skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fencing exhibits this phenomenon nicely. Fencing does not come even close to mimicking a real sword fight. One reason for this is right of way, basically the idea that the person who attacks first gets precedence and the onus is on their opponent to defend against the attack before attacking themselves. However what is defined as an "attack" in fencing is very different from what a layperson would assume. Really, it's defined as forward movement without a clear intention to take the blade. Which means that tactics such as advancing with ones arm held back are rewarded.

A lot of people, upon hearing this, respond with something along the lines of "fencing is stupid! We should make our own sword fighting system that encourages real fighting!". HEMA is a nice example of this. Putting aside the questionable logic of a martial art based around swords, what inevitably happens is that as the system develops, people want to compete, to see who is the better fighter. Since they clearly can't judge fights by, well, murder, they need to come up with a rules and points system. Once this system develops, someone starts to realize "hmm, if I do x action, I can win fairly easily". Thus a meta develops. Once a meta develops, everybody starts using the meta to win and the fighting becomes less mimicking killing people with a sword and more competing in a sport.

Some argue that the way to prevent this is to not have competitions or rules. But...then you have a bunch of people waving around swords with no clue as to whether it's actually effective.

Side note, fencing has had a few of these major meta developments in its history too. Johan Harmenberg famously pushed epee's meta to be a lot more athletic and dynamic.
its pure bullshido https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-KX99T5r3A
I am absolutely baffled that someone would down-vote this comment. I don't understand. I would love for someone to actually match their down-vote with an explanation. Maybe there's something to be learned there.

Having lived through at least a couple of important earthquakes in the Los Angeles region I can tell you, without a shadow of a doubt, you do not want to wait until the last minute to get ready for any kind of an out of the norm situation.

Then there's the question of what would constitute responsible behavior in the event of COVID-19 getting more serious in the US. I would guess this would, at a minimum, include preparing to stay home for somewhere around 30 to 45 days, particularly considering that we are starting to think the incubation period could be as long as 27 days.

And so, from this perspective alone --that of being a responsible citizen-- I am not equipped to understand someone who would down-vote advise to prepare for 30 to 45 days of at-home isolation.
Probably in relation to some of the news relating to the John Oliver situation (currently on the front page):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22415535
How many prisoners entered with mental health problems? Probably the majority.
There was a version with all of these features; new version doesn't even have its functional feature parity down...
Bob Iger steps down as Walt Disney chief executive
> The driver in this scenario was warned repeatedly that his attention was required.

That's Tesla's spin on the events of the crash. Per the NTSB preliminary report, the last attention notification occurred some 18 minutes prior to the crash.

https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/nr20180607.as...
> The law helps State-sanctioned-persecuted religious minorities from neighboring countries

If I recall the law in question correctly, it helps members of certain religious sects, while managing to exclude the one religious sect that is actually being actively persecuted by its government on a massive scale--the Muslim Rohingyas in Burma.
I think you should give it a try yourself. I use autopilot every day and I understand and agree with exactly what he is saying. I consider myself a very safe driver and my record proves that.
This could also control costs if government managed systems (Medicare, Medicaid) partner with Walmart to provide payment. Easier to negotiate with Walmart as a single entity versus a network of vision and dental providers across the nation.
Autopilots on aircraft do a lot, including automatic landing where necessary (fog etc.). What they don’t do, is control the plane on the ground. There is no autopilot on the taxiway and that is what Tesla’s are trying to do.
Do you think a single person corporation could easily get a sales contact to do said negotiation?
But that's not how his loud public claims are structured. He says it will be done on this hardware in this single digit number of years.
The context is probably this "Disney blocks John Oliver’s new episode critical of India’s PM Modi" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22415535

Someone was taken by surprise when they learned that Disney owns streaming service in India with 350 million users and the streaming services is just subsidiary of Disney owned Star India Private Limited who owns over 60 channels and "has 790 million viewers a month across India and more than 100 countries".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_India
Why? History has proven time and time again that more speech is better than less speech. Better it be out in the open and freely attacked, then hidden and locked away so it can dwell and grow in the dark moist corners.
Something you can do is send them beer/wine prior to the celebration so they can join in remotely. Other options is sending them cookies/candy or potentially gift cards to something nice in their area.
Shill or idiot. VPN or Tor would be the answer.

Yes, I'm consciously spending karma on this answer.
The regressions are in that it is much slower and wastes screen real estate. 90% of the window size is for faux buttons that have zero purpose for anyone who doesn't use a touch screen on their Windows computer (ie. at least 99% of the Windows users) and the 10% that remains uses oversized elements with wasteful padding.

Here is what i use as a calculator on Windows: http://runtimeterror.com/tools/calc/calc.hta.txt

It looks like this:
https://i.imgur.com/eWZfcXB.png

and not only is much faster to open than Windows Calculator (ironic, considering it loads an entire browser engine) but also more compact and doesn't waste any screen space (100% of its window is dedicated to its actual functionality instead of being an obsolete skeuomorphism that was originally made to help people associate desktop calculators with the virtual desktop metaphor used on the Macintosh back in 1984 when actual physical desktop calculators could be found everywhere).
A Plea for Political Empathy
Now is not the time to start pretending like we care about sick people.
I disagree slightly. The metagame is relevant whenever you're facing opponents of similar skill. If you're way better than your opponent, you can use highly sub-optimal, non-meta strategies and win through sheer experience and skill. For instance, I could kill 50% of Starcraft opponents lower than me by building only one unit and even announcing which unit I'll mass up.

However, if you're making a similar number of errors as your opponent, then the meta does come into play. Regardless of the raw error rate, where pros make few and amateurs make many, if this rate is similar to your opponent, then it still matters if your opponent has a strategic/meta counter to your strategy.
Since Tesla Autopilot is only working in Highway-like environments, we should compare this to highway accidents. In Germany for example only 6.2% of all deadly accidents happen on the Autobahn. So Tesla is clearly using deceptive marketing by comparing the average across all deadly road accidents.
Oh, cool. They have a search API. I'll plan to add this as a source to canweimage.com.
This sounds painfully like somebody who is not and never has been poor.
NSA Phone Program Cost $100M, but Produced Only Two Unique Leads
UWP is what .NET should have been since the beginning, an improved COM, and an alternative design solution to Longhorn ideas.

From that point of view it makes perfect sense.

What it did not make sense was creating an incompatible .NET runtime for it, or the way it was introduced with device specific APIs (Win 8, Win 8.1), using shared code folders.
Platform coherence, but also look & feel come to my mind.

While the guidelines are what the word says, vague guidelines with a lot of room for interpretation, they don’t necessarily dictate any details. When you look at it from a more technical point of view, it’s harder to do something nonconforming with Apple’s frameworks than with 3rd party alternatives.

Games are a different thing. They are more like their own operating system within iOS and usually have their own quirks (to make them playful).
Have you ever taught?

I taught Astronomy to the people in the years below me (a school tradition because it was optional), and it was absolutely exhausting trying to plan good lessons that didn't involve getting them to memorise stuff by wrote. I ""derived"" Kepler's laws for a bunch of 14-15 year olds who didn't even know logarithms yet and it was pretty brutal intellectually.

Also, I think teaching mathematics "intuitively" requires a bit of cooperation from the student - not in the sense of intelligence, just that for for every guy (or girl) who watches 3Blue1Brown (and looks deeper into the pure mathematics) there's another who's just along for the ride. I think the frequencies of those personalities are a product of how they were taught, but it's very difficult to convince people in "teaching time" as opposed to naturally (I was in the lowest maths group for years until I picked up a calculus book on a whim, but no teacher could've convinced old me that mathematics can be beautiful)

Quick Edit: To quote Tim Minchin, "Be a teacher". I might come across as moaning in the above but it's really interesting to explain things (in my experience at least - I love writing documentation!), and a good bullshit-test on yourself
I can tell you from experience that an improperly done root canal can come back to bite you years later. Had one done by IHS[1] when I was in 6th grade. During my 1st year in college I woke up with mouth pain that was really, really bad. Had to get a parent to come get me and drive me to a dentist. He took x-rays and found out I had an infection growing since the initial root canal[2]. He prescribed antibiotics and a massive pain reliever (Percodan[3]). It took four weeks for the infection to go down enough for surgery. The doctor said it might come back because they might not get it all. It took two more operations (5 and 10 years later) to fix it all.

1) given what's happened to so many other people, I feel I got off cheap.

2) no, the IHS dentists did not see this growing and it was probably slowed by the multiple antibiotic prescriptions for step throat in high school.

3) Took it for two weeks, I'm still amazed I was functional enough to take tests and program. That stuff is a whole lot of don't care in one bottle.
> was warned repeatedly by the car to pay attention

This is incorrect (specifically, it's Tesla's mis-characterization of the situation). The last attention notification was over 15 minute prior to the crash.

https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/nr20180607.as...
They've effectively saturated a lot of the "easier" markets (those with a solid fit of weather, demographics, and city policies), started withdrawing from some of the harder/less-profitable ones, and are trying to reach better profitability metrics before another big round or IPO. Meanwhile, as stephencoyner pointed out, they're both testing various models/deals/plans and in Bird's case different vehicle types to try and increase ARPU and retention.

They're both very much alive, but not as shiny as they were a year ago now that market realities have caught up and investors are a bit more wary following Uber's failure to meet IPO expectations and WeWork's debacle.
How much time until getty start sending copyright notices on these?
Partly true. The washing process removes the natural coating, but this is replaced by a synthetic coating. GP is correct.
Makes an amusing change from the percentage of people on LinkedIn who need to share morning rituals involving getting up at 4am to ensure they have time to read inspirational business stories, go to the gym, update their inbox over green tea and freshly baked bread and enjoy an hour of contemplative meditation before cycling to work to arrive before everybody else. :D
Maybe dump the crazy mix of metro control panels and classic control panels too while we're fixing insanities
Its TMA, as effective as ballroom dancing. Do not try to delude yourself into thinking it has any defense qualities.
Not food, however buy some cheap cases of bottled water. Usually at places like Kroger or Walmart you can find generic bottled water for ~$2.50-$3.25 for a 24 or 32 pack case. In theory the water supply should be fine, but, clean water is one thing you can die without fairly quickly (compared to food), and it's very inexpensive in non-panic times. Buy two or three cases of water and put them to the side. If everything goes fine, you can drink them regardless. If everything goes very badly, you will be thankful to have the supplies.
I think it depends on the game too. In Dota 2 (and probably LoL) the balance between heros can change significantly per patch, and a lot of winning is having good hero picks compared to the other team. If you don't keep up with the meta, then your win rate will go down, and this is true for amateurs and the pros.
Probably not but $110k a year can buy a whole lot of fun. Pill counting is not soul crushing, work to live don’t live to work.
It doesn't disengage immediately after taking your hands off the wheel, it starts prompting you after about 5-10 seconds.
Linear algebra is a shared field across multiple disciplines. So I'm sure that there are many valid and useful interpretations as to what "linear algebra" is essentially about.

However, in mathematics proper, it is absolutely the case that linear algebra is about linear transformations. Indeed, this is the only interpretation that remains meaningful when trying to generalize (e.g. to functional analysis / multilinear algebra).
> when it only provides citizenship to persecuted non muslim minorities from neighbouring countries

Does it provide citizenship to non-muslim Tamils from SriLanka? Are'nt they persecuted too? If not, why not?
> Most of these bugs are never known to be exploited by attackers.

You have moved the goalposts. Of course there are lots of reasons why a bug might not be exploited by attackers, e.g. "the attackers exploited some other bug" or "no-one uses that software". That is not reassuring.

> In your first link, there was one memory corruption vulnerability in Chrome last year.

I don't know how you determined that, but it's just wrong.
https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1224...
Bugs 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 14 and 15 are obviously memory safety vulnerabilities. Many of the others probably are too, if you dig into them.
The Chinese Businessman Paradox
We already sterilized a lot of fruits, vegetables, and meat using gamma radiation sources. It's perfectly safe and has been done with animal feed much longer than with human food.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_irradiation
It's pretty obvious Tinder does this based on the very first profile you see when you open the app.
They might be able to limit/reduce the trade. It's seems a bit extreme to outright ban though...

But if China started reducing the market for endangered species that's not so bad.

I'm also guessing that mutation of viruses is a probability game, so reducing the trade might be all it takes to change the probability.
Interesting story about sleep. I tossed and turned until 3 or 4 am every night for most of my life. Horrible horrible nightmares every night. Exhausted every day, falling asleep behind the wheel on the way to work, nodding off in meetings or at my desk. I slept 10-16 hours on weekends sometimes and still felt tired. Napped every day after work.

About 8 years ago, my co-worker said he used to have the same problems until he got a CPAP machine. One sleep study and CPAP machine later, now I fall asleep easily and rarely dream. If on the rare occasion I can't go to sleep, I just accept it, get up for an hour or two, then go back to sleep knowing that I'm gonna suffer a little that day. Definitely the exception though.
I use an Echo for timing stuff in the kitchen all the time. It repeats the number you said back at you, I've never had a 15 -> 50 minutes type mistake.
Nice. Although one of the hidden power of Photoshop is the ability to open ridiculous large image files without any hurdle whatsoever. The other day a client sent a 5GB comp we had to open to modify some text, I was surprised how well Photoshop handled it, on a relatively cheap laptop.

Not sure how it would fair in the browser.
My least favorite engineering problem is the "dusty router" concern.

At some point, you may want to version your apis in a breaking way. You'll spend weeks sketching out a migration plan for all active routers in the field, sell it internally , get a thumbs up, then try to prep customer support. Customer support might tell you that you still need to support some devices which were unplugged on a firmware released 6 months ago. Oops.

When building deployed firmware, you always need to include a reliable fallback that allows you to bump the firmware on that device, even when it can't talk to anything else wirelessly.
This happened surprisingly fast. Replacing Iger with Chapek, unfortunately makes perfect sense, and has been whispered about for a couple of years now.

Nearly every decision Chapek has made in his past leadership roles at Disney has made them significantly more profitable. At the same time, nearly every decision he's made has made the customer experience for their end users worse. It should be interesting to see how this plays out.
“If you leave, we'll smash all your digital purchases into oblivion.”
Waymo’s Hiring Binge
Same. I used to be a night owl. Now I'm not. I could engineer a switch back if I wanted to, but I like this better, so I don't plan to try.
You can see a difference between "Muslims on Twitter" and the ruling party of the state, right?

But that's neither here nor there. However Muslims might react to a theoretical comment on cattle theft has no bearing on what a government actually has done in response to an actual comment. That their reaction could have been worse does not make BJP's actions any better.
How to Build a Design System in Sketch (Part One)
There's the worry that your platform vendor is going to squeeze you for all your profit, harvest "your" data, use your data to bootstrap competitors (seems like X is profitable!), "cancel" your platform or all the other things they will definitely make sure they retain the ability to do.

"Pray we do not alter the Terms and Conditions further". Walled gardens, app stores and closed ecosystems are FAANG staples at this point.

I think in many cases the technical delivery risks (say, having crappy updates, janky apps and the odd CVE) seem more survivable than taking on those kinds of business risks.
I hope future wishes don't involve adding yet another stack though. They need to fix the stuff they have (without breaking them), not introduce new stuff.
Another great example is the difference between Rugby Union and Rugby League. While there are lots of rule differences, a key one for me: in Rugby League, defenders must go back 10m after a tackle, while in Rugby Union they do not. This leads Union to be a very close affair with play rarely moving without consistent strong effort, while any fast player in League will get at least 5 of those meters back after every tackle. Very different games strategically, while from an outsiders perspective they are just the same.
Erlang can kill a process, but does not have cancellation, which causes a process to be halted and throw a cancellation exception from the point at which it was halted so that clean up can be performed while unwinding.

Crowds are a way to keep track of processes performing activities so that they can be cancelled, etc.

A boot request is sent to a controller to boot up a processor returning a termination report. A run request is sent to code to run returning a value.

The Erlang approach to implementing behavior change by recursing on a single procedure passing the variables in a tail call has issues implementing holes in regions of mutual exclusion similar to ones encountered in JavaScript. Because tail calls with state variables do not always work and Erlang does not have an assignment command, Erlang programs often use helper processes to temporarily hold state.

The above Actor implementation illustrates how the above interact in a way that can make Erlang implementations more complicated. Such interactions are common in implementing intelligent systems.
I get what they're saying. Walmart is literally known by every single person in the country (and outside the country as well). It's much less effective to bitch about getting ripped off by the local DDS and have people see about it and also care about it. If a bunch of people went online and were talking about getting ripped off by Walmart, it could very easily get picked up by the media if the claims were legit and then could affect the stock price.

I think people are also much more likely to talk to one another about the "shitty new Walmart healthcare service" because they know everyone knows Walmart and might use it. It's far less likely that you warn people about one single DDS office in your town unless perhaps that specific service provider came up in conversation.
Cool. Thanks for answering
In the original context (finance/investing) his point is that virtually nobody actually manages to consistently beat the market average (net of fees). So it's a "loser's game" and most people would do better avoiding mistakes like paying high fees than trying to beat the market.
It could be that he is worried about the stock market implications of Coronavirus and wants to "lock in" the incredible stock price appreciation that took place during his tenure as CEO. That is often how a CEO's performance is summarized after the fact, and "presided over a tripling of Disney's stock price" sounds better than "a 2.2x" or whatever. In any case, his desire to step down has been widely telegraphed in the press and directly to investors in presentations. He was supposed to retire a few years ago but kept being asked to stay by the board. Now that the Fox deal is done and Disney+ launched successfully, it's as good a time as any to retire.
More information about data retention requirements for DOH-resolver partners:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/DOH-resolver-policy
What Is Dask and How Can It Help You as a Data Scientist?
That may be the most forgiving interpretation of a person's actions that I've ever seen.
UPDATE #2: after clicking here and there, I was able to find this https://pay.google.com/gp/w/u/1/home/settings
it looks like I had set a UK address once and completely forgot about it (I don't have any Android devices since 2014, that's why I forgot). Let's see if this will change anything.
You do realize this toolkit is designed to deeply embed Alexa and other Amazon products into the device. So people WANT amazon to have a microphone and maybe a speaker and I'm sure lots of other metrics feeding back into an Amazon datacenter.

"Can" amazon, if they wanted, abuse this? It seems likely all the technical items are in place that they could. I don't see why they would, you are voluntarily putting everything they want into the device for them.
understood. the procedure referenced above was from... gosh now, 9 years ago. no issues with it (I've had other teeth issues but not her fault). Wife had a bad root canal done by a 'fancier' place which went bad a few years later.

Sort of feels like a total gamble, really.