skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Additionally:

- Floating point issues. Sure both the host and guest implement IEEE 754 floating point math, but that only helps if the emulated cpu is in IEEE 754 compliant mode (which it never is, because it's 754 compliant mode is slower) and only uses instructions supplied by 754 (which they don't because plenty are missing, like FMA, SIN/COS, SQRT).
PCSX2 gets this particularly bad, because the PS2's vector units don't even try to implement proper IEEE 754 math and they have about 5 different workarounds to try to make different games work. But even Dolphin runs into issues trying to emulate PowerPC's non-compliant mode. Denormals are now handled correctly, but we still have issues with NANs.

- Unified GPU/CPU memory. The gamecube only has one 24mb block of memory, with both textures and code in it, which is the complete opposite of what the host GPU wants.
So we have a huge amount of texture cache code to yank textures out of the unified memory and convert/upload them to the GPU, then make sure we know when the texture has changed so we can re-upload it. Things get even more complex when the game starts coping things back to into the unified memory. In some games end up hash about 12gb of textures every second to make sure they haven't changed.

- Interrupts. So you have jitted your code, what happens when you need to fire an interrupt in the middle of a block?

- Timing. To simplify emulation, you might say that an operation (like loading from the DVD, or rendering a polygon) will complete instantly, which works for most games, until you find one which never expected the result to return that early and crashes or glitches. These issues can be a complete nightmare to debug, and even if you do work out which operation is too fast you have no idea how long that operation is actually meant to take without doing tests on the hardware.
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> Can Science Explains Everything

Yes.

Edit: I think a scary number of you guys are conflating the process of science with our current observational model. Quantum theory is the product of science, it's not science itself.
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>Such anomalies can stand for series of items in the collection, they can be traces of curatorial decisions in cataloguing, they could be mistakes in dating, etc.

I'd call those "curatorial decisions". Makes sense here in the art world, but large datasets which defaulted unknown dates to January 1st bug the hell out of me.
Yes, but it also a losing proposition for most people. Do we really think that people who are overweight, especially in a body focused society as the US, haven't tried to "just eat better"?
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The built environment of a large city is made up of neighborhoods, individual blocks, individual buildings... all of which can absolutely be human scale, even at fairly high density.
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I can definitely say that DAs are the biggest factor in the prison population boom. For example, I was arrested for threatening my dad many years ago. I could've easily gone to prison for some time but the DA was given leeway to drop the charges entirely (with the assumption I wouldn't cause trouble for quite some time).

If a DA's office can drop charges with little consequences then it's obvious they can press on with the silliest of notions of meting out justice for all of them (which they do). I think there needs to be a complete overhaul of how criminal prosecution is done in this country.
Plastic packaging makes people fat?
FTA:

>Well, the real growth in the prison population comes from county-level district attorneys sending violent people to prison.
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> Go out and play seems to have fallen on deaf ears

Well, to be honest it's a non-solution. It's just something adults say to relieve themselves of the problem

Easier when most parents weren't helicopter parents, litigation happy to sue for every scratch their kids had.
GPL 3. Meaning it won't ever be adopted by anyone.
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Thanks for the feedback, I'll update my post and make sure to credit you. One question, Array.Copy is considered is considered a clr construct not exclusively to c#?
For what its worth, a billionaire once told me the following quote: There are two types of people that give money to charity - those that want to, and those that have to

(the context of the conversation was the idea of charity as atonement for sins)
great post and it changed my perspective on what wasabi was. This part makes complete sense:

Working on FogBugz changed my perspective on technical debt. I used to believe, as I suspect many do, that it was strictly a bad thing. You took a shortcut because you’re lazy, and then it comes back later to bite you. Count how many times that Wikipedia article uses the word “lack”. As the originator of the term Ward Cunningham explains, that’s off the mark. Buying something with credit doesn’t automatically imply you’re not going to pay your bills.

Instead of thinking of technical debt as yesterday’s work that I failed to do, I think of it as tomorrow’s feature I can have today. You have to pay interest, but in the mean time you’re shipping a product, have a roof over your head, and are keeping the lights on. A much hipper programmer might say something like “you ain’t gonna need it.”

In one sense, Wasabi was a rather substantial payment on the debt we had accumulated. FogBugz was written in a now dead language. Building a compiler extended the life of the product, though of course now we had to pay for the compiler, too. So maybe it was more like a bridge loan, or refinancing. The financial wellbeing of Fog Creek at the time depended on FogBugz, so a total rewrite would have been a terribly risky investment. Even if it costs more in the long run, spreading those payments out over time gets you a lot of stability.

while I also enjoyed Coding Horrors: Has Joel Spolsky Jumped the Shark?[0], Jeff either missed this point or ignored it on purpose to support the shark-jump theory

[0] http://blog.codinghorror.com/has-joel-spolsky-jumped-the-sha...
> Because it is GPL3, it won't be supported by Google on Android, by Apple probably anywhere, or by Microsoft anywhere.

Why not? As far as I know, GPL3 let you to dinamically link without having to open the source code the resulting software.
Throwing more money at something doesn't necessarily lead to a better outcome. Nokia was outspending Apple 9 times on R&D[1] and it didn't help them at all.

[1] http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2012/05/14/nokia-outspent-a...
The conclusion of your linked article is:

>Well, the real growth in the prison population comes from county-level district attorneys sending violent people to prison.
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Rouge employees happen. Or an attacker may be posing as cleaning staff (in my company we have cleaning during business hours, and every few days we all leave our room while the cleaning lady vacuums).

But primarily, it's not about distrust towards your cow-orkers - it's because not locking your workstation leaves you (and the company) vulnerable to external attackers that made their way to the office via acting confident. Social engineering is extremely effective and quite easy to perform, if you can keep your cool.
I'd really rather not see web developers have to carry malpractice insurance and be licensed by state boards.
See the quote I pulled out above:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10318161
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> people overeating do not have a good "I'm full" mechanism

And there are people like me who rarely feel hungry. I eat because the clock tells me to.
It varies from state to state (perhaps even county to county) In some places they are appointed, in others they are elected.

When they are elected, even if they run unopposed they still tend to act tough on crime. If a judge or prosecutor started acting weak, the could very quickly find themselves opposed in the next election.
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TL;DR: Man who's devoted his life to woolly thinking, thinks about things in a woolly fashion.

Note 1

"If we are embedded in a reality that can be beyond our reach, how can we hope to achieve any knowledge at all? Perhaps Kant was right, and what we think we know may simply reflect the categories of the human mind. We can perhaps only deal with things as they appear to us. How things are in themselves may forever be beyond our grasp. Alternatively, the reality that we seek to understand may not even be subject to rational understanding. It may be sufficiently chaotic and disordered to be unintelligible."

Note 2

"There is such a thing as scientific progress, and it happens through systematic trial and error or, in Karl Popper’s terminology, conjecture and refutation. A "scientific realist" has to be wary, though, about how such realism is defined. A realism that makes reality what contemporary science says it is links reality logically to the human minds of the present day. Science is then just a human product, rooted in time and place. Bringing in future science - or ideal science
- may sound more plausible, but even then there is a distinction between science reflecting (or corresponding to) the nature of reality and it being simply a human construction."

That's the problem with the article, and a lot of Trigg's ideas. He assumes that "science is done by people", "people are flawed", ergo "the output of science is flawed". Which is obviously false, like saying science done by people who speak different languages would express itself differently. However you analyse the structure of an atom is irrelevant to its structure: it is what it is. Sine qua non. There's something which is an atom, whatever you call it and however you discover it.

The postulate that "the universe my not be ultimately understandable" should only be taken as a priori at the point where it appears that that is in fact the case. Which it doesn't. (Don't confuse this as a dismissal of uncertainty - that certainly exists, but even that lack of certainty can be expressed in certain terms and understood).

Editing for clarity:

By "the output of science is flawed" - I phrased this poorly. I don't mean that the interpretation of results is flawed, which it obviously can be. See phlogiston, early models of the solar system and so on. Rather, I meant that he seems to imply that the nature of what's being studied can change given the human looking at it and their understanding. Which isn't correct. Whether you understand how the solar system works or not makes no impact on what it's doing or why it's doing it.

I'd have been more accurate to say "the eventual output of the scientific process, upon where it has arrived at the correct answer, is flawed".
They're "supposed to" be appointed. This is the way it used to be and the way it constitutionally has to be at the federal level. But I think more than half of states have elected judges.

True, they often run unopposed, but that doesn't free then from political pressure; if they make an unpopular decision, any lawyer could opt to run against them by simply campaigning as not the other judge. They would usually win and get a fantastic résumé boost.
Wow, amazing architecture.

Anyone know if the 3rd photo down from the top[0] is part of the setting for the 1995 movie 'La Haine'[1]? It reminds me of the housing projects in the movie where the main characters live, especially that great scene where a dj points his speakers out his window to play for the neighborhood.

The linked wikipedia article about the movie mentions only the Parisian suburb of Chanteloup-les-Vignes as a filming location, but a cursory web search isn't turning up more evidence.

[0] https://img.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp-content/uplo...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Haine
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"Amazon probably wants to teach Apple and Google a lesson about not making their devices more compatible," Grunes said.

(Allen Grunes, a lawyer at Konkurrenz Group in Washington)
In a market where even people who have actual degrees struggle to overcome the experience demands, someone without even that is pretty much fucked, especially in a country like I live in where higher education is free.

I have managed to be, briefly, employed on an internship basis, but that was short-lived, and once I started asking for and looking to more permanent positions suddenly the opportunities started looking more than a bit scarce.

It seems like in an age of massive degree inflation, the self-taught basement hacker doesn't really have a place anymore, while a lot of those same basement hackers who actually made it and have been in the industry ten or twenty years keep giving the same bad "you don't need a degree" type advice.
My guess is that you simply overestimate how much you eat, perhaps by a lot. I'm pretty sure that people who are skinny without much struggle (or struggle to gain weight) generally overestimate their caloric intake, and people who struggle with their weight generally underestimate their caloric intake.
> Offline key exchange is inconvenient enough that it prevents GPG from being used as encrypted-by-default mail.

I would love to simply sync users' keys between their devices and encrypt opportunistically like OTR does. Offline key exchange would only be necessary for verification purposes at that point. I see user key management as the harder problem than exchange.
This is such a bad study and this post is your usual garbage of the media just confusing people and making them think weight loss is impossible, all while giving them more excuses to do absolutely nothing. The idea that this "data" is in any way an accurate representation of how many calories the average person eats is just absurd. The average person cannot tell you how many calories they eat per day, they have no idea. The foods we have available today make it much more likely for a person to consume more calories than someone "thinks" they are.

You can sit around all day and blame it on leaky gut, artificial sweeteners, pesticides, gluten, carbs, fat, red meat or whatever the latest "fad villian" is, and you'll just keep failing to lose weight.

Plain and simple. Eat nutritious food that actually fills you up and satisfies you, track your calorie intake, and find a sustainable way to just eat less every day.
Indeed that might be the case. There are ES6 features implemented in chrome that don't work in the console (eg. classes). Still, it doesn't mean the language or the feature is doomed.

You have exactly the same issue with setTimeout. Errors will be thrown when the function runs, not when you schedule it. The problem you're describing is not an issue, and that's why today there are linters and compilers.
You're thinking of LGPL. GPL has no such exception for dynamic linking.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLStaticVsDynamic
I liked her next line:

There’s a saying, jiu ji bu jiu pin—‘We’ll help you if you have an emergency, but we cannot help you if you’re poor.’

Which is something I think about every time there's a global appeal after an earthquake or tidal wave, yet that contrasts with general indifference or outright hostility to helping with general poverty.

Just need to figure out how to pronounce that phrase correctly so I can drop it into conversation.
>only 17 percent of the inmates are there primarily for drug charges.

This is either false or misleading because of how it is worded. The percentage of people serving time in state prison for drug offenses is ~53%

http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/Prisons_and_Drugs#sthash.eHL...
If LFS is winning but Annex is the better solution (as the comments I've read point to), it would be a shame to drop Annex.
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It's probably true that I eat less than a typical overweight person. But the thing is, I eat as much as I want, and sometimes even a bit more. Do you think it's just because our ideas of portion size are different? I think it's more plausible that I'm just less hungry than they are, for some reason that has nothing to do with willpower.
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Because that's how much I'd need to charge to actually do that instead of my current job.
Thanks for your really insightful comments. I've been studying and working in the industry for several years now trying to see if there's a better way to do it. In fact, I did study Guevara along with other insurance-based startups to see if there's anything to learn from or be aware of.

It doesn't seem to me that customers would see full value of their "purchase" if they have never had a claim. Yet, it's crazy that their premiums go up because someone else had a major accident. On the flip side, insurers can't really choose to raise their rates like a normal business would do. For me, this is the fascinating part about insurance businesses.

What is curious to me is if there is a way to build a risk model that assumes that people will get into accidents by default? You've mentioned that people overestimate our ability to pick good drivers. Why not build a model that assumes people are bad drivers by default and optimize from there?
The Q&A is a mess. As a German I have to say that this is sadly rather typical: overengineering a process to optimize for some weird edge case (i.e. having to answer a lot of similar or uninteresting questions) rather than just doing it the way it works.
Saves time, I guess. The same reason you'd wanna use something like `howdoi` to get StackOverflow answers directly inside the terminal.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/14286317/544059
I'd guess most of these records are open to the public. Maybe it would be possible to use some AI to read the records, and collect better data?
I find it surprising how little thought architects seem to give to how their buildings age. One feature you can find in many of these sort of dystopian cityscapes is rainwater marks below windows that make the buildings seem to cry.

I can't believe that in this day and age we are unable to prevent that sort of thing by using the right materials or by directing rainwater to some sort of drain.
I'm not talking about mere bias. What you have is preexisting conviction.

Preaching is not debate.
"Chemicals" are a scapegoat. Everything you put in your face is a "chemical". Folks just need to eat food that isn't just a bunch of empty dense calories. Stuff that actually satisfies you.
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And yet he says:

>> And if we focused on cutting back sentence lengths, maybe that would weaken DAs’ bargaining power at plea bargaining, but since people aren’t serving the massively long sentences anyway, it probably won’t have that big an effect on prison population either.

They're getting lots of easy short sentences because they accept those in exchange for not going to trial against 25 years. So it sure seems like reducing the long sentences and overdone charges would reduce the likelihood of getting plea bargains. Of course that would make more work for the prosecutors. Before taking that route, one has to ask if we really should have fewer people in prison. Efficiency in dolling out appropriate punishment is not a bad thing. Efficiency with injustice is a bad thing. I have no data on that, so I'll stop now. I guess I'm asking, are the people in prison for the right reasons, and is their actual sentence appropriate for what they did? We should start there, not at the population numbers.
They could demonstrate interlacing comparisons by slowing down (through setTimeout()) the image processing in the browser.

Having a Youtube video already shows that it works really amazingly well (especially coming from Adam7), but seeing it interactively on a selection of images would be nice.

After all, the single biggest feature is that you can actually stop downloading the image whenever you feel like you don't want to spend more bandwidth!
This is cool and it's one of my favourite types of projects - where you have to hack your way through security to pull off a prank. However, I think it would be better and more impressive if the author limited the collateral damage. Spawnkilling other programs is an effective way of protection, but I think it disturbs people too much by interfering with normal (for a technical person) computer use.

Interestingly, the author pretty much delivered half of a Malware Writer 101 here. I had to deal with methods like these when removing crap from non-tech computer users more time than I would like.
Wow, starting with an unusable license with the intention to switch to a more practical one later is a weird strategy. I guess that's one way to discourage people from adopting it before it's ready.

(Edit: As I clarified, I meant usable for adoption in other non-GPL projects. But OK, I deserve the downvotes for adding very little, and will think twice before posting such a reply next time)
Did you just add two separate percentages together? Facepalm.

Edit: LesZedCB just deleted his comment where he indignantly told me that 6% of state prisoners plus 16% of federal prisoners equals 22% of all prisoners.
I assume it's a reference to BPA.
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Depending on how you define "explain" and "everything" the answer can also be no. Defining words seems to be the major occupation of philosophers.
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Posting this using a throwaway as I don't want to be associated with this one.

I did a demonstrator a couple of years ago of why we should be using 2FA for everything. We added a single binary to the post-build event in Visual Studio and checked it and the binary into the VCS. The binary grabbed the person who did the build's Chrome password database and used powershell to POST it to a private address. Then we chucked it through some shareware that reads the file and mailed the password back to the engineer we were demonstrating it to.

It's pretty easy to backdoor a machine without even having console access.

Be careful people.
I like brutalism too. But preservation is kind of a sign (IMO) that things have gone wrong. You only have to preserve buildings if people don't want them or if they are not economical.

I have no objection to preserving a few buildings, a few particularly interesting streets or city centers. But, I generally object to the common European policies of forces stasis. In any case, I think it also goes against the brutalist, modernist ethic or aesthetic. These buildings intended to be rational & practical. If we have to "preserve them," they've failed, to an extent.

*I'll also admit that I'm a fan of brutalism. These are beautiful (the photography too).
You're reading that source wrong (understandable because the wording is awkward). 53% is for violent crime.
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Artificial sweeteners are not a problem but a solution to natural sweeteners. The latter are a cause of diabetes.