos. Instead, it was like flipping through a creeper’s instagram feed.