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Security risk? Western Civilization and it's imitators sure do love euphemisms to go with their double standards.
I don't understand the leap from my comment to concluding that I'm suggesting people can't be easily influenced. I was specifically talking about people who can be easily influenced, and the impossibility of shielding those people from content which would influence them negatively. The way a bit of content influences a person is not tied to the content so much as it is tied to the person consuming it. This is supported by research on confirmation bias and similar work. The idea that there exists content which is, independent from the mindset of the audience, not possible to be interpreted in a negative manner is what I dispute.
There's an amazing exposition of the whole Sovereign Citizen thing from several years back by a Canadian justice's ruling in "Meads v. Meads": https://www.canlii.org/en/ab/abqb/doc/2012/2012abqb571/2012a...

It covers a lot of ground -- lots of contextual information -- and is quite long, but readable (and entertaining).
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Yes I was doing that annoying thing physicists do where if we are off by 100x we consider ourselves to have succeeded greatly.
> Did the person you sold your old car to have to pay an equal amount of sales tax? Because in that case yes

If you like, but that is not how sales tax works. My point is that taxing economic activity that is not in cash form (such as trading shares) is not generally considered unreasonable. Arguably, by selling my car, I am better deploying economic resources, as the other guy evidently had more use for it than I do.

If we taxed only translation into cash, the largest fortunes would grow the most rapidly of all, as wealthy people have less use for cash, proportionally. That's arguably against the public interest.

Anyway - I am not taking a position - I am observing that it is not illogical to prefer the current system.
Yes, the final example code reads reasonably nicely, but alas -- unless ConcurrentHashMap.merge() has been rewritten since Java 8 time -- it is definitely not as performant as the author appears to think it is since the actions will be contained in a fairly long synchronized block. This is not to say the code is bad, but you can't get around that.

Somewhat surprisingly, the code the author pooh-poohs is actually more performant (although it's better if the test is for the presence of the key rather than the "putIfPresent/computeIfAbsent combination) because the JVM will properly optimize a membership test (in keyset) and the use of a ternary expression makes the action clear.
Total least squares is pretty bog standard in statistics and has a lot of literature, including monographs and text books.

You are correct about the Pythagoras theorem and by virtue of that TLS has close connections with PCA, in fact, once you have the PCA model you can derive the TLS coefficients from the PCA parameters.

The tricky bit is that in TLS the number of nuisance parameters grows with the data so it wouldn't be immediately obvious that estimates would converge. It turns out that it does.
How does this refute your statement? Dude, you made a false claim about what the CDC says, I put up the actual CDC statement. Burden of proof is on you now. Provide me a citation to a CDC source that proves your claim.
In general, obtaining access to your account at some service providers requires you to defraud, social engineer or hack that service. To be able to do that legally, you need permission from the service provider, permission of the owner of the account isn't sufficient.

So any company claiming to provide such service is either not doing so legally or (more likely) limiting their activities to various passive approaches and not attempting to actually pentest/social engineer access to your accounts in ways like an actual attacker would; so they're implying that they provide a better, more serious service than they actually do.
>that there is no official mechanism for declaring types and interfaces.

This is not true for Common Lisp.

Want to declare types? "(declare (type ...))"

Interfaces? CLOS allows "generic functions", which can achieve the same as interfaces, and are light years beyond the typical OOP system.
Look for another job in the background if you want and take it after you found a better one.

Also what's more important is whether the product is useful or not.

At the same time it will be hard to find a company in which the CEO doesn't ever lie :(
Regulatory capture is the obvious problem.

The proven fix is to mandate public interest members on these oversight boards.

This solution is orthogonal to the extent of regulation.
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I think it's quite clever, announce way ahead of time so its believable and then add j/k on April 1st after grabbing all the publicity.
Are smart cities another doomed attempt to build a utopian city?
I think you'd agree with me that the problems with post WWII "social science", "political science", "psychology", "architecture" are precisely that they're trying to ape the physical sciences and not just be art.

And this is utterly true of Economics more than anything. And actually while a lot of arts have been pulling themselves back from that rat hole economics just keeps digging deeper.
> This is so ridiculously untrue. There are so many businesses you can run that are almost impossible to fail. There are so many failures that are actually just "OK" in that they break even or lose a little money or whatever but don't actually cause you any problem to wind down.

This is so ridiculously untrue :). Not a single business is easy. You can’t just coast and get break even. You have to slog from day to day. And if you’re not growing, you’re shrinking. I know that’s not a popular thing to say these days, but I believe that to be true even apart from the wild excesses of capitalism. In a free market, if you’re not constantly reinventing to keep people engaged, no matter what your business, you are going to fail soon enough. People get bored and move on, even if you’re laying golden eggs, people will get bored.
> Sovereigns, who sometimes call themselves “freemen” or “state citizens,” have no foundational document, but broadly they subscribe to an alternate version of American history. The tale can vary from sovereign to sovereign, but it goes roughly like this: At some point, a corporation secretly usurped the United States government, then went bankrupt and sought aid from international bankers. As collateral, the corporation offered the financiers … us. As sovereigns tell it, your birth certificate and Social Security card are not benign documents, but contracts that enslave you.
This is a bad faith response. High risk high reward is fine to me but I wouldn’t want to be in fear of my job.
If you squint, that is a Keynesian argument, since it potentially justifies government borrowing more money and handing it out for the economy to invest. It is just a matter of degree - again my point that it is not necessarily a good idea.
Tindr blog post about this, posted two days ago.

https://blog.gotinder.com/introducing-height-verification/

Oh, and by the way? Only 14.5% of the U.S. male population is actually 6’ and beyond. So, we’re expecting to see a huge decline in the 80% of males on Tinder who are claiming that they are well over 6 feet. That’s fine by us — as long as we’re all living our truths.

80% of men on Tindr claim to be “well over” six feet tall? Come on, do they think this helps their first impression when the very first thing their date sees is that they’re a liar?
So I’m guessing when you say “IT professionals freak out” what you actually mean is “idiot desktop support engineers who think anyone who uses the command line are ‘l33t h4xx0rz’”.

You guessed wrong, since they're used to seeing me use iTerm all over my other monitors.
Regression is useful because it allows us to interpolate within observed populations using relatively light assumptions. Extrapolation requires higher order theories and structure. Agreed that it can be a logical mess when one uses it bluntly, but like all tools it has its uses and misuses.
And one of the most serious and cutting edge graph databases, Allegro Graph, is a Common Lisp software.

The engine that does the core stuff at Grammarly is also a CL program.

DrMeister is an example of how an advanced hacker uses cutting edge tools to get things done.
Why are you using a different account than in the version [1]?

Edit: Now I understand. Version 1 was made by another user.
If you are using Gmail and you are not checking the spam folder at least once a week there is a good chance you are missing legit emails.

At least, this has been my experience for a while now.

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Your casual insertion of “able-bodied” hides an important point: there are lots of people who can’t do janitorial work either. There is nothing inherently different between the two types of work. The difference is of degree, not kind. I know developers who would be literally incapable of performing janitorial work. You probably do too.

I completely disagree with your statement at the end. The janitors are absolutely needed. Maybe you don’t need people with the title of “janitor” because your developers take care of that work too, but that just means they’re part-time janitors, not that you have no janitors. An office that actually has no janitors will rapidly become filthy and filled with trash.

You’re confusing need with ease of acquisition. It can look like companies don’t need janitors very much because they’re so easy to get. Companies don’t have to pay them well or treat them well because the supply is large and if you drive one away, there’s another one ready to take their place. But that doesn’t mean the need is low, it just means the supply is high.

As an analogy, consider: what are the greatest needs for an individual? You’d probably answer: food, shelter, companionship, maybe something like fulfilling work. I bet you didn’t answer “air.” Yet our need for air is perhaps our greatest need: without it, we die in just a few minutes. Why doesn’t that come to mind as a need? It’s because it’s so easy to obtain, we just don’t think about it.

Basic economics dictates that the difference in supply versus demand means developers will be able to command much higher salaries. Not because they’re needed more, but because they’re harder to get. The same reason a glass of champagne is more expensive than a glass of water, which is more expensive than a breath of air. If a company decides to pay their janitors more than the economics says they have to, that doesn’t mean that I should expect them to do the same thing for me as a developer.
Or drones projecting dots using lasers or collimated powerful leds: no traces, no smoking gun, no foul play. That would be scary at very least.
The more fundamental problem may be that the contemporary horizon of meaning has so contracted that we cannot conceptualize of anything not defined in terms of "customers" or "product" (or "war").
In the very early 80s, as a middle-school student in the suburbs of Houston with a new Apple ][+, I attended a personal computing show downtown.

One of the booths was showing off a game, called "Killer T-Cell" if I remember correctly, based on some local university research. You'd move a little T-Cell around, through a changing pink maze of good tissue, to absorb & destroy any cancerous (purple?) cells that popped up.

It used hi-res mode but seemed to be played on a grid based on the Apple ][+'s low-res mode – and sometimes that mode flashed through as well. (I can't remember if that was a glitch or purposeful effect.) It was pretty crude in graphics and gameplay, but we bought it, for maybe $5 or $10, on a 5.25" floppy – moreso for the novelty and intellectual content than anything else.

Over 37 years ago, that game conveyed to me the idea that people probably get a lot of microcancers all the time, which are routinely cleaned up by the immune system's T-cells, and only become a problem when the immune system is finally overwhelmed or tricked.

Dr. Allison's Wikipedia page suggests he was at Houston's MD Anderson Cancer Center at that time, in his early 30s. I wonder if the game was motivated by his research... or even if he was the person who sold me that game.
> Thing is populists tactics wouldn't get as much traction if the prejudice was not as bad, or worsening in the first place.

The problem is that prejudice is also invented and disseminated by these unscrupulous politicians with their populist rhetoric. We see that in any extreme cormer of the political spectrum, whether its anti-capitalist socialists or racial supremacists. History is packed with examples where totalitarian regimes outright negate science to push their absurd populist rhetoric.
That's the thing with deep goodness: it is always the same. It is always simple, humble, powerful, long-suffering and generally unappreciated. The vast masses of humanity just rarely give a crap, as evidenced by the populace's fascination with tribes such as the Kardashians and the ascendancy of our current US president.

I don't remember where I heard it, but it was many years ago, that the "bad guys" can come in some many varieties, have so many different kinds of character defects and obsessions and whatnot, but that the true hero is always the same kind of boring because goodness itself is not flashy. That is why Hollywood always portrays their heroes with some kind of serious character defect, unless it just writes stories with only an anti-hero of some kind.

One must never forget that Tolkien lived through WWI whose horror and tragedy gave him a firm grasp of the complex realities of both good and evil. The resulting simplicity is why LoTR has stood the test of time as a truly epic story.
> I couldn't count the number of times I've seen a Bay Area software engineer 4 years out of college genuinely believe they're justified in complaining about their lot in life

I don't believe you.

I believe that there are people like this saying they could probably demand more money, and also that they may be commenting on how ludicrously high housing costs are in the bay area, and how that makes it hard to afford to buy a house even on a very high nominal salary.

But I find that comments like this are usually exaggerating others' sense of entitlement. Certainly it's very common in the CS career subreddit that I moderate. And having grown up in the bay area and worked at Google in the bay area...I just haven't seen many, if any, devs this entitled-sounding. So no, I don't believe you've hit this mega-entitled doucheperson "more times than you can count".
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Learning to recognize the characters is super important. It unlocks so many fun native resources to use as study material. Memorizing how to write characters is a waste for most learners who aren't really invested in it.
Health reasons was what they said. I'm simply impressed by those that explain why they switched instead of other ways of handling their crisis of confidence.
I'm not sure that this is so accurate. GitHub is not blocked at all and neither was Reddit until recently. The recent "996" debacle on GitHub has demonstrated that Chinese people are able to "talk to each other" through these foreign sites with no trouble at all.
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To work from the same passage,
>It is true that the F.A.A.’s current delegation rules have been around for more than a decade [...]

Yeah, well, great. But aircraft development timespans are on the order of ten to fifteen, sometimes twenty years—how many new models (or significant variants) were shipped in that window?

IOW, any "ten-year-old track record" in transport category aviation isn't really saying much due to the timescales involved.
The same way everyone should invest 10'000 USD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcqlCoreWi8&t=12s
https://redis.io/topics/latency#latency-induced-by-transpare...
The TURN server doesn't need to be trusted as it never receives keys or sees unencrypted traffic, it only forwards encrypted traffic. It can still track metadata (who you're transferring data to), but it doesn't need to be trusted any more than your ISP.
More on the multiply and divide subroutines at https://www.masswerk.at/spacewar/inside/insidespacewar-pt6-g... – automating these subroutines in hardware meant adding a special clock, which would take over control in order to perform the according steps.
Similar indeed, though I'd hope to bump into someone that is willing/able to sell it to their direct environment. Doing a free build/first customer deal seems too risky to me indeed (over-optimizing on what this single person needs). I suspect "premise 2" has to do with this.

I'm interested in hearing a bit more about your experience if you have some time. What kind of projects have you done so far? Nothing that ended up moving the needle a little? Even after further marketing/promotional efforts?
Interesting, I learned something. I did not realize this was the case in the US. Arguably a tax subsidy for dealers, since I presumably don't receive that treatment if I instead sell the car myself a week later.
Any chance you're working for a legal "AI" platform?
> Rich people find loopholes. Why not us?

and rich corporations, too. indeed, why not us?
I wish I had the guts to add this sort of stipulation to my (non-existent) standard contract.
Well, ideally, your base salary is pretty low and your bonus is big. This is the model used in finance because the returns are very unpredictable and the standard deviation between the worst and best employees is very large. Bonuses also provide good incentives to employees.

But to answer your question, total comp should be around 5% of the money you book for the firm. So salary + bonus.
French isn't held back by its script, even though its script is far from great.

Chinese and Japanese are definitely held back by their awful script + many people who confuse language with script.
The team is small enough that you should be able to talk to whoever is in charge of either engineering or marketing and ask them about the strategy and positioning. In some cases you need lots of data to start making things work with and kind of ML; this could be that period of time.

If it violates your integrity to work there after you have an answer then just move on.
Not really. Traffic on 95 in NC/SC/GA keeps moving at 50 even in southern downpours so heavy the lane markings are invisible. Here in DC the lane markings are ordinarily entirely off, because lanes get closed when there is construction on a building by the road. People figure it out. Self driving tech that relies on lane markings isn’t viable in the real world.
I had a similar worry about a year ago. On reflection I realised that AI is a much broader, vaguer term than I'd thought. It can be used to describe any software which replaces some human process involving decision-making. A huge range of software can legitimately or tenuously be made to fit that criterion. Doesn't have to involve ML, deep learning, neural nets or anything like that, even if some people would prefer AI to specifically mean those things.
The other thing it does excellently is that you can take any .html file, renamed it to .php and add some <?php code ?> and it'll work.

In a previous site of mine i had the entire site be statically generated but needed some server-side stuff in one of the pages, so i put something like %%PHPCODEHERE%% and modified the script that built the site to replace the %%PHPCODEHERE%% with the contents of a .php script.
This doesn't work for Wells Fargo, at least IME as of 9 months ago. I didn't have access to my main password manager (only a phone, I was on a trip), but they did just accept my answer of "random chars generated by a password manager". After that, I went and changed security answers on anything important, I just made a script that pulls random words from a dictionary.

While some services are secure, without testing it isn't safe to assume that any particular service is. And even with testing, it can vary depending on the particular CSA. So in general, I don't think this is a good idea, since there is no way of knowing if any particular service will be secure.
To propose such a strawman of my position, and then accuse me of being “intellectually dishonest” and “insulting”. Wow.

I never said outlandish. I said people claiming Gavin said he had evidence were incorrect, because TFA literally never claims to have evidence. Let alone direct evidence. Let alone incontrovertible evidence.

I think it’s absolutely incumbent on the accuser to provide at least some general description of the form and substance of evidence that was obtained to support a claim such as this. This is not asking too much from a private citizen who apparently had unlimited funds from his boss (the richest man in the world) to exact revenge on someone who attacked him in one of the most financially damaging ways imaginable.

Since when does HN accept conspiracy theories with absolutely nothing to back them up? I’ve seen the post “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence” upvoted to the top of many discussions. Why does that not apply here? Doubly so in a case where the accuser is so personally vested in the outcome.

You propose that because we know conspiracy A (through tremendous amounts of actual evidence) so therefore we must entertain a tenuously related conspiracy theory B without any evidence?

Please don’t accuse me of being insulting and dishonest on the basis of frankly basic skepticism of a conspiracy theory, particularly if that is the extent of your rebuttal.

The political skirmishes of the worlds richest men don’t really concern me. What does concern me is the posited existence of a remotely installable no-touch root access zero day for a presumably up-to-date iPhone, and secondarily, that it’s being weaponized by foreign government against private US citizens — meaning it apparently doesn’t require the carrier’s cooperation to deploy, which is what would shock me the most, because baseband exploit would be the most obvious vector.
Maybe they're both right.
Are you able to mention the company, either publicly or privately?
I always love it when companies act like you shouldn’t be working there for the money. That’s the whole point of having a job! If you want people who aren’t in it for the money, you should post your ad under “volunteers wanted.”
They do this under the rubric of “bleeding the beast” as they put it. The FLDS did this too, and it’s a pretty common, and massively self-serving tactic of many fringe groups. Personally I like it, because it opens a path for legal sanctions irrespective of the groups ideology or religion. They can believe whatever crazy shit they want, but fraud and tax evasion are still crimes.
Space is limited, demand is not. Physical reality trumps economic wish-thinking every time. Most of the time, the lack of space is the root problem, not some governmental boogeyman.
Too medicalized compared to what? Is there strong evidence of other approaches delivering superior outcomes on a cost adjusted basis? I know CBT has been shown to work well for some patients with some conditions, but it isn't effective for everyone.

How do you determine the root causes to be addressed?
The quality is a question. It’s nicer to distribute the original digital copy rather than decompressed and recompressed copy.
I don't get labor movements for public institutions. I mean for corporate or private businesses its makes sense to counter the profit above all else motive, but for something like a school which uses public funds to push a societal good I find it to be a bit entitled.