skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't need NSA-grade vulnerabilities to find a company to exploit these days. This is a frequent security trend, obsessing over the most sophisticated attacks (they're exciting!) while ignoring the boring ones (let's audit the security of our assets, clean up old accounts, and rotate passwords)
I think they supplied some of the raw materials
Sorry, you're right, it's strongly typed but it is not statically typed.
I might be missing something with your comment, but there are obviously animals that live in and around oceans.

So "just" flying at super sonic speeds over oceans seems like it could be a disaster for marine life. The disruption to whales from noise pollution comes to mind
I happened to read the same information but reported by another publisher [1]. In that article, it points out that the energy density is only 60% of a traditional lithium-ion cell, but that disadvantage is offset by not having to use much cooling device like the lithium-ion ones.

The same information is represented pretty differently in this article, leading people to believe the energy density is better:

"The new battery cells are claimed to deliver far more energy density than current lithium-ion batteries, without the cooling, heating or rare-earth problems they face."

Still, I think is an encouraging news and I really love, just not quite a fan of the way they present it.

[1] - https://newatlas.com/energy/gmg-graphene-aluminium-ion-batte...

[edited for grammar]
We learnt some non-standard in a logic class (as a capstone application of FOL and model theory).

Perhaps there’s a perceived notion that to understand infinitesimals and such you need a logic background, but logic classes are generally an upper-half class that doesn’t have a full track for undergrads. This would be in addition to the fact that most professors are familiar with ε,δ-proofs and AP calculus classes cover the limit approach (though not rigorously).

The entrenched pipeline of mathematics students and professors would have to face a period of getting flushed out and refitted, and this is probably not attractive to administrators.
How are they going to train themselves to be shorter than 4'9"?
Absolutely.
There is all sorts of methods that can be employed. Facts can be obfuscated, I suppose a natural language model might be able to detect if this is unusual for that source but it doesn’t mean fake news. Another is simply lying with statistics, this would be much harder for NLP as now your talking getting the model to understand statistically information, understanding the background and why certain ways of presenting stats might be disingenuous for that subject.
You are also just relying on a model that only its owner could verify.

Ultimately though, this is fighting a losing battle because the source of the issue isn’t in propaganda which has long existed but in the channels through which it spreads. Something that has been known for a long time is flaming passions is more effective than fact. So too for social media is the spread of information faster when false[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/fake-news-spreads-...]. Which makes it difficult to counteract if the false information spreads faster than the rebuttal.
Speculating: if you have the key, you can make a read-only copy of the disk and analyze it on your own time without risk of altering it.
The comments about Jews read in context seems worse to me than those comments read in context.
"convenience/price of alternatives" - blinkxt is pretty great - but I think they also go to amazon's servers? so in the context of the discussion I guess it's not really alternative.

Arlo does good from videos I've seen shared - I had the V1 they came out with and the battery life was terrible - but I did notice some sort of open source license on the router thing. Not sure it's still a thing, and I think the price is higher, and the battery life is better, with newer versions - but may not be amazon servers?
> Those categories are still be a useful heuristic for trying to find people who are more likely to share certain attributes or who have had certain life experiences.

In other words, prejudice is a "useful heuristic".
> What were y'all doing at 17?

Mostly really awkward attempts at being sexually active. Surely some of it cancelable. Just like most other 17 year olds.
Yeah, we're talking past each other about two different things now. Classic.
But with the recent change to iOS 14.5 (and Android 12), those apps can't report to Facebook that they're being used by the same user (unless the user opts-in). Right?
> You'd think that the global head of diversity would know the difference between Jews and Zionist.

AFAIK, he wasn't “global head of diversity” for any organization when he wrote it, but only many years later.

That’s not to say that being able to distinguish between Jews, Zionists, Israelis, and the Israeli government isn’t basic threshold knowledge that should be expected of anyone publicly commenting on Israeli policy and how it should make anyone feel based on group association, but setting expectations of people’s knowledge based on their future jobs is a bit bonkers.
Parsing his sentence for tiny nuances like that isn't very helpful IMHO, but I'll indulge you.

His exact words are "these differences may explain". He doesn't say "these differences may PARTLY explain". If I say that A may explain B, the reasonable implication is that A may fully explain B. So, yes, he does suggest that non-bias causes are the only causes.

Just to be clear: I don't think this makes any real difference. The reaction to his email would've been the same either way. But the fact remains that your interpretation of the quote isn't supported by the actual words he used.
It's not about just technical competence. There are long standing real world reasons why custody of all kinds of assets is a business.
You now seem to describe law (as the often quoted "code as law" hints at), and that a blockchain could replace law where it's insufficient. Do you agree that in these cases, just having adequate laws would make a blockchain useless?

> The key quality of blockchain is that it allows groups to form consensus. Even though they compete on some matters, all stakeholders want the platform to succeed. If it doesn't, their investment is worthless.

Isn't that a company (or other kind of association) with shareholders? That's not specific to a blockchain, is it?

> There are other problems that need registries where there is no party with incentive and means to act as the state does above.

Either there are common financial incentives for stakeholders to agree on a registry (you can sell for a higher price if consumers know what they're buying quality products), and it will happen eventually. Or there are none, and it won't. In both cases, having a blockchain does not bring anything. Wine is I think a bad example given that there is already labels such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appellation_d%27origine_contr%.... This specific label seems to have its own law, but as soon as you have something resembling trademark law you can have such a label, even if it's designed by a private association of producers. It has its own problems, but I can't think of any that are solved by the use of a blockchain.

To summarize, I do agree with you that we should trace production, quality, and better registries can bring a lot. But there is no blockchain in this discussion, so I don't see how you connect the two.

Just think about the few comments you wrote in this thread, and what you wish would exist in terms of registries, "synthetic state", and so on. How does removing "blockchain" from this equation make any of what you wrote impossible or even slightly harder?
Good point and thank you for the book recommendation.

My comment was not on why the term is being used today but merely the fact that I don't like it, because it solidifies the racist pseudosciences in our culture in a way. It just feels wrong to me to speak the lingo of an enemy.

At the same time, as you said the term is here for a reason, so simply changing or ignoring it won't change the underlying problem.

Thinking about it, it might even be a good thing that using, reading or hearing the term stings. It reminds us of how incredibly frustrating the problem is. It appears so simple and arbitrary, is insufferably harmful and it should not exist in the first place, but here we are still.
You should look at my history. I'm very much real; been on HN for years.

I'm just providing documentation in the opposing view. Particularly, documentation the NPR author decided to omit.

HN has a rule of going to the source material, which I provided. The NPR article is partisan take on the issue.
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Thanks for summing up how I feel about this so succinctly. I have tried to understand the history and the issues between these two groups and there is honestly there is so much that each side can victim claim for and be pointed out as an aggressor on its really hard to make any judgement on a particular side being right or wrong. And with the history on this going back thousands of years and my admittedly complete lack of understanding of cultural context on both sides (and to be honest its so complex I am not sure anyone can understand this unless you have been living it) I just freely admit I am too ignorant on the subject to have an opinion- which is still quite problematic- despite having never been to the Middle East, I live in NYC and have lots of Jewish friends who claim that anything less than supporting Israel is anti-semitism.

But even when my wife, who knows I read news and books an order of magnitude more than her, asked me to kind of distill it down for her in whatever terms I understood it after the recent flare up, and I was just like I really can't... aside from there just being an inherent inability to share their ancient homelands.
NFTs have no mechanism to define originality, or even atomicity (an NFT might have a single owner, but it points to something external for which countless NFTs might point). It isn't a copyright grant, a contract, legal ownership, or even a binary container (beyond some token tiny amount).

I don't think it's "hate" for people to marvel at the insanity that are NFTs. You have people literally posting and selling NFTs for other people's creations. And even if those people post NFTs, their NFTs have no additional claim to what they represent than the other people, beyond some social "oh that's the guy who made all of those crummy doodles".

There is a notion of digital ownership, copyright assignment, etc. NFT is an extremely poor proxy for any of those.

Owning a rare gun skin in CS:GO is much more "real" than an NFT is.
worse, it allows them to run arbitrary code in a lot of apps.

Do not install apps, unless absolutely necessary.
I’d have gotten a lot more out of Shakespeare if they started by going through a deep line-by-line analysis of all the oblique and double meanings of an annotated rap song on genius.com (nee rapgenius.com) and then said, “ok, now we are going to do the same thing to find all the clever double entendres, jokes and allusions in Shakespeare”
> If falling birth rate upsets you, what are your concerns?

The US has had below-replacement (2.1) birthrates for at least 50 years [1], yet its population keeps increasing. A low fertility rate by itself does not seem to solve the "there are too many of us anyway" problem.

[1] https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/11/raw-data-the-...
The comment above is more of an explanation of how this currently works in Blender and how one can approach the aforementioned challenge.

I do agree that the Python API is often just a thin wrapper around the C/C++ code [0] and that the documentation of the required context for operators is a bit lacking for people who are not familiar with Blender's implementation. This is also acknowledged in the API docs [1]. However, I do think the API is quite usable and not particularly complicated to understand.

[0] https://docs.blender.org/api/current/info_gotcha.html

[1] https://docs.blender.org/api/current/info_gotcha.html#why-do...
> The judge will ask them to prove it, though.

It won't get that far. At this point, the court does not have the power to change the election outcome of that county. That will lead to immediate dismissal of the case as moot.
I'm always amazed at how Peter Norvig continues to create the kind of content that a top grad student would do, even as his career and rank in the industry has skyrocketed.

Back in university and grad school I would write tutorials and post them online (and still get thanks from random people many many years later). I would explore random interesting subjects and dive deep. I would constantly publish code and demos, etc. As my career grew, one of one these started to fall off. I look at my peers and it's the same story: they were all vibrant hot-shots in their early-mid 20s, and now are just weighed down by the teams and projects they manage.

Peter is an inspiration. I will ponder this...
> On the contrary mathematics in the Soviet Union had more of a focus on intuition and geometric grounding for mathematics

A lot of it comes from mathematics always being taught in conjunction with physics. Not sure what the roots of that are.
> located 11.7 million light-years from Earth

I might consider 11.7 light-years "unusual" or "baffling." But times that by a million and it becomes a lot less so.
If you had actually looked back through my comment history you would have seen that I never defended China or claimed that the USA was worse. I am not a fan of governments in general but I will freely acknowledge that the US government is far from the worst example. My comment was purely about domestic snooping vs. foreign from the perspective of the one being spied upon—if one lives in China the roles will obviously be reversed, and in that case one should prefer a foreign entity like the USA gathering intel over the domestic Chinese equivalents. Either could wish you ill but the domestic power will almost always be the more immediate threat. (Not being spied upon at all would be ideal, of course.)
Who decided there is a lack of consumer demand? There is a lack of OEM demand for sure which is driven by the fact that most companies are willing to sell crap if it can save 1 cent per product. The average consumer does not even know this pb exists. Adding to that the artificial market seg by Intel which is absolutely stupid and the consummer actually can not buy a consummer CPU that supports ECC. The situation is then locked into a vicious circle where all the components have ridiculous premiums and lower volumes.
Molte grazie
You're saying the derisive "democrat party" instead of the actual name, aping the conservative media you watch. That's what I pointed out.
If the purpose of schooling is to ensure every child can be a potential doctor or lawyer then it has already failed in the past, and will continue failing far into the future.

Realistically, I don’t think all kids schooled in Montessori style “learn what you want when you want to learn” will fail at becoming doctors or lawyers if that’s their passion. It may detract from the number of people who make it through law school just because they heard lawyers make a lot of money.

But that’s realism, I was responding to the hypothetical of if this method of learning somehow destroys a human beings capacity to ever become a doctor or lawyer. That’s not very practical to say a schooling method will destroy all sense of delayed gratification. Personally, I think developing those life skills is orthogonal to intellectual education in the first place and are more akin to personal character which parents can build in their children without conjoining it with schoolwork.
Elephants herd on mammoth 500km trek – China
People buy VPS from linode/digitalocean/vultr or worse some solusvm based provider and believe such crytps give them a secure area
> This situation could easily have been solved without breaking changes in a multitude of ways.

Please, do elaborate. (I'll note that if I were redesigning python3, I wouldn't settle on the design for unicode that py3 uses, something more rust-like is probably a bit better, but there's no way to transition from string-literals-are-bytes to string-literals-are-unicode without breaking backwards compatibility)
The first post on SO for most accounts tend to be from Newbs. The people see the question and think Read The Fucking Manual and downvote. Then you have zero karma and you can't do anything else.

The problem is that the Newb doesn't even know where to start in the manual.
How is it fraud if they actually deliver a product, but late? Wouldn't fraud be never delivering a product after taking money for it? Granted, the IF in the first sentence is still looming over them.

I hate super positve PR propaganda too, and a skeptical eye should always be applied. Fraud is still used when talking about Tesla, yet they clearly have developed products. Yes deadlines were missed. I'm willing to give Boom a bit of leeway.
There is no legal path that leads from this audit to a change in the election results; the election is over, the results are certified, the electors have voted, etc.

The goal of this audit is to find evidence that will bolster the claims that there was significant election fraud. That evidence could be used to push for changes to future elections, for campaigning purposes, whatever.

Whether this is a good-faith effort to identify actual potential fraud or an attempt to manufacture FUD about the elections process is left as an exercise for the reader.
The migration could have happened more smoothly if they had let both python2 and python3 code coexist in the same project. The problem was forking the language like they did. Why couldn't they make the same interpreter run both python3 and python2 code, for a transition period, deprecating python2 features gradually? So you could have had legacy python2 code and new code written in python3. The low level implementation is not that different to require that big break. The only major difference was on string types, but that could have been handled.

Breaking stuff as they did made no sense. And the problem is that after 10+ years that python3 came out in most Linux distribution if you type python you get python2, and it will probably ever will for maintaining compatibility with scripts that started with `#!/usr/bin/python` expecting it to be python2 and not 3. That is a problem for everyone, for maintainers of the distributions, for developer and sysadmins that cannot assume that the default version of python is 3 (you don't know how many time I wated debugging programs written by people that use Arch or whatever fancy distribution and assumed that /usr/bin/python is python3, and then the script breaks on the Debian production server...)

At least since they made a new language, they could invented a new extension for the files, so the `/usr/bin/python` executable could have detected the version to use based on the extension (launch .py3 files with python3, and .py files with python2).
That’s true, though given this success, hopefully they can name it the norm going forward.
Rattlesnakes cause problems for engineers maintaining stored A380s
>> Then we find that there are game positions whose values are larger than all the integers ...

> But isn't this really more about notation than having "values" that are necessarily "larger than all integers"?

We have a structure which is "values for games". That structure has addition and subtraction, "greater than" and "less than", and they behave a lot like numbers. We find that the integers embed naturally into this structure, so it's reasonable to think of this structure as an extension of the integers.

There are things in that structure that are greater than all the integers.

Call them what you like, the people who work with these things find it natural to refer to them as "infinities". I feel that your objections are arising from your desire to think of these things in the existing ways you think of the integers, but these things are not the integers, they are a structure in which the integers naturally live as a sub-structure. Not all of your intuitions will be helpful (although some will, and they are certainly understandable).

The classic works here are "On Numbers and Games", or "Winning Ways". The freely available on-line resources are scattered, non-comprehensive, and occasionally bordering on wrong, but they do exist, and they are free. Magic phrases to search for are things like "nimbers", "Combinatorial Game Theory", and "Sprague-Grundy Theorem". You might like to read the related thing that I wrote:

https://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/TheIndependenceGame.html?UF03...

That deals only with the most elementary aspects, specifically Nimbers, but if nothing else, you might like to skip to the references section of that for other links.
That original print will probably be worthless as people will regard it as a copy. You'd also be up against life ruining fraud charges.

But yes there are ways to link NFTs to products. Louis Vuitton and Nike are linking NFTs to their products with things like built-in NFC tags and QR codes plus other probably more secretive things.
737Max disagrees with that sentiment.
Am I wrong in believing trying to force a sort of artificial scarcity on digital goods, is a flawed concept to begin with ?

Maybe I don't understand NFTs
NetGuard is another option for DNS filtering.
No, because the quoted expert continued to serve with integrity during the Trump administration. He appeared to transition from one non-partisan government agency (US Election Assistance Commission) to another (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in DHS).
I see. So basically you just know a bunch of log rules and then map your distribution into a log-distribution. And I guess this becomes second nature to a seasoned statistician. So a dedicated numeric type for probability value is nothing more than a nice-to-have.
Deport them all, no place in a modern, Western society for murderous bigotry.
Pretty sure he was not chief diversity officer 14 years ago but I agree it should have been "If I were an israeli...".
Clearly advertisement is a massive untapped market for Apple. They have all the pieces to create a money printing machine.

They can push contextual ads in so many surfaces: Safari's Typeahead, Maps, App Store, Wallet/Apple Card, Apple TV+, etc...

But the reality is that they can't create a narrative around privacy focused ads without betraying their general privacy narrative.
Privacy and Ads are antagonistic concepts.
Serving effective digital ads depends entirely on knowing certains characteristics and demographics of the end consumer.

Facebook and Google are better equiped to create a narrative that reconciles ad serving and privacy because their core services are "free". Apple simply can't because their core business is to sell expensive phones and computers.
Perhaps customers wouldn't care about getting ads in their expensive iPhones, but once the cat is out, I find hard to imagine a situation where that idea wouldn't be deeply criticized and scrutinized.
Here in California, jaywalking is an infraction, not a crime. Jaywalkers (who are caught) have to pay a fine. It can basically be considered getting sued by the city for breaking the rules.

If you can't pay the fine, it can turn into a warrant that can get you arrested. Thus jaywalking actually is a crime, but only for poor people.
Are We There Yet? The Query Your Database Can’t Answer
I wonder if the apparent contradiction can be explained by the difference between the energy density of a cell (i.e. a single instance) vs of a battery (i.e. a practical aggregation of a number of cells)? I don't know how much space the cooling etc. takes up in a practical lithium-ion battery.