skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Physics students generally not understanding physics isn't an isolated case. The point is that the majority of people don't really 'understand' the concepts that they talk about a lot of the time. What does it even mean to understand something? Is it binary? Is it a continuous scale?

There's no test for 'true' understanding, there's no test for awareness. There's fundamentally no way to distinguish a p-zombie from a conscious being. It's possible that p-zombies are also fundamentally incapable of distinguishing themselves from 'truly' aware beings, in which case the distinction between awareness and non-awareness is meaningless.

Trying to detect 'awareness' or 'understanding' in communications is a dead end. There is no reason to believe that a human doesn't also 'just 'regurgitate smooth language fragments because that's what it was trained on'. In fact, I see a lot of that in the professional services world. People have built entire careers by stringing plausible-sounding sentences together even though they're completely devoid of meaning if you actually try to parse them. The most interesting thing is that those people genuinely believe that they know what they're talking about. They rarely admit or believe that they lack understanding, even if it's clear to everyone around them.
Over the last seven days, 109,5 percent of all users have been using my operating system, and 129,86 percent of users have been using my web browser? I think not.
Will it be avail available on Fargate?
Java provides exceptional dimensional and unit support via the Manifold framework [1].

Length distance = 100 mph * 3 hr;
Force f = 5.2 kg m/s/s; // same as 5.2 N
Mass infant = 9 lb + 8.71 oz;

[1] https://github.com/manifold-systems/manifold/tree/master/man...
> Living near a major road or highway was associated with a 14-per-cent risk for dementia, and seven per cent for Parkinson’s disease.

I love how the article completely misses the important data point: what are the actual risks for other categories not living next to highways? Without this information, an "increased risk" is meaningless speculation.
Indirectly at first primarily via wage stagnation and inflation, then directly via additional taxes. Additional taxes will follow the same pattern as my original comment, further compounding the problem.

We need to think about this issue from different scopes at the same time. The optimal solution is probably fragmented across a few of them, we just need to figure out how to put the pieces together.
Get him promoted. It's the
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilbert_principle
This does not save you if that null pointer is supposed to point to an array, and subsequent index operations move it out of the protected first page (or the first couple, I forget how modern Unix does it).
You can't do it on Android version even today, almost 1 year after they added this feature on iOS version.
This is really sad and it shows just how much power the consumer has.

As long as people are happy buying or owning stocks from ExxonMobil, Shell, and Saudi Aramco and the likes it will only get worse.
if this is true and MBS wants to silence Jeff Bezos just because his owned paper attacks him, mind you this paper just like every other major western paper attacks him day and night since the murder of the Saudi "journalist" so silencing one paper won't make any difference anyway. Why would he send this infected video which is probably linked to a backdoor only a very few have knowledge about, from his own Whatsapp account not from some associate or a friend of Bezos who is in his contacts? This whole story doesn't seem logical to me.
If value, it's not surprising at all. Typical concentration vs long tail.
The things that GPT2 doesn't have is some kind of iterative cognitive model, where text is continually modified and re-examined. It also doesn't have any integration with memory, both long term or short term.
Yes, and I don't believe there is a definite answer. I like his description of the problem, and the fact that it works very well to describe the problem today is noteworthy as well: it's not a new problem, but each generation has to deal with it, and maybe the magnitude changes from time to time.
This is interesting, privacy and security work both ways. Protecting us and our data and enabling malicious actors. I have turned off Auto Downloads on Whatsapp.
see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21813619
I think the correct answer is Eric Ding is a typical Twitter user. Nutty.

https://mobile.twitter.com/ferrisjabr/status/122096355391127...

> Neil Ferguson knows his business, but part of that is knowing that, like economists predicting recessions, there's little penalty for being wrong

No. Do you think Nate wasn't penalised for his take on the 2016 US election?
Code as in 'sourcecode' is uncountable IMO.

Code as in 'password' or 'cypher' or 'set of symbols' is instead countable.
It's actually the opposite: most contributors to Sorbet are outside of Stripe:

https://sorbet.run/talks/RubyConf2019/#/22

(I work on the Sorbet team)
Private companies keep it closely guarded and destroy any copies of it after the job is done. You can be reasonably confident that it won’t leave the analysis laptops.

If you give it to the FBI, you have no guarantees. It’s property of the government and is archived and stored indefinitely as evidence. The FBI do not do private investigative services for important rich people, they investigate crimes.
To be fair, it might have been first identified there because there was a lab equipped to isolate it, but I don't really know. I mean, China has had a problem with things like fake eggs, so who knows?

Its DNA seems to have been sequenced and made available online. If it's anything that has obviously been tampered with by a lab, I expect someone to point that out sooner or later. That said, I have no idea what sort of thing could be detected in the first place.
It certainly understands the connections between both words and the ideas they represent. I'm not sure if that meets your definition of understanding. For instance, if I give it a paragraph or two reading story about a miner, where the first name and last name are mentioned, but not given together, I can ask it to complete: "The miner's full name was" and it will fill in both the first and last names.
> And to top it off, he is not very productive — our junior engineers are lapping him on tickets closed.

Tech leads have responsibilities that junior engineers don't have, such as architectural design, code review, mentoring junior developers, meeting with management and other groups, etc. Thus, they might spend less time on programming than junior developers and close fewer tickets. They might also be working on more complex tickets that take longer to close. (Of course, your lead might still be a lousy developer, but counting closed tickets is not a good measure of his productivity.)

> I am super annoyed because I have to fix this guys bugs, and ACTUALLY do the technical leading myself — yet I get no credit. I’m ready to quit this job or make some kind of lateral move to another team. What should I do?

Look for a new job, either on another team or at a different company. When asked why you're looking for a new job, definitely don't say your tech lead is an idiot. Talk about how you're looking for an opportunity grow your career and take on more responsibility.
There is no demand because of the limited upload bandwidth and ISPs only providing limited IPv4 addresses. When customers are forced use NAT with very little upstream bandwidth, they are de facto a lower-class network host that cannot use many types of network software.

I personally stopped working on a few P2P communication and personal server projects in the late 90s. Letting people communicate and share files with their friends directly with their own local private server could have been a way to fight back against the FAANGs centralizing the internet. Unfortunately, the limitations from the ISPs made this impossible for most people.
So the billionaires of this world, Bezos and MBS, exchange memes with photos of pretty girls. And Bezos reads The Daily Mail.
Just like the rest of us, except having way more $$$.
This is such a sad comment. You threw away everything that doesn’t fit the standard capitalist idea of a good person, i.e. someone who is never wasting time making himself a better worker and making more money. And why? For money and fleeting fame.
Cause I’m on my phone
In case people read the comments first, this is about postgres data types.

It's pretty comprehensive and I especially liked the section about how datatypes are implemented internally (pg 25). I wish it went into more details though.
Probably "technical" should be removed from the title.
I don't believe that it's a conscious decision when people fall for low-quality clickbait. It's the media-equivalent of adding chemicals to tobacco to make it more addictive, where we also shouldn't blame smokers for getting addicted.

It's also not that there's a lot of alternatives. If you don't want lazy, manipulative, clickbait journalism, your best bet is to not read any papers or media websites.
But I assume his original point still stands, Stripe did the absolute vast majority of work on Sorbet?

>As an aside, it's amazing how much work Stripe has put into Sorbet.

In case it wasn't obvious to people reading about Sorbet for the first time.
It does mention that before you start - I backed out right away.

Someone who knows about psychology: Is this article anything more than advertising for his "academy"?
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Well, I don't think AdWords - in their original form - were a problem. But I definitely agree with you that it and its ilk are powering the perverse incentives, and what has resulted of them: the entire adtech ecosystem.[ß]

I can still recall the bad vibes when Google announced their acquisition of DoubleClick. In the early days their search advertising had been non-intrusive, text-only, rendered server side, and visually out of the way. Banner ads were introduced only some time later. (That was already a step in the wrong direction, IMO.) DC, on the other hand, was known as an invasive bad actor who shoveled unwanted crapware to browsers and had already earned the reputation of an online stalker. In fact, ad blockers had existed long before Google got into serving them. Privoxy, anyone?

All the hazards I listed are direct causes of adtech's surveillance business model, and the neverending quest to remember every possible piece of information available on the end-users. I'm not sure comparison with cholera is the most accurate one. (It's a bacteria, after all.) Malaria, a parasite, might be a better fit for this purpose. The symptoms are what makes either one dangerous, but instead of trying to eradicate just one type of a problem, we would do better to purge the environment from what makes the organisms' existence and breeding possible in the first place.

ß: Honest question. What do you call an ecosystem comprised entirely of parasites?
I’m sure pg would say we just don’t yet have our social antibodies for the effects of the iPhone.

Remember “TV rots your brain”? wasn’t that supposed to stay a myth?

My theory is the below are critical needs:

-dependable community who loves you unconditionally
-self acceptance and compassion
-acceptance of others and compassion

Meanwhile we live in an era where increasingly addictive mobile consumption takes us further away from meeting these needs by making us feel inadequate, disconnected and angry.
You mean "(well ok, 3 would be a poor choice)"?
Two questions (which aren't really explained in this report):

1. Did he have to actually play the video, or was simply receiving the message enough to compromise his phone?

2. It says after his phone was compromised, a large amount of data was extracted from his phone. Was this only WhatsApp specific data (cached pics and videos from messages sent within the app) or did the malware actually have full access to all of the files on his phone?

Because of iOS's sandboxing and permission system I would not have expected that a vulnerability in WhatsApp itself would be able to grant access to the entire phone. That seems like it would be much bigger news if it were the case.
That would be incompatible with the mantra 'don't break the web', I'm afraid.
Ebola was also contained because of tremendous effort of many people, often risking their own lives. Thanks to them you now have the luxury to call it overhyped.
Yes. I don't defend the lack of ethics, I'm merely providing some context that's often overlooked. Maintaining ethics is hard in that kind of situation. Also it tends to allow people whith no ethics and no passion to get promoted compared to those who do. It's the eternal... Being at disadvantage if you play by the rules :s
> The FBI do not do private investigative services for important rich people, they investigate crimes.

I was under the distinct impression that hacking someone's phone was not legal.

EDIT: Also, I don't know about the FBI specifically, but I would expect there to be someone to investigate reports of foreign espionage. And I have a lot of questions about whether anything from this report can be used in court now, should they identify anyone who can be held accountable.

One last thing... isn't that also an implication that they think that keeping the contents of the phone secret is more important than national security? Just what else is on there?
What were the opposing side's concern or argument against it?

Using Rails?
Thats approximately what is offered in the US as well. The reason that 100/50 seems close to symmetric is because the 100 is low. The fact that it’s still only 50 up with the 1 gig downstream suggests that they have the same constraints as cable ISPs in NA.
You have to worry about the jerk sending requests at 1 byte per second no matter which webserver you use. It's always a problem to let an unlimited number of people ask for an unlimited amount of resources; it's just that things like goroutines are heavier than a file descriptor or a few bytes of RAM, so you'll notice wasted goroutines more quickly than wasted fds or memory.

Typically, you need to consider the total amount of memory you want your web server to use, how much of that memory one request can use, and how long a request can use that memory. (File descriptors must also be considered.)

Envoy has a section in their documentation about this here: https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/configuration/be...

nginx similarly has a number of knobs to turn: https://www.nginx.com/blog/tuning-nginx/

I use Envoy as my web proxy and nginx to serve static content. My envoy configuration is complicated and my nginx configuration is simple, as a result. I imagine that if you are hosting a serious amount of traffic with Nginx as the edge proxy, more tuning is required. I've never tried, so I don't really know.
To me all these mapping and monitoring efforts always seem like trying to reverse engineer Microsoft Word's grammar checker by measuring electrical signals on various parts of a computer that somehow got into the 18th century.

I really hope we can realize how the whole thing works by looking at its parts. But I doubt it will bring the breakthrough. On the other hand maybe there is this one mechanism that we have to discover to make sense of all the parts. Then those efforts will form the groundwork for an explosive understanding.
AppImage, Flatpak or Snap?
It means that they don't know what they're talking about.

A "downloader" refers to part of an exploit payload (or other malware) that downloads additional code. But an attacker can only use a downloader after triggering an exploit and getting code execution. If they're right about there being an exploit related to the video, it would presumably be in the video file itself; otherwise there would be no need to send an irrelevant video. But in that case, the exploit couldn't have been used to download the video in the first place. And why would you need to use some special code to download a video attachment, when that's presumably part of WhatsApp's builtin functionality? Also, even if there was a downloader involved, it would be, as the name suggests, the thing that does the downloading – not the thing that was downloaded.

Whether or not there was an exploit, it seems almost certain that WhatsApp automatically downloaded the video like any other attachment, and the encryption was WhatsApp's own end-to-end encryption. Indeed, the report itself cites WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption in point 22, so it seems like they should be aware of that. Maybe they just don't know what "downloader" means, or maybe their ignorance is deeper; I can't really tell.
I have always assumes that the telescopes used eventually will move to the moon to get away from the light on the earth. Maybe time to speed up those plans or to start to research how that could be done. In a not so distant future where space travel is more accessible and I could image moving a telescope to the moon (or manufacture it there) becomes practical possible.
Awesome-ld-preload: List of resources related to LD_PRELOAD
Finnish university sets out the drivers for 6G
> So the technology is inherently imbalanced.

I won't call it inherently, or even "technical reason(s)".

Nothing stopped the standard to split the frequency bands for up and downstream in a more way, or even swap the frequencies for each. They're simply configured/designed this way is because of the business reason.
The report claimed they couldn't decrypt the whatsapp video, so Dino A. Dai Zovi (head of security for CashApp) published code [1] to do it.

The report also concludes that they need to jailbreak the phone to do more analysis, but hadn't yet for undisclosed reasons. Bezos was using an iPhone X, which is trivial to jailbreak with checkra1n [2].

So yeah, FTI didn't know what they were doing.

[1]: https://twitter.com/dinodaizovi/status/1221324029841244161

[2]: https://checkra.in/
That is basically Amazon scale playbook 101 (aka flywheel), if there is an efficiency that can benefit the customer (e.g. lowering prices), they will chase it.

It doesn't matter if that means designing Graviton2 or challenging Fedex by trying to build the biggest delivery network in the USA.
I remember having a trapper keeper. I don't think I noticed that the logo font seems to be the same as for the apple //e though.
Weaponised research: how to keep your sources safe in the age of surveillance
I'm guessing that's just ambiguous grammar. "associated with a 14% risk for dementia" as in "14 percent higher than expected."

I say that because the risk of dementia is a lot higher than 14%.
No mention of the Tudor Sweating Sickness, as mentioned in Wolf Hall a dramatisation if Thomas Cromwell:

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

I would of thought some bodies could be exhumed an analysed as to what it might have been.

This was in the thousands, is there a reason why it’s not on the list?
It is easy to blame your own weaknesses on someone else. Maybe you should read some dating books and/or work on your self-confidence. I am a very introvert person myself. There are some simple things you can do, to improve your non-verbal communication and actually make people see you for who you are and what your contributions are. Moving to another job, may actually not solve anything, because the chances of meeting another tech lead that is like your current tech lead, is very high, because it is usually the less skilled people who drift to tech lead roles.
If you have an app that solves something we take for granted in the West, and the initial cost barrier is very low, you have a great business model for the Indian market.

When WhatsApp cost $1 per year it had a terrific business model for the emerging markets. Now that it’s free Facebook is complaining that they don’t make enough money.
Thinking that the wild animals are more healthy
> There’s a reason why commodity markets tend to revert towards variable cost.

Is that some theory of economical model ?

Or is that a way of saying the final price of a product varies greatly because the commodity part with the product is only a small percentage of the TCO / BOM ?
I don't know but I think so. It's not that we don't need journalists but that economically speaking people are apparently not willing to pay for news anymore.
It's a simple calculation : if medias are only supported by subscriptions and not ads, there is less budget and thus need for less employees.

The blue ticks are totally over rated. You can have them if you're not a proper journalist and not have it if you are ^^

Yeah Pro Publica does really good stuff. That's the thing actually. A few medias have managed to get a community around them that's willing to pay and then you can do good journalism. That's great.

Problem stands more for old medias that needed to adapt and mostly none took the risk of going for internet subscription. So they still have to pay their hundreds of employees with a news model that won't last.

Management in medias is one of the main problems. Like in many industries, medias had a hard time taking internet seriously, then didn't think their strategy through, then started going on Facebook etc without a sound strategy as well... You see there exactly what happened first in music, then tv, and basically every industry.
I dont know if the Spotify / Netflix model would works for medias.
Open question there ^^
I don't think you have to make an account to use the app
Yes, it's a very nice overview of Postgres data types.

My only question is: if the "money" type is bad, what should we use instead? The author proposed a new "currency" type, but that doesn't exist yet.

OT: I initially thought that the article would be about function types, which are also called exponential types (hence the pun on "power").
I'm also in this camp, I did read through at the time some of the arguments for this syntax and it allows for some elegant chaining of awaits and other things I can't recall, but I still can't get over the fact that it looks like a member access and also for such an important meaning to the current line of code it isn't boldface right at the start screaming "im async". Nope it's at the end of the line and doesn't standout in any meaningful way since it's a member access. I find it very unfortunate
That is what rich language runtimes are all about.

When you do Common Lisp, Smalltalk, Java, .NET, Go, D, ... the underlying OS kind of loses its meaning.

The standard library can bind to OS primitives, or you can implement your hardware abstraction layer that allows for the language runtime to run bare metal.

If you squint a bit, UNIX is C's runtime, and gets everywhere via POSIX.
You can share links from the app
It's worth reading Vannevar Bush on the value of associative trails: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_We_May_Think#Concept_realiz...
Why IT Security Fails?
It's not the same. For example, I have Portfolio Margin [1] which gives me much greater leverage than normal Regulation T accounts, and that's just as a personal trader. You unlock even more access and advanced strategies as you gain capital all the way up to 10s of millions.

1. https://www.tdameritrade.com/investment-products/margin-trad...
They approximated income, education, and ethnicity at the neighborhood-level (400-600 people) based on census data. That doesn't seem granular enough to me if the poorest families in each neighborhood live closest to the major roads.
Thank for reply. I'll dig into it. Kind of documentation I am thinking about not only description of what method do, but also include example of 'how to use' it.
I think Amazon mentioned they intend to use their own chip on All of AWS except their IaaS / EC2 offering, where you still get to choose Server running on x86.

That is why it was mentioned as the fall of x86 on Servers.
Top athletes appear to have a general perspective on progress and self-development. Instead of comparing oneself to others, rather compare yourself today, relative to yourself yesterday, as a gauge on deliberate and precise progress towards the desirable outcome.