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When we initially put our our web app https://www.whataportrait.com all our initial attempts to get traction failed. It's only when you sit down, get a global view, assess your actions and reactions ti them that you get to the core of whats goig on with your product. You slice big issues in smaller steps - assess each and if you get the needle moving then you do more of what gets the needle moving and the cycle continues..
Recently is a very relevant term, and honestly I'm not sure it matters much as.

I'll answer mostly to the "thought provoking part" of your question.

* Egan, Greg - Permutation City, Diaspora, and basically everything

* Liu, Cixin - The Three Body Problem (trilogy)

* Rajaniemi, Hannu - Jean le Flambeur (trilogy)

* Watts, Peter - Firefall (series)

* Chiang, Ted - The Lifecycle of Software Objects

* Liu, Cixin - The Wandering Earth (short stories)

I know quite a few people in love with Neal Stephenson, but I can't really muster his style.
Check out Cryptonomicon and The Diamond Age.
>In a free society, I don't see anything wrong with that.

Apart for the blatant conflict of interest and the excellent scheme to funnel unknown origin money to an attorney general, there isn't...
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1. Weight, while it is lighter per unit than CFRP, you need more of it to sustain the same rigidity making it heavier. You actually need very little CFRP for a bike and mostly solid or near-solid wooden panels. Quite some of the minimum weight of professional bikes is additional equipment and the gearing mechanism. (min weight is a bit less than 7kg)

2. Stiffness. While not good for every day usage, it is good if you want to go fast. All energy absorbed is wasted as heat or vibrations (e.g. sound).
>Most people work for private entities and we have no idea what goes on.

Most people can do whatever they like. It's when you are a public official and people can pay you for favors that this matters.
More institutional products are being built in crypto
Well, we do know that in this case shit __doesn't__ just happen. The sources has to be from somewhere. And we do know factory animal farms have plenty of unsavoury byproducts.

I agree. Can't jump to conclusions. Even so, if feels like a preventable accident that's eventually going to happen (if it hasn't done so already). The ag industry is a strong lobby. Given that those animals need feed there's a clear incentive for all involved to keep the truth from coming out.
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JET achieved 0.7 Q, 24MW in 16MW out.

It operates somewhere around 100-200M Kelvin. https://www.scienceinschool.org/2013/issue26/fusion

> Brute force? Does it matter?

No, I doesn't mean to say it as a negative thing. Fusion research funding is very low compared to what is needed to build big enough devices. Because when it comes to fusion, size matters, as efficiency goes up with size.

And that's what I meant by brute force. China can simply build a bigger one and reap the benefits of size.

> Results are results, yes?

Yes, and more data is always better in plasma science.
getting onto a train is trivial if you're a chinese citizen
I know we have tools that mimic reasoning and learning pretty well, but since they are just tools that require a lot of energy and complex hardware and nobody has been able to actually build a mind, or has ever tried to, what's with all the uproar about AI dystopia?
Yes. Opt in is a requirement, not opt out.
This is a really nice idea for anyone who wants to learn containers from scratch and get deeper into appsec.

But I can't think of a valid reason why anyone would want to use this in practice when there is QubesOS. If the reason is to increase my base-layer of security for OpSec, then this is a poor choice. Perhaps this is what she meant in the slides when she says don't try this at home ... maybe she explained it better in the talk (I haven't watched it). Seriously don't do this at home unless it's for educational purposes (in that case I agree it is awesome).
He certainly is a martyr, whether that is praiseworthy or not.
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What are you guys building? What are devs excited about nowadays?
The wooden bikes mentioned are made from hollow tubes too. "Materia Bikes frames are hollow and lightweight"
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I was part of my university's hiring process for cs professors a few times. Half the time there wasn't a single female applicant. If there was a female applicant, based on the objective measures considered (papers, grants, teaching awards etc) the female applicant always landed in the lower third, the ones that get sorted out quickly. Needless to say, I haven't witnessed a woman being hired, it just never appeared as the sensible choice.

Hiring women is really hard if the hiring pool is too one-sided.
> the people who convert on ads are basically subsidizing the content for the rest of us.

Do they?

Or is it the people who buy the products, regardless of ad conversion?
>She was paid by 'hidden people' via her firm. No doubt - and we have no idea who. Everyone who's possibly going to be the US Att. General is going to have web of conflicts of interests in their history, a lot of it private.

Which is inevitable, but we should still check whether that's the case, whether that influenced their decisions, etc.

But it's even more important for them to not have CURRENTLY ACTIVE conflicts of interest.
> In our society the people that fall into the conversion group are generally wealthy and the people who fall into the latter group may or not be.

[citation needed]. Telemarketing used to target people who could only barely afford it, and well educated, well earning folks from the younger generation tend to be tech savvy. The ones who don't know what's up are either old or uneducated (poor.)

That's at least a counter hypothesis if not outright refutation of your claim, since I don't actually know any of the numbers here myself.
I don't think GP means "magic smoke" as in actual magic, some new physics. It's more like we just have few potential building blocks (e.g. pattern matching), but we're not sure if we have all of them, and we definitely don't know how to connect them together to create sentience.

(And no, more GPUs running faster DNNs doesn't seem like an answer.)
> Why are the results in a video instead of a table?

Seeing is believing! :)

> I don't want to wait for dmd to know how much faster you made it.

Here are the timings from the video in table form:

Normal compilation (without forking): 9.163 seconds
Full compilation + creating forks: 10.464 seconds
Final step only (code generation + linking): 2.847 seconds
After editing entry point file only: 3.792 seconds
After editing deep dependency (first build): 9.562 seconds
After editing deep dependency (second build): 4.675 seconds
> My morning commute in Hong Kong

> I'm neither upset nor in China

The fuck
How does realtime enforce precision and not latency? I was referring to hard realtime.

And wow, so I wasn't too far off the mark. FPGAs and exotic networking. Huh.

I remember reading a story about a trading floor running on SQL Server, which was doing continuous throughput of 6000 queries/second. I didn't know enough at the time to discern what percentage of that was writes, but I think the point may have been that it was all of it. This was quite a few years ago. So perhaps Windows isn't actually the slowe{st,r} system out there for certain tasks.
>That he was the sole member is not relevant. And you're misunderstanding the issue of 'non profit': he was not operating a profitable entity. His comp. doesn't count as profit for the org.

Which is irrelevant, as it's still revenue AND profit for him.
A lot of the post is about comfort and durability. If you're doing the Tour de France then your most important concern by far is pure performance. Everything else is secondary.

You're not riding the Tour de France when you're commuting to work or riding as a hobby.
I'm affected by the "ML" switcheroo, but Jane Street isn't big enough on my monitor to cause confusion.

And thankfully there's little cause for "NLP" ambiguity these days.
"The year before, a group of five programmers and managers had left ... to start their own trading outfit. The company ... argued that the five had developed their quant-trading skills at the company, and so any new platform would have to be similar and an infringement of its intellectual property."

interesting, especially when combined with how happy such companies say they are to hire STEM graduates with zero Finance knowledge. is that what one has to expect when entering such an industry?
I can cite number of vulnerabilities found in snap, flatpack, appimage and see it per unit of time since they exists compared to number of vulnerabilities in classic packages found per unit of time. But that's an pointless exercise.

Today's mania of "data", most of the time meaningless (they "prove" different and often opposite things depending on how you arrange them) it's a way to silence discussion or prove true false things.

Consider a simple thing: traditional FOSS model consists of:

- upstream devs that release their code

- many independent packagers of various distro check out that code and package it

- users get packaged code by their distro

This means that many eyes see the code at minimum enough to compile and figure out why it doesn't work properly in their distro. They often patch and suggest improvements. Users get different binaries on different distros. Due to actual package model proprietary software can't be easily distributed as first class citizen by the vendor to the users simply because package an apps for any distro is unfeasible. Proprietary vendor have two options: allow redistribution so distro packagers (many different subjects) control distribution of their binaries or support only few distro leaving the over aside.

So in synthesis in this model proprietary software is not first class nor welcomed and many different subjects with many different idea, environments etc pass the code around make it more portable (or it's a pain to be ported), up to date (or it's a pain to compile on different distro since [br]deps aren't under upstream control and no unique binary is around to be tried to exploit thanks to various bugs.

In "container model" especially snap&c upstream package the final binary with all dependency. No more single independent distro packagers have to exists. No more need to be up to date for the upstream due to [br]deps updates on various distro. No more packagers check and improvement suggestions/patches from packager to the upstream. Only a straight line from "producer" to "consumers". Ideal situation for proprietary software since it can be now first class. Distro reduced to be a platform like a cargo ship instead of a compilation of various software, i.e. having different distros became meaningless since they are only a base for application.

That's is. On FOSS/traditional model collaboration of different subjects with different interests, idea, competence, scattered around the world is NEEDED by design. On container model no communication is need and there are "compartments" between "producer" and "consumers" instead of an heterogeneous blends between them.

Any time you reduce diversity, you compartmentalize, you empower people letting them operate "alone" you get bed results. That's the best "data" to back up such assertion. Is freedom and collaboration vs isolation in a rigid, compartmentalized system.

To have a big "security proof" take a look at how many vulnerabilities and how serious they are in proprietary products vs FOSS software.
Can you substantiate your claim that "the people that fall in the conversion group are generally wealthy"?

My feeling is that the opposite is true, so I'd be happy to see more evidence for one or the other.
I think the "tip model" could be greatly expanded. The reason it doesn't work as well now is because for one the ad revenue model exists, and when a system already dominates, people tend to stop looking for alternatives or embrace new ones.

Why bother to educate people to donate money when you can just put ads on your content? Also, when 99.9% of content-makers use ads, it means you have a much smaller pool of potential donors, too. When most users on the internet can donate and are used to donating, it becomes much easier to receive donations for any random piece of content.

And second, there's great friction in the existing micro-tip model, because the payment companies take big portions out of the small tips. Plus, there's quite a bit of fragmentation as not everyone has a PayPal account, or Apple account, or Google Contributor account, or Amazon account, etc.

I think cryptocurrencies will eventually solve this issue, if what we've seen so far with Steemit.com, d.tube, and others like them is any indication of that. Once people get into any cryptocurrency at all, the liquidity of tips greatly increases, and it becomes much easier to tip someone with a cryptocurrency. It's still in the super-early stages, though. It could take another 10 years before this becomes more mainstream.

I don't really see any other way for this to work. The Google Contributor or even Flattr models will not work because they are not decentralized and interoperable enough with others like them. You'll never see the majority of people on the web use Google Contributor or Flattr. It needs to be an ecosystem of such services that all integrate and interoperate with no friction and content creators can be paid with any of them. The tipping model needs to be more like email than Apple iMessage, so that everyone can have one and use it with any other similar system.
Are you aware of intersex people? This is why the editors of Nature are correct in saying the proposal has no foundation in science: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex How do people with ambiguous traits at birth get categorized according to such a proposal?
Is it the content-preview (however small), the content-gathering or the linking that will cost money?

Google could (re-)write the headlines and micro-summaries themselves (using machine-learning technologies) and just provide links, without copying anything from elsewhere for previewing purposes. Embedding no snippets and thumbnails at all from the media-/publisher websites would turn Google News into a text-only site, making it a lot less appealing to the audience.
Think of it as visual/poor man's macros.
BERT-as-service: mapping variable-length sentences to fixed-length vectors
Looks like a good alternative to my ever growing /etc/hosts file that points every ad server I find objectionable to localhost.
They want high frame stiffness to minimize loss of power to flexing.
I feel you though. I would rather improve ride smoothness with larger tires, lower tire pressure, lesser tension of spokes, different sadle, etc, than riding on a wooden bike.
I don't understand the market for bicycles in the thousands of euro price range. Bikes get stolen often enough for me to never be relaxed leaving such a bike outside a shop or caffe or such. If you can't leave the bike anywhere, it's almost useless, except perhaps as a virtue signalling device.
These "design flaws" are more like design choices, which this paper misrepresents as flaws.

For example, the password brute force argument. That's actually a part of the paper that does not make sense to us. ZKPP provides guarantees related to the handshake between the client and server. It does not mean and never has meant that the server itself could not mount a brute-force attack on the user password. That would be possible from the server with any PAKE, including SRP, which we use. Having the key encrypted with a derivative of the password does not change this, because it was possible already. Slow password hashes throughout make this difficult of course.

He also attacks the encrypt outside feature, but a malicious third party email provider was never part of the threat model for this feature.

Finally, he attacks the fact that we allow weak passwords. Well, not enforcing strong passwords is a design choice, and not a crypto weakness. You can disagree with this choice, but it's going too far to try to dress it up as a crypto flaw.
I think it would be more appropriate to link the paper[1] and use its title (as it's much more descriptive).

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.07153 Robust Website Fingerprinting Through the Cache Occupancy Channel
It took me a long time to accept Docker's use of the word "container".

To me, "virtual machine" has a distinctive Smalltalk 80 feel. And, of course, it's a bit underwhelming in comparison.
Nobody has said it yet, so I'll throw The Expanse series out there.

It's not new, but I always really enjoyed the Ben Bova Grand Tour novels as well.
If there were any value to data posted on Facebook, and it was possible to scrape the site at some arbitrary scale without getting caught, then no advertisers or third parties would be paying Facebook for anything. Everyone would already be doing that.

Also, data which requires a login to view is not necessarily "public" in a legal sense.

Also, this wouldn't actually "sabotage" Facebook. This is a site with billions of user accounts making who knows how many posts filtered with varying levels of privacy - not every user has access to all data posted on Facebook. A few hackers with browser plugins and fake accounts aren't going to accomplish anything but getting themselves banned. People aren't going to not join Facebook because someone is dumping data from it, you would also have to replicate the functionality of the site, entirely, and in real time (because remember Facebook also has messaging, chat, private groups, etc.) to work against the network effects.

And again, if that were feasible, some startup would already have done it.
How does a GPU shader core work?
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Or as sports equipment.
""If you want to visit sensitive and non-sensitive websites at the same time, use two different computers," they said."

Or just visit them one after the other, one tab at a time right?
That’s funny - I almost never see anyone using inflight entertainment screens any more. People are always watching Netflix or listening to something instead. And I think my view is supported by airlines starting to remove those screens because they’re not being used.
My dude. Please go get yourself some education on how science works. I feel embarrassed for you.

The reproducibility crisis is about the prevalence of false positive results in the scientific literature. This video is a good primer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42QuXLucH3Q

A false positive is when a paper says "this works" when it actually doesn't, because of a statistical fluke in their sample.

Even if citing the reproducibility crisis as an excuse to believe something that science has repeatedly found to be false isn't a really bad reason for belief (which it definitely is)...

it doesn't even apply because there can't be false positive results regarding neurolinguistic programming because there aren't any positive results regarding neurolinguistic programming. Even the paper put out by neurolinguistic programming practicioners themselves wasn't able to produce a detectable effect over a placebo.

I'm sorry, my friend, but this is an intervention. You're in a cult. You're making the exact same arguments as homeopaths and faith healers and fortune tellers.
Yeah, but if without the enabler the world would be better off on net, there still is a case against WhatsApp.
If the research and conclusions are that clear, lets make it a law. To give that some perspective with Swedish data; 87.4% of men and 87.6% of women has a professions position that is gender segregated. Out of the top five worst offenders four is dominated by women. In higher education there one program that is currently fully dominated by a single gender and that one is 100% women.

It would be interesting to see what would happen if a law demand gender quotas for those ~90% of work places. If we assume a linear distribution where the average work place has a gender ratio of 80:20, about 18% of every employed person in Sweden would then get their job through the gender quota law which is then about a half million women and men. That would make for a fascinating social experiment.
because there are so many examples in history that tell us that these kind of messures lead always to perfect success stories.
I would rather add the c option in cases where I'm not 100% sure what I'm doing.

So in this case :'<,'>s/_b/B/c

That let's you step through every change and if something's wrong you can press ESC and u to undo only the last change.

It depends on the actual problem of course, but multicursor edits also get unwieldy if you're editing more than 2 or 3 lines.

What about if the lines are beyond the visible screen?
Hollowness is nonsensical argument. Hollow tubes maximize strength per weight
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I wonder if wooden bikes bring any safety concerns in the event of a crash, since when wood breaks it can become reasonably sharp, like a spear.
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They share the same frontend as DMD, which doesn't have any built-in capacity to hibernate/serialize compilation results (parsed AST) to disk.

I haven't tried applying this to either compiler. Being able to perform code generation serially would benefit those the most, because their backends are considerably slower than DMD's, however the template instantiation problem currently prevents that. I don't think it's insurmountable, probably just needs someone very familiar with that part of the compiler to look at it.
It seems not that many people have enough time and long-term interest in contributing significant improvements to such projects.

GenericTrac was mainly a plan by Christian Boos, who worked a lot on Trac in ~2005 - 2013, but has not actively worked on it much after that.

Apache Bloodhound was mainly triggered by one company (WANdisco), which has lost interest in it. Of the few remaining people, Ryan J Ollos has since become a Trac core developer instead, and has been keeping very active there.

Recently Gary Martin (formerly(?) WANdisco) "restarted" Apache Bloodhound as a Django app, not based on Trac anymore.[2]

> Trac has many serious shortcomings

I don't disagree, but would be interested in what you think they are.

[2] https://lists.apache.org/list.html?dev@bloodhound.apache.org...
> it also is susceptible to stealing the values from the database by just generating the (short) unique keys

Even a very small QR code fits enough bits to prevent that.

> it needs a network

It depends on what the key is for. For many purposes a hash of the public key is sufficient.
I'm pro Europe and thought I'd always would be. If this takes off I'm gonna jump ship and join every anti EU camp and would even cheer for fascists just so that the empire gets struck back. That's the level of pissed I am at this empire building shit on all sides.
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You know HN, I'd sincerely like to read arguments without having to highlight them due to your pseudo-censorship font.
>But the point is that with micropayments only the rich have access, and with ad-supported revenue everyone has access. I think most people prefer the latter.

As a a counter to that, I've been watching 3blue1brown's maths videos on Patreon. Payments get you early access to content, but everything gets posted up eventually and it seems preferable to having ads.
Thanks for the comment about that book. I'll check it out too.
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Expensive bikes aren't for leaving around - they are for riding/racing. It is common to have a "beater" bike for cafe/shop/pub outings where its going to be locked up outside.
I use my expensive bike for training/exercise not for commuting. Not too hard to understand.
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