skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely! Let me start by saying that I power lifted for years, but outside of that I was not very disciplined. A couple years ago I came across Jocko Willinks twitter which led me to his podcast. His no nonsense "Extreme Ownership" approach spoke to me. If you want an introduction to him, a good start would be to listen to him on Tim Ferris or Joe Rogans podcast first. His YouTube channel also has a lot of clips. My summary of take aways are:

* Motivation is fleeting, so is something that cannot be relied upon.

* Practice discipline every single day. I have found that discipline builds upon itself. I get up at the same time every day (even on the weekends). I work out every day. It's not even something I think about, it's just what has to be done.

* I get up early, not 4:30 early, but between 5-6am every day (and before all the sleep is required people jump on me, I'm in bed by 9-10pm). It sounds silly, but jumping out of bed ready to go when the alarm goes off is the first discipline win of the day.

It's really just a mindset of doing what you know needs to get done. Whether it's working on something at work or controlling your emotions when someone cuts you off in traffic. There are tons of opportunities every day to practice and help you improve your discipline.

If there was one book that I would pick to read, it would be Musashi. It's probably not the standard book someone would recommend, but it was huge inspiration for me. It is an amazing story with so many lessons on discipline and life.

Finally, not to get too philosophical but I also see many of the same lessons when training Jiu Jitsu. It teaches many things beyond discipline, and is something I recommend to everyone.
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You might want to check out the nat geo show "life below zero." it follows people living mostly off the land near the arctic circle. the first few seasons are quite good before the producers started interfering.
Maybe it should, but it's not always the case. As a front end dev I have to fix issues related to bugs introduced by browser uptades every now and then and usually it's Chrome.
On the web it's easy, deploy a fix and it's live. With a desktop app I can't even imagine the logistics involved.
I feel like the amount of knowledge required is definitely going up, but once you have that knowledge I'm not sure it is necessarily more complex to make an app nowadays, like would you rather use jQuery, HTML templates, plain CSS files...?
Thank you! The 83b situation is the one I'm in. Appreciate it, sorry for the late response.
> That doesn't make sense.

I thought all those reasons sounded good, and the problems he described could have easily become worse in recent years.

Also, FTA: "David Shayer was an Apple software engineer for 18 years. He worked on the iPod, the Apple Watch, and Apple’s bug-tracking system Radar, among other projects."
Well, unfortunately, the CDC wasn't allowed to study the affects of guns for years and still may not be able to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickey_Amendment
Remember that the Israeli military is 5.5x larger, per capita, than the US military - and the 3rd largest in the world (per capita) after Eritrea and North Korea.

So you'd need to scale those programs (which I didn't know about actually) up a lot to have something equivalent.
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I think the fault is one of false temporal equivalency.

When a casual observer assesses the situation they see an equal set of unknowns behind each outcome, since that matches the set of conditions.

While the probability would have remained the same, it's the elimination of all (but one) remaining false choices that tips the scale. The weight that the selected door was the correct one remains at 1/3rd, but the probability that the only remaining door was the correct one is the inverse, 2/3rds.

Meanwhile in the 1,000,000 doors set, if instead one door was picked, one other door was opened, and the choice was between keeping the current door and picking one of the other 999,998 doors, the odds increase so infinitesimally that both ego and a need to know would bias me to staying the course.
> I do wonder why there isn't so much as a proposal for native HTML templating

There were XHTML with XLSTs. It was widely rejected, most people didn't even see the point.
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It depends on the theater of deployment and mission but the majority of deployed troops are support and not combat. The Army would have the lowest percentage but the Navy in WW2 had something like 10 to 1 support to combat and the Air Force was higher but numbers have trended lower since then. I remember this from reading a lot of military history when I was younger for some reason.
http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA472467
What if you're wrong though? What if full legalization leads to our country becoming a drug addled hellscape? Do we return to the status quo?
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yes, and the typical American family has 2.2 children.

first off, you didn't even cite the statistic correctly from the article:

> One study found that when a gun is present in the home, that gun is 43 times more likely to kill a family member than to kill an intruder.

it's talking about the gun being used (perhaps intentionally) to kill by anyone in the house, not just the owner.

the relevant statistic for someone seriously considering a gun for home defense would be in the cases where the weapon is properly stored, the owner trains regularly with it, and any plans for use of the gun during an intrusion are discussed with and understood by the family. it's a bit harder to find this data though...
Found it!

https://mobile.twitter.com/JeremyLittau/status/1088503510184...

A few choice quotes:

> For those who aren’t quite sure why these media layoffs keep happening, or think “it’s the internet!” or “people don’t pay to subscribe,” there’s a lot more going on.

> Classified ads were a damn boondoggle. $500 in a mid-metro to place a car ad. The more expensive your item, the more you got charged. No wonder people rebelled the minute they were offered the ability to do it for free. Newmark didn’t kill classifieds; news publisher greed did.

> Profit margins for companies like Gannett and Knight Ridder were commonly around 30-40%.

> So chains started gobbling up papers all over the country in the ‘80s and ‘90s. They took on debt to do this because with 40% margins, there wasn’t much downside in that model.
Microsoft and Air Force Bring CS and Cyber Education to 500K Jrotc Youth
Uh, what?

How in the world do you find this to be a good thing?

Bloody Americans have lost their minds.
It would be hard to overstate how incorrect this statement is, if it is read with the implicit qualifier "for all possible inputs", without which my comment above would be obvious nonsense. Of course we can tell what most programs will do for some inputs—we can just run them!
> With each React update however, I worry that ReactJS's scope/concerns is growing far beyond the view layer that is was initially designed to be.

Overall I'd agree, but I don't think concurrent mode falls into that category. It really is a view-layer thing, and it's something that's not really feasible to do from the outside (unlike, say, state management).
How would the answer be any different? As long as the doors are bad doors, it doesn't matter if they're opened by chance or not
Except Java applets are a thing of the past while seamless browser/browser-based software is a convenient thing of the present (and probably future[0]) and prioritizing size more than availability and usability is fighting the last war harder than a stranded Imperial Japanese soldier.

0: http://wasm.continuation-labs.com/d3demo/
"Sire. Shall we hunt in the valley, in the forest, or in the mountains?"

We shall hunt in the forest.

"Sire! Our scouts have just returned from the mountain. They report that the herds are not there at the present time! Shall we try the valley, or continue on to the forest?"

A) Stick to the plan, and hunt in the forest
B) Hunt in the valley instead
Due to a choice you have made to not use a more common platform.

Actually I'm primarily using MacOS as a desktop these days. I've happily paid for a variety of apps (e.g. Omnigraffle, Monodraw, Lightroom).

Your responses sound like you’re upset; why? You made your choice.

Beyond the usability issues that constantly dismissed out of hand by developers, Electron is a crass and dishonest attempt at redefining portable and cross-platform to include a very narrow selection of platforms.

This actively increases the effort to get traction with a non-Electron supported platform and encourages bloated. Who's going to compete with Slack if they already offer a (shitty) desktop app?

Folks hold up VS Code (which I do use) as an example of a good Electron app. It's still slower than native IDEs like TextMate or Sublime and it's still not quite right in terms of native look and feel. Why do I use it? Network effects. The rust community seems to have (sadly) standardized on VS Code.
Actually, the winner of the shared task on grammatical error correction https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/nl/bea2019st/ is https://neural.mt/papers/edinburgh/bea19.pdf which uses the same machine translation codebase, Marian, as the Bergamot does.
Yes, but you'd rather not have to train at all for these positions, and have a robust hiring pool of people who already have training because that training is applicable to a wide range of jobs.

You're also less likely to be able to find people willing to train in something they know is obsolete and will have no utility outside the job at hand, which means you have to spend more money to find and train these people.

I guess all this is less of a problem in the military, where you do as you're told, but still.
It would be immediately dismissed as incoherent incel rambling today and seen only by the 6 people who downvoted it immediately when it was submitted.
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I agree, not because of technical issues but because we will never be able to get past the 'Trolley Problem'.
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Have you met Liam Quin?
Lithuania itself is pretty good at digital economy and has pretty strong fintech scene for the country that size.
My method of explaining it is that you can think of it as getting to pick 1 of 3 doors or 2 of the 3 doors... your original pick has a 1/3 chance... 2/3 of the time it will be one of the other two... if it was not the door you picked, it HAS to be the one that you didn't pick and wasn't opened... meaning the non-picked, non-opened door has a 2/3 chance.
> As someone else said, guns might be okay for someone's personal circumstances but on average they are far more likely to hurt you than help.

The comment I was responding to did not say this.

> Also I'm curious about your distinction between urban gun access and rural access and how that affects the stats here.

It's no secret that the gun deaths and shootings are far more likely in urban areas than rural ones. I think both sides of the debate acknowledge that.

https://everytownresearch.org/gun-violence-cities/
Yep, I quote him in the article as such!
"The solution is skill stacking, a concept popularized by Scott Adams."
I thought you might. His name is Guido Lurquin.
It was the only system the general public knew of. It being the only system left is a bit of a question of how much you believe, it's not like people get tours of modern launch control centers to check.
Yes. If the host's algorithm is to pick a door randomly, then your odds change. In this other scenario, your odds do not improve by switching.

If the problem does not state what the host's algorithm is, and you have no knowledge of the host's algorithm (example: you have never seen the TV show before), then the logical action is to assume the host chooses a door to reveal randomly.
Liking that built in data visualization editor... That be super cool in any SQL IDE.
Answered in tors faq. No.
With more than 3 doors, it is essentially a different problem. Imagine an evil host who only opens a door and offers to switch when the guest chose the door with the car, and not offer to switch during other episodes. Or, more evil, infrequently open a bad door and offer to switch, just to confuse the candidate. With 1,000,000 doors such an evil host will never open and offer the switch.
> How many people do you know who have actually replaced and aligned the heads on a UYH-3 or run end to end tests on serial data channels that traverse thousands of feet and multiple switchboards from a UYK-43?

I think that's interesting and valuable on its own from an academic/research/nostalgia perspective, but not when we're talking about maintaining systems critical to the functioning of a nuclear weapons arsenal.
I just find reproducible notebooks at the internet. It is really rare to find them from coworkers. If they aren't trained as developers, it is almost impossible. Their solution for this problem looks really efficient and is really simple and brilliant:

> Writing Polynote’s code interpretation from scratch allowed us to do away with this global, mutable state. By keeping track of the variables defined in each cell, Polynote constructs the input state for a given cell based on the cells that have run above it. Making the position of a cell important in its execution semantics enforces the principle of least surprise, allowing users to read the notebook from top to bottom. It ensures reproducibility by making it far more likely that running the notebook sequentially will work.
I mean only if you like working in web front-end land and I'd rather never use a computer again than do that.
Thank you for posting that. Actually I checked it out and contemplated including that very link in my original post, but I wasn't sure if your service was facing the same hug of death that presumably hit your Mastodon. :)
I think your reading of these sources differs from mine, then, but the important thing is that now anyone who is interested can peruse them at their leisure and make up their own mind.
Which just goes to show you how ridiculous the demand for "native look and feel" is. Of course no non technical person has ever demanded such a thing. It's like caring about the tech stack. No one cares but developers.
Racism isn’t believing one race is “more or less” than another, it’s believing there are differences between races.
'TfL claimed bendies had more accidents because they " encountered more road users" than non-bendy buses.'

...and the article, along with any possibility of actual journalism from the Standard, ended here.

It's a reasonable argument. It's it true?
This was a hearing with Zuckerberg. What evidence do you have that suggests she has no problem with phone companies? You hastily generalize a conclusion with little to no data to support it.
I don't know how hiring a songwriter actually works in the music business, but I would imagine it has the same issue that programming has. It's very difficult to objectively assess the quality of work in a vacuum. Discussing the process and mindset behind a work is often more helpful than only looking at the end product itself.
Absolutely realize that. Not getting how that should change anything. It was the height of arrogance 33 years ago, and a "teachable moment" for which I'm 33 years late. The changes to the landscape that you refer to, I refer to. I lived them. Today's world was the inevitable outcome. Though I didn't realize that until about 1994.
The "Monty from Hell" scenario (Monty only offers the choice if you picked the car, and otherwise does nothing), which the original statement of the problem allows, is IMO the most likely in real life because it would make for the most entertaining television.
Bergamot has an entire work package devoted to helping you fill out forms in a language you don't speak, while being confident that your answers are correct. We're testing out concepts here: https://github.com/zouharvi/ptakopet .
Yeah, but who is going to hijack your bluetooth or wifi connection while flying at 1,200 knots. It's just not feasible.
Great, thank you very much. I'll give mutiny a try soon!
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iCloud incompatibility between various macos and iOS versions has been going on for YEARS. As someone who deals daily with 4-5 different devices, I've long run into this issue. Random bits of iCloud just refuse to sync between certain versions without any word of warning. Not at all new in Catalina.
Well, it's also amusing to me that people want to jump to simulations that generate a large number of examples. In the original 3-door version of it, it's reasonable to exhaustively list all the possible sequences and just tally up the outcomes under each strategy. The simulation is just sampling from this not-that-long list.
Author here. You can read it free here:
https://forge.medium.com/how-to-become-the-best-in-the-world...

I'm ambivalent about Medium's approach. All in all, I do think that you get what you pay for. FB's negative impact is due to their ad monetization strategy. Medium is trying to charge through subscriptions vs advertising, and pays according to time reading vs. impressions, so is much more aligned with readers than non-subscription media.
If it's unspecified, the odds that Monty Hall opened all 999,998 bad doors out of 999,999 randomly is pretty damn low. You still switch if it's unspecified.
True, but the graph show lots of people dying in their 20s and 30s. So if I was born in 1940s and became a heroin addict there's a good chance I die before 1979. So those born before 1950's are unlikely to die of a drug overdose between 1979-2016 because to do so they would have needed to become in contact with heroin for the first time well into their 30s instead of their teens and 20s.
Weirdly, it matters. You can simulate it.

I didn't believe it until I simulated it myself.
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We need a little more than that, though. You can accomplish that right now with JS template string literals and innerHTML:

function myComponent(props) {
return `
<div>
${props.name}
</div>
`
}

...

document.body.innerHTML = myComponent({ name: "Bob" });

The problem is that it always completely obliterates the DOM, instead of changing just the parts that need to change. The browser, of course, has plenty of information with which to do that in C++ instead of requiring the use of something like React. But for some reason it hasn't been implemented.
Leonard Mlodinov uses 100 doors to illustrate this on page 55 of his book, which I enjoyed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Drunkard's_Walk
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"Senior staffer quits over "highly concerning" lack of security practices."

[...]

"It is my express opinion that the remaining incumbent OCISO staff is being systematically targeted for removal from the Office of Administration," departing White House network defense branch chief Dimitrios Vastakis wrote in the memo. The security team had seen incentive pay revoked, scope of duties cut, and access to systems and facilities reduced, Vastakis noted. Staffers' "positions with strategic and tactical decision making authorities" had also been revoked. "In addition, habitually being hostile to incumbent OCISO staff has become a staple tactic for the new leadership... it has forced the majority of [senior civil servant] OCISO staff to resign."

This is the story.
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I disagree. Understanding fundamentally how and why people can be overconfident is very useful when interacting with others, especially in a professional setting or anywhere else that politics are involved: frequently, overconfidence (especially when unchallenged) is rewarded — for instance, in interview processes. Having a name for the mechanism at play is useful for assessing and communicating about such situations.
I’m actually curious how the Gnome project will react to this.
Why resist? That would be awesome!

The server use case is real, though. Users typically like to run it on a beefy cloud machine with access to a Spark cluster.
SourceHut is on different infrastructure than my personal Mastodon instance, it can take a lot more heat :)
The difficulty in finding people with experience with nuclear weapons is inherent to the task.

The difficulty in finding people experienced with floppies is a choice made, a burden taken on due to a lack of willingness to use more-current technology.

Not saying bleeding-edge whiz-bang tech is a great idea for nuclear weapons control and comms systems, but when it's hard to source parts, and hiring new people usually requires extensive training on technology they've never seen before and will never see again, that's a problem.
> We have not yet added instrumentation to the self-hosted Enterprise edition versions, and we will not do so until we have a way for self-hosted customers to easily control whether tracking is enabled in their environment

Every single time a gitlabber speaks on EE, they use the "not yet added" verbage. This gives zero confidence to anyone!

Such a dumb move.
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? I'm not going to shoot a cop so I can go 5mph over the speed limit if that's what you're saying...

I'm trying to say that the threat of violence from the people isn't there anymore, for many reasons, one of which is the huge disparity between the military and consumer availability.
It is widely agreed as a fundamental pillar of ethics and international law that everyone needs free expression.

https://www.ohchr.org/EN/UDHR/Documents/UDHR_Translations/en...
Yes, it does! The whole problem revolves around whether Monty Hall was giving you more information by his choice of which doors to open, or whether he was just opening doors randomly.

If he was opening doors randomly then you're left with a one-in-two chance. But if he was giving you information by opening doors he knew were bad, you're left with two possibilities: the door you started with just happened to be the right door (a tiny chance), or (much more likely) the door you started with was not the right door - in which case Monty was forced to open every other door so as to avoid showing you the car, and he has eliminated all the non-car options.
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Toronto is also further south than a good chunk of the U.S. About the same latitude as the Washington/Oregon border
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I use the high level concept pretty regularly in my day-to-day as a security consultant specializing in cryptography, and this project is a fantastic way to democratize the use of differential fuzzing. The only negative thought I have about this is that I didn't think of it first!
How did you count the runs in which the good door was accidentally opened?
> As the author of Redux

burnnnnnn
The £4m was mostly spent by other scientists, so there's no net benefit to science research spending.
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I'm pretty sure the parent was talking about macOS exclusive apps. The ones I recognize there are all multi-platform, which have always had the problem of keeping their own conventions between platform or adopting the platforms--most chose to keep their app consistent platform-to-platform.

I also think "professional" apps are a special case (which is a totally subjective classification). Even Apple and Microsoft have done their own thing for professional apps since forever. If I'm going to use that app for 8hrs every day, I'm more accepting of learning something new.
I'm still more likely going to pick up an app if it follows existing conventions...I already chose my OS because I've learned and like those conventions.