skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know for a fact my mom loved me and only wanted my best when beating the crap out of me.

Intentions don't even matter in such cases. The end result does
What I don't understand is why store it server side? If we make a HTTP Only + secure cookie containing the encrypted and signed csrf value, it can't be obtained by an attacker & the server would require no state or shared cache between instances. It would just compare the HTTP only cookie to the value submitted with the form. On response, expire that cookie.

Does anyone know of a downside to that?
> What's the difference between private cloud and on prem?

Cloud and on-premises are not mutually exclusive, as many "bits I push to the cloud" get on-premises of a ponytailed guy named John. We focus on what people mean[^1], not what they say. Some even make a living saying "chemical-free"[^2] or "digital marketing" publicly.

> Does it just mean you let everyone spin up VMs etc rather than requiring them to go through IT?

This is the on-demand, self-service aspect. What the users get as a result of their demand depends on the need you're trying to fulfill and defines (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.). Do you want them to be able to interact with an application, deploy/run applications, or get a VM? Here's a resource that summarizes it[^3] and the Wikipedia page gives an overview[^4].

[^1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWIM

[^2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_free

[^3]: https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/cloud-computing/iaas-vs-paa...

[^4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing
At first I was going to laugh at Onfim's inconsistent amount of fingers, but I realize just now that he probably couldn't count very well.
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I tried out your app, and it's awesome! Simple and solves my need.

Can you add a setting to zoom?
> Just want to make sure I understand what you're asking here; because it sounds to me like you're asking something along the lines of "Hey, the vibrating device is neat, but I'd actually like a device that can directly stimulate movement of the device wearer's muscle groups on reception of a remote signal. Can you do that?"

> ...because if that is what you're asking, the very idea horrified me at the prospect of the new forms of abuse that technology would enable. And I don't mean "abuse" in a good connotation either.

E-stim is already a thing, it just lacks (so far) the remote aspect.
I'm not an expert in the philosophy of mind, but I did just finish a class that spent a lot of time talking about the Churchlands. I figured I'd give my two cents in case someone might be curious as to weaknesses in their arguments.

The way the Churchlands' approach the mind is through reductive materialism. Basically they argue that the mind is identical to the brain given that brain process A causes mental/internal process B. With that reduction we should either eliminate language for mental experience or root it entirely in the corresponding physical process.

This sort of reduction is more or less a scientific reduction in that it serves an explanatory purpose. However, some philosophers reject the idea that scientific reduction is sufficient for a philosophical reduction which is something along the lines of brain process A completely explaining mental experience B. The problem that a philosophical reduction poses is that of internal experience.

Non-reductionists would argue that no amount of physical data could explain subjective experience. Brain scans can show what happens physiologically when you are happy, but not the 'what it's like to be happy'. Whether or not that's convincing to you is a matter of personal preference.

The bottom line seems to be that there is a major physical aspect to the mind, but also that we feel like we are more than chemical reactions. It is not clear that we can practically get rid of either dualism or materialism.

If you are curious, look at Thomas Nagel, and 'the hard problem of consciousness' by Chalmers.
Well, for those looking at the comments first:

No; they do not actually factor any 1024 or 2048 bit numbers. The largest is 17 bits. Although they point out that representing the problem can be done in a quadratic size of the input, the datapoints in the paper don't give any reason to believe that the time to finding the factors won't just be exponential in the input.

Also, no, this is not a record for Quantum Computing; as this is a DWave Quantum Annealing machine which needs to be evaluated by a different standard.

This seems to be more interesting if you look at it from the perspective "How can I treat prime factorization as a optimization problem" rather than "Does it look like Quantum Annealing Machines can factor RSA in the near term".
After reading it, it's not clear it is the future of data science.
I made a deep learning pipeline to predict the outcome of DoTA 2 matches
I'll chime in and say hello as well! Great seeing Hypixel staying on top after all these years!
It's just like Glass says: you have to do a lot of work. Be comfortable that everything will suck for a while. Probably a long while. You may not notice day-to-day progress, but if you practice frequently, you'll eventually be able to look back and see that you're doing better.

For many, a good way to do that is just to take a class. You commit to showing up with other people and just working on the thing. A good friend joined an MFA program not because she really expected to learn much from the teachers, but because she benefits from the structure that forces her to write, write, write.
On the smaller end of the scale, I have a $12K/mo spend with Azure. I decided to go back to Coloc.

For under $50K, I have 4 machines with an aggregate 1TB RAM, 48 cores, 1 pricy GPU, 16TB of fast SSD, 40 TB HHD, and infiniband @ 56GB/sec. Rent on the cabinet is less than $1K/mo. It's going to cost me about $20K in labor to migrate.

So the nominal break-even point is six months but the real kicker is that this is effectively x10-30 the raw power of what I was getting on the cloud. I can offer a quantitatively different set of calculations.

It also simplifies a bunch of stuff:
1. No APIs to read blob data -- just good old files on an ZFS share.
2. No need to optimize memory consumption.
3. No need for docker/k8s/etc to spin up under load. Just have a cluster sitting there.

There are downsides but Coloc beats the cloud for certain problems.
Yep. This is where we are at.
They did, but at Dropbox's size it should be pretty obvious. I mean, their whole business model is essentially acting as a cloud storage provider. Once they got big enough, of course it made sense for them to optimize their infrastructure instead of letting another company take x% off the top.
You're trying to convince me that the system isn't perfect. Listen, I've long since agreed with you.

I commented on your initial response because it was overly dismissive and implied the only way forward is to first wait until we have a government stocked with domain experts who only act only on policy within their domain. It dismisses the fact that it is unlikely that the politicians introducing regulation were solely responsible for its construction.

Yes, there is corruption in government and yes ignorance is painfully obvious in some legislation, but to dismiss the idea of enacting regulation because the politician(s) signing it into law may not be experts in the field the regulation addresses, isn't at all practical.

I'd further argue that it is incumbent upon those working in industry to ensure the creation of regulation is conducted transparently and includes representatives from the industry to contribute the necessary knowledge and expertise required to formulate the law(s) such that society benefits from the protection and commerce suffers no undue burden.
It sounds like the opposite direction happened here.
You can get a new Toyota/Honda car for 2 months pay after taxes in the US scenario. And it’s trivial to go to Nevada from the Bay Area to make the purchase and pocket the cost difference if you have a spare weekend.

You spend more on medical out of pocket, but it’s a drop in the bucket compared to the pittance folks make in Europe. Set aside $200k over 16 years of school/daycare and you’ve still cleared in excess of a million dollars more than your European counterparts.

There is a reason the top SWEs in the world flock to the tech companies in the US. The income is drastically better and if you don’t succumb to lifestyle inflation, you can live like a typical European middle class citizen (one car, tiny apartment, little eating out) and retire after a 15 year career.
In Ruby, monkeypatching is idiomatic and you can’t even tell what package any given global came from.
To be clear, it took much more time to deploy your own software to the cloud relative to on-prem?
This very same argument would apply to, say, "5% of the price of my dinner goes towards healthcare for the waitstaff. That's something the company wants, not something I want."

There are much better argument for it being spyware, e.g., that it spies. It's not a very strong argument that a thing is bad simply because it helps the provider of the thing.
a one minute change isn't ran or tested, almost by definition.
I don't think so, because very few people would scroll down further than before. And for those it only save one or two clicks on "More".
Fredrik Knudsen has done an amazing video on Furries: https://youtu.be/8aF2GxWi7Ag
So do you argue then that looking at highway banner ads caused you to deplete your glucose stores in your cells derived from the food you paid for?
As long as I can get vim keybindings...
Bandwidth Alliance is only for routing http traffic, but a game server will have udp traffic.
Another part I like:

“'Then you should say what you mean,' the March Hare went on.
'I do,' Alice hastily replied; 'at least–at least I mean what I say'”
A 25% more efficient engine sounds like a lot, but doesn’t necessarily mean squat for increasing total system efficiency.

The RS-25 for the Shuttle and SLS has an ISP of 366 at sea level and 451 in Space. The first stage F1 for the Saturn V had an ISP of 261. SpaceX Merlin has an ISP of 282 at sea level, the vacuum Merlin achieves 311 in space, but require a different bell. That makes the RS-25 more than 30% more efficient than Merlin or F1. Yet this is the result.

Payload fractions:
SLS: 3.4%,
Saturn V: 4.3%,
Falcon 9: 4.1%,
Falcon Heavy: 4.5%

Thrust to weight ratio:

RS-25: 54

F-1: 82

Merlin: 194

The big difference is the SLS choice of hydrogen as fuel. That provides the higher ISP, but also requires significantly larger and heavier tanks. It’s efficiency requires more dead weight in engines and structure that more than negates the ISP advantage. So much weight that the SLS and the Shuttle required the help of massively expensive solid rocket boosters just to reach orbit.

If a detonation engine is heavier, that undercuts its efficiency. If it cokes up, it’s not going to be usable in deep space, if not easily reusable it useless.

It requires hydrogen, which means it needs a sea level ISP of 450 to be worth the heavier structure in a launch system. But if it can do 550 in vacuum, it will make a great deep space engine.
Thanks for the link.

As I randomly clicked through, I wasn't that horrified until I got to this file:

https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim/blob/master/src/SetupMo...

Of course, it's absolutely insane to suggest that all of academic epidemiology should be defunded.
I remember a post here a while back from a guy running Bitcoin mining in his dorm room. One day he realized he could offer his spare cycles to grad students with high computing workloads and undercut cloud computing prices while increasing what he made far over just mining.

It's very weird that we haven't fully arbitraged $/instruction to a single (low) price yet (or storage/hosting, whichever).

If only there were an Uber for unused cycles or storage... let everyone turn their unused capacity into mini AWSs with a common interface and safety and reliability guarantees.

Maybe there are too many barriers, like security.
If they are typical zombies who have to spread the contagion via bites and scratches, and are slow and stupid, then my guess is the remaining humans would find it relatively easy to reduce the infection rate below 1. Zombie movies and shows are for drama, not realism. You'd need 28 Days Later or Resident Evil style zombies to overwhelm well armed humans who employ strategy. But this is a fictional scenario we're arguing about.
Boo Hoo
Really your complaining go get a coffee maker oh I suppose you want someone to turn it on - nothing but bunch of spoiled brats ... Life is so fing hard ... Get over it ... When 2/3 of the world live on less than a dollar a dollar a day ... Life is sooooo hard does someone wipe your butt? Oh you actually have to do something ... That is sooo hard and difficult
Weirdly enough a recruiters follow up email after a job interview ended up in my gmail spam folder. I tend to check my spam folder once a week but I probably would have never seen it otherwise, and would have assumed I was ghosted.
"Educt, is a substance separated from a mixture in which it already existed, as opposed to a product, which is newly generated by a chemical reaction."
So, in this context, the substances consumed by the cell's chemical processes.
Religion as a psychological tool is a very sad thing. But it's a very common thought, one I grew up with. In fact, I only started praying while still thinking it was all fake, but needing some kind of mental help past my problem in life at the time. So I understand that theory as well as anyone here.

But not all religions are created equal. The Protestant religions are emasculated to some degree. Since they're based around rejecting the truth, their foundation is all wrong, and they can never get back to reality. Unfortunately, they turn many people away from Christianity.

But that's not necessarily true. Those who keep looking for it will find it in Catholicism, just like John Henry Newman did. As he said, "to be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant." But more often, people don't really want to find out the truth. So they reject religion altogether. Except as a psychological tool.
In most situations I would probably note the mistake to my friends after I was sure that the waiter was out of ear shot, but not make a big deal out of it. I can think of one person who I wouldn't say anything to until we'd left the restaurant; I know from previous experience that he would bring it up to the waiter.

I think my treatment of the service industry changed significantly in high school, when I actually knew people who were working at restaurants and heard their stories of horrible customers. Having since worked at a restaurant and eaten out with lots of food service people, I believe that food service people tend to treat food service people better than others do (though I've seen exceptions both ways). I'm not trying to say this in a claiming-moral-superiority-via-kindness way, it's just a pattern I think I've seen in the world, and I think it kinda makes sense given the nature of granfalloons.
Quadratic in size of input is just the multiplication table of the radix units in some base (in their case binary).

It's interesting and I think promising approach to factoring is to use annealing over such a multiplication table trying to resolve the intermediate radix unit products and carries. It's a good way to map the problem to a solution space that is obviously a solution landscape that can be explored.

It's true that the number of variables they end up with is still exponential in the bits of input, but then again, that's not really a problem for true quantum computers.

It definitely seems factorization is closer to being publicly broken.
Fezzes are cool.
I discovered this feature on an older phone with force press. The new iPhones (and iPads) don’t support fierce press, so I spent several seconds pawing at my phone trying to recreate the behavior.
Nice username :)

Does the calvin in the username refer to calvin and hobbes?
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Nobody said it was the only way, but better measurement means optimizing ad spend to better target users and lower prices.
I certainly don't want 5% of the price of my dinner going to healthcare costs. Don't tell me that's something that actually happens where you live?
This is surely a competition violation, wordly blocking competing products from operating.
Sounds like stoicism?
Yup. This is known as 'double submit'. https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Cross-Site_Re...
> The point of log files

That’s a point of log files. However, it’s not the point tons of developers have in mind when they add log statements. Developers are primarily concerned with state required to reproduce bugs, not long term standardized storage containing enough information for useful attribution or even all important state transitions. You would be surprised how many developers don’t even bother logging item deletions because it’s such a trivial code path.

You’re idea of “the fundamental purpose” is from an operators view. It rarely lines up with the developers’ views and you’re in for a bad time if you think people who don’t see your perspective are “fudging something up royally” with “miles of incompetence”.
First-party SaaS meaning things like RDS, DBaaS, queues, LBs etc? Most of that I would sort of put into a IaaS controlled PaaS, rather than true IaaS SaaS. Yes, these are generally higher on the trust spectrum as they don't involve additional vendors accessing/managing/storing data.
It's a favorite pet peeve of mine (and very well represented in this thread) that people call it vi when they actually mean vim. I believe on some systems vi eventually became an alias for vim which is how all of this started.

Most folks would be very much irritated if they actually had to use vi because of some crucial features missing.
Uh, you do know a field has to actually be present in a line for it to be indexed? And it has to be consistently formatted placed to be parsed lol.
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.”
This is pretty impressive, they were able to factor a 17 bit number (103459 = 337 * 307) using 1635 physical qubits (arranged as 73 logical qubits) using QUBO. In this configuration they were able to achieve an average time to solution of just under 100ms.

That said, they did pick an 'easy' number to factor, just like most other quantum factorization results. This number could easily be factored using Fermat's factorization method (only the first step is required). It would have been very interesting to see a list of all primes and the time required to factor them (since they claim it only takes 100ms to factor the 17 bit one, such an experiment should be able to run in a day...).

For an extreeme case of this class of 'cheating' compare to the largest number factored on a quantum computer (1,099,551,473,989 =1,048,589 * 1,048,601) which only actually takes 3 qubits to calculate [1]

They also estimate that in order to factor a 2048bit number it would require just under a million logical qubits using QUBO, but didn't present a physical implementation. Worse yet, this is still not a general algorithm and is generally predicated on picking an easy number to factor in the first place!

[1]https://quantumcomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/9204/th...
What is record for PF on quantum computer? I only found some really old results from 2014 and current records must be higher.
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One use case is that is running within postgres, so you dont need to install another (complex?) software and backup it.
Many apps on my Android device routinely send requests to edge-star-.facebook.com even when I don't use facebook login. Are these ad related requests?
What does safety mean in this context? (I'm not an AI researcher.)
> Software developers want to know whether their existing marketing methods are effective.

so what?
"Absolutely nothing stops a group from creating a non-profit, electing a board of trustees that appoints managers"

We have done. They're called nations.

Other nations are available. You're not forced to stay in the one you are born in. That's enshrined in the United nations charter on human rights.
From Buckminster Fuller, retold to me by Brandur Leach:

> Do more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing.

[https://brandur.org/minimalism]
Spotify made their choice to use the SDK for whatever gains they get out of it, and as a customer you can choose to not use their service or app if you disagree with that.

Wrong. At least for EU citizens.

If Spotify are collecting data in this way (and not only using the SDK for Facebook Login), they are in violation of the GDPR. There must be clear unambiguous consent to collect the data in the form of an affirmative action of the user and it must be possible to use the app without giving consent, because the Facebook data collection is not essential for the app to operate.

If they do share data with Facebook, Spotify should be scared, since they are definitely large enough to be on the radar of the EU or national bodies.

Moreover, outside the EU it would be dumb for Spotify to say "just don't install the app if you don't agree". The 10 Euro per month that premium users pay is worth more than some Facebook tracking.

(IANAL)
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It's not the right word for that, but in general just be extremely picky about serious qualities in your partner. Ditch bad relationships and maybes quickly, because there is a high opportunity cost. Value peace in a relationship, and stay away from people who like to fight.
This stuff has been written about ad nauseum. Every think tank has some variant they've published. Here's Ezra Klein's review of a bunch of them (he's pretty bearish on whether they'll work): https://www.vox.com/2020/4/10/21215494/coronavirus-plans-soc...

The basic idea is that you stay locked down until the outbreak size is small enough that you can test every contact of every positive case to catch them before they spread.

This takes a lot of testing. And unfortunately the one body in the USA with the financial resources to foot that bill is conspicuously silent on a plan for rolling out expanded testing. But this is how it has to work. The alternative is, as everyone here loves to scream, more expensive.

But there's no magic wand where people just decide to start working again. That won't happen, either becuase they're scared or because the outbreaks run out of control again (which is to say: people won't exit lockdown voluntarily without containment ever, either they're scared now or they'll be scared of the results they see).

So call your representatives and get testing funded and scaled. Really there is no other option.
No, it is not a false dichotomy. You are literally saying we need to open up now. doing so will kill people: all the best available research says so. Why do you not acknowledge this? Again, I ask: which do you value more, lives or profits? I think I know which, and you simply don't want to say it.

Again, I don't give a shit about capitalism. Do you understand that?
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