skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "It’s serving a niche more particular than “everybody.”"

That may be a good thing. Different people prefer different ways of dating, so expecting one way to suit everybody may be unreasonable.

> "The real assumption here is that, while the average woman sees a spammed message of interest as an annoying bit of desperation, the average man will see that same message as an esteem-boost (“hey, someone actually contacted me on this website!”) even if they are just as unlikely to engage with it. In other words, the assumption is that men are more okay with receiving spam from women, than women are okay with receiving spam from men; and so that a site that favours men receiving spam from women will have less churn than a website that favours women receiving spam."

I would expect that's strongly influenced by how new that spam is to you. For plenty of women, the first time a man expresses interest may also be a self-esteem boost. It's just that after 50 times, it gets a bit tired. A system that turns this around so men get all the spam may be interesting and new to men, but I would expect that when they get that kind of spam as much as women do on other systems, many men may also get tired of it eventually.

> "No, allowing either side a choice to first have to verify the other side before they can make contact, makes a lot of sense."

I agree that making this configurable probably makes more sense than enforcing one specific type of behaviour. It's certainly something I'd generally prefer.

On the other hand, men who just want to contact everybody who expresses an interest in them and only start considering whether they are actually interested in the other party after that contact has been established, may still end up wasting a lot of people's time. So in that sense I can still understand if a site doesn't allow it. Which dating site you choose to use will always be a user option.
IMO cert pinning isn't all that important.

The number of painful outages caused by cert pinning versus the actual security benefit isnt worth it IMO. But the truth is that random app dev doesn't have their shit together enough to do pinning right.

Don't believe me? AWS recommends the same

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/how-to-prepare-for-aws...

If you're Chase, or PayPal, sure. But if you're random startup with a crappy app, don't bother IMO.
It’s still a very safe method of transport, relatively speaking.

But your other points are 100% correct.
This looks pretty amazing.

It seems like it's basically a library for program transformation - more or less two kinds of transformation, parallelization/vectorization and automatic differentiation.

The question I would have is; suppose you have some large program which gets transformed into a system that pipes vectors from location to location, doing operations, how do you deal with issues of data/memory divergence [1]. Basically, how to do you tune the system the data you are using stays in the cache - without consider cache, many advantages of a GPU can be lost. These messy issues tend appear whenever one engages in code generation. Purely piece vectorizations don't have the problem but anything where you're partially reducing and such could have the problem.

[1] (Best quick reference I could Google up quickly on what data divergence is) https://etd.auburn.edu/handle/10415/4688
What ads are in Ubuntu's MOTD and what do they have to do with Istio/Linkerd service meshes?
On this topic, something I don't understand which is probably just a limit of my experience in the field is if one is sufficiently talented at digital synthesis, why not use CSound for everything? It supports virtually any synthesis technique and can run in real-time. It also gives designers the freedom to define their own parameters on their instruments. And it's open source. But it seems mostly relegated to art projects, which confuses me.
How many basketball players never make it to NBA? Major leagues are elitte, there are thousands of players at lower levels.
They're both colloquialisms that are somewhat inappropriate for the topic at hand.
Even gold stars, aren’t they outdated? In France we used to have “Remise des prix” until the 1980’s (It was prizes for the best in class in each category... well everyone had a prize, the worst student generally had “the prize of friendship”. See “Le Petit Nicolas” for fun descriptions of that times).

But we stopped giving prizes because they generally made the children jealous, competitive or lack confidence. Our current civilization has changed, now we emphasize more on collaboration than individual performance, at least in public statements. For example we prefer to give a collective performance at the end of the year than rewarding for behavior.
I don't think anyone needs to be concerned about the safety of flying, even with all the news flying is still statistically extremely safe.

I will agree though that the TSA has made things pretty dehumanizing.
Never walk away from job satisfaction and traction for vague reasons.
"Common Clause" prevents everybody to run it for "any purpose". Of course it does not fit the requirement for free software.

I doubt that "can you run it?" is meant to be interpreted as: "can you run it, sometimes?"
The benefit is the same as any gamefication framework. In other words, it's only as good (and often not even as good) as the game you create with it.

Gamefication in the classroom is potentially a good thing in some cases. Certainly a bad thing in others, like this one.
If I understand correctly, most language supports gradual typing today (typescript, c++, rust, etc) through "any"
> As if that was their mission to keep us safe.

I think it is. The problem is, denying us access to safe communication is not going to make is more safe, but less.
I believe there's a recent book about that very topic. Except, it follows you your entire life.

"Permanent Record", is its name.
> [...] has to at least have the physical device on hand.

not really since most of them are connected 24/7
I can see how a tool like this could potentially be useful to teachers working with larger classes, or multiple groups of students, to help them keep a reliable record of which students are participating (or misbehaving) in class. Trying to keep track entirely in one's head can be difficult, especially if there are a lot of students, and it's easy for bias to slip in through selective remembering/forgetting of incidents.

Sharing this information with parents, however, seems inappropriate, as does placing a negative value on normal events like using the restroom.
Most of the professions have professional associations, which serve some but not all of the the purposes of a shop floor union.
If you're renting, you can't simply exist either. In fact, you have to make enough money to pay your rent and pay the income taxes on the income which is paying your rent.

Simple equity demands that property taxes should at a minimum be equal to income taxes on the rental cost of equivalent property.
If the artist claims he did coat the actual diamond, it's still a piece of art, just a different one.
Dude, I can only imagine what you are doing that you need to be so secretive lol
Oh ok. I don't trust that story. Sounds like somebody is embellishing if not inventing things. It's unfortunate but this is my general experience with UFO events that get publicized. People confabulate stories that fit the alien origin and government conspiracy narrative.

Time to slink out now for me. I derive some entertainment from the puzzling over what a UFO might be. The ensuing unwarranted speculation into alien origins puts me off. And the people who posit a government conspiracy tend to assume just those origins.
Ah the realities of the difficulty involved in recycling like for like come to the fore.

In some ways I think this situation has been exacerbated by proponents of plastic who have marketed it as "infinitely recyclable" for many years. That statement is technically true, in that there exists a process by which you can take post consumer plastic and reduce it back to its component parts for re-use. At the same time it ignores the reality that 'original' plastic, as the end product of a chemical process, is quite pure.

Thus when you build a system that uses plastic to create products, if you build it to assume the purity levels of pre-consumer plastic, then the onus is on the recycler to create the same level of purity. Estimates on the cost of doing that range from 10x to 100x the cost of creating plastic out of raw pre-cursor chemicals. The reality is that there isn't a market for $20 coffee cups over $2 coffee cups because they are "100% post consumer".

I think getting the discussion on to a more realistic footing is a good one. It is much easier to make policy when you have a shot at working with markets rather than against them.

To that end, incinerating plastic to generate energy makes a lot of policy sense in a 'peaker' plant. It isn't "reused" in the sense of making more product but it does give additional benefit to the consumer.

I am also a proponent of structural re-use of post consumer plastics. It has good insulation value, especially when foamed, and building engineered walls with the post-consumer plastic providing a better than air insulation layer has a durable long term effect of reducing baseline energy load which goes to environmental control (heating/cooling) in buildings.

It violates the stories that people have been told that their shopping bags will be infinitely recycled into new shopping bags, but it feels to me as a much more authentic way to represent recycling.
I agree. And it makes me sad that parties are deliberately adopting policies which they know are bad policy (they hire economists who tell them this!) because they prioritize electoral success over doing what's good for the country.
Maybe some day Amazon will make a VR interface to AWS, like Viscera Cleanup Detail:

In Viscera Cleanup Detail, players are given the role of "Space-Station Janitors", tasked with cleaning and repairing facilities that have been the scene of bloody battles during an alien invasion or other form of disaster. Tasks include gathering and disposing of debris, including, dismembered bodies of aliens and humans, spent shell casings and broken glass, restocking of wall-mounted first-aid kits, repairing bullet holes in walls, and cleaning of blood splatter and soot marks from floors, walls and ceilings, as well as secondary bonus tasks. These include stacking items like crates and barrels in a designated stacking area, and filing disaster reports on the events and deaths that took place in a corresponding level.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscera_Cleanup_Detail

Writing for The A.V. Club, Chaz Evans called it a commentary on first-person shooters that focuses on the consequences of violence.

https://games.avclub.com/seeing-without-crosshairs-a-survey-...
If I don't have access to your conversation and people know this, but I claim that I know you said something in such a conversation, people can ask how I know it and demand proof.

If your conversations aren't encrypted and I have access to them, and people know this, then if I claim that you said a certain something in such a conversation, people are more likely to just believe me.

Also, unencrypted data is data that can be altered by a third party.
Right. I think parent commenter hasn't read the article, and doesn't realize that these are _recycling_ companies, not just your average tech office with a blue bin in the snack room.
> There are statically-typed languages with fairly complex type systems. There are even dependently typed languages which check essentially any property of you values and can be used to prove your program correct.

True, but that shifts the "bad point" to difficulty writing your program in a provable correct way.

Static typing in Java is as different from static typing in Coq as it is from static typing Bash (i.e. none).

The comparison is a simplified one.
I really like this response. Thank you for this.
Atmospheric CO2 concentration is ~0.04%. When you exhale, your breath contains a CO2 concentration of ~3.8%.

Acidosis occurs in humans at atmospheric CO2 concentrations of ~5%.

Looking at statistics of indoor CO2 concentrations, it seems that offices, classrooms and under ventilated spaces often have CO2 concentrations reaching 2%.

I'd posit that there is probably an order of magnitude of leeway in regard to increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration affecting human respiration.
What do you use to monitor and improve your stress and wellness level?
Have you used any wearables or other products to monitor and improve your stress and wellness level? What do you like or not like about them?
http://www.airsafe.com/events/models/rate_mod.htm indicates 79 fatal 737 incidents with about a quarter billion flights under their belt.

https://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/systems/b-52-safety.htm indicates 76 B-52s destroyed in accidents across 7.5 million flight hours.

They're not perfectly comparable sets of numbers, but the B-52s look substantially riskier on a per-hour basis.
If a part's made of aluminum and undergoes cyclic stress, even staying within its instantaneous modulus of elasticity, it will eventually crack.

Note the aluminum curve in the graph here [0], it never levels off horizontally.

My understanding is this effectively means the modulus of elasticity for aluminum parts is forever diminishing. Aluminum is a metal that's "work hardened", it's basically becoming increasingly brittle the more cyclic stress it experiences.

I'd been told in the past that commercial planes are regularly X-rayed for cracks as part of their maintenance, because of their extensive use of aluminum.

None of this should be a surprise except that it's supposedly "unexpected" in the pickle fork. These vehicles have always been high maintenance machines, in order for them to be safe all the structural aluminum must be regularly inspected for cracks, the cracks should be expected and parts replaced as needed.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatigue_limit

Edit:

Out of curiosity I did some digging for photos of this part and more information, this thread delivers some insightful links and citations:

https://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/625886-737ngs-have-crack...
You may deploy your application package (however that is packaged up), but what happens when a hard drive starts to die? It may not _die_, it just may have elevated write latency. What about a RAID controller firmware having issues above a certain IOPS threshold? What about a critical kernel security patch that has to go out, and your application runs on 1,000 servers?

None of those things are related to your code directly, but may interact with it at some level.
At some point, you get so far removed from the work on your actual application that it makes sense to move that to another 'Infrastructure' group.
>But it doesn't follow that he is best placed to make the tactical or strategic decision to attack or not. Nor does it follow that a war-winning strategy will spontaneously emerge.

Because that argument is made within the confines of the current system that does not allow an individual soldier to contribute on strategy.

CEOs are not some magical beings and putting knowledge workers together into that position is theoretically much better. It's just that human ego comes in the way.
I think it's inevitable that this will happen.

It sounds like there should be a startup out there that sells small weatherproof boxes with an outlet and a relay and a microcontroller inside, that makes it trivial to sell electricity to everyone who uses an app. There's really no reason such a box needs to cost $1000.
Was the Europe heatwave in 2019 caused by government actions?
It takes a non-trivial amount of effort to make classes that are engaging to students, especially if you're trying to cater to all of them. It's a lot easier to just slap a band-aid over it and try to prevent "distractions" (which, in my experience, doesn't really help: kids are exceptionally brilliant at finding ways to fidget or play with the most ordinary of things when they're not interested).
It's difficult to block in the general case, though, without reterminating TLS.
>People die all the time, it's a tragedy. But I would not want the laws of my society to be built on the idea of revenge.

Why have punishments for breaking the law at all ? According to you it's built on the idea of 'revenge', right ?

OR maybe it is good for society if people who murder someone are locked away so that they can't kill someone else, AND maybe it's a good thing that people who have no qualms of killing someone at the very least find the idea of spending a large if not their whole life behind bars a strong deterrent.

But hey, 'people die all the time, so let's just forgive those who take the life of someone else, we don't want to come across as a vengeful society'.

I am happy I don't live in your society, it sounds like a paradise for sociopaths.
Many things are wrong about the current school system, but the best is just to let a 14 years old girl talk about it: https://www.bitchute.com/video/oiZWLadcxYEu/
No idea why this is getting downvoted, as it presents a historically correct fact. India's GDP % before the British invasion was huge:

https://www.quora.com/How-much-was-Indias-GDP-before-the-Bri...
> This is nowhere close to true. People love learning things and exploring new ideas, in a context where they have autonomy.

There are many people who say they want to learn a foreign language or an instrument or some other skill and many free resources for self-study are available. Yet, most of those people either never start or give up halfway. Either they do not want what they say they want, or they're too lazy to put in the necessary work.

I'm a self-taught developer and learned a few languages on my own, but there's still a lot I wanted to learn but never did simply because I didn't feel like practicing and stopped.
Hope we find a way to vote some of them out fast.

Some months before the last big bail out legislations, in my state we had a US Senate candidate who was new in our political scene, appeared as a local man with a law degree from our state university, and he spoke about how the working people struggled with unemployment, delinquencies etc, as he knew middle class issues and can change the ways of Washington. PBS featured him and I still remember the interview they aired from his kitchen in a middle class home. I am among the people who voted him in.

A few years after this election I checked his voting records by chance and I realized that he had voted almost always in favor of the bailout system. I wouldn’t have known this by just reading the news or watching cable. In the next election cycle he won handily, this time supported by organizations with cash to blanket our news with favorable lines for him. That’s how life works I guess.
There are always a lot of people looking to justify how things are, independent of how much sense it makes.
I've left Google, but I went to work for another large tech company. I guess I do have to admit that a lot's gone to my head!
Mods: Is this title accurate? It makes it sounds like an encryption back door, but from reading it sounds more like social media companies being forced to provide the cyphertext.

(with the authorities then being in a position to compel the end users to give access to devices).
Your phone conversations are only presumably private. There's no guarantee and you can't know for sure.
That may be your opinion, but the word is not universally used in such a liberal manner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickbait#Definition
https://www.distance.to/ says all around one hour. Why don't you build railroads in America? Such short flights should not exist.
Have you tried programming a DX7? It's difficult enough already with just 6 FM operators. Expand to "virtually any synthesis technique" and most musicians will decide they don't need that much flexibility.

But there are some exceptions, e.g. Autechre are well known for using the similarly flexible MaxMSP. As Sean Booth said in an interview with Resident Advisor[0] when asked about new equipment:

"I just use MaxMSP now, because in Max I can generally build the thing I need, and if I don't know how to do that it'll generally be worthwhile learning. Intellectual capital or whatever. So rather than spend me money on equipment, I spend me money—as time—in learning how to build stuff."

[0] https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/2756
As an example, there Discovery channel has a documentary show called deadliest Catch, during with they follow fishermen during crab fishing seasons in alaska. Those crabs are a luxury product, and yet according to discovery the death rate during the main crab seasons averages out to nearly one fisherman per week, while the injury rate for crews on most crab boats is nearly 100%. Compared to fire and police work, I would guess it is much safer to spend a day in their line of work compared to go on one of those boats.

If we look at the top 10 most dangerous jobs we also see a fairly common pattern where safety is a balance between costs and efficiency. Most of those jobs could be made relative safe, but then the cost would go up. While we don't expect restaurant workers to risk their life, we do expect that the roofer to not spend more money on safety that is strictly necessary, making roofers one of the most dangerous jobs.
To be fair, these days I'm not interviewing for Google, but for another large tech company. I'm not asking obscure "gotcha" questions. I'm softening them up and digging under the superficial to get unguarded answers to my questions.
My biggest concern would be image files getting parsed by native libs. There's also some version or hack of mu4e that uses the gnus rendering engine, that I've turned on, and I can't remember the default rendering engine's behavior (maybe it just does text?), but I'd turn off image rendering and then feel comfortable.
Libirm: Low-Level IR Mutations for LLVM Bitcode
This law is pointless ,
it was tried in germany and spain,
result,google news closed down.
google news provide a service ,
free , no ads.
if a newspaper wants to get paid for links or snippets,
it should expect that most websites will opt out.
The result is less traffic to newspaper websites,
see google reader, google plus etc
no one can force google to provide a service,
even if it has millions of users.
If it does, not fit in google,s plans the service
will disappear .
IT WOULD Be disastrous if google actually paid for a snippet,
IT,S , a slipperly slope,
next thing is google will have to pay to link
to Any european news or list them in the search results.
Say i,m looking for news on brexit,
i should not have to go to 30 different websites,
going to google news is a much better option.

The european newspaper companys remind me of of
music companys in the 90,s ,
they were facing declining sales of cds, ,
music piracy,
they launched apps or various mediocre incompatible music service,s
with drm some of which only worked on phone,s or pc,s
or various devices, and used various ,
It required steve jobs to appear and apple to invent the ipod and itunes ,
a simple service ,buy music, buy albums, ,1 song for 99 cents ,all music in mp3 format.
Then streaming came along and the music industry
is actually making more money every year as people
get used to paying subscriptions for apple music, spotify etc
The News industry needs a tech genius
to come along who knows how the web works ,
what users want, what they will pay for ,
Maybe have a website,
New,s .fr,
news,germany.com,
news,spain.com etc
Where any news paper or blog can post links to news storys or any article.
WIth ads if they want ,
Any news paper with a website can post on the
website, it would be run by a semi independent board,
so its not under the control of just one company .
Gamification of human interaction worries me, even in the student-teacher context. It feels like it cheapens it immensely.
Relying on profit-motivated companies to consistently provide value at safety critical levels seems short sighted.