skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd much prefer 2x3 fora 2m by 3m bed. Poetic names confuses me: Why is a twin different than a double but the exact same thing as a single? Call them by their size, done.
The most highly educated person in my extended family has the worst spelling and grammar of anyone I've ever seen. Getting a hand written note from them is always a guessing game.
Ummm… yeah, no.

The AppStore review operates on a spirit-of-the-law basis, instead of the letter-of-the-law.
haha, that video is hilarious!
>Matrix is pretty good.

I run a Matrix instance on my own hardware for my extended family. I suppose that I could be served with a subpoena/warrant for the data, but the contents of any voice or video calls mediated through my Matrix server wouldn't be preserved.

Likewise, any private chats on the server would remain encrypted and I wouldn't be able to decrypt them even if I wanted to do so.

Since the instance isn't federated, and access is only available through invitation, only those who have access know about.

As such, I'd say that private chats and voice/video calls through my Matrix instance are pretty secure.
I really wasn't keen on the idea of buying a mattress without testing it, but then the more I thought about it the more I realised that spending a few minutes on it in a showroom is not even remotely indicative as to what a whole night would be like.

I caved and purchased a Nectar mattress (I'm also in the UK), mostly because you got a year's (!) money back guarantee. Best choice I ever made - it highlighted how poor my old mattress was and I never needed to use the guarantee.
>In evaluating the destructive power of a weapons system, it is customary to use the concept of equivalent megatons (EMT). Equivalent megatonnage is defined as the actual megatonnage raised to the two-thirds power:

>EMT = Y[^]2/3 where Y is in megatons.

>This relation arises from the fact that the destructive power of a bomb does not vary linearly with the yield. The volume the weapon's energy spreads into varies as the cube of the distance, but the destroyed area varies at the square of the distance.

Src: https://www.atomicarchive.com/science/effects/energy.html

It's just geometry, or dimensionality, you cannot directly compare 1D and 2D quantities. Type mismatches are often bad in programming, but always fatal in physics.
Huh? We know whatever the early conditions of earth were they were clearly amenable to the formation of these organic compounds since life arose here. It's absolutely also interesting to know that in certain known conditions this can also arise, even if those conditions are not the only conditions capable of creating the phenomenon.
I would recommend Signal Foundation
https://signalfoundation.org/
good point re currency computations. Support for binary-coded decimal is something that deserves to be improved in modern languages (COBOL had it).
Roblox has been down for over 24 hours
Christ... that 9x9 bed is almost as big as our bedroom(30cm left to the wall).
Sure it is: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/215216/high-thr...

It executes just one (well predicted) branch every 30 numbers written, and incrementing/printing the line number is branchless too.

It's not as fast as the subject of the post (40 GB/s) but it's only a few hours of work.
Perfect is the enemy of the good, so I'd recommend the EFF but you can donate to Signal directly in this case, if it serves you.

https://signal.org/en/donate/
That's the point. It shouldn't matter but in fact it does. You can see this for yourself if you use the x86_64 optimizations on VM's in benchmark tests. And you will see various results depending on hypervisor used and what application is used. This will even change with time as updates are made to each hypervisor. What I am describing is exactly what is not supposed to happen which is why you are struggling to think of a situation where this should matter. You are being entirely logical.
Wow, a real-life dualist?

How do you reconcile this view with the findings that various mental operations correspond directly to processes occurring in the brain? Doesn't it seem an odd coincidence that a simple "gateway" also contains everything it would need to do the work itself, without a gateway?
It's worth pulling the principles from the ASA's statement [2] as well:

1. P-values can indicate how incompatible the data are with a specified statistical model.

2. P-values do not measure the probability that the studied hypothesis is true, or the probability that the data were produced by random chance alone.

3. Scientific conclusions and business or policy decisions should not be based only on whether a p-value passes a specific threshold.

4. Proper inference requires full reporting and transparency

5. A p-value, or statistical significance, does not measure the size of an effect or the importance of a result.

6. By itself, a p-value does not provide a good measure of evidence regarding a model or hypothesis.

The basic criticism one of brittleness - that unless very carefully planned, executed, and interpreted, p-values from hypothesis does not support the claims some would like to be on their results, and that meeting the first condition is so difficult that the technique should not be recommended. One _should_ look for 'significant' results, but using measures that align better with colloquial understandings of significance i.e. with how users are misinterpreting p-values now.
There does tend to be a strong overlap with tinkering with code to tinkering with physical things. Woodworking in particular seems very popular amongst my group of software inclined folk.
Handling what? They've never depended on Apple for encryption.
Yes, we live just a couple of miles from the airport in downtown Renton, WA (Seattle suburb). Small planes burning leaded fuel takeoff and land over the town and over Lake Washington. We are not in the flight path, but it’s very concerning for everyone who is and for all the fish in that lake.
Might go full idiotic like the Australian government and mandate backdoors
More details: The orbitals are the product of an Harmonic Orbital and a radial function. More details in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_orbital#Types_of_orbita... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen-like_atom#Non-relativ...

Note that this is the initial selection of orbitals. The "real"[1] orbitals are linear combinations of them. In some cases it's good enough to mix them using some easy combinations like in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_hybridisation but in the general cases you must use a computer to calculate the best combination https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartree%E2%80%93Fock_method .

[1] It get's more complicated.
Don't let people tell you not to vote, because it won't make a difference. Not voting is a sure way not to have a voice.
How did FT come up with that headline from the report? [1]

“After examining all available intelligence reporting and other information, though, the IC remains divided on the most likely origin of COVID-19. All agencies assess that two hypotheses are plausible: natural exposure to an infected animal and a laboratory-associated incident.”

[1] https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Declass...
I guess "truth is stranger than fiction." ;-) Blog comment from the link you posted:

The 10GT weapon really would have been BACKYARD. At 6MT/tonne (the upper bound for thermonuclear weapons) it would have weighed 1667 tonnes.
Unless you only contact Signal users who have verified and compiled the client themselves, you put the same kind of trust in Signal, which specify what data is logged (phone numbers are stored hashed for discovery by other users).

The same may or may not be true for Apple (I have no idea) but claiming it is irrelevant as an answer to a question about whether an _Apple_ technology is encrypted, is mind boggling to me.
For digital civil rights issues, I give my donations to the EFF. I personally think some of the regional ACLU affiliates can be hit-or-miss, but that's certainly not a universal opinion.
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One of my old bosses would just say "Hang on, hang on..." over and over until the steamroller figured out they weren't going to be able to speak endlessly and they'd stop talking

This is what people need to learn how to do. And I think this is the biggest issue I have with WFH is that it puts people in a position where they don't have to develop the skills necessary to resolve conflict. They can just leave a call or ignore an email.

I had a conflict with one manager while working remotely at one job and rather than even address the issue with me, she just removed me from the team Slack channel. I sent a very apologetic and peacemaking message, which she proceeded to ignore. Although I don't work there anymore, we do live in the same city. So if I do see her and she tries to pull a fake smile, I hope she's ready to address that immediately.

However you feel about interpersonal communication, I think I speak for everyone when I say: I don't want to be part of any organization where people can rise up to positions of leadership or decision-making without having any capacity or tolerance for conflict.
If they were in the Seychelles or Belize they would be covered by the NSA and no subpoena would be required to get traffic data.
Read a bit of your post, I'll go back to it in a bit. Number one tip is, even if you're not billing by value, you should bill on much larger increments than an hour. My recommendation is to bill in day increments and invoice weekly. You can of course track hours if that helps, but never bill the customer for them directly. Decide on how many hours a "day" of productive work is for you and at the end of the week divide the number of hours you worked by that.

You should also charge more than feels comfortable for your day. Raise your rate with each new client until you don't have enough work in the pipeline, then back off a bit.

Those two things should provide better clients who expect a realistic amount of work for what they're paying.
Agreed. The general sentiment I perceived from HN at the time was that almost nobody was willing to accept Apple's CSAM scanning, even though CSAM had been confronted as an issue before the internet was widely available. I perceived a lot less room for opinions in favor of sacrificing a limited amount of privacy for greater public good, or similar. After the media finished its reporting on the subject, it seemed like there wasn't much more discussion about it, and Apple now seems poised to go forward with releasing its implementation of the scanning anyway at some unknown future date.

The arguments about slippery slopes and potential surveillance weren't as interesting to me as the opposing argument: that a very high level of privacy (not even an absolute level) carries consequences for a specific segment of society by the intrinsic nature of what is kept private, and in the name of protecting that segment of society, the tradeoff is not worth it.

There is also the idea that data on a hard drive can be as damaging to human livelihood as physical contraband, to the point that the vast majority of the world's legal systems, not just those of the U.S., have decided that the data should not exist under any circumstances. CSAM is one of the few classes of digital data that compels the creation of scanning systems for such data on a scale that isn't driven by political ideology, propaganda or similar. It's difficult to imagine how Apple would be obliged and driven enough to implement such a system out in the open and in the name of the public good if the publicly announced reasoning was to scan any other class of data (assuming that Apple can be trusted, at least).
In both your examples (cf. Campania, vitrina), the pattern is that French makes an -a suffix in Latin into a silent -e. I believe there were earlier parts of the history of french phonetics where it was pronounced as a schwa, so you can kind of imagine it as "softening" over time, starting out as a proper A sound and eventually disappearing over the centuries.
I think I must be misspeaking quite a bit because I am not making any claims here.

I am constructing a hypothesis and I want it falsified. The fact that it is falsifiable is a feature not a bug.

The possibility of this not being the cause isn’t interesting. That is by construction. I want to see evidence of what is actually the case.

I want to know what the factors are. And by what weight in aggregate. I am not alleging that they have any specific value.
A few month ago i took a machine from a scrapyard. That machine fell into my eye because its PSU had a female C13 socket in addition to the male C14 one, which i took as indication for an AT (not ATX) machine.

It turned out to be a pentium with ISA ports. I cleaned it, upon booting, i noticed the CMOS battery needed replacement. The CMOS was part of the dreaded Dallas 1287 RTC. Cutting it open and attaching another story, but i did it. Reading the required disk geometry from the label, i was able to configure the CMOS correctly for the disk to boot.

The yield: It boots into a windows 95 desktop, with a naked women with spread legs as a desktop background. I guess i recovered someones porn collection.
Caring for houseplants is quite hard. I have 8 and my friend recently gave up his job to grow Bonsai trees full time. The amount I learned from him was quite interesting, I almost felt dumb by the end. My plants do fine, but they could've been doing way better.

For my Bonsais, I didn't know that they should be given filtered water. The Bay area has particularly nasty water, so immediately my plants were getting spots. Second, when you repot in the summers, the soil should be aligned to where you're growing. Third, East facing windows that cliff the sun at the hottest part of the day are imperative. I then asked him, "Wait, I can't leave them in the same spot all year?" and his immediate reply was, "Hell no, not unless you plan to layer shades in front of them, but I bet that's not why you put them where you did." For watering guidance, he said, "Stick your finger into the soil down to the knuckle, if it's dry, water them. If it's still wet, let it dry out."

Keeping plants alive is relatively easy; helping them thrive is another matter entirely.
> the more European "paid to be a student if you can pass the gatekeeping exams".

I don't think it goes up to "paid to be a student" most of the time. If you're not lucky enough to have local universities on your chosen subject you still have to pay for (possibly cheap student) lodging. Said gatekeeping exams may also be an extra cost if you need to pay someone to prepare for them.

However, the financial burden overall is much smaller.
I can't remember the last time I had to wait for affinity or Photoshop to compute. Maybe if you have 100MP images from a Hasselblad?
The ASA recently published a new statement which is more optimistic about the use of p-values [1]. I myself also think that correctly used p-values are in many situations a good tool for making sense out of data. Of course, a decision should never be conducted on a p-value alone, but the same could also be said about confidence/credible intervals, Bayes factors, relative belief ratios, and any other inferential tool available (and I‘m saying this as someone who is doing research in Bayesian hypothesis testing methodology). Data analysts always need to use common sense and put the data at hand into broader context.

[1] https://projecteuclid.org/journals/annals-of-applied-statist...
And their post would get 0 views and comments like isn't this obvious
Yeah. As I understand it, since all Apple mobile browsers use the WebKit engine, there’s nothing this demo can use to separate them.

This demo doesn’t mention cookies. screen size, cache, etc, which could be used to further differentiate.

This article is less of a tech demo and more of an introductory article to how some fingerprinting works.
There is something inherently good about not having everything you could possibly want right when you want it.
The chart on that page has always squicked me out a bit, because SHA-2 is certainly still "considered strong" by cryptography engineers.
In any other TradFi (as the DeFi guys want to call it), it would be simply labelled market manipulation and there would be real life consequences
> Sex and race are not two equivalent classes. There are material differences between the sexes. These are obvious differences in even my one year old noticed. On the other hand, it is unclear if there are any differences in ability by race, and it looks like if there are, they're mainly not material to success.

There definitely are, and there probably are depending on what traits are in question. But the difference is still not at all of a similar sort.

The crucial difference between men and women is one of two completely different mechanisms. Within each mechanism, there is variation of course, like the length of the... thing and other variables like that.

Insofar as there are differences in race, they are much more like height or eye color: Same system, different historically separated populations just have different distributions along the variation of that trait. Asian people are generally shorter than white or black people, for example: This doesn't mean you won't find a short white or black man, for example, or a tall East Asian one. The Asian man being really tall is just less common. Insofar as these things exist, they are a matter of count in a pile of people, and a difference in degree.

Men and women are truly a difference in kind, the same way goats and weasels have different digestive systems. It's not a matter of more or less of this or that between the two.
Please read between the lines: they surely sent similar letters to WhatsApp, Google, Facebook, etc. who happily complied...
Purple is carried by some mattress stores. When I laid on it, I immediately didn't like it. It has an unstable feel to it because of the grids.
Wait. Are you my kid? Oh well, go to sleep. LOL
You don't have to go back so far for language to get tricksy. I'm 50, British and speak en_GB_en (lol etc) with a roughly RP accent. My mum also had a similar accent when I knew her, except she was a Devonian farmer's daughter born 1942. If she reverted her accent and language back to how her peers spoke in South Devon in the 1950s and 60s then she was quite hard to follow and that was my mum. Granny and Grandad (b. 1902) could really make themselves unintelligible if they wanted to. Mind you, Granny was from Manchester and Grandad from Totnes.

We also seem to have forgotten that quite a few other languages have been lost in the UK and far more recently. Cumbric and Cornish for starters. Both are Brythonic ie like Welsh, Scottish and Irish. Cumbric was spoken in Cumbria ie top left of England and Cornish in Kernow - Cornwall - bottom left, next door to Devon. It's not quite that simple but good enough. Cornish is being revived, Cumbric not so much although I'm sure I read somewhere that shepherds still count in Cumbric - someting like yan, tan, tithera, methera.

You have to be careful when you pin languages into your display cabinets. Unlike insects the bloody things persist to get up and tell you to piss off in a variety of amusing ways. Sadly what seemed routine and boring to our forebears was often not documented or obliterated and ultimately lost. Painstaking research gets us some of the way but it is absolutely that: painstaking.
Well, no comment on that one! :P

But I do enjoy the bed quite a bit lol
The one question I wanted answered, how good is the sex on a mattress this big.

Nobody talks of how foam mattresses change the dynamics of sex. Gone is the nice bounce back from the coils. Instead you get the firm motion deadening of the foam. Participants expecting to find that extra spring in their step find they have to provide their own bounce. I hope your muscles are up for it.

I personally don't having sex on a foam mattress. I think those seeking a foam mattress should consider keeping around a spare coiled sex bed. Call it your guest bed if so inclined. It will be there for you, providing that extra spring you may be missing from you foam mattress.
I'm curious as to why you think Motif "plays to the strengths of the Unix desktop" or what those strengths would be. I don't believe Motif has ever been particularly popular among GUI developers, it seems to me the only reason it was used was because it was the only real option on Unix for a while. Also please avoid assuming bad faith and suggesting without evidence that something is "sabotage".
A more accurate headline would have been: "American legacy financial institution innovation is actually happening"
Atleast with cooking I've collected a few sources that are consistently good. For new recipes I follow them exactly the first time and disregard any source that has had more than a couple not great recipes, specifically any recipe on all recipes that not a sponsored professional chef.
ACLU would be fully onboard with this nowadays, as long as the right groups of people are targeted. ACLUs ship has sailed years ago.
Observer selection means p > 0 (ie the inequality is strict) but it can't tell us any more. Bayesian reasoning from our own solar system can put a reasonable upper limit on p but that isn't very helpful.

However, if we found life on Mars that same Bayesian reasoning would imply a meaningful lower limit on p as well, since life on Mars is independent of our existence to observe it.
>complying with such requests, or going out of business

Complying with such a request is going out of business.
I dunno, the advice I get from my houseplants always seems spot on...
Feel free to send me an email (address in my profile) and we can discuss. I don't think I'm the right person to teach system administration, but we can always have an informal conversation and I can hopefully point you to better resources.
The per-suite common areas don't have windows. It looks like there's a large-ish common area with windows per "house" shared by 64 people.
I used to salvage a lot of discarded PCs (use the parts, refurbish, etc.).

I quickly decided on a rule to immediately wipe any hard drive, and destroy any drive that couldn't be wiped.

One reason is that I'd been involved in some early online privacy discussions, so I had an awareness that snooping might be invasive.

But if curiosity might tempt me to rationalize away the nagging sense of possible invasiveness, there was a second reason...

I never wanted to technically be in possession of, say, a private photo that a 17.9 year-old took. Nor ever see anything worse than that. Thus, immediately pull and DBAN/destroy any hard drive.

Given that I eventually salvaged around 100 PCs, the private photos scenario didn't seem too unlikely.
If you use Amazon.com for shopping, and you do, then you can choose Signal Foundation for your benefiting organization. It's a small amount of money, but it's a little bit for every purchase.
There's probably a lesson in here about managing incidents, very few updates or acknowledgments there's even a major problem.

Will be interesting to find out what caused an incident big enough to kill their entire platform for so long (if they release details or they come out through the grapevine)
The rest of us have no reason to follow you on your flight into fantasyland. Have fun there.
A "bit coy"? No. He said it explicitly that he's picking the highest number on the range. He gives no reason. Why not just tell us the range and leave it there?

Also, if "we need to have some humility," then perhaps maybe experts should stop thinking that they know best for everyone?
GAMI is a really neat company. This fuel additive is only one project; they're also famous for selling tuned fuel injectors to improve engine performance. https://gami.com/
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Yes that is correct; I assumed it was somewhat common knowledge if you're going for (and have the budget for) such levels of redundancy.