skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is almost certainly a case of attempted parallel construction.

Indulge my hypothetical:

1. A newspaper article is posted at 1PM.

2. A suspicious comment that contains nonpublic, incriminating information is posted on a message board at 1:15PM. That comment links to the USA Today article. The message board is outside of FBI jurisdiction.

3. The Feds already know the identity of the commenter through an illegal and/or unconstitutional means of data gathering. (Think of all the secret taps built into AT&T's networks, their Stingray devices, all of the unpublished vulnerabilities exploited every day by TLAs, etc.)

4. If the Feds can get the identities of everyone who read the article during the window immediately before and after that comment's submission, they may be able to use other information to narrow that list down to one or two suspects and use that to sway a judge to issue a search warrant. Because they already know who they're looking for, I wouldn't expect this "narrowing down" process to be particularly even-handed.
I see only upsides with "main" though.
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I was specifically talking about the new line of m1 models, with a key feature of them having no fan noise and updated cameras.
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> 5.0-14120 - Fix Out of Bounds Texture Coordinate Behavior

> More surprisingly, the originally intended effect is never shown on console either! Players have instead been seeing a different kind of blur effect created by this undefined behavior. In all likelihood, this bug went unnoticed by developers because the effect they achieved looked pretty good and they simply didn't realize that anything was wrong. While implementing the undefined behavior in Dolphin, pokechu22 also fixed Nintendo's bug so that we could see what could have been.

Nah, it looks wrong with the original "bug" fixed—it's supposed to look like a painting! The developers may or may not have known what happened, but I bet if not for the quirk they would have gone with something else entirely.
What purpose does a hardware wallet serve? What security does it offer?
Why are remittances so expensive if this is so simple? Maybe you are missing something here?

The function of lightning and the Bitcoin base layer is settlement and clearing, those 2 things are non-trivial.

Then there is also the legal aspect, which cannot be detached from those.
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Author here. I'm also working on a related book covering distributed algorithms: https://www.stateright.rs/

It includes a comparison w/ TLA+/TLC for those familiar with those technologies.
Apple is an anticompetitive steam roller and they deserve every measure of criticism they receive.

Don't ask for censorship to protect a brand you value. Apple is not beyond reproach.
> A lot of users let their guard down because they blindly trust Apple’s marketing, and scammers take advantage of that.

This is the "a lot of scammers are better than a few sophisticated scammers" argument, which I disagree with. Users themselves have varying levels of sophistication (unsophisticated scams work just fine on some people), and there are other mechanisms like chargebacks which can unwind damage after the fact.

> The fake ratings and reviews are making this even worse by leading people to believe other people have found some of these scams valuable.

I have no insight into how well Apple is doing combating fake reviews, but no anti-abuse system is perfect. There is the same question here: would things be worse if Apple didn't police reviews at all.

The App Store is broken but it is the least broken of the app stores.
> I am building a simple bot. The bot scrapes an RSS feed. The only persistence I need is the date time of the most recent item on the RSS feed. I dont want to have to spin up a DB.

So, open a local file, overwriting any old contents, and write out the date and time of the most recent item retrieved when done.

Then, before starting the next fetch, open the file and read in the saved date/time to use to determine which new items to fetch.
Creating a serverless function to scrape web pages metadata
The article's premise does not make sense.

This stuff happens despite the tight control, not because of it. If it was uncurated, it would be a cesspool like the Google play store (or ...shudder... the "competing" stores).

Having a paid app that reads QR codes is not necessarily a scam.

The article admits that 2/3 of the apps they reported were taken down.

The article claims: "If consumers were to have access to alternative app stores or other methods of distributing software, Apple would be a lot more likely to take this problem more seriously"

Yet then says: "Apple isn’t the only company that struggles with this issue: They’re also on Google’s Play Store, which is available on its Android mobile operating system. But unlike Apple, Google doesn’t claim that its Play Store is curated."

...so lack of competing stores or presence of (imperfect) curation is not the cause, because Google did not even begin to attempt to solve this problem. Play store apps, unless proven otherwise, are generally malware you carry with yourself every day, with potential access to everything in your device because the OS is nowhere near locked down compared to Apple counterpart. Hell, most Android devices ship with undeletable malware from vendors etc.

Apple model is broken, but it is the least broken out there. Instead of admitting that, article tries to be a hit piece trying to make the Apple model look worse for the ongoing trial.
> The current issue is that all of these models are black boxes

Not quite. It'd be great if that was the only issue with neural network ML. A much bigger issue is that neural networks have extremely limited applicability. They're great for classification problems when you can have huge training datasets, but for many common problems they're useless.

One obvious class of problems is time series prediction - extremely important in life and for business, and something neural networks are no good for.
What do replacement batteries cost, though?
It's a shame half a million Americans died to bring us a lesson most people learn in kindergarten.
Inheritance is a bit more complicated than that.

Your definition is closer to what the Template Method pattern [1] is, rather than inheritance in general.

Keep in mind also that neither inheritance itself nor the Template Method pattern guarantee encapsulation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_method_pattern
What would prevent you from applying the splay tree re-balancing technique to a Merkle Tree? Or, is this something that is routinely done today? I could not find any examples out there.

Hypothetically, this technique could speed-up processing of trees for transactions that occur in real-time (i.e. historical operations filter to the bottom of the tree).

Also, the fact that Merkle Trees are keyed by hash automatically eliminates the only caveat of the splay tree algorithm WRT insertions.

The reason I really like the splay tree algorithm is that it is very friendly to linear storage operations. You only need to write a minimal subtree update to disk each time you make a series of updates (batches being ideal).
Sounds amazing! Best of luck with everything, I'll be watching the repo closely.
Spent some time in Brimingham. Worked crazy hours, but would wander at night.

Local beer was a little rare in the places around our hotel (probably because we were near Broad Street), but they had "Trooper" at Malt House. It was actually really great.

That may also be influenced by the fact that I mostly only could get foreign light lagers everywhere else, and Malt House was a great place to relax on the canal a little away from the Hen Party craziness.
I agree that h-index isn't very indicative, but max citations seems like a poor alternative.

There is a relation between citations and certain aspects of research quality, but citation count can be easily gamed, and is affected by many factors other than the quality of the work itself.

Trying to use single measures to quantiy something as complex seems flawed to begin with.
It matters a lot, what if this type of pandemic happens every 10 years? How difficult it would be to create similar virus?

Also I sacrificed two years of my life. I think I deserve an answer.
15 to 20 years ago when roundabouts were first introduced to where I live (southern Germany), people were pretty terrible at using them.

After about 5-10 years, people have gotten the hang of it, new drivers were properly educated in driving school, now they work fine.

You've got to have a little patience, and actually expose people to it, then it works out fine.
Consider extending this to identify heavy churn or lack thereof. Repeated short tenures in an org is useful signal.
No, it doesn’t, because as I said, none of the multilateral treaty bodies run by the UN et al are “authorities” or “forces.” We don’t truly have any multilateral authorities. But having open borders doesn’t require multilateral authorities, because ending slavery also didn’t require multilateral authorities. It just required peer-to-peer use of force — which works perfectly well without creating a one-world government.
Equivocation about purity, referential transparency, mutability, side effects etc. is not very interesting. The operative point is that, in Haskell, firstly

x = expression
y = expression
...

is the same as

x = expression
y = x
...

and that, secondly

x = expression
...

is the same as

...

when x does not appear in ... . Those are the important properties of Haskell (with regard to this discussion). Whether this advances the discussion is another matter ...
> Australia needs more global connectivity. IIRC, data transiting outside of AU is relatively expensive.

> China needs more connectivity, especially with the US for e-commerce (AliExpress is very slow).

To both of these points, yes and no.

- Population of Australia + NZ is about 30M people. While that's not nothing, 30M people don't require the same scale of deployment as serving India, or the US / Canada / Mexico.

- How much traffic to/from China is there in practice (given the Great Firewall, so it's largely unidirectional)?

Pinging aliexpress.com, I get ~100ms latency from US East Coast. From mtr, it turns out that I'm being served out of Germany ("alicloud-ic338528-ffm-b1.ip.twelve99-cust.net"; Telia uses ffm to denote Frankfurt). So latency to/from China is actually irrelevant here.

If you want to serve users faster, you need to invest in content delivery (whether that's buying from Akamai or other players in the space, or building out your own, as AliExpress has done -- I have a much lower ping to img.alicdn.com, which serves me out of New York).

CDN usage also lowers egress bandwidth costs, since you use transit links less (cachefill is expensive but infrequent compared to fetches from cache).

Either way -- higher latency dictates lower steady-state throughput; that said, most requests are short and dominated by start-up costs from e.g. TCP handshaking (especially in the world of larger initial congestion windows), so if you have +100ms latency, that's very visible in terms of flow completion time.

To some of your other points -- SE Asia has a lot of connectivity because it's one of two ways into India (the other way around the world goes through the Middle East, which is fraught with geopolitical tensions). Iceland is a convenient landing point en route to northern Europe. The other way to get from south-central US to South America is through LAX->SCL (Los Angeles -> Santiago, Chile).
Are you suggesting no country should tell any other country how to be environmentally conscience?

I would argue that those countries that are cleaner have the moral authority to lead the way to a cleaner planet.
We're nowhere near materials that superconduct above water's freezing point (even salt water); how could this work?
Perhaps I wasn't clear in my answer, but I was pointing out that just for the existence of embeddings, this follows simply from compactness arguments -- it is Proposition 3.4 in the paper I cited (not even a theorem). However this dimension depends on the finite subcover which in turn depends on (M, g). That is a completely different question that trying to find a dimension that is independent of (M, g) and only depends on the dimension of M rather that it's geometry. The AMS article you cited starts off only discussing this second question. So again, if you just want to know "can I embed a manifold", the answer is "of course you can". But if you ask, "Can I embed every manifold of dimension n into a space of dimension f(n)", then that is a much harder question, deserving of a person's name and the status of "theorem". The first example of the paper is a conjecture that f(n) = n(n+1)/2. But if you are just asking, "who showed you can embed a given manifold into a given dimension isometrically", then I maintain this follows rather simply from partitions of unity and finite subcovers, and was known pretty much at the same time as the definition of Riemannian manifold was formalized.
It still sucks if you have to look (and smell) presentable at work. Even if you bike at a leisurely pace you and your suit will be drenched if you bike to work in a rain coat and rain trousers.
Apparently, it is standard practice in some companies to record your interview for others to review later? At least, that is what I have inferred from other comments on this post.
> who routinely called COVID the "China virus" or "Wuhan virus" one day and the next day castigated anyone who dared to do so as an irredeemable racist.

Probably because Patient Zero was located in Wuhan? What sort of cognitive dissonance am I missing here?
Yeah, I feel like PRs and standups and the occasional design meeting/email discussion are plenty.

It's good to share ideas but that happens anyway if the team members are comfortable with eachother.
Spring-bouncing: an early review of Aeris Swopper
Wow looks really cool. I was actually hoping for zero configuration on my part but this looks really exciting. Going have a play
Do you think your thesis would be controversial within the Scientific Community, at least if discussions were to be had in public?

Does the Scientific community have enough self-awareness about this to do something about it, and are calls for 'creating new viruses' being actively made and addressed?
Wow, this must be generational amnesia, because I never considered atomic annihilation anxiety from the '70s to have anything to do with the germ of the extremes.

Also,

> there is no objective reality and reason is merely rationalization of power.

to me, this seems blatantly true. To believe in objective morality seems farcical. To believe in an objective reality, even, seems farcical after learning that simultaneity isn't preserved in classical physics and then tossing a lay reading of quantum physics (which physicists almost immediately gave up trying to interpret in a rational way) on top of that, and finishing it all off with the authority of mathematics itself being bankrupt given Gödel's incompleteness theorems[0].

The Universe definitely seems to have a postmodern bent to it, when all's said and done, and being dogmatically rationalist seems painfully, early-20th-century naive.

But that still leaves me, personally, believing that empirical science is our best bet at "knowing" anything (insofar as anyone can know anything) and coming to the best outcomes and being "enlightenment liberal" in practice, so then again I don't know how much the philosophical bedrock even matters.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_mathematics#Fou...
> I already know republican types in rural areas that even want to get the Cybertruck (even if it means looking like one of those rich types).

Not entirely on topic, but I'm curious whether their interest will shift to the electric Ford truck.
Isn't the entire point of blockchain to automatically prove what the consensus is? If there is a fool-proof off-the-chain way to figure out which is the "legitimate" fork, what is the point of blockchain?
Many roundabouts are multilane and the design in general has higher throughput than a typical intersection because drivers don’t need to stop. Traffic is always flowing.

You are right that they require a slightly bigger footprint.

https://www.acsengineers.com.au/2016/08/22/roundabouts-vs-tr...

The biggest roundabout I’ve personally driven was an intersection of 2 freeways and a major city throughfare. 5 lanes in the circle itself, all at speeds up to 90kph.

They’ve since added stoplights on it because people were being dumb and blowing through the whole thing at ridiculous speeds.

https://images.app.goo.gl/jpzgxUyQDoqe81y38
Not only is the App Store broken, Apple themselves seem to be intentionally breaking it at times. From the article:

> Apple used to have a button, just under the ratings and reviews section in the App Store, that said “report a problem,” which allowed users to report inappropriate apps. Based on discussions among Apple customers on Apple’s own website, the feature was removed some time around 2016.

Why would they remove the ability for people to easily report apps?
What coast guard?

You'd have better luck getting the British to send their OPV based in the Falklands over than get any meaningful response from what little of the Argentine armed forces or other authorities have.
As a French, it's really surprising to see how other people from other countries aren't used to roundabouts. I really like how diverse roundabouts are here. Some are arranged like gardens, some have flowers, some have sculptures, some have decorations made by the local school.

A funny anecdote: we used to go to Pontarlier from time to time because our grandparents had a house here. Every time we went, we saw that [1] awful roundabout. A few years ago, it was elected as the ugliest roundabout in France.

https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/image/Zb2s5pOo3hJVEK...

(Edit: I've edited the link to point the correct roundabout. The previous link was https://sf1am.autojournal.fr/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2018...)
Sorry forgot to mention one other requirement... This script will be running in cloud so cant rely on a simple local file for implementation.
Many feel so. Beliefs are limited. But the feeling that make you get out of bed every morning, surrender and trust in life itself if you want to call it that, is on par with consciousness.
Farms are often crowded and prime locations for parasites.
Fish farms are notorious: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/supermarket-salmon-riddle...
Apple's model is the most broken out there.

They've distorted our free market into "Apple's market".

They tax ingress to 50% of Americans and don't let you establish a relationship with your customers. Beyond that, they make you dance through hoops to build and deploy software.

It's a travesty that they won.

If this continues, businesses will be paying Apple for customers brought to them by Apple iCar.
This creates strawpeople of ideal government and an ideal medical industry, and gives all power and trust to them.

We need to find solutions within the realities of government and industry power and effectiveness.

Also, there is no reason people can't make this decision for themselves. Who are you to tell me what I must do with my personal medical records? I may decide those risks are worthwhile.
I'm skeptical of the article's point, but I think it does try to answer this question of yours:

> Does gain of function research yield more high impact papers than more benign types of virology research? The article seems to suggest so, but provides no citations indicating that.

The article's argument is that gain-of-function research moves the researcher from the set of existing viruses to the set of all the viruses we can create - a far, far larger set, and hence one that allows more publications. Or, to put it another way, after you've run out of viruses to find, and things to publish about them, creating more gives you many more papers to write.

There may be something to that argument, but I still agree with your general point that the article needs more evidence.
the plague is that right now we _are_ going to one extreme - the extreme of separation and specialisation. Systems thinkers want the two integrated, they don't want to throw out analysis and replace it with synthesis, they want the combination (synthesis!) of the two.
Up until those mines end up sinking Argentinian fisherman or a unrelated cargo vessel that happens to be passing through.
A former colleague of mine put out an iPhone battery extender app as a joke and surprisingly people paid for the app and wrote reviews claiming that this app extended their battery life when the app did nothing other than show couple of graphics. I was amused at the stupidity of the whole thing and I believe he pulled down the app after sometime but the App Store review process is a joke.
> People asking for negative feedback are participating in these MBA rituals, but don't actually want to hear criticism about themselves.

While true for many, this statement is factually untrue for many others (including myself). There are a number of people whose opinion I can never trust because they follow Dale's advice.

> You've extrapolated a bit weaving in this modern MBA idea where we should all seek feedback.

I've done no such thing. If you do not wish to seek feedback, I am quite at peace with that. :-)

To be clear, the book explicitly called out the case where someone is seeking negative feedback. I did not extrapolate from a generic "Do not criticize someone".
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Probabilistic rules themselves tend to require much more data, which can be expensive.

In computing we try to write deterministic tests that either pass or fail, which means you can run them once after a change and know what the state is. Even if you just suspect flakiness you may have to run the test hundreds of times to be confident that the probability of failure is sufficiently low.
It matters a lot for determining what kind of controls we need to place on virology research going forward.
The issue here is that Apple is facilitating wire fraud, which is extremely illegal in the United States. The bad actors who created that app are committing wire fraud on an Apple platform, which is of course colloquially known as the App Store.

The problem is that if you are associated with a crime committed in the United States in any way (besides being a very distant third-person witness with no associations whatsoever to the individual), and you are not a crime victim or an individual reporting the crime, you are almost always considered to be an _accessory to the crime_ which is a misdemeanor (go to jail for up to 365 days) or felony (go to prison for over 365 days) state level (has parole for prisoners) or federal level (effectively has no parole for prisoners) criminal offense, which the police will arrest you for and charge you with, while the person committing the misdemeanor/felony gets charged with whatever crime they perpetrated.

For example, if your "acquaintance" shoplifts at a store and gets caught, and you don't stop or report them: you will get charged as being an accessory to a crime and you're going to jail.

Also, if you are involved in an altercation in any way, the cop can put everyone involved in handcuffs and charge them, even if you never got physically or verbally violent.

There are also catch-all laws in the US that one can go to prison for, basically for acting in "bad faith" but never actually doing anything else criminally wrong.

This is why you never talk to the police, ever. They will twist your statements in the wildest ways imaginable. If you get pulled over by the police, you should practice, every single time, saying as little as possible to the officer.

This has never happened to me personally, but, everyone needs to know this: If the police in America start questioning you and it gets into a detailed discussion, you stop right there and say: "No comment: I need to talk to my lawyer first."