skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Typically, it is considered a bad thing when success comes by exploiting the system instead of achieving the goals of the system. Politicians who are experts at nothing but gathering votes are a failure of the system when they do occur, because the government has a purpose. Another example would be corporate executives that don't know anything about running a business, but are experts are accumulating status. The "degenerate best reviewer" would be a bot that posts the letter "a" at absolute maximum speed.
> The mathematicians Emmanuel Breuillard and Péter Varjú of the University of Cambridge proved that as polynomials with only 0 and 1 as coefficients get longer, they’re less and less likely to be factorable at all.

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> Breuillard and Varjú proved that it’s nearly impossible to find polynomials of that length that can be factored.

Can someone provide a link to the paper? I'm assuming that what they proved is that (my math is rusty, so what I'm saying may be incorrect) solving polynomials of a single variable with all coefficients either 1 or 0 becomes prohibitively difficult as the the degree increases, which is what I'm getting from the second comment, not that the frequency of irreducible polynomials increases, which is what I get from the first quote.
Looks like good material and the formatting is nice so kudos.
> The premise sounds ethically frought from the beginning.

We agree wholeheartedly, hence the desire to bring ethics professionals and researchers into the process as early as possible.

Our initial idea was direct cash transfers to participants, a model that we've seen other charities adopt to provide aid. As you mention, this is fraught with ethical peril, so we continue to iterate on what the final aid delivery method will be (which is likely to be a combination of education, birth control, health care delivery, and direct transfer payments).
Have there been any "viruses" or "hacks" within the game?
I think TFA did a better job with that than I ever could.

Regardless, my short summary is that VCs, in my experience, are the worst of people who don't give a shit about you or your team, and just want to see more and more money. I don't want to deal with or be involved with people like that.

Edit: Also I should note, many of our VCs pitched themselves as 'angel' and 'impact' investors. So, while I didn't expect them to just hand us free money, I also didn't expect quite the level of cut-throat behavior we've seen.
I have ran into this stuff on accident before. Try something like "family nude".
In their example of 1111, this binary representation means 2^3 + 2^2 + 2^1 + 2^0. So plugging in 2 to the polynomial x^3 + x^2 + x + 1 gives you the original value.

If the polynomial is factored, plugging 2 in still gives you the same value, but now you have at least 2 integers that multiply to give you the original value, so you've found a factor.
How do you hide ships in EVE? Is the playing field just an infinite space where you can move a ship so far away that they are essentially hidden?
Our bodies are still largely the same. Our skeletons still articulate the same way, muscles still attach in the same places, and our bodies still respond in the same way to what we eat. (There have been some minor changes but nothing that is that significant.) If you were to run and jump, pick up heavy things, throw stuff, swing from trees, go for long walks, and generally do all the things a child---or a hunter-gatherer---does when outdoors you would be very fit (in a general sense; excelling at a specific sport requires specific training).

Balanced exercise, progressive overload, consistency, a good diet, and enough rest are by far the most important factors in fitness. That's been the case for 10,000 years at least. Access to a barbell and bumper plates, or a bike, or protein powder makes at least an order of magnitude less difference.
>Why is network security not important to your camera?

It is, but you don't have do very much to secure a camera.

The camera is going to call out to whatever cloud provider, which is fine. You can easily just set your firewall to deny all incoming connections from outside (and you should) and the camera will still work fine, since it is calling out (the cloud isn't calling in).

This makes it very easy to secure and manage.

Self-hosting a security system you want to access remotely is a whole new ball game. Now you dealing with outside connections coming in, exposing ports on your firewall, and now you dealing with needing a static IP address and or figuring out a way around a DHCP address from you ISP. Making sure whatever server you have running your system is patched (both the OS and client software), since that machine is accessible to the outside world. You also need to setup SSL if you don't want your logins to be in clear text.

Or all of that can be managed by a cloud provider that you (hopefully) have a degree of trust in. The cloud provider will already have SSL setup, they will have a team of security people monitoring and maintaining their servers.

Personally I would never even consider a self-hosted solution, unless one of the follow two were true 1) I didn't care at all about remote access and just closed the system completely so it was only accessible on premises. 2)I was setting up a security appliance with VPN so the remote access could all go through a VPN.
How Do a Google Sheets Non-Experts Can Do Exploratory Data Analysis?
Poland Accuses Huawei Employee of Spying for China
To be fair, the NYC VC scene is also abysmal. From what I've experienced there are less than 5 established VC firms (on their 3+ fund) in the city with an eye for vision investing and really want to get behind Founders. I think I made fundraising much much much harder for myself by focusing heavily on raising in NYC. Sadly, many SF folks won't invest in NYC startups due to proximity, so then you're faced with moving your company to SF.
This parallels civic/political engagement in real life.

It's tough to get lurkers (like me) to speak up and shift the discussion when the emotional cost of doing so - arguing, being downvoted, getting defensive, being ridiculed - seems to make the effort simply not worthwhile for the individual. Not only on the web, but also in the office, at Thanksgiving dinner, at a cookout, etc.
Doesn't World of Warcraft have a subscription model? Are you considering those costs too?
Yes, this is it precisely. Swift already has decent momentum for serverside usage with Vapor, Perfect, and Kitura among others. By adding LSP support, Apple is adding to that momentum and pushing it closer to critical mass.
Chrome will start filtering disruptive ads worldwide in July
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> that I don't understand.

One of the examples in the post, Ninja, reportedly earns $500,000 per month for that twelve hours a day of streaming. So.
World of Warcraft costs $180 per year (a required $15/month). It's also 14 years old, so you're playing all the onion layers of content added by expansions which were funded over the years by people paying a $60 initial purchase (the initial purchase was finally removed last year) and again on each expansion.

Your comparison to WoW only seems to make the point that content is expensive and Destiny is much cheaper.
I think it’s the other way around: LSP was based on ideas prototyped by omnisharp.

I used it years before LSP was announced.
I appear to be getting downvoted.

Assuming its because you think I'm wrong about the separate program. Look up the manpage for ld.so .

If you run the strings program on a dynamically linked program the first thing it spits out should be the path to ld.so

If you run that program without arguments, it even gives you a usage message.
Yikes, this is looking pretty bad:

"Rubin was also 'alleged to have engaged in human sex trafficking': in an October 2018 lawsuit brought by his ex-wife, Rie Rubin, she claimed that Andy Rubin had multiple 'ownership relationships' with several highly paid women. In text messages produced in that case, Andy Rubin allegedly claimed that he could 'loan' these women as they were 'kinda like… my property.'"
The way positional number systems work, each position corresponds to a power of the base — e.g. 415 = 4 * 10^2 + 1 * 10^1 + 5 * 10^0. A slightly more complicated way to say this is 415 = 4 * x^2 + 1 * x^1 + 5, where x = 10. Ignore the x = 10 part for a bit, this is your polynomial. You can factor this polynomial normally without changing the fact that substituting x = 10 yields the original number. Because of this, it follows that the factors of the polynomial must also be divisors of the original number when you substitute the variable for the appropriate value!
How can this continue for such a stupid reason?! It's baffling for the rest of the world. So many lives are being ruined. Despite overwhelming evidence of ineffective border wall and also majority illegal immigrants seem to be VISA overstay, why is the american public watching this without any problems?!

Can't he be sued for this?
Benefits of Progressive Web Applications (PWAs) and How to Build One
Amazon has a few books available, the most popular called "Metasploit: The Penetration Tester's Guide"[0] but is a little outdated (2011) and "Advanced Penetration Testing: Hacking the World's Most Secure Networks"[1] which mentions metasploit for its teachings and its more recent (2017)

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Metasploit-Penetration-Testers-David-...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Penetration-Testing-Hacking-...
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Agreed, cycling is useful, but it's not essential for fitness. The point I was trying to get across is that no program, or class, or sport has the secret to fitness. It's the same it's always been: balance movements so you don't get joint issues, progressive overload so you get better at a sustainable pace, be consistent, eat good food, and get enough rest.
Another possibility is that diversity is simply represented by extremes; that individuals sitting on the polar sides of issues are shaping the conversation. In other words, it's the boring, moderate, stable, center who remains silent.
What's the motivation for this attack?

The write-up says this operation was quite costly - 600 billion ISK in resources spent to destroy a station that cost "hundreds of billions of ISK" in the first place. Did the Initiative gain in-game resources and advantages that were worth this costs, or was it mostly just done for the challenge of doing something no one thought possible, and proving their might?
This is the actual paper.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.13360

It's worth noticing that Riemann Hypothesis is assumed in the proof, as I layman, I think it means the proof merely gives us more confidence about the difficulty of integer factorization. But integer factorization itself still remains an open question.

> Abstract. We consider random polynomials with independent identically distributed coefficients with a fixed law. Assuming the Riemann hypothesis for Dedekind zeta functions, we prove that such polynomials are irreducible and their Galois groups contain the alternating group with high probability as the degree goes to infinity. This settles a conjecture of Odlyzko and Poonen conditionally on RH for Dedekind zeta functions.

Page 2, Section 1.1, Motivation has a summary.

> Beyond its intrinsic interest, the problem of irreducibility of random polynomials of high degree is motivated by some other problems, which we now briefly discuss. It is believed to be computationally difficult to determine the prime factorization of integers. On the other hand, polynomial time algorithms are known for computing the factorization of polynomials in Z[x]. Given an integer N ∈ Z_{>0}, we can write it as N=P(2) for a unique polynomial P with 0,1-coefficients. By computing the factorization of P in Z[x] and evaluating the factors at 2, we can obtain a factorization of N.

> The only weakness of this approach is that the polynomial P may be irreducible and thus the factorization of N obtained may be trivial. The problem we study in this paper thus asks for the probability that this procedure returns only a trivial factorization. Therefore, it is desirable to have results, such as those of this paper, proving that this probability converges to 1 very fast. We will discuss our method in Section 1.3. The method links the problem of irreducibility of random polynomials with mixing times of certain Markov chains, which are "mod p" analogues of the Bernoulli convolutions we had studied in earlier work.

> In this paper, we use results available for the Markov chains to study random polynomials, but this can be reversed. In particular, in a forthcoming paper, we will use the results of this paper to obtain new results about the Markov chains. Our results on irreducibility assume the Riemann hypothesis for Dedekind zeta functions, or at least some information on the zeros. In our last theorem, Theorem 7, we show that conversely irreducibility of random polynomials has (modest) implications about the zeros of Dedekind zeta functions.
Very well done, there’s a lot to help a novice PHP developer. I feel like the next chapters I’d love to see would take those concepts and apply them to building something. Everything so far unless I missed it is focused on the backend but it’s important to show that it’s also possible to use it as a front end and what the modern approaches to doing that are.
Pretty much. My understanding is that they sold to Microsoft precisely because it was that or fold up shop.

But the Mac itself still seemed under threat at that time. Having such a cool-looking game that was going to be Mac-first, if not Mac-only was a PR/morale booster. And its then being absorbed by MS, who was very much The Enemy in those days, was an equally large bummer.

And not just the game: Bungie was really a darling of the Mac community. They had created and published a string of awesome games over the course of the 90s, all Mac-first. Pathways, three Marathons, Myth I and II, Oni... "Losing" them was a blow.
> Would I see such a justification if I opened, say, Mankiw's textbook?

Yes. Starting page 58. Cobb–Douglas was derived to match empirical observations (constant factor share, constant capital and labor share) and it was proved to have some nice properties.

Note that Cobb–Douglas only approximately true starting point. It does not capture everything. For example capital and labor shares are not completely constant. The simplicity of the function makes it useful and it's taught in basic econ. classes because it holds true well enough. You need slightly more complex models or relax the function for some stuff.
We desperately need to nationalize telecoms.
A trick I finally hit on for Reddit a couple of years ago was that when I start feeling a discussion does not feel fun or interesting anymore, I look away while I click on the inbox icon.

When I don't see the replies, they're easy to ignore.

At some point (I have no idea when), Reddit also added a "disable inbox replies" button to comments, so that you can prevent notifications on a comment by comment basis.
A good start would be to spin off Instagram, Whatsapp, and other big acquisitions into separate companies. Those purchases probably shouldn't have been allowed in the first place.
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Using the Linux Kernel and Cgroups to Simulate Starvation
No, they were in breach before hand, and Unity attempted (poorly) to make it more clear why Improbable was in breach with the ToS update. According to devs knowledgeable of Improbable's tech, Improbable has been in breach of the Unity ToS for more than a year. Negotiations on licensing probably broke down (as in, Improbable refused to pay the fee Unity was asking for a license), and so Improbable decided to publicly vent and mislead devs.

Regardless, the ToS are incredibly vague on what is/is not allowed, even for developers that have nothing to do with Improbable.

Finally, the $25M comes from the already established Unreal dev grant fund - it's not "new" money, they just rebranded a portion of the fund in a PR stunt.
Not impossible, but unlikely. For Mac, iOS, tvOS, and watchOS projects at Apple, Objective-C is still the dominant language due to all pre-existing projects being written in it. Swift is used in a few places — most notably the macOS Dock has been written in Swift for at least a couple of iterations now — but bulk adoption won’t come about until Swift achieves ABI stability with version 5.
Nice job and well written. A nice addition would be how to use pdo. I'm appalled by the number of ressources I see online which are using the old mysql api.
> I always viewed it as a transaction--go to the news site and read the news, in exchange they will sell data on what articles you're reading, etc.

And I always thought (back in my more naïve days) that I read the site in exchange for being advertised to. Point being, the exact details of the transaction were never shown to the visitors. GDPR fixes that by forcing companies to state the terms of this transaction explicitly, and actually ask the visitors if they're willing to participate in it.

GDPR isn't blocking any sites, it's only disallowing a very particular way of getting users to give up their data and then monetizing that data. Nobody is entitled to their business model working forever, and some companies prefer to shut off a large segment of their market instead of updating their business model. It's their choice.
Hey, Max! We worked together across oceans a little bit when you were here. Just wanted to agree with your assessment. In the various teams/roles I've been in here over the last 6 years, from game team to core tech, I've gone through periods of a lot of overtime and no overtime. Even when I was doing some long hours (especially on my first title), I always felt fairly compensated and never felt forced to crunch. Having said that it really does depend on the team/manager/specific area of work - in the very same studio I knew others who were going through some serious crunch and subsequent burnout.
From an outside perspective the problem of household debt to household disposable income is not a uniquely American problem, nor is it even most acute in America.

Total household debt as a % of net disposable income is 109% in US. European countries with higher levels (in increasing order) are Greece, Spain, Belgium, France, Portugal, Finland, United Kingdom, Ireland, Luxembourg, Sweden, Switzerland, Iceland, Norway, Netherlands, and Denmark.

In Denmark, household debt is 280% of net disposable income.
https://data.oecd.org/hha/household-debt.htm
You could run an Alpha character out there now. If you've not played in a couple years there are now free to play account types with ship / skill restrictions. You can't log an Alpha and an Omega (Subscribed) accounts on at the same time, but it could give you an indication if the coast was clear.
I totally agree, it's not a very clear way to show the data.
This is a very good resource for PDO: https://phpdelusions.net/pdo
This project has actually really matured in a fantastic way! I have been toying around with it in the past few weeks and have been incredibly impressed with their progress! I would definitely want to use Godot for a serious project. Although I am a bit nervous that things become more challenging in more complex projects. Anyone have any experience here? I poked around for some serious Godot projects and haven’t really seen anything too large.
That's my favorite approach. It's also by far the most nerve wracking :)
It's a testament to the propaganda that VCs set up in the last ~20 years that this is even a newsworthy article. Since the first dotcom boom, basically, the popular idea of a startup has been synonymous with taking venture capital and then building your business based on making the VC firm fabulously wealthy in the relatively near term. Of course there are a million other ways to build a successful business, but for a while this was the predominant one in the startup world. I'm glad it's changing.
Nice, if I ever will have the pleasure of working in clojure, I will remember the re-find thing you mentioned here :-)

But to show more of I really liked when developing with types, take a look at this slightly contrived example [1]. I once tried to refactor a medium size haskell code-base, and ability to just ask the compiler "Hey what should I put in here?" really made my life easier :)

[1] https://github.com/paf31/24-days-of-purescript-2016/blob/mas...
In my experience, Time Machine is rock solid. I've backed up and restored many times onto new machines and the only thing that it doesn't handle well is Homebrew (or anything in /usr/local). I've had the same macOS installation for about ten years now.

Also, in my experience, Crashplan is a steaming pile of garbage. Are you verifying that your restores are checksum-accurate? Are you verifying that all files are present after a restore? Neither was true for me, and support were unable to help.
Yes, that's a better and more accurate phrasing than I used. The issue is that the correctness of the answer depends on the whether the causal structure of the model matches the underlying generative process. Graphs and do-calculus aren't required for this, but can help to make things clearer. In a later comment on the blog post, Pearl links to a paper that describes one of his "toy" examples: http://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/stat_ser/r400-reprint.pdf. Section 3 of page 584 is the beginning of the example. I'm sad to say that I'm sufficiently amateur at this that I found even the "toy" example to be at the limits of my reasoning ability, but I thought it still illustrated the argument Pearl is making.
it's a people problem, not a money problem. if people put value into something, others will try to get as much of it as possible to make 'profit'. good luck solving that one. doesn't matter how you build your currencies, it's the value attached which causes human greed to become problem.
Training kids to be Sysadmins, smart.
I lurk and post.

Sometimes I won't add a comment because of the chilling effect of a future employer or online mob finding it and reading something into my words. It's not worth being contrarian on the internet, or there's no space for devils advocate anymore. Most of the time I will comment and it's fine though.

Sometimes, unrelated, I will write a comment and then when my thoughts are formulated, I delete it because I have benefited from the conversation and there wouldn't be any additional benefit or use from me posting it.
You can thank large media conglomerates for the latter, all it takes is one executive decision for dozens of networks and websites to start geo-blocking Euorpe.
The only other thing I can think of that people have such a love/hate dedication to is their kids, and sometimes I worry that eventually I’m going to have kids and not find them interesting for the same reasons I don’t play Eve (plus, you know, the poo).
For those that don't know, Turkey (Ottoman Empire) ruled for over 600 years over a very large empire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire Quite a few times they tried taking over proper Europe, like Italy (Pope was there) and Austria. They ruled the Balkans, Northern Africa, Saudi Arabia, Caucasus etc etc. They didn't invest anything in occupied areas but didn't directly force conversions to Islam. Conversions had a lot of benefits of course so quite a few people did over the centuries.

Eventually Russia and European powers did them in, empire was rotting for centuries...

(Turkey's Erdogan is now trying to be the Sunni leader, only to be opposed by Saudi Arabia, which was pwnd by the Turks for centuries.)
Looks great! Perhaps, making it possible to turn pages with the arrow keys on the keyboard would make it a bit easier to navigate.