skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with Mike, until there is evidence, we have to use the Presumption of innocence. There might be rational explanations for his high success rate. Savants exist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savant_syndrome
Let's not forget that this Guy is just doing the improbable, not the impossible, so...
>Do you believe they abandoned that pursuit after a failed experiment 50 years ago?

I believe direct mind control of that sort is infeasible, certainly likely impossible at the scale of entire populations, so I do believe they abandoned that specific pursuit after discovering that the human brain and LSD didn't work the way they hoped. The government also looked into remote viewing and psychic assassinations, but I don't believe they just kept on trying that either.

>Do you believe they abandoned it forever?

The goal? Probably not. The means? Probably. I believe it's more effective in modern society to influence people through disinformation campaigns and popular culture, particularly though social media, than attempt to control them like puppets by secretly dosing them with LSD and barbiturates.
Isn’t this exactly the rationale used by Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot to commit mass genocide in the name of a more ‘ideal’ future state?
This also looks like a suspicious account, at best ideologically motivated, at worst state sponsored. Look at his comments on p.3 of his comment history.
It is called opportunity. Poor people in America are not forced to remain poor. They can (and do) improve their lot in life, and take advantage of being not poor like the other not poor people.
And a fascist problem.
Well, isn't that how venture capital works? But with taking money from private investors instead.
Is Learning Geography Important?
Interested to hear if anyone sees a value in this. I made a learning tool for geography and am curious to hear your feedback: https://geogopher.org
I imagine if there was a poll done then Tesla would have the highest percentage of owners that also purchased in part to support Tesla's and Elon's efforts.
Hm. I don't buy the "implementation matters" argument. If AES-128-GCM is broken in a library or language that'd be a pretty big deal. Cipher implementations should be interoperable, otherwise you'd have a big problem.

Your other argument is totally valid. If a cipher becomes exploitable, you'd treat it the same way as you would with password hashes. You'd need to re-encrypt. password_hash() is designed to hash with today's best hash.

My question was mainly about the file format though. The encrypt/decrypt functions would be a simple perk that becomes possible if we had that.

Edit: encrypt->hash
>P4 and P-D were already 64-bit

Ah yes had forgotten that (the Apple Intel Dev Boxes were P4's)
People trying to chill or get laid don't want to see you working. It makes them uncomfortable.
> Aluminum requires huge amounts of electricity to produce.

That’s kind of the point. If you can produce aluminum efficiently (i.e. reduce Al2O3 to aluminum metal without using much more energy than the theoretical minimum) and then oxidize it back to Al2O3 efficiently in a car, you have a battery that stores a huge amount of energy.

There is a rather spectacular non-battery use for this energy: thermite.
Thought Leadership vs. Cult of Personality
Web is usually very compressed, to save on the amount of data, although compared to 512x384 resolution of a dvd even compressed 720p stream would be superior.
Probably many factors involved, but a 5 second search yielded "Life Expectancy Drops Again As Opioid Deaths Surge In U.S."

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/12/21/5720803...

So maybe just stay away from the opiates when you eat your raw broccoli.
>Checks are almost a specialty item now. I was shocked at how much they cost even from the discount mail order printers.

Really? I just got a box online from Walmart for about $12. That's a few year supply for me. (I usually write several a month for my housekeeper, money I owe my neighbor, random service people, etc.) My bank also writes some for me but I'm not counting those.

I certainly don't write as many checks as I used to but they're not really rare. [This is US.]
It's for the fan activity / new releases feed (if you have a fan account & follow other people & artists/labels), plus collections & wishlists.

Without a fan account you can still stream anybody's collection/wishlist found at bandcamp.com/<user>. Click on the icon of someone who has purchased a release to see that area.

Personally I find it a great way to discover new music from people that buy stuff I'm also into.
Mostly agree. However:

>In the "boy crying wolf" story, the wolf eventually came.

... and what would have helped the boy was if he hadn't been crying wolf unnecessarily.

As marcus_holmes points out there always seems to be something.
Diplomats get away without paying parking tickets (2016)
Business cards are definitely not obsolete. I don't receive and give them out as consistently as I used to but they're still common as a way to remember people and maybe make a quick note.
'Hurtling towards a surveillance state’: rise of facial recognition technology
> A mutating getter doesn't violate the laws of non-contradiction, because a getter is not a proposition. In fact, if you use a getter at all, you're outside non-contradiction.

Q.E.D you are admitting that non-contradiction it's an axiom of language and not an actual law. As in law of physics.

I don't expect you to answer my question re: the number of CPU cycles you consider as being a "simultaneous" evaluation of p ∧ ¬p least you had to admit the LNC is incoherent ;)

> That's chicanery on your part. Usually done by people who know they are losing the argument ;)

Isn't this what somebody who knows they are losing the argument would say ? ;) But if you are in it to win arguments - have a noddie badge. You win The Internet.

My problem-space is the CAP theorem. Global-scale distributed systems. Where most of the complexity is 'side effects'. But we call it network IO/communication/persistence/API calls etc.

Haskell would add zero value, because the bugs are rarely about type errors, and predominantly about Byzantine failures.

It's so pedestrian, it's probably your home page.
Just yesterday there was a related article, and I posted a similar comment, but I was right to be down-voted, to a degree.

Capitalism is about growth and competition. When there's only one cable to your home, privately owned AND they act as a middleman for content, you do not have meaningful choice.

The way to combat this is to only use that cable for internet. Ideally, there would still be competition (I'm very lucky to have cable and fiber to my home...) and go elsewhere for content.

That being said, fees that are not included in the advertised price, are not actually government mandated taxes/fees but are added on to your bill and misrepresented?

They should be fined for this behavior.
You’re missing a digit—it’s $140+ billion, not $40 billion.
Dolphin Progress August and September 2019
This is why nationalism / patriotism is so destructive (edit: in blinding us to the possibility). We are all humans no matter where we live. Humans, in aggregate, have repeatedly over the years committed atrocities. And we will again, unless actively prevented. Being 'the best country in the world' (which ever one) is irrelevant.

Then again tribal exceptionalism is in our nature too.

I'm still troubled by the memory of a well educated intelligent American refuse to believe that the US uses torture when the Guantanamo revelations came to light.
Just because some type of reasoning was used in order to justify something bad happening does not mean the reasoning itself is bad or wrong. If your goal is an ideal peaceful world you might have to be patient in order to reach it and take some non-ideal steps to have any chances at all reaching it.
The improvement in guessing accuracy over 50% is a measure of the overlap of the density functions used by the two players (specifically, I believe it is the area under both curves). The result notes that if Player 2 uses a density function +/-inf, they can guarantee at least epsilon overlap.

However, it's interesting to note that, practically speaking, if you played this game in a pub, Player 1's density function would likely be highly predictable -especially if they came up with the numbers mentally. As long as Player 2 chooses a reasonably similar density function they can likely do quite significantly better than 50%. It would take some patter, and you might lose a friend, but I could see it being possible to win "real" money this way.
I wouldn't be so sure of this.

I made the Windows -> Mac transition in 2008 and recently played around with a modern Windows machine. I was pretty stunned to find the Control Panel experience... not unchanged, but still eerily similar to Windows XP.

Windows' Control Panel is a trainwreck of UX compared to OSX System Preferences. Being such a core part of the OS, I really expected to see, well, something new and better. But then I remembered how countless programs embed themselves in the control panel via DLLs, so Microsoft probably can't make major changes to the UX without breaking binary compatibility with ancient software packages.
Found the counterstrike player.

But seriously though, 250:1 kdr at the tsa checkpoint wouldn't have the same effect as a plane being taken down and a much lower kdr. If a clever terrorist was going to create such a device they'd better have a better choice of detonation button than the power switch.

There also better off with one of those monstrously bulky windows gaming laptops than a MacBook air.
This reminds me of the spaghetti sort algorithm: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_sort
What Happens to Employees After Your Company Gets Acquired?
Yes, it's a classic bug, also reminds me of https://mitls.org/pages/attacks/SMACK#skip
Interesting; thanks for the information. However, note that you mentioned Quebec stayed mostly monogamous over the long term. In America, we're already seeing that this is not the case. Society at large seems to be following the trends best exhibited by dating sites: top 80% women competing for top 20% men, and bottom 80% of men competing for bottom 20% of women. Combine this with the fact that in a few years women will have 70% or so of the masters' degrees, and this will further draw them to that 20-30% of men. Such a situation leads to a lot of very angry incels, which is a recipe for societal destabilization. The typical solution has been a war to kill of a bunch of those, unless a plague did it first.

Personally, I think the government ought not to enforce religion or morality. However, it can be very important for society to do so.
It's not a matter of classification, but effect: it doesn't stop people from revealing things you don't want revealed, but from reading on your identity as, essentially, a commercial brand.

Depending on the state, even if the state recognizes the right (it's not a federal right, and not all states, IIRC, have any version of it), it also may not protect you at all, since some states only recognize right of publicity for celebrities. (In effect, your identity needs to be a valuable brand before it's protected in some jurisdictions.)
Remarkably, what you describe was the foundation of Research In Motion. They started out in pagers, advanced along with push email and then like most, feature bloated chasing a consumer market into the annals of history.
"If you are the lone society that tries to cooperate and spread peace you will be eaten out."

Of which society do you speak of?
The US?
I think it's pretty unfair to lump Uber (which really has transformed the world in a real way) with Theranos (outright fraud) and WeWork (possibly a viable but semi boring business that got way over hyped).
Do you know?

I've worked in places where incoming faxes were automatically converted to pdf and sent as email attachments.
Also, I have to point out that, like the "pigeon drop", this kind of appeal to VC's relies on their greed overwhelming their skepticism. If you really, really want it to be true (that you are about to get much richer), it's easier to convince yourself that it's true. Which makes it even easier for the one gaming you to be convincing; they really just have to get out of the way an allow you to convince yourself.

If you're not desperately trying to convince yourself that this is an opportunity to make a lot of money, it's not so convincing.
For cable TV specifically, lack of competition is a harder case to make than for Internet given that al least most people with houses have the option to get satellite TV instead. (Or streaming TV services assuming they have broadband.)
I remember reading somewhere that most good poker players are better at taking money from less skilled players than other good players. It's not ridiculous to think someone simply likes to play with less skilled players in general. It's easy money.
Personally I'd be willing to believe that he has some extraordinary ability, as humans sometimes do. But only if he could win anywhere, not just in a particular streaming venue with RFID in the cards.
Yeah I discovered a fast algorithm for the travelling salesman problem with neighbourhoods (i.e. cities are shapes not points). Emailed the author to inquire about code, turns out they never wrote any.
>Faxes are better than email because you know it didn’t get filtered out from the inbox for some reason.

Not necessarily. I faxed information for a hotel reservation last year, showed up around 9pm on Friday to check in, they apparently hadn't received any of the info, despite having confirmed the reservation and emailing me a confirmation. It ended up being a big hassle. In the end it was because the person working that day hadn't bothered checking the fax machine and it had been thrown away. They were pretty rude about it in the end and never stopped acting like it was our fault. Even after everything was figured out. We finally got into our room at around 11pm after some tense waiting around not being sure where we were going to stay that night.
Do undergraduates at your college not need to do research? I spent a lot of my undergrad time in the libraries looking for books.
It's awkward when "smart" people rely on the virtue signalling of other "smart" people in order to make the assumption they're smart.
Also, most people who have considerable wealth in bitcoin has them in a multi signature wallet, like a 3 of 5—spending the money requires the use of 3 of the 5 authorized private keys.
What about volumetric density?
It's a power grab.

University students and people from countries on the US trade sanctions list will (I predict) not be able to share binaries in a future macOS, for example. It also gives apple a way to ban certain categories of program at the behest of the legal apparatus they have to operate in.

You can turn it off now, but you can't tell me you will always be able to turn it off.

I will abandon macOS when it is financially convenient - I hope you are delighted.
Good point. I was going to ask why OP mentioned Uber.
Many people don't like bringing work home, but prefer having separate spaces for it to keep it mentally separated.

Some people find it more pleasant to have at least some superficial exposure to other humans during their work day, and find that they get totally withdrawn if they also work from home.

Working at home also brings other distractions, be it things to do, family, ...
10.5 was Leopard actually, 10.4 was Tiger. And both were PPC and thus would require emulation not just virtualization. For something that ran on those what you'd actually probably want to run would be 10.6, because that would give you an Intel based OS that still included Rosetta for PPC compatibility. I can't think of any applications that ran on 10.5 but wouldn't work under Rosetta off the top of my head, though perhaps there were a few. And I vaguely recall there was a security update in 2012 (about 3 years after 10.6 launch) that caused issues with Rosetta, but in a VM you could just not apply it since a VM that old should be isolated anyway, or maybe they later fixed it.

But at any rate I'd assumed that for someone who had "nostalgia" for old games would therefore have played those old games and thus had that system, and thus could just have kept it around as a disk image. I have Mac OS disk images going back to the beginning, it was by far the best way to install anyway because it was so much faster than actually going off the disc (the ease and customizability of network installs was also wonderful, I miss that). For really old stuff you can just emulate it via something like SheepShaver, no need for VM at all. I actually find that's the same as Windows, for all its vaunted backwards compatibility I had the damndest time getting some old games working under W7 even and it was much, much easier to just keep some VMs around cover 98, 2000, and XP. Those are old enough there is full virtual 3D support, even without hardware passthrough.

If you really wanted an old copy of 10.5 or 10.4 or whatever directly despite having not used/kept them, and you didn't want to get it off the net, you could just ask around a Mac site or buy a DVD. A quick look on Ebay shows tons for sale for $10-20, it's not as if they are some rare collector's item. And if you went on some Mac forum and just asked there'd be people with images like me or old discs just sitting around in closets collecting dust you could have for a stamp. It'd be a one-time issue, because then you'd immediate image it and keep it forever since they aren't big (looks like my Mac OS X Server 10.6.dmg is about 6.95GB).
> My point is that public primary and secondary schooling seems to have been more effective (anecdotally) than private higher education.

Primary and secondary public education often fails to provide basic literacy competence. As a result, a high-school diploma isn't worth much, but the right college degree statistically is worth even the absurd prices that are now being paid for them.

> This is a strike against the idea that the government shouldn't be paying for it, in that in at least this one case the government paying for it seems to be working better than a non-government organization doing that doing so.

The government can pay for it without running it, see the Swedish model and the voucher system, which has resulted in improvements. However, teacher unions are obviously against this. They fear their jobs will be less secure if most parents had a real choice in where to enroll their children.
Or Apple could do it! if its possible to support usigng a wrapper, Apple should make the wraper part of the API, why push the responsibility of backwards copatibility over to developers?
This.

But, maybe we can go even higher such that the material has zero pragmatic pay-off?
And if your bank no longer accepts written orders like that, preferring modern electronic security measures?
With 2 competitors, you essentially need to negotiate with a willingness to swich every year or 2 at the most. That ends up being a substantial amount of time.
Linux Foundation Courses
I am very wishful but its still stuck in the wishful thinking phase. Obviously the 'trade war' derailing it is a travesty, but I think its important at this point (post SR15) to recognize that wishful thinking for future tech is a form of soft/self-delusional climate change denialism. The graphs are very stark at this point. We need to turn the corner on emissions in 2020/2021. That means anything still in the R&D phase is not going to be part of the first decade of the solution. This is basic project management not even an opinion on nuclear safety/proliferation.
What I mean is that how one <i>feels</i> about his existence has no bearing on how one came to exist. That is why it is a non-sequitur. (One is reminded that the rose is not special because it is rare.)

Now the question of exactly how improbable is more relevant, and this is why people care about making primordial soups more easily: everyone agrees that abiogenesis is improbable.

Since chemistry is not selective (or at least no one has demonstrated a parallel mechanism for natural selection that applies to chemistry), our tools are to somehow find ways to change random chance to dependent probabilities and to find enough time for the chemistry to happen. While we have a fairly good grasp of the time limits, it's the probability that is harder to quantify.
Banks don't necessarily need strong authentication, because that isn't what they are trying to guarantee. Banks have contracts that often guarantee something closer to "eventual consistency", where the ability to rollback or correct transactions is more important than guaranteeing any single transaction is correct at first. In the unlikely event of a problem, they can fix it. The bank judges how much risk they want to take and uses whatever level of authentication they feel is necessary, which might be as little as asking your name and/or account number(s), or calling your phone listed on your account.
Deceptive, bordering on criminal advertising (autopilot). Criminal slander (Unsworth). Wrongdoing in the securities market (funding secured).

I find there's a lot to dislike about Tesla.
Comcast is quite guilty of this. I’m on a 2 year contract but within one year, Comcast has increased my bill by raising the Regional Sports Fee and broadcast TV fee TWICE.

In the last 4 years, they have consistently raised these 2 fees each time effectively raising the final amount I pay which is higher than what is on my contract.

When I call to complain, they point me to a section of my contract (in small letters) which say broadcast and regulatory fees may change within the contract duration.

I wish the government would crack down on this (they are just being plain deceptive) or that they get some competition
Hydra: A framework that simplifies the development of complex applications
Kashmir Silicon Valley Hit by India Clampdown
Yes or the alternative:

All faxes pile up in copy room in huge disorganized piles (page 4 of this mixed in with page 2 of that) which no one can disentangle so they are eventually all ignored / thrown away.
> Can’t you just say, thanks police, you saved me.

No. The police doesn't actually have to save people. When that happens, it's because of the heroism of individual officers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia
Nope, all the people I've known were 50s and beyond.
No, the startup scene is a side effect of a lot of money floating around in a place where there is little job security and surplus of people ready to gamble a couple of years of their life in return for a very small chance at success. Only a small fraction of those people will succeed, but just like with the lottery that will be held up as proof of the system working.

The glut of capital and the conditions that shaped Silicon Valley will likely not be paired again for the foreseeable future. That won't stop governments from trying by supplying one part of that equation.

If you want to take a healthy startup scene to prove that your country has the 'correct economic, political and social conditions' then I'm in agreement with the exception of the word 'correct', they are not so much correct as unique and replicating those conditions will come at a price that very few countries and their inhabitants would be willing to pay.

Consider also that inside the United States many places have already tried to imitate SV and it didn't work there either, and yet, the economic, political and social conditions were identical.
Not a WeWork fan, but why does it matter if Adam Neumann could be a branch manager at Staples?

Steve Jobs was known for walking around Reed College barefoot in the snow, but that didn't stop him & Woz from building Apple.
Political Polls Are Flawed. Can AI Fix Them?