skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stan supports optimization (L-BFGS) to find (penalized) maximum likelihood or MAP estimates where they exist. Bayesian estimates are typically posterior means, which involve MCMC rather than optimization, and the result is usually far away from the maximum likelihood estimate in high dimensions. I wrote a case study with some simple examples here: https://mc-stan.org/users/documentation/case-studies/curse-d...

Adding new parameters scales as O(N^5/4) in HMC, whereas it scales as O(N^2) in Metropolis or Gibbs. It's quadrature that scales exponentially in dimension. There's also a constant factor for posterior correlation, which can get nasty. I regularly fit regressions for epidemiology or genomics or education with 10s or even 100s of thousands of parameters on my notebook with one core and no GPU.

MCMC or optimization can be sub-linear or super-linear in the data, depending on the statistical properties of the posterior. Some non-parametric models like Gaussian processes can be cubic in the data size, whereas regressions are often sub-linear (doubling the data doesn't double computation time) because posteriors are better behaved (more normal in the Gaussian sense) when there's more data and hence easier to explore in fewer log density and gradient evaluations.
Apple can monetise user data by keeping it private and offering privacy as a feature to drive hardware sales/margins.

I don't know for sure if this is their business model. I think it is, and it makes sense as a strategy.
EDIT. Here's a useful radio programme that goes through what happened: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jf7j

Bob works as a postmaster running a small local post office. Bob must use software provided to him by The Post Office. That software is faulty. One of the errors is that it reports more money present in Bob's office than there actually is. Bob contacts his superiors who tell him that no-one else is having a problem (this is a lie, other people are having the same problem and they know this) and that the software is correct. They give Bob a choice: supply the missing funds or deal with the police. Bob is acting in good faith and he assumes this is a simple mistake that'll get sorted out, so he supplies the missing money from his own funds, and keeps telling his superiors to fix it. Eventually, Bob runs out of money (or, maybe, he says "get the police involved".) So, the police arrest Bob (because we have a low threshold for arrest over here) and interview Bob under caution. Police are told by Post Office that the software is reliable, and that Bob is lying. Police aggressively question Bob. It goes to court. Bob is convicted.

Because this is what happened to hundreds of people.

What's Bob supposed to do? Ask the Post Office to supply the source code so he can have a look for bugs?
> Steeping minutes: Green at 3

I just leave the bag in. Anything wrong with that?
grep is now an evil code cracking tool.
> First of all, article is incorrect: for a long time now YT optimizes recommendations not for watch time, but for life-time engagement. YT probably has the most advanced QT ML in the world.

Lifetime engagement is a function of watch time, right?
One of the few that doesn't give me fits when I run remote vnc sessions (independent of main "desktop" session)
Careful with sizes=“any” on the SVG favicon. I found a few months ago that it caused Chrome to select a known size PNG favicon over the smaller SVG (with dark mode support).
There's some interesting bits on the low-level work for using io_uring with the Ringbahn crate - https://boats.gitlab.io/blog/post/ringbahn/
There's not Desktop version for this though, right?
This comment is the only one I've read about Notion that I've agreed with. Maybe it's because it was over hyped and other people didn't already have a system in place to compare to or something?

I really tried to like Notion but I found it just slowed me down -- as in actually delayed what I was doing with lag and silly things like trying to be clever as you say, not just the learning curve

I'm now trying out Obsidian(1) with a plain old directory of md files, but YMMV I never needed the table/db stuff so I dunno if Obsidian has that sort of thing or an equivalent. The directory is mounted from my NAS using its Tailscale(2) IP so it's in theory accessible everywhere, but of course I've not been able to test that much this year

(1) https://obsidian.md/

(2) https://tailscale.com/

e: I should note I use this for bigger notes. I use blank business cards and a pen to catch ideas, so obsidian's current lack of mobile apps wasn't an issue
Homework are great if you:

Are extremely prestigious or have compensation clearly above market rates.

Candidates only have so much time to dedicate to homework so they will sort companies and work on homework assignments from top to bottom.

Homework are easy to grade (some of that can be automated!) and low commitment from the employer side. But that low commitment sends a signal that the candidate isn't really valued.

Having an on-site with engineers sends a much better signal as it tells the candidate he's worthy of discussing with a real engineer on company time rather than some gradings software.

Of course, if your recruiting pipeline is very poor (low signal to noise ratio, majority of applicants can't code) then sure, weed out with a homework assignment.
Full paper: https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-03051-...
10 min walkthrough/registration process versus a <1 min registration. Think whatever of it but people appreciate convenience over everything.
This is disappointing and sad. The more people who do this, the more difficult it becomes for those who don't.

You can't download even free apps from the App Store without providing an email address, phone number, and street address (to get an Apple ID). The App Store app also sends the mac's hardware serial number to Apple when you launch it, associating it with your identity in the logs. The email and phone required are verified so you can't just make some shit up.

This means that to get any apps from the App Store, even free ones, you must be thoroughly de-anonymized.

Not caring about privacy because you have nothing to hide is like not caring about free speech because you have nothing to say.

Developers should reject the App Store on customer privacy grounds alone. When this becomes the sole method of distributing apps on the mac, as it is on iOS, the world becomes a much worse place, as then the US government had permanent access without a warrant to every app you use.

Please don't contribute to building that world.
I was thinking about this as well. When you are small, it’s definitely a lifesaver. When you get big, then you have to figure it out.

But when you are small, you have enough problems to solve to bring a quality product to market, this is one headache you can happily avoid.
Re your points:

- (1) They are working on this, but it serves to limit spam, and it is easily comprehensible by the non technical.

- (2) You don't have to give it access, it works either way. If does its best to only use this for finding which of your contacts use Signal, rather than uploading the full address book.

- (3) client side crypto is supplied by the server, which fundamentally is a big problem for a system like Signal. Until web crypto is not a dumpster fire you can't do better. (I personally think allowing the Electron app is a huge mistake but it's their call.)
(Disclaimer: I work on Notion)

To me, the most interesting feedback here is that seamless-editable-by-default is a negative for this user, and as a work-around, this organization locks/unlocks every page. This is surprising to me because I find content locks and editing friction very annoying. For example I used Quip for many years, which locks any block currently being edited by someone else, which can be quite frustrating when someone happens to have an idling cursor in a random position. Likewise, wouldn’t you be baffled if you needed to click a “Start Editing” button in Word or Google Docs? But it’s an interesting perspective to consider especially for users coming from Confluence, where editing has much more ceremony, and more generally for read-heavy wiki use case. In any case, it’s really the accidental edits at the root of the problem.

Like many other commenters, my biggest pain point is page load speed.
Yeap, size=any works for the case when you do not have other PNG images as I recommend
> a lot of the DEI initiatives are pure PR.

Of course.

> Additionally you cannot deduce whether an entire institution is "institutionally" X or not X just because one individual behaved one way or the other.

That's not required here. Even if the diversity push is pure PR, it's still coordinated company-wide and reflected in all their messaging. Even if it is pure PR, they still stand to gain from supporting it.

> The fact that Jeff Dean hired Gebru doesn't tell you anything.

It tells you quite a lot. Google is willing to hire ethicists, blacks, and women. They're willing to let them publish many papers, and go to many conventions representing Google.

> Actual statistical measures, such as retention rates, percentage of work force, percentage of leadership etc. need to be consulted

No, that's only to disprove the literal conspiracy theory that Google is secretly racist and is hiring black people as part of a white-supremacy program. There'd need to be something to make that likely before it's even worth investigating.

As long as the most likely theory is a disgruntled employee... Did you read her papers?
A lot of Fitbits also track heartrate data. Any word on whether they track blood oxygen levels?

Some of them also track activity type data, so whether you're claiming to exercise at certain times of the day, along with how long and what kind.

That would be very interesting to insurance companies.
Don't forget a snappy and memorable name (suggestions: Lock0ut, KeyMast3r, Tumbld) and the requisite domain name to accompany it.
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> I shouldn't have to tell an app "Ignore this one-off piece of content I reached through an external link that is different from all the other content I've enjoyed and especially different than what I've searched.

Do you _really_ think they wouldn't've already implemented it already if it were possible in a reasonable way?
It is just HTML with CSS. I wrote a php generator that pics up src.php in each folders, adds header and a footer, and write back index.html. Nothing more.
They (at least it's me) are possibly meaning the excellent multi-device use. I can easilly use Telegram on like 10 different devices, all chats are in sync.
>> "[It] can start from nothing, and just through trial and error both discover the rules of the world

Unless they've changed a lot of things since the original paper, this is a bit exaggerated.

MuZero learns what moves are allowed in a given position/situation, but it still needs to know a finite overall set of possible actions.

E.g. for chess, it isn't told which fourty moves a available at each point in its search tree, but it still knows to only consider 64x64 discrete options.
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You can customize it quite a bit and unlike with gnome, it won't suddenly break every few months.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTF9Nmt3iXY
It's interesting to compare with QNAP, a competitor of Synology, that does not use Btrfs (they stick to ext4 with mdadm) and they explained why: https://www.qnap.com/solution/qnap-ext4/en/

However, I am really not sure if the facts they provide are still relevant today. Like always with commercial documents, that must be taken with a grain of salt.
Never seen a consumer motherboard with 40Gb Ethernet. Even 10Gb is rare.

One criticism of Thunderbolt is that it already requires a fairly expensive separate controller on the motherboard except for a few Intel chips with built-in TB controllers.

Sending that much data that fast is going to cost more somehow or another.
Not op, bit I have a Kindle papetwhite bought in 2014.

Absolutely fantastic, though I have a few bright spots because I am very blasé about just throwing it in my bag, so I'd probably think about getting a flip cover for my next one.

The only annoyance is the mobi format restriction, but it's quite easy to convert epub in calibre and then you can just email it to your kindle. Having the app on my phone too means I can continue a book in a queue/taxi/bus if I've not the kindle with me.

It's not worth getting the one with internet connection if they still have that, the rare cases I want to buy a book on the go, I just make a hotspot with my phone.

Basically my favourite bit of tech.
I really hope you close the loop on this and put emojis in your comments and error messages. No joke.
Ah, good to know, thanks!
I might be inclined to believe you if they weren't, at the same time, pocketing around $8-12 BILLION a year[1] to keep Google as the default search engine. They are privacy-centric when it serves them in the public eye (FB currently has shit reputation) on one hand but will happily accept cash to keep the stock price up in the other hand.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2020/10/22/926290942/google-paid-apple-b...
I mostly agree with you except I find it’s easy to steer the recommendation algorithm which is part of why I like it. Sometimes I go on a political/toxic YouTube binge for an evening or two but feel I am able to steer my front page back to more constructive content pretty easily.
I don't think it's rational unless and until you or people who are knowledgable in all other topics covered, can assert that the other parts all check out.

If you can only check one thing and it's wrong, then it is entirely and clearly irrational to assume that everything else is correct.

It's not fully defensible to assume that it's 100% wrong either. Just by plain statistics you may assume almost anything must have some correct portion.

What's rational is to make as few assumptions as possible, and where guessing or informed guessing is necessary, use only the information you actually have. That means back to the beginning, if you can only evaluate one part, and it has a many errors, then that is the only thing you can use to make any assumptions about the rest, unless and until you get actual credible assertions about the rest from someone else who are themselves credible in that domain.
>Its Opeth with growling.

So... Opeth before Heritage? lol
I found the original setup requiring a phone number off putting as well. However, I'm not sure how much it is used. In my case, I had a phone number that was used to set up signal. It was my number at the time. I now have a new number, yet there is no within Signal to update that number. It still shows the old number in my settings. ???? Signal still works just fine for me and all of my contacts
On a new MBP M1 w16GB RAM it is really snappy.

For a mere thousands of dollars you can join the fun.

I imagine by M2 though this golden year will be far gone as everyone increases even more how much resources their apps eat.
You can search in gnome-terminal and konsole as well. It's a fairly common feature.
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Actually I'd bet on the opposite: They don't think it makes sense to ignore it. They want to process this data, and they're confident in the weight it's assigned to it.
This is interesting do you have more details you could share or point to a link?
Power over Ethernet is not too far from 100W. Maybe around 70, if I can recall correctly. So the power isn’t the biggest factor I think
Out of curiosity, do you buy software from small devs at all? It seems like, whatever the privacy/security implications may be when buying via Apple, they're worse when dealing with a totally unknown party.
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>You are 14% basic. Have you considered there's a reason nobody listens to Headache Migrane Relief?.<

I envy those people
Any proof for that platitude?
Issues like these, the massive hack of US government, etc.

Taken together these things feel like the death knell of Wintel.
I agree the article is confusing wrt state.

Basic Auth is stateless on the client side but not on the server side.

Token auth is stateless on server side; it does not need to store any more public/private key pairs as the number of authenticating users increases. It can just use one. So authenticating users does not affect state
It’s been common parlance in the UK for at least a decade
You're right, I stand corrected on the parsing bit I mentioned, which to be honest is a nuance I had not heard of. But it doesn't change my point much. Using script tags without `defer` will still delay the page load. They might not block parsing, but they will still block rendering. Both matter when it comes to seeing anything on your screen at all.
There are fives of lattes per month to be made in this market, it's blowing up! ;)
I think I misled you. I meant for the toy project idea to be an on-site, swap out replacement for a typical white board session. The time commitment should remain unchanged. Maybe I should edit the original comment. Sorry!
When the scheduled message goes through, does that change your slack status to "active"? I wonder if people would think it was weird to see me looking like I was sending messages while offline.
Being aware and rational?
I think it was an above-average FPS but not a Syndicate game.
Basic Authentication is a pain with a web app sitting behind Apache as it strips all "sensitive" headers before passing along the request to the web app.
But you would never want to do something like that if you were looking for evidence you might want to present at a trial.
I don't think TLS cares why the certificate is trusted, validating certificates is higher on the stack, and you've probably seen the browser UX for accepting an invalid certificate. I know I've added a non-CA cert to my trusted list (on Windows) and gotten the result you are describing.
Fun fact: the modern NetworkExtension signed Apple entitlements that are required to be a VPN app on the macOS are app-store-only. (There is one root-based workaround to make VPNs work on macOS without these entitlements, for now, which will likely be removed in the near future.)

This is why you can download a wireguard installer from wireguard.org for Windows, but have to provide your identity (name, phone, email, address) and device hardware serial number to Apple to get the Wireguard app on that platform.

Show ID for privacy software.
Sweet! Give me a shout if you run into issues. :)
It happened, therefore it happened somehow, someplace. What’s the difference between something having happened and not having happened? It doesn’t intrinsically mean anything.

In addition, most humans learn to accept that there’s a good chance nothing they do will have an eternal effect on reality without needing any strange frameworks.
I think I understand the concept. But if you trip an assertion like in the example code, that means there was a bug prior to the function call... (and the program would crash with a dump and stack). I however see no point in unit testing that function (unless its more complicated then the example code)
Agree 100%. I've decided to just reject any company that requires a homework assignment unless it's a FAANG or nearly FAANG level of prestige and/or comp. Otherwise, it really is a waste of time when there are many, many, companies that do not require homework.
I'm also here with you. I don't get the issue. I know some fonts are more easily readable than others. I can understand the argument that maybe some fonts cause more strain than others. But there are other commenters who are saying that this font type is evoking emotions from them, particularly negative emotional ones. I don't get it.
To sell ads?
Ergodox EZ is the best keyboard I ever came across. I highly recommend it.

The Magic Track pad has been fully reverse engineered and works on Mac, Windows, and Linux. Also highly recommended.
It's within a category. I mean I don't get recommended music videos when I'm watching an episodic video podcast, nor vice versa. But within those categories I get heavily pointed at the most popular for the category. I hypothesize it's similar for conspiracy content.
Many agree. There was an article discussed in 2016, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11895440, and again in 2018,
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18353874.
It did, but as far as I know it's effective on fresh installs only. It would be too risky to migrate automatically to Btrfs from ext4 during the 32->33 upgrade. I suspect a lot of users upgraded to 33 from 32 without seeing any problem with sticking with ext4 (including me). As a result, a lot of users are still using ext4.
The Nim `with` macro by @zevv doesn't modify functions or methods (that'd require explicit handling in the macro to do so and would be a nightmare to do correctly). Which means that example from D is not applicable to the Nim version at all.

My preference is Nim over D primarily since Nim compiles to C, but also overall the community appreciates syntax sugar but also has a decent sense as to when and how to use it. Most "sugar" in Nim needs to be explicitly imported. Literally `import sugar` is one of my first lines in many files.

let v = &mut some_annoyingly.long.thing();
v.foo = bar;
v.baz();

In the example you list (is that Rust, or D?), if it was in C or Nim and those were structs-within-structs and not pointers/refs then `.thing` would be copied to a new `v` (if I recall the semantics correctly). So you'd end up with a weird "logic" bug where updates would disappear. The Nim `with` macro solves that by modifying the generated code,
Everyone has their own experience, but I drive Notion entirely by keyboard - and I have a touchbar mac (with caps lock rebound to esc). Their search is also really good, so I never really find myself clicking around.

For all the small UX bits that aren’t 100%, there are a dozen other apps that can’t even get pictures, text, equations, and hierarchy right. Google Drive, org mode, or Roam are complete paradigm shifts away from an extremely consistent text editor that can embed anything. For every little quirk with icons, I’m reminded that while Notion might not be perfect, it’s still leagues beyond anything else in the space. And it shouldn’t even be hard.
I completely agree with your direction, having Apple take the responsibility to safeguard user data makes things much easier.

For better or worse Apple can do no wrong and the eyes of its customers, so even if they did somehow get hacked, you wouldn't have hundreds of angry emails headed your way.

I personally really do love the walled garden of owning a Mac, when I'm working on a song or music video, I just want it to work using final cut and logic. If I really feel like compiling the Linux kernel from scratch, I have a PC for that
he posted a goodbye issue on a smol repo, but since then deleted it, so maybe he changed his mind
I would make some seed investments/form a cult then travel far into the future and attempt to leverage my investments and future technology to achieve immortality and live the life of a god king.

If I can alter history I guess I'd just do this in the past and start living the god king life right now.

If this seems too boring I'd go 5 billion years forward so I can watch our galaxy collide with Andromeda, but the immortality path is probably a better way to accomplish this since the Earth may not be around still.
All the times I've read along people bashing some 'asshole' who insisted on Comic Sans for everything, now I'm wondering how often the 'asshole' had dyslexia and the other people were the real assholes...
Yep. Bartender, DaisyDisk, NoCrash for my MBP, and a few others.
Yeah I’ve had that experience too. It’s easy to see how YouTube perhaps almost single handedly caused an explosion of fascism among passive media consumers. You hit one of those videos and it rabbit holes you.