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> Its a bad question but if forced to answer you can only be wrong in your own educated way.

You can give an answer that spells out all of that. Alternatively, if you are limited to a single word, there is a "correct" answer to "is a whale a fish or a mammal":
"yes."
I must mention my favourite sci-fi short story, "The Machine Stops" by E.M. Forster[0]. It is from 1909 and is chillingly prescient.

Essentially, a machine provides all necessities of life in a persons' pod, so they need never leave. People spend their time making essentially YouTube videos about their opinions. Nobody cares about facts or knowledge anymore. Spoiler, it doesn't end well for them.

[0] http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html
This is why I have µMatrix -- it's amazing just how many unnecessary requests it has blocked.

I am constantly amazed at just how bloated (and carelessly built) websites have become.
Interesting video, It's used by confidence men. The term I think is a shill. Posing as a satisfied customer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HjPqvCp_aQ here is an actual mt32 recording, without voice over, that should make the comparison more clear
While I don't think Boghossian is a fraudster, his hoaxes are certainly poor science. He should have conducted a rigorous empirical study instead. Of course, he must have known that fabricating data can cost him his career. But punishing him sends the wrong sign to academic whistle-blowers. IMHO, the best thing Portland State can do is to establish rules for ethical and scientifically valuable hoaxes as a lesson learned from this.
I was there. Someone would post the code for the hard fork and most miners would switch to the chain without the bug. A chain that has infinite bitcoins on it is worthless... Just as it happened back then. I switched over as soon as I read the thread about it and saw the chatter on irc.
I guess you're talking about scatter / gather? All vector memory instructions in the GCN ISA are scatter / gather-type instructions, i.e. you provide one pointer (or buffer index, or texture coordinates) per SIMD lane.

Docs say that the performance depends on the actual distribution of pointers, i.e. for best performance you should ensure that the pointers are consecutive (use SoA instead of AoS layouts, etc.), but I imagine that the drop in performance is somewhat gradual and graceful as your pointers become more scattered. I don't think the details are really documented though, and I wouldn't be surprised if those details changed between GCN generations.
> That is an assumption, not a "fact".

Yeah, no. At this point it's absolutely a fact.

> If we do not fully understand the genetic component we cannot fully understand how that might be linked to triggering problems when children are vaccinated

This is not correct. Full understanding is not needed to conclude here exists no causal relationship.
Has anyone tried sending information into black holes using lasers yet?

It'd be convenient if ET's only lived in black holes, although perhaps a little lonely, too.
In Fred Hoyle's book The Black Cloud you could argue the prediction of the internet. He proposes a radio based data network with IIRC both compression and encryption.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Cloud

The book is only so-so as a novel but it is compelling in terms of ideas.
Absolutely, isn't that the point!? If the media hypes up a claim based on results that in your example are even supposed to be trivial to replicate!
Even if that's true, it doesn't mean he or others can afford to pay it.
> The hoax was dubbed "Sokal Squared," after a similar stunt pulled in 1996 by Alan Sokal, then a physicist at New York University.

This has as much to do with Sokal's hoax as those battery fire-hazards with wheels have to do with "hoverboards".

A 'Sokal Squared' hoax should mean something like multiple journal articles getting published-- none of which contain any data to back up their claims-- all claiming to replicate an original journal article which also contains no data to substantiate its claim.

The twist that makes Sokal's original hoax clever is there isn't any research being put forward. There is simply an assertion, non-sequiturs, and a repetition of the assertion as the conclusion. He completely left out the "research" part of his journal article.

The reason his hoax was so embarrassing for that journal is that no university ever imagined they'd need to make a basic rule that researchers must actually include research in their research papers. That means that Sokal didn't directly break any rules with his hoax, and much of the spotlight remained on the journal for failing to do the trivial job of rejecting submissions that fail to contain content.

I'd be willing to bet there was a dean or two and some administrators who met to figure out if Sokal actually broke any of the school's guidelines. I'd also bet they came up with some way they could apply a vaguely worded research guideline to discipline him but decided against it for fear of pushback within the wider research community. Still, it's a reasonable concern when a professor publicly states that they submitted an article to a journal in bad faith, even as a hoax.

tldr; it's a nuanced situation that IMO requires lots of reflection.

On a completely different topic-- some knuckleheads apparently falsified some data for reasons, and a university is going to discipline them for falsifying data. I don't understand what ethical conundrum I'm supposed to care about here.
Human Rights are very clearly, and universally defined[0]. They're things that every human deserves. There's not really any room for debate about that.

[0] http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/inde...
Here's the situation as described in a good and fairly neutral (I think!) nymag article:

"Crucially, it does not matter that the hoaxsters didn’t attempt to publish their final results in a peer-reviewed journal. “Publishing in a magazine that’s not peer reviewed doesn’t matter if they’re reporting on their research,” said Celia Fisher, director of the Fordham University Center for Ethics Education. All that matters is that Boghossian is an employee at PSU, and that he conducted what the university deemed to be human-subjects research based on a plain reading of how that term is normally defined for this purpose."

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/01/is-peter-boghossian-g...

So it appears that Boghossian's academic affiliation is something he can't just leave at work; i.e. it seems that it was unsafe to go public with his involvement in the hoax. The Areo article makes it sound like the hoaxers thought they were doing the right thing by dropping their anonymity:

"This generated further attention that eventually got the Wall Street Journal involved, and far more importantly, it changed the ethics of utilizing deception within the project. With major journalistic outlets and (by then) two journals asking us to prove our authors’ identities, the ethics had shifted away from a defensible necessity of investigation and into outright lying. We did not feel right about this and decided the time had come to go public with the project. As a result, we came clean to the Wall Street Journal at the beginning of August and began preparing a summary as quickly as possible even though we still had several papers progressing encouragingly through the review process."

https://areomagazine.com/2018/10/02/academic-grievance-studi...

They thought this move would make it OK to complete their research project in good faith (without submitting any further hoax articles). But it wouldn't be the first time somebody thought they were off the hook, when in fact they were still exposed to accusations of ethical wrongdoing.
I suggest that we can tell the difference, evaluate ideas, as they have long been evaluated with good accuracy from the pyramids to the latest fantastic success of the US DoD.
Probably much more than you would think.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle

Ember is firmly in the "Plateau of Productivity". It's stable, supported, but no longer the "new thing" so you don't hear much about it.
Vernor Vinge, everything but most immediately the notions if security hygene in "Rainbows End". Wearable augmented reality is ubiquitous, so anyone who corrupts your digital life can really impact not just your credit card but your perception of reality... So people develop security habits akin to personal hygiene in response.

You have to love a book where one of the superweapons is a top level security cert revocation...
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I owned a samsung s8 for a while, purchased it for about $700 brand new just when it came out. Since it followed the new trend of having everything be glass, and I am a clumsy person, it ended up breaking.

Repairing it would have cost be about $400, and second hand s8s go for around that rate. It simply didn't make sense to repair it and sell it, or even to repair it at all really.

I ended up purchasing a second hand Pixel XL (1st version) for $180. It has lasted me incredibly well, and I've had hardly any problems. The phone is durable, has a headphone jack, and a fantastic camera.

It seems that most phone hardware now has reached the point of being more than good enough. The only real bottle neck for many devices is software. My Samsung phones, with their bloated skins, always seemed to age quite quickly. When the software experience is finely tuned and bloat removed, then phones seem to last indefinitely.
One thing I haven't seen mentioned yet on this page is the huge role of overconfidence in chess. It serves as a devilish kind of levelling factor:

If I play someone much lower-rated than me, it's hard to care much about the game. I will play careless aggressive moves, make reckless sacrifices, thinking anything will be good enough.

They will be playing a much higher-rated person. Winning will mean a lot to them, they'll try hard, focus intently, make the most of resources etc.

Because of this, I've often had the impression that higher-rated people are easier to beat than lower!

Then when you get in a very easily won position, it's really hard to keep focus, you just think it's already won, are already celebrating in your mind. But in chess, one slip is often fatal, no matter how winning you are. Or there are stalemate tricks, and the win is thrown away. And the more you're winning, the more paths to victory to select from, and the less you care to think about it. You impatiently wonder why the other guy hasn't resigned already. Thus the saying "There's nothing harder to win than a won game".

When you are losing, you focus, use every resource... Survival mode kicks in.
Thanks for this, I’ll consider the roles of contributors including updating tickets, rather than trying to force it with required fields.
That book is simply sublime, and were it not for the class differences, I would welcome that future.
> 20 year old (!)

This paper is close to 20 years old too. The (2018) in the title is wrong.
If you are using Tor for unencrypted connections to the internet, then sure, the security is going to depend entirely on the honesty of the nodes.

But what about when no exit nodes are involved, when you connect to hidden services? And if your underlying connection is properly encrypted, then the most that could be divuldged is metadata. You'd have to believe the U.S. government has also broken popular crypto, and I believe that if that were the case we would've never seen things like Dual EC DRGB. Even powerful quantum computers could only weaken cryptographic algorithms, if my understanding of Shor's algorithm is accurate, so you could always use paranoid-sized keys or post-quantum cryptographic algorithms.

The folks that work on and support Tor are by all accounts some fairly intelligent people. It is obviously very possible the whole network is compromised, but it would be very impressive if it was compromised and nobody ever found out.

I think software like Tor-based IM is still useful even in the event that the network is compromised to some degree.
Maybe, but, it’s not especially convincing evidence that this is a widespread problem. This is pure assumption, but if report cards effected rates regardless of day they probably would have mentioned this. We shouldn’t assume it is the case, and then even if it is the case, we should really take a hard look at whether is a meaningfully large number.
Yes because the editorial board of "Gender, Place, and Culture" are know for writing most of the civil liberties legislature.

I'm sure everyone @ ACLU is a subscriber /s
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The only stuff I heard was that there are many outdated Ember projects that owners need to be updated.

My flat mate did a few projects stuck on Ember 1.4 that needed to be updated to 2.0 last year. Somehow Ember devs loved to use private APIs, so most of the apps broke on an update and much had to be re-written.
The upgrades in the 2.x range were pretty demoralizing for myself and my team. Have they gotten any better?
Slack has syntax highlighting. Also, monospacing is used in the middle of a message to indicate that something is code, input, or output.
His point is that Tor is a honey pot because people will use it for stuff that they wouldn't even do on their residential internet. It's not an argument of better or worse.
Shadow deletion of comments?
Is anyone here annoyed by the mods? I've been on this site a long time, and in the past, mods who seemed insecure in their life retaliated by shadow banning people who disagreed or poked light fun at their comments. Then this went away, and now it's clearly back.

We are here to read content, they are presenting us with content only they approve. I have 2 accounts just for this - I have to use this one in time I'm replying to a mod, just in case.

Now, if these were professional people, with good taste, secure in their masculinity - I would love for them to filter content for me so I could see more quality discussion. These guys now, however, seem like very insecure losers, using this site to make themselves feel better about their poor personal life. For example, there are some shadow-deleted comments on this account, but some show. A whole bunch of deleted ones simply give dry information contradicting the OP mod. I can see the shadow deleted ones by running a 5-line ksh script, and there are plenty - but I can only see my deleted ones. I wonder how much quality content I'm missing - and I definitely don't want my information filtered by an insecure incel.

Things like this kill a site, and I'm almost at that point of just leaving. If I wanted reddit, I'd go to reddit - at least they have a an actual interface not written by a high school student.
I suspect your link should be to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18899308 .
This is not really the point, the point is that the page loads anyway, without the AMP scripts so there's really no excuse for having an 8s delay. I don't want this google stuff on every web page I visit, and frankly it's unnecessary -- this article could easily have been written using static HTML / CSS and it would probably have been easier to develop (as well as access).
It's always struck me as odd that American universities' standards for these things are so much stricter than American businesses' standards.

After all, every A/B test, every gradual rollout of software features, and every measurement of a user's response to an ad is an experiment with a human test subject.

I wonder why the standards imposed on universities are so much more demanding than the standards imposed on businesses?
Seems pretty subjective to me.

For example, "This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations."
If you're on Windows, all you need is VirtualMidiSynth, it installs itself as a MIDI driver. Load the bank and play the MIDI files using Windows Media Player o any other you have already on the system.
From a memory perspective you can view it as multiple threads. Caches are a bit more complicated (each "cpu core"/streaming processor has it's own L1 cache, and cache coherency between L1 caches isn't nessesarily guaranteed). Memory bandwidth and latency are still bottlenecks.

The bigger implication of the SIMD design is that for any conditional all your "threads" should take the same route, otherwise you may end up computing both paths for every thread.
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If we're measuring distance by MRCA, the question is equivalent to whether bony fish are closer to mammals or to cartilaginous fish. That framing does different things to intuition, whatever definitions we've agreed on.
With posts like this, I think it's important to remember that projects like this get created for one primary reason: it solves problems AirBnB has. If you're lucky, it solves problems you have too.

I work on some tech giant cyber security stuff, and it's obvious if you look at it that what my team designs solves a tech giant scale problem in the context of past engineering decisions made to solve other tech giant scale problems this company had. I probably wouldn't recommend my team's approaches to anyone who has less than ~5000 engineers.

From this experience I've adopted a heuristic: first consider the scale the system was built to address. If you are not in the ballpark of that scale, give it a long hard look before you adopted it.
Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, where conversations are being surreptitiously recorded in code, to be recalled later and used against people.
>Grievance scholars isn't a real label.

What everyone means when they refer to "grievance scholars" is the same group of people that were popularly called S.J.W. (social justice warrior) only a year ago, except with less popular baggage and a more academic tone (which might not last once popular personalities get a hold of it). I don't know what the technical requirements for something to be a real label are, but I can confidently say that it is a real group of people. As reluctant as we all are to admit it, I think the "Jordan Peterson" reactionary movement has made the jump from YouTube personalities to academia, and although they might not want to be associated with their origin story, all of the language and concepts are coming along.

>Judea Pearl thinks that DL is nothing more than curve fitting. Is he a greivence scholar?

This is a red herring, because although many off-mainstream scholars have literal grievances, their primary subject of study is not the fact that they do.
You should operate on the assumption that a significant fraction of the Tor nodes are hostile. The value is simply too high not to operate that way.

Given that, I would at a minimum route your network through an anonymous VPN (or two) before touching the Tor network.

It all depends on your opsec requirements but don’t be a naïve fool - Tor is not a magic anonymity service. It has pros and cons like everything else.
Or early Yahoo, when it was a human curated list of websites.
This was an incredibly interesting topic when pokemon go came out. People started using the reverse engieered protocol to gain information about the map from the pc (instead of the official android app), and Niantic updated the app every now and then with slight protocol changes and complex functions or crypto algorithms so that it was harder for those people to perfectly emulate the client. The protocol worked, but they could detect them sometimes because it was not identical.

I feel that I love this topic. It seems that it is an exciting challenge trying to protect an API to only be used (or at least, detected if not) by the official app. I don't even know if there is even a 'solution' to this problem. Would like to read more about it.
IRC and XMPP are protocols. Slack is a service. I think IRCCloud has all of those features.
Slack is trash because it's bloated. Some people just need text chat and external urls are sufficient for sharing other media.
> Many successful founders I have met, have told me: well, no we weren’t the only ones doing this, but we got lucky for this and that reason (e.g. timing).

I would go even further, ideas are a dime a dozen but execution is what matters--simply staying alive is the biggest issue.

"Timing" is simply staying alive long enough that you are actually present when the correct timing occurs.
I understand that most people probably would switch. I’m actually looking it this from a different perspective: would Bitcoin be able to regain trust? A large hack might kill Bitcoin if everyone decides that they don’t trust Bitcoin’s security.
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>Paris to Nice in 5h37 from €25: See the Paris to Nice page...
The impressive TGV Duplex trains from Paris to Nice take just 5h36 centre to centre with fares from €25. A flight takes 4 disjointed and stressful hours of train, airport, flight, airport & bus, as well as pumping up to 10 times the CO2 emissions into the upper atmosphere. As an experience, there's no comparison...

Absolutely right. The site also forgets to mention that crossing France by train is also often even faster than doing it by plane.

Sure, the actual high speed travel part is faster on a plane but :

- train stations are usually inside the city so you don't need to add 30-60 minutes to your travel just to go to them, not to mention the same amount of time after landing.
- you can arrive at the train station 5-10 minutes before the train leaves.
- once the train stops, you can just disembark in a couple of minutes. You don't have to wait for a bridge to be deployed and everybody in front of you to get up.

On top of that, you have way more space in a TGV than any plane, a nice view of the country and even wifi.

I lived and worked in the South coast of France for a couple of years while my family lives in the North of the country.

Each time I had to visit, I just took a train. It was a way better experience.
IRCCloud doesn't prevent someone from using another client.
I would nominate these as key snippets instead:

> For if there are no rules being broken it becomes tempting to ask why a decentralized architecture is the best tool for the job.

> you can indeed build and release a system such that when ‘the man’ comes over to compel you to stop whatever it is that you’ve done that annoys him, you can actually say “no, sorry, it can’t be done”. But you cannot then turn around and easily make changes and updates to that system. Coordination costs are high and the timeframe to get things done is extremely long.

> if the objective of the game was to secure billion dollar exits and huge returns on capital invested, then every one of them [VC-backed companies] failed.

Overall great series of posts.
You're right. What an incredible shame...
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Basically, if you control the entry and exit nodes of a user, you can correlate their traffic. So, if a group had control of large numbers of servers, eventually (faster or slower depending on what proportion of tor servers they controll) they would be able to view a targeted user's traffic.