skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While returns are made more complicated by Google and Apple Pay, the card numbers aren’t single-use (which I’m not sure if you mean to imply is the case with google pay today). On both iOS and Android you can view the last few digits of the Device/Virtual Account Number.

I don’t have an Android device to test these instructions on but they seem plausible and corroborated: https://supportcentre.natwestinternational.com/Searchable/91...

When I made a return for an Apple Pay purchase at Target, they saw that the transaction was marked “Tapped” as card type and took my word for which card was correct. Who knows how long that’ll last. Where I really expect to run into problems down the line is when I try to take advantage of the insurance benefits offered by cards and can’t produce an invoice/receipt with the expected card number on it.
I don't use Mac, but do use Windows. This sounds like Windows' Alt+Tab (switches windows/apps) vs Ctrl+Tab (switches between tabs of an app). Is it not the same?
But aren't high IQ people predisposed to being atheist in the first place?

I don't like working for adtech companies even when they pay me large sum of money for solving their technical problems.

I am not motivated by money, I've been diagnosed with 150 IQ score when I was 19.

I learned to speak very late and when I learned to write, I often wrote with both of my hands and swapping the hand out when I got tired of writing with one hand.

My best time at school was finding a new benchmark every week and copying their handwriting so by the end of the weak, no one could figure out who exactly wrote that!

Principal summoned me for swapping solution paper based on handwriting and I had to prove to him by writing in that handwriting that I didn't cheat.

I was good at art but not good at music.

I tried programming, I excelled at this stuff and then I moved on to CAD modeling which I found more statisfying but I was still getting inquiries based on my past performance at tech companies.

I often feel I don't like using my intelligence. Yes but throw me in survival situation i am guaranteed to find solutions.

The best thing I enjoyed working for any company was when I was under continuous threat of being fired if I didn't solve the technical challenges they were facing. Other than this, even the problems didn't give me any statisfaction, what did give me statisficaction was working under continuous threats + time constraints.

Insults don't affect me, I don't assign any value to anything other say about me. I work for my own statisficaction.

I had several girlfriends but things slowly faded and I ended up not seeing them anymore because I saw no point in maintaining relationships.

My family is very religious yet I grew up to become athiest.

I read various religious texts and arrived at the situation that it's designed to control people without use of sword
This is where readin satanic texts early on in life really set the tone for me.
Summed up they say "There's no point to anything so enjoy life as best you can, while you can". Those texts really focus on you as the supreme master of yourself as opposed to any external entity.
Your rare awareness makes me hopeful that it's withing your power to turn your life around.

Anyways, this makes a good argument why IQ is largely inconsequential in the real life: https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-...
Machine learning will find these patterns all on their own. They're not worried about being ostracized for seeing the world for how it is.
Wouldn't homo economicus hire a stay at home nanny in that situation? Seems like a situation incompatible with the wealth optimizer who would worry about these things.
Not the main point, but it should be noted that the Darwin Awards are wide open to candidates with outstanding self-sterilizations, not just people that remove themselves from the gene pool by dying (hilariously).

https://darwinawards.com/rules/rules1.html
I don't see the point of `final` without an optimizing compiler. Name mangling is sufficient for stashing references to avoid accidental side-effects of overriding.
> or an Uber-keybindings app that knew how to write defaults to the 20 different preference files that control this stuff for different toolkits.

Or a VIM plugin
What a clickbait headline... Entertaining article actually, with nice code snippets.

Actual subtitle:

"Apollo 11, the JPEG, the first pop-up ad, and 33 other bits of software that have transformed our world."
Do you want your system to be "nice" or do you want it do be effective?
As shitty as America is, we are allowed to criticize our government.

And boy do we have a lot of harsh things to say about all of them.
No, you'd need to purchase the device outside of China and set the locale to something else.

In the safe browsing example, you'd just lose it completely because it would be replaced by Google's safe browsing list (also used by Chrome and Firefox), which you couldn't connect to from within China. So the end result is the same as turning off safe browsing.
Yes, I do. I linked to that very same site. The prefix is the only thing that’s sent and the hashes are computed as unique for each combination of URL. The docs explicitly say that http://evil.com/foo is unique from http://evil.com/foo?bar.
Situation can bring change of genetic expression.

Read : Epigenetics
Can I chain the walrus operator? All examples I've seen were part of if/while blocks.

Something like:

r1 = foo(x:=bar)
r2 = baz(x)
This resonates with me so much.

On a slightly unrelated note:
When these to-be monopolies are just starting and raising dollars, their service and everything is on point. Once their too big to have competitors, there is absolutely no way of even contacting them (even if you're in the clear and they're wrong). Customer service from these tech monopolies really makes me feel like we're all cattle.
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I am happy and fully charged to work for my current employer. As a PM, I am tasked to create new products/services and responsible for their growth. I feel I am working more than my title prescribes. So, do I ask my manager to promote me? Or do I keep working with the same energy and let the performance "speak"?
I feel like we need to have Journalists follow the rule of 5-whys. Ask 5 whys until you get enough depth to write an article.

But that's not because journalists aren't capable, its that these days audiences freak out when they see anything more than tabloid level detail in an article. In-depth discussions are glossed over, they don't fetch views and subscriptions. Masses want entertainment instead of information. So, there is no incentive to write deeply studied articles.
A model is useful if its behavior matches observed behavior reasonably well. So long as the abstraction doesn't leak, it doesn't need to represent the mechanisms correctly. Even if a "mind" doesn't exist, our mind-model may still be useful.
> But I wouldn't discount the huge benefit to identifying certain outliers early and providing them with gifted education pathways outside of the mainstream.

I think it's useful to substitute athletic talent for intellectual talent when thinking about this stuff. Does anybody discount the value of getting an athletically talented kid into a school with a good athletics program where they can be around peers and coaches who will enable them to be the best athlete they can be? Would anybody argue in favor of letting some kid with the athletic talent to try for the NBA flounder at whatever high school they happen to naturally feed into?

I think the answers to those questions are obvious. And yet we regularly have people arguing that somehow the same principles don't apply to intellectual talent. It's ridiculous. Let the mental prodigies be with their peers. It hurts no one and does them lots of good.
Yepp. It's not often we talk about Yahoo! these days, but the Yahoo Japan weather app is top notch. To the minute rain forecast. I dodged the rain many times because I waited at the office a few minutes longer or rushed to the station.
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> You initially said that Linux being arduous is an outdated trope

Yes

> then admitted that the only people you see using Linux are software engineers and that non-technical users can't even comprehend the install

Any install, you don't see them installing windows either. I'm not sure my mother (for instance) really comprehends what an operating system is as a separate entity to "the computer".

> Was your argument meant to apply to only the technical users because that wasn't clear, if that's the case.

My argument, as stated, was that it works fine and the trope that you'll spend your life fiddling with it is outdated. This has absolutely f*ck all to do with how many people use it, as that number is affected by a lot of other factors.

You'll find elsewhere on this page I've talked about messing around with xrandr to get DPI-related stuff looking good on Xfce. And yes, I had to spend some time figuring that out, an evening of my life gone.

I had to spend a comparable amount of time recently trying to figure out how to get my bluetooth keyboard working properly when attached to OS X, and ended up creating a custom keymap for it. And since Catalina my macbook pro has spontaneously rebooted a bunch of times while asleep.

Windows has been a complete bastard with its update packages lately, and it took days of effort to update the four PCs in our house to Windows 10 1903, for no known reason, having got stuck on an older version that was going out of support and started throwing up warnings about being out of date. I'm still not sure how I fixed that, having tried a whole bunch of different methods over the course of several days. Incidentally the old version it got stuck on only had partial support for HDR which explains a load of other weirdness I was seeing on one of the machines.

So to me this idea that Linux on the desktop is a pain in the arse to keep running properly but other systems are not just doesn't ring true.

They've all cost me time and effort lately. Probably the least troublesome system we have in the house is a laptop running Linux Mint that we use to order pizza in the living room... Or my old ARM chromebook I suppose, but that's in well deserved retirement now.
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Can't keep your foreign partner in the country.
hyperfine is really nice!

FWIW I wrote a rough first version of a tool that runs a hyperfine benchmark over all commits in a repo and plots the results in order to see which commits cause performance changes: https://github.com/dandavison/chronologer
Escaping Skinner's Box: AI and the New Era of Techno-Superstition
> Unless the requested hashes are saved for every single user,

I don't know why or what part you think this is that hard. Do you think a map from User -> set [Requested URL Hashes] is hard to build? Or that building the URL Hash -> set [possible domains] is hard?

Maybe I'm missing a piece of this.

Building something simple to start guessing domains visited seems pretty easy. If a user has 10 URL hashes and the same domains show up in each hashes' possible domains you're probably requesting pages on that domain. If you're lucky and all the pages from a domain fall into a single hash, all it takes is two or 3 hashes from known outbound links to show up to confirm this.

It's not foolproof but hardly infeasible? Or maybe I don't fully understand the algorithm.
For anyone else who wondered, Mozart/Oz 2 has seen few commits this last year. And no new releases. It's still missing constraints and distributed objects. There was some work[1] porting 1.3 to 64-bit a year ago, but it's not quickly clear to me that it was ever merged. And I still don't know of a page to point people at, which conveys the wonderfulness that was Oz. Call it an extensible language, distributed, merged with a constraint system.

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozart-users/jwk6D9e...
> there are plenty of studies to the contrary.

This is the point in the discussion where you should be rolling out some supporting evidence.
That’s on the client, not on the server. The server would just provide the responses for the specific hash prefix. While I agree that, in time, it would eventually get good enough to categorize people, all it would take is a change in the hash and most of the old model would be trash.
It is, just right now I am working for a customer where SOAP keeps being relevant as ever.

.NET Core will be relevant for this kind of customers in about 5 years time, again we are still targeting 4.7.2 for bleeding edge customers.

Microsoft wants to win the hearts of FOSS developers that buy Macs as pretty UNIX for developing GNU/Linux software and are unhappy with the latest "Pro" offerings without having ever written a single line of Objective-C or Swift, that's all.
If you have, let's say, a billion users, each of which can report stuff, and have some algorithm that weeds out 90% of bogus reports, how big would your customer support team need to be to handle the remaining 10% in a reasonable time span?
Terrible. Reminds me of this Far Side cartoon.

https://jennafeld.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/tree.jpeg
(Link to the image on a random person’s WordPress site)
Yep, and we are happily doing that by deploying PWAs and mobile ASP.NET applications on IIS.
Well, a certain level of habituation can sometimes be seen - especially when the exposure isn't constant and the level is rather low. But the process can take years and is influenced by many factors. If sleep quality is good and blood pressure & cortisol levels are ok, one might consider "waiting it out"... if secondary effects increase, additional stress sources (job) pop up or relationship trouble starts, moving might be the smartest option. Another way would be to do a survey in the neighborhood and if other people are affected, collecting some money and hiring a acoustician with a proven track record of solving LFN cases to find the source. Once the source is identified, searching for a solution would be the next step. Sometimes simple things like swapping a fan in an air chiller can make a huge difference.
That reasoning doesn't really make sense to me. One could also justify discriminating in a racist way with that. I.e. the rule "If your skin is darker than this, you are out." could also be applied to every candidate equally.
> I simply cannot imagine expending anymore effort than simple survival, let alone actually swim somewhere.

I've been in ice cold (including ice covered) water a few times, mostly voluntarily. So has a number of my friends, including some close friends/family who are more extreme and used to swim in the sea every week all through the Norwegian winter.

Focus on breathing seems to be the best advice I picked up (and also of course have friends nearby). Also testing it in a shower with the coldest cold water you can get might give you an idea of what to expect, as well help you get used to the breathing.
I prefer BugZilla or Redmine.. a much lighter interface and focused to do one thing well.
Jira is also misused to make Agile Sprint planning, which is IMHO a bad solution.
In the same vein, they could add syntax to distinguish introducing a variable from setting the value of an existing variable.

Python's heuristics for that are pretty annoying.
I've been through the same. Grew up being told I could do anything I wanted, but people insisted that I focus on the stuff I was naturally talented at instead of learning the basic stuff I needed but couldn't figure out on my own. Like how to behave in a group.

The upside to it is that i have gotten through it. Somewhat. I've got a decent job, and I'm not worrying about losing it all the time anymore. I've got family, and who knows -- one day I might actually feel confident enough to make friends with someone.

But yes, it can't be said enough. Discipline, social skills, connections AND self-confidence are much more important than IQ.
There are many constructs in ES6+ that make codebases more manageable. I make heavy use of destructuring, async/await, and template literals amongst many other features.

So, I would lean in the direction of it being irresponsible due to code being less easy to grok and harder to bring new people into the codebase.
Spot on!

What do you think about this situation beyond geofencing? Like, how badly do you have to fuck up to not be able to ensure continuity on artificial abstractions like "an instance of a reminder" across a major upgrade? (Major as in major-minor versioning). Honestly if I was head honcho I would fire any engineers that were involved in this specific app/decision to add new features and not care about backwards compatibility. It's really that bad, IMO

/radical
A few months ago, when I looked at buying private health insurance via the exchange in California, I had never heard of any of the insurance companies & none of them would let me see my own doctor. I was not impressed.
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By using the prefix of the hash, it adds some uncertainty about which URL you're requesting
I think that they actually mean "our description of how reality works". As in, the laws are part of the map, not the territory. "Breaking" those laws just means finding out they're an inaccurate description.
Nature. The Universe. Or whatever you want to call the fact that we are trying to grow limitlessly in a limited space.
The second paragraph of the first link specifically makes it clear it is a question of point of view and concedes Norway was poor relative to today. Meanwhile the distribution of wealth was a bigger issue.

Even in my lifetime - I'm 44 - the growth in wealth in Norway has been astounding.

Ironically, for example, whale meat is something I remember from my childhood as a cheap meat substitute (but that is now an expensive "delicacy"; we never saw it as a delicacy then - it is tough and oily) because my parents despite both having good jobs could not often afford beef in the early 80s. Even then we'd usually have it only once a week.

When I was a kid, a packed lunch was an economic necessity for many families.

This was also in some sense exacerbated by more income equality: eating out is relatively expensive in Norway because serving staff are also paid reasonably well.

But I think the main reason the matpakke has survived is basically that this was much closer to the norm a lot of places with low population density (~13 per square kilometer in Norway) berfore urbanization and well into early industrialisation and that Norway also for a long time was very severely lutheran, with a puritan streak. Even if you have money, showing it off is not the done thing.
Indeed. It’s obvious now, of course, but all these companies start from the database they want to sell and work backwards from there to build a product to gather it.
Despite the flaws, and because of being in the right place at the right time.

Cobol also was a good idea back in the day. And some of the ideas in Cobol we know recognize as bad _had_ to be tried to gain that recognition.
Marriage comes with a lot of rights that dating doesn't give you.

I read an interesting article years ago about a couple of idealistic, young artists who were against the idea of marriage. They lived together and had a baby together.

The guy began saying at parties "My wife is pregnant" rather than "My girlfriend is pregnant" so people would congratulate him instead of saying "Bummer, dude." They were having to jump through so many hoops to arrange wills, insurance, etc to cover things that would have been simple and automatic if they got married they began contemplating just getting married.
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They are sending data to what is essentially a state-owned company that can facilitate building user profiles (with enough compute) and is, besides that, explicitly used to censor the web.

What is not to understand?

Apple should send precisely nothing to the CCP if they care about their users privacy on principle.
But that breaks normal equality tests for your type?
nit: the suffix -um in latin typically indicates a neuter grammatical gender. -us is usually masculine, and only in its accusative form it becomes -um. there are exceptions though, e.g. feminine 'manus' (hand). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_declension
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No, costco does well because warehouse clubs target B2B markets as well as consumers. I used to work at a warehouse club, and generally people would come in to stock food banks, buy for restaurants, supply their vending machine routes and halfway houses, and more.

Thats why all the giant size packages. They lock in the small business market or nonprofits, because its far easier to buy in bulk there than navigate a grocery store.
Me too. It's like people are forgetting to enjoy their lives.
Wow, this is big for any nontrivial sudoers config file.
You’re ignoring that it’s not the full hash, just the prefix. The prefix could potentially match millions of URLs many of which would be duplicated with random pages from other URLs. You would need a very, very extensive model of every single IP that was mapped to each person and that would not be trivial. That’s exactly why the actual matching is done on the client and not somewhere else.
One fundamental premise of representative democracy is that the State protects citizens, and generally their country.

What does it say when a State actively engaged in weakening the country, exposing its citizens and businesses to attacks by any nefarious actor?

I'm positively at a loss. It's one thing to desire more (even absolute) power; it's another thing entirely to weaken the very thing you're trying to rule. What's the endgame here? Ruling over ashes, to ruin everyone's wealth and security (including yours) because... because what?
And based on that knowledge, you send people to jail, keep them in closed mental institutions or prescribe powerful drugs.
Sorry for asking so blatantly: You have a family but no friends? So you did have friends before? Why not ask them for drinks?
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Well, you could also try to remove from the language.

Like how they removed the `print` keyword when going from Python 2 to Python 3.

But removing is harder than adding.
Found a workplace and co-workers that I meshed well with. I worked for 3+ years with people who I struggled to connect with.
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Since the state will try to thwart any physical referendum vote using violence, perhaps this could be a good use case for a blockchain election.

Secretly mail everyone a wallet address which they can use to vote on the blockchain.

Without the threat of violence from the state, more people will vote.
FWIW, each living being is connected in an unbroken chain to the original reproducing life form that existed roughly 3.5 billion years ago. Which means that each of us is related, however distantly, to every other living organism on this planet and that we're all playing a part in a grand, cosmic process that has been going on for an unfathomable amount of time. Thinking about that is one helluva cure for my nihilism.

Might be for you, too.
AFAICT this is not about profit in a commercial sense, as in selling goods.

It's more like overfitting the target function of publishing impactful research. A bit of p-hacking, a bit of cutting corners in experimental setup, a sloppy null hypothesis check, and you honestly believe you see an effect! Everyone is happy: you, your adviser, lab's administration, the journal where you publish the paper.

But if you carefully check for everything, then find no effect, you kill an interesting hypothesis, your paper is hard to publish, "you are not making progress", and nobody is happy.

Crooked incentives, crooked results :(
How would people know about a new product being launched?