skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds like a good idea.
«[Apple] claim it was only operational for 2 months. Yet they provide no justification or evidence for that claim. They are in no position to monitor what happens on the web as they don't crawl it, and don't even attempt to explain why there would be exploits for 2 years of OS versions if this was only operational for 2 months.»

I agree. Google provided ample evidence why they believe the websites must have been exploiting phones for about 2 years (https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-97vEtS5TpiM/XWfds8hYAyI/AAAAAAAAN...). Meanwhile Apple appear to be playing down the severity of all this with zero evidence.
As long as I don't get assaulted by a drunk dude or get cancer from second hand smoke I agree - but a lot of these sin taxes are on items that effect others through their usage.
Is it possible to dig up the actual court filing here?
I suspect it is only illegal products because they have only shown pictures of brands but not actually referred to any brands in the text of the article. I find that strange.
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I'm pretty sure these cases are all from legal retail cannabis oil products.
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It's pretty misleading that all the headlines are just calling this "vaping-related" when the actual cause is probably bad THC oil. How many people are going to stop vaping nicotine and go back to cigarettes after hearing about this? The number probably isn't zero, and those people are going to be at a greater risk for a litany of awful illnesses.
> Public health officials have underscored one fundamental point: that the surge in illnesses is a new phenomenon and not merely a recognition of a syndrome that may have been developing for years.
For GKE, in beta, you can tell the ingress to get a TLS certificate automatically. Google will manage the whole process. The weird thing is, it uses letsencrypt. Since Google has their own Root CA, that seemed like an interesting choice.

[0] https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/manag...
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It would seem appropriate to caveat the fact in the headline that the vast majority of these cases were vaping with THC related products (although a majority had used a nicotine related product as well, exclusively nicotine related cases are much fewer).
I fully sympathize and agree that downvotes shouldn't be used (here or any other site, generally) to signal disagreement. But they are, and I (mostly) agree with the guidelines about it not being fruitful to ask about it when it happens.
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I get a "Enterprise evaluation has expired. Please, update the app" message when trying to install.
This is an interesting idea, for sure.

But relative to the feasibility of this, how far are we from building automated systems to mine raw materials, refine and process them, and build stuff? Initially, of course, to build more such automated systems.
Surprisingly, the calculator that shipped with my phone seems to handle it well.
The media needs to slow their roll here. This totally has the vibe of the "Cuban sonic weapon attacks" or the "cops contact ODing on fentanyl" thing.
This already exists in outlook/exchange...

It even shows up as a yellow banner in the same way
Python's default number implementation has full support for arbitrarily large numbers, and will allocate more memory as needed to do so, making the original claim correct.
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> Of course that doesn't mean you shouldn't know how advanced data structures work and be able to work with them..

We don't disagree. Understanding data structures is about reaching for the right tool, and very often the hammer of an array/map is the right tool. But the problem I gave isn't that exotic. It's a case where "reaching for an array" is a brute force solution that won't scale.

So how do you separate candidates who understand those limitations from those that don't? By asking about those cases. They're not that common, but that doesn't mean they never come up or you won't get a nasty bug if you don't understand these foundations.
That makes sense for fixed-gear setups; I guess they just have to make sure that the lower-geared motor can spin at high enough RPM that it's not limiting the overall maximum speed. (Or perhaps they can use a freewheel mechanism, but that defeats using that motor for electronic braking.)

Having multiple motors each with their own switchable-gear transmission on the other hand might get hard to justify in terms of complexity.
Apparently Russia was supposed to build the lander but backed out after one of their other landers crashed, which they were basing the Indian one on. So India built their own.

> Although ISRO finalised the payload for Chandrayaan-2 per schedule,[37] the mission was postponed in January 2013[38] and rescheduled to 2016 because Russia was unable to develop the lander on time.[39][40] Roscosmos later withdrew in wake of the failure of the Fobos-Grunt mission to Mars, since the technical aspects connected with the Fobos-Grunt mission were also used in the lunar projects, which needed to be reviewed.[39] When Russia cited its inability to provide the lander even by 2015, India decided to develop the lunar mission independently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrayaan-2?oldformat=true
They had landed one before, Chandrayaan 1.

Edit: but not a soft landing, my mistake.
Apple credits people who report vulnerabilities after every update. There are no public comments from Apple aside from those routine acknowledgements.

Apple patched this within days of finding out about it. This press release is about everything other than the strictly business aspect of reporting and fixing a flaw.
The tone is matter of fact to me.
> we can conclude that the coin is weighted in some way with P=0.03125

No we can't. There are 2 (related) reasons for this. The first is that to say "after experiment X, we can conclude thing Y is happening with probability ..." you need to know something about how often thing Y happens on its own. This is also known as a prior. The other reason is that in this specific case, the prior for Y (that the coin is weighted) can be concisely summarized as P(Y)=0, because it's physically impossible to construct a coin that's biased to one side or the other (independent of what side it starts on). Some people think the coin flipping examples are bad because biased coins are impossible, but they're actually good for exactly this reason. We have a really good prior (from math/physics/geometry) that biased coins can't exist, so you're going to have to not only flip a lot of them to convince me otherwise, but also give me an explanation of how that's possible (i.e justify your prior)
From the article:

"When you opt out of facial recognition on Facebook, the company will delete your template, meaning it will have no original reference point for your face and therefore cannot find your face at all."

...

When people turn off their face recognition setting, we can no longer create a face template for them for any purpose, including A.I. research,” the spokesperson told OneZero.
Considering geosynchronous orbits and that the moon progresses around that band of highest distribution of stuff to bump into, I would not bet on any window lasting very long without serious maintaince
Not breathing is also an alternative. Perhaps I should have said that vaping is an obvious alternative to smoking
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I love Lisp, and I don't despise Ada. I mean, I would never pick it over Lisp for a new project (well, I can think of one or two very narrow niches where it would probably be the most appropriate choice), but I would rate Ada above, say, Java, C++, and Go.
The title of your first link is literally "Pulmonary illnesses associated with black market vaping products"
What caused the mass panic at Newark airport?
A pointer to where they compute this in the paper would be helpful. There are a lot of comments to just read the paper because they calculate this or that, but I quickly read the thing through and either missed all these points being covered, or it's not actually considered.
We're going to start seeing that with taxes on EVs to make up for lost fuel tax revenue.
Hiding behind "you agreed to a 50 page TOS that would take an entire legal team to assess, and you can piss up a rope if you don't agree" isn't a good look, it also changes absolutely nothing about the fairness of the arrangement.
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> A problem with malternatives has been the need to find ways to mask the beer-like flavor that results from brewing. To that end, these drinks have added sugar and strong citrus flavors, which a lot of consumers like.

Nice! Our tax laws encourage companies to make less palatable goods that then require more added sugar to compensate thus upping everyone's carbohydrate intake without it actually tasting as good as those carbs would be in a cake or some such. How wonderful! /s
That’s an interesting concept long term. Some investors are (perfectly legally to be clear) mining big data sources to try and replicate real time monitoring of many companies. Maybe to level the playing field companies will have to provide much more frequent disclosures. For now, as an investor, I find quarterly results a decently optimal balance of factors.
> I mean, remember the salmonella tomato scare in 2008? Restaurants around the country stopped putting tomatoes on their food, and grocery stores pulled all tomatoes from the shelves, until the issue was isolated and resolved.

If this follows a parallel path though, wouldn't this mean that vaping levels will basically be back to normal shortly after the cause is discovered? A temporary cessation of vaping until we can find and eliminate the cause of these health problems doesn't strike me as a huge issue.
>It is irresponsible to blame "vaping" especially considering that the alternative is "smoking" -- which won't ever result in a newspaper article about sickness/death because it is so common

Is it irresponsible to criticize OxyContin because an alternative like fentanyl is even more dangerous?

Vaping might be safer than smoking, but it isn't necessarily safe. Vaping can and often is used by smokers to handle their nicotine addiction. That doesn't mean we should ignore that vaping can of often is used by people who aren't yet addicted to nicotine, namely teenagers. In those cases it can lead to nicotine addiction and eventual smoking.

I don't want to completely vilify vaping, but the whole idea that we should be fine with it because it is "safer" is completely flawed.
> The only reason to push 0-60 times is for drag-racing really.

Wat? Most people care about accelerating from a standstill to the average legal speed limits.

0-60 captures that perfectly. It's incredibly relevant to the general public's driving patterns.
I don't like the Cors solution
I think d10 is saying that, by deleting your face template, they will still have "unnamed person 7749" in 45 different photos, which happen to be YOU, which they won't every say again, but you're still in there, linked up to all those people... possibly creating new relationships between people that don't have the same friends but went to the same wedding, all because you're in both sets of photos.
I'm wondering the same thing. I've never considered it before, but the mall near me does the exact same thing. Why?
I'm unclear why it's an obvious alternative. Nothing inevitable about the use of nicotine (or THC).
Why would they? Their post points out that Project Zero was incorrect in a few assumptions.
Management incentives will always have agent-principal issues. These things can’t be set by autopilot. That’s why corporate governance and a fiduciary voice for shareholders is so important. Of course the same CEOs who want annual reporting also want to neuter the capability of shareholders to enforce accountability.
It seems like the advantage of a CVT only really apply to internal combustion engines since they can only really go from about 500 to 8,000 rpm, and in that range they only have peak power or peak efficiency in small ranges. EV motors can go from 0 to 18,000 rpm.
I think this is the right approach, but don't ditch those things if you like them (if you like the weighted blanket - go for it), just ditch them if you're using them solely for the purpose of better sleep. I think trying to live a healthy life in general results in the quality sleep everyone is hoping for. Poor quality sleep is often a symptom of other things, so addressing the real root of things is the better approach.

What I've found has given me consistently great sleep (and this is as a fairly normal dude with no insomnia or sleep-preventing issues) is exercising most days (generally later in the evening), giving myself time to wake up "naturally" using one of those alarm apps that detects your sleep cycle, and limiting my alcohol intake. When I'm feeling like I want a really great nights sleep I'll take the supplement ZMA which gives me very vivid dreams and deep sleep.

The relationship between alcohol and poor sleep quality is clear to me. On nights when I drink a lot, I sleep horribly. When I drink a drink or two, my sleep quality isn't negatively affected that much, but it's rare that I have a great nights sleep after drinking even a little.
Google has very conveniently used Project Zero to target its competitors, while omitting key facts about itself.
Do you mind telling us what app you are talking about?
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Can you point to the specific section of the paper where this is calculated. I admittedly only skim read, but I did go through the whole thing, and I'm convinced I missed this kind of analysis somewhere.
No. Because tomatoes is food. Vaping is stigmatized, and has been in the crosshairs of legislative action for a long while now.
Cool that's good feedback. We've been working on a web interface that we could maybe turn into an electron app for this sort of stuff.

I'm probably pressing my luck promoting here but if you do a bunch of cert related stuff check out our `step certificate` command group at https://smallstep.com/docs/cli/certificate/#commands -- it does a bunch of cool stuff like dumping x509 as JSON and extracting public keys and linting certs and it's way easier to use than openssl. Might be useful in your scripts.
The Area is not equal to the Entropy, it's only proportional. I think we agree about that.

From there you deduct in the last paragraph that "Length = Entropy". I guess you want to use the radius or diameter of the black hole (and ignore a few more numerical constants). It doesn't make any sense, they aren't equal, they aren't proportional.

The first error is that at some point you use that the volume is "equal" (proportional?) to the entropy, but this relation is wrong.

The second error is that in "(Area x Length) = Entropy" you can replace Area by Length^2, and get Length^3 = Entropy. You say that "we can drop the invariants" and you drop the exponent 3, and you get "Length = Entropy", but now you are removing and exponent, not a multiplicative constant. So the "=" is not "equal", is not "proportional", it is only "somewhat related".
But that's not a complete engagement with the argument, right? Fuel taxes pay for more than just the carbon and pollution externalities of driving, but also of the cost of maintaining safe roads.

You can obviously disagree with the argument, but it's not incoherent and is in keeping with the underlying notion of a Pigovian tax.
I would start by asking the question without mentioning scaling at all, and see how they respond.

If they immediately jump to using a fancy data structure like a suffix array, but they don't ask any questions about how critical performance and scaling are, then it shows they know a lot of stuff about CS, but they may be lacking in more practical experience.

If they tell you they would just use an array or a map (which would be extremely inefficient with large amounts of data), then you ask a follow-up question about scaling, and see how they respond. If they can't answer that question, then they lack practical experience and fundamental knowledge of advanced data structures.

Do you agree with that approach?
Stackoverflow is an awesome place to get help for programming questions. Except for the morons who roam in it downvoting all kinds of questions and they never leave a comment to as why they are downvoting. Even when requested to.

Just recently I posted a question in meta for why one of my questions was being downvoted. That question in meta got a flurry of downvotes! Stupid moronic downvoters. It is a hostile place but I will use it as long as I get answers.
He asked a question in the form of a comment – I'm pretty sure that's what 'comment' is referring to in the guidelines; not the content of the comment itself.

And you seem to be wrong about by comment about the guidelines. The other user was informed or reminded about the guidelines and we even had a nice little 'comment chat' about them.

Any kind of online forum inevitably requires participants to remind each other of the rules as it's the principal means of enforcing them.
...yeah but how will you ever get them to delete all the forms you've submitted?
“All issues have come from illegal products.” You confidently state Yet claim terrible journalism...
_randomly pulling letters out of a scrabble bag_

(-80538738812075974)^3 + 80435758145817515^3 + 12602123297335631^3 is 42?

42?!

I always said there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe.
https://youtu.be/7iqNTeZAq-c?t=3000 deep link to the point where things went wrong.
What bird feeder? Because every one I've ever tried has been promptly ransacked by squirrels immediately after filling it.
"And yet, I drive with Tesla Autopilot every day. Why?"

I think we generally agree on our understanding.

See my other answer:

As I said, whatever the reason, there are fewer accidents with Autopilot, than without. Autopilot is a convenience feature.

The question is: Are you willing to accept only 33% less likely hood of an accident with autopilot engaged as compared to when you drive on your own in not Autopilot safe conditions?

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"My real suspicion is that self driving cars without human supervision are 50-100x worse than humans."

Yes, Waymo in their fully mapped safe heaven may be around that.

Teslas in cities are probably more like 1000-100000x worse than humans, I don't think they would be able to drive even 100km in random city traffic, like a taxi, without an accident. They would probably be super eager to get rid of the steering wheel if they would think that Teslas are better unequivocally, all the time, no matter the conditions. Maybe the next iteration will improve it 10 times, but they are a long way from self-driving taxis.
I'd like to understand why you think it is completely flawed. That is a strong statement that confuses me.
> To my mind, the most hackable flaw is that the number of subjects in the study is a term in the denominator of the p-value calculation. Any study with a sufficiently large sample will find "significance" with p<.05, but it won't be meaningful.

Just to clarify. Any study with a sufficiently large sample will find a real effect even if the effect isn't clinically significant.
Needing to apply force to a tiny strand at high speed is a difficult problem. So far even 40mph has been a major issue. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator_competitions

Several of these winners achieved less than 5mph and this is near earth so without the issues of supplying power over thousands of miles.
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thanks for that, flickr cuts off a significant portion of the title for me:

Pulmonary illnesses associated with b...

I also don't live in NY so I don't know those brands; the fancy packaging makes it appear similar to much of the recreational stuff I've seen in other states.

The second point still stands.
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People rarely do a full power 0-60 with a car that can do it under 5 seconds. More likely they go from 30-60 or similar.
Unless in the future someone finds a useful application for this. It's happened before.
Porche appears to be claiming that one of the features of the Taycan is repeated launch control 0-60s without overheating or other problems that Telsa is warning people about when you use ludicrous mode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP9kokeyxGU
What is the deal with maintenance engineers thinking every engineer ought to be one? Can't you agree it takes all types or is there something about maintenance that preempts such thoughts?

Edit: Maybe I should go around pretending hackers and poets have the moral high ground.
A couple personal observations here.

I think there's a serious disdain for interviewing in general. The whole process sucks from end to end. Often it's because the interviewers just aren't good at it. But when it comes down to whiteboard interviewing, I think it's about your value system.

More specifically, I think every interviewer has an opinion on the practical <--> theoretical spectrum, and the problem is when the candidate disagrees with the interviewer's opinion on where on the spectrum the interview should be.

The upside of a practical interview is that you are testing whether they can do the work. The downside of a practical interview is that it indexes heavily on experience and lightly on the ability to cross disciplines. Theoretical interviews are the reverse.

So the important question is: what does your team care about? Google will care much more about the ability for their engineers to move around than your startup will. In general large companies will care much more about portability. They have deeper pockets and are therefore more willing to train you on the job, so generally speaking if they think you can ramp up (even for senior hires), they're happy. As much as startups will say they see things this way, it's not really true. Startups in general care that their senior hires come with substantial domain expertise.
You could also argue that that is a separate thing from programming. I don't at all mean to be to be snobbish here, just that it's useful to draw the line somewhere between there. Modeling is not programming. Architecture is not really, either, even if the process can involve programming.
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Yup this happened to me. Apparently 10 is not a valid response to "What is the street number of the house you grew up in?". It needed to be at least 3 characters for some reason.
Outside of special cases you would be doing lookup in some data store so this has fairly minimal chance of mattering in a real world project.
Ah, that makes sense. So that it can cruise at high speeds efficiently.
When a car does it silently without being overtly antisocial they do it far more often.
My great great grandmother was a staunch fascist (living in the US) and mourned Mussolini's death for a number of years, I'm told.

People don't understand why things are the way they are. Myself especially. It's a fundamental human bias to think otherwise.