skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surely this depends on the system being run and the programs running on it. Are you claiming that a basic installation of OpenBSD is wide open to the NSA? Even if that is true, I would think that fewer vulnerabilities are better than more, and that vulnerabilities that cannot be found because their source is secret are worse than those that can be found.
> There's been a misunderstanding between us. To clarify, I'm not saying we know some data exists (that's of course true, since an experiment was done). I'm saying we know this data exists.

But that's exactly what I'm saying too? When I flip 10 coins and see 10 heads, that is the data, and it very much exists. Nobody is talking about any data except that one. Not me, not you, not BBC.

> Grammatically, they've worded it so that the question is whether this particular data that we have seen (as opposed to other data we could have seen) was in fact produced by chance or not.

Yes, and as I see it this is 100% correct. Like in my example where I saw 10 heads (that is the one and only dataset we know exists), and I'm wondering if they were produced by chance or not. That is precisely P(10 heads | fair coin) = P(observations | H0).

> The difference between the data being a statistical coincidence and the data not being a statistical coincidence is precisely the difference between the null hypothesis being true and the null hypothesis not being true.

Maybe your English analogy is the source of the confusion here? I don't know what rigorous definition you might have for "the difference" here(?), but whatever it is, "10 heads have a 0.001% chance with a fair coin" doesn't imply "10 heads have a 99.999% chance under an unfair coin"... right? Even though the former assumes H0 and the latter assumes !H0.

Or to put it another way, just because H0 is true in one statement and false in another, that doesn't mean we're talking about the probability of H0 being true in one statement and the probability of H0 being false in another.
What about Teams running against a Lync server where you can only establish chats with internal users, and chat with external users is available only through a fake meeting set up in outlook? And where the 1to1 video calls start in skype 4 business instead of teams.

Plus when running multiple instances the call goes to the first instance
Some similar techniques have been used in the past to try and read ancient scrolls that are too fragile or completely warped:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ancient-scrolls-black...
Did they quit because they couldn't win, or quit because they could easily win and it was not going to generate further insights?
I do not program with ReasonML, but have looked it few times as it was touted as replacement for JS/TS/React. What made it a mess?
Theory? Isn't that even an expected result? The virus started in the exact city where one of the top labs in the world. This was either a breach of higienisation protocols or intentional. Of course, claiming it was intentional is a conspiracy theory and likely won't be able to be proven ( even less likely as some doctors were knowingly suicided ).

China ended 2019 in a huge crisis and 2020 as the number one world economy. Quite a dramatic change for a year, no?
Students of history will find it much more believable that a western country infected the Chinese with covid-19.
How fast is fast enough for a run-of-the-mill household connection?

I have a 300/25 connection from my cable provider (using DOCSIS) and while fiber has been available for a few years I don't feel like I'd benefit much from a faster link.
This is modelled on "Reflections on Trusting Trust" by Ken Thompson, 1984

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...
Moral of the story: governments around the world need to stop fucking around with potentially deadly viruses
Now I’m curious: what would happen if someone had no idea that Google existed (insert wild reason here. I’m leaning towards lived in the woods for 40 years and self-hosts content without reading anything, like a hermited author)?

Does Google still get to say “everyone knows we scrape your content” and “We have instructions about opting out”?
It actually wouldn't be the same music. DJs typically adapt their set to how the crowd reacts.

See e.g. https://www.digitaldjtips.com/2011/05/dj-getting-people-to-d...
It's been a while, but a similar thing happened to me. The delivery address form was on the same page as the cart, and my autofill put my zip code into the article amount. A little shocking at first to see a bill of 65,000€ instead of 12€, but at least it took less than an hour to resolve.
It's not that the comittee thinks bounds checking isn't a reasonable default. They can't change it because it will break existing code.
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> (Are people here really having this hard of a time with basic statistics?)

No, no one is disagreeing with the narrow point you're making that protecting the oldest leads to fewer bad outcomes given equal numbers of infections.

But that's just one part of the story. In most of the EU, most people have not yet been exposed, so the pandemic will need to be ended by vaccination.

The situation now is treacherous, since it may initially seem like hospitalizations don't track infections like they used to. But if the conclusion from that is to just open up, nothing will be gained.

This is clearly borne out by both complex models and back of the envelope calculations.

And that's ignoring that there are health issues other than death to consider...
Sorry for being nitpicky but a teacher talking like that could be very harsh and damaging depending on the child.
Except when your gizmo (or laptop) manufacturer founds out that the color they need is out of stock and replaces it with another color.
“The market” did manage to solve it in most East European countries (which had relatively rudimentary copper infrastructure which I assume played a part).

You can get a 1Gb line for €20 or less (usually from multiple competing companies) in all major cities where I’m from (low pop density/low overall population) and I’ve heard it’s even cheaper in Romania.

The situation with cellular providers is very similar as well. The downside is that due to very low margins most providers can now hardly afford investing into new tech like 5G now.
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I make and sell concrete busts of famous people on Etsy. Revenue is around 2k per month. https://www.etsy.com/shop/jurgenstudio
You would accept the consequences of your country's defeat if it got beaten in a virtual fight?
Mumble generally has better voice quality and it's more straightforward to maintain good server performance than it is with Discord with its relatively opaque and game-ish 'server boost' feature.
Hardly surprising considering how long they clung to ‘secret questions’.
No one has observed that the talks were between Discord and the head of the Microsoft Xbox division.

Xbox can see the direct relevance of the Discord users to its own. Integrating Discord into its ecosystem allows for synergies directly.

This is not a Teams/Skype/Lync replacement. The underlying technology might get used eventually, but that would be invisible to the userbases.
That literally is the point, thank you for restating it explicitly. Not everybody is trying to get a job as a Go developer. People who just want to make a change or two to a tool that they use, to follow what someone else is doing, or to even just get a quick feel for the language without being treated like an absolute beginner to programming are users too and there is nothing wrong with making resources that are helpful for them.
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I’m pretty sure Google actually deletes nothing.

The original goal was to have all data digitized in 200 years.

Of course, they remove things from results and from public view, but delete? I suspect no.
So you want 1Password to check CSS of the form before auto filling? The form itself isn’t hidden it’s styled to be flat. That’s the biggest problem of it.
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It's because you need to keep going from Beer 2 Beer to be able to overlook Teams' issues.
Turning off my "how should I design this code well?" filter would probably remove the little satisfaction I still get from my day job. Coworkers and customers would likely not be too happy either.
Try following some projects on Discord. Maybe a small one like Leela Chess Zero. It's a completely different experience than Slack. Maybe you and your friends could be happy there but for projects with hundred/thousands of fans/developers/contributors it's in league of its own. It got it users because of it. It didn't luckily stumble into a userbase.
If it disappeared today people would be sad and switch to something else if it would reappear in 2 years everyone would be switching back ASAP.
Thankfully, teams has gif support as well.

It would be a dark day indeed if we'd have to stop spamming memes while at work
Firefox extension, Passhash NG.

Makes them easy to use, with no saved PW.
This article is not complaining about Go. It’s pointing out the gotchas, which every language has. IMO it reads like it was written by someone who likes Go quite a bit, or at least is as pragmatic about Go as Go is.
Personalisation technology, what’s the big deal?
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Statistical, material, photo, audio and video evidence isn't good enough?
The sheer breadth of it all doesn't make you pause for a second?

I seriously think you should revisit the site or revisit your post.
I'd argue Discord also handles improper setups well though.

You can adjust other people's volume on your end and mute people. That's something a lot of these pay for voice apps lack and it really sucks.
Because you can’t actually force someone to pay up unless you have the actual physical ability to force them to.

Such a system would be easy to game. Simply build a physical army and go beat up everyone else while they’re playing dance dance revolution, war edition.
Most people aren't taking extreme positions BUT

- Many people chafing to get back to an office are concerned that it's going to be a diminished experience with many of their teams missing

- As a sibling comment notes, remote workers will advocate for remote-first practices. For example, if anyone on a call is remote, everyone has to call in individually. No gathering in conference rooms. I knew teams that did this pre-pandemic. There are also practices that are frankly good in any case like everything needs to be written down, no hallway decisions, etc.
I don't use any third party sign in services. Email is the only option. Any third pary (Twitter, Google, Facebook, Github) etc can stop your account, making you lose access to anything you signed in via their account.
Faces no, as other people have said - except, what about integrated systems that combine ground based CCTV with satellites, or drones? You might only be able to see someone's head and shoulders, but that's good enough to follow them as they walk through a crowd, and you can use that to decide which CCTV to use. Presuming it's all networked and accessible, but that might be the case at some future point.
Thats the point though. The recruiting company rules seem to be suboptimal and infact optimizing for something unrelated to that job.

Edit: Fun example. Its like recruiting companies are trying to hire for the next big chess tournament and their criteria is how fast someone can win practice end game scenarios. It might seem fine on the surface, but the truth is end game is only 10% of the game.
Germany privatised telecommunication in the 90s (was done by German Post before) including all the infrastructure (which was a really bad idea in hindsight). Most of the infrastructure is in the hand of the former state business and they want to squeeze the last Euro out of the copper wiring instead of investing in proper fiber infrastructure. Vectoring is just one more tool to squeeze the last bit out of old copper wires that have been in the ground for over 70 years. Also vectoring only works with one provider per node, and the German state gives most of the privilege to the Telekom.

It was written in some comments before, but Germany could have had the most modern fiber infrastructure in the world when the plans of former chancellor Helmut Schmitt wouldn't have been stopped by the Helmut Kohl government who was good friends with Leo Kirch, who was a big player in the German TV market and would rather benefit from copper wiring than fiber.
Teams uses their own terrible notification system (that's the purpose of the invisible window - it is actually the notification and becomes visible when needed). It's not even an Electron thing - Slack successfully uses macOS system notifications despite being an Electron app too.
You haven't actually spent any time with optimization algorithms, have you? The grandparent is on point: on problems as totally ill specified as this one, you have a choice of nonsensical, yet valid suggestions or death by 1001 constraints (which just ends up being you spelling out the solution, and the AI repeating).
I had assumed that US missile infrastructure would be hidden in Google Maps, but apparently not:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/07/31/336847318...
I remember reading 10 or 20 years ago that dj/rap turntables had outsold guitars in the UK for the first time that year. That was my "wow, people don't play music any more" moment...
> Are they not allowed to think about security and sandboxing without making it their primary focus on day one?

a headline that titles "security first" is incompatible with security not being one of their main focus. They had to think better about it (or issue a rectification press release later).
Good comment. There won't be any more meaning, arguably there would be less meaning in FAANG (I mean where will u have more impact: a 50-200 people team or a 100000 team?).
The FAANG compensation though is simply insane and just having it on your resume is huge for one's career, that's why everyone wants it. But u can have a very nice career without working there, I mean most of us don't work there.
With this logic you can criminalize all of Chinese success...how convenient...
Good thing I wasn't trying to do that. What I was doing was arguing the statement "The rationale makes so much sense" is bullshit. No, the rationale made no sense. It directly contradicted what was known. Now, sometimes things that make no sense turn out to be true, but that's very rare (especially when the newly claimed thing requires not one but multiple miracles to be real), and not what I was addressing.
Meanwhile, plugging in unfamiliar phone numbers no longer produces useful results at Google.com, as they WANT you to click in for more information.
Also clouds kind of get in the way of anything optical - unless it's a drone lower than the cloud level.
This is true but his works are much loved, very funny, clever, and brought a lot of people joy. More so than other writers who were better and others who were more popular.
What I dislike about clickbaity paper titles like this is the following:

Using a general term like "determinism" in the title of a paper might be fine for an expert audience: They will know that the paper deals with a specific definition inside a specific discussion.

But the general public will pick up on this and incorporate it into their superstitions. In the end this could (indirectly, through a funnel of regurgitations) strengthen some persons believe in pseudoscience resulting in them not vaccinating their kids or treating cancer with homeopathy because "everything is connected on the quantum level".

Scientists should be more responsible with the choice of their titles.

I think adding a discriminatory suffix to terms like "determinism" would provide a solution. Something like "Physics without infinite precision determinism: [...]" is much less likely to be misinterpreted.
Wait people can't debunk dumdum conspiracy theories? sad
Well, imagine how much someone would pay for NVidia if the only thing you could do with their GPUs was to watch videos. Surely not 300B. Yet you can do so much more with the GPUs and you can do so much more with Discord then keeping it as in house tool.
Mine certainly isn't going back any time soon and it's partly because people would leave if they did.
There isn’t much to this article. The ads on that page take up more space than the article. So the comments here are much more useful.

They interviewed large firms: what is the breakdown at the industry and country-location levels? These large (publicly traded?) firms need to send messages of confidence and “normalcy”.

It’s clear that some types of work are better with fewer people around, some require more people. Collocated people can communicate very well. Whatever helps add predictability to these large firms will be adopted.
> Some of those languages that nobody uses, are really good, though.

Such as?
I agree with you. I took it out carefully, and noted the pins, but it cracked from the edge in when I tried to put it back!

I still have so many old keyboards, and a Lenovo laptop and a 2013 Macbook Pro. None of them have ever had a "sticky" key or cracked. 4 months in is too quick to have keyboard problems.
> And refuses to compile further, because... it needs to import that package anyway? Why?

Because it may have side-effects, and the compiler doesn't know if it's the programmer's intention to import in order to get those side-effects, or if it's a mistake.
The iOS client is still in the app store. Not sure whether it works though as the last update is 3 years ago.
That‘s a bit dismissive. I know plenty of teams using Jira without needing this, and they‘re all unhappy with Jira anyway.
Where did Linux enter into it? I just don't typically use GUIs much, and I use the Mac GUI much more than I use Linux GUIs. But I've used command lines since I started with computers (before GUIs were common.)
You’re reading too much into it.
But how do you sell it to someone else?
Can someone explain why this is impressive? Seems easy to correlate music features to visuals. It's been done for decades. What's special about this one?
But they (or their bosses) will care if credit card details can't be auto populated. Typically anything that slows down the user from paying gets fixed pretty quick.

But you're right, browsers would have to become picky on saved credit card auto populate to force a change.
Great comment. In fact, in a country like the U.S where it's so easy to fire people I don't see what the big deal is.
I would argue that for some of us it is. As a domain expert on security, I'm not directly member of the teams. Still at office, over hearing related discussions allow me to possibly help them or be aware of up coming things that I or my team(security) should be aware of and possibly track. This is certainly type of socialising that is work.
Working hard is not what engineers enjoy.

Engineers enjoy building architectures to minimize human effort while still producing maximal results. I try to solve problems as efficiently as possible to minimize the amount of work I have to do and minimize the amount of effort some future maintainer will have to do. This will allow a company to reach unlimited economies of scale as the limit of the amount of work required approaches zero.
Wuhan virus won't be on scale of Sars, says Chinese top expert Zhong Nanshan

https://archive.is/O5PhV
When, pray tell, is his "not be[ing] remembered as anything special" scheduled to begin?

It would appear you have been waiting almost twenty years, and with potentially no end in sight, I do feel for you. I too have stood at a station for too long before realising the train had been cancelled.

(I must say though, it did turn out to be a fantastically good opportunity to try my hand at hitch-hiking.)
We are fitting information here...if a foreign actor were to drop covid-19 in a Chinese city, they would choose Wuhan for the same reasons you stated...

China and many other countries in the global south have a long history of being the victim of US/Japan/UK germ warfare. Seems convenient/self-serving to ignore this multi-century trend.
Daimn. I kinda admire that yet at the same time wonder why you go through with it.
That is a great question and one that the book speaks about. Some points to consider without going too deep:

- Italians and other European communities also faced with xenophobia and racism. Italians even founded 'the bank of Italy' (which is now BofA) because there were lack of institutions who financed and provided debt to them. Some laws have deliberately pushed to integrate white europeans to 'white american' society.

- Blacks had and still have to face systemic ('redlining' districts, 'G.I Bill, 'Civil Rights', etc) and unofficial racism. As a result, Black-owned banks typically face larger cost of debt, have larger liquidity requirements (small deposits and shorter withdraw periods) and more strict mortgage rules. We all know what happened.

PS: there is still a lot of poverty traps for other immigrants and minority groups. We are still far away from what needs to be done
Reproducibility means a recipe that anyone can reproduce. Anecdotal reports of that sort don't count. They can be explained by incompetence or even fraud.

What the whole sorry cold fusion experience shows is that if you have enough people trying to do something, some will get positive results, regardless of whether the phenomenon is actually real. A real tip off is how variable and mutually inconsistent the ephemeral positive results are. This is a sign they are experimental artifacts, not anything significant.
I live in rural Québec. My county got fed up with the ISPs and actually covered _every_ road & street with fiber. Gave a swift kick in the nuts to Bell & Cogeco, and now we have actual competition here. My costs went down 20$ / month.
"The emails suggested that the firm was seeking access to records about its staff and customers from a police database holding millions of names and the personal information of criminals, victims and even witnesses."

Wait... is this about protecting criminals?
For speed-architected C compilers/linkers lexing time is typically a very significant part of compilation time. The Unix compilers typically hasn't been speed-architected, instead having a focus on simplicity and ease of porting.
In these times I would say fast enough on both download and upload to have multiple video teams/zoom/meet meetings running at the same time, while also supporting basic websurfing and netflix.
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> The allegations first came to light in 2012 after an Ikea insider leaked emails between the company and a security company to the satirical newspaper Le Canard Enchaîné.

Such matters seem to usually come to light, not because the authorities investigated and uncovered, but because an insider talked.

A similar situation is with most performance enhancement scandals in professional sports. Lance Armstrong was not caught due to testing; he was caught because one of his men talked. As far as I know, the same drugs he used still do not show up on tests, so others are probably still using them.
Also they lied
Wuhan virus won't be on scale of Sars, says Chinese top expert Zhong Nanshan
https://archive.is/O5PhV#selection-895.0-924.7
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