skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In some sense statistics is like "applied" probability, which does sound a bit like "experimental" probability but that's not what I understand the linked article to mean. My understanding is:

I flip a coin twice. It lands heads-up both times. Then the experimental probability of this coin landing heads-up is 1.

You give me a coin which you guarantee has a 50/50 chance of landing heads-up. The theoretical probability of it landing heads-up twice is 1/4.

Either type of probability can be used in statistics.
Who cares. Trading anything is about making money. It doesn’t really matter what the thing being traded is so long as there’s alpha in it.

Options are a 0 sum game too. What’s your point?
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At least Seneca is a step above marketeers and "influencers".
it also says that Tesla didnt took full use of its lead position in the market compared to competitors, turning what could be a decade+ lead on everything to a few years leads in which established automakers can "quickly" catch up now. Also Cybertruck is a marketing failure as EV pickup market is already cornered by Ford, Rivian and e-Hummer
Quite nice!

> How to speak to insufferable people?

When faced with insufferable people, it's important to focus on yourself and your own conduct. As Seneca said, "It is your conduct that you must hold in check; you must rouse what is languid in you, bind fast what has become relaxed, conquer what is obstinate, persecute your appetites, and the appetites of mankind, as much as you can".

You should also close your ears against evil talk and avoid being drawn into conversations that could lead you astray. As Seneca said, "Virtue, Philosophy, Justice this is a jargon of empty words. The only way to be happy is to do yourself well. To eat, drink, and spend your money is the only real life, the only way to remind yourself that you are mortal"
Where are the lyrics ?
PDF with the BASF information: https://www.basf.com/global/documents/en/investor-relations/...
I used to support breaking up Meta, Google, and Amazon. Their market positions are pretty dominant, but not unassailable. Facebook barely avoided Snap eating their lunch with stories and now looks to be in a losing position against TikTok. Google vs. LLMs will be interesting to see play out. Amazon… is still in a very strong position.
They’re releasing much more data to advertisers, meaning targeting on FB and Meta will considerably improve in the next few months. Which will improve performance for everyone.
> But what has changed over the last 20 years is that the concept of self defense (“nödvärn”) has been expanded enormously when applied specifically to the police, in an extrajudicial way

This is a dangerous road that leads to US-style policing.
It's unclear to me how making these divisions dramatically increase their infrastructure costs (by either pulling them in-house or paying a premium to the original parent company) will "help them compete"
I agree, but that still isn't a net loss in privacy. We can still communicate the way we could, except now we also would like an unbreakable way of communicating online.

I understand of course that scale is an issue online, but that doesn't affect the idea that encryption gives us basically unbreakable communication over a distance, and removing it is not eroding our last vestiges of privacy.
I think the person you are responding to is not arguing they should shoot, but quite the contrary. I think you're essentially in agreement.

My own opinion: I think shooting someone should always be the last resort. Obviously police officers must look for their own well-being and should not expose themselves to obvious risk of death if possible. On the other hand, someone holding a knife or being non-compliant is not something that must be immediately handled by shooting at the person. Maybe waiting it out, maybe talking, maybe swarming him/her with multiple officers, maybe using tranquilizers, who knows. Every option has a risk and nothing is foolproof, but killing someone is the ultimate, irreversible option and should not be the default, even when the person is resisting or noncompliant.

I don't understand why in some countries, like the US, police officers are so eager to resort to violence or killing -- though it's certainly the easy way out.
This article is skims over the actual engineering details, which most readers might be looking for. These documents from IIT Kanpur in India are an excellent engineering perspective, diagrams included. https://www.nicee.org/EQTips.php

For example "How do Earthquake Affect Reinforced Concrete Buildings? [1] describes the "strength hierarchy" for an RC frame building to remain safe during earthquake shaking, columns (which receive forces from beams) should be stronger than beams, and foundations stronger than columns.

[1] https://www.iitk.ac.in/nicee/EQTips/EQTip17.pdf
im still not sure what kind of combination im looking for in lvl 23..
That's not how it works in the UK and not because of GDPR.

Currently, organisations can claim both consent and legitimate interests as a legal basis so it is already possible to take my data from somewhere, pass it to other people and have those third-parties contact you.

"Legitimate Interests" was presumably some attempt to allow things like research and things that hadn't been thought of elsewhere but this leaves a nasty loophole that is already being taken advantage of.

In fact, some cookie consent banners, if you click "options", disable the consent tickbox by default but leave "legitiimate interests" ticked in some kind of dark pattern to imply that "we'd rather have your consent but we don't need it".
It's a voluntary activity people do to have fun and relax. There is no point in whining. Just go do something else if you are not enjoying yourself. Kids often don't realise that and get generally overinvested in things so we somewhat excuse their immaturity. It feels less tolerable when it's an adult doing it.
It's probably the point-free style that's generally used. I'm not very smart so I need to evaluate them and sometimes expand them in my head with variables. But once you start recognizing some patterns it's easier.
https://archive.is/SG4zP
Wow, that comment and the archive.org link he posted seal it for me. I played fy_iceworld a bunch at my local lan cafe a lot 2002-2003 but never thought that it could be something escaped from the internet cafes of Taiwan made by a 15 year old.
They pay to be the default search engine.
It's just the cherry on top, that as long as Firefox survives, Google can deflect browser-monopoly accusations.
Unique Identification of 50k VR Users from Head and Hand Motion Data
This. Look into the backstory and history on nissan.com
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> It’s easy to write a paper pointing out that things are wrong. It’s also unhelpful.

It's not unhelpful at all. If you're a software developer, is it unhelpful if your users point out bugs? Are you suggesting that those users should fix the bugs themselves?
I was a Minix fan before Linux, and Linus studied Minix to write Linux. I thought a microkernel was better than a monolithic kernel for security, reliability, portability, and simplicity reasons. But then again, Betamax was the better videotape format and VHS one out, so the best tech doesn't always win. I remember the heated exchanges between Linus and Andy back in the day. Funny someone commented above about Minix being antiquated from the 80s, and Andy had posted that Linux was technology from the 70s due to it choosing a monolithic kernel and being tied to x86 processors. I had MachTen, a BSD, Unix-like microkernel, running on my PowerMac in the early 90s.
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Guns are a problem.

Yes, America has an incredibly violent "macho" culture for a so-called first world country, in general and not just as it pertains to firearms. It's probable that the high rate of gun ownership is a symptom of this rather than a cause. But given that this is the case, proliferating the means for people to easily murder each other in such a society is obviously going to exacerbate things.
Are you sure that they will dramatically increase infrastructure costs? Large companies get amazing deals from clouds, and this is no exception to that rule. Their infrastructure costs might actually decrease because the clouds will have to compete for their business.
value is the eye of the customer and in the marketing-skills of the seller
Ah yes, the old "to make the world/web a better place".

For the sake of children, to defeat the terrorists... :)
if you type in a topic and click generate, it can take between 10-30 seconds to provide you with your results, they will appear just beside or just under where you typed in your topic on desktop and mobile respectively.
There’s a lot of competition for attention these days. It takes a long time to build a community. Also, someone else mentioned the age of Minecraft and Roblox as if it were a negative thing. But I’m impressed by the ability of these games to stay fresh and relevant literal decades later.
Production is lower but EU/EEA single market countries aren't seeing these shortages.

Many Brits seem quick to blame the EU for this, saying it's an artificial shortage but they'd do well to remember that bringing in fruit and veg now carries a duty tariff. Spanish tomatoes are available all over the EU but not in Tesco because it costs somebody 8.8%-14.4% extra to bring them into the UK. Thanks Brexit.

It is fair to say domestic production of non-seasonal items is in the toilet because they rely on heated greenhouses and it'd be fair to blame Russia for ridiculous fuel prices. The market won't afford lettuce at three times normal price. But we wouldn't normally be eating domestic-grown salads over winter anyway.
If you're sending the email address to a server (which is presumably needed to recover a password), I think this makes sense. Apple/Google has no way of knowing or verifying what the the server is doing with that data.
For one side it's an existential question, the other side its just a rounding error..

There is no explicit loss of value for Google, they save money + get more chrome users..

Now if MS comes into play or are already playing in the background, then is a totally different story..
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From what I'm aware, a lot of these larger companies basically treat other parts of the business the same they would customers; very important customers, but customers all the same. If YouTube wants more cloud budget, it comes out of their budget and goes into revenues of the Cloud business unit. Not quite that simplistic of course, but in essence it's meant to drive competitiveness. No special privilege's just because you're part of the same team. If an external company is paying more, for more compute, the business goes to them.
That's not a knowledge box. It's a local search result. Also, there are about fifty billion Thai restaurants in America called "Kiin". Finally, the verified owner of the Burbank restaurant posts messages on Google Maps advertising order online via a third-party site. I truly do not understand how people think Google can figure out that this third party is allowed to advertise take out for this restaurant but that site can't.
They don't interact with other adult octopussies ?
Problem is tailwind is not hard to maintain. I would argue it's easier. Folks look at it and it looks like a nightmare (the documentation even says so) but you have to actually give it a fair shake. I can always jump back into a tailwind codebase and not only do I know what mr-4 does I know where it is when looking at the rendered component.

You find yourself having to do "Right click > inspect" a whole lot less often to figure out what's going on
> In the same way you reconcile "Don't Be Evil" with Google.

I don't think that's fair, especially since they have already dropped it.

> In the same way you reconcile Mozilla's privacy concerns with the fact that every Firefox install gets tagged with a unique digital fingerprint

I'm not sure what you're on about here. Care to elaborate?

> and keeps a persistent websocket connection open in the background.

Hadn't heard of this one before. Do you have sources?
Poland delivers first Leopard tanks to Ukraine on invasion anniversary
Arguably, this is an inadequate description of reality.

Firefox's market share has done nothing but decline for decades --- and Google still pays.
I think perfectionism is a problem for me too. I quit hobbies too soon because I get frustrated if they're not so easy.
I think we should vocalize the concept of "negative work" more often. That being work with which society as a whole would be better off if left undone.
Ah so it isn't the answer for everything.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/01/elon-musk...
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Thanks! I wonder if the Python number is correct, I remember Python being prohibitively slow in comparison. But assuming it is:

There are 256 sha256 iterations on average, so the number is a bit better - but there's probably still a lot to improve (it's much more optimised than the naive version, but it was written by reverse-engineers, not GPGPU specialists). The PoC was also opensourced [0], it would be great if someone experienced could spot any obvious problems.

One major issue was that the key scheduling is basically

do {
key = sha256(key)
while (key[0] != '\0')

So on average there are 256 SHA256s per key, but worst case it takes thousands of iterations. Coding this in a GPU-friendly way was non-trivial, and there are still some GPU cycles wasted.

> Edit: An optimized version of this is very likely deployable on consumer-grade hardware. May still not very useful due to the forensics requirement, though.

I think speeding the code three or four orders of magnitude more would go a long way towards pracical usage. I think the biggest issue was getting TID and precise enough time range. Brute-forcing a suspected TID values and widening the time search range would help a lot.

Disclaimer: I worked on that research, but I'm not an employe anymore.

[0]: https://github.com/CERT-Polska/phobos-cuda-decryptor-poc
Can they force Apple and Google to add backdoors or monitoring at mobile device level? Is it even technically feasible if signal does not enable it?
For me, YouTube is the most effective ad sponsored service by far. Users are forced to watch at least 5 seconds of ads before watching any content. This 5 second window is very focused as there is no time to context switch to anything else. Contrast this with Google search - sure there are some ads at the top but these are easy to mentally filter out.
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Because they are shady. I wouldn't put it past them to somehow claim they didn't receive renewal payment for the domain then take over ownership of the domain and then charge/sell it for an absurd amount of money.
Nitpick: he is a Labour member but not a member of the Parliamentary Labour Party, so he sits in the Commons as an independent.
I learned something watching a champion, a world class cheater, discuss bridge. He played the game to outcheat other cheaters. Regular players were more like bots, but the cheaters, those were the real players.
Github and Gitlab, but both has layoffs recently.
Privacy will be impossible as long as platform owners are in the ad business so the most important thing for me is to separate Android and Chrome from Google's ad business. For the same reason Apple and Microsoft should be forced to choose between being in the phone/computer or ad business.

I don't care too much about Facebook, no doubt they are capable of failing on their own.
So if it's context dependent and many papers located in science use it. Then it seems pretty reasonable to call it a scientific term.

If it wouldn't be context dependent I wonder how science got to use the words like "transformer", "quark", "entropy" and so on..
"1.5 or ½"
I wonder if journals, especially medical ones, could be sued if they don't react and redact studies in time once notified of problems, and patients get ineffective or even detrimental treatment based on those papers.
The fact that most communication has moved online means that there's significantly less physical mail traffic than back in the day, so maybe physical mail is not secure either if total capacity is now below what the government can monitor?
When I worked at Google I definitely noticed that YouTube was great at (ab)using untracked or very cheap resources. They definitely get huge benifits of otherwise idle data centers in sleeping regions. As the regular service traffic died off YouTube would put those idle cores to work transcoding video.

It is definitely the case that YouTube gets lots of really cheap compute by being part of Google. But that isn't a bad thing, they are making use of an otherwise wasted resource, effectively lowering the cost for products that need daytime capacity to serve humans.
> In Sublime I have to first define which files are even subject to the search. There are options to add folders or to search all currently open files, however a bizarre omission of searching all the files in the currently open project, which is what I almost always want and how VSCode works by default.

Sublime 100% does this because I use it everyday. You just have to use command + shift + f, type whatever you want and hit enter and it will search all files in the open project by default. Only time it won't do this is if there's something in the "where" input from a previous search.

I find the VSCode search results packed in like sardines and like the greater amount of context you with Sublime tab which generally means I get to find what I'm looking for without having to click through to check. I've got a keyboard shortcut set to jump between the entries which makes it feel a bit snappier to cycle through results as well. All personal preference at the end of the day though.
but did you check if they're real? that's a known flaw of GPT
> Tastes are our evolved response to support us in an environment we no longer occupy.

The same can be said for all human pleasures. Do you disdain them all?
I'm not much of a movie watcher, and I haven't been on Reddit in years. This makes me want to join and discuss piracy at great length.
In all fairness, I would be hard-pressed to name two games that have been released over the decade of my own youth that have offered a map creator system and have been hugely popular.
Also register it out for 10 years and turn auto renew on
The success of DOTA might be why Blizzard added a clause[1] to Warcraft 3 Reforged that gives them control of any custom maps.

It's pretty sad to think how generous games used to be to their user base. Both in terms of content and what you could do with that content. Modern games are a much more controlled experience and I think we're all worse off for it.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/evitu7/warcraft_3_re...
Cue uBlock origin - I don’t recall the last time I watched an injected ad on YouTube. Of course most content these days is peddling some product, or has a quick word from sponsors - but at least I don’t have to put up with unrelated ads in the middle of a stream.
Scientists present a new method for imaging individual electrons
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I don't interpret what he said as a specific suggestion but rather as saying that they are willing to go after anyone who 'threatens' them.

Before the war in Ukraine it was not realistic that Russia would attack NATO because of the consequences and the strength of NATO, but now it is pure fantasy considering how things are going for Russia in Ukraine (and that would also mean NATO entering the war in Ukraine, with the only possible result that Russian troops would be annihilated there in a very short time).

Also, Poland has just started delivering tanks to Ukraine so Russia might want to show some teeth but they cannot do much more. A bit like when they say that they could nuke London in a heartbeat...

Reuters is trying to spin a non-story, basically.
> Are there any inherently stable/noise free/non-Volatile Quantum Computing methods, at all?

topological quantum computers are based on braid theory which is invariant to almost any kind of environmental noise, thus qubita stay in a coherent state much longer without error correction

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological_quantum_computer
You had me laughing out loud in a quiet train car. Thanks.

What a kickass name.
You look for it. Because you know that it might be a possibility and you own the platform upon which the banner will be placed.

The poor human just wanted some food, they didn't realise they were going to have to navigate scams when searching Google for a local, unique business name.

Maybe the human is just a rube and they deserve all the trickery served up to them.
MGM too? Or are they owned by Amazon in a different way?
Google side: from maybe a business idea, you could have it work. But from a technical perspective, it would be near impossible without years of engineering effort. Google has a ton of core internal infra that is shared between all the business units at Google. The only reason this is feasible is that the cost of running it is shared between the units.

(Googler opinions are my own).
Taking my phone number out of gule sider fixed the Microsoft scam calls for me.
What do you mean?

Just as anecdote, I don't have whatsapp groups for my fb groups. My whatsapp and fb worlds are entirely disconnected. People in groups from fb often promote Discord (which I don't like: real time chatting with strangers feels odd to me).

Facebook is aggressively promoting its own chat for groups, spamming it violently and so I'm forced to unsubscribe/ignore lots of chat groups now. Do people really need yet another chat platform?
You can’t filter out google ads because you don’t know which are ads beyond the handful they label as such.

Google filters and shapes the results so much now that I’m inclined to say it’s all essentially advertising. That is, Google is giving you want it wants you to see in what order, and lately filters out anything that isn’t helpful for Google.
You appear to be shadowbanned. I vouched for this comment so that I could reply to it.

If my expectation for a stock is something other than the current value, I am claiming that I can predict the price. It doesn't matter whether my predictions are accurate or not, it's a statement about my beliefs.

A martingale model is consistent with believing that I can't predict the stock price. A non-martingale model implies believing that I can predict the stock price.
Is there an API for it because I can't find anything in the docs?.
Not sure if I am high end. But I am a consultant. All my daily tasks revolve around making sure that what's going on (day to day) on a particular direction is expected, sensible, understandable to the key stakeholders, and (most importantly) contributes to the company goals. I have to use my expertise to get all the information and insights myself, because I am almost never told what's going on and what's supposed to be going on and why. I tally up the aspects of the big picture almost daily, by talking to people, reading docs and code, connecting all the layers, comparing to the desired state, and then inferring the tasks for myself and my team. Which can be very different in nature from this week and the next.