skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Issues with source code access aside, your description is mostly wrong. These programs take a DNA profile as input- it's just that the DNA profile is mixed (i.e. from multiple people). It reporting no DNA would be nonsensical. Figuring out exactly how many people are in a mixture isn't quite nailed down statistically (last I knew of), but it's usually pretty clear for up to 4 or so people.

Yes, you could run different models and get different probabilities. For example, the likelihood that the sample is a mixture of the suspect, the victim, and some unknown person vs victim and two unknown people compared to saying the victim isn't in the sample. However, the specification of those models is part of the trial process.

And the output probabilities (at least when being used to determine guilt) are usually quite high, orders of magnitude higher than 90% or even 99.99%.

My point is that the science behind these calculations is well developed- validation studies get published all the time. Whether or not the specific software has errors (or isn't coded exactly as modeled) is an entirely different matter, but it still isn't all that likely. All of these cases rely on expert witnesses anyway- it's not the prosecutor pressing some buttons and printing a report.

There is far more concerning quackery that gets used in forensics- bite marks, hair matching, etc.
I tried Mailgun about 5 years ago. I had a short term, low-volume need, but found that their free tier servers had poor reputations and I remember that Yahoo in particular would not deliver their email. Maybe that's to be expected: any free email sending service is going to be abused by spammers. But it wasn't a great first impression.
What If We Never Reach Herd Immunity?
Title needs to be appended with (2012).
> Do you think that easy to get running and setup in dev environment valuable for adoption

Yes, it'll make a big difference to adoption. If step one of your setup instructions are "provision a Kafka cluster", then you are going to lose 90% of people right there.

Ideally, your dev install is super simple and has a built-in in-memory queue thing. The key here, is to make it as simple as possible to get started. Once people have tried it out, and become invested in you, then you can say "for production scale, use Kafka instead of FastQ/SimpleQue/Whatever".

They key to that second step, is to have your product abstract the queue functionality it needs, into an interface that it uses to talk to the queue - allowing people to swap out queue backends with a simple configuration change.

So, make it simple to get started - and simple to scale up when you decide to.
> There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.

I honestly don't see what this adds over if statements. You save typing `match ==`? I guess indent block is visually more clear than series of ifs/elifs? That's kinda already solved with pep8 styling of separating logic blocks with newlines.

match response.json()["status"]:
case "500":
raise DeadServer()
case "404":
raise BanServer()

vs

status = response.json()["status"]
if status == "500":
raise DeadServer()
elif status == "404":
raise BanServer()

there's some clarity here but at the same time it's an extra indent layer, soon we'll have:

class Client:
def download(url):
with open_connection() as session:
while True:
response = session.get(url)
match response.json()["status"]:
case "500":
raise BadServer()
case "200":
return response.json()

As much as I love python's indentation this is getting a bit out of hand, isn't it?
Did we run out of things to add to python?
Trump Tweet Archive
I run a logistic robot based system with individual buildings receiving and sending items with chests.

With logic I can connect the input or output inserter to the roboport and only feed items to the chests if the total number of items in the robot network is under a certain amount.

The other big use is cycling power between solar and steam. Plug in the steam power's water pump to an accumulator and set it to turn off when the accumulator capacity is over, say, 50%. This way you won't feed excess power to the network and waste fuel.
> the system sucks

Correct.

What you want requires support in the user agent (web browser) though.
Watching the doc I came away with the impression that part of the reason the conservatorship was granted was because Spears was in the process of making her 'guru', Sam Lufti, her manager and he was seen as a scam artist who was already in the process of sucking money away from her.

I agree that it doesn't provide a good reason to keep this going in perpetuity. Even if it is a legitimate concern I'm not quite sure why it is the state's job to get involved.
How is preventing arson, which is a capital crime, hate speech?
You can also use ASMR podcasts, many of which are ad-free (though ask for donations) and are easier to quietly loop through the night for as long as you need. I found a few that actually read bedtime stories.
GameStop Plummets: Average Investors Lose Their Shirts
Amazon competitor got our belt listing taken down by saying it contains drugs
Well said. Social dynamics would continue as pre Internet if humans naturally understood this extension. It seems profile pics with statuses turned out to be the complexity level sufficient for humans to begin conflating these abstractions with reality

Cases like this illustrate how electronic information is perception tech that has scaled human abilities much further than the printing press did, but with incorrect abstractions that have compounded over time, at the expense of our relationships...

We can’t stop human culture from evolving, but we would do well to measure more of where we’re headed. The best related examples off the top of my head is how debates via democracy were had at some point as we decided how juvenile criminal records work

Related, sonder is significant because it is a rare feeling

https://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/post/23536922667/...
It's really simple. If you want me to use your software, it needs to not be like brushing my teeth with a Dremel. I have things to get done, and while the Open Source movement doesn't owe anyone anything, I'm going to pick the product that isn't going to halt my work to try to figure out what broke again.

With as many open and closed options that exist out there, competition is a thing and Open Source as a whole needs to compete on more than just being "the freedom option"

Stallman's valid points are entirely lost in the ocean-full of software like GNU Image Manipulation Tool that incite frustration from users.
Multiple free options to deploy your web application
> the king hold no legal/political power, not even in a "symbolic" sense.

That's not true. The royal family of Sweden have immunity from prosecution, fines etc.

And not just in theory - there are actual examples of royal family members escaping speeding tickets, investigation into hunting accidents, illegally using the secret service to raid the homes of people suspected of possessing potentially embarrassing photographs etc etc. (see eg https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1326783/How-King-...)

They also enjoy diplomat status while traveling abroad etc etc.
Anyone has a non pay link for the peasants ?
On Hearing and Not Hearing
perhaps its cheaper than paying for 401k/benefits etc
Facebook Hires NATO Press Officer Ben Nimmo as Intelligence Chief
That so many smart and talented people choose to work on AdTech or systems that support AdTech is such a shame. That being said, I love these little anecdotes, they are super fun to read.
I recently tried the newer iOS app and it requested my location in the background somewhere around once per minute when I wasn't using the app. Didn't do anything to investigate— I just deleted the app— but it was sketchy.
They said they are ready to hold an elfstedentocht within 48 hours, if there is any change to the rules though, so it would need both full ice formation and government intervention. Not holding any hopes though.
Interestingly, Jack London saw writing as purely commercial activity. He preferred to buy plots, or "take the idea" (hence lots of plagiarism accusations) to inventing.
Why dashboards and BI tools suck:

1. Much of the context is abstracted away when charts and summaries are crammed into a (usually) single page. This makes it hard for people to interpret quickly and requires a high degree of data literacy

2. Data is presented that fits retrospective summaries, or what I’ve learned to know I need to look at. This usually means the dashboard is not suitable for answering new questions, putting strain on the data model or falling back to custom queries

3. Combining 1 and 2 means that the people who build the dashboards are the ones who end up using them the most. So I find them good for ops teams and similar, but fall short of the coming promise of self-service data exploration yadda yadda.

...Which means the VP still needs a monthly hand-holding meeting to review these “self-service” dashboards (or worse - you screenshot and put it in a PowerPoint)
Here is an example:

NN-512 uses pthreads. It generates a tiny, standalone, highly scalable C99 work-stealing thread pool in every C file. The work items are simply coordinates, similar to the threadIdx/blockIdx coordinates in Nvidia's CUDA. For example, all the structs and functions starting with "Example32Threader" in this file:

https://nn-512.com/example/32#3

The implementation ends at Example32ThreaderDo1

The key is to avoid writing to shared cache lines whenever possible, and to keep a bitmap in the central struct (the "hub") that avoids rediscovery of the fact that a thread has no remaining work to be stolen (thereby avoiding a "thundering herd" type problem: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thundering_herd_problem)

Another key is to never take any short-cuts in synchronization. Rather than doing something subtle/clever to avoid mutexes (etc.), instead make sure the units of work are big enough so that synchronization costs are negligible with respect to the overall computation
The joys of inheriting codebases is that you learn all sorts of edge cases.

Apache used to silently drop http headers with underscores in them because they state incorrectly that it is against spec, which Nginx then decided to copy in the name of "security" although it was just a flag so could be ignored if you aren't doing CGI scripting.

AWS silently added this to load balancers in 2019 until there was a backlash and they restored functionality, and then tried again to add this to API Gateways in early 2020 until, again, people complained.

HA Proxy doesn't, never did and likely never will because underscores are valid.

https://serverfault.com/questions/855720/how-to-prevent-hapr...
It's definitely plausible that the historic URLs which caused this are vulnerable to just being opened automatically by a machine (such as a "virus scanner"). The right fix here is that the URL leads to a simple POST form where you confirm you want the certificate issued. Tools like virus scanners don't fill out forms.

We know that by the time the Ten Blessed Methods were coming into existence CAs were discovering that they had numerous cases where an order would be successfully "validated" by contact with a human, but without any human actually doing anything. Email links "clicked" by automated systems, a system that checks you've uploaded a file to your web server treats the 404 error it gets as an acceptable response showing the file was uploaded, several hilarious goofs.

[ The irony, for those playing along at home, is that we don't know of any incidents where this was used for an attack. It's like coming home to discover the reason you didn't have your front door key is because you left it on the kitchen counter, with the door unlocked, all day. But no harm done... ]

The current authorised method closest in spirit to what GlobalSign were doing back in 2010 is 3.2.2.4.4 (Constructed Email to Domain Contact). This method actually doesn't tell them to prevent this particular mishap (machines clicking links), so perhaps that should be corrected.
Cool project! Perhaps it could be trained with a bunch of videos from YouTube?
Do you eat meat?
U.S. State Department Admits Signs Point to C0VlD Created in Wuhan Lab
If I'm not mistaken the source material actually has a probe wielding alien of some kind, you may be seeing that
Idolization is rooted in ignorance.
I don't have any automotive experience but that largely squares with what I hear through the grapevine in the Auto industry.

In the heavy machinery industry which Deere opporates it's mostly the opposite. Kubota, Agco, Bosch etc. are miles ahead of Deere and Caterpillar; who are largely relying on past reputation at this point.
The Crown Estate is not the private property of the monarch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Estate

Also see, from https://www.royal.uk/royal-finances-0

> The Crown Estate as a whole dates back from the time of the Norman Conquest.

In 1760, George III reached an agreement with the Government over the Estate. The Crown Lands would be managed on behalf of the Government and the surplus revenue would go to the Treasury. In return, the King would receive a fixed annual payment, which was called the Civil List. With effect from 1 April 2012, the Civil List was incorporated into a new system of funding referred to as the Sovereign Grant.

The Crown Estate is not the personal property of the Monarch. It cannot be sold by the Monarch, nor do any profits from it go to the Sovereign.

The Crown Estate is managed by an independent organisation, headed by a Board, and any profit from the Estate is paid every year to the Treasury for the benefit of all UK taxpayers. The Treasury is effectively the principle Government stakeholder and is kept informed of the estate’s overall business plans and strategies.

The Estates portfolio has a value of over £7.3 billion, from beef farms in the north of Scotland to Portland stone mining in Dorset. Windsor Great Park is the only Royal Park managed by the Crown Estate. All other parks are administered by the Royal Parks Agency.
Has she really done anything which e.g. John McAfee wouldn't have done? or done "worse" ?
Your analogies are actually terrible. If you can’t see it, I am sorry.

And also, this is not reddit or Twitter. Hell, the reason why you are being this angry is probably because it’s a forum like this. People here won’t respond to your anger like a troll. If you like the response, keep going. Everybody has their own psychological quirks.

I honestly don’t have time to read the entirety of a book I am commenting on. I never said I read the book. So you clearly know more about the book, more about the professor, etc.

But that doesn’t give you the fucking right to rage, does it.

Out of personal curiosity, I have read your comments in other threads. You get angry. A lot. For no reason. If you are educated and have a lot of stake and experience, you should at least pretend to be humble so that you don’t throw dirt on educated people like yourself (e.g. your professor).

You are making us all look bad :)
It's very simple:

Some police officers want to maintain a safe and secure neighborhood, others just like having power and want to engage in military cosplay but real.

The police departments that maintain an effective community rapport are also going to be the ones that actively spend budgeted time and money weeding out the second class of cop. If you aren't vigilant about it, your PD will be chock full of the military cosplay types. Why? Well, a lot of the latter types are... well, I'm not going to say the nickname, since it's quite offensive in the UK (less so in the US). But they will often bounce from PD to PD. Once they wind up getting on the wrong end of an internal affairs investigation, they'll usually just resign to avoid punishment, move to another town, and sign up there. There's plenty of underfunded PDs that really aren't going to stick their nose up at bad cops.
as others said, it can be obvious if one account is used to share the same sentiment.

one other obvious one I've seen is when batches of similar posts for recommendations in category "X" have each received a reply, usually days/weeks after the original submission, all from different users, posted around the same time, recommending the same product
A GNU/Linux distro can be referred to as an operating system. Not sure if you are memeing or not, but in conversation going into specifics about the GNU/Linux, or GNU plus Linux as you might like to call it, distinction, is not relevant here.

And in fact, I would say that saying that “GNU is the operating system” is even incorrect. GNU plus Linux is the operating system. Neither part by itself is a complete operating system.

So, the distro is the operating system.

Ubuntu is the operating system.
>what is the point ?

I can see an in-house style guide strongly recommending f-strings over % formatting
Not trying to put you down. I see the thinking behind your rationale, it is also somewhat detached from human emotional and political reality.

Being exposed to the atrocities of /most/ (im no expert) modern day monarchs and being an arab in the middle east, i find it REALLY hard to call what they do cute, or something math and money could fix. These problems, even dänmarks, evolved through strife, injustice and corruption.

Monarchies are necessary as-long as the region needs them .. i see politics more like an evolutionary process where monarchy is part of a nations dev stages.

I actually wish you were right.
> The Prime Minister and the House of Commons are where the actual legislative power rests

The article disagrees with you. Or at least points out where there isn't always true.
Not OP but I guess that's another colloquialism I shouldn't use around non-native speakers.
U.K. Threatens 10 Years in Jail for Covid Quarantine Rule Breakers
Google Search Hiding News Results for Timnit Gebru
We don't have life all figured out in modern society either. Especially when it comes to dying (without it just being the end of a period of despair and depression), but also I'd say dealing with risk and difficulty generally.

Eastern cultures didn't really have religions universally promising to provide all the answers/solutions like western culture had, so they developed very interesting alternative ways of addressing these struggles in life.
Finally got a chance to test:

63 packets transmitted, 63 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 1.659/110.684/1805.961/305.145 ms
"We set a specific header in the email called Return-Path with all emails sent through our email service. If you take a peek at a raw email sent over OhMySMTP you’ll find that the return path ends in @mailer.ohmysmtp.com, and if you look this up in the DNS system, you’ll find an SPF record that points to our server IP address."

While this will mean that and mail sent will pass SPF, it doesn't play well with DMARC. The SPF pass domain won't align with the From header domain, so the SPF authentication will be ignored.

"But SPF alone doesn’t completely solve spam, we also need DKIM, and to a lesser extent DMARC. More on those later!"

Realistically, SPF doesn't do anything to solve spam, nor does DKIM or DMARC. All of these technologies address spoofing and give a greater confidence of the sender responsible for the email which can then be used in reputation engines.

Passing SPF/DKIM/DMARC say nothing about the message contents.
A similar tool exists from AWS, the Instance Type (IIRC) inside the EC2 console.
The underlying assumption of the parent commenter is that “rule of law” means something other than 50%+1 of the House of Commons voting something into effect.

For instance, if parliament passed a law allowing “The Purge” to happen yearly, would murders committed on that day be “rule of law”? If you don’t think so, perhaps you agree there are some inherent principles to rule of law that aren’t simply a majority vote of a legislature. (For instance, perhaps there’s an assumption that exiling someone who hasn’t committed any crime is a violation of due process rights, rights as a citizen of the country, etc.)
True, with enough experience you know when to move fast and when to dither, a kinda game sense.
http://HamStudy.org is a free (and ad free) site that lets you study the amateur radio question pools.

The developer also built ExamTools which many groups use to administer remote license exams. You can find sessions here: http://hamstudy.org/sessions
So it's bitcoins fault Iran has blackouts now?
When I was a kid, I grew up in the US where we had snow in the winter but we had to walk or take a bus to school.

People would say folks in scandanavian countries were able to skate to school or work and we would all just dream how amazing it would be.
and of course spammers would never have access to vast botnets to do that work. POW is (imho) a terrible idea.
> Also, every member of the royal family should be stripped of their wealth and exiled.

As a more serious response to this: to do so is applying a law change retroactively and flies into the face of any semblance of a nation ruled by laws. — what they are doing is not illegal as they did it, a such, they cannot be punished for it by a retroactive law change.
Doesn't seem to work anymore
So this model takes as input an fMRI recording of the brain watching a movie live. Interesting work, but I am curious how much crossover there will be to remembering the film after watching it.
15 years may be too short for some content. I'm ok with indefinite copyright, but there should be a steep price. Like the owner of the copyright pays X% of their revenue from that copyright back to the treasury each year, where X is the number of years it's been copyrighted.

So Disney would be paying 93% of their Mickey Mouse revenue in taxes this year. Have the IRS enforce it, where they can audit the books.

Or they can just give up the copyright.

This would also solve the abandoned works problem. Every copyright would have to have an annual filing to maintain it, with the owner listed publicly. No filing? Copyright invalid, public domain.

And lastly, it would basically put a cap of 99 years, because even if you're making a trillion dollars a year from your copyright, it wouldn't make sense to pay 100% or more of your revenue.
The examples on the site itself are not the NYT unknowingly making mistakes but rather deliberately printing falsehoods.
Basically, LibreOffice hit this problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-rider_problem
Wikipedia shows that average people are pretty good at assembling data. The problem is drive by contributors are not very good at developing software. Wikipedia is super basic software wise while GIS and everything around it is extremely complex.

The data in OSM is pretty good but there are no apps for it that are actually good other than leaflet JS for embedding on sites.

Have to remember that a maps app is way more than just data. Its efficient routing, its good text to speach, its pulling in data from multiple sources like the gps location of the bus I'm waiting for or the roads closed for construction currently.

You would also need a whole bunch of heuristics for the OSM dataset that the current apps don't have. OsmAnd would not be able to tell the difference between the turning lane on an intersection and an entire road that just has no name because the way the data is entered is there is just an unamed path joining the roads so the text to speach would say "bear slightly left" instead of "turn right on to foo street".
Yes, but instead of making sure people's needs are met, have you considered giving the money to billionaires in the form of subsidies instead?
I don't know which mapping options Lyft/Uber/etc use, but in my neighborhood, Google Maps has given street names to the allies behind people's houses. You can tell the drivers that have a clue, and will realize they should not turn down an alley. Drivers that are less cognizant of how the world works, follow the instructions dutifully, and waste time trying to figure out why everyone is confused.