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think you're grossly misunderstanding what social safety net means - public spending is not the same thing as a safety net. the public healthcare system that countries like Gemrnay have is an example of a social safety net.

That claim that news outlets in general are free to express their opinions without censorship is unfortunately, not really true in practise - most outlets may express opinions but might face sanctions, bans or other forms of censorship, depending on the topic of the opinions. NDTV has faced multiple such actions in the past (one example: https://www.dw.com/en/ridiculous-and-arbitrary-indian-journa...) Another topic with heavy censorship is the ground situation in Kashmir. Social media and internet bans have been common since a long time (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Kashmir).

THe way current empirical models in ML are evaluated and tested ( benchmark datasets) tell you very little to nothing about cognition and intelligence. Mainly because as you hinted , there doesn't seem to be a convincing and watertight benchmark or model of cognition. LLMs or multi-modal LLMs demonstrating impressive performance on a range of tasks is interesting from certain standpoints.

Human perception of such models is frankly not a reliable measure at all as far as gauging capabilities is concerned. Until there's more progess on the nueroscience/computer science (and an intersection of fields probably) and better understanding of the nature of intelligence, this is likely going to remain an open question.

all its ideas were absorbed into Stockfish

don't think that is true, Stockfish incorporated NNUE techniques through a fork https://www.chess.com/news/view/stockfishnnue-strongest-ches...

being transparent with the setup of your invention is always a good thing.

events with historical significance are far more interesting than these kind of movie/popular references that don't mean much

Well, in itself that doesn't mean much - irregularities and power struggles within indian political paries is routine. Plus given the track record of the law enforcement agencies to arrest/Crack down with an agenda, usually along the lines that suits the political party. Even worse, legislation now provides the police and so on broad power in arresting subjects without allowing a fair trial( or just a trial!) For example under the anti terrorism act. Such legislation is frequently used to arrest on grounds that probably have little to do with their supposed criminal act.

This methodology of enforcement goes back decades way before India got independent, inherited from British Indian authorities. It's even more blatant under the current ruling party.

sorry, what do you mean by "Consciousness regularly/usually claims to have omniscient knowledge of all that is, something which is not supported by physics."? i do not follow what you mean by consciousness claiming to know something - consciousness is not an entity that sense? Your usage of consciousness as an entity doesn't seem to make sense to me.

I don't think personal and family issues are necessarily edge cases. Plus it also depends from where the person is and what the technology industry scene is like there. Nowadays jumping companies is easier and more acceptable (atleast in tech) for sure, but then there's always some uncertainty with respect to interviewing and obtaining offers(and possible stress) in particular when you're past a certain age.

it might be easier, but that doesn't mean all criticism should be ignored.

In the spirit of cliched reductive "feel good" statements of this whole comment section, ignoring criticism is also easier than building something that ends up to be extremely subpar.

This story is about his anti counterfeiting exploits though, which usually requires skills not necessarily related to intellect. he was dutiful and unforgiving which is why he had some level of success in it. Same reasoning applies to his investments tanking, it's a different skillet and far more unpredictable.

For that matter no one's respect really means much however you look at this particular excerpt, not sure what you trying to say with this line of argument

FYI the title stated in the github readme itself is misleading and incomplete.. in the fine print clarifies that this is in polynomial time "in the size of the input text for a fixed number of backreferences in the pattern."

Yikes, didn't they discuss this in their daily standup? Maybe open a task in Jira to handle high cliffs on Mars?

(/s)

Tangential question: is there a way to participate in the demoscene,as a beginner or in serious competitions? Looks like the popular meetings happen in Europe, and looks like are in person

What does banking mean here? Managing bank accounts online in your browser

Finding out what you don't know to start learning is also a part of learning, and it is a bit difficult to trust LLMs like ChatGPT when it had a tendency to spout correct sounding answers that are incorrect, inaccurate etc.

Search engines are much better On uncovering guides on that, specially from experts and verified sources. It's a bit of work to verify that, but then it is part of learning itself, not sure trying to punt on that to fast track your learning your whatever is going to make a meaningful difference in terms of time

have you tried firefox sync? recently gave it a try and on android it works seamlessly. Cross browser integration is an extra step though.

Bit late but ill try - perfect hashing is a variant where the set of keys is known( say N) and the hash table size is set large enough (N^2) such that the no of collision is 0 in a nutshell (expected no of collisions to be precise which is less than 1)

So if i understand correctly the variance of the data would not really matter since we will choose a hash table of size of the total space of passwords thus absolutely no collisions will occur no matter which distribution of keys we pick and hash

Thats where the O(1) comes from since searching for a key in a hash slot would take constant time as there is just one key in each slot (due to no collisions)

As the other commentor said the SHA1 collision has such a low probability that theres no need for perfect hashing

interesting writeup, and detailed examples.

i was wondering about the use case, from what little i've read, assemblyscript is an alternative for devs who want to stick to typescript style language with some fine grained control for lower level webassembly. see some utility for niche cases where perfor mance is needed for complex data structures, not entirely convinced though, specially with v8 JS giving excellent performace out of the box

not really what i was trying to say, read the other reply in the thread. the political affiliations are not quite relevant (to some degree) as far as working and relationship between government and state apparatus and journalistic outlets are concerned.

Think you're missing the point, its about a healthy environment where having multiple viewpoints (including criticism of the government regardless of ruling political coalition) are expressed through journalism and other media which is simply not present in india.

state and central governments have massive influence over what discourse is encouraged and it usually sways towards what their political agenda and inclinations are while opposing beliefs and ideas are sanctioned or put down though state apparatus (police forces , executive orders etc). free flow of information is suppressed when it doesnt favour certain viewpoints.

in a similar manner, blind deference towards the government is encouraged and criticism is punished, you can trace the track record of Indian government (sedition and anti national laws for examples) with this regard going back decades.

The "majority" of Indians watch and read from a small set of media outlets, most of them biased pro-government news media which feed only news showing the Indian government and authorities in a positive light while completely leaving out their problems. Basically, news confirming their biases.

Critical journalism is pretty much marginal and niche - these outlets are fewer because there are very little incentives. There are a few like NDTV and Dainik bhaskar, who routinely face sanctions by governmental bodies for not sticking to the governmental narrative.

Unfortunately Indian society specially due to how educational systems are structured do not encourage any questioning of authority and unable to point out criticisms specially in public Easier to stay happier with blind acceptance of information when you barely know whats happening in detail beyond the governments successes.

Even the elections are not without fault, primarily in the working of the Election commission and how free and fair they are (specially in Kashmir) so I doubt your statement about fairness.

pop music in general is somewhat popular specially in the bigger cities in India. never heard country music playing anywhere though, dont think its that popular as you claim.

local music (bollywood number, south indian film industry etc) is expectedly far more widespread and american music pales in comparison in terms of popularity

ok, i'm curious, could you elaborate on what literary sources/narratives are you referring to? are those one the lines of "Gun, germs and steel" for example(criticised for floating inaccurate narratives)?

being on the top 30 annual revenue list does not necessarily tell you anything about productivity or presence culture of the companies in question. it could also entail those companies having more customers and better marketing budget, which can result in good network effect(along with good enough product of course)

FranklinMailot's comment is good advice I think. Getting professional help would be best here. I also face similar symptoms like how you describe - persistent procrastination with tasks (initiation, or even continuing from where you left). I faced them since i became an adult through college, and after I started a job. it became pretty clear that there is something seriously off when I underperformed for a good amount of time. Then 2 year ago, I got repetitive panic attacks. Had to take leave for a month. started seeing a psychiatrist.

Then took a test recently, turns out i have Avoidant Personality Disorder. Made a lot of sense, since I struggled with interpersonal relationships - difficulty in getting help from people, more prone to tolerating misbehaviour from other people out of avoidance of conflict, interpreting peoples signs and events naturally in an exaggerated negative fashion thus making me self sabotage etc. I sort of survived through probably because I scraped through when it was dire.

that was my first reaction on reading the title..that's how retro computers back in the day displayed circles on sparse pixel displays

well, was referring to the research indicated by the title of the article- honeypot setup to detect malicious exit relays.

yes thats the one. interesting, seems they caught 15 unique relays harvesting logins. There seems to be scope to improve reporting and detection of malicious actors like this. They also have a block list on Tor's gitlab repo but doesn't seem to be up to date.

the article talks about the research stumbling upon exit nodes performing MITM and other sniffing but does not refer to the exact details. is there a paper for this?

only found this paper going over systematic process of exposing bad relays - http://www.cs.kau.se/philwint/spoiled_onions/pets2014.pdf

well, setting blanket labels in that way is bound to be inaccurate and even inflammatory, as on the surface it sounds like bait to disparage groups around one specific language.

or, a more better term would be 'Atleast it works' mentality.