skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be clear, you read "we review every app" and from that your interpretation is that every app is "completely secure".

To be polite, ROFL. Either you're posing a disingenuous argument to win a pathetic internet argument (which is hilariously dumb, but here we are), or you're stupid. Which is it?
In time boxed sprints it annoys me no end that ONLY stories get pointed and then a “percentage of the sprint” is reserved for unpointed work. Given that points aren’t allowed to equal time and bugs and chores are allowed to be pointed the question becomes “a percentage of what exactly?”

Removing the time bounding makes much more sense as you’ve said above.

I have this argument with my PO and SM - if points don’t equal time then why do we plot points vs time on a burn down?

Not pointing work in this scenario is just a way for management to squeeze extra work in that looks free.
You're forgetting that Apple makes money every time you spend it. They aren't going to stop serving you drinks inside their casino, and they're certainly not going to warn you before you fleece their pockets again.
Oh, the problem is that it's not as simple as intuition/experience/etc being better than bad science. Often enough your intuition is just wrong, and bad science is just right.

A better way is dealing with confidence values with your intuition, and changing the required quality of science based on the confidence of the priors you are trying to verify. But then, this is hard too.

The real problem here is that, as you complained, those people aren't just competent enough on the work they are doing. I guess my point is only that this shouldn't be surprising, as it's a hard job.
Why Do We See Things That Aren't There?
> The educational system is not dedicated to produce learning by students, but teaching by teachers—and teaching is a major obstruction to learning.

Yes and no. Disciplined Minds by Jeff Schmidt has a different take (one I agree with), which argues that the educational system is dedicated to producing political discipline. Yes, this serves the interest of the teachers, and no, the system is not designed to produce learning. But it's highly arguable whether you could truly design, build, and sustainably run an institution which reliably produces autodidacts and independent thinkers, particularly at higher levels, particularly since it's difficult to impossible to measure how reliably such an institution is succeeding at its mission.
bitwarden has a right-click context menu, which allows you to fill, or copy username/password. This is easier than the icon, and it doesn't require enabling the autofill feature.
I don't know the details but if private citizens can find these fishing boats, surely the AR Navy could. AR has 3 full-size destroyers, I imagine sailing one through a fishing fleet and even firing a couple shots could chase them off for good?

Unless people are getting paid off to look the other way?
KaTeX already provides pre-rendering of math. If you want to start with Markdown you can use Pandoc. Then you can get TeX, HTML, and even Word formats from the same source. This project seems to only work with one particular editor, as well.
Channel factories only work as long as all participants of the factory want their Bitcoin inside the LN. As soon as any party wants their Bitcoin in their Bitcoin wallet, the factory needs to close all channels. This makes is unusable in the real world as people can and will not commit their whole networth into static channels that need settlement of 100 or so unknown parties until they can send it anywhere else.

All of this also completely ignores the LN routing problem which is conveniently left out of the LN whitepaper as it is actually unsolvable at large scale unless you have very few supernodes coordinating everything. In the real world those are commonly known as "banks".
Why the textbook marketplace is fundamentally broken
Are those games distributed as Wii titles rather than Wii U?

I'd imagine that you can't actually play anything exclusive to the Wii U virtual console.
Actually the safest way to make cities less dangerous is to just ban people from going outside.
The owners of the now defunct Fry's Electronics also owned the Arena Football team the San Jose SaberCats and additionally owned/leased/rented/sponsored various aircraft including a 747 SP.

1968 GULFSTREAM G1159B N24YS (still owned by the Fry family)

1976 ROCKWELL NA-265-60 N607CF (now owned by an airshow)

1955 PIPER PA-23 N3494B (owned by someone else)

1971 GULFSTREAM G1159B N44YS (still owned by the Fry family)

1976 ROCKWELL NA-265-60 N39CB (now owned by an airshow)

1977 DEHAVILLAND CANADA DHC-6-300 N814BC (still owned by the Fry family)

1978 BOEING 727-281(A)(RE) N724YS (now registered to a UK blind trust)

1980 BOEING 747SP-27 N747A (now owned by NASA)

1981 ROCKWELL NA-265-65 N88BF (still owned by the Fry family)

1981 ROCKWELL NA-265-65 N654YS (still owned by the Fry family)

1992 BEECH B300 N4YS (still owned by the Fry family)

2011 GULFSTREAM G280 N38GL (now owned by a casino corporation)
Yes banning left turns will definitely stop drivers from illegal left turns /s
> are the fruits of a huge amount of individual efforts

That doesn’t make it any less artificial does it? If anything that makes it more so. That is also again only speaking to supervised learning (and only the fraction of it where datasets are curated not collected) not AI in general
> Just look at any virtual class from school or university, you will see people in pajamas, bed-head hair, various states of dress from normal to nearly naked.

The difference being that the students are paying for the privilege of attending classes. As a professional, you are the one being paid and represent your organization. If you were talking about staff and teachers, then their administrators probably would like to have a word with them.
Mailplane Stopped Selling Licenses
It would be nice to have this thread as a "collection" place for different open textbooks. I personally use OpenStacks, they're quite good. https://openstax.org/
Huh? He's clearly blaming Apple for violating his trust. He never trusted Samsung.
Signal has a PIN, too. If that's required for the transfer, then it would prevent this in the case of brief, surreptitious access. A hostage scenario is impossible
> If the merchant wants to receive funds via the gateway then funds need to be locked in a payment channel between the gateway and the merchant.

If I keep the scenario where the merchant doesn't want to lock anything in the LN, then the gateway can do it, and charge a fee for transacting through it. It's the gateway's choice to open such a channel or not. The "expensive" part is compensated by the fee which is chosen by the gateway operator.

If the merchant chooses to "lock" a bit to participate in LN, it's easier to rebalance his channels once 1000 people depleted the channel, eliminating the "inflexible". Besides, after all the fees saved by not using the Bitcoin blockchain for 1000 transactions, one can open a new channel to deal with that as well.

And again, nothing is ever "locked" in the LN, at any moment anyone (e.g. the merchant) can send everything back to on-chain or even to exchanges that use LN. There is no reason to believe that on-chain is less "locked". As such, it's not expensive nor inflexible, or in any case, less than Bitcoin itself.

Of course it would be easier if there was nothing to think about, but centralized solutions all have their set of problems as well, and that's another debate. In the mean time, LN works well at its scale and push back like yours feels like a "perfect is the enemy of good" kind of situation.
A site with lots of Bongard problems: https://www.foundalis.com/res/bps/bpidx.htm
How often do you check your surgeon's grades?

Or any of those things you mention? I normally just trust that the bus company has hired a guy with a license.
Skimming the "Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence" grant [0] cited in the posted article suggests a potentially useful role for gain of function research, although I'm not sure if that method was actually used.

The intended work was to (1) look for unknown viruses in bats and sequence the virus' genomes, (2) screen people who live and work nearby to see which viruses cross over to people, and (3) test the infectiousness of these viruses in cell culture and animal studies in a laboratory setting. The point of #3 would be to systematically compare the properties of viral strains with slight genetic variation to reveal which parts of the genome are responsible for which outcomes (symptoms, which species can be infected, etc.). Information from the lab comparisons would be used to help interpret which naturally occurring viruses observed in the screening work are potentially dangerous. Work like this _could_ help prevent a pandemic. (It would be bitterly ironic if it instead caused a pandemic.)

Synthetic variation of the viral genome ("gain of function", but also loss of function) allows direct experimentation to be done in the lab (#3). Direct experimentation is very useful because it allows systematic comparison to establish cause & effect; which genes do what, and how they interact. If a large supply of naturally occurring variants are already available though this can also be achieved, with less certainty, by correlation. But if humanity is going to be proactive about studying viruses, I don't see much reason to avoid gain of function research. Collecting and studying wild viruses means that dangerous new strains will be present in labs regardless, so either way stringent safety controls, monitoring, and containment plans are absolutely necessary.

[0] https://reporter.nih.gov/search/q4dXFDKEsU-IkTAYgowOKw/proje...
Every person didn't author themselves. They're all driven by innate greed and desire and suffering. The fishermen, the Chinese oligarchs, the Chinese communist party - they're all the center of their own consciousness, each person trying from moment to moment. I pity people, I don't hate them. I may dislike the capitalist system that leads to environmental destruction, but no individual authored our global society.

So, I do see your viewpoint, but looking at individuals is one small slice of the problem, not the whole by any means. We can't count on individual goodness, not when greed or desire is allowed to motivate our leaders so heavily.
Divergent evolution. Could have been another species / apex predator.
He’s also the nephew of Paolo Rocca, CEO of the Techint conglomerate (steel, mining, oil and gas, etc.) and worth $3.7 billion according to Wikipedia.
What traffic lights teach us about good public policy
Yes.

One piece of poop in the forest—nature.

A sewer pipe discharging a river of poop from an entire city into a forest—a toxic waste dump.

The entire surface of the sea is evaporating fresh water and the resulting brine is slinging constantly. It’s not creating a dead zone because it’s distributed. A river of brine in the oceans would be like a toxic cloud of ammonia that kills anything it touches…until it mixes sufficiently.
On the other hand, when you make coffee you probably aren’t thinking about how to heat the water, measure the temperature, adjust the flow rate, etc. When you use the microwave you don’t think about cycling the magnetron to hit the power level appropriate for the settings or spin the turntable. When you drive a car, you accelerate, brake, steer, etc. without directly manipulating all of the parts & microcontrollers which respond to those control changes.

You just call coffeemaker.brew(), oven.defrost(“meat”, “500g”), or car.accelerate(). From that perspective the OOP model works pretty well.
I'm not a huge fan of this quote because it's an opinion presented as a fact.
The list of projects that have left freenode has moved to:
https://github.com/siraben/freenode-exodus
(as indicated in the gist)
> Many games work in 16:9 widescreen also (Gamecube was originally 4:3).

There are a handful of GameCube titles that were 16:9 native widescreen on the original console. The one that comes to mind for me is Serious Sam: The Next Encounter
We are discussing the claim that Apple guarantees every app is "completely secure". Thanks for the comment though.
I've met quite a number of developers that somehow barely have the skills of my grandma using a PC outside of their daily development tasks. Ive seen multiple help desk tickets back in my help desk days where developers got someone to email saying their PC was broken when it was just turned off.

My point being a developer does not necessarily make this person somehow less susceptible to app store scams.
They lost an enormous amount of trust when they released Windows 10 full of tracking features. From a privacy standpoint W10 is a nightmare.
Good riddance.
> A team of even adequate--not great, just adequate--people working together will have these conversations independently.

Then the daily standup will be really damn fast. =)

On the other hand the daily is a place where you _know_ that the other person isn't busy and it's a good time to raise any concerns or ask for assistance.
Is that a thumb?!
Try Julia nightly (1.7):

julia> @code_warntype not_type_stable()
MethodInstance for not_type_stable()
from not_type_stable() in Main at REPL[2]:1
Arguments
#self#::Core.Const(not_type_stable)
Locals
o::Any
Body::Int64
1 ─ (o = Main.returns_option())
│ %2 = Main.isnothing(o)::Bool
└── goto #3 if not %2
2 ─ return 0
3 ─ return 1

julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 1.7.0-DEV.1169
Commit e5d7ef01b0* (2021-05-26 14:17 UTC)

Note `Body::Int64`.
With older Julia versions, it should still be type stable if you did `o === nothing` instead of `isnothing(o)`.
Both yes and I feel like you are purposefully ignoring recent events.

In recent history, there were record breaking, HUGE protests of thousands and thousands HKers with umbrellas, at first marching mostly unhindered and somewhat successful in at least postponing the illusion of democratic law.

Now, lighting a candle gets an activist arrested.
According to quick googling, sales of used cars outnumber new car sales by about 2.5:1 in the US. The ratio is almost certainly higher in other parts of the world. Anyway, globally speaking the US middle class is, of course, extremely wealthy. Even in most Western countries €$£40k cars are not really affordable to the middle class.
Is Medium Becoming Empty?
I used to find Medium articles quite interesting but lately I've been struggling to find interesting stuff. Also I find its frontend not as good as one would expect it to be?
The only reason I disagree with your disagreement is because Apple is making money here, and they have every incentive to turn the other cheek. Their entire business model is based on driving user interaction and spending, so I don't think they're the most trustworthy party to audit the App Store. That would be like if we let the President decide which news channels were allowed to broadcast at the beginning of their term.
A common theme of the most successful people that come through a mentoring group that I'm part of is that they don't have side projects or side hustles. They focus their time and energy on doing one thing very well, whether it's education, their internship, or their job.

Somewhere along the line, tech students got the idea that the key to success is to have many side projects and side hustles going at once. While it is true that in very narrow, specific cases something like a GitHub project could fill in gaps in a resume, it's rare that companies even look at GitHub work as the deciding factor in a hiring decision. It's too easy to let your energy, attention, and motivation get diluted across too many side projects. The problem is amplified when people start entering relationships and eventually having kids, further diluting their limited time and energy.

Some of the worst offenders are things that don't necessarily feel like a side hustle but nevertheless drain inordinate amounts of time. Daytrading stocks and cryptocurrencies commonly traps people into constantly checking their phone, Twitter, and portfolio to avoid losing money or missing out on breaking news. The pocket change most people make (or lose) on day trading is lost in the noise relative to a successful tech career.

The best advice I have for career success is to pick one thing at a time and focus intently on it. Use your off time to do anything else: Social activities, physical activities, or even simply relax and recharge for the next day.

It's better to do one thing well (usually your job) rather accumulate a lot of half-finished side projects or side hustles that are constantly stealing attention.
Right. Listing 10 papers with “ok” impact should be viewed as 10 “bad” papers and not 10 “good” papers.

It’s extremely unlikely that a 50 page CV is demonstrating real value throughout. It’s the academic equivalent of putting 20 Javascript frameworks on your Resume because you used them one time.
The RF probably just turns the glass into a capacitor plate. The AC nature of RF helps to deal with the fact that glass is a poor conductor, so a DC field couldn't create much gas before the surface saturated with charge.

This should work without the RF stage using electrodes coated with glass, and using AC to drive it at high frequency.
That is, unfortunately, anecdata. Everyone keeps telling me that electric cars have fewer moving parts and have such low maintenance costs that they cost 90% less to maintain, at which point I turn around and ask why Tesla doesn't offer a bumper to bumper 20 year warranty, because they can benefit from the law of large numbers. If the repair costs are so much better, this should be easy to do, right? That's the point where my interlocuter usually walks away as they have no answer.

One way you can try to estimate what the real maintenance cost is in the first X years is to look at what automakers set aside for warranties. In that case, (the last I looked), Tesla seemed in the middle of the pack vis-a-vis major ICE makers. But then you have the 20-X years of service, and the dirty secret is that those years are also paid for by new owners except they pay those repairs forward as depreciation when they sell. So then you look at depreciation curves, to see if Tesla is holding up much better than ICE vehicles due to lower expected maintenance costs and there, too, Tesla appears to be right in line with other major producers. So bottom line, I can't find any evidence for the thesis that getting rid of all these components will significantly reduce lifetime maintenance costs, while the battery costs remain a big unknown.

Now part of this is just not having enough data. In 20 years, we'll have a lot more data, and then maybe the warranty policies and depreciation curves will look very different. But this goes back to my point which is why isn't Tesla insuring the buyers against this risk by selling massive 20 year waranties to stand behind these claims of long service life and very low maintenance costs? Why leave people searching for anecdata in a new car whose service costs they don't have the data to estimate?

For most people a car is a major portion of their net-worth and they tend to be conservative in making this purchase. Sure, for high income buyers, they can afford to take risks but most buyers can't. So why doesn't Tesla do more to insure prospective buyers against this risk? It seems like such a no brainer, and yet many companies insist on pushing risk onto the customer. This isn't just an issue with Tesla, but I see it in many industries, where the producer is the one who has the survivorship data, they benefit from the law of large numbers, and they have financial backing, they are in a position to sell insurance, and people would buy the insurance, but the insurance just isn't being offerred, and if it is offered, it's on absolutely terrible terms, rather than as something to remove purchase frictions.
My father was one of the inventors of the undersea fiber optic cable, and joined many of the cable laying missions, including the original Australia mission and several japan missions. (I forget the cable names)

Our house growing up was full of cable segments, superconductors, lasers, and microscopes. I remember one day he brought home a $100,000 microscope that had been thrown away, which I proceeded to use to look at banal things like leaves and insects, but was designed to look at the ends of cut fibers.

Anyway, its incredible to me how much these cables have transformed the world, and how invisible it is to all of us. Imagine if trans-continental communication relied on satellites? The global internet we have today would be much more isolated, with fiefdoms based on proximity.

For those interested in a fiber science story:

He once was asked to calculate the rate of seawater diffusion into glass, which he and the team found ridiculous, but I suppose it was unknown if water could soak into glass in an appreciable way over long periods of time. (Water is an important impurity to try and control)

How would you measure such a thing? There's no good way to increase the rate of diffusion of water into glass, but what you can do is make fiber with excess water in the core, and heat the fiber while measuring the diffusion of water out of the core into the outer portions of the fiber.

Then simple rate relations imply the rate of diffusion at sea floor conditions.

I believe the result was that you would see a 1% increase in the water concentration in the fiber over a period of 10,000 years. So his instinct, that it does not matter, was incredibly correct.

I hope nobody else has ever had to repeat such a measurement!
To look at the bigger picture here, this is really the longtail of trust lost in companies due to excessive layoffs and clear consistent messaging that the employee is just a head that can roll when its convenient and cost effective.

The reaction of those 3 employees was my own, and when the culture is so clearly against you, and the company clearly doesnt have more than fluff words (across the org) to retain you, then the net sentiment has shifted strongly away from "trust the employer" to "the employer will screw me the first chance they get".
Being able to solve half of them by computer would be amazing progress, indicating a breakthrough in machine learning research.

But whether that means artificial general intelligence is solved is another question. Most people can’t play Go very well either.

It’s difficult to say whether the solution will generalize without having it, but easy to imagine that it might.
Both. The salting SHOULD happen in one way Hash functions. But sometimes it does not. Using your own prefix when always using the same password is the second worst solution but at least better than nothing. Poor mans salting :-)

Use a PW manager.
Yeap. ;-)
Highly applied mathematics, yeah.
Evaluating Startup Ideas and When to Pivot: Learn from Our Mistakes
You have the moral right to use deadly force to protect your property.....
If there is no way to have falsifiable ideas, that leaves only one way to settle disputes: war. If there is no objective reality then might makes right.

Ultimately I don’t agree with your assertion about physics and objectivity. If QM turns out to show that non-locality is real or that the state of things is probabilistic at the quantum level, then that simply changes our definition of what objective reality is. It doesn’t change the fact that there is a reality or that it has a nature.

Hell if ghosts and psi are real there is still an objective reality. It’s just one that includes ghosts and psi… and not one that doesn’t. In this hypothetical reality someone denying the existence of ghosts would be wrong, not just someone with a “different point of view.”

The real issue is that is/ought is a hard problem that has not yet been satisfactorily solved. Both the “woke” left and the “alt-right” punt the issue by declaring a desired outcome and then failing to specify a way to get there or falling back on force.

“Nothing is true. This is how I want it to be. Now where is my gun?”
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