skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you don't know that the coin is weighted, the probability is 50%.

No, if it's weighted it's not 50%. Your prior probability is 50%, but neither a Bayesian nor a frequentist would claim the true probability is known before testing.
Walmart.com, Target.com

So not a monopoly.

Edit:

Walgreens.com, Costco.com, Honest.com

All 5 of those popped up on Google/DuckDuck before anything from Amazon.
The low minimum is what makes Amazon work, plus the same day shipping. Assuming that I do not take work time off to go get something, Amazon will deliver something faster than I can go get it if I order it in the morning.
Matting not mating ... Matting ...
Please – A cross-language build system
Thank God to hear that I'm not the only one. Most people seem to have no problem with it.

I wonder if anybody actually likes it more than a flat or depressed headrest.
My understanding is that 'crosswalks' are all legal points (because 'jaywalking' at another point is illegal in the US) of pedestrian crossing.

At least in the UK, zebra crossings are a tiny subset of pedestrian crossings. (And you can cross the road wherever you please.)
This reminded me a lot of this study: https://github.com/senguptaumd/Background-Matting
Hound is awesome. I've set it up and used it at a few companies. Later I SasS'ed it[0]. Ping me if you want to try it out.

Edit: Here's a live sandbox demo[1] of it hosted.

[0] https://gitgrep.com

[1] https://demo.gitgrep.com/login
Pinephone doesn’t solve the carrier problem.
Which is a shame. It would be really interesting to compare, to see exactly how much this is a "great chip" and how much it's a "great vertical integration of chip and software".
Cloud backends aren't really needed imho if you use something like rclone. Native cloud backends can make transfer order more intelligent but rclone does deletes last meaning you won't lose data if the transfer dies mid-transfer.
> "Imposter syndrome literature takes this a step further by implying that no one knows what they’re doing, that everyone is equally bad, and that there are no adults in the room."

This also breeds distrust of expertise and anti-intellectualism. After all, they've been taught that everybody's equally bad so those experts signaling that their skills/knowledge are not up to snuff are clearly doing so for ulterior motives such as "gatekeeping" or for their own financial or other gain.
Audio Frequency Interval Experiments
The attack on Qasem Soleimani was a military strike against a military target, WHILE this person was orchestrating military strikes against US soldiers. You start shooting at soldiers, they may shoot back, and the bullets coming back may kill you. That he used missiles instead of bullets makes this long-distance, but doesn't change the nature of what happened. This is not what people refer to when they say "assassination".

There are very bad actions by the US military. This is not one of them.

> Iran has similar claims against MEK (Mujahedin-e-Khalq) organization in Paris ...

That they are developing nuclear weapons to use against Iranian civilians? Because that's the claim of the US and Israel, a claim that's essentially validated by the Iranian regime. The mission of this person was to develop and maintain nuclear strike capability ... Netanyahu nor Trump see themselves or their power threatened by an Iranian Nuclear bomb. They see large amounts of civilians threatened by a nuclear weapons, weapons essentially in the hands of racists.

So no, I don't think anything about these claims is similar.

And that is supposed to give the regime in Iran the authority to carry out terrorist actions, in a crowd of civilians, on foreign soil? Foreign soil where other terrorists have randomly killed hundreds of civilians, again for racist reasons? Good luck with that argument ...

All attacks against these weapon development engineers and managers were pinpoint strikes.

So no, I don't think the opponents here are very comparable, neither in reasoning nor in methods.
or how the longitudinal studies numbers are weighted against the overall numbers when coming up with the announced figure..
> The problem with growing as fast as Amazon has is that their talent bar couldn’t keep up. I can’t imagine this design being okay 10 years ago when I was there.

I see where you're coming from with this, but you really have to wonder. It sounds more like the original architects made implicit assumptions regarding scale that, likely due to original architects and engineers moving on, were not re-evaluated by the current engineers on Kinesis as Kinesis grew. While it may take an hour now for the front-end cache to sync, I find it highly unlikely that it needed that much time when Kinesis first launched.

The process failure here is organizational, one where Amazon failed to audit its current systems in a complete and current manner such that sufficient attention and resources could be paid to a re-architecture of a critical service before it caused the service to fail. Even now, vertically scaling the front-end cache fleet is just a band-aid - eventually, that won't be possible anymore. Sadly, the postmortem doesn't seem to identify the organizational failure that was the true root cause of the outage.
> However, in both cases the popular literature tends to assume that low self-esteem or imposter syndrome are conditions which occur independent of ability or skill level. Instead of teaching people how to teach themselves the skills they need and develop accurate and honest self-assessment techniques

This assumes that low self-esteem (and consequently impostor syndrome) are logical esteem issues - in other words, one learns to perform the correct calculations, and the problem is solved.

I believe low self-esteem problems are emotional in nature, and there's no amount of correct calculations that can solve that. There is an associated phenomenon indeed - the bucket with a hole; if somebody has low self-esteem, no matter how they fill the bucket, the bucket will never be full.

I agree that there is a reinforcement cycle with increase of skills, and that there is a component of "self-medication" that one can apply, but in general, I believe that low self-esteem has different causes, and is better handled by qualified professionals.

> The end result of all this was an increasingly massive cottage industry devoted to self-esteem

This in my opinion is a problem inside the problem: mainstream, unqualified, gurus are damaging, as they divert attention from qualified therapy.
I used to say “I don’t need to run Linux day-to-day, but if Apple become too heavy handed I can always switch”. Well, that’s not the case anymore.
Tool author here. There are a bunch of really good tools for code search already which are a lot more sophisticated than this one - livegrep for example.

I built this partly as a learning exercise, to see how far I could push the idea of a Datasette plugin and to figure out how to call external processes from Python asyncio.

I also built it because I had a hunch that the "datasette publish" mechanism for deploying Datasette to serverless hosting providers such as Google Cloud Run could make it easy to deploy code search engines too. I think the most interesting thing about this project is the GitHub Actions workflow I wrote that deploys the demo instance running against code from 60+ repositories: https://github.com/simonw/datasette-ripgrep/blob/main/.githu...
I wish these articles would acknowledge the fact that the Baltimore Sun broke story about Crypto AG back in 1995. The Swiss government had 25 years to investigate. This is not some new revelation that appeared in February.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1995-12-10-19953440...
Looks like the work of a professional graphic designer using indesign and the rest of the adobe creative suite. This format rendered in pdf is the current standard in the marketing /entertainment world for pitches as it gives the most control and best results for a graphic driven industry. Also serves as a litmus to keep riff-raff out who cant deliver on the level the industry is accustomed to. Seems to me the census hired or has access to a pro designer with agency experience and got this convention as a bonus.
Incredible. I remember spending hours on line rider as a young'n. The ending sequence blew my mind.

Nice job.
I've found this to be true on trans-oceanic flights, but rarely on trans-continental (USA). I wish it were true on all flights - even if it's not a night flight, it's nice to nod off for a quick 20 min nap sometimes.
You had a keyboard? I had to reenter the sequences of toggle switches every time I turned on my MIPS.
Why the 2020 presidential election is deeply puzzling
It's a complete end run around regulation designed to keep government data gathering in check - just because its legal doesnt mean its the wrong incentive for our government to help corporations spy on us all and keep those corporate hegemonies which work best with surveillance states in power.
You claim that there's "absolutely no evidence" that racism is endemic, which is an absurd claim to make. There's enormous amounts of it. Hundreds of studies. Hundreds of books. And the daily lived experience of million of people, who you need only listen to on the Internet. But if you want a very simple, obvious one, take NBER paper 9873: https://www.nber.org/papers/w9873

One could plausibly debate the level of it. But to sweepingly declare there's absolutely no evidence isn't so much a claim of fact as a declaration of willful ignorance. Which, unfortunately, is part of why racism is still endemic. See, for example, Loewen's "Sundown Towns", where the later chapters show how America's ongoing de-facto segregation, which was born out of the Nadir, both depends on and creates the sort of refusal to see the obvious that you engage in here.
Something is fishy about his death.Was anyone else injured? Was the house destroyed? Are there photos of the burned property? If he was surrounded by family it seems he was the only one injured. Sometimes suspicious deaths are coveted up to avoid attention. I had a neighbor who was CEO of a large company. When he shot him self I heard the gun shot. I saw the clean up crew the next morning. The media reported his death as stroke as to not tarnish his reputation.
"Optional security protections also include disabling loading of remote images within messages, enabling only specific media types (sanitizer), and disabling JavaScript." says the TB wikipedia page. The arch wiki says "JavaScript is disabled for message content but not for RSS news feeds. To disable set javascript.enabled to false in the #Config editor.".

So with evidence to the fact that TB does indeed execute attacker-supplied JS I would like to ask for a reference for your claim.
With booking at boarding/check-in, I assume this will only be offered during COVID times? Once things return to normal won't flights be too full to ever use this?
As I commented elsewhere, sure, when I was first asked I guessed it must be the road markings. But to this day I just select all the road markings that aren't clearly separating lanes.

I don't know if I get loads wrong as a result, but it certainly could catch me out by testing identifying the difference between a 'crosswalk' and whatever other markings you might put across your roads.

To TFA's point, good job reCaptcha, you identified my unfamiliarity with everyday American things.
The point is that in benchmarks these things don’t really show up at all and Apple still leads. The things I mentioned are only useful because of specific usecases, and saying that Apple is ahead because of those is inaccurate. The point is that the tricks are extremely important for Apple, but not in an argument of “why is Apple making fast processors”.

Regarding a comparison with AMD: I think we’ll have to see what Apple’s professional chips can do. My guess is they’re pulling ahead already.
Most of this is a summary of the links and the discussions in the r/COVID19 community on reddit (tightly regulated, scientific discussion only).

Some:

- https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/jo2muy/mink_and_co...

- https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03218-z
This is part of the plan... destroy independent retailers and centralise control
I feel like this misses the point of literature specifically on imposter syndrome. It’s not “other people are incompetent too” it’s that you categorically overestimate the abilities and accomplishments of others and underestimate your own. And then to realize that you aren’t alone and other people experience the same feelings you do.

The whole point is to end up where you’re seeing everyone as they are.
It sounds to me as though Brandon's idea of self-esteem is a bit different than how most people think of it today. Rather than a nebulous, unsupported good feeling about oneself, his was closer to what we might think of as self-confidence supported by cultivated personal integrity. That's from someone who has read about his book but not read it, however.
"Stubbornly insist that children get an education" being the other way to look at it.
> Personally I don't care about corperations tracking me because I can generally stop the tracking

While I generally agree with your perspective here, it's worth noting [a] even if one eschews all services of tech giants, one is still tracked in practice through one's social network, such as through photo recognition or sending an email to gmail.com; and [b] the number of people who actually jump through the hoops required to live free of FAANG effectively rounds to zero.

The extreme imbalance of power between corp and netizen may not be as stark as between fed and citizen (the monopoly on force involves deleting accounts and predictive analytics rather than decades in a cage), but it should be concerning all the same.
Everybody has the potential to be 'somebody', but we all need help getting there. Some of my greatest successes as a taxi driver involved helping people with low self-esteem. Two of my passengers, whom I'm still in contact with, come to mind...

One was quiet, and just provided directions. "Right, right, right, left (into a parking lot)..." Oh, we're going to the drive-through liquor store. After she bought her vodka and cigarettes she said to take her back to her apartment.

"Do you have any food in your apartment?" Alcoholics are always malnourished. She did not, so I stopped the taxi meter and detoured to McDonald's. I called her back a few times, and detected a hint of hope in her voice: "someone cares about me". She found my card a few months later, and I learned more about her story. The state had tried to help her with her prescription-exacerbated drinking problem by sending her to minimum-security prison for 2 years (3rd DUI). She'd tried to stay sober upon release, but life happened and she still didn't know how to cope. After her taxi ride, she drunk-called her good friend, who called her youngest son with instructions: "GO SOBER UP YOUR MOTHER." I eventually told her daughter that her mother needed to feel safe to finish her recovery. She lived with that daughter for a while, then moved to a couch at her son's. Now she has a room at her son's house, and is doing quite well for herself.

I got crucified trying to protect another passenger from do-gooders. She's doing well now, no thanks to the professionals who mis-categorized her as a hopeless drug addict. She found that she's good at something, and is developing her skills to help herself and others.

On a submission about the 1% rule I commented: "We're all in our little alcoves of the human experience, trying the best we can to make the most of the situation we find ourselves in. For most of us, no matter how good we are at something, there are probably 100-million other people just as good as you.

"The 1% rule reflects this reality: every snowflake is unique, but individual snowflakes are not special." [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22623162

Most people are not special snowflakes, but we never know which child will turn out to be someone significant, and who will turn out to be just regular someones.

Everyone has the potential to be someone important to someone else. My former-alcoholic passenger (above) calls semi-regularly with updates about her family drama. She is now an asset ("grandma") to her family, rather than the hopeless drunk I took to the liquor store almost 8 years ago. She recently got her drivers license reinstated, contributes by watching her grandkids and (now) driving people around, and is appreciated by her family.

I'm invited to her daughter's Christmas party in a few weeks. They're rather well-to-do, but I didn't know that when I took a few minutes out of my day to pay attention to my nobody-passenger.

Very few of us will turn out to be special snowflakes, but everyone has the capacity to become someone significant to the other people in our lives. I think this is the true essence of what this submission calls the "self-esteem craze".
This is all very suspicious. Funny that all but a few of you are too naive to see it.
These are great — particularly that first link. What a great explainer.
>and how humane death by inert gas is

Just imagine telling that Jesus...as an example.
"‘Believe in yourself and anything is possible’? Nope, it’s just not true."

This is such a great quote. I honestly hate people that spout nonsense like anything is possible if you just believe, and that if you don't, it's that you obviously don't believe enough. It's almost the same as the prosperity gospel nonsense.

And later on in the article, talking about grit, I feel like this is the swing the other way. And now we're getting messages like "nothing is impossible if you work hard enough at it", which also shift the burden back to you. If you fail, it's not the world that's hard or unfair (it naturally is both), but again it's a personal failing on your part for not trying hard enough (or believing you are good enough). Everyday I see blog posts with the same kind of thing about how they have accomplished so much before most people have breakfast. Yet that seems to be mostly writing posts about how to get stuff done.

Obviously many things in life are hard, and you have to believe that you can do them to put the hard effort in believing you can accomplish them. But leaning so hard one way or the other that you will get some magic power is the kind of nonsense people love to buy, and therefore sell.
Yes, as you noticed, this is a "presentation held among peers that all mostly know the answers to the above", from the URL alone you can see that it was a presentation from IETF's 109th meeting (https://www.ietf.org/how/meetings/109/). The link came from the proceedings (https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/109/proceedings), and if you search for this presentation there, you'll see that there's also a video of it.

If you want some context answering your first three questions, the subject is TCP congestion control, and there's a Wikipedia article about it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_congestion_control). I don't know the answers to your last three questions, since I haven't been following the field; this presentation was mostly targetted to those who are following the field.
Not take money from companies that were in violation of California law from their outset (running illegal taxi services), not take jobs with the companies when they left office (several former, high-level Obama people work at Uber, Kamala Harris’ brother-in-law is behind Prop 22’s legal team), pursued anti-monopoly action against Uber for engaging in market dumping. The list goes on and on.

I fail to understand why you see this whole situation as what happened with one law and one proposition and not the culmination of a bunch of corrupt people who have been in bed with each other for some time.
I was thinking recently about how this term had disappeared at some point. It's a very interesting history, but I think some of the conclusions drawn are overly negative.

- They’re all very individualistic, they’re all very self-focused, they’re also all delusional. ‘Believe in yourself and anything is possible’? Nope, it’s just not true.

I could be wrong, but I don't think anyone literally believed that. You're not qualified to be CEO because you love yourself, but you're also unlikely to achieve anything with no confidence. It seems to me that we just talk about taking care of mental health instead now. Similar ideas, just a different angle.
They keep peer IP addresses in their temporary debug logs, as explained in the privacy policy.
I thought there are a lot options for this already (perhaps even any descent back up tool?)

For example, restic with SFTP backend. I thought restic encrypts data client side before SSH transport. Am missing something?

Other tools: duplicacy, rclone, Borg (this might run on server), ... Duplicity does asymmetric and symmetric crypto, but no dedup. So if you change a file path, it “might “ be reencryptped.
It's not a one or the other kind of thing. We should be worried about both.
It would be Freudian if there was some subconscious tendency at play to misread it. But here even though "mating" is sexual, the misread is quite easy and effortless because the word "matting" is an obscure industry term that looks totally like "mating"....
Doesn't seem likely while Apple's market share is 8.5%.
Yes smoke, it's also very disorienting. It can even trap you in a 10 by 10 room.
In addition to the other commenter's "Amazon Day Delivery" option, I often also have another option of "No rush delivery" which usually includes $1-$5 credit for digital items (ebooks, music, movies...) - https://imgur.com/a/XtmOmv3
I know exactly why these things exist: it’s because they serve specific strategic interests that Apple has. They aren’t how the processor is getting great single-core scores on Geekbench.
I believe some of the better hospitals still have small orchestras, chamber ensembles, etc, again as voluntary organizations. There are sometimes fundraising events when these ensembles come together from around a city, in order to put on a concert.

I guess things like high school bands and orchestras can be viewed as vestiges of a time when adults used to do the same sorts of things.

The whole idea of symphonic music -- the level of coordination it requires -- is striking. Music is present in all cultures, but how many cultures form bands of 100+ people?
Edbrowse, a command line editor and web browser
What real wins does knowing that get you if the work can be done on a Mac with Mac OS?

Some sort of bragging rights stored in a web forums logical DB on a physical disk which will be tossed when it goes offline?
It's a daunting task to get a new GPU architecture in the Linux kernel that's likely as complicated as AMD's. The AMD driver takes up a sizeable chunk of the Linux kernel [1], although that figure includes lots of autogenerated files and a lot of different product generations. Certainly a top notch high performance driver is a very daunting task without documentation, although I expect a driver that is more in the ballpark of the nouveau driver is in the realm of possibility in the long term.

I can't help but smile at the prospect that Torvalds' pessimism here - while warranted - creates an incentive to prove something to both Torvalds and Apple...

[1]: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5....
Some people also use online photo editors for their photos. But from what we could gather, even privacy-oriented people can be quite silly, for example recently they just uploaded a photo of their face (to some random, untrustworthy server(s)) to get another, "anonymized" face back. See the problem with that? :D

I brought it up to their attention, hopefully for the better.
The real problem is not having first party solution to use our damn phones as webcams across PCs/Macs natively, without resorting to flaking IP cam software or virtual loopback devices which are laggy if they work.
A demonstration of how much can happen with a fire in 30 seconds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsaLCdC3iWw
> Or is there some workaround?

Synthetic diamonds, heatspreaders in the package