skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The second link leads to http://priyom.org/military-stations/russia/message-format, which reveals a fairly simple format that relies on one-time pads. Each military unit has envelopes with unique word grids, e.g. https://i.imgur.com/ItpKnNy.png The radio station transmits messages as envelope identifiers and line/column numbers of those grids, and recipients piece them together.

Simple and impossible to break unless envelope contents leak. Given how rarely the system is used, it probably serves as a low-tech backup for high-tech radio systems.
It is like you see your car is headed towards a ditch and you step on the gas.

Quite amazed that such poor judgement was exercised throughout this incident - from deans and upper level admins no less - how out of touch with reality can someone be?
I have an Alfa Giulia and the knobs are amazing. It is always in reach of my hand since they are located right in front of the gear shifter and flipping through the menus became intuitive after a couple hours. No fingerprints is an added bonus. I don't have the nav option, so inputting addresses or other long things might be cumbersome (but likely unnecessary with Android Auto or the Apple version).

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The large round dial is used for most of the menu navigation. The small one to the right is for changing radio station/tracks and volume.

By comparison, my fiances Jetta's touch screen was pretty cool when we first got it. But then noticing how unresponsive it was, misclicking, and dirty it gets I don't think I will go for a touch screen again personally.
I welcome clear explanation of what the goal was. Can you explain it to me like I have an advanced degree in cs but I'm otherwise uneducated.
That is all true. At the same time here the groups were allowed to use the language of their choice. Presumably they chose languages they felt they were competent in.

Of course an expert of a given programming language can write much better in it than a novice. But a comparison like this is not necessarily about comparing top-programmers in every language, but average programmers, because we want to know results that are true "on average" .

The author does note he "knew (they) were highly competent". So they were not exactly novices in their language of choice. Writing a compiler is not a task for novices in general.
I agree with you about things that make their case weaker.

I would disagree if you're claiming that the national debate about racism only applies to newspapers talking about politicians. There's a HUGELY IMPORTANT debate in the culture generally about racism that I'd argue just as important if not moreso.

(That said, from a legal standpoint it's obviously true that a politician is a clearer-cut case of a public figure. That obviously matters when judging the merits. But you seemed to be suggesting that talking about this case in terms of the national debate around racism is irrelevant.)
I have run into that problem, but only when merging Latex documents with different packages. If you find something that's really difficult and requires a lot of packages, ask why other users haven't made it easy already - maybe it's not a good design.
Funny, I visited the Moscow museum just a couple weeks ago. What I especially enjoyed was was this solenoid based basketball game. Two player, about 15 places on the playing field where the ball could land. Each player the to hit the right button first to engages a little solenoid that would “throw” the ball towards their net and eventually score a basket. It was a reminder that for me, sometimes the simpler games are more fun that the complex high tech games.
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There was quite a bit if data showing that the strategy was not effective, the decision to attack the "will of the people" over military targets was made for callous reasons like revenge. There are no circumstances that make the act less abhorrent, we should have realized it then and not committed similar acts.
I can see this happening in a lot of these cars. Tesla does have a phone app that does most of the crucial things, assuming your car has data. You can adjust the climate controls, close the top, lock or unlock, start the car. Adjust the seat heaters.
A lack of healthy drinking culture and social norms leads to extreme, dangerous behavior. The same can be said for other ills of our society.
It would suck to live in a world where people can destroy your life by spreading lies about you, and you have no recourse. That's not the world we live in. What benefits do you think free-for-all slander and libel would give society exactly?
Point taken.

I guess that it was more like a heads up for adversaries. As in "don't think that we won't".
It makes it a lot easier for the Russian gov to sell "control over the internet" to the public.
Even if real infinities existed, it would be impossible to tell. What do you measure it against?
It was for sure all premeditated. Like you know... "Hey guys, we need to earn some serious cash now, so let's stop screwing around and wank ourselves off on some stupid games only we like... Let's build some serious shit for once."

And whops. There we go. Good old Tim stopped wanking to Day-Z and got some shit done, all on his own.

Not to mention that Epic Games is pile of crap now that they released this game. It was once a nice company to work work for, now its just the same shitty sweat shop like any other gaming company, who only sees bottom lines and milking customers... And employees.
>- The product can't be sold as a standalone item - it requires setup and integration, and without understanding what you have in place already, they can't give you a quote. Of course, this seems less likely for a hardware solution.

>- Related to the above, it's possible that it's a complex product to set up, and they've found that if they don't get you on the phone, you're likely to screw up the setup and get mad at them and/or return it. Better to scare you away up front if you're ultimately just going to take up time and end up getting a refund

Oh man I've run into this and you make an exception for someone, give them pricing and it is just confusion and a mess because they don't need integration.... except for all the integration they need...
Keep in mind the effects of first-past-the-post voting systems, though. People would probably be more variable in their preferences if the game-theory effects of actually expressing them at the voting booth weren't generally negative.
All papers get critical responses and suggestions for improvement. That proves nothing other than the submitted papers were considered to have some merit, and still possible inclusion in the various issues.

The problem is people (a journalist and RealPeerReview on twitter initially) identified quite a few of the hoax papers. And that does suggest there is a bubble within the field that has departed from usefulness and reality.

There is a problem within social sciences. Whatever is happening in hard science journals doesn't change that fact.
From 1996.
Not a good idea to remove malware checks. Google is probably your best option when it comes to security.
Go binaries tend to be fairly static, relying very little on system libs. It also makes some size tradeoffs for better load times. Also, compared to NodeJS and Electron... it’s still tiny. Not that anyone cares so deeply anymore.
I wonder how long it will be before news media are able to say "Global Climate Disruption" instead of just "warming" or "heating".

And I wonder if "warming" will develop a connotation of disaster, requiring some other word when you don't want to alarm people.

Assuming civilization and literacy survive long enough...
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Apparently the Akula/Typhoon even had room for a 4x2 meter "swimming pool" and sauna.

https://www.rbth.com/economics/2015/07/28/a_navy_day_tour_of...
But hey, what if this helps with reelection, and your base love light shows, and mainstream media talk about you are not tough to Russia, and you have the biggest ego and the deepest bunker in the world, and you are 73 years old anyway?
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Using a fancy parser-library would mean we should also count the lines of code in it. It would basically mean adapting an existing solution. In practice that would make a lot of sense, but if the purpose is to compare the productivity of different languages then not so much.
The social justice movement was responsible for the general expectation in polite society to not misgender trans people, so it's clearly had material benefits. This is not to say that there aren't extreme elements, but shifting the center of gravity of society to a fairer place does involve some extreme elements.

It's like how RMS is the crazy extremist free software guy, and that gives the rest of us cover to share our or our employers' code freely with the world.
In the mid-20th century, the US equivalent of "ISIS propaganda" was "Communist propaganda", and Communist literature was in fact legal in the US and widely available in libraries, although not generally broadcast on TV. This was, in fact, held to be the major distinction between the US and the USSR: the USSR "acknowledged that somewhere a line has to be drawn", and the US did not.
I'll answer your question but I hope you answer mine: Do you think I should be able to successfully sue you for millions of dollars if you had SERIOUSLY just called me a racist? If not, we're closer in viewpoint than you want to admit.

Now to your question:

> What benefits do you think free-for-all slander and libel would give society exactly?

I DON'T favor "free-for-all" slander or libel. But to the extent that I draw the line differently from you, the benefit to society would be that society gets to debate what exactly it means to be racist and hopefully that open debate leads to something useful. I like the idea that you combat speech with more speech because I think it leads to better outcomes for all of us. I don't think it's helpful to have people live in fear of saying anything controversial.
> ...900 quality control inspectors with smart technology.

Does Boeing just think people are dense? Considering the various news articles with Boeing QA people voicing their concerns after being fired for doing so with the company. And somehow magical technology that many other larger manufacturing companies don't have Boeing just had sitting on their doorstep.
Cars from the mid to later 2000's have button and only had crappy touch screens for the inbuilt gps which is horrible.
It was when the Tesla model S came out every manufacturer when screen crazy!
Yes, now most people use online services that run on a standard platform with the dependencies already sorted out.
Alcohol taxes, proposals to imprison people for drinking (see the same author's article about said program in https://www.vox.com/2016/2/9/10955138/alcohol-247-sobriety-p...), all ways of spreading more suffering and incarceration among low income, vulnerable communities, while hardly affecting privileged communities at all. Alcoholism is a disease and should not be treated with incarceration.
My claim was never that social science is immune to the replication crisis or that it could be more accepting of outside criticism; my claim was that singling out "grievance studies" (what the authors take to be sub-branches of critical theory) using poor research methods to make a name for oneself, childish tactics, not getting IRB approval isn't the right way to go about solving such a problem, and that using this as an example doesn't stand up to the large number of hoaxes/stings in hard sciences (see the first couple of links in my original comment). What suggests that the way to go about addressing this bubble (which can and does exist to at least some degree) is to publish more junk papers?

For a critical review of the papers' content, there's reason to believe that the hoax articles' premises may not be totally without merit[0].

"When Boghossian et al. describe their papers to us, the public, they do not explain what their bad arguments are, they only describe the “absurd” conclusions of the papers. So if the hoax is all about peer reviewers accepting bad arguments, then Boghossian et al. are failing to present the proper evidence, and propagating confusion about their own hoax."

[0] https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2018/10/10/on-sokal-squa...
Freedom of speech does does carry with it freedom from the repercussions of libel and lost wages due to those erroneous statements. Now, you can argue the validity of those laws and their impact on the freedom of speech, but they aren't protected under the free speech laws. They have very real specifications and aren't cart blanche to be an asshole without repercussion. Ignorance of the law has never been a defence, and I would hope a college would have understood that.
It would be interesting and educational to see how they would do it, definitely. But when comparing languages it makes sense to compare how well average people perform with them. We can't always hire an expert they are not universally available.
> However as soon as you want to change how something is presented you might be in for a world of pain.

So yeah, don't use LaTeX then use TeX, where you can change things easily because it's not as complicated.
Math isn't really it's strong point - but imagine typesetting something like a textbook.
> "the free market will just fix everything"
I think the market doesn't fix anything because there's nothing to fix in this case.

> you're not being given a representative set of available options...

What would those options be? Who decides that? For me the market does, who should do it for you?
What I'm saying is simple, if there are more people who demand services that respect their privacy, then the offer of those services will arise. If, for example, we are in an abstemious society no one will demand wine, then it is foolish to try to produce wine under those circumstances. It will only be profitable to produce wine there if the preferences of that society change.

>"just give up all your data, it's fiiiinnne"
I don't know. It may or may not be fine, you decide for you and I decide for me. I'm not going to force you to make a decision you don't want and I hope you do the same.

Anyway, it's silly to say that we can't have privacy on the Internet.
My position is that we can have the services we want, privacy, security, with whatever preponderant factor we want to have, but not for free.
You will pay with money, with personal data or whatever the other party accepts as payment, but you will always pay.
All this discussion takes place only in contexts where there are people who think they can access all kinds of things for "free", who have the right to dispose of someone else's work, capital, time or property as they please.

Whether we like it or not, the market currently tells us that, in general, access to certain services is more valuable than consumer privacy.
OpenAI trained a large (1.5B parameter) Transformer model called GPT-2 on a diverse set of pages from the web. From their paper, GPT-2 "achieves state of the art results on 7 out of 8 tested language modeling datasets in a zero-shot setting"

Blog entry with link to the paper: https://openai.com/blog/better-language-models/
and what if the 50k figure never changes?

50k will conveniently be worth less over a few decades - the slippery slope is a built-in feature unless actively changed
Nothing, if it helps you with the challenge.
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IMO a good start would be to create a metric based on a combination of:

* Lines of code

* # of keywords/operators

* # of non-standard keywords/operators (i.e. 'go' versus 'if')

* Use of std. library vs. 3rd party libraries

* Depth of call-stack, i.e. is it passing through 3 parent classes
Isn't it a facet of productivity of the language that it's easier to write certain types of libraries in one language than another? If you're writing a compiler, the fact that lots of people write parser libraries in Haskell is a point in favor of Haskell, whether if you intend to use those libraries (because they're available and production-tested) or you intend to write your own (because it's demonstrably a productive language for that sort of work).
Are there statistics that compare other countries? I have found in my personal experience that countries that actually have lower minimum drinking ages seem to have better relationships with alcohol.

Attempting to artificially force age 21 as the limit is foolish, creates de-facto criminals, especially in universities, and forces adults who want to try drinking to have to hide it. This isn’t a sane policy.
"They seem to target similar things?"

No - different. Electron was designed to run web sites pretty much as they are. It is a standalone browser combined with server (Node.Js) under common umbrella. So it the same client-browser thing - client in one process, server part in another process. Communication between them uses IPC rather than over-the-wire as in case of browser/remote-server.

And Sciter is an embeddable thing - it runs in the same GUI thread as the application. So Sciter is for native applications where window layout is defined in HTML/CSS terms.

So the only common things between Electron and Sciter is use of HTML/CSS.

Sciter actually is closer to WPF (HTML/CSS instead of XAML) than to Electron.

Or to GTK for that matter - GTK also uses CSS styled DOM as does Sciter.
I think you misread what I wrote because the statements aren't in conflict with one another. I'm saying there are limitations on libel as a result of the First Amendment, not that you can't have any libel laws at all.
> I think the big big result from this study is: "Python: half the size !".

> A dynamic language like Python is better here, 2x better.

I was surprised by how small the LOC benefit was from using the dynamic languages. As someone who typically reaches for Python, I'd use a statically typed language (Go or Java, most likely) much more often if I expected only twice as many lines of code. In practice I feel the same project takes 3-10 times as many LOC and that pushes it to where it is more difficult to maintain and understand.
Word and PDF also support semantics readable by assistive technologies. With a LaTeX file, the user has to go through the raw code, often character by character.
I wonder if people would start drinking tap water or disposable wooden water bottles first.
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it's part of the system, elders always know best even when they clearly don't in many ways. Internet is changing the archaic thinking, but too slowly.
The Python developer also added a lot of extra features. A MVP might be half again the size.
The argument that they're public figures is available online in PDF form, so you have even LESS of an excuse to not have read it or even seemingly to have been AWARE of it.
The article says that the instructor for the course cautioned against using Haskell because some people overestimated their competency with it.

I think it is actually very likely that people would chose a programming language or system for reasons other than how competent they are with it. E.g. to seem "smart" because you wrote your compiler in Haskell, even though you actually have much more experience with Java or Python.

FTA:

> Another interesting thing to note is that at the start of every offering of the course the professor says that students can use any language that can run on the school servers, but issues a warning that teams using Haskell have the highest variance in mark of any language, with many teams using Haskell overestimating their ability and crashing and burning then getting a terrible mark, more than any other language, while some Haskell teams do quite well and get perfect like my friends.
So umm, more than a "difference in the realm of 6-8 significant digits"?
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So, preventing HK from declaring independence is equivalent to blocking democracy? Straw man argument.

> Regardless of whose fault it is

God I wish I am from the West, I don't have do be responsible for the mess I created. Just say this sentence and I am invulnerable to accusations and should be trusted again.

That's one link about the opium wars, it is completely unhelpful to resolve the issues created by the massive amounts of news that do not talk about the opium wars when they talk about HK.

If more people know what happened during the opium wars, the it will not be so hard to understand that HK should be returned with no strings attached, and the one country two systems policy is already a big step back from the Chinese government that takes the welfare of the people of HK into account.

About your last point, I don't plan to convince you. If you think the West is innocent after you see what a mess this world is, good for you. But please bear in mind that this is also insulting to the countless people who suffered in other parts of the world. People didn't just wake up and decide to dislike you.
This is why we Yanks have the fourth amendment. So the government can't just arbitrarly take things from the citizens... And just ignore the civil forfeiture...
>Tying methods to data is an inevitability (whether it is on run- or compile- time). Can you give me an example of a function that does not depend on the data it operates on?

I mean tying methods to data via a class. A instantiated class is a structure that has data and has methods specific to operating on said data. Either way, any function that takes void input and with any return type is an example of a function that does not depend on data, but that wasn't my point.

Note that a function is different from a method contextually speaking.

>What makes OOP wrong is not tying methods to data, but tying data to ontologies. Limiting a function to operating on what something "is" is an artificial limitation. Limiting a function to operating on what something "has" or "can do" is a logical consequence.

We may be talking about the same thing. Though I'm not sure what you mean by this: "Limiting a function to operating on what something "is" is an artificial limitation. Limiting a function to operating on what something "has" or "can do" is a logical consequence." Can you please clarify?
How does MathPix compare to EquatIO?
There were no assumptions. Only questions. But I will make the assumption now that you probably are of the majority class and have little experience how "realistic" an act of prejudice is.
Note my half the size estimate was after estimating the amount of code dedicated to extra features. The raw line count is only 0.7x the size of our non-test line count. Although my estimate of how many lines it would have taken without the extra features has very wide error bars.
How do you like D btw? Is it worth learning for a c++ programmer? I find the syntax very appealing.
Yeah, I guess.

So just sayin', but I was in Moscow in 1984, when President Reagan's joke went public:

> My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.

Everyone pretty much knew that it was a joke, being that he was such a funny guy. But some folks in Ukraine did freak a bit, at first.

But this isn't just a joke.
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