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I think there is a special aspect to science, and the vast majority of the specialness is actually "Look for the reasons why you're wrong, instead of looking for why you're right." That is the major pre-science flub-up that was made. If I were thrust back in time to a receptive culture, that is the point I would make, not specific ones about p-values or peer review or an attempt to institute our exact journal process.

We're really good at figuring out why we're right, even when we are patently wrong. It takes training to overcome that even partially, and before people take too many Science Triumphalism laps, I wouldn't rate us as being all that great at it today, either. Fortunately, you don't have to be perfect at it to obtain advantage.

(This also merges well with the general Chesterton's Fence idea; instead of assuming that you're right in the act of tearing down the fence and finding all kinds of reasons why you're right, you need to seek the reason why you are wrong. No amount of piling up the reasons why it's OK to tear down the fence matters, because it only takes one solid reason why you shouldn't to tip the balance. This is mostly because, alas, benefit in general is often bounded and at a not-that-large value, but harm is not well-bounded. It's a lopsided distribution of value.)
There is actually a "Tetris Standard" written by Colin Fahey which mandates that tetrominoes should be drawn from a Bernoulli distribution. https://www.colinfahey.com/tetris/

"When a piece is spawned, the type of piece is selected using the following algorithm:
pieceIndex = 1 + (randomInteger % 7); // 1..7
Because there is a constant p (= 1/7) chance of selecting a specific kind of piece, and all pieces of the same type are indistinguishable, the probability of having exactly k pieces of a specific type after n trials follows a Binomial distribution"

However, the standard isn't adopted by all. A competing set of guidelines says that the tetrominoes should be generated using the bag of 7 system described in the article. https://tetris.wiki/Tetris_Guideline
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I think whole books could be written on "what's with the standardized tests". (and probably have been) As a subset of "What's with wanting to measure _everything_ quantitatively and make evaluations based only on quantitative measures, in our society in general?" For various reasons people wanted an "objective" and numeric way to measure student learning and compare it nationally, so they had to create more things to measure...

But it's not generally the parents that are pushing them. Except maybe to the extent that parents want to know "How do I know if a school is good or terrible?" and someone can give them a "score" built in part on standardized tests...

I think (and this may not be a popular theory), it is in large part a disfunctional reaction to the extreme social inequality in the U.S.. Going back to the days of legal segregation, some people had _terrible_ schools others had good schools. Even once we have legal equality, somehow some schools are still pretty terrible. If only we had an 'objective' way to determine which schools are effectively teaching, and reward those doing well and punish those doing poorly...

In fact, though, it's still the poor and not white who bear the brunt of all this terribleness. I know someone who is a teacher who was at a meeting where the principal was explaining why it was "only fair" to the poor students to have every minute of the day regimented and disciplined, because they too deserved the best education... while knowing the principal sent her OWN kids to a "sudbury school"!
Which is exactly the author's point, in TS you must specify the types (to guarantee type safety), whereas in MLs parameters can be inferred.
The phone originally sold for $400. Is that really not enough money to fund software development for 4 years or more?
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In Nassau County NY where the majority of buildings here are either single family homes or corporate office buildings with giant parking lots.

Of course just 30 miles east you have NYC where probably less than 5% of people drive to work or own a car, period. But on a geographical basis, most of this population center is designed for cars and it is very common for a 1 hour trip (60 miles) to take 2.5 hours during rush hour(s).
> Maybe something more compassionate will evolve out of the leftovers.

My money is on squid... and that they'll be no better than us.
I accepted the "phones are so good that you don't need a separate camera" conventional wisdom by default. Then I tried a mirrorless aps-c. I'm shocked at how much better its photos are. Yes, the phone is adequate for Instagram but if you view similar photos on a 4k monitor there is a much bigger difference than I expected, even for photos that aren't challenging for the phone (landscapes with plenty of light).

Also, the selfie camera on your phone is probably MUCH lower quality than the main one on the back. Have someone else take your picture instead if you have the option.
Everyone up to my Grandfather was a farmer, all the way back as far recorded history goes--farmers. My Grandpa left the farm and had a string of utterly failed businesses. He should have stayed on the farm because that land is now worth millions of dollars, but no, he sold that farm for a song to buy his first restaurant which quickly failed.

As far as your assertion, just because people had it worse in the past doesn't prevent me from complaining about the utter dissonance by which I live my life. I just put a smile on every day and be an Fortune 500 drone, but honestly, I pray for revolution every single day.
And the solution to not having enough qualified minority candidates is to increase their level of qualification.
> That's why the talibans who once were a tiny conservative formation have been growing since the US invaded.

You know that they controlled about 90% of Afghanistan before the US invaded, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Emirate_of_Afghanistan
I collect vintage non-digital camera gear, which means on occasion I find an old battery still inside. Usually, if the corrosion isn't too bad, I can clean the piece up and replace the battery with a standard 9v or AA battery, because those things haven't really changed for a long time. Once or twice I've had to make a little patch with a bit of tin foil. I'd hate to be completely dependent on something I couldn't fix.
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Just to be clear, I was being sarcastic. I don't think rule of law actually exists with regard to the US Constitution anymore.
I think where these comparisons go wrong is tooling. I don't give a rodent's behind how nifty your new language is unless you've got excellent tooling, particularly, an easy to use step through debugger (and no, you still need a debugger when functional programming).

The second I think I'm doing printf() debugging I'm out.

Note, I'm only referring to actually getting work done here - academically, or if you're just dinking around, then it's all good.
I am more interested in how igunak [1] was invented. It is poisonous, but not to who eat it.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igunaq
Every marginally legitimate non-profit in the US that solicits and gets donations has restricted funds. Money from that fund cannot go to anything other than what those moneys were received for.

Non-profits hate that because that money cannot be used for G&A, their other pet projects, feel good stuff or say charitable events used for fundraising (you know, the fabulous parties that non-profits throw - spend $300k to raise $303k while important people at the non-profit have a good time being photographed). Make sure to donate to restricted funds. In that case your funds will either be returned to you ( your donation rejected ) or it will be used with the restrictions you put on it.

For the downvoters:

https://www.501c3.org/kb/what-are-restricted-funds/#
This is odd, because I use it on both Linux (my laptop) and Android, and I never experience this.
> and if it doesn't work out for your group, you can delete the TypeScript-specific annotations and go back to Babel.

You are joking right? Ever tried to do that with a large Typescript code base and then of course without the defensive strategy? It's a myth Typescript proponents really enjoy to believe.

> There isn't a ton you can do about this except for to code very defensively where it matters.

Bingo! That's what I always did and served me well on very large code bases. With Typescript I have to write about 20% more code(that can hide bugs too). Advantage? A bit more intellisense than VScode gives already out of the box, and of course for the junior and medior developers so they cannot mess up(types).
Maybe allow both options for people who want to keep their saves across multiple devices and one for users that use the same browser. It is a pretty trivial thing to do.
The directory structure may or may not be cached already: these files are in a separate directory from everything else Firefox needs at startup.

If your HDD has a seek time of 3-4ms on average, that means it needs to rotate completely in at most 6-8ms, which gives you a rotation speed of 7500-10,000 rpm. HDDs in data centers do that, sure. Consumer HDDs just don't do that, last I checked; they're mostly in the 5400-7200 rpm range, with laptops firmly in the 5400 bucket. See https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/sc/laptops?appl... for example (currently offered Dell laptops "for home" with an HDD: they're all 5400rpm). At 5400 rpm, your average latency from just the rotation is 5.5ms and your worst-case latency from the rotation is 11ms. That doesn't include other latency sources, but let's assume those are somehow scheduled away to happen during the rotation.

Keep in mind that what typically sticks in users' minds is worst-case, not average-case, behavior, so you have to bring your worst-case time budget down to whatever your target is.
For database testing, I often use a "ramdisk", or in-memory filesystem: sudo mount -t ramfs -o size=512m ramfs /path/to/mount/point, initdb, pg_ctl start. (There's a bit more bookkeeping to generate passwords, store them to /path/to/mount/point/.pgpass, etc.) You can tear it down afterwards with pg_ctl stop, sudo umount /path/to/mount/point. I'll put the necessary commands in start / stop scripts, then call those from within the beforeAll / afterAll hooks of whatever testing framework I'm using.

It's definitely slower than mocking, and therefore not really suitable for unit tests - but it's great for repeatable, isolated integration tests (continuous or otherwise).
AFAIK, “undefined behaviour” is not a thing in Go The Language (there is some undefined behaviour in the Go The StdLib). The Go Specification[1] doesn't even contain the word “undefined”, and only has two instances of “unspecified”.

I guess that if immutable slices became a thing, one would probably be able to use them as map keys. But so far the Go Team is very reluctant about adding immutability to the language.

[1]: https://golang.org/ref/spec
What? Have you considered that most hairdressers, plumbers, construction workers are all contractors that do just this?
A part of the cause.

In ordinary conditions (i.e., not drinking a vial of bacteria), immune impairment is a necessary condition (or cause) of the H. pylori outbreak.

And stress is one possible upstream cause of that.
YouTubers is a niche market thought. They represent a extremely small fraction of the whole market. And a lot of them don't need a DLSR camera and are just contempt with a good webcam (typically the gaming youtubers/twitch and all).
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That's not how light from a screen works
Will you publish also a self-hosted variant?
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People who write large checks never donate unrestricted funds because they know how terrible charities are ran.

Do you want to make $10k a year for 5 years on something that costs you $2k? Buy a copier on ebay and lease it to a 501(c)3. That's why smart donors restrict funds.
The D850 is not even two years old yet, and is still cutting edge in that price range (I use it daily).
Location: Prague, Czech Republic (US Citizen, native english speaker)

Remote: Only

Willing to relocate: Not immediately

Technologies: Swift, Obj-C, Kotlin, Java, React Native, Python, TypeScript

Resume/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UWVXIHRLLn_Fe_OS9NXu18y0hZt...

Email: anthony at mutable dot co (not a typo)

I'm a freelance software engineer specializing in mobile app development. I've been working remotely for the last 5 years. My experience with mobile apps goes back to 2010 and most recently includes React Native, Kotlin and lots of Swift.

I'm interested in contract or full time remote work.

I've worked with Python on several projects, specifically on custom hardware with Bluetooth LE / GATT and for SDK development.

Looking for individual contributor or team lead role.
but i really want that long flexible charging cable (that 3m i got was my best purchase ever), so i am afraid, as much as i too am in love with the idea of a single cable that works everywhere, i won't be happy if my charging cable becomes a stiff inflexible wire.
> Even though the entire point of having freedom of speech and association is to allow safe political discourse?

It's to reduce the need for violent revolution against the government by making such discourse that challenges the government safe from retaliation by the government. It is not to make discourse free of consequence more generally. That may in some cases be desirable on its own merits, but it is not part of the “entire point of having freedom of speech”.
They were talking about assignment.
Although this was not reported on the status dashboard, this also affected elasticcache as well.It was acknowledged by the rep on the phone and via email issue got resolved. We weren't able start/reboot any redis instances on us-east-1a so had to launch on us-east-1c.
Not only the U.S bank... China aswell

they loan billions for poor countries they know they son't be able to bring the loands back

once they don't pay the loan they take control of strategic building/places in those countries.
This is a great, fun way to learn! Two points for improvement, in case the creators are reading:

1) It's not clear which flavour/implementation is needed. I was using https://regex101.com/ to check until the puzzle where /+ is used, which that site claims is invalid in JS and PHP but OK in Python.

2) It would be great if filling a cell automatically moved you to an adjacent cell, as in most (regular) crossword apps.
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Perhaps in the next few generations we will see similar headlines from other growing superpowers such as India and China.

European and US bankers may chuckle good naturedly when this idea is mentioned, but they forget that the European banking sector was the genesis of most of our current modern-day banking system starting from the 17th century, and yet today they are eclipsed by the US banking sector, aided in no small part by the size and influence of the US economy.

The tables can turn relatively quickly.
If it's not readable you are not going to read it. A readable git history is really valuable. The day you'll use git bisect you will understand that.
Tip for protesters: paint cocktails. Bottles with hard to remove paint. I bet police will run out of uniforms quickly. They wont be seen on streets in painted suits and face shields.
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Cancer now tops heart disease as the No. 1 cause of death in these countries
The author just want's google's power. Then surely it will good.
They could feed it to captives or slaves cooked differently each time and observe results. Sort of prehistoric cooking competition.
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Is this sarcasm? While no authoritarian government can exist with no consent of the government, the PRC has no legal vehicle for citizens to disagree with the state.
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SEEKING WORK - Prague, REMOTE

I'm a freelance software engineer specializing in mobile app development. I've been working remotely for the last 5 years. My experience with mobile apps goes back to 2010 and most recently includes React Native, Kotlin and lots of Swift.

I'm interested in contract or full time remote work.

I've worked with Python on several projects, specifically on custom hardware with Bluetooth LE / GATT and for SDK development.

E-mail: anthony at mutable dot co (not a typo)

Links:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UWVXIHRLLn_Fe_OS9NXu18y0hZt...

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthony-fresina-077ab63/

https://github.com/mutablestudio
Agreed. I blazed through the tutorial without thinking much, and then when I started Beginner #1 I had to go back and look up most of it again.
Some AWS services can't span across multiple availability zones like EMR.
I think deep down all people are communists - they all like things for free.
Why is this flagged, please? Don't tell me it's because Google employees here banded together?
> Otherwise, it seems like it would be fairly easy to audit Uber (etc) “contractors” and to collect that money.

Yes, this could, and should happen, most Uber drivers would not be correctly filing their taxes and NI contributions, almost all would likely end up with hefty fines or prison time.

Most of those drivers are going to then be pissed at Uber for not making it clear to them that as contractors they are responsible for paying NI contributions and properly filing self-employed contractor status taxes. It wouldn't be pretty, but it'd be fun.

But since Uber were simply forced to accept that their drivers are employees, and thus Uber is responsible for the 13% NI contributions, it won't happen to Uber at least.
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I use the feature, but only because an extension I used before, ClassicThemeRestorer, isn't supported in the new extension ecosystem. The only workaround is to use the css files. I would imagine a large percent of people that used to use the extension didn't migrate to the css files when extensions broke. So they wouldn't be counted in metrics. Also the experience is much worse for an end user since extensions auto update, but changes to the css files have to be manually updated.
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The cached link from Google works
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:7RM1xO...
I don't have the link, but it's like how reporting of crime, especially local crime, has gone up like 400% despite the average crime rate dropping considerably. It's doom and gloom on the TV when, in all likelihood, you're safer than ever.
For LOTS of people who only care about casual snapshots, yeah, the current crop of iPhone and nicer Android cameras are sufficient.

But the gap between those cameras and, say, my full-frame Sony is still enormous. If you care about photography, you buy a real camera. It's just that most people don't care about photography.
All such financing under the official umbrella of the Belt and Road Initiative.[1] I'm not so sure that China necessarily wants the capital assets under their direct control because at some point they want their investments (read: loans) to return the predictable cash flows that were promised.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative
Looking below, it's an FT low-content wrapper that adds little to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20876683 — and has paywall complications: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20876487

So maybe the original Brave post would survive unflagged? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20876248
> I love the coding aspect. I love using my brain, solving problems, working with intelligent people. I can't handle sitting inside for 50 hours a week, and I can't handle business politics and nonsense.

A wild consideration: Doesn't the fact that many companies "select" for people who love solving hard problems (e.g. by using brainteaser coding problems in the hiring process) cause this problem? This way, the company hires people who prefer a very different kind of work than what they have to do in their job.

A further thought: How could a hiring process look like that selects for the kind of work that one actually has to do?
I'm sorry, but unless this dude has some credentials for writing ORMs (which, not to toot my own horn, I personally have done) I don't think he even knows what he is talking about. Almost ever ORM I've worked on, we treated SQL as the source.
A team in Boston using a logistic regression model could predict the next Flint
It never really explained why they couldn’t collect the Triple Trio. Why was it unsporting to cash that in, but not other bets that they placed?
> It's like photography on easy mode. Which it should be considering the sticker price.

I got a $500 Nikon DSLR about 4 years ago and came to the same conclusion. I usually set it to auto, and I'm astounded by the photo quality that comes out. Occasionally, I'll adjust exposure or focus manually, but for outdoors, auto "just works".

Sometimes I think I should have bought a mirrorless instead, but so long as my Nikon works and I'm satisfied with its quality, I'll keep using it.
The upgrade in live focus on Samsung phone from one generation to the next is scary good. I did s7 edge, s9+ And now s10+ and it moved from cool toy needing a lot of work to “almost there”.

The original on s7 had only one lens to work with so you had to wait during your shot while it took several at different focus.
Donate restricted fund and restricted funds only.
Playing go or chess or any other game isn't intelligence. The computer isn't intelligent. It's programmed for one task and one task only. That's great programming and use of statistics etc. but that's not intelligent.

Anyway, if you're worried about terminator and Hal like beings, it's futile to discuss intelligence when you are living in a science fiction world. In our world, those things do not exist and there is no sign that they will exist anytime soon. What does exist and is scary is bug ridden software that controls weapons. That doesn't make for great science fiction though.
The great news is that there are some awesome full-frame mirrorless bodies out there.

Of course, because they're full-frame cameras, the glass is still big, so you don't get the hyper-compact size of a micro-4/3 body+lens, but it's still waaay smaller than, say, a 5D + a lens.
The best camera is ALWAYS going to be the one you have on you, which is why the camera phone will always win hands down for convenience. However, no amount of magic is going to change physics when it comes to comparing one to a full frame camera. Particularly in low light performance, and anything further than a few feet away from you. I absolutely could not do my job without my D850 or equivalent, in the lighting conditions I'm often in.
Hey Ben, we've been doing a quick walkthrough the app with people over Google Hangouts because we haven't built onboarding inside the app. :) I can get you set up today if you're interested.
And people who may need to protest in the future, and rightfully so.
What is the difference between AI and an algorithm, anyways? In what way is it incorrect to call any algorithm an AI?
I remember somebody on here writing out how when they worked at AWS they wrote custom firmware for their generators to get max performance.
US didnt exist when (european) banks began existing so i dont understand the analogy