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Regardless of the discussion on "fake news" or "not so fake news" or "trustworthy news" I found the ration of signal vs. noise for my personal life to just not justify news consume.

If I was consuming about 30 pieces of news per day (and that is not so much actually) I would consume nearly 11.000 news pieces per year.

I was asking myself: "How many of the news pieces I consumed did actually influence any relevant decision I made?"

The answer in that given year was three, max. four. So of nearly 11.000 data points only 3 or 4 were actionable enough to influence a more or less important decision?

This was the reason I switched from a "just in case" mindset (I need to know this, just in case it might become important - also called "FOMO: Fear of missing out") to a "just in time" mindset. If something is of any particular interest to me - I start to investigate the context. To then be able to come to a valid decision.
I was watching an interview with the scientist who conducted the study this morning and she indicated it was both.
> If that's remotely true, and their product offer/lineup is built around the failure rates, single-core CPUs would have resulted in staggering numbers of failures, since a single defective core meant a trashcan rather than a down-SKU.

I don't think all defective chips were DOA. A core that is stable at 1000MHz would be a Pentium 4 and another sample of the exact same chip that catches fire at 1000MHz but is stable at 500MHz would be a Celeron (etc).
I don't see why you are getting downvoted. Proof of work is a great way to limit spam.
It could be made almost unnoticeable by the end user sending a couple of messages, but expensive for spam. There are of course some show stoppers (mailing list, non-profits etc), but it is not a bad solution.
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Yeah to me, as someone who considers themselves a Mac power user (12 years of learning keyboard shortcuts and clever system tricks), Electron apps stand out immediately.

There are so many small details, like proxy icons and commonly accepted shortcuts for particular actions. These are things you either get for free or nearly so when writing native apps using the system frameworks, or they are things that people trying to make a consistent app across multiple platforms miss.

As a user, the consistency isn’t really a feature for me. I don’t use windows or Linux on the desktop regularly, so having my editor/chat client/etc behave the same on all three isn’t useful.
> I really wish parents would just let go a little.

And so should schools. While we preach healthy work/life balance for adults, we bury children in huge amounts of homework that can stretch into or fill whole evenings.

I'm all for a demanding, highly structured and efficient time spent at school, but please give them a chance to explore own interests and hobbies after school.
Depending on the workload it will be a marginal load, and getting rid of spam would be a pretty big gain.
> To be more concrete:

> - Locale.Builder, Java 7, introduced in Android 21

> - java.lang.invoke package, Java 7, introduced in Android 26

> - java.nio.file package, Java 7, introduced in Android 26

Should the legal status of Android really depend in any way on whether or not it is done? Is there any practical way to define public policy that allows a work-in-progress reimplementation for competitive purposes but prohibits an incomplete reimplementation that you don't intend to flesh out to 100% compatibility?
But we do. The "re-inventions" just tends to be increasingly subtle, because the high level structure continues to make sense and the overall designs are simple to begin with, which makes it hard to come up with revolutionary new ideas in the space.

Umbrella's for example see continuous evolution in means of making better fully collapsible versions, making the deployment more automated, reducing weight, etc.

From Wikipedia, illustrating both that there's continued substantial effort in coming up with new ideas, and at the same time that it is hard to come up with something genuinely new:

> Umbrellas continue to be actively developed. In the US, so many umbrella-related patents are being filed that the U.S. Patent Office employs four full-time examiners to assess them. As of 2008, the office registered 3000 active patents on umbrella-related inventions. Nonetheless, Totes, the largest American umbrella producer, has stopped accepting unsolicited proposals. Its director of umbrella development was reported as saying that while umbrellas are so ordinary that everyone thinks about them, "it's difficult to come up with an umbrella idea that hasn’t already been done."[36]

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbrella)
This is something I learned: When coding for this kind of legal tests just make your code read as close as possible to how the actual law reads.

It's easier to check that the code matches the law (after all there are no test vectors on the law apart from case law so you have to go by the drafting) and it makes updates when an amendment is made much simpler.

That, and there is usually zero need to optimise.
Why does the Xbox One have a hypervisor, and what is it?
Yup sounds to me like someone got a list of valid Spotify accounts from the recent big breaches, then installed an authorised app to play fake artist songs they generated, to reap in some Spotify profits?
This literally happened to me. Unfortunately with both FB and Alexa. It's concerning to say the least
A while ago a Ukranian coworker drew my attention to the case of Pulitzer prize winning NYTs journalist Walter Duranty, who during the 1930s wrote numerous fraudulent articles denying the existence of famine in Soviet territories and particularly the deliberate man-made famine in Ukraine (recognized as a genocide by 16 countries including well respected first world countries such as Canada, Germany, France, Belgium, etc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor_genocide_question#Ot...)

The NYTs didn't admit error until the 1990 when they called his work "some of the worst reporting to appear in this newspaper." (https://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/24/opinion/the-editorial-not...) By then the damage to public opinion was already done, to the extent that even today I worry somebody will respond to this post telling me that Walter Duranty was in the right for one reason or another. Why did it take them nearly 60 years to fess up?
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12am/12pm are ambiguous and should be avoided when possible. Try asking people what time 12pm means and you'll see that some will struggle and some will get it wrong, especially if they're from a place that uses a 24 hour clock. But even a 24 hour clock is ambiguous at 00:00. What date should it be? This can be solved by using 11:59 and 23:59 instead.

12pm is usually used for noon. Ironically, of the two choices, it makes the least sense. It makes the PM hours become:

12, 1, 2, 3...

When one would expect:

...9, 10, 11, 12

Unfortunately, people weren't quite as into zero-indexing in ancient history.
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> Ask people under 30yo in Aus or the UK when they last wrote a cheque, and the answer "what's a cheque?"

It's what train companies in the UK send you 3 weeks after you fill a compensation for delay claim...
ASLR is implemented in the kernel; although some unscrupulous programs are able to bypass it entirely (or force it to be disabled system-wide as is the case for Dropbox on mac)
Wait, what? None of the territories here were changing hands peacefully, and the World War I events have nothing to do with the Ottomans.

In WWI Austria-Hungary attacked Serbia and that's how the WWI started. It did a lot of damage to Serbian state. But this is 100 years after 1804, when Serbia started a process of breaking off from slavery under Turks. By the mid-19 century Serbia was practically independent.

I am comparing two areas that have been under foreign Empires for a long time. The area north of Danube and Sava was only briefly under Ottoman rule, and then was conquered by Austria(+Hungary) while to the south of Danube and Sava was under Turkish rule for 300-500 years. Not only Serbia, but also Bulgaria, Macedonia, Albania etc.

All the areas that were ruled by the Turks are backwaters even to this day, the areas to the north much less so. There are other factors, of course, but everyone from the Balkans clearly recognizes this (development) dividing line.

WW 1 and WW 2 came later and brought its own share of destruction, but that destruction came after the nations were formed here, and the distinction I'm talking about have much older roots, that can still be clearly seen, even in how the towns and cities are laid out, ways of doing business etc.
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It gets even worse. The way "DNA matches" occur in the judicial system is by looking at a set of SNPs, not whole genome comparisons (obviously). So all you need to do it is take the SNP set, the leaked SNP set, synthesize oligos matching the person you want to frame, then sprinkle the oligo collection at the crime scene...Guess what shows up in the PCR? You do.
Not just the UI side. The underlying protocol was also pointlessly over-engineered. SMTP is still around because it is simple. You can get a basic SMTP client running in an hour or two. You can get a basic server running in a similar amount of time, at least in a higher level language. That matters, not because anyone will have anything usable in that time, but because it lets you start to experiment very, very easily.

Wave suffered from a UI that was a mess layered on top of a protocol that made it really hard for people to get started on experimenting with alternative frontends, and without a user-base giving people a reason to persist figuring out how to interoperate with it. Had the protocol been simpler, the UI mess might not have mattered so much - people might have come up with their own ideas.
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A beginner question but I would like to understand this. I'm studying normal distribution and probability and would like to know where the values in the [z table](https://www.ztable.net) come from and how they are calculated. All sites I see just link to the table but none show how the values originate.

P.S. Also forgot how to add a link properly. Can someone show me how it's done
The police force actually are.
> the uproar

I'm not saying you're wrong, but 6 posts with no profanity is hardly "uproar" by blizzard forums standards.
The standard response to proof-of-work spam deterrents is that "significant numbers of senders of legitimate email would be unable to continue their current levels of activity"[0]. While I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing, it does limit the utility of such a service.

[0]: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/proofwork.pdf
An underappreciated facet of payday loans is that without them desperate people would borrow from unsavoury people - making them illegal drives the high risk loan business underground into the hands of the Mafia. And then the consequences for the desperate people for defaulting is no longer bankruptcy, but broken legs or worse.

I agree we should have less of it, but all legislation should be mindful of the consequences of certain types of restrictions.
Accounts are unquestionably being exploited (often via reused passwords). I, along with others I know, have found mystery people squatting in my family plan. I had assumed they were also what were contributing to these weird artists in my history, but perhaps not.

Why does Spotify still not have 2FA? I get that legacy connected devices will be a problem for them, but there are ways around that.
Don't they have thermal cameras at the very least to take a peek inside? Marksmen who could take a look inside? Someone who can listen in?

Very sloppy operation if they just shot a guy standing in the open.
That doesn't mean it's automatically how things should be. The Supreme Court doesn't rule on that. If the Supreme Court was the only measure of "correctness", then the US might as well wipe its statute book clean.

Another way of looking at it is that the Supreme Court has only ruled that they aren't _un_constitutional. It's then up to Congress to decide whether or not they should be illegal.

I read elsewhere on this page that apparently the Republicans blocked such things from becoming illegal.

In my view as a non-American, it feels like Americans attribute too much weight on things they don't like on the Supreme Court, which deflects from the reality that it is the major political parties (perhaps just one) supporting this status quo.
Not only is obtaining DNA contaminated samples not harder than fingerprints, it is orders of magnitude easier.
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I'd second this class. I have done both and if you're brand new to machine learning I'd do fast.ai first. You gain a greater understanding from Andrew's course, but if you're not going to become a practitioner fast.ai is better.
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YES!!! A million times yes!

The way "DNA matches" occur in the judicial system is by looking at a set of SNPs, not whole genome comparisons (obviously).

This is how you frame someone.

1) Take the SNP set the cops use, which is published.
2) Make synthetic oligos that match the SNP set with SNPs from the person you want to frame.
3) Sprinkle the oligo collection at the crime scene
4) Guess what shows up in the PCR
Once a majority of our citizens are sampled,
[...] the public won't see the harm in
mandating collection for everyone.

The government doesn't need a DNA sample for Bob if they've got samples for Bob's family.

According to [1] the Golden State Killer was found by matching a relative in a public DNA database. Although obviously if the DNA match says 'sibling' or 'parent' there are fewer suspects to comb through than if the match says 'third cousin'.

[1] https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/10/12/17957268/s...
Couldn't have said it better myself. We have a strict list of apps and games that are allowed, but they basically get unfettered access to those ones. Nothing with ads or microtransactions, no mindless games, no YouTube at all unless we scraped a specific channel with youtube-dl to filter the crap. They have plenty of stuff to choose from and never get bored. Most the time they'd rather go play outside in the cubby or with the Lego anyway.
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It’s true that gut reactions _are_ in part based on analysis like this. But just like with machine learning you’re gonna have some false positives for unfamiliar APIs. Things might look “weird” superficially but actually not be a problem. Or it could look “clean” but have a bad Bug-O. Thinking about it in rational terms first can help.
This sentiment is very common among developers/enthousiasts and virtually non-existent among regular users. Some companies waste way too much money chasing some ideal very few care about, trying to please a segment of the users that are generally never happy anyway.
Duplicati is still very much in beta, and from personal experience I would not recommend it for larger or critical backups. It does seem really promising though.
> a poisson distribution of incoming calls with a rate r1

This is what always confuses me about queueing theory. The analysis is valid assuming a particular distribution, but the justification given for using that distribution was very weak, if at all given.

So how is the choice of a distribution justified?
Sure, and that is a bad reason to go in guns blazing. It is even worse than if it was a hostage situation.
It is even worse if the subject capitulated and went outside. What could they do, take aim at someone and then get shot?

This is stupid trigger happy gangster style policing.
No: with dynamic linking, and especially with Linux distributions, most of the work is automated and the patching is done by the distribution security team.

The time to write a patch and deliver it to running systems goes down to days or, more often, hours.
Are you sure they're actually guilty, and not just trying to get out of jail so that their lives don't fall apart?

Every part of the American justice system pushes people towards confessions:

a. People are sent to jail pre-trial. This automatically disrupts their lives, as even a few days in jail will often cost them their jobs. [1]

b. People can be kept in jail for months pre-trial, costing them their houses and possessions as well.

c. The government can freeze or seize a defendant's assets (effectively without cause), rendering them incapable of defending themselves. They can (and do) hold these assets hostage to coerce a confession. Thankfully, the worst of these practices have been struck down recently [2]

d. Being unable to pay for your own defense lawyer gives you at best an overburdened public defender (poor defense), and at worst no legal representation whatsoever (no defense) [3]

e. Bail eliminates the only remaining way to avoid jail for the poor or those with frozen/seized assets [4]

f. Overly harsh penalties make it too easy to completely destroy someone's life forever. Even 10 years is ridiculously high, especially considering there's no path to reintegration into society in America. You're pushed outside and left, destitute, to your own devices. It's far preferable to start with a scarlet letter now than in x years, older, less employable, with zero assets.

g. Plea deals, while well intentioned, have become de-facto extortion due to the other problems in the American system. "Take the deal or else we'll keep you in jail, and maybe even tack on a bunch of extra charges to keep you here for decades". Even without this problem, plea deals are a corruption of justice. Either someone is guilty and deserves the punishment, or they don't.

A conviction rate above 80% is automatically suspicious, simply because no police department is that efficient. America's conviction rate rose from 75% in 1972, to 93% in 2012, and is still rising. Couple that with an incarceration rate rivaled only by authoritarian regimes, and I'm VERY suspicious of statements like "90% of defendants are guilty".

[1]

https://www.americasquarterly.org/aborn-prisons

[2]

http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/court_says_crimin...

[3]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/inside-new-orleans-public-defen...

[4]

https://eu.tallahassee.com/story/news/2018/08/23/federal-jud...

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/policing/spotlight/201...
Kind of depends on the part of the world you come from, no? Nepali porters seems to be pretty slim and run up and down mountains for a living. Inuit seem to be a bit rounder in general which makes sense given their environment.
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They're paid hazard rates exactly because of the danger. They are not supposed to cause danger.
It is completely unacceptable.

At least here which is not US there is no such problem.
I'm not convinced if this really adds any additional insight over say a regular call stack or something similar. As can be seen in the demo video, all the visualisations are still 2D and are simply laid out in 3D and are connected by lines.

While this looks cool as a demo, I'm simply not sure if there's any real added value here, at least for now.

The title is misleading as well, all code is still shown as a flat file, it's just rendered at specific spot in 3D space.
Imho the whole history around TEL [0] is a pretty sad example of human hubris and our tendency to underestimate the negative impacts of our actions.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead#Controversy_and...
> the previous solar flares had cleared the space between Earth and the Sun to make the plasma cloud travel faster

Is the matter in space such a slowdown on the plasma cloud that once cleared it allows that cloud to travel much faster?
Didn't manage to get it running. Binaries crashed. Building from source was successful but the result crashed during runtime too.
Same here - long time, >15 years NYT subscriber, I stuck with them even while they were so obviously biased against my boy Bernie but finally it became too much. They just stopped reporting actual news one day and never looked back. They are publishing things that just aren’t true, and their silence is deafening on stories reported by their rivals. As you say, it’s not something I’m remotely interested in paying for.
You don't even need a client - connecting with telnet and sending emails is pretty straightforward.

I guess the modern equivalent is checking if a REST API is usable just with curl.
As a user, I prefer consistency across platforms. I don't really want the apps I use to blend into the same gray native soup, anyway. As I see it, the only thing achieved by more consistency within an OS is a thicker garden wall, and I don't really like walled gardens either.
We taught them from a very very young age (1-2) that if they sook when it's time to stop on the tech, they don't get to use it next time. It rarely if ever actually got to that. They just save the game or stop the show and continue it another time.
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I think it's "a lot" unfair. Waiting anxiously for the next version which will carry more limitations.
Same guy (Ken Griffin) just spent £95 million on a London "Georgian mansion within sight of Buckingham Palace":
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/jan/21/us-hedge-fund-t...
For me ad blocking is non-negotiable.

In my opinion if a website can't make a profit without ads, then it shouldn't exist. There are a tons of other ways to make money from a website without showing a single ad on the page.
> As far as I know, it has been tried numerous times and has been an area of active research in the past, but results turned out unsuccessful.

TruffleRuby is a Ruby implementation that works exactly by writing an interpreting and passing it through a general partial evaluator. It's successful enough to pass almost all the Ruby spec and to run real Ruby applications including their C extensions.

https://github.com/oracle/truffleruby
I just keep my prod systems clean, updated and SELinux in enforcing mode. Behind strict firewall of course. This is sufficient for practical reasons.

In proper devops teams, there is no even ssh access. System is deployed from image and configures itself. And is killed in scaling events.

Grsecurity is for hardcore stuff. Or openbsd, ultimate solution :)
I think that a poisson distribution is the easiest for the problem to be solved. It may not be the most accurate incoming distribution for all cases but it should be good enough for most cases.