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If you have 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 computers, it could solve in milliseconds!
For some values of voluntary. You need to take into account marketing and other dishonest business practices perverting the transaction, and the fact that the market offers you a pretty binary choice: either accept the benefit with all the garbage, or don't have it at all. The alignment of interests is minimized to be just above the point below which people wouldn't buy.
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Apologies, I can't edit the post anymore.

>perhaps you should familiarize yourself with the author's other writings

But I don't want to. I'm discussing this article, I never came across this author before (that I can recall).
Yup. I grew up in a solidly blue collar household that didn’t have much money to spare. We got a Vic-20 at a garage sale, and I learned how to program by borrowing these books from the public library. Eventually we upgraded to an XT that came with GWBasic and I was blown away by how much more I could do (640kB of RAM! I can do anything!)
> Intuitively, it isn't obvious to me why this would be so, but it's nerd sniped me into thinking about how combinations work in general and the geometry of the Rubik's cube particularly.

My guess would be that this can be hand-waved by looking at it like a sort of discrete space. Then a solved cube is a single point in that space (let's assume we already normalize for orientation etc.). The moves we can make on a cube connect each point in the space to a set of adjacent points. The shortest path from A to B would be the space's metric. Now we know that the maximum distance from the origin / solution point is 20. Let's call all the points with a given distance n S_n (like "stratum"). To explain the distribution we only need to look at paths that either go from S_n to S_n+1 or to S_n-1, because "lateral moves" are never relevant to the shortest/optimal paths. So for small n the number of points grows, because each stratum we go away from the solution gives us more possible moves to go even further away. For S_20 there are no moves that go further away, for S_19 each combination has at most one move that goes further away etc., so essentially I think the limitation of the path length at the edge reduces the possible combinations you can get in those stratums, i.e. close to the center a random move will bring you farther away, so there has to be more points farther away, but when you are close to the edge, a random move either doesn't move you at all (stratum-wise) or closer to the center, so there have to be fewer points as you approach the edge.

The really interesting thing however is how these two balance each other to place most points in S_17 and S_18.
As someone who (also?) builds automated industrial machinery for a living (and agrees that opening the bag would be harder than picking colors), the challenge would be in improving reliability from a typical 97% to the nigh-impossible task of getting 27,000 operations correct in a row. What will you do with small pieces of skittle shell, or broken skittles that lack a shell, or 2 skittles that are bonded together, or shreds of red bag that got into the hopper? What will you do if the dye is running low, or is contaminated, and the color fades or shifts between bags? The original article had some rather difficult to automate, subjective criteria for handling these questions.

One thing to remember in the panic over automation killing off jobs is that handling the normal case is maybe 20% of the work. Handling routine errors is 80% of the work. Handling the errors that crop up once in a thousand parts - or dozens of times in this small sample - is why running lights-out is so difficult, and why we'll always need human operators and maintenance staff who can diagnose and correct unexpected problems.

That said, I'm at least 97% confident that OP, in manually counting and marking down these 27,000 items, mis-counted or mis-marked at least once. So I'm not feeling too bad about my pessimism regarding the automated solution. Even if it can't identify if a given sample is "gross" or not, it will add 1 to a counter reliably!

Also, one test of 468 bags that shows one result does not prove anything about the average number required. You'd need to run this test many times for that, and for that you'd need automation!
> ...the fact is, hate speech is profitable. It’s killing our society and our planet...

Source? Hate speech has been part of every major society since at least the time of the Egyptians. The opposite could easily be true. Hate speech might be an integral part of society. Its also not very profitable. That's why companies police their own content. No reasonable company wants their advertisement associated with the Klan. As for hate speech's effect on the planet -- I don't think the Earth cares who hates who.
There's an event in competitions called "fewest moves" where you have one hour to find the shortest solve of a particular scramble.

Just a month ago Harry Savage managed to beat the world record and find a 17-move solve. 20 moves or fewer has been managed a number of times, but it's not regular.
Because physics has turned into an impotent glass bead game, devoid of experimental result or insight. "quantum information theory" being the latest steaming pile of garbage to replace noodle theory as the favored ego boosting nonsense to appeal to theoretical game players who don't understand how matter works.
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I used to get these books out of the library when I was about 8 years old. Unfortunately the code often wouldn't work as I was attempting to use the BASIC interpreter on my IBM XT. I never understood why but those PEEK and POKEs can't have helped...
Also, all of them (on iOS at least) "force" you to download maps for offline maps.

I don't want some city I visit once in my lifetime permanently taking up storage...
There is no garbage patch in the Southern Indian Ocean. Where is the rubbish?
A state-machine, generator or coroutine can be used instead of callbacks.

I mostly prefer only having one direction of who-calls-who when combining multiple languages. Though I understand that for a general purpose system like Wasmer it makes sense to support everything, so that users can choose the architecture.
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I started learning TLA+ in October (or so), and after getting reasonably acceptable (as in, can write PlusCal without many issues, and can write and read basic plain TLA+) I'm starting to learn Alloy now. It offers a different approach that seems to suit different domains (say, less "temporal" focus)
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That symbolic Euro is important because it makes the deal a purchase instead of a gift. Legally, the consequences are significant.

There are numerous situations when paying nothing for something is entirely reasonable, for example when you are getting nothing (or even worse) in return (eg: bailout), or when you are giving something else in return (eg: future cooperation, access to new technology, access to a new market, etc.)
Most days. Once a week I run in the morning and the evening.
History is rather misanthropic.
This seems like 'growth hacking' gone wrong. Facebook's growth has been loosing momentum for several year's now and it seems to me they are trying to make up for it by using every trick they have up their sleeves.

They might want to overthink their motto 'Move fast and break things'.
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To me they are like a bizarre Japanese take on a Wal-Mart. Prices are cheap, the aisles are narrow, there's tons of Chinese-made crap, but they also have really inexpensive food too (steaks that are gigantic by Japanese standards....I think mostly imported American meat, pumped full of hormones and whatnot).

I like to go there at 2am (no traffic = short travel time) to buy food, or maybe some small tools (socket wrenches, etc..) that I need while working on my cars at night or even radiator fluid. You can also go earlier in the evening (around 7-9pm) and scope out the makeup section, try some "nanpa" with the kabakura girls before they head to work.

Between Aeon MaxValu (supermarket), DonQ, and Family Mart convenience stores, you have access to easily 90% of the consumable products you might need in a typical month, and available 24/7. Clean stores with all-hours convenience like this are one of the highlights of living in Japan compared to some other places in Asia. Ttry buying batteries at 2am in Hanoi...
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I like seaborn's jointplot()[1] function for generating plots like this. I actually prefer the "hexagonal bin" plot, but jointplot() can also do kernel density estimation like this post does.

Hexbin example: https://seaborn.pydata.org/examples/hexbin_marginals.html

KDE example: https://seaborn.pydata.org/examples/joint_kde.html

If you are doing any exploratory analysis using scatterplots, I highly recommend that you also generate hexbin plot or heatmap. Far too often it turns out all of the points are concentrated in a small area of the plot, but that's not always apparent on a scatterplot.

[1] https://seaborn.pydata.org/generated/seaborn.jointplot.html
No, they weren’t pulling my leg. There are plenty of highly nationalist middle-class Hindus in India, as I’m sure even you have noticed from political waves.
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Sure, but that will no longer be twitter, it'll be a reddit competitor. He should then also state what will make it better than reddit, from what he's public ally saying so far it just sounds like he's never heard of reddit and is going to invent it.
>There is also a picture of her on the left.

My blocker didn't load that, I think.

>She did end with a link to revolution spurred by austerity and the rise of populism

The quote is "revolutions don’t tend to end well", which is pretty telling and only confirms my assessment of her unwillingness to question the fundamentals or enact meaningful change (beyond supreficial "bandaids").
Heads of state are rarely in charge of anything. Heads of government are. Heads of state are quite often figureheads with mostly ceremonial functions. Particularly among western democracies, France and the US are the exception rather than the rule.
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Anyone know if the solutions and/or lecture videos are available? After a quick search I think the answer is no but thought I'd double check.
Why is it the government's job to encourage the creation of job creating watering holes? Why can't it just curtail rent seeking? It's much easier to identify bad behavior as you see it than encourage good behavior of a yet unknown form.
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Might be offset by way fewer ads, influencers and platform-driven notifications. I find that those things are the main sources of spam on say Twitter or Instragram.
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I work in biotech now using microscopy to understand diseases better. Same exact problems there- so much still depends on expert humans who can diagnose and deal with all the edge cases with ease. I see all these articles about amazing results using image recognition, and while some of the results are really good, they always depend on massively cleaned-up datasets.
Then you'd have to have 43 quintillion network operations. That would probably take a couple hundred years.
While it's true that Apple has shifted wholesale more than Windows (from OS 9 to OS X; from PPC to Intel), I haven't found myself running aground on deprecated software often enough to notice.

It's probably true that if you really need binaries built during the Clinton administration to work, the Mac isn't for you. That such binaries still run on Windows is, to me, evidence of a problem in that world, not a feature.

I'd make an argument that Apple's willingness to do "big jumps" and cut ties with the past (in controlled ways, with long lead times and compatibility layers supported for a while after) is a strength of the platform, and leads to a more coherent and more stable environment.

Especially since most users have no need for ancient programs.

>f something is undocumented it is free for all to axe it regardless of how many applications use it.

This in particular seems like a feature. If it's not a documented part of the programming environment, use it at your peril.

>i ignore Apple changing CPU architecture every few years

Here's where I actually laughed at you. Characterizing "twice since 1984" as "every few years" is absurdly unreasonable.

I get it. You like that Windows is still basically the same house-of-cards system it was in 1995. Lots of people, though, don't think of this as a good thing. The Mac has thrived, I'd argue, BECAUSE of Apple's willingness to shift for the greater platform benefit -- off 68x to PPC for power; off PPC to Intel for both power and strategic reasons; into the BSD-based OSX for stability, power, and growth. Microsoft could learn a lot here.
If you're making heatmaps with GIS data, give some critical thought to the interpretation of the map to make sure you're not just doing this: https://xkcd.com/1138/
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That is a stupid analogy which I hope I don't even need to explain.

A terms of service is not a free pass to do whatever the fuck you want. Just because I agreed to Apple's terms of service doesn't mean they can turn me into a human centiPad, even if it says so in the small print.
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According to sibling comments of your own, you're wrong. Humans deliberately solve cubes with the least number of moves and even compete to do so. Generally tho, you're probably correct.
I did, but to me personally it wasn't nearly as polished as Unity and I also didn't like the absence of that unified UI look across all the base apps that Unity has. I also like the global menu and abundance of themes that exist for Unity/Gnome.
That is indeed one case where a large single-node database makes a certain amount of sense (though it's not the only solution; you need a globally consistent answer for which orders match with which, but that doesn't have to mean a single database node. Looking at the transaction numbers I'd assume that e.g. the busiest books on NYSE must be multi-node systems just because of the transaction rates). But fundamentally there are what, 11 equity exchanges in the US total (and less than half of those are high-volume). And the market fairness requirements are very specific to one particular kind of finance; they're not something that would be needed in healthcare, general enterprise, or most financial applications. Like I said, niche.
Hacker News is not the place for this, but I have a feeling you know this already...
What I want to emphasise, is that it's not even the changes in concrete, but the fact that it is impossible to question the fundamentals right now, or to enact any kind of meaningful changes. When faced with a crisis in the system (or with its everyday problems and flaws), the answer is only to look at ways within the system that can correct that, and the possibility of deeper fundamental changes does not even cross the mind. Plain and simple, the current arrangement has attained the status of "dogma".

But to answer your question, my opinion is that much of the power in our world is held undemocratically. Progress must be made to bring as much responsibility, power, property, etc, into democratic rule of the people whom that power affects. This is about as condensed a description as I can manage of my main convictions. After a certain point, that requires rethinking the fundamental structures and concepts of our society, or at list be willing to question them critically and honestly, rather than taking them as laws of nature.
I thought the same. Kudos to the team, they already have an open issue to change the name: https://github.com/DivySrivastava/leaflet/issues/3
Peanuts are a gross underestimation. More like a quark or a Planck length.
You're really attributing this to the MBA boogeyman, when Zuck the l33t coder dropout almost certainly had to sign off on a move like this?
Swift is an interesting one because IBM seem to be quite keen on it as a server language:

https://developer.ibm.com/swift/
Don't trust Android or iOS or macOS sandbox. Google invests huge amounts of development time and research into Google Chrome JavaScript sandbox. It is the real wild west, there are malicious actors who want to break that sandbox. There are multiple layers of protection. Yet there are successful attacks. Much less people trying to break Android or iOS sandbox, because you can just ask for permission from Android and because Apple can kick bad app from the store and prevent infestation. It means that security of those sandboxes is worse, there are many undiscovered (or undisclosed) holes.

Check out history of Java sandbox with its numerous vulnerabilities. I have no reasons to expect anything different from built-in sandboxes. It's like relying on unix user permissions and allow to run anything under untrusted user. Works in theory, but you'll be owned pretty soon, because local root escalation vulnerabilities are not that rare.

In those days the only sandbox I would trust is JavaScript one. It's battle tested.
Especially on hacker news. It's an odd push towards orthodoxy, authoritarianism and government governance which goes against the hacker ethos. Strange to see many "government knows best" and "multinational corporations know best" arguments. Where did this love of government nanny-state or corporate paternalism come from?
And why was it lifted and taken somewhere

from the far end of town where the Grickle-grass grows?

The old Once-ler still lives here.

Ask him. He knows.
Cherry-picking fallacy? You have to perform an experiment controlled by an outside person otherwise you fall victim of a cognitive bias.
Last night I ate skyr (kind of yogurt) with expiry date at February. So far I am OK.
I recently reread Book of the New Sun for the first time in more than twenty years, and yeah, it makes a different impression at 54 than it did at 17, not least because it was familiar now and new then. The characters, especially Severian, quite often act in ways that are not admirable, and I can be pretty sure that Gene intended that we see some of the not admirable traits as actual flaws. He is not, for instance, suggesting that sleeping with your grandmother is a good idea. He wasn't going to make it that easy for us.

But Peace and Fifth Head of Ceberus, and much of his short fiction remain classic.
Well it looks like you're perfectly capable of handling a full response :) Here's what's going on exactly:

In our great age of surveillance, there are cases where companies, even ISPs have web proxies in place. The problem here is that my website makes heavy use of websockets on port 7340. Most proxies haven't caught up to websockets yet because it's still a fairly new tech.

So my website sees you connect from one IP (the proxy) on port 443 and another IP (unproxied external IP) on port 7340. And it's not too happy about that because it thinks someone is trying to get to the websocket without going through the front door and establishing a session.

Of course there's also cases where people have proxies because they have malware installed... There's is a very fine line between malware and surveillance wouldn't you know it? :)

I do have the usual stats gathering JS on there which is what's triggering uBlock and cookies, but they are 100% non-essential to the good running of the site. The websocket on the other hand isn't unfortunately.

I'm not sure what I should do if anything, I've had a few folks report this so maybe I need to do something. Or maybe I can be ok with the fact that corporate networks with non-standard rules will break things. Tough call...

Anyway, thank you for giving me more details to think about this. And sorry it doesn't just work for you. It should definitely work from home :).
Thanks for sharing this, that's a very interesting article.

Serious question: is impersonating aid workers a violation of the Geneva convention or other international law?
I use dbeaver and it's great. I've got sql server, postgres dbs, and even an old TakeStock / Progress DB working nicely with it.
I agree that if the government only discouraged rent seeking, that would be an improvement. The article shows how the government is encouraging rent seeking.
And if we consider Facebook's normal modus operandi: Today it's 1.5 million, a week or two later, they will say it was 15 million and 2 months later, they will say it was 150 million+.

Don't give access to your contacts, location, emails and photos to not just FB, but also WhatsApp and Instagram. If you must use them, try doing so from incognito browser windows. Facebook has proven time and again it cannot be trusted.
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How? I didn't say anything about what religion means to anyone.
This is a pretty good “culture fit” question to ask a prospective employer in an interview. If the answer is wrong it won’t be the only thing wrong.
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An always-on system designed to always override the pilot should be at least as reliable as the control system used by the pilot. Because the 737MAX is supposedly flies like a 737, and because authorities signed off on this without mandating pilot training, this means this system needs to be as reliable as it can - to maintain the illusion.

And basically everyone knows that there are some subfields of software engineering where safety is critical. From nuclear reactor/warhead control to healthcare devices, and somewhere right in the middle there should be aviation, and other transportation industry related software (train signaling, braking systems, self-driving whatevers, and so on).

And we have Boeing, acting worse than Uber (when they put someone into a Tesla to watch it self-drive without hooking that someone up on intravenous Modafinil).
My naive, first-order understanding is that English = German + French. But since the Renaissance, French became the dominate influence due to its use by elites/scientific community.

So it's not Spanish influence, per se, but its similarity to French as a Romance language.
Thank you! This is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for.

It wasn't the one I saw previously, but it's a good starting point.
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Hey I’m 100% with you. I’m not defending Facebook, and it’s crazy they ask for passwords. But just because Facebook’s at fault doesn’t mean that it’s okay as a user to give out your password, nor does it mean that you lost any money when contacts are copied, right? The words “stealing” and “robbing” don’t really convey what happened here, even in the case Facebook isn’t telling the truth.
You can thank the Normans and the Renaissance :)
I didn't read that implication at all. Many projects of love are free with no revenue model at all, or maybe some random ads to offset costs (not cover them), otherwise it's unlikely people would even start using it in the first place. Going from that to a paid/subsidized model strong enough to cover actual development, hosting, etc. is a tall order.