skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You're halfway there! The underlying distribution on trajectories has a huge variance like you pointed out, but the mean of a finite sample is likely to have only a (vanishingly) small variance, because of the central limit theorem! (aka concentration of measure for "typical" trajectories)

The mean of a finite sample is a random number. This random number has a distribution and has a variance. The variance of the sample mean is the variance of the original distribution divided by N. Huge.

Saying that "the mean of a finite sample is likely to have only a small variance" doesn't mean anything. Maybe you meant that the variance of a finite sample, which is also a random number and has a distribution, is much more likely to be low (all the elements in the sample are in the high-density lower part of the original distribution) than high (a few elements in the very skewed upper tail).

And, as I said, in your example there is no concentration of measure in the original distribution. Typical trajectories will move around $1 but the probability of having exactly $1 at the end goes down as the horizon grows.

As an aside, every trajectory will eventually reach any (positive) level that you may specify. And bounce between any two levels infinite times. Well, those things may not happen for some trajectories but they have probability zero. Infinite stochastic processes are fun.

To see that concentration you have to transform the original dollar outcome distribution into a growth rate per flip distribution (which converges to 0 in your example).
Confusion in “English Speaking” in Nigeria
British : Extreme
American : End
Nigeria : Extreme end

British : Knicker
American : Short
Nigeria : Short knicker

British : Salon
American : Barbershop
Nigeria : Barbing salon

British : Bend
American : Corner
Nigeria : Bending corner

British : So
American : Therefore
Nigeria : So therefore

British : Henceforth
American : From now on
Nigeria : From now henceforth

British : Still
American : Yet
Nigeria : Still yet

British : Reverse
American : Turn back
Nigeria : Reverse back

British : Should
American : In case
Nigeria : Should in case

British : Tell me the reason
American : Tell me why
Nigeria : Tell me the reason why

British : Ten pounds each
American : Ten dollars each
Nigeria : Ten Ten Naira each

Don't just laugh, learn also.
Google HR reportedly advised mental health leave in response to compl
...another messenger app by Google?
yep I thought like that too. I don't know truck drivers, but the way the title is put, it seems to oppose the "genius" of a nuclear bomb to, well, a mere truck driver. I'm not entirely sure the people behind the bomb were smarter than a truck driver. The human qualities needed to decide to work on a bomb or not, which to me is infinitely stronger than what it takes to be a physicist or mathematician, can be found as well in a truck driver...
I'm unsure what would happen if I flag something nowadays, and whether it'll mean another shadow vote ban, so I tend just to comment - my opinions are congruent with the mods in this case, but not always. Unfortunately leaving comments like this unchallenged (as it was at the time) also has an impact on the tone of the site.

Sorry for the lowering the tone by responding to this, I do agree it's a somewhat pointless tangent.
I’ve done it too. So it’s you + me + McDonald + ...

You know, for all its evils, it is sometimes surprising that the world is relatively peaceful (for 60% of the globe), full of donators, people fighting for women, people refusing to participate to bad schemes. Even in opposing views, most people are doing it because they believe the world will be better like this. Also, absolute stupid people have always been the norm, and the bad ones have always been assertive and powerful and yet, the world is not so bad, so we are on a good streak.
Security Chaos Engineering: How to Security Differently
There is nowhere near enought trucks in existance for that.
Plus !bangs they kept it useful for me before I got used to their search. I rarely !g nowadays and being able to quickly dip in and out of sites for specific things is great. Like a super ‘I’m feeling lucky’ with parameters.
Judea Pearl's home page for the book might also be worth posting here: http://bayes.cs.ucla.edu/WHY/
> Not a thought was given to it.

Because you don't look at your family in a sexual way. Similarly in Renaissance, for example, we had some nudity going on in art, but it was done in a tasteful and non-sexual fashion. That's different from outright pornography or erotica, which is what children should not be exposed to.
I really like this concept. I think for me one of the things that kills me about Slack is the way people write tiny little stream of consciousness messages. These are way less thought through even than they would be if you were having a normal conversation and serve as a distraction when it comes to the constant notifications.

I think asking people to stop and think a little bit (which I believe recording a video does) is great. I'll take one thoughtful video over 50 incoherent messages any day of the week.

Also thinking about trying this for a daily sync/standup since we often hear that people are not really listening to their teammates during these but instead are thinking of what they're going to say instead, which is of course entirely self defeating. Taking a minute to record your own video and then being able to consume your teams videos in an non-distracted way sounds spot on.
Let's improve peterkelly's question. How about:

I'm genuinely curious as to what kind of software you work on where you've never encountered a problem where a while loop required an ad hoc dynamic stack to track state, and so never had to consider the possibility of recursion as a viable, attractive alternative to that.
This is a loss of confidence situation, not one based on deep fundamental analysis.

As much as all other Boeing airframes can be safe, I'm not confident at all with the way Boeing's management runs the company. What other cost-cutting measures have been implemented? How can they affect current airframes maintenance and reliability? It probably doesn't affect them much but it's been blunder after blunder from Boeing, from the 777 built at Charleston, the 737 MAX fiasco and the 787.

As an airline customer I'm completely dependent on trust that Boeing was doing things correctly, from a safety standpoint at least. I don't have that trust anymore and it'll take decades to earn it back.
> It's a bit hard to imagine the domestic opinion in China supporting a hot war with Taiwan.

Have you talked to any Chinese people who are not from Shanghai/Beijing and are not educated in an American university?
The video in the article called "George Floyd death: What’s changed, 100 days later?" is produced like a propaganda video sequence right out of a Deus Ex or CoD:BO game.
You think Mars will be any different once a second country lands people there? It’s going to be a nightmare.
planned software obsolescence ?
Has there even been a successful new Google product in the past 5 years?
Identifying degrowth with ecofascism isn't accurate.
You failed to understand China also has nuke, if you intend to nuke a Country with nuke, do it preemptively, or don't.
Unfortunately DDG is really only useful for english search results. I tried running it as my default search engine, but in most places it's more or less useless.
Switzerland used to be surrounded by Nazi Germany on pretty much all sides.

They remain independent because they are a mountainous country that set its defenses up cleverly so that any invasion would be a pyrrhic victory at best.
Do change your therapist, women find it very hard to see how frustrating lack of a sex life can be unless they themselves have been in a similar situation and most haven't. When I've complained about lack of sex to female friends, they've often said what's stopping you from installing Tinder, they are really oblivious to how different the experience can be for men and women there. If she's dismissing it, its unlikely to improves. Moreover, personally, one can be really good at social stuff but completely not make headway in sexual stuff, and then you've lost a year and are nowhere near where you would like to be.
If you can gain air superiority of an island nation, and want to force them to surrender through economic consequences, why bother with a blockade? Just blow up enough of the electrical infrastructure to keep the power off for a good long while. You'll produce similar economic damage without having to hang around.
Gotta remember, the Americans are extremely prudish.
Lovin' FreeBSD: FreeBSD
> they sell medical diagnostic tools, text etc. [0].

If they actually do that, that is not represented in the link you provided. The whole page is about teaching materials about the field, and one piece of software to _simulate_ "real-world patient data systems".

On their whole website I couldn't find a single product/service that a company would use in their direct operative work (in contrast to training).
> You might have a business/profit motive to disable HTTP and that's fine. But most cases are not profit motivated

No, it was a community group non-profit (non-profits have directors too!) and the site was a static site with public information and no tracking. Exactly the sort of friendly hobbyist site you are probably thinking should use HTTP. I was an unpaid volunteer, and the group did not pay for hosting.

> The benefits far outweigh the downsides in most cases

There were no identifiable benefits to HTTP or downsides to HTTPS for us. The switch was almost trivial. The ISP issue hurried the conversion though.

> I've tunneled to various VPSes for web surfing.

If you have to use a VPS to use HTTP safely, with its extra cost and latency, why are you down on HTTPS? Having to use a VPS with your HTTP is basically the same thing as HTTPS but with higher cost, higher latency and more security centralisation.

That's not a positive advert for HTTP, if you feel you have to use a VPS to use it safely.
It’s no swastika with a mustache, I agree with that; if the Seuss family decided to do nothing about this, I’d probably make a mental note about reviewing kids books myself first and move on with life. But they did, and I understand the reason. So I’m supportive. Either way, I don’t think it dignifies anyone to be up in arms about it, and certainly not to turn it into a debate about constitutional law.
Soviet spy movies are like James Bond written by Checkhov :) For example, there's "The fate of the secret agent" (1970) [1] and while it depicts a spy, it's very much not a James Bond type of guy. E.g. he only gets a single woman in the movie and he actually loves her.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314736/
Why? It's a more advanced & popular "quarantine" strategy, utilized by CCP's Red Army during Chinese Civil War.
A big difference between impact on Intel and AMD was due to only part of the recent attacks being a new class opening new ground - namely the generic speculative execution part.

A big group that turned it into "Intel fail" was due to various errors on Intel part, like moving verification of memory accesses to instruction retirement and similar things that even to uneducated person like me look like "tricks to make single-core performance shine".
Pixel 3a is well supported by Lineageos, I recommend installing it, though the Google Pixel cam app is indeed hard coded to only open previews in Google Photos, not any other gallery.
FreeBSD I
The argument against Tests sounds like a tooling problem to me. Why shouldn't a compiler be able to optimize the modular approach to the same code that a monolithic approach yields?
>Rather, China will delay until they can fight the US Navy in the Indian ocean.

Remember that there are two other large navies in the area that are hostile to china (india and japan, both who have significant blue water navies)
Sure, AOT compilation + tree shaking.

This is one way,

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw70/DV/html/delivery...
I would say, DoS people love these kinds of specifications.

I would specify the data structure is ostensibly arbitrary, but conforming implementations can diagnose and reject more than 64 levels of nesting.

Anything needing more than 64 levels of nesting can safely be assumed to be DoS.
> No other enterprise can burn so many billions of dollars for so many years to corner the market.

No other enterprise, besides Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, and all the streaming companies (Netflix, Disney, ...).
At least someone might have been promoted by driving the Flutter rewrite effort.

https://developers.googleblog.com/2020/09/google-pay-picks-f...
The jank is actually because the app was built in Flutter, which has conflicts with Metal on iOS.
chrome://flags/#enable-reader-mode
Russia and China compete. What the OP forgets is that there are plenty of countries such Iran that traditionally used to be US aligned but that have been left with no choice to take whathever deal China has to offer. The population isn't particularly happy about it either, but they don't really feel like they have a choice.

Have you not noticed that there is a 1Trillion development contract with Iran and that there isn't a single Muslim country that has a beef with China's Uighur policy? Also Xinjiang is an oil and gas and generally natural resource rich area. Another reason why China won't give it up. Same with Tibet actually.

China has actually been filling up with Oil by bartering without actually processing the customs required. So technically the oil never transferred ownership to China and therefore its not in breach of sanctions but for all practical definitions the Oil is now in Chinese hands as reserves.

There's also that tiny detail that when China started their nuclear weapons program, Taiwan also had one and that the USA used their global influence and the CIA to shut it down. The reason the power balance is in shambles is that the US focused very strongly on keeping its allies weak and now its coming back to bite everyone.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39252502

EDIT:

Analysis: Iran slips record volume of oil into China, reaches out to Asian clients for trade resumption

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-oil-iran-asia-analysis-id...
60 degs sauna are perfect for some hot games ;-)
This. This is one of the biggest reasons I switched to iPhone.
I think Umami[1] does.

[1] https://github.com/mikecao/umami
Instagram Python bot to send Direct Messages
Also, Argentina did not attack the UK proper nor did the UK attack Argentina. It was a very limited sort of war.
Interesting article. I didn’t know about this as a method so it was useful to me. Thanks for sharing!
I bought a Samsung phone a few months ago. It too has a bunch of apps you can't remove. It's still not clear to me why some apps can be disabled and uninstalled but others can just be disabled. But oh yeah, with ADB it seems you can remove some/all of them.

Except with Samsung you don't really know what you're uninstalling because a bunch of apps are weirdly named and not documented at all which leads one down the rabbit hole of inventorying each app and the permissions it has.

Android is a mess.
> What remains? Gmail and a bit of search, where DDG is encroaching.

Global market shares as of Feb. 2021 [1]:

* Google 92%

* Bing 2.69%

* Baidu 1.33%

* DuckDuckGo 0.64%

Alphabet made $182 billion last year, with a profit of $34 billion, making it the fifth most profitable private business in the world [2]. Much of that is off the back of search and AdWords.

[1] https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_Inc.
I think this fails to consider what happens when the US blocks China.

- Much of the wealth of Chinas elites are inside the US

- Chinas military needs oil

- Chinas citizens food

- Chinas industry needs markets for goods

No, China wouldn’t survive an invasion of Taiwan. The US wouldn’t need to fire a shot.
This is insane. The CCP cannot afford a victory over taiwan. Oil exports to china cease, during the invasion, if no other reason that no one wants their tanker to blow up en route (there are safer and more lucrative buyers) and then what? 70% of chinese energy is imported. The country comes to a stop.
As asked by the author, here is an example of application in medicine: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17419-7
It might be because of the "so many" part.
Honeypot those little buggers.
I wouldn’t dare guess how a billion people might react to something. But I know what it feels like to be depicted and treated like a novelty, and that it is a slight subtle enough that you’ll be mocked for your feelings if you voiced your opinion. It’s not every day you see someone go out of their way to protect people from that, and I appreciate it.
Regardless of whether China or Taiwan are right, etc, why does a country in the other side of the Pacific should have any say, much less "a war over", a dispute between two neighbor countries which belong to the same ethnicity and historical past, and it's pretty much a civil war?

Should China or some similar power of the time have meddled in the US civil war? Or maybe the War for Independence?
virtwl.ko really is the killer app for Wayland

[Edit: virtwl.ko lets a wayland client inside a VM connect to a wayland server which is on the same machine but outside the VM].

I mean without it, all the noise about Wayland being more secure than X11 is just noise, because Wayland doesn't do remote display, so you have to allow that evil app you're scared of to run on the same machine as the compositor and all your other apps, and you can't even put it in a VM. That's less secure than being able to put it on another machine and use the network. In theory you might be able to run the evil app under another userid, but in practice this often breaks in all sorts of ways because people just don't do that very often so it exposes untested codepaths in UI/widget/GUI libraries. You can't even put the evil app in a VM -- until virtwl.ko came along.

If the Wayland folks want their security claims to no longer be laughed at they need to get virtwl.ko into mainline Linux. And get it supported by more hypervisors than just the one that comes with ChromeOS (crosvm).

I've been using sway on both my desktop and laptop for over a year now, but that doesn't mean I don't get to complain about Wayland. Since leaving X11 I did finally get everything working again (except @#*&^@%@ torbrowser), but I've been underwhelmed with the benefits gained by all the effort I had to go through in order to switch to Wayland. And I still miss remote display always working all the time without special effort from each individual app developer. Every bolt-on remote display option offered for Wayland is a flaming dumpster fire of slowness compared to X11 on the LAN or xorg-xrdp over the public Internet. And the least-flaming dumpster-fire of slowness, waypipe, has turned into abandonware.

> like many Wayland specifications, it seems to be in the process of being replaced by something else.

Funny because true.
first, those were not the arguments in form "complaint about Bitcoin not working", those were attempts to rebutt my earlier statements why it's erroneous to view bitcoin in context of environmental issues.

> if Bitcoin works as intended, it will only serve to create a new elite of early adopters that will be even more massively powerful than the traditional one

sure, early adopters will reap some benefits, but it's laughable to suggest they will be any competition to current elites. a valid criticism of bitcoin would be that current elites will adopt bitcoin to cement the existing inequalities, but a) that would already be some redistribution of wealth, b) there's already plenty of wealth cementing options in form of london real estate, etc, singling out bitcoin here seems disingenuous.
I'm not sure what you mean by that. First, at the time you couldn't find stuff like that online. I'm talking, legit course from legit professors for free.

Then about the audience? I personally was a student when Coursera became a thing and I got into my masters by taking the course on cryptography. I have many student friends at the time who learned a lot through other courses.
(there are safer and more lucrative buyers)

Only if the the Chinese navy doesn't sink those.
The tone this comment uses is very good at creating a subjective feeling of correctness without many concrete reasons backing it up. Furiously weaving together a grand story of decline makes it hard for the reader to raise important questions like “in which specific ways is US power projection weakened?” or “hold on, how can the US be only good for wealth extraction, didn’t they invent the iPhone just a decade ago?”
Invoice Ninja released a new (v5) platform built with Flutter
Yes. If you're a major national brand when you IPO, you may not need the road show and support from investment banks.
> It will hit the silk road in the secondary countries where it passes (eg. Kazakhstan)

China would be more than happy to help those countries with better "air defence".
I'm not sure if there are courses that you can't take without paying, I remember that they sometimes made it really difficult to figure out if you could access the course for free (I believe it's better now).

Honestly it's hard to complain, because all the stuff is still there. It's just not as utopian and revolutionary as it once seemed to be. Or maybe it is and I should stop complaining. I just wished it was like wikipedia.
Suppose china shoots a usn carrier. The entire south china sea becomes a hot zone, and commercial shipping stops for months, maybe a year. Then what. The chinese people starve. Not a good plan, if you ask me.
You could say the exact same thing about South Korea/North Korea, or Ukraine/Russia.

The Cold War dies hard.
Entitled much?
I assume you live somewhere sunny and/or windy?
Perhaps we should stop running multiple programs on the same hardware at the same time while making sure information isn't leaked between domains?

If the future provides us with large but thermally limited dies, I could see a scenario where CPU components are duplicated but not all running at once. A thread or set of threads could own a hierarchy of caches, for example. Caches are die-intensive, so I don't see this happening soon, but maybe at some point in the future.
It's enough that people may die (or even get injured) as a consequence of your work. That's the line you shouldn't cross and it actually helps to have such a clear and unambiguous definition of that line.
Spotted the spook. Tell your boss to buy a bug out spot. Make sure there's a well, and bring a gun, three gorges area is nice I hear; it'll be a defensible place when there are starvation riots. Tell none of the neighbors that you worked for the state, or you'll be a target.
Look out for yourself.

On the other hand, I suppose it's possible for the chinese navy to sink "the EU". I'm rooting for it, maybe we can finally have an end to the corrupt deutsche bank.

Ps advice for you personally: all the chinese people who are trying to make it learn english. If you want to set yourself apart, you gotta do something different, learn español! It's going to be super important in the next decade. Earn yourself that pay raise!!
Google Maps cannot understand which redirection I am facing when the navigation just starts while Apple Maps does it beautifully.

That’s honestly the most important portion of trip. I don’t need to be navigated once I am driving on the highway.
If people want to know how/why the USA has a huge embassy in Taipei that is not actually called an Embassy, and military/defense-industrial supplies to Taiwan:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_Relations_Act

Here's the website of the "totally not an Embassy": https://www.ait.org.tw/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Institute_in_Taiwan
Props to you.