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> The professionals signing off on this really should think carefully whether they are being used for political purposes.

The professionals signing off are doctors, investigating repeated claims from a wide range of sources. Frankly, your baseless speculation under a throwaway account is telling.
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> Socialist Dianne Vaughn

Sociologist is probably the word you wanted here, sociology is a science about how societies work, how people work together, stuff like that.

It's certainly possible Dianne is also a socialist although because she's an American it's also likely she does not like that word even if it would be an appropriate label, as Dianne's sociology and educational background might give her good reason to believe that socialist policies are a good idea. But even if so it's not why she's important in this context.
This is also notable because in EU GDPR, under 16s/under 13s can't consent to corporations handling their data (can't open a regular Google account)

An educational purpose gives corporations a "legitimate interest"-type argument for collecting whatever data they want, anyway.
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Don't be obtuse, it's quite obvious why a restaurant would close right now. You're really grasping at straws if you're trying to say that they've closed for any other reason.
FAANGs definitely use it. They need lots and lots of candidates to fill the roles they have since their hiring process is long and selective. They all have an army of recruiters to do so and those recruiters use every possible avenue to find people.
I highly recommend Judea Pearl's book: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causality_(book) it really is a fascinating read.
I think the federal government and the corporate news media have a lot of credibility issues when it comes to Cuba.
Has that ever happened to you? Would love to read about that story and hopefully the solution...
If they really needed money, they would put some ads. They claim Wikipedia must be independent and that's why there are banner free. But for me it does not make sense, I am sure you can have business relation without compromising values.
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Diem/Libra seems like a convoluted scheme for Facebook to be able to globally repatriate money at will. Sure they would have to manage to grow it to a certain scale first, but by controlling the whole wooden nickel factory it wouldn't be hard nor detectable for them to do.
You realise it's possible to write a decent UI in Qt that isn't a dumpster fire from the codebase perspective right?

I know the fad these days is to turn everything into a web app but my experience working with Qt really just demonstrated to me that a lot of web UI development is reinventing wheels from desktop UI but poorly and with more bugs and frustration.

That's just my perspective though :-)
No, they require a full pass over the support vectors, which are potentially a much smaller set. (That’s part of why everyone was so excited about SVMs when they were invented) The support vectors are the training values with nonzero hinge loss, or alternatively, training values sufficiently close to the decision boundary.
Absolutely. Like so many things, Private Eye is ahead of the curve in its reporting. Another podcast worth a mention is James O'Brien's recent Full Disclosure interview with Grenfell survivor Edward Daffern. Horrifying to hear how the residents were treated before, during and after the tragedy, and how predictable the whole thing was.
Oh, bummer. Thanks for the response.
There is the caveat that generated machine code can embed addresses of objects that get relocated by the GC. In this case the code needs to be patched even though the code itself doesn't move.
You only need the "Support Vectors" to make predictions, not the whole dataset.
> Do you make a post looking for a job while you're still working at another company? Wouldn't this raise red flags at your existing workplace?

I’m not OP, but as I read it OP just makes a post saying e.g. “my experience with #cryptocurrency and #blockchain combined with #ai on #iot devices has taught me...” etc.

In other words, not a text that says “I’m looking for a job”, but just something that reveals areas of expertise.
would this code work for programming microbit?
Medium article is on fire xD
The government decided to let the construction companies self-certify (yes, really) the safety of their own work! (To "cut red tape").
I balance the two by reading longform articles that convey a single idea well, rather than books that take too long to read and clickbait articles that provide instant-gratification but nothing of lasting value. (I highly recommend the Thinking About Things newsletter [0] and LongReads [1] for finding these kinds of articles.)

[0] https://twitter.com/ThinkingAboutT6

[1] https://longreads.com/
Some "type 2" effects are also positive. For example, getting one's life organised, gaining skills, etc etc.
You know that was basically the police jumping on one witness who turned out to be a fantasist? this is similar to the whole q annon fantasy about piza parlors and child sex rings in the US

MP's have gone to prison for 4/5 years for stuff (the cash for questions case) that would be considered normal practice in the US
neural nets at the same time require multiple passes through the data (epochs).
if we can train a model in one epoch jnstead of 10000 epochs thats a breakthrough!
It functions like diamonds, real estate and some other commodities used to... medium of exchange for illegal transactions.

It’s pretty obvious — the price spikes with the rise of certain internet grifts and wanes as they settle down.
One thing that troubles me while reading this essay is so much focus on being billionaire as the goal to carry out the building activities. A huge problem with this is too many hackers now building in order to exploit human weakness of getting continuous dopamine hits. There are good examples of building utilities like AirBnB and Dropbox but then there is TikTok, Kik and other monsters.
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Maybe it is typical with 2.5% in the UK but here in Sweden the typical is 0.5% so I feel like you are being robbed.
"Governments are corporations, my friend" - Mitt Romney, probably.

More and more it seems like the line between government and corporation is blurring; it was probably always thus, and I don't have any strong evidence to say it's getting blurrier, but that's how it seems.
The “organized professional” tone reminds me of patio11’s post on dealing with banks and credit reporting agencies when disputing: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2017/09/09/identity-theft-credit-r...

He also invoked the “professional” archetype.

> “Angry people demand; professionals ‘require.’”
Yeah but this space/topic is FULL of people enumerating problems. The parent comment isn't saying that enumerating problems isn't useful, they are pointing out the lack of any actionable next steps being provided is the problem.
It looks like Azure has now integrated Citus into it's Postgres offering, but Im curious why AWS hasn't integrated either Vitess or Citus at all?

It seems like a well executed combination of Vitess/Citus + read replicas pointing to decoupled page storage would result in a fully featured non-proprietary database that scales all the way down to your laptop and all the way up to the heaviest OLTP use cases. If that existed, only truly masochistic people would continue using things like DynamoDB.
Thank you. This is the article I remember.

And yes, I have been fooled.
This is a lesson to only cite (and even remember) carefully read articles!
You are arguing that the choices the web offers result in bubbles because some people choose to stick with particular types of content after discovering it through links. The web however offers just as many ways out of bubbles and there is no better remedy than this freedom. Your relative would not have been saved by a "nanny web" strictly policed by authorities, he would have stayed in a social bubble of personal relationships where the information choices available on the web are inaccessible. It's how extremism thrived before social media.
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He changed ID to instead receive events from keyboard, which presumably doesn't generate cyclic events. (but only on keypresses)
Lots in my local town there was a new development where a lot of flats and a new hotel have had to have cladding replaced.
How is there still so much of ignorance over cryptocurrency this far along after its inception?

Just because you buy and sell gold with major currencies doesn't mean gold is regulated. Crypto isn't much different. If you can get it anonymously, you can move it anywhere you want as long as you stay on the blockchain. Once you leave the blockchain, you aren't dealing with crypto anymore. Once you sell gold you aren't dealing with gold anymore.

I don't know about Diem in particular, but a state or corporate issued currency is not a general indictment of cryptocurrency.
According to Civil Defense documents, construction post-1945 was considered to be more vulnerable to the thermal and shock effects of nuclear weapons than pre-1945 construction.

Plastic materials were a villain. A black polyurethane couch could catch the rays of a H-Bomb fireball 100 kilometers array and within 15 seconds create a fireball in the room. Details like that create a lot of uncertainty about causalities.

Closer to home your Fire Marshall could demonstrate for you why you should not smoke in bed or what happens to a car when you light the passenger seat with a Zippo.

Common natural materials have safety properties against fire. For instance, if I got too close to a fire, a wool sweater would form a char, "ablating" like the Apollo spacecraft heat shield. An acrylic sweater would melt and probably transfer more heat to my skin and make it more likely that I get burned, if it doesn't ignite itself.
So a "neural network" is actually a type of parameterized mathematical function that can be fit to any curve including higher dimensional surfaces, etc.?
Frankly, I'm not sure how this is customer service so much as either:

- A promised warranty being fulfilled

- A battle of attrition until Macy's gave in

I'm sure there are more nuanced options also but I'm not going to take the time to guess each one as frankly I'm just not quite sure what the definition of Customer Service should be from this post. Should we focus on "The device was used to its limits and still replaced"? That Macy's actually honored a guarantee?

I have a very dour view on customer service since my particular line of work is B2B with IT professionals and it's rarely a pleasant experience with many regions, with the US (yes, nationally) and the UK (yes, basically all of it) being some of the most challenging customers to deal with simply because of their expectations and definitions of Customer Service.

The majority of the time they're not even aware of the terms of their support contract and constantly are pushing the boundaries of support or from the get-go are just far beyond anything that should be reasonably expected, and the amount of complaining and legal threats really takes an emotional toll on my team (since a lot of them do really want to help).

With the EU clients, the same boundary pushing happens, but I find there's usually much more of an honesty about it. Usually one of three things comes from our EU clients:

- The client openly admits they know we don't provide support for said thing, but they really have no other source for help

- The client honestly tells they had no idea we didn't provide support for such things, and humbly asks if there's anything we can offer to help out

- The client honestly had no idea we didn't provide support for such things, and closes out the case of their own volition

I'm not sure that I can say which result has the best "customer experience" for my clients, as in each case they don't get what they expected from the case they open. US/UK clients tend to add a 4th option:

- The client doesn't care what is/is not supported, they want a resolution

I can easily say which of the 4 outcomes is the most time consuming and emotionally draining for everyone involved.

I think that the idea of service is really misunderstood; service workers are not slaves, and while management __should__ work to make them do their job and honor the business' obligations, management also needs to help clearly define the boundaries of such obligations and explain how to gracefully deescalate situations that toe or exceed these boundaries.
Which is very different than the press stories stating that it was "likely caused by directed microwaves." I guess "Havana syndrome report has no clue what happened" isn't as catchy.
It just seems to be conflating so many things: personal racism against her (which I see no evidence of) and institutional racism (which is some of what she researches but then her and his race are irrelevant). That plus sexism. Plus academic freedom and employee-employer relations and PR.

In the end, it's a mess of nothings, rather and 1 solid something imho...
I wonder if embassies now have equipment to monitor for this type of thing. It seems like it should be easy to detect.
Nice catch -- i fixed it.
It's important to realize even if there was specific malfeasance in the companies involved in this particular event the problems are systemic.

We are part of an economic system that values profits for a small number of people above safety or quality.

While it's important to punish those who behave unethically a better response would be to change the system so that ethical behavior and the pursuits of safety and quality are valued above the pursuit of wealth.
Given your description, it seems that any software writing a docx file could do just that without breaking compatibility.
The recurring tragedy of UI toolkits...

The fact we have a near-universal UI language (HTML/CSS) and a basic scripting language (JS) that we can't use as an intermediate language for compilation to native UI is a tragedy. And I'm not talking about every nook and corner of JS and HTML and CSS.

It's even more ridiculous that MS didn't use their HTML5 + JS framework they made for Windows 8/10. But the Office team is almost completely independent from Windows politically since they make so much money.
It does not help to "prove" an assertion by making further unsubstantiated assertions.

Why is Lisp the "best programming language"? How can we recognize a programming language as the "best" one at all? Why do "we need even more sophisticated" extensive advocacy pieces? What "better infrastructure" is required for what purpose?
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Yep, if you need to get shit done in time without a need to pad your CV with fancy tech, it's really hard to go wrong with Java or C#.

You'll be done in time and on budget. You'll also be a bit bored, but you can go rock climbing or something during the time you saved by using tried and true, boring, tech. =)
Ask HN: Who's using a third party company for tech screens? Is so, why?
I'm a Principal engineer at a FAANG company and been thinking about changing jobs. By all quantitative means, I am a good engineer, I have been promoted multiple times, had good feedback, and led several well-known successful projects for my employer. I don't interview well, it's nerves, in non-interview settings, I crush these problems, however once the timer is going and someone is watching, I panic, it's a character flaw.

I was recently cold-called on Linkedin and decided to give it a shot, since it was with a relatively large internet company. I was flippant and didn't do a lot of preparation. The company was using Karat.io to perform tech screens. I totally flubbed the tech screen, I've done over 350 interviews at my current employer and I've seen lots of folks melt down, it was heinous.

Normally, I could care less, I got good data points for myself out of the interview and I had already decided I didn't want the job, that's not why I continued. However, after performing badly, it hit me that I have potentially cut myself off from not only this job but employment at any future customer of karat.io.

I reached out to Karat and they assured me data is only shared with the target company and for the specific position. The disheartening part is that there is no limit on the amount of time they keep the data. All it takes is poor company performance, coupled with desperation, and suddenly in the future they could offer a "pre-screen" service, where they screen candidates for you based on their past interview performance. I am at the behest of the scruples of all future executives of karat.io.

I have decided to refuse interviews with companies using a 3rd party screener on principle. I wonder, companies that are using these, why are you outsourcing potentially one of your most critical functions? If engineers do not conduct interviews, you will not build that expertise as an organization. Engineers at these companies, do you feel good with this practice?
I don't think it's a question of "boring" or "proven" vs "latest" or "newer". It's not even an 80/20 split between "use proven technology" and "explore new tools".

What it all comes down to at the end of the day is "quality".

You need to have an eye for quality, you need to be able to recognize good design decisions when you see them, appreciate their worth and weigh their potential. You need to be able to make up your mind for yourself.

If you can spot quality in a language, framework (assuming you even need one) or database, then "boring" or "proven" become meaningless phrases.

Quality transcends age and hype.

When you can spot quality far off, you can paddle out to the swell, be there as it breaks, and enjoy a long quality ride that's not cut short because of irrelevance. You won't need to see thousands of surfers on a wave to know it's a quality break.

With technology, the earlier you can spot quality, the sooner you can start riding the wave and benefitting from everything that comes with that (long term experience with that technology, deep understanding, the opportunity to shape or introduce key design decisions at a critical stage, learning from new ideas that can compound earlier into your own output, new connections and marketing opportunities). That's how it always works. There's no point catching a wave because everyone else is riding it. By then, you probably need to be paddling out for the next big swell.

To be clear, this is more than "skating to where you think the puck will be". This is looking for quality and having an eye for it, and being sure of it when you find it.
This is exactly like the argument that electric cars aren't actually any better because grid electricity is not currently very green in most parts of the world. The response of course being that as the grid gets greener (which it does every year), your car becomes greener also. If you have a gasoline car, it will be just as dirty in 20 years as it is today.

Same thing with crypto. Yes, currently a lot of people buy and sell crypto with government-backed currency. However, the whole point is to have currency that you can use in place of normal currency. Currency that you are paid in, that you shop in, that you pay your bills in, that you pay back your friends with. At the start, there is a lot of fiat <-> crypto. But the goal is to make it so that people can use crypto for everything, and therefore never need to sell it for any major currency.

If you use crypto, every year you will need to "drop out" into fiat less and less. Just like every year your electric car gets greener.

Ironically the analogy extends even better to your parting shot:

> this stuff is just cumbersome currency that roasts the planet.

Again, short-term thinking. As a purely digital currency, cryptocurrency gets greener every year as the grid gets greener. If you want to save the planet, the first step is to electrify everything. Step 2 is to make your electricity production as green as possible (preferably with nuclear).
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BeOS and Haiku not only used MIME types but they also use the magic number approach to add a MIME type to a file if they only got the raw file.

Also unless I read the docs wrong SmallTalk added MIME types for creator/editor/viewer to a file. So you could find what created a file but could tell the OS to use a different program to edit the file and even still another program to just view the contents.

Please correct me if I am wrong.
> This is meant to be a completely different ecosystem, no? An ecosystem not controlled with the US.

There is no such thing as an ecosystem not controlled by the US. You have any ties with the States (and Facebook, clearly, does), you gonna comply with whatever rules they come up with. If you don't believe me, ask Huawei's top manager. Or lots of other people like him.
It's not surprising, since biology tends to reuse existing mechanisms and molecules for lots of different purposes; a result of the fact that we were created through a messy process called evolution.
It would be interesting to have a feed of domains here, and you could filter not by keyword but other parameters. For example, domains that have been registered for more than 5 years (age).
From a skim, I think one asterisk which may be a gap between the claim in the title and what's actually shown in the paper is that the theorem focuses on gradient descent-trained models which minimize a loss function which is the sum of loss L(y_i, y*_i) on points from a given dataset.
While that's clearly very broad, I think it _doesn't_ include things like GANs, where parts of the model produce fake data to train against.
I mean I literally talked to them about it.
It's only weird if you expect sincerity on a social network, which in 2020 seems naive, especially a network entirely based on fostering professional connections. People are there to build their personal brand and try to get a better job, not talk to their friends.
The Russians definitely were working on this fifty years ago, and it produced symptoms consistent with many independent reports from US agents and people that suffered collateral damage.

The twitter thread’s main objection seems to be that the US is not publishing plans describing the secret Russian weapon.

In other news, the CIA was politically unable to do anything about these attacks for fear of angering Trump. Now that he’s on the way out, it’s not surprising they’re beginning to take action.

It is sickening that the US government was unable to protect its own agents for the last four years because of interference from the White House.
Indeed, the author credits that same post in the third paragraph of the article.
Great piece of advice, thanks - and for the links too.
> Since you're just guessing ("I think"), my guess is if the tower wasn't in the richest neighborhood of London, the council wouldn't give a shit about its insulation and energy savings. And my guess is they added these reasons to make themselves look benevolent instead of saying "We're adding cladding because the tower looks shit otherwise."

Actually, one of the reasons for the beautification is that it was quite close to some expensive real estate.

Oh, actually we're agreeing. I read your comment wrong.
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Isn't Bitcoin structured so that all transactions are recorded for everyone to see in the ledger? Doesn't that make surveillance easier?