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> limitations you are talking about apply only to deep learning (which is frequently and mistakenly confused for AI nowadays)

Deep learning is also where all the money and attention is going, and where the revolutionary gains have been seen in the last few years. They’re pretty good at compressing huge datasets into a queriable structure and generating features for hierarchical data, but are just one component of a generalized system that could handle something like war.

> By far the biggest problem is to formalize the real world and build a realistic simulation which the AI system can play with

Strong agree! The fundamental challenge is to create digital model of the world with enough detail & accuracy that you can run optimizations on it and trust the results. This is as true for robotic aircraft as it is for autonomous cars or an e-commerce data warehouse. People need to decide what subset of the world to observe, deploy & maintain sensors to collect those observations, build information systems to organize & serve the observations, and maintain the whole thing. Then maybe you can start running AI/ML on it.
3-D Secure was introduced in 2001.

Additionally, I don't quite think making a payment is within the problem domain of OAuth. Most often I'm explicitly not trying to give the site access to my account - I'm trying to fulfil one request.
I believe security should optimise for the threat levels on the order of importance. No.1 is password reuse, which is what password managers solve.
>What impact should the central station have?

It would be a major destination, so one would expect fast cables to be laid out there (and be available in the close area). That's the case with important areas where I live at least.
In the most perfect of perfect situations that's all you need.

In reality it isn't nearly as simple as that. There's been a lot of discussion about the pitfalls of async Rust recently, highlighting the issues.

Here's a good one: https://tomaka.medium.com/a-look-back-at-asynchronous-rust-d...
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The stories of NRO uniform patches giving away classified information never cease to make me chuckle.
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Remedy, I'm suddenly triggered :)

It must be 22 years since I had the misfortune of using that horror show.
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The thing is, when I've seen code written in startups that have a "leetcode" process, it's ... not great. Lots of premature optimization and code review bikeshedding and not-invented-here, while having big issues around perhaps more important things like security, API design and database performance.
To give an example of a sysadmin from a job long ago:

Turning up drunk to a meeting is enough to start disciplinary procedures -- HR handle this, and work out how to proceed. (On [1], I think they would have been proceeding through the "Misconduct" section, second chance etc.)

Rotating the backup tapes, then carrying said tapes about 1km to the other building to put in the safe, was part of the job, but he was watched while he did it.

Stopping at a bar along the way was not fine.

Being oblivious to the point that a manager was able to take the bag containing the tapes from the bar back to the office was not fine.

Coming back to the office (drunk) and not realizing what had happened was not fine.

This was gross misconduct, and led to immediate dismissal.

https://www.gov.uk/dismiss-staff/dismissals-on-capability-or...
I think Discord’s latency is a lot higher.
Exactly. I consider coffee breaks and the like to be a healthy part of work life balance. They stimulate new ideas and learning in a way that video conferencing does not. Software is not like back breaking warehouse labour (which I used to do). An unhealthy mind produces nothing but shit output.

I chose my field specifically because it matters to me what I work on and doing it while being surrounded by great people matters even more. Not as a means to an end. That would've just left me bitter fourty years from now.

I didn't even know software had big money until I joined the industry, which probably explains my whole philosophy WRT in-person work.
I'm not sure I follow. How can the compiler know that the import is side-effect free, transitively?

Without opening more files and parsing them, how does it know that none of the transitive dependency tree has a `func init(){}` ?

Go forces you to add an underscore if you mean "I'm importing this for its side-effects, and am not using it directly".
I don't like integrations such as oauth on mobile apps, where the URL is often hidden.

Validating in some other application) website seems reasonable to me.
Funny,the same happend in Germany during the Helmut Kohl era.

https://www.epr-blog.de/2018/09/21/fiber-optics-is-the-futur...
I always wonder why they worry so much about their image? They completely control the communication channels inside, and nobody believes them outside. So why all this strange show?
> avoid demonizing China

China is actively engaging in genocide and nobody wants to even speak up about it because "cultural differences". I think we should much rather be scared of running even more cover for them, than less cover for them. They already have enough people white knighting for them.

Western companies are demonizing the west for profit, and running cover for china for profit, just another example of how capitalism always wins.

All of this is sickening and it needs to stop now.
Home assignments at least test your actual ability to write code or complete something that somehow resembles real work. Whereas solving whiteboard / live codility questions under stress with some guy looking at everything you type is a lot about how well you are under stress and how used you are to solving codility questions.
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If there is a way to turn this AI into an instrument then people will learn "the AI" the same way they learn "the guitar".
> Honestly? Not everyone wants (or should have) to do that in order to touch some Go code

For hobby projects maybe, if it's part of your job you should know what you're doing and read the fine manual (basic documentation in this case).
That doesn't even make sense.

First, it's an American writing about the state of broadband in the US. What exactly would it be other than US-centric?

Second, why would it need to be anything else? He wants to write about the broandband in his country.
It's my feeling, too. The message is not so much "it's untrue" as "stop interfering or face consequences." It seems it's the only tactic they know.
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The part of the US with which I'm familiar (Intermountain west) is mostly connected with HFC. DSL is what bottom feeders looking to pay as little as possible use and as a result its QoS is poor. HFC is fine imho for 100% of retail subs at present. We have 650/40.
Testing different models is done in the analysis of the data, not in running the experiment differently.

The "experiment" (colliding protons together) has been repeated quadrillions of times at the LHC. But there are only a few parameters you can change about it, namely the energy and how focused the beams are. Altering the detectors to change/improve how data is collected is an expensive and slow process.
Presumably, orientation is also an issue - satellites will tend see tops of heads more than faces full on.
We're now in the position that just one company has a FTTP network. It's mad that Virgin Media has a monopoly on one cable that runs into my house, but all the other providers have to compete over the other cable that runs beside it (and I believe are unable to provide their own, even if they wanted to). I guess she got what she wanted.
We are in this situation because people never wanted to pay anything on the web, so we have become the product. That's the price to pay when you want everything for free.
Considering it's taking 18 months to build a NovaVax plant, I don't think a plan based on domestic production would have helped.
Why you would not just use a cloud provider for this, I just don't get it.
OBS kind of solved the UX issues of setting up a Twitch stream with a single host in a nice fashion. But there's no simple way to set up shows that need to mux multiple source streams from multiple hosts (e.g. interviews, discussions...). Discord could probably fill that niche with a good integration.
Gross. Why are they involving Google and Facebook? Those are the two main companies I'm trying to get away from and Backblaze is part of my setup.
For something that is text central I don't see what this would accomplish for me that I'm not currently doing with the Matrix protocol (Element GUI client + self hosted synapse daemon) as a Slack replacement.
Maintenance for space junk collisions should be cheaper than landing and relaunching, and, if launching heavier things gets cheaper, we can afford making them less delicate.
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. 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.

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. So they're making a claim about the probability of a hypothesis.
Not sure if that's the bank you're talking about, but FYI Fortuneo lets you use a normal password.
As we can see from this thread, the US is worse than all of those countries (and even where it is now, it got later than them) - more expensive, less options, less speed, very limited in tons of places.

It's just that these other countries also have complains, but those are at their own level of service, not compared to the US.
That’s not real social interaction so I don’t see your point.
I think it's hard to use FAANGs for general trends like this. Google for example in part hires people to keep them from going elsewhere or building a competing company. One of Google's big perks to lure these people is all of the onsite amenities. Google and the other big tech companies are unique in a lot of ways, and in no way represent the average company in the US or even in tech though.

What will be interesting is if WFH (I like to say Freedom of Work) continues to take hold, will companies like Google have to adjust or be ok missing out on employees?
I find this an uncharitable view point. All sorts of creative work goes through a filter. Writers have editors, musicians have producers, actors have directors, programmers have other programmers. And when the filter fails (or dies), the result is bad.
It's as authoritarian as what the US or UK did, or many other countries when they limited the exports of PPE and some medicines.

Such rules are in an emergency scenario - which the EU currently is in, with third waves all over Europe, and a lot of the vulnerable citizens yet to be vaccinated due to the terrible job AZ has been doing.

If there's a time to trigger these mechanisms is now.

You're just trying to reframe this into a way of controlling the market, which is wrong and biased. This is already beyond a contract dispute, it's about saving lives, and the cost is to make a single pharmaceutical company accountable for their mistakes and their promises.

Just like the UK is doing what it needs to do to have his contract fulfilled to save british lives, by not allowing exports of AZ vaccine by enforcing the contract that's making AZ partially fail the EU contract, the EU will use it's own mechanisms to ensure the safety of EU citizens.
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Please don't repeat unsourced vaguely remembered third party accusations as fact.

[I'm aware from your other comments that you believe you are remembering a post you saw in 2019, but someone could easily mistake your comment as an independent source or repeating an established fact.]
Yeah, Substack is just the next iteration of Medium.

What's new is that rockstar opinion writers with enough name recognition are able to generate clickbait targeted for their specific followers and make a living in doing so, rather than relying on the opinion sections of major publications. So now i guess the established troll farms like the NYT or WSJ editorial pages are the clickbait minor leagues while Substack is the majors.

This doesn't seem to be any better, really.
No resources, but I found the easiest thing was to get agreement that FOSS components could be used to develop the software, subject to suitable licensing, and that any required changes to FOSS components could be contributed upstream. By tying those two things together, I've had minimal pushback.

Anything I wanted to use across projects I then released as FOSS, and as it was enhanced over use in multiple projects, those enhancements were contributed back per my agreement.

This requires a little investment up front to create the initial codebase, but I found that it's generally worthwhile to do something the first time for a client, and then rewrite it as the FOSS version, because then the open source version could avoid all the mistakes I'd made in the first prototype :-)
Unlike that 750 GeV lump, there are other observables in this case which build a consistent picture. Some fits to Wilson coefficients in b->sll were at almost 7σ even before this new result.
TL;DR: Motion to dismiss by NYT was denied.
Why not? It's an arbitrary donation amount.
Fair enough; what I meant is "multiple testing" in the context of a single overarching experiment, which is I believe what the comment I was replying to was getting at as well.
I don't know. Maybe stare at it long enough until it becomes boring?
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That is an implementation detail - OAuth itself works on the basis of web URLs so it's absolutely possible to open the login URLs in the default browser instead of in a web view.
But hard to get a face shot from a 90 deg angle, as people tend to focus their attention on the ground rather the sky.
This seems to me like saying bandcamp selling MP3s is a scam, since the proof of purchase is worthless and you can get the MP3 regardless! It's technically correct and misses the entire point.
Nitpick: I think that you meant "eg. 'kill C'"

(Other than that, great comment!)
> only 100Mbps

What use would you have for throughput in excess of 100Mbps?
Your point still stands, but technically that's not the subjunctive, it's the conditional.

Actual subjunctives are only rarely used in English and often sound clunky. If you did use it it would be "There is a one in a 1,000 chance that the measurement arise by statistical coincidence". Note that it must be "arise", not "arises".
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Holy crap. That went way deeper than I expected it to.

About halfway through, I was ready to copy the source to another computer and compile it there instead, and then suggest they nuke the original computer.

Turns out I was right. I just didn't know how right I was, which could be important for whatever they plan to do to the person who hacked that computer.
Wow! is crazy they don't have that implemented.
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The opening of the article so over gushes Douglas Adam's writing, it leaves me critical of everything that follows.

> "He was one of the most wildly imaginative writers of any generation..."

No, he was not, he was typical of a pop culture humorist, with a nice writer's voice. Not much else. Yes, he's a good author, but "great"? No, he was very average and will not be remembered as anything special. He's funny, in an obvious way.
Hah! Well I'll counter that, in my apartment in central London we got something like 100Mbps via cable, that was an artificial cap because I didn't want to pay more (300 was available, we got the cheapest package) - thought that was pretty decent for my wife and I.

Moved to Helsinki, didn't know what the options were for internet access so bought a 4G router from Amazon before flying out and stuck a pre-pay net-only sim in it (that you could buy from any kiosk) as a temporary solution. Year later (and all the WFH shit-hits-fan stuff that has happened in the last year) and it's still going strong, again getting around 100Mbps.

The Finnish one is CGNAT-ed though so for any 'hacking away for fun (and British TV)' stuff I set up an RPi with a WIFI ap and L2TP tunnel to AAISP back home.
After being a big fan of Scala about 10 years ago, I think that Kotlin is better suited in almost all cases. Kotlin is much easier to learn (especially if you know a similar language like Java, C# or TypeScript), much easier to read and understand and has much better long term stability. The support in IntelliJ is also better. Scala causes performance issues from time to time in IntelliJ and there are some language constructs that the IDE doesn't really understand in all cases.

JetBrains build Kotlin as a programming language for industrial projects - and it shows.
GitHub had some value as an independent concern though.

Discord doesn't. Either it has to start monetising so it doesn't lose money (which it could do regardless of Microsoft so the acquisition doesn't add much value) or Microsoft justifies the acquisition by integrating it with it's other services (probably gaming) and taking advantage of the user base.

So it doesn't feel like the same can apply.
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Why America was called West India? Why + is used for absence of electrons? Why atom called atom("unbreakable")? And so on.

Discovery is not a science, but it is the part of science.
Should. Don't.
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> I don't quite think making a payment is within the problem domain of OAuth

OAuth is merely a way to authorize access. Depending on which scopes are requested, it could be a one-off request. Typically in webapps, access is assumed to be a one-off unless the "offline_access" scope is requested for example.

Furthermore OAuth would improve recurring payments - the website can request a max payment amount or frequency and the user (on their bank's authentication page) can further constrain those settings if needed.
Teams is a B2B product sold to corporate clients as a part of their O365 subscription & Azure services.

It is widely used in this context and is highly profitable. The closest true competitor would be Google which lags far behind.
There's a little more to it. It apparently allows Project Veritas to do discovery, depose NYT writers, etc.
"unable to provide their own" seems to me like it's not universally true across the UK, at least -- CityFibre are digging up the roads just along from my house right now, installing new fibre all the way along the road, presumably in preparation for being able to provide fibre directly to each house...
From the original source:

>The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine recently announced contracts with the Germany-based companies Evonik and Merck KGaA to dramatically scale up the supply of lipids.

>However, in a recent conference call with industry leaders and German politicians including Angela Merkel, the chancellor, Sierk Poetting, the BioNTech chief operating officer, warned that lipids supply remained the key bottleneck facing production of the Pfizer vaccine and said it would take up to eight months to boost production.

Basically the UK would be hurting mostly themselves.
And yet, MH370 is still missing. Yes I know satellites can't see under water but the earth can still hide mysteries.
The trick from working from home is finding that separation between home and work. In particular, you want to make sure you _don't_ work in the sofa wearing your PJs.

I do a fake bike commute before and after work and it's done wonders for my happiness and work-life balance.
Why is nobody discussing confirmation bias? Repetitions of "I knew I was right" are really unhelpful.

The fundamentals remain unchanged from when the WHO did their work, nothing said here is adding new evidence, its just the volume of agreement making people feel sure.
The value is in product design, branding and userbase, not so much in software engineering.
I dunno man, it can work. I'm from Ireland and back when we were a poor country, everyone left for the UK, US or Australia. Mind you, that was true before we joined the EU.

However, because of the EU, we were able to get a lot richer, and now people actually come to Ireland for work (which still blows my mind, even though it's normal now).
Do you need facial recognition when nearly everyone carries a mobile phone?
The main benefit of generics is to easily maintain strong type information for implementers.

With a

<T>createMapWithStringKey(T arg) -> Map<string, T>

You can keep strong type info with

AType a
var b = createMapWithStringKey<AType>(a)
// b is for certain a Map<string, AType>
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I think UK still has it better fiber infra than Germany overall.
Up until 2007 or so, similar story in New Zealand. The government broke up our internet monopoly, then the subsequent duopoly 10 or so years after that.
Yeah, like file names of say PDF's, files with unique identifiers that give insight to the users personal life, worse still profile names of PC backups etc. etc.
Discord is 5 years old. The reason more and more people and projects use it over competition is that it offers better experience. It's not about some magic momentum they luckily got. I use it and moved my project to it. Last time I played a video game was about 20 years ago. Quoting one other commenter here: it's much better than Zoom, Slack and Teams combined and it's not a small margin. They delivered while everyone else failed. That's why people love it.
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The only things I like about working from home are the lack of commute, and the ability to do things at home during the day, like take a shower any time I want.

All the rest of it is better in the office, IMO. That said, it only applies if I actually have my own office, and not a shared workspace. (Which I did, pre-Covid, and I expect to have it again.)

Most of my co-workers did not have their own offices, so I expect they won't feel as kindly towards going back once we're all vaccinated.

In the end, for me it's kind of a wash. I get good things each way. But I'm pretty sure the business is going to want to go back to having an office because it simplifies so many things for them.
Yeah I agree. A lot of it is coming from CTO's, tech leads. It feels like that for them to justify their salaries they will push for "cutting edge" solutions like graphql, micro service architecture and stuff like that. Many times completely unneeded.
There is this incredible tale about how the UK was on the verge of getting a fiber optic (analog then!) television network, where they would have had a bunch of LaserDisc players, all playing various movies starting at staggered intervals, all streaming into the fiber optic network, so you could have had basically Netflix back in the 80s, by "tuning" in to the correct station.

Taking advantage of the immense bandwidth available in fiber. Alas, it would have been a monopolistic crime against Capitalism or something, so it never came to be.

With 80s tech, one could have easily created a set top box for browsing titles (in text format), possibly based on Ceefax technology. (Teletext in other parts of the world.)
the author submitted it as a Show HN last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26495059