skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, you actually have to investigate two things

1) why people desire to actually become a member of Mensa in the first place

2) the population of people who are eligible for membership (2% of the whole population) yet are not members.

On cursory inspection it would seem if you just talked about the top 2% of the distribution you would likely get a different answer than if you just talked about the people who felt the need to self- select into the MENSA organization.

Ok, so what about the selection bias itself? What would drive you to join MENSA? If you were already "accomplished" to some degree that you felt satisfied with why would you necessarily feel the need to say "I'm in the smart people club". Yes, you've already visibly demonstrated that. So what if you haven't demonstrated that but you find everyone around you mildly maddening to deal with because they just don't get it. Well... you might be inclined to join the smart people club and find some interesting people to hang out with.

Makes sense to me.
Counterfeit and/or unsafe USB power delivery cables are a fire hazard today, whether or not a data channel is negotiated. How does disabling data delivery improve the safety of a PD-only USB connection over a physically unsafe cable?

This crypto-signature approach is already used by the Apple MFi program, which has made it difficult-to-impossible to sell counterfeit and/or unsafe Lightning devices.
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Shane Legg "a machine learning researcher and cofounder of DeepMind Technologies" for example seems to think it's something to worry about. I don't think you can all the dismiss all the worrying as people with no expertise. Slightly out of date interview here https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/No5JpRCHzBrWA4jmS/q-and-a-wi...
I regret my reply that sounds a lot like I'm some sort of secret donor. Instead, I work with diverse political projects. They have in common that they don't use money transactions in specific situations where others would. It's interesting to see what happens when money as motivator is removed.

Sometimes I'm a technician, sometimes I help organize, sometimes I'm the legal front. And some projects I do fund, but not to a degree that anybody's livelihood depended on me.
Just a mailing list signup form.

Move along, nothing to see!
It's an 8" Ritchey–Chrétien telescope with a 1024x1024 pixel CCD camera.

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/soc/lorri_about.html
So they are winter tires, only spiked tires works (really) well on ice, unfortunately you can't use them on most country without majority of the roads iced for long periods...

Personally living, and have lived, in snowy area while I prize winter tire on snow I also prize 4WD/AWD, without them in many cases I'll have had to beg for a tow, no matter how good winter tire I can ever mount.

In some condition, like little snow, you only have slippery roads due to the moisture of salt/snow/dirt on the road and 4wheel help reaming on trajectory but you may still drive on 2WD at least if you are a good enough driver, on heavier snow 4wheels means have enough traction to advance and enough grip to still have traction when some wheel slip.
I have a couple family members that were heavy Thunderbird users. They recently switched off it because it was chewing up CPU when in the backgound, and the spam filtering doesn't really work. Glad to hear they are getting some more engineers.
> BREAKING: Apple warns on Q1 results

My guess is that the round of price increases we saw last year was too much, so more and more people decided to switch away from Apple.
And this is for four countries with large sea ports. I can't imagine how the interior countries get out of this mess.
Maybe one usage could be in Thompson sampling. You're trying to guess the maximum of a function, so you sample a random function from the GP, find its maximum, test it out, get back a y value, and then update your GP.

Maybe that's what the above comment meant by Bayesian optimisation.
If you like this sort of thing but you want something lower-level, based on an assembly language and targeting a historical platform, you might enjoy my CHIP-8 IDE, Octo. Like PICO-8, it provides an all-in-one toolkit for preparing code/graphics/sound, and easy ways to share your creations:

http://johnearnest.github.io/Octo/
Caveat: I have never looked at the source for the Gimp.

I wonder how much of the slow pace of development can be attributed to technical debt? As such an old project, I would imagine a great deal of the code involves old compromises that no longer make sense on modern PCs. With such limited available developer time it can be really demoralizing to have to deal with that stuff.

Moreover, with old APIs and languages you lose out on the productivity gains made by modern tech.
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Even if people wanted to charge at dealerships, dealerships aren't incentivized to sell electric cars, much less charge them.

The proof is that any Chevy dealer that sells the Bolt should have a public charger already, but I'm guessing few do.
I’d be pretty happy to have a company announcing such a shortfall. First world problems indeed.
Something lie that happens in all bases e.g. in base 8 all multiples of 7 add up to 7 (if you keep adding), in hex all multiples of f add up to f, and in binary everything eventually adds up to 1 (except zero).

Similarly, in base 8 7^2 is 61 and in hex f^2 is e1.

(n-1)^2 = n^2 - 2*n + 1 = n(n-2) + 1
which in base n is written with n-2 as the fist digit and 1 as the second digit.
A random thief may not have a few hundreds to invest in wrenches.

This will mostly be a deterrent for opportunistic thieves, the same reason you lock the door of your home. Even locked, it is still easy to open with the appropriate tools.
> 350kW as soon as there's a car that can take it

Like the Porsche Taycan:

https://electrek.co/2018/07/30/porsche-taycan-all-electric-p...
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A friend and I have been running a small company for several years (not particularly tech focused), focused on building design IP and patents in the consumer space (not the troll variety). We have another partner who is generally not helpful. Friend & I were approached by an investor's representative (he knew of us already as he is related to our patent attorney) and after reviewing our track record, the discussion shifted to forming a brand new company without the unhelpful partner, setting a MUCH bigger target including both IP and commercialization, and pitching a business plan to the investor. Discussion ended on a very enthusiastic note, follow up discussions in the next few days. We are not sure what questions to ask. One obvious one: how do we know how serious the investor is how much effort to put into such a business plan / pitch? We know there are tons more questions we need to ask them & ourselves. Help?
I wonder how much credit the "this is the work of Satan" answers got?
It's a medium link with dickbars and popups.
It's a reasonable conclusion too, when revoking tokens because of a hack/leakage. In these situations human reaction times are involved, which will be at least minutes and maybe hours or days.

Having tokens with an expiry of e.g 10 minutes, but with no ability to revoke, is a totally reasonable trade-off in these circumstances.
It is a funny thing that in China, Apple has to pay duty, and a foreign VAT to "import" iPhones from bonded customs zones into China.
3 rivers turn red in Malawi and Indonesia
The 60 minutes episode on Luxottica and why glasses are so expensive was interesting context for reading about Warby Parker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDdq2rIqAlM
NASA: Icy object past Pluto looks like reddish snowman
Technically he was lying to his investors, not the SEC.

Of course then in that 60 Minutes interview he all but declared he wouldn't honor his side of the settlement, but we'll see if he follows through on that.
That's a good point. I understand the importance of having a default format that can preserve every bit of data Gimp is capable of creating. But it makes a lot of sense to have one dialog that can save in both formats, especially since the dialogs support choosing the format automatically based on the extension.
Ah I see :(

Doesn't everyone say "geoip" though? / how else would we describe such a service? I thought there was something against trademarking commonly used words that describe generic things.

No plans to fight it. But it seems brutal... considering geoip.app is free/open-source/non-commercial, links to their site for those interested in licensing more accurate data, and "geoip" seems to be in use elsewhere (e.g. geoip.com).
Finding information is easy, filtering is the hard part.
Well... If for you 30-35 miles are an acceptable range ok, for me it's far, far less then my need. And I talk about daily life, not counting holidays...
I researched a similar effect few years ago when I was trying to replicate part of the game `AntiChamber` in Unity.

At the time, I found out about Stencil Buffers, which did let us create a cube with various different rooms on the different faces: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DKIP9N-OB4

Since then, there has been more "Portals" technique released, among which this blog post which seems to achieve a similar result: http://tomhulton.blogspot.com/2015/08/portal-rendering-with-...

Another game which uses a different type of geometry is HyperRogue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DtUJ_x_2Hc

It has a hyperbolic plane instead of a regular rectangular one.
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Spacecraft also do some corse corrections. You can also measure where your going very accurately averaging over a few hours.
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They do in fact own the term GeoIP (http://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=Ge...), so it looks like renaming and migrating to a new domain name is your best option.
Apple lowered revenue guidance to $84 billion, down from the $89 to $93 billion it had previously projected. The company lowered gross margin to about 38 percent from between 38 percent and 38.5 percent.

From: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/02/apple-warns-on-q1-results.ht...
In professional creative software you're not using XCF. Maybe GIMP should change that too? Archaic UI changes to chase some ideal sort of user that doesn't current exist at the expense of your current users is not great.
The IT department is an enabler for the avarage user or the least common denominator, when we are talking about the monocultures of companies there is no room for niched solutions. The issue here is that location based computing is an feature that people need, but the official channels fight.
Look at you trying to save face, even willing to insult my intelligence to do so. In fact, nothing is complicated here. You just didnt know the meaning of "just-so" stories and refus to accept that you were wrong about that

Whoa, no. Now you really sound like the typical anti-evolutionist troller. Go and listen to some of Bret Weinstein's lectures or YouTube videos. "just so stories" in an evolutionary biology context are precisely failed theories in evolutionary biology, and they can be Darwinian just as they can be Lamarckian or Rostaferian.

the phrase was misused

Basically, you were misapplying the phrase as used in a different context in the evolutionary biology context, which you yourself evoked by mentioning Lamarckianism.

Have a good day. I'm not going to keep repeating myself or continue to interact with someone who has bad faith.

I'm confident that 3rd party readers can tell the difference. I suspect you can correlate that with the sheer number of other people trying to disabuse you of the same notion.
>While we anticipated some challenges in key emerging markets, we did not foresee the magnitude of the economic deceleration, particularly in Greater China. In fact, most of our revenue shortfall to our guidance, and over 100 percent of our year-over-year worldwide revenue decline, occurred in Greater China across iPhone, Mac and iPad.

It was China actually.
Or maybe Chinese customers are just more sensitive to price increases than customers in other countries?
The Marathon engine could sort of do this. It was similar to the doom engine in that maps where laid out as polygons on a flat plane, but different in that you could have overlapping polygons, which allowed the devs to do something like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WxeeiqWrn4
This is nihilism.

You could eke out an argument that it's not nihilism until you throw in #3 -- justice and mercy may well be lacking even in an environment where people have values.

"No one cares", taken at face value, is a way of saying no one has values.
Lets imagine you do a human study that measure the incentives and disincentives of seeking high income job, based on gender. What would the results be?

How does society treat men who do not prioritize work income in life vs men who prioritize work income over other aspects in life.

How does society treat women who prioritize other aspect of life over work income vs women who prioritize work income?

After measuring that and how high the amplitude is, we can rather easily see the building blocks of the pay gap.

To take a bit of data from Sweden, a man who is in the bottom 50% of the income pool has less than half the probability of having children of his own. Increased income has a very strong correlation with fathering children. For women this is the opposite with fewer children at higher income, but the amplitude is significant smaller than for men. The difference in children between high income and low income women exist but is comparable small.

If we could align those incentives so they point in the same direction and with the same amplitude then those two children, one male, one female, would likely end up with the same income later in life.
I don't disagree that most individuals aren't directly invested in the stock market.

I'm specifically addressing your comment regarding median wage and unemployment - these figures are completely useless for anyone who isn't an economist (whether for professional reasons or otherwise).

It's vaguely useful to know that median wage hasn't doubled or that unemployment isn't at 50%, that's about it.

There is no possible metric that would be useful to an average, because the average person is in a bad situation, and any individual's best course of action is to aim to get out of that situation.
Re: able to take photos of a 20 mile object whilst flying past at ~8 miles/sec...Does anyone know how NASA manages to pilot spacecraft with this level of precision?

I cannot speak for this probe, but other probes have made the probe itself or camera boom move slightly to compensate for the target moving relative to the probe. It's kind of like moving your head back and forth to follow a tennis match if your eyes alone have difficulty tracking.

The object looks like BB-8. We'll get even better pics in the coming weeks.
So you're arguing that Hyundai beats Tesla on price and efficiency even when Hyundai's not really trying? What will happen to Tesla when Hyundai really tries?
Insurance companies and Luxottica
Have you tried the latest version of Enigmail with P≡P and Autocrypt integration?
I've heard enough about USB-C when I heard a report of a fried motherboards due to a faulty cable. No consumer technology should work like that.
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I regularly charge my Switch with my Dell XPS 13 charger. Never had an issue.
I think that pretty much sums it up.
"Horses for courses" - or "There's no one perfect device, nor should there be"
Occasionally something disruptive comes along, and maybe a few users split across the gap - but doesn't negate the previous devices.
We only have 2 examples, but both this and the Rosetta mission object were rubber-duck-shaped. Is this very common?
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In the context of security analysis, this is a vacuous statement. There's almost always something you can do to screw a security construction up. An important goal of security engineering --- and the overriding goal of modern cryptography engineering, in particular --- is to minimize the set of things that can go wrong. This is why we generally feel safer deploying Rust and Go code than C code, why we use Curve25519 instead of the NIST P-curves, and why crypto engineers generally recoil from JOSE and JWT, a set of standards that seem to have gone out of their way to maximize what can go wrong.

As a telling example, compare JWT to Macaroons, a standard built effectively on one extraordinarily simple cryptographic primitive that is simultaneously safer and does more than JWT.

From the vantage point of cryptographic security engineering, JWT is a cargo cult. Most projects would be better off avoiding it entirely.
Storing JWTs in a store or DB is difficult because you need to manage them and that means accounting for all possible edge cases. You can't always detect when a WebSocket/TCP connection has closed from the back end. For example, if your WebSocket server crashes suddenly, all active JWTs that you keep in your external data store will be orphaned and they won't get cleaned up until you run a separate cron job (which adds a lot of complexity).

Storing JWTs in a hashmap in memory is also not ideal if you have multiple processes/servers because it doesn't account for WebSocket lost connection and reconnection edge cases; the client could reconnect to a different server/process than before.
The example i saw had a woman who had control of her eyes but nothing else. She had a computer monitor with eye tracking software installed. She could look at controls on the screen in order to command the robot. This was all overlayed on a live video feed from the robot. I'm assuming she also had sound since people were telling the robot verbally what their order was.
I read it as trying to describe the act of image recognition, rather than the business practice of routinely applying it to users' private-ish data. The "seemingly mundane" part is because image recognition is so easy for people that we take it for granted, not that auto-scanning people's photos is or should be considered mundane. I agree it's not worded perfectly.
The only reason dynamic libraries are worse (beside speed) is the dependency hell.

Put the dynamic libraries INSIDE the container and you can upgrade them when/if you want, while nothing will be broken during a systemic upgrade where you don't chose to update them.
>The aerators kept breaking, and so Bjork and McDowell had to pay for returns.

Uhhh... People should know not to try to sell anything FBA that's fragile; Amazon never packages or handles fragile products correctly. Should have been covered in the webinar... obviously these people are just out to get a quick buck, not actually help others sell on Amazon. That and they partnered with a Chinese manufacturer that had minimum orders in the thousands... that seems like a ridiculous commitment for something that's essentially an experiment.

These people who fell for this seem like the same sorts of people who fall for MLMs...

I remember someone calling into Dave Ramsey's show saying they spent something like $60,000 on these "get rich seminars" going through different "levels" and didn't even make a penny. Unbelievable...
time to register geographicIP.app
A math prof of mine would label insufficient initialization in recursive proofs with i.i. (it also stood for a few other common mistakes, such as “incorrect integration” or whatever). And he would invariably add “i.i = -1”, which was the penalty for such mistakes (exams being graded out of 20). A deliciously nerdy joke, unless you’re on the receiving end.
My "solution" about a month ago was to get a slightly older cordless Dyson on sale. I realized that my issue with vacuuming wasn't so much that I minded pulling out a vacuum for a few minutes now and then. Rather it was hauling my big canister vac downstairs, screwing around with the cord and hose, etc. Now I can pull out the Dyson in about 30 seconds and vacuum things for a minute or two.

(I also don't have kids or dogs and don't stress out if I can't eat off the floor so having a very imperfect robovac that will run itself every day isn't a particular win.)