skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What are the odds that your 20 subscriptions and my 20 subscriptions will overlap?

The odds that they will completely overlap are low. However, most people don't have 20. Even those who do mostly read a number of prominent sources: nyt, wapo, wsj are the big three for news these days. Most people subscribe to one, maybe two and read that. This is arguably bad for competition and bad for "indie journalism".

Also, I take issue with some of the points of view espoused by the nyt. Their news content is fairly good (if biased), but my subscription would also go to pay their editorial board. I don't want to purchase that news, because I don't want to fund its production. I wish I could buy a news-only subscription: no "lifestyle", no "fashion", no "editorial", etc. I don't want that stuff. Just news.
I really like AllenNLP.

https://github.com/allenai/allennlp
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Right, you'd have to get rid of the visual aspect of sex appeal. Impossible.
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Krebs has a good write up on this [1]. The part I found most interesting is there appears to be a couple dozen companies compromised by Paige, Cap One is the only one I have seen in the news.

1: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/07/capital-one-data-theft-i...
There is something very Taoistic about superdeterminism.

And there is something very Taoistic about homotopy type theory too.

Also, I feel that both superdeterminism and homotopy type theory have traces of the holographic principle in them in a somewhat conceptual or abstract way.

Perhaps there exists a nice correspondence between superdeterminism and homotopy type theory that can be used to extend (in a purely functional and categorical way) the simulation hypothesis into a full-fledged theory (and perhaps with its own nice little axiomatic system) to make sense of reality.
Yeah, all they get in return is the chance to shit on competitors and possibly leave their customers open to harm, while getting lauded by the people who still think google isn't evil.
Oh, infinitely. Neuralink's proposed techniques represent a complete paradigm shift in BCIs. If using cortical activity for data entry were truly feasible, I feel fairly confident in saying that there would already be a well-known product on the market. IME, you don't usually get a lot of dividends throwing more software at a problem, you actually have to plumb the depths of physical reality for that.
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I'm running the 2.80 release candidate on my 5k iMac with an AMD card on 10.14. It doesn't support rendering on the GPU but the CPU rendering works just fine. I can't imagine the GPU is any faster than the CPU either, certainly the case for my 750M in my 2014 15" rMBP.
Unsurprising, the last breakdown I looked had Macs only just ahead of iPads (not ipad/iphone, just ipads) - some of that will be the bump from the new mini (which I have and love, it's fantastic) but even so, you can see why it'd be the red-headed stepchild.
That's what I get for developing with mute on. We'll get that fixed stat! Sorry you have to keep listening to my cofounder's voice :-P @esilverman

Edit: Here's a FeaturePeek environment with the bug fixed, can you confirm? https://peek.run/2n5hvpp
As soon as a patch is released, it should be presumed that bad guys know all the fixes in it. Once a patch is released, people with bad intentions study all the changes (source code for open source, and decompiling for closed-source) and find all the changes that were made, looking for opportunities to exploit.

This happens to 100% of MS Windows Patch Tuesday patches, and happens to less well known products as well. These examinations happen even on changes that aren't known to be security problems when they are fixed: the recent EXIM worm problem was actually fixed by the EXIM team as a minor bugfix, and they didn't categorize it as a security flaw. It was only when outsiders at Qualys [1] saw the change that they realized it was possible to do a remote command execution.

In essence, the bad guys are patient, smart, and observant. They will notice all of these code changes. So disclosing the problem after it is patched serves to encourage users to patch, because it boosts and amplifies the "get updated" signal for the good guys, and the bad guys already are paying attention.

[1]: https://www.qualys.com/2019/06/05/cve-2019-10149/return-wiza...
The disclosure allows researchers who would have never bothered looking into that category of bug to now be aware that these issues exist in x area of a system.

I'm totally baffled by your stance would you rather only the people on the black market and their buddies have access to this knowledge?
This is it. You want autoplay? Make it opt in. Problem solved. Make more features opt in. I'm not sorry that this makes things harder for companies to make money.

When they keep failing at self regulating shit behaviors that consumers don't want, this is what happens.
If you have steam installed on anything you can just stream to that device as long as they are on the same network.
"Not sure if the human race deserves to survive."

At first, I wasn't going to respond to that.

But then I found my answer - it doesn't matter. The Christian dogma for instance is, no we don't but God wants us to survive despite that we don't deserve it.

If you don't care for that, we will survive or not survive and either of these outcomes will be completely orthogonal to whether we deserve to survive or not.
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Search "Solar power satellites". Lots of research, some unsolved problems, downlink is typically microwaves to a rectenna.
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General advice: giving a brief historical context and why the stuff you're teaching matters is incredibly motivating for students. The best professors I've have had didn't just teach, they shared their love for the subject at hand.

One econ professor I had was even able to do this for a general econ 101 type class by prefacing the material with something along the lines of "I know this stuff is boring and in many cases wrong, but you have to learn it to critique it - if you're sitting here questioning this stuff take my ___ course" This empathy for us, the students, went a long way.
"biased against their party" is both depressing and sad given the low standing of scientific knowledge in the modern GOP.
The article says something about 40 trees planted by each citizen... so I'm guessing this 350 M batch was distributed equally to everyone they could reach.
I find autoplay on Netflix highly convenient. Enable it and you can choose not to watch the next episode with just one button press.
"been linked" understates it a bit tbh.

> Pixar began in 1979 as the Graphics Group, part of the Lucasfilm computer division, before its spin-out as a corporation in 1986, with funding by Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs, who became the majority shareholder.
"Expose" is a loaded term in many cultures. In particular it means to reveal something which the other party was trying to hide, usually in an adversarial way.
I always wondered what do the replace photoshop with on Linux, haven’t worked in the industry yet.
"It’s a tidy sum and, given Trump’s six corporate bankruptcies, string of failed companies, and ability to lose more than $1bn between 1985 and 1994, the straw selling may rank as one of the president’s most successful business ventures."

Sounds like the straw selling rankles as one of the president's most successful business ventures.
Probably some syntactical reason. If you allow arbitrary expressions inside string interpolation, you'd need to have some form of state in your lexer to figure out when to lex the characters into tokens or just keep them as raw characters. It's not so easy as looking for another brace, as you can have expressions that have braces (lambdas). Plus, string interpolation can then be nested, which you may not want.
Disclosure motivates people to apply the patches.
For an excellent discussion of this, see Opening Arguments podcast episode 273: https://openargs.com/oa273-sears-steve-mnuchin-the-producers...
This failure was a decade, if not longer, in the making, pretty much since smartphones started replacing DSLRs for travel photos for at least some people.

But I'm sure Canon's leaders laughed it off until now.
https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFalla...

Here you go chief.
Hours watched is a leading indicator of retention. The more people watch, the more likely they are to remain a customer.
> I believe if you really want to undermine superdeterminism as a theory (or as a philosophy), the more relevant question here to ask is: is there anything useful/meaningful about reality (or the universe) that can be inferred assuming superdeterminism? And then of course if you are a scientist you would then ask: are they experimentally verifiable?

To even ask the question you must deny your own premise. If indeed superdeterminism is true, then any experimental verification is nullified by definition: the results of any and all experimentation is itself superdetermined regardless of any scientific framework.
Say what you will about using the desired pronouns, Paige is extremely androgynous. Saying she is "Clearly not a guy" is inaccurate.
Vacuum has no temperature. What you describe is a black body spectrum 'temperature'.
Trick men? In return for what?

What a hilarious spin on this. Are you implying they signed a contract or something? The fault is on the men who were stupid enough to send money to begin with.

The outright chauvinist attitude of tech bros is funny and sad, to say the least. "It is the women who are to blame for me acting horny!"
You're right on with the latter, I guess this behavior is only with my close friends (when we all go over-the-top all in) or with my SO (where our reactions add to each other's fun?).

Given the immense hours most people consume TV, they would only be reducing my own enjoyment if they detach.
I think you're misunderstanding what the poster was saying
Something I've heard brought up regarding the length is that early Betamax couldn't tape the average sports game, while early VHS could. I'd imagine that was a big selling point.
The text of the bill specifically allows this:

"REFILL.—The use of a process that automatically loads and displays additional content, other than music or video content that the user has prompted to play"

https://www.hawley.senate.gov/sites/default/files/2019-07/So... (pp. 3-4)
You'd need to stop the act from being shameful. The number of people doing it does not _necessarily_ map to "less socially shameful"
Oh yeah, C++ has been huge for decades. You pick a subset and program in that. The changes in C++11 had structural implications that took years to work through which is why it was late. The working name was C++0x because they expected to release it in '08 or maybe '09. http://www.stroustrup.com/C++11FAQ.html
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Is it true that Sony deliberately did not make feature length tapes so people would not record feature films from TV?
> The theory behind the microkernel is that operating systems are complicated.

Seems like a blatant straw man to me.
Perhaps their competitors should spend money to expose flaws in Google's products, too. That would be better for everyone.
Yeah, but they make HUGE bags of Doritos now! :D
I looked at the source of that and it seems to come from a "Preventing Tree Planting Injuries" safety manual.

They state that you can plant 100-200 trees per hour, and extrapolate that to planting 8x a day (presumably assuming an 8 hour work day).

Simply using common sense will tell you that this number is total nonsense, unless you're using seeds and just tossing them into the ground. 200 trees per hour assumes 1 tree every 18 seconds.

Multiple issues here:

1. The work is strenuous. I've planted trees before the proper way and it's not something you can do for 8 hours day in day out without breaks. Digging is intense work that requires frequent breaks even for a person who is in shape.

2. You need to have 1600 saplings available somewhere. Simply taking the time to bring 1 sapling to the dug hole will take you probably anywhere between 10 and 30 seconds. The farther away the hole from the sapling collection, the longer it will take, possibly up to a minute.

3. 18 seconds for digging a tree hole is absolute nonsense as well. This assumes top quality topsoil that's already been prepped for planting (trees or other plants). It basically assumes garden soil quality and no need to dig the hole back up once you planted the tree.

4. You need put the dug up soil back and cover the exposed roots with either soil that you dug up or good soil that was brought to the planting site. You also need to water the soil afterward and compress it around the roots to make sure the sapling doesn't fall from the slightest gust of wind. This easily triples the time compared to just "digging a hole".

Basically - don't believe the first number you see on the wikipedia or the internet. The source is not reputable and sounds like it was written by a person who hasn't done a day of garden work in their life.

I also wouldn't really consider anything less than a 2-3ft sapling a tree. And I wouldn't consider it "planted" unless it survives at least the next year.
Yes, it is in the US!

You can get certified as a Professional Engineer (PE) by the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES). The general requirements are a degree from an accredited program, passing the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam, 4 years of supervision under a PE, and passing a PE exam.

Here's some information on the PE Electrical and Computer exam: https://ncees.org/engineering/pe/electrical-computer/

As far as I know there isn't much benefit to becoming a PE as a programmer unless you are working in an industry that requires it. I have heard that some programming jobs at power companies require a PE, but I have never come across any. The National Society of Professional Engineers has a job board, but none of the programming jobs currently on it require a PE: https://careers.nspe.org/jobs/discipline/computer-software-e...

I took the FE as a part of my undergraduate degree but I don't expect that I will ever become a PE.
If you are already a felon for owning a gun, why the hell would you own a bumpstock? Just go full giggle at that point.
Seam carving gone wrong?
> 1. because the policy is "mandatory disclosure", it's way harder to criticise it if it's a blanket, universal policy

"It's harder to criticize"? So the reason to put users at risk is to... solve a PR problem?

> 2. disclosure is important for users because if the issue is not publicly disclosed they might not update their systems

Hold on. You're actively injecting a threat and guaranteeing that everyone knows the exploit immediately and that it can be deployed by lots of people on a wide scale because someone might discover it someday?

Can't you just at least easily address this by at least putting a reasonably long time gap between the patch and the disclosure? People will still have to update their systems in the interim due to previous patches' deadlines expiring...
Not so clearly.
Your message shows how this situation can be framed to create a negative opinion towards Google. The wording of "on the surface it appears" implies that showing that was the purpose of the message.
the best case scenario for means testing is always perverse incentives like this. Just give it away, man. K-16, ezpz. If you want to find efficiencies go after the sub provost to the assistant registrar for the vice dean; bureaucracies have ballooned inside of colleges compared to instructor salaries.
I thought that a face would contain more entropy than two flesh mounds! Color me surprised. Could the algorithm be tweaked to favor removable from the bottom part of the image, since humans generally perceive from top to bottom? Most images contain the 'meat' at the top or middle, I'd assume?
Not me, but a former boss:

He had started a company that was profitable for a time, but things eventually slowed down.While it may not have been a huge financial success, he was able to provide jobs for a good number of people for a couple of years.

Before shutting down the company, he did everything in his power to make sure every employee he had landed on their feet. Including using his network to help one of his employees get a job at a competitor.

I respect the heck out of him for doing that. There's this misguided notion in the American working world that you have to be loyal to companies... I think instead you should be loyal to people. Whenever he calls, I always help however I can.
> it's possible a WAF issue allowed the remote attacker to query the internal endpoint from an external source

But then it's literally a configuration issue, right? WAF is just Rule -> Block/Allow. It doesn't proxy traffic or anything, it just attaches to a load balancer, API Gateway or CloudFront.

More puzzling, what is the WAF-Role they're talking about? WAF doesn't use IAM roles, so is this just a role they used to configure the WAF (and also had S3 permissions?)
My TXR Lisp session from the last 5 minutes:

This is the TXR Lisp interactive listener of TXR 221.
Quit with :quit or Ctrl-D on empty line. Ctrl-X ? for cheatsheet.
1> (defun subseqs (seq)
(if (plusp (len seq))
(cons seq (append (subseqs [seq 0..-1]) (subseqs [seq 1..:])))))
subseqs
2> (subseqs "abc")
("abc" "ab" "a" "b" "bc" "b" "c")
3> (defun longest-subseq (. seqs)
(let ((subseq-sets (mapcar [chain subseqs hash-list] seqs)))
subseq-sets))
longest-subseq
4> (longest-subseq "abc" "cde")
(#H(() ("a" "a") ("c" "c") ("bc" "bc") ("ab" "ab") ("b" "b") ("abc" "abc"))
#H(() ("cd" "cd") ("d" "d") ("cde" "cde") ("c" "c") ("e" "e") ("de" "de")))
5> (defun longest-subseq (. seqs)
(let* ((subseq-sets (mapcar [chain subseqs hash-list] seqs))
(isec [reduce-left hash-isec subseq-sets]))
(car (find-max isec : [chain car len]))))
longest-subseq
6> (longest-subseq "ABABC" "BABCA" "ABCBA")
"ABC"
7>

Basically, convert the lists of subsequences into hashes (thus sets). Then just reduce-left over hash-isec to find the intersection of these hashes. Then find-max to get the maximum element. The third argument of find-max is the key function through which elements are projected to get the comparison key. Under find-max, hash elements are considered to be conses. We want the maximum length so we chain together car and len.

The : symbol in a function argument list means "use whatever is the default value for this optional argument"; in this case, it tells find-max to use the default comparison function.

(P.S. What we should be doing here is finding the maximum length among the input strings, and then generating substrings of only up to that length.)
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> could you provide citation?

I already gave you one. The article this thread is about.
The Facebook's merger with the U.S. intelligence agencies will be complete -- an entity that knows not only what you're been doing but what you've been thinking.
Does anyone know, what is still missing, to wide professional adoption of blender in the industry?

Is it at this point mostly momentum of Maya etc. or are there still many small things, that a professional designer miss in blender?

Or is it bigger? Some time ago, I heard the renderer of blender did not hold up to the rest, but that has changed?

Some time ago, the blender ren
I completely agree with you that this approach to education isn't ideal and that we collectively would be better off if the onus for funding education was shifted back to the general tax payer again. That said, if you have a system in which the education dollars are limits, like we currently do, the best approach in my opinion is to charge people based on their ability to pay.
I feel like it's not just imaginary friends that children invent, it's whole universes with it's own rules, it's own characters, it's own attributes, that kids will regularly come back to, and that are shaped by the real, physical, hard world. Using our imagination, we can make whatever we want, and using that children will want to create things that they might lack in life, even if it is in the short term (boredom). There's a comment somewhere here about someone who 'made' a dog because they're parents wouldn't get them one; eldest children are more likely to have imaginary friends, perhaps because they're lonely [0]. It's very interesting.

[0]: https://www.todaysparent.com/kids/school-age/why-kids-invent...
according to the people who told me about moving to a worse school, transcripts coming from "urban underserved schools" (there was an actual technical term they used but i forgot it) are more appealing to ivy league schools. They had about five tricks to make their kids more appealing to ivy's that included moving houses, changing schools, specific sports, certain extra curricular, etc. -- to clarify we were chatting at a 4 y/o's birthday party.

See this thread for young marriage to hide parental income as another tactic.

You probably went to a crappy school because your parents were poor and they wouldn't know any tricks to give you advantages.

You (having poor parents) wouldn't need an entire class of these scams designed to hide your wealthy upbringing.

Alternatively watch king of the hill episode "The Redneck on Rainey Street" :)
Project Zero absolutely covers vulnerabilities in Google products. Just take a look at the blog archives (https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/). Chrome and Chromium seem to be frequent features, but they cover other Google properties as well.
It's hard for me to believe, but a lot of people prefer phones over laptops as computing devices, and they use them a lot more.
I don't have any context on Adaptive Payments API, but I have forwarded what you posted to our internal support. I sincerely hope you get this resolved, especially since this is directly affects his business.

Edit: Sounds like this issue is identified and a fix is coming.
Yes – our least supported dependency is html2canvas[1] (for screenshotting), which is supported in Chrome 1, Firefox 3.5, Opera 12, IE9+, Safari 6+. The rest of our front-end is a React app, so if your browser can run React (which is IE9+ I believe) then it should work on FeaturePeek. Give it a try and let us know if you encounter any issues.

[1] https://github.com/niklasvh/html2canvas/
I'm reluctant to do that because it often takes human intervention to find the good ones or drop the bad ones. For example, in the above case I searched on both recycling and landfills. Also, we don't allow bots to post HN comments. For submissions, the whoishiring ones are done by software, but that's it.
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> good reason to want iPhone customers to feel unsafe

How does fixing vulnerabilities in your iPhone make you feel unsafe?

> apple blamed for issues

Apple is being blamed for the issues because Apple is to blame for the issues. They made the product. Who is to blame about the security issues in an Apple product, if not Apple?
I left Netflix mostly because of this. I've always believed that too much TV was bad for you and I didn't like thinking about how to get people to spend more time on the couch. It doesn't feel great.