skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You said encryption is indistinguishable from noise without any further qualifications. That's simply incorrect.

To address your other points,

"Consider how unsophisticated the Enigma machine looks to modern eyes. Now throw some modern encrypted traffic back at them, would they even understand there's signal in there? Unlikely."

Depending on how far you go back yes they would. Most communications today happens in the same frequency ranges they did decades ago. UHF is UHF.

You bring up Enigma. I'm confident if Alan Turing were scanning the airwaves and heard a modern encrypted radio transmission he would immediately determine it was man made and some type of communication. He wouldn't have any hope of decrypting the signal or analyzing the packet structure. The mathematical theory behind modern encryption didn't exist yet let alone the compute power needed to crack it.

"Knowing the popular protocols is an advantage you wouldn't have with "alien communication"."

Normally projects like SETI will look for patterns and structure in the signals they detect. Nature can create some very complex transmissions and it can also create some very regular ones that are simple. But you rarely see both complexity and structure in a signal that isn't man made.
Beer mats make bad frisbees
So plants are supranatural then too? Their influence far exceeds ours.

Humans are part of nature. Nature is never in balance. Change is the only constant. As pre-Socratic Heralcitus said you "never step in the same river twice."

If humans exceed the carrying capacity of their ecosystem, the system will reduce the number of humans.
Pretty sure you wouldn't be happy with Microsoft taking this approach.

It's abhorrent period.
It is really hard to follow context of article, guess is not written for us mortals. My primitive understanding that is most likely wrong;

> If it sounds implausible, it is: After much thrill and controversy, a 2014 proof showed that Wilczek’s prescription fails, like all other perpetual-motion machines conceived throughout history.

> Furthermore, the spins never absorbed or dissipated net energy from the microwave laser, leaving the disorder of the system unchanged.

Seems like maintaining stable quantum state A or B costs energy, but changing quantum state from A to B or from B to A does not somehow introduces additional order/disorder to a quantum system and changing state costs energy. (this still confuses me, obviously)
This is a very interesting perspective, but it is also something we are mostly unable to predict. It is certain that if this kind of event happened, that it would cause harm. However, the long term trend due to anthropogenic climate change is certainly a big risk.

for one, volcanic induced winters don't seem to have the long-term ability to change the climate trajectory.

The other is that the existence of additional risks does not absolve us of the responsibility to plan for the eventuality of climate change. there are billions of people on the planet and we as a species do have the capacity to think about and plan for both kinds of risk.
Masters have slaves. Which is exactly how workplaces implementing scrum view developers. Slave to the business and really the lowest level worker ant.
No 5 year old could follow that.
My Lessons from Interviewing 400 Engineers over Three Startups
If you like that word you might also enjoy "vade mecum" meaning a handbook from the Latin "go with me"

A term I first encountered in the fictional "A murderer's vade mecum" in one of the Dorothy Sayers detective novels.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/vade_mecum
So when some CEO decides they don’t want to be a public figure?
Oh wow, the host list is amazing. Thank you so much for this!

To me this is evidence of ads being less and less effective, to be honest. The trust-credits created by early 2000s Google has been spent, it seems.
> I don't know any folks who are neurodivergent who desire their traits.

Might that be because many people who like their traits don't consider themselves neurodivergent, and don't get called that by others?
How is a silly portrayal at all equivalent to insinuating someone murdered (or caused the death of) their friend?

Besides, there is a higher level of protection from libel in the US as a private person vs a public figure.
I assume it was federal only. My bad.
Here here to the possibility of starting a golden age of immune related research and investment. IMO (as an autoimmune patient who reads a bunch about my disease/immune system and has done some computation biology work during my CS masters, but otherwise unqualified), immune system research is severely underfunded in relation to how involved it is in virtually ever bodily function.

I kinda feel like with other organs that are tangible and you can like see and feel (brain, kidney, heart, etc) are much more obvious choices to study and examine for pathology (ie plaque in the arteries, kidney stone). But an ephemeral system of on/off switches that communicate with each other to attack or not attack stuff? kinda makes sense that it is elusive and poorly understood.

my great hope is we are starting to enter a golden age of immuno-therapies, and it's not just because of COVID. Immunotherapy is genuinely the most exciting area of cancer therapies right now (again, IMO). between CAR-T cell therapies, proposed NK cell therapies, PD-1 inhibitors, etc, whats not to be excited about?
Rant time.... ;-)

What's with these stupid "X in Y" numeric expressions that the dumb media insist on continuing to heap on the world ?

Why not consistently use a standardised means of comparison.

Like, I don't know .... percent. Or "X in 100" if you think your newspaper/blog/website readership are too dumb to know what the % symbol means. The clue's in the name FFS ... per... cent ... that's what its there for !
Of course they do [1]

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bronze-medal
This is almost certainly the case. The judge in this case most likely is influenced by those who this guy revealed as corrupt. The powers that be do not like for their friends to have a hard time. This judge is most likely in on it.
@ceilingcorner's main point is that, no matter how healthy you live, an obese person is more likely to infect you. I don't know if I buy that, but I agree none of your answers seem to be on point.
Eh, not really, it sounds like one of those Robert Greene BS books. Sounds exciting when you're young and inexperienced, but tiresome when you're older and actually wise
I really enjoyed this post and hope I get more like it in the future:

- It gave a high level, concise background overview of the base concept (B-trees) complete with diagrams

- It talked from first principles about how things worked without really any Jargon

- It explained simply a clever optimization

Thanks for posting!
> I miss the old version of PT where everything was all on one page, and I could just save the page for some offline reference.

See here: https://privacytools.io/classic/
We haven’t solved asynchronous online management yet. Open source is probably the best model but that’s for well contained software so to speak. There’s probably some middle ground.
Is this the one that makes all the Sci-Fi gadgets do the impossible? I need to know if I should be excited or not.

/s
VB6 has close to 300

And while some vb6 code is truly terrible, it isn't because of keywords. It's because beginners have no idea what they are doing.

So I imagine Swift code may be terrible because there are a lot of noobs out there doing whatever it takes to ship.
I do not think we would witness AIs contacting one another. It's also not clear what them battling one another would look like. Maybe we do see them, and simply mistake them for natural phenomenon. The timescales at which they operate in the inter-galactic voids are also light-speed limited, so perhaps we wouldn't even notice a battle as we exist in the million years between blows.
I've seen one in 20+ years. The others were all worthless. The net impact of scrum masters on all teams I've been a part of has been negative.
That, and an "Agile Coach". They were the absolute worst people at the last place I worked.
There's always many considerations. Energy density, stability, what kind of energy can you convert it to, can it be directed easily, how hard is it to store etc...
Why did he have $1M of crypto on Coinbase? I want to hear how that came to be because from the outside it looks like plain stupidity.
Oh, so you're going based on a few anecdotes. Well, not even anecdotes, just a lack of mentions.

Its easy to find official blog posts of these companies and other major enterprises describing how they use Scrum, that are much more recent than 10 years ago.

I'm shocked you've never heard of the "Spotify Model" which has been compared to Scrum@Scale. Ask your friend!
Yes, I 100% agree and would like to add to your argument.

Another example of technical debt is when you write code without tests. You’ll probably finish much faster in the first week or two and then the manual testing will take more and more time. But how often did we see code bases without tests? All the time! And the managers don’t realize how much money they could save by focusing more on quality instead of features.

If you think you‘ll just implement this one thing and then never touch the code again, chances are high you‘ll just hack up the thing and copy paste some code everywhere until it kind of works. This is increasing technical debt, you take out a loan and someone in the future has to pay it back IF they want to make a change. But this is almost always the case, even if you don’t know it now.

My definition of technical debt I wrote down before reading the article: technical debt is the inability to make changes due to not making changes (on a conceptual layer) before.
Perhaps because she didn’t lose a civil case on the same manner and they actually caught the real killer? OJ probably would have gotten more sympathy if there was some kind of viable alternative story.
They probably don't want internet randos jumping in and flooding the chat with porn.
What are these investors invested in, exactly? So we know what we should invest in, because they will no doubt push it in a direction that's self interested.
Are these decays equivalent to drops to a lower energy state where that energy is mass?
Agreed. Now privilege is used to describe fair treatment under the law and freedom from racial prejudice.

Calling them privilege, focuses attention on the wrong area and away from the real problem. It implies that to improve equity the solution is taking away these "privileges". It also implies some level of moral corruption for those enjoying the "privileges".

It is a race to the bottom where we punish everyone until their experience matches those with the most unjust treatment in society.
Yes, me too!
The biggest thing these investors should push for is the companies to stop supporting politicians stopping climate progress and industry organizations that do most of the lobbying.
Can anybody see my comments? Does Hacker News shadow ban new accounts?
It’s not really clear what you are trying to say here. If you are trying to be sarcastic, it fails.

Playdate is a boutique product selling a few tens of thousands of units. In fact the games are unique.

The fact that there are other cheaper games which sell in much larger volumes is irrelevant to whether there is a market for a boutique gaming experience.

We know they don’t substitute because if they did, people wouldn’t buy the playdate.
Boardroom greed might follow a logical rational but this behaviour isn't reasonable in the long run. Disregard of fairness and civil conduct won't be worth the eventual cost of a society that becomes increasingly opposed to the system itself.

Break the law once, shame on you - pay a fine. Break it twice, well, we might rewrite the law so the fine is enough to actually deter you. Break it three times and shame on us for letting you trade at all.
You can be quite far from perfect and not need it. And they quite commonly can amplify the disfunction in a team with issues.

This is made worse at a lot of companies by hiring the absolutely cheapest person for the role.
How about "If you aren't vaccinated we're not going to fire you, but you can't work in the office"

Everyone wins, no intrusion into people's personal choices about what to put in their bodies.
We're saying the same thing. Just swap "you" and "other people" in my comment. The law works the same for everyone.
> Can you give an example of what you mean by 'synchronous actors'?

Something like simulation (e.g. physics), a sequential long-running CPU-bound process.

> Blocking on what exactly?

I never used the word "blocking", I'm not sure where you imagined it from.

> The point is surely that elixir/Erlang makes it difficult to write concurrent code with lots of global shared state in the first place no?

Never used the words "global" or "shared" either.

I used the words "sequential" and "single-threaded" though, which you apparently completely swung by. The entire comment was about non-naturally-concurrent workloads which would not trivially map to concurrent actors (or even not be parallelisable at all).

In which case the GC is just a fairly simplistic STW.

I sadly don't remember the name even though I've been scratching my head, but way back when (in the early aught when I first played with erlang, before SMT and Programming Erlang) one of the major "public" erlang codebase was a GUI-based tool which did basically everything in one enormous process, complete misuse / completely unsuitable to erlang.
I see it actually interpreted (by scrum "masters") as "master of the scrum teams".
This movie isn’t defamation. It doesn’t paint her as a murderer.
The judgement is available[0]. It doesn't read to me like the judges were out to get him: they specifically reject the majority of the allegations of contempt made by the crown. Paragraphs 70-90 contain the interesting bit, and 70 is absolutely damning in my view. It basically reports Murray as openly writing an 'encoded' version of some of the claimants names in the form of some Yes Minister fanfic, in the knowledge of the anonymity order and with the intention that the code would be broken by close reading 'between the lines' (which he expressly encouraged).

That's an open and shut contempt, and courts do not play silly buggers with people who think that if they're very clever orders don't apply to them. Even given that the crown (the Scottish government, who were prosecuting Salmon and made the contempt of court complaint) are out to get Murray, that doesn't make him a martyr, it makes him an idiot.

[0]: https://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/docs/default-source/cos-genera...
I'm not sure if we need one but I like him and I don't have to pay for it, so why not?
In case others are unclear since it doesn't seem to be explicitly stated in the docs, you update the path hint to be the path of the most recently found item. I think this is implied when he says "My path may be wrong, and if so please provide me with the correct path so I get it right the next time.", but you can see where `hint` is set in the implementation also.
> If you were to pick a convenient politically motivated prosecution this ranks up there with navalny skipping bail by dint of being in a coma.

I would agree with you, except his prison sentence is only 8 months. If this was some corrupt hit job, they could have easily put him in prison for decades.
Once again, don't pretend that lockdowns is what the argument is about. That is a straw man. It is about whether companies should be obligated to spread misinformation about vaccines and diseases without getting to mark that as misinformation — they aren't. It is about whether that "infantilization" of the users of the platform is new — it isn't.
Alternatively, agree to have an agenda for every meeting and then skip the scrum master.
The problem with that is if Facebook committed to free speech then users would post a lot of offensive content which drives away mainstream advertisers. We've already seen that happen. Facebook tightened their censorship several years ago specifically because large advertisers were leaving the platform over concerns about their ads appearing next to user generated content that negatively impacted their brands. Obviously Facebook isn't going to do anything that puts advertising revenue at risk.
Maybe one way to think about biology is: "An ongoing exercise in systems documentation." :P
Not that great of an example to be honest.

For starters the use-case which was defined `UserDefaults` you can just use a property wrapper to make it easier. Then in your class you can do:

@Defaults(key: “usesDarkTheme”)
var usesDarkTheme: Bool

Now it uses type erasure under the hood and call sites are cleaner.

For PoP, it’s kind of outdated. Better to use Value Oriented programming nowadays
More Covid Mysteries
I do not mean worse. I mean different, with 'better' and 'worse' being subjective. Rudy Guede is 34 years old, out of prison with decades more life to look forward to. After cutting short the life of Meredith Kercher at 21, some people would argue that he should pay with more of his own life, maybe all of it. In the US, obviously, there's a good chance he'd never get out of prison.
What exactly do you mean? How do these solutions deal with servers unexpectedly going down? I worked on telecom where you need the service to be up 24/7 and we restarted all the services on deployment. In waves of course.
master/slave for drives?

master for main branch?
Swift is multi-paradigm. Improved support (over ObjC) for functional style, protocol-oriented design, and value types has led many to overuse them.

Multi-paradigm isn’t a cop-out, it’s a pretty specific goal of the language. Being overly “faithful” to particular patterns will conflict with this, as you’ve likely experienced. I appreciate the ability to break out and use different styles where appropriate. That pesky “last 10%” is now far less painful. It also allows for varying styles per module based on functionality required and libraries in use.
It is related to the article. Where do you think these mystery billions are coming from?
It boggles my mind how people think governments get anything out of covid restrictions.
> Note: Secure Boot will prevent unsigned software from running. NixOS does not support Secure Boot today.

I hope NixOS gets Secure Boot working sometime soon. Seems like a no-brainer for machines used in a business setting. Looks like there’s slow but steady progress being made: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/53901.
I don't think I have ever witnessed a more efficient way to waste time, meant for solving technical problems, than by doing vanilla scrum (in an major corp ops team). For me following scrum "by the guide" is the pinnacle of pseudowork and by that definition the scrum master is a pseudo role.
Thank you. The rebuttals were good but fail to address this main point. Which was explicitly stated.
Oh gosh, Agile Coach is definitely the worst. Pure BS. I can get the job of the scrum master, but agile coach? Sorry, we should've a much higher bar for subjecting our engineers to this role.
In the world of realpolitik which do you think matters more?

A. The opinion of a world superpower with a military to match

B. Ideals
70 years? The Contempt of Court Act was passed in 1981 and is used routinely for anonymity orders.
"1 in Y" is simpler than "X in 100". 100 introduces an irrelevant big number.
What makes you assume homo erectus was stupid? The neanderthals, denisovans, and sapiens are identified as separate evolutions from erectus because they evolved separate features which are considered markers of "anatomical modernity", but that seems to be a sapien-centric attitude that needlessly assumes appearance similar to sapiens corresponds to higher intelligence. The archeological evidence doesn't really suggest any one group from homo was smarter - all seemed to develop the same lower paleolithic and then middle paleolithic technology. The only difference archeologically happened when sapiens outbred and assimiliated the other groups ~50,000-80,000 years ago and then developed upper paleolithic technology.
> I do believe that bronze medalists are happier than silver medalists provided that all the participants had a similar probability of victory.

But that's never the case: betting companies are good at earning money off of that.
In BC, I don’t think increasing supply helps to increase ownership. I’ve seen some data from Stats Canada from the housing statistics program that shows the percent of owner occupied apartments is decreasing over time. From 60-70% to somewhere in the 40% range.

I haven’t been able to find reliable numbers on the number of new condos coming in, but looking around the city it’s hard to believe that we would not be increasing supply. For example, I live in a condo / townhouse development that has 450 units; before this was built, there were 4 single family homes on the same land.

Stats Canada is starting to put out information on multiple house owners. The majority of the multiple unit owners own within the same city as their primary residence. People who see the headlines speculate it’s cottage owners, but it’s really not the case.

From anecdotes, the other driver of non-owner occupied apartments are people who live at home but are able to buy an apartment to rent out. They do this because housing keeps going up here and they want to build equity to be able to afford a house once they are married and move out of the family home.
> Then find them

They did. The houses they were in.

> or build them housing,

This takes time and wouldn’t be done in time for the pandemic

> or distribute compensation to landlords temporarily.

Millions of people lost income during the pandemic. Including the tenants were talking about who are at risk of eviction. Why should landlord income be any more sacred than any other income?
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That's a rather fundamental flaw in their whole business model, isn't it? Advertisers who don't want their ads appearing next to user generated content, on a social network, have missed something rather important.
This was popular in Java (see libraries with "Foo" interface and "FooImpl" class).

Sometimes it really is useful, but it was over-used in Java. A lot of times you don't even need a mock.

In fact a lot of times even a singleton is good enough. YAGNI. I don't think the example was good: in the "potential situation" where you actually need a second `UserDefaults`, you could've just find and replace. Maybe for a massive project, but I've never worked on something too big for doing things like to avoid Shift-Ctrl-F.
You think that the type of contractor who is already unreliable will be do better having to log into an app to do things, than literally answer a call or text from their phone!?
Report them it's an AI goof. It's the only way they really have. They can't hire enough people to possibly go through all the crap that the antivaxx contingencies pump out so they have to depend on trainable AI. I'm facebook daily and I see that they aren't filtering enough junk that is nothing less than made up lies stuck into meme form. They don't even try to make it look fake now that they know the uninformed and ignorant of the world will sop up everything they get fed as if it were scientific fact.
Why not just use a shell script and output using cat<<EOF

EOF
Google monetizes chrome. Google is an advertising company.

Apple monetizes Safari. They sell hardware and subscription services.

Facebook monetizes in part through these browsers. The changes to Safari hurt Facebook revenue.